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American goldfinch, Rondeau Provincial Park, June 17, 2023.
Singing his heart out.
Spinus tristis.
Paired-up goldfinches make virtually identical flight calls; goldfinches may be able to distinguish members of various pairs by these calls.
source -Cornell Lab of Ornithology
The singer sings his songs for tips and beer and outside of that loves his dog.
Men who do beards. A project I've been thinking of doing for a long time.
In the Art Gallery, "The Singer" by Tori WrĂĄnes.
We are so lucky in Oslo, Thursdays, free admission to art museums, galleries day :)
Photo by John, I am taking a close up of the Singer.
The part of this exhibition was the dimming lights, they kept coming and going at random.
The Anteater chat or Northern Anteater-chat (Myrmecocichla aethiops) is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. Its range extends across the Sahel and the East African montane forests. Its natural habitats are dry savanna, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, and subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland.
Plumage is blackish-brown throughout, with bases of flight-feathers extensively white (showing strongly in flight); bill and legs black. Sexes similar, female marginally paler. Juvenile is like adult, but throat and breast buff-edged. Race sudanensis is smaller and paler than nominate; cryptoleuca is longer-winged and darker.
This beautiful Anteater Chat was seen singing her heart out on a Photography Safari during a late evening game drive in Lake Nakuru National Park, Kenya.
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walking down the Corniche and enjoying the cityscape...
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BRIGHT LIGHTS everywhere!
That's the city. And a completely different to the desert with the endless sky and bright stars at night
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This lovely Yellow-throated Longclaw was sitting on the roadside early in the morning and singing it's heart out trying to impress the females in the vicinity.
Photographed in the Mara Triangle, Transmara, Maasai Mara Game Reserve, Kenya.
CAREFUL! Cars...
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finally! Here they are! The city they were heading to: Abu Dhabi
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But careful! The city is not the desert and the piggies have to get used to so many cars and people
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can't be so far away anymore, the city they were heading for....
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Music Monday - Jan 16th 2016
Been a while since I've done something for the
Music Monday Group...
This is sort of a carry over from Christmas...
And will be a late inclusion to my December Diary...
Pre Christmas birthday treat to myself...
Concert ticket to see Nick Cave this Wednesday Jan 18th..
AND his latest CD Skeleton Tree
Tickets went on sale in November...
I was so excited... I would never miss him in concert!
This will be the 5th time!!! %-)
My lovely niece Bronwyn...
brought me the most AWESOME present for Christmas too...
Comfort Eating With Nick Cave:
Vegan Recipes to Get Inside of You
I'd never heard of it... so was blown away when I open the present...
Wonderful recipes and Fantastic images complied and created by a dedicated fan...
My little Skeleton Christmas Tree was also inspired by Bronwyn...
As it was how her Christmas Tree was decorated this year...
Brilliant!!! Thanks you Bronwyn for the lovely present and inspiration... You know me well.... xox
OK... A few music links of some faves... Where do I stop! LOL!
Are You the one That I've been Waiting For
Breathless (A sweet little song I'd like to dedicate to Bronwyn)
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This lovely Rufous-naped Lark is seen all over Kenya and in particular Nairobi National Park. They are mostly seen in tall grass collecting seeds to take back to there nests.
On a rare occasion they are seen out in the open singing early in the morning.
Photographed in the Nairobi National Park, Kenya the only National Park in the world within a city where four of the Big Five can be seen roaming free.
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desert. endless sand. open range. untouched.
UNTIL NOW...
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enjoying watching the races from their VIP seats...
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watching the best race camels on the course
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approaching the Million Street, this is where they normally belong to....
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race camel course - VIP Lounge
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what' behind the next dune? water? or even more sand?
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a last good bye before the piggies have to carry on on their way to Abu Dhabi...
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finally, after a long flight the piggies have arrived in the desert
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Somehow or other this crept past my other photos to become the first, though it's now slipped down to second; with more than 34,000 views. Um... hooray? Just wish I knew more about those 34,000 statistically, but the Stats on Flickr are pretty crappy. Most of them don't even tell you which exact links people are clicking on to view the images.
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At the risk of repeating myself, here are two photos I uploaded earlier, only now I've combined them and added a tint. Not to make them look like sepia, but as it says in the title, to simulate the brown wax coating that had been applied as a preservative before these public domain photos were taken. In the combined version I've adjusted the scale of the two images so the girl's height, head to foot, is the same in both.
The Tate now has a fascinating set of articles discussing Ford's Singer and Applause and their context within British art and Ancient Egyptian influences thereupon.
www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/edward-onslow-ford
The original greyscale versions of these pictures are here:
www.flickr.com/photos/65986072@N00/4976739351/
www.flickr.com/photos/65986072@N00/4976739359/
And for the record, here's the text that accompanied those images:
"Just as a small addendum to my photos of The Singer at the Tate Britain gallery, I'm including two images from antique art books. Bear in mind that for many years these photos, and maybe one or two others that I haven't found yet, were the only images of this amazing statue available *anywhere*. To the best of my knowledge these black and white images are in the public domain due to their age.
"I have painstakingly whited out the original light grey background and adjusted the contrast for clarity.
"If you look carefully, you'll see that the old photos show a couple of small features that have since been lost or broken. The more obvious one is the spiralling spike on top of the ibis's crown at the base of the harp. More subtly, the uppermost tip of the harp itself is no longer there today. I don't think those are huge problems in terms of the statue's aesthetic value, though it would be nice if they could be replaced.
"You can also see that in the right-hand photo some of the harpstrings are bent. In the left-hand photo most of them have been straightened, and of course they were all fixed by the time I took the colour images.
"It's also worth noting that at the time these photos were taken the statue's polychrome decoration was concealed by a protective layer of brown wax. It was not until the 1990s that the Tate's restoration team were able to restore it to the state in which it appears in the colour photos."
I originally posted a version of this photo here, but I'd always been a bit bothered by how dark it looked so I decided to have another go at adjusting the colour and contrast, and here it is.
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This angle just happens to be similar to one of the vintage photos I posted earier...
www.flickr.com/photos/65986072@N00/8726662216/
...so I've posted a direct comparison here: