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Those who know me personally will know I have a little van and like to travel around the UK for my photography. I recently spent some time in Brecon and West Wales for just under two weeks. And I really loved spending time focusing on photography again. Just getting through some of the pictures now and so I have lots of wildlife and landscapes stories to come. :)
This Image is from the first night where I walked up Pen Y Fan. I set off at 1am and only reached the peak at 6am as I was too distracted taking pictures of the stars on the way up! But I was just in time for a beautiful sunrise. :) It was seriously an amazing walk in the night and would highly recommend to anyone.
Having some problems with photoshop at the moment and it seems to not work or crash when I'm using it anyone else having problems?
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"Those Christmas lights,
Light up the street,
Down where the sea and city meet.
May all your troubles soon be gone,
Oh, Christmas lights keep shining on."
Lyrics from "Christmas Lights" (2011) written by Christopher Anthony John Martin, Guy Rupert Berryman, William Champion and Jonathan Mark Buckland, performed by Coldplay.
The theme for "Looking Close on Friday" for the 27th of December is "festive lighting". This year for Christmas a dear friend gave me some lovely glass ornaments for my Christmas tree, including one of Big Ben. I decided to highlight it by surrounding it with colourful Christmas lights given to me by another, very dear friend, last Christmas. Together I think they make for a striking image. I hope you like my choice of subject for this week's them, and that it makes you smile.
As this is the last "Looking Close on Friday" before the New Year, I should just like to take this opportunity to wish everyone in the group a very happy New Year. May the year ahead be filled with happiness and joy for you all.
“Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” —Henry James
My heart sways with the tall Summer grasses. ~ Me
Soon enough they will wither like grass, like green herbs fading in summer’s heat. Psalm 37:2
The grass withers, the flower fades; nothing lasts except the word of our God. It will stand forever. Isaiah 40:8
Han River Park, Seoul, years before the pandemic. God shines with His creativity, among 13 million people, among the cars, the steel, the concrete. . .
Against those who rejoice in every dogmatic definition as a new limitation which restricts the meaning of such and such a dogma to what is contained in this formula [and] nothing more. Who desire to have more and more formulas, more and more limitations, so that in the end everything is narrowed down to a minimum of meaning which must be held. On the contrary, dogmatic definitions set limits beyond which error cannot pass, but does not set limits to truth, in the sense of forbidding a dogma to mean more than is envisioned in a given formula.
-Thomas Merton, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander
Those perfect photography moments where it’s just you and Mother Nature. This was taken in a freezing cold very morning at a local lake that’s very popular with dog walkers. I had long wanted to nail this shot but it’s very hard to get all the elements to play ball especially with my limited health and energy challenges lol. I’m hoping I’ve done this place proud as it’s completely unedited and straight from camera. It’s got the sun just starting to rise and change the sky,as well as some freezing fog sitting on the water. It’s also completely devoid of humans and there pets which was near a miracle lol.
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.” There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.” To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.” Those who do not weep, do not see.”
Legal Insanity: Quentin polo shirt
Legal Insanity: Gue jeans
The Sumatran tiger is a population of Panthera tigris sondaica on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. It is the only surviving tiger population in the Sunda Islands, where the Bali and Javan tigers are extinct.
Quick Facts Scientific classification ...
Sequences from complete mitochondrial genes of 34 tigers support the hypothesis that Sumatran tigers are diagnostically distinct from mainland subspecies. In 2017, the Cat Classification Task Force of the Cat Specialist Group revised felid taxonomy and recognizes the living and extinct tiger populations in Indonesia as P. t. sondaica.
Evolution
Analysis of DNA is consistent with the hypothesis that Sumatran tigers became isolated from other tiger populations after a rise in sea level that occurred at the Pleistocene to Holocene border about 12,000–6,000 years ago. In agreement with this evolutionary history, the Sumatran tiger is genetically isolated from all living mainland tigers, which form a distinct group closely related to each other. The isolation of the Sumatran tiger from mainland tiger populations is supported by multiple unique characters, including two diagnostic mitochondrial DNA nucleotide sites, ten mitochondrial DNA haplotypes and 11 out of 108 unique microsatellite alleles. The relatively high genetic variability and the phylogenetic distinctiveness of the Sumatran tiger indicates that the gene flow between island and mainland populations was highly restricted.
so i made a new years resolution... finally...
i'm conquering my fears this year. starting with yesterday.
my number one fear was needles... i took 4 yesterday in my gums without crying.
i know it sounds funny as hell because i'm almost 20... but needles used to be the scariest things... ever ever ever to me. but now?
i'm a big kid now!!
=) next step : airplanes.... this one might take a while. hahah
ps. seriously, join my fb group. it's awesome.
Although the clouds didn’t display on this morning-neither did crowds of people. These quiet moments were enjoyed in Banff National Park among the mountains and calm waters.
Mom with the two babies doing OK in the backyard. The two babies were born in the front yard but moved early on. I have been trying to get some group shots but this mom doesn't like to hang around and the babies run pretty quick. On this morning they let me approach and get pretty close.
Textures by Lenabem-Anna.
For the Slider Sunday Group - HSS!
For all those of you who have been to the south of Iceland this will hardly be a unique image. For those that haven’t, well if you ever do go to Iceland do take the opportunity to visit Jokulsarlon Glacier Lagoon which is the counterpoint to Diamond Beach. Icebergs calve off the glacier and float serenely across the lagoon in search of freedom not realising that as they float out to sea a lot of them will only experience freedom temporarily before being swept back into Diamond Beach in a somewhat reduced state.
The lagoon has icebergs of all sorts of colours and shapes so you will never have exactly the same shots on any 2 visits. For me that iceberg with the vertical dark bands (presumably fine volcanic rock ground as the glacier flowed) was what caught my eye. The aqua blues are lovely to my eye.
I’d have loved to get some long exposures but the icebergs move a surprising amount - well they did when I was there - so I wasn't able to get any. After having gone to Diamond Beach for sunrise I think I could have spent the rest of the day around the lagoon exploring but heh-ho, workshops never stay put for long and it was onward to the next location after about 45mins.
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I'm not sure what this old machine was-some kind of crane?-but it got my attention at the Mojave Heritage Museum on old route 66 in Goffs,CA.For some reason,this got me thinking of the old 1965 British comedy.Of course they were concerned with flying machines,but close enough.
Have a magnificent Windmill Wednesday everyone!
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T.S. Eliot
*edited with Christy's Sugar&Cream action
Those rare moments when Cedar Waxwings stop for a moment are always spellbinding! Just a couple more shots from the recent afternoon at Stephanie's...
If anyone has watched "Trapped", the Icelandic TV series from 2015, this is the road to Siglufjordur, where the entire series was shot. The landscape is jaw-droppingly beautiful and the place is only reachable via sea or through a tunnel, the one of which I posted an image earlier today. So "trapped" is just about how you feel when arriving there in freezing temperatures, and bear in mind that this pano was shot in May, so not the real winter anymore!
Have you ever felt, that flowers are smiling to you, whenever you take their portrait in the Summer season?In your garden? Because I have! Such a joyful, bright, tender smile!! ❤️!!!!!Such a heartfelt emotion in my body!
Therefore, I am going now to share with you, some blooming smiles of my garden, in my current photos! Enjoy!!! ❤️
Israel’s own intelligence suggests that 83 percent of those it has killed in Gaza were civilians. ▪️An titouroù milourel bet dastumet gant Israel a laka ac'hanomp da grediñ e vefe trevourien 83% eus ar re bet lazhet ganti e Gaza. ▪️Mae cudd-ymchwil Israel ei hun yn awgrymu mai sifiliaid oedd 83% o'r rhai a laddwyd ganddi yng Ngasa. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/aug/21/reve...
For those of you that frequent John Heinz NWR, you know exactly the tree in this image. For those that don't, "the Egret Tree" is where numerous egrets and herons roost for the evening. I took this shot about 15 minutes before sunset and the light was a magnificent golden color that bathed everything it struck in warm golden tones. I only wish there were more egrets and herons in the tree ( I count 6 - 5 Great Egrets and 1 Great Blue Herons) at the time I snapped the image. Not sure if the leaves changed color on the Egret Tree or if they are brown (dead tree) and the light gave them a golden glow.
It's Wednesday and the week half through! Enjoy the rest of the evening.
I do not know if this image looks as if the temperature were hot or not, but it was 33 degrees celsius that day. The cars air-conditioning was all there was between me and the elements. But, the photo bug needed to be entertained, so off through a very thick patch of weeds I went. When I returned, my socks were covered in the tiny thorns that do natures best at spreading their progeny.
It was that low flying cloud, and its reflections that caught my eye. That made it a matter of waiting for the clouds to sit in the valley, and between the opposing hills for balance. Like an exclamation mark at the end of a sentence, the clouds made the image emphatic.
I'm doing a pair of SNS's this week for the simple fact I have to many slides scanned and I want to move them. Both will feature EMD covered wagons. This view has BN 826 leading a B-unit and a C636 at Fisher in July 1979. Photo by Greg Stadter, Chuck Schwesinger collection.
Is there any wonder why mule deer have such good hearing? Their gigantic ears help them to hear predators. There's no sneaking up on a muley!
Those supercute Lamps will hit Novembre´s Fluffy Kawaii Round. I´ll add the SLURL as soon as it´s open ;) Stay tuned!
Those antlers can't be as heavy as they look otherwise this Fallow Buck would never be able to raise his head from grazing!!😁
Those were the first words spoken by the gracious woman allowing me into the large aviary, a sanctuary for birds no longer able to live with their owners.
During a visit to Parrots in Paradise I was filled with excitement and a bit of dread once I heard the warning.
Being encouraged to move closer...still closer to capture images of this grand beauty, I appreciated the bird's complete stillness. Only later did I learn that the beak of a parrot has the bite pressure strong enough to break the bone in your finger.
parrotsinparadise.org/virtual-foster-program-for-mccaws-c...
This male lion had just woken up and the look in his eyes was very intense! A few minutes later, he got up and roared right next to us! What an experience!
Thank you so much for the group cover!
Emil Ferris is one of those humans who you can just sense their utter brilliance. I literally think it's an amazing gift to share the same respiratory space with such an amazing human. I was thrilled to be able to speak to Emil after the Q and A following The Music Box Theater's documentary of Art Spiegelman entitled Disaster is My Muse (This should be available on PBS in the upcoming months according to the director)
I was telling Emil Ferris about this nonfiction book I was reading called Beyond Anxiety by Martha Beck, who speaks about how a creativity cycle can disrupt an anxiety cycle. I think many of us artists in this current political climate are feeling increasingly restless and hopeless. Channeling that into art is a good idea at this time.
In any case, this is a great film and Emil Ferris's My Favorite Thing is Monsters (Book 1 and 2) is absolutely phenomenal. Highly recommended!
In these current times, the monsters are humans who have been given absolute power to enforce their wills and desires on all. Every day is a new horror and destruction of human rights. Some will try to counter this by praying ceaselessly. Others, like myself, will continue to maximize their time on Earth by doing art every spare moment. It is perhaps the only way to cope with the madness of reality and maybe enough of us could create a new world out of the embers left.
More about Emil Ferris: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Ferris
If you haven't read My Favorite Thing is Monsters, you haven't led a complete life. Here's a link for more info: www.fantagraphics.com/products/my-favorite-thing-is-monst...
More about Disaster is My Muse: www.imdb.com/title/tt32276169/
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