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I'm never stimulated by the ideas, my art is the constant reflection of my perception. Sometimes Stimulated and sometime Virtual, but always its on my perception. May be depth is required to enable to quench the thirst.
For some reason, my 2 encounters with Straw-necked Ibis have both been plaqued by fog. This time the fog was lighter but quite persistent.
The plumage of this bird is dirty and the red colour is much faded ? due to old age or about to be replaced ...
These little guys are very small : with wingspans of about 20mm for male and 23mm for female. Their darting flight motion is extremely hard to capture.
"Wildlife Conservation in Farm Landscapes"
David Lindenmayer The Australian National University
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
ISBN: 9781486303106
These birds feed on insects just above ground are very swift and change directions of flight with no predictability . Very hard to capture . This is a heavily cropped presentation.
Caught this female house finch out in the rain today. They don't seem to mind the cold, windy and wet weather... I usually try to catch them on a natural perch but this looked great at the time... ISO 1000 held up pretty well... Featured on BirdsandBlooms.com
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Fotocamera: Canon EOS 40D
Esposizione: 0,003 sec (1/320)
Aperture: f/4.0
Lente: 140 mm
ISO: 500
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: Off, Did not fire
THE REFUGE
A family’s vision to provide a place for rest and shelter
Created by: Meg Roussos
The Welch family lives contently inside a school bus on 20 acres land. Their vision of providing a place for shelter and rest shapes their daily lives.
See full story at: 2011.soulofathens.com/our-dreams-are-different/the-refuge...
TRANSCRIPT:
SMILES: It's not surprising to have some guy living in a bus in the woods, but to have a family live in a bus in the woods, and being at peace, that's super natural. I mean we are so at peace here.
SPACE: For a long time it was kind of tough for me because especially in the winter time where I was all feeling a little bit overwhelmed and claustrophobic trying to keep the house clean that's thirty some feet long; having to work through those things stretches our souls, and makes us better people in the long run I think.
(Birds chirping)
It didn't start out this way, you know, it started out with us having to learn contentment as being renters, as being homeless.
(Birds chirping)
SMILES: I hit the road looking for love. So, eight and a half months after that I get picked up hitchhiking by what ends up being my incredible wife, and she was on the road looking for freedom. By getting rear ended by a drunk driver a week later, and meeting the right people we came to know Christ ten days after we met. I knew I had found the love that I have been seeking after, and she found the freedom she was looking for.
(Stream running water)
SPACE: These are my life choices and this is what we have chosen to do, and I do feel that they have been a huge asset to our family.
(Rain)
SMILES: People that are striving to live the American dream even though they are so discontent they look down upon us and our life, the way we're living, raising our family, these circumstances. What we have you cannot buy and people are trying to buy their happiness, weather it is through money or through whatever; but as we learn and gain, we want to teach and give.
SPACE: What were pouring into this land is not just for our benefit but, for the benefit of generations to come.
(Rain)
SIMON: That sucks. Oh, that sucks
(Rain)
SMILES: We prayed yeah, that we would gain some land outside of Athens, we prayed for this land for 12 or 13 years before God provided it. We want this place to be a refuge for people who need it.
(Birds chirping)
The world would say you're so poor and then they would look at us and say yet you're the richest people I've ever seen. The world would say you have nothing and then at the very same time they would have in their mind, you have everything I have ever wanted.
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See full story at: 2011.soulofathens.com/our-dreams-are-different/the-refuge...
See other stories that examine the changing American Dream at: 2011.soulofathens.com
Conowingo, MD 2010
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