California spineflower

Endemic to California, this plant is rarely seen as it has been extirpated from most of its native range. It is considered "threatened" and is in substantial decline. This is the first one I've seen and perhaps sprouted due to our record rainfall this year.

I rarely see the male Northern Harrier, appropriately tagged the Gray Ghost. So this was pretty much an epic encounter late this past winter at a favorite wildlife area. He actually made several low passes over this marsh area while I watched with jaw open, trying to bloody hand-hold my 600 prime with the tele. I dared not take the time to maybe give myself a break and take the TC off or pull out the tripod. Clearly worked out.

I rarely post two photos of the same species back to back... However, in this case, I thought it might be interesting or useful to display some small variation on the same species.... I consulted Sibley to see if I would be able to sort out who is who but I remain mostly confused about who is a juvenile, a sub-adult or an adult. However, I noticed how this hummingbird has a rather long/elongated body compared to the bird posted yesterday who has more a rounded figure. The color in the neck is also not as pronounced here. I thought that this one might be a female. Just a guess... They were all taken in the same area along that logging road.

What a challenge to shoot. These birds rarely come to shore, but this inquisitive male was following a female eating food and finally came by. Too bad the wind and cloudy weather pushed the ISO, but I'm still happy with the shot! I love the white detail under the eye, makes these birds even more unique to shoot.

I rarely take summer photos of the Tetons. Not sure why. I don't feel very confident about them. But this one seems pretty. So there ya go - Happy Teton Tuesday!

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I rarely post more than one image of the same thing. Today is an exception, as I had some luck with a Hummingbird in our garden at the Butterfly bush.

This is an Anna's Hummingbird (Calypte anna.) What I believe to be a juvenile male!

This is Noir, a female black-haired ‘Shiba Inu’. She rarely makes a good pose for photos. This shot was taken at such a chance in a million.

Very rarely do I get a chance to revisit a place I had been to..but with some good few days of weather, we decided to head to the Lulworth Cove in Dorset.

I had bought the new Sigma 12-24mm along with the Lee Super Wide 150 system almost a month ago. But owing to the weather not playing ball for a while, I could not really test them out on the field.

Having said that, I have to say I am visibly pleased with the lens and the almost equally expensive Lee SW150 system. Sure the corner sharpness can be better but for most of the landscapes, you would definitely not be able to discern it even if you pixel pop.

The Lee SW150 system is definitely the best filter system that I have used so far from them. The big stopper does not have that annoying blue colour cast anymore which in itself was enough for me to jump up and down in joy.

There is no light leakage anywhere in the frame either. The only problem I could see is handling of the filter itself as it is really big and very difficult to handle. I do not know what precautions anyone can take as the filter is really massive.

The Durdle Door is one of my favourite locations in Dorset and though there weren't enough clouds to play about, the sunset itself was quite a calming experience...

EXIF - f/10 30secs ISO100 @12mm

Lee SW150 BigStopper

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Thanks for viewing and have a nice week ahead everyone!

Somehow, people rarely seem to look at the time a photo was taken (even though Flickr shows it rather prominently now). So I thought it might be best to post all the photos of my sheep before the shearing at once. Usually I post with a delay of up to 2 months.

This beautiful green and rufus kingfisher is gorgeous and is not seen as often as other species. They like to be near rivers and heavy and thick fauna. This was a first for me and needless to say a memorable m moment. This was captured on one of our trips to Costa Rica near Tortuguero !! We only had a few seconds before he flew off but they were awesome seconds we shared.

Wishing you a beautiful and blessed day !!!!!!!!

But more often heard - that piglet squealing call is very distinctive.

I rarely post images of family, but this I couldn't resist. For any of those who have not experienced the Bay of Fundy, it is a magical national park off the New Brunswick coast. Here I was transported into a foggy rainforest, with light rays dancing through the fog. This is a shot of my independent young daughter who loves to doddle and explore.

I rarely see this normally nocturnal species here, so I was happy to get a nicer portrait shot than I had before for my prairie wildlife species set.

Some species info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plains_leopard_frog

Rarely perched this one sat for a few shots. Try L for a closer look.

A rarely seen White Admiral (Limenitis arthemis), sporting quite a bit of blue and purple as befitting his rank, casts anchor very fleetingly (get it?) on a newly blossoming bridal veil spirea.

Blurs rarely work, and this one didn't either. The head wasn't sharp. However, the image of the flight right before this one had a nice sharp head, but the wings didn't have the effect seen in this frame. All it took was a switcheroo (a term of art) of the head to fix the problem. I tried to diminish the effect of the busy background by desaturating it a bit and removing the brightness from the curved blade in front and under the duck. I normally would have passed on this image, but I'm enamored with the effect of the slow shutter speed (1/200) on the wings. I'll probably hate it by tomorrow.

I rarely do mono but this shot seemed to go into Black and White so well I thought it a good idea to run with it. I have added a touch of Indigo Blue to the water, I'm know thinking I should have done the same to the sky. This is a 240 second exposure taken at Foggintor Quarry, Dartmoor......I hope you enjoy ......

I rarely get a chance to get Manhatten so finally I head down to check out the Halloween parade which was cancelled last year because of COVID. Washington Square Park has always been one of my favorite stopping point remembering the days when it was still filled with hippies when I was a teenager during the late sixties and through the early seventies which seems like an eternity ago now.

I rarely see American tree sparrows in April. They must be able to sense the miserable weather up in Minnesota and have decided to sit tight for the time being - that's not saying our weather here in Iowa is a wonderful walk in the sunny spring park.

Rarely seen in the wild--somewhere in Maine.

I rarely capture a clear image when the BG is this busy so am quite happy with this one. Again from March.

Been awake since 3:10 when some one called with a wrong number. Actually the same person twice. ;((

Very windy and cloudy here this morning so no telling what the day will bring. Not much chance of snow with the wind coming off the mountains.

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Maple trees rarely turn red or colors in fall here except in very high mountains. This week we went to a high mountain called ''Big Snow Mountain''. When I saw the maple turned such red, I almost excited to cry. :-) It is rarely seen here. My wife also seems very happy with this trip.:)))

Mount Daxue, Big Snow Mountain, is a mountain in Taiwan along the Xueshan Range with an elevation of 3,530 m (11,580 ft).

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Rarely stands still long enough for a picture

I rescued this little orchid - it was sent to a friend in France a couple of years ago and got badly damaged in transit. I brought it home and gave it some TLC and it's now rarely out of flower - HMBT!

Quite a scarce and rarely observed species, which off course I was not aware of when I first spotted it. I went back a week later to do it justice with better photos and was fortunate to get a couple of aerial shots I was happy with. This bee species depends strictly on purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria) for pollen.

I rarely see anything approaching a sunset so just had to pull over at Glenuig to capture this on the way back from fish and chips in Mallaig. There was stunning golden light over the mountains, but as elected driver for the evening, no chance to stop elsewhere and grab some shots. What do you do? Put your passion first and risk a big argument with those in the car who want to get home ASAP? Catch 22.

While not many of us suffer from multiple personality disorder life never is only in black or white and people very rarely have only good or bad traits of character which is why we should always try to accept the people we love for who they really are and not try to convert them into something they are not.

Blackpoll warblers are rarely seen in the summer since they nest in remote regions of northern Canada where few birders venture. Fall is the best time to find a blackpoll warbler here in the States since there's a new crop of young birds heading south. By the way, blackpoll warblers hold the world record for long-distance flight over water without stopping for any songbird - over 1800 miles or 2000 km. This nonstop flight over the Atlantic Ocean takes 3 days - amazing! They spend the winter in northern South America. Notice the food that this young blackpoll warbler is fueling up on - that very tiny aphid that it picked off the quaking aspen leaf!

I see these birds so rarely now.

I rarely take my camera to my local park (a great inspiration for much of my photography) during the middle of the day, as the light is too harsh.

However on this day, I had my camera with me as I walked around the park and loved how this swan was in a more shaded part of the lake, but with the sun just illuminating this area. I liked the way the ripples of the water were reflected on its outstretched neck.

You rarely have time for everything you want in this life, so you need to make choices. And hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are.

-FRED ROGERS

He summarizes his holiday message as he thinks about a gift for all of his television neighbors: “I suppose the thing I’d like most to be able to give you is hope. Hope that through your own doing and your own living with others, you’ll be able to find what best fits for you in this life. . . . I, for one, wish you good memories of this holiday. And I hope you’ll be able to look for all the different ways that people have of showing that they love you.”

-The Good Neighbor, The Life and Work of Fred Rogers, by Maxwell King

NGC 1333 is the currently most active region of star formation in the Perseus molecular cloud. It was first discovered by Eduard Schonfeld in 1855 and is a bright reflection nebula in the western portion of the Perseus molecular cloud. The star BD +30◦549 illuminates NGC 1333 and was found to be a B8 spectral type. It is approximately 1000 light years away and is about 15 light years in diameter.

I rarely capture data on LRGB targets, so this has been a baptism of fire for me!!

Details

M: Avalon Linear Fast Reverse

T: Orion Optics ODK10

C: QSI683 with Baader LRGB filters

Luminance 60x600s

Red, Green and Blue 30x600s for each filter

Totalling 25 hours of exposure.

Rarely wear my Legacy body but for Ricielli I have to...come back to HG Ricielli!

Jasper rarely misses, but unfortunately for him, the misses are sometimes more entertaining than the hits. Miscalculated and jumped right over the frisbee in this case. Oh the horror!! The frame just before in the comments.

I rarely see the males, not sure why?! So I'm happy to have this one in my gallery.

Press Z for a good look at his ruby feathers :)

Hope all is well - thank you so much for dropping by!

PS - I have to run to work so will catch up this evening ;D

Such pretty birds we rarely glance at as they are so common but the colours are really stunning.

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Thanks to everyone that takes the time and makes the effort to comment and fave my pics its very much appreciated

Regards Clive

Very rarely have I come across a hare as laid back and confiding as this one, allowing me to share its world for so long a period.

The location was a grassy bank on the edge of a stubble field beside a wood. The track I crept along was slightly uphill enabling me to keep low until I dropped down and inched gently forward on my knees in order to photograph it eye to eye.

I make no apologies for posting several more intimate images after this one of it nibbling the grass, scratching, washing, grooming and glancing casually my way from time to time by way of checking that all was still ok.

Pleasingly, when I carefully backed away, overjoyed and thankful, it just carried on with its Brown Hare business.

I rarely look for a photograph. The photograph finds me and says, "I'm here!" and I say, "Yes, I see you. I hear you."

~Ruth Bernard

Happy Bokeh Wednesday!

Fynn rarely gets angry so this is a rather unusual photo of him. He had a discussion with Tofu who sometimes has the annoying habit of following him everywhere he goes. There are things older brothers want to do alone, though. :) HFF !

I rarely take selfies but this had to be done. Maybe if I dressed up like Peter Pan and photo shopped Tinker bell into the scene? haha

Very rarely do you ever get any sun into Eardington Cutting for steam pictures. This morning was one of those rare occasions were the Saints were looking down on GWR 2999 Lady of Legend.

Rarely do I shoot directly in the sun, but these maple leaves on our path caught my eye today. Another belly shot.

If they look too vivid, let me know. I did not increase saturation, but I do know how to lessen it. Might depend on all of our monitors.

A tad chilly and windy; we had to scurry to find warmer hats and gloves ;-)

I rarely make portraits of myself... I prefer to be an element of my photos than the main theme...

My dear Athena helped me to update me a little and here is my new version!

"I made my own favorite trips,

I experienced all the wounds that life gave me.

I counted errors and corrects but they came out confused

because I never found out who was very much at fault.

I fell asleep in hugs of mine and others,

loves that the water extinguished in time.

I hid my past moments from my friends

because I was ashamed to lie again.

A sun comes out and looks at my face

but it doesn't burn me, the fire warms me.

What I loved I made mine,

the wind that blows does not make me cold.

A sun comes out to show me what I'm worth

but the pain doesn't bother me anymore.

I'm walking away because I think I'm starting

be me, maybe for the first time.

I walked on routes that others showed me

and I drowned a thousand times in the sea of the mind.

I got drunk on dreams and lay there in a daze

and the silence always woke me up somewhere else."

🎧Είμαι εγώ

I rarely post two pictures on the same day. But I had already taken this photo for the Looking Close... on Friday! group's birds theme when I realized that today would have been my mom's 99th birthday. For several years after she died, I went for a photo walk on her birthday and then posted an image. Somehow I let that habit slip when we moved here a few years ago. So I went to my archives to find a bird photo to post today in her memory and for the group. Unfortunately, my skills and camera are not up to a live bird close up. So the (previous image) post for my mom is post processed, and the one for the group is this little sculpture. It's about 3 inches (7.6cm) long and 2 inches (5cm) high. The background is an art glass "basket" by Preston Singletary.

Happy Sunday morning all,

Every now and then one gets a rare and unexpected sighting on safari. This particular morning was one such occasion.

This is an image of a honey badger, a nocturnal animal which is very rarely seen during daylight hours. It was a first for me and a first for our guide as well. We came across a den and had the pleasure of actually seeing two of them. The one featured here was the active one, running back and forth in a repetitive pattern between a point in the distance and the den.

Getting this image required figuring out the behavioural pattern and getting as low down in the vehicle as possible. Doing these things allowed one to be able to enter the world of this fascinating and rarely seen animal.

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The Pied-billed Grebe is common across much of North America. These small brown birds have unusually thick bills that turn silver and black in summer. These expert divers inhabit sluggish rivers, freshwater marshes, lakes, and estuaries.

They use their chunky bills to kill and eat large crustaceans along with a great variety of fish, amphibians, insects, and other invertebrates. Rarely seen in flight and often hidden amid vegetation, Pied-billed Grebes announce their presence with loud, far-reaching calls.

Their feet are located near their rear ends. This body plan, a common feature of many diving birds, helps grebes propel themselves through water. Lobed (not webbed) toes further assist with swimming. Pied-billed Grebes pay for their aquatic prowess on land, where they walk awkwardly. Pied-billed Grebes are poor fliers and typically stay on the water.

Pied-billed Grebes can trap water in their feathers, giving them great control over their buoyancy. They can sink deeply or stay just at or below the surface, exposing as much or as little of the body as they wish. The water-trapping ability may also aid in the pursuit of prey by reducing drag in turbulent water. - Wiklipedia

I rarely spot one of these beautiful native butterflies, and it's usually in September on white boneset wildflowers. Boneset and goldenrod are tall Fall wildflowers that just started blooming this month. I stopped to photograph a Buckeye on this goldenrod then immediately spotted its nectaring buddy. GPH's are always surrounded by wasps. @ the wetlands, North Geogia - 2 days ago

I rarely see the yellow females - only when I spot a mating pair. The red males perch on grasses out over our larger reservoirs and mountain lakes. Even more rarely do I spot one with the big spots in their wings - once considered a separate subspecies. Lathem Reservoir, North Georgia

Not very sharp - sorry! Was trying not to spook them on a hot & humid day