Balancing stones - HSoS

Balancing Rocks in the Ottawa River.

Remic Rapids Park is situated on the shore of the Ottawa River, Ottawa, Canada.

To enhance the park’s beauty, artist John Felice Ceprano has created balanced rock sculptures on the river’s edge since 1986. The artist uses fossilized and colourful rocks found on the shore to build these sculptures by hand. They provide a free and exploratory public art experience that complements the park’s natural setting.

"smile on saturday" theme "balancing act".

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With such long legs and an uncooperative tree limb, it takes a balancing act to find the perfect perch to rest upon.

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A fun fog shoot, and I met some good folks along the way! ISO reduced to 31 to get to a 30 second exposure with a 10 stop ND filter... To me, the color corrected result was not as appealing as this version - one of the benefits/happy accidents of a color casting ND filter!

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For roughly 2 seconds Danni was perched atop her dog Boo.

Dad was just off to the left and kept her from toppling over.

Babies act out when they're hungry, cold, tired. They do this for survival.

Marilu Henner

Waxwing birds are not true long-distance migrants, but wander erratically outside the breeding season and move south from their summer range in winter. In poor berry years huge numbers can erupt well beyond their normal range, often in flocks that on occasion number in the thousands.

A new Waxwing family in the tree about 50' outside our balcony.

My wife caught this one!

Rehoboth Beach, DE

the boy and his schadow

"I vanish into poetry as the sunlight mingles with the mist

I spy a boat across the water as I greet the sunrise in a lover's tryst." - AP (inspired by Oleg)

Soundtrack : www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaouEHiuuYM

VANISHING ACT - LOU REED

FLOAT IN TO A MIST

Take me now

while I am up

while I am down

while I have happy news to read

and sad news that I found

let me float into a mist

and vanish from the Earth

let me fly above the clouds

and see below the fields where birth

and death flow side by side

like the strongest river and sea of yellow flowers

and hope and faith walk hand in hand

show me how this promised land

softens and hardens beneath my feet

like sand and toffee apples cracked

and parched and suffocating defeat

self-deprecating and all I lacked

was time to heal

and time to be me

to run and laugh

to fly high and free

but you gave me an anchor to my life

and you gave me free will

and I squander these gifts

and I still get ill

but who is there who will take my hand

and who is there left who will understand

that here on earth is the promised land

but we break our promises

like we break the wind

and we take the love for granted

and give so little back and so much binned

what becomes of the seeds that are never planted

I could tell you I was sorry

I could try to make it right

but I don't deserve the chance

my broken wings are ever-ready for fight or flight

so let me go now gently

let me float into the mist

it's too little

it's too late

to wonder if I will be missed

what will make me happy

what will make me smile

I give to you my everything

I run that extra mile

but nothing that I do can ever

make up for the gaps

the silences

the way I run

the things in me that don't relax

so now I sit here crying

but am I crying for you or me

I do not like pity in any form

life and love is such a mystery

and I feel like first night in dorm

homesick lovesick puppy dog tales

and tears trickling like Niagara

Falls and fools and spout like whales

the little lies you whispered to me

were the sweetest and the ones that cut

and for all I know that I am foolish

I could see we were wedged deeply in a rut

but what is the answer I do not know

I have no purpose or place to go

yet I find myself dreaming and distancing like

Virginia Woolf in sheep's clothing

pockets ladened heavily as the shroud

shrink wraps around me the fear and the loathing

loses it's lofty wafty transparency

as I float into a mist to meet my destiny

and the mist is half of mistake

and the other half is take

and I hope for goodness sake

I will come to my senses before I wake

oh why do so many words sound the same

but when they are written look really quite different

I am just as I am but “somehow different” (Thank you Dieter)

and I remain just the same I am not indifferent

but in or out or roundabout

all roads lead to Rome or roam

spinning the wheel and tossing the dice

a spinning wheel's yarn twined hearts to bring them home

and now I am at the water's edge

my barefeet stepping into the foam

who will prevent me will it be a mistake

as I float into a mist

the earth beneath my feet doth shake

as I float into a mist …

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Copyright © protected image please do not reproduce without permission

Contrary to the poignant emotions evoked in my poem, I am pleased to say that the feeling was fleeting as are all emotions aren't they ; 0) I would like to share with you some good news.

On my birthday I received from my doctor long-awaited news. Earlier this year I underwent a small procedure and a biopsy was taken. I was told to expect cancer and now I learn that it is benign, so I am once again thanking God for a miracle. If I had to store my miracles in a box, I would require a very big box! : 0) I have a small scar from the stitches. It's a bit bumpy still, but is fading already. I like to touch this scar and remind myself of all the joys in my life and all the love and light that surrounds me and how each and every day is a miracle.

Having smelt the cheese a resourceful little mouse headed for the fridge!

I've recently watched an interview with Salvador Dali where he was stating that all his artwork are based on his dreams coming to him 10 minutes before he was fully asleep.

Dali learned over time to take control of his lucid dream state and with that, he mastered accessing his subconscious and used what he had found in his act of creating. Of course, the way he materialized what he found is truly amazing as well, in any ways, all his artwork are now fascinating manifestations of one man's creative mind, ideas and experiences, for all of us to see and wonder about.

This all made me think, this 10 minutes time period of lucid dream state, mystical space before we all are fully gone somewhere else; I cannot help noticing a parallel notion happening in the way nature behaves just before it awakes or falls asleep; the most unexpected, wonderous and profound events, colours, particles, sensations are seem to manifest themselves in those couple of minutes of lucid dream states of nature, just before it all settles again.

Image taken of Kinlochard Stone Jetty at Loch Ard, Stirlingshire, Scotland.

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After steeling a Shrimp, this Little Blue Shrimp performs a balancing act to get away.

Life is a balancing act just to stay alive these days. Great Grey Owl landing on a tree near my property line. Sadly, this might be the last time to capture him/her because I found feathers close to my house. I didn't see any blood or wing feathers so my best guess is it got attacked by a Great Horned Owl or something bigger who carried it away. All I can gather is the GGO put up a good fight by the wing marks in the snow. I save feathers so I took a few home for my collection. I don't think I ever felt anything so soft.

Balancing Act - Pulled this image from 6 years ago. Not a subject I photograph frequently, but a very elegant species. The new software really brings old files to life.

Species: White-faced Ibis (Plegadis chihi)

Location: Northern California, CA, USA

Equipment: Canon EOS 7D Mark II + EF 400mm f5.6L + 1.4x III Extender, Handheld

Settings: 1/1000s, ISO: 800, f/8 @896mm

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This Great Blue Heron landed in the top of a cedar tree but the branches were too flimsy to support its weight. So he struggled to maintain his balance. It was rather entertaining to watch for about 30 seconds until it flew off to find a more stable perch.

We observed this fun behavior at The Nature Conservancy's Cheyenne Bottoms Preserve in central Kansas.

I thought I'd better get back to my old tricks! :))

I hope everyone is keeping well.

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I was out one morning last week looking for dragonflies and it started to rain. It provided some fairly different dragon photos with this common darter covered in rain drops!

Stacked image taken with the Canon 5DS

In 2008 nam het toenmalige ACTS 3 locomotieven van de serie 1600 in dienst. Hiermee konden de zware containertreinen uit Leeuwarden en Veendam gereden worden, die eerst in handen waren van een 1200 en een 6700.

Op de winterse ochtend van 27 November 2010 passeert de van Railmotion gehuurde 1606 Steenwijk met aan de haak een vol beladen Leeuwarden shuttle onder nummer 50063 vanuit Leeuwarden naar Ijsselmonde. Vanaf Ijsselmonde zou een dieselloc de trein verder rijden het Rotterdamse havengebied in.

Inmiddels is alles aan deze foto verleden tijd, de Leeuwarden shuttle rijdt niet meer, HUSA heeft haar spooractiviteiten gestopt, en de 1606 rijdt inmiddels bij RRF in het fraaie ‘hommel’ jasje onder het nummer 4401.

... for the Carnation. It's Act I for the button because it's the first time I've photographed it. :)

The button is French and dates from the 1900s. It's hand painted and has areas of both champlevé and guilloché enamel.

A WINTERS DAY

♫ Dave Lee Roth - Stand Up ♫

What kind of fashion is this flash infatuation

Is all this admiration mutual?

Need no lessons in emotional starvation

That look in her eyes is too good to be true

So now you got a good reason

(Now you got a good reason)

Yeah, but you just gotta learn

(You really oughtta learn)

Is what makes the world turn

Stand up, stand up

The more you do it, the less you fall down

Stand up, stand up

Put your head in the clouds and your feet on the ground

Stand up, stand up

For the time of your life, you turn it up loud

Stand up, stand up

Harris Hawk doing an interesting landing..

We followed these two ( see second hawk beak at bottom ) to where they hang out. Which means we have a new morning coffee and camera sitting place.

Ladadika, Thessaloniki, Greece

Ghosts in the photograph, never lied to me. I’d be all of that. A false memory, would be everything. A denial my eliminent. What was that for?

Try to be bad.

Try ARRRRT on PICSSR

Auswahlfoto:

Für“Smile on Saturday“ am 10.04.2021.

Thema:“ Balancing Act“.

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A Viennese afternoon.

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Just caught this male Mallard during his cleaning routine.

Who knew that it is so difficult to balance Dolly Mixtures! After multiple collapses I had to enlist the help of my patient engineer husband to build my Dolly Mixture pyramid! Between the builder and the photographer we managed the balancing act!!!!!

For over twenty years, a dedicated team of volunteers at the Bluebell Railway, has been rebuilding 'Beachy Head'. No. 32424 was a class H2 'Atlantic' type locomotive, which was one one of a batch originally constructed by the London Brighton & South Coast Railway between 1911 and 1912 at Brighton. 'Beachy Head' was the last of the class to be withdrawn in 1958.

In 2000, the Bluebell Railway announced an ambitious plan to rebuild one of these locos, and it's now complete and looks superb!

For the last week of August 'Beachy Head' will be the main attraction on the Bluebell Railway, as it will be officially launched into public service on the railway.

I was keen to see this locomotive as the class were a favourite of my late father. Three of his photos of the original 'Beachy Head' are in the links below.

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Down Under Challenge.

Thanks to Gill Steenvoorde for the use of his photo of the bicyclists.

Mt Stromlo observatory ACT

Balancing Act - This backyard Bobcat may not be wearing Air Jordans, but he's certainly got hops like a prime MJ!

Bobcats have longer hind legs than front legs and it's amazing how much jumping power they can generate from a standstill.

Recently, I've enjoyed capturing images of wildlife in urban settings. I think there's great value to showing how wildlife navigates the built environment and showcasing their importance to urban ecosystems.

Species: Bobcat (Lynx rufus)

Location: California, USA

Equipment: Canon EOS R3 + RF 100-500mm IS

Settings: 1/800s, ISO: 10000, f/7.1 @500mm, Handheld, Electronic Shutter

Great blue heron at Oneal Lake at Hatchie Wildlife Refuge.

Christmas gifts ... - the annual balancing act ...!

This sculpture at the Advent market at Vienna Karlsplatz has

this "contemplative" time for me in a nutshell (;-)) !