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Belfast Murals
International Day of Peace
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Peace Day - Every Day
I read at the bottom green bar ...
Murals have power ... They commemorate, communicate and display aspects of culture and history.The themes often reflect what is important to humanity or to a particular community.
There was a lot of communicating happening between the red-winged black bird community in the area where I was standing, including this male. I wish I knew what they were saying.
My guide and I watch the old bull elephants for quite a long time. They seemed fascinated by us too. One of the most exciting things to experience during a safari is actually engaging wildlife to a point that you think you are communicating with them. I told the guide that this old male elephant must be intrigued by my white hair and wrinkles. We both thought that was quite funny.
In all of my travels I have seen and photographed many elephants, but never quite got this kind of shot right. I am quite happy with this effort though. This is how string his eye contact was with us.
Nachdem die Juli-Flut meinen PC Arbeitsplatz genommen hat, hab ich jetzt eine improvisierte Nebenstelle aufgebaut, und kann wieder gelegentlich bei flickr ein Bild hochladen und ein paar Sternchen vergeben. Ich hoffe, dass ich auch bald wieder Eure Fotos in gewohnter Art kommentieren kann. Bis dahin bitte ich um Nachsicht und Geduld.
After the July flood took my PC workstation, I have now set up an improvised extension and can occasionally upload a picture to flickr and assign a few favs. I hope that I will soon be able to comment on your photos again in the usual way. Until then, I ask for your forbearance and patience.
Bugs sitting on the camera bag that he has taken a liking to and gazing up at me willing me to understand what he is trying to communicate to me. He is so cute when he does this.
Communicating by written word, or even paying by cheque, are activities becoming outdated or obsolete. I love writing with this pen which I have had for most of my adult life, but nowadays such a pleasure is confined to birthday, greetings or Christmas cards.
Magpie hitches a ride on a long horn up a steep hill. It gets a little confusing however which sites i should actually post this on since technically it also qualifies as a bird picture. I am no less than 400 yards away, the magpie has spotted me and i suspect has somehow communicated to the sheep that someone at the bottom of the hill is aiming something in their general direction.
Ok asked and answered - some of the bird sites rejected this as a submission. i may have to crop the whole image down to the bird and make it exclusively a bird shot.
A highly social, resident bird found in southern India and Sri Lanka. Recognizable by its yellow bill and pale brownish-grey plumage, this species commonly lives in noisy groups of 7–10 individuals. They frequent scrublands, gardens, and cultivated spaces, adapting well to human-modified environments.
Their diet is diverse and omnivorous, including insects, small reptiles, fruit, nectar, and occasionally human food scraps. The species communicates through a range of higher-pitched calls and is known for its constant chattering.
An interesting fact is that Yellow-billed Babblers breed cooperatively, often with helpers assisting the main pair.
Thank you so much in advance for your views, feedback and faves - very much appreciated.
Nachts mit dem Fahrrad durch Zürich und 'mal eben aus der freien Hand fotografiert, erinnerten mich die Lichtreflexe auf dem Wasser an die Kirchenfenster von Chagall (werde ich noch bringen) im hier auch zu sehenden Fraumünster (ein Bild vom Frauenbad - sprich "Frauenbadi" - mit nächtlicher Männerparty werde ich auch noch bringen) ...
The title is a play on words. As you know in German there are three articles, "das" for neuter, "der" for masculine and "die" for feminine, while you have only one article "the" *.
The river you see here is called "die" Limmat and is therefore feminine and my title describes the black nocturnal river bed of her ...
* The British Isle had several invasions in its history, Vikings, Anglo-Saxons, Normans, Romans, just to name a few, and to make life easier for the integrating invaders the grammar was simplified in the common language confusion, and freed from "gender", which is why today you never know when communicating with English speaking people if they are talking about a female friend or a male friend and so on ...
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I took a series of photos of this cutie and love this shot the most!
I think he/she was communicating with a nearby companion, or just squawking at me!😁
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Seen here is a waddling of White-Faced Whistling Ducks spotted in a mud flat of Mabamba Swamps. Interestingly, I just learnt that a group of ducks has different names depending on where it is; on the water - raft / paddling, in the air - skein / team / flock, a pair - brace, and on land - waddling. Its a striking duck with black-and-white head (turned yellow as these have been dunking their heads in the marshes for food), rufous breast, and barred flanks. Because they are highly gregarious, they often congregate in massive flocks that can sometimes number in the thousands. It is called "whistling" because it does not quack like a traditional duck. Instead, it communicates with a highly distinctive, rapid, husky, high-pitched whistle. eBird
This is one of my favorite Cypress Tree shots. I love how so many flowers are growing around this tree’s trunk ,distant from the shore or any close neighbors. It’s interesting how four of us shot this lake for the same amount of time, saw the same trees and flowers and all had a significantly distinct vision and interpretation on how to communicate the beauty of the place in our work. I think everyone would see the beauty but making a good image out of the chaos of color and form is a challenge. Keep in mind, I’m only showing you ones I like, not the hundreds more that hit the trash heap. Unlike film, like one of my friends shoots (big expensive film up to 8 x 10), digital allows us to take as many as we like, which costs only time and not money. In my retired case, “Time is not money”. (Bald Cypress - Taxodium distichum) (Sony a1ii, 24-105 lens @ 68mm, f/6.3, 1/80 second, ISO 1600)
"Did you see him", said a voice as a couple passed me on a walk along the beach? Odd how behaviour changes when others see you carrying a camera and lens. Suddenly their willing to communicate and let you know of something they saw, you may have missed.
"Thank you, yes I did", was my reply as they quickly walked away. A Heron was perched at just the right place for my longer lens to capture this wonder of nature. He sat stoically, while the tides gently rolled in, and the clouds lay heavily overhead.
Telegraph Tuesday
I think the dry heat of the desert makes the wires do strange things LOL. I made this in the in DDG-text-2-Dream. This came out of my imagination.
I was given a pass to photograph the incoming tide while the rest of the fam went for coffee. This latter piece of information was communicated to me non-verbally when I turned round and saw the fam had left the beach, my cue to get a move on...
Original photograph copyright © Simon Miles. Not to be used without permission. Thanks for looking.
See Grazia? Fashion item. Told you.*
Starring the Bane Male Edition from [LiLiMD] just released yesterday, and The Lab sim. The Lab TP
Usually I don't edit my pictures at all, but obviously I had fun adding some glitch effects to this one.
There's a "The More You Know" bit happening under the line; only if you're interested in this item's provenance.
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*Yes this is really a fetish item; like duh. I was asked by Graz yesterday when I had to make a very quick time sensitive visit to her home to pick up some quokkas - don't ask - and answered her WTF WINTER question that the relevant kinks are identity loss, isolation and objectification. Bane helmets became A Thing after the novella Eudeamon was published in 2007. To give you the Cliff's Notes, it's a world that punishes antisocial behaviour by confining miscreants to helmets and suits that absolutely cut a person off from all human interaction - including touch - with the only way to communicate a system of red and green lights. The novella focuses on how in some cases, these Banes come out the other side of their imprisonment in a state of euphoric bliss, no longer needing or wanting anything except the silence and isolation that was intended to be their punishment. Without getting any deeper into my messed up psyche, my main draw here was OOOOH DELICIOUS SHINY LATEX YUM MUST HAVE CAN TAKE PRETTY PRETTY PICTURES
Somewhere over the Indian Ocean
It's amazing how close they can fly to each other. True artistry!
Thunderbirds at Thunder Over Michigan.
My hands are my greatest tools. I use them to type, to communicate, to tend to my gardens, to care for my body, to cook my meals, to mend my clothes and to hug my loved ones. My palms have many lines. Like the growth rings of a mighty oak, these lines represent many years of learning and experiencing the world; and exposure to times of tremendous growth and tumultuous challenge. I cannot wash these lines away. I cannot scrub them from my hands. They are permanent reminders of where I have been and how I got to where I am today. I cherish my hands and all the amazing tools God has given me!
For the doubters among my followers...yep, I got the yip.
When I posted the Red-tailed Hawk yesterday, I mentioned that it flew across the prairie dog town while I was attempting to photograph a jump yip. Actually, I had already managed to get that shot about ten minutes before the hawk entered the scene.
During each trip to Black-tailed Prairie dog country, I've been rather intensively observing the little rascals with the intent of increasing my odds of capturing the jump yip. The payoff was that I captured nine of them during our latest trip.
Some info on jump yip behavior:
Black-tailed Prairie Dogs have a vast "vocabulary". Some scientists consider their vocalizations to be a language. They can communicate the type of predator/threat, the size, the color and whether it's on the ground or airborne.
One of their communications is called a "jump-yip" where one will stand up, seemingly without reason, on its haunches, lean back its head and call out "wee-oo." One of the main theories for this behavior has been that it's a signal of "all clear". But research has shown that they perform the jump-yip before, during and after dangerous events. Some researchers now conclude the whole point of jump-yipping is for one prairie dog to assess the alertness and responsiveness of his or her associates.
A Mule Deer (Odocoileus hemionus) buck approaches a rival, ears pinned back and hackles raised. This type of behavior, often known as "posturing" communicates agitation or aggression to other deer, most often rival bucks, and may indicate that a fight is imminent. Larimer County, Colorado.
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I found it hard to communicate to my kids what happened on 9/11. They understood the idea, the concept. They understood it in a gee-that-sucks kind of way. But they did not get it. I was in LA at the time, but like all Americans I was glued to the TV all day. I don't pretend to feel what New Yorkrs felt. That unthinkable assault on normality will always be with those who were Americans on that day. This memorial in New Jersey is called Empty Sky, and its a fitting name. Its still odd to me to see one tower, and not two. I do LOVE that one was rebuilt though.
Sunrise at this monument gives it a special look, like a fireball. I did not know thismonument was here, I never knew it existed, so showing up at the crack of dawn to see the Stature of Liberty, this monument took me by surprise. If find it hard to leave any 9/11 monument, but I thought the simplicity of this one was captivating. I wish I could say I planned the light, but I did not. Just luck. Enjoy.
Excerpt from www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2024/ph/bgrd/backgroundfile-2...:
Former Bank of Montreal Building, 309 Cherry Street
The property at 309 Cherry Street contains two buildings: the first is a two-storey, detached bank building on a squared plan with basement, flat roof, and sandstone parapet. The chamfered main entrance at its northwest corner addresses the Cherry and Villiers intersection in a manner typical of bank buildings from this era.
The building was constructed of buff Indiana Limestone, sandstone, and buff brick in 1920 to the Classical Revival designs of the architecture firm Darling & Pearson; it has additional iron, copper, and wood detailing.
All four of the building's elevations are visible from the public realm. The principal elevations (north and west) flanking Villiers and Cherry streets are symmetrical in design and flank the corner entrance. Both are faced in limestone ashlar masonry set in courses of alternating widths. They are organized into two bays, where each bay has a pair of centered and vertically arranged windows: a flat-headed window opening with shouldered architrave surround and stone sill, and, at the raised basement level, a plain, flat-headed window opening with metal grill. The chamfered corner entrance is emphasized by a sandstone staircase up to the Greek Order portico of the raised front porch that features traditional Doric elements of classical design and is quintessentially representative of the Classical Revival style. A triangular pediment sits atop the entablature, which is supported by two outer, engaged square piers and two inner Doric columns with the standard capitals and fluted shafts. The pediment has copper flashing along its upper edges
and a lone anthemion-style acroterion at its apex (two more anthemia were placed at each lower point of the pediment, but these have since been lost). The tympanum is left plain. Underneath the cornice there are mutules with guttae, and the cornice line breaks beyond the portico and runs across the length of both the north and west elevations; the copper flashing continues atop this extended cornice as well. Alternating triglyphs and metopes pattern the frieze, while guttae beneath the triglyphs break into the otherwise plain architrave. Like the cornice, the bottom line of the frieze extends outside the entablature to create a stringcourse along the north and west elevations. The main door opening has a stone architrave surround and cornice. Tying together the main entrance and the entablature, the frieze design in the entablature is repeated on a larger scale in wood carving over the door: two triglyphs and a metope with a clock inset. A pair of rectangular, vertical sidelights with iron grilles in a geometric pattern flank the door; smaller versions are inset to the door panels. The metal door handles, likely brass, are a simple and elegant curving design.
The three bays of the east elevation are comprised of buff brick set in an English Garden Wall bond. It originally had three segmental arch windows with stone sills and irregularly placed basement windows. Building permit elevations from 1980 illustrate how one of these windows has undergone several layers of alterations, from initial infill, a large rectangular opening, to its present small metal door and stairwell with landing; the basement windows have also been repositioned several times. A simple, rectangular chimney stack devoid of ornamentation projects from the southeast corner.
The south elevation has the same brick and bond as the east, but the façade is plain and without windows or decoration. Overall, the building retains a high degree of integrity in both its form and exterior decorative details, such that the original 1920 Darling & Pearson design is quite legible.
The Second Classical Revival (also referred to as Neo-Classical Revival, or Beaux-Arts Classicism) in Toronto was popular at the turn of the century, from around 1890 to 1930. The return to classical forms was influenced by the respected Ecole des Beaux-Arts in France, which taught and championed the classical principles to a generation of architects, and the seminal event of the 1892 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago that became an international advertising platform for classically styled buildings, which featured heavily at the site. Post offices, libraries, and banks were typologies to which this style was frequently applied. Their façades typically emphasized a main, central entrance, while those who followed the Greek influence had plain surfaces with less adornment (in contrast to the Roman influence that favoured more layers of ornamentation).
However, the architrave does bear evidence of removed signage from previous occupants. Shell Canada Ltd. is listed as the property owner; they submitted a permit for alterations to build a basement entrance and a platform at the east elevation entrance. It was likely at this time (or even earlier) that the original window glazing, mullions, and transoms were replaced.
The design elements of classical architecture projected certain stereotypes within the minds of the public that banking institutions in particular wanted to associate with their business, such as endurance, integrity, and even wealth. Banks designed in the Classical Revival styles appeared like 'Temples of Finance' with their Greek or Roman orders, or even emulated strongboxes through the stone material of their exteriors and compact, balanced layouts. These features encouraged trust from potential clients and subtly communicated that this was a secure and reliable place to invest one's finances.
This gorgeous citrus swallowtail butterfly is drying its wings after eclosion from a chrysalis. Hanging upside down, hemolymph is pumped into the crumpled wings by wing movement and the assistance of gravity. After the wings have extended, most of the fluid is pumped back into the body with a small amount hardening in the veins of the wings over several hours providing the structural sturdiness required for flight. Having metamorphosed into the adult reproductive stage, it will spend its 2 to 4 weeks of remaining life searching for mates and producing the next generation.
The beautiful variations in hues and patterns on their wing canvases communicate various messages, often different on the top and the bottom. Typically, butterfly wing dorsal surface coloration attracts and appeals to potential mates, while the ventral surface offers predator protection through camouflage or aposematic warning.