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Location: Lake Constance
Skeleton Lake , Ontario
The water looks very inviting but its was cold!! even with 30+C deg weather .
Thanks for looking!
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 😊
Welcome to Sundvik- A quiet rural Norwegian-inspired sim designed for exploration and photography. Take a stroll around, visit the Scandinavian houses and enjoy the scenery.
💖💖In advance I want to thank you all for your always kindness, support, beautiful awards, favs, and messages. Please forgive me for not being as active as usually, just know I see all of your comments and awards and I appreciate them so much as well as each on of you for taking the time. You all mean a lot to me, you all truly make Flickr a lovely place to be. Huge, huge hugs and lots of love to you all💖💖
Camping backcountry at Clear Lake is a real delight. It pleases you with magnificent views of the lake. It is a great spot to put in your canoe, go for a paddle, and to get that shot. Enjoy it!
Thanks for your views, favs and comments.
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existential rivalry instead of searching a way of co-existence. Dedicated to our FLICKR friend Wolfgang Bayer.
When you have the wind and the ocean all to yourself, you can go as fast and as far as you want to. Well, at least until that fogbank rolls in.
Waddell Creek Beach, between Half Moon Bay and Santa Cruz, California.
Swarovski crystal miniature
The piano is actually clear crystal, but I found out quickly that all kinds of colors are reflected. I finally figured out how to get it clear, but decided that I liked this best!
Watching these mallard ducks land on the ice the other day was hilarious!! Photo taken at the Reiffel bird sanctuary in B.C., Canada.
HCS 😊😊😍
CLICHELIST
www.clichelist.net/clear-as-mud/
Thank you for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day! xo💜💜 💕💕💕❤️❤️❤️
Marmalade Hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus) coming in to land on Field Scabious ( Knautia arvensis)
Wildlife garden.
I planted five packets of expensive wild flower seed, followed the directions and got one single Yellow Rattle. The Scabious was from a garden centre clearance stand and cost £2.50.
The volcano Antisana is 5700 meters high. It is a Stratovulkan and is located in the area of the eastern Cordilleras in Ecuador. The volcano is active, which is why clear, cold water and hot and mineral water are emerging from its rocks. In a side valley you can find the most beautiful thermal baths. Rarely has a clear mountain view. We were very lucky, because the glaciers of the Antisana appeared close to the sun.
I like things to be clear, she said. At least from your side. My side's going to stay fuzzy until I get my way, she added.
StoryPeople
tones: Bärbel's PS/PSE actions
texture: flypaper and SkeletalMess
The park Jardins do Palácio de Cristal, in Porto, has lots of chickens, geese, ducks and peafowls walking around. They are very used to people, so you can get really close.
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