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I have no idea what this hummingbird is doing, but it sure looks like it fell off the perch! Normally I wouldn't include the feeder in the photograph, but this time I couldn't resist.
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Pose: Angel's Art Pose
*AAP* Hit and sunk... (Pose Bento)
* Bow and Heart Balloon included witc prop.
**Store *AAP* Angel's Art Pose**
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Life too hard? Hit the road. I really wanted to, but its a private road that leads down to the river so I had to refrain. To old to go to jail. ;) The covid 19 is affecting so many peoples behavior I avoid them like they are the plague. I prefer solitude.
I am taking a break from SL for a while, I let my temper get the better of me and did something I will always regret, Thanks to all my friends and followers, its been a blast. Thank you to Chase for the last year and I am sorry. Thanks to other people that have been a special part of my life, you know who you are. I am not sure if or when I will be back, keep sl fun. Love and best wishes Rachel Swallows-Stone XXXX
for a brief time at the beginning of the 1900s, the word ‘jackpot’ was associated with misfortune, hardship or being in trouble with the law
in his book, the cowboy, philip rollins used the phrase jackpot as an expression to signify a perplexing situation
in 1941, agnes morley cleaveland used the term in her book, no life for a lady...one of the characters needed to get “out of a jackpot”
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Some nice light hitting the buildings of the old harbour. I understand the tide was quite a lot higher than normal on the day of our visit. The Butlins "tent" is just off to the left.
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Golden hour light hitting the golden autumn leaves on the trees. Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee, USA, October 2022
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We drove along the California coast on the iconic Highway 1 and stopped at the Bixby Bridge. A cloudy day makes for a more dramatic scene, what do you think?
I processed a balanced and a paintery HDR photo from three RAW exposures each, merged them, made the shadows a touch warmer, and the highlights a bit colder, then carefully and selectively pulled the curves. I also sharpened the image a bit, it is not totally sharp due to camera shake.
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Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed.
-Paulo Coelho
Activity was ramping up in the sea wall as the breeding season got underway
Black guillemot or tystie (Cepphus grylle)
Oban- Argyll Scotland
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By the look of his mud-tipped bill, I'd say this ruddy duck hit bottom. I guess that's to be expected. From what I read they dive to the bottom of a pond and filter mud through some plates in their bill to get at aquatic invertebrates, plant matter and the like. Not sure I fully grasp the physical mechanism for this filtering process. Back to this guy. He'll need to clean that mud off - that ridiculously blue bill is there to attract the ladies during the breeding season (which is now)
Another one from the archives not processed before, again from early this year. I had to put in this one, the wave looks so like a toy teddy bear. February had some fairly exceptional weather with 3 named Storms for high winds and the wettest February since records began. On Saturday 29th February I again visited Newhaven to take in Storm Jorge, so named by the Spanish Met Office. Conditions were ideal with the rain having cleared earlier in the morning leaving sunshine and the winds increasing behind the front. The tides were also ideal being at 2.15. For this one I was on a high shingle beach safe from the waves and shooting with a long lens.
The wall is a breakwater for the harbour and with a serious storm massive waves come in from the SW and hit the breakwater also creating a lot of backwash and turbulence. This picture was taken about 1 and a half hours before high tide.
This picture was taken with a Sony A700 with a Minolta 75-300mm zoom at 210mm. Taken handheld. No chance of a steady tripod in those conditions. The image was processed first in Camera Raw Editor. Then it was Topaz Denoise followed by Topaz Clarity and more contrast with an adjustment layer. Converted to Mono using Topaz B&W Effects.
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