Photo Of The Day June 2020

[Alexander.Of.Oz]

The view from the top of the crusher at the country mine that has been unused since 1988. This is standing at the top of the separator & crusher line, where the raw materials were fed into the separator, which was basically a giant set of hard metal teeth that constantly spun under huge torque so as to smash the rock into smaller bits to make them fine enough to transport on a series of conveyor belts to waiting ships for cartage to steel mills & the like. Hence the "SEP" & "Level 7" signs. You can see a bit of the bay in the much lower & distant background.

Sony a7III, Zeiss 55mm f/1.8, Daylight WB
ISO 125, 55mm, f1.8, 1/4000
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a boring blue jay

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Looks more inquisitive than boring to me, but I live a world away, so to me it's an exotic & beautiful creature!

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

Woodpeckers are the most boring. It’s how they find food and build their nests!

 

[r.harris1]

a boring blue jay

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Ah, see, but they are fantastic birds, like all corvids. They pay watching. They’re smarter than most people (this forum excluded, of course! ), they have fabulous personalities, and they are particularly gorgeous at breeding time. Of interest is to watch them bury peanuts in the presence of other blue jays, even their partners. They will only pretend to bury if they think they are being watched and make a great show of it. They also remember where they cache many thousands of food items, so they know their world really well. So nothing boring here!

 

[oblomow]

a boring blue jay

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Beautiful and not boring at all. And it has your signature lighting.

 

[stillcrazyman]

Just a lizard.

 

[Hughmac]

Sunset from 2017...



Cheers

Hugh

 

[iMyke]

An enormous storm cloud that I watched from my yard. There are 2 lightening bolts visible in the cloud structure in this photo...
I found out later the next day that it went over a small town about 30 miles from me, causing some serious wind damage and it dispersed a lot of rain.

 

[akash.nu]

 

[stillcrazyman]

Very nice scene. Reminds me of Land’s End in the UK when I visited many years ago.

 

[tizeye]

 

[keyrex]

The Damselflies have disappeared from my new pond, maybe because a frog has taken up residence instead! So this might be the last one

Here the male is on top of the female, they are in their 'loveheart' position where fertilisation takes place prior to the female ovipositiing her eggs into the pond. The male is red and black but the female, also red and black, has yellow rings on her abdomin. They both have beautiful iridescent wings that colourfully reflect in the water.
They are absolutely fascinating to watch.
Commments appreciated.

 

[r.harris1]

An abandoned ranch house, Pawnee National Grasslands in NE Colorado. Near the left edge, about a third of the way from the top, in the tree (the nearest "distant" tree), there's a very-hard-to-see vertical grey smudge. That's the Great Horned Owl I posted yesterday. I'd seen it fly from the house to the tree. I of course had to very quickly change cameras after this shot to get some images of the owl. All part of the fun .

Abandoned Farm by Ray Harrison, on Flickr

 

[RogerWilco6502]

a boring blue jay

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In my family we have a joke about a bird being "just a robin" because robins are insanely common where we are (they also used to irritate our beagle for some reason, we never figured out why). So my mom will hear rustling or see an indiscriminate shadow in the underbrush and get all excited only to see that it's a robin. She loves robins, and she doesn't want to speak ill of them, but she is very obviously disappointed when it's not something a bit more uncommon.

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

 

[AllergyDoc]

Fore! 30 minutes later, when we were on the deck wait for our burger, it started pouring. The golfers seemed not to mind.
Nikon D3300 with my 35mm 1.8G lens. Probably f/8 and 100 ISO.

 

[Clix Pix]

This was a real surprise yesterday -- I was out walking around the lake and was startled to see this Great Egret (I am pretty sure that's what the big white bird is) in the water. First time in all the years I have lived here that we've had an Egret; usually we have Night Herons and Great Blue Herons, but the Egrets seem to go elsewhere. I was thrilled to see this guy and frustrated as heck that the lens on the camera was the 90mm macro! Grabbed a shot anyway.....

 

[ruka.snow]

ISO 320, 1/200, f/5.6 from my Nikon Z6 with the 50mm f/1.8 S

Todays subject was Mr Cuddles and I was wishing to try to get a little more of him in the DOF today. This is also 50% of actual size. The resolution I got from this lens and camera combo was very impressive and really puts my 5d Mark II and 90D to shame. I am most looking forward to the upcoming 100-400S and 200-600.

 

[inkmich]

Green and White by Lance Randall, on Flickr

iPhone 8

 

[Micky Do]

Waikawau Tunnel, near Awakino / Te Anga Road, West Coast, North Island, New Zealand

Fujifilm X20: ISO 200, f 2.2 @ 1/280 sec

Should have used a slower shutter speed & higher f stop.

 

[dimme]

Ford-20190630.jpg by Charles Martorelli, on Flickr

 

[Alexander.Of.Oz]

Still at the disused quarry, over looking Rapid Bay, South Australia from the top of the separator line.

Sony a7III, Zeiss 55mm f/1.8, Daylight WB
55mm, ISO 125, f/1.8, 1/4000

 

[r.harris1]

In my family we have a joke about a bird being "just a robin" because robins are insanely common where we are (they also used to irritate our beagle for some reason, we never figured out why). So my mom will hear rustling or see an indiscriminate shadow in the underbrush and get all excited only to see that it's a robin. She loves robins, and she doesn't want to speak ill of them, but she is very obviously disappointed when it's not something a bit more uncommon.

We like to use "little brown jobs" for all of the ubiquitous finches and sparrows, etc. We love them just the same.

 

[RogerWilco6502]

We like to use "little brown jobs" for all of the ubiquitous finches and sparrows, etc. We love them just the same.

I've heard them referred to that before! I love all the different names for ubiquitous birds that exist.

 

[iAssimilated]

Came across a downed tree during our Sunday hike, I was fascinated on how the trunk tore apart from the base (close up of a section I was very interested in):

Resized in Luminar 4.

 

[Hughmac]

A well used dovecote from a photo walk yesterday...



Cheers

Hugh