Planeta Descanso / Resting Planet
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It just goes to show how exposure and lighting can make a huge difference. This was taken a few seconds after the shot of the same seed head I posted a couple of weeks ago. The difference is all in camera...
Rest Stop a small flock of crows came over and this one decided to stop and rest for a few minutes, shot in North Carolina.
Seems like a good place to hang out but in Newfoundland wind it didn't stay here long and I ended up chasing that red leaf until I lost it.
Switzerland, May 2021
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ABOUT THE PHOTO:
So this photo is a bit of a novelty for me - at least here on Flickr, but it's also a journey back in time in a sense. I've always loved b/w and sepia photography; already as a very young teenager I would go out into the woods with an old Pentax Spotmatic (which I had nicked from my father) whenever it was a foggy day to shoot b/w compositions of sunbeams cutting through the ghostlike trees.
I used films with a sensitivity of at least 1600 (for those of you who remember what that means 😉 ), and the resulting photos had an incredibly fine grain which I loved; I blew them up to the size of posters and hung them on the walls of my teenage man-cave next to Hendrix, Jim Morrison and Slash.
But then I abandoned photography altogether for 20 years, and when I finally picked up a camera again, it was one of the digital kind. Now neither film nor grain played any role in my photographic endeavours - let alone b/w compositions: because the reason I fell in love with shooting pictures once more was the rare and incredibly colorful lizard species that had chosen my garden as its habitat.
It's this species - the Lacerta bilineata aka the western green lizard - that my photo website www.lacerta-bilineata.com/ and also my Flickr gallery are dedicated to, but I've since expanded that theme a bit so that it now comprises the whole Lacerta bilineata habitat, which is to say my garden and its immediate surroundings and all the flora and fauna I find in it.
I like that my gallery and the website have this clear theme, because in order to rise to the challenge of portraying all aspects of a very specific little eco system (which also happens to be my home of sorts), it forces me to constantly explore it from fresh angles, and I keep discovering fascinating new motives as my photographic journey continues.
Which brings me to the horse pasture you see in this photo. This playground for happy horsies lies just outside my garden, and it normally only interests me insofar as my green reptile friends claim parts of it as their territory, and I very much prefer it to be horseless (which it thankfully often is).
Not that the horses bother the reptiles - the lizards don't mind them one bit, and I've even seen them jump from the safety of the fly honeysuckle shrub which the pasture borders on right between the deadly looking hooves of the horses to forage for snails, without any sign of fear or even respect.
No, the reason I have a very conflicted relationship with those horses is that they are mighty cute and that there's usually also foals. The sight of those beautiful, happy animals jumping around and frolicking (it's a huge pasture and you can tell the horses really love it) is irresistible: and that inevitably attracts what in the entire universe is known as the most destructive anti-matter and ultimate undoing of any nature photographer: other humans.
Unlike with the horses, the lizards ARE indeed very much bothered by specimens of loud, unpredictable Homo sapiens sapiens - which makes those (and by extension also the horses) the cryptonite of this here reptile photographer. It's not the horses' fault, I know that, but that doesn't change a thing. I'm just telling you how it is (and some of you might have read about the traumatic events I had to endure to get a particular photo - if not, read at your own risk here: www.flickr.com/photos/191055893@N07/51405389883/in/datepo... - which clearly demonstrated that even when it's entirely horseless, that pasture is still a threat for artistic endeavours).
But back to the photo. So one morning during my vacation back in May I got up quite early. It had rained all night, and now the fog was creeping up from the valley below to our village just as the sky cleared up and the morning sun started to shine through the trees.
And just as I did when I was a teenager I grabbed my camera and ran out to photograph this beautiful mood of ghostlike trees and sunbeams cutting through the mist. There had already been such a day a week earlier (which is when I took this photo: www.flickr.com/photos/191055893@N07/51543603732/in/datepo... ), but this time, the horses were also there.
Because of our slightly strained relationship I only took this one photo of them (I now wish I had taken more: talk about missed opportunities), and otherwise concentrated on the landscape. It was only later when I went through all the photos on my computer that I realized that I actually really liked those horses, even despite the whole composition being such a cliché. And I realized another thing: when I drained the photo of all the color, I liked it even better - because there was almost a bit of grain in it, like in the photos from my youth.
Since then I have experimented quite a bit with b/w and sepia compositions (some of which I will upload here eventually I guess), but this photo here is the first one that helped me rediscover my old passion. I hope you like it even though it builds quite a stark contrast with the rest of my tiny - and very colorful - gallery. But in the spirit of showing you the whole Lacerta bilineata habitat (and also in the spirit of expanding my gallery a bit beyond lizards and insects), I think it's not such a bad fit.
As always, many greetings to all of you, have a wonderful day and don't hesitate to let me know what you think 😊
Lily and dragonfly taken a Kanapaha Gardens, Florida.
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after sunset we found 3 lionesses that had been feasting on a blue wildebeest they had killed earlier that day .
They were resting near a waterhole and this large lioness was lying down on a mound
Madikwe Game Reserve, South Africa
IUCN RED LIST STATUS: Vulnerable
panthera leo
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lion
Löwe
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Caper White (Belenois java)
One from this day last year. I have only seen two this season and both of those were flying past very quickly
Being cooped up has given us cabin fever. We decided to go out and do some birding, using our vehicle as a hide, thus we were able to social distance. We spotted many hawks along our way but we were quite taken by this beautiful Hawk that landed in a tree.
A ruby throated hummingbird takes a break from feeding and rests on a branch of a crocosmia plant. This was taken in my yard :-)>
And suddenly, without a warning, she stopped walking and sat down in the green green grass, between the flowers, extending her small hand towards him, her face ornated with that bright smile his company always gave her.
Looking up while slightly squinting her eyes, because of the sun warming this bright spring afternoon, or maybe because of how much light was overflowing from him, she grabbed the hand he had just reached out to her.
Her lips parted delicately and she spoke with the softest voice, rounding every word with that tenderness that they always shared with one another :
" - Kneel down Love,
rest that heavy head on my lap,
close those tired eyes of yours,
fall asleep on me for a bit Lover,
come and let's enjoy this moment together,
for I want time to stop exactly right now.
Let me run my fingers in your hair,
and hum you the sweetest melody you inspire me,
cause Treasure, we were made for this "
Jamc ♥
♫ We were made for this - Chptrs
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Note :
All the poses used in my pictures are made from scratch by me
No AI
The beautiful landscape of the Atacama desert, with two donkeys taking a rest. The two volcanos are Licancabur (5920m, considered as being a holy mountain) and Juriques (5705m) (Atacama desert, Chile)
Fresh Eastern Tiger Swallowtail butterfly on momentary shutdown.
Common from late spring through early fall.
A male monarch butterfly resting on a thick-spike gayfeather flower. I was happy to capture the rolled up proboscis. I've seen monarchs occasionally since the spring, typically one at a time, but few of them have been willing to pose like this. It will be interesting to see what the fall migration brings.