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Yes, our plan was to shoot down the Elysium to seagroundlevel... somehow we changed it and did some odd posing instead.
Odd? Yup, as we are standing back to back but I look a bit like my head was screwed somehow lol.
Hope you like it, have fun :)
You´ll find Winonas pic here:
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P.S.: As you will read in the comments listed below we still plan to attack the Elysium again. Just in case you are to late and it sank *before* you visited it inworld (or asked Reven for a guided tour which will be for free) here´s a pic of how it looked like:
Explore Frontpage | 11.03.2009
Highest Position - Explore #28 (Thank you all so much :)))
(xoxoxo to Sam & Queensy for the FP capture! :D)
This shot is especially dedicated to lovely sexyback Lynnie for being #1 in my comment list not once but twice :))) This is my first hardcore bokeh post so hope this is good enough :P as everyone knows your anyday bokeh shot will beat this one flat out anytime :D
This post is very unlike me and honestly I didn't realise I have a bokeh whore living inside me all along haha! I was just browsing my archives last weekend & was very surprised to even find that i've quite a number of bokeh shots .. well, accidental :D Therefore here's goes... HBW everyone! & good night!
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About
The Perspiration of a Leave
The Shot
Standard 3 exposure shot (+1..0..-1 EV) with tripod using the Canon EF-S 18-55mm lens with macro lens
Photomatix
- Tonemapped generated HDR using detail enhancer option
Photoshop
- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'curves' to adjust the contrast
- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'saturation' (greens & yellows) to decrease the overall saturation
- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'saturation' (cyans) to lighten the bokeh
- Used 'unsharp mask' (as always) on the background layer
You
All comments, criticism and tips for improvements are (as always) welcome
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The Great Brook Pond at the intersection of the Great Brook and Pleasant Plains Road, The Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, Basking Ridge, New Jersey
Looking back 6 years to a rainy day at The Great Swamp.
This capture musta been made from inside my CRV where I used to remove the front seat, set up my tripod on the passenger side, and shoot through the passenger window on rainy days.
Seems like a lotta work to take pics on a rainy day, but rainy days are the only times you can take pics of wet critters, who have to make a living regardless of weather.
Notes:
The title uses the word "dusk" for alliterative purposes, but in truth this image was captured during the "blue hour" (i.e. the hour after the sun has completely set, and the dimly lit blue sky is the primary source of illumination.
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Black Skimmer - Gator Creek Road, Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, Titusville, Florida
An alternate crop of a previously posted image for those who would like to see the "whites of their eyes"
(though there are actually no whites in this guy's eyes).
In my original post of this capture I lead with a wide, full body crop that (were I to print it)
would be printed large enough for the viewer to walk up to it and view detail at life size.
But this is (after all) the internet,
and there's the question of how much should the medium dictate presentation?
In the case of my original post I decided to lead with a full body, wide format image to take advantage of the wide screen most people have on their desktops, and then post vertical crops of the same capture in the comment section since vertical compositions allow a larger (more detailed) view that can be scrolled through if the image runs off the bottom of the screen.
Unfortunately, most people won't even click on a thumbnail if it doesn't imply a detailed image,
but should the look of a thumbnail dictate composition?
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Roseate Spoonbill (Platalea ajaja) - Black Point Wildlife Drive, Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, Titusville, Florida
I stopped to photograph these guys in the distance, and then to my amazement they decided to relocate, and flew right past me to another spot about 100 feet from where I was standing.
Always very cool when Mother Nature offers up an eye level look at these guys!
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Eastern Screech Owl - My back Yard in suburban New Jersey, 25 miles west of "The City" NYC
Today I tried putting the 1.4 on the 300, locking in F7 & ISO 800, and hoping there would be enough light to get a reasonable shutter speed. It's always a crap shoot (0.6 sec in this case), 'cause I have to set up the gear about an hour before the owl pokes out its head, and it's hard to say when that will be on any given night. These shots were from about 17 feet away with my camera mounted on a ball head bolted to a tree limb about 18 feet off the ground. The owl tends to keep an eye on me when I'm in the yard, so I got the different poses by walking around the yard (keeping a distance of about 50'), and tripping the RF release from different locations in the yard.
- Central Jersey ~25 miles west of "The City" (NYC).
Hoping I'm not boring you all with these owl shots, but every time I get a better series than the last, I post the better shots.
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Juvenile male Autumn Meadowhawk (Sympetrum vicinum) - NJ Audubon, Scherman-Hoffman Wildlife Sanctuary, 9 Hardscrabble Road, Bernardsville, New Jersey
This fleshly hatched young male posed nicely for me while waiting for his shiny new wings to harden up.
There were also bright red Cherry Meadowhawks around that where finishing up their run, but this guy's orangey-brown legs easily distinguished him from the black-legged cherries.
FYI - Click on the arrowy (↕) fullscreen icon, and then F11 to view as large as 2048 pixels where you can see good detail in the eyelets of the compound eye and the hairs on his chinny chin chin.
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Juvenile Sharp-shinned Hark - Higbee Beach WMA, Cape May, New Jersey
Captured sitting on the seaward side of the sand hills overlooking the far fresh water lake west of the water tower. It's a bit of a hike to get there, but worth the effort.
Note : This is a reprocess of an older post (October 2010) where I've changed the format, intensified the color, and zipped up the contrast a bit.
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The Oak Creek fireworks display was halted Wednesday night due to a grass fire just east of where the fireworks were shot off.
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Frog's Eye View - Vernal Pond, Scherman-Hoffman Wildlife Sanctuary, NJ.
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F-4 Tornado that hit Sedalia, MO on March 12, 2006 - Soooooo, according to comments listed below this picture was actually taken somewhere in Florida sometime in 2001. I do apologize for the misinformation, which was only because I was misled.
Green Heron (a.k.a. Little Green Heron; Butorides virescens) - Best Lake Dam, Watchung, New Jersey
Another dam walker lookin for goodies at the lip of the dam.
I like the POV I get from the downstream side of the Best Lake dam and how the downstream side of the dam situates the camera at water level for some nice low angle captures.
However, on the down side, the logistics of the location require a long lens to get "close".
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Double Crested Cormorant (Nannopterum auritum) - Royal Palm (Anhinga Trail), Everglades National Park, Florida
I came across this guy sitting on the Anhinga Trail boardwalk railing, and in my usual manner I took an ensurance shot at a respectable distance and then moved closer for another. Keeping my eye on the viewfinder I moved closer and closer taking shots along the way until my camera malfunctioned and I could no longer focus. After a few seconds I realized it wasn't a malfunction, but the problem was that I was inside my 5 foot MFD, so I set the lens to its closest focus point in macro mode, and then used my feet to focus (i.e. set the 300's focus at the 1.5 meter MFD, and then used the camera to subject distance to focus). If I had thought to put on some of the X-tubes I had in my pocket, I could have got a really good look at its eye.
I called this shot "Sea Blue" because (aside from the pun) a decent number of diving sea birds have a blue iris, which I believe is the best color to see prey in a blue, shallow water environment. I haven't seen that explanation in any texts yet, but it sounds right to me.
Update
I've been in contact with several "experts" on the topic of iris color, and they say that the retina is what birds see with (duh), and the iris is all about aperture and has nothing to do with vision.
But I on the other hand (pun intended) think they are over simplifying, and continue to believe that nature has reasons (other than fem cormorants dig mates with big blue eyes), and that there is in fact a visual benefit to these shallow diving birds having blue eyes.
One possibility may be the manner in which sophisticated spectrophotometric light detectors often bump up (adjust) the "dark current" to raise the light gathering diode current above the "dark signal" to even out the signal, reduce noise, and obtain a more even spectrum. So my theory is that the iris is not 100% opaque, and lets through a small amount of blue light to raise the retina's receptors above the threshold level thereby making any additional light coming through the pupil detectable (i.e. see-able).
Old time astronomers also used a similar trick with film, when they pre-exposed their sheet film with small, even amounts of light to break the silver halide trigger threshold to make film used to record distant stars more sensitive to light.
Of course the other popular eye color for some of the deeper divers (loons, grebes, murre, Harlequins, Mergansers, Long-tails, etc.), and the more land based Night Herons is red, and we all know that red has the most sensitive color receptors (cones) on the retina, and is the color light we like to use to see things where it's really dark (like 50 feet under murky water).
So what do you think?
Is it possible that iris color increases visual acuity in low light?
No definitive study has yet to be done on the topic,
and I think it might be a good topic for an ornithologically inclined PhD thesis.
So go for it, and prove me wrong! :{)
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As most of you know I have been working long hours since Oct. and 80 hour work weeks are more the norm for me now. I do what I can to comment on my friends here on flickr, I try to get on at least 3 times a week to catch up and most times I'm at the bottom of the comment list of my contacts. But I keep trying and if I comment on your pic then you are important to me weather it be the first comment or the the 100th comment. on your pic.
if I stay at this job much longer I shall have to post this on my flickr resume soon. Lol
Female Belted Kingfisher (Megaceryle alcyon) - Biolab Road, Canaveral National Seashore, Wilson, Florida
I saw this fem dive for a fish, and then fly off down the canal with it. As I followed her down the road I noted where she landed, cut the motor a hundred feet from there, and quietly (behind cover of roadside shrubbery) rolled up to her new perch. Even so, I fully expected her to take off the second the tires stopped rolling on the seemingly noisy gravel, but to my amazement she simply sat there looking at me, and allowed about a dozen captures before she'd had enough of me.
Unfortunately her perch was very close to the bushes behind her, and even with the aperture wide open on the six the BG was a little busy. But you take what you get with these guys, and I was very happy to make her acquaintance.
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Cuban Treefrog (Osteopilus septentrionalis) - My side garden, Space Coast, Florida
Did you notice the inverted question mark ( ¿ ) in its eye?
Well that's probably because these guys can climb right-side up or upside down, and it probably forgot how it was hangin'.
Or,
perhaps it has to do with how US/Cuban relations are upside-down these days.
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Black-bellied Plover - Sandy Hook National Seashore, Fort Hancock, New Jersey
Sandy Hook sand worms are tough customers, but the Black-bellied Plover wins every time!
Though sometimes a Sanderling will jump in and steal a piece or two.
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Appended 1/31/17
I recently looked into the possible ID of this worm and I believe they are Red Ribbon Worms (a type of sand worm, likely Tubulanus polymorphus).
Tubulanus polymorphus are somewhat common in New Jersey, and the color & length for that species match up pretty well with what we see in our images of the plovers pulling them out of the sand.
If anyone can confirn their presence at Sandy Hook, or has other ideas regarding the ID of this worm, feel free to comment.
Pied-billed Grebe (Podilymbus podiceps) with Green Frog (Rana Clamitans Melanota) - Ritch Grissom Memorial Wetlands (Viera Wetlands), Melbourne, Florida
I got up early today so I could get to the Viera Wetlands in time for breakfast!
And you can see I'm talking about the Grebe's breakfast in this case!
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Great Pondhawk (Erythemis vesiculosa) - Visitor Center, Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge, at the Visitor Center, Boynton Beach, Florida
Judging from the size of it, my first impression was that this was a darner of some sort, but it lacked the blues usually found on Green Darners so I was at a lost for the ID, until I realized how much it looked like a female Eastern Pondhawk (but for the size).
And then, low and behold, there it was (the Great Pondhawk) in the Pondhawk section of BugGuide!
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Female Eastern Bluebird (Sialia sialis) - Glenhurst Meadows, Warren Green Acres, Warren, New Jersey
I watched this fem gather up these buggers in the distance, while waiting for her to fly back to this perch near her nest box. If you look closely at the branch you can see how she's worn down the moss and lichins on the top of the branch where she repeatedly perched to scope out the area around her nest box before making the final flight to feed her chicks.
It would have been relatively easy to capture her on the roof of her nest box, but I decided I liked this more natural setting on her way to the box.
Note:
Wondering about my settings?
I was set up at a high shutter speed to capture her as she landed, but that didn't work out well enough to publish, and this was one of the first captures after she landed. I then changed over to more reasonable settings, but the ISO 800 capture turned out to be the best composition, so there it is. And even ISO 800's not so bad
when you can fill a significant part of the frame.
For a larger view you can use the magnifying thingy, or goto full screen in Flickr (↙↗), and then even a bit larger by hitting F11 to goto full screen in Windows.
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Gulf Fritillary (Agraulis vanillae) feeding on White Crownbeard (Verbesina virginica) - Biolab Road, Canaveral National Seashore, Wilson, Florida
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Florida Clapper Rail (Rallus crepitans waynei) - West Gator Creek Road, Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, Titusville, Florida
Always cool to see one of these guys out in good light,
and even better when you can get close enough to see what she's eating!
I was uncertain about whether it was waynei or scottii, but Buckeye. says scottii's only found on the gulf side of Florida, so (for now) I'm callin' it waynei.
Thanks Buckeye.
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Black-necked Stilt mating ritual - Gator Creek Road, Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, Titusville, Florida
These guys can be very contrasty, and a bit of processing is required to bring out the details in the highlights and the darks.
Fortunately raw captures have the dynamic range to record details at both ends of the range in a slightly underexposed capture.
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of a Black-necked Stilt below this description, you may have to click "more comments" to see the portrait.
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Wouldn't have uploaded this picture, I don't particularly like it, the comp and perspective is all wrong but I needed a picture to upload to have a right good rant at Flickr and it's treatment of it's Pro users recently.
Last night (Thursday 21st) while browsing my contacts pictures. You know, enjoy the picture, leave a comment, a favourite, the normal sort of thing. Clicked the next picture and was taken to Flickr's latest beta test without warning or consent. A horrid creation altogether, it's just wrong. Difficult to navigate, icons replacing essentials like information, picture title, comments and so on with no idea what icon does what. After eventually finding comments they were difficult to read, white on black background, comments listed in reverse, limited text only allowed. The pictures look terrible orientated in the top left of the monitor smashed up hard against the screen edges with no frame, you couldn't even see who had posted the picture, what groups or sets they were in, hard to find your own photostream let alone another members. These are just some of the issues, the feedback pages go in to much greater detail.
In a nutshell it couldn't be any worse if they tried, the most unfriendly useless interface I've ever seen and used.
Anyway, I gave it a fair crack but still hated it so clicked on the opt out & feedback button and got taken to the feedback page, I left some negative and thought that would be the end of it.
Back to my contacts and I'm still in beta mode, tried opt out option but every time I get taken to the feedback page, leave feedback and so on. This went on several times until the opt out was no longer available and Flickr announce the opt out option has been removed (it didn't work anyway), this is the trial beta and you have to get on with it, thanks for taking part.............WHAT!!!! we didn't have a choice you idiots.
Flickr has forced this upon some of it's pro account users with no option to stop the beta trial......why?????
After much to-ing and fro-ing I'm still on the forced beta trial. I cant get out of it.
I've read the feedback pages, last time I looked (this afternoon) there were 19 pages with hundreds if not thousands of feedback messages. Scrolling through I could see not one positive remark, not one. Not even a 'it's okay' or 'it's growing on me', every comment was negative.
At the moment the beta trial still runs on my account but there is a fix. So far Flickr has only ran the trial on English accounts, changing the language changes your account back to the way Flickr is/was.........so my Flickr friends, my account is now in French........lol.
On the plus side, my French has come on leaps and bounds since changing it. :)
I'm really disgusted how Flickr has treated it's paying pro account holders with the forced trial of the new beta software.
If Flickr insists (because it doesn't look like they listen to negative feedback) on rolling this horrible steaming pile of dog poo out then I'll have no option but to leave for somewhere else. If feel thousands of Flickr members will have no option either.
Well done Flickr, you sure know how to screw things up and annoy your paying members.
PLEASE CAN I HAVE THE ACCOUNT I PAID FOR BACK IN ENGLISH?
I've spammed this picture into every relevant group in know in hope of getting the message through that Flickerinoos don't want the new beta.
All rights reserved. Please do not use this or any of my pictures in any way without prior permission.
Thanks for looking.
Male Belted Kingfisher (Megaceryle alcyon) - Biolab Road, Canaveral National Seashore, Wilson, Florida
I saw this guy fly as I approached him on Biolab Road,
so I pulled over to the side, turned off my engine,
covered my windshield and camera with camo material, and waited.
I figured passing cars would spook the him from his new location,
and he would eventually return to his previous perch.
Little did I realize if would take 2 hours!
But while I was waiting I prefocused my roofrack mounted rig on the high spot of his perch, and when he returned I clicked off a quick shot, but the second he heard the shutter he flew off before I could fine tune the focus for a better shot.
I think next time I try for a pic, I'm going to set up my rig a on a tripod one hundred feet from his perch, set the camera to multipoint AF focusing, aim the lens 3 inches over the high spot in the perch, and then return to my car parked another hundred feet down the road. From there I'd be able to trip the shutter with an RF release when he returned.
Hopefully 200 feet will be an acceptable comfort zone for this guy.
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Eastern Screech Owl - Suburban New Jersey, 25 miles west of "The City" (NYC)
Gotta love the eyes on these guys, and when it popped its head out of the box early enough for me to make this capture at 1/25th of a second, and F8 (ISO 400) I thanked my lucky stars, and went abstract for a good look at those lovely feathers around the eye.
Here's a link to more pics more pics of this guy captured a few months earlier.
Or
Click here to see a series of my first captures of the owl box, and how my owl capture techniques have improved over the years.
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This image has been posted (with my permission) on Karishma's Blog at theanimalblog.tumblr.com.
However, since this image has then been reblogged to countless other blogs from there,
I take no responsibility for it's use thereafter, and if anyone sees this image used in an inapropriate manner please notify me so I may take corrective action.
Hopefully I will not have to delete this image,
but if I do I will repost it to Flickr for those of you who may want to re-add it to your favorites.
It should be interesting to see how this experience with the blogosphere plays out.
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"In Dublin's fair city ... ".
The exact location kindly supplied by the Flickr member in the comments list below.
In 1834, Asa Gray (1810-1888) had been appointed chief botanist of the great United States South Seas Exploring Expedition. But he didn't get along at all well with its commander, Navy Lieutenant Charles Wilkes (1798-1877). The long delay in getting started - the expedition had already been decided on in 1828 but didn't set out until 1838 - and a possible appointment as a university professor gave Gray a good double pretext to resign from the expedition. He was to become the most famous American botanist of the nineteenth century.
Gray came back into the picture of the Expedition on its return home after four years in 1842. He was to describe the 50,000 (!!!) plants that had been collected. Again Gray had a falling out with Wilkes, who was the supervising editor of the magnificent set of volumes setting forth what the Expedition had discovered and collected.
Gray wanted scholarly, Latin descriptions and, moreover, he needed to consult with foreign - mainly European - colleagues. Wilkes had no use for either. But Gray persevered and thus there are in that wonderful volume (1854) both Latin and English descriptions, and he was also able to discuss the collection with 'foreign' colleagues.
This marvellous plant from the Philippines (collected on Luzon) - the Jade Vine - was first described by Gray in his clear and no-nonsense style. Not with the Expedition, he hadn't seen it 'in the wild'. His description is thus a bit dry; at least drier than I - who only saw it the other day - would have relayed. More in the way of another very great American botanist: Elmer Drew Merrill (1876-1956). Merrill worked in the Philippines from 1902 to 1923 for the US Department of Agriculture. There he made a commented listing (1908) of all the plants discovered by the Expedition. The very terse note for our Strongylodon - which imparts Merrill's enthusiasm (he'd clearly seen this Vine alive) - reads in a little bit of an understatement: 'A very striking endemic species, not uncommon.' If Gray had gone with the Expedition, he might have written something similar.
For me this flower was indeed Amazing.
This photo was taken with a teleshot - it was high up in the Glass House at Kew - and hence is a bit fuzzy.
Male Blue Dasher (Pachydiplax longipennis) - Merritt Island, Florida
Dah Wife was pruning the dead flower stalks on our Bird-of-paradise when she spotted some cute tree frogs on the leaves. She then ran into the house spouting, "Cute frog alert!", and I of course (being the obedient spouse) went out to deal with the crisis at hand. Then, after I was through photographing the shy and elusive TFs (or should I say after they were through with me) I noticed this dashing bluester on one of the dead flower heads, and made a few captures of him as well!
Now that I know the the dead flower-heads serve as a spotting tower for the DFs I'm conflicted as to whether we should proceed with dead-heading the BOPs. However, since I'm having trouble deciding, I will defer to Dah Wife, who I have to say is more than just a little scissors happy! :{(
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Male American Kestrel (a.k.a. Sparrow Hawk; Falco sparverius) - Flamingo Group Campsite, Everglades National Park, Florida
I've found these guys to be very shy, so when I saw this guy on the road to the Flamingo Group Campsite I parked my car about 400 yards away. I then took note of a tree between him and my car (the one in the foreground of this image), walked over to the tree line near my car, and then walked out of the kestrel's sight along the trees until I got to the tree in front of the tree he was perched on top of. Then being careful not to look his direction, I walked away from that tree to a predetermined point where I calculated I would be able to see over the first tree to the tree he was perched on. I then set up my tripod in front of me while facing away from the tree (in line with the tree and the kestrel), and then with my head behind the camera, slowly walked around the tripod until the lens was aimed at the Kestrel.
But even with all my precautions he didn't like that at all, though I did manage to get 2 shots off before he flew.
So I guess you could say that this is "walkin' away" my best shot of an American Kestrel! :{)
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Easter Screech Owl (red morph) - Suburban New Jersey, 25 miles west of "The City" (NYC)
The owl came out early today at about 3:00 PM so I ran the camera up the tree and set up to make some captures. But to my surprise the images I captured at ISO 100, F4 and 1/50 sec weren't as good as this 1 second ISO 400 exposure at F 14 that I made later in the day. It was however windy earlier in the day and perhaps 1/50 wasn't fast enough to keep the feathers from motion blurring, not to mention that the DOF at F4 was very short and only a small part of the face was in focus. The wind had calmed down by the time of this capture, and the only problem/distraction was the Titmouse feather in its mustache from its last meal.
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Green Anole (Anolis carolinensis) - Merritt Island, Florida
I found these guys hiding in the bushes in the back yard, and they reminded me of a bush we used to have next to our mail box back in Jersey. The Jersey bush had a large, dense canopy and was surprisingly spacious and branch free under the canopy. Then one day when I was cleaning up beer cans in the street near the mail box I noticed there was a "love nest" hidden inside the bush. Who'd think that kids would be partying in the bush next to your mailbox?! I thought about putting a motion detector from an old flood light kit in the bush with a wire to the house, and then call in law enforcement when the sensor lit a light in my foyer. But then I figured that likely would have been a losing battle and decided to cut down the bush, thereby forcing the local miscreants to find another place to whoop it up.
Hopefully they learned there was a price to be paid for littering!
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Female Pileated Woodpecker - Suburban New Jersey, 25 miles west of "The City" (NYC)
Dah Wife heard this fem calling as she searched the dead wood around our home, and called me out of the basement to have a go at some pics.
This fem seemed a rather friendly sort, and posed nicely for me in the dim light as she picked through fallen logs on the ground looking for grubs.
At ISO 1600 and 1/100th of a second, and the way these guys move their heads, I got more motion blurred shots than crisp captures, though I shouldn't complain with one like this in the bag.
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Two day old Piping Plover chick - The belly of The Hook, Sandy Hook National Seashore, Gateway National Park, New Jersey
We saw some park rangers in a white pick-up eyeing these chicks, and when we went over to talk to them they told us they had hatched 2 days ago and were the product of the last nest of the season. At this point the chicks were all legs with just little nubs of wings, and their tiny size and fast feet are pretty much their only means of evading the dangers of the Jersey Shore.
Since these guys hatched from the last nest, the rangers will be taking down the restrictive fencing within a week or so, and people will once again have free range of the beaches along The Hook!
Dave gave me a heads up on this chick as the family approached me from behind (where I was sitting outside the fenced area), and I had a pretty decent shot at it.
Fences? These guys know nothin' about fences, but once they're hatched, their tiny eggs (that look just like pebbles in the sand; see the first comment for a pic) are no longer in danger of being stepped on by fishermen and beach combers, so there's no need for protective fencing once all the plover, AOC, and Least Tern eggs have hatched.
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Common Morpho and Eryphanis polyxena or Purple Mort Bleu
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Wild Loggerhead Shrike - Moccasin Island Tract, St. James River Water Management District,
Viera, Florida
Actually this guy was panting, and tolerated a close approach (about 30 feet)
simply because it was too hot to fly away w/o a damn good reason!
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Nic savoring the sun's warmth early on sunday. I loved the way the light lit up the profile and smoke. He was just sitting there and I struck by the intimacy of the shot and how images tell you more about someone than words often do.
Nic is an avid gardener and peeking from the left is one of his roses, the buddha in the centre is seated in front of the dojo and although a blur its presence a spiritual metaphor for the way NIc sees life and those around him.
I loved the shapes, the lines, the mood.
Please refrain from comments listing the pro's or cons of smoking. I would appreciate feedback on the photography itself.
And yes, taken with a lensbaby composer.
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My original artwork was replaced October 2, 2011. Some of the comments listed below "might not" be applicable in respect to this replacement artwork. As mention below, I would have liked to have incorporated the original, vintage Packard marquee into this artwork, however, I was unable to find an acceptable Packard logo..........and I was not going to spend additional time and effort to "draw" the marquee in Adobe Illustrator (I could have but choose not to spend the time).
Hope you enjoy.
1931 – 1936
Entering into the 1930s, Packard attempted to beat the stock market crash and subsequent Great Depression by manufacturing ever more opulent and expensive cars than it had prior to October 1929. The Packard Twin Six (designed by Jesse Vincent)[16] was introduced for 1932 and renamed the Packard Twelve for the remainder of its run (through 1939). For one year only, 1932, Packard tried fielding an upper-medium-priced car called the Light Eight.
Packard also had one other advantage that some other luxury automakers did not: a single production line. By maintaining a single line and interchangeability between models, Packard was able to keep its costs down. Packard did not change cars as often as other manufacturers did at the time. Rather than introducing new models annually, Packard began using its own "Series" formula for differentiating its model changeovers in 1923. New model series did not debut on a strictly annual basis, with some series lasting nearly two years, and others lasting as short a time as seven months. In the long run, though, Packard did average approximately one new series per year. By 1930, Packard automobiles were considered part of its Seventh Series. By 1942, Packard was in its Twentieth Series. The "Thirteenth Series" was omitted.
As an independent automaker, Packard did not have the luxury of a larger corporate structure absorbing its losses, as Cadillac did with GM and Lincoln with Ford. However, Packard did have a better cash position than other independent luxury marques. Peerless fell under receivership in 1929 and ceased production in 1932. By 1938, Franklin, Marmon, Ruxton, Stearns-Knight, Stutz, Duesenberg, and Pierce-Arrow had all closed.
To address the Depression, Packard started producing more affordable cars in the medium-price range. In 1935, it introduced its first sub-$1,000 car, the Packard 120. Car production more than tripled that year and doubled again in 1936. In order to produce the 120, Packard built and equipped an entirely separate factory.
By 1936, Packard's labor force was divided nearly evenly between the high-priced "Senior" lines (Twelve, Super Eight, and Eight) and the medium-priced "Junior" models, although more than ten times more Juniors were produced than Seniors. This was because the 120 models were built using thoroughly modern mass production techniques, while the Senior Packards used a great deal more hand labor and traditional craftsmanship. The Junior models were very fine cars; they were just not in the same quality league as the Seniors.
Although Packard most certainly could not have survived the Depression without the highly successful Junior models, the Juniors did have the effect of diminishing the Senior models' stellar and exclusive image among those few who could still afford an expensive luxury car. Adding insult to injury, the 120 models were more modern in basic design than the Senior models. For example, the 1935 Packard 120 featured independent front suspension and hydraulic brakes, both features that would not appear on the Senior Packards until 1937.
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Eastern Screech Owl (red morph) - Suburban New Jersey, 25 miles west of "The City" (NYC)
This guy moved in about a week ago when it started to get a little cooler, and will likely roost in my owl box for the winter. The last 5 years or so I had a gray morh that roosted for the winter, but this spring I noticed I had a red and gray pair nesting in the box, and I assume this is the red one of the pair. It's hard to say whether this is the fem or not, but since it's red headed I'll assume it is. :{)
These were captured with my 300 mm lens mounted on a branch in a nearby tree.
I fixed the ISO at 400, the aperature at F7 and let the shutter speed float with these shots ranging from 0.6 to 3 or 4 seconds. Perhaps later in the week I'll drag the 6 up the tree and see if I can get some decent close-ups.
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Mating American Oystercatchers - The Belly of the hook, Sandy Hook National Seashore, Fort Hancock, New Jersey
And the waves crashing on the beach! ²
I hope none of you think I've gone Hollywood! LOL
Note: There was a study on the eye-mark in AOCs commented on by Shiloh Schulte in a previous AOC capture where it was observed that that the eye spots on female AOCs where more pronounced than those on males, but the study results were not sufficient to support a scientific conclusion.
But here's yet another image that seems to support that observation.
¹ View On Black is better than Lightbox in that you can enlarge the image using the [CTRL] + [+] key combination whereas Lightbox will scale down the image to keep the whole image on the screen when you use [CTRL] + [+]. You don't gain resolution with [CTRL] + [+], but it does increase image size on the screen.
² Remember the love scene in "From Here to Eternity"?
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Black Skimmer - Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, Titusville, Florida
At first I thought this skimmer was calling, but I heard no sound.
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Some photos I took back in 2008, on our way back from Corsica. Had disembarked at the port of Livorno a little earlier, and rushed to Pisa to catch the setting sun light. Yes, I was the one running like a madman around Piazza dei Miracoli with the tripod in hand... Got me some decent ones though, I think it was worth the sweat...
This one is an almost exact reproduction of a slide I had shot back in 1997 on my first visit to Pisa, which you can see scrolling a little further down in the comments list.
The Internal Revenue Service, by way of a legal process called garnishment, is taking $59,386 from Proctor's commissioner salary for unpaid taxes based on income generated from 2006 through 2009, according to a June 1 letter from the county's human resources department.
The county is ordered to deduct $4,111 per month from Proctor's $72,130 annual salary until the debt is paid off.
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.....item 1).... FloridaToday.com ... IRS to garnish nearly $60K from Proctor's commission paycheck
11:51 PM, Jun. 20, 2011
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By the end of this month, Leon County Commissioner Bill Proctor will receive a county paycheck that's significantly less than what he's bringing home now.
The Internal Revenue Service, by way of a legal process called garnishment, is taking $59,386 from Proctor's commissioner salary for unpaid taxes based on income generated from 2006 through 2009, according to a June 1 letter from the county's human resources department. The county is ordered to deduct $4,111 per month from Proctor's $72,130 annual salary until the debt is paid off.
Proctor, who represents District 1 and also is a political-science instructor at Florida A&M University, told the Tallahassee Democrat on Monday he feels like he's been served a "humanitarian gut check."
After quoting various Bible scriptures, he said the garnishment may make him a better commissioner. Proctor said he will be more sensitive to the needs of other residents who are living with very little or less compared to previous years.
"I will learn how to fast and learn how to pray," said Proctor, an associate minister at Bethel AME Church on Orange Avenue. "I believe there are a lot of people who make less money than me and they make it. This ain't doomsday."
Proctor, who hired an accountant to handle his tax returns, said he earns approximately $55,000 as a FAMU instructor. He said he may need to get another job to make ends meet.
No other county commissioner is bringing home a garnished check, said county spokesman Jon Brown.
Proctor's paycheck has shrunk before.
In 2005, his commissioner salary was garnished by the IRS and the U.S. Department of Education for unpaid taxes and defaulted student loans.
According to a previous Democrat article, Proctor owed the IRS $61,750 in unpaid income taxes, interest and penalties for years 1997-2002. A federal tax lien, which is a hold or claim on property until a debt is paid, was filed in the Leon County Clerk of the Circuit Court on July 18, 2005.
Proctor also still owes $82,017 in fines to the Florida Elections Commission for violations dating back to his 1998 campaign. He was charged with 178 violations, and the Elections Commission sought more than $200,000 in fines. A judge later ordered him to pay the lesser amount.
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In October, Proctor told the Democrat he had no plans to pay the fine anytime soon and referred to himself as an "indentured slave to the state."
When asked if he plans to deal with the election fines in light of his latest garnishment, the four-term commissioner quickly said, "Man, somebody needs to forgive that."
He said the Florida Commission on Ethics voted Friday to write off more than $191,000 in bad debts and fines older than a decade against elected officials. He said the federal and state government picks and chooses who they want to save from outstanding fines.
"The government gives monies to corporations to bail them out, but I'm not in the loop," Proctor said. "I'm the one they take money from, not the one they want to give to."
Proctor said he's not aware of whether his FAMU check also is being garnished. Although he won't see a full county check for more than a year, Proctor said, "It's just money ... I've been poor before.
"There is nothing I can do to undo what the government can do to me," Proctor said. "They went to my boss and said his check belongs to us."
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Posted: 10:35 PM Feb 9, 2012
Animal Control Returns to Wide Road Property
Animal control officers say owner making progress, will return for another inspection next week
Reporter: Mike Springer. Julie Montanaro
Email Address: michael.springer@wctv.tv
[UPDATE] Neighbors Tire of Barking Dogs
Neighbors Tire of Barking Dogs
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---by Wide Rd. on Feb 9, 2012 at 01:54 PM
Where is our Southside Commissioner?? Mr. Proctor, care to come do your job? His answer would be NO!! We are not his preferred constituents.
---by MissionStatement Location: county on Feb 8, 2012 at 05:12 PM
Animal Control Division Richard Ziegler, Director Animal Control Protecting Leon County's Animals & Citizens Mission Statement: Improve animal and human well-being through education, prevention, and enforcement programs and humane animal care and control services for the citizens and animals of Leon County. DOES IT LOOK LIKE HE IS LIVING UP TO THE MISSION STATEMENT....NO.
---by Nice mugshot on Feb 7, 2012 at 09:53 AM
h t t p://florida.arrests.org/Arrests/Christine_Winckelmann_3487363/
---by TOLD YA SO Location: WIDE RD on Feb 7, 2012 at 01:42 AM
THANK YOU ANIMAL CONTROL [OFFICERS ONLY] FOR NOT GIVING UP ON US THROUGH THE YEARS NOT YOU RICHARD ZIG YOU ARE A SCUM BAG LIAR AND AN ANIMAL ABUSER TO FOR ALLOWING THIS TO GO ON FOR 12 YRS OF OUR COMPLAINTS .CHRIS !!! CHRIS !!!! TOLD YA SO !!!
---by BURR Location: wide road on Feb 6, 2012 at 11:34 PM
In response to "dont hate the dogs" Yes we have spoken with her and she is very unapproachable and will cuss at you and has flipped us off driving down the road. Shes not a nice lady thats rescuing dogs. Shes a bitter lonely woman with no regards for others or her many dogs as the pictures clearly showed tonite.
---by another viewer Location: tlh on Feb 6, 2012 at 11:23 PM
Yes, she works for the Fire Dept., no she is NOT at all what is normal for them. She is in the process of suing them yet again. Trust me, they would love to be rid of her! As for the dogs, I love dogs, all dogs, but hers have been neglected for years. She has 2 homes, one of hers and one that was left to her by her mother. The dogs have taken over so badly that they are digging under the foundation and it is on the verge of collapse. Her poor child is neglected and yet she still gets away with keeping him by staying just on the right side of the line. Someone PLEASE rescue these animals and the kid! She is in serious need of mental help!!!!
---by enough is enough on Feb 4, 2012 at 07:42 PM
for over a decade Winkelmann has been breeding dogs, she would place ads in the paper selling the husky/hound mix pups. i havent seen her advertise any of the pups for sale in a few years. she did not adopt a dog from the shelter EVER! she doesn't rescue, she let them breed. this is a case of a few dogs allowed to breed for 10 yrs and producing offspring. and dont blame the evil shelter for her irresponsibility. she's been offered several vouchers to get her dogs fixed for years. which she refused to do. and now here we are. a decade and nearly a hundred dogs later...
----by Anonymous on Feb 3, 2012 at 06:35 AM
there is a nuisance law in leon county that can be enforced if the LCSO wants to,i lived in Tallahasee and had a neighbor that had 7 dogs and they would keep us up all night from the barking so we called LCSO and they came out numereous times and the person ended up getting some tickets.
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This Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) flew in, perched on the foot bridge and both of us sat and watched a small flock of Common Mergansers fishing in the river. After the heron landed the number of Mergansers fishing near the bridge increased in number, as though they were more comfortable with an extra pair of eyes keeping watch. - Millstone River, Princeton, New Jersey
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It's been rather stormy here on Lombok the last few days. High Seas and Strong Winds, and Swirling Sands and Falling Trees. Today the sun came out just as we were climbing Malimbu Cliff.
Of course Malimbu for the literati is of no comparison to Mount Parnassos where Argiope, the Naiad Nymph, is said to have passed her Spring Days! Still our scramble up was Crowned by this clump of Calotropis gigantea, a holy plant of Hindu Temples often going by the name of Crown Flower.
In the shadows gleamed forth our marvellous Argiope appensa. She'd just spun a silk net to snare the insects about to visit the not yet opened flower of Calotropis.
We bent a few branches away to get a more clear view and a nice photo.
At the top of the cliff we followed a narrow path steeply downwards again to a small secluded beach. The cave and little Hindu temple that I first saw years back, though now rather overgrown, is still there. A word of thanks for nature's diversity to whatever Deity or Deities reign this place was quite called for.
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A few weeks ago, I decided that I definitely needed to start wearing makeup again. But there was a problem.
I’m not sure if I’ve ever even mentioned it.
You see, I’m a ginger. I know, I know. It’s so surprising. I’ve never even had the courage to tell my parents. But it’s a relief that I can finally bring it up.
Being a ginger means a lot of things: not getting to wear orange, buying sunscreen by the palette, having my parentage questioned, being touched without my permission, and having limited choices in makeup. Or so I thought.
As I perused the Internet for makeup suggestions for redheads, I came across article after article by non-gingers that, more often than not, had no actual redheads in them.1 I was beginning to lose hope when I came across this video featuring makeup artist Mary Greenwell. She was explaining how she did Jessica Chastain’s makeup. I figured that a professional makeup artist who has worked with a natural redhead might know get shit when it comes to makeup for redheads. In the video, she said redheads can wear any color.
After recovering from the massive fainting spell that caused, I began to wonder if that could possibly be true. So I got myself some lipstick2 and decided to try out her theory. And to save my fellow gingers3 from having to look at pictures of Emma Stone & Christina Hendricks, I decided to post about it.4
I don’t have any dark lipsticks, nor do I have any neon/vibrant color lipsticks. I want to buy some plums and darker shades, but, because I can’t otherwise see myself wearing them, I will only try vibrant ones if someone else foots the bill for them.
In all of these pictures, the only makeup I have on is the lipstick that I’m demonstrating.
First, we’ve got L’Oreal Collection Exclusive‘s shade of red for the lovely, and blonde, Blake Lively. I know, I know. I’ve complained about the makeup tips for redheads featuring non-redheads, so it might not make sense for me to try the shade of red created for a blonde, but I figured that I might as well check it out. Not the greatest reason for trying something out, but I regret nothing.
Now, we have NYX Soft Matte Lip Cream in Addis Ababa. I was confused about why the lip colors for NYX’s Soft Matte Lip Cream were names of world cities.5 Depending on the lighting, this can look anywhere from almost nude to hot pink. And still, I regret nothing, except maybe trying a red lipstick first because those are hard as fuck to get off of your lips.
Third up is NYX Soft Matte Lip Cream in San Paulo. I was confused when I saw the name of this lip cream and it was San Paulo instead of São Paolo, but I guess geography isn’t everyone’s forte. But, hey, regrets are still few and far between for me.
Numero four is NYX Butter Gloss in Peaches ‘N Cream, which I liked a lot more than I thought that I would. Honestly, it was the easiest thing from NYX to apply. Don’t get me wrong, I liked everything from NYX. The brand has excellent quality, but it can be a little difficult to apply. The butter gloss didn’t seem to have that issue, though.
And at number five, also known as the best number ever, there’s L’Oreal Collection Exclusive‘s shade of red for Julianne Moore. Since she’s an actual ginger, I figured whatever looked good on her might look good on me. And, tada, I think I was right. It was a little orange-y, but not in a bad way.
The sixth shade is L’Oreal Colour Riche in Fresh as a Rose. I think this is one of the most subtle shades of lipstick that I’ve ever worn, but it still manages to be very pretty. I’ve always preferred wearing pink or rose lipsticks more than other shades, so I like that I have this very strong, subtle contender for when I’m having a subtly pink lip day.
But number seven, CoverGirl Colorlicious in Give Me Guava, is the most subtle overall. I don’t think it’s quite as pretty as Fresh as a Rose, but it definitely gets points for subtle. It kind of looks like my lips are just really wet, which might be attractive unless you start thinking about slobbering dogs, which I tend to think of because of all of those years where we had basset hounds.6
Honestly, I sort of expected this one to have more brown show up in it because it looks sort of brown in the container, but I’m glad that it didn’t.7
I liked number eight, CoverGirl Colorlicious in Whipped Berry, quite a bit more than Give Me Guava. The color just really pops and I’m almost willing to look past how wet it can look.8
And, finally, number nine: NYX Matte in Perfect Red. I think that I like it best of the red lipsticks, but that might be because it was the first lipstick that I got after this must-wear-makeup feeling started, so I’ve actually worn it the most of any of the others. It stays on for a long time, too, which is pretty fucking awesome.
Colors 1, 5, 6, and 9 are in lipstick form, while 2, 3, 4, 7, and 8 are in lip gloss or lip cream form.
And this post was a little more work than I thought it would be, but it was still fun.
OMG. Emma Stone, Christina Hendricks are NOT redheads. A bottle of dye does not a ginger make. Stop saying they’re redheads. ↩
By got myself, I mean that I bought them and the comments listed below are not influenced by any company, spokesperson, etc. They are my opinions and words. ↩
Because I’m nice, not because I’m a shill. ↩
You’re welcome. ↩
Or attempts at the names of world cities. ↩
There is nothing wrong with dog slobber lips if they’re on a dog. ↩
Even if it gives me slobbery lips. ↩
It was only the CoverGirl that had the sloppy slobber look, so I think it’s just something about the way that they make their lip glosses. ↩
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