elperronegro

elperronegro, 2 months ago to spain

Dueling Ibex, La Campiñuela

#SierraNevada #Spain #Nature #animals #wild

elperronegro, 3 months ago to spain

A few images from the Tajos Campanario ridge in Spain's Sierra Nevada today. Some hard neve on sheltered slopes made for a great crampon ascent. By the time we came to the steep descent gully the snow had softened a touch to give a quick descent to the upper San Juan valley. Memorable views throughout.

#Spain #mountains #climbing #Mountaineering #landscape #landscapephotography #snow

A group of mountaineering at the bottom of the image contemplate their way along the the snowy ridge ahead. Some big drops and high mountains to the left
Four mountaineers dressed in colorful clothing make their way across some snow. Ahead lies a ridge leading to a jagged mountain

elperronegro, 3 months ago to random

Stunning sunset lenticular cloud over Lanjarón this evening.

#skies #sky #sunset #clouds #landscape #landscapephotography

elperronegro, 3 months ago to wildlife

Day 1 we arrive at the place where we hope to see the rarest cat in the world, the Iberian Lynx. Immediately Mick spots a lynx. We pour excitedly out of the car, grabbing binoculars & cameras. 1st attempt at a photo fails because I've left lens cap on. 2nd fails as the camera settings all wrong. Managed to get photo just as the lynx ... is heading into a bushy area never to re-emerge. Doh! Anyway, here is a photo of the arse end of a lynx 🤣🤣🤣

#wildlife #lynx #spain #nature #naturephotography

elperronegro, 3 months ago to random

I'm here in the middle of nowhere in the mountains of the Sierra de Andujar north of Bailen. Hoping to see Lynx in the wild tomorrow. Fingers crossed 🤞

elperronegro, 3 months ago to hiking

There's a spark inside all of us that makes us want to explore. To go to places others don't. Fill in blanks on a map. It was definitely there with early explorers, climbers conquering un-climbed peaks and pioneers crossing vast lands. That spark, not always be active, remains within all of us.

During our recent hike in the amazing "Desierto de Gorafe" badlands, just north of Guadix, that spark ignited once again amongst our ageing group.

https://elperronegro.com/posts/2024-02-09-hiking-badlands-gorafe/

#hiking #spain #blog #walking

elperronegro, 3 months ago to photography

If I ask Graeme, my fellow hiking buddy, to go stand on the edge of a huge drop, he always does, bless him. He is my go-to poseur when I need a bit of scale in photos. One day I will make an album of "Graeme" images. Here is a photo of Graeme in the badlands of the Gorafe Desert 😄. Cheers mate!

#photography #deserts #spain #landscape #landscapephotography

elperronegro, 3 months ago to hiking

The Desierto de Gorafe badlands yesterday. Magnificent walking country!

#deserts #hiking #walking #landscape #landscapephotography

elperronegro, 3 months ago to spain

The Acequia Mezquerina waterfalls in full flow yesterday

#Alpujarra #Andalucia #Spain #Waterfall #landscape #landscapephotography

elperronegro, 3 months ago to random

A memory from 2016. One of those stormy days when the blizzards don't allow you to leave your tent. You end up doing selfies! 🤣😆🤣

#Patagonia #Expedition #tentlife

AdamBishop, 3 months ago to random

I've had such a run of maxed out work days, weekends and nights, with weeks of a vomiting daughter at home (which is also my office), and both daughters coughing and sounding like they're suffocating through the night - it's really affected me. Time to take a break, take a deep breath, and re-recalibrate. Sending out #hugs to all who like me might need them! 🫂

ianRobinson, 4 months ago to Iceland

“The southern fissure, which appeared right next to the northernmost houses in Grindavík at noon yesterday, seems to have stopped erupting. It lost its energy late last night and seems to have ceased.”

https://www.ruv.is/english/2024-01-14-grindavik-eruptions-401887

#Iceland #Reykjanes #Volcano #Geology

elperronegro, 4 months ago to random

As a young lad I was very lucky to be here. Bowies last but one ever concert as Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. Seems a long, long time ago. And, look at the price 🤣

AdamBishop, 4 months ago to ArtificialIntelligence

The robots.txt file I add to sites to warn off scraping by AI data-collecting bots, but allow searching indexing is getting longer and longer ... 😳

Can we do more than hope and pray it gets respected?

Legislation?

#consentFirst #robots #robotsTxt #ai #GDPR #consent #dataPrivacy #piracy #copyright

elperronegro, 4 months ago to Dogs

Bonnie and Clyde 😂 Sorry, Rita and Arko

#dogs #dogsofmastodon #mountains

Two dogs trot along a dirt road with some mountains behind

NormanDunbar, 4 months ago to random

Not many people can spell diarrhoea. #UselessFact

elperronegro, 4 months ago to spain

Beautiful late afternoon skies over Lanjarón tonight.

#Spain #landscapephotography #landscape #sunsets #sunset #clouds #granada

elperronegro, 4 months ago to spain

At long last we've had some much needed rain, falling as snow above 2000m. Here is the town of Lanjarón seen a few minutes ago with threatening, but very welcoming, rain clouds gathering. Small rainbow showing too

#Spain #clouds #landscape #landscapephotography

elperronegro, 4 months ago to webdev

Well that's been quite a tough few days coding for this very enthusiastic but amateur developer. Anyway, managed to get "webmentions" working on my @eleventy based blog.

https://elperronegro.com/

Thanks to a whole heap of people but especially @sia and this article

https://sia.codes/posts/webmentions-eleventy-in-depth/

and also @mxbck and this article

https://mxb.dev/blog/using-webmentions-on-static-sites/

#webdev #webmentions #blog

elperronegro, 4 months ago to Dogs

Beach day for the dogs. Think they enjoyed it!

#dogs #dogsofmastodon

elperronegro, 5 months ago to HikingPics

There's nothing quite like fireside dreaming on a winters day. This last week my wife & I have been doing a lot of this & are delighted to announce that as a result, we have booked flights so we can attempt the long distance "Alta Via 2" trail in the Italian Dolomites in July.

It's 10,000m ascent/descent +150km of tough mountain scenery to negotiate. Staying in refuges so we can travel light. I shall be 69 years old by then, so will be a tough enough challenge!

#backpacking #hiking #italy

AdamBishop, 5 months ago to random

Really tough going this week - big shout out to anyone in a similar position!