View allAll Photos Tagged Dah Professor
A blue dasher skimmer dragonfly, momentarily at rest in late morning.
Decatur (Decatur Legacy Park), Georgia, USA.
27 May 2023.
***************
▶ Thank you to Flickr-er Dah Professor for identifying the species of dragonfly pictured. [See comment below.]
***************
▶ Photo and story by Yours For Good Fermentables.com.
▶ For a larger image, type 'L' (without the quotation marks).
— Follow on Facebook: YoursForGoodFermentables.
— Follow on Instagram: @tcizauskas.
— Follow on Vero: @cizauskas.
▶ Camera: Olympus OM-D E-M10 II.
— Lens: Olympus M.40-150mm F4.0-5.6 R.
— Edit: Photoshop Elements 15, Nik Collection (2016).
▶ Commercial use requires explicit permission, as per Creative Commons.
Willy Resetarits (Prof. Kurt Ostbahn) und seine Mutter singen gemeinsam am Heldenplatz ein kroatisches Lied "Lipo ti je čuti" (1995 / youtube)
Franz Fuchs committed series of attacks with letter bombs between 1993 and 1996. It was racist motivated. My boss at that time was a Hungarian immigrant, so we were potential victims and we were aware of that. No such letter was sent to us and so our hands remained unharmed. But 4 people died and 15 were injured - permanent injuries, some very heavily injured, one lost both hands.
Zur Zeit der rassistisch motivierten Anschlagsserien des Franz Fuchs ( = BBA Bajuwarische Befreiungsarmee) war ich an einem Theater engagiert, dessen Direktor ein ungarischer Immigrant war, also ins Opferschema des Franz Fuchs paßte. Neben meinen Hauptaufgaben Regieassistenz, Licht und Ton, Inspizienz, Requisiten etc., mußte ich auch immer wieder im Büro aushelfen, hatte also auch mit der Korrespondenz zu tun. Wir erhielten keine Briefbombe, die Hände des Direktors, des Sekretärs und auch meine blieben unverletzt, Durch die Briefbomben wurden zum Teil nicht die Adressaten selber, sondern deren Mitarbeiter, zu deren Aufgabenbereich das Öffnen der Briefe gehört, verletzt - so zum Beispiel beim Brief an eine meiner Studienkolleginnen: Arabella Kiesbauer (dunkelhäutig, da ihr Vater Ghanaer ist): ihre Assistentin wurde verletzt als sie ihre Arbeit verrichtete und den Brief öffnete. Einige Briefe konnten auch abgefangen werden, so etwa der an Angela Resetarits, der Mutter von Willy Resetarits (Professor Kurt Ostbahn) adressierte. Daher auch der Musiklink oben. Insgesamt 4 Tote, 15 Verletzte, schwere Verletzungen, bleibende Verletzungen, einer verlor beide Hände.
Mein Mitgefühl gilt den Opfern, meine Dankbarkeit den Aufklärern der Tat, meine Hochachtung all jenen, die sich aktiv gegen Rassismus wenden, die sich aktiv gegen Intoleranz und Ignoranz, also gegen Anschauungen wie "some things and people count, most don`t" wenden.
Photo 30 September 2016:: Linke Hand Handfläche, Abdrücke: rechte und linke Handfläche - die Verwendung von Blau ist hier nicht politisch konnotiert!!!!
Part of "res noscenda note notiz sketch skizze material sammlung collection entwurf überlegung gedanke brainstorming musterbogen schnittmuster zwischenbilanz bestandsaufnahme rückschau vorschau" // Esoterik Entlarvung Handlesen
;-) ...
The Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus is a theatre building and company in Düsseldorf. The present building with two major auditoria was designed by the architect Bernhard Pfau [de] and built between 1965 and 1969. It opened in 1970.
selbst wenn sich die Aufnahmen "total" ähnlich sind finde ich auch hier eine andere Version/Betrachtungsweise sehr interessant . . . siehe Hildes Bild in der Comment Box ...
Das gebäude erinnerte mich immer an das (Alvar) Aalto-Theater in Essen und Aaltos wunderschöne Blumenvasen.
Das Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, kurz D’haus, ist ein Ensembletheater in der nordrhein-westfälischen Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf. Das Theatergebäude am Gustaf-Gründgens-Platz wurde nach Plänen
des Düsseldorfer Architekten Bernhard Pfau
als Sprechtheater im Auftrag der Stadt Düsseldorf in den Jahren 1965 bis 1969 errichtet.
Die skulpturale Großform steht im spannungsreichen Kontrast zum benachbarten Dreischeibenhaus und zeichnet sich daher durch eine besondere städtebauliche Qualität aus.
Der Bau, welcher innerhalb der Nachkriegsmoderne der organischen Architektur zugeordnet werden kann, beherbergt mit dem Großen Haus und dem Kleinen Haus zwei Spielstätten von hohem akustischem und technischem Niveau.
Das Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf ist das einzige Staatstheater des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen.
Das Dreischeibenhaus hat Walter Eller entworfen, einer meiner früheren Professoren und und dazu eine wunderschöne Geschichte erzählt, die ich andernorts hier schon einmal veröffentlicht habe.
ƒ/7.1
100.0 mm
1/800
80
_NYC7760_pa2
Lukas Resetarits (Bruder von Professor Kurt Ostbahn Willy Resetarits) "Tschusch Tschusch"
(Kabarett-Nummer über das Phänomen der Ausländerfeindlichkeit von Ausländern - das man z.B.: auch findet bei Ausländern, die FPÖ wählen, oder bei jenen Juden die anfangs für Hitler waren, weil sie glaubten, sie seien ja nicht gemeint, sondern nur die "anderen Juden", die Ostjuden, die Orthodoxen.... / youtube)
Franz Fuchs committed series of attacks with letter bombs between 1993 and 1996. It was racist motivated. My boss at that time was a Hungarian immigrant, so we were potential victims and we were aware of that. No such letter was sent to us and so our hands remained unharmed. But 4 people died and 15 were injured - permanent injuries, some very heavily injured, one lost both hands.
Zur Zeit der rassistisch motivierten Anschlagsserien des Franz Fuchs ( = BBA Bajuwarische Befreiungsarmee) war ich an einem Theater engagiert, dessen Direktor ein ungarischer Immigrant war, also ins Opferschema des Franz Fuchs paßte. Neben meinen Hauptaufgaben Regieassistenz, Licht und Ton, Inspizienz, Requisiten etc., musste ich auch immer wieder im Büro aushelfen, hatte also auch mit der Korrespondenz zu tun. Wir erhielten keine Briefbombe, die Hände des Direktors, des Sekretärs und auch meine blieben unverletzt, Durch die Briefbomben wurden zum Teil nicht die Adressaten selber, sondern deren Mitarbeiter, zu deren Aufgabenbereich das Öffnen der Briefe gehört, verletzt - so zum Beispiel beim Brief an eine meiner Studienkolleginnen: Arabella Kiesbauer (dunkelhäutig, da ihr Vater Ghanaer ist): ihre Assistentin wurde verletzt als sie ihre Arbeit verrichtete und den Brief öffnete. Einige Briefe konnten auch abgefangen werden, so etwa der an Angela Resetarits, der Mutter von Kabarettist Lukas Resetarits und Willy Resetarits (Professor Kurt Ostbahn) adressierte. Daher auch der Musiklink oben. Insgesamt 4 Tote, 15 Verletzte, schwere Verletzungen, bleibende Verletzungen, einer verlor beide Hände.
Mein Mitgefühl gilt den Opfern, meine Dankbarkeit den Aufklärern der Tat, meine Hochachtung all jenen, die sich aktiv gegen Rassismus wenden, die sich aktiv gegen Intoleranz und Ignoranz, also gegen Anschauungen wie "some things and people count, most don`t" wenden.
Photo 30 September 2016:: Linke Hand Handrücken, Abdrücke: rechte und linke Handfläche, linker Handrücken - die Verwendung von Blau ist hier nicht politisch konnotiert!!!!
Part of "res noscenda note notiz sketch skizze material sammlung collection entwurf überlegung gedanke brainstorming musterbogen schnittmuster zwischenbilanz bestandsaufnahme rückschau vorschau" // Esoterik Entlarvung Handlesen // color blue + yellow = green Farbe Blau + Gelb = Grün
The Roseate Spoonbill (Platalea ajaja) & the fly - Biolab Road, Canaveral National Seashore, Merritt Island, Titusville, Florida
Sorry to say, I can't ID the species of fly.
Maybe next time! LOL
"Biker"?, you say . . .
Well, that's because of the featherless green skin that these guys have on top of their heads, kinda reminds me of the tight fitting black helmets some of my old biker buds used wear. However, Spoonies don't need no stinking goggles, with the spiffy orange nictitating membrane that covers their eyes.
Well that, and how my father painted his Indian motorcycle PINK, after he returned home from WWII.
Capture Notes
(i.e. The full story of this capture).
'Turns out this guy was preening its back feathers and when it abruptly turned forward and shook its head, and I ripped a burst the second it did that. It seems this guy ran into the fly while preening its feathers, and decided to get rid of the fly once and for all by eating it!
This is a rework of the 2019 capture with an open eye and a blue water BG added. Click on Hemet Head for a look at the original (out of the box) closed eye capture.
FYI - I borrowed the open eye from a subsequent capture in the series after he had disposed of the fly. It seems for these guys, their automatic pilot closes their eyes when they capture critters with their bill.
Juvenile Red-Shouldered Hawk (Buteo lineatus) - Moccasin Island Tract, St. Johns River Water Management District, Viera, Florida
A Red-shoulder givin' me the "over-the-shoulder" look.
But to the Red-shoulder, I woulda looked more like a 6" pipe with an eye in the middle.
But farther down the road I woulda looked more like this.
Out shooting today in the Florida Wetlands and
Florida Everglades with Kurt Hasselman. Thanks, Kurt!
a.k.a. The oft neglected fem
Female Common Eider (Somateria mollissima) - Ocean Point, East Boothbay, Maine
Mollissima¹ gives me the nod.
Click on the following link
to view more of my pics that have been in Explore.
¹ Actually, in Latin, Mollissima is defined as "very soft".
As is the Eider down feathers that female Eiders use
to make a soft, pillowy, hydrophobic lining for their nests.
Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) - Ritch Grissom Memorial Wetlands (a.k.a. Viera Wetlands), Melbourne, Florida
Guarding its nest site on a very windy day at Viera.
Click on the following link to view The Video.
Hairy Woodpecker - Campsite 179, the Mather Campground, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona
Click on the following link to see all my "Explore" pics.
Corona Virus auf Sichtweite:
In beiden Regional Klinika werden Corona Virus Patienten beherbergt
Der erste Patient aus Tübingen kommt aus einer Professoren Familie der Pathologie.
Reisende aus Italien.
Der Arzt selber wurde der zweite Patient.
Trotz Gesundung wieder Patient.
Jetzt schweigt die Pressestelle des Klinikums.
#
m Tübinger Paul-Lechler-Krankenhaus ist eine 76-Jährige Patientin mit Vorerkrankungen am Coronavirus verstorben
#
Die Zahl der positiv auf den Coronavirus getesteten Fälle im Landkreis Tübingen liegt aktuell bei 300.
Am Montag den 23. März sind 110 weitere infizierte Personen hinzugekommen. Diese enorme Steigerung komme, nach Angaben des Tübinger Landratsamtes, daher, dass das beauftragte Labor mit der Übermittlung der Ergebnisse über eine Woche im Verzug gewesen sei. Der Landkreis geht davon aus, dass die realen Fallzahlen täglich um etwa 20 neue Infektionen steigen
Das Labor in Ravensburg hat 1000 bis 2000 Proben nicht untersucht.
Fehlende Chemikalien sei der Grund
Was für ein Schlamassel
Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) hangin' out next to the Mosquito Lagoon - Biolab Road, Canaveral National Seashore, Wilson, Florida
Thanks to some hard work by the Park Service after Irma, and the big gravel pile at the Peacock Pocket yard, Biolab Road is open!
They did however convert it "one way" from the ramp to the park, but at least it's open!
I ran across a couple of these guys on Biolab with one being very spooky (and outspoken) whilst this guy was ultra tolerant. My take on that is that this guy was probably a local, and the spooky guy was more likely a visitor from the north.
On the good side, Irma brought her cleaning tools along when she visited, and cleaned out the Mosquito Lagoon with her big toilet brush, and a high volume flush.
Rig:
Sony α6 (ILCE-6000) body
Sigma 150-600mm @ 260, f/5-6.3 Sports Lens for Canon EF
Sigma MC-11 Mount Converter (Canon EF to Sony E mount)
Captured from my CRV using my "Roofrack" support rig.
Settings:
Camera ƒ/9.0, 1/800, ISO 400,
Center-weighted average exposure
MF on the eye with 14 x mag and
Sigma's "in-lens" stabilization
Note: This image is a 2 horizontal capture composite
(processed with PhotoShop's PhotoMerge utility
to create a 5638 x 7047 pixel image)
The Great Brook Pond at the intersection of the Great Brook and Pleasant Plains Road, The Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, Basking Ridge, New Jersey
Looking back 6 years to a rainy day at The Great Swamp.
This capture musta been made from inside my CRV where I used to remove the front seat, set up my tripod on the passenger side, and shoot through the passenger window on rainy days.
Seems like a lotta work to take pics on a rainy day, but rainy days are the only times you can take pics of wet critters, who have to make a living regardless of weather.
Notes:
The title uses the word "dusk" for alliterative purposes, but in truth this image was captured during the "blue hour" (i.e. the hour after the sun has completely set, and the dimly lit blue sky is the primary source of illumination.
This is the first image in a series of images,
unfortunately, in order to see the other pics on the "new" improved Flickr, you'll have to scroll up the comment section to the top of the comment list, or click on the following "View # Previous Comments" link below to view the wet critter images captured on rainy days
Male Painted Bunting (Passerina ciris ciris) - The Space Coast of Florida
OK! OK!? I admit it!!!
The reason I decided to set up a bird feeder out back was for this!
Yeah, yeah it's trite and trivial, but I just couldn't help myself.
So there it is, a male Painted bunting on a bird feeder!
Sue me! :{(
Note (04/09/18):
In the comment section, I noticed there were some folk who thought this guy was an escapee (i.e. no way he was a native North American bird). Funny how we tend to think that beauty is unnatural! Yeah, not funny ha ha, but that it was too good to be true. Well. . . in my opinion, beauty is everywhere, and all you have to do to see it, is ease-up on your definition of beauty!
Ooops, she deleted her comment.
I guess I must have embarrassed her. Sorry . . .
Appended (04/09/18):
I also posted this image on FaceBook where I got a lot of questions about the feeder perch extensions.
The “extensions” are pieces of ¼” irrigation tubing.
The tubing allows the birds to get far enough away from the feeding port so they can get their heads into the port without having to contort their bodies to do it. The tubing is available in 50 foot lengths at most garden centers. I like the porous drip irrigation tubing for this since it has a porous grippy surface that grips tightly to the short aluminum perch as well as giving birds a better grip on the perch.
Shame on you “Droll Yankee” for simply shrinking down a “good” design without giving any thought to how the smaller perches affected the utility of the design. Feel free to sell “Large bird adapter kits” to your unhappy customers. You can send the check for this idea to me by messaging me through Flickr mail for an address. LOL
Bird Eukaryota Animalia Chordata Passeriformes Icteridae Quiscalus major "Quiscalus major" Peacock's Pocket Loop Road, Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, Titusville, Florida (28.606480, -80.737882)
At first I thought this guy was an older bird with a "salt & pepper" beard, but on closer inspection the specks turned out to be water droplets on its wet face.
After all, these guys are boat-tailed, so they're not afraid of water.
Double click with the mag 🔎 tool to get a close look at this guy's beautiful brown eye with a reflection of my truck with the canoe on the roof.
And speaking of reflections here one of me in a turtle's eye.
Great Egret (Casmerodius albus) - Assateague Island National Seashore, Chincoteague, Virginia
An alternate crop based on a suggestion of another Flickr member.
Click here to see the original composition.
This image is (or was at one time) one of my most popular images
click on the following link to see a slideshow of Dah Professor's Top 100 Images
Crested Caracara (a.k.a. Northern Caracara, Mexican Eagle; Caracara plancus cheriway) - Ritch Grissom Memorial Wetlands (Viera Wetlands), Melbourne, Florida
Always a pleasure to run across one of these guys at Viera!
Click on the following link
to see all my Caracara pics posted to Flickr.
Marsh Hawk (Male Northern Harrier; Aka, Gray Ghost) - The Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge,
Basking Ridge, New Jersey
Hunting; flying low over the fields of The Great Swamp.
It's great fun to watch these guys hunting as they skim through the weeds
This image is (or was at one time) one of my most popular images
click on the following link to see a slideshow of Dah Professor's Top 100 Images
Black-bellied Whistling Duck - Backyard bird, on The Space Coast of Florida
Gees Louise!
He sure did let me know
what he thought about gettin' his picture took!
Kinda reminded me of my mother!
Black Skimmer - Gator Creek Road, Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, Titusville, Florida
An alternate crop of a previously posted image for those who would like to see the "whites of their eyes"
(though there are actually no whites in this guy's eyes).
In my original post of this capture I lead with a wide, full body crop that (were I to print it)
would be printed large enough for the viewer to walk up to it and view detail at life size.
But this is (after all) the internet,
and there's the question of how much should the medium dictate presentation?
In the case of my original post I decided to lead with a full body, wide format image to take advantage of the wide screen most people have on their desktops, and then post vertical crops of the same capture in the comment section since vertical compositions allow a larger (more detailed) view that can be scrolled through if the image runs off the bottom of the screen.
Unfortunately, most people won't even click on a thumbnail if it doesn't imply a detailed image,
but should the look of a thumbnail dictate composition?
Note: This is the first image in a series of images,
unfortunately, in order to see the other pics on the "new" improved Flickr, you'll have to scroll up the comment section to the top of the comment list, or click on the following link to
view the other images in this series
Ms. Dirty Mouth
Female Red-bellied Woodpecker (Melanerpes carolinus) - Boothbay Harbor, Maine
Ms. Dirty Mouth?
Well, 'cept maybe for the Yellow-shafted Flickr.
Kinda looks like "Flash" lighting, but in reality
bright cloudy sky lighting, against a dark-woodsy background.
Broad-leaved Helleborine (a.k.a. Bastard Hellebore, Broadleaf Helleborine, Common Helleborine, Eastern Helleborine, Weed Orchid, Helleborine Orchid; Epipactis helleborine (L.) Crantz) - Penny Lane, Penny Lake Preserve, Boothbay Harbor, Maine
When I first saw this plant sprouting this spring, the parallel veins in its leaves reminded me of False Hellebore, or possibly Yellow, or Showy Lady's Slippers, so I marked the spot to check up on them later.
Turns out, it was none of those, but it was indeed a member of the Orchidaceae family, and one I had never photographed before,
so even better!
'Cause after all, who doesn't love orchids?
Even if they're teeny-weeny (a.k.a. itsy-bitsy) little ones.
The Teton Mountain Range - 4 miles northwest of the Moran Entrance Station, Grand Teton National Park, Moran Wyoming (43.869228, -110.573282)
Captured from the roof rack on top of my truck.
Click here if you'd like to know the names of the more popular peaks in the Teton Range.
Meine Seele will ihr Leben
- Loblied der Maria am Fest Mariä Heimsuchung - (a)
1.) Meine Seele will ihr Leben,
Ihren Herrn und Hort erheben,
Ihren Ruhm und bestes Teil,
Mein Gemüte springt vor Freuden,
Sich in seinem Gott zu weiden,
Jauchzet über dessen Heil.
2.) Der sich hat zu mir gebücket,
Und mein Elend angeblicket,
Da ich schmählich lag versenkt:
Der an mir ein Werk erweiset,
Dass mich jeder selig preiset,
Wer an diese Wohltat denkt.
3.) Zwar ich schätze mich geringe
Gegen solche großen Dinge,
Die mein Heiland an mich wendt,
Er ist heilig, hoch und mächtig,
Seine Werke groß und prächtig,
Seine Gnade ohne End'.
4.) Er zerstreut die stolzen Sinnen,
Die aus Hoffart viel beginnen,
Dämpfet, was ihm widersteht.
Stürzt die Hohen von dem Throne
Und bescheret dem die Krone,
Den er aus dem Staub erhöht.
5.) Die verlangen sich zu laben,
Sättigt er mit milden Gaben,
Reiche, die in ihrem Schmer (b)
Sich mit großen Gütern brüsten,
Nie nach seiner Kost gelüsten,
Lässt er dürftig, arm und leer.
6.) Israel, dem frommen Knechte,
Biet er seine Hilf' und Rechte,
Nimmt ihn freundlich auf und an.
Wie er schwur bei seinem Namen,
Abraham, und dessen Samen, (c)
Bleibt er gnädig zugetan.
7.) Lieb die Ehre, die ich leiste,
Vater, Sohn und deinem Geiste,
Wie es war zu jederzeit,
Also soll es ferner bleiben,
Also wollen wir es treiben (d)
Bis in alle Ewigkeit.
(a) Am Fest Mariä Heimsuchung (lateinisch: Visitatio Mariae) am 2. Juli gedenken die römisch-katholische und die altkatholische Kirche sowie teilweise die anglikanischen und die lutherischen Kirchen der Episode, die im Evangelium des Lukas (1. Kapitel, Vers 39) im Anschluss an die Verkündigungsszene erzählt wird: Maria macht sich auf den Weg, um ihre Verwandte Elisabeth zu besuchen (daher 'Heimsuchung') und die Freude mit ihr zu teilen. Elisabeth, selbst im sechsten Monat schwanger (mit Johannes dem Täufer), grüßt sie mit den Worten: 'Wer bin ich, dass die Mutter meines Herrn zu mir kommt? Gesegnet bist du unter den Frauen, und gesegnet ist die Frucht deines Leibes.' Maria antwortet mit ihrem berühmten Loblied, dem Magnificat.
(b) Überfluss, eigentlich: Fett, Schmalz
(c) Nachkommen
(d) hier im Sinn von 'halten'
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Autor: Christoph Wegleiter
Melodie: O, wie selig sind die Seelen
oder: Alles ist an Gottes Segen
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Johann Anastatasii Freylinghausen
Geistreiches Gesang=Buch, den Kern
alter und neuer Lieder in sich haltend
Herausgegeben von Gotthilf August Francke
gedruckt in Halle, 1741
Im Verlag des Waisenhauses
Liednummer 392
Thema: Mariä Heimsuchung
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Christoph Wegleiter, evangelischer Theologe und Kirchenliederdichter, wurde am 22. April 1659 als Sohn eines Buchhalters in Nürnberg geboren. Er studierte in Altdorf Theologie und wurde wegen seiner Neigung zur Dichtung schon 1679 in den Dichter-Orden der Pegnitzer Schäfer aufgenommen. Er besuchte hierauf eine ganze Reihe von Universitäten, machte sich auf seinen Reisen nach Holland und England mit Vertretern verschiedener Glaubenskreise bekannt. 1688 erfolgte seine Ernennung zum Professor und Diakon in Altdorf. Dort starb er am 16. August 1706.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º°´°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸
Christoph Wegleiters Lieder/ Hymns
¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º°´°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸
Beschränkt ihr Weisen dieser Welt
Beschwertes Herz, leg ab die Sorgen
Denkt mein Geist an jene Stunden
Der Mensch ist alles und doch nichts
Dies ist der Tag, zum Segen eingeweiht
Es jauchzen schon die Morgen???
Herr, der du für und für der Menschen Hilf
Ich stimme Gnad und Recht zu singen
Ich weiß, dass mein Erlöser lebt und liebt
Ich wurde bitterlich betrübt
Meine Seele will ihr Leben
Ob schon die Sonne wird versteckt
Schauernd und mit nassen Wangen
Seele, lass die Speise stehen, die nur Ekel dir erweckt
Wenn meine Seel den Tag bedenket
Wer für der Menschen Seelen wacht
Wer nicht mehr, als er hat, begehrt
Wie ein Hirsch in vollem Schießen
Roseate Spoonbill (Platalea ajaja) - Black Point Wildlife Drive, Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, Titusville, Florida
I stopped to photograph these guys in the distance, and then to my amazement they decided to relocate, and flew right past me to another spot about 100 feet from where I was standing.
Always very cool when Mother Nature offers up an eye level look at these guys!
Note: This is the first image in a series of images,
unfortunately, in order to see the other pics on the "new" improved Flickr, you'll have to scroll up the comment section to the top of the comment list, or click on the following link to
view the other images in this series
I thought this fly looked beautiful, with it's bright, shining colors and amazing wings :)
Common Green Bottle fly
(Lucilia sericata)
ID thanks to Kurt Hasselman www.flickr.com/photos/dah_professor/
Hope Everyone has a Fantastic Fly Day, and amazing weekend :))
HFDF! :)
Sorry I'm so far behind with my comments--may take me a while to catch up...
Did you ever feel like you're running---but everything is going much faster than you are ?........................ :]
Raccoon Kits (Procyon lotor) - Along the The Florida Trail on the St. John side of the Taylor Creek Loop north of Route 528, Tosohatchee Wildlife Management Area, Titusville, Florida
Actually 3 kits we found alongside the road, with the middle one refusing to give us eye contact.
I stayed in the truck, angled the driver side window uproad, and made these captures with the six on the roof-rack rig.
'Cause if I stopped and got out of the truck they surely would have beat feet for the pinewood flats.
Crested Caracaras (a.k.a. Northern Caracara, Mexican Eagle; Caracara plancus cheriway) - Next to the sugar cane fields on County Road 720, Moore Haven, Florida
It's hard to argue these characters don't know how to raise cain,
and always fun to watch them do it.
Well studied birders know these guys are members of the falcon family, though these clowns are far from the serious hunters most Falcons are, and a bit more like Stephan King's evil clown from "It", or gangster members of the Falcone crime family. Especially when they team up, to steal a little somethin' from another hunter that worked hard for its meal.
The gray morph of the Eastern Screech Owl - Suburban New Jersey, 25 miles west of "The City" (NYC)
"Hold still, you little bugger!", said the photographer
Yup. it was getting dark, and the camera's auto-exposure had worked its way from tenths of a second to whole seconds (5 seconds in this case), so I needed this guy to hold still!
And like most subjects, maybe they do (and maybe they don't), but I'm gonna take their pic either way. So, with this post I did a flip, with the emphatic "No!" in the middle, to show how much can happen in 5 seconds. Though even in the middle pic the owl seems to have held steady for 2 seconds, changed its pose and then held steady for another 2 seconds. So, I guess it was listening, but simply decided to offer up a second pose.
FYI - This is a reprocess of a previous post titled "Funnel Vision", that showed up in my stats. It seems this capture somehow got lost during a PC upgrade somewhere along the way, so I had to go back to the DVD backup to find it, But then, that's why we have backups, isn't it?
At the time I took this pic, I backed up all my pics to DVD at the time I transferred images from the camera to the computer.
These days, when the SD card is full, I simply place the card in a waterproof box, and plug a fresh card into the camera, so DVDs are no longer in the mix. That, and my habit of NEVER deleting any images (no matter how bad) while the card is in the camera (or out of the camera for that matter). 'Cause you never know if there might by an Ivory Billed Woodpecker in the pic that you didn't happen to notice at the time.
Regarding flash:
No flash was used here since I feel it flattens the image, and the green BG next to the bird house would be black rather than green, which I think helps to bring out the color in its eyes.
Eastern Screech Owl - My back Yard in suburban New Jersey, 25 miles west of "The City" NYC
Today I tried putting the 1.4 on the 300, locking in F7 & ISO 800, and hoping there would be enough light to get a reasonable shutter speed. It's always a crap shoot (0.6 sec in this case), 'cause I have to set up the gear about an hour before the owl pokes out its head, and it's hard to say when that will be on any given night. These shots were from about 17 feet away with my camera mounted on a ball head bolted to a tree limb about 18 feet off the ground. The owl tends to keep an eye on me when I'm in the yard, so I got the different poses by walking around the yard (keeping a distance of about 50'), and tripping the RF release from different locations in the yard.
- Central Jersey ~25 miles west of "The City" (NYC).
Hoping I'm not boring you all with these owl shots, but every time I get a better series than the last, I post the better shots.
This image is (or was at one time) one of my most popular images
click on the following link to see a slideshow of Dah Professor's Top 100 Images
Note: This is the first image in a series of images,
unfortynately, in order to see the other pics on the "new" improved Flickr, you'll have to scroll up the comment section to the top of the comment list, or click on the following link to
view the other images in this series
a.k.a. Roseate Spoonbill (Platalea ajaja) - Black Point Wildlife Drive, Titusville Florida
Best shot (so far) of the orange tail on one of these guys.
Click on the following link if you'd like to see more Spoonbill pics.
Out shooting today in the Florida Wetlands and
Florida Everglades with Kurt Hasselman. Thanks, Kurt!
Limpkin on Longleaf Pine (Southern Yellow Pine; Pinus palustris) - The Space Coast of Florida
Backyard Bird
Apple Snails are a Limpkin's favorite food, so it got me to wondering what a Limpkin was doing wandering around my back yard.
Yeah, yeah, strange days with Mountain Lions and Mountain Goats wanderin' through the center of town out west, but Limpkins on the lawn, who knew?
But then, perhaps Mother Nature has figured out a way to do battle with the Cuban Anoles (Brown Anole; Anolis sagrei), that have invaded the Space Coast (and much of the rest of Florida). I know the Sandhill Cranes, White Ibis, Egrets and Herons seem to like them, so why not Limpkins?
Who Knows,
maybe they'll even eat some of the Cuban Treefrogs
(Osteopilus septentrionalis)!
Juvenile male Autumn Meadowhawk (Sympetrum vicinum) - NJ Audubon, Scherman-Hoffman Wildlife Sanctuary, 9 Hardscrabble Road, Bernardsville, New Jersey
This fleshly hatched young male posed nicely for me while waiting for his shiny new wings to harden up.
There were also bright red Cherry Meadowhawks around that where finishing up their run, but this guy's orangey-brown legs easily distinguished him from the black-legged cherries.
FYI - Click on the arrowy (↕) fullscreen icon, and then F11 to view as large as 2048 pixels where you can see good detail in the eyelets of the compound eye and the hairs on his chinny chin chin.
Note: This is the first image in a series of images,
unfortynately, in order to see the other pics on the "new" improved Flickr, you'll have to scroll up the comment section to the top of the comment list, or click on the following link to
view the other images in this series
Louisiana Waterthrush - Ken Lockwood Gorge, Annandale, New Jersey
I had just mentioned the sheen on the back of a Little Blue Heron capture I posted to Flickr the other day, and it reminded me of the sheen on the back of Louisiana Waterthrushes, so I decided to go back and look at some of my Waterthrush pics. And while I was at it, I discovered this image in my archive that I had yet to process from the raw file, so here it is.
Always fun to go back in the way-back machine, and remember some of those best-days-ever (for this or that), and in this case it was my best ever day for Waterthrushes.
Click on the following link to see all my Louisiana Waterthrush pics that I've posted to Flickr over the years.
Mountain Bluebird - (Sialia currucoides) - Hayden Arch Road off US 14 / 20 / 16, 6 miles east of the center of Cody, Wyoming (44.509375, -109.161534)
I've only seen these guys twice, and both times were near Buffalo Bill State Park in Cody Wyoming.
Click on the following link Mountain Bluebird Album
to view all of the Mountain Bluebird pics I've posted on Flickr,
which includes a female and her fledglings.
Juvenile Sharp-shinned Hark - Higbee Beach WMA, Cape May, New Jersey
Captured sitting on the seaward side of the sand hills overlooking the far fresh water lake west of the water tower. It's a bit of a hike to get there, but worth the effort.
Note : This is a reprocess of an older post (October 2010) where I've changed the format, intensified the color, and zipped up the contrast a bit.
Note: This is the first image in a series of images,
unfortunately, in order to see the other pics on the "new" improved Flickr, you'll have to scroll up the comment section to the top of the comment list, or click on the following link to
view the other image in this series
Tricolored Heron (a.k.a. Louisiana Heron; Egretta tricolor) - Biolab Road, Canaveral National Seashore, Wilson, Florida
Wilson, Florida ???
Yeah, there used to be a Wilson, Florida.
But that was before JFK decided to "go to the moon".
Of course, that required all the pig farmers be thrown off Merritt Island. So it's not surprising that the descendents of those farmers, still hate him to this day . . .
But I got no complaints, and I love all that space (i.e. Merritt Island NWR & Canaveral National Seashore) that they (a.k.a. NASA") evacuated, in case things went wrong . . .
Least Bittern ~ a very rare and elusive bird ~ Florida Wetlands U.S.A.
Have only seen them a few times over the years, purely by chance. They blend in with the reeds and hide really well. If they sense you are looking for them they hide or stay frozen, holding on to the sides of the reeds. Always a challenge ~ Spring 2015 ~ Palm Beach County
(seven more least bittern photos in the comments)
*****************************************************************************
A tiny heron, furtive and surpassingly well camouflaged, the Least Bittern is one of the most difficult North American marsh birds to spot. Despite its inconspicuousness, however, the species can be rather common within appropriate habitat in its breeding range.
Earlier in the season when they're strutting their stuff looking
for a mate, you can sometimes find these guys out in the open,
but once they've mated and are looking after their family, they
tend to be a bit more secretive (especially near their nest).
[Info from my buddy Kurt Hasselman aka Dah Professor
Mountain Bluebird - (Sialia currucoides) - Hayden Arch Road off US 14 / 20 / 16, 6 miles east of the center of Cody, Wyoming (44.509375, -109.161534)
Click on the following link Mountain Bluebird Album
to view all of the Mountain Bluebird pics I've posted on Flickr,
which includes a female and her fledglings.
Six Great Egret (Casmerodius albus) and a Snowy - Richard W. DeKorte Park, The Meadowlands, NJ
There's just something so familiar about that first one . . .
This image is one of my most popular images
click on the following link to see a slideshow of Dah Professor's Top 100 Images
Skulptur "Unzeitgemäße Zeitgenossen"
Diese Plastik ist befindet sich direkt am Anfang der Grimmaischen Straße in Richtung Augustusplatz in Leipzig.
Sie stammt vom Bildhauer Bernd Göbel.
Der Künstler schenkte diese Plastik der Stadt Leipzig Ende des Jahres 1990 und seitdem findet sie ihren Platz an der bekannten Stelle. Der ehemalige Professor für Bildhauerei gestaltete das Werk vermutlich nicht ohne Hintergedanken (daher wohl der Name). Es zeigt 5 Figuren: alle sind nackt, stehen auf einem Balken und halten streng an ihren Prinzipien fest. Manche Details sind vergoldet: z.B. die Säge, das Hörrohr, die Ohren oder die Nase.
(a.k.a. Battleworn, Feather hardened)
Eastern Phoebe (Sayornis phoebe) - River Lakes Conservation Area, North Wickham Road, Melbourne, Florida
A bird-book pose. against a Phoebe colored background.
'Talk about matchy matchy.
I posted this in one of the nature macro groups, since if you click twice with the magnifying tool, and look closely at its eye, you can see my truck on the horizon under a cloudy Florida sky. Needless to say they bumped it, 'cause you can't see the macro aspect of it in less than 2 seconds.
FYI - This image was captured from my truck
using my six on the infamous Roofrack Rig.
Out shooting today in the Florida Wetlands and
Florida Everglades with Kurt Hasselman. Thanks, Kurt!
Crested Caracara (a.k.a. Northern Caracara, Mexican Eagle; Caracara plancus cheriway) - Ritch Grissom Memorial Wetlands (Viera Wetlands), Melbourne, Florida
Always a pleasure to run across one of these guys at Viera!
Click on the following link
to see all my Caracara pics posted to Flickr.
Reddish Egret - Blackpoint Wildlife Drive, Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, Titusville, Florida
I captured this image from my portable blind (a.k.a. truck), using my roo-frack rig and the 600. As I approached at idling speed, I slowed to a crawl, and looked for a opening between the roadside vegetation, to bracket the desired position of the subject between two OOF bushes. I then waited for the egret to walk into the frame where it would create thirdsy/triangulated balance with the mangrove and OOF bushes in the foreground.
Ansel Adams would have likely called this type of technique compositional previsualization. Though for Ansel, "previsualization" was more about the B&W tones in the final print, and how he would get there via predetermined exposures and delelopmental (i.e. chemical) manipulations.
Wilson's Snipe (a.k.a. Common Snipe, Jack Snipe, English Snipe; Gallinago delicata) - Peacock's Pocket Road, Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, Wilson, Florida
I went back to the spot I photographed the Virginia Rail to see if it would make another showing, but found this guy instead.
Back in the day when I was a Boy Scout we used to send the new recruits (a.k.a. Tenderfoot scouts) out on "Snipe Hunts" because actually finding a snipe was near impossible, and it was a fun way to frustrate the new kids. And to this day when I actually find a snipe I realize just how lucky I am.
As you may have deduced from what I've said so far, these guys are quite secretive, and when they hear you coming they run off into the grass and/or bushes and you'll never even know they were there (not to mention how well camouflaged they are). However, they have become quite accustomed to the sounds of cars driving up and down the roads (like Peacock Pocket Road and/or Blackpoint Wildlife Drive), and tend to ignore vehicle noises, but if you get out of your car and walk along the road they will run from the sound of your footsteps and you will never see one. So get out there an hour or so before sunset, drive slowly along the edge of the water (being careful not to drive over the edge), and maybe you'll get a good look at one of these guys.
Click on the following link if you'd like to see more of my Snipe pics.
Masters of elusivity (of the feathered type) - The American Kestrel and it's chief avian competitor the Belted Kingfisher
Those of us who have been takin' nature pics for any length of time know these two guys, and how difficult they are to get close too (with about one hundred yards or 90 meters being about as close as you can get before these guys start thinking about taking their leave). Well that is, if you see them at all!
So the times we are able to get close to them are memorable (a point of pride so to speak). And then on top of that, if you can get a decent capture of one of these guys, you could go as far as to call it an accomplishment.
So speaking of competitors (both of whom are relatively common and often seen), which of these guys do you think takes the prize for eluding a well detailed photographic capture?
Please feel free to post examples of your captures of these guys in the comment section, and tell us a bit about how you made your capture.
Note: in the event that you don't know how to post pics in the comment section, proceed to the next comment for instruction on how to go about that.
Wilson's Snipe (a.k.a. Common Snipe, Jack Snipe, English Snipe; Gallinago delicata) - Peacock's Pocket Road, Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, Wilson, Florida
Back in the day when I was a Boy Scout we used to send the new recruits (a.k.a. Tenderfoot scouts) out on "Snipe Hunts" because actually finding a snipe was near impossible, and it was a fun way to frustrate the new kids. And to this day when I actually find a snipe I realize just how lucky I am.
As you may have deduced from what I've said so far, these guys are quite secretive, and when they hear you coming they run off into the grass and/or bushes and you'll never even know they were there (not to mention how well camouflaged they are). However, they have become quite accustomed to the sounds of cars driving up and down the roads (like Peacock Pocket Road and/or Black Point Wildlife Drive), and tend to ignore vehicle noises, but if you get out of your car and walk along the road they will run from the sound of your footsteps and you will never see one. So get out there an hour or so before sunset, drive slowly along the edge of the water (being careful not to drive over the edge), and maybe you'll get a good look at one of these guys.
Click on the following link if you'd like to see more of my Snipe pics.