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Male Kingfisher ( Alcedo atthis )
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This early morning male posed on this beautiful perch.
Such a special experience to be so close to these stunning birds.
Watching and photographing the behaviours and actions at close quarters was a dream come true for me.
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1/250 sec, f/7.1, ISO 3200, 500mm
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Best seen Large on black - Press L
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Risky Behaviour · Party Dozen
The Real Work
I saw this fantastic model of the Supermarine Spitfire, one of the most beautiful aeroplanes ever to grace the skies, at this year's Rye Dog and Horse Show!!!
Noticed this place on our drive up to Hardangervidda for going for walk on Wednesday. On our way back, we stopped and I managed to get some shots of this strange phenomenon.
This is a resting area at the road crossing the Hardangervidda, just on the edge of a water called Ørteren. Apparently numerous people who stopped here, have placed rocks on top of each other. (I think I remember this from other countries as well).
The result is that you can hardly walk between these rock "monuments" without touching them. This image only shows 1/4 of this area.
To me that's strange; I'm a strong believer in leaving nature as you found it.
There have been some post processing. In addition to the usual tweeks, I have used some LR4 filter to remove most of the colours leaving only a hint of blue sky, (I wanted a monochrome look but found that I still needed some colours).
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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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Juvenile
Lewis's Woodpecker LEWO (Melanerpes lewis)
Ocean Grove
Esquimalt Lagoon
Colwood BC
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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
“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 )
Purbeck mason wasp (Pseudepipona herrichii) with Acleris hyemana moth prey at nest burrow entrance. Dorset, UK.
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)
It has been Explored! [Highest Position: 376 on Thursday 25 October] Thanks everyone!
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great spotted woodpecker ~ dendrocopos major (juvenile)
RSPB Green status list.
There are many insects which shelter in the nooks and crannies of this old wall and all birds soon realise this. I watched this young woodpecker picking off quite a few bugs in just a few minutes. We now have 2 young woodpeckers with two differents dads looking after them flying about the area. (identified by the photos I have been taking).
I can only imagine how weird it must look if a human copies your behaviour, lays down in the grass with you just a few meters in front of you and aims some weird black object in your direction. But I got his full and undivided attention for at least a couple of seconds with it. :)
A busy day but a happy one. When, in 2011, I started doing my own developing and, shortly after, using medium format, I simply discarded the leftover rolls of backing paper. They were agreeable little objects though, and I began to save them. I lined them up like soldiers along the tops of windows and picture frames in my man cave. When, last summer, we moved house, they had to come down, but I put them in a box and took them with me. But, ho-hum, I can't simply go on saving them for ever. One must be prepared to "let go". I didn't like to part with them uncommemorated, so I thought I'd photograph them in some way.
It turned into quite an undertaking. Stacking them up took most of the morning. I knew I'd at least have to use a bit of glue, but this didn't prevent a backwards collapse when the stack had attained about one-third of its eventual altitude. I started again, piling up books behind to prevent any repetition. Then I thought of those "ties" they put between the two skins of a cavity wall. I glued strips of paper into the "mortar joints" (if we are thinking in brickwork terms) whose opposite ends I lodged between the pages of the books. I was quite pleased with myself for thinking of this clever stratagem. Anyway, there were no further catastrophes. I'd intended to bring the thing to a point, like a pyramid, but the added instability might have meant pushing my luck. So here we are. I think there are 297 rolls. Meticulous in my habits, I have been through my "back catalogue" and I seem to have developed 341 120 rolls ...the missing 44 representing those I threw away early on. I developed the film on which I'd taken this shot, smoked a cigar in my garage to occupy the hour it took for the film to dry, and scanned the film during the afternoon. Once I knew that the commemorative shots had "come out" I deposited the rolls in the kitchen bin, where they will repose until our next refuse collection on Wednesday. I saved a few of the more interesting ones: a Verichrome Pan, expired 1970, that I bought off eBay a few years ago and developed, a Kodak E100G, a Fuji Acros and Fuji Neopan. I remain hopeful that the E100G, recently reintroduced in 35mm, may also reappear in 120. Neopan is gone ...a great pity... and Acros seems to be in limbo. It has been withdrawn from sale but, last I heard, Fuji are reconsidering. Taken, by the way, with an Agfa Isolette II, with Solinar lens. 1/5th sec at f11. I measured the focus distance.