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Love and solitude are the one ground of true maturity and freedom. Solitude that is just solitude and nothing else (i.e. excludes everything else but solitude) is worthless. True solitude embraces everything, for it is the fullness of love that rejects nothing and no one, is open to All in All
-Merton’s journal, April 14, 1966
This is the spillway or weir on the Glenbeulah mill pond. This was built to raise the level of the Mullet River for the grist mill that was there for decades, but no longer is in use. The caramel-colored river water gives the waterfall lovely streaks as it spills over the dam.
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-- Nikon D600
-- Nikkor 24-70E
-- handheld
-- 0.8 of a second
-- 36mm focal length
-- f/8
-- ISO 100
-- Glenbeulah, Wisconsin
-- autumn, October 19, 2019
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A calm day for 937, which is just an empty coal train today. The Midland Line hopper on its way to Hillside workshops for repairs.
Train 937, 31 March 2021, DXB 5022 + DC 4012, Merton-SIMT-NZ
It's interesting how much our behaviours are affected by those around us. When I go out shooting by myself, I don't notice that this lens can't focus to infinity. This time I was out with Theen, and she was running around with her very long pocket camera lens. Suddenly I was looking at subjects in the distance, and my lens was not up to the task – I had to make a special effort to do something that would normally be second nature; find close-up subjects.
I photographed this Smooth-billed Ani (Crotophaga ani) near La Macarena, Meta, Colombia, in February 2021. It is very social and always found in noisy groups. Several pairs build one nest together, a deep cup of twigs lined with leaves, and the females lay their eggs in it and share incubation and feeding; nests with up to 29 eggs have been found. Its flight is weak and wobbly, but it runs well and feeds mostly on the ground, and it has benefited greatly from deforestation. IUCN lists it as Least Concern.
I made this frame with a Canon R5 and the RF 100-500mm f/4.5-7.1L, at 1/3000 sec, f/6.7, ISO 3200. Flooded forest covers about 13 percent of La Macarena National Park, mostly along the Guayabero River.
©2021 Adam Rainoff Photographer
La Ceja, Colombia; Central Andes, 2.300 meters above sea level.
Crotophaga ani (Smooth-billed Ani / Garrapatero)
The Smooth-billed Ani is a widespread resident of scrub and forest clearings from the Caribbean and Costa Rica south to Uruguay and northern Argentina; it also occurs in south Florida, although the population there has declined significantly there in recent years. Smooth-billed Anis live in small flocks and eat a variety of insects, small vertebrates and fruit.
Neotropical Birds Online: neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/portal/species/overview?p_p...
one morning in Banff national park
Genesis 1.2 And the earth was without form, and void , and darkness was upon the face of the deep .
And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters .
( did you ever realize that the earth was in existence before the sun and stars ? )
I decided to shoot this one with a long exposure to try to beautify the raging torrents of water that were passing beside me.
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Photo taken at Rosendals Trädgård, a garden open to the public situated on Djurgården, west of Rosendal Palace, in the central part of Stockholm, Sweden.
Symphyotrichum laeve (Smooth blue aster)
Symphyotrichum laeve (formerly Aster laevis) is a flowering plant native to Canada and the United States.
The flower heads are arranged in clusters (panicles). Each flower head has 13 to 23 ray florets with pale to dark blue or purple petals (laminae), and 19 to 33 disc florets that start out yellow and eventually turn purplish-red. The whole flowerhead measures 13 to 25 millimeters (1⁄2 to 1 in) across.