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Soon the only color will come from the evergreens, but for now many of our deciduous trees are still providing a beautiful display of rust, yellow, orange, and gold.
Texture my own.
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i took this image today and loved what i saw reminded me of images from by gone days. thank you to anyone that likes it
Last summer I went to a farm that had "Pick Your Own Flowers" and enjoyed walking through many rows of flowers. This is the bouquet I picked myself. HSS
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” Somebody said you got a new friend
Does she love you better than I can?
There's a big black sky over my town
I know where you're at, I bet she's around
Yeah, I know it's stupid
But I just gotta see it for myself
I'm in the corner, watching you kiss her, oh oh oh
And I'm right over here, why can't you see me, oh oh oh
And I'm giving it my all, I'm not the guy you're taking home, ooh
I keep dancing on my own
I just wanna dance all night
And I'm all messed up, I'm so out of line, yeah
Stilettos and broken bottles
I'm spinning around in circles
And I'm in the corner, watching you kiss her, oh
And I'm right over here, why can't you see me, oh
And I'm giving it my all, but I'm not the guy you're taking home, ooh
I keep dancing on my own... "
- Calum Scott -
Textures My Own
Bird Brushes SkeletalMess www.flickr.com/photos/skeletalmess/4118299402/
Swan FritsM www.flickr.com/photos/fvdmeer/sets/72157609925646389/
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-pzsQTqX-E
Wish everyone a forthcoming Happy New Year for 2014.
Thank you so much for all the support every one has shown me. I have learned so much and continue to learn hugssss all
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 😊
My Brilliant Image
by Hafiz
One day
the sun admitted,
“I am just a shadow.
I wish I could show you
The infinite Incandescence
That had cast my brilliant image!”
“I wish I could show you,
When you are lonely or in darkness,
The Astonishing Light
Of your own Being!”
This morning we turned the clocks back to normal - Central European Winter Time (UTC+1). Bastian does not care - he is on his own time...
Bastian (mixed breed), 24.10.2020.
Olympus OMD EM5 Digital Camera
My own texture
As always many THANKS to all who choose to award/comment/invite.
PLEASE! Do not fav without a comment/award.
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If you think foxes don't belong in the city, just remember we destroyed their habitat to build our own.
A local paper In Milwaukee recently did an interview with me, if you are interested in reading it here is the link:
shepherdexpress.com/culture/mke-speaks/visual-storyteller...
Thank-you to all who take the time to comment on my photos, it is greatly appreciated! <3
Very large, primarily ground-based cuckoo. Adults are streaked rusty brown in nonbreeding plumage. In breeding plumage the head and front are black. They can fly, but are more typically seen running/flapping across roads, or clumsily crashing into dense vegetation. Unlike many cuckoos this species builds its own nest and does not lay eggs in nests of other species. Voice is a familiar repeated ‘whoop,’ and a screeching cat-like hiss. (eBird)
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We heard coucals many times during our trip, but this was one of the very few times we actually saw one. It was in the midst of its morning ablutions and sun bath (hence the ruffled feathers on its back), when we came around the bend in the river. It stopped briefly to peer at us, determined we were not a threat (it was far away and very high), and went back to its bath.
Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory, Australia. October 2022.
Eagle-Eye Tours - Tropical Australia.
Yellow Waters Cruises.
Made from my own shots in older gen apps.
Can click for texture if you like.
For:
New! Challenge 221.0 ~ Abstract ~ The Award Tree ~
flickr.com/groups/759740@N22/discuss/72157721918109922/72...
A person fully awakened to the jewel-like dignity of their own life is capable of truly respecting that same treasure in others.
~ Daisaku Ikeda
Texture My Own
Birds Skeletalmess www.flickr.com/photos/skeletalmess/3259043544/
Swan FritsM www.flickr.com/photos/fvdmeer/sets/72157609925646389/
Leica M10 / Carl Zeiss Tele-Tessar ZM 4/85 mm
Today I bottled my own handmade compound gin after 4 weeks of maturation and it's very good.
Tirana. Jodie Set
Set compatible with Legacy (original/perky/petite), Kupra (original/kups), Ebody (Reborn), Maitreya (Lara/petite).
The set includes: top with sleeves, skirt, panties and piercing.
Maddox Poses
Love FATPACK MADDOX POSES (Static poses)
all info in the blog
Texture: my own
As always many THANKS to all who choose to award/comment/invite.
PLEASE! Do not fav without a comment/award.
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We each have our own childhood landscapes, where our Journey begins...
map: Where our Journey begins - Fall of 21, Whispering Windz
flickr group: www.flickr.com/groups/whereourjourneybegins/
tune: youtu.be/zWwyyf2PWsI
English translation:
Sun grave
Falling asleep I want to go back in time
some years ago
to be a small boy
who likes to play and who is with you
It seems to me a lot of years
I was a boy who wanted to know the world
and I played with you
I´ll get back and wish to be with you
to recall memories
but I have bad news
Dry soil here only
without flowers, without water
kneeling down
I do reverence by rembrance
I say goodbay but something remained
from those days of us
and I know I´ll stay faithful
Dry soil here only
without flowers, without water
kneeling down
I do reverence by rembrance
I say goodbay but something of us remained
from those days
and I know I´ll stay faithful
I can´t sleep and I wake up
and can´t resist the thought
to come back in time some years ago
to be a small boy
who likes to play and who is with you
translator: Šárka-Jana
Dash Berlin ft. Sarah Howells - Go It Alone
When it's the most scare
Leave it back there
Tell of the powers of be
We've started something
Built up from nothing
Something you can't see
And if you have to stop
Then let me know
Feel the weight on your shoulders
Just let it go
And if you have to leave
Then let me know
Cause I can go it alone
You go it alone
Go it alone
I'm on my own . . .
Paparazzi pic of Alice Rose at Black Basalt Beach SL
My own background plus png guy with red umbrella, fx'd to the max.
For:
Time Portals And Fantasy Challenge - July / August 2022
www.flickr.com/groups/challenges_community_group/discuss/...
This Adelie Penguin looks very happy to have his own ice island. Taken from a zodiac near Paulet Island, which is a circular island off the north-east end of the Antarctic Peninsula. It is a popular tourist stop because of the large Adelie Penguin colony. This was the fifth penguin 🐧 species that we saw.
I have been away for a few days so will catch up with everyone.
Thank you for your visit and comments. They are very much appreciated.
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Lel EVO X - Avalon
AnneLand - Carly Skin
BOM
7 Velour Tones
Shape and Brows Shape included
NeckBlend Included
Browless Option
Realistic Ears
Kaya Shape included
In the Mainstore ♥
Taken Friday morning with my 'new' phone, then processed in Topaz Studio with a texture of my own. The weather went downhill shortly after this, it poured down for the rest of the the day. It doesn't seem like we'll get a proper summer this year, here in the UK. Marnie and I visit this place nearly every day if I'm short of time, as it's so close to home. She gets what she needs, familiarity and a space to roam. I get a nice view down the stream with flowers, beautiful trees and the sight and sound of trickling water.
You know I usually like to put music to my images, so here's something beautiful you may not have heard or seen before.
Joan Armatrading - Willow Live in Washington DC in 2015
Joan is 69 years old now. She's still as great now as she ever was. Please right click the link and open in a new tab to view and listen. Thank you ! Hope you like it....
Thank you so much for your comments and for looking and listening. It's deeply appreciated. Have a wonderful rest of the week, be safe.
« CREDITS »
HAIR.➥Doux || Valeria Hairstyle at Level
GLASSES.➥Moncada Paris || Nicky Minaj V2 Eyewear
OUTFIT.➥Little Fox || Tessa Ribbed Dress at Kustom9 (Jun. '22) then Mainstore
BAG.➥Movement || Folded Wallet
POSE.➥Lyrium || Bea Breathing / Static Stand Set at Mainstore
Own rose image processed with Smart Photo Editor
Third place winner (tied) in EXPLORE WORTHY, Mini Challenge 24 - Love & Romance (2021 Art)
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