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My first model shot..:P this is the only pose.. she would do.. :) A little skinny..:P
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The 'Phantomhive' League:
In the last years of the Victorian era, a new league of extraordinary gentlemen was proposed. With many considerations for members to protect the imperial crown. One such was the 'Phantomhive' League, however certain behaviours of league members were considered too 'problematic' and this league was scrapped in consideration of the well known 'Murray league'
L to R:
Phileas Fogg (around the world in 80 days) an adventurer known for circumnavigating the globe in less than 80 days. Fogg would provide the league with transportation and navigation routes for their missions.
Alice Liddell (Alice in Wonderland/American McGee's Alice)
A young lady with a dark past, Alice has the ability to alter realities and travel to and from this world to her 'wonderland'. She has been in and out of asylums throughout her life. Gaining a rather unpredictable reputation.
Sebastian Michaelis (Black Butler) The demon butler to the Earl Ciel Phantomhive. Sebastian made a Faustian contract with the young earl after the death of his parents. In return for serving and protecting Ciel, Sebastian would receive his soul once his quest for vengeance was completed. With superhuman capabilities, Sebastian is known to be 'One hell of a butler'.
Ciel Phantomhive (Black Butler) The Earl of Phantomhive manor and the 'Queen's guard dog' Ciel has worked tirelessly to serve the imperial crown and gain notoriety as the owner of a successful toy and confectionery company. Aided by his demon butler, Ciel hides the mark of his Faustian contract engraved on his eye behind an eyepatch. Cold, ruthless and calculating. Ciel would have been the leader of this fractured league.
Ebenezer Scrooge: a miserly business man turned philanthropist, Scrooge's change in behaviour was caused by 'divine intervention' on Christmas Eve. He began to become more charitable and generous with his wealth. Yet had more questions about the great beyond. In his retirement he began to investigate the paranormal, searching for more answers on the great beyond.
“This is an important day for your mother and I, some very high ranking people will be here, you will both be on your best behaviour”
( thanks to Jose Gades for well dressed and well behaved children and Bing for other photos )
Juvenile
Lewis's Woodpecker LEWO (Melanerpes lewis)
Ocean Grove
Esquimalt Lagoon
Colwood BC
DSCN3657
Taken on September 29, 2019
THis fella flew back with bug and seemed to be using the hole in top of snag branch as a mortar (as in mortar & pestle) to arrange & pound away at to make ready to consume.
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We in Greater Victoria had a nice "spell" of Lewis's with 2 individuals being observed ...and at least one present at location from Sept 20th thru Oct 4th 2019
This nice prolonged stay over is not at all typical for Greater Victoria in my experience
If you ever get close to a human
And human behaviour
Be ready, be ready to get confused
And me and my hereafter
There's definitely, definitely, definitely no logic
To human behaviour
But yet so, yet so irresistible
And me and my fear cannot
And there is no map uncertain
They're terribly, terribly, terribly moody
Of human behaviour
Then all of a sudden turn happy
And they and my here after
But, oh, to get involved in the exchange
Of human emotions
Is ever so, ever so satisfying
And they and my hero
And there is no map uncertain
Human behaviour, human behaviour
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I was just about to take a picture of the male buzzard on a telegraph pole when he flew off - thought I'd missed my chance of a picture when he flew up onto the rocks behind beside his mate
Purbeck mason wasp (Pseudepipona herrichii) with Acleris hyemana moth prey at nest burrow entrance. Dorset, UK.
Frankreich / Provence / Côte d’Azur - Île de Porquerolles
Port-Cros National Park (French: Parc national de Port-Cros) is a French national park established on the Mediterranean island of Port-Cros, east of Toulon. It also administers natural areas in some surrounding locales.
History
The park was founded in 1963 after the island of Port-Cros was bequeathed to the state; it became France's second national park after Vanoise National Park. The state is the sole land owner on the island, which is a natural protected area. The park's boundaries were extended in 2012 to encompass most of Porquerolles.
Geography
Port-Cros National Park is the first national park in Europe that unites terrestrial and maritime protection zones. The protected area is about 1,700 hectares of land and 2,900 hectares of sea at a 600 metre (656 yard) zone from the coast. Most of the area of the main islands of Port-Cros and Porquerolles are protected, as well as the small islands of Bagaud, Gabinière and Rascas. Until 2012, about 1,000 hectares of land on the island of Porquerolles had since 1971 been under the national park's administration (Conservatoire Botanique National Méditerranéen de Porquerolles).
Regulations
There are strict behaviour rules for the few inhabitants as well as daily tourists there. Sea bathing is only permitted on three beaches and smoking or taking dogs can result in an extensive fine.
(Wikipedia)
Porquerolles (French pronunciation: [pɔʁkəʁɔl]; Occitan: Porcairòlas), also known as the Île de Porquerolles, is an island in the Îles d'Hyères, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. Its land area is 1,254 hectares (12.54 km2; 4.84 sq mi) and in 2004, its population has been about 200.
Porquerolles, the largest and most westerly of the Îles d'Hyères, is about 7 km (4.3 miles) long by 3 km (1.9 miles) wide, with five small ranges of hills. The south coast is lined with cliffs, and on the north coast are the port and the beaches of Notre Dame, La Courtade and Plage d'Argent.
History
The island's village was established in 1820, with its lighthouse constructed in 1837 and church in 1850. The entire island was purchased in 1912 by François Joseph Fournier, apparently as a wedding present for his wife; he planted 200 hectares (500 acres) of vineyards, which produced a wine that was among the first to be classified as vin des Côtes de Provence.
In 1971, the state bought 80 percent of the island to preserve it from development. Much of the island is now part of a national park (the Port-Cros Parc National) and nature conservation area (Conservatoire botanique national méditerranéen de Porquerolles).
Porquerolles is the setting for Georges Simenon's novels Le Cercle des Mahé ("The Mahe Circle") (1946) and My Friend Maigret (My Friend Maigret) (1949) and for the 1964 novel Valparaiso by Nicolas Freeling.
Some scenes of the film Pierrot le fou, by Jean-Luc Godard (1965) were filmed in Porquerolles.
Since 2010, the island also hosts a jazz festival each summer ("Jazz à Porquerolles").
Climate
Porquerolles has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen climate classification Csa). The average annual temperature in Porquerolles is 16.8 °C (62.2 °F). The average annual rainfall is 605.7 mm (23.85 in) with November as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 24.8 °C (76.6 °F), and lowest in February, at around 10.3 °C (50.5 °F). The highest temperature ever recorded in Porquerolles was 38.5 °C (101.3 °F) on 7 August 2003; the lowest temperature ever recorded was −10.0 °C (14.0 °F) on 2 February 1956.
Points of interest
Conservatoire botanique national méditerranéen de Porquerolles
Port-Cros Parc National
(Wikipedia)
Der französische Nationalpark Port-Cros (französisch Parc national de Port-Cros) wurde am 14. Dezember 1963 von Staatspräsident Pompidou dekretiert. Das Gebiet um die Inseln Porquerolles, Port-Cros und andere, liegt zehn Kilometer vor der französischen Côte d’Azur, östlich von Toulon und Hyères.
Geographie, Artenreichtum, Naturschutz
Der Nationalpark Port-Cros umfasst die beinah vollständig unter Naturschutz stehende Inseln Porquerolles, Port-Cros und die vorgelagerten kleinen Inseln Bagaud, Gabinière und Rascas einschließlich eines 600 Meter breiten marinen Schutzgürtels um die Küstenlinie, insgesamt 700 Hektar Land und 1288 Hektar umliegende Wasserflächen. Der Nationalpark ist der erste Nationalpark Europas, der terrestrische und maritime Zonen vereint. Seit 1971 stehen auch ein 1000 Hektar großes Gebiet auf der Nachbarinsel Porquerolles und das dort ansässige staatliche Institut für Meeresbotanik (Conservatoire Botanique National Méditerranéen de Porquerolles) unter der Verwaltung des Nationalparks. Die etwa 30 ständig auf der Insel lebenden Einwohner sind den strengen Auflagen der Nationalparkverwaltung ebenso unterworfen wie die per Schiff ankommenden Tagesgäste. Das Baden ist an genau drei Stränden erlaubt. Rauchen oder das Mitführen von Hunden ist weitgehend, teils unter Androhung erheblicher Strafen verboten.
Laut dem Botanik-Institut auf Porquerolles gibt es auf Port-Cros circa 530 einheimische Pflanzenarten, darunter einige, die nur auf der Insel vorkommen. Da das Gebiet seit 1890 nicht mehr landwirtschaftlich genutzt wird, ist es fast vollständig waldbedeckt, vorwiegend mit Steineichenwäldern (der ursprünglichen Hartlaubvegetation des Raumes), sowie Strandkiefern und Erdbeerbäumen.
Die vom Aussterben bedrohte Mittelmeer-Mönchsrobbe soll im Nationalpark wieder angesiedelt werden.
Port-Cros hat große Anziehungskraft für Hobby-Ornithologen. Von den 114 Vogelarten, die in Port-Cros stetig gesichtet werden, brüten 21 auf der Insel, darunter mehrere Falkenarten, Alpensegler, Wiedehopfe, Blaumerlen, Nachtigallen, Provencegrasmücken und Stieglitze.
Es gibt mehrere Gecko-Arten, eine kleine, überwiegend dämmerungsaktive Echsenart. Der Europäische Halbfinger-Gecko ist auch an der Festlandküste zu finden. Der auf der Insel heimische Europäische Blattfinger-Gecko und der Sardische Scheibenzüngler, eine besonders große Froschart, kommen auf dem französischen Festland nicht vor.
Geschichte
Die Insel, deren Natur und Schönheit Anfang der 1920er-Jahre einer Hotelbebauung zum Opfer zu fallen drohte, wurde von der Eigentümerfamilie der Französischen Republik überschrieben mit der Auflage, dort einen Nationalpark einzurichten und für alle Zukunft zu unterhalten. In den Jahrzehnten zuvor waren hier regelmäßig renommierte Künstler wie André Gide und Paul Valéry zur Sommerfrische. Der ehemalige, zum Gästehaus umgestaltete Herrensitz, Maison d’Hélène, ist noch heute das einzige zugelassene Hotel. Früher kam auch der ehemalige französische Staatspräsident François Mitterrand regelmäßig in das Maison d’Hélène und brachte bei einem Besuch den damaligen Bundeskanzler Helmut Kohl mit.
(Wikipedia)
Die Île de Porquerolles ist die größte Insel der Inselgruppe von Hyères (Îles d’Hyères bzw. Îles d’or). Sie liegt vor der französischen Mittelmeerküste im Bereich der Côte d’Azur in der Nähe von Toulon.
Porquerolles ist von der Halbinsel Giens und anderen naheliegenden Häfen in wenigen Minuten mit dem Schiff zu erreichen. Die Insel hat eine Größe von 1254 ha und liegt auf der gleichen geografischen Breite wie das Cap Corse. Hieraus ergibt sich ein besonders südliches Klima. Die Insel ist ca. 7,5 km lang und ca. 3 km breit. Die Küste ist rund 30 km lang. Die höchste Erhebung misst 142 m. An der Nordseite der Insel befindet sich ein kleiner Hafen und der Inselort (ca. 350 Einwohner) mit Restaurants und Geschäften. Die Kirche stammt aus den Jahren 1849–1851.
Ebenfalls an der Nordseite der Insel befinden sich einige schöne Sandstrände: die Plage d’Argent im Westen, die Plage de la Courtade an der Ostseite des Ortes und die Plage de Notre-Dame ganz im Osten der Insel. Die Südküste ist zum Baden eher ungeeignet, da das Ufer steil abfällt. An der Südspitze, dem Cap d’Arme, befindet sich ein alter Leuchtturm.
Besiedelt wurde die Insel durch ehemalige Soldaten Napoleons III. Im 20. Jahrhundert, bis Ende der 1930er Jahre, gehörte die gesamte Insel dann dem belgischen Ingenieur Jean-Francois-Joseph Fournier. Er schenkte sie seiner Frau zur Hochzeit. Fournier war mit dem Fund von Gold- und Silberminen in Mexiko zu Wohlstand gekommen und wollte, dass die Insel autark sein sollte. Er baute ein Kraftwerk, siedelte Handwerker aller Art auf der Insel an und gründete Schulen für deren Kinder.
1971 überzeugte Claude Pompidou ihren Mann, den französischen Staatspräsidenten Georges Pompidou, die Insel von den Töchtern Fourniers im Namen des Staates zu kaufen. Sie wurde unter den Schutz des Nationalparks Port-Cros und des staatlichen Instituts für Meeresbotanik (Conservatoire Botanique National Méditerranéen de Porquerolles) gestellt. Die Insel hat daher trotz der besonders im Sommer täglich auf sie anstürmenden Touristenströme (auf jeden der Inseleinwohner kommen bis zu 30 Festlandbesucher) ihren ursprünglichen Charme bewahrt.
Zum Schutz vor der unkontrollierten Ausbreitung von Waldbränden wurde ein Streifen Land gerodet und an einen elsässischen Winzer zur Anpflanzung von Reben verpachtet. Der aus diesen Reben gekelterte Domaine de la Courtade genießt mittlerweile einen ausgezeichneten Ruf.
An die bewegte Vergangenheit der Insel erinnern einige über die Insel verstreute Befestigungsanlagen. Das über dem Inselort thronende Fort Sainte-Agathe kann von Juni bis September besichtigt werden. Hier werden unter anderem zahlreiche antike Fundstücke vom Meeresgrund gezeigt. Jährlich im Juli findet dort an fünf aufeinander folgenden Tagen das Konzertprogramm des Musikfestivals Jazz à Porquerolles statt.
Ein Hauptanziehungspunkt ist das Museum der Fondation Carmignac. Es liegt in der Mitte der Insel, umgeben von einem großen Skulpturenpark.
Die Romane Mein Freund Maigret (Originaltitel: Mon ami Maigret) und Die Ferien des Monsieur Mahé (Originaltitel: Le cercle des Mahé) von Georges Simenon spielen auf der Insel, zudem die Reiseerzählung Landkrankheit (dänisch Landsyge) von Nikolaj Schultz.
(Wikipedia)
Gordon (my hubby) purchased a new lens last week (Sigma 135-400mm f4.5-5.6) so I thought I would sneak out while he was at work and take it out for a spin ...;)
I would have liked more light, but as I was just trying it out, I'm not too displeased with this result. (This is a juvenile Blue-faced Honeyeater)
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Can't run away from these, as we are human beings, with flesh and blood, constantly changing and growing.
Mood swings, reactions - all are connected. People who feel more, experience more, and feel more intense of each feeling than the others. People who feel less, experience less, intensity of feeling all feelings is lesser.
Feelings are selfish. Feelings are constant. Feelings are evolution.
Behaviours are reactions to feelings.
French postcard by Imp. Georges Lang, Paris, offered by Chocolats Tobler. Image: Walt Disney.
Mr. Smee is Captain Hook's loyal first mate and henchman in Disney's Peter Pan (Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, 1953). However, Smee's bumbling behaviour often prevents him from being much help.
Unlike previous villain sidekicks, the filmmakers felt that Mr. Smee was the first sidekick to have a truly memorable part in the story. Animator Ollie Johnston was given the job to animate. Johnston once noted that Smee was one of his favorite characters to animate, as he wasn't just the villain's lackey, but a fully realised personality of his own in the story. Smee is always trying to keep up and wants to try to make everybody happy. In spite of serving a feared captain and being part of a crew of brutal pirates, Mr. Smee is, ultimately, a kind-hearted character. Even though he makes attempts to perform villainous acts, his gentle nature often gets in the way of this; his ultimate agenda usually focusing around keeping peace and some form of stability within Captain Hook's life. Overly eager to please, Smee can easily be described as a chronic bumbler and appears to have minimal intelligence, overall. Because of this, he often annoys Hook and often finds himself facing the latter's wrath. While Smee clearly fears Hook, mostly as a result of his dangerous temper, he has shown to be outrageously loyal, to the point of unabashedly jumping into action to protect the captain, specifically from the jaws of the crocodile, who is surprisingly docile when dealing with Smee. Aside from his loyalty and relationship with Hook, Smee was shown to have his own agendas throughout the original film, such as convincing Hook to leave Never Land as he, and the rest of the crew, long for the days of plundering the seven seas, which has been put to a halt as a result of Hook's obsession with killing Peter Pan. Notably, however, this stemmed from the harassment and threats from the crew, who saw Smee as a means to communicate with the captain, as the latter is far more tolerable of his first mate. Even so, Smee has shown to support the idea, for the "health and happiness" of the captain.
Smee is a diminutive, portly gentleman with an odd, hourglass-shaped head. He has shoulder-length, white hair (though the top of his head is bald) and thick, black eyebrows. His eyes are black and close-set, and they are often half-closed. His nose is round, large and pink, and the rest of his skin is slightly pink as well. In terms of attire, Smee wears what seem to be very simple, brown sandals, a short-sleeved shirt with alternating blue and white horizontal stripes and exposing his stomach, and blue shorts. He also wears half-moon glasses and a red stocking cap with a red pom-pom ornament on top. In one moment of the original film, he is shown to have a chest tattoo of a heart with a paper cloth over it that reads “Mother.” He initially doesn't seem to be much liked by the rest of the crew (though this may be solely due to their boredom from the captain's obsessive hunt for Peter Pan over actual pirating and that bullying Smee is merely to pressure him into personally convincing Hook to give up the search). At the beginning of the film, Smee comes out of the cabin, he wishes the Crew a good morning, but they angrily grab him by the shirt and tell him that there's nothing good about the morning because they're stuck on the island of Neverland and not pirating. Wishing to give up the quest for Peter Pan, they bully Smee into trying to persuade their Captain to comply with their demands to go back out to sea again (even though Smee himself was already wanting to give up the quest for the same reasons). Smee fails to help Hook forget about his obsession with Peter Pan so that the crew can go to sea like they wish. When Tick-Tock the Crocodile appears, Captain Hook becomes frightened and begs Smee to save him from the creature. Smee shoos off the animal and decides to soothe Hook with a shave. Soon, Peter appears with the Darling children, and Hook orders Smee to gather the crew for an attack.
Smee is later seen rowing a rowboat with Captain Hook and a captive Tiger Lily past the Mermaid Lagoon as they make their way to Skull Rock. Smee is fooled by Peter's imitation of Hook and begins to free the Indian Princess, before being corrected by the real Hook. As Hook uncovers Peter's identity, Peter offers Smee a pistol with the dare of trying to hit him. He misses, and instead, Smee apparently hits Hook, who turns out to be alive, much to Smee's joy, but Smee is forced to rescue Hook when he is being attacked by the crocodile. Captain Hook jumps onto Smee's rowboat and orders Smee to row for the ship before falling back into the water. Smee rows back to Jolly Roger himself, leaving Hook to frantically swim away from the pursuing crocodile. At some point, Smee learns of Tinker Bell's banishment through the talk from the crew and suggests to a now despondent Hook that they leave. His reasoning is that "an island with women trouble is no place for a respectable pirate". This gives Hook the idea to play on Tinker Bell's jealousy of Wendy. Smee captures Tinker Bell, and Hook is able to convince the fairy to reveal Peter Pan's hiding place (with help from a drunken Smee). Smee then accompanies Hook and assists in the capture of the children, especially after crying a bit with the other pirates, except Hook, over missing their mothers upon hearing Wendy singing to the boys about what mothers are. During the final battle, Smee quietly attempts to escape by going aboard a rowboat. As he lowers himself and the rowboat onto the sea, the rest of the pirate crew fall on the rowboat. He is last seen calling for Captain Hook, who swims past them as he tries to flee from the crocodile.
Source: The Disney Wiki.
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