Photo of the Day - September 2018

[Darmok N Jalad]

Next time I’ll try to be a little more risky. Hopefully he comes back. Or maybe this is a good reason for a new lens. But the claws from the hawk might be a little less damaging than what my wife will do if I buy another lens right now.

I nabbed this one of a Cooper’s hawk with a 55-210 lens on a Sony a5000. I have clearer shots of it just sitting there, but I did like this one. He/she stalked the yard for days. It may have been his/her fledgling offspring that killed a robin in our backyard a year later, much to our kids shock and trauma.

 

[TonyC28]

I nabbed this one of a Cooper’s hawk with a 55-210 lens on a Sony a5000. I have clearer shots of it just sitting there, but I did like this one. He/she stalked the yard for days. It may have been his/her fledgling offspring that killed a robin in our backyard a year later, much to our kids shock and trauma.
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Nicely timed shot!

 

[redshifted]

autumn tangle ...

Fuji XT2 and XF55-200mm as Fall begins it's fade-in this week.
Got my 2015 15" rMBP back from Apple with a new un-swollen battery (Yay!) and can finally edit pics again.
I lost my workflow and system settings in the process of getting my laptop repaired.
Now I get to tweak everything all over again
I hadn't realized how dialed-in everything was on my computer.

Thanks for looking,
Ed

 

[freezelighter]

View over the night Lucerne from Pilatus mountain, Switzerland.
(E-M1 II, 7-14 PRO)

 

[heyisti]

 

[Hughmac]

The Anchorage by Hugh Russell, on Flickr

Cheers

Hugh

 

[oblomow]

another snake shot

 

[mollyc]

autumn tangle ...

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Fuji XT2 and XF55-200mm as Fall begins it's fade-in this week.
Got my 2015 15" rMBP back from Apple with a new un-swollen battery (Yay!) and can finally edit pics again.
I lost my workflow and system settings in the process of getting my laptop repaired.
Now I get to tweak everything all over again
I hadn't realized how dialed-in everything was on my computer.

Thanks for looking,
Ed

I really love this.

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

View over the night Lucerne from Pilatus mountain, Switzerland.
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Fantastic!

 

[stillcrazyman]

Beach flowers at sunset....

 

[Cheese&Apple]

Plain water

 

[tizeye]

Makes an awful racket in the house banging on the metal chimney cap.

 

[inkmich]

Sunset over Lake Michigan at Sleeping Bear Dunes

Sunset by Lance Randall, on Flickr

 

[Strider64]

I nabbed this one of a Cooper’s hawk with a 55-210 lens on a Sony a5000. I have clearer shots of it just sitting there, but I did like this one. He/she stalked the yard for days. It may have been his/her fledgling offspring that killed a robin in our backyard a year later, much to our kids shock and trauma.
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My favorite kind of birds -> Raptures
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I always find fascinating birds on the water look like they a gliding on ice.

 

[AllergyDoc]

I nabbed this one of a Cooper’s hawk with a 55-210 lens on a Sony a5000. I have clearer shots of it just sitting there, but I did like this one. He/she stalked the yard for days. It may have been his/her fledgling offspring that killed a robin in our backyard a year later, much to our kids shock and trauma.
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We had a young Cooper’s Hawk on our grill the other day. It was ripping a small mouse apart it had caught and held in its claws. Cleaning up after its feast wasn’t fun. Couldn’t get a picture, though.
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[cogi0490]

DSC08592 by Chris Roth, auf Flickr

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

We had a young Cooper’s Hawk on our grill the other day.

It’s a good thing you elaborated beyond that sentence, otherwise your eating habits would be rather strange (and illegal)!

 

[Clix Pix]

Hurricane Florence is on her way.....and here in Northern Virginia, even though we're not directly in the storm's path nor near the ocean, we are still preparing anyway. Yesterday I was at the grocery store and right near the front entrance was a huge pallet of bottled water. Today when I returned to the store to pick up a couple of items I'd forgotten earlier, that pallet was gone. Out of curiosity I went to the aisle where the bottled water is normally displayed and found....

All the cases of 12 and 24 bottled waters.....gone. Many of the larger bottles as well. This is all that was left this afternoon. We aren't even expecting to see rain and wind from the storm until Friday or Saturday!

 

[Apple fanboy]

Hurricane Florence is on her way.....and here in Northern Virginia, even though we're not directly in the storm's path nor near the ocean, we are still preparing anyway. Yesterday I was at the grocery store and right near the front entrance was a huge pallet of bottled water. Today when I returned to the store to pick up a couple of items I'd forgotten earlier, that pallet was gone. Out of curiosity I went to the aisle where the bottled water is normally displayed and found....

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All the cases of 12 and 24 bottled waters.....gone. Many of the larger bottles as well. This is all that was left this afternoon. We aren't even expecting to see rain and wind from the storm until Friday or Saturday!

Clever marketing! Hope you find something to drink!

 

[Clix Pix]

Oh, I was smart -- I bought MY water yesterday! However, I'd forgotten to get peanut butter and jelly, always a good thing to have on hand in the event of a power outage. I imagine that the store will restock either later today or tonight and over the next few days. People here are always concerned that in the event of a power outage that the water/sewer system could be affected in some way, hence the need to have bottled water available.

 

[Apple fanboy]

Oh, I was smart -- I bought MY water yesterday! However, I'd forgotten to get peanut butter and jelly, always a good thing to have on hand in the event of a power outage. I imagine that the store will restock either later today or tonight and over the next few days. People here are always concerned that in the event of a power outage that the water/sewer system could be affected in some way, hence the need to have bottled water available.

Peanut butter is the spawn of the devil! Yuk.

Jelly is lovely. But by jelly I think what you guys mean is jam!

 

[oblomow]

railway station

 

[decafjava]

Peanut butter is the spawn of the devil! Yuk.

Jelly is lovely. But by jelly I think what you guys mean is jam!

Well I like both. Anyway in keeping with my mountain theme since I am sure there are lots of photos around of Mt. Blanc or the Aiguille du Midi I thought the snap of this glacier might be interesting.

 

[mollyc]

Oh, I was smart -- I bought MY water yesterday! However, I'd forgotten to get peanut butter and jelly, always a good thing to have on hand in the event of a power outage. I imagine that the store will restock either later today or tonight and over the next few days. People here are always concerned that in the event of a power outage that the water/sewer system could be affected in some way, hence the need to have bottled water available.

My Giant was insane today at a normally slow time, and I only went for normal stuff for lunch and dinner over the next couple of days. I did stock up at Costco yesterday. Last I saw we were only supposed to get a couple of inches of rain anyway. Overblown hype (for our area - others will be devastated). And we have a generator, so I can buy a lot of frozen stuff and not worry. I just can't use my oven during a power outage. But can otherwise easily cook.

Peanut butter is the spawn of the devil! Yuk.

Jelly is lovely. But by jelly I think what you guys mean is jam!

We have jelly - which is like jam, but strained free of chunks, jam - which has pieces of fruit in it, and also preserves - which is quite similar to jam and I'm not quite sure the difference, except that maybe it still has some seeds in it (like with the case of raspberries)/

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254/65 | So much rain and more to come

 

[Clix Pix]

My Giant was insane today at a normally slow time, and I only went for normal stuff for lunch and dinner over the next couple of days. I did stock up at Costco yesterday. Last I saw we were only supposed to get a couple of inches of rain anyway. Overblown hype (for our area - others will be devastated). And we have a generator, so I can buy a lot of frozen stuff and not worry. I just can't use my oven during a power outage. But can otherwise easily cook.



We have jelly - which is like jam, but strained free of chunks, jam - which has pieces of fruit in it, and also preserves - which is quite similar to jam and I'm not quite sure the difference, except that maybe it still has some seeds in it (like with the case of raspberries)/

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254/65 | So much rain and more to come

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My Giant was definitely busier than usual both yesterday and today! I don't have a Costco membership, and as a single person I really don't need to buy things in bulk. You are so lucky to have a generator..... As an individual living in a garden-style condo unit, no generator here, so every time we have a power outage I think about the contents of my freezer. Most of the time it's not a big deal, power only off for a short time -- it's when we have a major area-wide power outage that lasts for days that it really becomes a concern. Went through that with Hurricane Isobel lo these many moons ago. NOT fun! Fortunately for me, I am not a big meat eater so rarely have expensive cuts of meat stashed in the freezer, and often just have some fish or shrimp in there. Even when I don't have a lot of food in the freezer, I still keep some of those Freezer Pac thingies in there, and they work nicely for maintaining the chill and keeping the contents of the freezer frozen. A long time ago I was told that it's best to have a freezer that is filled rather than one that is only partially full, as everything stays frozen much longer in the event of a power outage.

Had to go look again at what I bought today at the store and it's Smucker's Red Raspberry Jam; store was out of my favorite, which is Polaner's Raspberry....

If we only have a few inches of rain, no biggie....we would be dodging a big bullet! Fingers crossed we should be so lucky and that all the trees stay firmly rooted in the ground, etc........