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When I show up at a beach to take pictures I approach from the road as though I’m hunting for images. Well, maybe that’s a little over dramatic. Let’s just say I’m looking for a shot as soon as I get out of the car. So as I walk on to the beach I might see something like this and quickly snap a photo. More: goo.gl/fi1XhP
Immature Yellow-crowned Night-Heron, hunting alone at dusk. The challenge of this shot was the low light condition, as the sun has gone below the horizon. High ISO at 1600, slow speed of 1/250 were used. Hand held.
Taken at Little Bay Park, New York.
It's hunting time. And you better be seen, keep the vest on. Humans are hunting elks among others, and my dogs are hunting (that season is all around the year ;) voles and mouses.
شکارگاه، شیوه محمدی هروی، 1580 میلادی، دوره صفوی
A Hunting Scene
Geography
Iran
Period
Safavid, circa 1580 CE
Dynasty
Safavid
Materials and technique
Ink, opaque watercolour and gold on paper
Dimensions
33.8 x 20.7 cm
Description
This drawing of riders at the hunt reveals. Thus the tarh could be the underdrawing for a final work that would eventually be covered in pigment and completed as a painting. The artist would create a composition using a brush or pen and ink (usually limited to black and/or red). A colourist, sometimes the same artist, would then add various pigments to the page. In this scene, three men actively pursue their prey in an open landscape inferred by small tufts of rocks and foliage under inspired cloud bands. The turbaned rider to the bottom left spears a lion from atop his rearing horse, assisted by his companion who runs toward the beast with a raised sword, ready to finish the kill. A second mounted rider appears to have just shot an arrow at a fallen gazelle while a deer and antelope attempt to flee to the left; the horseman’s positioning at the top of the page follows the convention of illustrating background or depth through vertical placement of objects or figures. Although the few points of colour shown on the figures’ heads and turbans suggest that the illustration could have been destined for a manuscript, the drawing satisfies the eye as much as any finished composition; a circular energy flows throughout the scene, evoking the thrill of the chase and the fear of the victims pursued. The longer figures in and graceful draughtsmanship of this work can be compared to the style of Muhammadi, one of the leading artists active under the Safavid Shah Tahmasp (r. 1524-76 CE). Stock figures and compositions produced by the famous artist and his followers might have served as models for this drawing, which in turn could be reproduced through other techniques (e.g., pouncing) used to transfer designs. As a result, figures or activities appearing in underdrawings were often generic in the sense that the same stock characters could be used to illustrate a variety of stories. This hunting scene could therefore be used to show the legendary Sasanian king Bahram Gur at the hunt or represent any of the courtly figures illustrated in this section.
We noticed this fox paying close attention to the clump of hollyhocks, sniffing around, weaving around the leaves - and the magpie was never far away.
She was very patient, and finally successful (don't look at the next photo if you don't like nature in tooth and claw....... )
And after my photo yesterday, when I described the 4 different foxes that visit our garden, I can now introduce Patch!
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The Vienna Prater
Lieblingsnahausflugsziel (favourite nearby excursion destination) in Biedermeier Vienna is the Prater. The season opens with the race of "noble runners" on May 1. The usually before the carriages of the nobility running lackeys on that day line up under high bets to public competition. The main avenue along to the pleasure house (Lusthaus) and back drag the racers to the cheers of the audience. Trumpet-blasts, flags and cash prizes await the winner. Military music they escorts into the first Prater coffee house where them a splendid breakfast is arranged, while the ones having fallen by the wayside are collected. This race is banned in 1848 because of inhumanity. In the afternoon swayed - as from now on every Sunday - people and cars down the hunter line (Jägerzeile - since 1862 Prater Road). The state-carriages of the Court, the nobility and the wealthy bourgeoisie to evening make in a continuous parade the main street with its lofty Prater coffee houses to a "Nobel Prater".
"Bey the public-houses (Inns)" in the Prater.
Coloured engraving, T. Mollo. 1825
The people has fun in the Wurstelprater (Hanswurst, clowning on Vienna stages) in a tangle of guest houses and Prater lodges, puppet booths, calendula games and swings between the Prater harpists, salami sellers and spectacle. Here is the stronghold of the showmen with their monkey theater and flea circus, jugglers and fire-eaters, giants and dwarfs, menageries, panoramas, wax figures and ghostly apparitions. On the "Zirkuswiese" in Circus gymnasticus the popular equestrian companies by Christoph de Bach (? 1808) and Alexander Guerra perform. One camps in the Prater floodplains and waits until at nightfall on the "fireworks meadow" Stuwer (? 1802) lets shoot up his sparkling rockets.
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The historically grown amusement park looks back to a rich history. First documentary references of that area, which originally had jungle-like character, go back to the 12th Century. The former imperial hunting ground in 1766 under the "popular" Austrian Emperor Joseph II was made accessible to the public. Soon after, a number of small entertainment venues (carousels, shooting galleries, food stalls, ...) arrived, entertaining the people and also providing for the physical well-being.
The inhabitants of Vienna enjoyed themselves by riding artfully designed Hutschpferden (swing horses) and by swinging into lofty altitudes. In the process you could with long poles jab into rings. Hence the name carousel. It had been created recreational devices for the general public.
The fireworks of Stuwer and the balloon ascents end of the 18th Century dragged the Viennese from the city to the fairgrounds in the Prater. Following the trend of the times were national artistic institutions (theaters, waxworks museum and people museum - "Präuschers panopticon" with 2,000 objects, Vivarium, Planetarium, ... ) built and connected to the hustle and bustle. Sensations in the old Prater were the Abnormitätenshows (abnormalities) in which Lilliputian, Hirsute men, Siamese twins including "Freaks" (monster, abnormal shape) were to see. The thick Prater-Mitzi or the Russian-born trunk man Kobelkoff, as well as the ghostly magic theater of Kratky Baschik enriched the morphology of the bizarre Prater landscape. With the development of technology and electricity, the entertainment in the Prater was becoming more and more diverse.
In the emerging age of railways, the in Trieste born Basilio Calafati founded the first railway carousel in 1844. In this hut in 1854 the figure of the "big Chinesers" was set up as a mast. Many showmen and technicians from all over the Austrian-Hungarian monarchy, but also from the rest of Europe in the illustrious Viennese amusement park their ideas put into practice.
The Englishman Basset succeeded in 1897 to set up the still existing Ferris wheel in the Prater. This vehicle with a diameter of 61 meters originally had 30 cars. When the first "living pictures", the Cinematography, were born, 1896 the first cinema was opened in the Prater. Electricity in 1898 the first electrically operated Grottenbahn brought in the Prater. This fairytale train was also the first in Europe. On the occasion of the popularity of the airplane in 1911 the first "Aeroplan Carousel" was established. Followed in 1926 the first "Autodrome" and in 1933 the first "ghost train". In 1928, the still running "Liliputbahn", a reduced form of the great steam locomotives was placed in the Prater. 1935 brought a Prater entrepreneur from Chicago the rapid "flight path" in the Prater, a system not running on rails.
The Prater always changed its face, modernized and adapted itself to the trend of times. One attraction always replaced the other. Only few historical venues have been able to transport themselves into the present. Tradition-conscious companies such as the "Pony Carousel" from the year 1887 or the nostalgic slide tower "switchback (Tobogan)" from the 50s fight against the taste of the times and the needs of the visitors. In popularity but the historic Ferris wheel, the "Miniature Train" and of course the restaurant "Swiss House" (specialty: stilt and beer) will never lose.
Rickety ghost trains and sparkling grotto railways, although dusty, will not allow to be pushed out of the Prater. Between the historical venues flash the new, modern, hydraulically operated high-tech fairground rides. 1909-1944 the enormous dimensioned "roller coaster" always was a magnet for the Prater trippers. A reduced form is the after the war built "Neue Wiener roller coaster". Was swallowed entirely by history the magnificent "Venice in Vienna". On the site of the present Emperor's Meadow (Kaiserwiese) was located around the turn of the century the illusory world of the artificially recreated lagoon city. The initiator Gabor Steiner created in 1895 a world in the Prater, in which not only the high society, but also the Bohemian maids and the soldiers of the Austro-Hungarian multinational state amused themselves. In the era of the fin de siècle (= the decadent over-refinement of feeling and taste at the end of the 19th century), in which the Prater flourished, performed the most famous conductors of the time (Strauss, Lanner, Ziehrer).
Characteristic for the Wiener Prater today is also the adjacent green, left in its naturale state Praterau (Prater floodplain). An engaging recreational landscape with trees, meadows and ponds. Through this welcoming and quiet part of the Prater leads the 4.5 km long main avenue, which is lined with old chestnut trees. At the time, colorful flower parades were held there where, inter alia, even the Emperor and Empress and Mayor Lueger showed up. Along the main avenue were situated the now defunct, three famous coffee houses. The1783 built by Canevale "pleasure house" (Lusthaus) at the end of the main avenue, however, is still to be found. Past is the "Vaudeville Light", where for a long time popular movie stars and artists of yesteryear (Aslan, Jeritza, Moser, ... ) entertained the Prater audience.
To the Prater belongs also the fairgrounds. There in 1873 took place the world exhibition. The Rotunda, those proud crowned by a cupola central building in 1937 became a prey to the flames. What in the course of time of historic buildings of facilities in the Prater not had outlived itself, was destroyed in World War II. The most severely battered amusement park but was rebuilt. It established itself again as an integral part of the cultural entertainment of the city of Vienna. The force measuring machine "Watschenmann" is part of the local history of this unique institution, but also the cheeky and defiant "Prater Puppet" characterizes the color of the Vienna Prater.
In 1780 the owner of the historical mansion Oud Amelisweerd (just outside Utrecht) decided he wanted special wallpaper for his house. He ordered Chinese wallpaper in Guangzhou. Now it has been restored and it is very unique in Europe.
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Two boys are hunting ants. One of them has lost his brave and their mom is watching out for them.
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Freediver hunting spring urchins.
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Taken with a Sony RX100 in a Recsea housing with dual Sea & Sea YS-D1 strobes, and UWL-04 wide angle fisheye lens.
Searching for laser dots - just have to shine it once and he spends the next five minutes hunting around erverywhere for them...
Image from the Walter Havekorst Collection. Lt. Havekorst served in the Army Air Corps at Rockwell Field, San Diego.
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