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Red Admiral butterfly feeding on Chrysanthemum flowers at my local garden centre back in August HWW! My parents are coming over tonight from the UK to visit us for a few days so I won't be on Flickr properly again until Monday. Apologies in advance for my lack of comments. Best get back to cleaning the windows & dusting the spiders ;)
I tentatively ID'd this beautiful bird based on a small drawing in National Geographics "Field Guide to the Birds of North America" as a Krider's Red-tailed Hawk but was not confident that I was correct. Thanks, Brennan, for properly identifying it as a pale immature red-tailed hawk. I appreciate the help!
We call them "Fish Flies" in Michigan, but this type is properly called Giant Mayfly (or Michigan Mayfly). The adults are short-lived (Ephemeroptera), and erupt from the water by the millions in late Spring to early Summer. Fish and birds must love this "banquet" time of year.
This Common Grackle seems to have found a tidy snack of "Fish Flies".
Properly edited version. Shot of a great sunset on the Kickelhahn near Ilmenau in the Thuringian Forest. The sky literally burns and are reflected by the fog in the valley. Thanks Tanja for being part of this picture.
Cat-a-lyst (kat'l-ist) noun: A feline who observes, analyzes and evaluates human behavior without itself being affected.
Here, a familiar figure attentively but placidly regards autumn activities without so much as raising a paw.
Swallowtail at sunrise.
To properly illuminate the butterfly in the backlight, I used a reflector and a dimmed LED lamp.
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One captured from hills of Snowdonia yesterday, not often the camera comes out of it's bag this time of the year when capturing this beautiful landscape and I was just out enjoying the walk/fell run, when the clouds parted and Mother nature turned up, I have lost over a stone in weight so far this summer so onwards and upwards!!......Always say photography doesn’t start properly until the 21st September and then runs to 21st March!....seasons are changing indeed.
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Private properly and a barbed wire fence presented the best comps here..
But still a pleasant scene nonetheless...
Make a Wish :)
#sliderssunday
Old photo, fresh slider: One of those cloudscapes/sunsets where one goes "Wow!", grabs the camera, and runs out onto the balcony to take a photo. Well, at least I do ;) We had a few of those sunsets this summer and early autumn, but since the house is still scaffolded and the (freshly galvanized) balcony parapets aren't properly re-installed, yet, the balcony is off-limits – so I had to dig into my archives to satisfy this certain "Sunday sunset slider mood".
Photographed with the little Lumix LX100 that is capable of taking quite nice light- and sunstars – and that is also a little prone to flares, but I rather liked this rainbow flare, so I decided to keep it in the image. Just like the airplane with its vapour trail which looks a little like a shooting star – wishful thinking, I know ;). And since it's (Sliders) Sunday, I also tweaked the sky's colours in Color Efex Pro – the original colours were mostly blue with some gold tones and hints of purple in the clouds, but the sunstar was already brightly orange in the Raw file. It's just a fun shot that I thought should finally see the light of day. I hope you like it.
Happy Sliders Sunday, Everyone!
Altes Foto, neuer Slider. Normalerweise schnappe ich mir die Kamera und renne auf den Balkon, wenn ich einen besonders schönen Sonnenuntergang (oder besonders interessante Wolken) sehe. Da unser Haus aber immer noch eingerüstet ist und die frisch verzinkten Balkongitter noch nicht wieder fest und sicher montiert sind, ist der Balkon weiterhin tabu – also musste ein Archivfoto für den Sliders Sunday her. Eins, das ich mit der kleinen Lumix LX100 gemacht habe, die in der Lage ist, recht schöne Licht- und Sonnensterne zu fabrizieren. Flare-anfällig ist sie dabei auch ein wenig, aber wenn dabei so ein hübscher kleiner Regenbogenfleck herauskommt, bleibt er im Bild, genau wie das Flugzeug mit seinem Kondensstreifen, das ein wenig wie eine Sternschnuppe aussieht – Wunschdenken, ich weiß. Aber Ihr könnt Euch ja trotzdem was wünschen :)
Für Sliders Sunday habe ich in Color Efex ein wenig an den Farbreglern gedreht. Die Originalfarben des Himmels waren überwiegend noch blau mit ein paar goldenen Highlights und einem Hauch von Lila. Aber der Sonnenstern war schon im Original leuchtend orange. Ein reines Spaßfoto, das mal an der Reihe war. Ich hoffe, es gefällt Euch.
Habt einen guten Start un die neue Woche und passt gut auf Euch auf!
Lale hält den Fisch manierlich zwischen den Vordertatzen und verspeist ihn.
Lale keeps the fish properly between the front paws and eats it.
Ascocenda, abbreviated as Ascda in the horticultural trade, was a man-made hybrid orchid genus resulting from a cross between the former genus Ascocentrum and Vanda (Asctm × V). Ascocentrum is now synonymous with Vanda, so the name is obsolete. Hybrids in the nothogenus × Ascocenda are now properly termed Vanda. × Ascocenda hybrids are common in cultivation with numerous cultivars and often combine the large flower size of the Vanda parents with the color and compactness of the Ascocentrum parents. They are evergreen compact epiphytes with upright, narrow, oviform leaves. The inflorescence is an axillary cluster with 6 to 8 open flowers. They bloom twice or sometimes three times a year with long lasting flowers. The flowers are brightly colored, often overlaid with contrasting colors. 31455
It is important to stay in shape, warm up properly and stretch at the end. It's the secret to keeping fit! In addition, I recommend that each one look for the sport that makes them feel comfortable to avoid dropouts in the exercise routine. I'll wait for you at the gym!
I've spoken about C23 C24 before and I will get to explaining the phenomena that is going on as soon as I put some photos together that demonstrate it properly.
For about a 60 minute period there are birds of every type, shape, size, color that you might think you'd encounter by the hundreds at any moment (and some you wouldn't think you'd encounter).
Anyway when this one appeared it was one of a hundred I could have photographed at that moment. I didn't pay it any special mind until i processed the photo. It is a white form of something - but what??
Well here is the consensus -
Juvenile Little Blue Herons are white, similar to the egrets.
Herons in late summer/autumn provide challenges to birders, as adults are in nonbreeding plumage and juveniles abound. The reference to late summer may not be accurate for more southernly Florida -
Since writing the above, i noticed in processing that i had photographed, on the same and on other days, similar looking birds - there is one in the comments below
What i also noticed is that i had a photo of a caracara in flight - i almost never see one, so have a photo of one in flight was stunning (to me anyway) - this photo isn't so good, so i've posted it here in the comments below - now that i know that at least one is out there, i will be looking for it
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#MacroMondays
#Odd
For "Odd", I immediately had the idea of combining Ohropax® earplugs and my new Sennheiser earbuds. The idea probably came to my mind so easily because my old, trusted, super comfy custom-made earbuds stopped working properly just recently when the right earpiece went "deaf" all of a sudden. I had them sent to the manufacturer, and even though they don't make those earphones anymore (only hearing aids, their original field of business), I still hope that they can fix it. The irony here is that I bought these earphones at the audiologist (you couldn't buy them anywhere else) years ago, because to make the earpieces, the audiologist had to make a silicone earmold, secured with a cotton thread so you could safely remove the silicone once it had hardened. So I sat there, waiting with my ears totally muffled by the silicone, and rummaging about the pretty likely next step following the purchase of in-ear headphones: hearing aids if I turn up the volume too loudly...
The width of the little scene is 5 cm/1,9 inches, so the width of the frame, negative space included, is about 5,5 cm/2,1 inches. The final image is an in-camera focus stacking made of 15 images. And yes, I have bought these colourful Ohropax® earplugs just for the theme, because I thought the standard yellow or orange earplugs would look a little boring for my "Sister Disco" setup ;) The earplugs come in four colours, blue, green, yellow, and orange, and all have a nice marbling pattern. I decided to use only three of the earplugs so the scene wouldn't get too big and there would also be some negative space to let the image "breathe". Processed in DXO, Color Efex Pro, and Photoshop.
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HMM, Everyone, and have a nice, sunny week ahead!
Even in the glum weather the white fur of our European Carder Bee stands out. Olymp had a hard time catching it properly. And just look at the wonderful yellows! Here our Bee is happy on Betony, Stachys officinalis.
… Southend lifeboat station, sitting at the tip of Southend Pier, at the very mouth of the Thames.
Watch it properly @ Gallery Minimal!
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When properly channelled, it can be a source of life, twisted though it may be. This is why I call myself the Plague Doctor. I take the world's Corruption, toxic to your kind, and I filter, cleanse, and consume it. In this way, everyone wins.
taken @ sunnys
pose used;- mixed feelings
The old town of Matillas,
Speaking properly we should talk about Matillas (the old one) and La Estación (the new one). Let's start with the original: located in the valley of Henares, next to the Roman road to Zaragoza, it was founded and baptized in the repopulation of the XII-XIII centuries, giving it such name for the existing vegetation. It was integrated into the Common Lands of Atienza until the fourteenth century, when it passed to the Lord of Jadraque. Its people lived on cereal (wheat, barley and rye) and sheep.
In this term, due to its location, important battles were fought in the War of Succession (18th century), Carlistas (XIX) and Civil War (In) (1936-39) that left their trail. When the quarries were launched in 1904, the industry and the railway arrived that caused the ruin of the old town and the birth of a new one, next to the factory and station (La Estación). (Source: Blog of La Vereda de Puebla )
El antigua Pueblo de Matillas,
Hablando con propiedad deberíamos hablar de Matillas (la vieja) y de La Estación (la nueva). Empecemos por la original: situado en el valle del Henares, junto a la calzada romana hacia Zaragoza, fue fundado y bautizado en la repoblacion de los siglos XII-XIII, otorgándole tal nombre por la vegetación existente. Se integró en el Común de las Tierras de Atienza hasta el siglo XIV, cuando pasó al Señorio de Jadraque. Sus gentes vivían del cereal (trigo, cebada y centeno) y de las ovejas.
En este término, debido a su ubicación, se libraron importantes batallas en la Guerra de Sucesión (siglo XVIII), Carlistas (XIX) y Guerra (In)Civil (1.936-39) que dejaron su rastro. Cuando en 1.904 se pusieron en marcha las canteras, llegaron la industria y el ferrocarril que provocaron la ruina del pueblo viejo y el nacimiento de uno nuevo, al lado de fábrica y estación (La Estación).(Fuente : Blog de La Vereda de Puebla)
… over North London: from the heights of Hampstead to the towers of Canary Wharf.
Watch it properly @ Gallery Minimal
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My first attempt to photograph a northern lights. Unfortunately, it didn't turn out as spectacular as predicted. But still better than nothing! :-)
As you can see from the trees, it was blowing properly.
Its been quite some time since I have blogged properly. I needed a bit of a break. I have been involved with a number of other projects but I have kept a few sponsors.
This blog will feature, THOR. The Spring Fling Gacha is now available at the new round of Kustom 9. All other decor will be listed after.
..::THOR::.. Spring Fling Garden Chair LI:3
..::THOR::.. Spring Fling Garden Chair w-Cap LI:4
..::THOR::.. Spring Fling Garden Plant Navy LI:2
..::THOR::.. Spring Fling Garden Table LI:3
..::THOR::.. Spring Fling Garden parasol Navy LI:14
..::THOR::.. Spring Fling Tea Trey - Navy - RARE LI:6
..::THOR::.. Spring Fling Water Kettle Navy LI:3
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TBF Dock - Wide Right
14. Nutmeg. Garden Getaway Diary Light LI:2
Apple Fall Coastal Pier Railing Cap LI:18
Apple Fall Hampton Outdoor Fireplace LI:7
Apple Fall Lily Wicker Chair - Peony (Adult) LI:6
Compulsion Plant 8 LI:5
Compulsion Plant 9 LI:4
Foxwood - Boho Borzoi - stand LI:2
Foxwood - Boho Pup - Cavalier Spaniel - sit LI:2
HPMD* WildGrasses - c LI:1
LOVE - SUNSHINE MEADOW - LEMON LI:1
Nutmeg. Garden Junk Milk Can LI:2
Nutmeg. Garden Junk Net Bag Bonus Item LI:2
Nutmeg. Garden Junk Newspaper / 1 Bonus Item LI:1
Nutmeg. Grandma's Cottage Basket w/Flowers LI:6
Nutmeg. Her Flip Flops LI:3
Nutmeg. Laundry Day Watering Can LI:3
hive // kentia palm plant LI:3
More properly known as Coypu (Myocastor coypus), a destructive invasive in Texas, previously over-running the Riverstone Wetlands in Sugar Land. Then a alligator came into the wetlands, maybe from the nearby Steep Bank Creek, and the nutria were gone. Now the alligator's gone, possibly removed from these family-friendly wetlands, and the nutria are back. Nutria eat tree roots and grass stems as seen here. BTW, the red incisors are typical of rodents.
for the Smile on Saturday theme 'natural white' 😊 Happy weekend ☀️
Peonies in my garden which I was able to enjoy really properly this year (thanks to the cancelled vacation) 😉 Today the petals fell off...
Olympus E-M1 Mark II + Olympus 60mm F2.8 Macro
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10 cars are easy work for the two SD70M-2s as they race east along the Susquehanna River. The bridge at Millrift had closed for nearly two months for work and this movement acted as a test to see if the work had been done properly.
Nanny & Kid Mountain Goats, they are not true goats, but close relatives. They are more properly known as "Goat-Antelopes.