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and I would advise you not to wait ten years before admitting today was great. If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time :-)
Art Buchwald
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saucer magnolia, 'Sundew', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
I am coming at you, so better brace yourself. From the ashes of darkness towards the light, i will drag you to hell. I'm your next monumental task, Name is Amsy remember well because I'm about to make your empire crumble. I threw down my gloves for ill advised street fights. Blood rushed through ringing ears, Blood rushed into my head. I will knock you so hard that you would wake up next week in hospital bed... Oh dear Oh dear, This is why my mentor said.. you are shining star, Shining star full of S**t...
Rest hope you all enjoy amsy work as always ^^
Amsy ♡
Everglades Snail Kites are a highly endangered bird in Florida! They are now referred to as Snail Kites and get their name for the fact that they feed almost exclusively on Apple Snails! They are a victim of poor water management, including water quality, high water levels, extremely low water levels. The water that is of extremely poor quality is because of recycling of farm water!
We were luck enough to see these Snail Kites mating on one of our trips to STA 5 in the wonderful early morning light!! As always thanks for looking and we will see you on Thursday!!
Mar & April: Photography exhibit at the J. N. Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge Visitor's Center, Sanibel-Captiva Road, Sanibel, Florida
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A view of Lisbon from "above" - the rooftops in the center of the city - here you see the "Baixa" - in consideration for Unesco World Heritage site mainly refbuilt after the hearquake of 1755; it is the "heart" of the city - here the old city meets the Tejo River as well as the most typical parts of the city. In June 13th the Festivies of S.Antonio (the city patron) make this part a big party - I advise to visit it once at least - you can find all sorts of accomodations!:.)) Enjoy and have a great week!
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I am sorry but I am busy so I cannot comment on all of you (I am OFF) but will catch up as soon as I can
Anyone advise as to whether this is a Heron or and Egret? (I've ruled out wren, sparrow and meadow pipit :-)
Lunchtime? An advantageous perch for this
Eager Angler at Hebden Beck, Hardcastle Crags, UK.
Moderate risk with rough or very rough seas, possible coastal erosion and delays to maritime connections. Caution is advised, especially for recreational boating and beach activities, which may be prohibited. It is necessary to secure objects exposed to the wind, avoid piers and breakwaters, and pay attention to areas near the coast.
We discovered Mr.Yao in a hollow under a tree, after hearing him cry for three days in a row, and a few unsuccessful attempts to locate him following the sound. When we finally found him shivering in his hole, the poor baby was completely exausted and famished. He couldn't be more than a week old, since his eyes were still closed. We started feeding him right away with a mixture of warmed goat milk and water, as advised by a veterinarian, who also told us that his chances for survival were rather slim.
Mr Yao, as we called him (Yao meaning something like "Auch" in Serbian) required our permanent attention, love, and warmth, and one of us had to cary him tucked in a pouch at all times. During the night we kept him in our bed, and were rewarded with being pissed upon, and worse. There was not much sleeping since he had to be fed every two to three hours, and we were afraid of crushing him while asleep.
Amandola, Italy
This post is devoted to inexperienced bird photographers and those of you with some experience under your belt or who aren't into photography are advised to skip it. First, juvenile Black-crowned and Yellow-crowned Night Herons are difficult to distinguish. According to Sibley, the Yellow-crowned bill is dark and the legs long where the Black-crowned bill is more sharply pointed, extensively yellow along the bottom, and the edges of the wings have large white spots. Feel free to disagree but to my eye this guy is a Yellow-crown.
I was at Peaceful Waters Sanctuary, in Wellington, Florida. I had earlier missed a potential keeper Yellow-crowned shot, changing my settings to take a portrait with a lower ISO and lower shutter speed when the bird, who showed no signs of leaving, left. The lesson, if you're after a flight shot, keep your flight shot settings.
My arm can't hold up the lens indefinitely. I don't generally use a tripod and my lens is not a lightweight. It's therefore important to be able to tell when a bird is ready to leave. As indicated earlier, it's not science but the more time you spend observing the more capable you will become of predicting behavior. The bird in this photograph, was on a manmade structure toward the back of the Sanctuary. It was there for 30 minutes and looked very comfortable, so I moved on. After circling back, it was then preening (cleaning its feathers). That's a good indication that a take-off is not imminent but might be worth waiting for. It was already late morning, and the sun was strong. This meant that the only light that looked good to me was direct, meaning that the sun was behind me on a straight line to the bird. If I could see my shadow, it would be pointing at where I wanted the bird to be in order to make a pleasing image. That's what I do. The bird could have left in any direction, but only northward would put it in front of a pleasing background in the best light. If there was wind, it would generally take off into the wind. But this morning the wind was not a significant factor. I might not have waited for my chance if there were other subjects to photograph, but this was the only game in town and the more time I spent with it the more I felt invested in the endeavor. OK, another 30 minutes later I was questioning my logic as I continued to wipe the sweat from my brow. Then the bird turned and faced away from me. Game over. I looked at a sidelight angle but didn't care for the light or the background. Yes, I would have taken it, but I'll shoot anything. Then it turned back, stretched its wings, and pooped. Clear signs of an imminent departure. More preening. More sweat. Ten minutes later, another stretch, another poop and I could see it talking to the tower. That's what it looks like to me when it's looking more intently in its direction of departure. That's when I raised my camera and got ready. (Not he first time but the first time I felt that there was going to be some action.) I got lucky, it flew parallel to my position in the best light available at the time, in front a dark background that wasn't close to the subject. All important points to consider.
(Nyctanassa violacea)
is certainly advised both for those that sail and those that ramble on the cliff tops plus the added in-coming storm produced an advisory to get back to the dry indoors!
This is a shot from the road to the famous Trollstigen. A fantastic place well worth a visit if you ever come to Norway. My advise.... visit outside tourist season :)
Vas'ka advises to wait out the heat this way: to sleep in the house during the day, and in the evening to sleep in the patio, on the stones heated in the afternoon. That is, sleep 24 hours a day!
Thank you all for visits, faves and comments - greatly appreciated!
he advised me to place this image coz it's more appealing than the other one, sooo I follow his advise ;-)
I think these are wild onions flowering, but I am not sure. Grew in the local gardens of West Vancouver, BC. I don't have my big gardening book unpacked so cannot check these and couldn't find anything in my search either. If someone recognizes what these beautiful purple flowers are, please advise and many thanks.
Hanford, Ca.
Could someone please advise me in what universe one would want to be known as a "savage assassin?" Well, the Taliban use motorcycles a lot. Huh?
This is the same tree, might be the same leaves that I uploaded the other day. That photograph is overexposed because I held the camera directly to the sun in a high atmospheric transmission region. I was kindly advised to spray water over the leaves in the background of the motif so that a beautiful bokeh would be created. I headed to the same tree right away, carrying out his suggestion. This is the outcome with sprayed water. Aside from the overall quality of it as a photograph, when you just focus on the background, I think this is just great. Thank you so much for this, Pedro! Now I have acquired a new photography skill. I can't be any happier.
On our last day in Costa Rica we were going to go on some hikes at Manuel Antonio National Park but we were advised by lots of naturalists that even with the pandemic that park always has way too many people and even though you can still see quite a few of the Costa Rica wildlife staples there like monkeys and sloths, you can see far more wildlife in similar habitat outside of the park. We were able to setup a tour at the Rainmaker Nature Park which is just a fantastic place and my family all had a wonderful time there even though true to its name it rained on us almost the whole time. (Keep in mind it was really late into the dry season by this point).
I will post some cell phone shots of the beautiful rainforest habitat there and trails later. Unfortunately I didn't take many landscape shots with my camera. I don't know why since I had my 12-100mm readily available. I did however take lots of wildlife shots. My favorite find was this beautiful big impressive Brown Basilsk which our guide spotted basking right next to the river as if it was guarding its favorite spot. it was so strange to see a lizard basking in the rain but these lizards really like water.
I am posting 3 shots here to show the lizard from far away and closeup. It didn't let me get within 25 feet of it before it bolted so the first is a 1:1 crop followed by a shot at 100mm (200mm FF equiv) and a wider angle shot from farther away.
Notice all those nasty no-see-um flies in the air right above the lizard.
If we ever get to that part of Costa Rica again I definitely want to visit the Rainmaker again. Especially for a night hike. I was pretty annoyed that I had called their US office to arrange a night tour the night before and was told it was too late and they were already booked. Then I found out the next day from our guide that his night tour participants actually cancelled on him because of the rain. It would have been better for both of us if me and my son had been able to do the tour.
This waterfall is fairly difficult to shoot. There is just not much color there to work with. If you look through other images of the falls most simply use the sky to add some color. When I visited the site, I wanted to do something different, use something besides the sky to add color. Well, there was some great yelow grass, and some green near the falls, but it was hard to get to. The lookout is high above and getting in close to the fals would have meant using a zoom, then loosing the setting. So in order to get the color, and the setting, I had to venture down the cliff edge. So I went down, into the cliff face, which was made of sand and loose rock. Sooooo not the smartest thing I have ever done. One step, slide 5 feet, next step, slide 4 feet, and so on. I finally reached the color and set up the tripod. I was quite excited to see what it looked like. So anyway, I do not advise this spot. Not sure its worth the effort or the danger. After all, when I finished shooting and turned around, I had to climb back up, one step up, three feet back, second step up, 5 feet back. Not a productive way to get up a cliff. Enjoy.
This is my first attempt at star shots....taken at Spirits Bay, Northland, NZ.
For my friends on here that do star shots regularly, I would love to hear some tips on post processing. Any advise would be greatly appreciated.
Explore February 1, 2015 (#171)
You are advised to walk your bike through the tunnels. However, if you have a very good light and are not disconcerted by strange environments you can ride through. The tunnel is very dark, you literally cannot see your hand in front of your face, and water drips from the ceiling and runs down the walls. There are ditches on both sides to carry water out of the tunnel and they are a must to avoid! It's difficult to talk because of the echoes. It's a Rush!
A glimpse of a corner in Bois D Arc, Missouri. Please don’t give it your best high school French pronunciation, either! Here in the Ozarks, we call it “Bo Dark”..... Several years ago, there used to be some cool old gas pumps; you can see the base of one, if you look closely. You might see a few ghosts, too, so maybe a closer look is not advised....
"Viewer discretion advised"...I took those words to heart and have not watched, or listened to, the six O'clock news or any other news in seven months, until two nights ago. Same miserable crap. I glance away from the newspaper stand at the local coffee shop, not even wanting to catch a glimpse of the days headlines. My iphone and Google only seen to care about the forth stimulus check as I quickly tap past that. I don't care. I really don't care anymore, as I only want to see and hear the good that this world offers. Selfish. Indeed. So I needed to bring out some love and color to offset the hatred and the dismal darkness of the six O'clock news from two nights ago. Peace out.
I was advised quickly by some loyal contacts that there was some kind of marks on my upload yesterday. I never did see what you did and have no idea what caused whatever it was. Thus, I deleted it. But I thank you all for pointing it out. As you know, I am anything but a photographer and certainly not a technocrat on any level. I've never even had a cell phone. So the chances of me discovering what may have caused the problem are nil. Too bad, because I liked the photo and apologize for the deletion to those of you who commented and faved. However, it was obviously not what I thought it was.
To test as to whether this is a permanent flaw in some part of my process, I've uploaded a SOOC photo of Star and myself approaching the shore in a rowboat on the lake in the rain. Please let me know if you see anything which would lead you to believe the contrary. Remember this is absolutely SOOC. I appreciate your continued observations.
Looking about for opportunities, this one was actually at my feet. I just wasn't listening when it was crying, "look down here". How many times I have told myself the world is three dimensional. Stop looking straight ahead, look up, look down. Or, in this case, look no farther than your own two feet.
This image struck me as being so very simple and standing out as a metaphor for so many reasons. Alone from the rest, different from the rest, older than the rest. Take your pick, it stood out from the rest.
So my advise is to remember that the world is three dimensional and sometimes a good shot is found at your own two feet. A great and celebrated photographer named Freeman Patterson said, "If you do not see what is around you every day, what will you see when you go to Tangiers?"
and I would advise you not to wait ten years before admitting today was great. If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time."
Processed with Michelle Nicole's Shabby Chic Action set.{See my profile for a link}
Well I have been to this spot a bunch of times now but not after a big rain. I had heard that it changes colour drastically after a storm so we went to see. Well yes in fact it does change from a brilliant blue to a pea green. If you plan to visit this falls I would advise to go when there hasn't been any rain for a few days. Kris..