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Chough - Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax
While its black plumage identifies it as a crow, the chough (pronounced 'chuff') has a red bill and legs unlike any other member of the crow family. It is restricted to the west of the British Isles.
It readily displays its mastery of flight with wonderful aerial displays of diving and swooping. This Schedule 1 species can be found in flocks in autumn and winter.
There are two species of passerine birds commonly called chough that constitute the genus Pyrrhocorax of the Corvidae (crow) family of birds. These are the red-billed chough (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax), and the Alpine chough (or yellow-billed chough) (Pyrrhocorax graculus). The white-winged chough of Australia, despite its name, is not a true chough but rather a member of the family Corcoracidae and only distantly related.
The choughs have black plumage and brightly coloured legs, feet, and bills, and are resident in the mountains of southern Eurasia and North Africa. They have long broad wings and perform spectacular aerobatics. Both species pair for life and display fidelity to their breeding sites, which are usually caves or crevices in a cliff face. They build a lined stick nest and lay three to five eggs. They feed, usually in flocks, on short grazed grassland, taking mainly invertebrate prey, supplemented by vegetable material or food from human habitation, especially in winter.
Population:
UK breeding:
250-350 pairs in Great Britain; 120-150 pairs on the Isle of Man
While I was out Sat evening practicing my long exposure photography. I was able to take this shot of two people kayaking as the sun was setting at Lake Crabtree County Park.
Once again many thanks for visits, comments and faves, much appreciated!
Seen while walking the cliffs in the area Carvoeiro in the southern Algarve region of Portugal, recent rockfalls show the effect of coastal erosion. The stunning effects of nature on this sandstone is quite amazing to see.
While I generally prefer to get the shot without bystanders, I think the people in this shot help lend a sense of scale to the size of the Grand Canyon at this particular spot..
I haven't been on SL in a long time. Figured I'd stop by and take a pic. I couldn't even figure out how to change my WL. :)
Hanging out at Elysion
~~ “For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured. At least by the person who's waiting.” ~~
Quote ― Haruki Murakami
Let's hope, we don't have to wait too lang, before our lifes are getting back to normal again!
While folding another of my new pattern of my Block-tessellation serie I used thicker paper and because of that and the density of the pattern this bowl-shape arose ;-)
On the left you see the pattern from the outside and on the right the inside.
Here you can see a different view of my origami tessellation "Bricks".
I found (independently) a variation of the "Wall" of Momotani and I'm probably not the first one, correct me please when I'm wrong.
Folded from 21x21cm greenish Japanese paper, with some golden en silver dots in it.
While driving through Dayton, a small town in Eastern Washington, we saw this tree up on a hill overlooking the town. It was quite moving to me. #TMT
One day, while at the inauguration of a photographic exhibition, I was going out to take the air, a blind person crossed in front of the gallery. At that moment I became aware of something very obvious: blind people cannot see photographs. For several years, I created several collections that were called "Photographs to see and touch." This is one of them. With a cutter, I scratched the emulsion on the outline of the objects that made up the photograph, as if drawing on it, creating small scratched lines that formed a relief. In this way the photograph could be looked at, but it was also possible to touch it with the fingers and feel the reliefs of the drawing. Over time I started to use metallic photographic paper, a high quality paper in the image, but that scratches very easily. I discovered that if the photograph was scratched with the cutter, with a very sharp point and very delicately, you could get stripes of different colors by tearing the three color layers of the emulsion. With Fuji Professional Lux Color Metallic Photo Paper, stripes, oranges, reds, yellows and browns colors were obtained. On the contrary, with Fuji Professional Lux Chrome Metallic Photo Paper, blue, cyan, violet and greenish colors were obtained. To get the white stripes... easy... I scratched harder, piercing the emulsion and showing the base paper of the photo, in this case, metallic paper. Subsequently, I used photographic anilines to color and intensify the colors obtained. For this photo I used Fuji Velvia 50 Professional color reversal film and Fuji Professional Lux Color metallic paper. Scan: Epson Perfection V-700 Photo.
Location: Stairs of the underpass, Sitges-Barcelona railway line. Hort Gran Street, Sitges.
Awards:
VII Photographic Exhibition MAN RAY.
Planeta Award for Photography. Editorial Planeta.
Expo-Arte, Category: Photography.
I Photographic Contest Bahía del Pajar, San Bartolomé de Tirajana
XIV Pere Caner Photography Contests.
5th Narcís Giralt Photography Contest.
XIV Ajuntament de Cullera Photography Contests (Valencia).
III National Contest City of Cieza (Murcia).
XVIIth Photography Contests Escola Belles Arts, Sant Joan Les Fonts.
VI Fernando Villalón Foundation Photography Contest.
XII City of Dénia Photographic Contest (Alacant).
Situations
Jack Johnson - In Between Dreams (2005)
Situación número uno: es la que acaba de empezar, pero evidentemente es demasiado tarde.
Situación número dos: es la única oportunidad para ti, pero está controlada por los habitantes del odio.
Situación número tres: es la que nadie ve, demasiado a menudo és descartada como destino.
Situación número cuatro: la que te dejó con ganas de más... te tentó con su cebo.
While driving along Highway 1 near Pescadero, CA, we stopped to stroll along the beach. I spotted these 2 guys fishing and wanted to capture the setting. It was cloudy and windy. (Edited in Lightroom, Photoshop and Topaz)
While watering my little plant today, I thought it was sick with mold, mildew, or a fungus! But checking online, I was relieved that it's ok. Those white particles are "trichomes".
"Trichomes are small hairs on the leaves of the the air plants which help them absorb water, airborne minerals, and helps them to regulate their temperature. Trichomes are important since air plants do not grow in soil and have traditional root systems. Trichomes can absorb moisture directly from the air, even without the plant having to get damped by rain, mist, or morning dew."
airplantshop.com/blogs/air-plant-care/what-are-trichomes
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While visiting D'Urville Monument off of the Bransfield Strait we had a good bay full of Adelie Penguins.
They were plentiful once again - - I simply sat quietly on a rock and some directly approached me due to their curiosity.
Adelie Penguin - 'D'Urville Monument - Antarctic
While heading to the coast I had to drive through this ugly fog bank and the whole time I'm thinking, I'm driving 5 hours to the coast and I won't even be able to see the water. Turns out, I was worried over nothing. About 30 miles from the coast it was clear skies all the way.
While I was away I visited the International Crane Foundation (ICF) in Baraboo, WI. This is a Wattled Crane from Africa. There are only around 8,000 in the world and the population is declining. The ICF commits to a future where all crane species are secure - a future where people cooperate to protect and restore wild populations and their ecosystems. The ICF in Baraboo is the only place where you can see the world's 15 crane species in one location on 225 acres of land. For mor information and the ICF and saving the worlds cranes please visit this site: www.savingcranes.org
a proud worker, taking a breath before he jumps back to the work of his day, his livelihood.
thank you for viewing it.
While camping, I decided to sit by the lake and take pictures of these guys fishing. As soon as I captured this moment, the fish fell back into the water.
Explore April 22, 2008
Thank You!
While camping at Durgin Lake in Khovd Western Mongolia we were treated to an impromptu concert by a family of musicians and throat singers right on the shore of the lake - very fun!
While hiking around the Matterhorn area in Switzerland, I took this panorama image. As I started to work on it I did notice a person in the scene, so tiny and felt it showed the immense size of this area.
I know the arrow ruins the shot, but I felt the viewer needed this to see the perspective.
THANKS FOR YOUR VISIT AND FAVES
ON THE REACTIONS I WILL TRY TO RESPOND BACK
Wat je al niet tegen komt tijdens het wandelen
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What you don't encounter while walking
While going through my archive to find photos for a tourist brochure for the Glaskogen nature reservation I found this photo. I thought it would be fun to see if you like it :)
I took this photo while canoeing through this beautiful sunset in the Glaskogen nature reservation.
This photo is almost SOOC. I just pulled a little shadows and added some contrast and nothing else.
Thank you for visiting!
#windowwednesday
Explored 7 September, 2021
While flipping through my Lightroom catalogue in search of an image for Window Wednesday I stumbled upon this oldie from November 2018 which I'd taken during a very nice photowalk with Flickr friends. Somehow, this photo felt finally "ready for upload", but I also knew that if I don't process and upload it today, I probably won't do so tomorrow, because it's possible that that "ready moment" has passed by then. Weird, I know, but that's the way it sometimes is ;) This is why I post the image already today.
The image shows the river Spree and the Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Haus (MELH) in Berlin's Government district. I've already posted a slightly different photo taken at the same photowalk earlier; I'd taken that photo from the bridge that you can see on the left. You can find it in the first comment, in my description for that photo you'll also find more info on the MELH, if you are interested. While I (re-)processed the image this evening, I was humming Patti Smith's song "Poeple Have The Power" to myself (I wonder why...Freud would know), and I thought it would be an apt title for an image showing a governmental building ;)
Happy Window Wednesday, Everyone, and Happy Hump Day as well :)
While at the nursery on Hwy #5 across the road are some nice vehicles to shoot. I alway like this firetruck. She looks like she saved some lives back in the day.
Happy Truck tHuRsDay
While climbing Modjeska Peak I had a great view of Mount San Antonio (also referred to as Mt. Baldy) - at 10,064 ft (3,068 m) it is the highest peak in the San Gabriel Mountains. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_San_Antonio
Seen while taking a walk in my neighborhood. It rained overnight and had just stopped drizzling / misting a short time before we took our walk.
Explored December 28, 2015
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Pentax K-3 - SMC Pentax DA 55-300mm F4-5.8ED
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...City
While Rome is the Eternal City one might call Berlin the eternal building site. Or The Unfinished City. Construction cranes are as prominently featured in Berlin's skyline as sights. And it can happen that, if you haven't visited a place in a longer while ("easy" in pandemic times), you'll find old, familiar buildings gone, while new buildings seem to pop up out of nowhere everywhere. I've taken this image last week after a visit to the Futurium (a "House of the Future", opened in 2019 – I'll post images from there soon); in the foreground you can see the river Spree, and the glass building on the left is Berlin's Central Station, the Hauptbahnhof (HBF). Noteworthy: The HBF's upper platforms aren't fully roofed, because the Deutsche Bahn (DB; the German Railway Company) wanted to open the HBF in time for the 2006 World Football Championship by all means, and it would have taken until 2008 to finish the roof. The irony: All the construction parts needed to finish the roof were already manufactured. To this date these parts are stored on the premises of Berlin's East Station. Will the roof ever be finished? Who knows... The construction site you see in front of the HBF has nothing to do with the HBF's roof. It is that of the new S 21 suburban railway line, which is scheduled for completion in 2022. Allegedly...
At first, I wanted to process this as a monochrome, because the scene is rather busy. But I liked all these colours. So I thought "embrace the chaos, embrace the construction site and all those cranes", and do it in colour ;) The final image is an HDR made from three images (in HDR Efex), with further processing / sliding steps in Color Efex.
Happy Sliders Sunday, Everyone, stay safe and healthy, and take care!
Die Unvollendete
Rom ist ja bekanntlich die Ewige Stadt. Und Berlin könnte man getrost als die Ewige Baustelle bezeichnen. Oder auch als Die Unvollendete. Baukräne gehören zur Berliner Skyline wie seine Sehenswürdigkeiten. Gerade in Pandemiezeiten, wenn man manche Orte schon lange nicht mehr besucht hat, kann es dann auch passieren, dass alte, vertraute Gebäude plötzlich verschwunden sind, während allerorten Neues entsteht. Dieses Foto des Hauptbahnhofs mit einem Seitenarm der Spree im Vordergrund habe ich vergangene Woche nach einem Besuch des Futuriums (2019 eröffnet, Fotos von dort zeige ich demnächst) gemacht. Die Baustelle am Europaplatz, die Ihr hier seht, bedeutet allerdings nicht, dass die Deutsche Bahn nun doch das Dach für die oberen Bahnsteige des Hauptbahnhofs verlängern würde. Die dafür nötigen Bauteile, längst fertiggestellt, lagern weiterhin (hoffentlich gut verstaut) am Berliner Ostbahnhof. Diese Baustelle gehört zur neuen S-Bahnlinie S21, für die ein unterirdischer Bahnsteig gebaut wird. Geplante Fertigstellung: 2022. Warten wir's ab.
Ich wollte das Foto erst als SW / getöntes Monochrom bearbeiten, weil hier ja ganz schön viel los ist. SW sah mir aber zu trüb aus, weshalb ich bei Farbe geblieben bin. Das Foto habe ich in HDR Efex aus einer 3er-Belichtungsreihe erstellt und für Sliders Sunday in Color Efex noch den einen oder anderen Filter (ich weiß wirklich nicht mehr, welche Filter genau) angewendet.
Habt einen guten Wochenstart und passt weiterhin gut auf Euch auf!
While exploring Washington State back roads, I came across this abandoned silver mine known as the Old Ruby (Pyrargyrite) Mine. Along with the mill there are several other buildings on the property, maintenance shop, blacksmith shop and forge, office, bunkhouse and powder magazine. The mill is empty now, and so is the powder magazine.
While visiting the Torrey Pines State Park in California, USA, we came to this overlook revealing the beach below. We saw no sunbathers but plenty of walkers and a few surfers . . .
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tarte. farmhouse dining chair
tarte. mason jar chandelier
tarte. leafy centerpiece
tarte. daisy jar
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it is even more important now because our neighbors are so many :-)
Lady Bird Johnson
waterlily, sarah p duke gardens, duke university, durham, north carolina
While wandering the endless badlands of an industrial park I came across this sleeping beauty all alone in an expansive lot.
The joy in photography is the unexpected. Here it was the opportunity to meet Matthew. A fine gentleman and owner of this beauty.
While strolling through the long and dark passages, I turn around and I was enchanted by this view. Like I got lost in the dark distance. Due to the horrible things happend there, this felt like magic.
Fort Eben-Emael is an inactive Belgian fortress located between Liège and Maastricht, on the Belgian-Dutch border, outside the village of Ében-Émael. It was designed to defend Belgium from a German attack across the narrow belt of Dutch territory in the region. Constructed in 1931–1935, it was reputed to be impregnable and at the time, the largest in the world. The fort was neutralized by glider-borne German troops (85 men) on 10 May 1940 during the WW2. The action cleared the way for German ground forces to enter Belgium, unhindered by fire from Eben-Emael. Still the property of the Belgian Army, the fort has been preserved.