A mid-winter view of the Olifants River (Elephants) from the Olifants Rest camp, Kruger National Park.
This river meanders into Mozambique and joins the "great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees," (Just So Stories - Rudyard Kipling - How the Elephant got his Trunk)
When it last flooded army helicopters were plucking refugees from the tree tops - hard to believe.
Andy these last posts are terrific and Ram great shots of the Georgia park.
Scott love the captures, color and presentation.
Colin beautiful Echinops, great color and depth of field.
Jack, 93 sounds like a mild morning here
Peter yes we do have a multitude of photo opportunities here but your captures of SA, its scenery and wildlife are spectacular.
Here are some from Ogden Utah, particularly to Union Station of old that now the home of the John Browning Museum. There's a lot to see there and I'll use some bandwidth today trying to show it. Pardon the first shot where I was attempting to get a reflection of the window and didn't do so well. I'm posting it anyway.
While we were touring the museum we met a man there who I though was a docent and we were discussing the Browning history, particularly the 1911 pistols which I collect. It got pretty deep into the conversation and then I got invited to the basement to see their vault. There they have rifles donated by the Browning Arms Company that were tinkered with by the company gunsmiths and not fit for sale but great for display. He wanted me to look at the collection donated by retired member of the USMC shooting team, Lt. Col Charles Folsom. That collection included a first year production pistol, the 15th purchased by the Marine Corps. Also, a rare photo of a rare Singer pistol, the jewel of the collection.
The man turned out to be the Chairman of the Museum and married to the daughter of Val Browning and we spent a couple of hours down there going thru guns. So here goes, the man, the vault, the guns. Pleas excuse five.
Another shot of one of my wife's flowers. The back lighting from the setting sun is not as strong here as my previous one posted a couple of days ago. Taken again with my Df/85 f1.4 AIS combo.
Up in the French Alps where the Tour de France often goes.
The Cols are high and cool .... and tough for cyclists ....
Not on the route this year due to a landslip and road repairs.
But just to give a flavour of the roads ....
The Col du Glandon summit with a Colnago carbon bike parked at it !!
And the road up to the Col de la Croix de fer
Both long and tough .... up and down too ..... This one went up high then back down to the vally floor before rising again up to the summit of the Col .... now that's just hard work for the sake of it .... nothing easy here !!
I love the sport !!
I can't get up them nowadays .... but 20 years ago .... I was game then !!
D810 + 25-50mm f4
Steve
Stokesey 2017
The long and winding road !!
Stokesey 2017
It just keeps grinding up .... and then down .... and then up again !!
Stokesey 2017
Every change in angle .... they put a sign up to tell you how much it will hurt !!
Stokesey 2017
At the Col du Glandon summit ... you can rest and be thankful !!
Stokesey wrote:
Up in the French Alps where the Tour de France often goes.
The Cols are high and cool .... and tough for cyclists ....
Not on the route this year due to a landslip and road repairs.
But just to give a flavour of the roads ....
The Col du Glandon summit with a Collage carbon bike parked at it !!
And the road up to the Col de la Croix de fer
Both long and tough .... up and down too ..... This one went up high then back down to the vally floor before rising again up to the summit of the Col .... now that's just hard work for the sake of it .... nothing easy here !!
I love the sport !!
I can't get up them nowadays .... but 20 years ago .... I was game then !!
Ken Hill wrote:
While we were touring the museum we met a man there who I though was a docent and we were discussing the Browning history, particularly the 1911 pistols which I collect. It got pretty deep into the conversation and then I got invited to the basement to see their vault. There they have rifles donated by the Browning Arms Company that were tinkered with by the company gunsmiths and not fit for sale but great for display. He wanted me to look at the collection donated by retired member of the USMC shooting team, Lt. Col Charles Folsom. That collection included a first year production pistol, the 15th purchased by the Marine Corps. Also, a rare photo of a rare Singer pistol, the jewel of the collection.
The man turned out to be the Chairman of the Museum and married to the daughter of Val Browning and we spent a couple of hours down there going thru guns. So here goes, the man, the vault, the guns. Pleas excuse five....Show more →
Ken,
Living in the UK guns are not part of our psyche or culture (although more law enforcement officers display fire arms at airports and around London these days due to the omnipresent terrorist threat). However I can see the fascination for depicting highly engineered and beautifully machined objects such as the ones you have shown.
