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Week 25: Creative Flower Photography
Shot with a Leitz "Elmar 5 cm F 3.5" on a Canon EOS R5.
Here's a companion piece to the previous running Coyote; again, no contact with the ground. In this case, however, it was my camera's mirror flipping up that made her jump. Odd, because I took more than 200 shots of her as she dug a calorie bonanza of frozen fish out of a shallow pond, and she seemed well aware and accepting of me. Still, this is a wild animal. Her senses are razor-sharp. I bet the shutter mechanism was loud to her in the stillness of a cold winter day.
I was NOT in my car when I had this encounter, having tracked this Coyote quite far from the road - and at times had the tables turned and found her tracking me. This shot came toward the end; the sun was sinking low in the west. I was sitting. Camera was on a tripod, the only option when using a big heavy lens for an extended time, and still the best way to ensure optimum sharpness in most situations with a long lens.
Photograph from Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan. Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission © 2014 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
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About as shot.
"Watch a Spotted Towhee feeding on the ground; you'll probably observe its two-footed, backwards-scratching hop. This "double-scratching" is used by a number of towhee and sparrow species to uncover the seeds and small invertebrates..."
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Next week the forecast calls for a spot of sun. Not a sun lover, but it might help photos to have more definition. Cannot use auto-ISO in many situations; ridiculously high ISO amount.
I recently finished reading a very interesting collection of short stories entitled Save Me Stranger, by Erika Krouse. The stories are pretty wild and go in all different directions with quite a large variety of main characters and settings. Many really made me think more deeply about life situations and reality.
In any case, the collection starts out with the following quote from Anaïs Nin:
"Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved."
I've been thinking about that quite a bit and I immediately start thinking about how when you are going through a traumatic incident, it is sometimes helpful to picture yourself removed from your body, as if seeing it all from an existential distance.
How will we understand and tell our own stories with this huge change in history...this turmoil, these atrocities currently happening in our names. And, of course, the "winners" are the ones who get to write those stories but none of us are winning here. Some of us may be lucky to survive but that's about all. What we've all collectively lost is immeasurable, whether we write it down or not.
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Yesterday was an exciting day on our block. This owl roosted for at least 12 hours in one of the big elms that line the street. My attention was drawn in that direction by the morning crows, who were quite vocal about the situation. So with coffee cup in hand I walked down a couple of houses to see what all the commotion was about.
The crows kept watch and remained vocal for the entire rest of the day, sometimes joined by raucous jays and buzzing hummingbirds. Through it all the owl remained stoic, zen-like. But I don't think it had a very restful roost, especially too with a lot of human gawkers. He (or she) was perched relatively low.
I shot with my digital SLR for the first time in about 3 months. Part of the reason being my lenses are having a difficult time communicating with the body. But I have a 70-300 zoom and wanted to get close. I also shot it on film with Tri-X and my 300mm fixed telephoto, which I had not used in decades. I'm not hopeful for sharpness there either, since the thing is heavy AF.
Canon DSLR.
Buddy welcomes me in the morning and she likes sitting on this particular branch. It's a win-win situation because it is quite low and I can make nice pictures from both sides (Squirrels-2020-6013.jpg)
If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet...maybe we could understand something. - Federico Fellini
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The sun was deliberately left to set because of the backlight
Oh my God, I feel it in the air
Telephone wires above
Are sizzlin' like a snare
Honey I'm on fire, I feel it everywhere
Nothin' scares me anymore
In Mummy Marian's garden is a secret Magic Portal. After opening the door, you enter Australia where Peter and Oleg's friends live. The Fairy Mum has made it possible.
Peter is on his way with a red bauble and enters the Portal when disaster strikes. He trips over the threshold and the bauble is now in two pieces.
PETER:
Oh..no (shocked)
FUNKY: ( nearby the Magical Portal)
Peter! How sad you look....what happened????
PETER: (cries)
I....I...wanted to take a bauble to Australia, but it broke because I fell. I wanted to exchange this bauble with one of those beautifully made baubles by Daddy Jesse. The worst part is that I took the bauble out of Mummy Marian's decorated Christmas tree. What to do Funky. I feel terrible. If Oleg finds out about this he will never love me again....and the Christmas Bear will not give a present to me...and...Mummy Marian will never be nice to me again...and...and...I am a cr...cr.imi...err...thief.
FUNKY:
This is so bad Peter...what you did.
I was taught that you should never steal and if you like something you can always ask for it.
Let's see what I can do for you
PETER:
I'm so cold Funky, it's raining here and...hatsjoe....I don't feel well.
FUNKY:
I will be fine....here...take my handkerchief, then you can dry your tears and blow your nose
PETER:
Thank you Funky...you are so kind
Navajo Bridge.
Marble Canyon, AZ.
3-20-22.
Photo by: Ned Harris
Note: Sunning posture, aka" Horaltic Pose" with the wings spread with the back facing the sun. This behavior likely has several functions in different situations – allowing for heat loss when the bird is too warm, heat gain on cool early mornings and wing drying when the feathers are wet. I’ve also heard it suggested that they may sometimes be using ultraviolet light from the sun to kill bacteria on their plumage from their last decaying meal. Another possible explanation is warming up their feathers prior to aligning them properly.
Not a farmer's favorite time of the year. The frost is gone, it won't stop raining, and we haven't seen the sun in days. The world is a sea of mud...
Enjoy your sticky Saturday, if you're not stuck somewhere....
Lately I read many quotes in internet. So I found one that I loved and with it I did this humble try of a b&w.
You can't give up on someone because the situation is not ideal.
Great relationships aren't great cause the don't have problems. They are great because both people care enough about the other person to find a way to make it work.
(Anonymous)
My song inspiration comes from the great Soul Musician Donny Hathaway "I love you more than you'll ever know".
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More ice found along the shores of Lake Superior.
Little Two Harbors, MN
I'm sure O'hare is as big of a mess as Schiller Park was on this fine snowy afternoon. The WC Y0175 pig transfer for Bedford Park is sitting on the Gauntlet with Super John Fenliciki chomping at the bit to go while a CSX Grand Rapids crew (you can plainly see) is in their usual no hurry to depart on CP 504 out track 7 to B-12. He's doubled out of the south end of the yard at Soering Avenue before power switches and CTC... A SOO SD60 is very rare on jobs that always rated CP SD40's and sometimes MLW's in their final winter in 1996.... I'm sure 3025 is warm, I guess its time to crawl back up on my geep and have another cup of coffee, it's going to be another all day, one-way adventure...
"The high-ceilinged room – replete with a large studio window – in wich a featureless mannequin-like figure is sitting in a reflective pose has a decidedly eerie feel to it. Clad in armour and wearing a helmet, an alarmingly tall futuristic ironman figure looms outside the window menacingly surveying the lifeless room with his penetrating, eyeless stare. This surreal situation is reminiscent of the magical defamiliarisation effects of pittura metafisica. By means of this device, Dischinger is able to communicate the prevalent experiences, emotions and the altitudes to life during the rise of National Socialism. The emptiness of the lifeless room is in itself spectral, everything has been depicted soberly and starkly, even the faceless person on the chair appears to be an object. Rudolf Dischinger, who is numbered among the most important artists of Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) at the end of the 1920s, met Julius Bissier in1934 who likewise developed surreal defamiliarisations during the 1930s alluding to the impending menace of Nacism in the form of new, highly individual compositions."
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