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out, desperately awaiting inspiration like a saviour, like a prey,
like the last straw to cling to.
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Exceptionally prolific peony blooms in our yard this year. Peonies have such a variation of singles, doubles, and semi-double blossoms.
Again from my garden.
A rosebush.
And plucked for the studio.
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The Perseids are a prolific meteor shower associated with the comet Swift–Tuttle. The meteors are called the Perseids because the point from which they appear to hail (called the radiant) lies in the constellation Perseus.
The stream of debris is called the Perseid cloud and stretches along the orbit of the comet Swift–Tuttle. The cloud consists of particles ejected by the comet as it travels on its 133-year orbit. Most of the particles have been part of the cloud for around a thousand years. However, there is also a relatively young filament of dust in the stream that was pulled off the comet in 1865, which can give an early mini-peak the day before the maximum shower. The dimensions of the cloud in the vicinity of the Earth are estimated to be approximately 0.1 astronomical units (AU) across and 0.8 AU along the latter’s orbit, spread out by annual interactions with the Earth’s gravity.
Some Catholics refer to the Perseids as the "tears of Saint Lawrence", suspended in the sky but returning to earth once a year on August 10, the canonical date of that saint's martyrdom in 258 AD. The saint is said to have been burned alive on a gridiron, and this tradition is almost certainly the origin of the Mediterranean folk legend that the shooting stars are the sparks of that fire and that during the night of August 9–10 its cooled embers appear in the ground under plants, and which are known as the "coal of Saint Lawrence". The transition in favor of the Catholic saint and his feast day on August 10 and away from pagan gods and their festivals, known as Christianization, was facilitated by the phonetic assonance of the Latin name Laurentius with Larentia.
Condor Mother has successfully fledged two condor chicks in the wild in Zion National Park. Her chicks, known as "1K" and "#1111", have both fledged. The first in September 2019 and the second in August 2021.
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SKIN → Lexa - Becca Skin Lelutka EvoX (Pearl)
EYEBROW→ [Prolific] Lana Eyebrow HD
NAILS→ Lexa - Pink Bitch Coffin Nails
BODYSUIT→ .QUEENZ. Pronto [Freya,Reborn,Legacy,Maitreya,eBodyC,Kupra]
HELMET→ .QUEENZ. Pronto Kitty Helmet -50%
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A prolific lightning storm from July 24th last year near the town of McNeal in southeast Arizona. The lightning was non-existent as the sun was setting, but then the storm moved over the mountains and the bolts began to rain down. It slowly moved towards my position and ended up becoming fairly dangerous, so I bailed from here a bit after this. The winds and rains were so strong, took awhile to get west and out of it.
You can see the intensity of the downdraft here, with the ball of rain slamming into the ground on the left side.
This is the bittersweet story of Horsetrough Falls, a prolific (and hidden) waterfall in the North Georgia Blueridge. Located in the Mark Trail Wilderness between Hwy 348, the “Richard Russell Scenic Byway” and Hwys 17/75 North, formerly known as “The Unicoi Turnpike” Horsetrough Falls takes her place high in some of the most majestic escarpments in the North Georgia Blue Ridge. The Mark Trail Wilderness is also home to many other waterfalls, four large scale campgrounds (one of the largest, the Upper Chattahoochee Campground which is no longer accessible by vehicles) numerous hiking trails including a section of the Appalachian Trail passing Between Hogpen Gap and Unicoi Gap, and many old, mountaineer settlement forestry roads (now gated) heading off through the ridgelines in just about every direction imaginable. Today, the only passable access leading to Horsetrough Falls is on an old road just north of Helen, Georgia (off of the Spur 75 connector), which turns to gravel and winds upwards above and beyond the Low Gap Campground, mostly one lane, for about 6.5 miles. The road eventually comes to a halt at a gate (as many of the other roads do here), where you’ll hike on foot a little over a mile to the rear of the Upper Chattahoochee River Campground, walk across a footbridge into the forest, and in a short distance encounter the falls.
In 2006, tornadoes swept through the wilderness and devastated the area, blowing down trees across the gravel roads and even gouging out sections of the roadways. Later in 2012, again, horrific storms swept through the area and as a result, even more sections of many of the roads were gated. Today, the entrance to the wilderness from Unicoi Gap is blocked with boulders and is gated shut. The old entrance road has suffered far too much damage from erosion and water runoff. Three years ago, as I was exploring the area I drove down this road two times (out of curiosity), and the second time, it had become increasingly worse, to the extent it was barely even passable as a one lane road. I never could drive from the entrance down to the campground and falls, because of the water damage and blow downs across the road. When I was able drive down and reach the old intersection with Martin Branch Road, even from there, all the roadways leading down into the forest were gated.
On the afternoon I drove up from the southern entrance and reached the last gate, I hiked the rest of the way down the old road in a misting rain to the Upper Campground and Falls. The hike was just over a mile. The old campground was a sad sight. All of the sites were overgrown and the buildings were left in a state of abandonment and neglect. It was like a ghost-town…desolate...like a place where a zombie attack occurred. The waterfall was easily accessible after crossing a footbridge in the forest from the rear of the campground. It was difficult to photograph because the lower sections were densely overtaken by a shaded forest canopy, while the crown of the falls was exposed directly to the sun. There was something about this scene that was forlorn to me, yet at the same time reposeful, because it was a scene of nature reclaiming a beautiful place back to herself. Today the wilderness affords unending opportunities for exploring, hiking on foot to find many beautiful places just such as this. I’m happy all of the old roads are gated and closed. I would rather be hiking here anyway.
Be it ever so humble (and prolific!), a tiny common blue violet (Viola sororia) blooms in late winter.
DeKalb County (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
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▶ It's a closeup. The wildflower —at most, two centimeters in diameter— appears larger in the image than it did in 'real' life.
▶ This blue-striped off-white variant of a common blue violet has its own, unfortunate, name— Confederate blue violet (Viola sororia f. priceana)— that refers to the resemblance of the color of its flowers to the color of Confederate military uniforms of the American Civil War.
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self-sown garden escape apple trees grow prolifically in our landscape. this year because of good rain during ripening the fruit is looking particularly promising! [most years I make wild apple jelly when the fruit is good enough]
Passau was an ancient Roman colony of ancient Noricum called Batavis, Latin for "for the Batavi". The Batavi were an ancient Germanic tribe mentioned often by classical authors, and they were regularly associated with the Suebian marauders, the Heruli.
During the second half of the 5th century, St. Severinus established a monastery here. In 739, an Irish monk called Boniface founded the diocese of Passau, and this was the largest diocese of the Holy Roman Empire for many years.
In the Treaty of Passau (1552), Archduke Ferdinand I, representing Emperor Charles V, secured the agreement of the Protestant princes to submit the religious question to a diet. This led to the Peace of Augsburg in 1555.
During the Renaissance and early modern period, Passau was one of the most prolific centers of sword and bladed weapon manufacture in Germany (after Solingen). Passau smiths stamped their blades with the Passau wolf, usually a rather simplified rendering of the wolf on the city's coat-of-arms. Superstitious warriors believed that the Passau wolf conferred invulnerability on the blade's bearer, and thus Passau swords acquired a great premium. As a result, the whole practice of placing magical charms on swords to protect the wearers came to be known for a time as "Passau art." (See Eduard Wagner, Cut and Thrust Weapons, 1969). Other cities' smiths, including those of Solingen, recognized the marketing value of the Passau wolf and adopted it for themselves. By the 17th century, Solingen was producing more wolf-stamped blades than Passau was.
From 1892 till 1894 Adolf Hitler and his family lived in Passau. The city archives mention Hitler being in Passau on 4 different occasions in the 1920s for speeches.
During World War II the town housed three sub-camps of the infamous Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp: Passau I (Oberilzmühle), Passau II (Waldwerke Passau-Ilzstadt) and Passau III (Jandelsbrunn). It was the site of a post World War II American sector displaced persons camp.
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The prolific Perseids were captured above Meteora, Greece on the night of August 12-13, 2021. A composite photograph of 439 shots of the north-northeasternmost part of the sky.
The Perseids’ radiant point (above-right in this composite shot) is located near the constellation Perseus. The meteor shower is caused by the trail of debris and dust left in space along the orbit of the comet Swift-Tuttle; tiny particles enter the Earth’s atmosphere and burn up, producing bright streaks of light in the sky.
The Meteora rock formations are geologically unique and listed in UNESCO world heritage sites. St. Nicholas (Anapafsás’s) monastery (abbey) is seen in the foreground. A church on its first floor dates from the 14th century. Its main church (katholikon) was built in early 16th century and is famous for its exquisite frescoes painted by Theophanes the Cretan in 1527. The rock formation is 1,375 ft (419 m) high.
As Earth rotated on its axis, the entire cosmos seemed to swirl around Polaris (alpha Ursae Minoris) and also around a foreground of the lofty rocks formed sixty million years ago. The Meteora rock formations are imbued with a sense of Eternity. On the contrary, falling stars represent an Ephemeral element, such as sinful Fall prior to Repentance; they remind us of the bible’s verse:
“…stars shall fall from heaven…”
—Matthew, 24, 29
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The prolific Perseids were captured above Meteora, Greece on the night of August 12-13, 2021. A composite photograph of 439 shots of the north-northeasternmost part of the sky.
The Perseids’ radiant point (above-right in this composite shot) is located near the constellation Perseus. The meteor shower is caused by the trail of debris and dust left in space along the orbit of the comet Swift-Tuttle; tiny particles enter the Earth’s atmosphere and burn up, producing bright streaks of light in the sky.
The Meteora rock formations were formed sixty million years ago. They are geologically unique and listed in UNESCO world heritage sites. St. Nicholas (Anapafsás’s) monastery (abbey) is seen in the foreground. A church on its first floor dates from the 14th century. Its main church (katholikon) was built in early 16th century and is famous for its exquisite frescoes painted by Theophanes the Cretan in 1527. The rock formation is 1,375 ft (419 m) high.
Falling stars represent an Ephemeral element, such as sinful Fall prior to Repentance; they remind us of the bible’s verse:
“…stars shall fall from heaven…”
—Matthew, 24, 29
Canon EOS RP
Sigma 24mm f/1.4 Art
ISO 2500 - f/1.8 - 10 sec × 24 shots
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ISO 2500 - f/1.8 - 20 sec × 415 shots
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Photograph taken at an altitude of Seven metres at 11:36am on Thursday May 12th 2022 off the Mall and Horse Guards Road within the grounds of St James's Park in Central London, one of the Royal parks of London situated in South West London.
THE EASTERN GRAY/EASTERN GREY SQUIRREL (SCIURUS CAROLINENSIS)
By Paul Williams
The Grey (or Gray) squirrel, you either love 'em or you hate 'em. Cute and fluffy little funsters or destructive critters who ruin trees, kill bird chicks and trees and damage our homes... oh and it's their fault we lost our native Red squirrels as well!
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I get it and I see both sides of the story of course. For my part, I am a nature, wildlife and landscape photographer who prefers the company of animals and natural beauty to fellow humans who are systematically plundering Mother Earth's resources and killing off her beautiful creatures at an alarming rate! I believe there is a natural order of things, creatures kill other creatures to survive, they adapt to situations and when mankind encroaches on their territory to make a fast buck, those animals sometimes adapt to survive and the order changes. That is the balance of nature which is ever changing and affected by us..... the dumbest of the great apes. Some species are driven out by others, some may be destined to become extinct, the fittest will survive, and sometime a species will need intervention and help from mankind in order to survive... usually as a direct consequence of mankind's own actions in destroying the animal kingdom's natural habitat of course.
I adore these little fellas and at almost sixty years old, I never grew up knowing red squirrels at all. I've seen reds in Scotland and black squirrels in Stanley Park on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada, but in my beloved home country of England I have always known and loved the cute little Greys. They visit my garden and give me hours, days, weeks of happiness and wonderful photographic opportunities, and I see them in Parks and forests all around me, so it's time to offer up an insight into the Grey squirrel, much loved, much hated... a sort of Marmite rodent if you will.
WHAT EXACTLY IS A SQUIRREL?
The word 'Squirrel', was first recorded in 1327 and hails from the Anglo-Norman word 'Esquirel', from old French 'Escurel', which was a reflex for the Latin word 'Sciurus'.The Eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) is also known as the Eastern Grey squirrel or simply grey squirrel depending on the region of the world it is found. It is a tree squirrel, of the squirrel family Sciuridae including over one hundred arboreal species native to all continents of the world other than Antarctica and Oceania. Tree squirrels live mostly in trees, apart from the flying squirrel. The best known genus is Sciurus, containing most of the bushy tailed squirrels which are found in Europe, North America, temperate Asia as well as central and south America.
The scientific classification for the Eastern Grey is:
KINGDOM: ANIMALIA PHYLUM: CHORDATA CLASS: MAMMALIA ORDER: RODENTIA FAMILY: SCIURIDAE GENUS: SCIURUS SUBGENUS: SCIURUS SPECIES: SCIURUS CAROLINENSIS
They were first noted by German naturalist, botanist, entomologist, herpetologist, and malacologist - Johann Friedrich Gmelin in 1788.
A mammal and rodent, predominantly herbivorous they are none the less an omnivore with a life span of between two and ten years. They can grow to 70cm in length and weigh up to 8kg. There are more than two hundred and sixty species of worldwide squirrel, the smallest being the African pygmy squirrel at just 10cm in length, whereas the Indian giant squirrel is three feet long! The oldest fossil of a squirrel, Hesperopetes, dates back to the late Eocene epoch period Chadronian period of 40-35 million years ago. The tree squirrels rotate their ankles by 180 degrees, so that the hind paws pointy backwards gripping tree bark which enables them to descend a tree headfirst.
Originally native to Eastern and Midwestern United States of America, they were first introduced into the United Kingdom in 1876 in Henbury Park, Macclesfield in Cheshire when Victorian banker Thomas V. Brocklehurst released a pair of Greys that he brought back from a business trip to America after their attraction as pets had waned. Victorians had a penchant for collecting exotic animals and birds of the world, but trends came and went and subsequently animals were simply discarded into the wilderness. There are early records of greys released near Denbighshire in north Wales from private collections. Later introduced to several regions in the UK, they quickly settled and spread, colonizing an area of three hundred miles in a quarter of a century between Argyll and Stirlingshire in Scotland.
Introductions of the Greys between 1902 and 1929 (the year of the last recorded introduction), included: Regent’s Park in London, Berkshire, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire, Devon, Warwickshire, Nottinghamshire, Suffolk and Hampshire. Grey Squirrels spread into Gloucestershire and eastern Wiltshire with animals coming directly from the United States or from Woburn. One hundred greys were released in Richmond Park in Surrey in 1902, Ninety one into Regent’s Park between 1905 and 1907 and a further ten New Jersey imported greys were introduced into Woburn Park in Bedfordshire.
Predators include hawks, weasels, raccoons, bobcats, foxes, domestic and feral cats, snakes, owls, and dogs, African harrier-hawks in Africa and... oh yes, Mankind pretty much everywhere who despise, mistreat, cull or eat it .
FACTS, MYTHS AND THAT POXY PARAPOX!
The massive decline in native red squirrels blamed upon the spread of the invasive greys has always been perhaps a little harsh as reds were already in a steep decline due to loss of habitat and disease and thus the greys simply took over the areas where the reds were dwindling. It's also a fact that reds were also seen as a plague, branded as pests who killed birds and damaged trees and the culling of reds almost brought them to the brink of extinction. Licenses to kill reds could still be obtained up until the seventies!
Reds suffered at the hands of mankind thanks to a combination of agricultural deforestation also linked with war and fuel needs which caused extinction in Southern Scotland and Ireland by the early eighteenth century, way before greys had been introduced. Harsh winters killed off the less hardy red population in the early nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Greys are more adept at finding food and adapting to locations and environments, but also carry the squirrel poxvirus (SQPV) which although not particularly harmful to them, is a serious infection for the reds.
Parapox in red squirrels causes swollen lesions around the mouth, eyes, ears and nose also the front paws and sometimes genitals and skin ulcers and kills a red within fifteen days. There is no definitive correlation between the spread of the virus and the spread of the Greys, it actually arrived in several areas before the greys began to colonize there. An epidemic virus was observed in Red squirrels from at least 1900 with isolation attempts failing, and the first case of Parapox in the UK was in 1980 in the county of Norfolk. Greys cannot transmit the virus to reds via saliva or faeces, but reds can between each other from bodily secretions and at animal feeders in gardens. The transmission from greys to reds is though to come from parasites. Eight to ten per cent of reds survive the virus, and there is some evidence that reds are slowly building an evolved resistance.
Greys are seen as pests to forest land, stripping bark from trees during May and June, and are also capable of destroying household bins, water pipes, causing roof damage not to mention taking eggs and killing young chicks of ground nesting and songbird populations. They also take from bird feeders and there is a whole industry for creating squirrel proof feeders these days.
THE CULLING OF GREY SQUIRRELS
Grey squirrels have limited legal protection and can be legally controlled all year round by a variety of methods including shooting and trapping. Methods of trapping and killing include Drey poking and shooting, Tunnel trapping using spring traps set in accordance with BASC’s trapping pest mammals code of practice. They can also be shot using a shotgun or powerful air rifle or up until September 30th 2014 poisoned by Warfarin (Now outlawed).
Whilst professional trapping and extermination is hopefully done as humanely as possible, there have been cases, many of them where cost savings have been gained by battering the squirrels to death! Grey squirrels are trapped in ghastly metal contraptions for hours and hours, wearing themselves out frantically trying to escape by gnawing at the metals bars. They bite the floor and scratch at them with their claws and do not get a moments peace or rest through absolute fear. Once the traps are retrieved, each squirrel, terrified will be thrown into a sack and smacked on the head countless times with a blunt instrument. When a mother is slaughtered, her babies who are totally dependent on her, will die a slow death of thirst and starvation.
There is an argument for the control of Greys on many grounds but also a counter argument that Culling does not work, and has not on countless times where, once a population of greys have been culled, the nearest group will move back in and claim the land. The university of Bristol concluded that there was little evidence that culling greys to save red squirrels was effective, and that perhaps finding a way of boosting red squirrel immunity to the poxvirus or planting areas of yew trees where reds are known to thrive and spending money on research into positive moves might be a better option.
In Ireland, the re-introduction of the Pine marten, a species made extinct originally by the very same land owners who also wish to do the same to the grey squirrel, has seen the rapid demise of the grey and the reintroction of the native reds. Red squirrels are smaller and more nimble than their grey counterparts, and as such can get to the very ends of tree branches where neither the pine martins, nor more importantly the heavier greys can, thus surviving and thriving. As a result in Ireland, the grey squirrel population has crashed in approximately 9,000 km2 of its former range and the reds has become common once more after a thirty year absence... oh and Pine Martens are protected again!
In Scotland, Pine Martens exist in areas where Red squirrels thrive, and greys do not. So perhaps there is a lesson here, as in England where there are no pine martens, the greys are prolific breeders. So there is an argument against the barbarity of shooting and poisoning greys, and if, as so many believe, the greys MUST be controlled, how about a more humane and natural method that nature intended.. with re-introduction of predators. Just a thought!
So a few facts and figures on the greys and to wrap up, from a purely personal perspective I love these little guys, as I do almost every creature in nature other than those eight legged beasties that shall not be named and for which I have a deep and powerful phobia that borders on paranoia!
I could no more harm an animal deliberately than eat a McDonald's McRib (Once saw how they are made and let me just say... eeeuuuuuwwwww!!).
They are small, cute, cuddly, furry, they photograph beautifully, have great personality and make me smile. They trust me enough to take food from my hand in parks, and I can't bare the though of ugly, hairy land owners sticking a shotgun in their face and blowing them away! I appreciate they can be a pest, a problem, a menace, that their PR managers might have a bit of a problem winning you over when they flay small chicks alive on your lawn or decimate the songbird population by stealing their eggs.... and perhaps there is a need to keep the population under control and try and re-establish the red population.....
Yep I get that....
I just hope we can solve the problem more humanely to create a peaceful coexistence of the reds and greys in different areas. A man can dream can't he.
Paul Williams June 18th 2021
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These are fairly prolific breeders in this part of the world. It is not unusual to see them in the early morning on a dog walk in my suburban residential neighbourhood. But neither is it unusual to see foxes or other predators that threaten the rabbit population.
And then the winters are pretty punishing, still. There is enough bitter cold, snow and ice cover, and continuing predation with Snowy Owls added to the mix, to make overwintering serious business.
I saw this creature early one morning, likely heading back to its burrow, but enjoying the new spring growth (there is a mostly eaten piece of grass in its mouth). I was lying in wait for something else, and it wandered by, had a nibble, and wandered off. I am sure it smelled me, but it never looked over, and ambled away. I liked the profile image for the absence of recognition that I was there - this may be the first time I have been this close to one without eye contact.
... and it's wet! Rain drops on the flower following overnight rain. Galanthus 'Cedric Morris' is a synonym.
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A prolific stairway from over a century ago off the trail leading to perhaps a farm, a homestead, Mr. Whaley's two-story hotel...Only the stairs and moss covered bouldered walls along sections of the trail (and farther up above in the landscape) remain today, fueling the imagination of what might have been...
Dom Charles Norris OSB (1909-2004) was an influential artist who created works in stained glass and dalle de verre for Roman Catholic churches in the UK. He is thought to be the most prolific artist working in dalle de verre in the UK in the 20th century. His contributions to listed Modernist buildings are an integral part of their value and are mentioned in their listings.
From benign to hazardous in a hurry, this photogenic supercell kicked up immense amounts of dust as it strengthened. With it being in northeastern New Mexico to start, the road network didn't leave a lot of options to flee. I ended up having to drive in absolute zero visibility dust crossing the road as it got dark. Not something I'm eager to try again. May 30th, 2018.
I move through my images in fits and spurts. I photograph in prolific quantity, generally keep caught up on scanning, and then my interest tapers off by the time I get to polishing those edited images up. But then when I do, I often work in batches producing a larger quantity of "finished" images than my frequency of posting matches. But because I like to also keep up on my digital organization (I like my pictures all tucked away neatly) oftentimes I finish an image and move it over to the vast collection that is my archives and promptly lose sight of it. The majority of images I post tend to be ones I have made pretty recently and are sitting in front of me among the stuff I am currently working on. If somehow an image gets through that stage without ever getting shared online, there is a good chance it will get tucked away in the archives where its chances of seeing daylight drop precipitously. The exception to this is when I go hunting for a specific image or subject matter. An example might be come April I might dig up images I never posted from last year's cherry blossoms to coincide with this year's blooms. But unless I am on a hunt, I never go trawling. I don't necessarily see this as a criticism of my workflow, rather I see it as an observation. It is a recognition that there are gaps and blindspots even in how I look at my own images. I am biased toward the most recently made ones and leave a lot to just sort of hang out.
Anyway, musing over some of my own patterns tonight and decided to break out of them a bit. Went and did a wander through some older images from my "Washington State" folder thinking I'd post something I had passed over previously from a trip to Wenatchee I did last October. I know I have some good stuff that should have the dust shaken off of it from that little adventure. But then I came across this image from a few years back and a trip up to Hurricane Ridge. I remember making this image still. I loved the light that day and was shooting a roll of Rollei Retro 400S and using either a deep red filter with it. It was about the lines: the line of shadow cast by the telescope, the line between bright hillside and shadowed mountains and then the line that the snowy hilltops cuts between the blacks of that shadowed hillside and the blue sky rendered dark by the aforementioned red filter. I should have shared this image already because of my fondness for it but I never did. I guess better late than never.
The other "funny" thing about this image was I thought it was going to be an easy post tonight - I'd grab something and toss it up without much caption to it. But then the process of stumbling across this and the ensuing reflection upon that process gave me some thoughts both to think about as well as to share. Interesting how it can work out that way sometimes. Also why we should take every opportunity we can to engage with our own art/photography. Not only did I find an unexpected image but some unexpected inspiration as well.
Hasselblad 500C
Rollei Retro 400S + red filter