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I'm a little old-fashioned in my approach to photography. Actually, I'm old-fashioned in my approach to writing and recording music, too, and in a very similar way. I love digital tools. The portability, flexibility, power and non-destructive nature of the editing process make photography, for me, a fantastic creative medium. (That non-destructive aspect is also a very powerful learning mechanism, but that is likely the subject of another study.) With all that power and flexibility comes the need for discipline, though, the need for very specific objectives when approaching an exposure, and, for me, the need for establishing rules that govern my processing methods, both in general and specific to the photograph i'm developing.
One rule, or philosophy, that i have applied pretty faithfully in all my creative work is to emulate analog processes and workflows as much as possible, not because i think it's better to do it this way, more because it's a better fit for the way I think and work and for the things I create. There are many, many amazing photographic artists pushing the limits of the medium with transformative digital approaches. And honestly, I love the work and the people creating those new spaces for us to explore and inhabit. But that's not my choice, at least for now. My choice is to be faithful to the analog approach, transported to digital media. That's why I do most of my editing in lightroom and silver efex. These tools feel very organic to me, and support me in a very non-intrusive way. For me, they are tools that are simple enough to stay out of my way, yet powerful enough to enable my creative process. In other words, they are tools that stay tools, for me. But i digress …
Today's study began its life on a terrace in Manarola, Italy, just after the sun had set. This presented the classic, tricky exposure challenge with a bright sky and a shadowy foreground. So, I exposed this image for the highlights, knowing that the shadows would retain some detail (in this case, a lot of detail.) Sure enough, the hills in the foreground were deep black in the raw image (at least 2 stops under-exposed), and the sky and sea were a little bright (maybe a half-stop over-exposed.) Getting this corrected would require a little dodging and burning in those two areas.
I dodged (using LR's adjustment tool) the hills to the left and right of the deep cleft that defines this beautiful village, leaving the houses and structures untouched. The roofs and flat surfaces picked up just enough sky light, and combined with the few incandescent lights, scattered through the foreground, the core of the village was at just the right exposure to produce the effect I wanted, that twilight time when the light of living shifts from the natural to the manufactured.
I burned the sky down to the horizon line, using LR's graduated filter with a very light touch of exposure reduction (maybe a tenth of a stop) combined with a slight increase in saturation and some small adjustments to contrast, highlights and shadows, just enough to enhance the definition in the clouds and bring out that touch of light on the leading edge of all the scattered clouds.
And, finally, I burned the sea (again with the adjustment tool), applying a very subtle reduction in exposure (not even a tenth of a stop) and the same approach to saturation, contrast, highlights and shadow adjustments to bring out more definition in the reflections and the texture of the surface near the shoreline.
And there you have it - a pretty simple study of dodging and burning in digital photography. Best of all, I kinda like the result.
littletinperson
p.s. For those of you following the continuing saga of nick, this photograph was the source for the sky in chapter 40. And charlotte hedman, with her simple question about where a person might find a sky like this, was the unknowing instigator behind this study. If you like this image, you can thank her by visiting her photostream at www.flickr.com/photos/111778568@N06/.
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. Martin Luther King, Jr.
These are Gerbera Daisies! Fortunately We haven't received all those extremely hot days in our nook of Mid-Michigan that so many of the other places in the country have been getting! Around seven days in the 90s + this year! The trade off however translates into the worst series of destructive storms in the country! Time to enjoy what we can in floral delights like Gerbera Daisies! ❤
Many of you have heard of Robbie, the most energetic, destructive little daredevil squirrel in my yard. Well, meet Robbie Jr. this adorable, innocent looking little guy has yet to be destructive but his energy and tricks make Robbie look like a timid, lazy, little squirrel. I just hope he does not learn to be destructive. For now, the entertainment factor is off the charts.
Earlier this month Robbie Jr. was on the main bird feeder. I noticed a branch in oak tree number two that needed to be trimmed in order to prevent this from continuing. Or so I thought... The branch was removed, yet every time I turned around young Robbie was on that feeder. Hmmm, I wondered how on earth he could get there. That question was soon answered. I watched as he ran and took a flying leap at the squirrel baffle, hitting it dead center. He scampered quickly the rest of the way to the top of the baffle and it was game over from there.
I allowed him to eat a while, after all a little treat was well deserved for that stunt. I decided that five minutes was enough time to partake in the birds treats so I sent Robbie Jr. on his way. Then I raised the baffle higher on the pole and waited, but not for long. With great amusement, I watched Robbie try, try and try again to reach the main feeder with his jump and scamper method. Ha, Robbie was defeated and I was confident things would go back to normal. Feeling rather pleased with myself for thwarting Robbie's ability to reach the main feeder , I gave him some treats and went about my business.
As I was preparing dinner, I happened to look out the living room window. What did I see? You guessed it, Robbie Jr. on the main bird feeder. How on earth did he get there. Would I need a shorter baffle? Once again, I allowed Robbie Jr. to stay a while and enjoy the treats that he obviously deserved. This time he ate every last seed from the feeder and went on his way. Knowing that the birds had plenty of other options at the other feeding stations, I did not fill that feeder until the following day.
The next morning, Robbie Jr. was waiting in oak tree number two when I went out to fill the main feeder. His little body was quivering and tail twitching with excitement as he watched. Keeping an eye on Robbie Jr. I closed and fastened the top of the freshly filled feeder and walked away grinning.
In a matter of seconds I heard swish, thump, scratch. I turned to the feeder and Robbie Jr. was on the feeder. He had leapt about twelve feet through the air, landed on the feeder, loosened the fastener, opened the top and was devouring the birds treats. This time I did not allow Robbie Jr. to stay nor did I give him treats after he was scolded. No sense in letting him train me to give him treats for bad behavior. Robbie Jr. immediately scampered back up oak tree number two and started quivering and twitching once more. We continued our game for several rounds, Robbie Jr. gave up, at least for a while and settled on eating beauty berries from one of the many available bushes.
Other squirrels in the yard do not attempt a jump from that distance and height. They seem content with the treats put out for them on the palm stump and other locations.
As for the main bird feeder, other locations are under consideration but I'm not sure there is a location that won't allow Robbie Jr. access :)
After some real destructive action, most of the cars in this round of the demolition derby were no longer moving. Smoke and steam poured out of engines and tailpipes. The Lone Wolf car got permanently stuck against a cement wall.
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The photo is not digitally manipulated, but has been printed and been "manipulated" in real life, whereafter it's been re-photographed.
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Split in two half’s broken tree trunk on Duffins trail in Discovery bay , Martin’s photographs , Ajax , Ontario , Canada , June 29. 2022
American Larch trees with beautiful small cones
Tamarack trees with beautiful small cones
Cones
Blooming Dogwood
flowering white dead nettles
Looking down at the front end of my bicycle
Bicycle
Four days after the destructive storm of 21 May 2022
old apple trees with beautiful blossoms
old orchard on the waterfront trail of Lake Ontario
blue sky in Squires beach
May 2022
Blossoms
Flowering trees
apple trees with blossoms
old orchard on the waterfront trail
Old orchard
Trees with blossoms
tall grasses
the large stone block walls
system to keep the Carp from entering Duffins marsh and creek system
viewed from the bridge across the marsh in Squires beach
Having a nice walk with granny in the woods
Family
Sunset
Shrubs
Oak tree
Trees with blossoms
Trees
Stones
Reflections
Reflection
Dogwood
Duffins trail
blue sky
cloud cover
yellow Tamarack tree
Tamarack tree
Tamarac
American Larch tree
Beautiful Nettles and it’s flowers
Nettles
Waterfront trail on Lake Ontario
Waterfront trail of Lake Ontario
Autumn
Shadows
Reflections
Large mushroom
Bird houses
Autumn
Duffins creek
Discovery bay
closeup photograph
Martin’s photographs
Ajax
Ontario
Canada
Duffins creek
Favourites
IPhone XR
Mushroom
Large Mushroom
wildflowers
Trout lilies
Lake Ontario
Mouth of Duffins creek marsh
white Deadnetles
River
Dogwood
Woods
Granny
Favourites
White Trilliums
Duffins marsh
Duffins trail
Ferns
Trilliums
Large tree
The bumblebee who has collected a lot of pollen and ready to leave wants 'just a little more'....the other bug (which I believe is a destructive type..Japanese Beetle?) simply would not budge.
I took more photos of other flowers and came back...several times....and they were in the same positions-lol
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Happy you've stopped by:-)...Pat...xo
I found this scene compelling because it showed two extremely destructive forces - the effects of fire and the effects of mankind's machinery.
As you can tell, both threaten this magnificent old tree. The fire scorched the branches and the machinery is tearing away at the very ground the tree stands upon...
This is a high dyanmic range image which is comprised of three shots taken with a tripod on auto bracketing and blended with Photomatix software.
As with all HDR imagery, this image is better when viewed at the larger sizes.
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Photograph taken at an altitude of Fifty one metres at 15:54pm on an beautiful summer afternoon on Saturday 17th July 2021, off Woolacombe Road and Broad Walk in a garden in Blackheath, South East London.
Here we see an adult female Eastern Grey Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis), munching on some kitchen scraps.
The Grey (or Gray) squirrel, you either love 'em or you hate 'em. Cute and fluffy little funsters or destructive critters who ruin trees, kill bird chicks and trees and damage our homes... oh and it's their fault we lost our native Red squirrels as well!
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I get it and I see both sides of the story of course. For my part, I am a nature, wildlife and landscape photographer who prefers the company of animals and natural beauty to fellow humans who are systematically plundering Mother Earth's resources and killing off her beautiful creatures at an alarming rate! I believe there is a natural order of things, creatures kill other creatures to survive, they adapt to situations and when mankind encroaches on their territory to make a fast buck, those animals sometimes adapt to survive and the order changes. That is the balance of nature which is ever changing and affected by us..... the dumbest of the great apes.
Some species are driven out by others, some may be destined to become extinct, the fittest will survive, and sometime a species will need intervention and help from mankind in order to survive... usually as a direct consequence of mankind's own actions in destroying the animal kingdom's natural habitat of course.
I adore these little fellas and at almost sixty years old, I never grew up knowing red squirrels at all. I've seen reds in Scotland and black squirrels in Stanley Park on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada, but in my beloved home country of England I have always known and loved the cute little Greys. They visit my garden and give me hours, days, weeks of happiness and wonderful photographic opportunities, and I see them in Parks and forests all around me, so it's time to offer up an insight into the Grey squirrel, much loved, much hated... a sort of Marmite rodent if you will.
WHAT EXACTLY IS A SQUIRREL?
The word 'Squirrel', was first recorded in 1327 and hails from the Anglo-Norman word 'Esquirel', from old French 'Escurel', which was a reflex for the Latin word 'Sciurus'.The Eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) is also known as the Eastern Grey squirrel or simply grey squirrel depending on the region of the world it is found. It is a tree squirrel, of the squirrel family Sciuridae including over one hundred arboreal species native to all continents of the world other than Antarctica and Oceania. Tree squirrels live mostly in trees, apart from the flying squirrel. The best known genus is Sciurus, containing most of the bushy tailed squirrels which are found in Europe, North America, temperate Asia as well as central and south America.
The scientific classification for the Eastern Grey is:
KINGDOM: ANIMALIA PHYLUM: CHORDATA CLASS: MAMMALIA ORDER: RODENTIA FAMILY: SCIURIDAE GENUS: SCIURUS SUBGENUS: SCIURUS SPECIES: SCIURUS CAROLINENSIS
They were first noted by German naturalist, botanist, entomologist, herpetologist, and malacologist - Johann Friedrich Gmelin in 1788.
A mammal and rodent, predominantly herbivorous they are none the less an omnivore with a life span of between two and ten years. They can grow to 70cm in length and weigh up to 8kg. There are more than two hundred and sixty species of worldwide squirrel, the smallest being the African pygmy squirrel at just 10cm in length, whereas the Indian giant squirrel is three feet long! The oldest fossil of a squirrel, Hesperopetes, dates back to the late Eocene epoch period Chadronian period of 40-35 million years ago. The tree squirrels rotate their ankles by 180 degrees, so that the hind paws pointy backwards gripping tree bark which enables them to descend a tree headfirst.
Originally native to Eastern and Midwestern United States of America, they were first introduced into the United Kingdom in 1876 in Henbury Park, Macclesfield in Cheshire when Victorian banker Thomas V. Brocklehurst released a pair of Greys that he brought back from a business trip to America after their attraction as pets had waned. Victorians had a penchant for collecting exotic animals and birds of the world, but trends came and went and subsequently animals were simply discarded into the wilderness. There are early records of greys released near Denbighshire in north Wales from private collections. Later introduced to several regions in the UK, they quickly settled and spread, colonizing an area of three hundred miles in a quarter of a century between Argyll and Stirlingshire in Scotland.
Introductions of the Greys between 1902 and 1929 (the year of the last recorded introduction), included: Regent’s Park in London, Berkshire, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire, Devon, Warwickshire, Nottinghamshire, Suffolk and Hampshire. Grey Squirrels spread into Gloucestershire and eastern Wiltshire with animals coming directly from the United States or from Woburn. One hundred greys were released in Richmond Park in Surrey in 1902, Ninety one into Regent’s Park between 1905 and 1907 and a further ten New Jersey imported greys were introduced into Woburn Park in Bedfordshire.
Predators include hawks, weasels, raccoons, bobcats, foxes, domestic and feral cats, snakes, owls, and dogs, African harrier-hawks in Africa and... oh yes, Mankind pretty much everywhere who despise, mistreat, cull or eat it .
FACTS, MYTHS AND THAT POXY PARAPOX!
The massive decline in native red squirrels blamed upon the spread of the invasive greys has always been perhaps a little harsh as reds were already in a steep decline due to loss of habitat and disease and thus the greys simply took over the areas where the reds were dwindling. It's also a fact that reds were also seen as a plague, branded as pests who killed birds and damaged trees and the culling of reds almost brought them to the brink of extinction. Licenses to kill reds could still be obtained up until the seventies!
Reds suffered at the hands of mankind thanks to a combination of agricultural deforestation also linked with war and fuel needs which caused extinction in Southern Scotland and Ireland by the early eighteenth century, way before greys had been introduced. Harsh winters killed off the less hardy red population in the early nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Greys are more adept at finding food and adapting to locations and environments, but also carry the squirrel poxvirus (SQPV) which although not particularly harmful to them, is a serious infection for the reds.
Parapox in red squirrels causes swollen lesions around the mouth, eyes, ears and nose also the front paws and sometimes genitals and skin ulcers and kills a red within fifteen days. There is no definitive correlation between the spread of the virus and the spread of the Greys, it actually arrived in several areas before the greys began to colonize there. An epidemic virus was observed in Red squirrels from at least 1900 with isolation attempts failing, and the first case of Parapox in the UK was in 1980 in the county of Norfolk. Greys cannot transmit the virus to reds via saliva or faeces, but reds can between each other from bodily secretions and at animal feeders in gardens. The transmission from greys to reds is though to come from parasites. Eight to ten per cent of reds survive the virus, and there is some evidence that reds are slowly building an evolved resistance.
Greys are seen as pests to forest land, stripping bark from trees during May and June, and are also capable of destroying household bins, water pipes, causing roof damage not to mention taking eggs and killing young chicks of ground nesting and songbird populations. They also take from bird feeders and there is a whole industry for creating squirrel proof feeders these days.
THE CULLING OF GREY SQUIRRELS
Grey squirrels have limited legal protection and can be legally controlled all year round by a variety of methods including shooting and trapping. Methods of trapping and killing include Drey poking and shooting, Tunnel trapping using spring traps set in accordance with BASC’s trapping pest mammals code of practice. They can also be shot using a shotgun or powerful air rifle or up until September 30th 2014 poisoned by Warfarin (Now outlawed).
Whilst professional trapping and extermination is hopefully done as humanely as possible, there have been cases, many of them where cost savings have been gained by battering the squirrels to death! Grey squirrels are trapped in ghastly metal contraptions for hours and hours, wearing themselves out frantically trying to escape by gnawing at the metals bars. They bite the floor and scratch at them with their claws and do not get a moments peace or rest through absolute fear. Once the traps are retrieved, each squirrel, terrified will be thrown into a sack and smacked on the head countless times with a blunt instrument. When a mother is slaughtered, her babies who are totally dependent on her, will die a slow death of thirst and starvation.
There is an argument for the control of Greys on many grounds but also a counter argument that Culling does not work, and has not on countless times where, once a population of greys have been culled, the nearest group will move back in and claim the land. The university of Bristol concluded that there was little evidence that culling greys to save red squirrels was effective, and that perhaps finding a way of boosting red squirrel immunity to the poxvirus or planting areas of yew trees where reds are known to thrive and spending money on research into positive moves might be a better option.
In Ireland, the re-introduction of the Pine marten, a species made extinct originally by the very same land owners who also wish to do the same to the grey squirrel, has seen the rapid demise of the grey and the re-introduction of the native reds. Red squirrels are smaller and more nimble than their grey counterparts, and as such can get to the very ends of tree branches where neither the pine martins, nor more importantly the heavier greys can, thus surviving and thriving. As a result in Ireland, the grey squirrel population has crashed in approximately 9,000 km2 of its former range and the reds has become common once more after a thirty year absence... oh and Pine Martens are protected again!
In Scotland, Pine Martens exist in areas where Red squirrels thrive, and greys do not. So perhaps there is a lesson here, as in England where there are no pine martens, the greys are prolific breeders. So there is an argument against the barbarity of shooting and poisoning greys, and if, as so many believe, the greys MUST be controlled, how about a more humane and natural method that nature intended.. with re-introduction of predators. Just a thought!
So a few facts and figures on the greys and to wrap up, from a purely personal perspective I love these little guys, as I do almost every creature in nature other than those eight legged beasties that shall not be named and for which I have a deep and powerful phobia that borders on paranoia!
I could no more harm an animal deliberately than eat a McDonald's McRib (Once saw how they are made and let me just say... eeeuuuuuwwwww!!).
They are small, cute, cuddly, furry, they photograph beautifully, have great personality and make me smile. They trust me enough to take food from my hand in parks, and I can't bare the though of ugly, hairy land owners sticking a shotgun in their face and blowing them away! I appreciate they can be a pest, a problem, a menace, that their PR managers might have a bit of a problem winning you over when they flay small chicks alive on your lawn or decimate the songbird population by stealing their eggs.... and perhaps there is a need to keep the population under control and try and re-establish the red population.....
Yep I get that....
I just hope we can solve the problem more humanely to create a peaceful coexistence of the reds and greys in different areas. A man can dream can't he.
Paul Williams June 18th 2021
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Bushfires are both a destructive and a life-giving entity in the outback.
From Wikipedia:
Plants have evolved a variety of strategies to survive (or even require) fires, (possessing reserve shoots that sprout after a fire, or developing fire-resistant or fire-triggered seeds) or even encourage fire (eucalypts contain flammable oils in the leaves) as a way to eliminate competition from less fire-tolerant species. Many native animals are also adept at surviving bushfires.
Forest fires can be very destructive and disruptive in many ways. It’s hard to see landscapes you know dramatically changed and charred to a crisp from a fire. On the flip side it's scenes like this one that remind me of the beauty that will always be there as nature grows back into whatever it will be next. It’s all part of the cycle of nature on our planet, one that shows us resiliency at it’s best.
Part left of the old apple tree in the old orchard on the waterfront trail of lake Ontario with a cloudy blue sky in Squires beach , Martin’s photographs , Ajax , Ontario , Canada , June 1. 2022
The destructive storm of 21 May 2022 that destroyed life and did damage to buildings and nature it wrecked this beautiful old apple tree with blossoms in the old orchard on the waterfront trail of lake Ontario with a blue sky in Squires beach
Looking down at the front end of my bicycle
Bicycle
Four days after the destructive storm of 21 May 2022
old apple trees with beautiful blossoms
old orchard on the waterfront trail of Lake Ontario
blue sky in Squires beach
May 2022
Blossoms
Flowering trees
apple trees with blossoms
old orchard on the waterfront trail
Old orchard
Trees with blossoms
vista with colourful trees ,
bulrushes
tall grasses
the large stone block walls
system to keep the Carp from entering Duffins marsh and creek system
viewed from the bridge across the marsh in Squires beach
Having a nice walk with granny in the woods
Family
Sunset
May 2022
Shrubs
Oak tree
Trees
Stones
Reflections
Reflection
Dogwood
Orange yellow Tamarack tree
Duffins trail
blue sky
cloud cover
yellow Tamarack tree
Tamarack tree
Tamarac
American Larch tree
Beautiful Nettles and it’s flowers
Nettles
Waterfront trail on Lake Ontario
Waterfront trail of Lake Ontario
Black eye Susan’s
Colourful bird houses
Autumn
Shadows
Reflections
Garter snake
Large mushroom
Bird houses
Autumn
Duffins creek
Discovery bay
cropped photograph
closeup photograph
Martin’s photographs
Ajax
Ontario
Canada
Duffins creek
Favourites
IPhone XR
Mushroom
Large Mushroom
wildflowers
Trout lilies
Lake Ontario
Mouth of Duffins creek marsh
white Deadnetles
River
Dogwood
Woods
Granny
Favourites
White Trilliums
Duffins marsh
Duffins trail
Ferns
Trilliums
Large tree
Two years ago a destructive fire affected the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, an impressive monument of early Gothic architecture. It was the place where I used to linger for a long time, to be silent, in my frequent pilgrimages through the French capital. In February 2020 (on my last trip to Paris, before the terrible pandemic) I was again near the cathedral and what I saw gives me hope that in a few years this architectural gem will be reborn from the ashes, more splendid and stronger, like the Phoenix bird...
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Newly spray-painted over the council's destructive black daubs over former graffiti and springing out at the unsuspecting passing public is a brash-fresh heavy ace trump card-toting joker mural with a big " H I " to the local authority destroyers in chalk beneath. A kind of " HERE'S JONNY" moment, lol.
The sheer brass neck nerve of these kids :-)))
A destructive pest. Approx 7mm.
19th April 2019 Bishops Wood Near Bishops Offley Staffordshire UK
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As we here in South Florida prepare for Hurricane Irma, we marvel at the strength and ferocity of Mother Nature. Irma is now a Category 5 Hurricane with winds between 180 and 220 mph, pounding and churning away just to the southeast of us and heading our way. Very destructive and catastrophic. They're saying it will be the strongest Caribbean Hurricane of all time. We have our supplies and I'm putting up our hurricane shutters today. The critical part will be exactly when and where the turn to the north will take it; to the east or west of us, or directly over us. Once we are done with all of our preparations I guess the only thing left for us to do will be to pray... and hope for the best.
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St. Augustine Lighthouse ~ Saint Augustine, Florida U.S.A.
Summer 2017 ~ Northern Florida ~ The Treasure Coast
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St. Augustine Lighthouse is located on the north end of Anastasia Island in St. Augustine, Florida. Built in 1874 of brick, the St. Augustine Lighthouse is 163 feet high making it the 8th tallest lighthouse in the United States today. It's all about the light.... finding it and following it to safe harbor. The light can be seen from 25+ miles out to sea.
Today St. Augustine Lighthouse is run by the non-profit St. Augustine Lighthouse and Museum Inc and is open to the public. Visitors can climb the 219 steps to the top for great views from this beautiful and fun tourist attraction. It was recently re-painted last year! Fun to visit!
[FYI: Tallest building in town is 6 floors = 60 feet.
This lighthouse, towers over that at - 163 feet high.]
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"Tryin' to Reason with Hurricane Season" - Jimmy Buffett
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"Tryin' to Reason with Hurricane Season" - (Live 1974)
The genesis for the destructive Camp Fire was one mile to the north of the tiny resort community of Pulga, CA, located in the Feather River Canyon. According to reports, the entire area surrounding Pulga was wiped out by the fire. It makes shots like this extra special. Late on a summer afternoon, a westbound Union Pacific grain train exits the small resort community.
Eastern Sierra, CA.
Forecasted by: Escaype
Peace cannot be attained by false judgement and speculations. Promote LOVE instead of promoting your destructive opinion.
Wollige Bundelzwam, destructive Pholiota (Pholiota populnea / Hemipholiota populnea)
Hemipholiota populnea is a mushroom-forming fungus commonly known as destructive Pholiota
11 November 2025, Westerpark, Zoetermeer
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Tree rat or ermm fluffy cuddly woodland dweller ?? I must say their stunning little animals but are very destructive and I would really like to see a red un !!
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Nature is fascinating, scary, beautiful, awe inspiring, destructive, creative, blue, red, orange, black and many other things that I cannot explain. What I know is that floods are a part of nature and have a devastating impact on life, property and the environment. Such raw and brutal force can also be unusually calm. Looking at these placid waters no one would believe these to be the very waters hiding paddy fields, broken bits of houses, cattle, roads, bridges, gardens and many other things underneath it. These are the other side of flood waters. These are from my flood documentation trip to Dhakuakhana, Assam.
Reeve's Muntjac / muntiacus reevesi. Minsmere, Suffolk. 12/02/15.
From the archives and made earlier this year.
Muntjac are never popular garden visitors for those that value their flower beds and shrubs. They can be very destructive in their quest for food.
However, I always feel privileged to find them.
I love to observe them out in the woods and find their anatomical build hilarious! Their legs look too short and they are decidedly rotund (fat).....but completely endearing.
If you can dismiss the two little 'devil horns' and the goofy, fang-like canines, you are left looking at a stunning face with beautiful liquid brown eyes.
This Japanese Beetle was one of many that we saw on our excursion out to the nature trail. These beetles cause a lot of destruction to the natural vegetation and are becoming quite a pest.
People who know me can attest that I have a self-destructive affinity to chocolates. I already have my tonsils removed 10 years ago as my EENT said that they were already "irreparably diseased'. I still get sick occasionally for excessive sugar intake but with "sore throat"- yes, now my esophagus is the one which gets inflamed now.
I know I really should stop. I try but not when my brother tempts me this box of delicious marzipan (part of his Christmas gifts). In just one sitting, midway in taking photographs of the colorful delights, I ate six. So let's see- at 180calories (50cal fat) per 3 pieces, they were easily 360 calories or about 2 hours of jogging. Aaargh!
Astoria, New York, the US
more on my sugar addiction in Have Chocolate, Will Travel at www.colloidfarl.blogspot.com/
My first infrared edit in years. I am hoping to improve and expand on the technique. I am unsure whether Capture Pro + Pixelmator are enough to push the boundaries of what is possible with IR photography, seeing most guides suggest Photoshop with its built in RAW + destructive editing.
"The self-destructive society"
This is the third "teaser image" from the book, i'll upload more often from now on. The image is part of a larger series, focusing on the modern society's defects and its self-destructive energy.
The iceberg and the house is made from very compact cardboard.
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This is my sons favorite Monster Truck i call it the Destructive Force as they knock off things around the house leaving me a whole mess to clean up.
A flashback on the bushfires that tore through Winmalee and Yellow rock in 2013.
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The power of Samus' Zero Laser blasts open the tank hangar at Shadow Moses Island, revealing Metal Gear REX.
Name: Voodoom
Secret Identity: Jeram Umbaru
Powers/Abilities: Voodoo, Destructive Magic, Poison
Backstory: After illegal deforestation decimated the land around the village of Tiklan, the village's shaman and healer, Jeram Umbaru, swore vengeance against the members of the group he believed to be responsible. That had led him to Bricklyn city, where he intended to set wrongs right. It didn't take him long to deem the entire city guilty for one groups actions, and since then the elusive witchdoctor has preyed upon the citizens of the city with voodoo, poisons, and everything else in his arsenal.
Recently, authorities have finally managed to locate and detain Jeram, but it is unknown how long they can keep him.
Grass fires set by railroad equipment can be quite destructive. Sometimes, they reveal things hidden in the weeds. Amtrak's California Zephyr train No. 6 breezes through Provo, Utah the morning of July 23, 1988. A recent fire revealed the former Salt Lake & Utah Railroad interurban track just south of the Provo River bridge and west of downtown. The Rio Grande acquired 6.6 miles of this track in 1946 to access a chemical plant and several fruit packing houses in the city of Orem, abandoned in 1972. A mile was saved as a 'drill track' to access the old interchange yard at Provo Junction.