Trees, Treetops and Sky
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About 100 ft. high in the treetop. Photo in the wild taken along the St. Johns River. He has a diet of fish and is one of the best hunters on the river sometimes snatching 2-3 lb. prey from below the waterline. Osprey eyes are very penetrating and see below the water's surface.
A Great Blue Heron delivers a small stick for the nest as its mate looks on in this reworked version of an image that I posted earlier this year. I was never crazy about the overcast white sky and the gritty look of the plumage in the original photo, so for this week's Sliders Sunday, I've added a blue sky with clouds and applied a painterly processing style. The original is in the first comments box, for those who are interested.
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Captured in my local beech wood.
Sometimes things turn out differently than you think.
On this evening I made multiple exposures from 3 single images of the tree trunks. Before putting my images on flickr, I tend to ask my better half for his opinion. He clearly liked this single image best.
Bergisches Land, Germany
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Some interesting shadows created in the mist by the low sun catching the tops of a line of trees. Corfe Castle, Dorset.
Boat-tail Grackle gracing the treetops in the Everglades. When i saw this blackish bird land in a treetop near me I knew it had color. After a few minutes it spread its beautiful wings in the rising sun.
Following my brief foray into the exotic scenery of Cyprus, in the blink of an eye we're back in.... good old Felixstowe :)
More beach huts....I'd forgotten how much I enjoy photographing them. Normally the whole point is the bright colours of the huts but I preferred this one in black and white.
Hope everyone's had a good week, almost the weekend already- enjoy!!
A scene looking across the Heron Pond at Bushy Park , saw the reflection and with a few sidesteps had the sun shining through the top of the tree !!
Capuchins were foraging high in the treetops along the trail during a self-guided tour in Rio Celest. It's always nice to view beauties like this in their natural habitat.
For the most part, it was difficult to see any of them as they moved through the treetops. I chose to follow this one with the camera and was able to get a couple of shots with his face in view.
Have a wonderful day and happy snapping.
It's not easy being a butterfly in love...
I followed this coupled pair around the field as they were bombarded by other green veined whites and even peacocks, red admirals and tortoiseshells ("oops sorry - wrong species!") all trying to get in on the act.
Finally they found a more secluded spot high in a tree, and if you look carefully you'll see they're not the only ones indulging in a little Spring romance 😉
A young female Anhinga sunning at sunrise from the tree top in the marsh of the 10,000 Islands. A perfect environment for this girl.
Soundtrack // Bande-son: THE WHITE BIRCH ("The Weight Of Spring"): www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuxpSqUZr1U
"I did not hear... The shivering sound... Of TREETOPS PUSHING... Up through the ground..."
"The clouds talking with the tree!!! Incantevole !" / "Les nuages parlent à l'arbre. C'est ravissant !" (SASSIX2 / www.flickr.com/photos/91760921@N02/ )
"Addicted to your light I drove straight into this shot, too fast, but the lines of horizon and clouds kept me on track. Just behind the tree I took my exit with a 180..." / "Irrémédiablement attiré par la lumière, j'ai roulé tout droit dans ce paysage, bien trop vite, mais les lignes d'horizon et des nuages m'ont heureusement maintenu sur la route. Et juste derrière l'arbre j'ai effectué un virage à 180 degrés..."
(Massimo RELSIG / www.flickr.com/photos/99574551@N04/ )
Mockingbird perched upon an arborvitae. Male or female, hard to tell visually.
Thank you for taking a look!
From a walk in the woods. Everything is quite gray and wet this December, so I took a look up instead :-)
This is the view that you get when you leave the top of Pucks Glen and start heading downhill towards Benmore..
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In a couple of years time this view will be hidden when the young trees in the foreground will have grown enough to hide it.