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I took this sequence of Caracal shots hunting, in the Eastern Cape.
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Crow Goes Hunting
Crow
Decided to try words.
He imagined some words for the job, a lovely pack-
Clear-eyed, resounding, well-trained,
With strong teeth.
You could not find a better bred lot.
He pointed out the hare and away went the words
Resounding.
Crow was Crow without fail, but what is a hare?
It converted itself to a concrete bunker.
The words circled protesting, resounding.
Crow turned the words into bombs-they blasted the bunker.
The bits of bunker flew up-a flock of starlings.
Crow turned the words into shotguns, they shot down the starlings.
The falling starlings turned to a cloudburst.
Crow turned the words into a reservoir, collecting the water.
The water turned into an earthquake, swallowing the reservoir.
The earthquake turned into a hare and leaped for the hill
Having eaten Crow's words.
Crow gazed after the bounding hare
Speechless with admiration.
Ted Hughes
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.
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.
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.
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.
A rainstorm the day before had flooded the wildflower fields. There were several herons & egrets hunting for the crawdads popping up all over the meadow. This night heron was watching a crawdad hole intently.
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron (Nyctanassa violacea)
Rowlett Creek Nature Preserve, Garland
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This Taiwan Blue Magpie caught a venomous Chinese Green Tree Viper!
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This is a female sea eagle taken from a boat out of Portree on the Isle Of Skye. She is tagged. It is important that these birds are protected. Her male partner is not tagged and stays away from humans.
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.
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.
One thing that's fun about railfanning here is the constant surprise of trains. While waiting to get this last shot of the Sebring Turn rolling into town as seen here: flic.kr/p/2qTWjFi I heard horns southeast of me and was surprised by two back to back jobs headed west (railroad north) on the SCFE main out into the cane fields about 20 minutes before the SBT came south. This was a nice opportunity to try this angle out which I did not prefer and went with something different for the turn as you saw, but I'm just dropping one shot of each into the trip journal.
I believe the first train was Cane 1 with a string of empty cane cars trailing USSC 4204, a GP40-2 built new in Dec. 1977 as Boston and Maine 302. Three minutes behind them whipped what I believe was Cane 3 running light engine with USSC 3804 a GP38-2 that was built new in Oct. 1974 for the San Manuel Arizona Railroad as SMA 17. They are approaching the busy US Hwy 27 grade crossing as they leave the city limits running on a fill between two canals here at about MP 946 as measured from Richmond, VA via the historic Atlantic Coast Line main.
Wholly owned by US Sugar Corp. as their common carrier railroad subsidiary, this particular trackage was built about 1922 by the Atlantic Coast Line and remained with ACL successors SCL and SBD until becoming part of CSX. The latter finally sold this branch line in June 1990 to the Brandywine Valley Railroad, a Lukens Steel Company subsidiary which operated it as the SCFE. Four years later they sold the railroad to its largest customer, U.S. Sugar which operates it as a separate company semi independent from the 119 miles of private non common carrier branch lines they already owned.
Clewiston, Florida
Friday March 14, 2025