Alternatively, 30 minutes before sunset as a follow-up to week 36.
An evening of week 37 saw me on a local back road. I noticed that the low sun was casting long shadows and illuminating a barn and surrounding trees with golden light.
Specks in front of the sun.
A photo of the setting sun taken with a telephoto. I had a couple of teleconverters stacked behind the lens to make the sun as large as possible in the frame. The specks around the sun are very distant wildfowl. I was hoping for a large V of Sandhill Cranes to cross the sun but they wouldn’t cooperate.
One from the archives taken in early autumn when the wildfowl and Sandhill Cranes are gathering up ready to head south for the winter. Little Quill Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada in the late 1990s.
A splash of red amongst green.
Nine years ago this week.
One from the archives. I was a little surprised when I checked the date of this photo to find it was taken nine years ago this week.
I picked this shot because of the interesting layers of cloud. It’s one I have been meaning to post for some time. It shows a sailboat on Colpoy’s Bay with a section of the Niagara Escarpment and White Cloud Island on the horizon.
Raising steam.
Throwback Thursday travels back to Cheshire, England in the 1980s. I visited the Crewe Steam Rally early on Sunday morning before there was many people about. The exhibitors with machinery were busy firing up the boilers or giving the brass work a final polish.
This traction engine has just had the firebox lit judging by the smoke coming out of the smokestack.
Nine minutes before sunrise.
Juvenile Chipping Sparrow.
Taken a week ago, this is a juvenile Chipping Sparrow in the yard. It must have been a very late brood, the adults had been feeding three young a few days before this photo was taken.
This juvenile is already looking after itself as it searches for something to eat in the grass. They will soon be heading south for the winter.
