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An optimistic great grey heron fishing in the River Dodder in south Dublin.
There's a lot of Lightroom colour editing on this one. I changed the white balance to fluorescent and then used the circular mask tool to remove the blue from the heron and a second time to darken a bright white glare from one the rocks. Then a few more general tweaks on shadows and highlights.
Happy Slider Sunday!
... that there will be some more sunshine to display their beautiful colours!
HMBT !
Opening blanket flowers / Kokardenblumen (Gaillardia)
in our garden - Frankfurt-Nordend
... that the weekend will come soon - TGIF!
Neotropic cormorant / Olivenscharbe (Phalacrocorax brasilianus)
Rio Sararé, Pantanal, MT, Brazil
powered by:
an optimistic, late-opening Coneflower Sombrero Salsa Red / Roter Sonnenhut (Echinacea x hybrida 'Balsomsed')
3 days ago in our late November garden - Frankfurt-Nordend.
"We have a finite environment - the planet. Anyone who thinks that you can have infinite growth in a finite environment is either a madman or an economist."
(David Attenborough)
spending some time today in the garden from the local castle, there were a lot of optimistic flowers enjoying the sun.
Taken with the sigma 180mm macrolens.
Thanks everyone for visiting my stream :-)
No matter what is happening in your life, you have to be always optimistic... looking at the good side, you will feel much easier to be happy in your life~~~
The grasses or weeds~ they never growing for anyone... they always being themself and always optimistic, continueing to grow, to live~~~ despite people don't like them~~ because this is life, the life they are living~ so they choose to be optimistic... and living happy forever and ever~~~
In a more optimistic version, after the Flood, the sun shines again and gives warm, golden hues to the water reflections and the background. But the clock is ticking, the wait has been long and nature has been far too forgiving. Remember, there is NO planet B.
A spectacular October day on the lake yesterday, resulting in what was probably my longest paddle of the season. What few breezes arose quickly died down allowing easy going and pleasing reflections of the enduring colors at every turn...and resulting in far too many photos to quickly evaluate properly. This was one of the first, complimented by a soaring eagle whose circling this day never brought him quite over the lake...though I waited. Also in celebratory mood were a few straggler dragonflies whose appearance surprised me this late in the year. And the forecast is for this happy weather to continue throughout the week.
Unfortunately, unlike the optimistic Mary Hopkin (remember her?), I know that these days will end soon enough.
What is Helmi waiting for? I am optimistic that she is waiting for me, her "mom". In addition to waiting for me, she also waits for dog candies in my pocket. She always receives them as a reward when she has behaved in the desired way. In this photo ( taken a year ago ) she’s waiting for her award because she kept sitting still while I took photos. She has evolved a lot in a year, nowadays as soon as she sees me stopping and taking out the camera, she is sitting next to me. She walks completely free, without a leash, as still in this photo. She has become a good girl. She has earned her candies.
What am I waiting for? I look forward to the sun, sparkling bright rays of the sun as in this photo. I haven’t seen them in a few weeks, every day it has been snowing... a lot. Hey if anyone wants some snow, I can post... 😁 Finland.
👱♀️🎧🎶 Waiting For The Miracle ( Leonardo Cohen )
"Auntie Emily, are you a famous climber?". In front of the climbing wall staff 😂 God, I love my nephews.
One from my dreamy morning on Latrigg!
Amsterdam - Transvaalkade - Ringdijk
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Hello Everyone!
Yellow is considered to be an optimistic colour, so I chose a yellow tulip for today's post. Optimism is a wonderful feeling to have, any day of the week!
Edited with effects in Topaz Studio for Slider's Sunday. HSS! Happy Sliders Sunday!
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The groundhog predicted an early spring here in Ottawa. Right now we’re being hit by another big snowstorm and I’m not very optimistic about the prediction. I haven’t been able to take many photos with the frigid temps and cold this winter so I’ll be digging into my older files for a while.
Here’s hoping this little gosling will bring some luck and is taking his first tentative step forward into spring!
Have a great weekend Flickr friends. Tina and the Puglets xo
I would like to thank all of you that have taken the time to view and comment on my photos, it is very much appreciated.
كلنا في هذه الحياة نعيش على أمل ما دامت الحياة سيبقى الأمل !!
أمل اللقاء
أمل تحقيق السعادة التي نطمح إليها
أمل رؤية من نحبُ سعداء
أمل العيش في حرية وكرامة
إنه الأمل الذي يبنض به كل قلب *
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An optimistic Short-eared Owl on the prowl at dusk.
Conditions for this image were challenging. The setting sun was on the horizon and the barely visible subject about 250 feet away, flying at full speed.
Considered rare for this area and time of the year.
One of these days, or years, I am going to get to photograph this location in perfect conditions. Near Tibbermore in Perthshire, Scotland.
And crawl against the tide
Walk a hot coal, you don't get blisters
'Cause it's all inside your mind, blind eyes are only for tonight
There are no guarantees
Don't know what tomorrow brings
Though are promise is weed
Oh, we know what will be, will be
This was curious morning on the Cliffs above Pednvounder. I had trudged here in the dark under a light drizzle from the Village of Treen in the optimistic hope of the sun breaking through the gloom around the time of sunrise.
It didn't look promising at all, but ever hopeful, I scoured the cliff tops to find this spot where the headland of Treryn Dinas was visible and framed by the cove and rock promontory in front of me. Anyway, at last as dawn approached a sliver of colour appeared in the sky and I tried several options and this was a long exposure before things later clouded in again and the colour disappeared.
This is a beautiful area of Cornwall with the cove of Porhcurno just to the rear of this headland position.
A sense of "almost" normalcy has arrived finally. Time to make up for lost time..speak your own mind...don't listen to negative people...be optimistic....make your own decisions. Ignore social media. Life is what you make it.
... the canal was half-empty at this point :-) for some unknown reason - although the goose in view looked to be having fun :-)
... for spring and - after nearly one year of this murderous attack by Russia - Peace for Ukraine!
Magnolia buds in our neighbours garden - Frankfurt-Nordend
... for a Peaceful MBT!
Every photograph in order to be successful should convey a message to its viewer ... A message sometimes subtle and vague, while others strong and profound.
A frame with a latent underlying message is what we have here ... A photo that consists of two mutually contradictory both physically and symbolically elements that are nevertheless "condemned" by an act of fate to a harmonic, pleasant to the eye and not likely to easily come across elsewhere symbiosis ...
A stony, tiny in size underground blockhouse still stands in one piece against all odds .. A second world war remnant that still holds its "proud" figure intact ... This symbol that reminds us of man's insatiable, hostile and aggressive nature is being "attacked" this time by a fully blossomed almond tree that "decided" to become its long-term partner in life ...
A scene that bears a strong anti-war message, a truly optimistic scene .... Devoted to all of you who are fed up with the unbelievable ugliness that lurks around our lives lately ...
NIKON D90 DSLR with Nikon Nikkor 18 - 55 lens, Manual Mode, shutter speed 1/160 s, ISO 100, f 8, focal length 20 mm, use of HOYA ND X 2 filter, cloudy weather white balance, center weighted average metering mode, HDR processing derived from only one RAW file, no flash, use of tripod ...
NectarineBlossom
We have had 32 mm (~ 1 1/4 inches) of rain since yesterday afternoon and a lot of the blossoms have lost there petals.
Di's cardiologist is cautiously optimistic that she will need only minor surgery to correct the congenital defects that have caused the heart issues. For now the medication has everything under control.
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The Christians tend to celebrate Easter-peopled-ness,
not in any proud or holier-than-thou manner,
but as an optimistic promise
resurrection-claiming
Holy Week unwinding
Lent minimizing
kind of way.
But, we are all an Easter people,
at least we Canadians
save those in Victoria or Point Pelee.
Everywhere else, in this often frigid place,
and some of those Scandinavian places too,
Siberia maybe, and Greenland (ha!),
we and they are Easter people.
We live the life of rebirth,
relife, rekindled in our frozen ground,
crocus, snowdrop, scilla,
poking through winter’s death
every early Spring.
[from "We are an Easter People" in I am Keats as you are by Glenn Peirson]
my textures
i hope everyone feels good and optimistic looking to this new year...
May it be bright and beautiful for us all :-)
This optimistic American goldfinch male is starting to grow his golden spring plumage in even if the weather still looks and feels like winter here at Lake Meyer Park. The ground is pure white as I write this tonight.
Taken in the iconic Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, Arizona
I miss those days when I was able to travel around. Hope we will get thumbs-up for a normal life soon. Stay safe and optimistic!
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The last straw on the camel's back, perhaps ?
For quite a few days, we don't have any new covid cases locally here in Hong Kong. But yesterday, we had 15 and 13 of them were imported from Nepal. And it subsequently dawned on me that many rich Indians rushed to Nepal to get Sinovac vaccine in order to gain entry into China, obviously a place they deem to be safer, well, at least for the time being. How many of them will succeed I don't know and I certainly wish more of them can stay healthy.
It doesn't need any expert or scholar to tell us that the situation in India is dire and that even with the fullest help from China, from the whole of the West including Russia would not be able to help much. Meanwhile, the most vulnerable countries, other than Nepal, would be Pakistan, Bangladesh and even Malaysia and Singapore where they have a huge proportion of Indian populations where interactions remain strong. I'm not too optimistic about Canada either for even US have banned them from entry since. Likewise, UK has also found numerous such mutants there, and then US which now allow their residents to travel abroad after vaccination and like it or not, China wouldn't be left unscathed.
Yet, India has declined any help from China and even those from WHO. It soon revealed that only yesterday, her PM was busy engaging in a talk with his counterpart in Japan as how to "contain" China ! Needless to say, he is still encouraging his people to come up and vote for him! Is he any different from D. Trump at all ? No wonder we wantonly have Macabre as an art theme...