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I was visited by a White-Tailed Deer doe on March 12 2023 at 4:45 PM here in Troy, New York, USA. She simply stood, motionless, but poised for flight, for several minutes. Then, she turned & walked into the woods. Mystery.
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White-throated in early spring. Funny enough, they haven't yet arrived around my place this fall. Looking forward to their arrival, even though it signals the beginning of winter. However, I think winter is going to be really fun this year because of my new lens.
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Canon 7D | 400mm f/5.6L
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White-throated Sparrow | Chebacco Woods, MA
Painting creates silence. You could examine the objects themselves, the actors in a Dutch still life—this knobbed beaker, this pewter salver, this knife—and, lovely as all antique utilitarian objects are, they are not, would not be, poised on the edge these same things inhabit when they are represented.
These things exist—if indeed they are still around at all—in time. It is the act of painting them that makes them perennially poised, an emergent truth about to be articulated, a word waiting to be spoken. Single word that has been forming all these years in the light on the knife’s pearl handle, in the drops of moisture on nearly translucent grapes: At the end of time, will that word be said?”
[Mark Doty, from: Still Life with Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy]
Poised for a strike in the fast moving stream below. One of the best opportunities to photograph a kingfisher I have had for years.
The local reds are beginning to look ready for winter with bushier tails and evidence of ear tufts. Good timing, it felt really cold today.
Sock was the only one around after dinner this evening and so he was voluntold as my model. Poor pupper, but he's a trooper.
He was fairly cooperative and I was able to get a shot pretty quickly so it was a relatively painless process for the both of us.
Additionally, this is the first time I've actually felt like I'm getting the hang of my speedlight. I had the lights set just as I wanted with just one or two minor adjustments.
Nice!
Hope everyone has had a good day.
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Perfectly poised on a little native violet leaf, this European honey bee is an exotic species here in Australia.
The species was introduced around 180 years ago by British Colonial communities.
15 mm length.
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Last week I decided to put the Lloyd's bulk loader into service, and bought 100 feet of Ilford Delta 400 and started rolling my own!
Camera: the Kodak Retina IIIS with f1.9 Retina-Xenon lens. This was with the lens at f2.8
Film processed in BER48 (aka Atomal 49)
Great film. My favorite 400 speed B&W emulsion. Such wonderful tonal values.
Satellite Fly, Miltogramminae poised to commit an act of cunning against a ground nesting colony of Megachile resinifera bees.
In the fresh, crisp air of an Eastern Free State morning, the majestic Class NGG 13 No.49 powers up the gradient, leaving Grootdraai in its wake as it approaches a level crossing. Awaiting its arrival, a vintage Bristol bus stands poised, ready to witness this moment of timeless beauty.
Captured during a FarRail tour of South Africa and Sandstone Estates.
July 2024.
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Raindrops shaped into flat-bottomed oblate spheroids (squashed balls) on the hydrophobic (waxy) leaf surface of Agave attenuata. These large attractive plants originate from Mexico and grow relentlessly in Queensland sub-tropical gardens. Each drop reflects a distorted, distinctive and sharp image of its surrounds, other leaves, clouds and sky here.
A Striated Babbler (Argya earlei) was waiting for its next foraging opportunity under sunshine in an early morning. The backdrop bokeh here made it look beautiful. It was cold in the morning and the activity of birds just began. Pics was taken from Bikaner, Rajasthan, India.
Still got a few from this photoshoot a month or back - Lola enjoying her first snowfall up on Thorswood Nature Reserve.
She gets over excited when there's a ball to fetch but will sit and wait if you tell her to - she's twitching and itching to fly though!
Couldn't resist a little selective colour treatment with this one, just seemed to work. It's not 100% colour though, just around 50% revealed I seem to remember, and with a soft brush so as to leave the fringes with a slight grey feathering
Before sneaking up on the butterfly from my previous shot I took a few from distance as I got to grips with the range of the lens I was using. I felt for my first butterfly shot on flickr I should fill the frame as much as I could, this one is perhaps a bit more me, with negative space aplenty and a dash of bokeh too! I know he's a bit central, compositionally, but I'm ok with that!
Klamath Falls former Great Northern Engine Facility in Klamath Falls, OR., was still hosting SP&S power along with Great Northern, Northern Pacific, Burlington Northern and Western Pacific power in early summer of 1970. These two AlCo C-636's were poised outside the engine house. The 341 was getting ready to take a freight north while the 342 was, as yet, unassigned. By this date, this was all BN property.
It's only after I put this kimono on her that I realized how completely it matches her makeup. The kimono is an outfit from the Licca Castle that came on another one of my dolls.~
Another day under Stearn's Wharf in Santa Barbara with a nice variety of nudibranchs. I couldn't resist this well poised Spanish Shawl on a gorgonian.
Captured in: Smithtown, NY.
This week's Macro Monday topic was a bit challenging, as the task was to come up with an artistic take on characters like ogres, elves, fairies -- basically anyone or anything that might appear in a classic fairy tale or folk story.
In this MM themed image, I decided to stage this brave knight, on what might just be a living chess board... Our brave warrior is facing down the evil dark lord who can be seen standing menacingly in the shadows. Will good once again conquer evil? This brave knight has his work cut out for him... Let's hope it won't be checkmate for our hero!
HMM!
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"Poised to Strike" is a non-HDR image that was processed using a combination of ACR, Photoshop, and Topaz Labs plugins (Adjust, Clean, Denoise, Glow, and Impression).