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Pulled out a great picture book today, it’s a Photography book, by a guy called steven shore, called 'uncommon places'.  Here is a short synopsis...

Originally published in 1982, Stephen Shore's legendary "Uncommon Places" has influenced more than a generation of photographers. Shore was among the first artists to take color beyond the domain of advertising and fashion photography, and his large-format color work on the American vernacular landscape inaugurated a vital photographic tradition. "Uncommon Places: The Complete Works ...

Anyhow, it struck me that these scenes must have been very familiar to folks on here who visited the US in the 7ts and 8ts... these are great period pictures, of a country, like ours that has for the most part, changed completely...

enjoy them :-O)

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6 hours ago, Amsterdam Russ said:

The first of your two unidentified is a chaffinch - possibly a juvenile bird not in full plumage. Can't quite make out the second, but likely a common species such as a chiff-chaff, sedge or reed warbler.

Thanks Russ ,

They're hard enough sometimes when they're adults , but juvenile females all look surprisingly similar ... :huh:

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Been meaning to test the video side of the EOS 90D for a while and this was a great opportunity.

Shot in FHD only as I need to get a faster SD card for the 4K recording , got another opportunity next week so I'll try again then.

Summer Solstice ISS Solar Transit 21st June 2023.

Canon EOS 90D + Sigma 150-600mm Contemporary @ 600mm + Baader ND 5.0 Film.

Slowed it down to 0.25x ... and made a looped .gif in PIPP.

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And all the transit frames combined.

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Another new arrival here today , a cloud , for want of a better word , of Small Scissor Bees decided to take up residence in the old Oak doorframe to my back porch.

Delightful little folk they are too , disappearing into all the old nail and pin holes in the weathered frame ... not the easiest things to photograph as you can probably gather from the millimetre scale in one of the photos ... !

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And at the top of the garden the young Goldcrests were out in force again as I was solar imaging , so managed to catch some frames of them as well , along with one frame of my favourite jumping spider who came out of hiding too.

 

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On 20/06/2023 at 23:45, Amsterdam Russ said:

The first of your two unidentified is a chaffinch - possibly a juvenile bird not in full plumage. Can't quite make out the second, but likely a common species such as a chiff-chaff, sedge or reed warbler.

After more observation and research it's actually a juvenile Goldcrest , today's photo was taken when a whole 'pack' of them were having a feast on the flies in the conifers ... :)

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2 hours ago, Woodbutcher said:

After more observation and research it's actually a juvenile Goldcrest , today's photo was taken when a whole 'pack' of them were having a feast on the flies in the conifers ... :)

I disagree. The shoulder markings identify it as a chaffinch. And it's overall size and particularly its shape are not that of a gold crest. But, up to you - much like the wasp in an earlier pic - what you think it is, is what it is. No worries.

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6 hours ago, Amsterdam Russ said:

I disagree. The shoulder markings identify it as a chaffinch. And it's overall size and particularly its shape are not that of a gold crest. But, up to you - much like the wasp in an earlier pic - what you think it is, is what it is. No worries.

It's the beak that is all wrong to be a chaffinch  ,which has a much stronger triangular beak as finches do , the Goldcrest has a finer pointier beak for picking insects ,  the chaffinch's shoulder markings are very similar but the upper bar is usually more pronounced ... :thumbsup:

And the Hornet is most definitely a hornet not a wasp , when I come across a dead one I'll do you a side by side comparison photo , they are less forgiving than the Scissor Bees so I don't fancy pushing the camera to within 80mm as I did yesterday ... :lol:

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5 hours ago, Woodbutcher said:

It's the beak that is all wrong to be a chaffinch  ,which has a much stronger triangular beak as finches do , the Goldcrest has a finer pointier beak for picking insects ,  the chaffinch's shoulder markings are very similar but the upper bar is usually more pronounced ... :thumbsup:

And the Hornet is most definitely a hornet not a wasp , when I come across a dead one I'll do you a side by side comparison photo , they are less forgiving than the Scissor Bees so I don't fancy pushing the camera to within 80mm as I did yesterday ... :lol:

I'm still not convinced. :P

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3 hours ago, Amsterdam Russ said:

I'm still not convinced. :P

The more I look the more confusing they all look at that age , all I know is the parents were shepherding them about in one tree while the Blue Tits tackled another , a bit of a miniature West Side Story thing going on ... :lol:

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17 minutes ago, Kegsy said:

Dare I suggest Willow warbler?

 

For the last one in the first post you may indeed ... :thumbsup:

I keep getting asked what its song was like for ID purposes ... sadly nobody that asked the question was bright enough to notice it had a proper mouthful of flies at the time and wasn't doing much warbling of any description .... :lol:

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Chimborazo's summit is the farthest point on the Earth's surface from the Earth's center, given that it is located along the planet's equatorial bulge.[5]This is despite not being the tallest mountain in the Andes or on Earth. Based on the average global sea level, the height of Chimborazo is 6,263 m (20,548 ft), well below the height of Mount Everest(8849 metres). Nevertheless, Chimborazo is the highest mountain in Ecuador and the 39th highest peak in the Andes.[6]
 

to clarify from wiki

 

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On 29/07/2023 at 18:30, Woodbutcher said:

Now there's something you don't see every day ... :)

 

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Great pics, you can see how much the Mustang had surpassed the early machines from the last 3ts; was the 109 an original, or a Spanish one?

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4 hours ago, Soulandy said:

Just had a long weekend at Bala, Wales and was treated to a low flyover from a Airbus Atlas on Friday, bound to Anglesey. There was a few jets flying around but either too high or too fast for a phone photo. Impressive 

 

Atlas A400 out of RAF Brize Norton,the jets were most likely BAE HAWK T1’s(trainers) based at RAF Valley, the local Anglesey station...

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5 minutes ago, Mgm 1251 said:

Atlas A400 out of RAF Brize Norton,the jets were most likely BAE HAWK T1’s(trainers) based at RAF Valley, the local Anglesey station...

Yeh, tracked the Atlas on the flightradar app. See/hear quite a few Hawks etc  when out and about in that area near the mach loop 👍👍

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Obviously not a great photo but might bring a smile, ready for the Tour of Britain passing my house in Shuttleworth with a Lancashire welcome for Tom Pidcock. Before some pedant points out according to government boundary changes I'm technically in GT Manchester, never accepted that and never will, Lancashire born and bred and always will be. 

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