Changes of Nature's Beauty...

It's a really long story, a fish story. Design from metal parts image.

I need/want (to) change.

I'll make it happen. I'm just not sure how.

It's kind of funny, because I noticed that, everytime I really really want something, anything to change, I change my hair. Even if it's just a little bit.

43026 and 43186 wait at Bristol Temple Meads on 19-4-04.

This is not the greatest quality but the only shot I have of two HST's in these contrasting liveries. Taken at a time when I was taking very few photos as well.

Checking on the Great crested grebes. Morning change over.

Only two eggs seen however tricky to see there could well be three less than two weeks to hatching

Si usted quiere hacer un mundo mejor,échate un vistazo a ti mismo y haz el cambio....

The ever-changing Philadelphia skyline as viewed from the closed-off side of South Street Bridge. Center City, Philly

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Song inspiration

Changes by David Bowie

Time may change me

But I can't trace time

Bowie - Changes

Haarlem - Spaarnestad/VNU

Vintage DCC: Kodak Easyshare c530

"October is a symphony of permanence and change."

-- Bonaro W. Overstreet

Long exposure of a nice afternoon changing to a ragging storm

Cash register

Stuff is happening; stuff not right and so I'm posting in an uncharacteristically out of step, anachronistic way.

This shot, this less than arty still life with jarring colours, walnuts and Atomic knobs is about chains of logic, of cause and effect and how stepping out of logic into chaos distresses everything. Douglas Adams nominated "wars, New York". Today we might add robodebt, Ukraine, Iran, Wieambilla…Don't "get me wrong" — art can and does coexist with logic. Art cannot through personal dismissal subvert logic. It cannot switch off gravity etcetera.

A former Social Security Minister, later Prime Minister will front a Royal Commission today to answer questions about the deeply flawed logic which contrived an artful justification to illegally it seems and in a punitive way, claw back welfare payments by data matching tax and welfare records. This was robodebt — bad logic, chaos and in sad truth a trigger for suicide. Sound logic won't bring them back. But the perversion needs to be explained.

Ukraine and Iran you will know about. Wieambilla has a lower profile and shouldn't be in the news. But it is and it's there because of, it is suspected, some conspiracy theorists, acolytes of the illogical, "cookers" if you wish to be so crude (Australian slang), who have gone off the rails. Now six people are dead and all because logic was abandoned and chaos embraced.

What you have here in this discordant image is at odds with these other things. It is soundly, rigidly, slavishly logical. It is cause and effect; if this, then that.

I choose to support wild creatures. Moneys have gone to the kākāpō, and have done for years. Now I'm getting behind the painted snipe. Free time and other resources pour into my garden and to citizen science. This world needs to be better than the mess we have made of it. It's the only one we have and cookers for all their zeal are not helping.

There's a limit to how far I'm prepared to go. I supplementary feed our birds, don't tidy up so much as to destroy habitat for reptiles, and keep flowering plants for insects beyond what might be a show garden.

But I draw the line at self-service. Berries are ripening now. A pied currawong began pick-your-own the other day. I ought to have been angry, that is, until I noticed two things: the berries were being carried away, not swallowed, and they were carried away by "one-eyed 'Wong", our NDIS (National Disability Insurance Scheme) entitled and quite literally currawong with one eye. She was feeding a baby; a baby so young as to still have its yellow gape. Instead of robdebt, I instituted a diversionary process: feeding her soaked cat food so that she left the berries for me. That worked!

Her place was taken at the berries by another black bird: the unpleasantly ill-mannered male eastern koel — an hideous, indolent bird of low morals, a wastrel bird, a cuckoo making a cuckold of our red wattlebirds. He was not feeding his young. That's not what he does. He was feeding his "lifestyle". His natural yet discordant behaviour will not get my favour. There's that limit to generosity.

Same goes here with these walnuts. Cool weather makes the white cockatoos lazy. They look for the high energy wattle seeds in my trees, fruit, nuts, anything to avoid going a few extra metres to their usual habitat. Today its about 10°C below average. It's Summer and it has both been like this and forecast to not change in the immediate future. Logic says those cockies will be back looking for a hand out. From their spy perches (look up Australian slang "cockatoo") they'll see the little walnut tree. Only now, these nuts, the ones in this discordant image and following the logic that this tree was planted to feed me, not them, these nuts are headed for a delicious black as night, sharp as a harpy's tongue pickle.

That blue "colander" is a repurposed fresh ricotta strainer, the nuts are zero food miles, the coffee engine a thing of delight which sends its spent grounds to compost and no coffee pods to landfill. Here is logic, cause and effect. This image is poor, discordant, jarring, artless. It contains, instead, logical actions to make this world better, less wounded. Can the Ukraine crisis, the Iran situation, robodebt and the illogical tragedies at Wieambilla say the same?

Aquarium Of The Bay

change of view

You know who I am

You've stared at the sun

Well I am the one who loves

Changing from nothing to one

Leonard Cohen - You Know Who I Am

leased GTW GP38 looks on as the turbo is changed out on GP30 3004 using good old human power south of Ackley Ia. With the price CN is charging to lease the geep, these guys are in a hurry!! These guys operate approx. 5 miles of the old "Omaha Road" mainline.

Beach glass

Victoria Baths, Manchester.

Sharm El-Sheikh: Delegates at the COP27 climate summit in Egypt concurred after late-night talks to put the delicate issue of whether rich nations should compensate poor countries most vulnerable to climate change on the conventional agenda for the first time.

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Shot with FIMO PAN 100.

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Chúc các bạn trẻ có 1 ngày vui vẽ - mát mẽ ở cái nước Việt Nam oi bức này :P !!!!

the colors of the leaves are changing and the fly catcher soon will away, again. That's September.

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change

“In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; its the legroom for the lies you'll tell yourself in the future.”

― Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart

On Black

Probably the last that I will post from this shoot for the time being ...

Change Your Mind by Neil Young. Post your images inspired or accompanied by music to the Jukebox Junkies.

You hear the sound,

you wait around

and get the word

You see the picture

changing everything you've heard

Destroying you with this

must be the one you love

Must be the one

whose magic touch

can change your mind

Don't let another day go by

without the magic touch

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almost look like teeth..sharp pointy bloody teeth.......or fall leaves is fine too.

i walk along this beach at Torquay/Scarness near enough every day with my little dog, i never ever get fed up with this view as it changes on a daily basis. The wind surf & the high & low tides make subtle little changes every day to the foreshore, then add up the colour changes of the sky from day to day gives the eyes more than enough to feast on.

We are so lucky to live in what i call paradise.

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Hervey Bay /ˈhɑrvi ˈbeɪ/ is a city in Queensland, Australia. The city is situated approximately 290 kilometres (180 mi) or 3½ hours highway drive north of the state capital, Brisbane. It is a natural bay between the Queensland mainland and nearby Fraser Island. The local economy relies on tourism which is based primarily around whale watching in Platypus Bay to the North, access to Fraser Island, accessible recreational fishing and boating and the natural north facing, calm beaches with wide undeveloped foreshore zones.

At the 2011 Australian Census the city recorded a population of 76,403.[1] Hervey Bay is an area of high population growth...

Climate

Hervey Bay has a mild climate with an average 30 °C (86 °F) in summer and 22 °C (72 °F) in winter. The coast is predominantly affected by the south east trade winds throughout the summer with occasional strong northerly winds and storm swells. These winds keep the temperatures down in summer and up in winter, preventing temperature extremes. As a result, Hervey Bay rarely experiences temperatures over 35 °C (95 °F) in summer or under 5 °C (41 °F) in winter.

Cyclones are a threat at times with Cyclone Hamish threatening in 2009 as a Category 5. The land mass of Fraser Island significantly affects the pattern of weather in Hervey Bay and protects the immediate marine environment from open ocean storm effects. Cyclone Oswald in 2013 caused significant damage in the area, mainly as a result of tornadoes spawned by the system. The average rainfall for the year is around 1,100 millimetres (43 in). December to March is the main rainy period, with a secondary peak in May and June. The months of April and from July to November are generally dry and sunny.

Whale watching

Hervey Bay is the whale watching capital of Australia, with humpback whales migrating along the coast between April and October every year. Researchers at the Oceania Project conducted a 14 year study which found the bay was an important social hub for humpback whales.[15] Whale number have increased from about 2,000 in 1992, to around 7,000 in 2005.[15] Hervey Bay is the resting place for Humpback whales, Mum's and Calves, they come to the Bay to rest and build up energy for their long travels back to Antarctica. The Adults come to play, socialise and there have been heat runs observed in the Bay. The Humpback Whales are known to be very relaxed in the company of the whale watching vessels.

While my husband ran 105 km. I had lots of opportunity and time to capture beauty along the way. (you can congratulate him on my stream... :-) )

The Queen Elinor transforming doll from the Disney Store. You don't actually have to put her in the bear suit, it works fine on its own. But I guess if kids were acting out the story, it would be fun to put her in the suit.

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Changing B&W stilettoes to boots

Self-portrait in a changing room anno 2011.

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"Be the change you want to see in the world"

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One of the coolest parts of a Sichuan Opera is Bian Lian 变脸; literally "Face-Changing". It is an ancient Chinese dramatic art that is part of the more general Sichuan opera. Performers wear brightly colored costumes and move to quick, dramatic music. They also wear vividly colored masks, which they change within a fraction of a second.

Below you can see a video my wife took from the performance. Needless to say it was cooler in real life!

Also, I stole the above description from wikipedia XD

We don't get many days like this anymore.

Turbo 166201 heads past the 'America's' Playing field and with the Malvern hills in the background on 29-12-16.

The working is the 1P40 09.54 Great Malvern to Ealing Broadway service, during the last day of a period of Paddington station closures.

At best only one Turbo visits Malvern each day and that is very late in the day. All the FGW liveried units were repainted by the end of 2023.

Ref: IMG_5954 29-12-16

"Nothing endures but change."

Heraclitus

That goes for the queen's guard as well!

Changing of the guard ceremony at Buckingham Palace in London.

Santiago, Chile