Photos Photo of the Day

Thanks . I tried for quite a while to get one of the plantation without people. But it was too packed :-/.

I also didn't have enough time to get the ship passing by quite right. Salvaged the shot, and it turned out ok.

 

Went and sampled a new course we're doing at work, British Wildlife Experience.



Jessops Wildlife Experience-12 by Jordan Stanhope Dean, on Flickr

 

Absolutely stunning photo there chap

My contribution for the day comes from testing out a new macro lens


IMG_0848 by gkinrade, on Flickr

 

Here's one I took last month but didn't edit until tonight. From the incredibly entertaining Kaws exhibition at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.


Kaws by Box with a button, on Flickr

 

Robin by gkinrade, on Flickr


Robin by gkinrade, on Flickr

Particularly fortuitous these shots - I was snapping this little guy from a distance and he flew across and landed about 2 feet away from me!

 

Love those.

Edit: Here's some shots I took while playing Uncharted 4. The photo mode camera is pretty crap. But the game takes some pretty good photos

 

Looks really nice.
(also, why not also share them in the gaming screenshots thread, more/other people might see them too )

 

Oh nice, I didn't realize there was a gaming screenshot thread.

 

I waited 2 hours just to watch a really, really big boat sail past:

Harmony of the Seas by Sam Masters, on Flickr

Sam

 

Around the first of the month my dad called me and said my Stepmother was getting out of the hospital on a ventilator after almost 2 months in ICU and he needed some help. I headed out that night and drove the 900 odd miles in about 26 hours and have been down here ever since. She's pretty stable and so I've been finally getting out to do some stuff on my own. Unfortunately my process with taking and sorting pictures isn't instantaneous so these are sort of coming all at once.

"Get out of the road, you Turkey!"
They have wild turkeys down here and they are about as dumb as the domestic ones. It's amazing to me how close some pretty wild country is to the city most everywhere you go around here.


Speaking of here, this picture should allow you to geolocate me a couple of different ways. This is just down the road from Dad's house. And yes, the colors were enhanced, it was actually a pretty dull sunset.




A couple from Pescadero State beach. I bought some various tools and computer parts from a couple of Craigslist sellers and the last one was in Mountain View. Since it was getting to be traffic time, I found a squiggly road on the map and drove it, and this is where it dropped me off. First time I've ever driven much in second gear! It was the road over the mountains that I shot with the Go Pro and was going to try to convert to a movie, but didn't work out.

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One of the places I've wanted to go for a long time was Mount Diablo.

At 3,849 feet, it is the highest peak in the Bay Area and has a visitor's center at the top. The center was originally built as an aircraft navigation beacon in 1928 by Standard Oil Company. The beacon was extinguished during WW2 and after the war was not re-activated. It is currently lit once a year to mark Pearl Harbor Day on December 7th each year.

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In 2013 much of the mountain was burned in a wildfire and to study how the vegetation is regrowing, stands are sut up at various locations around the visitor's center. Hikers are encouraged to put their devices in the stands and take pictures, then upload them to instagram with a specified hashtag, allowing a record of regrowth over time to be kept.

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The helicopter shots I'm particularly proud of, not so much for the pictures themselves, but for the small part I played in the drama. The road up to the summit is one of the most challenging I've ever driven (went almost the whole trip in second gear, had to make the final climb in first), and so getting emergency services up there is a challenge. Shortly after I pulled in I could hear sirens and then the Sheriff's helo showed up and was circling the hill. A few minutes later, one of the park rangers arrived and went into the visitors center with his medical bag and I went down to see if I could help. A visitor in his 50s was feeling lightheaded, short of breath and weak, with numbness in his arms that did not resolve with rest, and the park rangers, while fairly well equipped, have little medical training. While I started evaluating and treating the patient, the helicopter with a Sheriff and flight paramedic landed at the lower parking lot, and they were driven up to the top by additional park rangers as there was no room for the helo to land at the summit. The flight medic and deputy Sheriff took over patient care and together with the patient were driven down to the lower parking lot for the short hop to the main gate where a ground ambulance was waiting. The alternative would have been to wait another 30 minutes for the ambulance to reach the summit, load the patient, and then wind their way back down, by which time everyone would have been sick. My role in all this was small, rapid evaluation, iniate treatment, and coordinate with higher level of care, but it's been at least three years since I was doing this sort of thing regularly and it's good to know I still have it.

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Those kind of numbers blow my mind. If you drove for 26 hours over here, you'd end up in the sea.



IMGP0504 by Neil, on Flickr

Speaking of, a Cornish Gig.

 

Or about make it across London at rush hour

 

Nom Nom Nom!

 

Nice shot! Getting the hang of that MP-E I see

 

IMGP0493 by Neil, on Flickr

St.Ives in f/4.

 

That, and getting over my fear of bees!

 

Low tide at sunset - camera phone (sorry)

 

A few I hadn't got around to uploading until last night...

Bondage II by Sam Dickinson, on Flickr

Dahlia Implied by Sam Dickinson, on Flickr

Smoke by Sam Dickinson, on Flickr