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Common Moorhen / gallinula chloropus. Kirk Hallam, Derbyshire. 27/02/21.
An easy to recognise individual because of the scarring on it's red forehead plate. Maybe the result of a fight with another bird or perhaps a physical defect/disease? It did seem rather lethargic despite it's bright eyes, so maybe an old bird?
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Common Redshank / tringa totanus. 12/04/19.
Although it looks dead on it’s feet, I can assure you this Redshank wasn’t! It’s just the angle of it’s head in my image.
Favouring a small muddy island near the edge of a pool, it patrolled tirelessly probing for food. I had hoped it would move closer but it stuck to it’s self imposed limits. They are extremely wary, nervous birds in my experience.
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Happy Cliché Saturday ♥
Two birthday gift bracelets; a pearl Thomas Sabo bracelet with two charms from my mum, and another pretty one from my friend Lucy.
Anyone that knows me knows I have been desperate to try and work out how to use textures … I think the penny has just dropped. A big thank you to Michelle all the support she has given me and thank you to Sophie for this beautiful vintage postcard texture ♥
Jewellery, shallow dof, extreme bokeh, a soft vignette and a vintage postcard texture …. How cliché can one shot get?
Apologies for my lack of flickr time recently, there is so much going on …. my son is getting married next Saturday (I am taking the photos for them), Miss A has dancing exams the following day … and that is just the beginning … normal service will resume soon I hope!
Any advice to improve my texture technique would be welcome ♥
Looks better in lightbox (type L)
Black-headed Gull / larus ridibundus. Derbyshire. 01/08/18.
Their breeding season over for another year, the Black-headed Gulls are beginning to build in number at my local lake. For birds that breed in colonies and live in large winter flocks, they never seem short of something to complain about. This moulting adult was claiming its patch raucously and seeing off all comers who fancied muscling in!
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Black-headed Gull / larus ridibundus. Brancaster, Norfolk. 29/09/15.
Catching some rays from the late afternoon sunshine.
I always like the look of these gulls towards the end of a day when the light is soft and gives them a kind of glow.
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b&w dupe
1973
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garden bay, bc, canada
1971
young boy holding a small fish
part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf
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Image-use requests are welcome via flickrmail or nickdewolfphotoarchive [at] gmail [dot] com
Nymphaeaceae /ˌnɪmfiːˈeɪsiː/ is a family of flowering plants. Members of this family are commonly called water lilies and live as rhizomatous aquatic herbs in temperate and tropical climates around the world. The family contains eight large-flowered genera with about 70 species. The genus Nymphaea contains about 35 species in the Northern Hemisphere. The genus Victoria contains two species of giant water lilies endemic to South America. Water lilies are rooted in soil in bodies of water, with leaves and flowers floating on the surface. The leaves are round, with a radial notch in Nymphaea and Nuphar, but fully circular in Victoria.
Water lilies are a well studied clade of plants because their large flowers with multiple unspecialized parts were initially considered to represent the floral pattern of the earliest flowering plants, and later genetic studies confirmed their evolutionary position as basal angiosperms. Analyses of floral morphology and molecular characteristics and comparisons with a sister taxon, the family Cabombaceae, indicate, however, that the flowers of extant water lilies with the most floral parts are more derived than the genera with fewer floral parts. Genera with more floral parts, Nuphar, Nymphaea, Victoria, have a beetle pollination syndrome, while genera with fewer parts are pollinated by flies or bees, or are self- or wind-pollinated Thus, the large number of relatively unspecialized floral organs in the Nymphaeaceae is not an ancestral condition for the clade.
The Huntington Library and Botanic Gardens. San Marino. California.
So, you remember there was going to be cherries three ways...
Somehow, these days, there's always a hiccup between idea and execution. But still. Look at the lovely glossy cherries. That's a whole lot of stones to spit in graceful arcs into the trash / out of the window / at your dinner companion. Whatever you prefer. There really is no elegant way to deal with cherry stones. You want elegance, you need to pick a non stoned fruit. Or, indeed, a bar of chocolate. (Yeah, sorry, losing my thread there.)
So, I'm kind of thinking about building a photography website (a very loose use of the word building there), and wonder if any of you have recommendations about either good photography template websites or tips on doing it yourself. Any and all ideas gratefully received. Pretty please. :)
My favourite tulips for "Things I love Thursdays"
Not mine!
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All the these photographs are the property of the talented photographers listed and linked below. I hope you take the time to explore their photostreams because they are chock full of incredible photos. Enjoy.
1. Grapes in the Vase, 2. Lucky (Week 27/52 Weeks) ~ Explore!, 3. flowers, 4. Vintage Magnolia, 5. morning light, 6. 144/365: Happy as the grass was green, 7. Slice of Lime?, 8. green flowers 5579, 9. simple plant, 10. Broccoli and cheese soup, 11. Shades of green, 12. Sugar, Flour, Salt, Pepper 03.24.09, 13. Where are the songs I used to know, 14. “Simple pleasures are always the last refuge of the complex.”, 15. I will make you a cake, 16. Alone, 17. Untitled, 18. duet, 19. Breakfast, 20. 365/70: Whispery White & Green, 21. There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love., 22. I don't like pears, 23. Happy Gorgeous Green Thursday!, 24. Pears, 25. Expensive Milk
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snowy fountain thanks to monkeywing via snips
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Getting this shot was not easy and it was impossible to get the backdrop of the water and island behind that i was hoping for, but the summer foliage of the woodland actually helped to pick out the birds outline.
~Stevie Smith~
01.08.09
It seemed logical to introduce a spot of negative space to the drowning theme. Couldn't quite get my hair to behave, but there you go... You try getting this lot on top of a washing machine. ;)
Here's to a less stiflingly uninspired month. (For all of our sakes!) :)
For MSH's freedom of art. It doesn't get much freer than that.
Mount Olivet Cemetery - Nashville, TN.
View On BlackHighly Recommended.
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04.08.2009
For High Key FGR and TOTW's ROY G BIV done in the style of SophieG*.
Not very original I know but I don't really own much orange and I'm shattered. I think I'm coming down with something - there's been loads of suspected cases of swine flu at work but they keep turning out to be something else. So the chances are I've caught the current cold. Bah!
I do struggle with high key. I do however believe that high key images should have no black in them. They're not a bright high contrast shot as the majority think. So I might not be the most popular shot today, but at least I know I tried to do it right :)
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Common Kingfisher / alcedo atthis. Private site, Derbyshire. 03/08/15.
Female Kingfisher caught having her obligatory shake after swallowing a minnow!
I quite like the movement captured between her beak and feet but would be interested to read what viewers think. All comments welcomed.
Common Moorhen / gallinula chloropus. Kirk Hallam, Derbyshire. 03/08/20.
'IF AT FIRST YOU DON'T SUCCEED ... '
I've noticed each Spring that either Coots or Moorhens claim exclusive nesting rights on this partially submerged Willow stump. Sadly, their actual breeding success is never great since it is dangerously close to a busy footpath and open to disturbance or vandalism.
This year a pair of Moorhens bagged the stump but as usual, their first nest got destroyed. I didn't think they would try the spot again in 2020, but when I visited in early August this is the sight I was treated to. If viewed large, you will see a well grown chick peeping out from under the adult's feathers. Wonderful to see that a second attempt had been made ... and successfully too :-))
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Water Rail / rallus aquaticus. Attenborough, Nottinghamshire. 20/03/18.
'A SLEEPY TEASE'.
When I arrived at Attenborough one of the Water Rails was showing, busily searching for food at the dry end of the channel in rank vegetation. The area is almost directly below the footbridge leading to the Visitor Centre so doesn't offer a good PoV for image making.
Eventually it dashed along the right hand side of the channel to the edge of the gravel pit where it settled. Partially hidden by brambles and dead stems, it obviously felt safe. Puffing out its feathers it had a prolonged sleep, teasing its expectant audience.
In this image you can see the eye is almost completely covered by the nictitating membrane.
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Even through the screen of stems, it's red beak gave its position away! I kept an eye on it for over an hour and was eventually rewarded with more feeding action out in the open.
Created for Textures for Layers Challenge #78: Cigar Box Thank you, Telzey, for the original image :)
With thanks to pareeerica for a-one and a-two of her textures, and to Skeletal Mess and to SophieG for their textures. Also, thank you, pepo, at sxc for the guitar player.
Green Sandpiper / tringa ochropus. Old Moor, S. Yorkshire. 19/08/15.
Plenty of these around the reserve when I visited. Noisy, flighty and fussy as ever.... although this one was the exception to the rule. It spent over two hours working its way back and forth in front of the hide, feeding all the while.
This guy has been working hard in the shallow water for quite some time, hence the sides of his neck and head are stained by mud and the dirty seaweed.
Now that Wordless Wednesday is over...
Textures by playingwithbrushes, les brumes, this letter texture and florabella's vinyette.
Phew, I can talk again! ;)
Gorgeous photos from talented photographers. Thank you..
All the these photographs are the property of the photographers listed and linked below. I hope you take the time to explore their photostreams because they are chock full of incredible photos. Enjoy.
1. looking for light.., 2. ., 3. Summer Flowers on White Linen, 4. blue plumbago, 5. happy blue, 6. Cup of Bluebells, 7. Lovely, 8. */ */ */ *, 9. 136/365: Don't forget to remember, 10. Cosy Prison, 11. blue 4 textured, 12. it's twins!, 13. Blue Hydranga Still Life, 14. Sweet Scabious, 15. “Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved.”, 16. Untitled, 17. Corydalis Blue Heron, 18. Something blue., 19. 6.07.09, 20. Siberian Iris, 21. bottled memories, 22. cute blue flowers, 23. ~, 24. c o n t e n t, 25. */ */ */ *
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It's only now that I notice something red on the terns wing/neck it looks like a piece of red tap or perhaps a fishing lure. whatever it is, it's not good news for the bird.
However it doesn't seem to have impeded its ability to hunt for food.
Panoramic pictures are not my specialty. However the scenario at Copşa Mică impressed me very much. It was apocalyptic indeed. Many Thanks to SophieG for the texture www.flickr.com/photos/-smallfish-/4136059949/in/set-72157...
Textures by SophieG - www.flickr.com/photos/-smallfish-/4176231585/ and
encounter - Laura: