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Switzerland, May 2021
My best photos are here: www.lacerta-bilineata.com/ticino-best-photos-of-southern-...
My latest ANIMAL VIDEO (warning, it's a bit shocking): www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T2-Xszz7FI
You find a selection of my 80 BEST PHOTOS (mostly not yet on Flickr) here: www.lacerta-bilineata.com/western-green-lizard-lacerta-bi... (the website exists in ESPAÑOL, FRANÇAIS, ITALIANO, ENGLISH, DEUTSCH)
ABOUT THE PHOTO:
So this photo is a bit of a novelty for me - at least here on Flickr, but it's also a journey back in time in a sense. I've always loved b/w and sepia photography; already as a very young teenager I would go out into the woods with an old Pentax Spotmatic (which I had nicked from my father) whenever it was a foggy day to shoot b/w compositions of sunbeams cutting through the ghostlike trees.
I used films with a sensitivity of at least 1600 (for those of you who remember what that means 😉 ), and the resulting photos had an incredibly fine grain which I loved; I blew them up to the size of posters and hung them on the walls of my teenage man-cave next to Hendrix, Jim Morrison and Slash.
But then I abandoned photography altogether for 20 years, and when I finally picked up a camera again, it was one of the digital kind. Now neither film nor grain played any role in my photographic endeavours - let alone b/w compositions: because the reason I fell in love with shooting pictures once more was the rare and incredibly colorful lizard species that had chosen my garden as its habitat.
It's this species - the Lacerta bilineata aka the western green lizard - that my photo website www.lacerta-bilineata.com/ and also my Flickr gallery are dedicated to, but I've since expanded that theme a bit so that it now comprises the whole Lacerta bilineata habitat, which is to say my garden and its immediate surroundings and all the flora and fauna I find in it.
I like that my gallery and the website have this clear theme, because in order to rise to the challenge of portraying all aspects of a very specific little eco system (which also happens to be my home of sorts), it forces me to constantly explore it from fresh angles, and I keep discovering fascinating new motives as my photographic journey continues.
Which brings me to the horse pasture you see in this photo. This playground for happy horsies lies just outside my garden, and it normally only interests me insofar as my green reptile friends claim parts of it as their territory, and I very much prefer it to be horseless (which it thankfully often is).
Not that the horses bother the reptiles - the lizards don't mind them one bit, and I've even seen them jump from the safety of the fly honeysuckle shrub which the pasture borders on right between the deadly looking hooves of the horses to forage for snails, without any sign of fear or even respect.
No, the reason I have a very conflicted relationship with those horses is that they are mighty cute and that there's usually also foals. The sight of those beautiful, happy animals jumping around and frolicking (it's a huge pasture and you can tell the horses really love it) is irresistible: and that inevitably attracts what in the entire universe is known as the most destructive anti-matter and ultimate undoing of any nature photographer: other humans.
Unlike with the horses, the lizards ARE indeed very much bothered by specimens of loud, unpredictable Homo sapiens sapiens - which makes those (and by extension also the horses) the cryptonite of this here reptile photographer. It's not the horses' fault, I know that, but that doesn't change a thing. I'm just telling you how it is (and some of you might have read about the traumatic events I had to endure to get a particular photo - if not, read at your own risk here: www.flickr.com/photos/191055893@N07/51405389883/in/datepo... - which clearly demonstrated that even when it's entirely horseless, that pasture is still a threat for artistic endeavours).
But back to the photo. So one morning during my vacation back in May I got up quite early. It had rained all night, and now the fog was creeping up from the valley below to our village just as the sky cleared up and the morning sun started to shine through the trees.
And just as I did when I was a teenager I grabbed my camera and ran out to photograph this beautiful mood of ghostlike trees and sunbeams cutting through the mist. There had already been such a day a week earlier (which is when I took this photo: www.flickr.com/photos/191055893@N07/51543603732/in/datepo... ), but this time, the horses were also there.
Because of our slightly strained relationship I only took this one photo of them (I now wish I had taken more: talk about missed opportunities), and otherwise concentrated on the landscape. It was only later when I went through all the photos on my computer that I realized that I actually really liked those horses, even despite the whole composition being such a cliché. And I realized another thing: when I drained the photo of all the color, I liked it even better - because there was almost a bit of grain in it, like in the photos from my youth.
Since then I have experimented quite a bit with b/w and sepia compositions (some of which I will upload here eventually I guess), but this photo here is the first one that helped me rediscover my old passion. I hope you like it even though it builds quite a stark contrast with the rest of my tiny - and very colorful - gallery. But in the spirit of showing you the whole Lacerta bilineata habitat (and also in the spirit of expanding my gallery a bit beyond lizards and insects), I think it's not such a bad fit.
As always, many greetings to all of you, have a wonderful day and don't hesitate to let me know what you think 😊
Über dem Nebel
Rigi Kaltbad LU, Schweiz
Contax G2, Sonnar 2,8/90 mm, Kodak TMY 400
Lithprint auf Austron Atelier N Postkarte (randlos auf 10x15 cm)
SE5 1+8, +2 f-stops, 5:40 min
Lith Omega 1+80, 3 min
Selentonung MT1, 1+9, 1:20 min
No post-processing done to photo, only cropped. Nikon NEF (RAW) files available. NPP Straight Photography at noPhotoShopping.com
Ruby-crowned Kinglets are, photographically, one of my greatest nemeses. So many times, one has dropped onto a nearby branch, right at eye level, only to fly off just as they came into focus.
This one gave me time, but expertly positioned itself between me and some leafy twigs.
Some day, Ruby-crowned Kinglet! I will get 100% of you!
Chehalis Wildlife Area (near Montesano, WA)
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Canard pilet (Anas acuta)
Mâle !
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Merci beaucoup à toutes et tous pour votre visite, commentaire et appréciation. Je vous souhaite une belle journée!
Thank you very much to everyone for your visit, comment and appreciation. I wish you a nice day!
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de.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEG_%E2%80%93_Adler_und_Pfeil :
Der Adler war die erste Lokomotive, die kommerziell erfolgreich im Personenverkehr und später auch im Güterverkehr in Deutschland fuhr. Er und seine Schwestermaschine Pfeil wurden als Dampfwagen geführt. Das Eisenbahnfahrzeug wurde 1835 von der 1823 gegründeten Firma Robert Stephenson and Company im englischen Newcastle konstruiert und gebaut und an die Königlich privilegierte Ludwigs-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft in Nürnberg (LEG) für den Betrieb auf ihrer Strecke zwischen Nürnberg und Fürth geliefert. Die offizielle Eröffnungsfahrt der Bahn fand, nach mehrmaliger Terminverschiebung (als erster Termin war der Geburtstag Ludwigs I. am 25. August geplant, ein weiterer am 24. November), schließlich am 7. Dezember 1835 statt. Der reguläre Betrieb wurde am 8. Dezember 1835 aufgenommen.[5] Der Adler war eine Dampflokomotive der Bauart Patentee mit der Achsfolge 1A1 (Whyte-Notation: 2-2-2) und war mit einem Schlepptender der Bauart 2 T 2 ausgestattet. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adler_(locomotive) :
The Adler (German for "Eagle") was the first locomotive that was successfully used commercially for the rail transport of passengers and goods in Germany. The railway vehicle was designed and built in 1835 by the British railway pioneers George and Robert Stephenson in the English city of Newcastle. It was delivered to the Bavarian Ludwig Railway (Bayerische Ludwigsbahn) for service between Nuremberg and Fürth. It ran officially for the first time there on 7 December 1835. The Adler was a steam locomotive of the Patentee type with a wheel arrangement of 2-2-2 (Whyte notation) or 1A1 (UIC classification). The Adler was equipped with a tender of type 2 T 2. It had a sister locomotive, the Pfeil. ...
BAR 80 is on an Eastbound working at Goodman Street Yard in Rochester, NY on May 8, 1979. After I got my first SLR camera I kept the old Graphlex in the glove box of my truck. I would use it if I came across something when I was out and about, in this case on my way to work. I always checked what was around the East end of Goodman Street Yard on my way in to work. I could grab a quick pic or two and then head over to work.
The 367-80 was a prototype aircraft developed to prove Boeing's ability to produce a jet airliner and aerial refueling tanker. It's one of my favorite aircraft at the Udvar-Hazy center.
The model is at ~1/64 scale, similar to last year's B-52 and RC-2 airliner. It took about a month and a half to build, and it's my second largest aircraft at 3,355 parts.