Tugs Taking the Strain
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...for victory.
One final shot from the Dragon Boat Races 2016. Didn't heed my own advice and came back for the finals, luckily brought a longer lens (and didn't schlepp my tripod to there).
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Spotted Pardalote straining to see something.
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This view did some very wonky things to my eyes so I figured it would make for an interesting shot. At first glance, the eyes are challenged as they strain to figure out what is being viewed. But, upon further inspection one can tell it is a snow lined shore with colored trees reflecting in the river. The combination of cold and warm colors also contributed to an interesting look.
Credits:
Body: Lara by Maitreya
Head: Uma by Catwa
Head Applier: Susanne new from Session @ eBENTO
Skin Tone: Tone01 from Session
Hair: Salma new from Sintiklia @ eBENTO
Dress: Kathia new from Avale @ Cosmopolitan
Footwear: Nicol new from Nanika @ The Chapter Four
Tattoo: Exquisite Perfume new from K-tarsis @ eBENTO
Pose and Weights: Celly Pose #1 new from Kokoro Poses @ eBENTO
Nikon D7000, Tokina 12-28. F stop small enough to show a million sensor spots. An old one, re-processed.
Pumped up with testosterone, the Red Deer stag has only one thing on its mind. Forgoing food, it fights off contenders, locking with them in a clash of antlers.
In such a stage of mind its a powerful and unpredictable beast. To photograph it I had to get fairly close, but didn't hang about too long. Seeing it attention was drawn to me, I withdraw to a safer place.
When the autumn rut is over, exhausted and battle weary, they reverts back to their calmer ways, to await another season. And so it is, the next generation is secured. Such is the cycle of life and the need to propagate the species. Long may it continue.
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A Great Blue Heron strains to get some momentum into a strong wind at the Shiawassee NWR on this evening, June, 2022. The "Shiawassee Flats" are a delta where the Flint, Cass, and Shiawassee Rivers converge before joining the Tittabawassee River to form the Saginaw River.
Image Created in Deep Dream Generator.New Background and Lighting effects in Photoshop.What Life may be like with a totally different Bio-Chemistry (not necessarily DNA)
Lake Vyrnwy is a reservoir in Powys, Wales, built in the 1880s for Liverpool Corporation Waterworks to supply Liverpool with fresh water. It flooded the head of the Vyrnwy valley and submerged the village of Llanwddyn.
Low-growing evergreen perennial native to subslpine southern Oregon and northern California.
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This is one of the groynes on Blyth Beach and something has obviously gone awry. I spotted it as I was trying to get a shot of the beach huts and thought that it might make for a good mono long exposure. However, when I got there the low sun was bouncing off the face of it so I thought a colour LE would work better.
I do want to go back when the tide is a little higher so I can get the end of the groyne disappearing into the North Sea.
IT 1501 northbound near Collinsville, Il. with a transfer from McKinley Yard to Federal Yard. (810220)*
Kodachrome by Jim Strain
The line "The True North strong and free" is based on Lord Tennyson's description of Canada as "that true North, whereof we lately heard / A strain to shame us". In the context of Tennyson's poem To the Queen, the word true means "loyal" or "faithful".
A line from Canada's national anthem; "O Canada" the national anthem of Canada.
Coast Mountains,
Ainu totem pole-like carvings,
Burnaby Mountain Conservation Area,
Park, Burnaby Mountain, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada