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I don't know if this means I'm a full fledged landscape photographer yet, but I can honestly say I have gotten my "feet wet".
A couple of weeks ago a Flickr friend and fellow photographer David Frey, contacted me to let me know that he would be visiting the San Diego area around the holidays and ask if I would like to spend the day shooting Hospital Reef. Of course I jumped at the opportunity to spent some time with a higher caliber photographer than myself which always leads to more learning.
At 3:00am I packed up my gear and headed off down the freeway giving us plenty of time to scout the reef and set up. We checked the tide time and height using a fisherman's site and found that the tide level would be very high, but I wasn't sure how high up on the reef the best formations are situated. It was going to be a total crap shoot as far as tide levels go but I was confident that the weather was going to be perfect. It had rained the day before and the NWS radar that I had been watching in anticipation all week promised a great sunrise and possibly sunset. After chatting with David for a while we soon located the potholes and several other popular formations and then waited for the light as it was still totally dark.
I knew the sun would be behind us in the morning but I was hoping that we would get some good cross lighting which usually happens if it's cloudy in the west and clear in the east, which was case this morning, and it didn't disappoint.
This is a shot taken later in the day. When David and I returned for sunset. He went directly to the composition that he had found earlier in the day and planted himself there for three hours. "I'm gonna wait for the light to come to me" he said. I'm not that confident when it comes to staying put during "panic time" thats what i call the 30 minutes during sunset. I ran around to 7 or 8 different compositions during the sunset and grabbed some really cool shots. I am still learning how to manipulate time through my lens and I think I went a little to long on this shot, but considering I was using no filters I think it turned out fairly good. I hope you like it too. :)
Thank you for taking the time to visit and as always, your views, comments, faves, and support are greatly appreciated!! :) Have a great week ahead everybody. :)
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" We know full well there's just time
So is it wrong to toss this line?
If your heart was full of love
Could you give it up?
'Cause what about, what about angels?
They will come, they will go, make us special
Don't give me up
Don't give
Me up
How unfair, it's just our love
Found something real that's out of touch
But if you'd searched the whole wide world
Would you dare to let it go?
'Cause what about, what about angels?
They will come, they will go, make us special
Don't give me up
Don't give
Me up
'Cause what about, what about angels?
They will come, they will go, make us special
It's not, about not about angels, angels ... "
- BIRDY -
Named from the similarity of their prominent proboscis that looks like the beak of a snipe. Adults can often be seen sitting on vegetation or on tree trunks waiting to catch and pounce on passing prey. Some species of snipe flies are hematophagous as adults and some are predatory of insects. Larvae develop as predators in the soil and wood detritus. Found in wet meadows, marshes and woodland margins. Can sometimes be know as the Down-Looker Fly as they have the habit of perching head-downward on tree trunks.
"She knows that everything that is beautiful is not seen by the eyes, but by the soul. She chose to be who she is .. She chose to assume her fears .. To be sincere with her feelings .. To love without a secret. She chose to follow her path even though sometimes feel a bit lonely. she likes to stop and admire your moments are beautiful landscapes, she walks for his own life without haste, carrying all she wants to carry, and so is learning to live. "
Zack Magiezi
Song:
You don't know about the way I am when I am all alone
You don't even know
The way I care the way I've grown
You don't know about the way I love so deeply to my bones
You don't even know me
Switzerland, May 2021
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ABOUT THE PHOTO:
So this photo is a bit of a novelty for me - at least here on Flickr, but it's also a journey back in time in a sense. I've always loved b/w and sepia photography; already as a very young teenager I would go out into the woods with an old Pentax Spotmatic (which I had nicked from my father) whenever it was a foggy day to shoot b/w compositions of sunbeams cutting through the ghostlike trees.
I used films with a sensitivity of at least 1600 (for those of you who remember what that means 😉 ), and the resulting photos had an incredibly fine grain which I loved; I blew them up to the size of posters and hung them on the walls of my teenage man-cave next to Hendrix, Jim Morrison and Slash.
But then I abandoned photography altogether for 20 years, and when I finally picked up a camera again, it was one of the digital kind. Now neither film nor grain played any role in my photographic endeavours - let alone b/w compositions: because the reason I fell in love with shooting pictures once more was the rare and incredibly colorful lizard species that had chosen my garden as its habitat.
It's this species - the Lacerta bilineata aka the western green lizard - that my photo website www.lacerta-bilineata.com/ and also my Flickr gallery are dedicated to, but I've since expanded that theme a bit so that it now comprises the whole Lacerta bilineata habitat, which is to say my garden and its immediate surroundings and all the flora and fauna I find in it.
I like that my gallery and the website have this clear theme, because in order to rise to the challenge of portraying all aspects of a very specific little eco system (which also happens to be my home of sorts), it forces me to constantly explore it from fresh angles, and I keep discovering fascinating new motives as my photographic journey continues.
Which brings me to the horse pasture you see in this photo. This playground for happy horsies lies just outside my garden, and it normally only interests me insofar as my green reptile friends claim parts of it as their territory, and I very much prefer it to be horseless (which it thankfully often is).
Not that the horses bother the reptiles - the lizards don't mind them one bit, and I've even seen them jump from the safety of the fly honeysuckle shrub which the pasture borders on right between the deadly looking hooves of the horses to forage for snails, without any sign of fear or even respect.
No, the reason I have a very conflicted relationship with those horses is that they are mighty cute and that there's usually also foals. The sight of those beautiful, happy animals jumping around and frolicking (it's a huge pasture and you can tell the horses really love it) is irresistible: and that inevitably attracts what in the entire universe is known as the most destructive anti-matter and ultimate undoing of any nature photographer: other humans.
Unlike with the horses, the lizards ARE indeed very much bothered by specimens of loud, unpredictable Homo sapiens sapiens - which makes those (and by extension also the horses) the cryptonite of this here reptile photographer. It's not the horses' fault, I know that, but that doesn't change a thing. I'm just telling you how it is (and some of you might have read about the traumatic events I had to endure to get a particular photo - if not, read at your own risk here: www.flickr.com/photos/191055893@N07/51405389883/in/datepo... - which clearly demonstrated that even when it's entirely horseless, that pasture is still a threat for artistic endeavours).
But back to the photo. So one morning during my vacation back in May I got up quite early. It had rained all night, and now the fog was creeping up from the valley below to our village just as the sky cleared up and the morning sun started to shine through the trees.
And just as I did when I was a teenager I grabbed my camera and ran out to photograph this beautiful mood of ghostlike trees and sunbeams cutting through the mist. There had already been such a day a week earlier (which is when I took this photo: www.flickr.com/photos/191055893@N07/51543603732/in/datepo... ), but this time, the horses were also there.
Because of our slightly strained relationship I only took this one photo of them (I now wish I had taken more: talk about missed opportunities), and otherwise concentrated on the landscape. It was only later when I went through all the photos on my computer that I realized that I actually really liked those horses, even despite the whole composition being such a cliché. And I realized another thing: when I drained the photo of all the color, I liked it even better - because there was almost a bit of grain in it, like in the photos from my youth.
Since then I have experimented quite a bit with b/w and sepia compositions (some of which I will upload here eventually I guess), but this photo here is the first one that helped me rediscover my old passion. I hope you like it even though it builds quite a stark contrast with the rest of my tiny - and very colorful - gallery. But in the spirit of showing you the whole Lacerta bilineata habitat (and also in the spirit of expanding my gallery a bit beyond lizards and insects), I think it's not such a bad fit.
As always, many greetings to all of you, have a wonderful day and don't hesitate to let me know what you think 😊
I know, 3rd photo in less than 12 hours. I've been up all night with my sick dog and needed some distraction to keep me awake.
This is another photo I did a while ago, I spent part of the night going through my older photos and found a few that I never got around to posting. I'm off to get a bit of sleep now ; )
Have a nice day ♥
Photo Location ~ Lost Lagoon
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Taken at the beautiful Corruption ♥
I don't know where I belong
No I don't know
But I've been hanging on
For too long
'Cause no one really knows me, at all
I've been spending time
'Cause time's on my side
And if I make it home
When our worlds collide
'Cause no one really knows me, at all
I don't know where I belong
No I don't know
But I've been hanging on
For too long
'Cause no one really knows me, at all
So help me find my way
The way I came from
'Cause I'm feeling lost and afraid
You better not be too far gone
Oh, have I been so wrong
Missed the song
Still I don't know where I belong
No I don't know
Because no one really knows me, at all
Yeah, no one really knows me, at all
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"I dwell in a lonely house I know
That vanished many a summer ago,
And left no trace but the cellar walls,
And a cellar in which the daylight falls
And the purple-stemmed wild raspberries grow.
O'er ruined fences the grape-vines shield
The woods come back to the mowing field;
The orchard tree has grown one copse
Of new wood and old where the woodpecker chops;
The footpath down to the well is healed.
I dwell with a strangely aching heart
In that vanished abode there far apart
On that disused and forgotten road
That has no dust-bath now for the toad.
Night comes; the black bats tumble and dart;
The whippoorwill is coming to shout
And hush and cluck and flutter about:
I hear him begin far enough away
Full many a time to say his say
Before he arrives to say it out.
It is under the small, dim, summer star.
I know not who these mute folk are
Who share the unlit place with me—
Those stones out under the low-limbed tree
Doubtless bear names that the mosses mar.
They are tireless folk, but slow and sad—
Though two, close-keeping, are lass and lad,—
With none among them that ever sings,
And yet, in view of how many things,
As sweet companions as might be had."
- Robert Frost, "Ghost House"
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You know who you are
I told you I was happy when I couldn't be worse
Told you to leave me alone and I couldn't want you now
And I regret it
You know who I am
I think you know deep down that I'm good but I make terrible choices
I make them for everyone else and forget what I wanted
And what I really wanted was you
Maybe it's been too long
But if you hear this song
Call me
My door's always open and my phone's always on
Call me
I wish I went out
I wish I called you back
I wish I had a hold of my issues
But I just wrote a song 'bout how much I miss ya
And I never told you
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I know there is a shortage of insects, which is very worrying, but this only hit home to me after I returned from a 830 mile journey, and there was hardly an insect on the windscreen or bumper...Years ago had to stop after twenty miles to clean them off...I'll let you draw your own conclusions as to why this is happening.
I know that You all are in spring mode already, but I can't be considerate of that right now. I have still some beautiful memories of the last winter waiting to be shared. This one here is one of them. It was definitely one of the most beautiful sunrises I was allowed to witness in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains during the last years. The rock on the right side is called large goose. In the background you see the river Elbe passing by and behind it mt. Lilienstein. Moments like this are the main reason, why I am doing this and why I am loving this so much.
Ich weiss ja, dass Ihr alle schon im Frühlingsmodus seid, doch ich kann da gerade keine Rücksicht darauf nehmen. Ich habe noch immer einige wunderschöne Erinnerungen an den letzten Winter, die darauf warten geteilt zu werden. Dies hier ist eine davon. Es war definitiv einer der schönsten Sonnenaufgänge, den ich in den letzten Jahren im Elbsandsteingebirge erleben durfte. Der Fels auf der rechten Seite ist die große Gans. Im Hintergrund sieht man die Elbe vorbeifliesen und dahinter den Lilienstein. Momente wieder dieser sind der Hauptgrund, warum ich das mache und warum ich das so sehr liebe.
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****The older you are, the more you know about Santa Claus," she said. "You are so big now, you know he can't be just one man, don't you? You know he is everywhere on Christmas Eve. He is in the Big Woods, and in Indian Territory, and far away in York State, and here. He comes down all the chimneys at the same time. You know that, don't you?"
"Yes, Ma," said Mary and Laura.
"Well," said Ma. "Then you see--"
"I guess he is like angels," Mary said, slowly. And Laura could see that, just as well as Mary could.
Then Ma told them something else about Santa Claus. He was everywhere, and besides that, he was all the time.
Whenever anyone was unselfish, that was Santa Claus.
Christmas Eve was the time when everybody was unselfish. On that one night, Santa Claus was everywhere, because everybody, all together, stopped being selfish and wanted other people to be happy. And in the morning you saw what that had done.
"If everybody wanted everybody else to be happy all the time, then would it be Christmas all the time?" Laura asked, and Ma said, "Yes, Laura.” ****
Quote ― Laura Ingalls Wilder
“Some of us still believe there is a Santa Claus...somewhere”
Quote ― Will Leamon
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Design: Hideo Komatsu
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Paper: one sheet of red kami paper 24x24cm
Final size: height 13,5cm
♫ You know that my train could take you home
Anywhere else is hollow
I'm begging for you to take my hand
Wreck my plans
That's my man ♫
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Hi all !!
I don’t know what’s wrong with me. I want to take pictures of snow, even winters... Ok if we contemplate well we can "me" see despite everything. But you do not find that at the moment I fall into the white? Anyway, I hope you like it!
Story : "I only go out in the winters... I only feel good in the cold, in the ice... Finally... finally I can contemplate the whiteness of my world spreading before me..."
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Do you know they're edible? Once the flowers die off, you can dry them and cook in the stew or soup. One of my dry ingredients to use. In fact, I just cooked it the other day. :-))
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I don't know if there ever was Gold in Cologne, but if there was, they must have put it into this into this bridge. When I got close, I could see there is is another kind of gold on the bridge. It's full of padlocks hung by lovers. I have never ever seen so many padlocks in one place, as on this bridge. It's from one end to the other.
--Jacob Surland
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Moving slowly take your time getting over
Breathe now deeply, said i came out of nowhere i know you still
Stalking place doing noithing and I know you still,
I know you still want me
I know you still want me
Roll up with the windows up,
I´m still sipping wiski
For the solo cup she down for whatever cause she
Know what´s up I´m like rolling nothing while she
Said oh yeah yup.
Turn your head girl, look me straight in the eyes
No tell me that you finally
Finally realized how much you
Need this it-s so clear when you
Touch me you´re hidind nothing
I know you still want me
Ali: I know, I know, little guy, my taste in boys is definitely suspect.
Punkie: I've been telling you for years, these guys you choose just don't tick off any of the right boxes.
Ali: You're right, Punkie. I like intellectual, kind hearted, creative, quick witted introverts.
Punkie: Exactly! And this guy falls short in all of those! For starters, he doesn't even have a brain, OR a heart!
Ali: Sighs, yes, I can't argue with the facts, Punkster. Back to the drawing board!
What would I do without lil Punkie's straightforward, and always on point romantic advice! Yes...I'm a goofball! And I reallllyy don't like Halloween! So this is all I've got! 🎃
Happy mid-week, everyone! 💕
===All smiles, I know what it takes to fool this town
I'll do it 'til the sun goes down and all through the night time
Oh yeah
Oh yeah, I'll tell you what you wanna hear
Leave my sunglasses on while I shed a tear
It's never the right time
Yeah, yeah
I put my armor on, show you how strong how I am
I put my armor on, I'll show you that I am
I'm unstoppable
I'm a Porsche with no brakes
I'm invincible
Yeah, I win every single game
I'm so powerful
I don't need batteries to play
I'm so confident
Yeah, I'm unstoppable today
Unstoppable today
Unstoppable today
Unstoppable today
I'm unstoppable today
Break down, only alone I will cry on out
You'll never see what's hiding out
Hiding out deep down
Yeah, yeah
I know, I've heard that to let your feelings go
Is the only way to make…====
“A snake knows more about what is happening around than any other creature, because it has no ears to listen to gossip only direct perception.”-Jaggi Vasudev
Northern water snakes (Nerodia sipedon) are some of the most common water snakes in the United States. The reptiles’ bodies can be varying shades of gray, tan, buff, or brown, and the juvenile snakes are often more brightly colored than the adults. As adults, they have dark bands and are often mistaken for copperheads or cottonmouths, but these snakes are not venomous. However, when agitated they may flatten their bodies and bite. Fully grown water snakes are between 2 and 4.5 feet (0.6 and 1.4 meters) long, with most measuring about 3.5 feet (one meter) long.
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" I know nothing with any certainty but the sight of the stars makes me dream"- Vincent Van Gogh
Barker, Sweet Pea and the moon. This was taken last summer. (camera date is wrong) I believe Sweet Pea has died. I will miss you little one. <3
Rumor has it that on December 21 Jupiter will align with Saturn.
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