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Wish all my fine Flickr friends a Merry Christmas.
I´ll be on and off for a week.
We have no snow yet, so the photo is from my archive.
Texture: Lynne Anzelc
This song inspired me to make this, It is sad however ,I couldn't find much information about it to share. But the song itself is strong enough on its own. It's an enigma and I love it ♥.
" The time to live is now "
- MadOhm -
"If wishes were horses, beggars would ride."
- James Carmichaell (1628)
Horse: [Teegle] - The Tennessee Walking Horse
Dog: Foxwood - Great Dane
Location: Frogmore
My dear Flickr friends I have big Flickr Mail ERROR No Mail Sunday and no Today !
NO MAIL TODAY THUESDAY
NO FÖICKR MAIL WEDNESDAY
Take care of you and yours and keep the distance
Wishing you all health and that you are not affected too hard by this global Corona pandemic
All the best wishes Tomas
Surrounded by nothing but turquoise lagoon which melts into sapphire blue, the Maldives island of Anantara Kihavah and its pure white sands rise up out of the ocean like a mirage.
For centuries, this was where Arab traders sailing to the Far East took shelter; a lush paradise blessed by coconut, papaya and mango trees. Navigating archipelago to archipelago by the stars, the seafarers were also drawn by the riches of the ocean surrounding the island – where a prehistoric volcano sank back into the depths, leaving blooming corals within a house reef and a wealth of lagoon fish.
Wishing to keep the pristine nature of the island intact, not one tree has been moved – as evidenced by the villas growing up around them. The design pays homage to the seafarers of old, fusing Indian Ocean, Arab and Portuguese motifs with indigenous materials.
Looking south toward San Jose from Sierra Vista trail, Sierra Vista Open Space Preserve, San Jose, Calif, May 13, 2016.
photo was taken in SL with no backdrop
Thank you everyone for your group invites, comments, favs and support <3 *hugs*
Switzerland, May 2021
My best photos are here: www.lacerta-bilineata.com/ticino-best-photos-of-southern-...
My latest ANIMAL VIDEO (warning, it's a bit shocking): www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T2-Xszz7FI
You find a selection of my 80 BEST PHOTOS (mostly not yet on Flickr) here: www.lacerta-bilineata.com/western-green-lizard-lacerta-bi... (the website exists in ESPAÑOL, FRANÇAIS, ITALIANO, ENGLISH, DEUTSCH)
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 😊
And staying with the dandelion theme...there were a lot of dandelions out that day in the woods, but we found a clearing where there were bluebells scattered amongst the grass.
The hat actually belongs to Pooh Bear in Nannies house!
My wish is to ride the tempest and tame the waves. I will not resign myself to the usual lot of women who bow their heads and become concubines......
Read the rest and grab the designer and event info on Threads & Tuneage
Hair: Barberyumyum L14 (Fatpack)
Outfit: Cheezu
Location: Templemore Cove
Scene Props: Wednesday[+], Frangipani Garden (Kiyomizu Lucky Board Gift)
Wish granted for lots of Snack, Beer and Love (*^ー^*)
Aladdin Theme song: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R9eHA6YiP8
Best wishes to all my Flickr friends, I wish you a new year full of love, creativity and in good health...
I want to thank you (again!) for your stimulating and creative presence... it means a lot :-)
It has always been my wish to photograph the secretive Sora head-on showing its laterally compressed body, which allows it to slip and weave easily through dense vegetation. However, seeing the Sora in the open is notoriously difficult.
I was justifiably excited when I spotted this Sora walking cautiously along the path. And when it turned and looked straight into the lens for a brief instant, the angle, light and position were just right, as seen in this picture. Luck!
I am glad that I was ready and took advantage of that opportunity.
Nikon D500 w/ 500mmf4G, Right angle viewfinder.
(Taken on: July,2019, St. Albert, Edmonton, Canada, Alberta)
Thank you all very much for the visits and comments.
I wish to thank my dear Flickr friends, for all the love and support for another year.
With you I have learned a lot over these two years and I am convinced that a link has been established between us.
I hope we can continue to take beautiful and inspiring pictures, next year and in all others that God to allow.
Peace, health and happiness to all!
Due to personal misalignments I wasn't and will still not be able to be here much in the next weeks/months.I have no intention to completely give up on Flickr but I expect my presence here to be very intermittent so I will totally understand if you will choose to be less active on my account. Still hope you will keep me in your contacts as I will eventually be back in a more sustainable manner.
For now all I can do is say thank you so much for your friendship and support that mean a lot to me and wish you a wonderful Summer!
Lu
2018 01 09
- Outfit -
☑ Fameshed
Hair: [monso] My Hair - Coco
☑ Japonica winter 2017-2018
Earmuffs: *katat0nik* (white lamb) Fluffy Earmuffs RARE ( Gacha )
☑ Gacha
Jacket: {vincue} & Momento - Buwie+Jacket - RARE [Maitreya]
Boots: {vincue} & Momento - Buwie+Boots [Maitreya]
Nails: :Moon Amore: Sweet Nails Bento (White Kaori)
Pose: [addme.] Pose#094-1Bento
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[Con.] Egg Chair - PG - Black
Sari-Sari - Cozy Corner
+Half-Deer+ Book Clutter - Shelved - Dark
+Half-Deer+ Book Clutter - Stack - Dark
Blog...~ le soleil ~
For more information have to blog <33
Thanks so much for your time !!
Thank you for always having lots of Fav ♥
Many thanks to you !! ♥
~Credits~
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Shoes- [WellMade] Frida Heels
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”When you wish upon a star, makes no difference who you are, anything your heart desires, will come to you ”. 👱♀️🎧🎶 When You Wish Upon a Star ( from the movie Pinocchio, Cliff Edwards ). The image shows part of an icy candle lantern. When we have a really hard frost I make these lanterns as garden decorations in the winter. I freeze also flowers like tulips inside the lantern, as it is here.
I wish you.....
Christmas is time to wish... peace, health, hope and love, all the best for all of you. Time to remember the family, the people, the great persons, that passing away... They made us better.
Happy Christmas buddies!
Us desitjo.....
Nadal és temps per a desitjar ... pau, salut, esperança i amor, tot el millor per a tots vosaltres. Temps per recordar a la família, la gent, les grans persones, que ja no son amb nosaltres ... Ens van fer millors.
Bon Nadal amics!
Os deseo.....
La Navidad es tiempo para desear ... paz, salud, esperanza y amor, todo lo mejor para todos vosotros. Tiempo para recordar a la familia, a la gente, a las grandes personas, a los que ja no están con nosotros ... Nos hicieron mejores.
Feliz Navidad amigos!
Celebrated my birthday over the weekend...Guess I was taking too long to make my wish-the candles almost melted away!