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Quiet lakes and wetlands come alive with the breezy whistle of the American Wigeon (Mareca americana), a dabbling duck with pizzazz. Breeding males have a green eye patch and a conspicuous white crown, earning them the nickname "baldpate". Noisy groups congregate during fall and winter, plucking plants with their short gooselike bill from wetlands and fields or nibbling plants from the water's surface. The American Wigeon is often found feeding with diving ducks such as the Redhead, Scaup, and Canvasback, who are adept at rooting up vegetation from deep in the water. The American Wigeon often feeds by snatching these underwater greens away from the diving ducks as they surface.
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GhostWorks Texture Competition #46
Also Created for Marcus Ranum Challenge #44
With thanks to...
Texture ~ Skeletal Mess
Model with thanks to Marcus Ranum
Background ~ Joes Sistah
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Created in PSE7 (on my laptop)....my Grandson thinks it sucks...lol :)
An adult Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus), perched atop the backyard Garry oak tree calling to its partner.
Saanich, Vancouver Island, BC.
There had been frequent sightings during the week of a pair of two bald eagles in the same backyard Garry oak tree.
Parée Erica’s Texture Fun Challenge #20
Also For~EXPLORE Worthy, Challenge #47 - WINTERLAND (Art from 2013)
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I was in our house, when I heard the familiar call of the red-breasted nuthatch. This isn't unusual, but what made it so was that it was sunny, and there were multiple nuthatches in our big apple tree. This is one on one of the lower branches; the green background is lichen on one of the other branches.
Finally got out in the Uk. A fresh location found yesterday. Spotted the rays and I couldn't resist having a smoke to help them out.
Full set here...
The Calling by Mark di Suvero in downtown Milwaukee.
randy-scherkenbach.artistwebsites.com/featured/1-the-call...
With a Tamron SP Adaptall 2 500mm f8 Tele Macro, mirror lens.
A nice example of how the lens distorts donuts towards the edge of the frame.
My YouTube review of this lens is here if you're interested:
This Raven was content to model for the photographer, spent nearly 30 minutes standing closer than 20 feet from it. It was almost as if the Raven wanted it's photos taken. In this photo, it was calling out to the younger Ravens flying close by. There is a family of five in the area, three young and two adults. The young are almost as big as the parents, the main difference is the size of their beaks and the sounds they make. They younger Ravens cry out for food, for which the elder Ravens are ignoring so that their young will hunt for themselves.When the elder Ravens cry out, it appears to be one of reassuring. (Only the photographer's opinion) After spending time with the photographer, the Raven took off and flew over the tundra, into the distance in no time at all. The Raven went in a few seconds a distance that would have taken the photographer hours to cover. Such is the gift of flight.
The Calling of Saint Matthew is an oil painting by Caravaggio that depicts the moment Jesus Christ calls on the tax collector Matthew to follow him. It was completed in 1599–1600 for the Contarelli Chapel in the church of the French congregation, San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome, where it remains. It hangs alongside two other paintings of Matthew by Caravaggio, The Martyrdom of Saint Matthew (painted around the same time as the Calling) and The Inspiration of Saint Matthew (1602).
More than a decade earlier, Cardinal Matthieu Cointerel (in Italian, Matteo Contarelli) had left funds and specific instructions in his will for the decoration of a chapel based on themes related to his namesake, Saint Matthew. The dome of the chapel was decorated with frescoes by the late Mannerist artist Giuseppe Cesari, Caravaggio's former employer and one of the most popular painters in Rome at the time. But as Cesari became busy with royal and papal patronage, Cardinal Francesco Del Monte, Caravaggio's patron and also the prefect of the Fabbrica of St Peter's (the Vatican office for Church property), intervened to obtain for Caravaggio his first major church commission and his first painting with more than a handful of figures.
Caravaggio's Calling of Saint Matthew hangs opposite The Martyrdom of Saint Matthew. While the Martyrdom was probably the first to be started, the Calling was, by report, the first to be completed.[citation needed] The commission for these two lateral paintings — the Calling and the Martyrdom — is dated July 1599, and final payment was made in July 1600. Between the two, at the altar, is The Inspiration of Saint Matthew (1602).
The painting depicts the story from the Gospel of Matthew (Matthew 9:9): "Jesus saw a man named Matthew at his seat in the custom house, and said to him, "Follow me", and Matthew rose and followed Him." Caravaggio depicts Matthew the tax collector sitting at a table with four other men. Jesus Christ and Saint Peter have entered the room, and Jesus is pointing at Matthew. A beam of light illuminates the faces of the men at the table who are looking at Jesus Christ. This is a depiction of a moment of spiritual awakening and conversion, which was something many Baroque artists were interested in painting, especially Caravaggio.
There is some debate over which man in the picture is Saint Matthew, as the surprised gesture of the bearded man at the table can be read in two ways.
Most writers on the Calling assume Saint Matthew to be the bearded man, and see him to be pointing at himself, as if to ask "Me?" in response to Christ's summons. This theory is strengthened when one takes into consideration the other two works in this series, The Inspiration of Saint Matthew, and The Martyrdom of Saint Matthew. The bearded man who models as Saint Matthew appears in all three works, with him unequivocally playing the role of Saint Matthew in both the "Inspiration" and the "Martyrdom".
A more recent interpretation proposes that the bearded man is in fact pointing at the young man at the end of the table, whose head is slumped. In this reading, the bearded man is asking "Him?" in response to Christ's summons, and the painting is depicting the moment immediately before a young Matthew raises his head to see Christ. Other writers describe the painting as deliberately ambiguous.
Some scholars speculate that Jesus is portrayed as the Last Adam or Second Adam as titled in the New Testament. This is displayed in Christ's hand as it reaches out towards Matthew. It is almost a mirrored image of Adam's hand in The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo, the namesake of Caravaggio. Twice in the New Testament, an explicit comparison is made between Jesus and Adam. In Romans 5:12–21, Paul argues that "just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous" (Romans 5:19, NIV). In 1 Corinthians 15:22, Paul argues that "as in Adam all die, so in Christ, all will be made alive," while in verse 45 he calls Jesus the "last/ultimate/final Adam".
A beautiful morning in central Florida provided a nice sky to capture this osprey calling its mate. Soon both were soaring overhead. Pandion haliaetus
Sonny's favourite place ;-)
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A little sheep calling to its mother to get a sip of milk. Taken in a wildlife park in Upper Austria..
Hey everyone! I am extremely excited to bring you this image finally, I have the opportunity of being featured on Fstoppers.com today, and have been patiently waiting to release the image and interview together! This photo means so much to me and is a huge reflection on my childhood, but rather than me trying to type out the meaning, check out my interview and behind the scenes below:
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Wild clouds frame Iceland's iconic Eystra Horn as the mountain boldy looms over a crispy frozen marsh in the foreground.
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