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Little Owl
Athene noctua
steenuil
Chevêche d'Athéna ou Chouette chevêche
Steinkauz
Mochuelo Europeo
Civetta
Mocho-galego
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Attention to detail.
An obvious crop , but I was close in .
Canon EOS-1D Mark IV
EF500mm f/4L IS USM
ƒ/10.0
500.0 mm
1/800
ISO 1250
in a local forest about a week ago
A small and nervous resident tit of pine forests and of mixed forests with enough pine or spruce.
also called European Crested Tit
lophophanes cristatus
kuifmees
mésange huppée
Haubenmeise
Herrerillo Capuchino
Cincia dal ciuffo
Chapim-de-poupa
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But where is our place in this immense harmony of creation?Nature is bigger than us.
Explore December 2022.
I was after the bee, but I'm glad he landed on these flowers. Aeonium arboreum, the tree aeonium, tree houseleek, or Irish rose, is a succulent, subtropical subshrub in the flowering plant family Crassulaceae.
It is an invasive weed in places outside its natural distribution, for example as a garden escape throughout temperate southern Australia.
It's not a plant I'd want in my garden, if I had a garden, and not because it's invasive, but because I don't particularly care for whatever that green/yellow color is called. As I said, I was after the bee, and it was extremely difficult seeing it against a thousand flowers through the relatively small viewfinder.
(Just noticed. I also have three ants as a hangers on. Can you find them?)
Be prepared she said
But then I forgot the map
Man, I’m really lost.
My keychain safety items: 1) Cash canister with $20 note in case I'm ever standed in Arizona and need money for a beer and cheeseburger, 2) My trusty multi function Victorinox knife in case I need to cut down a tree to make a fire, 3) A mini LED flashlight in case I find myself in absolute darkness and need to see what’s biting my leg, and 4) A whistle in case I fall off a trail, roll down a steep ridge past a big log and get wedged under thick brushes next to a mosquito infested creek.......and need to get someone's attention. Submittal for the Feb 1, 2021 Macro Monday’s theme of “Safety.”
Not really, but we went on a day trip, cool, deep blue sky, and a lot of green...I chilled for a while, wondering what it would look like under one of the two Super Moons, experienced globally recently...And this is what I thought. Then a long walk back to reality! Sometimes the imagination will just burst out!
But to my amazment he did and was just too close to focus on. Even the noise of my shutter shooting 10fps this Bearded reedling ignored me laying on the ground and walked right up to me searching for grubs this morning
Apologies for repeating myself, but when I updated my home page I suddenly felt that these two needed to be together. Not in the least because of how they reflect the ideas behind the design of this pavilion.
"For the Sonsbeek pavilion Van Eyck provided an elementary structure of six parallel walls made out of concrete blocks, which he manipulated into a surprisingly rich and labyrinthine interior by inserting semicircular niches and apses into the rectilinear structure. Van Eyck described the result as an urban space intentionally conceived in opposition to the natural idyll of the nineteenth-century park, which followed the formal language of the English landscape garden.
The scenography aimed to create the experience of an almost spontaneous encounter with the artworks on display. This was not only communicated through the spatial typology of streets, alleys and small piazzas, but it was also crucially achieved by a relatively high density of artworks gathered together in the narrow spaces which forced one to walk by the sculptures in close proximity."
Went out for some more sunrise photos but I couldn't capture the right lighting and fit and then I headed home.
Walking up from the beach I turned around and this reminds me of what every photographer suggests ... when you can't find you want in front of you ... turn around!
This seagull didn't even attempt to communicate with me but concentrated on what was happening far away: farther away than I could see. Strangely I heard a voice in the breeze about something about Hawaii ...
But it didn't matter because I captured the entire scene and now I get to show you what I almost missed if I continued to just look ahead ...
Alternate Story:
Seaguille awoke from the night before with a chainsaw hangover and realized he had to change the pattern of his life. It was simple. Stay where he was or quit the nocturnal flying and learn to live a normal life.
then he looked out across the Salish Sea and realized that the San Juan Islands were just the first step ... he was young, he was proud and Juanita was just down at the next lamp post. They could make a life somewhere, anywhere but here ...
When the sun hit sea, he had made his decision. Yes anywhere was different than here ... but he would always wake up with himself ... so he decided to stay, at least for a day.
Juanita flew closer and gave him the squawk. He smiled. It was settled. They found a perch on the cliffs and raised 17 broods of young seagulls who all longed to look at the sea ... but they all stayed home because home really is where the heart is ...
But rather difficult to keep up with keeping the rooms tidy and clean. And not to speak of costs for heating...
But listen carefully to the sound
Of your loneliness
Like a heartbeat drives you mad
In the stillness of remembering what you had
And what you lost, and what you had, and what you lost...
"Dreams" Fleetwood Mac
Abandoned Iowa mansion in the cold of winter....
The sky was filled clouds and it looked like it was going to be a morning without a good sunrise. But I waited longer than I normally do. And then the sky broke open.
... but I really like this shot. It's just a shroom. Rather large mushroom that seems to grow yr, after yr. on the same time at this time of the yr. It is very unique. One small part of this mushroom.
Have a super day and stay safe. Check in later. 🍄
The journey into homelessness is rarely a singular event, but rather a complex accumulation of personal and systemic fractures. The path likely began with the quiet erosion of stability—perhaps the loss of a long-held career followed by the gradual disintegration of social support. As the fabric of his everyday life unravelled, economic pressures and perhaps health struggles may have removed a safety net to cushion the descent. A story of resilience in the face of immense adversity, illustrating how a person can become unmoored from society's structures, forced to navigate a stark, solitary existence while remaining an often invisible observer of the world.
Bristol, UK.
But at her friend, not me who was working candidly :)
Seen in a stairwell at Auckland Art Gallery.
Have a good Sunday. Now we are supposed to be in Spring we had hail storms yesterday.
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coracias caudatus
vorkstaartscharrelaar
rollier à longs brins
Gabelracke
Carraca Lila
Ghiandaia marina pettolilla
rolieiro-de-peito-lilás
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Autumn comes early and doesn't last long here above the 63rd parallel, but in its fleeting moment there is nowhere else on earth that can compare.
It's the final weekend of the 2017 summer passenger season and the third to last southbound Denali Star (train 230S), the flagship of the Alaska Railroad's fleet, is climbing the nearly 1% grade on the long tangent here at about MP 319.7 on the ARRC mainline. The foothills of the Alaska Range are wildly ablaze in hues of gold and crimson, and the SD70MACs leading the way are perfectly attuned to their native land.
Cantwell, Alaska
Friday September 15, 2017
Explore #369
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends - Martin Luther King Jr.
...but I think it's a little small for me. From a cutout by Tea Makipaa at Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO, USA
In my most prior post, you will see an immature male flame-colored tanager. This image shows an immature red crossbill, which is known as the common crossbill in Europe. Both posts show the patchy colouration of birds moulting into adult male breeding plumage. Personally, I find these immatures to be more appealing than the mature birds, in terms of plumage.
Red/common crossbills are quite wide-spread in the northern hemisphere and are resident as far south as Central America.
I've read that there are quite a number of subspecies, based on regional differences, with some differences being due to their primary food source. Their crossed bills can vary in shape depending on the conifer species they frequent. For example, heavier bills are needed for pine seed extraction than for fir or spruce seed extraction.
Bent, but never broken.
This reed survived a Lithuanian winter that outweighs it a million to one. Proof that the heaviest weights we carry are usually the ones we create for ourselves and exist only in our heads.
Winter is leaving Lithuania. I suggest we leave the heavy thoughts behind with it.
Rivière du Gouffre, Baie-St-Paul (Charlevoix)
Ice is melting slowly but surely.
Budding will start and will grow quickly!
The summer season is not as so long than in other countries but the vitality of growing makes a difference and permit to join the great producers countries.
Le printemps est tardif cette année.
Mais l'effet combiné du vent et du soleil fait son oeuvre.
La glace fond lentement mais sûrement.
Le bougeonnement est débuté sans que cela ne paraisse trop dans bien des régions du Québec.
La saison estivale est plus courte que dans d'autres pays mais la vitalité de la croissance est si rapide qu'elle permet de figurer parmi les grands producteurs mondiaux en agriculture.
A lovely little fir stands proud against its grown up neighbour. Taken in my favourite sea of ferns in Hillock Wood, Buckinghamshire.
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For me, beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.
~ Oscar Niemeyer
This is a close up of The Arc, a building I posted recently, and added to the first comment here.
This building was designed by Walter Franci, but I really liked the quote by Brazilian architect, Oscar Niemeyer.
Humpback whales normally travel alone. But in southeast Alaska, some occasionally work as a team to capture fish. With "bubble-netting," a group of humpbacks come together and rapidly circle in an upwardly shrinking spiral. The whales blow bubbles beneath a school of fish, commonly herring. The herring gets corralled into the net, produced by the whales’ precise, fine-scale movements and finely tuned teamwork. Then they efficiently scoop up lunch with their mammoth-sized mouths, gulping thousands of fish at once. It’s over in a flash and you never know the exact spot where the whales will engage in the behavior.
Not all humpbacks do this. Estimates are that only 60-100 whales out of approximately 4000 in southeast Alaska engage in this learned activity.
It was truly a treat to witness this.
As usual, another night of star trails - but this time I wanted a blend of techniques in a single frame.
I added a bit of life to this abandoned Dodge bus using basic light-painting to bring out the interior glow and highlight the details.
The foreground (bus + landscape) is made from 8 stacked exposures to reduce noise:
ISO 800 / f/2.8 / 75 sec
The star trails are created from 1,200 photos, combined with StarStax:
ISO 800 / f/2.8 / 5 sec / 5 sec interval
In total, the sky exposure adds up to 3 hours and 20 minutes, until clouds finally rolled in and I had to stop shooting.
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