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Do you come from a land down under
Where women glow and men plunder
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder
You better run, you better take cover.
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He needed something soft and loud and sweet and proud
But tough enough to break a heart
Something beautiful, unbreakable that lights up in the dark
“Edit your life frequently and ruthlessly. It’s your masterpiece after all.” - Nathan W. Morris. We took a few days to visit Algonquin Park this week. Although there was lots to take pictures of with a fresh snow cover, I found myself thinking I have so many pictures of the park and I don’t see anything different. Then when we got home, I checked my albums on Flickr, especially from the park and the birds. I had tons of old images that were not as technically good as what I can do now. I could see how much I had learned in my photography over the years. So, I deleted about 400 images from my photo stream. That is just the beginning. I will delete more. But some older images are salvageable with the better editing programs and skills I have learned. In time, I will replace some of my favourite older images with a newer edited version in the next few months. In my birds collection, I got rid of a few Bluejay pictures and I am adding two newer images I took at the park. It feels good to see how I have progressed in my photography. Even the loud and colorful Bluejay deserves to be captured to show his best side.
Loud and Clear - Anna's Hummingbird ensuring his war cries are heard loud and clear.
Who knew a teleconverter could work so well on a zoom lens? I'm very happy as a teleconverter on a zoom offers so much flexibility and I noticed no degradation in quality or AF speed.
Species: Anna's Hummingbird (Calypte anna)
Location: Santa Clara County, CA, USA
Equipment: Canon EOS R5 + EF 100-400 ii + EF 1.4x III, Handheld
Settings: 1/160s, ISO: 800, f/8 @896mm (APS-C Mode), Electronic Shutter
Thinking Out Loud...Featuring Swank with Jumo
Blog:
diamondswithjewel.blogspot.com/2016/05/thinking-out-loudf...
Cause honey your soul..can never grow old..its evergreen.
Baby your smile forever in my mind..and memory
So small and so loud. That little wren was brave enough to let me come closer and also presented its intense song.
I could hear this BIKE REPAIR CENTRE from down the street ;-) When I got closer, I appreciated the very vintage element to this scene.....and the subtle signage, of course ;-) Happy Window Wednesday.
Snapped one iPhone
In Explore: March 17, 2022
"The dwarf breathes so loud, we could have shot him in the dark."
Built for MELO - a scene from The Fellowship of the Ring
Sandhill Cranes - In The Wild - SUNSET
Florida Everglades - 3/7/21 - 7:06 PM
Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge
South Florida - Palm Beach County, FL
*[left-double-click for a closer-look - 6ft 7in wingspan!]
*[among the wading big-birds of our area with extremely
long-legs and extremely wide-wingspans; they seem to be
much BIGGER than the great-blue-herons and great-egrets]
*[looks like two adults and a juvenile. You
can't see it (here) but they have red heads]
*[when they get 'honking all together', even in-flight,
they are REALLY, REALLY LOUD! Fun to hear. LOL]
The Backstory: Not a very good shot of them, not very colorful, but this was a 'Lifer' for me, first time seeing them (flying) in the wild of The Florida Everglades. The sun was setting and shadowy darkness was settling in...but there they were, circling and circling and circling about a one-mile diameter for about a half-hour, and whooping-on-through REALLY LOUDLY, before they flew off. I could hear them all trumpeting-together from a half-mile away! Fun! Thanks for looking
Plump, short and loud-mouthed, the wren is one of our most common breeding birds. Though it’s small in size, it makes up for it with its powerful song.The Wren will nest in all sorts of nooks and crannies. In rocky areas, it lives up to its name Troglodytes (the cave dweller). In gardens, the nest is most often in ivy, creepers or other dense vegetation
"Ever live a life that's real
Full of zest, but no appeal
Ever had to really cry
Cry so much you want to die
Ever feel like you've been had
Had so much that you turn mad
Ever been so depressed that
(to) those you turn to, you bring distress
Ever sit in tormenting silence
That turns so loud, you start to scream
Ever take control of a dream
And play all the parts and set all the scenes
Ever do nothing and gain nothing from it
Ever feel stupid and then know that you really are
Ever think you're smart and then find out you aren't
Ever play the fool and then find out that you're worse
Ever look at a flower and hate it
Ever see a couple kissing and get sickened by it
Ever wish the human race didn't exist
And then realize you're one too
Well, have you ... ever .. I have
So what"...
Flipper / Ever...
We are finding our way in different ways
Some are struggling and some aren't
Some doesn't care what path they are on
Some doesn't know what intuition is
Some doesn't know wether they are listening to their ego or their intuition
Some times ego is crying out loud
And intuition is dormant
Hibernation can last for a very long time
Some times we can't care about all this "finding ourselves"
Some times just surviving is more than enough
Some times we need help to find our path
Just a single word can be enough to start walking in the right direction
One step at the time and we will get there, we must always believe in that
A Japanese F-35A from the 944th OG / Det. 2 "Ninjas" performs an unrestricted climb at Luke AFB in wonderful fashion.
Nick Cave is a phenomenal artist for several reasons. One thing that I loved about this exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago is that there were audio pieces explaining some of the works. The main work the couple are viewing is called Speak Louder but the work above it is one of a few in his Tondo series. When Nick Cave started making Soundsuits, it was right after he heard about the police brutality and the Rodney King beatings. I posted a shot of his Soundsuits here:
www.flickr.com/photos/kirstiecat/52075785831/in/dateposted/
When he speaks about Tondo, he speaks about the effects of inner city violence on children. This is something that is a dear issue to me as I work with kids with disabilities in the public schools in Chicago. At one school I work at, kids come all over the city and 97% must be drawn from the highest poverty areas of the city according to the last census. So, when a parent is concerned because of a child's lack of attention or behavior and a nurse asks, "How much sleep does your child get each night?" and the parent replies "None because there are constantly gunshots and police sirens going off," you know something needs to change in this world.
As many of you know, I believe in proactive means to building better communities. As we continue to put more budgets into funding police, we actually have more crime because less is going into quality education, libraries, mental health facilities, preventing food deserts, equitable employment and low income housing. As our policing has increased, it means that there is also less of a viable public transportation system as well, at the same time that many families earning lower incomes cannot afford these astronomical gas prices and we all need to take an active role when it comes to climate change.
In my 21 years of working with children at Chicago Public Schools, I've worked at a few different schools. In 2003, I had the great honor of working with kids in the Cabrini Green neighborhood before re gentrification and racism (profit over people time and time again) unfortunately forced many people out. I've worked on the West side and lately on the North side. I love children all over the city. When I bike to the far South side to see art, some ask me if it's safe. Wherever children go, we should be willing to go. And, if we are not wiling to go there, we need to think about making it safer there. Chicago is a microcasm of the whole world in that respect. We have the ability to make a world where everyone has a basic level of human rights and a higher quality of life. We don't need little boys getting to go to space again. We don't need billionaires who have 10 homes. We need sustainability.
In all my years at Chicago Public Schools and in the hundreds upon thousands of children I've met (and hopeful helped), not one of them has ever told me he/she/they want to rob or kill people for a living. However, there was an eight year old girl who told a Speech Therapist I worked with that she wanted to be a cop "because they get away with murder." We need to be better.
I am an active voter and donate money to charity and some politicians. I wish I had more power. I wish I could also create something as beautiful as Nick Cave does when he falls into despair. Some people ask me what protesting does. Others ask me what making art does. Still, others ask me what voting does. I'll tell you I don't have all the answers (or any some days) but I can tell you this much, if we were ALL trying to make the world a better place. If we were all making decisions based on trying to be more kind, just, and human, this world would in fact change.
So, if you're kind, Speak Louder. If you're a fan of human rights, Speak Louder. If you want children of all races, religions, and socioeconomic backgrounds to grow up in a better world, Speak Louder. If you want Environmental Justice, speak louder. If you want immigration rights and body autonomy, speak louder. If you want those in the LGBTQ+ community to have the same quality of life as those who are cis gendered and/or heterosexual, speak louder. If you want an end to the For Profit Prison Industrial Complex, speak louder.
Speak Louder.
mcachicago.org/exhibitions/2022/nick-cave-forothermore
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This is a first, I've seen pictures of the air compressing when an aircraft approaches mach 1 but never in real life. Caught this by accident and at extreme long range so it's heavily cropped. Dassault Mirage.
Those that know me know how much I love my current church. Leaving it is truly the biggest regret I have about moving. But God speaks louder outside. At least for me. And I’ve never seen a mountain range that didn’t thrill my heart. So here I go.
Nikon D7200 — Nikon 18-300mm F6.3 ED VR
21mm
F8@1/25
(DOL_7143)
©Don Brown 2021
When your legs don't work like they used to before
And I can't sweep you off of your feet
Will your mouth still remember the taste of my love
Will your eyes still smile from your cheeks
And darling I will be loving you 'til we're 70
And baby my heart could still fall as hard at 23
And I'm thinking 'bout how people fall in love in mysterious ways
Maybe just the touch of a hand
Oh me I fall in love with you every single day
And I just wanna tell you I am
So honey now
Take me into your loving arms
Kiss me under the light of a thousand stars
Place your head on my beating heart
I'm thinking out loud
Maybe we found love right where we are
When my hair's all but gone and my memory fades
And the crowds don't remember my name
When my hands don't play the strings the same way, mm
I know you will still love me the same
'Cause honey your soul can never grow old, it's evergreen
Baby your smile's forever in my mind and memory
I'm thinking 'bout how people fall in love in mysterious ways
Maybe it's all part of a plan
I'll just keep on making the same mistakes
Hoping that you'll understand
But baby now
Take me into your loving arms
Kiss me under the light of a thousand stars
Place your head on my beating heart
I'm thinking out loud
That maybe we found love right where we are, oh
So baby now
Take me into your loving arms
Kiss me under the light of a thousand stars
Oh darling, place your head on my beating heart
I'm thinking out loud
That maybe we found love right where we are
Oh baby, we found love right where we are (maybe)
And we found love right where we are