A shy smile
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A dedicated birder, engulfed by a sudden flock of feeding swallows. You can imagine the roar they made.
He seemed reluctant to rush home at the end of the day. So was I.
This male Northern Cardinal played hide-and-seek with me for probably 20 minutes within some dense tree branches as I tried to get a clear shot. Just as I was about the give up and move on, he popped out and landed on this branch, and in great light too. :-)
Cliche Saturday, and Our Daily Challenge: "The Best Things In Life Are Free"
HCS
This is my contribution to this week's theme "Cherries & Berries" of the Smile on Saturday group. Somehow I think that the strawberry didn't want to be part of my breakfast but in the end it didn't have a choice. :) HSoS !
Reluctant to release winters grasp, low lying mist and ice feature in this early morning shot of Loch Leven in Fife.
Roseate Spoonbill - In a Tree
Very common in parts of the southeast until the 1860s, spoonbills were virtually eliminated from the United States as a side-effect of the destruction of wader colonies by plume hunters. Began to re-colonize Texas and Florida early in 20th century. Still uncommon and local, vulnerable to degradation of feeding and nesting habitats.
Platalea ajaja
This skittish little warbler, the common yellowthroat (Geothlypis trichas, Parulidae), never perched for more than a few seconds at a time, but also didn't fly away giving me lots of clicks. Here, he's perched on the stem of common reed (Phragmites australis, Poaceae), perhaps the North American native form (P. australis ssp. americanus).
Uihlein Waterfowl Production Area
Leopold Wetland Management District
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Winnebago County, Wisconsin
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It was around midnight, and I was ready to try out a new 40mm lens. Elsie, however, was ready to go to bed after her evening nap. So of course I chased her around the living room until I got at least one, this one, shot. Keep up the great work everyone. B
When it is only 2 degrees an hour after sunrise, you might be a little reluctant to expel the warm air between your layers of feathers to escape getting your photo taken. This Blue jay certainly was!
We had gone to the beach to photograph patterns of blown sand in the snow but instead, found ourselves on a totally bare sandy beach. Lot's of ice still out on the lake but the snow had gone in less than 24 hrs on the warm sunny day. While waiting to see what the sunset would present, three riders and their horses came down the beach. One of them, a very reluctant pinto (I think that's the horse breed) being ridden bareback, would not cross the stream with any amount of encouragement. Finally, one of the other riders came back across and splashed through again to show how it's done. With some very loud snorts and whinnies the pinto finally went through.
Shooting directly into the sun, which is something I'm not fond of doing, there was no time for fine tuning the camera settings for fear of missing the moment. I just went with what I had.
Princess tends to get up and run to me when she sees me which is very nice except when I taking photos. Have a great Sunday!
This Song Thrush has been watching the feeders from a distance for a week, edging closer each day. You can only identify the males/females by their song. This one was giving nothing away... I suppose "Mum's The Word"
I am not sure of many things like I used to be.
With the passing of Tom Petty who was very American to the passing of Gord Downie who was absolutely Canadian. It just already seems like a very sad year to me. I am a musician, and I take these deaths to heart. Influences for sure. And there is that fence. The other side.
(Mr. Downies lyrics were quite poetic if anyone likes that)
Happy Fence Friday (I think)
Please remember it is Garbage day somewhere.
This fluff ball didn't seem to be taking his modelling career too seriously. Someone should tell him that he lives in the Land of Smiles...
Just going over my Christmas pictures and thought I would try and find a snow Christmas picture and I came across this one of Asha with her little elf ears on and I thought she looked like a reluctant Santa's little elf wanting to come in from the cold. I might have uploaded this to my old account so I thought I'd use a frame of a window which I thought worked well for this picture of the reluctant little elf out in the cold and wanting to come in. This picture of Asha makes me smile because of her look, yet I remember taking these pictures and she was happy and looked happy in most of the ones I took but this suited the caption I had in my head. I hope it Asha's expression brings a smile to other people's faces as it did mine...
Over the fence—
Strawberries—grow—
Over the fence—
I could climb—if I tried, I know—
Berries are nice!
But—if I stained my Apron—
God would certainly scold!
Oh, dear,—I guess if He were a Boy—
He'd—climb—if He could!
Emily Dickinson
Sometimes you want to say that you are sorry, but you don't get the chance. Then it is too late.
Happy Fence Friday.
I wanted Bella to look at the Easter tin on the table - so obviously she chose not to! I tried both persuasion & bribery, but she was very determined.
Happy Easter to those who are celebrating & I hope everyone has a lovely weekend.
Happy Caturday!
A foggy sunrise is the worst disappointment. So much effort for nothing... but in this case, managed to capture the 10 seconds as the fog lifted and the sun finally broke through. Not quite the reason for getting up at the crack of dawn and trekking up the Langattock escarpment, but at least I didn't come away entirely empty handed.
I am reluctant to post images I've shot on film on Flickr because frankly they are for the most part very poorly received. That is far more to do with the quality of what I produce shooting on film than with the fickle tastes of the Flickr membership in general. But the truth is I probably shoot more on my film cameras these days than I do with my digital cameras. I just enjoy the slow and methodical process it requires and even if I come home with no more than half a roll of images, to me at least, it is always worthwhile. It feels like a different category of photography altogether, where the process of taking the image provides me with more pleasure than the image itself. I often disappear into London for a few hours with one camera, one roll of film, and one lens and then just walk and look for compositions until I jump on a train and come home again.
Anyway, this is shot on B&W film which expired 10 years ago and was taken on my newest analogue gear, a Mamiya 645 medium format camera. The lens is also a Mamiya, a 110/2.8 prime, that equates to something like 70mm in full frame equivalent terms. The camera is definitely old school, fully manual with a waist level viewfinder, no meter (you must use an external meter), and to advance the film and recock the shutter you have to crank a handle on the side of the camera. This model was produced in the mid to late 70s so it's getting on for 50 years old. It's a brute of a camera that you could drop out of an airplane and it would probably survive the fall. It was built to last and it's one of those old cameras that if you are anything like me you just look at it and admire the craftsmanship and the utter quality of the thing.
Mamiya 645 1000s
Mamiya Sekor C 110mm f/2.8
Ilford HP4 Plus 125
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One more shot from Rags' birthday party. Bastian prefers eating alone, so this shot needed a little coaxing from Lene... ;)
First posted 10.05.2024 as "Our current trio" for the "Happy Caturday" theme "10.000 Stars" - reposted 12.10.2024 for the theme "Contrary cats".
.Dushara Tatters and Rags, Dushara Cathal Caithlin, (Somali cats) & Bastian (mixed breed), 30.03.2024.
Olympus OMD EM5 Digital Camera
Hundreds of Canada Geese are painfully and reluctantly forced to give up their lounging area for the Minnesota Commercial's Hiawatha District switch job coming up to 37th Street and displacing the birds. As soon as the locomotive passed by, the geese retreated back to their approximate lounging spots once again - a cycle that repeated itself while the train made switch moves up and down in the area around the ADM Atkinson Mill.
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"Reluctant Readers Make Reluctant Lovers" by Library Voices
I've read Yates and Hemingway
Maybe In Our Time it's Liars In Love
Then you call out my name like lines from a page
Feel my sins washed away, feels like I've been saved
I don't wanna die heartless in the heartland
Reluctant readers make reluctant lovers
Reluctant readers make reluctant lovers
So baby I'm yours, baby I'm yours, baby I'm yours