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Me in the beautiful red satin dress I got from my friend Silke.
Thank you, Silke, it was a wonderful gift.
My Uni staircase project: this is in the fire escape of the Physics building. I took quite a few from this location - all slightly different perspectives. This was the best composition, but was also the ONLY one out of focus (the camera has focussed on the rail). So I will call it artistic licence that that really i've meant to focus on the red railing up close and make it the subject ... (note to self - always make sure you've had coffee BEFORE I take photos ...).
Last week I joined the Get Pushed group. I was looking for inspiration, and hoped I would find some here. So this is my first Get Pushed try! I got paired with ever-creative and fun Emeraldgirl. It was a pleasure going through her photostream - it made me laugh out loud more than once. Here's what she had in mind for me:
"So my challenge to you is to [...] do a selfie where you are wearing red in an otherwise monochrome setting. And the trick is to express how red makes you feel in that setting. Find a spot that is dark, dreary and otherwise dull and really pop that red colour with emotion. No black and white with selective colour though - it should come right from the camera."
I was struck by how she challenged me to do exactly what I would never do normally. First of all, as a rule I don´t do selfies - or at least do not post them here. I´m definitely not model material, and I am kind of a private person - can you tell? And then, I don´t like red. It´s just not my colour.
Even so, I got excited about this challenge right away. How to fulfil the challenge without compromising my own feelings about it. Inspiration hit me like a truck, my mind filled with all kind of wild ideas. Like starting a fire in the woods, or stumbling in front of a train at night. I´ve been advised not to, suppose they´re right, I worried a bit about getting fined too;-). And red, what does it stand for? Love, warmth, sensuality, danger... I got together all the red props I could find, which weren´t many as you would expect. (I did discover I have 3 pairs of red shoes! How weird.) I even borrowed a pretty red party dress from my neighbour. But in the end, I fell for those beautiful red autumn leaves - I rescued the last few of them out of the garden this afternoon.
Now if you think this was easy, think again. There I was, lying on the cold - dull grey! - kitchen floor, trying to get those leaves to stick to my face, all but buttered up my face. I only had a little compact mirror to try to spread them evenly. Had to call my son down to pull the trigger (I have no remote). Had to do the sticking-leaves-on-my-face-thing over again because we burst out laughing. And again. So this is how I feel in red, and I think it shows: ridiculous!
Thanks for the inspirational challenge Emeraldgirl. I´m still contemplating some of the ideas it gave me.
Moment of recognition as he came over the hill...
Red Fox have been displaced by Coyotes in my area. I rarely see them. Dark and rainy day.
Large on black
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The Reds seem to have had a very good year, we've never seen so many. This one is already prepared for winter with its ear tufts! Seen at Nairn caravan park.
We went for an afternoon in Lincoln and on the way we noticed that the Red Arrows were up in the air doing some training over RAF Scampton. I drove over to where they were going to land - a geeky bloke knowledge of which way the wind was blowing - and got some photos as they flew overhead to land. If you look at this image at full size then the pilot can be seen quite clearly.
The red-legged honeycreeper (Cyanerpes cyaneus) is a small songbird species in the tanager family (Thraupidae). It is found in the tropical New World from southern Mexico south to Peru, Bolivia and central Brazil, Trinidad and Tobago, and on Cuba, where possibly introduced.Description[edit]
A Red-Legged Honey Creeper spotted on the pacific coast of Chocó Department, Colombia, south of the town of Nuquí in October 2017.
Adult female (left) with male in right background
The red-legged honeycreeper is on average 12.2 cm (4.8 in) long, weighs 14 g (0.49 oz) and has a medium-long black, slightly decurved, bill. The male is violet-blue with black wings, tail and back, and bright red legs. The crown of its head is turquoise, and the underwing, visible only in flight, is lemon yellow. After the breeding season, the male moults into an eclipse plumage, mainly greenish with black wings.
Females and immatures are mainly green, with paler, faintly streaked underparts. The legs are red-brown in the female, and brown in young birds.
The call of red-legged honeycreeper is a thin, high-pitched tsip.
Several subspecies are known. Differences are generally slight, with the Tobago race C. c. tobagensis being slightly larger than the mainland forms for example.
The purplish honeycreeper (Chlorophanes purpurascens), a bird from Venezuela known only from the type specimen, is considered to be an intergeneric hybrid between the green honeycreeper and either the red-legged honeycreeper or the blue dacnis.
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