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Something a bit different for Sliders Sunday, and my first video on Flickr. This is a short(ish) taste of the Paphos Beer Festival in Cyprus I was lucky enough to enjoy last week. The backing track is the same music that was playing and I think I've just about lined it up correctly! Created in Studio Artist (animation effects) and Cyberlink PowerDirector. HSS!
Buachaillie Etive Mor, as the falls were a bit low on water, i chose a slighty higher up view point. I had to wait a bit as the mountain was almost completely covered in low cloud.
Canon EOS 5D MKII, Canon 17-40mm, F16, 21mm, ISO50, Exp 1/5 Seconds
Lee Pro Glass ND 0.9, Lee Soft Grad 0.75
Raw File Processed in Lightroom, Edited in Elements.
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These are bits from a tiny screwdriver set used for working on electronics. That makes this photo a macro, as well.
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in Berkeley, where there mostly is very little. This is the edge of a private club where they have planted special trees in keeping with a lovely environment. It borders the street, so we can all benefit!!
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Lake Clark National Park
Southeastern Alaska
USA
The bears come down to the shore on the edge of Cook's Inlet to find dead fish washed up on the shore to eat. They are followed around by seagulls trying to snatch bits of fish for their own meal. These are fairly large birds when you compare their size to the big bear in the image.
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A Masai Giraffe stretching for that piece of vegetation that is just out of reach. It obviously tastes much better than the bits lower down.
A bit of a surprise in my garden with this Cuckoo Flower (Cardamine pratensis) deciding to grow in the path between my two ponds.
I'm a bit battled: I could have stopped down a bit and gain some sharpness and DoF in the farther trees, but I would have lost most of the very little light I was working with (this is ISO 6400, already).
In hindsight, my regret is how I framed: I gave too much of the frame to the ground. It now takes more than half of the space and takes away from the lines of trees.
Oh well, learn by doing, they say
Though a bit awkward on land, albatrosses are magnificent in the air. Airborne albatrosses are masters of dynamic soaring requiring little metabolic energy or wing flapping. This mōlī has returned from months of nomadic solitary foraging at sea and will reestablish its pair bond with a monogamous mate through an elaborate courtship dance. Laysan albatrosses with established pair bonds are the first of the season to arrive at this breeding colony in the sand dunes of the north shore of Oahu. Males generally arrive first in mid-November and stake out a nesting site, females arrive a few days or so later. After a brief reaffirming courtship dance followed by mating, the couple return to nomadically soaring over the north Pacific for about two weeks to forage and fatten up for the rigors of nesting. The pair return to the nest where the female lays a single egg then departs to replenish the enormous energy deficit required to produce a beer can sized egg. The male takes the first incubation shift and fasts for two weeks until the female returns to relieve him. They alternate incubation duties and foraging with increasingly shorter shifts. If all goes well, the egg will hatch in about 60 days.
A bit of morning burn through the fog creates anti-crepuscular rays. Who needs fireworks on the 4th of July?
EDIT: Clarification, there is no actual "fire" here. The first morning sun beams are filtering through the trees and casting shadows on the thin fog layer above. It is an unusual phenomenon.
From Point Reyes.
Shot with the 67 M*300 f/4.
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Been away a bit.
Baffled how it happened but the Monday after Christmas began coughing. Started as a tickle. Then turned croup like. Was able to get to urgent care that Thursday and a rapid test was positive for covid.
Because of my recent cancers I qualified for the myoclonal antibody treatment. Felt remarkably better for a bit.
But this sure has been a roller coaster.
I feel so bad for the unvaccinated. If I've been this awful after three Pfizers, I can't imagine surviving without having been vaxxed.
I had been given Prednisone for the croup/bronchial inflammation which I didn't start taking until I lost the sense of smell. Surprisingly the sense came back after two days.
A week after I showed symptoms, Kim showed, but hers were very different. She had severe nausea and headache. She hasn't had the respiratory involvement, but her test this past week was also positive. She's on the recovery roller coaster too.
Sometimes we feel some better, then it all hits again.
Been using our large gym ball to lie over. Way back at the beginning of the pandemic a bunch of us who had been Physical Therapists had talked about the importance of lying prone and the importance of postural drainage, which we used to do for patients in the hospital before Respiratory Therapy took it over.
Lying on one's chest on the ball supports the diaphragm and makes coughing more comfortable. Pushing forward to get the head low and butt high will help get secretions moving and excreted. Plus rolling on the ball is very good for the back.
I suppose my involvement here at Flickr will be a bit spotty for awhile yet. Hope everyone stays well.
This has been baffling. We've been masked whenever we've left the house. Kim goes to work but since she showed symptoms after me, I'm the likely one to have given it to her. In the week before showing symptoms I'd been once to the grocery store. And I've always double masked. I've always brought along my alcohol spray bottle to spray down the shopping carts.
One thing we haven't kept up is the wiping down of the grocery items before bringing them into the house. And we haven't been wiping down the Amazon packages that get delivered. But that method of transference has always been very low on the list. Being unmasked in a closed space has always been the chief method of transmission.
Go figure.
After so much city it's now time for a bit more nature. How about a walk at the beautiful and almost unpeopled beach of Praia do Areão ?
I have a special connection to that photo, because during the last ten minutes this small dog, what is now in dialogue with it's pack leader did not leave my side. I had the impression, that he wanted to go with me absolutely. We were already a fair way off the others and I just brought him back to his pack. Now they seem to talk out that behaviour.
I just realised, that today is wild dog day. What a coincidence, that I decided for that post this morning.
Nach so viel Stadt ist es nun Zeit für etwas Natur. Wie wäre es mit einem Spaziergang am wunderschönen und fast menschenleeren Strand von Praia do Areão ?
Mit diesem Bild habe ich eine besondere Verbindung, da mir der kleine Hund, hier gerade im Gespräch mit seinem Rudelführer, die letzten 10 Minuten kaum von meiner Seite gewichen ist. Ich hatte den Eindruck, er wolle unbedingt mit mir mitkommen. Wir hatten uns schon ziemlich weit von den anderen entfernt und gerade hab ich ihn zurück zum Rudel gebracht. Jetzt wird das Verhalten wohl gerade ausdiskutiert.
Ich habe gerade realisiert, dass heute Welt Hunde Tag ist. Was für ein Zufall, dass ich mich heute früh gerade für dieses Foto entschieden habe.
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Did some long overdue birdwatching over the weekend, so will be "taking a break" from the arboretum pics before resuming again.
Spotted this male Northern Cardinal at the "Blazing Hot Blend" feeder - pepper treated seeds to deter the squirrels and seems to work, too. Mr Cardinal is looking a bit ragged but not sure if it's due to the stress from parenting or because of the extremely hot weather we've had in our area lately? Or something else completely different?
** Mind you, our hot weather is nothing like some other areas are experiencing but still - hot for our area! And no doubt the heat affects wildlife regardless of where they are located.
Die noch sehr frisch lackierte 215 047 verlässt am 19.05.91 die Bierstadt Bitburg mit dem E 3603 (Köln-Trier).
Düstere Gegend: alle Häuser haben dort schwarze Dächer...
Spot my favouirite bit of this shot to win the prize... OK, there is no prize.
You're all wrong, it's the light on the back of his neck ;0) .... I'm lying, of course it's the droplet. your prizes are in the post =D
By the way, apart from a bit of adjustment on the contrast, this was the colour the camera captured
123 in 2023
#69 - No Bigger that a Credit Card
This bit of fallen pine twig is just under the length of a credit card
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Poland, kodak profoto 400
“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”
― Rumi
A bit of housekeeping over the last few days, and going back through some images from a few years ago in the Norwegian Fjords. A handheld shot, that I took just because of the immense background behind these houses. What a place to live! Whilst enviable in some respects, it was a pretty bleak day, and I'm sure they will have more than a few days like this. It must make it a harsh place to live at times.
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A record shot of these Lasioglossum sp. bees engaging in a bit of bee passion! From the quality of the shot I don't think it's possible to identify them properly, but I think they may be Common Green Furrow Bees, also known as Brassy Mining Bees (Lasioglossum morio). Seen on our evening walk in Ipswich yesterday.
By the end of George V's reign the threepence had become unpopular in England because of its small size
The physical dimensions of the brass threepence remained the same in the reign of Queen Elizabeth II.
The effigy of the queen produced by Mary Gillick was used, with the inscription ELIZABETH II DEI GRA BRITT OMN REGINA F D used in 1953, and ELIZABETH II DEI GRATIA REGINA F D used in all other years.
The reverse shows a Tudor portcullis with chains and a coronet, with the inscription THREE PENCE date.
This coin was produced in all years from 1953 to 1967, and in 1970 (in proof sets only).
Following decimalisation, the brass threepence ceased to be legal tender after 31 August 1971.
Something different I actually liked this coin, when I was a lad if you had a few of these you were rich.
Fast forwarding a bit to a scene from a future series from my recent trip to St. Simons Island, Georgia. Here, I came across a tall man made of silver. He is known in the Flickrland as the littletinperson (not "little in person" as once believed). The clouds were perilous and the sun was threatening to drown. As soon as he pulled out his mysterios black box of Nikon, the sun split through the clouds and shined tall and wide. As tall and wide as the breadth of his experiences. He is the tallest man up in front of the scene (with the help of a bit of perspective exageration). I decided to go free of tripod along with him on this shot. It was a wonderful vacation and great meetup. His stories can be found at:
So swing over and give him a visit. Listen to the stories and learn.
A bit of wing action helps Tri-colored Heron keep its balance as it takes another menhaden from Horsepen Bayou.
Great Crested Grebe yesterday.. yes, I was out there photographing in the cold with the possibility of rain... a hardened photographer...
a good crop in to show off his beauty
Bit of a bad boy looks with NX-Nardcotix David mesh body. Check out my blog for the deets: billybeaverhausen.com/2020/02/09/shopping-for-david/