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Wings on Wednesday - 

YAM's take on the good, the bad, the ugly and the downright hilarious in photographing birds.

"Oh yeah? Well how about you try from this angle then?"

(part of a mini-tail tale from a feisty rooster at Auchendrain Farm Museum.)

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Shipping by...

Halifax harbour reminded me much of Sydney harbour, only colder. It was a very busy waterway - and size of craft was no obstacle!

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Monday's Critters

High summer in the Trossachs National Park... 

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MOONdays

Not the sharpest, but got some good detail all the same.

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Saturday Symmetry

A second go at the J C Van Horne bridge (see last week's try). Being on a moving train adds a certain challenge!

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"From too much love of living, 

From hope and fear set free, 

We thank with brief thanksgiving 

Whatever gods may be

That no life lives for ever; 

That dead men rise up never; 

That even the weariest river 

Winds somewhere safe to sea"

(A C Swinburne)

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...can you believe it is Last Thursday already???

The Montreal Biosphere.

Taken from moving train, with lens at full stretch and B&W mode - then 'artified'!

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Wings on Wednesday -

YAM's take on the good, the bad, the ugly and the downright hilarious in photographing birds.

"What do you mean, you missed???"

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Shipping by...

HMCS St Johns; Canadian Navy "Halifax" class frigate. Only fitting it should be spotted in Halifax harbour then! (There is a large naval base here, more on that later.)

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Monday's Critters

Way up in the Highlands, Culkein Stoer to be precise, this giant fellow was blocking the road.

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SUNdays

Having departed Nova Scotia with a rainbow, it was a joy to have a rainbow greet me the very day I land back in the Bonny Land! From my window on July 1st.

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Saturday Symmetry

Yes, a bridge. Surprise... The J C Van Horne Bridge, Cambellton, New Brunswick.

Railway siding rolling stock echo the symmetry. 

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"So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge."
(Cicero)









Sharing via Dory's flower Friday.

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The Thursdays of the year are growing less.

Cincinnati city centre, from up high...

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Wings on Wednesday -

YAM's take on the good, the bad, the ugly and the downright hilarious in photographing birds.

Tsk. Missed again...

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Shipping by...

The flag of New Brunswick is distinctly maritime! 

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Monday's Critters

"hey, mate, spare a carrot?.."

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SUNdays

The parting SUNday shot from Canada - Halifax airport and there had been a big heavy shower, leaving this beauty behind it.

Rainbows don't happen without the presence of SUNlight.

Taken through the thick, green-tinted departure lounge windows, adding a further dimension of colour.

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Saturday Symmetry

Have still got a lot of symmetry shots from the big trip... this one is taken from my room window with Fudge's lens at full stretch towards the harbour, in Halifax Nova Scotia.

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"...and the blood of brave men was shed, like unto shedding of the rain from a black cloud."
(Ferdowsi)






A birch tree sheds

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It's Thursday. Again.

A tractor's retirement home in Gnawbone, Indiana. (Yes, its a place...and they have a race!!! ... not the tractors of course. They're retired. Duh...)

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Wings on Wednesday -

YAM's take on the good, the bad, the ugly and the downright hilarious in photographing birds.

Spotted from "L'Ocean" train as we trundled along the shore of the Gulf of St Lawrence.

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Shipping by...

Still got several maritime items from the big trip West... this one is at the lock on the Rideau canal in Ontario.

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Monday's Critters

Resorting to archived takes from earlier in the year, now that all the big trip critters have been used up!

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SUNdays

Walking in Halifax, the June sun beaming down... was grateful for the lush coolness of these leaves... oh for some of that heat now.

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Saturday Symmetry

Wrought iron railing on a Halifax street. 

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"I am not a has been. 
I am a will be."
(Lauren Bacall)















Small section of a very large canvas.
Just loved the organised chaos.

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A new month, a new Thursday... so what's new?

Photographing the photographer in some shiny sculpture in Cincinnati.

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Wings on Wednesday - 

YAM's take on the good, the bad, the ugly and the downright hilarious in photographing birds.

Majestic heron watching the water at the Peninsula Golf Course, Ohio. Gave this one a bit of an artistic 'tweak'... 

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Shipping by...

At the West shore looking down Halifax harbour from the train. Couldn't make out the name of this ship. Sets the context of the water-way though.