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Besides two small, dotted feathers on red glossy /varnished paper I used a jewel box with a metal-dotted surface for the bubble Bokeh.
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Besides the buzzard, the kestrel is probably the most common bird of prey in the Netherlands, and you can actually always see them exhibiting religious behavior somewhere above a field where their favorite snack is scurrying around.
I once sat for a while watching a relaxed kestrel sitting in a tree quietly looking around, and then outwitting a mouse. It doesn't seem like a hard life to me.
I have hundreds of photos of kestrels (375 to be exact), and this is probably the last(?). I finally have a view on his upper body in flight and that is the most beautiful part, a beautiful pattern.
Big Rock (also known as either Okotoks Erratic or, by the Blackfoot, as Okotok) likely served as a prominent landmark for Indigenous people.
The Okotoks Erratic is a 16,500-tonne (18,200-ton) boulder that lies on the otherwise flat, relatively featureless, surface of the Canadian Prairies in Alberta [An erratic is a rock or boulder that differs from the surrounding rock and is believed to have been brought from a distance by glacial action].
This massive angular boulder, which is broken into two main pieces, measures about 41 by 18 metres and is 9 m high. It consists of thick-bedded, micaceous, feldspathic quartzite that is light grey, pink, to purplish. Besides having been extensively fractured by frost action, it is unweathered. [...]. Wikipedia
From my Alberta Archives
Besides doing the first Smile on Saturday, this will also be the first of the 100X project. This year 100 different shots of Smoke with color, light, texture modifications.
Besides the ability to sooth your throat, quench your thirst, and relief the heat, the drink also provides some health benefits such as improving appetite & digestion and possibly inhibiting the buildup of lactic acid in the body.
Besides being one of the most beautiful and amazing national parks, it has an interesting history. “It was at Þingvellir - which translates directly to ‘the fields of parliament’ - where most of the major turns in Iceland’s history started to occur. For example, it was here that the nation abandoned Asatru, the Old Norse pagan belief system, in lieu of Christianity in 1000 AD, due to the threat of Norwegian invasion. Nearly a millennium later, in 1944 AD, it is where Icelanders declared their independence from Denmark and confirmed their first President. Þingvellir is the original site of the world’s longest running, still ongoing parliament.
Because of its history, Þingvellir became a National Park in 1930, and in 2004, it was accepted as part of the UNESCO World Heritage List.”
Besides birds, butterflies were a main subject this year. I learned that if you to go to their sleeping places before sunrise, they are motionless and won't fly away even if you get very close.
Besides its importance as a fragrance, lavender is considered calming to those with nervous tension. Lavender oil is sometimes rubbed into the temples for head pain, added to bath water for an anxiety-reducing bath, or put on a cotton ball and placed inside a pillowcase to treat insomnia. Lavender oil also works as an antiseptic making it a natural treatment option for skin disorders (sourced from HowStuffWorks).
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Kranich (Grus grus) - common crane
Der Kranich (Grus grus), auch Grauer Kranich oder Eurasischer Kranich, ist ein Vertreter der Familie der Kraniche (Gruidae). In Europa kommt er weitgehend als einzige Kranichart vor; erst ab der Schwarzmeerregion beginnt das Verbreitungsgebiet des Jungfernkranichs. Kraniche bewohnen Sumpf- und Moorlandschaften in weiten Teilen des nördlichen und östlichen Europas, aber auch einige Gebiete im Norden Asiens. Sie nehmen das ganze Jahr über sowohl tierische als auch pflanzliche Nahrung auf. Der Bestand hat in den letzten Jahrzehnten stark zugenommen, so dass die Art zurzeit nicht gefährdet ist.
Die Schönheit der Kraniche, ihre spektakulären Balztänze und ihr gut zu beobachtender Zug haben schon in früher Zeit die Menschen fasziniert. In der griechischen Mythologie war der Kranich Apollon, Demeter und Hermes zugeordnet. Er war ein Symbol der Wachsamkeit und Klugheit und galt als „Vogel des Glücks“. In der Heraldik ist der Kranich das Symbol der Vorsicht und der schlaflosen Wachsamkeit. In der Dichtung steht der Kranich symbolisch für das Erhabene in der Natur.
common crane
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_crane
The common crane (Grus grus), also known as the Eurasian crane, is a bird of the family Gruidae, the cranes. A medium-sized species, it is the only crane commonly found in Europe besides the demoiselle crane (Anthropoides virgo). Along with the sandhill (Grus canadensis) and demoiselle cranes and the brolga (Grus rubicunda), it is one of only four crane species not currently classified as threatened with extinction or conservation dependent on the species level. Despite the species' large numbers, local extinctions and extirpations have taken place in part of its range, and an ongoing reintroduction project is underway in the United Kingdom.
What I like about Kawasaki, besides his beautiful designs of course ;-), is the fact that he is an excellent teacher.
He divided his origami-book(s) into lessons, which increase in difficulty. You can skip it of course, but if you never have folded a model before, it is highly recommended that you do this anyway to get used to the way of diagramming and get some practice.
Often the end results are also very worthwhile, at least that's my opinion.
Like this result of the first part of Lesson 3: a beautiful abstract rose (that is the rose on the left. On the right is the same rose, but at the bottom a piece of the paper is already folded in. It becomes smaller and appears rounder.)
I put them both in a traditional container ('Masu box'), by way of abstract leaves. Nice as a table decoration!
I changed both 'Masu boxes' have a bit. The traditional one is just a container with 4 straight sides.
Model: Origami Lesson 3: Development of a Rose
Design: Toshikazu Kawasaki
Diagrams in the book 'Origami Dream World - Flowers and Animals' by Toshikazu Kawasaki
Paper: both roses are folded from yellow tant paper 15x15cm.
Final size:
rose left: height 5cm
rose right: height 3cm
Looking toward Saint Michael along Rue Vaillant in Dijon France .Les Amis des Musées de Dijon is on the right side of the image. This was one of the few places in Dijon where there was enough space besides the Place de la Libération for capturing a good cityscape image.
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Besides 3 other vases with flowers my Son went out to the garden for these cut flowers, we have 4 Barberry bushes
with the ones that get more sun having the better glow on their leaves. red berries form in the fall for the birds.
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All i want is to rest
Get to the beach and see
If the wind is still is strong
And it will be good to climb the rocks.
I know I do this to forget.
I let the wave hit me
And the wind is taking everything away.
Now it's so far
Seeing the horizon line distracts me
The our plans that I miss the most.
When we looked together in the same direction
Where are you now besides here inside of me?
We act right unintentionally.
It was only the wrong time
It will be difficult without you.
Because you was with me all the time
And when I see the sea
Is there anything that says
That life goes on and giving up is silly
Already that you are not here
What can I do
Is take care of me.
I want to be happy at least
Remember that the plan was we be well.
I miss you so so much!
I know I do this to forget.
I let the wave hit me
And the wind is taking everything away.
Besides the roses the poppy is one of the flowers that are capturing my imagination every year again. Over the time its getting more difficult to find new compositions and perspectives. Every year I tell to myself: Someting still must be possible.
Neben den Rosen gehört auch der Mohn zu den Blumen, die mich jedes Jahr aufs neue in Ihren Bann ziehen. Mit der Zeit wird es immer schwerer neue Kompositionen und Perspektiven zu finden. Ich denk mir jedes Jahr: irgendwas muss da noch gehen.
Besides densely forested mountain slopes, Slovenia has more natural wonders to offer, such as the valleys between these mountains.
There are countless wild and crystal clear rivers that have carved narrow gorges into the rock over the years. One of them is the Vintgar Gorge not far from Lake Bled.
Here you will find a dreamlike natural scenery (in the season probably next to a lot of visitors) of which I would have liked to have taken many more photos. However, my visit was accompanied by constant, pouring rain, which didn't really make it easier to take pictures. The water came from all sides, the sky, the trees and the rocks. And I didn't even count the river Radovna.
Despite this, or perhaps because of it, I felt very connected to nature here.
Neben dicht bewaldeten Berghängen hat Slowenien noch mehr Wunder der Natur im Angebot, wie zum Beispiel die Täler zwischen diesen Bergen.
Hier gibt es unzählige wilde und glasklare Flüsse, die über die Jahre enge Schluchten in den Fels geschnitten haben. Eine davon ist die Vintgar Klamm unweit vom Bleder See.
Hier findet man eine traumhafte Naturkulisse (in der Saisson wahrscheinlich neben sehr vielen Besuchern) von der ich gern viel mehr Fotos gemacht hätte. Allerdings wurde mein Besuch von dauerhaftem, strömenden Regen begleitet, was das Fotografieren nicht wirklich erleichtert hat. Das Wasser kam von allen Seiten, dem Himmel, den Bäumen und den Felsen. Und da hab ich den Fluß Radovna noch garnicht mitgezählt.
Trotzdem, oder gerade deswegen, hab ich mich hier sehr mit der Natur verbunden gefühlt.
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Lupine - lupin (Lupinu
Besides of its masterfully capability of catching raindrops (because of the tiny hairs that are covering all the leafs) I have a personal connection to lupins. I grew up with the most wonderful german sheeper dog named Dina. When we met first we both were still kids. I was 7 years and she was 8 weeks old. The time I spend with the dog belongs to my most wonderful childhood memories. As Dina died after 14 years, I buried her in our garden and sowed many different lupines on her grave, it was a sea of blossoms every summer. Everytime, I see one of those flowers, I have to think of it. Every time. Thank You Dina.
Außer, dass Lupinenblätter wahre Meister im Fangen von Regentropfen sind (weil ihre Blätter über und über mit kleinen Härchen bedeckt sind) habe ich persönlich noch eine ganz besondere Verbindung.zu diesen Blumen. Ich bin zusammen mit dem wundervollsten Deutschen Schäferhund aufgewachsen, sie hieß Dina. Als wir uns kennen lernten waren wir beide noch Kinder. Ich war 7 Jahre sie 8 Wochen alt. Die Zeit mit dem Hund gehört zu meinen schönsten Kindheitserinnerungen. Als Dina nach 14 Jahren verstarb, beerdigte ich sie in unserem Garten und sähte auf dem Grab ganz viele unterschiedliche Lupinen, im Sommer ein Blütenmeer. Daran muss ich denken, jedesmal, wenn ich eine dieser Blumen sehe. Jedesmal. Danke Dina.
Besides eating ash tree leaves, these laurel sphinx caterpillars often key in on the leaves of cultivar lilac bushes. Notice the bright blue horn covered with tiny black spines on this one's behind - don't touch! This beautiful big green caterpillar will eventually turn into a large and powerful "hawk moth" that pollinates flowers that bloom at night.
Besides the monkeys on the Ko Poda I found a separate island, around which loomed small boats. In my opinion, they perfectly complement the composition coupled with the sea.
One of the greatest joys of travelling along the Lofoten islands besides its absolutely breathtaking nature and topography must be the many many MANY tunnels that links some of them or which lead the E10 through insuperable mountains. It became one of my pleasures to be at the ready with my cameras and shoot while we were inside. Soo much fun, especially since most of the time you are all by yourself, not a single other car at sight and where else does one have that pleasure?! :)
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Besides being home to some of Iowa's rarer flora and fauna, Malanaphy Springs State Preserve has some of the coolest karst topography in the country. One of the highlights here if you like a long hike is Malanaphy Springs, seen here as it issues from a crack in the limestone cliff. Most people who carry a camera along take pictures of the very photogenic waterfall where this stream tumbles off a cliff into the Upper Iowa River, but this pure clear spring water caught my eye today. I know some of my friends and family are unable to venture out into nature right now, so I hope you enjoy the view.
This is my favorite lake between the ones I have visited in the north of Italy.
Why is the Lago di Braies my favorite?
A paradisiacal view with a beautiful contour in which we can see many trees and wildflowers in the relaxing pathway destined to the visitors.
A splendid color in the water reflecting, between other things, the majestic Dolomites still with some snow even in the Summer.
Besides this, a lovely little church and rustic boat house. How not to be enchanted with this scenery?
Besides me, a lot of Italian and Austrian tourists certainly will agree.
Besides the glorious colours that Lady Autumn brings with her, what I look forward too in the fall are foggy mornings, which we get because of the big gap between day time and night time temperatures. That morning was one of them and I was able to capture this image before the sun burnt off the fog. If you look closely, you can distinguish some trees just below the sun. But don't look too long or you'll damage your eyes!!!
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Besides conifer needles, I had to search far and wide to find some real green in nature to celebrate St. Paddy's Day, but I finally found the brave first wildflower blooming in the woods here in Winneshiek County for 2019. This hardy skunk cabbage plant has actually melted the pesky snow away from the soggy ground around its base.
It’s a bit like a country within a country here in Snaefellsnes. I could easily spend an entire trip mooching around, trying old stuff and new. Besides the blinking obvious, Kirkjufell and the Black Church of Budir there are waterfalls, beaches with sand in various shades of black, red or even traditional white (take your pick), epic roads across silent fjords, views to the north and the Westfjords, lone buildings, dunes, craters, lakes, twisted lava fields and plenty more. Oh yes, and if you’re lucky and arrive on a clear day, there’s a monstrous brute of a glacier, flanked with a white and blue ice cap that dominates the landscape from almost everywhere you go, reaching up to touch the very heavens. Tog or normal well balanced member of the public, there sure is a lot of stuff to keep you occupied on Snaefellsnes.
In the hostel, we’d got talking to Trevor, a veteran of several visits to the area who complained he’d never seen Snaefellsjokull. Some may ask, “how can you not see an enormous white lump, almost 1450 metres high that’s visible from Reykjavik on a clear day?” And the answer is in the last two words. “Clear day.” I’m sure the locals get to see the beast at regular intervals, but on our previous visit in 2019, the entire peninsula was painted in a drab grey sheet of gloom. Nothing doing. But this time around, on the second day of touring Snaefellsnes in a car with a back seat full of primed and loaded camera gear, we got lucky. Unfortunately for Trevor he’d gone north that very morning in search of the Aurora Borealis in the Westfjords. Mind you he found it, so I think he was happy in the end.
By now, we’d already stopped at two locations and made merry with the conditions. We didn’t get more than a couple of miles further through the day before coming to another unscheduled halt on top of a small mound of scrubby car park when the possibilities in front of us became apparent. No epic light in the middle of the day of course – that would come later – but while some images might work in mono, others seemed to offer themselves up in full glorious technicolour. And then we got to the lone church of Ingjaldsholl, close to Hellissandur at the edge of the map. And look who wasn’t bothering to hide behind the clouds? Yep, all fourteen hundred and forty-six metres of the beast, with a couple of interesting lumps and ridges in between for good measure. Who doesn’t love a glacier cloaked monster after all?
We were probably only here for twenty minutes, moving a couple of hundred yards from east to west over a patch of bare open ground as we tried to line up the elements, waiting for the sun to dapple the scene before us, whilst taking the utmost care not to tread on the moss. They really don’t like you walking on the moss in Iceland you know. It’s right up there with armed robbery and carjacking in the grand scheme of things. Not that we tested that out of course. You can’t take landscape photos when you’re locked in a cell, and when the trip is costing you something north of a hundred pounds a day even though you’re on the most stringent of budgets, you don’t want to be wasting any time being detained at the pleasure of the Icelandic Government.
Once again I found myself wondering at just how isolated so many of these simple and striking Lutheran churches are. Take this one for example, a mile out of both Hellissandur and neighbouring Rif. It’s not even placed directly in between them. I hope that in the days before cars, the locals had sturdy boots for those winter treks to morning prayers. And while Hellnar’s church may be surrounded by a handful of homes amid the tourist accommodation, Budir goes hand in hand with the only slightly less well known hotel of the same name. Not a house or farm in sight. Yet the village of Arnarstapi, a veritable metropolis in comparison to the rest of the settlements on the south west coast on Snaefellsnes, doesn’t have a church at all. Although it does have a fish and chip van, which depending on your belief system may or may not be far more important. At the end of the trip we visited Strandarkirkja, totally isolated by a thin thread of asphalt from the cluster of shacks that didn’t seem to be occupied by anyone at all. Still, they make for good subjects don’t they? And besides being dwarfed by the mighty Snaefellsjokull, this is the only one of them that was supposedly visited by Christopher Columbus. So the story goes (although historians aren’t of one accord on the subject), he spent a winter here fifteen years before his more famous adventure to check out the local intel on crossing the Atlantic. Leif Eriksson had made the voyage several hundred years earlier, and the Icelanders are well known for handing down stories from one generation to the next.
In writing this, I’ve just remembered that one of Iceland’s five prisons is right next to Kirkjufell. Not because I study such things in detail before choosing my holiday destinations of course. But if you take the single track road to the immediate west of the mountain to try and take pictures from another angle, you can’t help but be aware of the signs telling you which route not to follow unless you have plenty of time to spare and a very plausible explanation. I could have pointed the camera out of the window of my cell if we’d been sent there. Although I suppose they’d have confiscated it.
I wonder if Columbus took his resident landscape artist with him and got a sunset canvas of Kirkjufell in front of the waterfalls?
Besides fantastic fishing in the Upper Iowa River, you can also find some fabulous rocks if you spend some time looking on sand and gravel bars there. Many people collect agates and fossils as cool little keepsakes or souvenirs. The Lake Superior agate is about 1 billion years old while that spiraling gastropod snail is much younger at an age of 450 million years.