looking west ( note water building up on the floodplain)

Taken a while back, but some recent reviewing showed this one had something I never noticed at the time. How many birds can you spot in this one?

RawTherapee was the work horse for getting this one right. Used an older GIMP to get the hues more interesting and palatable too.

Smile on Saturday.

Green.

Sweat shirt to wear today.

up! up! up!

Suricata suricatta, meerkat on sentry duty.

ISO 1600, f6.3, 1/1000s

#badhabit

505 racing dinghy powering out of the gate start at the recent Euro Cup held at Hayling Island Sailing Club

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Baby, I want to have you, hold you

'Cause to me, you're the only star in my sky

I'm praying I'll touch you, kiss you, keep you

It's you for the rest of my life

Won't ever take your picture off my wall

I'll protect you, I won't let you

Fall down, never, no way, no how

Won't you come here to me now?

'Cause I'd search the world

For the woman that could get the title

My pin up, pin up, pin up

My pin up girl

Ain't no other lady out there like my baby

'Cause she sexy, so sweet, she'll be my pin up girl

If you're bad, girl, and you know it

If you're out there, I need you to show me

'Cause I'd search the world

For the woman that could get the title

My pin up, pin up, pin up

My pin up girl, girl, girl

My pin up girl, girl, girl

My pin up girl

She is focused, flawless, gorgeous

All that and a beautiful mind

I lose it, forget where my cool is

Sounds like a pin up, no lie

Won't ever take your picture off my wall

I'll protect you, I won't let you

Fall down, never, no way, no how

Won't you come here to me now?

'Cause I'd search the world

For the woman that could get the title

My pin up, pin up, pin up

My pin up girl

Ain't no other lady out there like my baby

'Cause she sexy, so sweet, she'll be my pin up girl

If you're bad, girl, and you know it

If you're out there, I need you to show me

'Cause I'd search the world

For the woman that could get the title

My pin up, pin up, pin up

Could you be my poster girl?

If you a pin up, you a pin up, you a pin up

All my ladies say

I'll be long gone, you are

If you a pin up, you a pin up

You won't turn around for the fellas, now

If you meet that girl, you should keep that girl

By your side, through the day and the night

Say hey

I'm feeling right, I'm feeling right, I'm feeling right

I'm feeling right 'cause she mine

And I'd search the world

For the woman that could get the title

My pin up, pin up, pin up

My pin up girl

Ain't no other lady out there like my baby

'Cause she sexy, so sweet, she'll be my pin up girl

If you're bad, girl, and you know it

If you're out there, I need you to show me

'Cause I'd search the world

For the woman that could get the title

My pin up, pin up, pin up

My pin up girl, girl

So glad I found you now

I got my pin up girl

Ok Christmas Eve, 4 Westbound BNSF trains sit lined up on the siding tracks at CP 550. Coal City, IL

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Cyprus

Czech Republic

Estonia

Finland

France

Germany

Greece

Hungary

Ireland

Italy

Latvia

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Malta

Poland

Portugal

Romania

Slovakia

Slovenia

Spain

Sweden

The Netherlands

The top of this pylon its probably the highest point in or just outside the village of Markyate, Hertfordshire. We are getting our electricity from one of these power lines though we cannot possibly say where the energy actually comes from. This is because the National Grid feeds its system from various power stations and because electricity is being generated in diverse ways. Statistics, as we all know, ought to be handled with a degree of suspicion. However, it looks as if renewable sources (wind, solar, hydroelectric, bioenergy) contribute more than 30% of the total. Gas is still at over 40%, followed by coal, nuclear and oil. If it is true what the National Grid says, namely that renewables are now generating half of our electricity - a form of energy not affected by the current rise of the price of gas, how come that we pay as if renewables were gas? Fuji X-E3.

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Giddy Up pair of old leather stirrups waiting to be attached to the right saddle, just another of the odd things I have found, shot in North Carolina.

Abstract of a church window..

Have a lovely weekend.. thanks for looking

After a vicious rain storm the sky cleared and I had to nail down this pair of stored turbines.

26 26B-29 29B

7-9-74

Falling behind 90% of the massive pace line after the Havens stop; compounded by two separate sections of single lane construction areas on Highway 30 meant there was no chance of winning a race to the Columbus servicing stop, so I settled in for a slow drive into town. As I'd planned, I used the service stop to get ahead to Schuyler for my third shot. Shockingly, I was alone when rolling up to one of the signature Columbus Sub shots at Schuyler's twin Wagner Mills elevators. Only three other photographers and a few locals were present by train time.

Taken with a Nikon D60

A dried protea flower illuminated by a 300 Watts ceramic infrared lamp - just long enough to take the photo (and avoiding to set the house on fire). Since heat (not light) is the main effect of this lamp, the protea's reaction remains invisible. I think it moved. Sony A7iii.

Chevron Close, Custom House

Ruby-throated hummer, departing sequence

Hyde Park squirrels warming up together in some early morning sunshine!

They are over 6' tall...

Gotta see it Large

A 25 second exposure but all this happened in the last 5.

Building: Crescent House, London

Architect: Chamberlin, Powell and Bon

Completed: 1962

Moorside railway station

Evening light shines on a brand new C44ACM (ex-AC60) rebuild leading northbound MAGHO 23 towards Houston, passing Hastings siding on BNSF's Mykawa Sub.

Story time: On our way to the LS&I in Marquette, MI, we spent the night in Saint Paul. The next morning was spent catching various trains around the Twin Cities. We were driving along the river and we noticed the UP bridge was down and signal was lit. We barely missed the head-end of the MSSAL on the bridge and decided to make our way to the walking path in the event of a nose-out DPU. There was another photographer already there and he asked how we were planning on shooting this train. We replied that we were hoping for a nose-out DPU and he said, “there is. It’s the 1943 as a manned helper.” Needless to say we were completely shocked when, sure enough, 1943 came around the curve, headlights on, shoving the train.

Sabina Lang et Daniel Baumann, sculpture de béton (2017), 12 m. X 10 m de haut, plage du Havre, Normandie.

Another shot from last Friday evening down at Princess Pier, Torquay where James Prestwood & Keith McFarlane were Flyboarding. This was a shot of James carrying out a 360 back flip.

Voiloù j'espère que ça te plaira ^^

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Since this train, the GSN19G, stalled at Blair, we feared he would probably stall at Arlington as well. They made it, just barely. Also, CNW on home rails is kinda neat.

Art in Botanical Gardens, Christchurch.

Staring East across the Andalusian mountains as the sun rises on yet another magnificent day in Southern Spain.

A liquid natural gas tank on the Delaware River near Philadelphia