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I am going to be off Flickr today because I am going to a zoo.

I hope that you enjoy the Zinna my friends!

Thank you for all of your support! It really means a lot to me!

Taken with my Sony a300 with my Tamron SP AF60mm f/2 DI II LD (IF) 1:1 Macro Lens

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...from a visit to Buckley's Hole, Bribie Island. (Buckley's Hole Conservation Park is situated in the south-west corner of Bribie Island, the northern-most sand island in Moreton Bay, some 50 kilometres north of Brisbane. The park covers an area of 87.7 hectares and contains a freshwater lagoon, woodland, open forest and beach. It is this diversity of habitat that has led to such a large number of bird species being recorded in this small area, the present total standing at 270.)

Laughing Kookaburra nesting in a burrow excavated in an arboreal (tree-dwelling) termite mound.

Scientific Name: Dacelo novaeguineae

Description: The Laughing Kookaburra is instantly recognisable in both plumage and voice. It is generally off-white below, faintly barred with dark brown, and brown on the back and wings. The tail is more rufous, broadly barred with black. There is a conspicuous dark brown eye-stripe through the face. It is one of the larger members of the kingfisher family.

Similar species: Identification may only be confused where the Laughing Kookaburra's range overlaps that of the Blue-winged Kookaburra, Dacelo leachii, in eastern Queensland. The call of the Blue-winged Kookaburra is coarser than that of the Laughing Kookaburra, and ends somewhat abruptly. The Blue-winged Kookaburra lacks the brown eye-stripe, has a blue tail and a large amount of blue in the wing, and has a pale eye.

Distribution: Laughing Kookaburras are found throughout eastern Australia. They have been introduced to Tasmania, the extreme south-west of Western Australia, and New Zealand. Replaced by the Blue-winged Kookaburra in central northern and north-western Australia, with some overlap in Queensland, although this species is more coastal.

Habitat: The Laughing Kookaburra inhabits most areas where there are suitable trees.

Feeding: Laughing Kookaburras feed mostly on insects, worms and crustaceans, although small snakes, mammals, frogs and birds may also be eaten. Prey is seized by pouncing from a suitable perch. Small prey is eaten whole, but larger prey is killed by bashing it against the ground or tree branch.

Breeding: Laughing Kookaburras are believed to pair for life. The nest is a bare chamber in a naturally occurring tree hollow or in a burrow excavated in an arboreal (tree-dwelling) termite mound. Both sexes share the incubation duties and both care for the young. Other Laughing Kookaburras, usually offspring of the previous one to two years, act as 'helpers' during the breeding season. Every bird in the group shares all parenting duties.

Calls: The chuckling voice that gives this species its name is a common and familiar sound throughout the bird's range. The loud 'koo-koo-koo-koo-koo-kaa-kaa-kaa' is often sung in a chorus with other individuals. The Laughing Kookaburra also has a shorter 'koooa The Laughing Kookaburra is not really laughing when it makes its familiar call. The cackle of the Laughing Kookaburra is actually a territorial call to warn other birds to stay away.

Minimum Size: 40cm

Maximum Size: 45cm

Average size: 42cm

Average weight: 340g

Breeding season: August to January

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After trying to log in to Flickr numerous times without success earlier today, I gave up. Too many Bad Pandas. No point posting photos if half the people can't get on to see them. I don't know why this platform is the only one we know that goes down so regularly. Looking at the Help Forum this is a worldwide problem. But that happens to be the least of our problems on Flickr.

There is something more important existentially that goes on every single day on everyone's page that far too many people are turning a blind eye to. I'm talking about bot use. For those who still live in a prelapsarian social media world, bots are either (1) pieces of internet code written specifically to trawl the pages of Flickr faving and in some cases commenting (generically) in order to garner reciprocal visits - you can buy them, or (2) humans behaving in a bot-like manner, simply faving and following as many people as possible in the hope of achieving the same goals - inflated views, faves and followers. Frankly I'm sick of it.

So much so that I will block any person I see that exhibits this bot-like tendency. My list of blocks is hundreds long. Of course this has seen a falloff in my own view numbers. We don't seriously think that all those views of our old photos are real do we? If say you post 3 photos a day and each of them gets 500 views in 24 hours and your total view count for the day is 5,000. I would argue a good percentage of all those extra 3,500 views are in fact unblocked bots.

Opponents of bots on social media platforms (and Flickr is by no means the worst here) estimate that up to 50 percent of all traffic on these sites is bot-driven. Now bots are easy to understand when the corruption of monetarization comes into play. That is not the case on Flickr. But ego is. And it seems to me that ego will drive some people to do very bad things to attract attention to themselves.

Have you ever wondered why that awful out of focus picture of the Grand Canyon has attracted 65,000 views and 1,500 faves? Well very likely this person is using a massive bot. And many people fave unthinkingly. Go to the Activities Feed and press the fave star and you don't even need to visit a person's page. You can fave thousands in an hour or two doing that. But what a hollow feeling. And what does it do for the photography community?

Explore is another area rife with gaming strategies. How many times do you see the usual suspects turn up on a person's page with "Congrats on Explore"? That's the only time they'll visit your page by the way (that's if you're lucky enough to ever get Explored because it seems only magic accounts do every 16-19 days). These are a group of people who fave (or by proxy their bot does) every one of the 500 Explored photos each day, in the belief it will garner them more "followers" (how I hate that word - CONTACTS is so much better). So if you have been in the habit of doing that there is an excellent chance I will have blocked you.

Of course the most dangerous bots of all are the ones pretending to comment. People think they are real, but AI is very clever now. And one in particular has been at the centre of attention during this week. Banned by Flickr after being clearly outed by a "bot catcher". He gets banned, and then the whistleblower gets banned too for exposing the biggest bot commenter on Flickr. All this ended up with the whistleblower rightly being restored, but also the return of the bot user. Some of you will have followed proceedings very closely.

Frankly I've advocated for a long time for view counts to be discontinued. Thousands of views do not make a good photograph. Social media has been bad for photography in that regard. It's made photographers complacent, and even worse, made them conform to particular styles or genres that "succeed" - as if that matters. Photography is an individual art and everyone is unique.

Always remember that not another soul saw Vivian Maier's photographs before she died. And I dare say you rarely see photographs on Flickr even half as good as the ones she spent a lifetime taking.

So if you feel like I do about the integrity of Flickr and bot use, please join us at this group:

....don't like bot-comments/faves? Join us, post your photos there.

Please post it to the Anti-Bots and Anti-Fake group.

* A final point. Mr Ed was a talking horse and not a bot user.

All comments are appreciated. TIA.

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Into the pictures from August now, and another purple dress. I'm not quite as taken with this one as my New Look purple dress I've been wearing recently but it's still a nice dress.

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Guys, please be considerate and comment when you favorate. Share your opinion. Tell me what you think. Really anything works.

so here it is. all 12. keep in mind im going to have to update these guys in about a month or so, though i have hopes for capaldi. i have solo or smaller group shots of these guys below. hope you enjoy, and happy 50th anniversary :)

Smith, Tennant, Eccleston, Hurt, McGann, McCoy, Baker, Davison, Baker(Tom), Pertwee, Troughton, and Hartnell

Sorry I haven't been commenting on photos lately, we've been at McNeil River Sanctuary, better known as Bear Viewing Heaven. I'll still need to get back to working on my photos from Brooks Camp, better known as close to Bear Viewing Heaven, but here is a teaser from McNeil.

Two spring cubs await their mother's return from fishing. It was amazing, she didn't trust the boars around, and preferred to leave her cubs with us people for safety as boars generally don't like people. At one point they came within 10 feet or so, quite an experience.

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May/06/2022

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Leeds First Friday weekend was fantastic as always, had a really good time out and spent quality time with friends.

With lovely friends Janet and Phil.

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Huge brickforge order. fuck yeah!

Left to Right

Green Lantern: got a badass trans green sword thats perfect for a green lantern construct.

Captain Marvel: got him some yellow vambraces. not 100% sure how i feel about them...

Dr Fate: My Magnum Opus. i fucking love all the combos on him. the helmet loots great, an it works awesome with the armor.

Green Arrow: back to the sleeveless look. i thought they didnt go with with the dark green arms and light green didn't look good either, so he's back to bare arms

Aquaman: look at that sexy fucking trident. just look at it.

Comments & Faves are both appreciated, but if you'd comment after fav-ing, it would mean alot to me, beccause feedback means a little bit more to me than favourites. Thank you. :)

So basically this is how I would see myself as Robin. :D

I wish I'd have flesh sleeves, but sadly I don't, cuz I'm bad at painting...

This Fig is based off nearly all of the Robins.

Fighting Stick = Tim Drake.

Sleeves = Jason Todd/ Dick Grayson.

Black Hood = Damian Wayne.

etc. etc.

Credit for the Staff desing goes to my good friend TheMooseFigs. :)

So like I said, this is kinda me as Robin. :)

Oh and I'd like to start a bandwagon with this, y'know, you make a Robin based off yourself, or - like what I did - how you would like to see yourself as Robin. For example: I have dark blonde hair, and not black, but I always wanted black. ;)

Hope you like it. :)

A comment about my surf captures missing something has made me wonder if I should consider stop photographing them...

I have other things to do with my valuable time.

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April/03/2022

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This is a short video of me and my Bestie, Emily is my close friend who I've shared such amazing times together. I would be lost without her. So happy to have shared such good nights out together.

PLEASE leave a comment rather than just clicking that Favorite button, after all if you like it then please tell me WHY you like it :)

Had this image as private to use in comments but it kept disappearing in the comments so i made it public, hoping that stops.

This is just the wider angle view of taken less than a minute from a previous post but the mist was changing so fast it looked a bit different.

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Single RAW HDR shot in Mongkok, Kowloon.

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To see more pictures of hummingbirds taken by me, please visit my gallery at www.flickr.com/photos/black_cat_photography/albums/721577...

To learn more about these wonderful little birds please visit www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Ruby-throated_Hummingbird/ove...

Comment if you can locate the little Junco in the frame

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أيقنتُ أنه رحل بعدما أهداني جزءً مما يحمل من الأحزان أخذتُ أفكر بما قال ، لو أن حياتنا بلا أحزان لما رأينا السعادة أبدا ..♡ * آلـ منيرة

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Got the new teen titans figures wanted to re-create my old teen titans photo with updated figures. really like the outcome

Left To Right

Beast Boy: More or less the official figure, but I changed the crotch piece from purple to black, and it looks way better!

Starfire: I'll be honest, I didn't love the official figure. Mainly that her hair was the wrong color, so I gave her dark red instead.

Robin: my Dick Grayson Robin I posted a bit ago. Thought about posting Nightwing instead, but I thought this robin design worked really well with this bunch.

Cyborg: Not to much has changed with him. Still looks great.

Raven: The only one who has yet to appear as an official Lego figure. Her cape/hood is cape madness. The torso and legs are new as well.

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