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Wintertaling - Male Eurasian Teal (Anas crecca)
They are back at their usual (winter) haunt,
and still uncharacteristically unfazed.
Boy it's gonna get cute af. Just don't mind the gorgina mess in the background xo
P.S. Those pink rods aren't dildos. 🙈
Mow Cop Castle is a clifftop folly built in 1754 to look like a ruined castle. It straddles the border between Staffordshire and Cheshire, UK. It lies on the Gritstone Trail, a 54 km long distance footpath.
I sat on the bench for a breather....and spotted this little guy growing out of the rocks by the water.....tough little guy....my kind of resilience.....
Passiflora, known also as the passion flowers or passion vines, is a genus of about 550 species of flowering plants, the type genus of the family Passifloraceae.
They are mostly tendril-bearing vines, with some being shrubs or trees. They can be woody or herbaceous. Passion flowers produce regular and usually showy flowers with a distinctive corona. There can be as many as eight coronal series, as in the case of P. xiikzodz. The flower is pentamerous and ripens into an indehiscent fruit with numerous seeds.
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It's always fascinating to watch all the snow blowing at the tops of the peaks. Wind gusts in our area before a storm front range from 40-60 mph, but above 12,000 ft, they are often in excess of 90-100 mph.
Happy Friday!!!
The cliff walls of the Höllental valley, one of the popular (and very steep) hiking ascents to the Rax mountain range.
Macro Mondays: Ribbon
Small bow of gold ribbon from a gift tag. What is showing here is 1.25" from top to bottom, including the negative space.
I just love the energy and goofiness of this excited shepherd that came bounding past us through the tide, tongue lolling out and paws flying. Oh to greet the day like that :-)
Super heavy duty poultry sheers for the Macro Mondays challenge: "Kitchen" Area shown is about 60mm wide.
Footpath though the port of Sheerness, leaves passers by in no doubt that they must stick to the path.
Skin: Glam Affair: Paola (C88)
Hair: Wings: EF0508 (C88)
Dress & Shirt: Amiable: Oversized sheer shirt & dress (C88)
Pose: Versuta: Wex
This started as a bit of playtime using Affinity on the iPaddle when on holiday, then morphed into a Sunday Sliders mangle.
The source image was a three-icm multiple exposure in-camera using the camera’s Lighten blend option. It’s of a rusty corrugated tin fence with a slight jiggle and two bigger horizontal ICM movements. The Lighten blend gave a curious mix of blurred horizontal and textured still lines which persist to the final version. The symmetry was corrected using a Perspective filter.
The result was processed twice, once in colour and once in high-contrast black and white. This latter monochrome layer was then blended back over the colour layer using Luminosity blend mode. All the colour came through but used the high contrast tonality of the B&W layer.
It’s not enough, I cried. (Or, more precisely, an ‘ I wonder what happens if…’ moment occurred.)
The crisscross was made by duplicating the resulting look and then rotating it (and resizing it to fit over the original). The rotated layer was blended over the original using Multiply which increased the contrast. The rest was just balancing the tones and colours and adding a slight light vignette.
Thanks for looking. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Sliders Sunday and 100x :)
WANNABE WARMER WEDNESDAY # 11
Photo from last June. The best part of summer for me is the Sandhill cranes who grace our backyard. They arrive in spring, hang around for a time and then disappear for a while into the wetlands out back to make their family, returning once finished. Sadly, although we KNOW that they hatch successfully because we've captured a glimpse of them, the colts never accompany the parents back to our yard. We think the coyotes that live out back manage to take them. So sad. We keep hoping that one day they'll arrive with colt(s) in tow. Maybe this will be the year? Fingers crossed.
They arrived here last Thursday and we were beyond surprised because we typically don't see them until April. Indications of an early spring???? I certainly hope so.