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A Greater Yellowlegs with a tiny crab.... I get my best lessons and inspiration in life from watching wildlife.
A Snowy Egret Fishing in the Morning Light
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These are medium-sized herons with long, thin legs and long, slender, bills. Their long, thin neck sets the small head well away from the body.
Adult Snowy Egrets are all white with a black bill, black legs, and yellow feet. They have a patch of yellow skin at the base of the bill. Immature Snowy Egrets have duller, greenish legs.
Snowy Egrets wade in shallow water to spear fish and other small aquatic animals. While they may employ a sit-and-wait technique to capture their food, sometimes they are much more animated, running back and forth through the water with their wings spread, chasing their prey.
Snowy Egrets nest colonially, usually on protected islands, and often with other small herons. They concentrate on mudflats, beaches, and wetlands, but also forage in wet agricultural fields and along the edges of rivers and lakes.
(200-600 @ 450mm, 1/1000 @ f/6.3, ISO 1000)
Enjoying a beautiful sunset moment, where everthing is painted a warm pastel pink at Remic Rapids! Best viewed large. Happy weekend my friends =)
So 2020 is behind us and a new year has come. Hopefully this new year will be much better for everyone. Hopefully it will be the year that the pandemic will be over and life will return to normal for most of us. Lots of things has changed because of this virus, and some of them have changed permanently (the work from home concept is something that will stick for many people). Whatever the case may be, at the end of the day we will keep our hopes alive that this new year will be much better than the previous one. I understand that this is not any sort of masterpiece photo from a photographic perspective. It's just a shop at the Portsmouth downtown area, a store that I have walked by probably 20 times and never noticed it. Today, though, I read its name and I felt it conveys a positive message, something that many people are in need these first days of the new year. Happy New Year to all of you!
Caught this Snowy Egret showing its stuff while on landing approach at a local pond.
Snowy Egrets are medium-sized herons with long, thin legs and long, slender, bills. Their long, thin neck sets the small head well away from the body.
Adult Snowy Egrets are all white with a black bill, black legs, and yellow feet. They have a patch of yellow skin at the base of the bill. Immature Snowy Egrets have duller, greenish legs.
Snowy Egrets wade in shallow water to spear fish and other small aquatic animals. While they may employ a sit-and-wait technique to capture their food, sometimes they are much more animated, running back and forth through the water with their wings spread, chasing their prey.
Snowy Egrets nest colonially, usually on protected islands, and often with other small herons. They concentrate on mudflats, beaches, and wetlands, but also forage in wet agricultural fields and along the edges of rivers and lakes.
(Nikon, 500mm + TC 1.4, 1/500 @ f/5.6, ISO 360)
...But girl, let me warn ya?
It burns, man, it burns.
A little twist on the lyrics 😎
Its been a couple of days since many parts of my community were under mandatory fire-safety evacuation.
Fires start in the mountain canyons (in the background) and Santa Ana Winds push the flames west toward the Pacific Ocean. If you happen to be in between, bad things can happen.
The Santa Ana winds are strong, extremely dry downslope winds that originate inland and affect coastal Southern California and northern Baja California. They originate from cool, dry high-pressure air masses in the Great Basin.
Santa Ana winds are known for the hot, dry weather that they bring in autumn (often the hottest of the year), but they can also arise at other times of the year. They often bring the lowest relative humidity of the year to coastal Southern California. The low humidity, combined with the warm air mass, plus high wind speeds, create critical fire weather conditions. Also sometimes called "devil winds", the Santa Anas are infamous for fanning regional wildfires.
(Wikipedia)
(Nikon, 14-24/2.8 @ 20.5mm, 1/80 @ f/22, ISO 200)
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This guy was so at ease with me that after a good shake it decided to lay down next to me and have a nap... light was quite harsh for photography but the sun felt so good to an oystercatcher sunbathing :).
A 2 minute long exposure view of Tacoma, WA's twin Narrows Bridges. It was a fun one to shoot with my new Z8 and 10 stop ND filter. A 6 stop would have been better, as I had to increase ISO and use a wider aperture with the 10 stop. This scene would be easier to shoot in the early morning light I think, since there are deep shadows here in the evenings. I tried lifting the shadows to no avail.
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Nothing spells summer like the hot sun, blue skies, salty air and sandy feet.. I am 90% happy and 10% burnt 😁
At Chong Kneas the floating village near Siem Reap, Cambodia.
This picture reminded me of the movie Life is Beautiful where a father goes through extraordinary efforts to shield his young son from finding out what is really going on in the Nazi concentration camp where they were imprisoned.
The LG initials in LG Electronics stand for “Lucky Goldstar” since 1983. When LG rebranded in 1995, it adopted the simple acronym LG alongside the slogan “Life’s Good”. The logo has a stylized smiling face. To me, it's smiling and winking.
My choice for Macro Mondays: "Initials"
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