Today in pictures

[kestrelx]

Here are some of my best I'm sorting through and deleting most of my files.

1) Blue Tit at nest in grave stone.
2) Blue Tit at nest in grave stone.
3) Canary Wharf at night.
4) Canary Wharf from Walthamstow over Reservoirs.
5) Common Tern.
6) Egyptian Geese.
7) Gum Face - came across this in some trees - somebody chewed a lot of gum to make this!
8) Mallard and young.
9) Mecca at Camden Town.
10) Peacock Butterfly.

[kestrelx]

Originally Posted by churchfcrules

cant get out this week , so posting some from a few weeks ago, sawley circular walk

1 sword in the stone, something to do with the Beat herder festival
2 i like the raindrops
3 railway bridge, dont see many grassy bridges
4 a field
5 noisy sheep
6 another field
7 a bridge, lol sawley bridge over the ribble taken from spread eagle view
8 a tree eating a fence
9 a rare forward facing, self portrait, but im not on a hill, so its ok

Good photos of the sword in the stone! Like the one of the weird looking tree as well.

[kestrelx]

Originally Posted by susie123

Yes I'd looked at pine marten/ferret/polecat and come to the same conclusions. So a mystery beast then!

Sorry didn't see your post on this subject till just now. While I was looking for an answer I came across this lovely beast which looks like two different animals stuck together!

Marbled polecat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

That's an exotic looking animal. I think the mystery beast, is possibly a really manky, dried out old pine marten.

[churchfcrules]

Originally Posted by kestrelx

Here are some of my best I'm sorting through and deleting most of my files.

1) Blue Tit at nest in grave stone.
2) Blue Tit at nest in grave stone.
3) Canary Wharf at night.
4) Canary Wharf from Walthamstow over Reservoirs.
5) Common Tern.
6) Egyptian Geese.
7) Gum Face - came across this in some trees - somebody chewed a lot of gum to make this!
8) Mallard and young.
9) Mecca at Camden Town.
10) Peacock Butterfly.

could get a half decent city scape at position of 4, what direction is that facing

[davemac]

Originally Posted by susie123

Some more windows and doors today and a few pics which while loosely related to the theme were prompted by a BBC news article.

1 Beamish brewery, Cork
2 Christian Brothers school for poor children, Sullivan's Quay on the River Lee, Cork
3 Georgian window, Cork
4 Windows and doors, old warehouse, Liverpool
5 I was prompted to include the next shots by a BBC news article about the research station at Ny Alesund, Spitsbergen, Norway. I have posed some shots from here previously on this thread.
BBC News - So remote, it could pass for Mars
We stopped there while on a cruise in July 2010. This photo show Richard posing with a copy of our local mag which was running a holiday photos competition where you had to have a copy of the mag in the photo and prove where you had been. He was on the landing stage outside this building with the details on. We didn't win!
6 These are the lions outside the door of the Chinese building, as mentioned in the BBC article
7 The North Pole hotel
8 Windows, doors and steps - the Polar Research Institute
9 Nothing but windows - but not sure there's anything growing in there!

Probably a daft question, whats the reason for a club in the centre of that life preserver in picture 5 ?

[churchfcrules]

Originally Posted by davemac

Probably a daft question, whats the reason for a club in the centre of that life preserver in picture 5 ?

is that not what keeps it on the wall, or is it a club, "to calm em down a bit" if they are drowning lol

[kestrelx]

Originally Posted by churchfcrules

could get a half decent city scape at position of 4, what direction is that facing

I don't know I didn't have my compass!

[davemac]

Originally Posted by kestrelx

Here are some of my best I'm sorting through and deleting most of my files.

1) Blue Tit at nest in grave stone.
2) Blue Tit at nest in grave stone.
3) Canary Wharf at night.
4) Canary Wharf from Walthamstow over Reservoirs.
5) Common Tern.
6) Egyptian Geese.
7) Gum Face - came across this in some trees - somebody chewed a lot of gum to make this!
8) Mallard and young.
9) Mecca at Camden Town.
10) Peacock Butterfly.

You should post more of the city around you, they are interesting

[churchfcrules]

Originally Posted by kestrelx

I don't know I didn't have my compass!

work it our damn you lol

you know the area, just wondering how be fixed for a rise or a set, on a nice cal evening

[churchfcrules]

just looked on google maps, and if i am right, its due south, so no good lol

[kestrelx]

Originally Posted by davemac

Today in Pictures, at 100 miles an hour.

1. A brown Hawker Dragonfly.
2. You don't think they will be so dominant until they are up, this is from the canal just short of Riley's Swing Bridge.
3. Thistle seeds now old enough to leave home, and set up a family of their own.
4. A Marmalade Hoverfly, on a Field Bindweed.
5. Common Darter Dragonflies in the process of mating and laying eggs, this was a difficult shot due to their speed, check out the wings, almost invisible.
6. From the junction at Church, just short of the Dunkenhalgh Way. There was something a bit out of sync here. A gridlocked junction and the installation of wind turbines !
7. This is the caterpillar of the Lime Hawk Moth.

You can say what you like about this thread, but you learn some stuff, get taken around the world, and get to see whats right under your nose. This is Dave Mac for News at Ten handing you back to the studio.

Nice caterillar at number 7 - but I'm seeing the next one, after a bicycle accidently drove over it! Some good photos.

[kestrelx]

Originally Posted by churchfcrules

just looked on google maps, and if i am right, its due south, so no good lol

It's sort of South-east. From that position you'll never get the sun coming up behind those buildings, if that's what you mean?

[davemac]

Originally Posted by kestrelx

Nice caterillar at number 7 - but I'm seeing the next one, after a bicycle accidently drove over it! Some good photos.

As I used it for a photograph, I then moved it out of harms way, am I good, or what!

[churchfcrules]

Originally Posted by davemac

As I used it for a photograph, I then moved it out of harms way, am I good, or what!

dont touch the models dave
you know what the judge said about that pj cam

[davemac]

Originally Posted by churchfcrules

dont touch the models dave
you know what the judge said about that pj cam

He did mention my zoom and flash, but didnt mention moving them out of the way. Its the curfew I am struggling with.