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Great Crested Grebe - Podiceps Cristatus
The great crested grebe has an elaborate mating display. Like all grebes, it nests on the water's edge, since its legs are set relatively far back and it is thus unable to walk very well. Usually two eggs are laid, and the fluffy, striped young grebes are often carried on the adult's back. In a clutch of two or more hatchlings, male and female grebes will each identify their 'favourites', which they alone will care for and teach
Unusually, young grebes are capable of swimming and diving almost at hatching. The adults teach these skills to their young by carrying them on their back and diving, leaving the chicks to float on the surface; they then re-emerge a few feet away so that the chicks may swim back onto them.
The great crested grebe feeds mainly on fish, but also small crustaceans, insects small frogs and newts.
This species was hunted almost to extinction in the United Kingdom in the 19th century for its head plumes, which were used to decorate hats and ladies' undergarments. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds was set up to help protect this species, which is again a common sight.
The great crested grebe and its behaviour was the subject of one of the landmark publications in avian ethology: Julian Huxley's 1914 paper on The Courtship‐habits of the Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps cristatus).
Population:
UK breeding:
4,600 pairs
UK wintering:
19,000 individuals
Great Crested Grebe - Podiceps Cristatus
BIRD GUIDES NOTEABALE PHOTO May 26-4 June 2019
The great crested grebe has an elaborate mating display. Like all grebes, it nests on the water's edge, since its legs are set relatively far back and it is thus unable to walk very well. Usually two eggs are laid, and the fluffy, striped young grebes are often carried on the adult's back. In a clutch of two or more hatchlings, male and female grebes will each identify their 'favourites', which they alone will care for and teach
Unusually, young grebes are capable of swimming and diving almost at hatching. The adults teach these skills to their young by carrying them on their back and diving, leaving the chicks to float on the surface; they then re-emerge a few feet away so that the chicks may swim back onto them.
The great crested grebe feeds mainly on fish, but also small crustaceans, insects small frogs and newts.
This species was hunted almost to extinction in the United Kingdom in the 19th century for its head plumes, which were used to decorate hats and ladies' undergarments. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds was set up to help protect this species, which is again a common sight.
The great crested grebe and its behaviour was the subject of one of the landmark publications in avian ethology: Julian Huxley's 1914 paper on The Courtship‐habits of the Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps cristatus).
Population:
UK breeding:
4,600 pairs
UK wintering:
19,000 individuals
Decided to bring my camera as I went out to the waterfront park in San Diego around sunset. This composition with all the potential in it was the first thing I saw as soon I showed up. Afraid that the subject might move or something else might changed, I brought my camera online and fired away as soon as I could. I was quite pleased the results so sharing here. No effects have been applied, this is what the RAW image looked like.
The urban development of the banks of the Tagus River was subject to intensive development at the beginning of the 16th century, when King Manuel I built a new royal residence (the Ribeira Palace) on the river bank. The area was developed thanks to the construction of the port, shipbuilding facilities and other administrative buildings regulating trade between Portugal and other parts of the world at that time. During the reign of the King Dom Jose I, the great earthquake of 1755, followed by the tsunami and fire, destroyed most of Lisbon, including the Ribeira Palace and other buildings on the river. After the earthquake, the square was completely rebuilt. A large rectangular square in the shape of the letter "U" was designed, open towards the Tagus.
The square was called "Praça do Comércio" (Trade Square) to indicate its new function in the Lisbon economy. The central point of the square is the equestrian statue of King José I. In the direction of Augusta street, which connects the square with another traditional Lisbon Rossio square, a triumphal arch was built in 1875, called Arco da Rua Augusta.
The "Praça do Comércio" square has been recognized as a national monument of Portugal since 1910.
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Rozwój urbanistyczny brzegów rzeki Tag podlegał intensywnemu rozwojowi na początku XVI wieku, kiedy król Manuel I zbudował nową rezydencję królewską (Pałac Ribeira) nad rzeką. Obszar ten rozwijał dzięki budowie portu, obiektów stoczniowych i innych budynków administracyjnych regulujących handel pomiędzy Portugalią i innymi częściami ówczesnego świata. Za panowania króla Dom José I, wielkie trzęsienie ziemi w 1755, po którym nastąpiło tsunami i pożar, zniszczyło większość Lizbony, w tym Pałac Ribeira i inne budynki nad rzeką. Po trzęsieniu ziemi plac został całkowicie przebudowany. Zaprojektowano duży, prostokątny plac w kształcie litery "U", otwarty w kierunku Tagu.
Plac nazwano "Praça do Comércio" (Placem Handlu), aby wskazać na jego nową funkcję w gospodarce Lizbony. Centralnym punktem placu jest konny posąg króla José I. W kierunku ulicy Augusta, która łączy plac z innym tradycyjnym lizbońskim placem Rossio, zbudowano w 1875 roku łuk triumfalny, nazywany Arco da Rua Augusta.
Plac "Praça do Comércio" został uznany jako narodowy zabytek Portugalii od 1910 roku.
Because this Blue Tiger Butterfly stayed on the Cornflower for a long time, I had the opportunity to look for various background colours. The purple halo comes from a Brunfelsia flower.
Out for a morning drive in my 1949 Chevy pickup, I came across the "Bionic Bus" which apparently belonged to Bob Wills, Jr.
Mr. Wills, a resident of Conroe, Texas when he passed away claimed to be the illegitimate son of the legendary Western Swing band leader (a claim that the Wills family denies.)
Ah...hahh!
The Gniezno Cathedral, together with the Lech Hill, is one of the greatest monuments in Poland.
In 999, the funeral of St. Wojciech and his canonization by Pope Sylvester II. In 1000 to tomb of St. Wojciech, Emperor Otto III arrived and it was so-called The First Congress of Gniezno. The Archdiocese of Gniezno and the First Ecclesiastical Metropolis in Poland, subject only to the Pope, were created. The silver reliquary of Saint Adalbert is located in the center of the Gothic chancel of the cathedral.
In 1025, Bolesław Chrobry was crowned king here, and after his death, his son Mieszko II. In 1076, Bolesław II Szczodry was crowned king of Poland.
In the cathedral, there are the famous Gniezno Doors depicting the biography of St. Wojciech. In the basement of the cathedral, you can see the relics of a stone building from the end of the 9th century, discovered during archaeological research, and fragments of the walls of the Basilica of Mieszko I.
During the first centuries of the emerging statehood, Gniezno was the capital of Poland. The last coronation of the King of Poland, Prince Przemysł II was in 1295. Wacław II of Bohemia was also crowned king here in 1300 after the armed seizure of Gniezno. In 1331, the Teutonic Knights entered the first capital of Poland, destroying the city and the temple.
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Katedra Gnieźnieńska wraz z Wzgórzem Lecha jest jednym z największych zabytków Polski.
W 999 roku odbył się pogrzeb św. Wojciecha oraz jego kanonizacja przez papieża Sylwestra II, a roku 1000 do grobu św. Wojciecha przybył cesarz Otton III. Odbył się wtedy tzw. I Zjazd Gnieźnieński. Utworzono archidiecezję gnieźnieńską i I metropolię kościelną w Polsce, podległą wyłącznie papieżowi. Srebrny relikwiarz świętego Wojciecha znajduje się w centrum gotyckiego prezbiterium katedry.
W 1025 roku koronował się tutaj na króla Bolesław Chrobry, a po jego śmierci syn Mieszko II. W 1076 roku na króla Polski koronował się Bolesław II Szczodry.
W katedrze znajdują się słynne Drzwi Gnieźnieńskie przedstawiające życiorys św. Wojciecha. W podziemiach katedry można zobaczyć odkryte podczas badań archeologicznych relikty budowli kamiennej z końca IX wieku oraz fragmenty murów bazyliki Mieszka I.
Przez pierwsze wieki tworzącej się państwowości, Gniezno było stolicą Polski. Ostatnia koronacja na króla Polski, księcia Przemysła II była w 1295 roku. Na króla koronował się tutaj również Wacław II Czeski w roku 1300 po zbrojnym zajęciu Gniezna. W 1331 roku do pierwszej stolicy Polski wkroczyli Krzyżacy, niszcząc miasto i świątynię.
This is one of my family's seven pet dogs. This good-looking female canine, however, was not what I intended to photograph when I went out with a camera in my hand. Finding not even a single interesting subject to shoot, I then started to walk back toward home. Unexpectedly, this dog, named Kirei, came up to me. And the rest of the story is this head shot of her, which I snapped when she momentarily looked up, directly facing me.
Taken in Subic, Zambales, Philippines.
Amber - Bernstein (jeweils 1-2 cm groß)
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Helmet: Job Helmet by AZOURY
Collar: Misaki Collar by Artificial Hallucination
Corset: Renee Corset by Cubura (at Vanity Event starts June 15th)
* A familiar subject for me, its another image of the Humber Bridge taken from the South Bank of the River. The city of hull is on the North bank and can just be seen on the right of the image
I love to photograph the Humber Bridge which is two miles outside of Hull. Built in 1981 it is an architectural masterpiece With a centre span of 4,626 ft and a total length of 7,283 ft or 1.3 miles the Humber Bridge was the longest single-span suspension bridge in the world for 17 years, until Japan's Akashi Kaikyō Bridge opened on 5 April 1998. Each tower consists of a pair of hollow vertical concrete columns, each 510 ft tall and tapering from20 ft square at the base to 14.8 ft at the top. The bridge is designed to tolerate constant motion and bends more than 10 ft in winds of 80 mph . The towers, although both vertical, are 1.4 inches farther apart at the top than the bottom due to the curvature of the earth.
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Since I first visited the charming town of Morro Bay in 2013, I have returned so many times that my wife thinks I am low-key obsessed with it. She’s not wrong. Honestly, it was a subject that completely stumped me on my first visit. I ended up posting no images from our first trip, and even on our second time there, I used the rock as a background rather than an outright subject as I still hadn’t figured out a way to make it my main subject. On my third visit, I managed a few images that satisfied me. Still, that visit also fuelled a desire to find better pictures of this magnificent geographic feature of the California coast.
On our most recent trip, I expected moody overcast skies and hoped to use it to my advantage. I planned to use the dunes north of the rock as my foreground interest and to apply some telephoto compression to the scene. Due to the dunes being a protected nesting site for endangered birds, I had to hike quite far to find an ideal location. But in hindsight, I think it worked to my advantage as the delay allowed the sun to break through the clouds and provided dramatic light to the scene. I used a short-tele focal length here and decided to crop the image in a panoramic format to cut some of the uninteresting bits from the scene. Definitely my favorite from the trip.
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……I’ve already posted ‘The Artist’ (see first comment box), so as a follow up this is ‘The Subject’ - what Holly was painting so I thought I’d show you the scene she was looking at. A lovely afternoon spent at Kestle Barton Gallery, garden & wild flower meadow. Do please check out Holly’s work. See links, well worth a peep, she is getting lots of commissions which is great news - www.instagram.com/hollyastle/# www.hollyastle.co.uk/ Many thanks Holly. ……… Alan:-)
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I only shoot birds with my camera, and I didn't like the gunfire around me, but I found these guys quite fashionable.
I walked on land belonging to the Gjorslev Estate, which was built by a bishop in 1396. Part of the area is open to the public.
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121 in 2021.
69. Photo of a subject which isn't on the list.
Another photo of the beautiful wild flower meadow at Nuffield, taken at the end of my walk.
Many thanks to Tony for doing the retouch (Tones and tripod bag removal ;-)) !
Picture taken by my friend Michael. You see the only thing I can take credit for is standing there useless ;-)
Sometimes a subject needs room to breathe. I thought I'd go for a cool, calm image this time. The tiny bowl is handmade from Mallee Burr with an African Blackwood base. It's 1" high. It's standing on a board, and in front of a bowl, made from Mango wood.
For this week's Crazy Tuesday group theme, Made of Wood.
Taken with my Lensbaby Velvet 56 lens.
- Auguste Rodin.
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One of the final images I captured on my evening at Bandon Beach. As I searched for good subjects, I had walked a long way along the beach and had a tough time walking back to the stairs leading to the parking lot. But I kept looking back toward the sea stack to see if I'd missed any views or landmarks on the beach. Then I came across this rock and briefly thought about taking a photo. I was about to move on when I noticed the sky behind it turn a lot bluer. From experience, I knew the camera would capture any remaining sunset colors. I thought it would create a good contrast to see the sunset colors against the approaching blue hour. So I pulled out my camera and tripod and tried a couple of shots. My hunch paid off, and I loved how the light looked in this shot.
This man is searching the beach with his metal detector and boy is there a lot of beach at Camber sands
While we're on the subject of the magic of sunlight, I spontaneously have another, no less beautiful example.
In my last photo from here (Peace and Freedom) you could already see this building in the background and hidden behind some fog.
It is the famous Bastei Bridge in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains on the rock of the same name.
In retrospect, I would have liked to have been here a little earlier to catch the moment when the sun shines through the crack in the rock below where you see it now.
But I was stopped at another point that, in my opinion, was absolutely worth it. What you will soon be able to judge for yourself based on the results. Plus, as we all know, you're always smarter afterwards and so I'm very satisfied and happy with this result.
Weil wir gerade bei der Magie des Sonnenlichts sind, habe ich spontan noch ein weiteres, nicht weniger wunderschönes Beispiel.
Auf meinem letzten Foto von hier (Frieden und Freiheit) konntet Ihr dieses Bauwerk bereits im Hintergrund und verborgen hinter etwas Nebel sehen.
Es ist die berühmte Basteibrücke im Elbsandsteingebirgeauf dem gleichnamigen Felsen.
Im Nachhinein wäre ich gern ein wenig früher hier gewesen um den Moment zu erwischen, wenn die Sonne durch den Felsspalt unterhalb der Stelle scheint, wo Ihr sie jetzt seht.
Doch ich wurde an eineren anderen Stelle aufgehalten, die es aus meiner Sicht absolut wert war. Was Ihr in Kürze an Hand der Ergebnisse selbst beurteilen dürft. Außerdem ist man hinterher bekanntlich immer schlauer und so bin ich sehr zufrieden und glücklich mit diesem Ergebnis.
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....For in a good portrait there is a revelation: the subject reveals some truth about himself or herself and the photographer reveals some truth about himself or herself. So a good portrait is about human truth :-)
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Honolulu, not a place you want to stay too long, but a blue hour picture at Waikiki Beach is a must have when being there.
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