These guys are crazy upto120km/h in this tiny circuit. There were some spin outs and roll over’s on the day.
Baby turtle in a mud puddle. I am pretty sure it is a snapping turtle, but I am not even close to positive. I asked, but he wouldn’t tell me. Featured on WNEP-16 6 o’clock news.
industrial constructions are in fog, details of bridge are in a grey color
They just HAD to build their dam on the rosd,so I just HAFD to dig it out and drain the pond,!(They have a creek not a hundred yards away that they can go to!!) NE Sask. Canada /
NE Sask, Canada, camera: Panasonic,Lumix FZ18 in auto mode / /
A couple of boats moored up creek from Myall Lake.
This is what the Yuba River looks like these days: muddy. The heavy rains upstream have turned what used to be crystal clear water into a completely opaque torrent. The noise was incredible and this is nowhere near flood stage. Then again, this might be what the river looks like at it most impressive and scary: a much heavier flow wouldn’t have crashed over the bounders and made the kayaker’s drool. It would have been an all but silent monster.
The composition of this shot was one suggested by Cathy while we were on the Buttermilk Trail of the South Yuba River in Nevada County, California. I did the selective colouring to hide the fact that the Yuba was one big brown churning distraction in colour.
Ooops! Another upload without hiding it first to give it a title and explanation. Oh well, it’s here now so some of you will probably have to come back. :-) This shot was taken in black and white, something I never do because removing colour in editing is so easy. But I wanted to try it after being pushed to do so by the amount of mud the surging river was churning up because of the recent storms. I looked at all the images after taking a reference “guide shot” or two as well as used bracketing to help out if I missed by just a bit. But I’m still not a B&W shooter by any means so I’ll be working on this with much less interesting subjects for the immediate future and editing out colour when necessary. The details… Nikon D90 / 18-105 MM Nikkor lens / F-stop: f/36 / shutter speed: 1/10 (steadied by boulders) / ISO: 250 / no exposure bias / Metering mode: centre weighted average / Contrast: hard / Exposure mode: manual Major thanks still goes to Chris Swabb, On Assignment Studios. The time he took with is detailed online mentoring of the technique put me over the top. Please see his work and leave a comment or thirty!
I love the location of the feeder creek so much I had to do more with it than simply capture it in all its muddy glory. LOL! Corel PaintShop XI helped me with well over 4 hours of editing to achieve the overall effect I hoped for. It’s not perfect because not all the water responded to the editing in the same manner and I wasn’t able to track down the reason. But it’s close enough to show it because I’m done with busting my tail on it without knowing what the heck I’m doing!
This is Cathy shooting her heart out with the Nikon D60 she proudly purchased and rocks with regularly. She’s about a heartbeat from adding her talents to her profession and will likely reach that goal before the end of the year. She no longer is in need of a mentor; she has one because I won’t shut up. By the way, this was the location where we found the kayak so you can get a feel for what that paddler was up against. :-O
This might be the last int he series unless something else grabs my eye other than the macros on the way. One thing about this oncoming titan: it was rising inches in minutes. I didn’t notice it and quite honestly, I didn’t think about how much danger we could have been all the way down to the water’s brink. A gentle addition of water from feeder creeks would raise levels slowly. But imagine if there had been a large thunderstorm upriver. It just might have caused a small flash flood that would have been bigger and higher than I could have climbed away from, especially if I didn’t happen to be looking at the time. I doubt there’d be any warning other than that feeling you get when pressure changes drastically. In less than a minute, water could be a couple feet higher – no threat whatsoever in the river’s huge channel to anyone but some unobservant photographer shooting the muddy water. LOL!
This is just as majestic as it is scary and I sat within 6 inches of it for the snow shutter work in black and white. The lost kayak bobbed thru this on its own but I don’t know how a human could have helped it much. LOL!
More proof of the fact that Roxy’s favorite place to be is in a puddle!
Splash Down – Survival Training in the Mud – B&W
Looks like the poor old Mud Lark has been left under the dryer for a bit too long! and the Magpie is having a good laugh at his expense!! ;-) / / Woodmans Point Western Australia Olympus E-410
I love mud puddles and the things that grow in them. Don’t ask me why! :) We found this puddle along Sheep Creek, West of Dupuyer, Montana. Nikon D300 / Straight from the camera / Hand held / 70-300 mm lens
A mud puddle on the trail to our cabin in NE Sask,Canada, showing the reflections of trees and sky, /
My precious little grandson, Cameron, playing in the river…what fun for this city boy!! /
Kids just are fascinated with everything :D even a puddle after the rain hehe Some other art of mine /
taken in NE Sask,Canada This IS our road.. /
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