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I spent a contented hour at a local common walking through grass that grew up past my waist, looking for interesting things to be captured by my camera. I have to admit that I thought I'd go out and get some good shots of butterflies but no one told me how skittish they were. After chasing a selection of the beasties around for a good while without any significant success I switched tacts and looked for something else to shoot that didn't fly away when I was just about to press the shutter button. So I switched out my macro lens for my lensbaby and concentrated on flowers and insects instead. I had a couple of shots of this flower, which incidentally is an exuberant pink/magenta colour, and when I got home went through a number of looks for it in Lightroom. I eventually came up with this one, which is unusual but quite pleasing to the eye. Well my eye at least.
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA
Trawling through one of the external hard drives and I found this beauty I took last year. This is a Harmonia axyridis that took a shine to my LED video light, it just plonked itself down and seemed quite contented, so I tried some different coloured cards which gave quite a nice effect, this is not in a studio this was in the middle of woodland at Colwick. This is a single shot exposure using an F/8 aperture :o)
Talking of Harlequins, I got one of my images used on a superb BBC website article about Harlequin Ladybirds, it's the main title image :o)
www.bbc.com/earth/story/20141016-harlequin-ladybird-is-ca...
This was the image:-
Two, apparently-contented, juvenile Elephant Seals on the beach at Gold Harbour, South Georgia on December 25th, 2025.
This blue winged teal seemed quite happy just floating along. Photographed in Burnaby Lake, British Columbia.
We had a day of proper sunshine this week & it felt so wonderful! Flynn's not wanted to go far on walks lately but on Thursday, the nice weather seemed to entice him to go further. He lead me to one of our favourite routes, up through a wood & out into the sheep fields (thankfully empty of sheep at the moment!).
Flynn played a little, bounced about & had a good old bark about stuff, sniffed the tracks left by the resident wildlife & then he joined me for a sit (or in his case lie) down. Got to admit, the wind coming across the field was on the chilly side & the ground was *quite* wet... lucky I'd come prepared with a plastic bag to sit on, or I'd have been a soggy sight on the way home! However, Flynn seemed as happy as I was to just be outside, enjoying the sun & the peace & quiet of the countryside - our only company were little birds singing in the hedgerows, a rabbit or two & some squirrels. I'd also brought snacks for Flynn... ha, I should've brought something for me too but I always seem to forget about that!
As you can probably tell from Flynn's expression here, he definitely enjoyed his snack - a dental chew. Dental sticks/chews are one of the few commercial dog treats which are OK for dogs with kidney problems to eat (low protein) - it's a good job Flynn likes them! He'll have nice clean teeth! As an aside... when I adopted Flynn & for a good while afterwards, he had terrible issues with resource guarding food, I had to be exceptionally careful, or he'd potentially bite out of fear something would be taken from him. To this day, it amazes me that we've got to a point where Flynn can be given a snack & not only will he not turn into a snarly monster about defending it, he'll quite happily use my legs as a "table" to prop the food on while he chews it up. Watching Flynn's overall progress over the past 9 - very nearly 10 - years has been incredible, hard at times but very rewarding.
A contented smile of a blessed fisherman. Taken from a fishermen village on the Nile river in Upper Egypt.
All that fresh air outside. Covid germs inside? In emergency break glass? Well not here, unless you wish to be arrested. So I contented myself with my camera and waited and waited for my delayed flight to arrive. There are some intriguing reflections to be seen, and a lovely sunset sky.
I'm really over airline travel these days. It's as exciting as catching a bus. And in fact, that's all it is - an airbus. And when we arrived home in Launceston on the stretched version of the Airbus A321, there was an announcement: "Jetstar would like to apologise that it is only possible to exit via the forward stairs tonight." So being near the back of the plane I had to wait as over 200 people slowly disembarked.
Monkey Forest at Trentham, Staffordshire, England is a wonderful place to visit. The many Barbary Macaques are so relaxed and contented in the environment.
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"I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. They go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!" ~John Muir
Uploaded for the circle challenge just playing with polar coordinates.
All My Life's a Circle ~ Harry Chapin on You Tube
Winner in the **Love It!** May 2012 Group Icon Challenge...It will be featured as the icon for Level 3 for one calendar month.!!! Wow...
Thanks very kindly for any gracious comment, views and invites. Much appreciated!.... Peace and love be with you.
Namaste.
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Female orangutan sitting with chin on crossed arms.
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Quick snap of a young couple crossing the Meadows, they looked wonderfully content in one another's company
The easiest, happiest newborn I've photographed yet. Totally love her!
The full slideshow is here...
"Right. We need to actually go somewhere in this van before it takes root in the garden. Tomorrow we're taking her out for a drive."
I'd stated my case. I'm not sure I've ever seen Ali looking quite so contented as she has over the last few weeks since Brenda, a fourteen year old converted Renault Master van came into our world. While I grumpily traipse off to work each morning (although there are only 42 such mornings left in my life now), she steadily and patiently transforms Brenda's previously dark and gloomy interior into a bright space that greets the visitor with a cheery white welcome. I'm forever finding her on YouTube looking at other people's conversions for space saving innovations and interior furnishings. Even on her very significant birthday this week she turned down the offer of a swanky hotel lunch from her sister because she wanted to finish painting the cupboards. She's got a project and she's happy. I'm allowed to wash and polish Brenda, drive her, pay for her to be kept roadworthy and not much else. Oh yes and I was allowed to pay for the purchase of her too. I feel privileged to be involved, albeit in a rather prosaic manner.
But the downside of all of this up cycling business is that the fact she looks like an artist's workshop, full of half empty paint tins and brushes and goodness knows what else has meant that taking her for a spin hasn't really been on the agenda just yet. Add to that, she seems to me an awfully big van. It's going to need some more practice before I can refine the seventy-three point turn required to set her in the right direction without knocking the front porch down. Helpfully she's got a reversing camera, but it's still a whole new world for me. Until last year my only vehicle was a tiny city car barely larger than a skateboard.
So last weekend, after an eventful period of attempting to jump start her we were off on a mini adventure. Ten minutes later we were home again - we'd forgotten our masks in all of the excitement. It meant turning right at the end of our lane twice in quick succession, a hair raising experience designed to terrify even the most seasoned HGV drivers in the land. An uneventful while later we arrived at Ladock Wood. I was confident the large car park wouldn't be chock full and I could park quietly without drawing attention to myself or maiming anyone else's vehicle in the process. We tried not to look too smug as we sipped our tea and hunkered down on those lunchtime veggie sausage sandwiches - made right there by our very own hands on the two burner gas hob. What a liberating experience that is. And then for a while we wandered through the eerie silence of Ladock Wood, coming to rest in this peaceful sheltered glade. Here we could feel the warm sun stream through the canopy as we idly lost ourselves in talk of future adventures that might take us further than the twenty odd miles that had brought us here. I'd stumbled across this far flung corner of the woods in May - there will be a more rewarding image from here in the autumn with a bit of luck. I have the composition - I just need the light and the russets and golds that the next season will bring.
And then we pushed onto Newquay. There's another story to tell here, and it involves tourists, errant Herring Gulls, celebrity chefs and eye watering prices - not for the first time in this feed. It's difficult to avoid them in Cornwall. Difficult to avoid campervans too for that matter - you could sense some people looking nervously at us, wondering whether we were going to park on their doorsteps for a fortnight and put Black Sabbath on the iPod at full volume each night before leaving the place knee deep in detritus as a parting gift. Now there's an idea.
What I'm looking forward most of all though, is taking Brenda down to the big field at Godrevy on a Tuesday afternoon in October when everyone else is at work, where we can make our lunch and sit and watch the colours change over the sea. I've got a feeling we'll be doing that a lot when the big adventure starts.
About to head off grid for a few days soon. No signal, no WiFi, no electricity. Have a great weekend everyone.
Daddy thought it would be a good idea to get naked baby shots late one night. Paddy, on the other hand had a different idea. I got this one, and a pretty good one of him screaming his brains out. Have to try another day for content sans boobie.
Strobist:
Metz flash behind Diffusion Panel cam left. White foamboard reflector cam right. (Black blanket for background - $1.00 from grocery store).
These chicks appear contented with their spots on mom's back.
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I went to a yoga class yesterday, and when I was leaving, feeling contented and recharged, I looked up into the clear light-filled evening sky, and saw a rainbow.
I also saw, thanks to the mirrors all around the yoga studio, a woman in need of tender care.
When's the last time you really looked at yourself? Not just to notice the way your t-shirt hugs your curves or the bags under your tired eyes...but really looked deeply...there is a rainbow there that can only be seen by the light that comes from doing what you love...and caring for yourself.
Funny how I always seem to lose myself, and then am startled by what it feels like to really "see" me, looking through my own eyes, always here waiting to be noticed...