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Hummingbirds have iridescent color in their feathers, so up until this year I have always used flash to bring out the color and have never really been pleased with the results no matter how many flashes were employed. Today I used the biggest light source of all, the sun and waited until the waning hours of the afternoon to catch the sun as it set. The current lord of my feeder was very accommodating by landing on the perch I was focused on and into the sun at the same time. The result was the beautiful shimmer in the feathers.
Somos os gatos por dentro. Os gatos que não podem andar sozinhos, e para nós há apenas um lugar.
(William Burroughs)
UP 5504 brings up the rear of loaded oil train CP 550 as it passes the platform at Lasalle station. Up front was another UP unit - UP 5422.
Here's some South Dakota Badlands close up, from a hike up into the hoodoos near the Visitor Center. The horizontal bedding planes are striking.
My friend Paul's son and his cousin finishing up a long day of fun with the last colors of a beautiful sunset on Anna Maria Island, FL.
Anna Maria Island | Florida | Gulf of Mexico
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I recently visited acres of these abandoned ammunition bunkers. Now abandoned and serving as weather shelter for cattle, they were once filled to the brim with ammo and explosives for WWII, all 800+ of them! The land owner gave us the grand tour of the base including these bunkers, barracks, fire hall, church, and other strange structures that had me grinning like a kid in a candy store but asked that I not advertise the location. So sorry, no exact map location for these shots, and if you already know where it is, please be respectful of the owner's wishes as to keep opportunities like this available in the future.
Dandelion-leaf with a guest looking up to the sun!
This week the MM-task "looking up" was very challenging: first of all I didn't know whether I should look up or it should look up or .... then I looked around and found lots of things that looked up or I looked up to, but there was no possibility for a macro shot around.
Finally, I found this dandelion-leaf. It was so cute to see how it sat there alone in the grass and "looked" to the sun.
happy WEV and happy MM!
We discovered this old, abandoned farm near here recently. Two men were standing in the driveway and we asked if we could take some pictures. With their OK, we started working our way back through the property. Back behind the empty house, and the falling down barn, we found this old 40's or 50's era Chevrolet dump truck.
The truck's back tires were sunk deep into the earth while the front end was blocked up to keep it from sinking away. I was looking into the sun when I took five exposures at varying exposures that later were blended into a HDR shot in NIK HDR Efex Pro 2. Then, I ran it through NIK Color Efex Pro 4 and got it the way I wanted it to look.
About HDR shots: I like them. I like the realistic ones and the ones that are over the top. I did push this one a bit towards over the top---but I like the way it pops. HDR is a great tool for getting the exposure correct under wide dynamic range situations---like this one.
I made this image with my Pentax K5 and Pentax 18-135 lens.
Camera settings: ISO 900, aperture f/9, focal length18mm
blue dump truck
a relic from the past
out behind the barn
Image and haiku by John Henry Gremmer
a row of hand-made little wooden boats
I would not have the patient or the finger agility to tie these tiny knots
7 Days of Shooting – Week #13 (w/b 2 October) Art - “The world is but a canvas to our imagination” so let’s go and find everything and anything relevant to art! We can include art materials, street art (murals and graffiti), sculpture and of course drawings and or paintings.
Two UP C45ACCTE (GE Model ES44AC) are parked in Milpitas for the next run.
The were used for the auto racks that can be seen in the back.
Milpitas, 2021-07-05
An impressive Leyland Titan line-up graced the 2017 Wiston Steam Rally near Steyning in West Sussex (UK) on 8th and 9th July 2017. From left to right (after the LT AEC on the end) we have former Southport Corporation Transport GFY 406, a PD2 built in 1950 with a Leyland body.Next is 1951 PD2 NKT 896 new to Maidstone and District. Third from the left is Salford JRJ 281E, a 1967 Metro-Cammell-bodied PD2. Fourth from left is DEK 3D, a PD2 with Massey body new to Wigan Corporation. Completing the line-up nearest the camera is CJN 441C, a 1965 PD3 new to Southend Corporation and preserved in the livery of subsequent owner Fowlers of Holbeach Drove.
Our little street is becoming a cultural hub... me as the local photographer, Carles, a former banker now carpenter, Pepe and Eva and their kitchen sellin superb take away Catalan and Spanish foor, and out latest neighbour Laura who has set up her ceramic workshop and is busilly inparting classes in between promoting pottery in the community, and of course creating.
Mamiya C330-S Professional, TriX 400 developed in Adox Adonal
After rolling down to BNSF's yard in South Omaha, UP 4014's passenger special, now led by UP 1943, shoves back towards the Omaha Amtrak Station and the Durham Museum.
POMOM2 (Passenger- Omaha to Omaha)
UP SD70AH #1943
(Rear) UP C45AH #8167
(Rear) UP 4-8-8-4 #4014
Omaha, NE
July 14th, 2019