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Pittsburgh Reflections
These were all shot with the 12-40mm Pro, except the first photo which was the Rokinon 7.5mm Fisheye. Processing was done with a combo of Lightroom, Luminar 3, and Aurora 2019.
2Jan 6, 2019 -
A sunset visit to the Peter Iredale
I hoped to make a sunset visit to the Peter Iredale one of the stops on our recent Pacific Northwest road trip. I had spent a great deal of time researching the possibilities between Santa Cruz and Port Townsend and it was one of very few possible destinations about which I was relatively intransigent. Of course the weather could have made the experience an exercise in quickly improvising a plan b, or c, or... But, no, we had glorious weather (except for the total lack of clouds), we managed to hit the tide right and, since it was out of season, even the small crowd there was manageable. Even the moon cooperated.
3Nov 28, 2018 -
Time Gone By - Messer/Whaley Farm, GSMNP
The Great Smoky Mountains National Park has several old buildings that were once used by the families that made their lives in the mountains. It was a hard life in a rugged land that eventually became the National Park. One of these sites is the Whaley/Messer farm site.
About a mile up Porters Creek Trail you come upon the site seemingly deep in the forest. The farm was originally built by Pinkney Whaley in the late 1800's. The double-cantilever barn was built in 1875. Eventually the farm was sold to John Messer who had married Pinkney's cousin.
By the 1930's most of the farm buildings had been torn down, or used to rebuild a cabin for the Smoky Mountains Hiking Club. The cabin was used by the Hiking Club up until 1981.
Here is a view from beside the cabin. In it you can see an old mill stone, the old farm spring house in the middle distance and the 1875 barn in the distance....15Dec 4, 2017 -
A Few Pictures More … Macro
Hooded monk – looks like – beetle, on the butterfly bush against the red nasturtium. What big eyes, to see in the dark - the only time I find them.
Caught out in the rain, this little shovel headed beetle. In my hand it will dig into the shadows, strong as a dray horse.
A wasp, I think, only found twice after the rain and wind forced her to land for the duration. Lovely blue in the black.
My old favourite, orange tail resin bee. Finishing off her nest and the cycle begins once more.
Drone fly, came and went, as is the way of nature. Nothing stays the same for long. Keep up by unloading the expectations.
Wasp, taking a break after being rescued from the watering can. She recovered quick enough and was away on the breeze.
And a few Assassins ...
Out in the hot sun. A few shots before she flew away, a rare occurrence that, assassins flying.
A younger version, from a winter’s night, others could be found nearby. At some point they must become a danger to each other.
You can see it’s a youngster by the wing buds – not developed much at all. Nice to get the blue car in the background.
The kill … the only consideration being hunger, instinctively. Slip that lance between the armour and pretty quick the beetle is a meal.
It doesn’t lend itself to many angles for portrait. Here on a dried out banana skin, taking advantage of the others feeding there.
Too small to make a meal, that fruit fly on an old banana. But others, bigger, do come and die while dining on the fermenting pulp.
Is there such a thing as a pretty assassin bug? Not really, but they can be appreciated for being what they are, unselfconsciously so....13Oct 14, 2018 -
Daks Over Normandy - Duxford event 4th June
The following are images from the Duxford event - 4th & 5th of June - which started on June 2nd and ended on June 5th when the whole of the DC3/C47 aircraft departed for Normandy (did not witness this as due to some operational constraint the departure was delayed by an hour and we had to drive home before this occured).
June 4th was a windy, damp day, but some flying took place although the planned parachute drop did not take place.
And we were treated to the wonderful sight and sounds of the Dakota's taking off and landing.
After landing the 'troops' emptied out of their aircraft and walked past the crowd line (I think they were as disappointed at not having jumped as the crowd was).
Slowly the weather worsened but several fighters put on a good show regardless (by this time I spent more time wiping rain off the lens as I did taking pictures).8Jun 11, 2019
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