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"The waved Albatross is the largest bird in Galapagos with a wingspan of up to two and a half metres. Both sexes have a white head with a creamy yellow crown and neck while the body is mainly chestnut brown with a white breast and underwing. They have a dull yellow bill which appears too long for their small heads, and bluish feet. They get their name from the wave-like pattern on the adults’ wings. As with all Albatrosses they are exceptional gliders and spend the vast majority of their lives above the open ocean."
galapagosconservation.org.uk/species/waved-albatross/
Fermenting balloons for apple cider
More information about the special Hessian apple wine:
11/01/2025
Theme for 'Smile on Saturday! :)' "Anything with A!"
Absolutely loved hunting for agates on the sandy, southern shores of Lake Superior as I grew up vacationing there every summer. Then taught our kids to becoime rock hounds as we spent time with my parents in the U.P. and eventually inherited their lovely cottage there. Have so many wonderful memories of blessed family time on Superior. This photo, of the colorful agate, woven through the larger piece of quartz, came to mind when noodling on the "anything with A" theme for a favorite group of mine "Smile on Saturday".
hurrying to the knight bus station outside the famous Madoka Cafe for witches, wizards, and goblins I couldn't help but trying and not forget anything, "Mum do you have the tickets?" I asked every five seconds.
"Yes, dear, I have em in my pocket! Oh hohooho, I got my camera! We can take a photo on your journey there!" she smiled.
"Mum..no we don't take pictures at the train station. I'll be laughed at by all those fussy ravenclaws" I pushed her camera away and dragged the last of my luggage to be taken to hogwarts while mum looked out for the knight bus. "Alright then, well I have snacks in case you get the munchies on the train." she smiled. I rolled my eyes at this point, "Mum they have sweets on the train!" I shouted.
She just stared back at me, hurt and upset, "That witch on the train makes her sweets into something dangerous! I know because she comes to the cafe looking for bourbon before attending the train every year for the hogwarts students!"
*River island shrouded in thick fog*
I have already shown some photos from this morning with constantly changing fog density: here is a black and white conversion, when hardly anything could be seen of the river island.
Von diesem Morgen mit ständig wechselnder Nedbeldichte habe ich bereits einige Fotos gezeigt: hier eine schwarz-weiß-Umwandlung, als von der Flußinsel kaum etwas zu sehen war.
I love the doors, it is a photographic subject that I really like, because they give a lot of play and come in all shapes and colors.
But this was different because I had not seen anything like it. It is actually half door, the other half, given the low light was completely dark. I found in a farmhouse inhabited near Ogassa while I was walking looking for autumnal forest.
I suppose that must be the gates from one corral, but because of the total darkness of the interior, I did not dare to make more inquiries, lest came the farmer with a shotgun and with little desire to parley with a stranger who entered in his possessions .
Normally, they are very good people and eager to talk but now, no longer trust anyone. Me neither. Not going to be that they let go of the dogs.
He had always believed that photography was a safe and risk-free activity, but just in case, I left as fast as I could.
No more to say, a door is a door, just caught my attention textures and contrasts.
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Me encantan las puertas, es un tema fotográfico que me gusta mucho, pues dan mucho juego y las hay de todas las formas y colores.
Pero esta come aparte, ya que no había visto nada parecido. En realidad es media puerta, la otra mitad, dada la poca luz, estaba completamente en penumbra. La encontré en una masía habitada cerca de Ogassa mientras paseaba buscando bosques otoñales.
Supongo que deben ser las puertas de un corral, pero debido a la oscuridad total del interior, no me atreví a hacer mas averiguaciones, no fuera que saliera el payés con la escopeta y con pocas ganas de parlamentar con un desconocido que entraba en su territorio. Normalmente, son muy buena gente y con ganas de charlar pero actualmente, ya no se fían de nadie. Y yo menos. No vaya a ser que me suelten los perros.
Siempre había creído que la fotografía era una actividad segura y sin riesgos, pero por si acaso me fui lo más rápido que pude.
No hay más que contar, una puerta es una puerta, solo me llamaron la atención sus texturas y contrastes.
Seit eiin paar Tagen türmen sich am Elbufer bei dem Wehr unter der Geesthachter Elbbrücke am Elbstrand teils meterhohe Eisberge. Seit Tagen kämpft die in Geesthacht stationierte Eisbrecherflotte gegen eine gewaltige Eisbarriere am Stauwehr und formt die Eisdecke auf dem Fluss in kleinere Eisberge, die nun bei Niedrigwasser am Ufer der Elbe gestrandet sind.
„Das hatten wir so auch noch nicht“, sagte der Leiter der Spezialschiff-Flotte beim Wasserstraßen- und Schifffahrtsamt (WSA), Andreas Schultz gegenüber der „Bild“-Zeitung. „Damit das Eis vernünftig ablaufen kann“, müssten mindestens 500.000 Liter Wasser pro Sekunde stromabwärts fließen. Zuletzt seien es aber nur etwa 300.000 Liter gewesen.
Quelle: Auszug aus derTagesschau
Panorama aus 4 Aufnahmen
For several days now, icebergs measuring up to several meters high have been piling up on the banks of the Elbe near the weir under the Geesthacht Elbe bridge on the Elbe beach. For days, the icebreaker fleet stationed in Geesthacht has been battling a massive ice barrier at the weir, breaking up the ice cover on the river into smaller icebergs, which are now stranded on the banks of the Elbe at low tide.
“We've never seen anything like this before,” Andreas Schultz, head of the special ship fleet at the Waterways and Shipping Authority (WSA), told the “Bild” newspaper. “In order for the ice to flow away properly,” at least 500,000 liters of water per second would have to flow downstream. Recently, however, it has only been about 300,000 liters.
Source: Excerpt from Tagesschau
Panorama from 4 images
Translated with DeepL.com (free version)
EDIT: First: Nope - thats not me!! xD Second: You may have noticed I didn't report "back" ... well... I AM but I discontinued Blogging ... so ... nothing new here in a while. Maybe I'll add something soon but not in the context of "blogging" ... :)
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Hey there ... I'm just about to leave for vacation! Finally ... You'll have noticed I didn't do anything here the past few weeks, well, RL consumes a load of time actually, so I won't come up again before coming back in September :D
Couldn't upload anything last night because Flickr was doing it's bad panda thing, so a quick post now. A coastal path not too far from Pacifica.
Thanks for the visits, faves and comments its greatly appreciated.
Florida
Immature Red-tailed hawk entered territory nest of Bald Eagles
The hawk was able to fly away while I was watching (I enlarged the photos) and after that I didn't see any blood on its body, after the Bald eagle's claws, anything could have happened.
This holiday special edition for my Flickr friends ,Happy Halloween .
Transients come and go as they please into this old senior trailer park I live in. They steal anything in our tiny spaces and porches-, spit in the Main Street as well as our tiny properties. The slum lords refuse to put cameras up or a gate up. Cops never come so we are on our own. This dirty higher than a kite guy made me want to follow to see where the source of the drugs is coming from in the park. Just because it’s old people doesn’t mean it’s not criminal old people selling from their trailer. Because they are. Because I was already in my car ready to run errands and he came in off the busy main street outside the park . I thought it was perfect timing to follow him, but I stayed way back because he had very. Bad energy, the kind that would get violent if he is triggered. I followed a few streets staying back and at the last street he turned left so I slowed then went we he turned . and he had completely disappeared like a ghost. I was so disappointed. I wanted to solve the mystery of who was letting these addicts in. It was a recon fail. Maybe I will get another chance and will be armed with a camera and zoom lens instead of my phone camera. Life ain’t boring not for me anyways . 😂 ( ps the picture taken with an older iPhone just after a storm ⛈️ the cloud odd shape straight across sky is real the pink sky compliments of light room) :)
I always wonder why xena is attached my leg to take naps and then wonder why I can't get anything done
Hello my amazing Flickr friends !!
Today is a red day at Color my World Daily and the theme at Macro Mondays is iron. I have a hate / love relationship with iron. I had an iron deficiency for several years, so I had to take iron quite often. I’m always stressing about having enough iron in my blood… So that is the hate part. As for the love part: I absolutely love to take macro pictures of anything iron and the more texture the better. I truly enjoyed taking pictures for this theme and I hope you will like it. Have a great Monday my friends !
Mucho, mucho amor for you my friends !! Have a beautiful day !!!
Thank you so much for all your lovely comments / favs/ general support / happy thoughts!! Stay safe and well!! And see you soon on Flickr !
I had never seen anything like it. She said to me, “I really love this photographer.” So, I said to myself, “If I could take pictures like this guy maybe she will love me too.” So, I went out and spent all my monthly allowance on a used Leica. I actually tried to imitate the imagery of Cartier-Bresson. Of course, it didn’t work. The young female student ran off with a history professor, and I was left with Cartier-Bresson. That’s what started me off. I began to take street photographs :-)
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japanese camellia, 'Jacks', our yard, cary, north carolina
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For Smile on Saturday's theme "Anything with A"
Apple wasn't the most original idea but I had apples and that's what I chose.
I thought I heard something just under my bedroom window. So I walked the wall that marks the Mansion ground to see if some critters dig under it. But I couldn't find anything. Maybe I just dreamt it? But at least I could try out my new jacket to see if it is of any use when it gets colder
Old sailboat and fishing boat, hauled up on the beach to be stripped of anything useful before being finally disposed of.
They seem to be leaning on each other for support.
Pillar Point Harbor, just north of Half Moon Bay, California.
OK you wouldn't get me fighting Conor McGregor but even his fights look tame compared with the life and death struggles of wildlife
They're no rules and anything goes
Even for the seemingly innocent looking Dunlin
[Blaink]: Paintball backdrop
[Lotus]: Leonardo Eyes
[Maca]: Junior Jacket
[Vango]: Mason Hair
Above available at Access Alpha Teleport
A cattle egret picks a landing spot on the muddy bank of a brackish coastal pond. It will spend the day foraging on anything it can catch and swallow. Imported to Hawaii to control pests, they are now considered pests and a threat to endemic wildlife.
Flickr has been acting badly for me. People couldn't see my last image on their activity feed and I haven't been able to see everyones. I contacted Flickr people again and they said they are trying to help, but have had no word back saying it's fixed. There was no point in trying to do anything on here yesterday. So I thought I'd try again today, and so far, it looks as though it is visible :)
In case you can't tell, this is a craft knife with a red handle :) Shot with Pentacon AV 80mm f2.8 and 56mm extension tubes.
The knife is lying on silvery bubble wrap.
This title is from the Bryan Adams song from 1983:
About 10 days ago I met up with Joseph Pearson, another Flickr photographer whom I had encouraged to come to the bright lights of Croydon to shoot some architecture with me. Joseph and I are very similar in some ways as we both love to shoot London architecture, not always in the same way but often in the same places, so it's always interesting to see what the other has come up with when shooting locations that we are both familiar with. I took Joseph on a tour of my favourite Croydon architectural haunts and we shot a few pics. But the best part of the day was getting to know Joseph and just having a chat over a couple of coffees. I hope he enjoyed the architecture as much as I enjoyed meeting him and learning a little bit about his life.
Not a huge waterfall though. Just some trickling waterfall. The bigger one is 2 miles ahead and the way is treacherous
What crazy world do we live in?
Google for "cloud" and you won't find anything on the first page of what was meant by "cloud" 10 years ago.
A shot from November 2018. It was quite a while ago so I can't remember anything about this particular shot. Not sure why it hasn't see the light of day before now though.
Accessible only by a seasonal road that is literally miles from anything, the cloudy skies were only a minor setback as Q102 snakes along the Athabasca River as it approaches the eastern border of Jasper National Park.
In his beautiful palace by the sea, the Prince of the Peacocks proudly shows his betrothed, Princess Petunia his prized pet parrot, and offers her a posy of pretty petunias.
The theme for “Smile on Saturday” for the 20th of July is “P… in the picture”, where the image can be anything, but must contain something that begins with the letter P. That left me lots of choices. I had a few runners-up that were photographed first, such as a peridot and pearl pin, and my beloved Paddington bear, but in the end the Playmobil won out because I could include multiple items beginning with the letter P: prince, princess, peacocks, parrots, a perch, a posy of petunias, and even for those of you who are very observant, a grey pigeon amongst the white and blue doves. Even the background is a P for it is made of paper, as is the floor, which is patterned, and since everything else in this picture is Playmobil, I would say that it is practically perfect for the theme! I hope you think so too, and that it brings a smile to your face!
Playmobil is a line of toys produced by the Brandstätter Group, headquartered in Zirndorf, Germany. Production began in 1974. Playmobil began to be sold worldwide in 1975, and by 2009, approximately 2.2 billion Playmobil figures had been sold. The signature Playmobil toy is a 7.5 cm tall human figure with a particular smiling face. A wide range of accessories, buildings and vehicles, as well as many sorts of animals, are also part of the Playmobil line. Playmobil toys are produced in themed series of sets as well as individual special figures and playsets. New products and product lines developed by a 50-strong development team are introduced frequently, and older sets are discontinued. Promotional and one-off products are sometimes produced in very limited quantities. These practices have helped give rise to a sizeable community of collectors.