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- Mark Twain
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I spotted this Tortoise and his Human Pal taking an ocean-front walk along the cliffs of Palos Verdes California. One thing about California, you will usually find something interesting or unusual, even when you're not looking for it : )
The Tortoise:
Tortoises are "cold-blooded," meaning their body temperature varies with the surrounding environment. They are also herbivores, meaning they eat plants. Tortoises are found in a variety of habitats, including deserts, forests, grasslands, and swamps.
There are over 300 species of tortoises, and they come in a wide range of sizes. The smallest tortoise is the speckled padloper tortoise, which is only about 4 inches long. The largest tortoise is the Galapagos tortoise, which can grow to be over 150 pounds.
Tortoises are long-lived animals. Some species can live for over 100 years. The oldest known tortoise is a Galapagos tortoise named Jonathan, who is over 190 years old.
Here are some interesting facts about tortoises:
Tortoises have been around for over 200 million years.
The largest tortoise ever recorded was a Galapagos tortoise named "Johnathan" who weighed over 500 pounds and was over 190 years old.
Tortoises are very good at conserving water. They can go for long periods of time without drinking.
Tortoises are not very good swimmers.
Tortoises are very social animals and enjoy spending time with other tortoises.
Tortoises can be very affectionate and make great pets.
-Google Bard
(Sony, 200-600 @ 241 mm, 1/3200 @ f/8, ISO 4000, edited to taste)
These beautiful swans seem to be keeping their distance perfectly. Now if they would only wear your mask (just kidding). I took this image a few years ago in France along the Saone River. Best wishes to all. (Edited in Lightroom and Topaz)
Samsung NX1 & Kiron 105mm f/2.8 Macro
Wide Open | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld
All Rights Reserved. © Nick Cowling 2020.
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Ven, vamos a volar. Vamos a volar más allá de las montañas hechas de angustias y de los ríos hechos de sufrimientos y de los valles hechos de rencores y de las nubes creadas por los vapores de la ignorancia, que cierran a la vista de nuestro interior el azul turquesa del cielo.
Ven, vamos a volar. Vamos a volar por encima del Gran Mar donde se agolpan los complejos y los por qué no explicados.
Ven y volemos con las alas blancas de la esperanza y el impulso de la voluntad redimida por la belleza de la búsqueda.
Ven, vamos a volar tú y yo, yo y tú. Tú en un ala y yo en otra y en medio, nuestros sueños envueltos en el plumón de nuestro Amor.
Ven, vamos a volar…
CAYETANO ARROYO
Muchas gracias a tod@s por vuestros comentarios y favoritos. Un saludo.
Picture by Ctrl-Shift-S and Firestorm.
Monsters by Cica Ghost. maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Zvi/27/107/24
What luck that the days are gone when even cockroaches could be spies in unusual disguises.
But then, how different is it really today?
To this day I still have dreams of rooms like this. Always looking for a lighted, lockable, clean cabin with a clean toilet.
What a waste of precious dream time!
Evening grosbeaks have decided to stay with us for the winter. They come by every day to eat and drink. They will sit and chatter with each other for hours. It's truly a beautiful sight and sound.
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The Pantanal is a tropical wetland and the world's largest wetland of any kind. The Pantanal ecosystem is also thought to be home to 1000 bird species, 400 fish species, 300 mammalian species, 480 reptile species and over 9000 different subspecies of invertebrates.
Brazil, Pantanal
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..is neither an invention of the current situation nor limited to human beings. When I saw these trees on my hiking trip on Friday along river Else I immediately had the words of Khalil Gibran (The prophet / on marriage) in my mind :
Love one another, but make not a bond
of love:
Let it rather be a moving sea between
the shores of your souls.
Fill each other’s cup but drink not from
one cup.
Give one another of your bread but eat
not from the same loaf.
Sing and dance together and be joyous,
but let each one of you be alone,
Even as the strings of a lute are alone
though they quiver with the same music.
Give your hearts, but not into each
other’s keeping.
For only the hand of Life can contain
your hearts.
And stand together yet not too near
together:
For the pillars of the temple stand apart,
And the oak tree and the cypress grow
not in each other’s shadow.
Kirchlengern, Ostwestfalen, Germany
Invented by photogenic Black-bellied Whistling-Ducks (Dendrocygna autumnalis). Tree dwellers etymologically ("dendrocygna" meaning "tree swan"), but easy to mistake for a water bird. Harlingen City Lake Park, Texas.
I've been away for some time and I'm sorry, life has been oh so busy.. Times are crazy with this virus and I hope you are all safe and practicing social distancing. I've missed you all so, thank you for the kind notes and mails.
Not too sure how long I'll be here but am trying to find time to love my camera again
HCS HSS
Much Love
xo
Bottrop, Germany, 2021.
When I set up my tripod for this shot, my idea was to take an abstract image about the concept of social distancing. I wanted each person to be in their own individual "compartment", nicely separated by the totems (which are part of an open-air art installation, by the way). Little did I know of how much waiting I was getting myself into. In the end, I got the shot, but it took almost 30 minutes of waiting – and I still had to move one person digitally in Photoshop. It was then that I decided to add a question mark to the title of the image. These people were everything but socially distanced.
Here in Germany (and probably every other country), people are quick to blame politicians for all things going wrong in the fight against the pandemic. However, many of them fail to see that it is just as much their own fault to quite a degree. Far too many people simply don't care about keeping their distance, willing to take the chance of other people dying because of their actions.
The fight against the pandemic is not won by the decisions made in a politician's office. It is won by how well these decisions are executed by the people in their everyday lives.
There's more on www.chm-photography.com.
Heed the rules, enjoy life.
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Nada más alejado de la corriente que hoy se impone, donde lo que sobre todo importa es ser de la manada, de la tribu, de la nación, del pueblo. Hay, sin embargo, otros mundos y, por extraño que parezca, están en este. Hay que respetar y convivir con distintas realidades.
Muchas gracias a tod@s por vuestros comentarios y favoritos. Un saludo.