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Shot in the park of Schloss Eggenberg, Graz. There are many tourists and walkers in the park and the peacocks living here are usual with people and not afraid of them.
Taken at a previous Fantasy Faire. So excited to be an official blogger for the upcoming 2024 Relay for Life Event!!! <3
The Mountain Pygmy Owl (Glaucidium gnoma) is a sub-species of the Northern Pygmy Owl. Found here at an elevation of 5,500 feet nesting in an old woodpecker hole. 4 owlets fledged from the nest cavity this year.
Madera Canyon Arizona USA
another shot of the jackdaw .. loving this lens .incredible results from a manual focus lens combined with olympus focus peaking
"There are so many wonderful pictures to be made when you look at the world with open curiosity." (Unknown)
The 'begging burros' are wild donkeys that live in a small section of Custer State Park along the road. They’ve become famous for approaching vehicles and expecting food. Many visitors eed them which is not good for the animals.
Custer State Park, Black Hills, South Dakota, United States; May 2005
A soft shuffle echoes off the walls. She grins, and keeps quiet...a new friend approaches closer.
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Background: Minimal "Illusions II"
(lynx; my entry for this week's Sliders Sunday; manually dodged and burned the cat's face to draw attention to its eyes, turned down exposure, added vignette)
The Sintra series will be extensive, wherefore here and there I'll post photos of a different nature to break up the monotony.
This picture is one of my first experiments on street photography with the 75 mm. The narrower angle is convenient, but it is harder to focus quickly and precisely; DOF at f/8 is nothing much. Framing can be difficult when pretty close to the subject, as was the case of this picture. I was thinking of stepping back a little when the lady showed up at the window. Needless to say, I had to press the shutter right there and then.
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Leica M6 (1994), Apo-Summicron 2.0/75 ASPH, ADOX CHS 100 II, Epson V600, Affinity Photo
On horseback to Autumn Trace
The Horseman's clothing:
toksik - Eve Shirt - at equal10 event
toksik - Coronation Pants
toksik - Eternal Boots
[Deadwool] Enigma glasses
The Horse:
[Teegle] "Loki" the Fjord Horse
The Swan:
White Swan from TLC Animals
Child staring at a grasshopper. #nature #blackandwhite #mono #monochrome #curiosity #Nikon #D7200 #child #summer #bokeh
If I take a little introspection and looking back on my own path, I notice how my curiousity and relationship towards learning have changed throughout my life.
As a small child, I was curious to the world, like we all are when we are children.
In my school years, learning about the world meant carrying a school bag heavier than myself, memorising data with the help of tired or harmful teachers (heartful respect for the few exceptions), marching towards to the all familiar feeling of fear before and during being tested, an inescapable race of collecting marks towards results which meant nothing yet everything to me each year. School would have killed my curiosity and passion for learning completely, if I didn't have my Grandfather in my life.
He believed in the value of culture so deeply, that he spent literally all his excess money throughout his life to collate a home library for his family with over 10.000 books in it, all stored in his small flat and my parents' house. That meant that I was growing up in a room which was fully dedicated to hold the biography section of the library, where floor to ceiling were shelves holding books on the life's of artists, musicians, historical figures, all the many people of the past with their fascinating stories, thoughts, observations, conclusions of their own life's.
Each time I opened up a new book, a new world, a new soul opened up in front of me, I just needed to step in and live them through in my mind. It felt like I wasn't just living my own life over those years, I was living through multiple life's like being in a multiverse seeing different life circles of different selves one after each other, it really was a magical time of discovery.
Because of those internal experiences, I've managed to stay open and curious to the world around me to this day. And now I'm not in school anymore. In fact I am, but not as a school boy, but as a teacher rather.
I share my curiosity and knowledge with young minds now, aiming to show them the experience of learning how it is really meant to be experienced; by opening doors to new worlds, by picking flowers from the fields of knowledge one at a time, by having time to observe, understand and enjoy their complexity, beauty and meaning.
So those flowers are planted and integrated into the garden of their growing mind, with no fear needed to recall them.
And so they won't lose that magical sense of innocent wonder we're all born with, like I almost did, and keep walking on their paths with open curiosity to the world, to other people, and to themselves.
Image taken at Balgone Sunflower Trail, Scotland.