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A beautiful hazy morning on Ullswater, it was one of those morning when you can almost sense that something special is going to happen. I went to one of my usual spots on the shores of Ullswater, set my gear up and waited for things to happen. The first hint of colour started from the left gradually covering the clouds and sky with a stunning pastel orange glow. One of those morning when you realise why you get up early, and stand for a while waiting..
Ullswater, Lake District, Cumbria, UK
This is a female red-rumped parrot. The male has a brighter green colour and the typical red spot on the back. Only the females were willing to pose for a photo but I will try to get a photo of a male too.
The photo was taken in the aviary of our zoo.
I took this photo of an electronic billboard in Times Square. It's just so weird but cool too. I don't know what the purpose was.
A little whimsical look at a bluebird in greeting card style. As you can see, my creativity is very limited! HA ha!
Focus stack or focus shifting, #2
“You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn."
T.H. White, English author, (29 May 1906 – 17 January 1964)
The Once and Future King
And, as David duChemin states, “Try something new.”
February 12, 2023, on his website.
Six shots using Helicon Focus. Note the second hand moved fractionally in the time taken to shoot six frames.
7mm horizontally
Preference between #1 or #2?
Last January 2022 I asked for help and a Flickr support hero removed both of my accounts from the Explore algorithm. I feel more relaxed and in the moment.
Number two in my weeks theme of Something Blue. Kingfisher Resting. Taken in 2015 at Warnham LNR near Horsham West Sussex, UK.
"Could be, who knows?
There's somethin' due any day
I will know right away, soon as it shows
It may come cannonballin' down through the sky
Gleam in its eye, bright as a rose
Who knows?"
Lyrics from "Something's Coming" from the musical "West Side Story" written by Stephen Sondheim, Leonard Bernstein, Stephane Audard and Ludovic Jaen Pierre Giquet De Preissac (1957).
Well I think something is coming, and I know it's going to be great. For finally, after what has felt like a rather cold and bitter winter, there is a sense of spring in the air as the days grow longer. There are more days of blue skies, the temperatures, during the day at any rate, are becoming milder, and the gardens around me are starting to dress themselves in their spring finery, like this old Kobus Magnolia that sits in the garden of an old Edwardian weatherboard villa, which I saw basking in the glorious sunshine on a stroll this afternoon.
Magnolia kobus, known as mokryeon, kobus magnolia, or kobushi magnolia, is a species of Magnolia native to Japan and Korea and occasionally cultivated in temperate areas. Magnolia kobus blooms in the early spring, bearing pleasantly fragrant white flowers with hints of pale pink about four inches in diameter. The flowers are produced before the leaves, as with most members of Magnolia subgenus Yulania. Young trees do not flower.
The creeping thistles (Cirsium arvense) are flowering everywhere right now. They are very popular among bees and butterflies but I had never seen a cricket on it before. This great green bush cricket didn't stay put for long as the bee was too annoying.