L'Homme et la Mer

Homme libre, toujours tu chériras la mer!

La mer est ton miroir; tu contemples ton âme

Dans le déroulement infini de la lame,

Et ton esprit n'est pas un gouffre moins amer.

Charles Baudelaire

Le martin-pêcheur se nourrit principalement de poissons pris depuis un perchoir au-dessus de l'eau. L'oiseau reste posé pendant de longs moments, regardant attentivement l'eau à la recherche de proies, tournant et inclinant la tête et le corps. Quand la proie est détectée, il plonge à pic et capture le poisson sous l'eau, pouvant aller jusqu'à un mètre de profondeur. Ensuite, utilisant ses ailes, il se propulse vers la surface et s'élève, le bec tendu vers le ciel, et retourne sur son perchoir.

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The kingfisher feeds mainly on fish caught from a perch above the water. The bird remains resting for long periods of time, looking carefully at the water for prey, turning and tilting the head and body. When the prey is detected, it plunges sharply and captures the fish under water, up to one meter deep. Then, using its wings, it propels itself towards the surface and rises, the beak stretched towards the sky, and returns on its perch.

« Pendant un instant inépuisable, je me suis assise près de la neige.

L’âme

qui me servait de refuge s’évanouit et devint

une immensité

appuyée sur l’immensité.

La perfection affluait et renonçait à tout recours

à la réflexion.

La neige

était à un doigt de renoncer à être neige. »

François Jacqmin

“La différence se mesure parfois dans les plus infimes détails.”

John Pawson

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For Macro Mondays: "Gift"

Jelly Opal originated Coober Pedy, Australia

For #MacroMondays and this week's theme #Necklace

Happy Macro Monday!

Thanks for all your faves and comments everyone!

I really appreciate them!

NEW!

THE WOLF IS BACK!

Close-up 📷

• Hair: Unorthodox - Papi Hair

Macro Mondays - Tile

Image measures 2 1/8" on the long side. The pendant is 1" square, and it's lying on 3/4" glass mosaic tiles.

Made by my SIL.

Happy Macro Monday!

Fritillaria from my garden

From my garden

My Photoblog- My Third Eye...!

London

Notre chien Gaston pendant que l'on faisait du pain la fin de semaine dernière.

Our dog Gaston while we were baking bread last weekend.

Sandy Point State Park, Skidmore, Maryland, États-Unis.

Baie Chesapeake. Un Lifer.

Pendant que j'attendais sur le rivage de la majestueuse Baie de Chesapeake que la glace pousse les canards à s'envoler j'ai empiété sur le territoire de ce beau mâle Tohi à flancs roux qui est venu me le laissé savoir. J'ai eu la chance aussi d'observer sa compagne mais sans obtenir d'image car elle était constamment dans les enchevêtrements d'arbustes et de branches.

Sandy Point State Park, Skidmore, Maryland, USA.

Chesapeake Bay. A Lifer.

While I waited on the shore of the majestic Chesapeake Bay for the ice to push the duck to fly I have encroached on the territory of this handsome Eastern Towhee male who came to let me know I was trespassing. I was also lucky to observe his female but without obtaining an image because she was constantly in the entanglements of trees and branches.

Flat on my back to take this shot...

Leucojum aestivum is a perennial bulbous plant, generally 35–60 cm tall, but some forms reach 90 cm. Its leaves, which are well developed at the time of flowering, are strap-shaped, 5–20 mm wide, reaching to about the same height as the flowers. The flowering stem (scape) is hollow and has wings with translucent margins. The pendant flowers appear in late spring and are borne in umbels of usually three to five, sometimes as many as seven. The flower stalks (pedicels are of different lengths, 25–70 mm long. The flowers are about 3–4 cm in diameter and have six white tepals, each with a greenish mark just below the tip. The black seeds are 5–7 mm long.

After flowering, the fruits develop flotation chambers but remain attached to the stem. In England, it has been recorded that flooding causes the stems to break and the fruits to be carried downstream and stranded in river debris or on flood-plains. The bulbs can also be transported during heavy floods and deposited on river banks. (Wikipedia)

Hanging in the woods.

Shot for Our Daily Challenge :“Turquoise”

This pendant in a shop window caught my eye as the light was being refracted. I moved around it to obtain the most pleasing colours.

Refraction: A ray of light of one wavelength, or colour (different wavelengths appear as different colours to the human eye), in passing from air to glass is refracted, or bent, by an amount that depends on its speed in air and glass, the two speeds depending on the wavelength. A ray of sunlight is composed of many wavelengths that in combination appear to be colourless. Upon entering a glass prism, the different refractions of the various wavelengths spread them apart as in a rainbow.

(Source: www.britannica.com)

Loguivy de la Mer

During the storm

found this beautiful pendant on a flea market this weekend, it's from Alchemy Gothic England

A pendant my mother got in the 1960's.

Brighton people

Plant Portrait - Nikon Macro 105 mm. Differential focus on flower on RHS. and the one touching it and so the same distance from the lens.

To view in flickr's 'Lightbox' type "l". Repeat to return.

For personal ref: 20230412-D85_8309_SmallForWeb

An art deco pendent with a diamond set on cut crystal, surrounded by silver filigree.

Circa 1925

Image is 1 3/8 inches top to bottom.

TriX 400@100 , expired 09/2014

Developer: divided D76

-- ml/ltr Restrainer (Moersch)

M7, 1,4/50 (orange)

Forgotten Chapel

This is a close-up photo of a glass pendant refracting sunlight shining on the ice-covered trees.

A few of the gold or silver trimmed shell pendants I have.

Forgotten Chapel

Glass globe pendant.

This pendant is for sale. Please PN for details :)

Quartz Crystal garden - 2,5cm wide

leicama summicron50mm4th tx400