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Avoid Bay taken during our road trip to the Eyre Peninsula, South Australia.
Not sure why this beautiful beach has that name. But certainly a great beach scenery especially on a cold winter's day.
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Peaceful Travel Tuesday
Still escaping to my garden to avoid the ubiquitous and ever-disgusting "orange menace" currently in the White House" ...
"Your life will always be better off when you concentrate on the simplest joys of life like drinking a cup of coffee."
~ Mehmet Murat ildan
"It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them." ~Paul Coehlo
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Widespread and abundant in cities, neighborhoods and farms. Avoids dense woods. Flocks cluster in dense bushes, bustling around and chattering to one another. Males have smart black bibs, bright rufous napes, and stunningly patterned wings with brilliant buffs and browns. Underparts are pale pearly-gray. Females are plain brown with cute face and lighter eyebrow. Native to Eurasia; introduced to much of the rest of the world. (eBird)
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These females were playing in the brambles near our hotel.
Kingsborough, Tasmania, Australia. October 2022.
Eagle-Eye Tours - Tasmania.
While the barley field is avoiding the wind and deeply bowing down before it, a group of poppies is standing upright and resisting.
That's how it is everywhere, that's how it always has been and that's how it will be forever, no matter if the farmer doesn't like it, or the neighbours or the barley.
The true nature will always find a way and it never was the unquestioning conformity.
Während das Gerstenfeld dem Wind ausweicht und sich tief vor ihm verneigt, stehen ein paar Mohnblumen aufrecht und halten dagegen.
So ist es überall, so war es immer und so wird es immer sein, auch wenn das dem Bauern nicht gefallen sollte, oder dem Nachbarn oder der Gerste.
Die wahre Natur, findet immer einen Weg und dieser war nie die bedingungslose Konformität.
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Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!
-- Isaiah 5:8, The Bible, King James Version
[So endeth the Lesson for the day (and beyond)...]
"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."
- Victor Hugo
Musical Inspiration: Don't Put Dirt On My Grave Just Yet - Hayden Panettiere.
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This is somewhere between Gillette and Rawlins Wyoming, windy as I traversed from I-90 to I-80, I believe this was south of Casper on WY 220. I've never driven this route before, so a bit of a new adventure that I'll avoid in winter. The load I was hauling was pretty heavy, GVW (gross vehicle weight) just under 80, 000 lbs so the wind wasn't too much of a problem. The strange thing is the disorientating effect the snow had as it moved across the road, it visually felt like I wasn't moving, an optical illusion, I had to look into the distance to avoid the uncomfortable feeling it created. I've run across this at night and it's even worse.
The Dark Blue Pansy is a Nymphalid butterfly native to Africa. They are also called "Blue Pansy" in southern Africa but in India "Blue Pansy" is used to describe Junonia orithya. To avoid confusion we'll stick to "Dark Blue Pansy".
Their wingspan range from 40 to 52mm.
Winters have mostly been bleak and the days are almost always cloudy and boring so when a day with sunshine emerges I also emerge.
The difference a little bit of sunshine makes is unbelievable. It's like a flower was given sunlight and it just blooms.
Sunny days are the best and when you combine that with the beauty of winter it's like standing in the middle of a work of art.
This photo was taken on the lake Näsijärvi in Tampere. The ice is strong enough to support a van, so to me it's a great opportunity to take photos in an unusual location.
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Heading in from the beach early to avoid an incoming storm, I heard this very musical songbird in the parking lot to my mother's condo. In this case, I was lucky that it rained.
An enjoyable 30-40 minutes watching this chap basking in the sunshine in an area sheltered from the cool breeze.
During the time I was there he moved about a little as he moved to avoid the shade as the sun moved.
Using a long lens he was totally undisturbed by me and in the end was still basking when I left him.
Bird photography sounds peaceful. You picture me quietly communing with nature, sipping coffee while majestic creatures flutter by, posing politely like they’re in a Disney movie. That’s a lie. The truth involves hauling lawn chairs, tripods, and a camera bag that weighs more than a third grader across the desert before sunrise—all to sit motionless next to a glorified livestock trough filled with water I wouldn’t let my enemies drink.
This cattle tank, which I have gentrified into a “desert oasis” (by tossing in a stick), is now a fine-dining establishment for birds. The stick is important. I found it on the ground, which makes it natural, and I chose one with bark and lichen because birds don’t like muddy feet—and I like a pretty perch.
Birds don’t just fly in, though. First, they land about twenty-five feet away in what I call the staging area, where they scope things out and decide if it’s safe to drink. Just as I know birds come here for water, they know hawks come here for birds. If it seems risky, they vanish into the brush to post angry tweets about predator privilege.
This time, an American Robin decided to play along. He glided down to the branch, dipped his beak into the water, then raised his head to swallow—because robins, like most birds, can’t gulp. They rely on gravity to get the water down. No swallow muscles. No peristalsis. Just tip and pray.
As he tilted his head back, water spilled from his beak. I fired off a burst of photos. In this frame, he’s in perfect profile, water spilling from his bill, with a few droplets stopped in mid-air and a few reached the surface, sending delicate ripples across the pond.
His reflection was beautiful and haunting, like a bird pondering the mysteries of hydration—or maybe just wondering why some guy shoved a branch in his drinking fountain.
In the desert, water is liquid gold. To birds, cattle tanks are survival. To me, they’re proof that lugging heavy gear into the wilderness to photograph a robin mid-sip is a perfectly reasonable way to spend retirement.
Especially if you're trying to avoid housework.
He lifts his head to the sky—a gravity feed,
’Cause evolution said, “Nah—gulping’s not a need.
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This Song Sparrow typically posed perched on blackberry vines. Amazing how they choose this perch regularly yet don't come to harm!
#sliderssunday
Would you? In these contact- and closeness-avoiding times we could all do with more hugs. But would you accept a hug by a green huntsman spider? And is this a spider? Maybe it's a dew-covered spider that lurks in the darkness to surprise its unsuspecting "victims" with... a hug – a friendly, if rather wet hug. So maybe this is a new subspecies of huntsman spiders (Sparassidae), the green, glistening Hugsman Spider :)
Actually it is non of the above, but a simple sliders "accident", and what you see are the exact same leaves from my previous photo (please see the first comment) –, well, it is the same photo. As mentioned in my description for my previous image, I had processed it in HDR Efex. And the "accident" happened when I was done in HDR Efex and had returned to PS. I was wondering if I should use one of the layer blending modes to slightly soften the fairly bold look I had created in HDR Efex; I opted for the "Soft Light" blending mode, but accidentally activated the "Color Burn" blending mode instead: And all of a sudden this strange, spider-ish, alien creature looked at me, ready to hug :) And as for my previous image: I decided against the use of a blending mode, and only used the HDR Efex result for the final image.
Happy Sliders Sunday, Everyone, have a nice new week ahead, and always stay safe and take care!
In diesen kontaktbeschränkten, abstandswahrenden Zeiten könnten wir sicher alle mal eine zusätzliche Umarmung gebrauchen, oder? Aber muss es gleich die Umarmung einer Riesenkrabbenspinne sein? Und ist dies überhaupt eine Spinne? Vielleicht ist es eine, die im Schatten der Blätter eines Busches, von Tautropfen benetzt, auf ihre ahnungslose Beute lauert? Tatsächlich? Nun, Riesenkrabbenspinnen hören im Deutschen auch auf den charmanten Namen "Grüne Huschspinne" und hier handelt es sich wohl um ein besonders verhuschtes, ganz und gar freundliches Exemplar, hat sie doch nichts anderes im Sinn, als das nächstbeste Lebewesen, das an ihrem Versteck vorbeikommt, einmal herzhaft zu umarmen :-)
Tatsächlich sind dies genau dieselben, mit Regentropfen verzierten Blätter von meinem vorherigen Foto bzw. ist es das vorherige Foto (siehe den ersten Kommentar) in einer geringfügig anderen Bearbeitung. Nachdem ich mit den Anpassungen für das Blätterfoto in HDR Efex fertig war, hatte ich noch kurz überlegt, die Nik-Ebene mit der Ebene des Originalfotos zu überblenden, weil mir das HDR-Efex-Resultat zunächst etwas zu kräftig erschien. Mir schwebte "Abdunkeln" oder "Weiches Licht" vor, ich landete aber mit einem versehentlichen Klick bei "Farbig nachbelichten" – und auf einmal schaute mich dieses von tiefen Schatten umgebene, kuschelwütige Wesen an ;-) Da mir dieser "Bearbeitungsunfall" gefiel, habe ich beschlossen, einfach zwei Bilder aus dem Originalfoto zu machen :)
Ich wünsche Euch einen guten (und gut geschützten) Start in die neue Woche, liebe Flickr-Freunde!
Wegen der Hitzewelle wurde der Computer zur Vermeidung von noch mehr Hitze nach dem Hochladen ausgeschaltet !
Due to the heat-wave, the computer has been turned off after uploading to avoid more heat !
dog-walk Monday June 29th
SONY NEX-7 & SEL18200
134mm _ f/6.3 _ 1/1600s _ ISO200
29.06.2015 12:14 27°C
Ystradfellte waterfall country. I do notice that English speakers tend to avoid using this name at all costs, because of the difficulty of pronouncing it. But I put in a plea for visitors not to avoid saying the names! Try: forvo.com/word/ystradfellte/ THANK YOU
Pied-billed Grebes are not very plentiful during winter in southern Ontario, since most suitable foraging locations are frozen.
Over, and part of, our fireplace is an old mirror. The silver backing is peeling off in places, leaving wonderful tree-like patterns that we love. This a detail of one of these areas.
Taken with a rather unusual lens setup for a macro - 24mm tilt shift (tilted) a 2x converter and a small extension tube. I used the tilt to avoid reflections of the camera and get the plane of the mirror in focus without focus stacking.
I hope you like it.
Se trata del tren de alta velocidad, procedente de Madrid-Puerta de Atocha y que ahora acaba de salir de la Estación Valencia-Joaquín Sorolla hacia Castellón.
Orientada esta toma hacia el sur valía la pena aprovechar lo nublado de la mañana para evitar los contraluces que de otro modo e inexorablemente se habrían producido.
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High Speed Train (AVE) passing through VALENCIA
This is the high-speed train, coming from Madrid-Puerta de Atocha and that has just left the Valencia-Joaquín Sorolla station towards Castellón.
Oriented towards the south, it was worth taking advantage of the overcast in the morning to avoid the backlighting that would otherwise inevitably have occurred.
A northbound Lake States Railway train arrives at Saginaw MI. My trip trip to Michigan was decided due to the fact that it was one of very few states us New Yorkers were "allowed" to travel to at the time due to Covid. We went by Frankenmouth on the w/e and tourist were crammed into the village. We went back on a weekday. A few days after we returned, MI was added to the long list of places with high positives rates.
These two brave ladies were wise enough to stay just within the old harbour at Portwrinkle, on the edge of Cornwall's Whitsand Bay, and avoid swimming in these stormy seas. Many years ago Portwrinkle was an important centre for pilchard fishing, but the old fish cellars in the village have now been converted into residences. The ancient harbour is just used occasionally by small boats and canoes. Looe and Looe Island are in the far distance while Shag Rock in the centre is to the east of the coastal village of Downderry.