Because Loss is not just a word...
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Because your heart loves who it chooses, without any doubt or reasoning...
The world is full of love that goes unspoken. It doesn’t mean that it is felt less deeply… its beauty and its pain are in its silence.
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Why don't you stay
I'm down on my knees
I'm so tired of being lonely
Don't I give you what you need
When she calls you will go
There is one thing you should know
We don't have to live this way
Baby why don't you stay
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 😊
The oystercatcher is a large, stocky, black and white wading bird. It has a long, orange-red bill and reddish-pink legs. In flight it shows a wide, white wing-stripe, a black tail and a white rump that extends as a 'V' between the wings.
Because it eats cockles, the population is vulnerable if cockle beds are overexploited.
They breed on almost all UK coasts. During the last 50 years, more birds have started breeding inland. Most UK birds spend the winter on the coast where they are joined on the east coast by birds from Norway.
In the UK, Isle of Man, and Ireland, the Oystercatcher is resident in most coastal areas. It has an "Amber" status because it is considered Vulnerable in Europe and Near Threatened globally.
Because life can be like burning a candle at both ends, so keep them burning!
A tribute and respect to Queen Elizabeth II, who was a remarkable woman. For in that same year of 1952; I was born, she was crowned, and for all of 70 years, she gave her full loyalty and devotion in her service to us all.
Now, may she finally come to rest in peace !!!
I took this shot from St. Philip's Cathedral of Birmingham; so many thanks for your kind appreciation of compliments from you here, my good flickr friends !!!
Because Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. And it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before you may be guided, of what you are taking!
Just love these cool graffiti street artists, when they come around the Custard Factory of Digbeth and put up new artwork!
Many thanks for your cool comments here, my flickr friends !!!
Because there is definitely something not looking right, and I can't put my finger on it yet !!!
A visit to The Midland Air Museum, which is just based outside Coventry and where there is a unique aeronautical collection of old military aircraft's. And it was rather cool to get inside and sit down in a Pilot's cockpit seat of an old military helicopter; I was amazed just how tight it was to get inside this cockpit and then amused with all the control panels in front of it me.
Just a bit of creative fun, with my fisheye lens here!
Many thanks for your cool comments and compliments from you here, my flickr friends !!!
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Never take your most important decisions when you are in bad mood.
Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.
The sun will shine again.
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This time, I wanted to create a character that is anything but me. Clearly, he is kind, gentle.. Okay, don't bother him too much! BUT... I' a goth, I took it for a chalenge! So I present you Ayashi: My new character completely fan of yaoi. I hope you like it.
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Porque se levantó temprano
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León Marino de California
Lleó Marí de Califòrnia
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Just gonna stand there and watch me burn
But that's alright, because I like the way it hurts
Just gonna stand there and hear me cry
But that's alright, because I love the way you lie
I love the way you lie...
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After a long time found some time for photography in the afternoon 😊🙏
A pink hibiscus after the rain shower.
Originating in China, the cotton rose technically isn't a rose but a species of hibiscus (Hibiscus mutabilis). Sometimes called the Confederate rose because, according to legend, the flowers soaked up the blood spilled on battlefields during the civil war.
I gaze into the doorway of temptations angry flame
And every time I pass that way I always hear my name
Then onward in my journey I come to understand
That every hair is numbered like every grain of sand
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I hear the ancient footsteps like the motion of the sea
Sometimes I turn, there's someone there, sometimes it's only me.
I'm hanging in the balance of the reality of man
Like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand.
Bob Dylan - Every Grain of Sand.
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"Die Zukunft steht fest, lieber Herr Kappus, wir aber bewegen uns im unendlichen Raume."
Rainer Maria Rilke
Another Coua from the south-western region of Madagascar, Tsimanampotsotsa Park.
This Red-capped Coua was just hooting at the top of his lungs as he bounced from tree top to tree top in this dry spiny forest.
He was looking up into the sun which made for a challenge, but there was no moving around him because he would definitely be gone - - he's not a bird who hangs around for people or any sort of disturbance.
Red-capped Coua - Madagascar
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Completely crosses the Earth's shadowing a tonal lunar eclipse becoming a ''Blood Moon'' ... because of sunlight bending through Earth atmosphere hitting the moon ...
because there is a northern hemisphere ;-)
icm image of a forest friend.
one of the things I love about getting to know a forest
is recognising individual trees.
I've photographed this tree before.
but it went missing after it's leaves fell...
and then late autumn this year, it reappeared ;-)
the same and yet different...
taller, stronger, a more supple dancer.
and for those inclined Daan Park from Matthew Halsall & The Gondwana Orchestra:www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fb05_-ttas :-)
... because I have friends from Russia and I have friends from Ukraine. And I know these friends from Ukraine have friends in Russia too. And none of them is looking forward to burying their friends ...
This is (now) my local crag, and the place my dear old Dad first took me climbing 14 years ago. I often pop up for sunset because it's frustratingly hard to photograph, and I'm never happy with my images!
This made me laugh happy though. Incredible how far we've come in a matter of months:
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Taking back control and getting rid of all that red tape, eh? 😆 Happy weekend!
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There is a local park which had some tulips that really wanted to be photographed. I obliged and spent that morning fooling around with the DoF while battling with the wind. Many of the images got turfed, but I decided to keep this one because I liked the colours which I did not alter. Editing and effects via Topaz Studio.
Happy Slider's Sunday! HSS!
Thank you for taking a peek and for your comments. I do love hearing from you! Have a happy day!
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I knew this song for the first time because it was sung by Robert Palmer. Many singers sang this song, originally released by Marvin Gaye in 1971.
First, I loved the very gentle melody, but when I understood the lyrics, I knew it has been sung about the environmental issue. And I learned that the subtitle was "The Ecology".
Also, The lyrics "Ah things ain't what they used to be, no, no" are linked what people in the world is feeling right now, isn't it?
As an image of this song that sang about environmental issues, I took a polar bear in the iceberg that melts due to global warming.
This polar bear is 1 cm long on a pen cap decoration. I used freezer frost as the snow.
because I'm crazy for you ;)
For #Macro Mondays Group
Theme of the week: #Stationery
Heart shaped paper clips
Less than 1 inch of size each one
Never really scared to show you what I feel inside
Everything laid out on the table, baby, you and I
I find myself living it up, making this dream come true
Everything I see in my head is all because of you, you