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Floral freshness is what came to mind after working on this macro image of a mostly white chrysanthemum.
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BURGUNDY FAIRYTALE
painter’s got a canvas. A writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence,” said British musician Keith Richards.
My canvas is all that my eyes can see.
A life-size canvas, white sheet of paper, silence
or thousands of sounds blending in.
And then comes my paintbrush, my pen,
and my little madness,
gathered
to create a unique painting, story, melody.
Here is a whole series of photographs
taken in my pretty Burgundy,
at dawn,
and then at dusk,
which recreates somewhat of a fairytale.
Creativity
is I think,
the keyword
— for these few pictures.
A voice, a fight.
For a life, for desires
— follies.
It’s an hymn, a song, an hommage almost
to what my dad once told me:
“They don’t realise
how much energy you put
into your own little crazy things.”
The impossible is possible,
so was his motto,
his way of life,
and even his way to laugh and smile.
And even Ginny Weasley,
in a world of magic,
at all costs reminds us of it:
“Anything’s possible
if you’ve got enough nerve.”
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I took one sip; I closed my eyes, and every beautiful thing that I had ever known crowded into my memory. In the old fairy tales the price drinks a magic potion, or looks into a magic crystal, and all the secrets of the earth are revealed to him. I have experienced that miracle. The song of armies sweeping into battle, the roar of the waves upon a rocky shore, the glint of sunshine after rain on the leaves of a forest, the depths of the church organ, the voices of children singing hymns, all these and a hundred other things seemed to be blended into one magnificence….Yes, I, a devotee of Bordeaux, solemnly declare that the three greatest bottles I have ever tasted were all from Burgundy.”
– Ibid., pp. 167-168. [Healy’s three greatest bottles]
from : onmywaybymarie.com/blog/2018/07/09/burgundy-fairytale/
A telephoto shot of a hummingbird profiled against a bright background for a pleasing silhouette image
An Anna's Hummingbird. I was trying to decide which frame I wanted to showcase and couldn't decide. Instead, I tried to layer the poses in Photoshop and fill in the gaps with more cloned and healed bokeh.
This guy didn't see me prepositioned behind a bush, after a couple of shots he was off warning his covey to run.
Muller Mountains is a range of mountains located in the border of the provinces of West Kalimantan and East Kalimantan. The name Muller is taken from the name of a Dutch war commander who was killed in the rapids of Bakang - Bungan river. These mountains alone have a stretch of 860,000 ha and are the territory of the Ot Dan Dayak tribe. The Muller Mountains include a tropical rainforest that has high biodiversity. Muller Mountain Region is important for the preservation of three major rivers in Kalimantan, namely Barito River, Kapuas River, and Mahakam River.
from: WIKIPEDIA
SHRIEKS of the PINE TREE
The pine tree whistles violently afar
And day will turn to night
A few entangled boughs disintegrate
Rapped by winds suppressed
Now, no longer can I hold
A few passing times, and no longer am I Child
Although there was one thing from long before
That are now left unaccounted for
Life only postpones defeat
And we are further estranged from playground love
But know that there things that are not spoken
Before we finally surrender
by Chairil Anwar, 1949
Anna's Hummingbird sipping the miniscule drops of nectar from a barely flowering, drought strickened canyon shrub.
Another fantastic Paper Totem! custom coming in by amazing French illustrator Tougui! His unique style is just dribbling all over these totem pieces... Merci Tougui!! ^___^
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Rōnin, any of the masterless samurai warrior aristocrats of the late Muromachi (1138–1573) and Tokugawa (1603–1867) periods who were often vagrant and disruptive and sometimes actively rebellious.
By the 12th century the term rōnin began to be used for samurai who, as a result of either losses in battle, the untimely death of their lord, or their own misdeeds, had been dispossessed of their fief and their noble sponsorship. During the tumultuous period before the founding of the Tokugawa shogunate, their numbers increased rapidly; they remained a great cause of disorder throughout the first half of the 17th century.
In the mid-19th century many impoverished samurai were attracted to the movement to expel Western foreigners from the country and restore the old imperial family to their rightful place as the actual rulers of Japan. Large numbers of these samurai left their lords and became rōnin. These rōnin heightened the revolutionary mood of the country in the years prior to the Meiji Restoration of 1868 by assassinating moderate officials, pro-Western scholars, and foreigners residing in Japan. Although the violence continued for a short while after the restoration, the rōnin ceased to exist after samurai privileges were abolished in 1873. The affair of the 47 rōnin in the early 18th century, in which the rōnin avenged the death of their lord, has been the subject of many popular Japanese theatrical, cinema, and literary works.
from : Encyclopaedia Britannica article
Anna's Hummingbird profile made by enlarging a cropped segment of the image captured using my camera.
A Psychedelic Feast for the Eyes. These are not your ordinary toyon berries. Pixel manipulations to achieve this effect.
Inlay-printfile for THE BLACKOUT ARGUMENT'S free online ep "Smile Like A Wolf" available for download at www.smilelikeawolf.com
Painterly rendition of a shot taken in the city of Iligan on the island of Mindanao, The Phlippines.
A male Allen's Hummingbird surrounded by and enshrouded in color. This is one of the last in my Hummingbird series. I have two more to share before moving on to a new topic.
This little fella had his back to me and was in vert contrasty side lighting. Shooting in camera raw preserved the detail that I couldn't see in my sensor.
An Anna'a Hummingbird surrounded by bountiful black sage blossoms and bush sunflowers. Lopez Ridge, Mira Mesa, San Diego, California USA
Man Into A Churchyard - Poem by Bernard Gutteridge
He comes unknown and heard and stands there
Breathes there hardly and hands grip
Flesh and walking stick. Skips over mounds
To land flat footed in a bowl of roses.
Flicks at the crazy gravestones
Spitting loud desires wood crosses for himself:
Heaves them up with laughter to hang them,
Dangling on the atheist's fig tree.
Handsprings through the open door,
Signs with a swastika on the visitors' book
And goes through the shut iron gate
With a pansy in his buttonhole.
from: poemhunter.com
She was unaware of my still presence as she crossed an open gap between two patches of brush. Luckliy, I was ready to click a couple of shots before she rushed off to meet her covey.
This image of a female Anna's Hummingbird hit the sweet spot of my lens with the tree of green leaves and gaps of sky for cool background color and effect.
Anna's Hummingbird is still sitting on her two eggs which should be hatching soon. Hopefully there will be two chicks to image later. I'll keep the photos coming on this one.
Hover flies mainly feed of nectar and pollen and are second only to bees as nature's biggest pollinators. See my previous image to see it hovering.
Common painted turtle getting some sun.
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Unripe Toyon berries, and seeds within contain dangerous levels of a poisonous cyanide-forming compound, which if eaten can sicken or kill the consumer of the berries, whether human, bird, or other animals. … Eat a handful of ripe Toyon berries and you may get sick; eat a pound and you may die! Native Americans would cook the berries which neutralized the poisons and would make a beverage from them.
Not even a sewer cover gets replaced when governments don't function. They just turn into pieces of decaying art.
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