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#Arachtober. Pholcus sp. Holiday spider in the ladies loo at the campsite, Dorset. A great place for spiders and moths - well not this particular moth, to be honest. I have to be very discrete taking shots in the "ladies" of course!
La Mésange Nonnette est plutôt discrète. Cependant, elle est présente tout au long de l'année en Suisse.
The Marsh Tit is rather discreet. However, it is present throughout the year in Switzerland.
Great Places in Canada - Rue du Petit Champlain
Standing high above Rue de Petit-Champlain on Côte de la Montagne, I could almost imagine the way this street must have looked in days gone past.
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Rue du Petit-Champlain, one of the oldest commercial streets in North America, is lined with one-of-a-kind boutiques and restaurants. History suggests that it wasn’t always this way, however...
« Artisans lived in this part of town during the New France period. When Gerry Paris and Jacques de Blois came up with an ambitious project to give rue du Petit-Champlain a new lease on life in the mid-1970s, they kept its artisanal roots in mind. The original concept has changed since then, with the focus shifting more towards business, but the restaurants, performance venue, and many small exclusive boutiques preserve the special charm of this singular street.
HARD TIMES
In the early 19th century, epidemics that arrived from Europe in vessels groaning with immigrants forced the artisans to flee to Upper Town. In their place were poor Irish escaping their beleaguered homeland. Fatal landslides exacerbated the isolation of this forgotten street. Five times between 1841 and 1889, large pieces of the cliff came tumbling down, burying some 15 houses, for a death toll of 86. The authorities managed to solve the problem but “Little Champlain,” as opposed to the new Champlain Boulevard that was wider and hugged the river, was not any better off. The proof: as late as the 1920s the street consisted of wooden planks while most other streets were paved. By the late 1960s, the squalor had spread. The City even considered bulldozing the whole area to make way for a parking lot.
A REVOLUTIONARY RENOVATION PROJECT
Gerry Paris and Jacques de Blois had a dream—revitalize a section of Old Québec in the European manner. Their goal was to create a living community and restore the buildings. They bought a block of derelict houses and began to recruit artists and artisans interested in working and living there. The concept was very different from anything done before in Québec and elsewhere in Canada. They kept the traces of the many changes to the houses over the years, recycled as much material as possible, and spruced them up discretely so as to preserve the historical character of these buildings ranging in age from 200 to 300 years old. Paris and de Blois were very persistent in their bid to convince those involved in the ever-growing project that their approach was the right one. At the time, this way of doing things—which would become standard practice—went against the tide.
A FRUITFUL PARTNERSHIP
The work begun in 1977 wrapped up in 1980, with some 30 artisans living on rue du Petit-Champlain. The government of Québec got involved in a new phase of the project that ended in 1983. When Paris and de Blois withdrew in 1985 and sold to the artisan-residents who made up the Quartier Petit Champlain cooperative, there were twice as many residents and businesses. The government of Québec and Caisses Desjardins provided financial backing for the project from that point on. Subsequently, rue du Petit-Champlain gradually changed to become a popular and much-loved centre for culture, business, and leisure. In 2011 it won the first Great Places in Canada competition in the Neighbourhood category. Its social and economic vitality, urban appeal, and historical and cultural worth earned it that recognition. »
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Sony A7 - Carl Zeiss Planar T* 1,4/50
1974
Rare version from the top-of-the-line 1974 Sansui receiver of the 3-digit series, mostly known as Model 881. This silver version with black applications is the model 9010 for the European market. In the sturdy wooden cabinet behind a thick aluminum frontface there is an excellently discrete amplifier with a sensitive stereo tuner. The power is 65 watt pc into 8 ohms. The 9010 classic device sounds the way it should be - Sansui at it's best.
Here's a shot I've been meaning to post for years and for one reason or another I just never do. I really like the various stories and discrete groups here as well as the tension between the police and the two fellas leaning against the wall.
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Palermo, Sicily/Italy.
La sede di Via Roma — discrete signage on the corner of the Bank of Sicily's palermian branch.
The booted is a small eagle, comparable to the common buzzard in size though more eagle-like in shape. Males grow to about 510–770 g (1.12–1.70 lb) in weight, with females about 840–1,025 g (1.852–2.260 lb) with a length of 40 cm and a wingspan of 110–132 cm. There are two relatively distinct plumage forms. Pale birds are mainly light grey with a darker head and flight feathers. The other form has mid-brown plumage with dark grey flight feathers.[2] It was found in a study investigating polymorphism that these discrete colour morphs follow a Mendelian inheritance pattern, where the paler allele is dominant.[3] In South Africa, 20% of the population is the dark colour morph. Booted eagles are typically seen in pairs or as solitary individuals.[4] However, the study found that the darker morphs are much more common in the eastern populations such as in Russia.[3]
The new Bloomberg office in the City has tastefully discrete creative style and many 'faces' to explore...
Fun and games observing a wedding shoot
The photographer was really going for it with the bride and groom, but the interesting stuff was going on with the wedding party in the background.. This bridesmaid( very gorgeous) was relaxed enough to dance a bit of a jig and all this was missed by the very active photographer, assistant with HD SLR and a vidiographer
Really, I was just sitting at my favourite spot and along comes this rather large and posh wedding group in their Rolls Royces etc. The photographer then, no doubt politely, asks the fishermen if they would not mind the interruption. No worries! So they move and make way anticipating some interesting entertainment.
Then this rather inflated wedding party were then indulged with not just the photographer but an assistant wielding a 5DmkII on HD movie mode being as creative as possible, AND a videographer recording the whole damn shooting match. I was just sitting there, but with my trusty Pentax, what was one to do? Shoot of course, but ever so discretely.
Here is the very cheeky bridesmaid.
Jealous? Nahhh!! but I could not resist giving the image a little "brindleyimages" treatment, just for practice!
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Aphantopus hyperantus (a-fan-TOH-puss hy-per-AN-tuss)
Wingspan
Male: 42 - 48mm
Female: 46 - 52mm
Checklist Number
59.009
Family:NymphalidaeRafinesque, 1815
Subfamily:SatyrinaeBoisduval, 1833
Tribe:ManioliniGrote, 1897
Genus:AphantopusWallengren, 1853
Subgenus:
Species:hyperantus(Linnaeus, 1758)
Introduction
This is a relatively-common butterfly that is unmistakable when seen at rest - the rings on the hindwings giving this butterfly its common name. The uppersides are a uniform chocolate brown that distinguish this butterfly from the closely-related Meadow Brown. Despite this uniformity, a newly-emerged adult is a surprisingly beautiful insect, the velvety wings providing a striking contrast with the delicate white fringes found on the wing edges. The dark colouring also allows this butterfly to quickly warm up - this butterfly being one of the few that flies on overcast days.
Variation in this butterfly is primarily focused on the rings on the hindwings, the lanceolata aberration being particularly striking, where the rings are elongated to form teardrops. Other aberrations occur where the rings are greatly reduced or completely absent. Huggins (1959) also describes a form in Kerry, Ireland, that is of normal size until 600 feet, when it starts to be replaced by a dwarf form that, at 1,000 feet, takes over completely.
This butterfly can be found throughout most of the British Isles, south of a line between the South Ebudes in the west and Banffshire in the east. It is also absent from the western parts of northern England, north-west of the Midlands, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. This butterfly forms discrete colonies where numbers vary from a few dozen to several thousand.
Aphantopus hyperantus
This species was first defined in Linnaeus (1758)
Conservation Status
This is one of the few species that is doing well, with evidence of increases in both distribution and population. It is not, therefore, a priority species for conservation efforts.
Habitat
A variety of habitats is used, although sites characterised as being sheltered and damp are preferred, such as woodland clearings, woodland edges and rides, meadows, hedgerows, road verges and country lanes, where the full heat from the summer sun can be avoided and where the foodplant is lush. The butterfly is not typically found in open areas, such as grassland or heathland.
Life Cycle
There is one generation each year, with adults emerging in the second half of June, peaking in mid-July, with a few individuals continuing into August. The flight period is relatively-short when compared with its close relatives.
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Male and female are almost identical in appearance, although it is just possible to make out the feintest of sex brands on the forewings of the male, which contains special scent scales used in courtship. Males adopt an exclusive strategy of patrolling for mates and are often seen in ones and twos fluttering among the grasses that typify their habitat.
A mated female lays her eggs in a somewhat-chaotic fashion, typically perched on a grass stem and ejecting a single egg at random, often into the air, causing it to land in the vegetation. Both sexes take nectar from a variety of sources, Bramble and Thistle being particular favourites.
Adults feed primarily on Bramble (Rubus fruticosus), Fleabane (Pulicaria dysenterica), Hemp Agrimony (Eupatorium cannabinum), Kidney Vetch (Anthyllis vulneraria), Marjoram (Origanum vulgare), Privet (Ligustrum vulgare), Ragwort (Senecio jacobaea) and Thistles (Cirsium spp. and Carduus spp.).
Ovum
Eggs are a pale yellow when first laid, but soon turn a pale brown. The stage lasts between 2 and 3 weeks.
Larva
The larva is nocturnal and hides by day at the base of a grass tussock, emerging at night to feed on the tenderest parts of the foodplant. The larva hibernates while in the 3rd instar, but will feed on particularly warm evenings during the winter. Regular feeding resumes in the spring when the larvae can be found by torchlight feeding on grass stems, although they will fall to the ground with the slightest disturbance. There are 4 moults in total.
The primary larval foodplants are Cock's-foot (Dactylis glomerata), Common Couch (Elytrigia repens), False Brome (Brachypodium sylvaticum), Meadow-grasses (various) (Poa spp.) and Tufted Hair-grass (Deschampsia cespitosa).
Pupa
The pupa is formed in a flimsy cocoon, comprising just a few strands of silk, at the base of a grass tussock. This stage lasts around 2 weeks.
Outside Zion National Park
Springdale
Utah
USA
An American Robin photographed near the lodge where I stayed just outside of Zion National Park, Utah. The robin had just finished eating a fresh worm out of the ground.
The American robin (Turdus migratorius) is a migratory songbird of the thrush family. It is named after the European robin because of its reddish-orange breast, though the two species are not closely related, with the European robin belonging to the Old World flycatcher family.
The American robin is widely distributed throughout North America, wintering from southern Canada to central Mexico and along the Pacific Coast.
According to some sources, the American robin ranks behind only the red-winged blackbird (and just ahead of the introduced European starling and the not-always-naturally-occurring house finch) as the most abundant extant land bird in North America. It has seven subspecies, but only T. m. confinis of Baja California Sur is particularly distinctive, with pale gray-brown underparts.
The American robin is active mostly during the day and assembles in large flocks at night. Its diet consists of invertebrates (such as beetle grubs, earthworms, and caterpillars), fruits, and berries.
It is one of the earliest bird species to lay eggs, beginning to breed shortly after returning to its summer range from its winter range. Its nest consists of long coarse grass, twigs, paper, and feathers, and is smeared with mud and often cushioned with grass or other soft materials. It is among the first birds to sing at dawn, and its song consists of several discrete units that are repeated.
Cela fait 30 minutes que j'observe cette chevrette qui mange sur le bord du chemin. Petit à petit le soleil commence à inonder la scène. Malheureusement pour moi elle ne daignera pas se mettre au centre, ne m'offrant d'elle que la furtive silhouette de sa tête. Elle a disparue quelques secondes après, emportant avec elle la lumière.
Palm Desert, Californie, U.S.A.
Voici la femelle Moucherolle vermillion, toute aussi belle mais beaucoup plus discrète que son mâle.
Palm Desert, California, U.S.A.
Here is the female Vermillion Flycatcher, just as beautiful but much more discreet than its mate.
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My travel in Brazil (Maranhao) (July 2010)
Lençóis Maranhenses National Park, Brazil
"The Lençóis Maranhenses National Park (Parque Nacional dos Lençóis Maranhenses) is located in Maranhão state, in northeastern Brazil.
It is an area of low, flat, occasionally flooded land, overlaid with large, discrete sand dunes.
Composed of large, white, sweeping dunes, at first glance Lençóis Maranhenses looks like an archetypal desert. In fact it isn't actually a desert. Lying just outside the Amazon basin, the region is subject to a regular rain season during the beginning of the year. The rains cause a peculiar phenomenon: fresh water collects in the valleys between sand dunes, spotting the desert with blue and green lagoons that reach their fullest between July and September.
The area is also surprisingly home to a variety of fish which, despite the almost complete disappearance of the lagoons during the dry season, have their eggs brought from the sea by birds."
from Wikipedia
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The falls blur into silk as the shutter slows—long exposure smoothing chaos into grace. Yet beneath this visual serenity lies a paradox: each drop, in its discrete violence, strikes with precision. As the limit of the shutter speed approaches zero, the image fractures into countless sharp impacts—each one a micro-erasure.
But over time, it’s the median force, the relentless rhythm, that sculpts the cliff and deepens the basin. The photograph becomes a metaphor for change: not in the drama of moments, but in the quiet, inexorable accumulation of persistence.
The Heath Fritillary is one of our rarest butterflies and was considered to be on the brink of extinction in the late 1970s. Renewed effort to conserve the Heath Fritillary required detailed knowledge of this butterfly's requirements and, as a result of research conducted by Martin Warren, appropriate habitat management plans were put into effect that saved this butterfly from extinction.
This butterfly is confined to a small number of sites in Somerset, Devon and Cornwall in south-west England, and in Kent in south-east England, where it has also been reintroduced into sites in Essex. It is absent from Wales, Scotland, Ireland, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. Although very local in its distribution, this butterfly can be seen in large numbers at some sites in good years. This butterfly is widespread on the continent and can be one of the commonest butterflies seen in some regions. This butterfly forms discrete colonies and rarely strays from the main breeding grounds.
I managed to see three of these beauties but it was only a brief visit and a bit late in the season.
This butterfly has suffered a long-term decline and requires targeted habitat management. This species continues to be a priority species for conservation efforts.
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Silver-studded Blue / plebejus argus. Westleton Heath, Suffolk. 29/06/18.
One year ago to the very day … and just as blisteringly hot!
Faced with today’s heat challenges and casting my mind back to then, I really don’t know how I lasted so long on a baking heathland photographing butterflies. The Silver-studded Blues obviously had me under their spell.
When I look at this image I can understand why :-)
Anecdotes urbaines :La silhouette était discrète, mais pas assez pour M.W qui l'apostropha. #bnw #bnwphotography #photography #photooftheday #montreal #night #picoftheday
For the 2nd night in a row, between 8PM and 9PM, rapidly developing storms hit my area with near continuous lightning. Although the most discrete bolts occurred after the rains (received 0.30" in about 10 minutes), most strikes did not reach the ground.
This anvil crawler is a single bolt that lasted about half a second.
Nikkor 35mm f/1.4 was used.
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Those birds know how to be discrete. The reflections in the windows on the left hand-side make the building stand out. I also appreciate those little touches of green. No leaves in the trees. Naked trees and their silhouettes reveal a very useful backlight.
Pour être aimé, soyez discret, la clé des coeurs, c'est le secret. [Jean-Pierre Florian]
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Fondation Vasarely. Aix-en-Provence. France. European Union.
43.521154°N 5.424693°E
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X rated because of disgusting real life similarities... LOL!
Carnie barkers come to mind...Or a street, trench-coated watch salesman...
Yup, the sun was at my back, and on his belly...!
I don't make this stuff up folks... Put a human face to this guy, add a cigar, setting in a "Archie Bunker" chair and...well how many times have ya seen a big ole fat guy setting with legs spread just watchin the world go by without a care to his name...I swear this guy looks almost as comfortable as cats get when they roll up into that balled up contorted position that looks so dang comfortable.. If I am wrong correct me, but does it not look like he is resting (leaning back) on that branch to gain a bit more comfort and less effort?? Yup, I don't make this stuff up, I'm just the messenger of believe it or not photos!
"Turkey Vulture" (Cathartes aura) is his name, and lounging is his game!!
My friend purchased this small wood a few years ago. It was very run down when he got it. He has worked really hard to create habitats. The array of wildflower species was lovely. Not rare things but usually we see a few of these species not all in the same wood. He has taken out the dead wood and stacked it in discrete piles, mostly hidden behind foliage. He has planted lots of saplings of different species. He has made and put up bird boxes and built a hide with a feeding station. There are cameras to capture the wildlife all over the place and it is a private wood. The wood is the tail end of Trentham forest. So it would have been there for a couple of hundred years. The River Trent runs alongside the wood and the bank is full of plants.
Jervis Wood AKA Peter's Wood
Stone Staffordshire UK 26th April 2025
This rose lived in a pot for years and was small and discrete, with just a couple of blooms. Now it's been in the earth for a couple of years it is spreading and flourishing with a hundred.
Aragon, Spain
(Neophron percnopterus)
This photo was taken near a Griffon vulture feeding area in the Spanish Pyrenees. The Egyptian vulture is a small migratory vulture with a wingspan of around 1.60 m. It slips discreetly into the area, staying away from the much larger griffon vultures (2.60 m wingspan) or coming in after they've left.
This vulture is an endangered protected species. A population restoration plan is underway in France (100 pairs), while the population in Spain is around 1,000 pairs.
Cette photo a été prise près d'une aire de nourrissage de vautours fauves dans les Pyrénées espagnoles. Le percnoptère est un petit vautour migrateur d'environ 1m60 d'envergure qui se glisse discrètement sur l'aire, il reste à l'écart des vautours fauves beaucoup plus grands (2m60 d'envergure) ou vient après leur départ.
Ce vautour est une espèce protégée en danger. Un plan de restauration des populations est en cours en France (100 couples), alors que la population en Espagne est d'environ 1000 couples.
Low angle, bright sunshine falls on a discrete tree grove in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, near the baseball ground.
A "spider"-drone built to track fugitives discretely
Built for the BZPower BBCC 76 contest, where the contestants were to build spiders that didn't have 8 legs, which is pretty typical for Bionicle spiders apparently.
Abstract in available natural light using a smart phone.
A tunnel.... of Wind, of Sound and of Light - as seen inside a wooden flute carefully angled, using a mobile phone camera. (Shot in purely available natural light and without any lens attachments or adapters. Processed in phone.)
Really, I was just sitting at my favourite spot and along comes this rather large and posh wedding group in their Rolls Royces etc. The photographer then, no doubt politely, asks the fishermen if they would not mind the interruption. No worries! So they move and make way anticipating some interesting entertainment.
Then this rather inflated wedding party were then indulged with not just the photographer but an assistant wielding a 5DmkII on HD movie mode being as creative as possible, AND a videographer recording the whole damn shooting match. I was just sitting there, but with my trusty Pentax, what was one to do? Shoot of course, but ever so discretely.
Jealous? Nahhh!! but I could not resist giving the image a little "brindleyimages" treatment, just for practice!
Have a look with
American Oystercatcher
The American Oystercatchers are a group of waders forming the family Haematopodidae, which has a single genus, Haematopus. They are found on coasts worldwide apart from the Polar Regions and some tropical regions of Africa and South East Asia. The exception to this is the Eurasian Oystercatcher and the South Island Oystercatcher, both of which breed inland, far inland in some cases. In the past there has been a great deal of confusion as to the species limits, with discrete populations of all black oystercatchers being afforded specific status but pied oystercatchers being considered one single species.
The name Oystercatcher was coined by Mark Catesby in 1731 as a common name for the North American species H. Palliatus, described as eating oysters. Yarrell in 1843 established this as the preferred term, replacing the older name Sea Pie.
For more info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oystercatcher
On the volcanic slopes of Lanzarote, a cluster of succulents rises from the dark soil, their thick green leaves and pink flowers contrasting with the reddish cone in the distance. The terrain is dry, raw, and silent — yet life persists. The scene feels suspended, as if time had paused to let color and texture settle into quiet harmony. A moment of geological stillness and botanical resilience.
Sur les pentes volcaniques de Lanzarote, un groupe de succulentes émerge du sol noir, leurs feuilles épaisses et leurs fleurs rosées contrastant avec le cône rouge au loin. Le terrain est sec, brut, silencieux — mais la vie s’installe. La scène semble figée, comme si le temps s’était arrêté pour laisser les couleurs et les textures s’accorder dans une harmonie discrète. Un instant de calme géologique et de résistance végétale.
The American robin (Turdus migratorius) is a migratory songbird of the thrush family. It is named after the European robin because of its reddish-orange breast, though the two species are not closely related, with the European robin belonging to the Old World flycatcher family. The American robin is widely distributed throughout North America, wintering from southern Canada to central Mexico and along the Pacific Coast. It is the state bird of Connecticut, Michigan, and Wisconsin. According to some sources, the American robin ranks behind only the red winged blackbird (and just ahead of the introduced European starling and the not always naturally occurring house finch) as the most abundant extant land bird in North America. It has seven subspecies, but only T. m. confines of Baja California Sur is particularly distinctive, with pale gray-brown underparts.
The American robin is active mostly during the day and assembles in large flocks at night. Its diet consists of invertebrates (such as beetle grubs, earthworms, and caterpillars), fruits, and berries. It is one of the earliest bird species to lay eggs, beginning to breed shortly after returning to its summer range from its winter range. Its nest consists of long coarse grass, twigs, paper, and feathers, and is smeared with mud and often cushioned with grass or other soft materials. It is among the first birds to sing at dawn, and its song consists of several discrete units that are repeated.
The adult robin is preyed upon by hawks, cats, and snakes, but when feeding in flocks, it can be vigilant and watch other birds for reactions to predators. Brown-headed cowbirds lay eggs in robin nests (see brood parasite), but robins usually reject the cowbird eggs.
"(Well, this type of photography was never my point of interest but it certainly is interesting, when you try to see everything that happens around you.
Here I will leave you in some photos of these experiments, I hope you like it.)" ☺