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Switzerland, May 2021
My best photos are here: www.lacerta-bilineata.com/ticino-best-photos-of-southern-...
My latest ANIMAL VIDEO (warning, it's a bit shocking): www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T2-Xszz7FI
You find a selection of my 80 BEST PHOTOS (mostly not yet on Flickr) here: www.lacerta-bilineata.com/western-green-lizard-lacerta-bi... (the website exists in ESPAÑOL, FRANÇAIS, ITALIANO, ENGLISH, DEUTSCH)
ABOUT THE PHOTO:
So this photo is a bit of a novelty for me - at least here on Flickr, but it's also a journey back in time in a sense. I've always loved b/w and sepia photography; already as a very young teenager I would go out into the woods with an old Pentax Spotmatic (which I had nicked from my father) whenever it was a foggy day to shoot b/w compositions of sunbeams cutting through the ghostlike trees.
I used films with a sensitivity of at least 1600 (for those of you who remember what that means 😉 ), and the resulting photos had an incredibly fine grain which I loved; I blew them up to the size of posters and hung them on the walls of my teenage man-cave next to Hendrix, Jim Morrison and Slash.
But then I abandoned photography altogether for 20 years, and when I finally picked up a camera again, it was one of the digital kind. Now neither film nor grain played any role in my photographic endeavours - let alone b/w compositions: because the reason I fell in love with shooting pictures once more was the rare and incredibly colorful lizard species that had chosen my garden as its habitat.
It's this species - the Lacerta bilineata aka the western green lizard - that my photo website www.lacerta-bilineata.com/ and also my Flickr gallery are dedicated to, but I've since expanded that theme a bit so that it now comprises the whole Lacerta bilineata habitat, which is to say my garden and its immediate surroundings and all the flora and fauna I find in it.
I like that my gallery and the website have this clear theme, because in order to rise to the challenge of portraying all aspects of a very specific little eco system (which also happens to be my home of sorts), it forces me to constantly explore it from fresh angles, and I keep discovering fascinating new motives as my photographic journey continues.
Which brings me to the horse pasture you see in this photo. This playground for happy horsies lies just outside my garden, and it normally only interests me insofar as my green reptile friends claim parts of it as their territory, and I very much prefer it to be horseless (which it thankfully often is).
Not that the horses bother the reptiles - the lizards don't mind them one bit, and I've even seen them jump from the safety of the fly honeysuckle shrub which the pasture borders on right between the deadly looking hooves of the horses to forage for snails, without any sign of fear or even respect.
No, the reason I have a very conflicted relationship with those horses is that they are mighty cute and that there's usually also foals. The sight of those beautiful, happy animals jumping around and frolicking (it's a huge pasture and you can tell the horses really love it) is irresistible: and that inevitably attracts what in the entire universe is known as the most destructive anti-matter and ultimate undoing of any nature photographer: other humans.
Unlike with the horses, the lizards ARE indeed very much bothered by specimens of loud, unpredictable Homo sapiens sapiens - which makes those (and by extension also the horses) the cryptonite of this here reptile photographer. It's not the horses' fault, I know that, but that doesn't change a thing. I'm just telling you how it is (and some of you might have read about the traumatic events I had to endure to get a particular photo - if not, read at your own risk here: www.flickr.com/photos/191055893@N07/51405389883/in/datepo... - which clearly demonstrated that even when it's entirely horseless, that pasture is still a threat for artistic endeavours).
But back to the photo. So one morning during my vacation back in May I got up quite early. It had rained all night, and now the fog was creeping up from the valley below to our village just as the sky cleared up and the morning sun started to shine through the trees.
And just as I did when I was a teenager I grabbed my camera and ran out to photograph this beautiful mood of ghostlike trees and sunbeams cutting through the mist. There had already been such a day a week earlier (which is when I took this photo: www.flickr.com/photos/191055893@N07/51543603732/in/datepo... ), but this time, the horses were also there.
Because of our slightly strained relationship I only took this one photo of them (I now wish I had taken more: talk about missed opportunities), and otherwise concentrated on the landscape. It was only later when I went through all the photos on my computer that I realized that I actually really liked those horses, even despite the whole composition being such a cliché. And I realized another thing: when I drained the photo of all the color, I liked it even better - because there was almost a bit of grain in it, like in the photos from my youth.
Since then I have experimented quite a bit with b/w and sepia compositions (some of which I will upload here eventually I guess), but this photo here is the first one that helped me rediscover my old passion. I hope you like it even though it builds quite a stark contrast with the rest of my tiny - and very colorful - gallery. But in the spirit of showing you the whole Lacerta bilineata habitat (and also in the spirit of expanding my gallery a bit beyond lizards and insects), I think it's not such a bad fit.
As always, many greetings to all of you, have a wonderful day and don't hesitate to let me know what you think 😊
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Bauakademie, Karl-Friedrich Schinkel
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youtu.be/_3eC35LoF4U. - Talking Heads - Burning Down the House
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Another Citroen Type H coffee wagon. In my stream, there are other photos of a similar but nicer one in Edinburgh.
All is quiet and peaceful up here tonight - Just the twinkle of a star.
We're lucky, there's no talk of Star Wars in our Galaxy but there's so much satellite clutter that your Blue Planet is almost invisible.
Best viewed in lightbox, on full screen and definitely in the dark!
Take care and many thanks for exploring MySpace,
E.T. (courtesy of kittymax; such a lovely earthling )
P.S. The picture has notes. If you can't see them, going to lightbox and back again should do the trick. It's simply a Flickr quirk.
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The turkey is a funny bird
Its head goes bobble-bobble;
And all he knows is just one word.....
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Colour version of the lone mangrove tree. Thanks for viewing
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Do not hold evil in your heart.
Although they judged you very easily,
even if you were just a joke
Stop for just a moment, weep for the past
and then stand on your feet.
Υou were and you will be alone.
Where love enters, hatred does not fit.
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GUANABO, Cuba
• Guanabo, a charming little town where the last of the Playas del Este stretches. Founded by the Spaniards on July 26 1803, Guanabo is located 25 km east of Havana, Cuba.
• Guanabo, une charmante petite ville où s'étend la dernière des Playas del Este. Fondée par les Espagnols, le 26 Juillet, 1803, Guanabo est située à 25 km à l'est de La Havane, Cuba.
• Guanabo, una pequeña ciudad encantadora donde la última de las Playas del Este se extiende. Fundada por los españoles 26 de julio de 1803, Guanabo se encuentra a 25 km al este de La Habana, Cuba.
Juxaposition or People and Posters
This is a collection of Graffiti or Posters, some with, some without ‘The Human Being’. I have photographed over a long period of time. There is also some awesome graffiti out there and all I have done is to record it. To the artists I take my hat off to you and have much regret when your work is vandalised. To the poster makers and poster stickers, keep up the good work. To the people, all I say is, just keep on moving around.
The Talking Heads
2nd Man: Can you smell the chocolate?
1st Man: No, I can’t even smell my own name.
SOOC photo of the skyscraper "The Shard" ( on the left) and a reflection in glass of 20 Fenchurch Street a.k.a the Walkie Talkie (on the right). Added some contrasts and texture so that the clouds stand out more.
"The Shard (opened in 2012) is another of London’s most famous skyscrapers. Renzo Piano, its designer, is said to have been inspired by London’s railway lines when building this 72 floor behemoth"
Opened in 2014, the 34-floor building (Walkie-Talkie) was designed by Uruguayan architect Rafael Viñoly
London, UK
Ceci est une photo du gratte-ciel "The Shard" (à gauche) avec un reflet dans une vitre. Le reflet à droite est l'édifice "20 Fenchurch Street" alias le talkie-walkie.
HSS
Can you see the speakers piping nature sounds to (quite successfully) attract birds? Exploration Green, a newly developed nature habitat in the middle of suburban Clear Lake, Houston, Texas.
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Tout le monde connait les "points par pouce".
Ici point de pouce, mais une discussion...
Eh, c'pas tous les jours qu'on invente une nouvelle unité de résolution...
...Mais quel genre de résolution ? Celles de la nouvelle année ? :-))
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