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Gypsophila, commonly known as baby's breath, it's taken a year to for my plants to flower properly.

Soft Flypaper textures.

Learning so many things with each photo i take within this style of photography and all i can say is i am loving the journey.

Shots from Arches Park in Utah. The arch at the top of the ridge (delicate arch) is the most renowned of the parks arches.This shot was taken from about 1 mile away on the other side of the canyon.

Arches national park Utah. I first took snaps of this arch more than 20 years ago. Nobody was anywhere near the arch. Now people queue to pose, although for this shot no one was in the arch and all the vanished people were sat in the foreground.

The blossom time of the my apple trees in the garden is alwas a good possibility to take photos of honey bees. I love to watch them through my macro lens and to discover all kinds of details such as their beautiful wings.

Linocut on newsprint pasted on door by street artist ELBOW-TOE.

 

I have been in love with this location for quite some time.

Daisy standing very proudly

Those gorgeous and delicate yellow centered lavender blossoms were blooming over red rocks in one of my neighbors front yard flower gardens.

 

With the beautiful early evening sunlight hitting them (I was on my way home from work), they were wonderfully illuminated!

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Tiny Flowers at the Miccosukee Greenway in Tallahassee, FL.

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Delicate Arch, Arches National Park, Ut.

 

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We hiked to Delicate Arch in Arches National Park

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We might kiss when we are alone

When nobody's watching

We might take it home

We might make out when nobody's there

It's not that we're scared

It's just that it's delicate

 

So why'd you fill my sorrows

With the words you've borrowed

From the only place you've known

 

And why'd ya sing Hallelujah

If it means nothing to you

Why'd you sing with me at all?

 

We might live like never before

When there's nothing to give

Well how can we ask for more

We might make love in some secret place

The look on your face is delicate

 

So why'd you fill my sorrow

With the words you've borrowed

From the only place that you've known

And why'd you sing Hallelujah

If it means nothing to you

Why'd you sing with me at all?

 

And why'd you fill my sorrows

With the words you've borrowed

From the only place that you've known

Why'd you sing Hallelujah

If it means nothing to you

Why'd you sing with me at all?

  

Delicate Arch is a 65-foot-tall (20 m) freestanding natural arch located in Arches National Park near Moab, Utah, US. It is the most widely recognized landmark in Arches National Park and is depicted on Utah license plates and on a postage stamp commemorating Utah's centennial anniversary of statehood in 1996. The Olympic torch relay for the 2002 Winter Olympics passed through the arch. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delicate_Arch

Stop calling me "someones's daughter."

 

I'm someone.

 

That should be reason enough not to hurt me.

Arches National Park

The beautiful little flower known as the speedwell. Taken in Durham Botanical Garden.

This is one of the handful of telemacro shots, taken on 16 December 2014, that came out well enough to use. Such a pity, as the hoar frost on that day was so spectacular. The light, however, was so bad, as it was very cloudy and foggy.

 

On 16 December 2014, it was the annual Audubon Christmas Bird Count for the town of High River. This town is SE of Calgary, roughly half an hour's drive from the southern edge of Calgary. My small group travelled in two cars, 8 people in total, and we covered the SE quadrant of the Count circle.

 

At the end of my description, I will add the report compiled by our leader, Gus Yaki. As usual, there were several of these sightings listed that I, myself, did not see. Also, I ended up with poor photos of most of the things that I did see. The day was absolutely beautiful, but the light was even worse than I had realized. The amazing hoar frost, that covered everything, surprisingly lasted pretty well the whole day - usually, it lasts only a very short time. So, even though the light wasn't good for photos, the hoar frost beauty stayed with us all day long - just breathtaking. For our drive down to High River, we had fog which, in patches, was quite thick. Wondered if we would see anything at all when we reached our area, ha. It was cold and damp, as well as foggy. In addition to that, some of the birds, such as the three Snowy Owls (I only saw two of them) were SO far away, there was no chance for photos, except an occasional one just for the record. Only 35 species were seen in the total for the complete Count circle.

 

Of course, as always happens, I just had to take photos of anything else that caught my eye, including several barns, cloud formations, farm cats, an old truck, scenery and so on.

 

At one of our stops, we were looking in the bushes/shrubs at the edge of a farm, where a Northern Saw-whet Owl had been sighted last Christmas Count. No luck with an owl, but one of the birders spotted a male Merlin very high up on a power pole. A short while later, it was spotted just down the road, perched on a fence post. Such a beautiful bird - but such lousy light!

 

We had finished our count by 5:00 pm, by which time it was, of course, completely dark. A few of us stayed for the delicious pot luck supper, mainly provided by the generous birding people down in High River. Lorrie and John gave a slide show of their recent trip to Africa. So many great shots of beautiful bird species that I have never seen. Thanks, Lorrie and John, for spending time going through all your slides at home and choosing a lovely selection for us. Many thanks, too, for driving Shirley and myself all day long!

 

"HIGH RIVER CBC, SE quadrant, Frank Lk; E of #2, S of #23. 0830-1700, 16Dec2014. Overcast, heavy fog, created great hoarfrost on everything. Winds, variable direction, 10-15kph. -7°C. Ground mostly bare of snow; Little Bow River 95% frozen.

 

1. Mallard-1 f.

2. Scaup sp.- juv or f, likely Lesser-1

3. Gray Partridge-7

4. Ring-necked Pheasant-2

5. Bald Eagle-3 ( 2 ad/ 1 juv.)

6. Merlin-1 m.

7. Rock Pigeon-8

8. Great Horned Owl- 5 [an additional one seen N of Hwy 23, just W of Frank Lk exit at 16:56 pm.]

9. Snowy Owl-3

10. Downy Woodpecker-2

11. Northern Flicker-2

12. Black-billed Magpie-83

13. Common Raven-15

14. Horned Lark-20

15. Black-capped Chickadee-7

16. Common Redpoll-155

17. House Sparrow-669

18. 17 species of birds

 

MAMMALS:

 

Deer Mouse-1, deceased.

White-tailed Jackrabbit-1

Mule Deer-25

White-tailed Deer-44

 

Total Km by car-111; by foot- 3.

Total hours by car – 6; on foot-2.5

 

Gus Yaki"

Let’s do that magical little lift that brings so much joy. Not too rude though; this is a delicate task that can easily turn tasteless. Key is to go slow, act with grace and keep it elegant. Sweet subtle seduction, all in good taste. That’s the way I like it and I hope you like my style too.

Yes, the nights in the middle of Utah, like in Arches NP are really dark. This is a single shot, I only adjusted graduation and colors a little bit.

Delicate Arch at Arches National Park, Utah during sunset.

If you've got just a moment click on the photo to enjoy it enlarged on black background.

 

It is very rare for me to post more that one photo in a day, but then it is very rare for me to get some passable lightning shots.

 

If you haven't tried lightning shots before and would like to give it a shot (pun intended) just click here for a simple tutorial.

 

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This very delicate wildflower didn't last very long. the winds knocked the petals off very quickly. Processed with Topaz Detail

Delicate red blossom in the gardens of Kingston Lacy House Dorset

Alpenglow on Delicate Arch in Arches National Park. We missed the actual sunset and got a lot of smug looks from the other tripod bearors who proceeded to leave...but the real color came about 20 minutes later as we were kicking ourselves for missing sunset, and getting ready to go. The good light crept up on us and everything began to glow, and for 5 minutes, give or take, we had spectacular color. It's about a mile walk back down the slickrock to your vehicle, and a bit hairy in January. My brother went over the side on the icy shelf leading down the backside of this bowl, and luckily managed to catch himself before a drop of a good 20 feet or so that might have been disastrous. The cold didn't bother us much, as our adrenalin by that point was running pretty high.

Have a beautiful Sunday, everyone...

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