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Komeil Karimi
@Komeil@pixelfed.social
1 settimana fa

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Iconic Canadian Pacific red locomotive pulling out of the equally iconic Banff train station with Cascade Mountain in the background

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Iconic Canadian Pacific red locomotive pulling out of the equally iconic Banff train station with Cascade Mountain in the background

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#photography #landscape #train #travel #canada #alberta #mountain #banff

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Flickr Foundation
@flickrfdn@glammr.us
1 settimana fa

Textile nerds might enjoy these blanket-making images from the Golden Fleece Woolen Mill (a belt-driven factory) in Magrath, Alberta, around 1940.

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Textile nerds might enjoy these blanket-making images from the Golden Fleece Woolen Mill (a belt-driven factory) in Magrath, Alberta, around 1940.

Images from the Provincial Archives of Alberta, on Flickr Commons.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/alberta_archives/55508393723/in/dateposted/

Black and white image of people working in a woolen mill managing huge piles of shorn wool straight from the sheep. A large mill machine which seems to be taking spun wool and making it into shorter/smaller bobbin like devices. It's a long machine with several dozen spools being handled at once. A woman works on a weaving or spinning device of some kind. A large room with several weaving devices which are outputting nice looking blankets.

#photography #alberta #factory #textiles

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Komeil Karimi
@Komeil@pixelfed.social
2 settimane fa

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Snow capped and low under pink rosy at during the tail end of summer viewed from Avenue, Town of Banf

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Snow capped and low under pink rosy at during the tail end of summer viewed from Avenue, Town of Banff, Banff National Park, ,

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#photography #nature #landscape #sky #sunrise #cityscape #travel #canada #fog #alberta #snow #mountain #banff #cascade #cascademountain

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cohan
@cohanf@mastodon.online
4 settimane fa
Avviso sul contenuto: shiny copper coloured wasp on leaf

I was talking about (etc) with @enriquericos@mastoart.social + @NatureMC@mastodon.online here's a cool local one not huge but good size- maybe

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I was talking about (etc) with @enriquericos@mastoart.social + @NatureMC@mastodon.online here's a cool local one not huge but good size- maybe close to 1 inch/couple cm long? but very narrow. I think this is the same kind I saw earlier in the year laying eggs in cocoon of the Forest Tent Caterpillars (of which we had a major explosion this year- did I ever share videos?) if so, this should have been a great year for them!

All pics same alt. Several views from different angles and degrees of closeness. A medium sized wasp- maybe as wide as a yellow-jacket but then 1 1/2 to 2 times as long? is perched on the long narrow leaf of a fireweed plant with bits of other green leaves visible and a blurred mostly green background with hints of other colours (mostly purply-grey) and some dark shadows. The wasp is an intense medium dark copper colour, shiny all over with shiny nearly trasnparent wings with dark veins which are held somewhat folded against its 'back' but wider as they go farther from the head and extending out to the sides a bit beyond the insect. The long legs are the same colour, maybe darker toward the tips (like the long dark antennae) and reach right to the edges of the leaf. All pics same alt. Several views from different angles and degrees of closeness. A medium sized wasp- maybe as wide as a yellow-jacket but then 1 1/2 to 2 times as long? is perched on the long narrow leaf of a fireweed plant with bits of other green leaves visible and a blurred mostly green background with hints of other colours (mostly purply-grey) and some dark shadows. The wasp is an intense medium dark copper colour, shiny all over with shiny nearly trasnparent wings with dark veins which are held somewhat folded against its 'back' but wider as they go farther from the head and extending out to the sides a bit beyond the insect. The long legs are the same colour, maybe darker toward the tips (like the long dark antennae) and reach right to the edges of the leaf. All pics same alt. Several views from different angles and degrees of closeness. A medium sized wasp- maybe as wide as a yellow-jacket but then 1 1/2 to 2 times as long? is perched on the long narrow leaf of a fireweed plant with bits of other green leaves visible and a blurred mostly green background with hints of other colours (mostly purply-grey) and some dark shadows. The wasp is an intense medium dark copper colour, shiny all over with shiny nearly trasnparent wings with dark veins which are held somewhat folded against its 'back' but wider as they go farther from the head and extending out to the sides a bit beyond the insect. The long legs are the same colour, maybe darker toward the tips (like the long dark antennae) and reach right to the edges of the leaf. All pics same alt. Several views from different angles and degrees of closeness. A medium sized wasp- maybe as wide as a yellow-jacket but then 1 1/2 to 2 times as long? is perched on the long narrow leaf of a fireweed plant with bits of other green leaves visible and a blurred mostly green background with hints of other colours (mostly purply-grey) and some dark shadows. The wasp is an intense medium dark copper colour, shiny all over with shiny nearly trasnparent wings with dark veins which are held somewhat folded against its 'back' but wider as they go farther from the head and extending out to the sides a bit beyond the insect. The long legs are the same colour, maybe darker toward the tips (like the long dark antennae) and reach right to the edges of the leaf.

#photography #nature #insects #alberta #wasps #borealforest #inverts

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Ken Hollis - GandalfDDI
@GandalfDDI@ioc.exchange
1 mese fa

Medicine Hat, Alberta. Out on the plains the sky does about 80 percent of the work and the ground just holds it up. Homeward leg of the Route 66 ride

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Medicine Hat, Alberta. Out on the plains the sky does about 80 percent of the work and the ground just holds it up. Homeward leg of the Route 66 ride –
https://gandalfddi.github.io/motorcycle_route66_2025-06-12_07-02.html

Wide view across the Alberta prairie near Medicine Hat. The upper three quarters of the frame is deep blue sky filled with scattered white cumulus clouds, large and billowing overhead, shrinking toward a flat horizon. Below, pale gold and green grassland stretches to distant low bluffs, broken by a windbreak row of dark green poplars, scattered power poles, a fence line, and a small cluster of buildings and a highway off to the left.

#photography #nature #canada #alberta #motorcycle #motosky

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Thomas Wong Matthews
@thomaswm@mastodon.social
1 mese fa

Walking.

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Walking.

A black and white 35mm photograph of a woman walking, mid-stride. She is wearing black boots and black jeans and her leg is casting a shadow on the pavement.

#photography #blackandwhitephotography #filmphotography #canada #analogphotography #35mm #believeinfilm #canon #alberta #ilford #grainisgood #edmonton

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cohan
@cohanf@mastodon.online
1 mese fa

A couple of views of the rock gardens in front of the house in early evening light (6:30 pm ish as days get shorter).
Mound forming Dianthus nardiform

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A couple of views of the rock gardens in front of the house in early evening light (6:30 pm ish as days get shorter).
Mound forming Dianthus nardiformis makes hundreds of flowers from mid-late summer till heavy frost; behind it we see the pompoms of Armeria maritima, white form.
the Malva is something Mom/my Aunt planted years ago and popped from seed in a few spots, plants are short lived. I like the small Hibiscus flowers, so do

Late afternoon sun reaches a small narrow rock bed from left to centre- farther right and to the rear is a green mowed area, another rock bed, and shrubs/trees farther back are mostly in shade with patches and strips of sunlight making it through to the grassy areas. The rock bed to left has various low to medium height plants, with a single out of place taller plant (wasitheight?) at the right edge. This has a small shrubby/tree shadpe, with many stems rising from the soil and spreading out as they go up. From green leaves many semi-large pale pink flowers appear near the tops of stems, partly back-lit by the sun. Each flower has the flared tubular/cup shape of a Hibiscus flower (cousins). Partial view, mostly of a couple of plants, in a rock garden, unevenly lit by late afternoon sun which comes from behind broken by shadows of trees out of sight beyond the frame. In front is a mound probably around 30cm/12in or a little more in the centre tapering to the ground at the edges. It is composed of a vast number of narrow grassy stems with very narrow leaves. Many stems especially around the edges, but not all, are topped with simple deep pink flowers. The flowers have 5 petals which rise from a narrow tube, but present a flat face, the pointed petals radiating out straight from the centre, just slightly curved up on some of the edges. From behind that plant rise a bunh of narrow stems topped with pompom flowers, some of which are fresh white, others browny fading but holding the same shape.

#photography #canada #pollinators #garden #alberta #rockgarden

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