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A female House Finch searching for seeds and insects in a grassy field located in Mira Mesa, San Diego, California, USA
I took a backlit image of a Western Kingbird at the edge of a curved branch, processed it into ai high contrast black and white image, and added some filter driven effects to selective areas around the branches and bird.
Spiritual Twirl Art "Earth Elemental"
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A industrious honey bee gathers pollen from Bush Sunflowers growing wild along the Los Penasquitos Canyon Reserve in San Diego, California, USA
A portrait with my take on post-processing and with your take on what you "see" when you stare into this image I created for you.
Aqua colored mason jar with a not too often seen sign embossed on the lower back. Shot during the golden hour outdoors on my balcony.
The next series of images will be people and street images. Giving nature imagery a short reprise.
One man crammed in the back of a commuter van looks back at others who are eager to go home yet unable to find room in the other vans heading toward their baranguy (neighborhood).
Nature's abstract made from a portion of a pine tree trunk.
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Toyon (Heteromeles arbutifoloia) is an attractive and unusual shrub, also known as Christmas berry or California holly. It is as attractive and useful as the cotoneaster shrub but uses a lot less water. In fact, toyon plant care generally is very easy.
Just one of many scrub lizards keeping the insects population in control in Central Florida, USA. I blurred the background to give the lizard a 3D type effect.
Something to stare at when you want to get away for a few seconds or minutes. From my Spiritual Twirl Art experimentations.
Capture this with my phone camera while walking around for exercise. The things one sees when their head is in the clouds. Download it if you collect skies for your images.
These charming birds are not only known for their love of fruit, but they also have a unique social behavior during mating. During courtship, Cedar Waxwings perform a special dance and exchange small gifts like flower petals or insects. If the female is interested, she’ll dance back, and they may even rub their beaks together affectionately.
Toyon is rich in flavonoids and phenolic compounds, which have antioxidant effects. These compounds help combat oxidative stress and may protect cells from damage.
A industrious honey bee gathers pollen from Bush Sunflowers growing wild along the Los Penasquitos Canyon Reserve in San Diego, California, USA
Crows have more than 20 calls. The most common, a harsh caw, has several qualities and lengths that may serve different purposes.. You may also hear a variety of calls and alert calls given to rally others to mob predators.
The base of a tropical bush where leaves and branches have long fell leave a texture-rich history of the past.
Early flowering stage. White WIdow (auto)
Backlit. Outdoors.
My photographic images, and photo-transformed graphics are free to download under Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs. Some Rights Reserved. Thank you for your continued fellowship in photography.
I noticed after processing this image that this Bush Rabbit had a wound on its hind right leg. Perhaps it had a harrowing escape from a coyote or bobcat.
The idea for this emblem came off of a map postcard that had a circle with a three pointed star to locate the sender's location.
Colonize Planet Mars With 40 Billion To Support Life?
11/5/13 a study claims 40 billion planets could support life,
Not 40, not 40 thousand or 40 million, could that be right?
“Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences” finds,
Astronomical numbers that undoubtedly boggles our mind.
Potentially life-sustaining planets comes from a telescope,
750 thousand light years to get there is there any real hope?
How much bigger than formerly believed is the Milky Way?
More importantly, what does that have to do with life today?
12/06/06, Scientists are elated because there are,
Signs of water flowing freely on the Planet Mars,
And this according to their community is by far,
The most exciting thing since the forming of stars.
However, don’t get on your high horse too soon,
But 1st mankind has to spend time on the Moon,
Then again here’s my opinion for what it’s worth,
We should be more concerned about life on Earth.
Our war in a foreign land that many are calling lost,
Way too many limbs, lives, with billions as the cost,
Looks like not just the soldiers are coming home blind,
Mars is front-page news, what’s going on in the mind?
There’s MS, autism, cancer, Alzheimer’s, AIDS but first it’s HIV,
And it’s not just confined to monkeys but humans in every country,
With no cure, and arm and a leg for medicine only to slow it down,
Poorest nations can’t dig graves fast enough & bury underground.
I dare not talk about crime because that’s a sermon on it’s own,
Finally, in Ohio an investigation into fraudulent mortgage loans,
Cleveland Clinic makes billions but yearly taxes that do not pay,
Something about being a non-profit organization, or so they say.
Most certainly tops in medical research, they are health care pioneers,
Money making staffers reside outside the city because crime they fear,
Then no one worth anything wants their child enrolled in public schools,
Guess the powers that be in, “City Hall” are just robots without any clues.
CEO’s in salary, bonuses & buyouts are paid in stocks with $$$ in the billions,
Workers laid off, lost pensions, no health care benefits, number in the millions,
Reverend Rodgers and Deacon Anderson, two guys at a local Baptist Church,
Employed 75 years collectively losing everything, who cares if they were hurt?
Okay, where’s the President, Congress, The Senate or members of The House?
Snubbing their noses like great big elephants while being effective as a mouse,
They promised if we’d vote for them, these politicians would have our back,
It was long before anyone had ever heard of a desert community called Iraq.
On this side of the, “Free World” we’ve spent billions to bail out banks,
While in, less friendly nations we’ll spend billions on guns and tanks,
To close the economic gap for them as ours widens don’t you think?
Our domestic beer vs. Cuban cigars & imported Cognac we’ll drink.
Congressional approval signed by the President they pass a bill to rob,
Real hard working Americans like janitors protesting loss of their jobs,
We complain to our leaders but they have nepotism from Uncle Sam,
Do our votes really mean anything, is this just another political scam?
October 2010, again we cry water on a plant distant as the stars,
But did they find equal housing, education and happy hour bars?
Cures for cancer, MS, racism, hatred, an end to domestic abuse?
And if it has the same old stuff here on earth then what is the use?
Roughly 1 in 5 planets like our own sun have an Earth orbiting around,
Imagine how many gambling casinos could fit in a billion downtowns,
Might every jock quite possibly live their MLB, NFL or NBA dreams?
And playing each other once every 100,000 years with 9,000,000 teams.
I wonder how or what will be said in the upper echelon conversation,
Most can only imagine the steps necessary in making a reservation,
”Oh you should have been there, we danced graciously amid the stars,
Dinning on starship shrimp and lobster at the Hilton on Planet Mars.”
by Luke Easter
Thursday, December 7, 2006
Love the small form factor and optics this camera lens combo. The weather was so good today and really gave us some incredible colors to work with.
A street vendor prepares to paint a baby Jesus along Colon Street, Cebu City, The Philippines. The Santo Niño de Cebú is a Roman Catholic title of the Child Jesus associated with a religious image of the Christ Child widely venerated as miraculous by Filipino Catholics. It is the oldest Christian artifact in the Philippines, originally a gift from explorer Ferdinand Magellan to Rajah Humabon (baptized as Carlos) and his wife and chief consort, Reyna Humamay (baptized as Juana) on account of their Christian baptism in 1521.