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Grace: Taken by Megan.
Again, as the sunshine was too beautiful to ignore we carried lots of empty jars down to a near photo spot - and we're quite pleased with the results! We'll be uploading more in the next few days :)
SUPER FLYING MIGHTY PIKA!!!!
It's that time of year againI After 20 plus hours of photographing these amazing little mighty mites, I've started the culling and editing process. Here are the first few of many to share. Every year, from spring through fall, these tiny Lagomorphs (part of the rabbit family) spend most of their waking hours eating and collecting tundra flowers and vegetation to store for the upcoming winter months. Pika do not hibernate, instead they rely on what they can gather and store in their many stash piles under the boulders and talus fields high in the Rocky mountains. I just adore watching and listening as these little fury potatos run a million miles an hour over the rocks and grass to gather what they can. They often run out and come back by the same exact routes. In fact, not only do they run the same patterns, but they put their feet in the exact same spots, over and over again. They make the same exact jumps and moves. I would never have known this if I wasn't photographing them and paying such close attention. Of course, just when we thing we have it all figured out....they change to a new pattern and route. That tends to happen when they have the biggest flower bundles that we hope to catch!!! LOL! Please view each image full size for details.
Nikon Z9 with Nikkor 600mm lens with 1.4x TC, effective focal length 840mm, 1/4000 second, F7.1, Various ISO's all the way up to 16,000, handheld and cropped. Always a great challenge. Northern Colorado Rocky Mountains 12,100 feet in elevation. More to come...
In the wine cave at the Gibbston Valley Winery
We toured the Gibbston Valley vineyards on a frosty morning, tasted award winning wines in the underground wine cave and savored cheeses at the on-site cheesery. Gibbston Valley Winery is an award winning winery (produces world-champion wine), centered in one of the world's most celebrated Pinot Noir producing regions.
This is using a texture from my new Artisan Collection texture set. Check out the set on my blog. joelolives.com/?p=476
This original drawing depicts the Grim Reaper in a strikingly terrifying manner, with exposed bones and a chilling presence. The Reaper sails in a boat and silently collects the souls of drowned sailors, fulfilling her eternal duty. The powerful and haunting image evokes dark fear, symbolizing mortality and the passage into the unknown, reflecting the essence of the Grim Reaper's role as a harbinger of the inevitable.
Tomorrow is the last day of school for me. But then I would have to go back to take the finals. But it's only for an hour. So tomorrow is the last full day. I'm going to miss some of my teachers, but I'll get over it. Because summer is on the way!!! :D
EXPLORED on June 15th, 2010 (#432)
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Cheeky day off work, results in toss of coin to either Lakes or Bempton. Heads won, glad it did as conditions were fantastic. Enjoy the series of shots I took.
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24th December 2022, Roermond, The Netherlands, visiting Marco @ Handmates
Hasselblad X2D 100C
Hasselblad XCD 38mm f2.5
Eric Stanton - The Dominant Wives and Other Stories
Taschen Books, 2008
Cover Artist: Eric Stanton
Original cover used for "Partner's Choice" by Perry Holloway, 1965, After Hours Books 126
Me, at the landing zone of a property that used Treasure Quest tokens to collect for free Lindens.
There are a variety of groups you can join in Second Life to make money, however, not all games require a group membership and are available to anyone. I think of the games offered as the current version of "camping," where residents used to stay in a designated area or on a chair in location for a period of time before they could earn some Lindens. Sometimes, camping residents might have to perform a service like scrub a floor, etc.
Property owners purchase the items that distribute Linden money in order to attract visitor traffic to their properties or businesses. The number of visitors is then used to rank these properties in terms of popularity when people use keywords to search for places in Second Life that match keywords in the description of the location.
For me, collecting money through these games helps provide me with an income that I can use in turn to not only buy goods and supplies for myself, but also to use for tipping entertainers and businesses...spreading around the wealth, as they say. Second Life definitely has a diverse economy to support!
Let's celebrate International Women's Day w/ some of Gotham's Badass women.(Batman, Nightwing, and Robin NOT included LOL)
Watching this tiny bee scramble around collecting pollen was a fun experience. If you zoom in close you can see all the pollen collecting on the bee's legs.
Vintage Ideal 15" doll, Miss Revlon" with twist-waist from the 1950's. Many copies by several other manufacturers. In my collection. Nov. 2018.
A couple of weeks ago, I was fortunate enough to be witness to an Australian Reed Warbler (Acrocephalus australis) building a nest.
I stood transfixed and mesmerized watching this bird fly backwards and forwards between the reeds finding material to build its nest.
I noticed it carrying some elongated reed material which it wove between upright-standing reeds then it was collecting this fluffy cotton wool-like material from the tops of the reeds to create a nice fluffy cocoon style nest.
Unfortunately, it had located its nest far enough within the marshy reeds that it was too camouflaged to get a clear shot of it complete; so you'll have to be happy with this image of it collecting the "cotton wool" - hope you like it!
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Have yet another awesome day and week!!
This little solitary bee has collected a lot of pollen!
Tech Specs: Canon 70D (F11, 1/250, ISO 200) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (2x) + a diffused MT-24EX (both flash heads on Kaiser adjustable flash shoes). This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held.
Technique: I don't know why, but sometimes a bee's metabolism will tank. This flower was in the shade, and maybe the transition from being in the sun to being on the flower was enough to cause the critter's metabolism to drop. But whatever the reason the bee allowed me to get close enough for this shot. Some of you have asked me how close I get to my subjects, and if you look in the lower left corner that's my index finger :)