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31-January-2022: when, near you, there are contiguous areas with different meteorological and micro-climatic peculiarities, something is always found (even in a winter that has offered little more than nothing), but you must be ready to seize the opportunities given; this is not easy but sometimes very sathisfactory.
The tail of a cold front from the North, one of the very few that touched the area (always at night, no conditions!) during a short retreat of the African Anticyclone, after having cutted off the Alps and Friuli-Venezia Giulia (sheltered, in winter, by the Tauern chain, in Austria) reformed between the Slovenian plain and the Eastern Karst Region/Northern Dinarides with a series of snow showers in the form of squall-line.
Not for nothing I was there...
As soon as the fast snowfall stopped, I thought I'd take some photos in the only area that is always illuminated in that wide virgin Forest at night.
Artificial light is certainly not like solar one, but, also in this case, it is "of necessity-virtue".
The lights with different tones, reflected from the snow and accumulated by the long pose, create a "carnival" of particular colors.
Taken whilst walking my dog along the beach. No filters, just the natural colour of the clouds and how this in turn affected the colour of the sea and wet sand.
Spotted in the Salgados scrubland, Algarve, Portugal
The corn bunting (Emberiza calandra), the largest of the buntings, has a heavily streaked buff-brown plumage. It is often described as dumpy owing to its stocky build and its short tail. It is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae, a group now separated by most modern authors from the finches, Fringillidae. The sexes are similar but the male is slightly larger than the female. Its range extends from Western Europe and North Africa across to northwestern China. Corn Buntings are on the UK Red List, having declined by 83% between 1967 and 2022.
The corn bunting was formally described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae and retains its original binomial name of Emberiza calandra [...].
The corn bunting is a bird of open country with trees, such as farmland and weedy wasteland. [...] Its natural food consists mainly of seeds but also includes insects such as crickets, especially when feeding young.
Males defend territories in the breeding season and can be polygynous, with up to three females per breeding male. Google
A Russ Hillier Photo Charter on the Great Central Railway with GWR Heavy Freight locomotive number 2807.
Photo taken in India.
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When she was just a girl she expected the world
But it flew away from her reach
So she ran away in her sleep
Dreamed of paradise
Every time she closed her eyes
When she was just a girl she expected the world
But it flew away from her reach
And the bullets catch in her teeth
Life goes on, it gets so heavy
The wheel breaks the butterfly
Every tear a waterfall
In the night the stormy night she'll close her eyes
In the night the stormy night away she'd fly
Dream of paradise
[Listen]
I don't know if it's out of focus or not, but I think the wind and the rain are to blame for the small drama of the scene and not my tripod, nor my eye. I got merrily drenched in water. The trees and lampposts were moving, it could be the blur, unwanted
No se si esta desenfocada o no, pero el viento y la lluvia creo que son los culpables del pequeño dramatismo de la escena y no mi tripode, ni mi ojo. Me puse alegremente empapado de agua. Los arboles y farolas se movian puede que sea el desenfoque , no deseado
"A Shadow Shall Fall Over the Universe
And Evil will Grow in its Path
And Death will Come from the Skies'
A Tribute to one of my favorite films
1981- HeavY MetaL
You Tube Link : www.youtube.com/watch?v=UI-7MZMZhyM
Shot was done entirely in SL
On my Studio Platform.
(just a little reminder , I do custom photography
notecard me inworld.)
One of Zoo America's three gray wolves (female), resting under the shade of the trees. I don't know if this one is Hazel or Freya (sisters), the two females of the zoo. After three years I saw my favorites again... the gray wolves. It's hard with a heavy lens trying to get good handheld focus through the chain link fence, but I was able to get some shots today.
@ZooAmerica-Hershey, PA
The gray wolf is federally designated as threatened in Minnesota and endangered in the remaining lower 48 states and Mexico.
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In the end, the beach turned out not to be the best place last night. It remained with a little threat and a single flash of light very far away at sea! The air was fantastic, the tension almost unbearable, and the relief enormous when we were safely back in the car.
Number 2 in my Heavy theme for this week. So light in the water so heavy on the beach. Bexhill, East Sussex, UK 2012.
Another trip to restore water stocks. The distances could be very different. From several to 100 kilometers. The sources could be either an artesian well, or an ancient deep well with water delivery by means of an endless leather belt, manually by rotating Bicycle drive.
The leaf spring allows a relatively simple and reasonable wheel suspension in spite of a large ratio of sprung to non-sprung masses.
Die Blattfeder soll bei Fahrzeugen mit u.U. großem Verhältnis von gefederten zu ungefederten Massen eine von der Konstruktion her einfache und kostengünstige Radaufhängung ermöglichen.