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. . . My Trail Camera finally caught a good image of a beautiful Red Shouldered Hawk on the dock! And the bird had the brains enough to look right at the camera too! I have been seeing this bird on and off for a few weeks now, but this is the first close up portrait!
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Another cookie jar shot but pretty simple stuff because we are busy doing things we didn't do yet, if you know what I mean. A cookie jar shot stretched a little with one of the transform tools. Another photo turned b&w but was small so used the free transform tool to make it fit a full layer over the cookie jar and all colour removed leaving just the b&w outline. The 'show guides' in Ps is handy for this. Then used the overlay mode difference before flattening again. Fries my eyeballs a little bit but my brain will feel uncomfortable if i don't do a third. i don't have a third so will have to look for something suitable later...Hope you all have a wonderful Sunday...Sue..x
Chilean Flamingo resting in the sunshine. Taken at the Calgary Zoo. Would love to see one in the wild - but in the interim the zoo provides a nice safe spot to walk around and practice with the camera in January.
Though the door to the milk house is ajar, the productive days of this dairy barn are relegated to odd jobs of storing things unrelated to its original purpose. We reach a point in life too quickly when what we will be remembered for in this life is pretty well set with no chance to do things over.
It looks like a serene landscape picture, but actually a lot is going on in the background. The surroundings of this pretty mountain lake serve as a cow pasture, and usually the cows don't care much about hikers. But in this case they seemed to be offended by a young woman sunbathing next to the lake. Apparently she was occupying THEIR spot. At first she obviously thought they wanted to be petted, but when more cows showed up and shoved her and her things back towards the trail she quickly grabbed her things and retreated (visible in the background, on the right lakeshore). Judging from her clothing situation I'd say she felt in a hurry. When she had left the cows broke out in what can only be described as collective triumphant mooing (see the photo in the comments).
It was fun to watch... from a safe distance LOL.
Spring bud and blossom on a blue periwinkle (Vinca Major), a very aggressive vine that we battle in the springtime to keep it from taking over our property. Taken with a 10mm extension tube on a 50mm lens. Topaz Sharpen AI used to bring out the detail.
We have just moved into our new place .. I will catch up when I can.
Back shot from February 2017
February 9, 2017, Christchurch, South Island, New Zealand.
Sinking into oblivion, a well used old barn can't even be used for storage any more. There are no lanes or pathways that reveal someone still checks in on it. As we age, it is inevitable that we come to a stage when we realize life is nearing an end and there is no remedy. At this point, we smother our kids and grandchildren in love yet our horizon now stretches out toward eternity.
The theme for for "Smile on Saturday" for Saturday 7th of June is "portray the letter P", where, as the name suggests you need to portray the letter P in some way. In this case, I have used pretty pieces of découpage paper from my collection to form the letter P. There is even a pansy in there for good measure! I hope you like my choice for this week’s theme, and that it makes you smile!
Scrapbooking was a popular pastime in Victorian times for both children and adults. Creating a scrapbook was not only a craft project, it was also a way of preserving memories.
In the 1800s, the automated printing press was invented. Suddenly books and printed material became much more widely available. As well as writing in their commonplace books, people began to cut out and stick in printed items. Things like greeting cards, calling cards, postcards, prayer cards, advertising trading cards and newspaper clippings were collected. Some of these books contained a mix of personal journal entries, hand-drawn sketches and watercolours, along with various scraps of printed material. These books were literally books of scraps.
By the 1820s, collectable scraps had become more elaborate. Some items were embossed: a process by which a die (a metal stamp for cutting or pressing) was punched into the reverse side of the paper, giving the front a raised three-dimensional appearance.
In 1837, the first year of Queen Victoria's reign, the colour printing process known as chromolithography was invented. This lead to the production of ‘ready made’ scraps. Brightly coloured and embossed scraps were sold in sheets with the relief stamped out to the approximate shape of the image. These pre-cut scraps were connected by small strips of paper to keep them in place. The laborious task of cutting out small pictures was thus removed, and sales of scraps went soaring. Many of the best-quality scraps of the period were produced in Germany, where bakers and confectioners used small reliefs to decorate cakes and biscuits for special occasions such as christenings, weddings, Christmas and Easter.
These embossed chromolithograph scraps are of German and British origin and date from the 1880s.
With the delivery of repainted SD60I #4001 (ex-CSX #8736, former CR #6712) last weekend, St. Louis area railroad TRRA now has another set of big power to lug transfers over the Mississippi to NS Luther yard and other points in Missouri.
The 4001/4002 duo ran today as the T-201, seen here headed south at Granite City, IL after spinning the power north of Madison Yard. The crew will run south to "CP" where they will presumably tie on to a train. Got dark too soon.
Thanks to MM for 4001's history.