My listening room for the next couple of days 
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Yesterday we jumped the train from our home in Cheshire, up to the Calder Valley in West Yorkshire. Journey is just over an hour and at £15 return ticket, a bargain. We walked the Rochdale canal from Todmorden to Hebden Bridge. A very pleasant walk, albeit a little bit warm at 26c. Honestly not complaining 
The object high upon the hill in the below pic is Stoodley Pike. We did that walk/hike last year. There are pics
Trespassers will be composted
Actually had to look this creature up. Muscovy Duck. Apparently not a common native of the UK.
And finally into Hebden Bridge. The old mills are very prominent along this stretch of the canal.
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Nice ladybird pic…
At the Liberty Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri. World War I memorial and museum.
A view from the top, looking North to Downtown Kansas City, MO:
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What a set-up and effort … All very impressive.
Looks you’ve married a Mermaid 
Yes, ALL things water … Yachting across the India ocean, surfing…, swimming, paddling, pedalo 
+ mountains, hiking, trekking. Not the cold … I like the cold, Ice & fire 
So, the guys and I push the winter limits if our joints let us 
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Wow - that’s a lovely example of rolling shutter!
I’m pretty sure that no bird can bend it’s wing in this way 
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Its actually a single frame export from a short video.
It still exhibits rolling shutter. Caused by the shutter opening progressing through the frame as the birds wing moves so not all parts of the image are captured at the same time.
For an explanation and some whacky examples go to the 2minute mark on the video below:
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I’m guessing that explains being able to see the pool water through the birds tail and other wing?
Probably - although I have to admit that it is harder to see how. Was the video originally taken on a smart phone? They do quite a lot of quite extreme processing. It might be an artifact of that as well.
It’s basically a security camera built into a humming bird feeder, pointing at the fake flowers. Motion detector records the birds when they come for a meal.
Also a nice example of when a shutter matches the rotation speed of a helicopter’s rotor.
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