Love this Varigated red and white rose sooo pretty

hese line the LOng shared driveway..thought I'd take a pic before the santa ana winds kicked up!

Male Greater Bird-of-Paradise

Birds of Paradise at Sheraton Granded Laguna Phuket, Thailand.

Julia's Grandma's Birds of Paradise

Wonderful specimens! These were nearly 1.5 metres tall!

Glossy Ibis in flight, Purana Shalla, Gurdaspur, Punjab

15 May, 2022

OMD EM1X 300f4

1/6400, f4, ISO200

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Magnificent Bird-of-Paradise

Not long ago I did two things. I read an article in Frankie on internet dating, in which the author* lamented the phenomenon of men wanting to meet women with "no baggage", among other things. I also watched a documentary narrated by David Attenborough which showed the incredible courtship rituals of the birds of paradise of New Guinea. As I watched the male birds preen and fail to win over the female every time, it reminded me of those men that the Frankie writer described, and it made sense to combine the two.

* I don't have a copy of issue 41 so I can't cite the author unfortunately.

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Visit this location at E in Second Life

A famous favorite tropical flower in Hawaii, and Florida..

Our topper last year was a little monkey hanging from the ceiling. Our tree looked like a giant cocktail!

First signs of spring -- a bird of paradise plant in a backyard potted container.

Vivid mode.

Streak throated swallow, 21 November 2021

Theh Kanjala, Kapurthala, Punjab

EM1X 300f4 1/4000sec f4, 0ev, ISO500

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In the Hummingbird Garden at Paraiso Quetzal Lodge, Costa Rica

Sorry I've been away...just super busy with work work and busy on weekends with stuff.

I have a super backlog of photos including: finishing the previous batch I never looked at again, India pics, goofing off pics, two old photowalks I forgot about and never touched and something I'm forgetting. :/.

Anyways, since this is a shot of two birds of paradise, turned away from each other, it kind of made me think of a couple that's fallen out of love with each other. Even though birds of paradise are colorful, there was something I liked about this in high contrast B&W

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mua . Elizabeth Bjerkseth

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Spotbilled Duck in flight

16 February, 2022

Kapurthala, Punjab

EM1X 300f4

1/2500, f4, ISO200

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Birds of Paradise, anthurium, purple orchids

Diphyllodes respublica

Waigeo, West Papua, Indonesia

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Gray headed Swamphen

9 May, 2021,

Jhal Thikriwal, Kapurthala, Punjab

EM1X 100-400IS, 1/1000sec, 219 mm, 0ev, ISO800

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Taken on holiday May 2007

Birds of Paradise flowers, as seen at Disneyland.

7/2/18 male at display area Varirata NP near Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea