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Not yet ready for sunbathing and swimming but for an extended walk : Hvidbjerg Strand in March, Jylland, Denmark.
But a Christmas Eve snow
A day early this year...
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Even though we remain hovering right at the freezing point, early this morning big, fluffy, and wet snowflakes began to fall, continuing even now and providing a beautiful, fresh white accent to the landscape...the northwoods' annual celebration of the season. This shot, as with so many others over the years, taken from my deck.
[This is also the time of year at which I get confused as to whom I've wished Season's Greetings and to whom I have not. Forgive me if I repeat myself and, in the spirit of the holidays, be patient with an old man, accepting good wishes however often they may be repeated. It's the thought, not the memory, that counts. ;-))]
"But meanwhile time flies; it flies never to be regained."
Quote - Virgil
So it is great to be able to take photos so we remember.
Like this situation, somewhere else in the house ;-))
Eurasian Nuthatch, sometimes called Wood Nuthatch or simply Nuthatch
sitta europaea
boomklever
sittelle torchepot
Kleiber
Trepador Azul
Picchio muratore
Trepadeira-azul
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We all have to die one day. I know that.
But then why does sleep evade me all night?
- Mirza Ghalib (1797-1869)
Lake Manyara National Park, Tanzania
a tiny kingfisher that can be found near water in many parts of sub Saharan Africa
Corythornis cristatus
kleine gekuifde ijsvogel
Martin-pêcheur huppé
Haubenzwergfischer
Martín pescador malaquita
Martin pescatore malachite
Pica-peixe-de-poupa
Nikon Z9
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The World is but a Canvas for our Imagination
- Henry David Thoreau
The weather around here lately has not been conducive to photographing wildlife or landscapes, so I’m focusing on developing my imagination and hoping to improve my artistic skills… which currently are nearly as innovative as a bag of rocks : )
(Nikon Z6, 24-200 @ 103 mm, 1.3 sec @ f/25, ISO 400)
(edited to taste)
Brown Pelicans cruise low over the water, but dive into the water for food. They create quite a striking image, like the one in this picture, when diving for fish.
They are very large birds, with a 7'6" (2.3m) wingspan, and a length of 45-54 inches (1.1-1.4m). The picture looks best in large size.
another Common Redstart 2 days ago
Phoenicurus phoenicurus
gekraagde roodstaart
Rougequeue à front blanc
Gartenrotschwanz
Colirrojo Real
Codirosso comune
Rabirruivo-de-testa-branca
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Manning Gorge, The Kimberley's, Western Australia.
A long hot walk to reach this oasis, but so worth the effort. The water was so cold it was hard to stay in long...although it didn't seem to bother the European backpackers, which you can just make out at the base of the falls.
These falls were far more substantial than they appear in this image.
female Common Kingfisher also called Eurasian Kingfisher
Alcedo atthis
ijsvogel
martin-pêcheur d'Europe
Eisvogel
Martín Pescador Común
Martin pescatore
guarda-rios
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Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve, Madhya Pradesh, India
also called Little Green Bee-eater or just Green Bee-eater
merops orientalis
kleine groene bijeneter
guêpier d'Orient
Asiensmaragdspint
Abejaruco esmeralda oriental
Gruccione verde piccolo
Abelharuco-verde
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a pair of Wattled Lapwings nesting on rocks in the Kafue River were very nervous as there was an African Harrier-Hawk (Gymnogene) scanning the area.
One of their 2 chicks went immediately into hiding but this one wanted to stay on top of the rock
Taken from small boat in Kafue NP, Zambia
also called African Wattled Lapwing
vanellus senegallus
lelkievit
vanneau du Sénégal
Senegalkiebitz
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today at the Baltic Sea -
Durch den steifen Ostwind vom Wasser her war es doch noch sehr kalt heute an der sonnigen Ostsee.
garrulus glandarius
gaai of Vlaamse gaai
geai des chênes
Eichelhäher
Nikon D850 with Nikkor 500mm f/5.6E PF + TC 1,4 III
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The effect comes from the setting sun.
Not really online, just dropping by to say hi!
(Mobile phone camera shot - I have my big one with me too, but not the right cords to actually transfer files at the moment.)
female Puma in Torres del Paine, Patagonia, Chile
puma concolor
poema
Puma
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taken yesterday in a forest. i had hoped to see a Brambling among the Chaffinches but there was hardly any activity because of the stormy weather
also called Common Chaffinch
fringilla coelebs
vink
pinson des arbres
Buchfink
Nikon Z7 with Nikkor 500mm f/5.6E PF
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also called Redstart
Phoenicurus phoenicurus
gekraagde roodstaart
Rougequeue à front blanc
Gartenrotschwanz
Colirrojo Real
Codirosso comune
Rabirruivo-de-testa-branca
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Hurray! This photo made it to Explore's front page. It is not photoshopped or superimposed or anything. I used a little digital enhancement to bring out the detail in the clouds and color in the backgroud. The balloon was sharp and detailed in the untouched version. © all rights reserved
Today there were 3 balloons up. I had 10 passengers. It was a pefect flight and a perfect day. Just the right amount of clouds and wind and sun and hassle-free landing fields.
This photo shows the Remax Balloon flown by Bill Baker with Black Mountain (San Diego city park open space area) in the background, and way to the back left can be seen Mount Woodson, between Poway and Ramona, a popular rock climbing spot.
FAMILIAR SPECIES, but still in heavy decline, familiar because of its affinity for human habitations, found in small groups, can become remarkably tame. A constant source of entertainment on the trees and feeders around the cottage!
CRAZY MILD WEATHER ! look at the buds on its perch in December !
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THANK YOU for your visit, and kind comments , much appreciated indeed. Enjoy the weekend my dear friends, Stay safe, God bless .................Tomx
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort
The power of God had turned me around.
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All by Me.
Photographed by NHT © 2008. All rights reserved.
in northern Serengeti, Tanzania.
a large and handsome antelope found in herds of a few to over 20 in grassy areas where water is available nearby.
The Defassa subspecies is declining rapidly and is classified as Near Threatened
Kobus ellipsiprymnus subspecies defassa
waterbok
cobe à croissant
Wasserbock
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... but I love you, I love you a hundred times stronger
a hundred times stronger than you don't love me... (c)
....but you cannot keep Spring from coming.
Pablo Neruda
Topaz Studio
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these Wildebeest had spent the night in the woodlands and were heading towards the Ndutu Marsh area (in the south east of the Serengeti, Tanzania )
The south east of the Serengeti is the most southern part of the annual Great Migration . It is the area where most of the Wildebeest calves are born.
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Switzerland, May 2021
My best photos are here: www.lacerta-bilineata.com/ticino-best-photos-of-southern-...
My latest ANIMAL VIDEO (warning, it's a bit shocking): www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T2-Xszz7FI
You find a selection of my 80 BEST PHOTOS (mostly not yet on Flickr) here: www.lacerta-bilineata.com/western-green-lizard-lacerta-bi... (the website exists in ESPAÑOL, FRANÇAIS, ITALIANO, ENGLISH, DEUTSCH)
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 😊
BUT IT`S NOT MY FAULT !!!!!!!
If you don't know who the loreley was just listen to the song :-)
Dschinghis Kahn - Loreley www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx1pPJZQ9OE
Hard to believe, but: yes! Those pretty multicolored, variegated Tulips are degenerating species of that flower. The first to note this (in 1576) is the eminent botanist Carolus Clusius (1516-1609). However, he didn't know the cause of that phenomenon. Today much study has been made of the so-called 'Tulip-breaking Virus' (TBV), that, once a bulb has been infected with it, gives rise to those strikingly colored flowers. One of those Viruses is named after Rembrandt, the ReTBV. The photo is of an affected flower in the Hortus Botanicus here in Amsterdam.
but to meet you on a hill.
“I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.” -- within John Keats letter to his Fanny Brawne.
In Loving Memory of April Cerise De Fore - Gaddis.
April 20, 1979 - February 21, 2016
"I'm not addicted to coffee, we're just in a commited relationship."
=> "Baby" cami, shorts & sweater by .Lunar.
=> Coffee cup by Foxy
Old Doors Don't Open just a barrier between an alley and a parking place on the other side, but a charming alternative to concrete, shot in North Carolina.
But I would walk five hundred miles
And I would walk five hundred more
Just to be the man who walked a thousand miles
To fall down at your door
I'm Gonna Be (500 miles) - Writen by Craig Morris Reid & Charles Stobo Reid
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM0sTNtWDiI
Created for the Hypothetical Awards Contest "Take a walk or a ride"
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deep in the rainforest in a hilly area of the Atherton Tablelands (Queensland, Australia).
Fantastic sighting but not the greatest shot as this male bird was located in a tree on a steep slope.
Golden Bowerbirds, although the smallest bowerbirds of Australia at 23-25 cm, build impressive bowers that can be up to 2m ( >6.5 ft) high.
Their names in the different languages refer to their exceptional building and "gardening" capabilities
prionodura newtoniana
meiboombouwer
jardinier de Newton
Säulengärtner
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Einfache Dahlie (Hybrid) Palmström
Einfachblühende Sorte von Prof. Otto 2010
Dunkel violett schwarz mit schmaler violett rosa Außenzone,
Mitte Goldgelb.
Simple Dahlia (Hybrid) Palmström
Simple-flowering variety by Prof. Otto 2010
Dark violet / black with narrow / violet pink outer zone,
Middle golden yellow.
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