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Have a wonderful weekend all my Flickr friends. Geranium over wintering in my porch & introduced briefly to the garden for a photo.
Have a great weekend all my Flickr friends and thank you for all your kind comments & faves. Taken in Bushey Rose Garden.
Have a great weekend all my Flickr friends and thank you for all your kind comments and faves. Taken in my garden, one of the last this year.
Special thanks to Boston for being part of this photo and inspiring the scene - check the tags for a link to his Flickr feed and click HERE to view his incredibly informative and well produced YouTube channel!
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Desde Fotógrafos de Naturaleza os deseamos un feliz fin de semana, que hagáis muchas y buenas fotos, para después verlas en el grupo. www.flickr.com/groups/14624677@N25/
From nature photographers we wish you a happy weekend and we hope you take many photos to see in the group www.flickr.com/groups/14624677@N25/
This is a pretty waterfall I shot last weekend after not touching my camera for a few weeks. One of the most tranquil waterfalls I have been to in the last years. The sound of the water rushing down was something special. It was a real easy walk in and i had this amazing place for myself.
Have a lovely weekend all my Flickr friends and thank you for all your kind comments and faves. Taken in Regents Park London.
Guys today I bring you a great offer!
60L$ Happy Weekend sale
Dress: UNA ->Serena Long dress
14/15 -January
(maitreya, petite, legacy, perky, reborn)
WOW WEEKEND
Rings: {Fantasy world} -> Flying stars rings (maitreya, legacy F&M, signature gianni)
Tatsächlich kam gestern die Sonne vorbei und der Start in die Herbstsaison wird mit einem Farbspektakel eingeläutet! Ich wünsche Euch ein tolles Wochenende!
{ W E A R I N G }
Headpiece || Tentacio Candy Headpiece
Hair || Doux Shamiya Hairstyle
Outfit || Lifonti The Graphik Bodysuit at Cakeday
Holding || Movement Cereal Killer
{ S C E N E }
. Cozy Bedroom (Colorful Version)
. Angel Dress Form at Collabor88
. Gamers Plushies
. Blossom Book
. Secret World | Camera & Draw at Equal 10
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{T h e B l o g }
{ I n s t a g r a m }
"Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits."
~Satchel Paige (1906 - 1982)
Relax... enjoy....celebrate.... !
Spending time alone with you...
Hair: Truth (FLF - Friday @ Mainstore)
Pose; Secret Poses
Backdrop: Synnergy (HouseBoat for FLF @ Mainstore)
Bikini Bottoms: Vinyl
Skin: The Skinnery
Head: Lelutka
Collar: Kibitz
Body: Maitreya
Credits - Stealthic Penance hair, United Colors Lau Corset, Michan Mirna Armlets, ElvenElder Amherstia nobilis jeans and Blueberry Cori Ankle heels.
A few items from the weekend sale.
☆ mellowcute -veli top-gum
☆ Mug - Dawn Shorts - Dark
☆ heart poses :: Summer Travels
Everything else..
☆ IKON Ascension Redux Eyes - Nymph
☆ [SAM TATTOO] CUTE KAWAII TATTOO
☆ (Luc.) Peach Treat Cupcakes [Rezz & Unpack]
☆ Stealthic - Lethal (Browns)
Have a lovely weekend all my Flickr friends and thank you for all your kind comments & faves. Very pale pink roses taken in July i Bushey Rose Garden.
Eurasian Jay (Garrulus glandarius)
My best photos are here: www.lacerta-bilineata.com/ticino-best-photos-of-southern-...
More TICINO/TESSIN Wildlife Photos (all taken in my garden in Monteggio/Ti, Switzerland): it.lacerta-bilineata.com/ramarro-occidentale-lacerta-bili...
If you're interested, you'll find a more detailed closeup here (it's the 8th photo from the top): www.lacerta-bilineata.com/western-green-lizard-lacerta-bi...
My latest ANIMAL VIDEO (it's very brief but pretty unusual: a tiny wall lizard attacks two young great tits): www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQqkSsyrm7E
THE STORY BEHIND THE PHOTO: MY LONG AND ARDUOUS JOURNEY TO BIRD PHOTOGRAPHY
If you've set yourself the challenge of exclusively shooting the wildlife in your own back yard, you might find - as I did - that bird photography is really, really hard.
It's not that reptiles are easy to photograph either, mind - but at least the ones in my garden stay (for the most part) on the ground, and one can learn how to carefully approach them with a camera. They're also clearly egoists, which from a photographer's point of view is is a great character trait: if a lizard detects a human in its vicinity, it's only interested in saving its own skin, and it won't alarm its buddies.
But birds... oh man. Over the years, my feathered friends and I have developed a lovely routine that now defines our peaceful co-existence. As soon as I as much as open a window (let alone the door), I'm instantly greeted by an eruption of panicky fluttering and hysterical shouts from my garden: "SAVE YOUR WOMEN AND CHILDREN AND FLY FOR YOUR LIVES: THE HAIRLESS, PINK MONSTER IS COMING!!! (Yes, I speak bird, and I know that this is exactly what they are shouting 😉).
Needless to say, with the exception of the redstart I already showed here, all my efforts to get the kind of detailed shots I usually strive for with my nature photography ended in complete failure and utter disillusionment. I was ready to give up on stalking the winged misanthropes in my garden altogether, but then winter came - and changed everything.
One day this past January I observed my neighbor Signora P - a kind, elderly Italian lady - putting something on the low garden wall in front of my house. At first I thought she was just putting some treat there for her cat Romeo; the young tom patrols that wall constantly (it's his favorite spot in the garden, and during the warmer months he usually lurks in the thick foliage next to it to prey on lizards).
But once I detected a lot of movement on that wall through my window, I understood she had put a little pile of bread crumbs there; she was feeding the birds who soon arrived in flocks. This was certainly well-intended on my neighbor's part, but her noble action came with a catch, and I'm afraid quite literally.
When I took a stroll through my garden the next day I discovered a suspicious amount of feathers on the ground next to the wall. Romeo had apparently switched from his low-calorie summer diet (lizard) to more energy-rich meals consisting of "fowl" (it was winter after all, so from a nutritionist's point of view this made sense).
I would find fresh traces of Romeo's victims (mostly feathers, but also the odd wing) in my garden over the following days; so my first intuition that my neighbor was feeding her cat hadn't been that far off after all, as Romeo was now clearly being "served" fresh birds on a daily basis. And although the hungry visitors seemed to be aware of the danger and became slightly more prudent, they just couldn't resist the tasty snacks Signora P put on that wall - and neither could Romeo.
It was obvious that I had to act, but talking to my neighbor - who is as stubborn as she is kind - would have been futile, I knew that much. I pondered the matter long and hard - until a light bulb went off in my head. The idea was genius. If successful, what I had in mind would not only increase the birds' chances of surviving Romeo's appetite, but also greatly benefit my own photographic endeavors.
I started to enact my master plan the very next day by buying a giant bag of bird feed (consisting mainly of sunflower seeds) from the store. Then I dragged a huge piece of a tree trunk (approx. 120 cm in height) that we normally chop firewood on in the shed out into the garden and emptied almost half of the bag's content on top of it. Signora P's buffet for birds (and cats) was about to get some serious competition 😊.
My reasoning was as follows: not only would the birds be lured away from the fatally low garden wall to a place where they were safe from the cat - there was nothing around that tree trunk that provided cover for a predator, and the birds had a nice 360° view around it at all times - but I was also able to photograph them while hiding in the shed.
However, in order for my plan to work there was one little extra measure I had to take, and it was one that risked lowering my own life expectancy considerably once the owner of the property - my mom - discovered it. You see, our shed is completely windowless, so if I wanted to use it as a blind, I had no choice but to cut a hole into one of its wooden walls... which I promptly did (I figured all's fair in love - and photography 😉).
Granted, I have absolutely zero carpentering skills, and it showed. That hole was an ugly mess: the shed's wall seemed to have had an encounter with Jack Nicholson's ax-wielding lunatic character from the film 'The Shining'. Needless to say, I was incredibly proud of my work (I mean, come on: there now was a hole where before there wasn't a hole, and it was big enough for the lens of my camera to peek through, so it was mission accomplished as far as I was concerned).
Now all I had to do was wait for the birds to discover the tree trunk. In the meantime I started to mentally prepare myself for the inevitable confrontation with my mom and go through possible explanations for that splintering hole in the wall (it was either gonna be a rabid woodpecker attack or an emergency rescue mission with a feeding tube for a little kid that had accidentally locked himself inside the shed - both seemed valid options, though I slightly preferred the locked-in kid due to the involved drama and heroism 😉).
A whole day went by, and not a single bird visited the sunflower seeds. I had expected that it might take a few hours until the first of the ever curious great tits or blue tits would show up, but given how tiny my garden is, an entire day seemed excessive. Then another day came and went: the birds kept flocking to the bread crumbs on the wall, and my tree trunk kept collecting dust. To add injury to insult, a few fresh feathers on the ground were proof that Romeo was still feasting.
It was incredibly frustrating: I provided my winged guests with a much better view - plus a higher chance of surviving the cuisine - than Signora P's place; I risked (almost) certain death at the hands of my own mother (OK, the act of vandalism on the shed I had committed for my own benefit, but still), yet the birds kept ignoring me.
Then, after three days, just before sunset, I spotted a single blue tit on the tree trunk picking away at the sunflower seeds.
When I got up the next morning I immediately realized that the loud noise that accompanies each and every tit activity had shifted from the wall to the shed. At last the dam had broken: there was a flurry of movement around the tree trunk, and I counted at least 5 different species of birds feasting on the sunflower seeds.
From day 4 onward my plan worked beautifully: the birds now indeed mostly ignored Romeo's "snack wall" and kept to the tree trunk. And yes, I was able to play peeping tom from behind the shed's wall and photograph them!! 😊
Thus, dear readers, I finally managed to produce some acceptable bird photos, and I had even saved my feathered friends from a deadly foe in the process. All through winter and spring I took advantage of my new bird hide, and in late May I started mixing some cherries with the sunflower seeds. The idea was to attract a Eurasian jay (Garrulus glandarius), and as you can see, it worked!
It took me almost three weeks and more than a few tricks to capture that clever fella, but given how long I've been rambling here already, that's a story for another day. As for my mom, she still doesn't know about the hole in the wall, so please don't snitch! 😉.
I hope you like the photo and wish you all a wonderful weekend! Many greetings from Switzerland, and as always: let me know what you think in the comments 🙏 😊 ❤!
P.S. if anyone has their own funny tale about the obstacles we photographers are prepared to overcome for a desired photo, please write it in the comments: I love such stories 😊
Happy Weekend Friends The wettest January ever Floods every where Thanks For Your Comments
PLEASE DONT FAVE & RUN I WILL BLOCK YOU
“The Tiny Bear Family is wishing you a great and Happy Weekend with loving Greetings from their Ducky Ride – Amazing that they always find a Transport for their Weekend Trips"
[Dedicated to CRA (ILYWAMHASAM)]
Taken on November 28, 2025 and uploaded for the groups
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GigaSet GS290
ƒ/2
3.5 mm
1/33 Sec
ISO 432
I thought I would feature some of the bargains I have picked up today in the weekend sales. These are featured in *Stay at Home* *Manly Weekend*
Motorbikes are from 777 Motors
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Ascalon/139/90/2008
Leather Jacket is from Capture and comes with and without a tshirt.
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Entrainment/186/111/739
Tattoo is from UbS
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Possession/200/153/24
Shades are from Bondi
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Lovers%20Heaven/154/246/1623
Backdrop is from Bdrop
Amazing what you find in the bottom of your garden. Enjoy your weekend, wherever yo may be and whenever it arrives.
Perhaps an Ipheion of some sort but we can't pin it down precisely.
with some more autumn colours from Botanical Garden, Frankfurt
I hope you enjoy a colourful weekend too!