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The Intha fishermen on Inle lake in Myanmar (Burma) have a skilful and elegant technique for catching fish in the shallow water. They are using one leg to balance on the front of the boat and the other one to guide the conical net.
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Saturday Self-Challenge: Take a photo and post process it to achieve the goal for your subject.
Earlier this week, I had a chance to visit the beautiful Winterthur Museum and Gardens. During my tour of the gardens, I saw a hedgerow of Elephant Ear plants (Colocasia). The sun was shining brightly on the leaves; I had never studied them up close before, and did not realize how incredibly beautiful the leaf structure was. Backlighting by the sun revealed an intricate pattern that made for a perfect natural abstract.
Post-processing involved cropping,increasing highlights, sharpening and use of the HDR effect by PicMonkey.
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This photo was taken back in Jan 2023. When I see that there's gonna be a decent sunrise I hop in my golf cart and rush off to some of my different favorite "view spots" around the hills here. Anybody else out there take a long time trying to decide which photo to use? 😂
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Allium ~ Chicago Botanic Garden ~ Glencoe, Illinois
Nikon D7500, Sigma 18-300, ISO 200, f/10.0, 175mm, 1/320s
By Catherine Boeckmann
February 9, 2024
The daylily is an amazingly low-maintenance perennial. It’s virtually disease-free, pest-free, and drought-resistant; it’s also not picky about soil quality. Plus, the flower has a long bloom period! Here’s how to plant and care for daylilies in your garden, as well as how to easily propagate them for more plants!
About Daylilies
The daylily’s botanical name, Hemerocallis, comes from the Greek hemera (“day”) and kallos (“beauty”). The name is appropriate since each flower lasts only one day! However, each scape has 12 to 15 buds on it, and a mature plant can have 4 to 6 scapes, which is why the flower seems to bloom continuously.
Originally from Asia, these plants have adapted so well that many of us think of them as natives. Imagine the excitement of a 16th-century explorer cruising the Orient and finding these gorgeous plants! European gardeners welcomed daylilies into their gardens, and when early colonists sailed for the New World, daylilies made the crossing with them.
Despite their name, daylilies are not “true lilies” and grow from fleshy roots. True lilies grow from onion-like bulbs and are of the genus Lilium, as are Asiatic and Oriental lilies. In the case of daylilies, leaves grow from a crown, and the flowers form on leafless stems—called “scapes”—which rise above the foliage.
There are thousands of beautiful daylilies to choose from. Combine early, midseason, late blooming varieties, and repeat bloomers to have daylilies in flower from late spring through the first frost of fall. If you see a height listed alongside a daylily variety, this refers to the length of the scape. Some can reach 6 feet tall!
For more information please visit
www.almanac.com/plant/daylilies
These Daylilies were photographed at Pashley Manor Gardens. At Pashley you will discover 11 acres of beautiful borders and vistas – the culmination of a lifetime of passion for gardening, an appetite for beauty and an admiration of the tradition of the English Country garden. These graceful gardens, on the border of Sussex and Kent, are family owned and maintained – visitors often express delight at the attention to detail displayed throughout and the intimate, peaceful atmosphere.
All the ingredients of the English Country Garden are present – sweeping herbaceous borders, ha-ha, well maintained lawns, box hedges, espaliered rose walk, historic walled garden, inspiring kitchen garden, venerable trees and the Grade I listed house as a backdrop. The gardens are a haven for wildlife – bees, butterflies and small birds as well as moor hens, ducks and a black swan. Then, of course, the plants! Borders overflowing with perennials and annuals – the look changing through the seasons, but always abundantly filled, and each garden ‘room’ planted in a different colour theme.
Pashley is also renowned for fantastic displays of tulips, roses and dahlias. Our annual Tulip Festival features more than 48,000 tulips this year! During Special Rose Week over a hundred varieties of rose swathe the walls, climb obelisks and bloom in flower beds. Then in late summer our Dahlia Days event transforms the gardens once more with bountiful, brightly coloured dahlias in every border and pot.
Add to all this a Café and Terrace with excellent garden views, serving delicious homemade lunches, scones and cakes; Sculpture and Art Exhibitions; a Gift Shop with Plant Sales; and a friendly, knowledgeable team waiting to welcome you, and the recipe for a wonderful day out is complete.
For more information please visit www.pashleymanorgardens.com/
Even though this rock is eastern oriented the sunset here is so amazing. Sometime we walk or travel for hours and sometimes we find the best places right behind our home.
Last week I was enjoying my second spring hiking, and I suddenly spotted an awesome tree with leaves with this color, and I had to take some shots from it. I love their pastern, and they are also part of a flag, the Canadian flag:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Canada
I had to admit that when I saw the tree, I intermediately thought of Autumn, and here is why...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYUdpLnt5T0
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I specially love trees, birds and flowers, but there is so much to see, enjoy and capture during a long hiking trip, a lake, a conservation area, forest or park, the list of places is very long, that‘s why I‘m a photographer!
Graphic design is another way to express myself. I love reinventing a photo that I have seen, in different ways. I use Photoshop to do these transformations, and I also my own photos to create textures.
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The Lesser Kestrel (Falco naumanni) is a small, highly social migratory falcon known for breeding in tight colonies within human structures like old buildings and towers.
Unlike the Common Kestrel, they are primarily insectivores, hunting grasshoppers and beetles, and feature distinct white'ish claws rather than black.
Males (here) are identifiable by their blue-grey heads and plain, unspotted backs, while both sexes are distinguished from common kestrels by their whitish-horn coloured talons, rather than dark talons in Common Kestrel.
Their eyesight is 8 to 12 times better than humans, and it extends into the ultraviolet range. This allows them to see the ultraviolet tracks left by prey.
Lesser Kestrel (Falco naumanni) male_Spain 6892
The old railway track – and the Downs Link – were hidden away a little down the road and soon I was strolling along a path strewn with fallen leaves beautiful nestled in the South Downs just stunning and amazing views..
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Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound,
That saved a wretch like me.
I once was lost but now am found,
Was blind, but now I see.
John Newton (1725-1807)
Taken from the ferry to Svinoy and Fugloy in the Faroe Islands. It is amazing how quickly the weather and mood changes on these islands.
Now we live in Israel,for a while,and sometimes explore this amazing country.
Behind our back more than 50 countries and almost half thousand cities,but Jerusalem defenetly in top-10!maybe even in top-5:)
completely immersed in atmosphere of narrow streets, open roofs, from where you can better explore city, even if the roofs are not too high. Here we found the Knights Templar logo:)
To be found just off the very busy road. The by-pass, built in the 1950s, took the heavy traffic out of the village, but it also cut St. John the Baptist off from the village. There is, however, a narrow tunnel under the road where one can walk to the church and see whether John Newton's experience of Amazing Grace ("was lost, but now am found") can come true. Leica M Mono, Voigtlander CS 2.2/50.
Mirror Image of a Ring-billed Seagull with a catch. Sometimes the light is just right to get one of these shots. Today was one of those days.
The African fish eagle (Haliaeetus vocifer) is not a ‘true’ eagle but belongs to the Haliaeetus genus of sea eagles, alongside seven other species worldwide that include the American bald eagle and the Eurasian white-tailed eagle. This is one of the most ancient genera among all living birds. And it is a sight to behold.
African fish eagles are kleptoparasites, which is to say they habitually steal prey from other species. Common victims of this piratical behaviour include goliath herons and saddle-billed stork.
A fish eagle’s toes are coated in sharp barbs, called spiricules, which consequently help it to grasp fish and other slippery prey.
Fish are not the only item on the menu of this versatile predator. In addition, other prey includes ducks, terrapins, crocodiles, small waterfowl and even – in the soda lakes of East Africa – flamingos.
This bird’s conspicuous nature and charismatic presence ensure it figures prominently in the folklore and heraldry of several nations.
This amazing African Fish Eagle was photographed just after sunrise coming in to pick up the bait on a early morning boat ride on Lake Baringo, Kenya.