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This weekend, while hunting for the Higgs boson, I forgot to make one crucial setting to the super collider. With a thrown switch, a burst of energy and a birth of light I was simultaneously a part of earth and sea.
Strobist: 580exII shot multiple times with blue and red gels.
A friend of mine took me out to what once was part of an old estate, hunting for an 18th Century lime kiln he'd last seen as a boy 40 years ago. Found the kiln (not every photogenic) but many moss covered dry stone walls and old gnarly trees. Here's a couple of both....
This technique of hunting voles, didn't work this time because the ground is solid frozen. The coyotes I observed changed their technique and instead of trying to break the ground with this pouncing, they changed to digging. The results were more productive. So nice to see healthy coyotes living in harmony and proximity to the most dangerous animal in the planet....us.
This is probably a hunting scene during the middle stone age. Notice that there is a man on a horse which is decorated more than the rest. That is the leader of the herd. Also similar paitings in white color can be seen if you look closely. This Rock painting is supposed to be from the Mesolithic period or what is more commonly known as the Middle Stone age.
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The birds went away for awhile but they are now back feeding all day long.
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First hawk I've seen since the Swainson's headed south. This looked like a drone, hovering over a meadow and watching for something to eat. I saw it dive a couple of times but it didn't catch anything.
Great Blue Heron - Florida Everglades
In The Wild - Palm Beach County, FL USA
Stalking ~ Determined ~ Quiet ~ Stealth ~ Motionless ~ The Hunt
The great-blue heron stands in shallow water a few feet from the shoreline, completely 'motionless'. The fish does not see its long legs and swims near. With a 'lightning-strike' of a 'spearing bill-thrust' it jabs and rarely-misses! Quite a shock for the un-assuming fish! Then, for what-ever reason (and I have seen this many times), it walks around 'with it' for 20-30 minutes, perhaps waiting for the fish to succumb to being out of the water (and calming down). Then, it flips-it up in the air and swallows it whole (fish-head down - GBH's have no teeth). A lump appears in its neck until it is fully swallowed, and then the heron sometimes takes a sip of water to wash it down. Other times it 'just flies off', very, very satisfied!! Thanks for looking.
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This Taiwan Blue Magpie caught a venomous Chinese Green Tree Viper!
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Lionesses are mainly the hunters of the pride, while males only hunt when a big kill is involved or the females have not given him a free lunch. The females usually hunt in a group (3 to 8 females) for there is a higher chance of the kill being successfull. One theory these sociable cats hunt together is to control exclusive hunting grounds and to share food with relatives. The females like to hunt in a broad front in an attempt to drive the quarry into an ambush or block the escape eoute of their prey, like wildebeests or zebras grazing alongside a river or woodland edge. When food is scarce, the females wont share the food that they are able to obtain with their cubs, so high cub mortality rates are high during times of prey scarcity. This might seem cruel but it stems from dire necssity.
This beautiful Lioness (Panthera Leo) of the Simba Pride was photographed stalking for some prey on an early morning game drive in the Maasai Mara Game Reserve, Kenya.
Scanned lith print.
Mamiya 645 ProTL w/ M-S 120 mm /4 macro. Nov 2019.
Fomapan 100 in Rodinal 1+100, semistand 1 h.
Lith printed on Fotokemika Emaks K 888 UB (24x30 cm).
Moersch Easy Lith (20A+20B+H2Oqs800).
Feb 2025.
Untoned.
PS borders.
Living with a feline friend has many facets. The cosy and furry hair ball has another, totally different side.
She is a hard core, in DNA imprinted, predator.
So make no mistake, if you "have" a cat, she/he will bring you many proofs of that. The worst (?) Selma brought home was a squirrel almost half her size. Neatly delivered outside my front door, saying:
- Look daddy, ain't I just the best cat you've ever loved?
- Yes, Selma, you are. But don't kill anymore squirrels, please.
This epic Fotokemika Emaks paper was recently aquired from the Swedish auction site "Tradera". The vendor stating that it was an unopened box. Of course it wasn't, there are so many liers out there. But thanks to the lith printing (and lumen printing) process, these papers can still be used.
Great Blue hunting in the 10,000 Islands, but who is hunting who? Just ahead to his left you can see a gator trail.
The "hunting lodge" on Whalers Bay, Deception Island, Antarctica, was used by British aerial surveyors from 1955 until its destruction by a mudslide during the volcanic eruption of 1969.