Hanging On

(From the Archives)

Ok so try as I might to do these as per online tutorials, I'm not admitting defeat but acknowledging the fact that with limited physical reserves that I must improvise. This was taken hand held with my right hand using in built flash , whilst holding the seed head in my left hand using tweezers against a background of a piece of blue card.

Lumut, Perak, Malaysia.

- Keefer Lake, Ontario, Canada -

Fibers upon fibers upon fibers, joined together to achieve a single goal. A little worse for wear after years in the sun, but they're still hanging in there!

New edit, memories

CREDITS HERE

Columbia River at the mouth of the Willamette, Kelly Point. Portland Oregon.

Olympus OM-10, Zuiko 50mm 1.8. Salvaged camera and lens. Cinestill 800 (damaged), lab processed and printed (BMC).

This plant growth is found the rope that secures a commercial fishing boat to its dock on the Sheboygan riverfront.

A dropped bulb doing the best it can.

Grape hyacinth.

This tree always impresses me. It grows straight out over a long, shear drop and somehow it hangs on.

New start, from the heart!

Put small feeders up to stop Rock Doves eating all the bird seed but they still try….

like a limpet I often find myself hanging on ... surviving the thrashing from the violent waves... awaiting calm and the hope the light brings...

Highest position in Explore #357

is not a montage, this tree was born and raised here.

"It takes an extraordinary fortitude to get out of bed every morning with the idea that life is a test and should be faced always, even when you are sure to have suffered a terrible injustice, and you are afraid of not succeeding." Massimo Gramellin

"Ci vuole una forza d’animo straordinaria per alzarsi dal letto ogni mattina con l’idea che la vita sia una prova e vada affrontata sempre, anche quando si è sicuri di avere subito un’ingiustizia terribile e si ha paura di non farcela."Massimo Gramellin

Olympus 35RC with Kodak T-Max 100 developed in Rodinal 1:50

www.kirtecarterfineartphotography.com

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116 Project

Dry - 32/116

20160217-ZAS_9407

the quality or fact of continuing to exist; persistence.

www.rosysideofthings.com/2018/05/tenacity.html

A line of Creosote Bush (Larrea tridentata) cast long shadows in the morning light as the sun brings out the texture in the Mesquite Dunes and the eroded northern shoulders of Tucki Mountain, Death Valley National Park, California. The temperature was delightful at this time of day, though it did not take long for the sun to pump the bellows and bring a heat that felt jarring given that 24 hours previously the temperatures in Colorado were just below freezing.

Creosote Bush is an interesting and extremely long-lived plant. Careful research has revealed that its roots are the source of compounds that actively inhibit the growth of other plants' roots. In arid environments this trait likely provides an edge as individuals scour the soil for available moisture. This species is also clonal and the clones may form rings that expand with increasing diameter as the clone ages. The oldest known clone lives in the Mojave desert and through a combination of radio-carbon dating and diameter measurements, over 60 feet at the widest point, it is estimated to be between 11,000-12,000 years old.

"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door." Milton Berle

(Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany)

Now I am a shadow

I long for the boundaries

of my wandering

and I move

with the energy of your prayer

and I move

in the direction of your prayer

for you are kneeling

like a bouquet

in a cave of bone

behind my forehead

and I move toward a love

you have dreamed for me.

~ Leonard Cohen

Nikon D850, Nikkor 14-24mm @ 24mm

f/5.6, 1/50s, ISO 64

These few leaves near the truck hang on while the rest of the tree becomes quite bare.

January 16 2024; Zurich ZRH

Seeing the Russian winter

#BogKY #Shrovetide #Omsk #Western_Siberia

Additional photos are at the Russian-language hosting in the album fotki.yandex.ru/users/bogky/album/2063408

Tech.details-brief: Sony Alpha 7 / ILCE-7 (FF)(ISO500), Sony LA-EA3 + Tamron AF 75-300mm 1:4-5.6 LD Tele-Macro(210mm f/5), 1/800s, +0.7ev.; RAW

Here is the direct link to this photo at the hosting with full EXIF, GPS tag, large size, etc.

fotki.yandex.ru/next/users/bogky/album/2063408/fullscreen...

Rus.: Упорство

Фон на данном и некоторых других фото может ввести в заблуждение из-за зелёных деревьев. Но это - ёлки, они и зимой зелёные, в нижней части заметен снег, а температура в последний день масленицы была хоть и сравнительно комфортной для Сибири, но вполне себе отрицательной: -5...-7, так что герои репортажа выдержали испытание не только на физическую силу и ловкость, но и на устойчивость к холоду ;-)

Дополнительные фото доступны на русскоязычном хостинге в альбоме по ссылке fotki.yandex.ru/users/bogky/album/2063408

Stone Mountain State Park - North Carolina

Explored December 29 - #497. Thanks everyone :-)

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2022.04.15

Rotterdam

Name INTERLINK TENACITY

Type Bulk carrier

Flag Marshall Islands

IMO 9709257

MMSI 538005693

Callsign V7GD3

Year Built 2016

Length 179 m

Width 32 m

Draught Avg 8.8 m / ...

Speed Avg/Max 16.3 kn

Deadweight 38785 tons

Gross Tonnage 25546

AIS Class A

This old cypress tree looks like it's survived some harsh times, but is still holding on. Atchafalya Basin, Louisiana, USA, November 2020

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This was taken on the Zia Reservation a few miles outside Albuquerque, New Mexico. There is enough soil and moisture in the porous rock that this tree is able to survive. Nature is truly marvelous.

All night, and well into the next day, the wind and rain had pounded the croft house where we were staying. It finally relented in the late afternoon; giving us an hour or two to make use of what light was left in the day.

Water is transformative. It has helped shape the land here; in turns nibbling at the edges or guzzling like a hungry man at a feast. Driving channels down the hillsides surrounding us and pouring into the fields below; an ever-present reminder of the forces of nature at work.

The small burn we’d crossed two days before was now swollen and unrecognizable. Surging and tossing its way through Achateny to the sea beyond. Sodden and dripping, on this afternoon the fields show little sign of the fiery past which gave them their name.

Under the grey sky, the colours of the waterfall come to life. Rich caramels and browns, mixed in with creamy, frothy whites; blackened rocks and, here and there, a flicker of green from plants caught under the flow. A few tentatively stick their heads above, supplicant to the water yet steadfastly staying in place. Tenacity and persistence, apt words for what is needed to live in this place.

Created in DDG Text 2 Dream using its "Artistic" Ai model.

Filters: PS Beta 2023 and Topaz Photo Ai and Topaz Studio.

My inspiration was Edinei Montingelli's two beautiful works here: www.flickr.com/photos/edinei/51333944410/in/faves-5788981...

www.flickr.com/photos/edinei/52674223462/in/faves-5788981...

I used the prompt: A beautiful Woman cornered by the hat and the fish in a surreal landscape as a tree with a beautiful face and fashionable shoes next to a compliment of necessary accoutrements.

A bit of hand painting.

Thanks for your visit, faves, and kind comments.

This is the scene of slow but age-old struggle: the tenacious tree is probing and poking the rock for cracks and fissures to exploit, while the rock - which probably predates the dinosaurs - holds steadfast and has seen it all before. The tree outgrows its support system and tumbles, to be taken by the sea at the end of this narrow pathway. However, the hardy tree's root-system lives on to sprout a new shoot heading for the light, and the struggle continues.

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