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Walking through the mosquito ridden jungle of southwestern Mauritius we stumbled upon this lonesome frog, perfectly camouflaged, basking in the light streaming through the foliage.
Peaceful scene of boats upon the water in morning light ..
Hasting River
Hibbard
Port Macquarie . NSW
Cold, misty and grey. A January day at Eastrington ponds. People have been flooding here during lockdown.
Pentax KX with 28 and 50mm Takumar lenses and yellow/orange filtration, Kodak Trix film developed in Bellini Hydrofen.
Out shopping with the wife and kids. Taken because I liked the lighting.
To the left is a shopping centre built above one of Hulls old docks. The centre is the old Town Docks Office building, now it is the Maritime museum.
I have done one of my "Now and then" pictures of this scene but can't remember how successful it was, I'll have a search for it!
Another from that perfect frosty morning with an early heavy mist. The rising sun caught the smoke from the factory and the river mist created an almost Turner-esque landscape feel. Given the industrial edge to it that seems to fit Turner's themes a little too.
Where call centres now rule - In 1980 The Manvers Coal Processing Plant dominated the scene at Wath as a 47 on an up passenger working passes through via the old road from Normanton.
William Shakespeare's Grave Holy Trinity Stratford Upon Avon
with various of his family buried side by side in this lovely church by the river Avon
Many thanks for another Explore
Highest position: 152 on Monday, May 20, 2013
none for a year then two come along
67029 'Royal Diamond' passes Barrow-upon-Soar on 5th October 2017, working the 7X41 Derby Litchurch Lane - Old Dalby with a nine-car class 345 Crossrail unit in tow.
It was forecast to be a cloudless sunrise so I took a drive out to Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge to photograph the sandhill cranes this morning. Oddly, all the birds remained distant. I visited both the bird blinds but even with the 500mm I couldn’t get anything but “crowd” shots.
Oh well. It’s a wonderful experience, even if I didn’t get the pictures I wanted. There are thousands upon thousands of sandhill cranes there in the winter. (Check the dates before visiting.) There are so many, you almost don’t notice the place is teeming with other wildlife.
As usual, the best pictures come with the best light. This is at the fishing dock, across the highway — on the north side — from the Visitor’s Center. The Sun was just hitting the trees and giving the water the brown glow, but it hadn’t made it to the birds yet. You know me, I’m all about the color.
Nikon D7200 — Nikon 200-500 F5.6 ED VR
500mm
F5.6@1/640th
ISO 1,000
Cropped
ROD_4736.JPG
©Don Brown 2025
One more shot of the Royal Border Bridge at Berwick upon Tweed, this time an HST crosses 126 feet above the River Tweed whilst working 1W20, the 14.00 Kings Cross to Aberdeen.
I found these little insects on some of the Milkweed pods. There are hundreds of them on each pod. They are as small as a pinhead.
It's not flooding in Brisbane like Sydney and New South Wales but we have had a bit of rainy weather of late. For the most part, it hasn't filled the dams but it has given more hope to the people in the country who have had several years of drought.
This shot was from a couple of months back but a similar day to today (Sunday). This is the southern end of Sandgate Station on Queensland Rail's Brisbane suburban network and its level crossing.
When I was a kid, the porter would go down and shut the manual gates then they would set the road (railway jargon for the correct track to be used) for the train to cross from this platform over to the left hand track towards the city (we stay left mostly in Australia). It's different now, the level crossing gates are half barriers which work automatically, colour light signalling and inbound trains actually use the correct inbound left hand side platform and points controlled from a central operations building at Mayne.
The terminus is the next station behind me at Shorncliffe and there is only a single track between Sandgate and Shorncliffe.
I think about it; I think about it all the time; I just can't stop thinking about it; And upon further reflection, I think there is nothing wrong with it...
Alstrom Point, Utah. Finally cross out this famous yet hard-to-access viewpoint of Lake Powell from my bucket list. The trip wasn't easy. Especially the last two miles almost drove me crazy. And weather sucks, at least it was how I was feeling upon arrival till 10 minutes before sunset, I didn't see any opening from west at all. But at last, I got a surprise!
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