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A Mighty Pirate ship stranded on the previously tranquil beach !
The Raven cries - Danger Danger Pirates !
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Stormy weather displaying beautiful clouds closes in over lake Siljan.../Häftigt...ett oväder med fina moln närmar sig Rättvik över Siljan.../Imponente...una tormenta con bonitas nubes se aproxima sobre el lago Siljan...(DSC_5124-5)
Switzerland, May 2021
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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 😊
Tour durch´s Naturschutzgebiet Wagbachniederung / 19.05.2016 / Baden-Württemberg
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Looking out over the Straits of Mackinac in the evening glow of a summer sunset. This is why Mackinac is my favorite place to vacation.
Taken from Zermatt, Switzerland. Love this mountain! The shape is so amazing. I guess one of the most photographed mountains in the world. And then I dont even count the selfies😊!
Mächtige Steine säumen den Flusslauf!
(Naturpark Fichtelgebirge)
Mighty stones line the course of the river!
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Blue hour at the river Rhine
Leverkusen, Germany
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I love a last-minute solo hike. The hurried packing of ten essentials, favorite trail snacks, and camera gear, waking up at 2am, driving in the dark, listening to soft mellow tunes, and finally pulling into the parking lot...read more about my hike here: www.troymasonphotography.com/blog/blog_posts/lovely-day
This image, Mighty Emmons, is also the newest product on my website at: www.troymasonphotography.com/warehouse/art_print_products...
Mighty Aphrodite is a macro photograph of an anemone flower. The title was inspired by a movie of the same name.
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA
Hände wie eine 300jährige Schildkröte nach der Gartenarbeit...
Processing in Lightroom & Nikcollection (now for free!!!)
The famous Elephant Boswell in the Mana Pools Nationalpark, Zimbabwe.
Taken while on a walking safari.
All animals in Africa bite, but the safari bug is the worst.
The world is like a book and those, who do not travel, only read the first page.
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There are pine trees at the botanical garden that trimmed and clipped like Bonsai trees. This was probably my favorite place that day. The light through the trees and the soft serene feeling of the area was perfect and of course dapples of light.
After this Red-tailed Hawk missed capturing it's prey it flew to this branch, preened and then gave a 'mighty fluff' as if to say "I meant to do that"...:)
Member of the Nature’s Spirit
Good Stewards of Nature
Just realized this was shot 2 years ago today, pure coincidence...
Thanks for visiting and good evening everybody
Now that we have experienced Spring & Summer it is time for the Autumn change in the forest of the tall and mighty !
Pushing on that trigger is like pulling magic into my very soul...Darrell.
Have a safe and exciting day dear Flickr friends !
as seen from Queenston Hieghts.
Do you see nations? America is on the right bank and Canada is on the left and in the foreground.
remember the line "from little acorns grow mighty oaks"? it is really a wonder that these huge beautiful works of nature were once tiny seeds. this is a tree near the white house during my last visit to DC. light coming from lamps on the street.
yesterday was really tight and was not able to post nor visit but will catch up later tonight. have a great day/night my friends! i am off to work!