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I keep telling myself that I will post more beautiful butterflies and neat bugs but then I take a look at these charismatic birds and can't resist the temptation to show them instead. This colorful character will be leaving Lake Meyer in a couple weeks if not sooner as he makes the move to Central America or possibly Columbia for the winter.
Lauren Spencer Smith - Narcissist
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-DAA0_tdnA
They're always charismatic, and they'll turn up the charm
Their words do something magic, saying no is really hard
They're overgenerous, you'll never pay the bills
They'll fall in love in seconds, die for you or probably kill
Ooh-ooh
And after six months, you'll feel really stupid
Ooh-ooh
I promise that it's not your fault you fell for it
'Cause one little fight breaks into war
Feels like you're dying on a bathroom floor
You'll make an excuse, they'll say that it's you
And the mirror's telling you it's true
Won't leave, can't stay
How much are you gonna take?
'Cause you'll always get the blame
It feels like shit, but that's just how it is
When you love a narcissist
So if you're feeling crazy, I wouldn't be surprised
The only thing they're good at is knowing how to gaslight
Then make you feel like you're the most beautiful in the world
While they're sleeping with another girl
Ooh-ooh
And after six months, you'll feel really stupid
Ooh-ooh
I promise that it's not your fault you fell for it
'Cause one little fight breaks into war
Feels like you're dying on a bathroom floor
You'll make an excuse, they'll say that it's you
And the mirror's telling you it's true
Won't leave, can't stay
How much are you gonna take?
'Cause you'll always get the blame
It feels like shit, but that's just how it is
Ooh-ooh
'Cause I felt like shit, so I know how it is
When you love a narcissist
OH MY GOSH!!!!
I'm back from the conference, what a humbling experience that was. I was running around like a chicken with it's head cut off.
As technical coordinator for the conference I was in charge of the projection and needed to be there as each presenter passed off to the next to make sure connections worked and such. On top of that I had to take care of last minute bootcamp schedule changes, rehearse my script for the presentations, and prepare for the workshops I was to co-host with Wayne which if any of you know Wayne isn't over till the the rooster crows the following day.
That was taking on way too much, I think I might have gotten 16 hours of sleep in 5 days. Whew, I'm relieved that's over but sad too. I would have to say that Royce Bair has got to be one of the most charismatic individuals I've ever met. I had the honor and pleasure to spend the 48 hours leading up to the conference with him comparing notes and talking shop.
I had to have been running on pure adrenaline and dopamine for five days straight.
Hanging in the lobby working with Dustin LeFavor on his new laptop, chatting with David Swindler, eating cake with Ryan Smith and purchasing some of that cool swag Phil Monson had in toe. Royce, Wayne. It was just too surreal. These guys are my hero's!! Man, I was pumped. What a great community of peoples.
Anyhow, I shot this one using a new technique I concocted out of desperation. Let me explain, a couple of years ago I went to a location with my bro-tog Bill McIntosh at night and forgot my intervalometer. I was trying to create light trails using a long exposure. I fiddled through the camera settings and found "Multiple Exposure Mode" Hum, maybe a could use that I thought, then further into the settings I found "Additive Mode" and the light bulb went off over my head. In photoshop, the additive terminology is used as a reference to "Lighten Only Mode" I set the camera to take 9 exposures and stacked them in-camera using only the light from the remaining eight exposures. The best thing about this technique is that I don't have to do that long exposure noise reduction technique that doubles your exposure time and you cut your ISO by 50% or better. So in essence you end up with a photo that has more detail at a lower ISO that takes half the time to shoot. Cha-Ching!!! Check out the Meta-Data, It works awesome.
I showed Royce and his eyebrows went right up to his hairline, He was really excited to try it out and confirmed that this is a great technique for stacking in-the-camera, in-the-field.
Nice to get validation from one of the best in the business!!
This is a shot taken during the first nights workshop and what a great group that was. Hope everybody had as much fun as I did.
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I have high numbers of Goldfinch on the feeders in the garden at the moment, lovely to see such pretty & charismatic birds doing so well in the county and the country as a whole.
It was a freezing cold morning and having just photographed the rising mist off the Huon River I noticed this most charismatic old pub, bathed in early morning lighting and begging to be photographed !!. Even the chooks were roaming and waiting for the bar door to open.
Location Franklin on the Huon River near Huonville.
Photo By Steve Bromley
Can you believe these little characters beat their wings up to 400 times per minute, in swift flight. Literally blink and you've missed them
They use their little wings to actually swim underwater, using their feet to change direction
I'd not seen a puffin in real life previously and couldn't believe quite how small they were
The one thing you see first is their bright orange feet and bill, the latter is shed after mating season and is replaced by a shorter duller beak.
The numbers sighted have been reduced this year, possibly the bird-flu epidemic could have taken it's toll
They appear to be such inquisitive little characters and it was uncertain who was watching who
Can you believe they are still hunted in Iceland and The Faroes, even though recent autopsies have revealed these charismatic seabirds have been eating plastic pellets, known as nurdles.
A similar scenario happens with Minke whales
We as a human race, the supposedly intelligent species, have a lot to answer for
A charismatic resident of coastal scrub on the south coast of Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands (6552)
Cochem is one of the most attractive towns of the Mosel Valley, with a riverside promenade to rival any along the Rhine. It's especially lively during the wine festivals in June and late August.
This is the old Eric Janssen place in Bishop Hill Illinois. Known as the Wheat Flour Messiah, Eric led a group of Swedish immigrants to this place in the early to mid 1800’s to establish a religious colony on the Illinois prairies. They were hugely successful in raising and marketing wheat and also manufactured and shipped corn brooms on a large scale. The colony owned everything in common. Eric was eventually shot and killed by a young man that married his cousin. Without their charismatic and dogmatic leader, the colony soon dissolved giving way to private ownership of the divided up land. The descendants of the group still reside in the area around Galva Illinois. There are many historic colony buildings still standing like this one. There is a Swedish cultural center here for genealogical work. The King of Sweden has even visited this place because of it’s historical significance.
Now, using its sword!
The Sword-billed Hummingbird is a charismatic species from Andean South America. The species belongs to a monotypic genus, Ensifera, and is quite different from all other hummingbirds; metallic green and bronzed overall, with a black bill that is slightly upcurved and longer than the body length. This is the only bird species with a bill length that exceeds the body length. When seen perched, the species usually holds its bill quite upright, presumably because of balance issues stemming from this long and relatively heavy structure. Picture taken at Zuro Loma, Ecuador.
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A charismatic resident of coastal scrub on the south coast of Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands (6571).
The American Birding Association's Bird of the Year for 2022...The Burrowing Owl!
They base their pic on the following criteria: "We aren’t seeking the rarest, most endangered, or most sought after species, nor do we seek overexposed “greeting card” birds. We aim to pick species that are charismatic and accessible enough to be spark birds, but that also remain favorites for those who have been into birding for years. On top of that, we want a conservation story to tell.”
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Portrait of a magnificent female Holy Cross Frog (Notaden bennetti) from a floodplain near Narrabri in the inland riverina district of NSW. These are among the most charming and charismatic of all frogs.
Calle Portales is possibly the most characteristic street in the center of Logroño, a little city in the north of Spain - and also my hometown. Locals like shopping, sitting at one of the numerous cafes along the street, or just strolling under its charismatic arcade, after which the street is named. At night, the populous street gets deserted and the arcade confronts the majestic stones of the baroque cathedral across the street.
This image of a Least Sandpiper conveys the intensity of the bird’s focus as it searches for food, with that straight ahead gaze. This species is small, and its prey very small, but those things do not diminish the importance to it of its need to find sustenance. The “charismatic megafauna” tend to attract a disproportionate amount of attention, while the myriad smaller creatures play important roles in Nature that are often overlooked. This bird was seen foraging along the shore of a slough east of Airdrie in southern Alberta, Canada.
The Acorn WP is definitely one of our more charismatic appearing woodpeckers. This woodpecker is found in the Southwest and up the US west coast as well as parts of Mexico and down through Central America and into Colombia.
This is a female, her red cap extending to a black band above her white forehead. The male's red cap extends all the way to the white forehead.
The AWP lives and breeds in a complex social structure with many breeding pairs raising the brood. The young will stay on a few years and help maintain the family of birds before raising their own offspring.
Great to see these really charismatic and very confiding winter migrants in the country again this year fab birds :-)
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology describes this bird so well: "The Tody Motmot is a charismatic, surreptitious little motmot of Central American lowland and hill forest. It is almost always easiest to detect by its song, a rising-falling and accelerating series of rising whistles. A whistled imitation of the song will often bring a singing bird out of the dense, shadowy vegetation along a stream and into the open. The Tody Motmot is named for its superficial resemblence to the todies of the Caribbean. It feeds on insects captured in aerial sallies, but there is little published information on its breeding behaviour."
This small motmot was seen in dense forest in Panama, Central America.
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The Rook is not a well liked bird and you don't see too many pictures of these posted, but it is none the less an extremely clever and charismatic corvid with an interesting social interaction within the group.
Ruben’s House in Anwerp
Peter Paul Rubens, the famous painter of 16th-17th century, was …Belgian!! A Flemish Belgian, belonging to the Belgian Baroque tradition in painting! His unique and immensely popular Baroque style emphasized movement, colour, and sensuality, which followed the immediate, dramatic artistic style promoted in the Counter-Reformation. In his times he was a Dutch from the Southern Netherlands, living in Antwerp ! Rubens was a painter producing altarpieces, portraits, landscapes, and history paintings of mythological and allegorical subjects. He was also a prolific designer of cartoons for the Flemish tapestry workshops and of front pieces for the publishers in Antwerp.
This talented man, was a great Artist in many fields, apart from his painting talent!! He was also a very educated , charismatic scholar and diplomat, and had a great talent in decoration and architecture, which he proved by cooperating with great decorators and architects of his times, in order to create his beautiful palace home in Antwerp/Anvers of our days!! You can follow and see digitally the beauty of this exquisite old palace house, here:
www.rubenshuis.be/en/content/rubens-house
I visited this lovely museum-house of today, which Flanders is so proud of, with a Flemish friend of mine, this last summer in Antwerp. I share with you here some of the photos I took of the interior of Rubens House, and of its beautiful gardens , too.
This somewhat unloved but charismatic roadside shack took my eye whilst exploring Ranelagh in the Huon Valle recently.
However I have changed the title due to well sighted opinions and my poor initial impressions but I'm glad this is out and I must explore it further as this becoming loved property progresses. Thanks all seriously for your comments !!.
Photo By Steve Bromley.
An American pika (Ochotona princeps) scans the horizon, probably to make sure I’m staying put, as well as for raptors, weasels, and coyotes. This pika occurs in one of several distinct populations found on Niwot Ridge, some large and self-sustaining for decades, others smaller with periodic local extinctions. This individual belongs to one of the latter populations, probably colonized periodically by individuals from the larger populations when their numbers are high. To date there are no indications of major losses of pika populations associated with climate change in this region, which has been noted in places such as the Great Basin and eastern Sierra Nevada.
Pikas, like all their rabbit-relatives (Lagomorphs), don’t hibernate during the winter as they lack the physiological capacity to do this (aka torpor). To survive the long and severe winter they spend the summer gathering vegetation and piling it up to dry in the sun in rocky outcrops, to be consumed later after the growing season. This “haypile” is covered with snow in the winter, protecting it and the pika from the winter weather. If the haypile isn’t large enough in a high snow year the pika may starve, making the summer food gathering period critical.
The Sword-billed Hummingbird is a charismatic species from Andean South America. It is found from Venezuela and Colombia in the north to Bolivia in the south. The species belongs to a monotypic genus, Ensifera, and is quite different from all other hummingbirds; metallic green and bronzed overall, with a black bill that is slightly upcurved and longer than the body length. This is the only bird species with a bill length that exceeds the body length. When seen perched, the species usually holds its bill quite upright, presumably because of balance issues stemming from this long and relatively heavy structure. Picture taken at Zuro Loma, Ecuador.
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