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Purple Gallinule - Seven Colors! - Florida Everglades
In The Wild - Palm Beach County, Florida U.S.A.
*[left-double-click for a closer-look - reed-walker]
The adult 'purple gallinule' has big yellow feet, purple-blue
plumage with a green back, and a red and yellow bill. It has
a pale blue forehead shield and white under-tail - 7 colors!!
The 'purple gallinule' can be seen walking on top of floating
vegetation or clambering through dense shrubs. Its extremely
long toes help it walk easily on lily pads without sinking.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Purple_Gallinule
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF66dn7woNM
The sun was hitting the branches of these two trees, and they were so graceful. I have worked and worked on this image and several other takes on it to portray the stunning shapes I saw. I decided that color took away from the shape, so this is what I finally settled on. And there just happened to be a fence, so HFF!
Sorry to be gone so long. I will catch up with my faithful contacts ASAP. I have had the photo blahs lately and need to get out and shoot some new stuff. Tornado cleaned up, eyes fixed, so I don't really have any excuses except maybe Uncle Sam in a few more weeks. Definitely check out the Brad Paisley video link and romanticize while looking at my image! (It might make you fave it...lol.)
The fragrance of your power over me and the touch of your hand upon me… the joy of finding and surrendering to a beauty greater than us, the rapture of being possessed. (HU, 119)
-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin,
I am writing these lines from an exuberance of life, a yearning to live; they are written to express an impassioned vision of the earth, and in an attempt to find a solution for the doubts that beset my action because I love the universe, its energies, its secrets, and its hopes and because at the same time I am dedicated to God, the only Origin, the only Issue, and the only Term. I want to express my love of matter and life, and to reconcile it, if possible, with the unique adoration of the only absolute and definitive Godhead. (WTW, 14)
-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin,
In EXPLORE - #49 Thanks everyone.
Torquay Harbour always attractive but more peaceful in the autumn. Often have a coffee here and take a few photos too of course.
Three RAW files tone-mapped in Photomatix and tweaked in GIMP
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After the storm.
South End, Boston.
Made Explore for February 4. Always an honor!
#Explore #Explored #FlickrExplore
Wet and stormy.
The high tides have receded laving in its wake wet and slippery rocks.
The distant clouds offer an indication of an approaching storm.
Gerringong, New South Wales, Australia.
Twist and Turn
The photograph evokes drama as it celebrates light and line and shape and pattern - even a bit of motion. Light gifted the choice of framing. I left out color and spatial relationships to help hold it in the abstract form.
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begehbare Achterbahn Skulptur
walkable roller coaster sculpture
in Duisburg, Germany
by Heike Mutter and Ulrich Genth, 2011
One of those mornings that reminds you as a landscape photographer why you get up at ridiculous hours in the hope of capturing stunning light and conditions. Yesterdays dawn shoot with great friend Mark turned into the best morning I have ever spent there and I have visited on around 20 occassions...kids in a sweetshop time with superb dawn colours and fairly decent inversion in hope valley
Harbour seal eating breakfast with reflections of boat masts. Stornoway, Lewis and Harris, Scotland, uk.
(Another image from my deleted Flicker archive)
An unidentified class 185 heads the 11:55 Manchester Airport – Cleethorpes (1B76) First Trans-Pennine service at Malcoff on the climb to Cowburn Tunnel.
The sheep are non-plussed and won't disturb their grazing for anything less than a Shed.
I don't normally say this but it does look better large......
23rd December 2015
A cold and rainy day in the Main Peak of Joy Mountains. 3,416-metre-high (11,207 ft) The person who hiked very hard is my boss. :-) Happy Sunday my friends!
Mount Hehuan, also called Joy Mountain, is a 3,416-metre-high (11,207 ft) mountain in Central Taiwan. The peak lies on the borders of Nantou and Hualien counties and is located within Taroko National Park. Hehuanshan is a popular destination in central Taiwan. The 3,421-metre east peak and 3,422-metre north peak of Hehuanshan are both higher than the main peak.
Panasonic DMC-LX10
ƒ/1.4
1/4000
24 mm
ISO 125
blueberry cake and butter cookie
taken at a cafe in Asahi Beer Oyamazaki Villa Museum of Art, Kyoto Pref.
The sweets set is inspired by Naobumi Seimiya's woodwork print, "Butterfly".
Exhibition, "Naobumi Seimiya Infinitely Deep and Clear Air"
大山崎山荘美術館、カフェで
清宮質文展の作品 ”蝶” をイメージしたデザート、ブルーベリーケーキとバタークッキー
(美術館は現在臨時休館中です）
© Leanne Boulton, All Rights Reserved
Candid street photography from Glasgow, Scotland. The pillars of the Gallery of Modern Art do make for a fine meeting place in the city and are great for an isolated candid subject, I just wish that people would put their phones in their pockets! Press 'L' or click on the image for full frame viewing.
Acis and Galatea are characters from Greek mythology. Their episode tells of the love between the mortal Acis and the Nereid (sea-nymph) Galatea; when the jealous Cyclops Polyphemus kills Acis, Galatea transforms her lover into an immortal river spirit.
For the Macro Mondays challenge "Timepieces" (March 11th 2019)
Like most people now (I guess) my mobile phone and my Fitbit keep me well served with accurate time-keeping. So mainly my watches lie unused in a box. Except for this one, that is still an attractive bracelet. Made with interlinking ceramic plates it makes a heavy black and gold wrist cuff. It doesn't matter that the battery needs replacing (oh for rechargeable batteries in watches!) The size-measure in the first comment field gives a better impression of the cuff itself ;o) The portion I used is roughly 4x6cm
My 2019 Macro Mondays set: Here
and previous years of the challenge:
My 2018 set: 2018 Macro Mondays
My 2017 set: 2017 Macro Mondays
My 2016 set: 2016 Macro Mondays
My 2015 set: 2015 Macro Mondays
My 2014 set: 2014 Macro Mondays
My 2013 set: 2013 Macro Mondays
and so it goes
This is something I thought up today. In retrospect, I guess it is somewhat influenced by Gulliver's Travels. I have done others inspired by that great book in the past; so maybe there is a latent connection there.
I bumped into these two characters while they were standing outside of their favorite bar at 5th and Los Angeles. They have been friends for years go to the King Eddy almost every day. I had been walking around for three hours and was just about to call it a day when I saw them. That's what I love about street photography: You never know what's around the next corner.
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Logo of my desktop computer power button on, Alienware Aurora from Dell.
I added the name and the size of photo is less than 2 1/2" including negative space.
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Lightning and fireflies
Light up the night just outside the town of Bonito MS during our night clicks. Some centas, ... thousands of fireflies, dance to the rhythm of aleatory flashes of the coming storm. Witness and be able to register this moment was one of my greatest gifts !!!!!
Raios e vagalumes
Iluminam a noite nos arredores da cidade de Bonito MS, durante nossos clicks noturnos. Algumas centas, milhares ... de vagalumes, dançam ao ritmo aleatório dos relâmpejos da tempestade que se aproxima. Presenciar e poder registrar este momento foi um dos meus maiores presentes !!!!!
"Rivers and roads
Rivers and roads
Rivers 'til I reach you"
-Rivers and Roads by The Head and The Heart
As I said in my last post I want to dedicate my next couple of posts to my family. This image is dedicated to my daughter Avery. Rivers and Roads is the title of a song by the band The Head and The Heart that my daughter happens to be learning to play on the guitar. I am very proud of her for her many talents and spirit, and am very glad that she is sticking to her guitar lessons. The song is beautiful and perfectly captures the heartache associated with constantly traveling away from my family. I was very excited when I found this spot, as it had this perfect intersection of a glacier-fed river, a mountain road and the stunning Swiss alps, and the song title immediately popped in my head. So my dearest Avery, this is for you, I miss you terribly and think about you always when I am away.
As to the image itself, this is the unmistakable Matterhorn as reflected in the river Findelbach that flows off the Findelgleischer (glacier). I had a weekend stay over in Switzerland during a business trip in September so I took the train from Zurich to Zermatt, with the intention of hiking up to the Stellisee lake to get a photo of the reflection of the Matterhorn in the lake. If you search Matterhorn on flickr, this is the classic shot you will find most often. In a nutshell, I underestimated the intensity of the hike and I didn't quite make it there. This shot of the Matterhorn peak bathed in the alpenglow and reflected in the Findelbach is unique as far as I can find. Judge for yourself whether that makes it interesting. It is clearly not the shot I really wanted, and the original composition had several issues. It's one of those images that doesn't quite work at first and you have to step away from it for a while and then patiently work with it to improve. After removing some unsightly gondola wires and cropping it I was more satisfied.
Of course, the intended shot had to be a sunrise or sunset shot. Unfortunately the gondola and funicular train that both go up from Zermatt (at 4,000ft) to the 5 lakes (at 6,000ft) start running after sunrise and stop before sunset. So if one wants a sunrise/sunset shot one has two choices: overnight on the mountain-side, or hike up/down from Zermatt. I chose the hike option because I wasn’t prepared to camp out. To skip straight to today’s lesson: it was the wrong choice. Or rather, I didn’t have the time to properly prepare and half-assing my way up there at 3am cost me my chance at a reflection shot in the lake. Now, that may not be such a disaster because without some decent cloud lighting I don’t think the lake reflection would be any more satisfying to me than this shot. But that hike!! Very nearly did me in. It's about 12km walking at a fairly good incline from Zermatt. But the main reason is actually right in the middle of the frame of this shot. The bridge in the center is the connection between the path up from Zermatt to this particular spot and the road that continues up to the Stellisee. And I was so busy trying to find a composition during the few minutes of pre-sunrise Alpenglow that I missed the sign where the road up to Stellisee forks from the path that follows the river.
I continued to follow that path along the river as it started to slope upward and got increasingly difficult, until I was almost at the foot of the glacier. I was now hemmed in by steep slopes of loose rock on either side and decided I'd clearly misread the map or missed a fork, and it was just too stupid to go any further.
I turned back down and eventually discovered the sign to Stelligsee. The funicular was also up this path just beyond Stelligsee. I summoned my last bit of drive to follow the path (back uphill) until I reached the Grindjisee lake, a few hundred meters before Stelligsee, just to stubbornly say I'd made it (mostly). I took my reflection shot in the Grindjisee for posterity, even though it was well past sunrise and the light quality was bad by that point, so I'll never post it.
At this point my legs were so tired that I just didn’t have it in me to keep climbing, even though it was a 2 hour descent back down to Zermatt instead of a 30 minute hike further uphill. At least I could claim some form of masochistic victory; I had made it to the 5 lakes and had the route scoped out for a future visit. Hiked 20 miles (32km) that day at 4,000-6,000 feet (2000 meters). Climbed and then descended the equivalent of 200 flights of stairs. And lived to write the tale for my wonderful daughter Avery :-)
You may have heard of this art installation out on Lake Monona. Many people have gone out to visit the site and the messages that they have left attached to the trees for loved ones who have exited and loved ones who have recently entered makes this a piece of art by the people and for the people.
Yacht club marina at Wrest Point, Hobart on a soggy day. Not much happening beyond the rattle of halyards against spars and the ghostly, moaning thrum of wind through rigging.
I simply liked the bar-graphs made by the masts in the reflection and the sky! :-)
Fujifilm TX-1/Hasselblad XPAN, Fujinon EBC 45/4, 1/125th sec at f/11, Ilford FP4 Plus 125
we're just one step away from magic.
Hi everyone! so I want to start writing more about my day/personal life when I post. (as well as some info about the shoot) Today I had a pretty great day. I basically just wrote music/poetry all day. Then I went to the gym when I got home, for a meeting with a personal trainer. I'm going on a bike trip this summer from DC to Nags Head (over 360 miles) so I decided to join the gym to start training!
It's weird being there though... I don't quite fit in. I'm more of the free- spirited outdoorsy, indie (sorta?) biker type... not intense, focused, classy gym type- if you know what I mean.
anyway, then I went to the church to do a photo shoot! It was a ton of fun walking around all the empty hallways/rooms looking for places to shoot, I am hoping to do it quite a lot this summer!
I hope you all are doing well!
"'Cause it's all in my head
I think about it
Over and over again
And I can't keep
Picturing you with him
And it hurts so bad
Yeah, 'cause it's all in my head
I think about it
Over and over again
I replay it
Over and over again
And I can't take it
Yeah,I can't shake it, no
I can't wait to see you
want to see if you still got that
Look in your eye
That one you had for me
Before we said our goodbyes
And it's a shame that we
Gotta spend our time
Being mad about the same things
Over and over again
About the same thing
Over and over again
Oh but I think she's leaving on
And she's leaving here
And I don't know what else to do
(Can't go on not loving you)
'Cause it's all in my head
I think about it
Over and over again
And I can't keep
Picturing you with him
And it hurts so bad
Yeah, 'cause it's all in my head
I think about it
Over and over again
I replay it
Over and over again
And I can't take it
I can't shake it, no
I remember the day you left
I remember the last breath
You took right in front of me
When you said that you would leave
I was too damn stubborn to try to stop you
Or say anything
But I see clearly now
And this choice I made keeps
Playing in my head
Over and over again
It play in my head
Over and over again
Oh but I think she's leaving on
And she's leaving here
And I don't know what else to do
(Can't go on not loving you)
'Cause it's all in my head
I think about it
Over and over again
And I can't keep
Picturing you with him
And it hurts so bad
Yeah, 'cause it's all in my head
I think about it
Over and over again
I replay it
Over and over again
And I can't take it
I can't shake it, no
Now that I realize
That I'm going down
From all this pain you
Put me through
Every time I close my eyes
I lock it down
Oh, I can't go on not loving you
'Cause it's all in my head
I think about it
Over and over again
And I can't keep
Picturing you with him
And it hurts so bad
Yeah, 'cause it's all in my head
I think about it
Over and over again
I replay it
Over and over again
And I can't take it
I can't shake it, no
'Cause it's all in my head
I think about it
Over and over again
And I can't keep
Picturing you with him
And it hurts so bad
Yeah, 'cause it's all in my head
I think about it
Over and over again
I replay it
Over and over again
And I can't take it
I can't shake it, no"
by Nelly
Between Kelvin Heights and Jack's Point just out from Queenstown is a nice walk with views out to the east towards Cecil Peak.
The low-lying smoke is caused from some controlled burning of bush off in the distance and seemed to stick around for days!
Processed this quite a bit to give it this fantasy look, quite like how the clouds look like some huge vortex in the sky though!
A panorama of 12 shots on my 85mm at 100 ISO, f/6.3 and 1/100s.
Stitched on Microsoft ICE and edited in LR.
I shot this yesterday at the same runway fashion show as my previous post and I love this shot so much that I couldn’t wait until I return from Cambodia to share it with you. I hope you like it too…
Have a great week and see you all in a week’s time!!! ☺
ps: www.flickr.com/photos/azlijamil01/250510877/ is one of the 100 finalists in the Angkor Photography Festival contest!! www.flickr.com/photos/angkorphotographyfestival/304784878/
pps: I'm in an internet cafe in Siem Riep and just found out that this pic is at #1!!! My third #1 and my sixth top 5!!! Thank you all!!!! :)
In case you are curious, www.flickr.com/photos/azlijamil01/257083295/ is still my fave. :)
Met up with Anita, Dru and Mick for a bright and breezy sunrise on Blyth beach. There was a fence I've been meaning to shoot for ages, so I made my way a bit further down the beach from my normal spot and got set up in the dunes.
To be honest, this fence is probably better at sunset due to the direction it faces, but the strong breeze yesterday meant I was able to make the most of the contrast between soft focus grasses and the sharpness of the fence.
EOS 50D / Sigma 10-20mmm / Hitech 0.6ND SE
P.S. So much better in lightbox - hit L to view as intended
"KILLERS, RAVEN, AND MORE"
To kill someone and never need a weapon fired.
Sometimes, it is enough just in a lesser form.
For example: A word, a gesture, a look, (depending on the sensitivity
of the, "victim"), something said, something done, directly or indirectly
can be enough to harm and/or kill someone.
The noble Eagle is a powerful killer, but she would only kill to feed herself or her children. The Jackals and Coyotes kill for play even with their victims already wounded and dying, they then would feed upon them as prey. The worst are the Worms and the Maggots that
eat Animal Carcasses.
I have met in my lifetime so far, small and big killers.
Some were big and powerful killers and some were small killers that
hid around my friends, relatives, partners, and those I love.
Fortunately, I always identified and recognized them through their
repugnant and repulsive smell.
So, my Gioia Mia, take care to recognize that smell and protect yourself too.
On our window sill...Peter likes these and collects them - luckily I had a few to add to his collection!!
DSC0531
This is one image in a series I'm shooting on parking decks ... shapes and forms, light and shadow play, mood and atmosphere. Some images are minimalist; others representational; still others abstract. To see more in the series click Parking Deck Series