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Another shot of the daisies in the unmowed lawn. I'm trying to see how many totally different shots I can get of these little flowers...
It is the best time of the day, I prefer to watch the sunrise.
It is worth getting up early to watch the sun wake up, the cool air and the beginning of a new day....
Have a happy Sunday 😊
When you think you're alone in the woods...
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… could have been a magic moment lost in silent contemplation … Spent chatting their head off about their Instagram while taking pictures with their dinky mobile phones instead :-/
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Switzerland, May 2021
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ABOUT THE PHOTO:
So this photo is a bit of a novelty for me - at least here on Flickr, but it's also a journey back in time in a sense. I've always loved b/w and sepia photography; already as a very young teenager I would go out into the woods with an old Pentax Spotmatic (which I had nicked from my father) whenever it was a foggy day to shoot b/w compositions of sunbeams cutting through the ghostlike trees.
I used films with a sensitivity of at least 1600 (for those of you who remember what that means 😉 ), and the resulting photos had an incredibly fine grain which I loved; I blew them up to the size of posters and hung them on the walls of my teenage man-cave next to Hendrix, Jim Morrison and Slash.
But then I abandoned photography altogether for 20 years, and when I finally picked up a camera again, it was one of the digital kind. Now neither film nor grain played any role in my photographic endeavours - let alone b/w compositions: because the reason I fell in love with shooting pictures once more was the rare and incredibly colorful lizard species that had chosen my garden as its habitat.
It's this species - the Lacerta bilineata aka the western green lizard - that my photo website www.lacerta-bilineata.com/ and also my Flickr gallery are dedicated to, but I've since expanded that theme a bit so that it now comprises the whole Lacerta bilineata habitat, which is to say my garden and its immediate surroundings and all the flora and fauna I find in it.
I like that my gallery and the website have this clear theme, because in order to rise to the challenge of portraying all aspects of a very specific little eco system (which also happens to be my home of sorts), it forces me to constantly explore it from fresh angles, and I keep discovering fascinating new motives as my photographic journey continues.
Which brings me to the horse pasture you see in this photo. This playground for happy horsies lies just outside my garden, and it normally only interests me insofar as my green reptile friends claim parts of it as their territory, and I very much prefer it to be horseless (which it thankfully often is).
Not that the horses bother the reptiles - the lizards don't mind them one bit, and I've even seen them jump from the safety of the fly honeysuckle shrub which the pasture borders on right between the deadly looking hooves of the horses to forage for snails, without any sign of fear or even respect.
No, the reason I have a very conflicted relationship with those horses is that they are mighty cute and that there's usually also foals. The sight of those beautiful, happy animals jumping around and frolicking (it's a huge pasture and you can tell the horses really love it) is irresistible: and that inevitably attracts what in the entire universe is known as the most destructive anti-matter and ultimate undoing of any nature photographer: other humans.
Unlike with the horses, the lizards ARE indeed very much bothered by specimens of loud, unpredictable Homo sapiens sapiens - which makes those (and by extension also the horses) the cryptonite of this here reptile photographer. It's not the horses' fault, I know that, but that doesn't change a thing. I'm just telling you how it is (and some of you might have read about the traumatic events I had to endure to get a particular photo - if not, read at your own risk here: www.flickr.com/photos/191055893@N07/51405389883/in/datepo... - which clearly demonstrated that even when it's entirely horseless, that pasture is still a threat for artistic endeavours).
But back to the photo. So one morning during my vacation back in May I got up quite early. It had rained all night, and now the fog was creeping up from the valley below to our village just as the sky cleared up and the morning sun started to shine through the trees.
And just as I did when I was a teenager I grabbed my camera and ran out to photograph this beautiful mood of ghostlike trees and sunbeams cutting through the mist. There had already been such a day a week earlier (which is when I took this photo: www.flickr.com/photos/191055893@N07/51543603732/in/datepo... ), but this time, the horses were also there.
Because of our slightly strained relationship I only took this one photo of them (I now wish I had taken more: talk about missed opportunities), and otherwise concentrated on the landscape. It was only later when I went through all the photos on my computer that I realized that I actually really liked those horses, even despite the whole composition being such a cliché. And I realized another thing: when I drained the photo of all the color, I liked it even better - because there was almost a bit of grain in it, like in the photos from my youth.
Since then I have experimented quite a bit with b/w and sepia compositions (some of which I will upload here eventually I guess), but this photo here is the first one that helped me rediscover my old passion. I hope you like it even though it builds quite a stark contrast with the rest of my tiny - and very colorful - gallery. But in the spirit of showing you the whole Lacerta bilineata habitat (and also in the spirit of expanding my gallery a bit beyond lizards and insects), I think it's not such a bad fit.
As always, many greetings to all of you, have a wonderful day and don't hesitate to let me know what you think 😊
Mt Hood seen from Portland's Mt Tabor Park. Uploaded for Smile on Saturday! :-) theme: Silhouettes. HSoS everyone!
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Much less processed than you might think, it was taken at twilight with available light. I was once again in a car in Manhattan waiting for the Holland Tunnel, and I looked up and saw this lone solitary visitor from who knows where, staring down on us from a second floor window, apparently keeping a silent but intense vigil, watching for who knows what.
Vas'ka the cat is watching the garden sitting on the refrigerator.
Better to see in bigger size!
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Brown Bear (ursus arctos) named "Scout" watching ravens flying above his yard. The brown bear subspecies from the interior of North America (like Scout and his brother Montana) are known as grizzly bears, because their brown fur is tipped with white or tan; the word grizzly means sprinkled or streaked with gray. Conservation status: least concern
This piece of wood is probably one of the most famous in West Sussex, with many nature lovers watching it avidly for a sighting of one of the beautiful kingfishers that appear regularly at Warnham Nature Reserve.
This is the first time I've sat in a hide, encouraged to hang on by some lovely people who make a habit of visiting, from much further afield than me. The benches were hard, but the company friendly and after three hours their faith was proved right by a flash of blue and a sharp intake of breath all round.
My long lens might not be the longest or the sharpest, but I am thrilled with my first kingfisher shot - what a privilege!
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The fishing vessel OB 597 otherwise known as Audrey sits patiently waiting on another adventure.
Taken at Loch Creran, Argyll - Textures mine - 3 layers
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The Mangakara Nature Walk on Mt Pirongia is an enjoyable one hour circuit through native forest.
The easy track meanders through ancient forest past large rimu, kahikatea, tawa, pukatea and kohekohe trees and crosses over the Mangakara stream before looping back around.
Educational signs describe point of interest and the mountains history along the way with something new to discover at each station.
In the end your memories slip away anyway
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