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- Kala’s New Reshade by guidethisonekalahira
- HattiWatti Cinematic Tool (Free camera, HUD toggle, DOF, timestop, FOV)
- Downsampling using Nvidia Control Panel
This isn't as sharp as I would like - noisy too - battling dull days. However, I like the snapshot of a moment of bird interaction, that is hard to see otherwise.
It's always nice to hear the clatter of antlers when the bucks battle it out during the rut. I watched this pair pawing the ground, thrasing the undergrowth and parallel walking beforehand. All the posturing heightened the atmosphere before the battle started.
Two Black-tailed Godwits (Limosa limosa) were fighting for the territory during a foraging break with their long beaks. They were biting each other with long tough beaks and engaged in locked beak state for sometime before the ending. Most classic is the posture of the left one with open wings to adjust the balance in this tussle. Pics was taken from Mangalajodi wetland, Odisha, India.
There are actually three Coots in this tangle - The middle one is submerged I think ! They fought for quite some time so I just kept snapping in the hope of capturing both the birds and the spray.
Goodness knows what the fight was about , or who the winner was!!
Caught an oblique glimpse of blue and white while walking through the local cemetery late one afternoon. My eyes tend to scan whatever environment I find myself in. Like most photographers, it's really second nature. Curiosity drew me closer. I found this figurine of the Virgin Mary, toppled by wind, and face down in the mud. The visual impact was startling and served as a perfect metaphor: blemished but unbowed. Somehow the mud enhanced rather than degraded the spiritual effect. I hadn't planned on any of this, and photography was the last thing on my mind at the time. Yet here I was, grasping this muddy figurine in hand, standing beneath a magnificent backdrop of clouds and gloom. Without even a moment's hesitation the image was captured. This is truly a case where the resulting image is even more dramatic than in real life.
My general rule of cemetery visits is to leave things as I find them. But in this instance, there was absolutely no way I was going to plant Mary face down in mud. I carefully stood her back up on the grave from which she fell. She was still upright last time I checked. Subsequent rain has cleansed her of the caked mud.
Things which are worthy are usually not easy. You need to fight, you need to die, you need to rebuild yourself, and then you need to fight again.
I don't know where the sun beams end and the star lights begins. It's all a mystery...
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Professional boxing in Gloucester, England - title fight between Danny Carter and Andy Keates
I thought I had a black and white edit of this shot but I didn't... (I guess I liked it better at the time in colour as you can see all the blood splatter from Danny's mouth in glorious technicolour) so here it is... a new edit in glorious monochrome
an Oxeye daisy fights its way through the reddened iron ore water at an old iron ore mine. She's winning!
From our shorebird trip a couple days ago. Many yellowlegs and other sandpipers were crowded into a small pool full of minnows. One Lesser Yellowlegs in particular seemed determined to keep one place in the pool for himself, and predictably lashed out at any bird to come within pecking distance.
'Fighting Temeraire', developed by David Austin Roses.
Named after the colours in the famous painting by Turner.
A fairly uncommon rose I would think, with huge blowsy blooms like a loose lettuce and a wonderful glowing, golden centre that seems to be lit from the inside when newly opened.
Quite a large shrub, floriferous and surprisingly trouble free, but best in a cool spot as the flowers tend to collapse in a heatwave.
Taken at the end of May before the present storms battered my garden.
Happy Wednesday/Mid-Week/Hump-Day Everyone!
It's been a nice day so far ... 84deg. and 37% humidity. I hope your week is going well so far.
Thank you so much for dropping by and for the kind comments and favs. They are very much appreciated!
Two Red Fox vixens, one a black morph, were together raising 4 kits. There was occasional interaction between the vixen and in each case the red phase fox was dominant, the black acting submissively. However, toward the end of my trip the red returned with a rabbit and the black took her on. In this case, the red retreated, and the black presented the rabbit to the kits.
Also interesting, the kits played continuously, biting and jumping and generally having a good time. But when one had food, it was generally left
alone as the snaps weren't playful when food was involved.
The fox where this image was taken are under pressure from more and more people observing them. I was asked by the volunteers who devote their time
to protection of these animals not to reveal their location. I can say
that it was in the American Northwest.
Thanks,
Mike