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Small waxbill, adult olive green above, gray below, with red eyebrow, red bill, and black tail. In flight, bright red rump apparent. Juvenile with red rump but otherwise olive drab with dark bill. Inhabits grassy areas close to thick cover in eastern and southeastern coastal Australia. Often-heard call is a thin "seeeeep." (eBird)
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Finally, one stopped moving long enough to get a photo! These beautiful finch live in large flocks and all want to land on the feeder at the same moment. This one was just contemplating his next move.
Julatten, Queensland, Australia. October 2022.
Eagle-Eye Tours - Eastern Australia.
Anguloa orchid plants, otherwise known as tulip orchids or cradle orchids, are usually seen thriving in the forest floors of the high Andean regions of Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Peru. Given that their natural habitat is in the Andes Mountains, which has an elevation anywhere from 1800 to 2500 meters, the general assumption is that these orchids are expected to grow better in a cooler environment, compared to a hotter one. Anguloa orchids can be a bit hard to come by, depending on where you live. I have shot these rare orchids in San Francisco, CA .Conservatory of Flowers.
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I arrived at the site to discover I hadn't packed my tripod in the car boot. I can't handle a 500mm f4 lens unsupported for any length of time, so that was a huge negative at the start of the day having driven the 40 miles from Nottingham. The consequence was that of 300 plus shots taken all were to a greater, or lesser degree soft and largely scrap, which was a shame, as I thought I'd otherwise got a range of nice clean shots of these lovely little birds. This was one of the slightly more presentable ones. I haven't had much joy with Whinchats over the 6 years I've been photographing birds - the curse of the Whinchat strikes again!
Many thanks to Stuart Allen for the locational advice, it was spot on. Snag was a week had gone by and that was something else I omitted to double check this morning!
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Big Rock (also known as either Okotoks Erratic or, by the Blackfoot, as Okotok) likely served as a prominent landmark for Indigenous people.
The Okotoks Erratic is a 16,500-tonne (18,200-ton) boulder that lies on the otherwise flat, relatively featureless, surface of the Canadian Prairies in Alberta [An erratic is a rock or boulder that differs from the surrounding rock and is believed to have been brought from a distance by glacial action].
This massive angular boulder, which is broken into two main pieces, measures about 41 by 18 metres and is 9 m high. It consists of thick-bedded, micaceous, feldspathic quartzite that is light grey, pink, to purplish. Besides having been extensively fractured by frost action, it is unweathered. [...]. Wikipedia
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Learning To Fly
Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse of Reason (1987)
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Aeroplane
Red Hot Chili Peppers - One Hot Minute (1995)
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Paper Aeroplane
Angus & Julia Stone - Memories Of An Old Friend (2011)
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Learn To Fly
Foo Fighters - There is Nothing Left to Lose (1999)
The two drug dealers who appear at the beginning of this video clip of Foo Fighters, trying to camouflage drugs on the plane, are Jack Black and Kyle Gass, two musicians who make up the rock group Tenacious D. This song will never be the best song of the rock history, even if the lyrics say so. Nor will they be remembered as one of the best rock bands. But something if they have both: they are two very funny guys. And his music videos and concerts, more. A good group. And "Tribute" a fun video clip.
Tribute - Tenacious D / Tenacious D (2001)
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American Beauty (final scene). Director: Sam Mendes
A film to think and reflect on. A highly recommended film.
Y entonces fluye a través de mi como la lluvia. Y no siento otra cosa que gratitud por cada instante de mi estúpida e insignicante vida.
No tienen ni idea de lo que le hablo, seguro. Pero no se preocupen... algún día la tendrán.
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American Beauty (final scene bag). Director: Sam Mendes - B.S.O Anerica Beauty (1999): Thomas Newman
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"Life fits in a 'click', in the blink of an eye, in any flake of oatmeal. It is about distinguishing what is worth from what is not"
...Squeeze every second of your life. Learn to fly, even if only as a simple plastic bag blown by the wind blowing in the streets. Otherwise, you will have flown through life... without having understood your own life.
PS: There is one thing I don't like about this photo... the use of pesticides. I prefer organic, ecological and sustainable crops. Pesticides kill insects. If the insects die, the birds have no food. And every day that passes, there are fewer birds... simply because there are no insects. The only species that is a plague on Earth... is humans.
PS: And as explained in ecology and ecosystems or the same words of the best ecologist, oceanographer and limnologist, Ramón Margalef... no plague can survive. Sooner or later... all the plagues, they finish and they are extinguished.
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World Citizen - I Won't Be Disappointed (Long Version)
David Sylvian / Ryuichi Sakamoto - World Citizen (2003)
¿Que pasó aquí? La mariposa ha perdido sus alas. el aire es demasiado denso para respirar y hay algo en el agua potable.
Sale el sol y estás solo. Tu sentido de propósito se deshace. El tráfico vuelve al laberinto de la 101 y las noticias del cielo, se ven mejor por hoy, en todos los sentidos, pero no para ti, ciudadano del mundo. No es seguro.
Todos los pájaros amarillos están durmiendo porque el aire no es apto para respirar. No es seguro.
Happy summer.
No.7029 Clun Castle leads, with No.46233 Duchess of Sutherland bringing up the rear.
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A giant moth, the wingspan is 80-105 mm. When I saw it flying I first thought it was a small bird, it is that I saw where it landed on the pole, otherwise I would never have seen it because of the camouflage colors
These small plants have found a home among the decaying railroad ties, a perfect ecological niche.
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After posting, it occurred to me that this looks like an image to which selective color was applied. Actually, only a few spots on the wood beams were desaturated; otherwise, the colors are pretty much the way the way they appeared.
Otherwise known as the Little Banded Goshawk, this is a ferocious raptor that attacks birds in their nests and deep inside canopy. The birds are patient and will wait for the right moment to strike. Often they attack the chicks in the nests, or even the parents. The birds are common in the countryside and seen a lot, but hard to get a decent shot.
We sighted this lone bird in the grasslands trying to hunt - there was a kingfisher nearby which we expected to be attacked. But the Shikra left the kingfisher and flew away to another place.
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One of my favourite views on the South-West coast path. Taken during my walk from Prawle Point to Start Point and back, whilst on holiday last month. 10 miles, all told and a super walk, all the better on a lovely September day.
Great Mattiscombe Sands is a quiet beach, not many people get to it, slightly off the beaten track, up Devon single track lanes to Start Farm (private) car park. There is a direct descent on foot to the beach from the car park along a rough track, down the valley seen at the far end. Otherwise it's the coast path walk to get there as I did.
Seals can usually be seen hauled out and basking on the rocky islands at Partridge Point, top right. These can be seen more closely by following the coast path around the base of Partridge Point; from there a climb along the edge of the cliffs takes the walker to the Start Point ridge, where you can either take the metalled track over the other side down to the lighthouse at Start Point, or return and loop back down the beach access path, with great views of Start Bay, both of which I did, before heading back to Prawle Point.
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The treetop path in Beelitz/Brandenburg was opened in 2015 on the site of the former women's lung sanatorium.
It is more than 700 meters long, up to 23 meters high and crosses the tree-covered ruins of the building that burned down in 1945, also known as "Das Alpenhaus". became.
Access is at 21.6 meters from the third platform of the 40.5 meter high observation tower.
Wandern, wo sonst nur Vögel fliegen
Der Baumkronenpfad in Beelitz/ Brandenburgs wurde 2015 auf dem Gelände der ehemaligen Frauen-Lungenheilstätte eröffnet.
Er ist mehr als 700 Meter lang, bis zu 23 Meter hoch und überquert die mit Bäumen bewachsene Ruine des 1945 ausgebrannten Gebäudes auch „Das Alpenhaus“ genannt. wurde.
Ein Zugang erfolgt auf 21,6 Meter Höhe von der dritten Plattform des 40,5 Meter hohen Aussichtsturms.
Yes - it rained last night! We now have a few green tufts on the otherwise still yellow lawn, but it left some droplets on the flowers!
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I have tried a few ways to identify this gull and I think I have it right but if anyone knows otherwise I would appreciate being corrected. Taken at Otter Point in Acadia National Park.
Batea I
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“Be what you would seem to be – or, if you’d like it put more simply – never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
Pulled this little fella out of a cobweb, lots trapped otherwise I would have left it for the spider.
Ham wall
The web-footed Namib dune gecko (Pachydactylus rangei or otherwise known as the palmato gecko).
Its main food supply consists of fish moths, spiders and dune crickets, which are all active at night. The gecko gets protein as well as moisture from its food source.
It is also able to lick the water that has condensed on its body due the thick fog that settles on the Namib and before sunrise the gecko will dig into the dune sand or gravel to ride out the heat of the day with sand temperatures sometimes exceeding 70 ̊C!
Taken at the sand dunes around Swakopmund , Namibia. Our nature guide has to dig it out from the sand ....it was return back into its burrow after posing for this photo. ( Length approx 6cm )
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Gulf Fritillary butterfly on Mexican sunflower from my backyard!!
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How could it be otherwise, the river is the undisputed protagonist of the daily life of the Vietnamese. You have the possibility of going through it in one of the traditional boats or walking along the river walk of the Thu Bon river. River that runs through the city of Hoi An, it is nice to cross its waters for the simple fact of walking in a colorful boat. At night its waters are filled with offerings of light to ask for good omens.
Como no podía ser de otra manera, el río es protagonista indiscutible de la vida cotidiana de los vietnamitas. Tenéis la posibilidad de recorrerlo en alguna de las barcas tradicionales o caminar por Paseo fluvial del río Thu Bon. Rio que recorre la ciudad de Hoi An, es bonito surcar sus aguas por el simple hecho de pasear en una barca llena de colorido. Por la noche sus aguas se llenan de ofrendas de luz para pedir buenos augurios.
Com no podia ser altrament, el riu és protagonista indiscutible de la vida quotidiana dels vietnamites. Teniu la possibilitat de recórrer-lo en alguna de les barques tradicionals o caminar pel passeig fluvial del riu Thu Bon. Riu que recorre la ciutat de Hoi An, és bonic solcar les seves aigües pel simple fet de passejar en una barca plena de colors. A la nit les aigües s'omplen d'ofrenes de llum per demanar bons auguris.
Otherwise known as bramble, blackberry, European blackberry, black heg, wild blackberry and bramble berry.
UK folklore dictates that blackberries should not be picked after Old Michaelmas Day in October, as the Devil has sullied them. Brambles used to be planted on graves to stop sheep grazing, but might also have had the more superstitious purpose of keeping the dead in.
The Woodland Trust - www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-and-wildlife/plants/...
I'm a big fan of Frankie Rose and her set was fantastic as usual, though I wish she had taken off her sunglasses even for a song and also she only played 30 of the 45 minutes but otherwise I loved the energy and the setlist. Check out her music here:
frankierose.bandcamp.com/music
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My final tribute to Alabama 3 is this track, Aint goin to Goa, and in my case it's true, but this beach is a great substitute. I had great fun last night, as this lonely sweep of cloud lit up an otherwise blue sky. You can never tell with sunsets.
Peek a Boo Slot Canyon at the Grand Staircase National Monument, one of the many scenic highlights you can experience as a hiker in the Hole in the Rock Road area near Escalante, Utah.
In the late morning you have here indirect light, which brings the otherwise brownish canyon walls to light.
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La Ceja, Colombia; 2.300 meters above sea level.
Hypopyrrhus pyrohypogaster
(Red-bellied Grackle / Cacique candela)
The Red-bellied Grackle is a distinctive rare blackbird of cloud forest in the Colombian Andes. It is large, long-tailed, and heavy-billed with a bright red belly and otherwise glossy black plumage. Red-bellied Grackles moves through the forest in groups, giving a variety of calls. While it has been recorded from all three ranges of the Andes in Colombia, contemporary localities are few.
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Una nueva "vanitas rural", esta vez una olvidada y solitaria casa de labranza en mitad del llano manchego, simbolizando con su ruinoso estado, la preocupante acelerada desaparición de los modos de vida y de las comunidades rurales.
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A new "rural vanitas", this time a forgotten and lonely farmhouse in the middle of the plain of La Mancha, symbolizing with its dilapidated state, the worrying accelerated disappearance of rural livelihoods and communities.
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photo prise en plein soleil , pas évident , il y a beaucoup de flares , mais comment faire autrement ?
Photo taken in full sun, not obvious, there are many flares, but how to do otherwise?
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An eye-catching black, white and red garden visitor… Both a male and female Great Spotted Woodpecker flew into the garden today to feed on suet. Fortunately, they arrived at different times otherwise there would have been a scrap!
This is the female which has an all-black nape.
See things in the reflections you wouldn't have seen otherwise.
Taken with the lens: Tamron SP AF 17-50mm 2,8 Di II VC
Der neu gestaltete U-Bahnhof Jungfernstieg in Hamburg: Der neue schwarz-weiß-Kontrast lässt den Haltestellenraum größer und weiter wirken. Die mattschwarzen Flächen im Gleisbereich nehmen dem Auge mögliche Bezugspunkte, sodass die Raumkanten, die den Raum sonst eingrenzen würden, nicht mehr sofort sichtbar sind. In ihrer sich spiegelnden Form vermittelt die Decke den Eindruck einer Wasseroberfläche. Damit wird die Lage der Haltestelle unter der Alster symbolisiert. Architekt: WRS Architekten & Stadtplaner
The redesigned Jungfernstieg underground station in Hamburg: The new black and white contrast makes the station space appear larger and wider. The matt black surfaces in the track area deprive the eye of possible reference points, so that the spatial edges that would otherwise delimit the space are no longer immediately visible. In its reflecting form, the ceiling gives the impression of a water surface. This symbolizes the location of the stop under the Alster. Architect: WRS Architekten & Stadtplaner
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Far from any town, near an old, abandoned research facility, the sound of a door being blown off its hinges breaks the otherwise undisturbed silence.
Out of the dark, musty interior of the building, an orange mist slithers silently into the open. As it exits the building, it begins to coalesce, forming into a concentrated glob, and moving in an unnerving, unnatural manner, almost as if it were sentient, guided by a phantom mind...Having gathered itself into a single, undulating mass, the mist pauses mid-air for a moment, and then, in an instant, bolts off into the distance, headed straight toward the nearest farmstead..
Something has awoken... some thing.
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Una vista de la localidad albaceteña de Jorquera, situada sobre un cerro bajo el que discurre el río Júcar, originando un en verdad pintoresco paisaje de legendaria apariencia.
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A view of Jorquera (Albacete, Spain), a town set on a hill, under which the river Júcar runs, resulting in a beautiful and very picturesque landscape of a kind of legendary appearance.
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In 1924 Auburn output was down to six cars a day, when Errett Lobban Cord—a successful automobile salesman—took over the distressed company, and brought in James Crawford to design and develop a new range of vehicles. Other companies had already produced 'boat tail" autos (Peerless, Packard, Hudson) but Auburn endeavored in the car to have an image leader in an otherwise ordinary lineup of autos. The Speedster had a fixed windshield, but no side windows, no interior door release, and optional roof, a cramped cockpit for only two--yes in a glamorous, aerodynamic looking body.
Vladimir Tatlin was a Russian artist and architect. After the 1917 Revolution, V.I.Lenin tasked him with replacing Tsarist monuments with ones expressing revolutionary ideals.
Tatlin’s proposed tower was an abstract iron and glass sculpture 400m tall (Eiffel tower is 300m). The tower's axis tilted parallel to that of Earth's.
The monument was to be the headquarters of the Comintern, the international grouping of Communist parties. A lower glass cube housing the Legislature would revolve once a year. Above that was the Executive in a pyramid rotating once a month. Above that, a cylinder would hold press and communications and revolve daily. The entire edifice was to straddle the Neva in Petrograd (St Petersburg).
One prescient feature was the surrounding double helix – Tatlin’s radial struts could almost represent its canonical amino acid bases! Had the existence and structure of DNA – the key to life – been known to Tatlin it would have been of immense symbolic importance.
Tatlin’s constructivist monument in one sense harks back to the 1890s of Eiffel’s France. In another it looks far forward to the twisted and otherwise non-rectilinear steel and glass postures of almost any present-day city finance quarters.
Tatlin’s Tower was never realised although he and students made a 4.2m high mostly wooden model in 1920.
The model pictured here is 1/42 scale and was erected in 2011 at the London Royal Academy. It was subsequently moved to the UEA Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich. The Sainsbury Centre is in the foreground at right.
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Small brownish wren, usually rather plain overall, with dark barring on the wings and tail. Lacks white eyebrow. Occurs in a variety of open or semiopen habitats, including suburbs, parks, rural farmland, and woodland edge with thick tangles. Larger, longer tailed, and generally slightly paler than Winter and Pacific Wrens. Often perches conspicuously when singing, but otherwise fairly secretive. Listen for bubbly song of chatters and trills, and harsh scolding calls. (eBird)
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One of my favourite birds! For such a small bird they are both incredibly vocal and very fierce. This one was singing up a literal wind storm but didn't seem the least fussed about the wind mussing his feathers.
Carden Alvar Provincial Park, Kawartha Lakes, Ontario. June 2025.
On Saturday, we explored a popular part of Dartmoor which we have left out so far - the Bellever forest and Bellever Tor area. We mixed up the existing hiking paths to create our own circular walk and that way came across a range of interesting sights, including more fascinating Bronze Age relics. The photo is from the granite stacks of Bellever Tor. Being the highest point in that area there's fabulous 360 degrees distant views into Dartmoor. A little break in the otherwise darker day provided some nice sunlight on the rocks for my photo.
For anyone interested, here a video of our walk: youtu.be/1HLD261iI0k
Otherwise known as Tungsten, element number 74 on the periodic table, a member of the transition metals group. Its melting point of 3414 degrees Centigrade makes it well-suited for use as a light bulb filament.
Westinghouse 20W Halogen Bulb G4.pin base The filament coil is 5mm.
……For centuries, and in any language the ‘Firework’ is a universal ‘must have’ for myriad celebrations grand or otherwise! Here I’ve used a simple tiny indoor Sparkler to create this close-up shot for Macro Monday’s theme ‘Celebration’. Using a black backdrop, prefocused and then a rapid fire shutter taking about 10 shots before it fizzled out. Minimal Lightroom processing & then NIK tools for the border sampling from the shot itself. Happy Macro Monday and have a great week whilst staying Covid safe, Alan;-). HMM……
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Spent a mesmerizing hour or so with a family of Brolgas at the Western Treatment Plant yesterday (otherwise known as the Poo Farm-a birders paradise). These birds are listed as Vulnerable in Victoria and are often spotted at the treatment plant. Despite having seen them a number of times, it always feels so special, like the birds are sharing a secret, just for you.
The treatment plant has a series of ponds, with tracks around them that you can drive along. The grass was long and mostly all I could see was their striking red and grey heads pop up from the grasses. I got out of the car and walked along the road a way in front, hoping they would walk in my direction to this little pond.
That way it was their choice as to whether they were OK with me being there.
Turns out it was my lucky day!
This species is endemic to Brazil, where it generally occurs from Minas Gerais south to Rio Grande do Sul, and it occurs in wooded areas of all types in the Atlantic Forest region, to at least 2,000 m. It regularly visits feeders in small numbers. Both sexes of this hummingbird are attractive and distinctive. Males are primarily clad in deep green, with a brilliant deep red throat patch, a small but obvious white postocular spot, browner wings, and a bright red tail, while females share the spot behind the eye and the tail color of the male, but are otherwise rich orange over the entire underparts and on the rump.
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I was out in an open field of grass which was loaded with wild vetch blooms. I'm not positive, but I suspect this to be a sachem skipper which is a skipper that tends to gravitate toward grassy habitats. If you know otherwise, please fill me in.
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A female Spotted Towhee seeking out some warmth from the sun on an otherwise chilly -6 Celcius morning on Vancouver Island, B.C., Canada.
We don't get a lot and or long lasting below 0 degrees Celsius days here on the island. The frosted branches inspired me to venture outdoors to see what the birds were up to. The birds seemed to be hanging out in the sunny areas and I could understand why. Despite being all bundled up, I have to admit, I didn't stay outside for very long. I suppose I have become too accustomed to the cozy warmth of our home! It was nice however to enjoy some good old fresh air and sunshine. Most days as of lately have been dark, overcast and rainy. Makes one appreciate the sunny days even more! 😁