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I found this starling portrait in an old set I took some time ago and felt it deserved publishing... my vanity wouldn't let me ignore it. LOL.
Notice how the squirrel squeezes her eyes shut as she approaches the starling - a protective reflex.
This is a simple zoom ICM of an interesting exhibit in the Islamic art section of the Ashmolean museum in Oxford.
If I remember rightly it’s a door or gate, wrought in iron with a regular star pattern, typical Arab minimalism. It’s quite large and hangs vertically on the exhibition room’s wall. I love regular patterns like this but struggled here to make it interesting.
I processed it from the raw file in Affinity on the iPaddle, using a simple black and white filter without toning.
Thanks for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Monochrome Thursday :)
No, no, nooo! You may watch but you can’t touch. Should you be here?
You can’t go to where the light is, the things that lie behind me are not
to be disturbed. Oooh! You are trampling on the grass with your
impatient little All Stars…. And don’t squeak and squeal, you’ll
startle the forest!
Great blue Heron fishing at the Lake Roland Dam, Had been standing stock still and suddenly became startled, lasting for no more than 15 seconds and then relaxed again.
As I walked through the shady woods, I was startled by a Sandhill Crane. Evidently he was startled as well, and he began trumpeting something that has been described as "Gar-oo-oo" or as "kukukuroo". I'm not sure what he was trumpeting, but I can tell you it was very LOUD. A crane's call reportedly can be heard for a mile...I believe it.
Sandhill Cranes, almost 4 feet tall (about 120cm), migrate to warmer Southern states in the autumn.
Seen at Kensington Metropark, Michigan USA
Featuring:
Winter Wool Coat by Mishmash Fusion
February Gift 15-4M pose by Exposeur Props and Poses
Full credits are at Blue's Fantasy!
blue wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus)
no idea, what did frighten them all in a sudden, they bolted off but quickly resembled and calmed down again after they found nothing really threatening ...
near Nossob in Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
Today was not a good day for me - no sun, wind, rain, and on top of that bad luck with dog excrement (took me almost 15 minutes to get rid of it:-), so when I was about to take a standard photo of a horse rider, the horse made a sudden move...
I feel pretty bad about this one. A doe and her two youngsters crossed the path in front of us, heading for a drink in the reservoir. Once they settled in to drink, I just needed to raise my camera and take the shot. I'm not sure what startled Mom but she looked up just as I took the first shot. I thought it might have been the shutter noise that startled her but she soon settled back down to drink even though I took several additional frames before moving on. Nothing had this effect on her. Leave it to me to catch one of the most graceful animals in an awkward moment.
Butorides virescens juvenile,
Cayucos Creek,
San Luis Obispo Co., California
This little heron tolerated me watching it, preened, and eventually began to hunt, catching extremely small fish. But before that it had been startled by one or two noisy blackbirds that flew close over it, which brought this tense posture and those upright feathers on the crown.
Once again, in cleaning photos from my computer, I found an old one I liked.
This is Braveheart when he was about a year and a half old, on a walk with me back in the woods. When they were kittens they spent most of their time running up trees, when we would walk in the woods. They still spend a lot of time doing that, when we walk!
Here Braveheart has seen something... probably just his sister Lulu... because he always gets this look on his face when he sees her and thinks he has a chance of jumping out and startling her.
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