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A montage of bare tree branches and the underlying ground with fallen petals. Plus some texture of dots and dashes and swirls. A bit of photoshop play.
Plus an interesting article- reneweconomy.com.au/purely-phenomenal-aemo-says-world-is-...
A bit of summer lovin' Common Green Shieldbug style!
We are still discovering the plants and creatures that we have in our 'new' garden (we've lived here for a year now!), and yesterday I discovered a colony of Common Green Shieldbugs.
The Common Green Shieldbug
(Palomena prasina) is large shieldbug with a dark wing membrane and reddish antennae (4th and 5th segments). Adults are bright green in the spring and summer, but finely punctured with dark marks. They become a darker bronze-brown prior to winter hibernation.
There is one generation per year; the nymphs feed on many deciduous trees and shrubs, and can be found from June to October. Later nymphs are often darker than those found earlier in the season.
The Common Green Sheildbug is common and widespread throughout Britain and Ireland in numerous habitats, as far north as southern Scotland.
A bit of a day for me yesterday, it was my birthday and reached the age my father died at. Granted my father died at a young 64, still it’s a wee bit of a milestone for me, funny how things stick in your head. I had to do something different from the day, when I was at work I always took the day off and headed for the hills, so I did the same yesterday. Waking at 4:00 I had a bit of breakfast and headed to the lakes. I only intended to explore a wooded area I’d not been too and bag a little Wainwright that in all my time here I’d not ticked off, a good morning explore then home. I knew the weather would be showery and that’s what I was looking for. On arriving and navigating United Utilities gotcha’s I eventually got parked and slowly headed for that top, it was too dark to taken any photos just yet. When I gained the top the weather it all kicked off, I was a bit stumped for a composition, :-)
Here we are with a photo that is a bit simpler in concept, at least at first glance. No head stuck in a milky jar or recreation of Ophelia. The thing I enjoy doing about shots like this, and I sort of have a similar feeling toward my oranges shot, is that there is an implied story and everyone can make up their own.
Here is mine, and what I talked about with the model before we shot...don't read if you want to interpret your own and not be swayed by mine -
We had a great time coming up with this story. So she is in the 1890s, and she had a boyfriend that she loved very much, but her parents didn't approve. She decided she would run away with him, but shortly after doing this he left her. She couldn't go back to her parents because they didn't want someone who left their family, so she had to prostitute herself to make money. There was shame in this for her, and since making enemies with the police she decided to flee the state and start a new life for herself (presumably with this lovely pink dress stuffed in her suitcase).
So...in other words....photos can be a lot of fun when you just make up a somewhat silly story and go with it :-)
Bit blur but I would share this cuties with you!
I've never seen this before in my life! All sweet little swanbabies (well, I don't think all of them because she has 9!) sitting on their swan-mothers back. How cute is that!
Gather what ye may of the world around you, but when it whithers and dies you'll have naught left but dusty remains.
Great place ,great athmosphere, just a bit..
Shot for the Macro Monday group. The theme is "a little bit of red"
Have a wonderful Christmas everyone.
A bit of overkill here with two 08's shunting a single mark 3 coach from the yard into no.5 shed. If two 08's were available in the yard they were usually paired up nose to nose presumably for better visibility when shunting. The 'Highlander' sleeper stock is seen on the right on the Down Carriage line being serviced prior to doing a North end shunt into sheds 1-4. I liked my time at this box, night shifts were very busy shunting out defective coaches etc. Shunting was mostly done on sight from the box, very few track circuits to show you where trains were! Photo taken on 23rd October 1997. Photo: Ivan Stewart (my copyright).
These are bits and pieces of three clematis blossoms that my son donated to my project. He has been so generous by letting me collect flowers from his yard. This entry is 58/100. I am glad I still have a little less than half of my project left. There is still much to explore and discover, I love the whole process.
The shack outback. I found this old storage shed behind a run down house that had some very "interesting" artwork spray painted on the walls. This little shed was actually a lot more comforting than the house, which was rather eirie... My wife thinks that I need to find someone to watch my back when I go to these places (but I'm kind of an introvert)
It's a bit cooler today, a relief for the cats although it probably won't last long. Fynn relaxed in the garden under the eyes of the stone cat behind him. Stone kitty is guarding the place where we buried Ramses almost two years ago and I often find Fynn in this corner of the garden. Ramses and Fynn were good buddies and I sometimes wonder if he is feeling the presence of his old friend there.
The Peace River Punta Gorda. It was so hard finding a old pier that I could access to shoot. I trespassed a bit to get this shot, don't tell anyone :)
And now for something a bit different........
This Yayoi Kusama installation called 'Gleaming Lights of the Souls' was one of the very last things we saw during our visit to the Louisiana Museum in Denmark. It's constructed in a small room big enough for only a few people to enter at a time, consequently queues can be quite long when the Museum is busy. It was well worth the wait though even if still photography can't really do the room of glowing pulsating orbs justice......
The Museum is currently showing a retrospective of her work : en.louisiana.dk/exhibition/yayoi-kusama
More shots from my trip : www.flickr.com/photos/darrellg/albums/72157656314165922
From the Louisiana Museum website : 'Gleaming Lights of the Souls by Yayoi Kusama is one of the most beloved pieces in the museum collection. The installation, dating from 2008, consists of a single space, four by four meters. The walls and ceilings are covered with mirrors; the floor is a reflecting pool; and you stand in the middle of the water on a platform.
Hanging from the ceiling above you are a hundred lamps that resemble glowing ping pong balls. These lamps change colour in a way that transport us into a special rhythm and pulse, almost as though we become one with the universe of the installation. Gleaming Lights of the Souls is a truly lyrical work of art in every sense.'
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P.S. Seen in Explore, #268, on 23/06/21.
a roll review of acros ii in a rollei 35
www.aarondesigns.org/AcrosII-Roll-Review/
shot with rollei 35 w/ 40mm f/3.5 tessar type lens
* shot on fujifilm acros ii film
* developed in rodinal @ 1+50
* digitized with a fujifilm x-s10 and a tamron 90mm f2.5 adaptall sp macro lens
Just a bit of fun [sound on] as its another Miserable Monday
But please do spare a thought for our poor wildlife who must be suffering with the battering winds and relentless rain
Cast: Long-eared owl, red fox, barn owl
...Roll on Spring... :o)
There were people working on the rice fields near the trees they use to perch and this one was a bit far away.
Nice bit of sun for the visit of One Air B747-433F G-UNET to Shannon today on a training flight in from Heathrow and out to Cardiff.
This is a bit more grungy than my typical iPhone shots but hey I like it. I thought it gave the ferris wheel a spooky kind of mood.
Taken with my iPhone + Plastic Bullet + CrossProcess
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