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Or perhaps, just asleep on the job! (ツ)
Only joking! - Actually, she was simply waiting for the flower to open! ;-) It's another one of those really minute bees - even smaller than Leo - about 5mm long!!!
Best viewed in lightbox and on full screen (F11), of course!
The gear! Shh!!! Mum's the word!
★ Food for thought :
The bee is fast becoming an endangered species in many parts of the world. In France, the newly arrived Asian hornet is just another nail in the coffin. Without the bee, we too could well become an endangered species! :-(( - Love thy neighbour and thy bee however small and insignificant it may appear to be.
"If the Bee Disappeared Off the Face of the Earth, Man Would Only Have Four Years Left To Live" - Albert Einstein
God slay the Asian queens and save our noble bees!
(to the tune of God Save the Queen)
Take care and many thanks for calling,
Colin ... (ツ)
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Pont y Pandy - Slate Mill or Ynysypandy and Nant y Pandy, near Porthmadog . The most impressive and best location visited on the trip to North Wales was this glorious building. The light from the sun going down gave great colous and a perfectly clear night made for a spectacular display of stars as well as the Milky way. I felt quite insignificant when I looked in to the sky that night.
"The Unexceptional" series
Leica M3 + Summarit 50mm f1.5 + Legacy Pro 400 @ 640 iso + HC-110 B @ 6 1/4 mins (30 sec initial agitation followed by 3 turns on each minute)
You can disregard all of those bubbles on the surface of the water. They are really insignificant….but you might want to check again oh great bayou breath.
The truth is that I have no idea what causes those bubbles and they can disappear as quickly as they appear. The bayou changes day to day and can change hour by hour. I’m sure there’s an explanation, but I don’t have the answer.
A capture of one of our lumpy lizards making his way through the duck weed and such that is floating on the surface of the water of Horsepen Bayou. This particular gator is roughly ten feet long.
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"The Unexceptional" series
Leica M3 + Summarit 50mm f1.5 + Legacy Pro 400 @ 640 iso + HC-110 B @ 6 1/4 mins (30 sec initial agitation followed by 3 turns on each minute)
Back to the HC-110 after giving D-76 a run
At the Canadian War Memorial I was suprised at how emotional I felt. Today we are involved in wars which a lot of us think we shouldn't be. Another news bulletin comes on informing us that yet another solider has been killed and I do not stop to even think for one moment about it.........afterall it happens all the time, right?. As I looked at the photograph today it became very real to me that a smiling boy fighting somewhere in the world, for a cause he may not even believe in will never return home and all that will be left is a photograph of him somewhere smiling.
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it? (Eleanor Roosevelt)
I know that sometimes there are just no alternatives.......but (Me)
Bessa R3a rangefinder & Color-Skopar 21mm f4.0 lens
Neopan 1600 developed in HC-110 dilution B for 7 minutes
Some expressions are just so good that they make the obvious technical mistakes insignificant. This is one of those expressions... and this is full of technical mistakes... and I love it.
Taken in Bahrain!
Lighting: One AD-360 in an 80cm Jinbei BD w/ diffusion.
Hom sap que les discussions més absurdes pels detalls més insignificants, per les coses més nímies, es poden trobar en una comunitat de veïns.
En aquest cas, però, sigui per imposició de l'urbanisme municipal o per un exercici elogiable d'entesa veïnal, el resultat és d'una harmonia excepcional.
"Today I saw a red and yellow sunset and thought, how insignificant I am! Of course, I thought that yesterday too, and it rained."
~ Woody Allen
Another image from Historic Long Branch in Millwood, Virginia.
Like re-visiting an old friend. I will never forget the first time I stepped up to the rim and looked over. It was one of those rare times in nature when you realize how insignificant you are in the big picture. Crater Lake National Park. April 2017.
"The Unexceptional" series
Hasselblad + Carl Zeiss Planar T* 80mm f2.8 + Arista EDU Ultra 400 @ 320 + HC-110 H @ 13 minutes
The Pink-eared Duck is named after an insignificant spot of pink feathers on the side of the drake’s head. More striking are the bold black-and-white stripes which dominate the ducks’ neck, breast and underparts, giving rise to its vernacular name of Zebra Duck or Zebra Teal. Pink-eared Ducks have odd-shaped bills, evolved to feed in a specialised manner: water is sucked through the bill-tip, then expelled through grooves along the side of the bill, filtering out tiny invertebrates in the process.
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One of the things that I love about photography is how it changes your entire perspective. Suddenly, I find myself enthralled in the beautiful details of things I used to think were insignificant and even ugly. On my walk, I saw these branches that were stripped away by winter's brutality and left with nothing but thorns. Not the most beautiful sight but the way the light hit the thorns really made them illuminate. Of course the light wasn't pink, that was processed :P. Anyway, I thought it was a good example of how beauty doesn't necessarily lie only in perfection but in everything around us...we just have to look :).
~ Explored highest position #13 ~
...In everthing, even in things simple and "insignificant" for the others.
It's up to you to choose how to see this world...
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... I know ... I know ... how could I see this seen and see a set of balls ? Maybe there is something seriously wrong with me !!!!
Oh go to hell ... you were thinking it to !!!
"The Unexceptional" series
Bessa R3a + Ultron 35mm f1.7 + Legacy Pro 400 @ 800 + HC-110 B @ 7 1/4 minutes
Legacy Pro 400 (Apparently Neopan 400)
Dear Flickr fans,
There are 14 series to share with you today, I paid nearly two weeks and a half to observe, daily 6am ~ 8:30 am. (29-06 ~ 16-07-2013)
Mostly don't have comment box, really want to save everyone's time.
Of course, finally give a some photo by comment box, please continue to support Aberlin. Thanks a lot.
This is my first time so observed, very excited to have this wonderful opportunity,please believe Aber will keep the best safe distance.(Broken shell and day 2)
Wish I going with you together and touch nature and ecological protection,
( I know you should be better than me, but you and I strength is insignificant, we live and we learn.)
Need to tell a key point with all Flickr fans,
Whether for a contact or not, when you have comment to me, absolutely will must reply, but could be and delay.
If you just added to favorites, perhaps I'm ignored, anyway in principle, should be well to give attention to comments friends, am I right?
All best wish,
Aber
the last moments of the sunset when the sun itself becomes insignificant....and all that matters is the color...
Have a great Labor Day everyone...
Thrilled as ever to find another couple last Sunday!
The one in comments is with a 7-spot Ladybird for comparison.
Sheinton - Shropshire
"The Unexceptional" series
Hasselblad + Carl Zeiss Planar T* 80mm f2.8 + Arista EDU Ultra 100 + D76 1:1 @ 10 minutes
When they said that there wasn't "much" left of the Topaz Japanese Interment Camp, I knew they meant that there was something. At least something small, something maybe insignificant.
What I found, apart from a few shards of broken chinaware, were several old stoves used to cook for the inmates.
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'Until the Weather is Finer'
Camera: Chamonix 45F-2
Lens: Schneider-Kreuznach Super-Angulon 8/90mm
Film: Ilford FP4+
Exposure: f/64; 1/2sec; Yellow Filter
Process: WD2D+; 7min
Topaz Japanese Interment Camp, Utah
July 2020
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Most days I have no faith in humanity. I feel myself wondering how it is that we have survived for so long when we are so cruel, selfish and destructive. But there are some days - and these days are few and far between - when something happens, an act of kindness, and for those brief few moments, my hope is restored. That happened twice today. My heart clenched twice in gratefulness.
I have spent a lot of time over the past few days sketching out concepts for photos that are going to be difficult to pull off, but I want to give them ago. I have a whole series of four planned out at the moment, and I have a couple more ideas, but there are a couple of things I need first, like an articulated skeleton (adult-sized ones are not cheap - I might have to try and borrow one for a week or so). I think I might wait until the weather becomes slightly more reliable and possibly even until I have finally saved enough for a new camera, but at this rate that will be this time next year...
Did you know that if we compressed the whole existence of the earth into one year, the oldest direct human ancestor is born on the 31st of December at 11:02 pm and the first anatomically modern human appears at 11:36 pm? The Roman empire falls at 11:59:50 pm and the industrial revolution occurs at 11:59:58 pm. We have not been around all that long, really. We are quite insignificant.
(1 in a multiple picture album)
This picture was recently used on the website OnBeing.org, a national public radio program and media project. You can read the very well written article here:
www.onbeing.org/blog/jackson-culpepper-we-have-lost-the-m...
The piece of writing has to do with how we see glory when we are looking at the masterpieces of nature.
As I wrote on my own blog: Whenever you feel full of yourself, a trip to one of the national parks in Utah will help you with your perspective. Stand within one of the arches and know that you are really quite tiny. Robert Service wrote 'your life is but a single beat within the heart of time.'
The ignorance and arrogance of humans is such that we think we are bigger than everything and everyone, especially than our fellow human beings!
But, if we takes a step back and observes the world around us, it doesn't take long for us to realise as to how insignificantly small we are in the grand scheme of things!
One such place which inspired a thought like that was in Dubrovnik Old Town and this surreal view I was fortunate enough to experience.
This image is a stitched panorama consisting of about 30 - 40 degree field of view. I took about 7 or 8 exposures in portrait orientation to get the detail right, however, still couldn't keep the distortion out!
This was captured using a £26 Plastic Nikkor 28-80mm G Film era autofocus lens.
I thought it would be interesting to photograph Big Ben in such a way as to make it look insignificant. In no way a political statement about Brexit........
Click here to see other 'iconic' travel shots : www.flickr.com/photos/darrellg/albums/72157627723675162
From Wikipedia : "The Elizabeth Tower (previously called the Clock Tower), more popularly known as Big Ben, was raised as a part of Charles Barry's design for a new palace, after the old Palace of Westminster was largely destroyed by fire on the night of 16 October 1834. The new parliament was built in a neo-gothic style. Although Barry was the chief architect of the palace, he turned to Augustus Pugin for the design of the clock tower, which resembles earlier Pugin designs, including one for Scarisbrick Hall in Lancashire. The design for the tower was Pugin's last design before his final descent into madness and death, and Pugin himself wrote, at the time of Barry's last visit to him to collect the drawings: "I never worked so hard in my life for Mr Barry for tomorrow I render all the designs for finishing his bell tower & it is beautiful." The tower is designed in Pugin's celebrated Gothic Revival style, and is 315 feet (96.0 m) high.
The bottom 200 feet (61.0 m) of the tower's structure consists of brickwork with sand-coloured Anston limestone cladding. The remainder of the tower's height is a framed spire of cast iron. The tower is founded on a 50 feet (15.2 m) square raft, made of 10 feet (3.0 m) thick concrete, at a depth of 13 feet (4.0 m) below ground level. The four clock dials are 180 feet (54.9 m) above ground. The interior volume of the tower is 164,200 cubic feet (4,650 cubic metres).
Despite being one of the world's most famous tourist attractions, the interior of the tower is not open to overseas visitors, though United Kingdom residents are able to arrange tours (well in advance) through their Member of Parliament. However, the tower currently has no lift, though one is planned, so those escorted must climb the 334 limestone stairs to the top."
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In reality the cottage was a decent size but looked rather insignificant beside the mountains and rolling moorland.
Glencoe, Highlands, Scotland
I had about an hour of non-work time to head over to Point Lobos to catch the sunset. The sound and the power of the ocean crashing against the rocks made me feel completely insignificant. It was amazing! Wish I had more time. I found myself mesmerized by the scenery that I missed the dramatic red/pink sunset after the sun fell below the horizon. At least I have the vision in my mind....sorry I don't have it to share.
Everyone has ideals. From the most insignificant aspect in our life, such as the perfect meal, to the most important, perhaps the perfect family, the perfect society, we all have ideals. We must all be idealists if we are to build a fairer sustainable society, and in our own small way follow the example of the heroes of social progress and evolution, idealists such as Abraham Lincoln or Dr. Martin Luther King, who showed society the way. We must hope for political leaders who have the strength to be the idealists of the future.