Quest For Nature's Best
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Il rapporto tra piante e animali è, in genere, assai complesso; e ancora di più lo è quello tra insetti e piante. Mentre infatti i pronubi sono loro alleati e ne garantiscono la riproduzione, i fitofagi ne sono distruttori, spesso totali. Come questa cavalletta verde, che ha raggiunto il fiore di un ibisco palustre. Un'ospite indesiderata, che divorerà il fiore e da cui l'ibisco non potrà difendersi ..... ..
Potrebbe sembrare che la farfalla abbia scelto di posarsi sul fiore di questa viola esotica con l'intenzione di suggere il nettare. Invece non è così e quello scelto dalla farfalla, una cavolaia, è semplicemente un posatoio che le consente di mimetizzarsi efficacemente. Anche in Natura, come del resto nelle cose dell'uomo, le cose talvolta non sono come sembrano, ma vanno ..... .. interpretate.
Hautes-Alpes, France
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This curved line in the foreground is actually a mushrooms.
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Questo scatto mi fa piangere. Mi emoziona. Mi libera dalle paure. Dai mille rimpianti che ho accumulato.
E' forse uno dei più belli che abbia mai fatto. Che mi entusiasma a tal punto da amare ancora di più la fotografia per come lo abbia fatto fino ad oggi.
E' il motivo in più per crederci.
Per stare. Per esserci.
Questa foto è nata da una situazione comica. Un'anatra tuffatrice, dopo un'immersione, è emersa proprio sotto il gabbiano che galleggiava pacificamente sull'acqua. Lo spavento lo ha fatto sobbalzare ed io l'ho preso al volo, purtroppo, scattando d'istinto, mi è rimasta fuori la punta dell'ala destra.
The mountain range known around here as the Crazies is prominent in this image (All those very, very tiny black dots scattered around the hills in the mid-ground are black angus cattle grazing on prime Montana range land…). The highest point in this range is Crazy Peak at over 11,000 feet — these mountains dominate their surroundings and are plainly visible just north of Interstate 90 as you travel between Billings and Bozeman.
The name Crazy Mountains is said to be a shortened form of the name "Crazy Woman Mountains" given them, in recognition of their original Crow native american name, after a woman who went insane and lived in them after her family was killed in the westward settlement movement.
The Crow people called the mountains Awaxaawapìa Pìa, roughly translated as "Ominous Mountains", or even rougher and less accurately, "Crazy Mountains". They were famous to the Crow people for having metaphysical powers and being unpredictable—a place often used for vision quests...
Beach grass must be tough to survive in a hostile environment with few nutrients! I found this clump on Pacific Beach in Washington State.
Questa coppia di casarche, da quando frequento il parco (qualche anno) le ho sempre viste insieme, una coppia indissolubile.
Il maschietto si differisce dalla femmina per il collare nero, per il resto la livrea è praticamente uguale.
The Quest has begun @ Fantasy Faire 2022. Will you be successful and receive honors and treasures galore?
Info & links on my Blog ~ aznanasfandangles.blogspot.com/2022/04/ff04252205.html
Come sempre per chi non avesse il PC
e fosse interessato al video appena pubblicato … questo è il link
www.flickr.com/photos/65831537@N04/51792720824/in/datepos...
l’importante è avere un telefonino o Tablet che entri in Internet.
Parte con la freccetta piccola … (con quella grande non si vede)
(ho notato che se si lascia caricare un momento
il video parte senza scossoni.
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Carissimi amici … Mi raccomando …
non è un - “liberi tutti!”
sono spropositati i contagi
mascherina !!! - mascherina!!! - mascherina!!!
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Un caro saluto da Liliana.
This is from a couple of years ago, in one of my favourite places - Pitt Addington Marsh.
Happy Sunday!
Bateau Quest du National Géographic au loin dans le parc de Glacier Bay - Boat Quest of National Geographic in Glacier Bay Park
~ The Explorers of Narnia ~
Vegvisir Chronicles - Explorations and Discovery
Only 3 more days to become Kings and Queens of Narnia by completing the Quest of the White Witch @ Poesy Wildes
Image by Ulf Ragnarok
We captured this while on a quest for a hat... Wolf Saga's new hat.
One of my favorite local photogs and partners in crime, Shawn Tron is filming a promo for the release of a new and beautiful 5 panel hat made by London's own DPMS who's partnered with musician Wolf Saga.
Links to the hat will be posted shortly after its release this week.
Alto Appennino,
Gennaio 2022
Neve sull'Appennino tosco-emiliano.
Nella foto il Monte Giovo in primo piano...
Questo upload riguarda sei fotografie effettuate e caricate a Gennaio 2022, misteriosamente scomparse dal mio photostream....allorchè mi sono accorto della scomparsa mi sono ripromesso di caricarle nuovamente per la bellezza di quegli scatti, e di quell'inverno in Appennino
Crescono in fretta i gattini della colonia felina alla quale dedico parte del mio tempo libero: io porto le pappe e loro mi ricompensano con tantissime fusa e mi fanno da modelli: questi giorni Esmeralda è la mia preferita:-)))!!
From the time I retired at the end of 2018 until now I have used photography and Flickr as a way to attempt some sort of artistic endeavor. A quest to make art if you will. Flickr has demonstrated to me that as far as making something uniquely artistic I'm probably on the left half of the bell curve. I go through the camera roll now and then and while I have had pictures that get a lot of views and people are kind enough to say they like them but objectively, I'm posting images that anyone could do. In fact, on any given day, I could post a photo that is matched or bested in subject, genre, composition or originality by any number of fellow Flickrites. That doesn't mean I'm going to quit or stop working to get better. Someday I might fulfill my quest and create a photo that I can look at and say "That's artistic!"
Quando guardo il cielo stellato, come in questa foto di qualche giorno fa, spesso un pensiero mi attraversa la mente...
se si potesse viaggiare nelle più lontane propaggini del nostro sistema solare.. oltre Plutone... a più di 7 miliardi di km da noi... che cosa si vedrebbe, alzando gli occhi al cielo?
Ci sarebbe esattamente lo stesso cielo che vediamo qui, dalla Terra. Strano, vero?
Alla fine di un viaggio immenso ... le stelle non se ne accorgerebbero. Resterebbero li, dove sono, a formare tutte le costellazioni che già conosciamo.
Certo, a quella distanza il Sole apparirebbe come una stella in più, la più brillante nel cielo buio di in una notte eterna..
Però pensare che il cielo della Terra è lo stesso di quello che si vedrebbe da Plutone, forse ci aiuta a capire quanto grande è il cosmo.
Ma quanto dovremmo viaggiare per cominciare a vedere le stelle muoversi e spostarsi?
Non basterebbero 7 miliardi nemmeno ma 10.000 volte di più.
Eppure, anche dopo 50 mila miliardi di km, ci troveremmo ancora ad aver fatto solo un piccolo passo, completamente all'interno della nostra galassia, una fra le cento miliardi che popolano il cosmo.
Nota: la Luna, il corpo celeste più distante sui cui l'uomo ha messo piede, dista 380 mila km circa... per arrivare a Plutone bisogna coprire una distanza 20.000 volte maggiore...
Buona serata
#galassia #stelle #cosmo #grappa #blue #fish #eye #neve #snow #cold #galaxy #space #spazio #canon6D #veneto #montegrappa #monte
Questa doppia di E412 è incaricata di trazionare questo merci in discesa dal Brennero, qui nelcurvone di St. Jodock. Giornata a caccia di treni con Paolo Carnetti e Alessio Pascarella.
In most cases, elevation helps the shot, as you can capture the larger scene at hand, and this one is no exception. OCs MILL job departs NS at Mingo Jct headed home to Miller Station.
Dear Bill Major,
As I wrote earlier today: I re-listened, this time to some of the FIM (Frankfurt’s Indeterminables Musiqwesen) CDRs. This out-put of CDRs on the print-on-demand-label recout (here a remained selection) were launched in 1995 through my production of the CD "Endlos / Endless" – a memento "50 years after WWII" for an exhibition in Poland, for which I invited the FIM trio Parallelaktion, plus singer Corinna Mayer.
What I auditioned today was "Hot Deals" by "Imperial Hot" (Christoph Korn – gt, Bertram Ritter – dr, A23H – reeds, tp, and Casio). I do not want to describe the music. I just love the feel of these 15 year old recordings. There is also "Rent Art Quest" by the "Stern4et" (Daniel Franke – as, cl, comp, Micha Daniels – kb, Bertram Ritter – dr, A23H on bari sax, bcl and ts, comp) from some years later – a lovely birthday present those talented younger musicians gave me. It was recorded during a "Jazzferien" session I had set up at a castle in the Spessart mountains in 1999. With Micha Daniels – kb, Bertram Ritter – dr, and A23H – ts there is another beautiful session made in a Frankfurt bunker in 2000, "House of Thee". Together with Christoph Korn I had a duo "Canada dry & 20" recorded in 1992-1994 with drummer Vladimir Tarasov as a guest. Of course there is more from that period I could tell you about. For today I'll finish by mentioning "Cassini", a nine-piece band which I assembled in 1998 with members from my bands "Hale Peat", "Imperial Hoot" and the theater ensemble I put together for my Frankfurt-am-Main production of West Side Story (Harry Petersen- as, cl, Stefan Lottermann – tb, Martin Lejeune – gt, Christoph Korn – gt, Marcel Daemgen – sound system, Peter Antony – kb, Bülent Ates – dr, Günter Bozem – dr, and A23H – ts, bcl, arr). This recording sounds to me like an early version of Otomo Yoshihide’s orchestra ONJO, in which I was a member, as you know, during 2005-2007.
Alfred 23 Harth / Lindsay Cooper / Phil Minton – the three musicians on "Trio Trabant a Roma" – appeared at festivals in Moscow & Volgograd prior to this recording as members of Lindsay’s "Oh Moscow" (we hope to do a new recording in 2010). Especially for Lindsay and me, the impressions from this journey were so deeply strange that even after returning to "the West", we felt like we were still in another mental state – the "State of Volgograd." I formed this trio at the invitation of the Budapest Festival in 1990, so there is that title "et all ways Budapest." It's been twenty years now since The Wall came down. In those days, we were just beginning to see the odd spectacle of cars coming from the East mixing into traffic in Western cities. One East German car was called the "Trabant". I liked that name, since trabant also means a planet orbiting a star, so I called the new trio "Trabant A Roma". Earth was under a new "orbital tent" after the Iron Curtain had come down. It was funny to see those strange cars from the East making long distance journeys through Western Europe – finally "all ways lead to Rome!" The fourth title refers to a festival in Strasbourg where we performed (see CDR Le Cadran Bleu). At that time I also played the Farfisa organ, Casio keyboard, and other miscellaneous stuff, all part of the search to express with the strange by-products of technology emerging at that time. The trio didn't last long (until 1993), same with "Oh Moscow" which played its final concert at the London Jazz festival in 1993 due to Lindsay’s worsening illness (which I didn't know of until 1998, when Sally Potter confirmed the facts concerning Lindsay’s declining health).
It was the brief period of time after the Sovjet Union collapsed in 1991, when all of us were curious about Eastern cultures – the curiosity was mutual among those in the former Soviet bloc. Moscow TV offered to produce a filmed portrait about me in February 1992; this led to my appearance at the "Open Music" festival in St. Petersburg alongside members of the Russian musical avant-garde. The film's title "Balance Action" is taken from the name of a famous saxophone from the early Cold War years. It also refers to the "balance action" that finally led to the breakdown of the Communist regimes. In old Leningrad (freshly rechristened St. Petersburg again) I met Vladimir Tarasov. He told me that before the Wall fell, he and his compatriots were forced to smuggle my records through a narrow, secret tunnel. He also claimed that, in the old CCCP avant-garde circles, I was a celebrity on the order of Michael Jackson (probably a Russian exaggeration). In fact, I did receive one of my very first fan letters from Moscow, in 1970 – somebody who loved the "Just Music" LP (ECM 1002). With Tarasov I formed the Quasar Quartet in 1992 with Simon Nabatov (Russia) and Vitold Rek (Poland); we performed together with Dmitri Prigov. But, just as fast as it arose, this cultural exchange period ended – astonishingly quickly, compared to the decades-long span of the Cold War, which had threatened the entire globe with doom.
Because my group "Just Music" played in Prague in 1970 I knew how serious audiences loved what we brought to our music from the West – they had witnessed the disappointing Prague Spring revolution two years before and heard reflections of those heady times in our music. Since 1971 I had numerous opportunities to reach audiences throughout Eastern Europe – Dresden, Leipzig, East Berlin, Krakow, etc. Last year another listener from Prague told me how important it was for them to hear "Cassiber" in 1984. With that in mind, it is a bit sad that 7K Oaks cancelled its October tour which would have brought us to the Wroclaw festival (where I had played with "Just Music" in 1972 and with "Gestalt et Jive" in 1987).
Now I am patiently waiting at the border of Stalinist North Korea to play my music beyond the split – my heart is already there. Who knows what the ongoing imperialist wars within the holy Sufi countries will bring in context of the metastasis of capitalistic asymmetries and Western weapons mass-production…
Alfred 23 Harth, in September 2009
Questa domenica in Settembre non sarebbe pesata così,
l' estate finiva più "nature" vent' anni fa o giù di lì......
..E questa domenica in Settembre se ne sta lentamente per finire
come le tante via, distrattamente, a cercare di fare o di capire.
Forse lo stan pensando anche gli amici, gli andati, i rassegnati, i soddisfatti,
giocando a dire che si era più felici, pensando a chi s' è perso o no a quei party...
Eskimo - F.Guccini -