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Listening to Carole King today… another old Rocker that’s made beautiful music for a number of years.
Carole King is an American singer, songwriter, and musician who has been active since 1958. King has made 25 solo albums, the most successful being Tapestry, which held the record for most weeks at No. 1 by a female artist for more than 20 years.
Her record sales were estimated at more than 75 million copies worldwide. She has won four Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. She has been inducted twice into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as a performer and songwriter.
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The Hooded Merganser:
Spotted this Female Hooded Merganser Strutting Her Stuff after finishing a breakfast of Frog Legs alfresco. The legs were still attached to the frog, so it took her awhile to dine, but she seems to have had a Happy Ending : )
Hooded Mergansers are fairly common on small ponds and rivers, where they dive for fish, crayfish, and other food, seizing it in their thin, serrated bills. They find their prey underwater by sight. They can actually change the refractive properties of their eyes to improve their underwater vision. In addition, they have an extra eyelid, called a “nictitating membrane,” which is transparent and helps protect the eye during swimming, like a pair of goggles.
Hooded Merganser ducklings leave their nest cavity within 24 hours of hatching. First, their mother checks the area around the nest and calls to the nestlings from ground level. From inside the nest, the little fluffballs scramble up to the entrance hole and then flutter to the ground, which may be 50 feet or more below them. In some cases, they have to walk half a mile or more with their mother to the nearest body of water.
The oldest recorded Hooded Merganser was a male and at least 14 years, 6 months old when he was shot in Mississippi in 2009. He had been banded in Minnesota in 1995.
(Sony, 200-600 @ 600 mm, 1/400 @ f/6.3, ISO 5000, edited to taste)
A spiders web is pure magic and artistry. This was shot just as a gentle August morning breeze slightly lifted the web making it even more spectacular.
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A spectacular array of colors adorn the hills of Artist Palette which is located in Death Valley National Park
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“I am an artist, my hair is rarely tamed & sometimes I sleep till noon,
My house is messy and I speak to the moon.
I care less about the materials that I share with my world and more about the passion inside myself.
Im an artist, what more can you expect?
i am full of soul, love and all the rest.”
Quote ― Nikki Rowe
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A True Artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.
-Salvador Dali
Shared an enjoyable morning with a painter at the Doubling Point Lighthouse in Arrowsic, Maine.
Doubling Point Light is a lighthouse on the Kennebec River in Arrowsic, Maine. It was established in 1898, fifteen years after the founding of the Bath Iron Works, a major shipbuilder, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) upriver.
The lighthouse was part of a major upgrade of the river's lighthouses, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Doubling Point Light Station on January 21, 1988. It remains an active aid to navigation.
The Doubling Point Light is located on the lower Kennebec River, at a point where the normally south-flowing river makes a sharp turn to the east, followed by a turn back to the south.
The light station includes a tower, keeper's house, shed, and oil house. The tower is an octagonal wood frame structure, finished in wooden shingles, with an iron walkway around the lantern chamber. It is accessed via a three-span footbridge.
Near the tower is the keeper's house, an L-shaped 1-1/2 story wood frame structure with hip-roofed porches. Also nearby are the gable-roofed tool shed, built in 1898, and the small brick oil house, added in 1906.
The city of Bath, located upriver from this point, had been a major shipbuilding port for much of the 19th century, and the river was a major transportation artery all the way to Augusta.
In 1892 the river below Bath was identified by the United States Lighthouse Board as needing improved navigational aids, and a series of improvements were authorized. Funding was made available by Congress in 1895, and Doubling Point Light was built in 1898, along with the keeper's house and shed.
(Nikon Z6, 24-200 f/6.3, 1/400 @ f/8, ISO 320)
One of the most popular and iconic scenes in Yellowstone, with the Lower Falls of the Yellowstone River flowing thru the chasm it's water's created.
"Many people think that this was the spot where famous artist Thomas Moran painted to inspire Congress in 1872. Yellowstone Park photographer F. Jay Haynes thought the same thing. He mistakenly named the overlook in his 1890 guidebook and on his hand-colored postcards.
However, Moran's paintings were actually created at the north rim overlook named Moran Point by the first Hayden Survey in the 1870s. There is more confusion here - Moran Point is also called Lookout Point, Mount Lookout, Lookout Rock, and Prospect Point. On current day official park maps, it's called Lookout Point."
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Regardless of how it was named this is still one of the finest views in the park. And many artist's paint and photographer's shoot from this ideal viewpoint.
Have a wonderful Wednesday!
Coming by this popular destination in Franconia Notch, NH about two weeks ago was good timing. It was close to peak foliage colors, and I was blown away by the view. It's a bit of a hike, maybe 30-45 min but well worth it.
Interestingly, I feel like every year I'm either a little too early or a little too late for the peak foliage colors. However, this is the closest I've gotten to the peak.
Happy Friday all!
The path of an artist is often paved with obstacles, but each challenge fuels creativity. Keep pushing forward and let your passion shine!
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My daughter Natasha has her birthday a week before mine. We are both winter babies, and not only mother/daughter but kindred spirits. Natasha is an outstanding artist. My birthday was today and she gave me a beautiful painting of a fox which now hangs in front of me. She is finishing school school to become an art teacher. And she is also a wonderful mother to her own daughter. I am so very proud of her. <3
Artist Uliks Gryka has returned to the banks of the Hudson River in Fort Washington Park to create new Sisyphus Stones
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A wide panoramic view of Monument Valley from Artists Point, one of the stops along the 17 mile scenic drive.
Hope you have a lovely day whenever you see this! Thanks, as always, for stopping by and for all of your kind comments.
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Another night view of Melbourne ... it reminds me of those CAD rendered images you see in brochures for "not yet" constructed developments ... except this is the living, breathing real thing.
I'm going to be absent from Flickr for the rest of the week. I wish you all happy snapping and I'll catch up next week.