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'Life is a Journey, Not a Destination' - Emerson
Chiang Mai Railway Station, Thailand
Nikon D5100, Tamron 18-270, ISO 640, f/9.0, 85mm, 1/30s
European bee-eaters arrive in France with spring.
More than an hour from the house, I like to go and admire them every year: twirling, chasing insects (butterflies, dragonflies, wasps, etc.), in amorous display with offerings, later feeding their young, the spectacle is absolutely beautiful! Well aware of the fragility of these moments because their food source is diminishing with the scarcity of insects and this is very alarming
!Photo taken from inside the car, window open in camouflage.
Les guêpiers européens arrivent en France avec le printemps
A plus d'une heure de la maison, j'aime aller les admirer chaque année : virevoltant, poursuivant les insectes (papillons, libellules, guêpes...), en spectacle amoureux avec des offrandes, puis nourrissant leurs petits, le spectacle est absolument magnifique ! Bien consciente de la fragilité de ces moments car leur source de nourriture diminue avec la raréfaction des insectes et cela est très alarmant !
Photo prise depuis l'interieur de la voiture ,fenêtre ouverte en tenue de camouflage .
France
This chipmunk that we found deep in the forest was hiding in plain sight. it thought by not moving it would not be found, and that nearly was the case. We could hardly see it in the light as diminished by the trees; had to turn the speed down and the iso up to photograph it. A little light came through a break in the tree tops which can be seen in the eye reflection.
Photo taken in Kent Gardens Park, McLean, Virginia.
One of the most iconic images of Zion National Park is this mountain formation known as The Watchman.
At the southern entrance to the park, easily accessed from the National Park Visitor Center, it is the first introduction to the color and grandeur that is Zion. At the end of the day, it is the last part of the park seen by most visitors, as well. I just was lucky enough to see it at the end of daylight on the last day of 2019, when the clouds above still captured the direct sunlight, even though the rest of the canyon was nearly shrouded in darkness.
Many photographers think this formation is far too popularized to waste their time on, but I felt that, with the light of day diminishing rapidly on the momentous occasion of the decade's end, there was something comforting about seeing The Watchman standing its post as it has done and will continue to do for millennia.
I finished this photo three different ways and this is the version that worked. In the color version, the details got lost in the details. This particular processing diminished the peripheral details, leaving the center of the photo more manageable to the eye. A photographic situation in which less is more.
Yes, this is the one that visitors can see from inside the cave behind the falls. The day we visited it was windy and there was no place that was dry from approximately the bench in this image and back to the wall. The footing was a bit iffy but if you ask me and I suspect a high percentage of visitors to this site nothing diminishes the enthusiasm one feels to see and experience this amazing waterfall.
Part of a Mother's Day bouquet of assorted blossoms, that came with a box of assorted chocolates.
I'm not sure which will have a longer life span but I'm very much enjoying them both as they diminish.
A midwinter morning, the frost stubbornly clings to branches and grass in the fields whilst the sun endeavours to burn off the overnight mist with it's diminished winter warmth.
The South Downs National Park, England.
of Ramson blossoms / Bärlauch (Allium ursinum)
in our garden - Frankfurt-Nordend
for a HMBT !
Unfortunately the times of delicious wild garlic pesto are over again for this season as the leaves become more chewy and the aroma diminishes when it starts to bloom :-((
The Pasterze, at approximately 8.4 kilometres (5.2 mi) in length, is the longest glacier in Austria and in the Eastern Alps. It lies within the Glockner Group of the High Tauern mountain range in Carinthia, directly beneath Austria's highest mountain, the Grossglockner. The length of the glacier is currently decreasing by about 10 m (33 ft) each year. Its volume has diminished by half since the first measurements in 1851.
Zhengbin Fishing Harbor Colorful Houses, Keelung, Taiwan.
Zhengbin Fishing Harbor, located at the south of Heping Island, is considerably more laid back. The Port is built by the Japanese in 1934, and it was the biggest fishing port in Taiwan during the Japanese era. Although it gradually diminished afterward, its down-to-earth appearance endures. The city is actively seeking to preserve it as a place for relaxation and nostalgia. There has been a boat named “Folk Art” at Zhengbin Fishing Harbor. It was the first art museum on the sea. Besides, it also held dragon boat race and some activities, which were quite popular.
🌟 Explore ** March 11, 2023.
I have seen more swallowtails and frits than any other butterfly this summer. I feel like the number has diminished this year.
A female Puku antelope feeds her youngster in Zambia's South Luangwa National Park. Nearly one-third of all Puku are found in protected areas, zoos, and national parks due to their diminishing habitat.
Stadthuisbrug (bridge that serves as a town square) in central Utrecht.
Utrecht is an old city in the Netherlands that originated as a Roman castellum. It used to stand on the Rhine, which has since changed course. The main (or at least the most noticeable) architectural feature of the city center is the Dom Tower, seen here in the background. It used to be part of the main St. Martin's Cathedral. But now it stands detached, overshadowing the much diminished cathedral, since its nave collapsed in 1674.
Excuse me, sir, I don't mean to be a bother, but perhaps you haven't noticed that the suet block has diminished to the point where you might consider replacement. As always, we would be most appreciative and thank you for your kind consideration.
This is one of those mixing balls you put in a health drink. Something like that.
Happy Macro Mondays
Pasterze Glacier
The Pasterze, at approximately 8.4 kilometres (5.2 mi) in length, is the longest glacier in Austria and in the Eastern Alps. It lies within the Glockner Group of the High Tauern mountain range in Carinthia, directly beneath Austria's highest mountain, the Grossglockner. The length of the glacier is currently decreasing by about 50 m (160 ft) each year. Its volume has diminished by half since the first measurements in 1851.
Wiki
Should we stay or should we go?
Elephant numbers have dropped by 62% over the last decade, and they could be mostly extinct by the end of the next decade. An estimated 100 African elephants are killed each day by poachers seeking ivory, meat and body parts, leaving only 400,000 remaining.
An insatiable lust for ivory products in the Asian market makes the illegal ivory trade extremely profitable, and has led to the slaughter of tens of thousands of African elephants. Between 2010 and 2014, the price of ivory in China tripled, driving illicit poaching through the roof. If the elephants are to survive, the demand for ivory must be stopped .
As of 2011, the world is losing more elephants than the population can reproduce, threatening the future of African elephants across the continent. Bull elephants with big tusks are the main targets and their numbers have been diminished to less than half of the females. Female African elephants have tusks and are also killed, which has a terrible effect on the stability of elephant societies, leaving an increasing number of orphaned baby elephants.
There are still more African elephants being killed for ivory than are being born . . . elephant populations continue to decline. (worldelephantday.org)
Not a happy day with these statistics ... but have a HBW anyway!
African Elephant / Afrikanischer Elefant (Loxodonta africana)
Zambezi river, Lower Zambezi N.P., Zambia
song: "MellowSmoove!!!" by 9th Wonder
March 8th, 2021 approximately at 5:38 pm
Samsung SM-G975U (Galaxy s10+)
F 2.4
1/978 s
4.30mm
ISO 50
WB: Auto
program AE
No Flash
Most often when we spot a Snowy Owl it is perched on a fence post, building or utility pole but occasionally we spot one in a field or on a lakeshore. Snowy Owls are heavy feeders of lemmings and voles in their normal Arctic habitat but if the populations of their prey diminishes enough they move south in search of food and their numbers here in the south reflect that. They are one of the largest species of owl in the world and is the provincial bird of Quebec.
Being a bird of the wide open tundra and a ground nester they defend their territory and their young on the nest very aggressively. Predators as large as Arctic Foxes have come under attack by this raptor.
While hunting they will hover or swoop down from their perch while preying on voles, lemmings, grouse, hares, weasels and occasionally songbirds, fish and waterbirds. Often they are seen punching through the snow to snatch a victim.
This immature bird is surveying his surroundings for a potential victim. His heavily feathered feet show us how well they are suited for their Arctic climate.
I hunted for this image on one of my old disconnected hard drives. It shows a sculpture in front of the Radisson Blu Waterfront Hotel where we stayed in 2010. This tree is between the hotel entrance and the setting sun and I took pictures every evening. On this occasion the moon was visible in the same spot where the sun usually set and I thought it looked much better. You can still the diminishing sunlight on the right.
I made the colours a bit cooler than they were on the original file, nothing else had to be done.
If you can create a carefully executed image so that your understanding of the subject comes together with the ephemeral qualities of the moment, it can create something that has more resonance, and can be more enduring, than all those thousands of fleeting impressions :-)
Frans Lanting
HBW!! Justice Matters! Indict Trump!
prunus, weeping fuji cherry, 'Shikizaki', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
"The Lowthers' domain may have diminished somewhat over the centuries, but their vast family estate of Lowther Park is till an undeniably impressive affair. Encompassing great tracts of woodland, forest, hunting park and pasture, the estate's most spectacular feature is THE CRENELLATED RUIN OF LOWTHER CASTLE. The house fell into decline dutring the early 20th century, especially following the infamously profligate antics of Hugh, the 5th Earl of Lonsdale, who bankrupted the family coal mines and spent much of the family fortune." (Lonely Planet / The Lake District)
"Magnificent shot and post processing. Very well done and unique !" / "Magnifique cliché et post-production très bien réalisée. Unique !" (BROKEN MIRROZ / www.flickr.com/photos/kejetr/ )
"Incrível trabalho ! Uma verdadeira obra de arte !!!" / "Un travail extraordinaire ! Une véritable œuvre d'art !!!" (Adilson CINTRA / www.flickr.com/photos/acintra/ )
Overlooking the Aylesbury Vale just as the sun was rising and spreading warmth and light over the countryside. Good time to be alive -- and awake.
And I miss this view from near my last house.
and he approached this sleeping woman taking her hand with her diminished breath almost inert and giving her kiss to wake her up and curling her with her wings and waited
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ4Ilj4ByUs
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AT JAIL EVENT (OCTOBER 10th-30th)
Collection Romeo & Juliette
La Plume
THX kelie ♥
I have been here before and it is a lovely place to look round.
This was late afternoon and the sun was still bright.
Monmouth, Wales, is the only remaining fortified river bridge in Great Britain with its gate tower standing on the bridge. Such bridge towers were common across Europe from medieval times, but many were destroyed due to urban expansion, diminishing defensive requirements and the increasing demands of traffic and trade. The historical and architectural importance of the bridge and its rarity are reflected in its status as a scheduled monument and a Grade I listed building. The bridge crosses the River Monnow (Afon Mynwy) 500 metres (1,600 ft) above its confluence with the River Wye.
Colourful view of a tranquil canal with diminishing perspective towards a bridge.
The challenge was to capture the essence of autumn at sunset. Not an easy combination but I hope this covers the brief.
This crimson beauty brought me back to my Goth days, dressed head to toe in everything Black, even currently listening to Gary Numan whilst I type this out. This was actually the last photo I took on way back home after a brief walkabout yesterday, before it started raining and some of the droplets you can see on the petals. I have barely touched this photo in post processing, not much enhanced saturation at all nor light adjustments, sometimes organic should mean just that.
I decided the dust off the Tamron 70-200mm as it gives a very good bokeh, but I find the D5600 offers plenty more texture in the blowout than my old D3400. Moderate D-Active Lighting and auto WB. It had clouded over due to the rain and the Sunlight was quickly diminishing. So I think is as natural as you can get.
Is it me or has this week felt particularly long? Anyway, it's Friday tomorrow, and so as always thank you! :)
Nature, in her blind search for life, has filled every possible cranny of the earth with some sort of fantastic creature.
-- Joseph Wood Krutch
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The most obvious "creature" here is the Swamp Milkweed (Asclepias incarnata). Years ago, when first spotting this by the lake, I was surprised to learn how many varieties of milkweed there are, many thriving in our area. Yet the monarch butterfly population continues to diminish to the point where I was extremely excited to discover a caterpillar the other day.
No man is an island,
Entire of itself,
Every man is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manor of thy friend's
Or of thine own were:
Any man's death diminishes me,
Because I am involved in mankind,
And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
It tolls for thee.
Nessun uomo è un'Isola,
intero in se stesso.
Ogni uomo è un pezzo del Continente,
una parte della Terra.
Se una Zolla viene portata via dall'onda del Mare,
la Terra ne è diminuita,
come se un Promontorio fosse stato al suo posto,
o una Magione amica o la tua stessa Casa.
Ogni morte d'uomo mi diminusce,
perché io partecipo all'Umanità.
E così non mandare mai a chiedere per chi suona la Campana:
Essa suona per te.
John Donne
I don't know the names of these delicate orchid like composites, small in the shade of piney forest.
In semiotics, naming diminishes knowing, so I don't mind at all.
Same beach, same rock, different compostion from my last post. I decided to retain some colour for this image, to highlight the green on the cliffs, and add some warmth.
My metadata randomly disappears on export from LR, even when enabled ?? another bug.....5 second exposure at f11, focal length 16mm, Canon 5d mk3.
Great Blue Heron brandishing his catch just as the sun breaks the Everglades horizon. It the dry season the fish are easy prey in shallow diminishing puddles in the. Marsh.
Diese Seltenheit sah ich gestern in Bremen.
Die beste Beschreibung habe ich beim British Trust for Ornithology gefunden.
I saw this rarity yesterday in Bremen, Germany.
The best description I found at the British Trust for Ornithology
Ring Ouzel is a breeding bird of rocky slopes and high moorland. Its nominate race breeds in Ireland and Britain and along the mountain spine of Scandinavia from southern Norway to the Kola Peninsula in northwest Russia. In Britain it has a patchy and diminishing range from Dartmoor to northwest Scotland. These birds winter mainly in southern Spain and the Atlas Mountains of North Africa. Migrating Ring Ouzels, many of them from Scandinavia, are frequently seen in Britain well into November, sometimes in company with Redwings and Fieldfares, but are then mostly absent until the first breeders return in late March. Spring passage is noted mainly in April and early May.
Another race, alpestris, breeds along Europe's main watersheds from northern Spain through the Alps to the Appennines, Balkans and Carpathians, and a third race, amicorum, in Turkey, the Caucasus and western Kazakhstan.
Source BTO British Trust for Ornithology
These November days are quite dark and long so I went out for some light and warmth to the Butterfly House of the Amsterdam Zoo. There I was delighted by this very large Atlas Moth. They're night creatures, these Moths, but now the light is so diminished that it's found a resting place more or less midday. Carefully I got very close and it remained perched. This Moth doesn't eat - in fact, it can't because its mouth parts are not adapted to eating - in its imago stage, so it has to preserve energy and fly as little as possible. It won't live much longer than five days. Beautiful creature!
The rural area has its unique scenery. At north of Ontario, scattered first nation tribes and Mennonite community villages. For the first nations, the old traditions have diminished, such as, women were farmers and did most of the child care and cooking, men were hunters and sometimes went to war to protect their families, both genders practiced story-telling, artwork and music, and traditional medicine, etc. The lifestyle is similar to us, except politically independent and has its own government, most of them live beside the lakes… However, Mennonite community, Amish families and communities maintain a more primitive lifestyle than the surrounding culture. Amish lifestyle differs from community to community, for example, no TV and internet for some Amish communities… Work at sunrise, rest at sunset.
The photo was taken at Johnson Township, a vibrant agricultural community with a seasonal Farmer’s Market supported by the local Mennonite community. Beautiful sunshine day, but very cold and strong wind. Mennonite community village was almost disappeared in the blowing snow.
Although my sister and I were wrapped like balls in -30C, still felt being swept away by blizzard ... But we were happy like kids in the blowing snow... 😉
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Bhagavan spoke about turning inwards to face the Self. That is all that is needed. If we look outwards we become entangled with objects and we loose awareness of the Self shining within us. But when, by repeated practice, we gain the strength to keep our focus on the Self within, we become one with it and the darkness of Self ignorance vanishes. Then even though we continue to live in this false and unreal body, we abide in an ocean of bliss that never feeds or diminishes.
Annamalai Swami
you can listen to this text here:
Anse San Peyre, La Garde Toulon, Côte d’Azur
L’anse San Peyre se situe à Toulon, sur la Côte d’Azur. Ce sont de petites criques rocheuses. Cabanons de pêcheurs colorés âgés d’une centaine d’années, et falaises abruptes, campent le décor de la plus discrète des anses : San Peyre.
Plus sauvage que sa grande sœur Magaud, San Peyre se mérite.
Prenez soin de ces petits paradis, le milieu naturel est fragile et doit être préservé !
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"You have to be always drunk. That's all there is to it—it's the only way. So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, you have to be continually drunk.
But on what? Wine, poetry or virtue, as you wish. But be drunk.
And if sometimes, on the steps of a palace or the green grass of a ditch, in the mournful solitude of your room, you wake again, drunkenness already diminishing or gone, ask the wind, the wave, the star, the bird, the clock, everything that is flying, everything that is groaning, everything that is rolling, everything that is singing, everything that is speaking. . .ask what time it is and wind, wave, star, bird, clock will answer you: "It is time to be drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of time, be drunk, be continually drunk! On wine, on poetry or on virtue as you wish."