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These two were chasing eachother. It looked like courting behaviour. A photo I took. (Thanks to all those who fav the photo, really appreciated!)
We had a lovely day out with friends today at a local farm. Last time the children were rather startled by the livestock, but today they had a fab time!
I got a number of shots of galahs mating a few days ago which I'll try to post over the next coming days. This shot shows part of the pre-mating ritual. Too bad other stupid other birds are in the background: galahs have no scruples about doing it in public.
This baby Orca (far left) was trying to get its mother's attention. She was flopped out on her back and seemed to be sunbathing!
Scan of Slide S4807 The White Glove by George Lambert:
LAMBERT, George
Russia 1873 – Australia 1930
Australia 1887-1900; England 1900-01; France 1901-02; England 1902-21; Australia from 1921
The white glove 1921
oil on canvas
106.0 (h) x 78.0 (w) cm
signed and dated 'G.W.LAMBERT/ 1921' lower right
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, purchased in 1922 Sydney photograph: Jenni Carter for AGNSW
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This is a lively bravura portrait of a modern Melbourne woman of fashion, style and elegance. It has an arresting vitality. Her belongings, a luscious blue stole, elegant feathered hat and jewelled ring, are as much the subject of this work as is Miss Collins herself, and contribute to it a sense of opulence. Her flamboyant pose, with her head slightly tilted back and poised to one side, and her arms caught in mid-action, matches her vivacious personality. Her eyes appear to be laughing in accord with her smile and she seems to be deliberately posing or hamming it up for the artist.
The subject, Miss Gladys Neville Collins, was the daughter of J.T. Collins, lawyer, Victorian State Parliamentary draughtsman, and trustee of the Public Library, Museums and National Gallery of Victoria. Lambert appears to have enjoyed painting her portrait and described her to Amy on 10 December 1921 as ‘a dear girl [who] sits for the fun of it and because her Dad thinks I am it’ (ML MSS 97/10, p.393).
Lambert portrayed the individual features of Miss Collins but, with her collaboration, he arranged them to denote a characteristic type. Miss Collins’s tilted head, her half-open mouth, half-closed eyes, and almost-bare right arm suggest an individual sensuality, but they also indicate a form of codified (sexual) behaviour. Lambert's portrait presents a witty version of the pose of Bernini’s Ecstasy of St Teresa 1645–52 (Cornaro Chapel, Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome), an established expression of the ecstatic experience, and one which was subsequently taken up by photographers, film-makers and advertisers.
What is more, Lambert presented Miss Collins in a variation of the pose used by Joshua Reynolds in his portrait Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse 1784, which in 1921 (the year Lambert painted this portrait) the Duke of Westminster had controversially sold to The Huntington Library and Art Collection in California. By associating Miss Collins with this classic image of a leading actress, he hinted that she was playing a role in this portrait. It is also possible that Lambert knew Sargent’s Portrait of Ena Wertheimer: a vele gonfie of 1905 (Tate, London), a lively portrait of Ena wearing as a joke a black feathered hat and billowing cloak, painted essentially in black and white. It is similar to Lambert’s painting in its sense of extravagant posture and light-heartedness. If nothing else, both paintings are a reflection of the spirit of the times.
In this portrait Lambert used a limited range of colours to great effect: a dark Manet black and a Gainsborough blue, with the addition of purple in the jewel on a chain around her neck. Lambert paid close attention to the clothing, capturing an array of textures – the lustrous steel-blue silk of her stole, the fluffy white fur collar, the white leather gloves, the transparent black lace sleeve and the black velvet of the hat wreathed with white ostrich plumes.
Lambert painted the portrait with broad brushstrokes, and spontaneously, as a kind of ‘performance in paint’. When exhibited, it stood out from the prevalent brown tonalist portraiture painted at this time by other Australian artists, such as John Longstaff and W.B. McInnes. (W.B. McInnes’s much more restrained Portrait of Miss Collins was awarded the Archibald Prize for 1924 at the Art Gallery of New South Wales).
Lambert’s tour de force was purchased for 600 guineas by the Art Gallery of New South Wales when it was shown at the New South Wales Society of Artists exhibition in 1922; at that time the highest price paid by a public gallery for a portrait by an Australian artist.
He's going to be the spokesperson for my contest :P. I wanted to get a good image for a banner or a layout, but I think I have to keep on trying.
What drives me nuts is his blushing..the coverage didn't turn out that great, so I think I'm going to try to add some more layers on. If it gets ruined, I'll just redo him completely ^^;.
This behaviour caught my attention today, not sure what it is about. My best guess is that 2 females are trying to attract their partners but it does attract 2 more males to fly in & be seen off
The breeding behaviour of kestrels is a fascinating process that typically takes place in spring and is strongly influenced by their adaptation to human settlements as building-nesting birds. Key aspects of their breeding behaviour:
Breeding season: The breeding season usually begins in late March to early April.
Nest location: As building-nesting birds, they use niches in church towers, old buildings and high-rise blocks, or readily accept nest boxes. They do not bring in nesting material, but use the existing substrate.
Clutch & egg-laying: The female usually lays 3 to 6 eggs at intervals of one to two days.
Breeding behaviour: The incubation period lasts around 28 to 30 days. During this time, the female incubates the eggs almost exclusively, whilst the male provides her with food.
Rearing: After hatching, the chicks are kept warm by the mother (brooding), whilst the male hunts. After about four weeks, the young falcons leave the nest, but are often still fed for some time afterwards.
Kestrels are site-faithful breeders and often return to the same nesting site. Their main food source during the breeding season is small rodents.
Unfortunately because of anti-social behaviour I decided that it was best to move on so I did not get the opportunity to explore this park which was a pity.
The park has many fine mature trees, beautiful flowers, horticultural displays and grassland areas.
In June 1866, Belfast Corporation (now Belfast City Council) purchased 101 acres of land on Falls Road from the Sinclair family. Some of the land was set aside for the building of Belfast City Cemetery, but the rest was earmarked for a new park.
However, because the land initially fell outside the Belfast city boundary, the area was not considered a public park until the Public Parks (Ireland) Act was passed in 1869.
The area, now known as Falls Park, was eventually established in 1873.
In 1924, an outdoor swimming pool, known locally as ‘the Cooler’, was added to the park. It cost £3,000 to build and was fed by the Ballymurphy Stream, which still flows through the area today. The pool closed in 1979 for public health reasons.
Cock Pheasants squaring up to each other although this encounter ended peacefully with just a bit of posturing before one decided to walk away.
Slut Walk, Toronto © Linda Dawn Hammond / IndyFoto.com '11
The Slut Walk protest march was held in Toronto on April 3d, 2011 in response to offensive remarks made by a Toronto police officer during a safety forum at York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School this past January. Constable Michael Sanguinetti allegedly told the meeting that “...“I’ve been told I’m not supposed to say this, however, women should avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimized.” (as victims of sexual assault). It was yet another example of blaming the victim for their behaviour rather than that of the perpetrator.
Walk co-founders Heather Jarvis and Sonya JF Barnett addressed the crowd at the start of the march. Barnett explained the provocative decision to incorporate and thus re-appropriate the word "Slut "', which she conceded "... is a strong word with a strong meaning. If we had not used it many less of you would be here today... " The "Slut Walk" dress code did not require participants to necessarily 'dress like a slut', the point being made that to be targetted for rape does not require any particular outfit, let alone a provocative one, on the part of the victim. Nor should wearing clothes designed to attract be considered an invitation to assault or absolve an attacker of responsibility for their actions.
Hundreds of protesters and supporters, male, female and other, walked from Queen's park to the Toronto Police Headquarters on College Street. Speeches were held at police station by Deb Singh of the Toronto Rape Crisis Centre, Michael Kaufman of the White Ribbon Campaign, Alyssa Teekah, SWTO York Liaison, and Jane Doe, the activist and author who successfully sued the Toronto Police in July, 1998, for failing to warn her about a serial attacker, known as the Balcony rapist, who was operating in her neighbourhood. "Doe" is still under a publication ban and could not be documented.
See the following sites and articles for further information.
SLUTWALK Toronto website
The Story of Jane Doe
A Book About Rape
Written by Jane Doe
www.randomhouse.ca/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=97806793127...
‘Sluts’ march against sexual assault stereotypes
www.thestar.com/news/article/968466--sluts-march-against-...
Nicki Thomas Staff Reporter
Toronto 'slut walk' takes to city streets
CBC News, www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2011/04/03/slut-walk...
Who is JANE DOE? CHATELAINE, January 1999, Vol. 72, No. 1, Kim Pittaway
www.walnet.org/jane_doe/news/toronto_99/chatelaine-9901.html
Okay I found the Birdie Porn shot-of course mating isn't bad-but this interspecies thing just ain't right!
Happy Birds Behaving Badly Feathery Friday
Photo by my daughter :)
There were a number of Red-breasted Mergansers in Portland Harbour this weekend. Towards the end of the day, this pair separated from the others and starting to exhibit behaviour that I had not seen before. The male courtship is often seen at this time of year, but this was different, in that the female was looking very submissive with her tail pointing up. Typical mating behaviour but surely not in December. Anyway as this series of images show it was clear was a mating attempt or pair bonding.