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Chough - Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax
Pembrokeshire
While its black plumage identifies it as a crow, the chough (pronounced 'chuff') has a red bill and legs unlike any other member of the crow family. It is restricted to the west of the British Isles.
It readily displays its mastery of flight with wonderful aerial displays of diving and swooping. This Schedule 1 species can be found in flocks in autumn and winter.
There are two species of passerine birds commonly called chough that constitute the genus Pyrrhocorax of the Corvidae (crow) family of birds. These are the red-billed chough (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax), and the Alpine chough (or yellow-billed chough) (Pyrrhocorax graculus). The white-winged chough of Australia, despite its name, is not a true chough but rather a member of the family Corcoracidae and only distantly related.
The choughs have black plumage and brightly coloured legs, feet, and bills, and are resident in the mountains of southern Eurasia and North Africa. They have long broad wings and perform spectacular aerobatics. Both species pair for life and display fidelity to their breeding sites, which are usually caves or crevices in a cliff face. They build a lined stick nest and lay three to five eggs. They feed, usually in flocks, on short grazed grassland, taking mainly invertebrate prey, supplemented by vegetable material or food from human habitation, especially in winter.
Population:
UK breeding:
250-350 pairs in Great Britain; 120-150 pairs on the Isle of Man
This is a closeup of the stepped-arch and stained glass in The Guardian Building, Detroit, Michigan. The "window" is lighted with electrical lights from behind, and portrays the virtue "Fidelity"
The premiere Art Deco Guardian Building opened in 1929, only a few months before the start of the Great Depression.
8 mei 2023
In the Middle Ages, a knight was walking along a river with his lover. While picking a bunch of flowers, he fell into the water due to the weight of his armor. As he was drowning he threw the bunch of flowers to his lover and shouted "Don't forget me". This flower is associated with romance and tragedy and was often worn by women as a sign of fidelity and infinite love.
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thanks for all the comments last week,
much appreciated !
taken this 10 days after birth !
in the summer, its much colder now,
so the calves need a coat !
greetings the farm animals Caroline
Merci pour vos commentaires sympathiques, et votre fidélité.
A très bientôt dans vos univers!
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Un brin de soleil et les gouttelettes étincelles.
Bon dimanche!!
Merci pour vos commentaires sympathiques, et votre fidélité.
A très bientôt dans vos univers!
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Cette île,est une propriété privée.
Avant d’être encerclée par la Loire après la mise en eau du barrage en 1957, l’actuelle île de Grangent était un promontoire rocheux haut de 60 mètres, qui dominait les gorges et offrait un point de surveillance idéal sur les environs. Offrant aujourd’hui un panorama pittoresque aux visiteurs, l’île, le château et la chapelle qui s’y trouvent rappellent l’époque où les gorges étaient un axe de passage stratégique entre le Forez et le Velay.
www.smagl.com/Ile-et-Chateau-de-Grangent-article-42-2.html
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A très bientôt dans vos univers!
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My late father's wedding ring, he's worn it for over 60 years. Notice that my mother's name, Isa, is worn out by use.
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Yep after a downpour, so it is possible to get enough Rain , its everything or Nothing !
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greetings caroline and all the farm animals
The blue jay is a bird symbolizing fidelity and agreement. These magnificent birds are closely associated with the values of loyalty, solidarity, and empathy.
Some colour added here and there. And there but maybe not over there.
Done using a layer mask in Elements and a pen tablet for assist.
Happy Slider Sunday
History is filled mainly by the fidelity of dogs than by friends.
Alexander Pope
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La historia está más llena de la fidelidad de los perros que de los amigos
Alexander Pope
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WWT Slimbridge Wetland Centre.
What3Words
///trailers.ripen.grownup
The Mandarin Duck (Aix galericulata) is a medium-sized perching duck famous for being widely regarded as the world's most beautiful duck.
Vibrant Appearance
Mandarin ducks display striking sexual dimorphism, meaning the males and females look completely different:
The Male (Drake):
Highly elaborate and colourful. It features distinctive orange feathers that stick up like "sails" on its back, a purple chest with white bars, orange cheek plumes, and a bright red-pink beak. After the spring breeding season, the male sheds these feathers (moults) into a dull "eclipse" plumage that looks like the female, though he keeps his bright beak.
The Female (Hen):
Intentionally dull and grey-brown to blend into surroundings. She has a grey head, a prominent white ring around her eye with a stripe trailing behind it, and a mottled underside.
Habitat and Global Distribution
Native Range:
Densely wooded wetlands, shallow lakes, and marshes across East Asia, including China, Japan, Korea, and parts of Russia.
Introduced Populations:
They were brought to the UK as decorative birds for private collections in the 18th century. Escaped birds formed a thriving, naturalised wild population across Great Britain.
Behavior:
Despite their loud colours, mandarins are shy, timid birds that prefer hiding under overhanging willows and tree cover. They have long claws that allow them to perch on tree branches and fly through dense forests with incredible agility.
Diet
Mandarins are omnivorous foragers. They eat a varied diet consisting of:
Aquatic plants and seeds
Acorns and grains
Insects, land snails, and small fish
Tree Nesting and "Leaping" Chicks
Mandarin ducks have a unique and dramatic nesting ritual:
High Nesting:
Females lay a clutch of 9–12 eggs during the spring in natural tree cavities or holes, sometimes up to 9 metres off the ground.
The Leap of Faith:
Shortly after hatching, the mother flies down to the ground and calls to her ducklings.
Safe Landing:
The tiny, uninjured ducklings leap from the high tree cavity. Their light weight and fluffy down feathers cushion the impact, allowing them to bounce unharmed and follow their mother straight to the nearest water.
Cultural Symbolism
In traditional East Asian cultures—particularly in China and Japan—mandarin ducks are revered as a symbol of lifelong fidelity, love, and wedded bliss. Pairs are frequently depicted in oriental art and given as wedding gifts, even though wild ducks generally only pair up for a single breeding season.
She said:
"I want someone who knows that love isn't a game.
Someone who knows that love is not measured by the absence we leave in it, but by the time we devote to it.
That true desire is not fueled by absence, but by presence.
That the deepest desire doesn't rise from frustration, but from attentive fulfillment.
That a lasting relationship is not built on inaccessibility, but on availability.
Love should never be a doubt, but a conviction.
This is where fidelity is found: in daily attention.
Through the repetition of simple gestures, rather than by the rarity of passionate impulses.
Not that the future would be filled only with moments of happiness, but that we will be together to get through it."
Because this is how she wants to love:
"No matter what."
Merci pour vos commentaires sympathiques, et votre fidélité.
A très bientôt dans vos univers!
Thank you for your kind comments and fidelity.
See you soon!!
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New Fidelity ~ Nova Fidelidade
"O capitão Diego Samaritano, comandante do Nueva Fidelidad, não sabia até quando iria continuar rio acima e rio abaixo no Rio Grande da Madalena, já que não podia aportar em seu destino com um navio que levava a bandeira da cólera. Florentino Ariza, morto de amores por Fermiza Daza, não teve dúvidas em responder: “Toda a vida”. E o Nova Fidelidade tinha então um rumo seguro, destino certo: singrar aquelas águas até que todos morressem de amor."
"Captain Diego Samaritano, commander of the "Nueva Fidelidad" didn't know until when it would continue river above and river below in " Rio Grande da Madalena", since it could not dock in destiny with a ship that took the flag of cholera. Florentino Ariza, in love with Fermiza Daza, didn't have doubts in answering: “A lifetime”. AND the "Nueva Fidelidad" had a safe direction then, its certain destine : navigate in those waters until all of them died in love."
O Amor Nos Tempos do Cólera.
Gabriel Garcia Marques
Listen to: Regina Speckor - Fidelity ♫♫♪♫♪
Obrigado pela ajuda, Daniella !!! =*
Bom dia e boa semana a todos!
Wish you all an amazing week!
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Ref the birds: - "Hope in the darkness"
LADY ANNEKE
SHARPNESS >>> KILROOT
IMO: 9624823 - Built 2012
General Cargo - 88m X 13.39m
&
SPANACO FIDELITY
SHARPNESS >>> RIDHAM DOCK
IMO: 9472024 - Built 2009
General Cargo -- 89.98m X 15.4m
This shot crosses back over the divide and returns to lo-fidelity style digital photography. This monochrome image was taken with a cheap, plastic HL-C Holga lens and shows water running over a ford. A ford is simply a concrete slab typically placed over a stream or creek that lets you drive through the water (unless it’s flooding and becomes impassible). Photographed at Dolliver Memorial State Park in Webster County, Iowa.
HL-C Holga Lens for Canon
F8.0 (per the manufacturer)
Developed with Darktable 4.8.0.
Conversion: Color calibration= gray, Input R = +1.0
SPANACO FIDELITY
Sharpness
SHARPNESS >>> RIDHAM DOCK
IMO: 9472024 - Built 2009
General Cargo -- 89.98m X 15.4m
Right place at the right time........
Happy Is Who Knows How To Love - Herman Hesse//
Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy." After many years of introspection and self-reflection, Hesse came to this beautiful conclusion. There"s nothing like love to help you experience happiness.
p.s. 3. "At her first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, all my dreams and sweet anguish, all the secrets that slept within me, came awake, everything was transformed and enchanted, everything made sense." - Herman Hesse
Dance Me To The End Of Love - Leonard Cohen
This explains it so well...
“At times she glimmers forth, reminding us that Gregory’s rehabilitative quest is a form of fidelity to her—she who showed him the beautiful Bridegroom into whose arms she finally disappeared. But we are never sure which appearance and disappearance reveals Macrina, daughter of Emmelia and founder of the monastic life at Annisa. Many have tried to pin this Macrina down, yet the lady always vanishes. We pay homage to her absent presence in the life of her disciple Gregory and consider the ways in which he presents his memory of Macrina as issuing him both comfort and challenge.”
-Beauty a theological engagement with gregory of nyssa, Natalie Carnes
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-Natural Cause, Emancipator
Macro Mondays #InsideElectronics
7DWF: Anything Goes
Height of the frame: 5,4 cm / 2,1 inches
In the year 2112, Starship Cygnus X-1, Rush category, the flagship of the X-Cans fleet, silently orbits planet Samba on an Amazing Journey through the Musical Fidelity Universe. It is on a five-year mission to explore new musical worlds, to seek out new sounds no woman or man has ever heard before...
The subject was a rather "simple" one, because the only easily accessible "Inside Electronics" parts I had were these old tubes that used to be inside of my headphone amplifier. They are made of glass (of course) so you can see what's inside of them; making it a "double peek", if you like - an inside view of something that used to be inside of an electronic device ;-). I always wanted to use these tubes for a photo. The idea was to make it appear like a spaceship. Ever since the new tubes were installed, the amplifier sounds crappy (so I don't use it anymore; but it's 20 years old, so it's probably time for a new one...). I wasn't aware that the type of tubes can make such a difference in sound...
A Happy Macro Monday, Everyone!
Das Universum der Musik... Unendliche Weiten. Wir schreiben das Jahr 2112. Dies ist das Raumschiff Cygnus X-1, Rush-Klasse, Flagschiff der X-Cans-Flotte. Lautlos umrundet es den Planeten Samba auf einer fünfjährigen "Amazing Journey" durch das "Musical Fidelity" Universum. Viele Klangjahre von der Erde entfernt erforscht es neue musikalische Welten, die nie ein Mensch zuvor gehört hat...
Um nicht etwas aufschrauben und dabei womöglich beschädigen zu müssen (oder den elektrischen Schlag schlechthin zu bekommen), habe ich hier alte Röhren aus meinem Kopfhörer-Verstärker genommen, die ich schon immer mal für ein Foto verwenden wollte. Ein "doppelter Einblick" ins Innere der Elektronik, da die Röhren durch ihren Glasmantel sowohl Einblick in ihr eigenes Inneres erlauben als auch zuvor im Innern eines elektrischen Geräts verbaut waren. Dummerweise klingt der Verstärker nach dem Wechsel der Röhren gar nicht mehr gut (ich hätte nie gedacht, dass die Art der Röhre solch einen Einfluss auf den Klang hat), aber er ist auch schon 20 Jahre alt; vielleicht Zeit für etwas Neues...
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Memories of autumn, the striking deep crimson foliage is a joy to see at this temple nestled in the mountains where temperatures are lower and hence the colors more vibrant.
A simple image of autumn foliage against the blue sky, the traditional Japanese standing lantern reminds us that this is on temple grounds. A smaller Gingko tree in front contributed the fallen bright yellow leaves.
Will climate change and warming temperatures reduce the intensity of autumn colors in the years to come?
Handheld shot with Nikon DSLR mated to AF-S 24-70mm f2.8 G, a lens which mirrorless Nikon Z-ealot shills like to remind us that it's not sharp enough compared to their latest mirrorless lenses as measured by various test charts.
With regards to colors as noted by some, there is a perceptible difference in the color depth of cameras as they moved from using different sensors from CCD=>FSI CMOS=>BSI CMOS=>OSPDAF=>Stacked. As it stands, Panasonic was dead opposed to OSPDAF for a long time but they have capitulated recently as their DFD tech falls further behind OSPDAF. Choose the right RAW developer and this problem of color depth/tonality can be mitigated somewhat but I’ve noticed that quite a number of images from the Z cameras have a flat, rather watered down or washed out look. This does appear to be mostly user dependent however as there are also images by other users that looked perfectly fine.
Photography fundamentally is about capturing 3D subjects onto a 2D media. To this end, I’ve been trying of late to enhance the perception of depth in photos via post-processing and avoid a lifeless, overly flat and dull look. Nikon at one time was very much into their design philosophy known as “3D hifi” which cumulated into their rather “controversial” AF-S 58mm f1.4 G. As per the Nikon engineers, 3D rendering in 2D space and resolution are 2 opposing design tenets as one will have to be sacrificed for the other to some extent, lens design typically involves trade-offs and compromises. I have noticed that some of the Nikon DSLR lenses including even zooms do have some perceivable 3D rendering provided we don’t mess up our post-processing because while post-processing can improve an image if properly done, badly processed photos can even obliterate smooth bokeh etc.
Coming into the mirrorless Z mount, the Nikon engineers have pretty much de-emphasized “3D hifi” for the sake of resolution since this is what most people want these days (unfortunately) even though the engineers knew that sharpness is not everything. So today, we might have more sharpness in Nikon mirrorless Z lenses but somethings have been sacrificed in the process. The mirrorless Nikon Z-ealot shills’ constant chant that their Z lenses are superior is hence not quite true, sharper probably but as for being better, it is much less clear cut.