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Photographed in the early morning. This is a full color photograph.
From the National Park website: A popular performer, Grotto Geyser splashes 15 feet from 1.5 hours to a day. The weirdly shaped cone may have resulted from siliceous sinter covering trees. Situated on the bank of the Firehole River, Riverside Geyser is one of the most picturesque and predictable geysers in the park.
During its 20-minute eruptions, a 75-foot column of water arches gracefully over the river. Eruptions are about six hours apart. Watch for water flowing over the edge of the cone beginning 90-120 minutes before an eruption. Grotto Geyser has an average temperate of 200°F. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA, June 2024
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If you're always shooting from the same POV then eventually your pics could become predictable and boring. So it's fun to mix things up once in a while.
Just a few drops of maple syrup to cut the tartness of just-picked Skagit Valley raspberries. Lazy breakfast outdoors on one of our last predictably perfect September mornings, air finally clear of wildfire smoke and record heat.
A female Sarus crane (Grus antigone) was following her partner by flight for a new resting place. Her wingspan was very big to manage from close by a big prime! This frame was the result after a few days futile efforts to have them in a perfect distance, light and angle. Got rewarded eventually with a close encounter in flight with full wing span against a soothing bokeh backdrop. It was a real delight to observe their behaviour and movement from close some of which were very predictable. Pics was taken from Bharatpur, Rajasthan, India.
"That's what the ox from the meat bridge could have told me" is used when an answer to a question is predictable or unsatisfactory.
"I might as well have told that to the ox on the meat bridge" means something like 'talking against a wall'.
Incorporate these two proverbs into your language from time to time and see which of your fellow human beings already know the story behind them. We're sure not too many
„Das hätte mir der Ochs von der Fleischbrücke auch sagen können“ wird verwendet, wenn eine Antwort auf eine Frage voraussehbar oder unbefriedigend ist.
„Das hätte ich genauso gut dem Ochs auf der Fleischbrücke erzählen können“ bedeutet in seinem Sinngehalt in etwa so viel wie ‚gegen eine Wand reden‘.
Bau diese beiden Sprichwörter doch mal gelegentlich in deinen Sprachgebrauch ein und schau, welcher deiner Mitmenschen die Geschichte dahinter bereits kennen. Wir sind uns sicher, nicht allzu viele
Echo is not a friendly beast. He usually hoots at people in a predictable pattern, trying to warn them away. This time, he seemed much calmer and allowed me to get close.
It was a good opportunity.
Northern Lapwing / vanellus vanellus. Frampton, Lincolnshire. 21/03/24.
'A MEASURED APPROACH.'
I watched this Lapwing approach closer and closer as it fed on a grassy, waterlogged field.
It demonstrated such a different style of feeding compared to the nearby Ruff. Whilst they fed 'on the go', this beauty paced itself. 2-3 steps forward, then stoop, peck and only very occasionally, make a short run.
Much easier and more predictable to photograph!
BEST VIEWED LARGE.
This is a small cascade just down from Summerhill force in Upper Teesdale, taken during a waterfall hunting spree in the Yorkshire Dales, the beautiful green hues casting a Kryptonite glow on the surface of the water. You’ll be thrilled to know that there are lots of waterfalls in this region!
The track below is taken from the final scene of the film ‘Another Round’, the story of 4 college lecturers who explore the theory of psychiatrist Finn Skårderud that the human body is born with a blood alcohol level 0.05% too low, quite a sobering thought!
I loved the film, it stars Mads Mikkelson, so what’s not to like. The four main characters agree to conduct a little experiment: they will stay moderately drunk throughout the day to see how it affects their social and professional performance, with interesting and somewhat predictable results, but all in the name of research of course.
It's Danish with English subtitles so you can feel erudite and sophisticated as you relax on the sofa cradling a taxidermied stoat-wrapped bottle of ‘Brewdog, End of the World’ whilst munching on artisanal hand-crafted truffle crisps!
So, what’s all this got to do with waterfalls.....bugger all but who cares, here’s the track:
If you can’t be arsed with all that then this summarises it in 7 seconds:
*Seriously, just Google it!
The bull on the right only has half a rack, but he didn't seem to get what that did to his chances. I suspect this isn't the first fight he has lost this year. Half rack had decided to round up a group of cows that were near the bull on the left. The results were quite predictable. I really love the cow in the upper left just munching along as the guys try to kill each other.
Quick field edit from our Yosemite Winter Workshop this week. We'll be back in the Park in April for moonbows!
The sun starts to get too far north in late February to light Horsetail Fall through sunset. That's not entirely a bad thing, as the light almost entirely leaves the rock, leaving the brilliantly-lit water as a stream of light, hovering close to the rock face.
With particularly warm weather, the show of light on Horsetail Fall was far better on this night than on either of the two prior nights, which were supposedly more "peak" nights in someone's estimation. Nice of them to redirect crowds away from the actual peak nights, which are far more weather-driven than predictable by sun and rock geometry.
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Always an opportunity for silhouette shots at dusk. Subjects to shoot not much of a problem on Cayman. Beauty comes in living color and even in B&W. The temperature is typically a predictable 88 degrees. My work here was always so close to the ocean and that meant an endless supply of photographic opportunities. I was there a number of times but I’ve not been able to return in recent years. It remains on my bucket list. Thanks for viewing my work. Remain safe and kind.🙏
Good Friday morning everyone and hope that all my Jewish friends had a wonderful holiday and a joyous one with family and friends.
And that everyone so enjoys the day and the weekend.
I love doing these guys and sometimes they are very predictable with a very slow and rhythmic wing beat.
A short story involving a Stoat a Rabbit and two Crows . The chase ends in a predictable manner .
But what happens next is far from predictable .
I am fortunate to be able to safely view this wild local Miami saltwater crocodile at somewhat predictable times. The photographic challenge is that the location has way too much sun bouncing from all directions, and the crocodile skin camouflage works so well on the coral rock, that my camera lens and many people, dog walkers, bikers, can miss the prehistoric and disturbing beauty. I am making a more deliberate study of the detail, after 3 Nile crocodiles with matching DNA were located in South South Florida. We cannot allow the Nile to become a breeding invasive species in Florida, since it is known to regularly attack humans in its environment. So I really need to be on the lookout for the differences so I can reorganize and report the event to the experts who capture the Niles and transport them to a better home where they will not be wild in USA. The American crocodile, is a protected species, that was down to 500, and cannot tolerate cold water, usually not seen north of West Palm Beach. It dines on fish and turtles. I also look for the Caiman and Cuban Crocodiles which also rarely show up. I would rather be putting more time into photographs of birds, but the Nile sightings have brought the clarification of species identification in my neighborhood to awareness. And a super zoom lens camera is a fantastic asset for this self assigned project.
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Some kind of landscape photography I think. Captured in April 2023 at Troon South Beach, Scotland.
There are 3 vital things that someone with severe CPTSD needs in order to function and heal.
1/ Consistency, predictability and routine.
2/ A place of safety and comfort
3/ Patience and compassion
Without these my trauma response is activated. I can't help that, it is physiological.
These needs have not been fully met for the past 2 years or so. Is it any wonder my symptoms have worsened? Now I am blamed for not healing fast enough. 25 years of abuse and PTSD cannot be fixed with 1 year of therapy and just one year of healing afterwards, least of all when those needs are not fully met. I didn't stand a chance.
Last night a friend from the past messaged me at a critical time. They chatted with me online for some 2 hours or more. They actually made me cry, smile and even laugh. It saved The Samaritans a call and that friend may have saved my life. The timing was impeccable.
The biggest threat to me is not having the 3 vital things. Without those I will spiral into hell. There is no chance I can heal without them. I just don't know where I can get them now. I can't do this alone and I will need actual in-person physical help as well. At my worst I am unable to even cook a meal or even answer the door. At times I could not even leave the house into the garden.
At my best there are little nuggets of the old 'Leanne' there. I just can't find her by myself. I am too ill to do it all alone now.
For the friend that contacted me last night. I am in their debt.
I am trying to post to Flickr and enjoy your photography to maintain routine. It has helped to hold me together for a long time. I am struggling to comment on other people's work or find 'happy' photographs to share. I hope I can get back there though.
In the meantime. Thank you for your understanding and caring. However remote, it does help. It does help.
"Each day is born with a sunrise
and ends in a sunset, the same way we
open our eyes to see the light,
and close them to hear the dark.
You have no control over
how your story begins or ends.
But by now, you should know that
all things have an ending.
Every spark returns to darkness.
Every sound returns to silence.
And every flower returns to sleep
with the earth.
The journey of the sun
and moon is predictable.
But yours,
is your ultimate
ART.”
― Suzy Kassem
And I seriously need to get back to ART!!
At Elmwood Park Zoo, there's a vocal barred owl named Echo. He tries to scare guests away with is predictable pattern of hoots.
The owl in this photo is the barred owl at Lehigh Valley Zoo. Her name is Marshmallow, and I've never heard her make a sound.
Different personalities!
This is the same Bison calf featured a short while ago, with its protective mom. Again, I was shooting through gaps in the milling herd.
Winter comes with its predictable hassles - it can be too cold, too snowy, too icy, too bleak - but it also produces the best light of the year, from the bounced light effect of overcast skies and snow reflecting light off the ground, to warm rays from the low sun. The trick is to get out when there's exactly the right amount of cold, snow, ice, and bleakness. On this day, when I came upon the herd on both sides of the road (and in the middle of it), the balance was exactly right.
Photographed in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2022 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
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Often times I find this beauty quite predictably around wet shrubby areas in Islamabad; every time it is a pleasure to wait for it to come in the open; and having some images taken!!!
Abstract art has always been my favorite and I am truly learning to enjoy it as an art form in photography as well.
With temperatures below -15 Celsius, I guess the second offense was quite predictable.
Beech woods in autumn.
There are two things that really struck me walking through these woods recently. The first (quite predictably) was orange. The second was tall trunks.
And a monochrome rendition of an image doesn’t really cope with orange. Which kind of leaves (sorry about the pun)...
It’s a good time of year to take the trunks I have decided. Most of the year the canopy is both green (as are the trunks) and dark.
But when the chlorophyll has decayed and the chemicals have been sucked back into the tree trunks the woods are lighter and yellow.
In midwinter, there is less colour contrast so this is about a sweet spot for this sort of monochrome… or at least that is what I tell myself :)
For my 100x Monochrome and toned project.
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image! Happy 100X, or autumn, or fall… :)
[Handheld in daylight. Developed in Capture One. Processed mainly in Topaz Adjust AI]
Bangkok is one of the world’s most congested cities, with severe traffic problems that can make it a challenge to get around the city during peak rush hours. Whether you’re visiting Bangkok or planning to stay long term, understanding the traffic is key to getting around quickly.
While Bangkok’s traffic is an annoyance, it’s a fairly predictable annoyance. Once you’re familiar with the morning and evening rush hour, specific roads to avoid and alternative transport options such as the BTS and MRT, you’ll be able to get around the city quickly and efficiently.
My early summer Roe deer project is online and you can see it here: www.alanmackenziephotography.com/2021/06/return-to-deer-m...
Every so often, I encounter a mature Roe deer buck, which doesn't mind the company of a quiet observer nearby. On this occasion, he spent 25 minutes grazing, as I stood in open view about 30 metres away. If roe are to stick around, don't hide. They will lose interest, if you can be seen and behave in a predictable manner.
This time of year this cuties are quite predictable. If you can get close, they seem to sing about every 3-4 minutes.
3J51, the 10.00 York Thrall to York Thrall RHTT service gets the right away from Bridlington. A small gallery awaits as 37401 and 37402 do the honours.
We had a bit of a running joke as a group with which end the 68s would appear on, the RHTT was somewhat more predictable.
20th October 2021
There are no sure things when you head out to chase trains. One of the more predictable moves in the Twin Ports, though, is this Pokegama to Proctor transfer in the morning. I saw he was lit to come into Proctor this morning so I waited on the bridge and grabbed this shot as he approached. It was sunny, for a change, and cold and windy as well. A little while after this I shot the 0800 hill job headed to the dock with pellets.
The forecast is saying 6 to 10 inches of snow generally tonight and tomorrow, and up to 16 inches in the higher terrain. There may be some good shooting on tap for tomorrow.
Coyote Creek Lagoon
I frequently see American Avocets here in small numbers, foraging close to larger flocks of Black-necked Stilts. Both groups fly between the lagoon and a nearby salt pond on a predictable path. That makes it easier to get a flight shot. In my mind, this strong, neck-down flight pose is characteristic of avocets.
Here’s another Vertorama of one of the ancient dead acacia trees at Dead Vlei in the Namib desert… it’s quite a predictable composition… I know... but I still like it! :)
Nikon D300, Sigma 10-20mm at 10mm, aperture of f16, with a 1/250th second exposure.
Click here to view this one large.
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What could have been..
Stood in sun for 10 minutes until the hoovers were due when predictably it filled in.
Oahu, HI. Seeing a honu (green sea turtles) was one of my objectives on this trip and it never gets old. There were at least a half dozen turtles beached here. Their routine is so predictable that volunteers show up to place red ropes around them and control the crowds. The hordes do not deter the turtles from resting here, including this one who kept its eyes closed, except whenever the waves reached it, or the one unfortunate time when someone almost stepped on it.
My son has an all too ready sense of humour at times. On Sunday evening as I stood here taking in the final moments of my view before racing home to episode 5 of Line of Duty I sent a message to my children. It said quite simply - "one day, but not quite yet hopefully, you can spread my ashes here." I'm not sure why the thought hadn't occurred to me before. This place always makes me feel uncontrollably happy you see. It's had the same effect upon me year in year out since I was first brought here as a teenager more than forty years ago, and it's one of the reasons why I keep coming back with the camera again and again to add yet another image to the ever growing Godrevy album in my Flickr stream.
My daughter responded in kind. It's her local beach and she's one of that growing number of people who swims all year round no matter how cold it is - quite often in the waters here. We've planned to meet up here tomorrow after work - fortunately for photography rather than water sports as it's far too early in the year for me to be donning the wetsuit and racing into the sea. My son's reply was altogether more predictable and to the point. "Rightio. I have a week off coming up, so can be arranged," came the not unexpected witticism. I really need to have another look at my will.
Much of Sunday had been spent in a very similar manner to the days beforehand, during which I'd been on annual leave. The weather has been cold, but clear and calm, meaning that our favoured position next to the garage wall in our loungers had brought the annual garden sunbathing season to an early start. It was only at the last hour that I decided I was going to make a visit to Godrevy for a completely different sunset image that never materialised thanks to the bank of cloud you see on the left hand side of this one. Undeterred by this setback I stayed to enjoy the waves breaking on the rocks below me and take unusable photographs of them. Well they're unusable at the moment but I might change my mind about them later of course. Slowly I strolled back towards the car park, thinking of my dinner and trying to remember what had happened in the previous episode of Line of Duty - I really need a notebook for that series. At various tried and tested vantage points I stopped and turned, just to watch, noticing the line of cloud radiating out to the left of the lighthouse. By the time I arrived here another line of cloud was heading across the sky on the opposite side, with a lovely pink glow just above Godrevy itself.
At moments like this it's almost impossible to tear oneself away from a scene as calm and beautiful as this, no matter how hungry you are nor how much you're looking forward to another hour of splendid confusion in front of the television. But it was Sunday evening and almost 9pm - and the dreaded return to a new term at work awaited me the following morning so dutifully I retraced those final yards to my car and headed home.
Another week is more than halfway through and an evening with the wide angle lens beckons on the beach at low tide tomorrow. All is well in my contented little world. Happy hump day folks.
Liberamente ispirata all'arte di Hans Ruedi Giger, questa creazione digitale mi mostra il pesce inquietante che si aggira nel mio inconscio, o sub-conscio acquatico, ed emerge quando perdo il controllo. O forse emerge quando mi controllo: di questo non sono ben sicura: in quanto del pesce inquietante nulla so, mi sembra di essere una persona così banale e prevedibile!
Loosely inspired by the art of Hans Ruedi Giger, this digital creation shows me the disturbing fish that lurks in my unconscious, or aquatic sub-conscious, and emerges when I lose control. Or perhaps it emerges when I control myself: I'm not sure about this: as I know nothing about the disturbing fish, I seem to be such a banal and predictable person!
Bing Image Creator
There are moments when a scene just instantly grabs my attention. And of course, if camera is nearby I will for sure snap away. Then often what follows is my inner alter-ego asking "isn't this a bit too predictable?" A little too on the nose to have much in the way of artistic value? It's a bit of an curious inside voice tug of war I wage when comes to sharing from my vast treasure trove of images at rest on my 26TB NAS, humming away in the basement.
This particular scene was in Iowa on a trip back from visiting my son in college. Beautiful day and just one of many pretty, bucolic vantages.
This image is included in 2 galleries :- 1) "Stunning Photos - Set Five" curated by Pamela dot M and 2) "Butterflies and Moths 2" by Glass Angel.
White Dragontail is a medium sized butterfly , wing span ranges from 40 to 45 mm. Wings are mainly black, the triangular forewing with hyaline cells, short and narrow radial cells in the hindwing, and has a pair of slender tails which looks like swallow's tail. Its adult is the smallest in the Papilionidae family in the world. Ref: Fung Yuen Biodiversity Series. White Dragontail by Pun Sui Fai.
When feeding, they stay on one flower very briefly, usually for a second or two, then swiftly jump to another with no predictable route Capturing them in motion is a great challenge.
This striking Grosbeak species is usually a target bird for those accessing this mountain altitude from the lower portions of New Mexico. These birds are seasonally regular at this altitude (8600 ft. msl), but not predictable. This spring they're here in significant numbers. Some may winter over at slightly lower altitudes on the eastern slopes where it's warmer. They often appear in moderate sized flocks... they're quite gregarious. Our created bird oasis draws in nearly all the avian species that are in the area. Water can be scarce in this semiarid mountainous region... they quickly learn where it's reliably available!
IMG_1548; Evening Grosbeak
Always a "wow" moment for me in the spring. Expected, predictable and common but somehow still surprising when I see it anew each year.
Having planned to head out for sunrise on Friday, I forgot to set my alarm, and predictably woke up to see the sun rising through a blanket of mist on the common outside, the first decent covering since spring. After a mad dash to the woods I managed to get a couple of shots of the tail end of it before the sun burnt it off completely. Provided a nice little taste of the autumn to come though. Fingers crosses there will be more in the morning
I know I said I wouldn't but it is predictably a Herring Gull I took loads of pics of sparrows, rooks/crows but they were all moving about in the green leaves as it is nesting time, I saw a green parakeet but by the time I had raised the camera it had gone, anyway green on green doesn't work well at all. This gull is on my garden wall right by the bit that needs pointing! Chicks are due anytime now(early June) and then the parent can be aggressive, they are on the endangered list as there are only 160,000 breeding pairs (they all live here!!)
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White-winged Black Tern
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Every summer families of these lovely terns make the trip south to feed up.
As they prepare for their northern trip for breeding they begin to colour up and develop intense black markings.
They are my favourite tern, hands down.
They range across the treatment plant ponds and are never predictable, (which makes them a great challenge—some seasons I might not even get a glimpse.)
Lucked the other morning with a family making its departure preperations for their journey north.
Sculpture by Jeff Koons in Palazzo Strozzi, Florence.
In expolre on November 16, 2021 #98
The exhibition is titled "Shine"
"Shine" to give a new meaning to the very concept of a work of art and question the relationship with it.
Jeff Koons is one of the most important personalities of contemporary art of the late twentieth century-early 2000s: known, among other things, for steel sculptures in which the reflection of the surrounding world takes on a new brilliance, never seen before, eternal and changing at depending on the point of view, the place, the person.
Everything happens in relationship with the viewer: this is the thought that moves Jeff Koons in creating his works. In the Shine exhibition, everything is based on a subtle game with the observer: the play of reflections and brightness continues, from room to room, through a dialogue with the works that is always different and never predictable. Being and appearing merge, merge and enhance each other.
The image above is part of the Gazing Ball series, in which the artist places a reflective blue steel ball in close contact with classic works of art.
Finally a nice trip on a beautiful autumn day in Florence, after the world seen in a digital way.
Florence was and its splendor more than ever, the museums open, the restaurants full, many tourists, magnificent shop windows, it seemed even cheaper and the Florentines more kind than usual.
A breath of fresh air for everyone it seems, before the uncertain winter.
The title came to mind at random, due to the posture of the statue and the precarious balance of the sphere. Then on google I discovered that it is the title of a book (nothing is invented anymore) -
It is also a very interesting book. In italian "Uno scomodo equilibrio" di Mario Tozzi.
Mario Tozzi is an Italian geologist, science writer, essayist, television author and TV presenter.
He is currently senior researcher at the Institute of Environmental Geology and Geoengineering of the National Research Council and deals with the geological evolution of the central-eastern Mediterranean.
"The uncomfortable balance" he talks about is related to the uncomfortable truth of having accepted temporary limitations and sacrifices only because we have seen our life in danger, but we are not yet willing to definitively change our habits to stop the destruction of the world, which it has exactly the same causes as pandemics.
So, friends, as always sweet and savory my considerations:))
Either way, let's go, and I hope you're okay.
Thanks for stopping here, a warm greeting to all
This is the last from this intriguing chunk out of a geology textbook in Southern Switzerland. I switched back to good ol' Velvia for this and it proceeded to do its predictable trick in open-shade of sending everything spinning uncontrollably towards the blue end of the spectrum. Fortunately, Photoshop was on hand to apply the brakes and pull things back towards normality.... :O)
Oh and that tree is the same one that starred in the first of this set, trying to muscle its way into another shot. These trees, eh? ;^)
*Working Towards a Better World
We focus so much on our differences, and that is creating, I think, a lot of chaos and negativity and bullying in the world. And I think if everybody focused on what we all have in common - which is - we all want to be happy. - Ellen DeGeneres
I'm trying to make order out of chaos, trying to find some way of rationalising the horrific things that people do or the way the world is. - Chuck Palahniuk
I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise? - Federico Fellini
It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people. -
Anthony Kiedis
In a world with no systems, with chaos, everything becomes a guerilla struggle, and this predictability is not there. And it becomes almost impossible to save lives, educate kids, develop economies, whatever. - William J. Clinton
Television has never known what to do with grief, which resists narrative: the dramas of grief are largely internal - for the bereaved, it is a chaotic, intense, episodic period, but the chaos is by and large subterranean, and easily appears static to the friendly onlooker who has absorbed the fact of loss and moved on. - Meghan O'Rourke
Thank you for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day! xo💜💜
I frequently come across public photoshoots and often find that the unposed side of a posed photograph holds as much or more interest as the posed side. In this case, the glittery blouses worn by these ladies and the deep pleats in their skirts created an elegant scene from my viewpoint. Of particular note was the gestures created from behind that could not be seen from the front as the ladies posed for the camera.
This photograph to me could be a metaphor in terms of our efforts to find happiness and meaningfulness in life. I think our search for happiness and meaningfulness is often limited to the "posed" or predictable opportunities around us. We often miss the "unposed" or "unseen" opportunities that are all around us, because we have not trained ourselves to look a bit deeper, and from different perspectives.
Carmel, IN
2022
© James Rice, All Rights Reserved
I love the Asian supermarkets in our city. Here's a souvenir of one of my favorite cities; sulfur soap. Bactericidal and gentle in use. For really clean hands. The scent is, predictably, not to everyone's taste.
And a splash of yellow 💛 during these grey days is welcome.
Early Autumn in Fish Creek is summer in most places. Our unpredictable weather is predictably different. Taken a short time ago, we are now deep into our 3rd heavy dump of snow. Glad to have gotten out when it began to color up.
It is very rare for me to use a telephoto lens, but I had to for this shot. It's a challenge to try to get a flying object in the lens' field of view, and also a challenge to then focus. I tried setting the focus to where I thought the dragonfly would be, but it did not fly predictably. So this isn't a great shot, but I felt fortunate to get it none-the-less. Those of you who do flight shots of insects and birds - my hat is off to you!
voice like velvet. A kiss like fire.
In the new fashion film directed by Dellago, the lady in red — draped in satin and diamonds — sings Do It Again amid the golden shadows of smoky 1950s jazz clubs. Every scene is a collectible frame: low lights, microphone reflections, stolen glances from the crowd. The direction is an elegant whisper, an ode to desire that refuses to fade.
The protagonist doesn’t perform — she enchants. Her red dress, signed Dellago, becomes a symbol of a reinvented era, where glamour is not nostalgia but power. The cinematography dances between noir chiaroscuro and silver textures, with beams of light that seem to caress the skin. The editing is pure jazz: syncopated, sensual, never predictable.
Do It Again is not just a title — it’s an invitation. To return, to long, to be seduced once more. A film to watch with your heart in your throat and your lipstick slightly smudged.
review by Julian Dellombra
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