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After a period harassed by the wind and the furious waves, the rocks have succumbed to their wear and tear, giving rise to this natural beauty that looks more like a hand raised from the water, offering an offering to Mother Nature to ask for calm, calm, before the unstoppable invested climatology ...
Despues de un periodo hostigado por el viento y las olas enfurecidas, las rocas han sucumbido a su desgaste dando lugar a esta belleza natural y que mas bien parece una mano alzada del agua, ofreciendo una ofrenda a la madre naturaleza para pedirle sosiego, calma , ante la imparable investida climatologica...
For those who are sick of my floral shots, i apologize... I promise when the flowers are gone, you won't see them :)
This adorable outfit is a brand new gacha offering by Zenith at the Epiphany this round. The gacha machine is packed with different styles, colors and accessories. The rare dress has hands that hold this sweet pig that is securely tied with a balloon. ADORBS! And the ice skates from Pure Poison are by far the cutest thing ever! Go get them and then head to Nymphai to skate in wonderland.......
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For the "Looking close... on Friday!" topic "Texture in Flora"
I keep bringing handfuls of crab apples and their leaves indoors to shoot. Most of the trees have lost their leaves as well as their fruit ... but these tiny shiny apples cling on so valiantly. This morning it was sub-zero, and still they smile at me 😊
Have a happy weekend, and stay safe and warm!
Macro-Looking Close: Here
From the garden Here
Autumn through the lens: Here
Leaves, grasses, fruit, seeds: Here
Still Life Compositions: Here
Kingfisher - Alcedo Atthis
The common kingfisher (Alcedo atthis) also known as the Eurasian kingfisher, and river kingfisher, is a small kingfisher with seven subspecies recognized within its wide distribution across Eurasia and North Africa. It is resident in much of its range, but migrates from areas where rivers freeze in winter.
This sparrow-sized bird has the typical short-tailed, large-headed kingfisher profile; it has blue upperparts, orange underparts and a long bill. It feeds mainly on fish, caught by diving, and has special visual adaptations to enable it to see prey under water. The glossy white eggs are laid in a nest at the end of a burrow in a riverbank.
The female is identical in appearance to the male except that her lower mandible is orange-red with a black tip. The juvenile is similar to the adult, but with duller and greener upperparts and paler underparts. Its bill is black, and the legs are also initially black. Feathers are moulted gradually between July and November with the main flight feathers taking 90–100 days to moult and regrow. Some that moult late may suspend their moult during cold winter weather.
The flight of the kingfisher is fast, direct and usually low over water. The short rounded wings whirr rapidly, and a bird flying away shows an electric-blue "flash" down its back.
The common kingfisher is widely distributed over Europe, Asia, and North Africa, mainly south of 60°N. It is a common breeding species over much of its vast Eurasian range, but in North Africa it is mainly a winter visitor, although it is a scarce breeding resident in coastal Morocco and Tunisia. In temperate regions, this kingfisher inhabits clear, slow-flowing streams and rivers, and lakes with well-vegetated banks. It frequents scrubs and bushes with overhanging branches close to shallow open water in which it hunts. In winter it is more coastal, often feeding in estuaries or harbours and along rocky seashores. Tropical populations are found by slow-flowing rivers, in mangrove creeks and in swamps.
Like all kingfishers, the common kingfisher is highly territorial; since it must eat around 60% of its body weight each day, it is essential to have control of a suitable stretch of river. It is solitary for most of the year, roosting alone in heavy cover. If another kingfisher enters its territory, both birds display from perches, and fights may occur, in which a bird will grab the other's beak and try to hold it under water. Pairs form in the autumn but each bird retains a separate territory, generally at least 1 km (0.62 mi) long, but up to 3.5 km (2.2 mi) and territories are not merged until the spring.
Very few birds live longer than one breeding season. The oldest bird on record was 21 years.
They are also listed as a Schedule 1 species under the Wildlife and Countryside Act offering them additional protection.
Population:
UK breeding:
3,800-6,400 pairs
at the Yap Kongsi Temple .
The celebration of the lunar new year lats for ten days.
It has been the year of the rooster, seen in Penang, Malaysia in 2017!.
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My offering for the theme of Copy Collage for Smile on Saturday. One flower shot given various editing options. HSoS! The original version is the one in the middle bottom of the grid
Common Tern
We got to see lots of this yesterday. The really strange thing, none of the males actually gave the offerings to the mates or possible mates.
Not big enough or too big????
Nature's Offering is actually a remake of a picture I made about two years ago: Lord of Winter.
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However, I was never really happy with it. But this one? Well "Nature's Offering" is more of the vibe I was aiming for. Add in "Frozen Tides" (link below), the feel was complete!
Worthy of note is the pose I'm using: Mirror, Mirror from Be My Mannequin? Pose Store. The pose comes with a special mirror prop (not shown in picture) and I adjusted the head angle slightly.
Go DEMO it for yourself in the main store or check it out on Marketplace!
Additionally, click for HD to see the brand new stunning, icy Avalanche eyes from Pariah which is coincidentally right next door to Be My Mannequin?! Also the pale skin is by them as well: Virus White Body Powder from the Virus pack!
And honestly I really need to give a shout out to Studio Skye for the background (which I pieced together) using Enchanted Woods set and Water System. I am seriously in love with how detailed and the variety of options that come with all their products!
Electus & Michael St Laurent - Frozen Tides
Daily offering of flowers, sake and rice at a small shrine within Gyogan-ji temple, Kyoto. Hasselblad X1D.
The Devils blood
The curse of salvation
The odious essence
Of His holy revelation
It floats from the garden of eden
In malevolent grace
The Devil's blood
Through the pentagram's maze
In the hornbill species - about 9 of them in India in total - the male courts the female by offering her berries and figs. The female accepts it - sometimes from more than one - before she finally chooses a partner. And then the birds would find a tree hollow to set up their nest. This poor Malabar Grey Hornbill couldn't find a partner nearby, and he waited more than 30 mins with the fig in his mouth. We grabbed all the shots we wanted, but the poor chap didn't move.
These are endemic species in the Malabar region - a large forest hosting an amazing diversity of wildlife in the South Western part of India. These are the most common hornbills in the region and are well known for their cacophonic cackling and laughing calls which are quite loud and sound totally crazy.
Just like other hornbills, the female gets into a tree hollow and the male seals the entrance with mud or cement like material from her droppings. Only a small aperture big enough for the beak is left open. The male delivers food to the chicks and female for 90 days and drops it through the small hole. When the male comes with the food, he taps the tree to signal the female that he has arrived. If anything happens to the male, either the female breaks the seal or as few naturalists pointed out, she and the chicks sometimes die of starvation inside the hollow. We briefly observed that nest sealing behaviour in action and it was amazing.
Thank you so much in advance for your views, faves, feedback and for reading the long writeup!
Autumn Offering
“I shall be Autumn
this Halloween,
with leaf draped skirt,
and folds of
boysenberry velvet wine
flowing to the ground.
Brown stained face,
eyes rimmed in gold,
nails dripping sunset,
a crown of twigs
to cover my head.
You may gather from me
the spring of my youth,
my summer of maturity,
and hold onto with me,
the solace of these days
of remembering
before the frost.”
— Judith A. Lawrence, editor/publisher of River Poets Journal
This was taken at the temple at the Nirvana Memorial Gardens. These fruit and the cupcakes (a kind of bread) are commonly offered to the temple guardian known as "Tuah Pek Kong"
Jasper is good about offering up relaxing options after a long day. In no time, I'd forgotten all my troubles 😁
Mark 12:32-33 King James Version (KJV)
32 And the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast said the truth: for there is one God; and there is none other but he:
33 And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.
Pulling up an old image that has been sitting around - this was taken at the Meskwaki Settlement Tama Pow-wow in Iowa a couple years ago. He was offering up prayers following a ceremony for their fellow Indian Veterans.
A Pair of Great Pied Hornbill (Buceros bicornis) was engaged in a love ritual act with passion filled in their eyes. The left side bird with the reddish eyes was the male offering ripe ficus fruits to the female on the left which has a lighter whitish eye. The act of offering and counter offering lasted for a minute and eventually the female consumed the fruit with passion. The background may not be very smooth but in their natural habitat and deep inside a forest. Pics was taken from Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary, West Bengal, India.
These common, daily offerings to both good and evil spirits are called "canang sari" by the Balinese. They are handmade works of art in their own right and can also be seen on the altar of the shrine I posted earlier. This time, I took a whole series of photos featuring them in various places. The materials, herbs, flowers, food and money in each offering have much religious symbolism and purpose; for further reading : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canang_sari
A Royal Tern with an offering in its beak. More on the offering and related antics to follow.
I have over 100 folders of unprocessed photos from the past 6 years which I’m currently going through, this is one of the photos from that group. Many of these re-visit an already posted subject. I've finished folder 13 - that had 1428 photos! This photo was in the second 1/3 of that folder. I'm on Folder 14 which has far less photos.
On a particularly foggy morning at Godshill Ridge in the New Forest, I found myself darting from one side of the road to the other as the sun started to rise. My goal was to capture both the sunrise and the valley shrouded in fog on one side, while on the other, the sunlight illuminated the trees. The only foreground element I could spot amidst the dense mist was the charred gorse.