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Finally I got a nearly a '60s tone effect :D
Week 16/52: 'Get Framed' (52 Weeks: the 2012 edition)
Been so busy with school and exams. Just one more week :D
I hope to find pockets of time through the week and after my exams to catch up :)
Have a great week ahead:)
Swans feature strongly in mythology. In Greek mythology, the story of Leda and the Swan recounts that Helen of Troy was conceived in a union of Zeus disguised as a swan and Leda, Queen of Sparta. Other references in classical literature include the belief that upon death the otherwise silent Mute Swan would sing beautifully – hence the phrase swan song; as well as Juvenal's sarcastic reference to a good woman being a "rare bird, as rare on earth as a black swan", from which we get the Latin phrase rara avis, rare bird. The Mute Swan is also one of the sacred birds of Apollo, whose associations stem both from the nature of the bird as a symbol of light as well as the notion of a "swan song". The god is often depicted riding a chariot pulled by or composed of swans in his ascension from Delos.
White swan and a coot.
Balboa Park. Los Angeles. California.
Happy Macro Monday my Flickr Friends
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Mute swan (Cygnus olor) swimming in a pond with a mallard drake nearby.
Łabędź niemy (Cygnus olor) pływający w stawie i kaczor krzyżówki obok.
Swans are birds of the family Anatidae within the genus Cygnus. The swans' close relatives include the geese and ducks. Swans are grouped with the closely related geese in the subfamily Anserinae where they form the tribe Cygnini. Sometimes, they are considered a distinct subfamily, Cygninae.
Taken on a much sunnier day in Nov.2010.
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Mute Swan
A beautiful afternoon spent down by the river sipping coffee and watching the birds. Works for me every time.
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