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female Broad-billed hummingbird
SE Arizona
"There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither." - Alan Cohen
Snowcap hummingbird (male) feeding on verbena flowers
Cartago, Costa Rica
the tiny Snowcap (Microchera albocoronata) is one of the smallest hummingbirds in the World and at just 2.5 inches in length and weighing less than a penny in at 2.5 -2.7g, it's not much bigger than the Bee Hummingbird, which is recognized as the smallest bird in the world.
The Snowcap hummingbird is found in the humid tropical and cloud forests of Central America - specifically, across Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama.
Male appearance: Striking reddish-purple bodies with a distinct, brilliant snowy-white crown.
Female appearance: Mostly greenish backs and crowns with a pale grayish/white throat and breast. - the birders show, wiki
SUNRISE - Vilano Beach - 7/5/22
Saint Augustine, Florida U.S.A.
Oldest City in the U.S.A. - 1513
Summer 2022 - July 5th, 2022
*[left-double-click for a closer-look - dark-jetty - two-friends]
*[Atlantic Ocean - warm-morning-light - sand-reflection - gold]
*['grainy' and a 'little-noisy' because; it was still DARK! LOL]
Sharp-shinned Hawk (juvenile)
Florida Keys
Records were made to be broken. On 10/12/25, at the Florida Keys Hawkwatch, an incredible number of raptors were tallied migrating south at 4,216. The star of the show was not the Peregrine Falcon, which at this site being the Peregrine Falcon migration capital of the world, (with a total count at 248 for the day, and previous day total at 387-still the highest count than any other site in the US) but the Sharp-shinned Hawk. With a total number counted at 1,812 for the DAY, is a FKH record of 25 years of counting at the site. Incredible! The Broad-winged Hawks also had good numbers at 1,150. The Northern Harriers and Cooper’s Hawks had second highest tallies for the site at 174 & 205, respectively.
Was amazing to be witness to this spectacle and watching the counters in action. A fun day!
This image above was photographed on the same day , mid morning just north of the FKH site in Layton, Florida Keys.
You never know what you can be witness to visiting the FKH during peak migration. There is always something different to behold.
SUNRISE - Vilano Beach - 7/5/22
Saint Augustine, Florida U.S.A.
Oldest City in the U.S.A. - 1513
Summer 2022 - July 5th, 2022
*[left-double-click for a closer-look - dark-jetty - sport-fisherman]
*[Atlantic Ocean - warm-morning-light - sand-reflection - rocks]
*['grainy' and a 'little-noisy' because; it was still DARK! LOL]
I have had a life-long love affair with Vancouver and all of British Columbia.
The creator of this poster is unknown and was not credited. With apologies to Pictorem who distributes the poster. Adapted. No rights assumed.
ELSEWHERE | Lisbon | LIGHT | Saudade
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The Cabo da Roca Lighthouse (Portuguese: Farol de Cabo da Roca) is a beacon/lighthouse located 165 metres (541 ft) above the Atlantic Ocean, on Portugal's (and continental Europe's) most westerly extent (Cabo da Roca). It is located in the civil parish of Colares, in the municipality of Sintra, situated on a promontory that juts out into the ocean, made up of granite boulders and interspersed limestone. It is a third-order lighthouse, which originally began operating in 1772. It was the first new purpose-built lighthouse to be constructed in the country: the older lighthouses in existence at that time, were constructed on existing platforms or from pre-existing beacons.
Monastero dos Jerónimos - Belém | Architects Diogo Boitaca, João de Castilho, Diego de Torralva | 1505 - 1544
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"true beauty is revealed in the process of transformation." -Unknown
American Flamingo
Everglades National Park
Featuring: Sweet Thing. Duchess Gown - Fatpack
She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes;
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impaired the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress,
Or softly lightens o’er her face;
Where thoughts serenely sweet express,
How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.
And on that cheek, and o’er that brow,
So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
The smiles that win, the tints that glow,
But tell of days in goodness spent,
A mind at peace with all below,
A heart whose love is innocent!
-Lord Byron
My daughter tried on her graduation shoes, and started dancing.
Now she's ready to dance to the rythm of LIFE!
I have a new homework assignment for my photography class. For our previous assignment we had to take pictures keeping in mind three components: Beauty, Meaning and Format (remember my Mallet Finger). For this assignment, we add Creativity. The instructor said Creativity is what brings life to a picture and makes it uniquely our own with concepts like freshness, humor, "interpretation that overwhelms translation"... "Creativity is born when necessity meets constraint".
So, our assignment is to choose any theme (word, object, concept, color, relationship... ANYTHING) and photograph it 15 different ways and then take one of those pictures and INTERPRET it 10 different ways. The idea is by the time we get to the end of this assignment we are going to be forced to think outside the box because we will have run out of obvious ideas.
My theme is "Travel" which is appropriate because a week from today, I'm going to be traveling to a place that requires a passport. More on that later.
FYI, I've taken three travel pictures, have ideas for three more and then I'm stuck. This assignment will require, in the end (approximately three weeks from now) 25 pictures and I'm out of ideas after six. YIKES!
Creative "Travel" ideas are welcome! ;D
Explored March 23, 2015
One wanted to rush away, but the other was too entranced to move, I'm with the one on the right, unless I really have to get somewhere! :-))))
Quick comment, I had other versions of this, where both subjects were in total dark silhouette, but I liked this best as the subject on the right appears to be illuminated and I kind of dug it considering the overall feel of the image and that she seemed to be absorbing the glow, if you know what I mean. I bring all this up because of the image I had posted called BuddingPhotographers where I talked about my inability to not completely leave all the figures in complete blackout silhouette (there were a few barely noticeable spots of light, but I am picky). With this one, it was completely controllable and intentional that I left it as you see it here.
In summary, I am not changing a pixel on this, it is as it should be! :-))))
Oh and, the jury is in and apparently everyone is in agreement that Ken Rockwell knows nothing about what might be "good" bokeh, at least not when it comes to its impact in creating a good image!!
BTW...Let us not forget it is....THURSDAY!! Yeah!!! :-))))
Hershey Park's Storm Runner coaster.
I can't get enough of the takeoff. The movie trailer announcer voice simply saying "head back... let's go". Fantastic.