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Had a few hours to kill on Saturday so played around with Filters at Mentone Beach and this old Groyne in the heart of the afternoon.
I was really keen to catch the reflections the gaps in the fence made over the water. I originally envisoined this to be black and white and I have processed a version which I will post but I ended up liking this coloured one.
A few days ago I walked along the edge of the lake and was treated to the crunch and rustle of leaves with each step I made. The acoustics of this season are different and all sounds, no matter how hushed, are as crisp as autumn air.
-- Eric Sloane
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A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable.
-- William Wordsworth
One of the few sunny winter days and the first snow of the year in our region.
Whenever I see such old trees (here an apple tree) I want to capture them in the picture. As a result of intensive agricultural use, trees are rarely replanted. In addition, every year some trees fall victim to the winter storms, as well as a few days ago here in the area.
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a few days ago
motacilla cinerea
grote gele kwikstaart
Bergeronnette des ruisseaux
Gebirgsstelze
Lavandera Cascadeña
Ballerina gialla
Alvéola-cinzenta
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Anyone who has followed me for more than a few years knew that I had an obsession with the elevator in Morrice, some maybe calling it unhealthy. After it was finally torn down a couple years ago, there really wasn't much reason to visit Morrice, until I started snooping around the other elevator in town that is far less appealing structurally, but has plenty of other things to work with. After discovering the WC was leading an overnight A491, I did my sleep deprivation routine and ventured out into the muggy night and began setting up. Just a few minutes before 5am, A491 comes flying through the small farming town alerting everyone to its presence, and me alerting them to mine with some speedlights.
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Few remain of the American Goldfinches and other song birds as many of them have started their migration south. This American Goldfinch was stocking up on the seeds of the Button Flower.
A few photos from Stølaholmen.
We have cold and nice weather now, and got a little snow too. I had to shut down the water to the sheep as the pipes would freeze, and have to give them water from buckets. The roundbales are starting to freeze and one of my tractors need to have the battery charged every time I try to start it.
Still, this is winter , wonderful winter! Far better than rain and mud. It could be a tad milder though... I am getting an old man, an we like to be warm :-)
More photos in the first comment. And I will post even more from this place later.
A few more to come from this awesome experience!
All from the same session, taken at a public site at a distance so as not to disturb the birds or alter their behaviour.
We had a few moments of sunshine this afternoon and Cleo followed me outdoors. The truth is that she followed the treats bag outdoors because I wanted to take some photos. In the garden we entertained the neighbours when I did all kinds of things to make Cleo look at me, preferably with a face that didn't look as if she wanted to kill everybody. I wasn't very successful as Cleo just sat there and looked grumpy. At least the neighbours had a great time. We should sell tickets for these events.
The precise location of this bird was posted back in December. Would he still be there?
He was.
A few curious folks stopped to watch the spectacular bird drop to the ground and then pop back onto a perch.
A brief flash of bright red on a grey day in LA.
Over the next few days I will upload photos from Pirongia Forest Park. Come join me and discover all the interesting things!
The green slopes of Mt Pirongia can be found 25km south of Hamilton. With a range of easy to more challenging options, the Pirongia walks provide a rejuvenating experience amongst lush native forest and clear mountain streams.
The Mangakara Nature Walk
(We started off with this easy track, but will definitely go back to discover the other more challenging options!)
The Mangakara Nature Walk on Mt Pirongia is an enjoyable one hour circuit through native forest.
The easy track meanders through ancient forest past large rimu, kahikatea, tawa, pukatea and kohekohe trees and crosses over the Mangakara stream before looping back around.
Educational signs describe point of interest and the mountains history along the way with something new to discover at each station.
Just a few kilometers outside of Oranienburg – in the middle of the forest lie the ruins of what used to be one of Germanys most modern Lung clinics, the Lungenheilstätte Grabowsee, most commonly referred to as the Heilstätte Grabowsee. Having survived both the first and second world war and Soviet Occupation, 124 years later it is only a shadow of its former self.
In 2013 the movie 'Monuments Men' was filmed here.
Few days ago, I uploaded another photo of this tower. This one was taken few days earlier. It is difficult to tell, that it used to support water slides. It was taken apart in 2011, refurbished, but never used again as Ontario Place (large activity entertainment venue for children) closed the same year. It quietly reopened just as a public park in 2017, but still not many people in the city know about it.
804. TMR Toronto 2021-Sep 03, P1540130. Uploaded 2021-Sep-23. Lmx -ZS100.
……Back a few weeks when we had none stop rain many local rivers & brooks broke banks and flooded fields changing the scenery greatly! I’m sure I would pass this by ordinarily! Have a great W/End, stay cosy & locked down to stay safe and to keep EVERYONE else safe too! A VERY BIG THANK YOU to ALL the key workers who are carrying on to benefit the rest of us - we applaud you all. Alan;-)👏👏👏👏👏
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Few minutes before sunset, taking advantage of the sunlight reflections on the water there in the bokeh beyond the wintry grass.
A few miles south of Brownsville where all the tundra swans were staging, sandhill cranes were piling into Pool Slough, another premier wetland complex with excellent waterfowl viewing opportunities. I could see about 100 sandhill cranes from where I was standing and there were many more scattered throughout the vast refuge. These sandhill cranes will feed and rest here until things really freeze up and force them south to their wintering territory in Florida.
Evening Grosbeak eating the Russian Olives at Wilson Spring Ponds in Nampa, Idaho
"A heavyset finch of northern coniferous forests, the Evening Grosbeak adds a splash of color to winter bird feeders every few years, when large flocks depart their northern breeding grounds en masse to seek food to the south. The yellow-bodied, dusky-headed male has an imposing air thanks to his massive bill and fierce eyebrow stripe"
Light Breaks Through….
A few weeks ago we went for an hour and half hike in Caledon.
Every now and then i want to challenge myself to try another lens. so i took my 50mm 1.4 today and spent the day shooting with it.
The leaves were falling from the trees like rain from the sky. the road was awash in all colours and hues of leaves, the flitted and danced on the invisible breeze and glistened in the bright days sunlight. it was magical fall dance of colours.
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A few weeks ago, I noted all of the cows were moved away from here. However, one evening on return from the city I spotted three of them but noticed they were younger and much bigger cows like the one on the picture. I wonder where have the previous ones were moved to.
Framing Life Series in Alentejo.
Unedited image
Nikkor F/1:4 300 mm ED non-AFS
Alentejo, Protugal
August 2021
It's actually remnants of a Moon Snail's shell. I found it while collecting seashells at Sanibel Island in Florida several years ago. This theme is a wonderful challenge: it wasn't until I had been looking for a pareidolia for a few days until I remembered this shell!
photo size: 2.37"W by 1.52"H and 6.03cm W by 3.87cm H
Theme: "Pareidolia" The human brain can create meaningful and significant shapes from patterns and textures. Take a photo of a pareidolia you perceive.
Thank you for taking the time to view this photo, and for the faves and comments you make, thank you.
A few months ago, the aurora decided to put on a great show. This is one of the more unique aurora images I have because of the low lying fog. It certainly shone through it though. It was a very memorable night and I may never see the aurora like this again through the fog.
eactivity fading away
Fewer kinks larger tolerance
Enhanced awareness
Panoramic view
More compassion
Fewer desires
Acceptance of limitations
Acquired Humility
More Unhurried
A completeness which unfolds
As the “you ” slows down
In the heat of conflict
You taste the awareness of the moment
And let go of the memory
An awareness of the mind speeding
everything passes away
Finally a need for order
Details which seemed mundane
While speeding
Unhurried sense of order…
In between flight of thoughts ,
Constant attack of attraction and aversion
Silence comes to you…
Paracas National Reserve - Perù 20221118
The Paracas National Reserve is a Peruvian protected area that protects desert and marine ecosystems for their conservation and sustainable use. Within the reserve there are also archaeological remains of the Paracas culture.
The reserve is located in the region of Ica, 250 km south of Lima and a few kilometres from the city of Pisco. It covers an area of 335,000 hectares, 65% of which correspond to marine ecosystems. The maximum altitude of the reserve is 786 metres.[3]
The reserve includes coastal geographical elements such as: the Paracas Peninsula, Independencia Bay, San Gallán Island and Paracas Bay.
Saw very few grass-topped roofs while traveling in Scandinavia, but had a great view of this one from our hotel room in Lillehammer, Norway. Not only was this city the site of the 1994 Winter Olympics, but the surrounding area was incredibly beautiful with dense forests and rolling mountains. Lillehammer is located on the largest lake in the country, Lake Mjosa, making for picturesque views in every direction. This totally came to mind for the "Smile on Saturday!" group challenge "Begins with G" for both the grass roof topping and the grass mowing goat! Had to share a similar shot, taken in Door County, Wisconsin, which most certainly has a Scandinavian vibe to it: flic.kr/p/2mfjHsX .
Autumn Awakens….
A few weeks ago we went for an hour and half hike in Caledon.
Every now and then i want to challenge myself to try another lens. so i took my 50mm 1.4 today and spent the day shooting with it.
The leaves were falling from the trees like rain from the sky. the road was awash in all colours and hues of leaves, the flitted and danced on the invisible breeze and glistened in the bright days sunlight. it was magical fall dance of colours.
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I counted off a few bucket list items on this trip, this being one of them. What a way to start the year off! The weather wasnt "ideal" It was overcast and dreary, it lacked in contrast, the light was flat and it was raining cats and dogs. Amazing! I had on a waterproof jacket and my duck boots were perfect. I stood on that beach till I HAD to put my cameras away and head back to the car because the tide started coming in and the wind pretty much knocked me over. It was blowing so hard the trees were bent at the top. I couldn't have set up a tripod even if I tried. I'll share a photo from the beach sometime else. If you follow me on the other platform then you saw that already!♡
My favorite composition of the beach was as I first saw it, arriving at the beach. I'll never ever forget seeing it for the first time. I swear time stopped, I couldnt breathe and my heart was beating so fast. I dont think I've ever had a scene do that to me before. I am so glad my husband was driving or I would have likely run off the road.
My husband was a very good sport and spoiled the mess out of my eyeballs and we burned several great memories into our brains on this beach ♡
Happy fence friday y'all!
Swarovski used to make a lovely range of beads ... and I collected a few of each design I thought might photograph well. These are among my favourites. Called 'brilliants' they create all kinds of colours when the light hits them. These are tiny, about 8mm cubes.
For the Macro Monday challenge "In a row" (July 17th 2023)
My 2023 set: Here
previous years of the Macro Mondays challenge:
My 2022 set: Here
My 2021 set: Here
My 2020 set: Here
My 2019 set: Here
My 2018 set: Here
My 2017 set: Here
My 2016 set: Here
My 2015 set: Here
My 2014 set: Here
My 2013 set: Here
Eurasian Jay (Garrulus glandarius)
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My latest ANIMAL VIDEO (it's very brief but pretty unusual: a tiny wall lizard attacks two young great tits): www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQqkSsyrm7E
THE STORY BEHIND THE PHOTO: MY LONG AND ARDUOUS JOURNEY TO BIRD PHOTOGRAPHY
If you've set yourself the challenge of exclusively shooting the wildlife in your own back yard, you might find - as I did - that bird photography is really, really hard.
It's not that reptiles are easy to photograph either, mind - but at least the ones in my garden stay (for the most part) on the ground, and one can learn how to carefully approach them with a camera. They're also clearly egoists, which from a photographer's point of view is is a great character trait: if a lizard detects a human in its vicinity, it's only interested in saving its own skin, and it won't alarm its buddies.
But birds... oh man. Over the years, my feathered friends and I have developed a lovely routine that now defines our peaceful co-existence. As soon as I as much as open a window (let alone the door), I'm instantly greeted by an eruption of panicky fluttering and hysterical shouts from my garden: "SAVE YOUR WOMEN AND CHILDREN AND FLY FOR YOUR LIVES: THE HAIRLESS, PINK MONSTER IS COMING!!! (Yes, I speak bird, and I know that this is exactly what they are shouting 😉).
Needless to say, with the exception of the redstart I already showed here, all my efforts to get the kind of detailed shots I usually strive for with my nature photography ended in complete failure and utter disillusionment. I was ready to give up on stalking the winged misanthropes in my garden altogether, but then winter came - and changed everything.
One day this past January I observed my neighbor Signora P - a kind, elderly Italian lady - putting something on the low garden wall in front of my house. At first I thought she was just putting some treat there for her cat Romeo; the young tom patrols that wall constantly (it's his favorite spot in the garden, and during the warmer months he usually lurks in the thick foliage next to it to prey on lizards).
But once I detected a lot of movement on that wall through my window, I understood she had put a little pile of bread crumbs there; she was feeding the birds who soon arrived in flocks. This was certainly well-intended on my neighbor's part, but her noble action came with a catch, and I'm afraid quite literally.
When I took a stroll through my garden the next day I discovered a suspicious amount of feathers on the ground next to the wall. Romeo had apparently switched from his low-calorie summer diet (lizard) to more energy-rich meals consisting of "fowl" (it was winter after all, so from a nutritionist's point of view this made sense).
I would find fresh traces of Romeo's victims (mostly feathers, but also the odd wing) in my garden over the following days; so my first intuition that my neighbor was feeding her cat hadn't been that far off after all, as Romeo was now clearly being "served" fresh birds on a daily basis. And although the hungry visitors seemed to be aware of the danger and became slightly more prudent, they just couldn't resist the tasty snacks Signora P put on that wall - and neither could Romeo.
It was obvious that I had to act, but talking to my neighbor - who is as stubborn as she is kind - would have been futile, I knew that much. I pondered the matter long and hard - until a light bulb went off in my head. The idea was genius. If successful, what I had in mind would not only increase the birds' chances of surviving Romeo's appetite, but also greatly benefit my own photographic endeavors.
I started to enact my master plan the very next day by buying a giant bag of bird feed (consisting mainly of sunflower seeds) from the store. Then I dragged a huge piece of a tree trunk (approx. 120 cm in height) that we normally chop firewood on in the shed out into the garden and emptied almost half of the bag's content on top of it. Signora P's buffet for birds (and cats) was about to get some serious competition 😊.
My reasoning was as follows: not only would the birds be lured away from the fatally low garden wall to a place where they were safe from the cat - there was nothing around that tree trunk that provided cover for a predator, and the birds had a nice 360° view around it at all times - but I was also able to photograph them while hiding in the shed.
However, in order for my plan to work there was one little extra measure I had to take, and it was one that risked lowering my own life expectancy considerably once the owner of the property - my mom - discovered it. You see, our shed is completely windowless, so if I wanted to use it as a blind, I had no choice but to cut a hole into one of its wooden walls... which I promptly did (I figured all's fair in love - and photography 😉).
Granted, I have absolutely zero carpentering skills, and it showed. That hole was an ugly mess: the shed's wall seemed to have had an encounter with Jack Nicholson's ax-wielding lunatic character from the film 'The Shining'. Needless to say, I was incredibly proud of my work (I mean, come on: there now was a hole where before there wasn't a hole, and it was big enough for the lens of my camera to peek through, so it was mission accomplished as far as I was concerned).
Now all I had to do was wait for the birds to discover the tree trunk. In the meantime I started to mentally prepare myself for the inevitable confrontation with my mom and go through possible explanations for that splintering hole in the wall (it was either gonna be a rabid woodpecker attack or an emergency rescue mission with a feeding tube for a little kid that had accidentally locked himself inside the shed - both seemed valid options, though I slightly preferred the locked-in kid due to the involved drama and heroism 😉).
A whole day went by, and not a single bird visited the sunflower seeds. I had expected that it might take a few hours until the first of the ever curious great tits or blue tits would show up, but given how tiny my garden is, an entire day seemed excessive. Then another day came and went: the birds kept flocking to the bread crumbs on the wall, and my tree trunk kept collecting dust. To add injury to insult, a few fresh feathers on the ground were proof that Romeo was still feasting.
It was incredibly frustrating: I provided my winged guests with a much better view - plus a higher chance of surviving the cuisine - than Signora P's place; I risked (almost) certain death at the hands of my own mother (OK, the act of vandalism on the shed I had committed for my own benefit, but still), yet the birds kept ignoring me.
Then, after three days, just before sunset, I spotted a single blue tit on the tree trunk picking away at the sunflower seeds.
When I got up the next morning I immediately realized that the loud noise that accompanies each and every tit activity had shifted from the wall to the shed. At last the dam had broken: there was a flurry of movement around the tree trunk, and I counted at least 5 different species of birds feasting on the sunflower seeds.
From day 4 onward my plan worked beautifully: the birds now indeed mostly ignored Romeo's "snack wall" and kept to the tree trunk. And yes, I was able to play peeping tom from behind the shed's wall and photograph them!! 😊
Thus, dear readers, I finally managed to produce some acceptable bird photos, and I had even saved my feathered friends from a deadly foe in the process. All through winter and spring I took advantage of my new bird hide, and in late May I started mixing some cherries with the sunflower seeds. The idea was to attract a Eurasian jay (Garrulus glandarius), and as you can see, it worked!
It took me almost three weeks and more than a few tricks to capture that clever fella, but given how long I've been rambling here already, that's a story for another day. As for my mom, she still doesn't know about the hole in the wall, so please don't snitch! 😉.
I hope you like the photo and wish you all a wonderful weekend! Many greetings from Switzerland, and as always: let me know what you think in the comments 🙏 😊 ❤!
P.S. if anyone has their own funny tale about the obstacles we photographers are prepared to overcome for a desired photo, please write it in the comments: I love such stories 😊
When a few flowers died in each of two bunches of flowers I was given, I merged them together and think the colours go well.
Day 17 post-op yesterday and I took a walk down the road, with Ray and 2 crutches for company (although I can now manage fine with 1 indoors) my target being to the local church and back. It was slow, the traffic a bit noisy to somebody unaccustomed to walking out but there is a handy seat near the church.
Once home, Ray checked the distance and found I had walked just over half a mile - well pleased!
A few days ago we visited my parents in Upper Austria, the weather was wonderful, a perfect Indian summer time. Lukas was running around in the fields and woods and when he got tired we drove him around with the old handcart.
The same old handcart in which I was driven around back in my childhood.
A very nostalgic way to start the week.
The next few uploads will be from the Scott Kelby Photo walk that I participated in at Pensacola Fl. I had a blast. What more can you ask for than, good company and wonderful topics. Although I think I listened and watched the other photographers more than I shot. It was fun and I would do it again any day. Thank you to our group leader…Leaders…for pulling this together for us.
Sweet details from a fountain~
This is the same shot as I posted before...I just decided to post the one of me playing with it. Enjoy, you can pic the one you like.