Prairie chicken on ranch in Scott County KS near Scott City.

fznor

using Nikon DF + Nikkor 105F2.8 @F9

Chicken

Hi, Me again...

In April 2021, I received my first 35mm as a gift from a fellow photography enthusiast. I seriously had no idea what I was doing but I immeditely knew I enjoyed it. The sound alone was enough to give me shivers!! Since then, I have shot a few rolls of film, find myself in possession of 5 new cameras, managed to process 2 rolls at home, 'scan', and now I'm ready to put them out there.

I don't ever profess to be a perfect photographer. If fact, I'm usually incredibly insecure. Digital photography always had me seeking perfection. It is silly because life isn't perfect, but regardless, I feared things like proper exposure and unconventional subjects. (Yes....insert eye roll here!)

The thing about film though, it has given me freedom it be imperfect, appreciate 'flaws' and embrace everyday life in an authentic and unpolished way. Film has given me permission to love the imperfect and see it for all its beauty. Also, the fact that my hands are on it from start to finish....well that... that alone gives me immense satisfaction.

So.....I'm saying be ready for the perfectly imperfect. And just to prove it...I resisted the urge to edit out my chicken pox scars. :-) I'm going to be brave and start sharing what I've been working on and what I love.

Here goes....

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Nikon FM10 | Ilford HP5 400

Digitized with Sony A7riii | Skier Sunray Copy Box 3 | 135 Skier Sunray Film Holder

Home developed in Cinestill Monobath | 3 min, 80 F

Negative Lab Pro v2.2.0 | Color Model: B+W | Pre-Sat: 3 | Tone Profile: LAB - Standard | WB: Auto-Neutral | LUT: Frontier

Union Pacific’s Geneva to Comstock ore empty rolls through the farming community of Mills, Utah the afternoon of June 13, 1990.

Many friends of mine think that this is an arranged cock fight.

I would like to say that it is not.

While returning from some place, I stopped to buy papayas in the roadside marketplace and discovered these fellows start fighting by themselves. I got just a minute to take a few shots before they were hurriedly separated, Nobody wants to sell bloody and injured chicken, right ?

It is smoking in Mississippi!

Continuing my theme of various ecosystems with some wildlife residents of the prairie.

The prairie ecosystem occupies the lower and mid-latitudes of the Interior Plains of Canada, the United States, and Mexico. It includes all of the Great Plains as well as the wetter, hillier land to the east. From west to east, generally the drier expanse of shortgrass prairie gives way to mixed grass prairie and ultimately the richer and wetter soils of the tallgrass prairie.

Lesser Prairie-Chickens inhabit shortgrass prairies of the southern Great Plains, especially areas where shinnery oak, sand sagebrush, and bluestem grasses (such as little bluestem and sand bluestem) predominate.

The northern population of the LPR is listed as threatened/vulnerable while the southern population is listed as endangered. This is due to significant habitat loss and fragmentation of their native grassland ecosystems. This habitat loss has been caused by various factors, including conversion of grasslands to cropland, livestock grazing, energy development, and fire suppression. Additionally, climate change and the use of herbicides further threaten their habitat.

chickens

"Nature is cruel, but we don't have to be" Temple Grandin

I have a lot of beliefs about stewardship, the environment, and modern mankinds disconnect from our traditional place in the ecosystem. I just don't have the time to get into it all here and now. I am off, ironically, to my job in the modern, service economy.

It’s parked in front of a restaurant specializing in fried chicken.

Chickens

A chicken sticker spotted on a lamppost that looks hand-drawn with a brush, among other random stickers. Coincidentally, the Fat Chicken fast food shop is only about a hundred metres away.

“Looking Close …. On Friday” 29/10/2021

in the rainforest.

Tofino Botanical Garden

Vancouver Island, BC, Canada

homemade chicken soup

chicken soup made from the christmas chicken, onion, carrot, water and oil sprinkled with coarse black pepper and fresh thyme from the garden

the remainder boxed for the freezer to reheat as and when

just one thing with michael mosley

food special with professor tim spector

7 days 30 different plant based foods

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001ngjx

ps i'm not recommending any of these cookery adventures. they suit my personal taste. photographing to encourage myself to eat more healthily ...

i've created a group www.flickr.com/groups/cooking_is_my_hobby/ to gather ideas and encourage myself to continue with healthy eating by learning from others if you're interested in cooking, sometimes or a lot, or enjoy the cooking of others, you're always welcome ...

Hamilton, Ontario

Ripponden

If it’s possible for a chicken to look guilty, this one should. It was no good trying to hide behind the twig, we knew it had escaped somehow from where it should have been and was busy wandering around, on a rather steep slope on someone else’s property, scraping up the leaves looking for bugs to eat.

Thank you for your visit and your comments, they are greatly appreciated.

Lime Chicken

Grill boneless, skinless chicken thighs over medium heat, keeping away from direct flame.

Combine red pepper flakes, Serrano pepper (1/2 pepper), onion (chopped/minced), garlic (1 clove), olive oil (2 tbsp), juice of 1/2 lime).

Pour mixture over chicken during cooking, making sure to cover evenly.

Cook till juices run clear.

Salsa:

2 whole tomatoes

1/4 cup onion (chopped)

1/2 tsp salt

1/2 tsp oregano

1 tsp lime juice

2 tbsp jalapeno

1/2 red pepper (chopped)

2 tsp Habanero pepper

1 1/2 tsp cilantro (chopped)

Mix all ingredients together, let stand ~ 30 min, serve.

EDIT: I also sprinkled a bit of dill on top.

As always, your thoughts, critiques and comments are welcome.

Thanks for viewing!

My two pet chickens :-)

Chicken Rock lighthouse off the southern tip of the Isle of Man.

A few lighthouses in the same shot with the superceded duo on the Calf in the background.

Regular Fog meant that the 2 lights were replaced by the Chicken Rock light right on top of the danger.

Keeping mariners safe since 1875.

Bokeh Samples from my 'new' Helios 44-2 (m42 mount) 58mm/2.0

midjourney creation

chicken curry with chapatis alongside whole grain rice, mushrooms, lettuce and carrot with servings of chilli sauce, plum butter, chickpea sauce and white bean sauce, garnished with fresh coriander and seasoned with chilli powder and salt

dhal curry flic.kr/p/2ovde3n

i cooked today's portion of dhal curry with coconut cream and an extra 2/3rds cup of water, three chicken drumsticks were added

the drumsticks were cooked slowly on a low heat in the dhal curry

when the meat came away from the bone i shredded it and stirred

i left the curry to continue slowy cooking on a low heat until the oil was visibly simmering on the top

chapatis flic.kr/p/2n5XeSh

wholegrain rice by tilda www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/basmati/tilda-brown-b...

mushrooms sliced and cooked in butter on a low heat

plum butter www.daringgourmet.com/plum-butter-pflaumenmus/

chickpea sauce flic.kr/p/2ovg92Z

white bean sauce flic.kr/p/2ovg92Z

chilli sauce www.smh.com.au/goodfood/recipes/tomato-and-chilli-jam-201...

curry notes

i made changes after some tips from Man_of Steel www.flickr.com/people/kramerdesignstudio/

i used rapeseed oil instead of extra virgin olive oil

i made sure i dry roasted the hard spices, then blitzed in the nutribullet before any other cooking.

i also used some curry leaves. the curry leaves are not blitzed

The secret to making great curry

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/oct/31/how-to-make-...

6 Common Cooking Mistakes While Preparing Chicken Curry

Tips To Make It Perfect

www.ndtv.com/food/6-common-cooking-mistakes-while-prepari...

How to Cook Spices for Chicken Curry | Indian Food

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV6Elm3gdRA

Varieties of Dahl Curry

food.ndtv.com/lists/10-best-dal-recipes-how-to-cook-it-to...

ps i'm not recommending any of these cookery adventures. they suit my taste. photographing to encourage myself to eat more healthily

www.flickr.com/groups/cooking_is_my_hobby/ helps to gather ideas and encourages me to continue with healthy eating by learning from others if you're interested in cooking, sometimes or a lot, or enjoy the cooking of others, you're always welcome ...

Please do not download, copy, edit, reproduce or publish any of my images. They are my own intellectual property and are not for use without my express written permission. Thank you

Here in the South, fried chicken is the traditional Sunday meal.

We're Here! : Sunday Pleasures

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Camera: Canon EOS 7D

Lens: Zenit Helios-44 M-6

Exposure: 1/320 sec

Aperture: f/2.0

Focal Length: 58 mm (x1.6)

ISO Speed: 100

Shot in RAW format with manual focus/exposure.

Developed with Canon Digital Photo Professional.

Kauai is called the Garden Island and home to thousands of wild chickens.... here a just some I took 5 years ago and wanted to get them out of my folder...

Hope you enjoy and thank you for your faves!!

.....wish I could go back!!

For: Hens & Chicks ~ Smile on Saturday.

Thank you to everyone who pauses long enough to look at my photo, make a comment or Fave it.

commissioned/art trade

I don't see many chickens these days! This one did me the favor of coming close.

View On Black

The We're Here! gang is celebrating fruits and vegetables on tripods today.

Of course the "Which came first – the chicken or the egg?" reference won't work for those of you who call eggplants "aubergines"!

Getting a portrait of a chicken is not as easy as it looks. Especially when the chicken - like Lizzy - is very curious and wants to look at things from every angle, switching fast.

Not having autofocus doesn't help either...