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🇫🇷 Fragile violette
Dans la 🌳 hêtraie-frênaie 🌳 fraîche et ombragée, la violette hérissée s’épanouit discrètement, profitant de l’humidité du sous-bois. Son éclat violet attire les pollinisateurs qui assurent la pérennité de ce microcosme délicat. L’arrière-plan flouté renforce cette impression de douceur et met en valeur la fleur : une faible profondeur de champ permet d’isoler le sujet tout en suggérant son habitat. On peut percevoir dans cette image la vulnérabilité de ces milieux forestiers, suspendus à l’équilibre de la lumière et de l’eau.
🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿 🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿
🇬🇧 Fragile violet
In the cool and shaded 🌳 beech-ash forest 🌳, the hairy violet blooms discreetly, thriving in the moist undergrowth. Its vibrant purple hue draws in pollinators, ensuring the survival of this delicate microcosm. The blurred background enhances the softness and highlights the flower: using a shallow depth of field helps isolate the subject while hinting at its habitat. I see in this image the fragility of these forest ecosystems, balanced between light and water.
🍀Violette hérissée / Hairy violet / Viola hirta 🍀
Milieu naturel, écosystème : 🌳Hêtraie-frênaie fraiche🌳
Natural environment, ecosystem: 🌳fresh beech-ash forest🌳
Lieu / Location : Lieu / Location : Espace Naturel des Bordes Chalonges / Seine-et-Marne / France
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
Festival des lumières qui a lieu chaque année depuis 6 ans. Pendant 10 jours
les artistes exposent des "sculptures ou créations originales lumineuses" disséminées dans toute la ville. Certaines de ces œuvres ne figurent pas dans mes photos car trop discrètes.
GENEVA LUX (lux meaning light in latin)
Festival of lights which has been held every year for 6 years. During 10 days
the artists exhibit "luminous original sculptures or creations" scattered throughout the city. Some of these works do not appear in my photos because they are too discreet.
Silver-studded Blue / plebejus argus. Westleton Heath, Suffolk. 29/06/18.
A nice bright male found nectaring on Bell Heather a year ago.
He lacked the bold reflective ‘studs’ that give rise to the name of this species. Apparently, the stud marks can vary considerably between individuals. The best this individual could offer were a few random blue scales.
I’m pleased with the blue and purple colour mix that is set against green foliage in the image.
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Parc naturel du Mont Bélair. C'est grâce à François Poitras si j'ai pu enfin capter cette espèce discrète. Thanks to François Poitras for helping me localise and shoot that discrete and rare warbler here.
Street scene from London - this gent well positioned below the neon signs - the simple composition works well with the minimal content and the thick frame.
Recently bought the GR3x - loving the freedom to take it with me where ever I go - light, discrete and produces great images.
Living up to its name, this butterfly is the commonest blue found in the British Isles.
While the male has bright blue uppersides, the female is primarily brown, with a highly variable amount of blue.
This is the most widespread Lycaenid found in the British Isles and can be found almost anywhere, including Orkney.
This butterfly forms reasonably discrete colonies measured in tens or hundreds, with individuals occasionally wandering some distance..
This one, which I think is probably a female is the first of the blues to break my duck!
Brown Argus / aricia agestis. 03/08/18.
This was the most obliging Brown Argus that I have ever encountered and I found it late one hot sunny morning. A gusty breeze made being outside tolerable, but was far from ideal for handheld macro photography! Yet I think it actually worked in my favour by anchoring the butterfly to the Fleabane flower.
In my experience Brown Argus, despite liking to perch regularly, also like to fly frequently from flower to flower. Usually, no sooner have I've set up a shot, than one flies off to land a short distance away, so frustrating.
Not this little beauty though. It clung onto the flower for dear life nectaring, whilst being constantly buffeted by the wind. In the bright sunlight it made several attempts to spread its wings wide and bask, but was thwarted every time.
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"Sunset is the daily disappearance of the sun below the horizon as a result of the Earth's rotation. The atmospheric conditions created by the setting of the sun, occurring before and after it disappears below the horizon, are also commonly referred to as "sunset".
The intense red and orange hues of the sky at sunrise and sunset are mainly caused by scattering of sunlight by dust particles, soot particles, other solid aerosols, and liquid aerosols in the Earth's atmosphere.
These enhanced red and orange colors at sunrise and sunset are mathematically explained by the Mie theory or the discrete dipole approximation. When there are no particulates in the troposphere, such as after a big rain storm, then the remaining less intense reds are explained by Rayleigh scattering of sunlight by air molecules." (wikipedia)
ok, I have to admitt: here there is something more than just dust particles, soot particles, other solid aerosols, and liquid aerosols - I hope you will forgive me :-)
enjoy your evening :-)
this rustic, old shed sits on the edge of two properties in our neighborhood. most of the year it blends in more discretely amid trees and brush. But in the winter that red door captures my eye every time I walk or drive by.
Prediction for a severe stormy day verified in spades along the Front Range and High Plains of Wyoming and Colorado.
Here in Cheyenne, I experienced at least 10 separate strong thunderstorms within 20 miles between 3Pm and 9PM. The one shown formed (~7PM) to my northwest passed overhead and moved southeast only to expand back to my south. Low scud at the end of this clip eventually transformed into stratus/fog with quite a lot to thunder heard overhead.
Eventually, another storm combined with the one in this clip around 8PM and dropped 0.80" in 20 minute with small hail (not shown).
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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
Mallard Duck on my backyard pond. A nice surprise to see this friend enjoying the very warm day. He stayed for quite a while. eventually leaving to go his family. He was not deterred from seeing me as I moved discretely around. It has been unusually hot for these parts, weatherman says it will be a long, dry and warm summer. Happy Sunday.
Captured in Vancouver, BC
Drake and Pacific, (David Lam park)
Digital (5d) capture. Processed in CS3 -- intending to capture the look/feel/style of Holga/Lomo photography.
Update:
This image was included in an international lomography exhibition; sponsored by the international Lomography Community (see comment below).
How cool!
[Pheidole Westwood 1839: 1,160+†7 (IT: 3+†0) spp]
Conspecific sympatric ♀, sx side; conspecific sympatric ☿ maior & ☿ minor, dorsal habitus.
Pheidole (from φειδωλός) is a hyperdiverse and polymorphic genus, abundant in the Neotropics and in many other areas of the world. While there are other genera with discrete worker castes, none have radiated to the extent of Pheidole. Wilson's 2003 treatment of the New World spp and other more recent taxophylogenetic studies have brought some clarity to defining the boundaries of many spp. Still, much work remains before it can be claimed that Pheidole has few new spp to be described and that the taxonomy of this group is definitively complete.
REFERENCES
S. Cantone 2017: Winged ants - males.
B. Seifert 2016: Pheidole pallidula 4 cryptic spp.
E.P. Economo & al. 2015: Pheidole expansion and taxon cycles.
E.P. Economo & al. 2014: Pheidole global phylogenetics.
M.R. Pie & M.K. Tschá 2013: Evolution of ant worker morphology.
common blue
Living up to its name, this butterfly is the commonest blue found in the British Isles. While the male has bright blue uppersides, the female is primarily brown, with a highly variable amount of blue. This is the most widespread Lycaenid found in the British Isles and can be found almost anywhere, including Orkney. It is absent, however, from Shetland and the mountainous areas of Wales and Scotland. This butterfly forms reasonably discrete colonies measured in tens or hundreds, with individuals occasionally wandering some distance.
Silver-studded Blue / plebejus argus. Lindrick Common, South Yorkshire. 20/06/20.
Male Silver-studded Blues definitely outnumbered females as they whizzed restlessly about the Common. I suspect the females were keeping a low profile down in the taller grasses and the males were actively trying to seek them out.
The male in my image had retreated into a grass tangle to rest after his exertions. With wings partially spread open he allowed me a good view of their beautiful blue colour and well defined black margins. A great encounter, one of many that day :-)
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Les plus petites beautés du monde sont discrètes, effacées, souvent silencieuses.
Personne ne pense à les donner en cadeau ou à les mettre dans un pot.
On ne les prend pas en photo de peur de susciter des sourires moqueurs
Et pourtant
Elles ont autant à dire sur la vie que la rose ou l’orchidée
Cette même vie si fragile que nous partageons tous
J’ai appris à les écouter
Et parfois elles acceptent de se laisser prendre en photo. (Patrice)
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The smallest beauties of the world are discreet, humble, often silent.
Nobody thinks of giving them as a gift or of putting them in a jar.
No one want to photograph them for fear of attracting mocking smiles
Nevertheless
She have as much to tell about nature life than the rose or the orchid
The same so fragile life that we share all
I learnt to listen to them
And sometimes they agree to be photographed. (Patrice)
"Embrace infinite elegance and youth with these earrings. Discrete and fashionable that no one will suspect you as an immortal siphoning energy from the pretty crystals. Totally not suspicious at all, unless you have red skin and horns..."
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Festival des lumières qui a lieu chaque année depuis 6 ans. Pendant 10 jours
les artistes exposent des "sculptures ou créations originales lumineuses" disséminées dans toute la ville. Certaines de ces œuvres ne figurent pas dans mes photos car trop discrètes.
GENEVA LUX (lux meaning light in latin)
Festival of lights which has been held every year for 6 years. During 10 days
the artists exhibit "luminous original sculptures or creations" scattered throughout the city. Some of these works do not appear in my photos because they are too discreet.
A hidden gem: discretely situated off the A661 Harrogate to Wetherby Road. Plumpton Rocks is a 30 acre parkland created in the 1760s by forming a man made lake against the backdrop of Millstone Grit rock formations and outcrops.
The artist JMW Turner visited Plumbton Rocks on his first tour of Yorkshire in 1797. The Earl of Harewood, who owned the rocks. commissioned Turner to paint the landscape. This was Turner’s first commission for a landscape in oils and gamble for the Earl. It was then known as Plompton Rocks and Harewood House holds two of Turner’s original paintings.
This pretty lady had an itch to scratch on her leg. Being a lady, she graciously took a seat and discretely scratched her itch, while watching over her 2nd year cub, as she fed on barnacles on the tidal flats of Kukak Bay.
This was our first time being on "shared beach" with wild Coastal Brown Bears (aka, Grizzly Bears). We had been watching Coastal Brown Bears for the past day from our skiff, holding within 50 yards or so of Bears on the tidal flats (at low tide).
Our Bear Guide turned to us and asked, "Ready to go see the Bears in person?"
This became my favorite question for the rest of our photo expedition, to which I quickly developed my favorite answer, "SURE!!!"
Oh, and my second favorite question became, "Wanna get closer to the Bears?", to which my answer was "YES!!!", or sometimes "yes?"...sort of a situational answer on my part, but always answered in the affirmative.
So, we headed to the beach, unloaded ourselves and our photo gear from the skiff, received a reminder briefing about Bear Safety from our Bear Guide, and then headed down the beach towards this sow and her 2nd year cub.
I was preoccupied taking pics of the Bears, not noticing that the Bear Guide and my wife continued on another 10 yards or so, parallel to the Bears.
After finishing her scratching, this pretty lady rose up and then strolled directly towards me, to within approximately 45 feet of me.
I had five seconds of fear, starting with the moment at which I realized that I had not stayed close to (or behind) our Bear Guide, who had earlier emphasized to us that we were always to keep the Bear Guide between ourselves and the Bears.
As this beautiful lady strolled towards me, I took a couple of steps to the side, away from the Bear and towards the Bear Guide.
The Guide quickly had my wife call to me, "Rick, Stop! ... RICK, STOP!" Never looking away from the Bear, I stopped shuffling towards the Guide.
Once I remained still and was no longer giving ground to the Bear, she lost interest in me and changed her course so that she would miss me by 10 yards, thus ending my five seconds of fear.
My wife, bless her heart, teased me for the rest of our Katmai photo expedition, as she never felt any fear with these wonderful Bears.
5 seconds of fear!
5 seconds for which I'll be teased the rest of my life, but which I'll remember with incredible fondness as long as my brain cells last, hahaha.
What a freakingly wonderful experience :)...