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During the Covid lockdown in the UK I found a beach that was very quiet in the early evenings during the week. I was so pleased to be able to walk by the sea and to feel safe doing so. I found this fence when walking the coastal path above the beach and taking a wrong turn. The fence was unambiguous about sending me back. I’ve had too many disastrous encounters with barbed wire in the past to risk close contact. The flowers were very pretty in the evening light and I took a few photographs before I retraced my steps.
This morning I visited the colony of Grey-headed Flying Foxes (aka Fruit Bats) spread along the Yarra Yarra River. I knew they had their young around this time and I was very pleased to be able to photograph some with their mothers.
(Pteropus poliocephalus)
Very pleased so far with this affordable lens aka Mr Ding 50mm f1.1 . Great build quality , close focusing and f1.1 !!!! ( haven't tried any other apertures yet !!! 😉 )
Pleased to see these feeding the nest well this afternoon. I believe this pairs second brood hatched only a few days ago
With the heavy showers and dull weather came possibilities of arcing, which eluded me,but i was pleased to catch the pantograph spotlight on the overheads.
My project for the week was to try taking shots showing speed and focus....I was pleased with this one ... also the composition is pretty well balanced. I used ‘burst’ mode on my camera....
Sometimes it just sticks its tongue out at you.
One from the Archives
Spotted this little visitor on my deck one afternoon in April, 2018. Looks as though he wasn’t pleased with having a camera pointed in his face ;-)
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Allen’s Hummingbird:
In early spring, a narrow strip of scrub and chaparral along the Pacific Coast starts buzzing with the sights and sounds of the coppery and green Allen's Hummingbird.
Males flash their brilliant reddish orange throat and put on an elaborate show for the females, swinging in pendulous arcs before climbing high into the sky and diving back down with a sharp squeal made by their tails.
These early migrants mostly spend the winter in Mexico, but some stay in southern California year-round.
Allen's Hummingbirds breed in a narrow strip of habitat along coastal Oregon and California.
Male and female Allen's Hummingbirds use different habitats during the breeding season. The male sets up a territory overseeing open areas of coastal scrub or chaparral, where he perches conspicuously on exposed branches. The female visits these areas, but after mating she heads into thickets or forests to build a nest and raise the young.
The Allen's Hummingbird is a remarkably early migrant compared with most North American birds. Northbound birds may depart their wintering grounds as early as December, arriving on their breeding grounds as early as January when winter rains produce an abundance of flowers.
Like other birds, Allen's Hummingbirds use their feet to help control their body temperature. When it's cold outside they tuck their feet up against their bellies while flying, but when temperatures soar, they let their feet dangle to cool down.
The oldest recorded Allen's Hummingbird was at least 5 years old when she was captured and re-released in California during banding operations in 2009. She was banded in the same state in 2004.
(Nikon D500, 300/2.8, 1/1000 @ f/3.5, ISO 400, edited to taste)
Chive flowers are incredibly detailed. There are times that the flowers are covered in bees, so I was especially pleased to capture all the intricate flowers within the softness of the whole purple beauty.
Pleased to see these this morning. Two pairs were in the area, However most of the time they were distant but fortunately both males flew onto posts before I left though they were still very alert.
‘In Treemendous shape’. Took a short drive out of town to get this whilst Jill was shopping, I was pleased with the tree and the cloudscape too.
366 - I’ve decided to do this to force me to pick up a camera other than when we are away on our travels (they will be posted as normal) - I will be interested to see what transpires, they will be varied I’m sure so we’ll see where inspiration takes me over the course of the year, hopefully at the end of it I will be a better photographer. Feel free to critique as you see fit, but please don’t feel obliged, I anticipate they will not be to all tastes. Have a great year and if you also have embarked on a 365 project then good luck in seeing it through, Alan:-)
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pleased to see these this morning. This one was relaxed and happy to carry on scanning the ground for food while I sat and watched for a couple of hours.
So pleased to catch up with some of these bad boys today. Loads of these and Redwings on the hawthorn berries
So pleased with this one. I came to this spot many times over several weeks to wait for the right light. I loved the colour of the wheat ready to harvest, the lines made by the tractor and the curve of the field. Then as I finally decided it was the right moment, the rainbow appeared.
pleased with this one I noticed it happening a long way off then they came my way and right over my head
I was pleased that this downhill hike led me to this beach outside the Golden Gate Bridge just in time for sunset. I had been wanting to see this view for several years now and I finally got there! Thanks for you showing up as well...
When a few flowers died in each of two bunches of flowers I was given, I merged them together and think the colours go well.
Day 17 post-op yesterday and I took a walk down the road, with Ray and 2 crutches for company (although I can now manage fine with 1 indoors) my target being to the local church and back. It was slow, the traffic a bit noisy to somebody unaccustomed to walking out but there is a handy seat near the church.
Once home, Ray checked the distance and found I had walked just over half a mile - well pleased!
Famous, enchanting and highly toxic, Fly agaric is the home of fairies and magical creatures and a lover of birch woodland, where it helps trees by transferring nutrients into their roots, but if eaten can cause hallucinations and psychotic reactions.
Native to the UK, it grows in woodland and heathland on light soils among birch, pine or spruce.
Fly agaric is poisonous and infamous for its psychoactive and hallucinogenic properties, but reports of human deaths are extremely rare. It was traditionally used as an insecticide. The cap was broken up and sprinkled into saucers of milk. It's known to contain ibotenic acid, which both attracts and kills flies – which gave it its name.
Scientific name: Amanita muscaria.
So pleased to find this on one of Marnie and my walks. I didn't have my 'proper' camera with me so used my mobile phone.
~ Edited in Topaz Studio - no actual 'texture' and actually, the original is alright but can't resist trying for better ! I'm sure you know the feeling ! ~
Thanks so much, as always, for your comments and just for looking - autumn is REALLY here now in our northern climes.
............pleased to have got a few shots of a female Common Darter on probably my last visit to the Claypit this year. E-M=MK111/100-400mm.
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So pleased to run into this fox. I often run into animals while shooting and waiting for long exposures but this time I had the right lens on the camera and he/she seemed a bit curious.
...or.. her efforts.....I wish there was some way to tell which is which.... but either way, they are so majestic!
Sitting there so erect .... glaring down at me. I love it.
They stayed for several hours yesterday just sailing in and out of the tree and continuing with the nest building. Flying home all manner of twigs, branches and long stems of grasses...
I did look at lots of pics of eagle nests after wondering if these guys were just rookie builders...... but, no, I think they all do it. Sticks going in every direction... and, now I wonder if it is to ward off any would-be predators. It would be almost impossible to clamber up the sides of the nest with those sticks poking out in all directions like that. And, some appear to be half broken and the dangling part might just fall off if something tried to hang onto it..... it could even be a sort of booby trap......
I figured it out!! This is the female! If you look really close at the tip of her tail feather on this side... a little black mark. I noticed it in some of the "mating" photos I have of the pair, so that was how I figured it out. Now I have looked back through all the photos I have of them and see it on a lot of the photos. The only way I can tell for sure is if I see this mark.
Female Bald Eagle
I was setting up for MM outside as it’s just too hot indoors when our friendly robin came to see what I was up to lol. Very curious little chap. I had the macro lens on with no image stabilisation so was quite pleased with how this came out handheld.
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I absolutely adore Derfel Cadarn and his epic castle skills. So, naturally, I HAD to try out his castle tower technique for myself.
I am really pleased with the whole build. I think it's one of my best.
This Canada Goose Gosling sure was not pleased with the taste of the dandelion. He took a bite and promptly spit it back out, you can see he still had a bit of it on his beak.
"Whither would you go?
What country, by the nature of your error,
Should give you harbor?
...
Why, you must needs be strangers?
Would you be pleased
To find a nation of such barbarous temper
That breaking out in hideous violence
Would not afford you an abode on earth?
Whet their detested knives against your throat,
Spurn you like dogs, and like as if that God
Owned not nor made not you, nor that the elements
Were not all appropriate to your comfort,
But charter’d unto them?
What would you think
To be thus used?
This is the stranger's case"
I visited my local wood yesterday, the first time for ages, this little beauty was pleased to pose for me!
I was pleased with the settings I used for the wedding shoot. For all of the photos I used centre weight mettering, this enabled me to get the details of the brides dress and for focus I set for continuous back button focus. White balance auto, and auto ISO up to a max of 4000 (the d500 has high usable ISO into the 12000+ mark) for the speed flash I used mostly TTL metering with a defuser, this gave me fewer shadows and allowed the light from outside to become part of the photograph.
Really pleased to find this male stag beetle on our evening constitutional yesterday evening, but I can testify that leaning over a neighbour's wall to take the photo wasn't easy!
Pleased to find her after finding a male last week!
Speckled bush-cricket.
Haughmond Hill - Shropshire
Another photo of an iris from my wife's flower garden, cropped, so that you can see the beard. More irises are coming, some in other colors, and perhaps I'll post photos of some of them later.
I am pleased to be the curator of two galleries of fine photos of irises, by other Flickr members. These are here and here. Between them, they have received over 5,000 views.
Thanks for looking! Isn't God a great artist?
| Just as every cop is a criminal
And all the sinners saints |
A round of cops and robbers with Liam at District 18, but which one is which?