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Camouflage, also called cryptic coloration, is a defense or tactic that organisms use to disguise their appearance, usually to blend in with their surroundings. Organisms use camouflage to mask their location, identity, and movement. This allows prey to avoid predators, and for predators to sneak up on prey.
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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.
I arrived iin Copenhagen last Thursday and by chance avoided the bomb cyclone that inflicted damage on much of the US. The weather here in Denmark has been rainy for the most part, except when this photo was taken. Rosenborg Castle is in the center of Copenhagen next to King's Garden.
Wishing all of my Flickr friends a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
...they avoid the flock and stand on their own two feet!
Advice from a Blue Heron ::
- wade into life
- keep a keen lookout
- be patient
- look below the surface
- enjoy a good reed
- go fish!
haha such a beautiful regal bird I always love to see and photograph, even in RL ♥
Taken at:: Soul2Soul - ThamesRIver
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)...]
During the day at Bamburgh I got the longer lens on and decided to shoot the waiders which where feeding at the shore. There was a mix of turnstone, sanderling, oyster catcher and this bird a redshank. I got a good few shots of them feeding so I decided to try and do something a little out the box and catch one flying. I wanted a little movement in the wings which beat very fast so I went for a slower shutter than usual for a wee bird flying! I then waited till the waves splashed in disturbing the birds and tried to get one in flight which was not easy at all... but then its not a challenge if its easy! I liked the atmosphere the wave splashing created also as it was quite soft!
Gallotia galloti palmae, in La Palma. In addition to Gallotia galloti, it is sometimes called "smut lizard". The blight lizard can reach 30 cm in length. Males are somewhat larger than females and have a blue patch on their faces. Black lizard (Gallotia galloti) The black lizard is a very abundant reptile in the Canary Islands, especially in agricultural areas and coastal scrubland. It prefers dry and sunny places, such as rocky areas, especially rock walls, and avoids the laurel forest area. It can live up to 3,000 m above sea level, so it can be found at almost any altitude. Forest roads are a favorable habitat for this species, since it also uses them to move around, as it allows it to stay in the sun during its walks. Being a poikilothermic animal (that is, cold-blooded), it requires clear places where it can warm up on the rock, until it reaches a body temperature that allows it to be active. Feeding Their diet is based on plants and insects; sometimes it eats the grapes cultivated by man, for which it is subject to persecution.
Gallotia galloti palmae, en La Palma.
Además del Gallotia galloti recibe a veces el nombre de "lagarto tizón"
El lagarto tizón puede alcanzar los 30 cm de longitud. Los machos son algo más grandes que las hembras y tienen una mancha azul en la cara.
Lagarto tizón (Gallotia galloti) El lagarto tizón es un reptil muy abundante en las islas canarias, especialmente en las zonas agrícolas y matorrales de las zonas costeras. Prefiere los lugares secos y soleados, como las zonas pedregosas, especialmente paredes de rocas, y evita la zona de laurisilva. Puede vivir hasta por encima de los 3.000 m, por lo que se le encuentra a casi cualquier altura. Las carreteras forestales son para esta especie un hábitat favorable, ya que las utiliza también para desplazarse, ya que le permite permanecer al sol durante sus caminatas. Al ser un animal poiquilotermo (es decir, de sangre fría), requiere sitios despejados donde pueda calentarse sobre la roca, hasta alcanzar una temperatura corporal que le permita estar activo.
Alimentación
Su alimentación se basa en plantas e insectos; en ocasiones come las uvas cultivadas por el hombre, por lo que es objeto de persecución.
West Pier, Brighton, East Sussex, England
And now for something completely different! Slight interlude in the Scottish photos for something taken at the weekend.
The forecast was nothing special but the tides seemed right for shooting something at Shoreham mid morning. I decided I'd get up early and head over to Brighton to shoot the West Pier again.....who knows how much longer it will survive? This time I wanted to capture some posts (old pier supports?) that I'd seen.
Sure enough the sky was pretty grey and nothing much going on with the sea so I thought I'd try a 'Gary Gough Fine Art' type image. I'll leave it to you all to decide if I succeeded!
Had some challenges sorting out the lens distortion effect as I had to get quite close to the posts to make sure I excluded any beach. Another Tog there said he would clone out the beach if necessary but I wanted to avoid that. It's not 100% perfect but I think the distortion is removed as far as my capabilities/the software allow.
If you want to learn about the history of West Pier then pleasse see a shot I took last year of a Supermoon over the pierhttps://www.flickr.com/photos/184798091@N07/51409111073/in/album-72157719746898331/
© All rights reserved Steve Pellatt. Please do not use this image on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit written permission.
Today it is drawing me back again, to the impressive and picturesque town of Pottenstein in the Franconian Switzerlands and its old castle. I've been there only one single time but I fell for that view so much and I cannot say where this is coming from. It is for sure the resemblance of the landscape to the Elbe Sandstone Mountains, but I think there is more. I will not be able to avoid spending more time in this region.
Heute zieht es mich nochmal zurück in die beeindruckende malerische Stadt Pottenstein in der Fränkischen Schweiz und seiner alten Burg. Ich war nur ein einziges Mal dort und doch hat es mir dieser Anblick so sehr angetan. Ich kann nicht sagen, woran das liegt. Ganz sicher war es die Ähnlichkeit der Landschaft zum Elbsandsteingebirge doch ich denke da ist noch mehr. Ich werde wohl nicht darum herum kommen, noch mehr Zeit in dieser Region zu verbringen.
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Most people avoid wandering around in the deep woods during late summer since they don't want to be eaten alive by hungry mosquitoes and stung by all the abundant nettles, but if you don't mind those minor bothers you can sometimes stumble across a few really neat flowers and fungi. This beautiful three birds orchid looks like a tiny snowflake floating above the sun-dappled forest floor. They grow in intimate association with mcyorrhizal fungi that supply them with food, and also seem to have ties with sugar maple trees here in Iowa (beech trees further east). Notice how the three white sepals resemble the white wings of a flying bird.
The most water I've ever seen coming over this waterfall, which reduces to a trickle in dry weather. The whole bowl was filled with windblown spray and I couldn't avoid it, despite wiping the lens before each shot.
― Helen Keller
Our maiden voyage with our new UTV. It is something I have always wanted and constantly made up a reason not to get. With a recent health scare, I decided we were put here not to be afraid of taking risks, but to live life to the fullest. I always thought it was the things in life that we did that we eventually regretted. I soon realized that it is actually the things we didn't do, out of fear or anxiety, that we end up regretting. We only get one chance at life. There are no reset buttons, only a game over. I am going to try and get my one chance right.
P.S. I always have to name my vehicles. Just like a boat, everything must be named. Meet Tempy (Temperamental). :)
365: the 2022 Edition 113/365
Double Arch is a natural sandstone formation in one of the best (in my opinion) parks in all of America, Arches National Park. This particular set of arches were formed differently from most of the arches in the park. It is what is known as a pothole arch, formed by water erosion from above rather the standard erosion for arches, which is normally from the side. The larger opening has a span of 148 feet (45 m) and a height of 104 feet (32 m). These dimensions give the arch the tallest opening and second-longest span in the park. For scale, the lower right of this shot contains a group of people sitting in shadow.
The arches are open for exploration, but you have to be pretty nimble to get up to the top of the “window”. This open permission to climb can make photographers have to wait quite a while to get a clear shot like this one as the area can be crawling with tourists. Normally I avoid crowds by going very early for sunrise or late for sunset, but this tactic doesn’t work with Double Arch as it lies in shadow and mostly along an East-West axis, so the light for sunrise and sunset is not optimum to catch that natural amphitheater effect you see here.
Arches National Park contains the highest density of arches in the world, more than 2000 natural sandstone arches. It also features a variety of unique geological formations such as Balanced Rock, The Three Gossips and The Tower of Babel. It borders the Colorado River on the Colorado Plateau and is 4 miles north of Moab, Utah. It’s truly high desert, receiving an average of less than 10 inches (250 mm) of rain annually. In spite of it’s relatively remote location the park received more than 1.6 million visitors in 2018 and the lines to get in can be long…so get there early!
The shot: Admittedly I have glaring vertical polarization here from the CPL. At the time there was a lot of stray light flooding into my viewfinder and I didn't catch the mistake. A 90 degree turn of the filter could have fixed it. I have since started using a large oval eyecup to prevent light pollution into the viewfinder, and I highly recommend this useful addition to your camera.
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From memory, this was a moonlit night which I normally avoided whenever I received an aurora alert, but it made it interesting combined with the clouds and the soft colours of the mild aurora. Thankfully, there were enough gaps in the cloud for some stars to show up. Taken around midnight, facing due south at my favourite dark sky location just north of the Grampians National Park in Victoria and showing the silhouetted outline of the Grampians Range.
This was a stitched panorama taken with my Canon 6D and 40mm pancake lens. Original exposures were around 20 seconds.
Happy Nice Wonderful Clouds Tuesday!
I usually avoid taking photos of a scene that I have seen photographed by so many before me. However not the other day. We finished a hike in the redwoods and when walking back to the car the sun broke through the clouds for a moment before setting so I set up my tripod and took this panorama.
To avoid predators a lot of caterpillars rely on camourflage, but some, like this Grey Dagger Moth caterpillar, advertise warning signs. Apart from the obvious dagger, by its striking red and yellow colouration it also signals it's poisonous to eat. This one appeared on a blackthorn bush in my garden, one of its host plants.
Many thanks for your comments. Wishing you well in all your undertakings.
#MacroMondays
#Tile
This theme will probably see me post both final "candidates", but I still had to decide which one goes into the MM pool. This one won because it has the catchier colours and is closer to my original idea, which was photographing a miniature tile's reflection in another tile that has a kind of warped, uneven mirror surface. The miniature tile is decorated with a beautiful, stylised sketch of the Moon. The problem was just that the mirror tile is super shiny (= unwanted reflections and dust), and that it has many scratches (in fact, the surface already scratches when you look at it). Plus, the Moon's reflection didn't look that nice.
So, on to the next tile, made of differently brushed, small hexagons. One candidate is a photo of only the brushed tile (my second choice). The other, this one, includes the abovementioned mirror tile, only this time, instead of placing the tile I wanted to reflect onto the mirror tile, I did it the other way round: I put the mirror tile vertically onto the tile with the brushed hexagons, thus avoiding both the dust and the scratches. And as a bonus, I was able to get the desired reflection.
No focus stacking this time, just a single shot. For the golden/yellow colour accent, I equipped one of the LED lamps with the semi-transparent yellow plastic bottle cap. The blue accent was achieved by putting a small blue glass jar on the other LED lamp. The reflection was highlighted by the flat daylight photo lamp (light from above).
Size info: The mirror tile is also made of hexagons, but much larger ones than the brushed tile. Each side of the mirror tile is 5 cm / 1.9 inches long, which defines the width of the scene.
HMM, Everyone!
as you grow older, it starts avoiding you ;-)
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HBW!!
cercis, variegated eastern redbud, 'Floating Clouds', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, Raleigh, north carolina
If you have the flickr-app on your mobile phone, take a try and turn it around! That makes a cool effect. (Hold your mobile phone flat to avoid autoturn-mode from display or disable the function). Those who are in front of the pc can compare to my previous shot what is the same.
Hope you like it.
Avoiding the sun by being early, WCR 37676 is seen powering past Crawford on 5Z37 Bo'ness Jn Exchange Sdg - Carnforth Steamtown on Febuary 14th, 2022.
Small changes can lead to big things.
On this day in 2020, 2021 and 2022, I appeared on TV promoting the benefits of nature on mental health.
I thought last year that things were finally going to be better and I would be happy. Unfortunately, things didn’t go as we had hoped, which resulted in me having a breakdown.
I am now on medication which is something I had always tried to avoid. I am starting to feel better and getting some motivation back, and I am determined to turn things around.
Still awaiting a house move to a better place by the coast, and have started to advertise photo calendars and have got a few orders in. (Petra, I have designed a seagull calendar as promised). I have a couple of orders for some canvas prints also.
Slowly I will get there, small changes. I no longer want to be battling in this dark place for the rest of my life. We only get one life, I want to make the rest of it count.
Thank you all for all your support, encouragement and love over the last 3 and a half years.
Much love ❤️❤️❤️
I am a photographic snob.
I always think my images have to be "worthy". A feeling that my images don't feel too staid and cliché.
I am, along with many others, fractionally obsessed with a derelict Lido in Cliftonville.
I was taking a few images that were probably "unworthy", segments of Grafitti, living in harmony with the coast.
A jogger runs past using the head duck to avoid ruining my
"un worthy" shot and therefore almost makes the shot "worthy".
"Fuck off back to Hackney Wick" adds some gravity to the scene. Thanks for listening.
Cow keeping an eye on her twins. Only seen wildlife just after sunrise, likely avoiding the heat later in the day. Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada
Pied-billed Grebes are not very plentiful during winter in southern Ontario, since most suitable foraging locations are frozen.
Olympus Zuiko OM 8.0 500mm Reflex on Sony A7 series
The marsh iris suddenly began blooming some days ago at about 8 o` clock in the evening.
Here I tried a catadioptric lens (Mirror lens) with the typical 500 mm focal length. There are just a few lenses mainly from the 80ies which are good enough for use. Its extremely difficult to get a usable sharp picture because you have just one stop (8.0) and a razor knife thin depth of field. A mirror lens has no chromatic aberration. Some people do not like them because of the "donut bokeh". If you try to avoid this, these lenses show a unique and very special kind of bokeh.
Die Sumpfiris begann eines abends plötzlich zu blühen. Sie wächst an Rand unseres Teiches. Ich testete hier ein Olympus Spiegelobjektiv mit der typischen Brennweite von 500mm. Es gibt nur wenige dieser Objektive, die gut für den praktischen Nutzen sind. Es sind in der Regel Objektive der grossen Hersteller aus den 80igern. Das Fotografieren hiermit ist extrem schwierig da es nur die eine Anfangsöffnung Blende 8 gibt und die Schärfentiefe rasiermesserartig dünn ist. Ein Spiegeltele hat aber z.B. keinerlei chromatische Aberration. Manche Fotografen mögen diese Linsen alleine schon wegen ihres sog. "donut bokehs" nicht. Spitzlichter werden nicht als Kreise , sondern als Donuts dargestellt, da das Objektiv in der Mitte ja eine Aussparung hat. Versucht man aber diese Donuts zu vermeiden, zeigt das Objektiv ein einzigartiges, ganz spezielles Bokeh.