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The past few days, my garden has been aflutter with these beautiful creatures... the minute I see them, I run out with my camera in hopes to spot one of mine that I tagged... or one from another area.... but so far I haven't.... but that doesn't stop me from taking tons of pictures!!
We all have signs that tell us spring is here. For some, it is the red-winged blackbird calling or the sweet smell of the thawing earth. The sight of trout lilies poking through last autumn’s leaves is surely a sign for others.
The name “Trout lily” is derived from the resemblance of its mottled leaves to the colouring on brook trout.
Native to Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia Trout Lily grows in huge colonies that can completely cover a forest floor. The colonies can be hundreds of years old and takes a long time to grow to such a size. Its bulbs are sterile up to about the seventh year and then it produces only one leaf and no flowers. When they mature one plant will grow two leaves and one, beautiful yellow flower. The colony spreads mostly by runners and less importantly by seed. Trout lilies have a symbiotic relationship with ants known as myrmecochory. This means that they exchange a lipid-rich appendage on their seeds in return for an ant seed dispersal that spreads the colony and protects the seeds from predation. This plant is a beautiful spring ephemeral meaning it is short-lived in the spring only.
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Taken while having a morning stroll at Panawuan - Cilimus, West Java - Indonesia in Feb 2020.
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I caught this Black-crowned night heron landing in the cattails and reeds before he tucked its wings. Last evening we watched a sunset and we saw more black-crowned night herons than at any time before, they were lying in wait.
With the wings extended, todays plow crew attacks one last cut before arriving in Rosholt. Despite the drifts, only two passes were needed.
Remember the Rangers in the previous foto? Well these school children from SMK (P) Kapar happened to join our group and they were all standing at the spot where the Rangers were looking for stragglers. Usually the Muslim girls wear 'tudung' (scarf) when they go out from their house. The girls were actually waving to their teacher who was using a compact camera. Take a guess what the result would be on the teacher's camera. I was using a powerful flash gun for this at 1/8 power.
As you can see here, I managed to 'spread the light' until the background by using Lightroom's Fill Light and Recovery. Because I shot in RAW, I managed to present the true colours (a bit vivid for effect) of their dress and scarf. Then, I transferred to Corel PSP-X2 for sharpenning and noise removal and final editing. Wonderful a good software can do for you!
Little as they are, when a bigger bird passed he spread his wings to make sure that he showed he was not be messed with :-)!
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Operating with the 20th Expeditionary Bomb Group, US Air Force Boeing B-52H Stratofortress 60-0024/LA caught on finals to land back at Fairford after a 'Baltops' tasking as 'Pharo 20'
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antipasto di terra, fettuccine al cinghiale, maialino al forno, patate e verdura cotta, vino a fiumi, ciambelline al vin santo, fragole e panna, grappa caffe', e poi spalmato sul prato!
appetizer of land, fettuccine wild boar, pig baked, potatoes and cooked vegetables, wine rivers, doughnuts to vin santo, strawberries and cream, coffee brandy ', and then spread on the lawn!
At full spread.
Eagle banking after picking up a fish from the Susquehanna River in Maryland.
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A Bald Eagle with its wings spread out as it banks in front of me in search of its next meal.
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Spread your wings and fly away
fly away far away
spread your little wings and fly away
fly away far away
pull yourself together
'cos you know you should do better
that's because you're a free man
(The Queen, Spread your wings)
On the morning of March 30, under cloudless blue skies, extensive contrail formation occurred over western Nebraska and southeast Wyoming (Flyover routes). Most contrails expanded to form delicate cirrocumulus formations that lasted for several hours.
I upload a time lapse of this event at: www.flickr.com/photos/79387036@N07/51982474923/in/datepos....
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