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Thanks to pareeerica for the texture:
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“And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, "The Secret Garden"
The admiral butterfly or number butterfly atalanta is one of the most striking butterflies in Belgium and the Netherlands. In Northern Europe it is one of the last butterflies to be seen before winter sets in. In the south, the butterfly also flies on sunny winter days !!
...that miracle of summer evenings, when for a few minutes every shade of colour, flattened all day by a steely sun, is brought out at last by the golden light, and breathes.
-- Frédéric Gros
TWO FLAMINGOS LEAVING THE POND .
THANKS MY FRIENDS ...
I NEED A LITTLE BIT TIME TO ANSWER TO YOU , FOR THE MOMENT .
A beautiful morning at Lake Wägital. This is a well known fishing lake, but now the season is over and the last boats will soon be pulled ashore.
Switzerland, May 2021
My best photos are here: www.lacerta-bilineata.com/ticino-best-photos-of-southern-...
My latest ANIMAL VIDEO (warning, it's a bit shocking): www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T2-Xszz7FI
You find a selection of my 80 BEST PHOTOS (mostly not yet on Flickr) here: www.lacerta-bilineata.com/western-green-lizard-lacerta-bi... (the website exists in ESPAÑOL, FRANÇAIS, ITALIANO, ENGLISH, DEUTSCH)
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 😊
To complete our visit to Stanley we return to where we began with those dawn shots of The Nut. Here it is in the late afternoon. Everything is so green because of all the recent rain. It's hard to imagine what this scene might have looked like millions of years ago when the volcano was still active.
The city and the valley in the distance...
Gramado, as some other cities in the mountains of the south, was colonized by German immigrants.
The architecture is similar, also the love and care with the flowers.
A charming city which shows the beauty of a culture so far from here...
Time to het your harvest done, just like the farmers here in East Westphalia. Obernbeck, Löhne, Ostwestfalen, Germany
Winter has shown up in our area now with temperatures below zero, frozen lakes and beautiful sunshine. Compared tor the last months with rain, clouds and shades of grey this is a significant improvement. Dear winter, we love you. But please do not stay too long and give way to spring. Hücker Moor, Ostwestfalen, Germany
One of my artworks for the exhibition TIME WARPS at Kondor Art Garden.
Thanks to my partner Eli Medier for his poem:
"Under the cold blanket of the years
I found a surprise today
this wait was really long
how many illusions, delusions and worries
The most precious seed has blossomed for me
a delicate flower a little late
it is white as snow but it is alive
who expected it has now forgotten
Alas there is no one who appreciates it
intent now they are looking elsewhere
not a person who caresses it
Maybe they're all dead or it's raining
only the delicate flower remains
but still he shines and moves me"
© Eli Medier
Taken at Snoweeta (changed now)
~The head pieces are from Lode called Late Lilac
Styles i wore are
- Late Lilac [purple]
~Late Lilac with Ribbon [violet]
~ Late Lilac Veil [white] RARE
and you can win them at the shiny shabby event
~The head,lash and eyes are from akeruka called Gift 2021
~Eye applier is from AG called Summerday,shade worn
is 07b and i bought them at summer fest
~The hair is from doux called Bianca and the bangs i used are
from doux from the Cece hair
~The top is from {Le'La} called Roseen Top
~Pose is from :LW: called hot summer evening and
i bought the poses at the shiny shabby event
→ Post 336 // Credits
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BREEZY Toguro . Tanktop @Mainstore
BREEZY Ericky . Cargo Pants @Mainstore
PALETO Backdrop:.Secret Shed @Mainstore
12LI - Materials - Light
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