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The white fluffy looking growth in the trees is a colony of wooly aphids. It was attracting several birds to feed on the aphids.
For Day 17 of the Flickr21 Challenge - Family
We were thrilled when we were at Myakka River State Park and discovered this family of Sandhill Cranes exploring the shore by Myakka Lake in Sarasota, FL. They were a delight to see and capture.
Thank you all for your comments and support and group invites!
For Sliders Sunday and the Flickr21 challenge!
Shot on an iPad screen using a vibrant coloured background as the light source. Boosted the colour till my eyes could stand no more.
Tür 21 - Freundschaft ist eine Tür zwischen zwei Menschen. Sie kann manchmal knarren, sie kann klemmen, aber sie ist nie verschlossen. (Baltasar Gracián Y Morales) ️❤️
Door 21 - Friendship is a door between two people. It can creak sometimes, it can jam, but it is never locked. (Baltasar Gracián Y Morales) ️❤️
When I was young I grew up on military bases. We would go to the base pools in the summertime. These wood storks gathered around the lake reminded me of all the parents waiting for adult swim. 30 minutes of pool time with no kids to compete with!
Thank you all for your comments and support!
For Day 20 of Flickr21 Birthday Challenge - Community
A playful take on the number 21, because what better way to celebrate Flickr’s 21st birthday than with a delicious lineup of treats? Three white chocolate, sixteen milk chocolate, and two dark chocolate pieces create a sweet equation: 3 + 16 + 2 = 21! The smooth chocolate coating, rich tones, and a hint of coffee beans make this a bold, flavorful tribute to Flickr’s creativity and community.
Iowa Interstate 6988, the "Iowa Bolt," has come to a rest after a day's worth of excursion runs from Chillicothe, IL. The Chinese-built 2-10-2 is reflected in the flooded platform of the former Rock Island depot in Bureau Junction, IL, a result of the heavy rains earlier in the afternoon. Unknown at the time, but these rains would be the opening volley in a string of heavy rain events that plagued most of the Midwest, preventing farmers from planting crops until mid-June. Many didn't bother, and more than a few fields returned to the old ways of fallowing a field for the remainder of 2019.
"Reflections"
This image is being submitted as part of the #Flickr21 Photo Challenge, celebrating Flickr's 21st anniversary on February 10, 2025. The theme for the 14th day of the 21 day photo challenge is "Reflections."
Day 4 of the Flickr21 challenge. The theme today is donuts. I was tempted to trudge through the snow to purchase donuts for this one, but decided lazinesz isn't always bad! (We had a lot of snow last night, and walking was already hazardous prior due to the need to walk in the roads).
The theme for week 10 in 2021 is "Pairs". Despite a bit of a reach for the theme, I thought this was the more interesting option.
flickr turns 21, and what better way to celebrate than with a 21-day photo challenge? Today’s theme: BOLD!
Photography offers endless ways to interpret boldness—whether it’s through striking colors, dramatic contrasts, or fearless compositions. This shot embodies boldness with its vivid interplay of iridescent bismuth and the deep red-black tones of the glass bowl beneath it. The geometric patterns, reflective surfaces, and intense hues create a visually powerful statement, making this piece stand out with confidence.
Ways to Interpret "Bold" in Photography:
📌 Bold Colors – Vibrant, saturated hues that demand attention
📌 Bold Contrast – Strong light-to-dark transitions for high-impact visuals
📌 Bold Composition – Unconventional angles, leading lines, or dynamic framing
📌 Bold Subject Matter – Unique, daring, or thought-provoking imagery
📌 Bold Textures – Sharp details and intricate patterns that pop
From color explosions to monochrome minimalism, from fearless artistic choices to powerful visual storytelling, boldness is about making a statement.
Let’s push creative boundaries and celebrate 21 years of inspiring photography—one bold image at a time! 🎂🎊📷
#Flickr21 #BoldPhotography #PhotoChallenge #Bismuth #Colors #AbstractArt #MacroMagic
What’s a birthday celebration without something sweet? 🎂 A coffee break with a delicious donut, celebrating Flickr’s 21st anniversary with a 21-day photo challenge! The rich chocolate coating, crunchy toppings, and a bite already taken—because I just couldn’t resist. Paired with coffee beans, this shot captures the simple joys of indulgence.
🎶 Put one foot in front of the other
And soon you’ll be walking cross the floor
Put one foot in front of the other
And soon you’ll be walking out the door 🎶
That's the refrain from the song "Put One Foot in Front of the Other" from the Rankin Bass Christmas special "Santa Claus is Comin' To Town" starring Mickey Rooney, where the Winter Warlock learns to walk for the first time. That's what came to mind when I saw this Barred Owl owlet walking on a branch for the first time.
I have been watching the progress of this owlet from the beginning, starting from the time Mama Barred Owl first settled on the location for her nest. There were two owlets this year, this one being the older of the two. On this particular day, I stopped by the nest after work. I waited for approximately 3 hours waiting for Mama to come in with a fresh meal of vole or snake for her babies. I knew she was close, because I could hear her "cooing," but another photographer who got too close to the nest and other people out walking ensured that would not happen, coming by just as she was about to make her move.
Finally, just as I was losing my light and starting my way back to the car, I happened to look back and saw Baby standing on the side of the tree outside the nest!, while Younger Sibling looked around in disbelief. So I went back in to watch Baby as he climbed up higher, getting its first sense of freedom as it was "branching" for the very first time. At one point, Baby's talon got caught on the branch and got a bit worried.
Then, while I was standing there, I saw Mama swoop in. Her "cooing" changed tone, having a disappointed ending to it. Almost a "Oh no, what have you done," sound to it, as if she knew it was too soon. But eventually, she flew in to comfort her oldest owlet and groomed it as it calmed down.
Baby sibling branched out a few days later, and both owlets have been hanging out in the top of "Papa's Tree," the tree the male barred owl would sleep in while watching over the nest. As the babies get bigger, they climb higer, and become all but invisible in the thick forest canopy.
"Bold"
This image is being submitted as part of the #Flickr21 Photo Challenge, celebrating Flickr's 21st anniversary on February 10, 2025. The theme for the 1st day of the 21 day photo challenge is "Bold." "Bold" can be interpreted in a myriad of possible ways, and I had multiple photos that could have fit this theme. But I kept coming back to this image. It's hard to be more bold than a baby taking its first steps, and a baby bird leaving its nest for the first time. Mama Owl certainly thought so anyway.
This image, stacked from 158 images of 30 seconds each, came about as a failed attempt to capture the Perseids a few days after their peak. That mission failed, so I settled for star trails instead.
Canon 6D
ISO 800
Rokinon 14mm f2.8
f2.8
30 seconds x 158
Northern Illinois
Exact location undisclosed
"Planet"
This image is being submitted as part of the #Flickr21 Photo Challenge, celebrating Flickr's 21st anniversary on February 10, 2025. The theme for the 6th day of the 21 day photo challenge is "Planet." The very first thing I thought of with this theme was to somehow feature the rotation of our own planet in space. And there can be no greater visual representation of planetary rotation than with star trails rotating around Polaris, the North Star.
Friendship is like a game of dominoes—sometimes you need the right match to keep things going. Each piece connects to another, forming a chain of shared experiences, trust, and support. Just like in life, a strong connection builds something bigger, and together, the pieces tell a beautiful story of friendship and unity.
I put some blue marbles on a pink micro towel and then used Photoscape to post process this image.
I used the 3D filter to create this shape.
B-29 Superfortress "Fifi," one of two air-worthy B-29's in the United States, lays over at the Southern Wisconsin Regional Airport in Janesville, WI, as a rough-looking thunderstorm is about to roll in. "Fifi" was on layover in Janesville for the Commemorative Air Force Gathering of Warbirds, en route to the giant EAA spectacle in Oshkosh just a few days later. This is a multi-shot panorama showing the shelf cloud just before the thunderstorms rolled in, with high winds and a 30-minute period of very heavy rains.
***This is a re-edit of a previously-uploaded image. The re-edit is for the Flickr Your Best Shot 2019 gallery. The original can be seen here:
www.flickr.com/photos/66708125@N03/48352829912/in/datepos...
"Awe"
This image is being submitted as part of the #Flickr21 Photo Challenge, celebrating Flickr's 21st anniversary on February 10, 2025. The theme for the 21st day of the 21 day photo challenge is "Awe." I chose this image for the final theme of the #Flickr21Challenge because it fits on at least 3 different levels. First and foremost is the airplane. "Fifi" as she is known is a B-29 Superfortress built by Boeing in 1945 at the end of World War II. The B-29 was one of the largest aircraft built that served during the war and were the aircraft that dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. "Fifi" never served in combat, with the war having ended before she could be delivered. Today, she is based in Dallas, TX, and flies all over the United States as one of only two airworthy B-29's in the entire world. And don't let her size in this image fool you. She is BIG, dwarfing the other aircraft that were on display this day.
Second is the storm. For as powerful as the B-29 Superfortress was, it pales in comparison to the power of Mother Nature. This was a mean-looking storm because it WAS a mean storm. It rolled in fast, forcing the airshow crews to scramble to get the airplanes tied down and the public off the tarmac before it hit. As it rolled over us at the Janesville Airport, the National Weather Service would issue a severe thunderstorm warning for this storm. It would go on to produce quarter-sized hail as it rolled further east.
And third, what is NOT visible in this image. Because the storm rolled in so fast, the few of us photographers who remained until the raindrops started falling were scrambling to get our shots as the shelf cloud overtook the airport. In my desire to capture the entire shelf cloud, I switched into 3-shot bracketing, with the intent to create an HDR panorama. What I failed to do was to change my camera settings to compensate for the loss of light. So when I got home and uploaded by photos, I was horrified to see how underexposed they were. Fortunately, the final shot of the HDR sequence was bright enough for me to salvage the sequence. In a way, this was probably beneficial. When I did the panorama merge in Lightroom, I was blown away by how dark and moody it turned out. With very minor additional editing, including a monochrome conversion, this ended up being the result. The color version of this image would go on to win the Best of Show award at my local fair's photography competition (the biggest competition of it's kind in Illinois), an award that I had been chasing for exactly 20 years at that point.
This is a very quick edit of Peninsula Point lighthouse. Taken with a Rokinon 14mm f2.8 lens on a Canon 6D at ISO 5000 for 30 seconds. I have yet to correct for lens distortion, the general blue hue, and lighten the Milky Way, but I liked how the beacon shines out through the Milky Way.
The above paragraph was written shortly after I edited this image. I have never gone back and really spent time editing it in the way I thought I would. For all it's flaws, this image has really grown on me over time. And I like it just the way it is because of the memories it invokes. I may eventually fix it as I intended, but for now, there's no need.
"Exploration"
This image is being submitted as part of the #Flickr21 Photo Challenge, celebrating Flickr's 21st anniversary on February 10, 2025. The theme for the 9th day of the 21 day photo challenge is "Exploration." The purpose of exploration is to go places you've never been before, and to do things you've never done before. To see around every corner, and to experience all that you can. Photography IS Exploration. I've been saying it for many years now, Photography is my excuse to do things I've never done and go places I never thought I'd see, much less even knew existed.
Never would I have thought when I picked up a camera for the first time that it would lead me through a nightmare forest nearly 3 hours from the nearest town to the remains of an abandoned and spider-infested lighthouse on the shores of Lake Michigan in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. This was a stop on my photography club's 2018 lighthouse tour. We discovered it in 2016 and knew we had to go back. This time we spent several hours there, capturing a fantastic sunset and staying long enough lightpaint and capture the Milky Way. This place was fun, and we all took a ton of good pictures.
But this place is NOT easy to get to. It's hard enough during the day, and nearly impossible at night. And try to leave in the middle of the night when you're tired and cold. One must first navigate a narrow one-lane dirt road through a thick forest that is straight out of every Friday the 13th movie. Then one must navigate the dark, winding tree-lined roads while the thousands of deer who live there seemingly all appear in front of you all at once and at multiple points along the way. To attempt such a feat will leave one seriously mentally exhausted. While I would love to go back again, I think I can safely say I still have PTSD just thinking about this drive.
PER IL GUPPO MACRO MONDAYS.
Today I'm not in shape .... I have a powerful tonsillitis with high fever.
I let the day pass by hoping to improve with the afternoon hours but everything was useless.
In a comatose state I took three shots at the scart socket and I took off my commitment .... I chose this macro because it represents very well my current state ... I'm in pieces.
I hope you will forgive me if I do not stay at the PC responding to the comments of the good colleagues of MM.
I immediately put myself under the covers ... at the next challenge !!!!
Oggi non sono in forma....ho una potente tonsillite con febbre alta.
Ho lasciato trascorrere la giornata sperando di migliorare con le ore del pomeriggio ma tutto inutile.
In stato comatoso ho fatto tre scatti alla presa scart e mi son tolto l'impegno....ho scelto questa macro perché rappresenta benissimo il mio stato attuale...sono a pezzi.
Spero mi perdoniate se non rimango al Pc a rispondere ai commenti dei bravissimi colleghi di MM.
Mi metto subito sotto le coperte...alla prossima sfida !!!!
In EXPLORE il 26/10/2023 al n. 76 "Macro theme"
CANON EOS 5D con ob. CANON EF 100 mm L f./2,8 Macro IS USM
So finally... I have managed to photograph a lightning strike. I'm pretty happy with it too. Obviously I can now give up photography and retire.
The Tricolores cheering section for The Yokohama F. Marinos. The team is the 5-time J-League football (soccer) champion, most recently in 2022.
On January 20th, 1963, the Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee Railroad, aka the North Shore Line, an interurban running between Chicago and Milwaukee ran its last train. The next day, the North Shore was officially abandoned.
Saturday, January 21st, 2023 marked the 60th anniversary of the abandonment of the North Shore. To commemorate this, the Illinois Railway Museum held a special "North Shore Line Day" event at its campus in Union, IL. Not only was this a rare winter event held at IRM, but it also officially kicked off the museum's 70th anniversary. Many of the museum's North Shore artifacts were on display this day, including the famous Electroliner. They also had replica signage that signaled the end of the North Shore spread all about the museum. Seen here is a replica of a hand-written sign that was hung at the North Shore terminal in Milwaukee.
Making this scene more significant is the ticket window itself, which was once part of the ticket booth in the Milwaukee terminal. Built in 1920, this ticket window was in place on that fateful day in 1963. According to the placard seen out of frame on the upper right, "This ticket window set was a section from the North Shore Line’s ticket booth in its Milwaukee terminal. Forming an octagonal island in the station’s waiting room, passengers would purchase tickets to ride the interurban south towards Chicago. The ticket booth survived up until the railroad abandoned operation, closing the Milwaukee terminal in 1963."
Of all the artifacts on display this day, to me this sign and its placement might be the most poignant. Photographer John Gruber captured the original sign and the mood that day in this photo posted on Facebook by the Center for Railroad Photography and Art. It was this mood that I was hoping to replicate.
www.facebook.com/railphotoart/photos/pcb.5745206272182230...
Incidentally, Gruber also captured the original ticket booth as it looked in its octagonal form back in 1961.
www.flickr.com/photos/railphotoart/44532200304/
"21"
This image is being submitted as part of the #Flickr21 Photo Challenge, celebrating Flickr's 21st anniversary on February 10, 2025. The theme for the 3rd day of the 21 day photo challenge is "21." Having taken the image on January 21st, 2023, it calls back to the day 60 years prior when the North Shore was abandoned on January 21st, 1963.
Iowa Interstate 6988, aka the "Iowa Bolt" in reference to it's new paint job, leads the first of five excursions out of Chillicothe through the tiny town of Sparland, Illinois on Saturday, May 18, 2019. 6988 is one of two Chinese-built QJ-class 2-10-2 steam locomotive that Iowa Interstate acquired in 2006. Despite the blue skies on this morning, the skies would quickly turn dark, with long-duration heavy rains soaking the already flooded grounds.
***This is a re-edit of a previously-uploaded image. The re-edit is intended for the Flickr Your Best Shot 2019 gallery. The original went to Flickr Explore and can be seen here:
www.flickr.com/photos/66708125@N03/47834662972/in/datepos...
"Community"
This image is being submitted as part of the #Flickr21 Photo Challenge, celebrating Flickr's 21st anniversary on February 10, 2025. The theme for the 20th day of the 21 day photo challenge is "Community." Seen in this image are three of the eight remaining buildings in downtown Sparland, IL, a tiny town situated on the Illinois River roughly 20 miles north of Peoria. Of these eight remaining buildings, all except the town hall and the barber shop are abandoned, including these three buildings.
According to Wikipedia, Sparland has a population of about 366 as of the 2020 U.S. Census. At its height, it had a population of 624 in 1980. On the morning of May 18, 2019, Sparland's population was once again likely over 600, as railfans and photographers descended on the tiny town to photograph Iowa Interstate's "Iowa Bolt" steam locomotive as it made a total of five round trips through town to raise money for the Chillicothe fire department, the next town to the south along IAIS's Peoria Sub. It might not look like it in this shot, but even during this first run of the day, there were at least 30 people set up to photograph here. That number would only go up as the day worn on, until the rains heavy rains set in and chased many away.
Sparland is sadly emblematic of so much of Smalltown America and the cascade effect of what happens when the economic engines that supported these small communities goes away and never returns. It is a tale as old as time itself, and the formula for why so many once-thriving towns whither and die, until nothing remains but a ghost town.
Simultaneously, it is also emblematic of the tenaciousness of a community and its ability to rally around itself to survive. Even with a population that peaked 40 years ago, the population loss has slowed. And in 2025, it may have even stabilized by now. Even in a time of despair, one can find hope. And at its heart is the Community.
With the upcoming total solar eclipse on April 8th, 2024, I thought I'd go back and post another photo from the previous August 21, 2017, solar eclipse. In this photo, you can see the phenomenon called Bailey's Beads. This happens when the last little bits of the sun's light right before totality shine through the valleys of lunar craters and mountains on the surface of the moon. This only lasts a mere matter of seconds, so to the be able to capture it all is extremely lucky. But, as you can see, I cut off part of the sun and the moon. This is because they move so fast across the frame of your camera when using long telephoto lenses that it can be hard to keep up. In the excitement of nearing totality, I neglected to keep my sun centered in frame.
"Dots"
This image is being submitted as part of the #Flickr21 Photo Challenge, celebrating Flickr's 21st anniversary on February 10, 2025. The theme for the 2nd day of the 21 day photo challenge is "Dots." Of all the images I currently have up on Flickr, it came down to 3 possible ways to demonstrate this theme: Snow, Stars, and this, Bailey's Beads. While not the greatest image in the world (I mean, I did cut off the sun), capturing Bailey's Beads is rare and extremely difficult, considering the opportunity to catch them lasts mere seconds during each total solar eclipse. I failed to catch Bailey's Beads upon the end of totality during this eclipse, and I don't think I captured them during the 2024 solar eclipse (as of this writing of an added note, I still have yet to really look at my 2024 eclipse photos because I am still disappointed in how that unfolded. More on that whenever I eventually get around to uploading those photos to Flickr.)
This week's theme is "Creative Self-Portrait". I thought I would try a challenge: a self-portrait looking back at myself as an old(er) dude. FaceApp meets Photoshop if you will.
When I use the de-aging option it comes out pretty much spot on, so who knows? I didn't use the 'Cool Old Dude' version as I have appear to have grown another beard in the future and it wouldn't have worked so well in this image, so I've gone with the 'Old Git' option.
I took the picture looking into the lens.
Then another face-on image processed with FaceApp.
Combined the two images together in Photoshop, mapping my 'old face' over the base photo so it looks correct.
RUOTE ALL'ARIA.
Il modulo CAI (Constatazione Amichevole d’Incidente), noto anche come modulo blu , è il documento con il quale è possibile effettuare la denuncia di un sinistro.
La compilazione completa del modulo CAI e la sottoscrizione da parte dei due conducenti coinvolti ti permette di semplificare ed accelerare le pratiche di risarcimento dei danni subiti, inoltrando richiesta di rimborso alla tua compagnia di assicurazione invece che all’assicurazione del veicolo responsabile ai sensi della procedura di risarcimento diretto.
Non è raro che i conducenti commettano degli errori nella compilazione del modulo CAI. Tra gli sbagli più frequenti spiccano l’indicazione di danni materiali ad altri veicoli anche quando non vi siano ulteriori vetture coinvolte, il riportare il nome dell’agenzia o del broker assicurativo anziché quello della compagnia, l’omissione di data e luogo del sinistro, la segnalazione errata dei numeri di targa, la mancata apposizione del numero e dei riferimenti della polizza, tralasciare dati rilevanti nel grafico esplicativo – ad esempio il senso di marcia e la segnaletica orizzontale o verticale – dare nota di circostanze contradittorie, invertire gli spazi per le osservazioni e, infine, non indicare il punto d’impatto iniziale.
CANON EOS 6D Mark II con ob. CANON EF 100 mm f./2,8 L Macro IS USM
In the vast emptiness of nature, peace is pure and profound. The wind whispers through silent trees, rivers hum in quiet harmony, and the sky stretches endlessly, unburdened. Without noise or demand, the soul breathes, unshackled. Solitude becomes a gentle embrace, where thoughts dissolve like mist. Here, time slows, the heart softens, and existence simply *is*—a tranquil surrender to the quiet majesty of the wild.
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