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Welsh lambs greeting each other near Aberdaron in North Wales. The one on the left had trotted up the hillside very purposefully to say hello to the other lamb. :)
The Lesserr Yellowlegs strides purposefully across mudflats and marshes with a distinctive high-stepping gait, occasionally breaking into a run to chase aquatic prey. Flight is strong and swift, with legs extending well beyond the tail, often accompanied by its strident chirpy call.
The Lesser Yellowlegs occurs in a wide variety of wetland habitats in migration and winter, from tidal flats to sewage ponds to flooded fields. They are able to use wetlands with taller vegetation than other shorebirds can use, owing to their larger size. In summer, they breed throughout the boreal zone in boggy sloughs with small wooded islands and coniferous forests with wet clearings.
4 lights, approx 2000 lumens, under lit (drip is on a sheet of glass) leading to an purposefully over exposed shot
the macro monday outline for the 19th june 2017 specifically said "bubbles are not drips" and even though this is a drip i thought it inappropriate to enter it even though i think it's cool !!
GWT – Robinswood Hill Country Park.
Fieldfares are large, colourful thrushes, much like a Mistle Thrush in size, shape and behaviour. They stand very upright and move forward with purposeful hops. They are very social birds, spending the winter in flocks of anything from ten or twenty to several hundred strong. These straggling, chuckling flocks which roam the UK's countryside are a delightful and attractive part of the winter scene. (The Wildlife Trusts).
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Excerpt from issuu.com/dtkownit/docs/field_guide_for_web:
PAST|PRESENT|FUTURE
Artist: Ernest Daetwyler (@ernestdaetwyler)
Location: 20 Weber Street East
Medium: Mixed media (limestone, bricks, steel) sculpture
On September 30, 2014, Regional Council approved the commissioning of Past| Present | Future by Ernest Daetwyler for installation at the Former County Courthouse at 20 Weber St. E., Kitchener.
Daetwyler’s series of seven spheres of different materials and sizes was purposeful — to get people thinking about evolution and the notion of time, while also involving Indigenous women from the Grand Valley Institution in Kitchener. The three limestone spheres refer to a distant past. A larger sphere is made of bricks, taken from some old downtown buildings. The reflective, steel sphere represents the present.
The piece makes a strong artistic statement in line with the project theme, which is the evolution of the site and of the Regional government and complements the site, the historically significant courthouse building, and nearby Governor’s House and Gaol.
People are encouraged to visit the site to engage with the artwork and enjoy the public space. The artwork is located on the Queen Street side of the property next to the Ontario Heritage Trust plaques.
A short break from Patagonia...our Midwest winter fun-SEO!
The owls only ventured out 30 min before sunset after a cloud obscured the sun. The field, what once was part of the Indiana Armory (maker of arteilery charges), was now surrounded by humming data centers. A lone rusting farmhouse remained, and I realized that the real habitat these owls were visiting was no longer natural. So in these images, instead of seeking a patch of forest or field for the background, I purposefully composed with farm relics in the background. Wht do you think?
Z9 at 10000 ISO, lens wide open at 850 f5.6, and LRC to denoise and sharpen (TOPAZ Sharpen AI to polish off).
Black Stork (Ciconia nigra), Záhorie, Slovakia. Body: Sony ILCE-7RM4, lens: Canon 600mm f/4 IS USM. Black Storks are known for their shy and solitary behavior, they tend to stay far from human activity and development. Black storks are solitary outside of the breeding season, when they occur in loose clusters of nesting pairs. They are migratory and active during the day. Black storks walk purposefully on the ground, with a steady stride. These birds are excellent fliers, flying high in warm currents of air. In the air, they keep their head below the line of their bodies, stretching out the neck.
This photo had a bit of a story. My daughter and I did some street photography last week in Vancouver and I borrowed her Canon AE1 and took what I think is a candid shot of her in a mall. When she finished her roll of film, the spool broke and the film did not rewind into the spool, exposing the undeveloped images to the light. She was very disappointed as she lost her entire roll in this mishap. Determined to try and salvage something, I developed the roll anyway and found elements of images on the developed film. The images were too degraded to scan in colour so I managed to pull the images off somewhat in black and white by playing with contrast and exposure on the scanner. Following that I used an AI program to rebuild the photos from what I was able to pull off the negatives and I think the end results, while a hybrid of analog and modern technology, did come out sort of cool, almost dream like as if you are looking at lost memories. They reminded me a little of pinhole camera photography, and created results I don’t think I could purposefully recreate.
the seals were....the sea was rockin' yesterday...our little boats take the stirred up water well ....this sailboat was tacking a lot to accommodate the high wind...the splashes weren't on my lens , rather the waves as it crashed into the rocks as I was taking the shot...I did that purposefully to create the sense of wind...didn't quite do what I hoped...ah well I tried~
Most spiders get bad reputations from the true dangerous spiders but no spiders are purposefully out to hurt humans. Most bites are in an act of self defense and their venoms true purpose is for preying for food.
[Adorable in my opinion ;) ]
Jumping spider Virginia 8/8/25
A Little Stint purposefully striding along the shore.
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White Heron ( Egretta sancta )
After the first few hurried shots this bird moved into an area with lovely backlight, walking purposefully toward me a few metres then flew off and I watched it go way off into the distance...
leaving me feeling quite privileged yet alone.......
At one point in 2021, the CSX RF&P Sub was the place to be to photograph Amtrak's 50th anniversary units. It felt weird, honestly, purposefully chasing Amtrak P42's. But I definitely appreciated the moment, and knew what we had, so I took every opportunity I had to photograph them. On a beautiful early fall evening in Ashland, Virginia a father and daughter have paused to admire the striking scheme on the Amtrak 108 as the train makes its station stop in Ashland. The blue barriers were implemented during the height of the pandemic as a way to allow for outdoor dining and entertainment, and have since become a mainstay as the community has embraced its walkability, and the trains that draw so many visitors to the community. I concur, by the way, with the observant folks, as the 50th schemes are FAR superior to the boring standard silver. Paint may not pull, but corporate image sure does matter, and the new colorful schemes which have recently adorned some of Amtrak's motive power sure do capture peoples' attention.
Kep’s sunset over a sea in gold. Two figures, quiet and purposeful, probably shellfishing, move with the rhythm of the tide. Peaceful.
The Lesserr Yellowlegs strides purposefully across mudflats and marshes with a distinctive high-stepping gait, occasionally breaking into a run to chase aquatic prey. Flight is strong and swift, with legs extending well beyond the tail, often accompanied by its strident chirpy call.
The Lesser Yellowlegs occurs in a wide variety of wetland habitats in migration and winter, from tidal flats to sewage ponds to flooded fields. They are able to use wetlands with taller vegetation than other shorebirds can use, owing to their larger size. In summer, they breed throughout the boreal zone in boggy sloughs with small wooded islands and coniferous forests with wet clearings.
#5160 - 2022 Day 46: Rain on Galileo's birthday gives me an excuse to purposefully photograph the old thermometer indoors, as on many previous 365 occasions.
🐦 S A N D E R L I N G 🐦
Sanderling (Calidris alba)
📍 Godrevy
It's been about a year since I bought my 150-600mm lens for wildlife - without using it that much.
So when we took a family walk at Gwithian Beach last Saturday afternoon, I decided to dust it off to snap some photos of the family dogs.
My Dad spotted half a dozen or so Sanderlings scampering around at the waters' edge looking for food. So, me and my sister (Instagram @louisaswildlifeuk) spent a few moments snapping away.
This was my favourite. I was as close as I could get to them (with a little post cropping). I like the clean, uncluttered look, the colour palette of the blue sky reflecting in the water with the golden sand, the reflection of the bird, and it's purposeful pose.
Canon 6D MkII | 150-600mm lens at 600mm | ƒ/6.3 | 1/1250 sec | ISO 200 | Tripod | Taken 17-04-2021 at Gwithian
Copyright Andrew Hocking 2020
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They're all around us, textures, those lines and patterns, seemingly purposeful, sometimes random.
Look closely in nature and you'll find them everywhere, they draw you in, sometimes they are impossibly perpendicular. Here is an example of textures that at a cursory glance make no sense, how could this monolith possibly form naturally with lines that are virtually opposite those a mere few feet below them. Bry will give you the precise explanation, it'll blow your mind, time scales and natural evolution of the landscape which one can barely comprehend. Nature is awesome.
10 exposures went into this image, 4 for the sky and 6 for the foreground, shot with an h-alpha modified Nikon Z6 and Tamron 35mm f1.4 on a Sky Watcher Star Adventurer tracking mount. Foreground exposures are 2 minutes at f2 and ISO 1600, sky exposures are 2 minutes at f2 and ISO 800.
A dark, damp day and not much to get the camera out for; as a last resort I took some shots of the garden birds while they were queuing for the feeder.
Brown Pelican perched on a post. Not exactly an uncommon site. Framed in the center with a lot of negative space purposefully. Grand Isle, Louisiana, USA, November 2019
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I swear, I'm not purposefully taking this many pictures of spider webs this week! I just keep finding new pretty ones. :)
The closest thing I ever get to a selfie or self-portrait.
Framing myself purposefully in a city shot. ♂️
Many of us will be sleeping in today on this Thanksgiving day, a day to reflect on what we're thankful for, starting with being thankful of a day of rest. I appreciate my family and friends (Flickr friends included) who are dispersed in different areas and provide opportunities to visit and see new things and experiences. I'm grateful for my eyesight, a pre-requisite to photography, for decent enough health to get to get up and down hills with a load of equipment. And I'm grateful for a job working at a place that is purposeful, and with people who have good ethics, and which allows a good work/life balance.
This picture was a bit of a challenge as a steady wind kept rocking the sail boat from one side to the other and a I had to time it just right to get the boat reasonably sharp. Vassalboro, Maine, USA, October 2018
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This is an exhibit at the National Quilt Museum.
Artist?
A dragon represents leadership qualities in Chinese culture compared to the burning destroyer icon of Western culture. The Chinese dragon has been a symbol of the Emporer since ancient times. My guess is that the Chinese characters around the Imperial blue and yellow colored dragon with brushes and key in its claw describe qualities of leadership, of power. The quilter writes of these leadership qualities: "gentleness, trustworthiness, able to carry a secret, romantic, equanimous, purposeful, just, forgiveness," etc.
© 2016 Thousand Word Images by Dustin Abbott
Part of what is so intriguing about photography is the unique way that different exposures can fundamentally change scenes. This, for example, was the purposeful underexposure of a scene for a series of bracketed shots. But the heightened drama by imperfections in the lighting (dark, moody shadows, heavy vignette) made the image particularly stunning to me.
Technical info: Canon EOS 6D, Tamron SP 15-30mm f/2.8 Di VC USD + Fotodiox WonderPana filter system, Processed in Adobe Lightroom CC, Adobe Photoshop CC, and Alien Skin Exposure X (Use Code "dustinabbott" to get 10% anything and everything)
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Hole-in-the-Wall Beach, Santa Cruz County, California
He had been striding purposefully across the beach when the water from a breaking wave rolled over his feet. He stopped, facing the ocean, and watched the water swirl about his ankles as it rolled back to the ocean.
A moment at the beach. A playful moment.
Artist: Ms Yellow with assistance from local Erie-based artists Gabi Keebler, Sage Hulingues and Leecia Moffatt.
This mural is part of Erie Arts & Culture’s Purposeful Placemaking initiative along Safer Walking Routes to school.
AAW March 2 - 9: (it's all) Wrong
WIT: This time I purposefully under exposed the photo to get just the outline of the subject. In post converted to BW, and cloned out a few of the bright spots in the photo.
Fieldfares are large, colourful thrushes, much like a mistle thrush in general size, shape and behaviour. They stand very upright and move forward with purposeful hops. They are very social birds, spending the winter in flocks of anything from a dozen or two to several hundred strong. These straggling, chuckling flocks that roam the UK's countryside are a delightful and attractive part of the winter scene.
I was out and about the other day when I saw a group of Barn Swallow, mostly juveniles from this year, chasing a Big Brown Bat. There are 8 different species of bats found in Ontario, Big Brown is the most common one. The big surprise was seeing the bat in broad day light, purposefully flying and feeding on insects. The Swallows didn't like a competitor for insects in their air space, so they went into attack mode. It didn't have much of any effect as the bat continued hunting. The bat was probably using a bit of echolocation and sight while hunting during daylight. Ontario, Canada
Excerpt from winterstations.com/archive/a-kaleidoscopic-odyssey/:
A Kaleidoscopic Odyssey
2024: Resonance
Design Team: Brander Architects Inc: Adam Brander, Nilesh P, Ingrid Garcia, Maryam Emadzadeh
(Canada)
Description
A Kaleidoscopic Odyssey invites on lookers to step into an experience where we challenge where reality ends and imagination begins. Explore the limitless depths of perception with this mesmerizing adaptation of Kaleidoscope of the Senses, 2020. In this installation, there are 2 guiding concepts. The scale of a traditional kaleidoscope is magnified 84 times to a humanscale so participants can inhabit the instrument and become a part of its wonder. Where a kaleidoscope is commonly a closed-loop system, this device is deliberately severed into 2 sculptured equal-and-opposite parts, with purposeful space between them.
Doel is a subdivision of the municipality of Beveren in the Flemish province of East-Flanders. It is located near the river the Scheldt, in a polder of the Waasland.
The first mention of the village dates from 1267, when "The Doolen" name is first mentioned. Until the 18th century the village was an island surrounded by purposefully flooded land, with the remainder, north of the village, known as "The Drowned Land of Saeftinghe". The "Eylandt den Doel" is completely surrounded by old seawalls. The dike encloses the hamlets of "Sweet Verge", "Saftingen", "Rapenburg" and "Ouden Doel" (Olden Doel)
The Doel polder site is unique to Belgium and dates back to the Eighty Years War (1568-1648). The typical checkerboard pattern dates from 1614, when these geometric farmlands were first mapped, and they have seen little change over the years. This fact makes the village a rare example of regional urbanization.The village has many historic buildings, including the oldest stone windmill of the country (1611), and the only windmill on a sea wall. The Baroque Hooghuis (1613) that is associated with the entourage and holdings of the famous 17th century Antwerp painter, Peter Paul Rubens.
Some of the other historical and cultural buildings in the town area are the "Reynard Farm" (De Reinaerthoeve), with a monumental farmhouse and barn. "De Doolen" is a historic school. "De Putten", or "The Wells", is a peat extraction area and has an historically unique 18th-century farmstead and inn site "The Old Hoefyzer", with one of the last remaining historic barns.
Doel is threatened with complete demolition due to the future enlargement of the Port of Antwerp. This has seen many people having to sell their homes to the development corporation of that enlargement. Many historical buildings will be destroyed.
An author says in one magazine article concerning the demolition of the village, "The Belgian village of Doel was reclaimed from the river Scheldt at the beginning of the 17th century. Three hundred years later and the village that would grow behind the sea wall is under threat. The threat comes not from a failing dyke or an unexpectedly sudden rise in water levels, but rather from the expanding Port of Antwerp and its insatiable need for more and more land along the Scheldt in which to grow. Now, Doel, the last of the Belgian polder villages on the banks of the Scheldt near the North Sea, faces possible demolition. The construction of a large dock and container terminal capable of receiving deep-sea ships is already underway on a site immediately next to the village, and the Port Authority proposes building a second one where the village now stands."
A memorial to British soldiers killed nearby during World War II was removed from the town square during the early morning hours in 2011, according to a BBC report
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Another one of those narcissi rushing about pictures. They keep reminding me of those long-necked ducks that look like wine bottles on legs set a-running by a cat in their midst.
Currie Street bus stop. This lady was purposefully striding along - and I noticed the headphones weren't in - unusual. Silver Efex Pro 2: Fuji Neopan ACROS 100
“Silence stands outside the world of profit and utility; it cannot be exploited for profit; you cannot get anything out of it. It is ‘unproductive’ Therefore it is regarded as valueless. Yet there is more help and healing in silence than in all the 'useful things.’ Purposeless, unexplainable silence suddenly appears at the side of the all-too-purposeful, and frightens us by its very purposelessness. It interferes with the regular flow of the purposeful. It strengthens the untouchable, it lessens the damage inflicted by exploitation. It makes things whole again, by taking them back from the world of dissipation into the world of wholeness. It gives something its own holy uselessness, for that is what silence itself is: holy uselessness.” (Max Picard)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wast_Water
Wast Water or Wastwater (/ˈwɒst.wɔːtər/ WOST-waw-tər) is a lake located in Wasdale, a valley in the western part of the Lake District National Park, England. The lake is almost 3 miles (4.8 km) long and more than one-third mile (540 m) wide. It is the deepest lake in England[1] at 258 feet (79 m), and is owned by the National Trust. It is one of the finest examples of a glacially 'over-deepened' valley. The surface of the lake is about 200 feet above sea level, while its bottom is over 50 feet below sea level.
Surroundings
The head of the Wasdale Valley is surrounded by some of the highest mountains in England, including Scafell Pike, Great Gable and Lingmell. The steep slopes on the southeastern side of the lake, leading up to the summits of Whin Rigg and Illgill Head, are known as the "Wastwater Screes" or on some maps as "The Screes". These screes formed as a result of ice and weathering erosion on the rocks of the Borrowdale Volcanic Group, that form the fells to the east of the lake, towards Eskdale. They are approximately 2,000 feet, from top to base, the base being about 200 feet below the surface of the lake.
A path runs the length of the lake, through the boulders and scree fall at the base of this craggy fell-side. On the northwestern side are the cliffs of Buckbarrow (a part of Seatallan) and the upturned-boat shape of Yewbarrow. Wast Water is the source of the River Irt which flows into the Irish Sea near Ravenglass.
Name origin and pronunciation
"Wastwater" comes from "Wasdale" plus English "water". " 'Wasdale lake' or 'the lake of Vatnsá, lake river'. The present name rather curiously contains the reflexes of both Old Norse 'vatn' 'water', 'lake', and Old English 'wæter' 'water', with the meaning 'lake' probably influenced by the Old Norse 'vatn'.[2]
The valley is pronounced as in was, not with a hard a: the name of the lake similarly but with a soft "s" as in "thou wast". The lake is named "Wast Water" on Ordnance Survey maps but the spelling "Wastwater" is used with roughly equal frequency, including by its owner, the National Trust, along with the Cumbria Tourist Board, and the Lake District National Park Authority.
Points of interest
The Lady in the Lake
In 1976, The Wasdale Lady in the Lake, Margaret Hogg, was murdered by her husband and her body was disposed of in the lake. She was found after eight years, with her body preserved like wax due to the lack of oxygen in the water.
Underwater gnomes
In February 2005 it was reported that a "gnome garden" complete with picket fence had been placed in the lake as a point of interest for divers to explore. It was removed from the bottom of Wastwater after three divers died in the late 1990s.[3][4] It is thought the divers spent too much time too deep searching for the ornaments. Police divers report a rumour that the garden had been replaced at a depth beyond the lowest they were allowed to dive.
PC Kenny McMahon, a member of the North West Police Underwater Search Unit, said "Wastwater is quite clear at the bottom, but there's nothing to see. At a depth of about 48 m, divers had taken gnomes down and put a picket fence around them. But several years ago there were a number of fatalities and the Lake District National Park Authority asked us to get rid of them. We went down there, put them in bags and removed the lot. But now there's a rumour about a new garden beyond the 50 m depth limit. As police divers we can't legally dive any deeper so, if it exists, the new garden could have been purposefully put out of our reach."
Water extraction
Water was first pumped from the lake during World War II to supply the Royal Ordnance Factory at Drigg. It is pumped to the nearby Sellafield nuclear facility as an industrial water supply.[5] The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority is allowed to extract from the lake a maximum of 18,184.4 m³ a day (over 4 million gallons), or 6,637,306 m³ a year, to use on that site.
Favourite view
On 9 September 2007, Wast Water was announced as the winner of a vote to determine "Britain's Favourite View" by viewers of ITV.
Small Eggar Moth Caterpillar / eriogaster lanestris. Swaddywell Pit, Cambridgeshire. 07/06/22.
'PURPOSEFUL.'
A great chance encounter at Swaddywell Pit was this Small Eggar Moth caterpillar. I noticed it crawling purposefully across my photography mat, having dispersed from its colony of larvae. The larvae remain in a silken tent for about 6-7 weeks after hatching, but once fully developed set off independently to find suitable places to pupate in dense vegetation.
BEST VIEWED LARGE.
Eagles are the heavy weights., large and impressive., Kites are the most beautiful., Buzzards are hard and purposeful , the Marsh Harrier prowling and menacing
SparrowHawk's., Merlins and Peregrines are the 'jet fighters., and the Owls are the most wondrous with almost that mythical quality about them
But non (in our skies at least) can be described as 'cute'., except for one.... the Kestrel
Looking at this picture he could be your favourite pet., fluffy and cute like a cuddly toy., that is of course until you look at his feet!
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