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Actually the rest of the flock had just flown off.
Taken shooting upwards to the top of a shingle bank witth the Male Snow Bunting stood on the ridge.
I quite like the strange perspective this creates, but some people may not :-)
Taken earlier this year in Norfolk. Hopefully I will get some more shots of these fabulous birds over the winter, but very few about at the moment.
No, it is not actually a b&w shot. It was even not edited. Just out of my cellphone camera, while driving from a customer company to another.
Actually completed the base (six 32x32 old green baseplates) which will be in front of Akai Shiro and just threw in the Ninjas.
More greenery and other details to come later.
actually those words was true.
nobody loves me.
but im trying (im really trying, dude) to be good girl.
but they still said that im a really bad girl
do you think so? =(
I was actually concentrating on taking pics of a Humming bird when this little Nuthatch landed on a branch in front of me. He wouldn't leave and kept looking at me while making little soft chirping sounds. I decided to turn my lens onto him for a bit. It was cloudy out and the sun peaked behind some of the thicker clouds for a few minutes, giving me an advantage while taking pics of this cute little bird!
Note, For those who aren't familiar with the size of the Nuthatch, the one pictured is larger than in real life.
Photo taken on Nov 13/15 at 3:37pm in Cobble Hill ( south east Vancouver Island, BC).
Taken at 370mm at 1/400's f/7.1, iso 800
No cropping
Used a tripod
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Actually, the driver's laughing. I thought it was high time for another railway photo: this railcar has just arrived at Sassari in Sardinia with a service from Alghero, and will soon make the return journey (with us on board). Sassari is Sardinia's second city; no, I didn't know that either until I came here. Based on the evidence I saw, "tagging" trains with graffiti seems to be pretty normal here.
It's actually a trifold, but the back isn't that interesting so I removed it.
Top: front and inside flap (C and T respectively)
Bottom: inner spread
Actually, Angel is totally blind from retinal detachment. She doesn't seem to be unhappy, though; Sidi helps guide her arond, and the cottage and the yard in New Orleans is small and easy for her to navigate! She and Sidi, and our old Chloe, too- who passed away before Christmas last year- have made many happy visits here and seem to love it!
Happy Fence Friday!!
Actually my wife gave these to me - too long in the leg for her but OK for me. Oh, and the beads. So generous.
Actually not painted, I used sharpie markers. I started out wanting to change the hat and then needed an outfit to go with it.
Actually, I liked balloons so much, that I can't work with anything else 😃 I have one more idea, but it's little unusual and I have to think about it. And sunrise sky is wonderful, so I use it on the second card in a row
Actually this is just a part of the picrure. I will upload the rest of the parts later.
Non-digital effects. This was taken with the same camera as this was taken -> www.flickr.com/photos/xiao_shan/138785061/
(24x24cm pinhole camera / ILFORD FP4 PLUS / 8sec)
If Raven brought the light back into the world, Hummingbird must spread it around...
...
A Mayan legend says the hummingbird is actually the sun in disguise, and he is trying to court a beautiful woman, who is the moon.
Is actually the moon - I thought I was chancing it a bit using an aperture of F22 at night, but the 60D's amazing performance even at ISO 3200 just about pulled it off.
For those who don't care for the techy side of photography, do I get any marks for artistic merit?
;-p
Actually took this while there was full sunshine, using just Sports setting on my camera. Loved how this photo & about 3 others looked like it was night time. :) This is my brother's first time welding something.
I actually built Poe's Black One first, but obviously had to go back and build an accompanying fighter in standard grey.
Honestly, this isn't really an attempt to replicate the film model exactly. It's more me reinterpreting the official set through the lens of pmiaki's always excellent X-Wing instructions.
I'm rather pleased at how it's turned out, especially since I adore the T-70 design. The only disappointment is that I couldn't include a full astromech - only the body. The underside loading on the film version rather limited me on that score and it couldn't do it without compromising the shape.
Oh, this is supposed to be Jess Pava piloting since I gave Snap Wexley the M-Wing.
Actually, I'm not sure Emma has a serious side. I love dressing and being girly. It's all so much fun.
Actually, I did have a busyish day but luckily got out to capture these beauties before the old man mowed the lawn. I don't know why but I do love their smiley little faces.
Am out tonight - book group to discuss 'Alone in Berlin'. Fabulous book, great characterisation and detail. An interesting read.
Let us hope that the sun continues to shine this weekend. Have a good one peeps!
Actually, I should have probably titled it Blackberry Canes. The actual blackberries are probably long eaten by birds, and these curved canes are what is left.
For Dave C. and other Flickr friends, that the *soul of this picture. Whether they are called blackberries or blackberry canes, the substation is interesting either way.
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Actually he can't figure out how to go thru the fence. Buddy my other cat and I are on the other side. He was a stressed out lil kitty there for about 20minutes.
"What do you want for the Valentines' Day?"
"I want a diamond ring, a necklace, a ruby ear ring, a Porsche and a house with a swimming pool!"
"...."
Actually, not yet. This is just a closeup of a common orb spider found here in the southeastern US, Planet Earth. I never stop wondering what anthropoids' sensorium must be like.
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Order Araneae (Spiders)
Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)
No Taxon (Entelegynae)
Family Araneidae (Orb Weavers)
Genus Wagneriana
Species tauricornis (Wagneriana tauricornis)
This was a live specimen that cooperated while I photographed it. I intended to return it to where I found it, but I turned my back for a moment and it disappeared. It's somewhere in the clutter of my studio. Maybe I'll find a beautiful orb web in there someday soon. I hope my wife doesn't find it first. She's has a spider phobia. Glad she loves me.
February 20, 2021; Leon County, Lutterloh, Florida.
Canon M6 MII; Raynox DCR-150 as tube lens (reversed); bellows; 3.7X microscope objective (L): reflected light using speedlites; WeMacro rail; Helicon Focus; PS.
210220_Spider_Face
I widened the rail bed a stud each side, making it 14 studs wide in total. The white-handled bar is for pushing the table round, the metallic grey one locks and unlocks the table, to prevent or enable rotation. It is intended for this actually to work, in real brick. See previous image for details of the mechanism.
The 1860’s were a boom time of naval construction. The first ironclad battleships had amply demonstrated that the reign of the old wooden ship of the line was at an end. Such ships were extremely vulnerable to the new technology of high explosive shells, giving ships that were actually armoured to withstand such weapons a huge advantage. As a result, the world’s naval powers were keen to dispose of their now useless fleets, replacing them with ironclads as fast as they could.
Nowhere was this boom of shipbuilding greater than the Old Perceptan Empire. Ever since the Avalonian Continental and Western Holy Wars of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, where the navies of its rivals had been practically annihilated, Perceptum had maintained a massive margin of global naval supremacy for half a century by the virtue of being able to supplement its massive number of warships faster than its rivals could build new navies. But with the advent of the ironclad, this vast Armada of wooden sailing ships had been rendered obsolete at a stroke. A similar thing was happening in the navies of its geopolitical enemies, who were capitalizing on the opportunity to finally catch up. Having built its hegemony through the use of its navy, and none to eager to lose the control of the sea which its economy depended upon, the Imperial Government authorized one of the biggest construction programmes in history to replace its fleet with modern ironclad warships. Scores of the grand old wooden ships were sold and scrapped, with only the most modern preserved for conversion that turned them into comparatively ugly hunks of steel. Moreover, Imperial shipyards worked overtime to build entirely new ships with iron framed hulls; ships like the mighty Forza. The great majority of these ships were armed in the traditional broadside manner, before this type was ultimately superseded by ships with central battery and turret armaments.
When laid down in 1866, the Lorica and her class were intended to be the last, and grandest, of the Imperial Navy’s broadside battleships. In practice, conversion works on older ships and the construction of other broadsiders continued alongside their building until 1870, so it’s unclear which ship was THE last of the old way of fighting, but the Loricas were the last class of them to be ordered. For the Marina Imperiale, she was the embodiment of the sendoff, with some of the older men in the officer corps shedding tears over the passing of an age. They were the only class of broadside ironclad to possess more than a single gundeck, and although only the lower of the two benefitted from the thickest armour (8in of wrought iron backed by 20in of teak) their height allowed them to ship no less than fifty-six guns. As grand as this may seem, the arrangement caused several problems. The shear weight of all those guns threatened stability, and with so many weapons on two decks, it would be impossible to equip each gun with its own armoured ammunition hoist. This forced the guncrews to share hoists and get creative with how they handled the shot and powder... which would obviously prove hazardous in battle. The magazines were correspondingly huge, and although protected by relatively thick armour for a ship of the type, it was insufficient against the increasingly large guns mounted by central battery and turret ironclads. The only real strength they had was the mobility that resulted from their length to width ratio, but maneuvering such top-heavy iron sailing ships proved notoriously hazardous.
As can be expected, the Eight Years War was not kind to them. The ships performed admirably despite their age, their massive batteries of updated guns proving useful in calm seas and coastal battles where they proved their worth in guarding the Empire’s ports from attack. And unlike most other broadsiders, their entire hull was armoured with wrought iron ranging between four and eight inches, which allowed them to tank hits from smaller guns. Their relative agility even allowed them to dodge torpedoes while other, less nimble ships foundered. But whenever they were dragged too far out to sea, predictable problems arose. Their instability, worsened by the even heavier new rifled gun battery, caused more than one of them to sink in bad weather, in particularly fast turns or due to uncontrolled flooding in battle. With such a tendency to roll so heavily, the lower gun deck (which housed all the 8in guns, as opposed to the 4 and 6in rifles on the upper deck) would be subject to flooding should the hatches be opened in rough seas. Worse yet was the damage inflicted by the more modern ships the Empire was facing; the big-gun ships favoured by the Order of Achatius and her Allies found no problem with overmatching the Lorica’s armour, even from range. Once penetrated, the ships citadel and vulnerable ammunition stores were wide open to destruction.
Several of them did, however, survive the War. Wartime construction eventually caught up, allowing the the Loricas to be replaced on the front line by newer, tougher ships that moved the old broadsiders to relatively safe port defense and reserve posts. After the war, the Perceptan navy diligently reorganized itself and, strapped for cash, decided to sell many of its obsolescent ships off to the highest foreign bidders. At least one Lorica found its way into the Royal Pyu Navy, while another became flagship to a short-lived but famous pirate of the Chornslad Alliance. After superseding their value as combatants, they would serve for the rest of their days as depot ships, coal hulks and training vessels... an ignominious end to the era of the sailing battleship.
Actually, not the back, it's the front. I didn't see too many veils like this. Taken in Deir ez Zuhr, Syria (near the Iraqi border.)
A peek through the famous Mobius Arch of the Lone Pine Peak during sunrise.
I left the Death Valley NP in the moring after the sunrise shot at the badwater basin, and arrived at the Lone Pine at noon. Then I scouted around the Alabama Hills area in the afternnon, finally found the legendary Mobius Arch. I shot the sunset and night starry sky over there, and got up early in the morning for the sunrise too. Wide angle was the first thing came to my mind because I wanted to include the whole beauty in my shoot, but I also wanted to get my money's worth for the 70-200mm VR I rented, so I put the lens on and walked around for cmposition, and this is what I got: the first light struck on the Lone Pine Peak
Nikon D7000
Nikkor 70-200mm f2.8 VR
f10 20sec (it was still dark then)
77mm slim polarizer
tripod mounted
actually, i'm not sure what this is. there was a sign for the motel, but google maps shows there used to be a structure next to it that wasn't there when i passed through. this seems to be on the property but is of an entirely different style. doesn't matter - i have an affinity for anonymous motels ...
Actually, this snowy egret (Egretta thula) was fishing in a canal that conveys water from the Sarasota County Celery Fields complex toward Phillipi Creek, near the Gulf of Mexico inland waterway. I wonder if the bright color on its feet serve as a form of disruptive coloration, reducing the likelihood that fish will perceive the gold-colored objects as connected to the dark legs.
This bird visited this site almost daily in February, 2022.
91/365
This is actually my brother's jasmine plant - mine is the yellow-leaved one on the other side of the front door. They were planted when we were younger, and his flowers with bright yellow flowers in the winter and mine flowers with white flowers in the summer. I do not know if it is because I was born in summer and he was born in...autumn. Maybe Mum could not get a jasmine plant that flowers in autumn...
Anyway, he is not here today - on a school trip to Iceland for a week - and so far I have not really noticed it (ballet was...odd without him. It was nice to be able to talk to everyone without having him showing off) but he is never here on the weekends anyway, so I will not really notice it until Monday. Although, I think I will notice not needing to go out and pick him up from his girlfriend's tomorrow evening - that might be strange. I bet that I will even hesitate to put a film on so it is not interrupted by having to leave halfway through to pick him up, even though we do not have to tomorrow.
We washed the cars today. It is my favourite household chore. It allows me to be a child again and that is always fun. I remember once, I think during the summer holidays when I was maybe five or six, Dad was washing the cars and I had been inside eating a pomegranate. I am not the cleanest of eaters at the best of times, and a fruit that requires careful dissection to extract the blood-covered seeds for eating is not going to be easy to eat for anyone, but for me at five or six, a messy eater already, added to being a child, I was covered in pomegranate juice, head to toe. And I just remember Mum telling me to go outside to show Dad the mess I had made and I pressed my hands against the door of the clean car so I could see into the wing mirror to see how covered in juice my face was. Dad shouted at me for getting sticky handprints on his clean car.
actually there used to be a continuous row of these rowhouses, but stupid developers decided to knock them down and do this.
Actually, this sculpture, park, and greenway section is dedicated to an orphanage and chapel that occupied this site for decades. The orphanage is long gone, but the chapel is still open and available for weddings and other gatherings.
I didn't even have to suggest Daisy pose here, by the way. She just up and did it on her own. Could be from the sheer joy of spontaneity. But more likely she just knew it was inevitable that I would "suggest" it...so she beat me to the punch. 😉💖💖
This species is actually an italien species that has been invading the rest of Europe since the 1970s, enabled by climate change.
Unfortunately it is also very likely they are the cause for the decline of two other Opilio species here in Germany, Opilio parietinus and Opilio saxtilis, which is a shame.
To make things even worse they aren't even a very interesing looking species, almost no pattern, no spikes or interesing shapes, just orange. If you are invasive why aren't you at least pretty?
Giving them a bit of a hard time, I actually like them, still a shame they are likely pretty bad for our native harvestmen.
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Actually, it's likely a bank employee ended up the target of all the action, and it wouldn't have been from the police. According to one of these cops, a teller in the Safeway branch of a local bank accidentally tripped the burglar alarm, which generated a pretty heavy police response, a whole lot more than just these three guys. He said that, even though they were certain all was clear, they still had to follow through, just in case, so I had to wait a bit for the all clear before I could continue on with my grocery shopping.
Actually so casual as to be completely unappealing to anyone!!. To think that I used to traipse around town looking like this!!!
Actually standing on my front porch. It's great living in a place called, Paradise.
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Actually, these gorgeous Mountain Bluebirds have been back for a while already. Each spring, it is such a joy to see the very first splash of blue after a long, cold winter. This photo was taken on 20 April 2018, SW of the city.
In Bluebirds, the blue colour is produced by the structure of the feather - there is no blue pigment. "Tiny air pockets in the barbs of feathers can scatter incoming light, resulting in a specific, non-iridescent color. Blue colors in feathers are almost always produced in this manner. Examples include the blue feathers of Bluebirds, Indigo Buntings, Blue Jay's and Steller's Jays."
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Mountain_Bluebird/id
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"A female Mountain Bluebird pays more attention to good nest sites than to attractive males. She chooses her mate solely on the basis of the location and quality of the nesting cavity he offers her—disregarding his attributes as a singer, a flier, or a looker.
A male Mountain Bluebird frequently feeds his mate while she is incubating and brooding. As the male approaches with food, the female may beg fledgling-style—with open beak, quivering wings, and begging calls. More often, she waits until her mate perches nearby, then silently flicks the wing farthest from him—a signal that usually sends him off to find her a snack.
The oldest recorded Mountain Bluebird was a female, and at least 9 years old when she was recaptured and rereleased during banding operations in Alberta in 2005. She had been banded in the same province in 1997." From AllAboutBirds.
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On 20 April 2018, I had no choice but to go out somewhere to test a Nikon Coolpix B700. So, I took my usual short drive SW of the city to find some things that I could photograph. Not a whole lot to be found, but a group of three competing American Robins made my first stop. Later, three distant Mountain Bluebirds were in fighting mode and two of them were down on the ground in quite a vicious attack. Too far away for more than snapshots. I also stopped to watch three distant Hawks that were competing. You know what they say : "Two's company, three's a crowd".
A very cooperative American Kestrel gave me a good chance to try out the camera at different zoom distances. Cars were a different thing - and I was not on the best road for stopping, so I ended up driving the same stretch of road several times. These birds are so beautiful. I knew that this one caught something to eat, but it was timed just when another car came down the road and I needed to move on. Of course, an old barn is always a bonus, too.
The sun was shining for most of my drive, with cloud moving in towards the time I needed to leave. A stop to pick up some delicious chili was the final stop of the afternoon.