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Competing for the nectar of a Scabious flower… Underwing view of a male Adonis Blue on a Gloucestershire hillside.
Wood Duck drakes, Suamico, Wisconsin USA.
The bird in the foreground being driven off by the other male who is paired with a nesting female on the pond.
Compete with yourself, and you will never be bitter - ana
It was such a lovely day today
(Sometimes one does not have to do anything, to have a beautiful day)
So thought I would put up a second one...image that is ;)
Besides I just heard this tune and had to post it too :)))
Yup...You know I tend to do stuff like that ;)
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Have a beautiful weekend, my dear friends
See y'all in a few xxx
Credits:
Truckers Hat: Rebellion
Shade, shirt and necklace: Legal Insanity
Ears: Andore
Beard/hair applier: Volkstone
Lighting: LUMIPro
This is the Rose from my garden that I promised yesterday, to post today. It is competing with the yellow dahlia but will lose out for longevity as the dahlias stay longer. Still, it’s not bad for the middle of November!
Another image from my photo walk earlier this week to North Greenwich. This was the entrance area to an apartment complex but viewed side on. I liked the way the different shapes all imposed their way into the image with rectangles, horizontal lines, vertical lines, all of them competing for attention within the frame.
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Two Common Carder Bumble bees for a heart is one too many : the one on the right was genly but firmly pushed away :)
Zoom in for more detail, mainly the proboscis of the right Bumblebee being inserted behind the small petal.
My SL~Amazing! Art Expo competion entry - presented at www.flickr.com/groups/14870065@N21/ - The SL~Amazing Art Expo competition
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This cowgirl is 72 years old and still competing in barrel racing at the Russian River Rodeo. Looking closely, it appears that the horse is blind in its left eye.
The goldfinches gesticulate and compete for the big seed tray while the blue tit quietly enjoys its fat ball full of good things....... which does not prevent it from going in turn on the seed tray when these intrusive birds stop getting bickering!
Scène hivernale
Les chardonnerets gesticulent et se disputent le grand plateau à graines tandis que la mésange bleue déguste tranquillement sa boule de graisse pleine de bonnes choses.... ce qui ne l'empêche pas d'aller aussi sur le plateau de graines quand ces importuns auront fini de se chamailler!
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Competing with some ivory drapes, this beech stands out with the remains of its coppery leaves. Taken at Brush Hill Nature Reserve, Whiteleaf, Buckinghamshire.
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Black tailed Godwit - Limosa Limosa
These large wading birds are a Schedule 1 species. In summer, they have bright orangey-brown chests and bellies, but in winter they're more greyish-brown.
Their most distinctive features are their long beaks and legs, and the black and white stripes on their wings. Female black-tailed godwits are bigger and heavier than the males, with a noticeably longer beak (which helps the sexes to avoid competing for food with each other).
They're very similar to bar-tailed godwits, which breed in the Arctic. Black-tailed godwits have longer legs, and bar-tailed godwits don't have striped wings. As the names suggest, the tail patterns are different, too.
Black-tailed godwits are much more likely to be found on inland wetlands than the more coastal bar-tailed godwit. They migrate in flocks to western Europe, Africa, south Asia and Australia. Although this species occurs in Ireland and Great Britain all year-round, they are not the same birds. The breeding birds depart in autumn, but are replaced in winter by the larger Icelandic race. These birds occasionally appear in the Aleutian Islands and, rarely, on the Atlantic coast of North America.
There is an estimated global population of between 634,000 and 805,000 birds and estimated range of 7,180,000 square kilometres (2,770,000 sq mi). In 2006 BirdLife International classified this species as Near Threatened due to a decline in numbers of around 25% in the previous 15 years. It is also among the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies.
In Europe, black-tailed godwits are only hunted in France, with the annual total killed estimated at 6,000 to 8,000 birds. This puts additional pressure on the western European population, and the European Commission has a management plan in place for the species in its member states.
In England, black-tailed godwits were formerly much prized for the table. Sir Thomas Browne (1605–1682) said: "[Godwits] were accounted the daintiest dish in England and I think, for the bignesse, of the biggest price."
Population:
UK breeding:
54-57 pairs of the limosa 'Eurasian' subspecies, and 7-9 pairs of the islandica subspecies
UK wintering:
44,000 birds from the Icelandic population
UK passage:
12,400 birds
Europe:
99-140,000 pairs
Competing for the light.
Infrared 720
Tree tops above Chapel Common in the South Downs National Park, England
Shoalhaven Heads Sunset - Panorama
Pentax K1 w DFA 15-30/2.8
ISO 100 f/11 -3.3 and -0.7ev
30 frames (15 x 2 exposures) HDR stitched in Lightroom, bit of levelling in Affinity Photo 2, colour graded in Color Efex Pro 5, tweaked in Topaz Denoise and finished off in DxO PhotoLab 6
The birch wants the last word.
The aspens chatter in the breeze.
Fighting to the last
for all the glory of
saying the last thing
until next spring.
With the moonlight over my shoulder highlighting the rocks in the foreground the predawn glow made for interesting lighting overall ...
Pentax K1 w DFA15-30/2.8
ISO400 f/8 30s (+1.7ev - sometimes the light meter struggles with the ultra wide lens in competing conditions).
Two frames raw developed in DxO PhotoLab 6, stacked/aligned in Affinity Photo 2, luminosity blended in ON1 Photo Raw 2023, colour graded in Color Efex Pro 5 and finished off back in PhotoLab.
David Piper competed in the Formula One World Championship in 1959, and then went on to race sports cars when he lost interest in single seaters. From 1962 until 1970, he often competed in his own cars at sports car events, incluidng 24 Hours of Le Mans and the 12 Hours of Sebring.
Perhaps most famous for racing a multitude of Ferrari's, including the 250 GTO, 250 LM and the 512S, he also competed using his own Porsche 917K, and was involved in the filming of the Steve McQueen film Le Mans, where he crashed the 917K and lost part of his leg.
He also competed using the Lola T70 seen here with the Sandeman sponsorship livery and its original British Petroleum Green colour (the colour is impregnated into the bodywork itself). This Lola is chassis number SL76/150, delivered new to the David Piper Autoracing Modena team on the 7th March 1969, and was fitted with a 5ltr Bartz Chevrolet engine.
David Piper described the Lola as "such good value for a long distance sports racing coupe at that time. It was a big step forward in all areas over the Ford GT40 against which it was measured. The car was comfortable and east to drive with no vices at all."
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Two major players competing for traffic in the viable transportation corridor that is the Columbia River Gorge momentarily roll past one another on the river's Washington banks at Dallesport in a side-by-side appearance made possible by some unbelievable luck. The 11,249 foot snow-capped peak of Mt. Hood looks down at eastbound garbage traversing both their respective playing fields as a 60-car H INBROO1 26A, fresh out of the siding following a meet with a Pasco to Longview freight, hustles on rails above while a much slower "Crown Point" tug painstakingly pushes its short barge toward the locks at The Dalles Dam in this region's never-ending "Dash for Trash." BNSF collects garbage from terminals all throughout the Pacific Northwest via a handful of local jobs that shuttle the loaded containers of waste to yards at both Interbay and Everett where several of these unit trash trains per day are assembled for forwarding to a landfill site at Republic Services in Roosevelt, WA. These moves closely resemble your normal intermodal trains, however with a rather distinct and unpleasant odor attached with them. Upon arrival, the containers are removed from their railcars and loaded onto trucks where rubber wheels bring the garbage its last few miles uphill to Republic's large dump site, which has the capacity for over 120 million tons of trash, fourth largest of its kind in the United States. Empties are then loaded back onto a waiting train and promptly sent back west to the cities for another load of stinky cargo, continuing the cycle. Union Pacific runs almost an identical operation of their own for Waste Management on the Oregon side of the river to and from a dump site near the town Arlington.
Some of railroad's EMD SD75Ms that often run these trash trains would've been the icing on the cake for this shot, but hard to complain here.
This was shot at Brookgreen Gardens, near Murell's Inlet, South Carolina, as was a very similar image posted in late 2019 or so. This is a brick walkway, shadowed by the lattice structure above it and the trees above that. What I like here is the way the different patterns compete for my attention, making me feel a bit nuttier than usual: the virtually black shadow, the bricks and their different types and colors, and the variable colors of sunlight on the bricks caused by trees overhead letting different amounts of sunlight through. Just as I manage to focus on one pattern, another grabs my attention and the former is lost.
The history of Brookgreen Gardens is pretty interesting. Anna Hyatt Huntington was among New York City's most prominent sculptors in the early 20th century, when female artists generally garnered little respect. With her husband, Archer Huntington, they bought four old plantations around 1929, totaling over 9,000 acres, between the Waccamaw River and the Atlantic coast, in order to showcase her sculptures. Over time, they acquired works by a few dozen other American figurative sculptors, with a total of some 1400 works. The sculpture garden takes up about 550 acres; there is also a zoo, and several nature trails. For me, the gardens were a little more interesting than the sculpture, but enjoying it all together was pretty wonderful. The coastal areas have been leased to the state of North Carolina, forming Huntington Beach State Park. If you ever get down that way, check it out; otherwise, Google it. (They're not paying me anything for this brief review.)
A Mute Swan shows why this introduced species is able to successfully compete with the native Trumpeter Swan.
In the Humber Bay area of Toronto, (European) Mute Swans are increasing common, while Trumpeter Swans are less frequently seen. So I was delighted to come across a flock of 15 to 20 Trumpeter Swans in a sheltered lagoon in Humber Bay Park East.
By the early 20th century, Trumpeter Swans, which are native to North America, had almost been wiped out. Careful reintroductions by wildlife agencies and the Trumpeter Swan Society gradually restored the North American wild population to over 46,000 birds by 2010.
The heaviest living bird native to North America. It is one of the heaviest living birds or animals capable of flight, and, in terms of average mass, the heaviest flying bird in the world.
In Southern Ontario, the Trumpeter Swan competes for habitat with the aggressive, introduced Mute Swan.
I saw this at play, as a single Mute Swan swam into the area where the flock of Trumpeters Swans were feeding, and proceeded to chase the other birds.
Cape buffaloes mingle with zebras in the rich grass of Ngorongoro Crater in northern Tanzania. Cattle egrets and tick birds compete for nutritious real estate on the buffaloes' backs. ©2019 John M. Hudson | jmhudson1.com
Competing in the UNLIMITED Class; "Hi-Tec Oils" #10 with Michael Cunningham driving along with Narelle Grayland during the evening qualifying session at the Penrite V8 Superboats meet at Temora.
New South Wales, Australia.
Auf dem gegenüberliegenden Ufer erhebt sich eine Kirche, die wir zunächst überhaupt nicht einordnen konnten wegen ihres etwas eigenartigen Turms. Wie wir später herausfinden sollten, handelt es sich um die gotische Schjlosskirche, die sich als eine der größtten Überraschungen unseres Besuchs erweisen sollte. Davor steht das Schlossbergmuseum, das stadtgesichtliche Museum Chemnitzs, eingerichtet in einem ehemaligen Kostergebäude.
On the opposite bank stands a church that we initially couldn't quite place because of its somewhat unusual tower. As we later discovered, it is the Gothic Palace Church, which turned out to be one of the biggest surprises of our visit. In front of it stands the Schlossberg Museum, Chemnitz's city museum, housed in a former monastery building.
Das bis dahin dünn besiedelte Mittelgebirgsvorland wurde seit dem 12. Jahrhundert auf Betreiben der deutschen Könige und Kaiser planmäßig erschlossen und ausgebaut. Als Stützpunkt gründete Kaiser Lothar von Süpplingenburg 1136 ein Kloster, das dem Benediktinerorden unterstellt wurde. Von diesem Kloster ging wenige Jahre später die Initiative aus, einen Fernhandelsmarkt zu gründen. Damit waren wichtige Impulse für die Anlage der späteren Stadt gegeben. Aus bescheidenen Anfängen entwickelte sich das Benediktinerkloster St. Marien zu einem der bedeutendsten Klöster in Sachsen. Es wurde ein Zentrum für Kunst, Kultur und Wissenschaft. Umfangreiche Einkünfte aus den umliegenden Dörfern sowie dem erzgebirgischen Bergbau bildeten die Grundlage für opulente Baumaßnahmen. Im späten 13. Jahrhundert entstand unter Beteiligung der Meißner Dombauhütte der Ostflügel des Kreuzgangs mit seiner prächtigen Bauplastik. Bereits 1483 wurde der heute als Schloßteich bezeichnete große Fischteich unterhalb des Klosters angelegt. Den Höhepunkt der wirtschaftlichen und kulturellen Entwicklung erlebte die Anlage im späten 15. und frühen 16. Jahrhundert: Unter den Äbten Heinrich von Schleinitz und Hilarius von Rehburg kam es zu einer groß angelegten Reihe von Um- und Neubauten, die sich mit den bedeutendsten Schloss- und Kirchenbauten im Land messen konnten. Die heutige Schloßkirche, vollendet 1527, gehört zu den großen spätgotischen Hallenkirchen Sachsens. Für die Ausstattung gewann man führende Künstler wie die Wittenberger Cranach-Werkstatt oder die Bildhauer Hans Witten und Franz Maidburg. Ein europaweit einzigartiges Kunstwerk ist die so genannte „Geißelsäule“. Als eine Folge der Reformation hörte das klösterliche Leben 1541 auf. Den riesigen Besitz kassierte der Landesherr und wandelte ihn in ein herzogliches Amt um. Die Gebäude standen eine Zeit lang leer, bevor sie der Dresdner Hof als fürstliche Sommerresidenz entdeckte und repräsentativ ausbauen ließ. Der Renaissancesaal im heutigen Schloßbergmuseum mit seiner prächtigen Gestaltung lässt noch etwas vom höfischen Glanz ahnen. Allerdings ließ das Interesse schnell wieder nach. Im Dreißigjährigen Krieg kam es nach 1632 zu schweren Plünderungen und Verwüstungen. Seitdem wurde die weitläufige Anlage nur noch teilweise benutzt und verfiel allmählich. Im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert riss man dann große Teile ab, sodass nur noch die Kirche und zwei Flügel der anschließenden Klausurgebäude übrigblieben. Einen Teil der Kirche nutzte man als Salzlager. Die verwahrloste Kirche wurde 1866 – 1897 gründlich restauriert und erhielt einen 87 Meter hohen neugotischen Turmhelm. Bis zu seiner Beschädigung im Jahre 1945 und dem anschließenden Rückbau auf die jetzige Höhe von 48 Metern war er ein markantes Wahrzeichen der Stadt. Die übrigen Gebäude wurden 1929 – 1931 zum Museum für Stadtgeschichte – das jetzige Schloßbergmuseum – ausgebaut. In einer groß angelegten Rekonstruktionsphase wurden zwischen 1985 und 1994 der fehlende West- und Nordflügel modern ergänzt. Bis heute sind hier die wertvollen Sammlungen untergebracht, die der Verein für Chemnitzer Geschichte seit 1872 zusammengetragen hatte und die seitdem systematisch ergänzt wurden. Schloßkirche und Schloßbergmuseum bilden heute als historische und bauliche Einheit nicht nur eines der ältesten, sondern auch eines der wertvollsten Baudenkmäler der Stadt Chemnitz.
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This is where the history of the city of Chemnitz began a good eight centuries ago. The previously sparsely populated foothills of the low mountain range were systematically developed and expanded from the 12th century onwards at the instigation of German kings and emperors. As a base, Emperor Lothar von Süpplingenburg founded a monastery in 1136, which was placed under the Benedictine order. A few years later, this monastery took the initiative to establish a long-distance trade market. This provided important impetus for the establishment of the later town. From humble beginnings, the Benedictine monastery of St Mary's developed into one of the most important monasteries in Saxony. It became a centre for art, culture and science. Extensive income from the neighbouring villages and the mining industry in the Ore Mountains formed the basis for opulent building projects. In the late 13th century, the east wing of the cloister with its magnificent architectural sculpture was built with the involvement of the Meissen cathedral building workshop. The large fish pond, now known as the castle pond, was created below the monastery as early as 1483. The complex experienced the peak of its economic and cultural development in the late 15th and early 16th centuries: Under the abbots Heinrich von Schleinitz and Hilarius von Rehburg, there was a large-scale series of remodelling and new buildings that could compete with the most important castle and church buildings in the country. Today's castle church, completed in 1527, is one of the great late Gothic hall churches in Saxony. Leading artists such as the Wittenberg Cranach workshop and the sculptors Hans Witten and Franz Maidburg were brought in to decorate it. The so-called "Flagellation Column" is a unique work of art in Europe. As a consequence of the Reformation, monastic life came to an end in 1541. The huge estate, which also included Rabenstein Castle, was confiscated by the sovereign and converted into a ducal office. The buildings stood empty for a while before the Dresden court discovered them as a princely summer residence and had them converted into a prestigious residence. The Renaissance hall in today's Schloßbergmuseum with its magnificent design still gives an idea of the courtly splendour. However, interest quickly waned again. After 1632, the Thirty Years' War saw heavy looting and devastation. Since then, the extensive grounds have only been partially used and gradually fell into disrepair. In the 18th and 19th centuries, large parts were demolished, leaving only the church and two wings of the adjoining cloister buildings. Part of the church was used as a salt store. The neglected church was thoroughly restored between 1866 and 1897 and was given an 87 metre high neo-Gothic spire. It was a striking landmark of the town until it was damaged in 1945 and subsequently reduced to its current height of 48 metres. The remaining buildings were converted into the Museum of City History - now the Schloßbergmuseum - between 1929 and 1931. In a large-scale reconstruction phase between 1985 and 1994, the missing west and north wings were added in a modern style. To this day, the museum houses the valuable collections that the Chemnitz History Society has been amassing since 1872 and which have been systematically added to since then. Today, the castle church and the Schloßbergmuseum form a historical and structural unit that is not only one of the oldest, but also one of the most valuable monuments in the city of Chemnitz.
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