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OK I don't know what the hell I am doing I think it's called dancing!
Thought I should practice a little before the BNO.
Note to self Don't dance for to long.
We ask this in New Mexico when ordering our food, referring to our chiles.....never thought it would apply to beetles too :)
So.....on 06.09.12 I posted this www.flickr.com/photos/57734089@N03/7946799264/in/photostream saying they also come in green apparently. Well they do! It seems they start off red and then through metamorphisis, or something just as clever, turn to green! So I'm making the calligrapha serpentina beetle my favourite beetle.
Ask Any Girl has been one of my favorite Poppys for a long time. I never thought I'd get a chance to own her, since she's an older convention doll, but I saw a chance to get her on Ebay and nearly lost my mind. <3 <3 <3 She was transformed into a more natural style by her previous owner but she's still got that AAG thing about her that I just can't pinpoint that I love.
Who are YOUR "Holy Grail" dolls?
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After-lunch nap of four rose-ringed Parakeet (Psittacula krameri), also known as the Ringnecked Parakeet. The bird is a gregarious tropical parakeet species.
In the Netherlands and Belgium, there exist a network of feral populations numbering 5000-6000 each in urbanized areas. In Germany, these birds are found along the Rhine in all major urban areas like Cologne, Heidelberg and Wiesbaden. Other populations are found around Paris and in Barcelona.
I have taken that photo of the feral parakeets with migration background in Wiesbaden, Germany. It is winter time and around -10° C, so the birds are dreaming of the departure.
Originally the birds are coming from India, approximately as pet in a birdcage. Now it is a example for suceed integration in germany ;-)
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Una siesta: La cotorra de Kramer es una especie de la familia ampliamente distribuida por Asia, África y Europa.
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Schnarchzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.... Mittagsschläfchen und wie praktisch: Das Kissen ist immer dabei.
Die exotischen Vögel bevölkern seit Mitte der siebziger Jahre den Wiesbadener Kurpark und den Schloßpark in Wiesbaden-Biebrich. Das Foto dieser vier Wiesbadener Papageien mit Migrationshintergrund habe ich im Schloßpark aufgenommen. Übrigens bei winterlichen Temperaturen von -10° C. Wahrscheinlich träumen die Vögel gerade von der Ausreise.
Erstmals haben sich die Vögel in den sechziger Jahren im Kölner Raum angesiedelt, seitdem wandern sie entlang den Flußniederungen den Rhein aufwärts, mittlerweile bis nach Mannheim, Worms, Heidelberg und selbst nach Stuttgart. Ursprünglich stammen die Exoten wohl aus Indien und sind dann als Haustiere nach Deutschland gekommen (und dann entflogen).
Insgesamt leben in Wiesbaden und Umgebung derzeit nach Schätzungen rund 1300 Halsbandsittiche, die etwa 40 Zentimeter groß werden, und mehrere hundert der knapp 55 Zentimeter großen Alexandersittiche frei. Immer wieder werden Trupps der grünen Exoten auch in Mainz gesichtet.
Und wenn man die bunten Freunde nicht sieht, dann hört man das Gekreische.
Ein Beispiel geglückter Integration.
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Short Twenty Second Video of some Wild Red Deer Stags...With my Dear asking the stupid questions !
Richmond Park. Greater London. UK.
(Older photo reissued in black & white)
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A 2-image panorama from my 2.nd home, Asker.
Usual treatment: LR4-Autopano Giga - LR4
(and no, I have not gone crazy with the colour saturation)
Shot during a nice evening walk along the fjord.
(I apologize for the large amount of panoramas lately. I will try to behave in the future.)
Thanks for topping by.
All comments are appreciated.
They asked me: “Why are you not publishing our photos? Are we not so cute?” It hurts me. They are very common but I am nothing to take such a judgement.
Neurothemis tullia
Pied Paddy Skimmer, Black Velvet-wing
Family: Libellulidae (Skimmers)
Size: Male: Abdomen: 16-20mm, Hind wing: 19-23mm.
Female: Abdomen: 16-19mm, Hind wing: 20-23mm.
Description: Male: Face is black.
Eyes: Blackish brown above, vialaceous below.
Thorax: Black with mid dorsal cream stripe.
Legs: Black.
Wings: Basal half is opaque blue black which is bordered by a milky white patch towards the tip. The wing tips are transparent.
Wing spot: Dull brown.
Abdomen: Black with a broad mid dorsal creamy white stripe on the upper side.
Female:Differs significantly from the male in body markings and colouration. The face is olivaceous yellow.
Eyes: Pale brown above, which fade to pale olivaceous towards the sides and below.
Thorax: Greenish yellow with a bright yellow mid dorsal stripe. This stripe is broadly bordered with blackish brown throughout.
Legs: The outer surface of legs is yellow and the inner surface is black. Wings: Base of the wings bright amber yellow. Front edge of the wing is blackish brown, broadening into a very large blackish brown spot. This spot extend to the rear edge of the wing. In hind wings this spot is irregular or sickle shaped. Tips of all wings are broadly blackish brown.
Wing spot: Dull brown.
Abdomen: Bright yellow with a broad black band above. Underside is black.
Habits and habitat: A conspicuous species of ponds, marshes and paddy fields.
Flight is slow and weak. Usually perches on twigs, aquatic weeds and other plants.
This species is very common along irrigation canals in paddy fields.
Breeding: Breeds in marshes and ponds.
Flight season: Found throughout the year. However, peak abundance is during July-September months.
Distribution: Throughout the Oriental region.
Taken at Kadavoor, Kerala, India
www.asia-dragonfly.net/globalResults.php?Species=124
www.ias.ac.in/initiat/sci_ed/lifescape/odonates-dragonfli...
Why rare bees are attracted to me? A question that doesn't really keep me up at night, but...here consider this Dieunomia nevadensis. (Nice orange legs there, lady Di). This bee is known from one site in Maryland. So it is rare. It also has not been found in the surrounding states...so this population would appear to be very special. You have to go to North Carolina to find a record. Interesting in a Bermuda Triangle sort of way is the fact that this site is only a couple of miles from my house. How cool is that? This particular specimen collected by Tim McMahon, but the very first one (and there was only one) I found at a sand mine at the same spot. This has happened repeatedly, I am seemingly surrounded by rare bees that are attracted from long distances away to be near me. Or, perhaps it is not so much my beeaura but the fact that there are so few people really looking for bees? How are bees really doing then? Don't ask me I have beeaura issues. Photo by Brooke Goggins.
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Canon Mark II 5D, Zerene Stacker, Stackshot Sled, 65mm Canon MP-E 1-5X macro lens, Twin Macro Flash in Styrofoam Cooler, F5.0, ISO 100, Shutter Speed 200
We Are Made One with What We Touch and See
We are resolved into the supreme air,
We are made one with what we touch and see,
With our heart's blood each crimson sun is fair,
With our young lives each spring impassioned tree
Flames into green, the wildest beasts that range
The moor our kinsmen are, all life is one, and all is change.
- Oscar Wilde
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Want some Useful Links to the Techniques We Use? Well now here you go Citizen:
Best over all technical resource for photo stacking:
Free Field Guide to Bee Genera of Maryland:
bio2.elmira.edu/fieldbio/beesofmarylandbookversion1.pdf
Basic USGSBIML set up:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-_yvIsucOY
USGSBIML Photoshopping Technique: Note that we now have added using the burn tool at 50% opacity set to shadows to clean up the halos that bleed into the black background from "hot" color sections of the picture.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdmx_8zqvN4
Bees of Maryland Organized by Taxa with information on each Genus
www.flickr.com/photos/usgsbiml/collections
PDF of Basic USGSBIML Photography Set Up:
ftp://ftpext.usgs.gov/pub/er/md/laurel/Droege/How%20to%20Take%20MacroPhotographs%20of%20Insects%20BIML%20Lab2.pdf
Google Hangout Demonstration of Techniques:
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or
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c15neFttoU
Excellent Technical Form on Stacking:
Contact information:
Sam Droege
sdroege@usgs.gov
301 497 5840
I had actually asked Barney to "stay" so that I could take a photo with the waves and sunset behind him but the excitement of the beach lured him away. Interesting scents and objects to be found: sea weed, drift wood, pebbles and so on, demanded his urgent attention and he just couldn't bring himself to stay still longer than a fraction of a second. So I got this one - Barn busily exploring the seashore, apparently completely ignoring me, intent on sniffing and exploring - though I suspect if I'd bent down to pick a pebble up he'd have been at my feet instantly!
Barney is quite independent at times, he does likes to play but is less obsessive than some BCs are. He's happy running around, doing his own thing. Actually, it was a real problem when we were first getting to know each other as Barn would take himself off for adventures without much of a thought about where his "hoomans" were. He never quite ran away from me (if he got too far, I'd run in the opposite direction, making high-pitched squeaky calls - it worked every time) but I know both my dad and step-mum lost him for 30mins or so, on at least a couple of occasions. These days Barney is very tuned in to where I am and while he still enjoys his independence and time spent doing his own thing, I am confident that I probably couldn't lose him if I tried!
Been away since Monday - having my monthly check-up at the hospital. All is well, my consultant is still happy with my progress and says everything looks fine. The other good news, is that I had my PEG (stomach feeding tube) out today!! Fitted almost exactly this time last yr, prior to surgery for oral cancer I needed to use it for all my food (and even drink) due to the operation, then radiotherapy and the pain and loss of my swallow reflex that that caused. Over the summer I've got lots better with eating and finally felt confident enough to have it taken out. I hadn't expected for that to happen this week though - thought I'd have to wait for the next clinic, so it was a bit of a surprise!! Hopefully, I've not acted too soon and I'll be able to keep my weight stable... without needing to drink complan shakes (yuk!). A bit strange to be tubeless after so long - I keep expecting to feel it. It is really nice to have my own body back though and a major step forward in my recovery, so all in all its been a happy day :)
Pencil drawing.
I have often been asked here on flickr why I have an ‘obsession’ with drawing film star portraits, why not draw ordinary people, sometimes it has been asked in not a nice way, someone even described my work as kitsch the definition of which is worthless or trivial art. I taught myself to draw many years ago by drawing famous faces trying to get an exact reproduction that was immediately recognized by anyone who saw it and gradually I have also tried to capture something of the subject’s inner essence. I have drawn many ‘ordinary’ faces over the years and my sketchbooks are full of studies of ‘ordinary’ faces and figures.
I have noticed over my time on flickr that the more popular the subject the more comments it gets it’s nothing to do with the drawing itself and I know people are getting bored with me turning out one famous face after another. I do not sell my work I have a large stack of work sitting in a drawer and I end up giving most of it away. So I draw what I enjoy drawing not to please anyone else. I do not care what anyone thinks if it is worthless or trivial I will just keep on drawing what pleases me. I did go to art school when I was younger but soon left because I could not take the pretentiousness of the art world and went into graphic design instead.
I know there are many friends on flickr who do enjoy seeing my work and are always very kind about it, that is the reason why I still post my work and will carry on posting it. So many thanks to all of you, I do appreciate your input even if I don’t reply to every comment ...Take care.
Our Lady of Loudes at the National Shrine in Retiro
Our Lady of Lourdes was the title given to the Blessed Virgin Mary when she appeared in a vision with St. Bernadette in Lourdes, France.
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Bernadette Soubirous was the daughter of a flour miller in Lourdes, France. When affliction hit their family, they had to move to a former jail house. Bernadette's aunt took her and brought her to another village to do household chores and to study catechism. Being simple and illiterate, she did not learn much. Back in Lourdes, while she was accumulating firewood together with her sister, Antoinette, and Jeanne, her neighbor, they took a road that brought them to an intersection between a river and a mill. Fearing that her asthma would attack, Bernadette slowly took off her socks and crossed the river with her companions who went ahead.
Our Lady appeared to Bernadette in a vision with a strong blast of wind and sparks of light. She looked up towards the grotto. She tried to brush off the image with her rosary. To her astonishment, the Lady brought out her own rosary and prayed along with her. There were 18 apparitions that transpired, each event closely following the other and capturing Bernadette in a trance. Their sequence is as follows:
February 11, 1858 - Bernadette prayed the rosary with Our Lady.
February 14, 1858 - Our Lady came closer to Bernadette to establish her heavenly origins.
February 18, 1858 - Fellowship members came along with Bernadette to validate Our Lady's messages. Our Lady asked Bernadette to come back to the grotto with a lighted candle, promising eternal salvation.
February 19, 1858 (4th to 14th apparitions) - Our Lady asked for prayers, sacrifice and for sinners to repent. She ordered Bernadette dig at the ground, and a spring immediately bubbled up and soon gushed forth. She wished for a chapel to be built on the spot and processions to be made to the grotto. Many ill people came to plunge into the spring water and recovered instantly. Fr. Perymale, Bernadette's pastor, sent her off to ask what the Lady's name was.
March 25, 1858 - Our Lady declared that she was the Immaculate Conception.
April 7, 1858 - During this apparition, Bernadette unknowingly held her hands for hours in the candle without being burned.
The apparitions at Lourdes led the Pope to recognize the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception on December 8, 1854. According to the dogma, Mary was conceived without original sin.
Bernadette lived with her parents for two years after the apparition before joining the sisters of Charity at Nevers, France. She died of asthma, tuberculosis and bone impairment at the age of thirty five.
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Our Lady of Lourdes is dressed in white with white veil, blue belt and yellow rose on the feet. Three elements of nature are associated with Lourdes. The element of water which was dug up by St. Bernadette, the element of fire from the candle that Mary asked Bernadette to light, and the rocky cave where Our Lady appeared.
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The image of Our Lady of Lourdes in the Philippines is venerated all over the country, particularly at the Lourdes Shrine in Quezon City. Another place of devotion is at the Lourdes Grotto in Baguio City with its long flight of steps going up the hill. The country's locally carved Lourdes image was operated by the Order of the Friars Minor Capuchins (OFM Cap) headed by Fr. Bernardo of Cleza. Filipino sculptor, Manuel Flores, carved the statue for the Capuchin's garden grotto, which was later transferred to a side altar inside the Capuchin chapel in Intramuros, Manila. The Confraternity of Lourdes was established in the chapel in May 1893, because the image has attracted a large number of devotees.
In 1894, Fr. Cleza instructed Flores to make a bigger statue of the Virgin. Many miraculous recoveries occurred before the statue. Eventually, the Capuchin chapel was made into a church wherein the image had been installed. The church was gutted by fire during the World War II but the statue of the Virgin was left unharmed.
After the war, the Capuchins bought a new property on Retiro St. Quezon City which became the permanent location of the Lourdes Church in the Philippines. It was blessed on August 15, 1951. It was declared an Archdiocesan Shrine in February 1987. It was declared a National Shrine by the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines on January 30, 1996.
[edit] The Archonfraternity of Lourdes in The Philippines (Arch-Con)
The Archonfraternity of Lourdes in The Philippines was established at the same time the Lourdes devotion was launched in the 1890s. There are a couple of hundred confraternities under the Arch-con that meet twice a year for the Marian Symposia and once every two years for the national convention. The feast of Lourdes is celebrated every February 11 wherein a grand penitential procession is held at dawn by the devotees holding lighted torches on bare feet while chanting canticles.
Artist: Asking Alexandria
Event: Groezrock 2011
Photographer: Emanuela Giurano
Date: 22-23 April 2011
City: Meerhout - Belgium
Who is coming? The Apples asked. The Apples are a bit worrying.
Let me check. Bill answered. Oh it is Samsung! :o)
Bill is the game booth keeper in Lansdowne Carnival who took my picture with his cellphone.
Happy Sunday everyone!
"With street photography, the street became a stage and people became actors in a brief scene about which they knew nothing. Only the photographer recognizes the performance, and records it using a camera."
- Florian Heine in the book "Photography, The Ground-breaking Moments"
On my way to the outlets took a couple of pics you can see the shadow of the camera and mini tripod.
File name: 10_03_000111a
Binder label: Food
Title: Ask for Thurbers' canned strawberries, peaches, cherries, pineapples, egg plums, quinces, pears, apricots, etc. etc. [front]
Created/Published: Boston : Forbes Co.
Date issued: 1870 - 1900 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 print : chromolithograph ; 7 x 13 cm.
Genre: Advertising cards
Subject: Strawberries; Plants; Canned foods
Notes: Title from item.
Statement of responsibility: H. K & F. B. Thurber & Co.
Collection: 19th Century American Trade Cards
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: No known restrictions.