Photo of the Day - May 2022

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

When my wife and I first moved here to NC in 2/2001, we first lived in Apex, NC. I could see the cooling tower from our house of the Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant. It intrigued me, as I had never seen a nuclear power plant before, let alone lived within 5 miles of one. Well my curiosity finally got the best of me, so my wife and I got in the car to go see if we could get a closer look at this cooling tower. We drove to the entrance and there were no keep out signs, so we drove down the long and winding road and kept getting closer and closer. I was so surprised that I kept stopping the car to take pictures to show our proximity to the cooling tower. We finally were there, and what an ominous feeling to be able to walk right up to the tower and nobody ask us what the @#$% we are doing. Well, I walked all over the grounds and right up to the tower. Never saw another person, let alone police or military. Of course that has all changed since 9/11. There is a guarded entrance now, and you can't get anywhere close to the tower any more.

The pictures were taken the Summer of 2001 just a couple months before 9/11 and are scanned, as they were taken when all my cameras were still film. I included a thumbnail of the pictures to show my progress as we got closer to the cooling tower, and to show they are my pictures.

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Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant · 5421 Shearon Harris Rd, New Hill, NC 27562

★★★★★ · Nuclear power plant

goo.gl

What a cool story. Impressive, definitely got lucky and it’s a rare shot! Glad you took the risk and got very close to the nuclear plant. I’m pretty sure something like this you can’t do anymore.

Thank you for sharing 🙇🏻‍♀️

 

[katbel]

 

[combatphotog]

A family of Feral cats.

 

[Strider64]

Meanwhile at the opposite end of the power plant…
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First time I seen a Red-shouldered Hawk perched on a wire. ?

 

[Susurs]

Milky Way

 

[Allyance]

First time I seen a Red-shouldered Hawk perched on a wire. ?

Back before we carried cameras in our pockets, I was driving east along the NYS Thruway through the Montezuma Nature Reserve. There was a simple wire fence with wooden fence posts. Perched on top of each post was a hawk, facing the opposite way of the hawks on either side of him. There was at least a dozen hawks in a row, each facing the opposite way that day. Wish I could have gotten a picture of that!

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

First time I seen a Red-shouldered Hawk perched on a wire. ?

Yes, it was an odd place to stop. They patrol our yard for food so much that I guess they are getting comfortable with the suburban setting.

 

[oldBCguy]

A rather interesting looking tree trunk .. I wonder who's been living in the various crevices? (early-am walk recently, in local Municipal park).

 

[AlixSPQR]

When my wife and I first moved here to NC in 2/2001, we first lived in Apex, NC. I could see the cooling tower from our house of the Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant. It intrigued me, as I had never seen a nuclear power plant before, let alone lived within 5 miles of one. Well my curiosity finally got the best of me, so my wife and I got in the car to go see if we could get a closer look at this cooling tower. We drove to the entrance and there were no keep out signs, so we drove down the long and winding road and kept getting closer and closer. I was so surprised that I kept stopping the car to take pictures to show our proximity to the cooling tower. We finally were there, and what an ominous feeling to be able to walk right up to the tower and nobody ask us what the @#$% we are doing. Well, I walked all over the grounds and right up to the tower. Never saw another person, let alone police or military. Of course that has all changed since 9/11. There is a guarded entrance now, and you can't get anywhere close to the tower any more.

The pictures were taken the Summer of 2001 just a couple months before 9/11 and are scanned, as they were taken when all my cameras were still film. I included a thumbnail of the pictures to show my progress as we got closer to the cooling tower, and to show they are my pictures.

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Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant · 5421 Shearon Harris Rd, New Hill, NC 27562

★★★★★ · Nuclear power plant

goo.gl

At the same time I was repeatedly told that nuclear power is ever so safe.

 

[AlixSPQR]

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G9 , 100-400@400 , f8@1/640 , ISO 400

For a second, I thought that the birds were named like that. But then I saw there are five birds.

 

[OldMacs4Me]

Beautiful! Where is it?

Southwestern Alberta. The mountains are very close to the BC border just south of Highway 3.

 

[decafjava]

I don't seem to have any pics taken May 1st, not a requirement I know but still. Anyway a photo on the Rhone taken almost a year ago on May 3.

 

[CK Williams]

Not exactly 'squirrel-proof'...

 

[Mark0]

Late Evening - Knock Bay, SW Scotland.

You can't beat having a whole beach to yourself. My footprints were the only sign that anyone had been - although thankfully not in the shot!

 

[Jumpthesnark]

Dawn at a geothermal power plant, part of the Imperial Valley Geothermal Project, next to the Salton Sea in California.

 

[Hughmac]

Spotted this caterpillar hanging from its silk thread this afternoon...



iPhone SE2, macro lens attachment, flipping thing wouldn't stop wriggling around

Cheers

Hugh

 

[bondr006]

Dawn at a geothermal power plant, part of the Imperial Valley Geothermal Project, next to the Salton Sea in California.

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7 Cooling Towers!

 

[Danfango]

Crap one today. Didn’t have the energy or mass budget or time to drag a proper camera around or think about photography. Did ridiculous 48km hike on the South Downs. So random sheep it is, on the iPhone 13 Pro.

 

[fauxtog]

 

[dimme]

0220305-_DSC1652.jpg by Charles Martorelli, on Flickr

 

[katbel]

Spotted this caterpillar hanging from its silk thread this afternoon...



iPhone SE2, macro lens attachment, flipping thing wouldn't stop wriggling around

Cheers

Hugh

So cool!

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

Bixby Creek Bridge - Part II​

Location:

Big Sur, Monterey County, California.

This view below contains what's under the Bixby Creek Bridge.

🌊 No access to get down to the open ocean. Below shows a glimpse of the North Pacific Ocean. It is purely marvelous, with Breathtaking views 🌫.

Cross-reference: Part I, see below, please.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/photo-of-the-day-may-2022.2343448/?post=31065517#post-31065517

 

[Steven-iphone]

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Bixby Creek Bridge - Part II​

Location:

Big Sur, Monterey County, California.

This view below contains what's under the Bixby Creek Bridge.

No access to get down to the open ocean. Below shows a glimpse of the North Pacific Ocean. It is purely marvelous, with Breathtaking views .

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Cross-reference: Part I, see below, please.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/photo-of-the-day-may-2022.2343448/?post=31065517#post-31065517

Nice - but winding drive along California HWY 1

 

[stillcrazyman]

Blue dragonfly in the greenery.

 

[Apple_Glen_UK]

Digby on guard duty. Thou Shall Not Pass!