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A man cycles down Great George street in Leeds at speed. Nobody had obviously broken wind I just thought that with his hand over his nose it gave it a comical title.
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Puffins sure are comical looking, hence their nickname, 'Clowns of the sea'. But are they really the bumbling entertainers this nickname portrays them as?
Read more in my latest blog:
billyclapham.co.uk/wildlife-2/birds/meet-puffin-clown-nam...
"The Brown Pelican is a comically elegant bird with an oversized bill, sinuous neck, and big, dark body. Squadrons glide above the surf along southern and western coasts, rising and falling in a graceful echo of the waves. They feed by plunge-diving from high up, using the force of impact to stun small fish before scooping them up. They are fairly common today—an excellent example of a species’ recovery from pesticide pollution that once placed them at the brink of extinction. "
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/brown_pelican/id
Canaveral National Seashore, Merritt Island, FL
BEST VIEWED LARGE!!
This was a fun moment, from my archives taken 4 years ago, the cat is Amber and he is making friends with a frog that he found in our garden, I took the photo and then took the frog away to safety!
This stunning Barred Owl put on quite a show for the camera. She watched comically as a couple of squirrels played tag at the bottom of her tree, and stared with interest as some wild turkey strolled by.
Great day out in the woods.
This comical Male Grackle must have paraded up and down this small stretch of land at Ensenada lodge for about 20 minutes. Whether there was a Female about that he was trying to impress I'm not sure but it was a great visual and vocal display regardless. Grackles have a very varied repertoire and we certainly heard most of it whilst watching him. Although black looking initially he has a beautiful midnight blue sheen to his feathers, which was apparent even in the shade of the trees. Grackles are not related to crows or any or the Corvid family but are known to be able to problem solve and use tools around them.
Grunge textured warning sign on vintage paper, with the words DO NOT READ THIS SIGN. A conceptual design with a comically self-defeating twist. Special thanks to vectorportal for providing this base vector file to work with.
EDIT 4/22/2013: This grunge sign is now released under a standard Creative Commons License - Attribution 3.0 Unported. It gives you a lot of freedom to use my work commercially as long as you credit and link back to the same free image from my website, www.freestock.ca
Apparently a mobile ice cream stand that is taking advantage of some local history in Bethel, NY.
Our Daily Challenge - Comical - 5/3/15
Our Daily Challenge - Advertising - 4/28/15
These are the slightly comical feet at the base of the Luttrell memorial, which I photographed on my first visit to the church in May 2018. I was delighted to find the photo I took then was featured on Explore [https://www.flickr.com/photos/carolyn_gifford/42830176791/in/album-72157626449645214/] and immediately became far and away my most visited photo, with more than 13,000 views. So this is by way of a reprise, and I thought I might as well capture the pairs of feet separately. Given the great care and skill taken over the four effigies, and indeed the rest of the tomb, this view suggests some hasty last-minute adjustments as perhaps they realised that unless the figure at the back was raised, it would be hard to see from the front of the memorial. All the same, a lot of effort also went into creating all the frills on Margaret Luttrell’s petticoats.
The Nightingales,a Cape Malay choir performing a Moppie..... a comical song usually commenting on every day life in their community.
The typical comical, frantic, jerky feeding behavior of this egret usually allows it to be identified from a great distance off even though you cannot discern any of its field marks. The jerky motions are best described as spastic! It's my favorite large wader to watch trying to secure a meal. I usually try for stills of this feeding behavior... but it likely the coverage would be more arresting as a video. The bicolored bill is also a good clue for IDing this wader.
IMG_0351; Reddish Egret
This crow was quite comical carrying the apple around the beach. They would occasionally stop to nibble on it then take off hopping or flying with it in their mouth when other birds wanted a taste.
Little Owl Owlet - yesterday evening, should have filmed it really as it's comical when they start moving their head around.
Comical, hungry pigeon on my patio steps, taken through glass, I'm afraid.
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For some reason I find this especially comical...I've never thought about insects, etc., having dew on their butts! :)
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This is a Green Lynx Spider.
See more of this amazing looking creature here in my set, "Green Lynx Spider:"
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Grotesque: Comically or repulsively ugly and distorted. Incongruous or inappropriate to a shocking degree. A very ugly or comically distorted figure or image.*
Beauty: A combination of qualities, such as shape, color, or form, that pleases the aesthetic senses, especially the sight. A combination of qualities that pleases the intellect.*
Regarding the visible nicks and dings: I understand this sign rings like a bell when a large rock is lobbed onto it. Whether this ringing is warning, calling, or knell, I could not say. I suspect the latter.
Great Basin National Park, Nevada USA
* Oxford Dictionary
I am currently involved in a local theater production of Romeo & Juliet. A dare of sorts from family members much more involved in the theater than I, and it has been a fun show if not sometimes comical as being the engineer turned amateur actor on stage. Something it has afforded me is the chance to read between my scenes; and a few factors turned my heart from the hot arid nights on stage in the Utah desert back towards my brief time in Scotland last year (okay, it was mostly the re-run of Bachmann's Caledonian 812; and then seeing the Rapido Caledonian single, and the matching Evolution coaches, and the Caledonian vans, and the Jones Goods engine and the Sonic Models Glen Class and... well you know).
So um, what better chance to try and prevent buying all the model trains that vaguely tie to Scotland than try to satiate my memory by reading Waverley, the book famous for "giving the train station its name." I got into the third volume tonight and in a roundabout twist of reading, Edward Waverley was asked by a party of Jacobites wishing to pass the time away during Bonnie Prince Charlie's unsuccessful siege of Edinburgh Castle to read a bit of Shakespeare. Waverley, the English gentleman turned compatriot to the Scottish rebels; chooses Romeo & Juliet. By the end of the reading, the audience reacts to their love of Mercutio "even if we didn't understand all the jokes in that old language" and mourn the tragic death of that "Tibbert or Taggart fellow," and Waverley caught in divided romantic ambitions himself decides to abandon his pursuit of a "Rosalind" in favor of seeking the fair hand of Juliet (I am sure this pointed literary reference can in no way be setting up Waverley for some future tragedy!)
I had to inform the fellow castmates that from here on out our show should feature some "Tibbert or Taggart fellow" like Sir. Walter Scott described. For a moment, I was in three places at once; there in the desert air in our own Shakespeare in the park, with Edward Waverley in a house in Edinburgh in 1745 when the Young Pretender/Chevalier held court in Holyroodhouse; and back on my own brief few days in the modern tourist friendly city.
Turning back to last year, on a spring day in Edinburgh; a ScotRail HST set departs Waverley station, under the gave of the monument to the author whose titular character gave this place its name. The diesel train set, a late-1970's early-1980's creation famous for its ability to sprint at 125 MPH; is an increasingly rare sight in the UK as more and more rail operators retire their HST fleets; although a few have found a second life in Mexico.
The painting style of artist Robert Colescott (1925-2009) was satirical, exuberant, comical, yet sometimes bitter as he explored his African-American heritage in his work. He first came to be noticed as a result of his 1975 painting 'George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware', in which he substituted figures from black history for the first president and his white cohorts. Colescott could be equally insightful when painting his own culture as well, as seen in this 1977 work he entitled 'Colored TV'.
Robert Colescott received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1985; represented the United States at the 47th Venice Biennale in 1997, the first African American to do so; and was elected to the National Academy of Design in 1999. He taught for forty-three years as professor of art at the University of Arizona until his retirement in 1997.
This original painting was seen and photographed on exhibit at San Francisco's de Young Museum of Modern Art.
I went a bit crazy with the flight shots when I was on Ile aux Perroquets (Island of Puffins) but I couldnt resist. These guys are just so photogenic. Atlantic puffins do look rather comical when they are walking around on land but when their wings are all flared out I think they look quite regal. Perhaps some northern country could update their national brand and adopt the mighty puffin as their national bird.
Meerkats may look like prairie dogs, are really related to the mongoose. These comical creatures are inquisitive and alert at all times, you see them busily digging in the dirt looking for insects, making underground burrows.
These little carnivores live and work together in a group called a gang or a mob, helping each other to care for youngsters or keep a lookout for danger. If trouble is spotted, the lookout alerts the others and they all dash back into the burrows for safety. Fun to watch! :)
The Meerkat (aka: Suricate) is a small species of foraging mammal found inhabiting harsh open conditions in the semi-desert plains in southern Africa.
A member of the Mongoose family, Meerkats differ from Mongoose species in a number of ways with the biggest difference being that Meerkats are incredibly sociable animals, where most Mongooses are not.
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I could associate so many of the open challenges with this image. Or perhaps it's just my presently jumbled brain at work.
Dear April, ( and May)
I didn't sleep for more than 5 hours on most days. turned a year older, looked gorgeous on birthday, fell sick, surprised a friend living far far away, traveled, lost weight, attended a wedding, felt super happy, felt depressed, realized a fantasy, saw a nightmare, lost an ID, ate new foods, created new recipes, contemplated bad things, got over bad things. met an old friend, bought new shoes. fighting an existential crisis and decided to make a photo anyway.
feet upside down, with no ground underneath , making a comical pose by the mirror i hope to be able to get some sleep . Now there's repetition and self advertising chronicling my silly journey through all things big, mundane , easy and difficult last month. oh.. i am scheduled for a minor surgery on an eyelid this Thursday. yay.
did i scare ya ? Wish me good luck anyway.
Have a soooper week! i'll try to hang around more now :) and make more sensible photos. Love kisses, hugs , peace.
ODC Currently open challenges : advertising, journey, mirror, repetition, sleep, comical , underneath
After spending few nights with these quite comical and entertaining wild animals, I am in love with them! They are so agile and strong, yet in a funny way. Wolverines and their fierceness remind me of honey badgers.
They seemed to gallop most of the time, flicking their heads in a cute, flirty way after stopping to sniff the air and continuing their gallops. Few minutes after I snapped the photo of this particular wolverine, he saw a brown bear running towards him, fast. He quickly changed his leisurely gallops to speedy sprinting. While doing that he stumbled on his fast-moving feet, only for a second though, as the bog was wet and soft. The bear lost his interest and wolverine disappeared in the woods. To our surprise, the wolverine was back as soon as the bear had left the scene!
Meerkats may look like prairie dogs, are really related to the mongoose. These comical creatures are inquisitive and alert at all times, you see them busily digging in the dirt looking for insects, making underground burrows.
These little carnivores live and work together in a group called a gang or a mob, helping each other to care for youngsters or keep a lookout for danger. If trouble is spotted, the lookout alerts the others and they all dash back into the burrows for safety. Fun to watch! :)
The Meerkat (aka: Suricate) is a small species of foraging mammal found inhabiting harsh open conditions in the semi-desert plains in southern Africa.
A member of the Mongoose family, Meerkats differ from Mongoose species in a number of ways with the biggest difference being that Meerkats are incredibly sociable animals, where most Mongooses are not.
Hope you enjoy!
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Today I acquired the Jungle Trap set, and finding the weapon useless as presented, I broke it down. Quite literally.
trying to fit poses is comical
snapped @ The Last Forever
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I use this measuring bowl to fill the bird feeders.After filling the feeders there were some seeds left in the bowl and the chipmonk managed to find them.
The usual comical, frantic, jerky feeding behavior of this egret allows it to be identified from a great distance off even though you cannot discern any of its field marks. It's usually my favorite large wader to watch trying to secure a meal. This bird, however was remarkably subdued... it was uncharacteristically calm and patient!
IMG_8982; Reddish Egret
Sandy Hook Gateway National Recreation Area
New Jersey
A very comical duo, whenever the bird on the left moved away the other bird would shuffle over to it until they were standing belly-to-belly. I'm awful at shorebird ID's so correct me if I'm wrong.
Lots of depth of field falloff here even at F/13. The 'pipers were very close to me.
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