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Another view of the hills and valleys making up the highlands area of Southern India! It is definitely God's country. It is also one of the areas of India that beckons many honeymooners.
From the summit of a nearby small mount, looking east to Lake Champlain and Vermont beyond. I see this often; it’s always different. Here is my memory’s distillation – my mind’s eye’s image.
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 😊
And in my mind, in my head
This is where we all came from
The dreams we have, the love we share
This is why we're waiting for
And in my mind, in my head
This is where we all came from
The dreams we have, the love we share
This is why we're waiting for
C R E D I T S
Dress Fame Femme Margo Dress @ Uber
Necklace PerveTTe Secret Roses @ Kinky Event
Hair Tram H0219 hair
Pose Luanes World - World inside
✈ Location - Elysion
... you make me crazy and I kinda like it ♥ ♬
Pose: The Owl. - I'll lose my mind
■︎ ʀᴇᴠɪᴠᴇʀ - ᴀᴍᴀʀɪᴇ
(50ʟ @ ᴡᴇ ʟᴏᴠᴇ ʀᴏʟᴇᴘʟᴀʏ ᴇᴠᴇɴᴛ)
■︎ [ɢʟᴀᴍ ᴀꜰꜰᴀɪʀ] ʀᴜᴛʜ ꜱᴋɪɴ [ʟᴇʟᴜᴛᴋᴀ ᴇᴠᴏx]
■︎ ᴀᴅᴇ - ʜᴀɪʟᴇᴇ ʜᴀɪʀꜱᴛʏʟᴇ
■︎ ʟɪᴠɪᴀ // ᴍɪx ɪᴛ ᴘʀᴏ ɴᴀɪʟꜱ // ᴍᴀʀʙʟᴇ ɢʟɪᴛᴛᴇʀ
“You may think I’m small, but I have a universe inside my mind.”
Quote ― Yoko Ono
Happy Sliders Sunday everyone ;-)
This artwork got lost from groups over a report before on some safe levels on my work, sending it back to few groups again.
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Images of War in my Mind - (Color-HD) ➪ Click Here
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"Take us away,
take us to faraway places.
Blow, wide sea!
Blow air, blow air..."
From my latest exhibition at Grauland (December 2022).
Thank you all who visited it.
Spain - Zaragoza – Tango session in the street
#SmileOnSaturday : From the ground
youtu.be/_4G03HpzArc (Tango la danza mas maravillosa del mundo)
Volkstone - Greg hairbase
Volver// - Parker close collar jacket
CHUCK SIZE - John Pants
Since1975 - Mind library
FaMESHed
TMD
Piraeus port, Greece
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My photographs do not belong to the public domain.
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“You should feel beautiful and you should feel safe. What you surround yourself with should bring you peace of mind and peace of spirit.” —Stacy London
Ease your mind. Go take a walk in the nature. It's a natural way to decrease blood pressure and feel happier. Humans need more connection with nature than most of us get these days.
So many people have grown estranged from nature and forests especially and may even feel that they're scary. Forests are the best way to experience nature, take in all the scents and sounds and on top of that they have been proven to really improve happiness. Go now, take a stroll in the woods. It's good for you.
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Das Mindener Museumseisenbahn e.V. ist ein Eisenbahnmuseum in Minden, Deutschland. Es befindet sich auf dem Gelände des ehemaligen Bahnbetriebswerks Minden und umfasst eine Vielzahl von historischen Lokomotiven, Waggons und anderen Schienenfahrzeugen, die zum Teil noch in Betrieb sind. Das Museum bietet auch regelmäßig Fahrten mit historischen Zügen an, um Besuchern ein authentisches Erlebnis zu bieten.
HSS 😊😊😍
Universal Mind -"...there is one all uniting, universal Mind, one all-pervading Intelligence...these are no totally separate minds...waves in an ocean - a wave cannot separate itself...bucket of water poured into a pool - affects every other particle of water within the pool, whether it knows it or not.
Jampolsky, Gerold G. M.D. (1983) Teach Only Love
Thank you for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day! ❤️❤️❤️
.:♛ New Post & Credits ! Kristal Tricks & Pixel Hair ♛:.
Highlights:
[FurtaCor Female] | Kaolla Lingerie |
Tville | Viola Eyes |
Did not have a lot of time when we were visiting San Diego but I managed to stop by this place. Good thing it was not overly crowded.
Happy early Friday and weekend ahead friends.
Hope you like it
A pelican wings its way along the Gulf Coast at Clearwater Beach.
Nikon D7500, Sigma 18-300, ISO 360, f/8.0, 120mm, 1/2000s
I learned the coolest thing about taking pictures in SL today. I messaged a friend and he told me he had just learned a light trick that blew his mind. I asked him to teach me and this is the result. Mind blown!
Photo taken at Naturally Naughty Studios.
→ Post 414 // Credits
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MODULUS - Colt Hair @Mainstore
VOLKSTONE - Sansa facial hair and mesh beard
@Equal10 Event Jan
FYR - Saul Set @Alpha Event Jan
↪ Shirt and Pants
EMPORIO SURPREME - Premium Drink
@Mainstore for Saturday Sale 75L
Paleto - Backdrop FONFON @ACCESS Event Jan
↪ 77 li / PSYC Materials Light
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"Our life is a lighting ... but we're catching up"
Nikos Kazantzakis
"Tonight the song will be like a prayer,
it will be an olive grove in a forgotten land.
Tonight the song will become a hug that will fit you too,
even if you are far away.
Tonight, no one laughs at the moon,
She caresses basil with her one hand.
And I who don't sleep
and I who am awake,
I don't know if I will die or if I will be born.
Tonight my heart will become an old bicycle
that wants to go to the sky.
To find Massimo Troisi and tell him
how life changes overnight.
Tonight the song will become a hug that will fit you too,
even if you are far away."