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Gwithian, Hayle, Cornwall

nobody@flickr.com (midlander1231) — Sat, 18 May 2013 02:30:28 -0700

A bit of lens flare adds some interesting rays to this image of Gwithian.

Thanks for looking and thanks also for the very welcome comments on my last posted image.

Tony

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www.tontarmstrongphotography.co.uk

St.Michaels Mount

nobody@flickr.com (midlander1231) — Fri, 17 May 2013 05:21:10 -0700

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A view of the Mount at sunset from the old jetty.

Thanks folks for looking and for your kind comments on my previously posted images.

Tony

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www.tonyarmstrongphotography.co.uk

Spring Tide

nobody@flickr.com (midlander1231) — Fri, 03 May 2013 03:32:21 -0700

midlander1231 posted a photo:

Made the short trip to Porth Nanven last night to catch the wonderful light that this cove is famous for.
Thanks to Mr. Joe Rainbow for the company and also, not that we knew, the entire Penwith Photographic Club!
Thanks for looking.
Joe's flickr pages www.flickr.com/photos/24562498@N03

My image website www.tonyarmstrongphotography.co.uk

Seafoam Invasion

nobody@flickr.com (midlander1231) — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 05:33:16 -0700

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The foamy remnants of an earlier storm tossed sea cover the beach.

Mainline Steam

nobody@flickr.com (midlander1231) — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 12:41:54 -0700

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A pair of Black 5's, 44871 and 45407, power up the gradient through Bodmin Parkway Station in Cornwall today. The steam locomotives, with a classic diesel at the rear, are pulling sixteen classic coaches on an eight day long tour of England, Scotland and Wales. Today was the second day of the leg from central London to Newquay and then on up to Cardiff. Apparently a ticket cost in excess of £2000, including overnight hotel accommodation. This train had earlier gone up the Newquay branch line, this was great fun to watch as the train slowly negotiated the very narrow track.

Corfe Castle

nobody@flickr.com (midlander1231) — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 10:54:22 -0700

midlander1231 posted a photo:

My last image of Corfe Castle this time around.
If you have any frost, snow or cold weather you don't want then could you send it down to West Cornwall please, as it's mild, grey and boring down here!

Tony

www.tonyarmstrongphotography.co.uk

Corfe Castle, Dorset

nobody@flickr.com (midlander1231) — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 06:42:11 -0800

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An early morning mist shrouds Corfe Castle in Dorset.

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Thanks folks for all the very welcome comments on my last few images.

Tony

Railway Modeling

nobody@flickr.com (midlander1231) — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 02:40:19 -0800

midlander1231 posted a photo:

This is a reply from me and posted to the image below this.

'Thanks for the welcome and valuable input Joe, Pete and Lakemans. I have an excuse (haven't I always!) The Corfe Castle image, especially the foreground, was chosen from many I took, to be a background on a diorama in the corner of a new model railway I'm building.. The railway is upland England themed and the Corfe image is to be cropped into a panorama, adjusted to match colours, printed on matt paper and glued to the background of the scene. See the above image of my railway to see where this image is to go.'

For those folk that may be interested in the build. The hills are formed with newspaper scrunched up into balls, then taped to the baseboard in rough piles and then covered in wet plaster of paris cloth (broken arm bandage!) When this is dry it's painted in earth brown paint as a base colour then coloured flock granules are sprinkled into wet PVA glue over the cloth. Lumps of green foam are glued on to look like bushes and small pebbles and sand glued on to mimic rocks. The ballast under the track is real tiny grit particles glued to the baseboard with a very thin, watery PVA glue mix applid with a syringe.. The trees are xmas cake decorations.
I now need some 4mm scale tiny rabbits, but unfortunately such a thing doesn't seem to exist....even ebay has failed!

Tony

Castle in the Mist

nobody@flickr.com (midlander1231) — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 12:44:25 -0800

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Corfe Castle in Dorset emerges out of the early morning mists.

Crown Engine Houses, Botallack, Cornwall

nobody@flickr.com (midlander1231) — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 10:07:29 -0800

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A nice Atlantic swell hits the Cornish coast at the old engine houses at Botallack, St.Just, Cornwall. The windows and doorway on the buildings give the swell some scale.
Thanks to Mr.Joe Rainbow for his pleasant company on the trip. See Joe's outstanding work here www.flickr.com/photos/24562498@N03

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Tony

Snow and Glow

nobody@flickr.com (midlander1231) — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 07:59:47 -0800

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The early morning sun bursting through the trees in Abernethy Forest, Cairngorms, Scotland.

Black Isle, Highlands, Scotland

nobody@flickr.com (midlander1231) — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 03:30:20 -0800

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A new set of Pirelli Scorpion Winter tyres definitely needed testing out in the recent snow and Ice.. So a snowy road trip from Cornwall to the North of Scotland was called for...outward up the left side.... A30/M5/M6/M74/A9 and return on the right side.... A9/A1/M1/M42/M5/A30. There was no snow in Cornwall and strangely no snow beyond Inverness...but tons of it inbetween. A selection of bird pics and and of course some snowy ones too will be posted soon.
This image is of the Cromarty Firth looking towards Invergordon. Dolphins, Red Kite, Long Tailed Duck, Eider Duck, Great Northern Diver and Black Throated Diver were all seen from this spot.
Oh! and the winter tyres?....total perfection... even when everyone else was stuck the combination of Land Rover power and winter tyres were completely unstoppable.

Tony

Great Spotted Woodpecker

nobody@flickr.com (midlander1231) — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 13:58:39 -0800

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Why was a long forgotten tune running through my head while I was processing this image? The particular line from the tune...."It's the woody woodpecker song"....kept running in my head over and over again!

Tony

Puffin

nobody@flickr.com (midlander1231) — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 09:37:01 -0800

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Trying to follow a rapidly flying Puffin with a heavy, handheld camera and telephoto lens, while trying to focus as best as you can on the birds head....is all very frustrating. This is one of the images from this testing exercise.

Tony

Winter Sunset

nobody@flickr.com (midlander1231) — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 09:31:11 -0800

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A nice winter sunset over Mounts Bay, West Cornwall. Just me and one other photographer on the beach....don't you just love Cornish winters.
For those of you that like birds and wildlife, we have a Pacific Diver, a very rare vagrant bird, in Mounts Bay at the moment.

Thanks for all the very welcome comments on my last posted image.

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Tony

Portland Lighthouse

nobody@flickr.com (midlander1231) — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 11:39:37 -0800

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This image of the lighthouse on the Isle of Portland, Weymouth was taken on a recent trip from Birmingham to Cornwall, it didn't look like much of a detour on the map....but I very soon realised my mistake!

Tony

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Canon 1D series. Canon 24-70mm f2.8 II.

Bohemian Waxwing

nobody@flickr.com (midlander1231) — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 11:22:26 -0800

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The Bohemian Waxwing is a Starling sized bird that nests in the remote taiga forests of Russia and Scandinavia.
When the berry crop fails in their normal wintering grounds the Waxwings go on the move....and this is one of those years.A lucky one for us in the UK as this winter most of the Scandinavian population of Waxwings are over here. Thousands of these amazing birds are presently spread around the UK.... and one is probably in a berry bush near you now!
The bird gets its name from the red waxy tips of its wing feathers, which you can see in the above photo.
Not an ideally sharp image as the conditions were a bit grey and I had to shoot high ISO's and at f6.3 with the 600mm to get any decent shutter speeds, so consequently very little depth of field....but at least the head is sharp.
Below is a link to a website that that lists the counties and towns where you can currently see Waxwings.

www.birdnet.co.uk/news.html

The Daily Mail's Waxwing article here: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2237659/Waxwing-winter-B...

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Tony

November Rain

nobody@flickr.com (midlander1231) — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 05:07:30 -0800

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With all the talk of floods and rain coming from the south west, there hasn't been much mention of the big seas we have also had. This is The Promenade in Penzance getting a little bit wet!

Tony

Autumn Morning

nobody@flickr.com (midlander1231) — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 05:43:44 -0800

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During a recent trip up to Brum I dived off the A30 and up a side road to grab some rather nice early morning light. I have absolutely no idea where this is, although it's definitely before Exeter as I hadn't reached the M5 motorway.

Thanks hugely for all the very welcome comments on my last posted image. You are all so kind.

Tony

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Lakeland Light

nobody@flickr.com (midlander1231) — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 06:57:24 -0800

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An early morning image of Derwent Water in Cumbria. The nice light didn't last long as just shortly after taking this image it started to rain....and it didn't stop for two days!
For those of you that live near me in West Cornwall a trip to Marazion just before sunset will be worthwhile, as this Autumn the Marazion Marsh starling roost is totally amazing. I haven't seen this amount of birds roosting at the marsh for many, many years. There may be over 100,000 birds staying in the reedbeds overnight.

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Thanks for looking folks.

Tony