I had a few ideas for Debbie’s One Word Sunday: Mobile prompt.
I forgot those ideas when I remembered that it’s the Le Mans 24 hour motorcycle endurance race in France this weekend.
So a trip to the archives for a photo of Team Bike entering the start/finish straight shortly before midnight during the 1982 Le Mans 24 hour motorcycle endurance race.
This is my day 30 contribution to Becky’s April Squares on the theme of Bright.
A big thank you to Becky for an entertaining month of Bright Squares.
A bright full moon rises over snow and hoarfrost covered farmland near Punnichy, Saskatchewan, Canada.
This is my contribution to the A Photo a Week Challenge: Backlit prompt.
Backlit Canadian flag and Canada Geese at sunrise on the Lake Huron shoreline in Southampton, Ontario.
Backlit Maple leaves on the South Bruce Peninsula, Ontario in spring.
Backlit ice formation on the Colpoy’s Bay shoreline at sunrise.
Backlit pit stop. A rider leaving the pits after a nighttime pit stop during the Le Mans 24 hour motorcycle endurance race in France.
This is my day 10 contribution to Becky’s April Squares on the theme of Bright.
I couldn’t resist the combination of bright and night.
Star trails over Colpoy’s Bay and the Niagara Escarpment with the lights of a vehicle driving along the shoreline road.
This is my day 4 contribution to Becky’s April Squares on the theme of Bright.
A motion blurred motorcycle endurance racer at night. A competitor in the Le Mans 24 hour motorcycle endurance race in France. Taken 39 years ago this weekend.
This is my contribution to the Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: A Change of Scenery prompt.
I had a couple of ideas for the challenge but in the end decided to keep it simple and stay local. I decided to look back to last summer and autumn when some of the Covid-19 restrictions started being lifted and I could visit one of my sunrise locations again.
One of my first visits to Colpoy’s Bay for a sunrise after the restrictions were eased.
In July Comet Neowise was in the news. I made several attempts to see and photograph it. On one occasion I set up the camera to record star trails over Colpoy’s Bay while I looked for the comet.
Once the restrictions were eased a little and I could visit the bay I spent quite a bit of time photographing ripples on the water at sunrise. On this occasion a Common Loon swam into the section of ripples I was photographing and created a second set of ripples.
The autumn saw lots of storm clouds over the bay but I still went for the sunrise.
This week Tina gives us the prompt Special Moments for the Lens-Artists Photo Challenge.
A female Wilson’s Phalarope. I was on a section of the Middle Quill Lake shoreline looking for summer migrants when half a dozen Wilson’s Phalaropes flew in and started feeding around me. I lay down in the sand (and wildfowl poop) to photograph them at eye level. They completely ignored me, some of the birds came so close I couldn’t focus on them.
Having been experimenting with intentional camera movement recently this photo may be where it started for me. A competitor in the 1982 Le Mans 24 hour motorcycle endurance race enters the start/finish straight shortly before midnight. Far to abstract for the magazine editor but I liked the images and have been experimenting on and off ever since.
An adult Eurasian Blue Tit feeding young in a specially constructed nestbox in a garden in Hatherton near Nantwich, Cheshire. I documented the entire nesting cycle from the beginning of nest building to the empty nestbox after the last youngster had left. Extensively published I spent a week looking at a nestbox photo on the contents page of the Radio Times without recognising it as mine.
Storm clouds and light beams over Loch Arkaig, Scotland. I was in Scotland one autumn with the plan of doing lots of landscape photography. With almost constant rain I wasn’t getting a lot of photos until the end of day three when the rain stopped towards sunset. One of the photos from this evening was published worldwide by Olympus Japan and won a national photo contest on the theme of ‘The Beauty of Light.’
