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Competing for the nectar of a Scabious flower… Underwing view of a male Adonis Blue on a Gloucestershire hillside.
“A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms.”
— Zen Shin —
"Like wildflowers; You must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would."
— E.V. —
"Blossom"
A frozen heart beat under the snow
I've been waiting, ready to grow
Shivering and weathering storms
Dreaming of some other place warm
While my roots hid deeper inside
And my leaves stay bundled up tight
I felt my faith get bigger than life
Not only did I survive...
I learned to blossom
I learned to blossom, finding sunlight in the grey
Knowing I will be okay
I learned to blossom, finding sunlight in the grey
Through a lifetime with no rain
I'll blossom
Wilted voices ghostly in wind
Whispering "this could be the end"
Why are they forgetting me not?
Can't they see I'm hurting enough?
While my roots hid deeper inside
And my leaves stay bundled up tight
I felt my faith get bigger than life
Not only did I survive...
I learned to blossom
I learned to blossom, finding sunlight in the grey
Knowing I will be okay
I learned to blossom, finding sunlight in the grey
Through a lifetime with no rain
I'll blossom
I learned to blossom
I learned to blossom, finding sunlight in the grey
Knowing I will be okay
I learned to blossom, finding sunlight in the grey
Through a lifetime with no rain
I'll blossom
And I'll bloom
And I'll bloom
And I'll bloom
Hey, hey, hey, hey
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Competing for space with never a cross word! Always love seeing different species of tree "getting along". I'm sure there are chemical wars being fought as they all make the most of their surroundings but that is all unseen and makes the wood such a serene place to be!
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 ;)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1p2CIdas-Y
Have a beautiful weekend, my dear friends
See y'all in a few xxx
Irises compete with new spring weeds along a fence line in Coloma. My money is on the weeds. They play the long game.
A block away from this scene James Marshall discovered gold along the American River, setting off one the greatest migrations of people in history.
Happy Fence Friday everyone.
Coloma CA
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!
The Osprey is a migratory raptor from Central Asia that dot large lakes and the coasts in the country during winters. They are often seen competing with the local birds like the crows, Brahminy Kites and Black Kites for prey like the fish. They are often found near shallow lakes and water bodies with high perches. The birds hunt once-twice and then rest most of the day maddeningly for us. Often it is a long wait to see it in action. Interestingly, some don't go back and we speculate that they maybe too old to make that journey.
This was shot in an estuary we visited early last year. The area was teeming with waders - 1000's of them. We were there during high tide and hence it was difficult to shoot many birds. The Osprey was resting on a small wooden log in the middle of the water and flew away as we approached it.
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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.
Competing with the Dlugi Targ as the major tourist draw for the city is the riverbank of the Matlawa River. Alas at the moment there is a huge amount of regeneration work ongoing so the West Bank isn’t seen at its best.
The two key subjects here are the Zuraw (the Crane) which dates back to the 15th century. It was hand powered, the largest such example in Europe and capable of lifting 2 tonne (I thought it might have been more than that). At the end of WW2 it was blown up, but has since been rebuilt, like much of Gdansk.
Also seen at the other side on the photo is the MV Soldek, a coal and ore freighter which holds the distinction of being the first cargo boat of note built in Poland after the conclusion of WW2.
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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Another quiet moment with the parakeets of Parco Talenti, perched on a bare branch and warmed by the winter sun. Their bright green plumage stands out vividly against the blue Roman sky, creating a scene that feels almost tropical despite the urban setting.
These birds are monk parakeets (Myiopsitta monachus), a species originally native to South America. Over the past decades they have established stable populations in several European cities, including Rome. Their adaptability to urban environments is remarkable: they feed on a wide range of plants and easily find shelter in parks and tree-lined neighborhoods.
At the same time, their success has sparked debate. In many places they are considered an invasive species because they can compete with native birds for food and nesting sites. Yet observing them here—quietly resting on a branch in a residential park—it is hard not to appreciate how seamlessly they have integrated into this landscape.
For a photographer, they represent an unexpected subject: a touch of distant ecosystems quietly inhabiting the everyday scenery of the city.
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Un altro momento tranquillo con i pappagalli del Parco Talenti, appollaiati su un ramo spoglio e illuminati dal sole invernale. Il verde brillante del loro piumaggio risalta contro il cielo azzurro di Roma, creando una scena quasi tropicale in pieno contesto urbano.
Questi uccelli sono parrocchetti monaci (Myiopsitta monachus), una specie originaria del Sud America. Negli ultimi decenni hanno colonizzato numerose città europee, Roma compresa, dimostrando una straordinaria capacità di adattamento agli ambienti urbani. Si nutrono di una grande varietà di piante e trovano facilmente rifugio nei parchi e nelle aree alberate dei quartieri residenziali.
Il loro successo, tuttavia, è oggetto di dibattito. In molti contesti sono considerati una specie invasiva, perché possono competere con gli uccelli autoctoni per il cibo e i siti di nidificazione. Eppure, osservandoli qui—tranquilli su un ramo in un parco di quartiere—è difficile non notare quanto ormai facciano parte del paesaggio urbano.
Per chi fotografa, rappresentano un soggetto inatteso: un piccolo frammento di ecosistemi lontani che si inserisce silenziosamente nella quotidianità della città.
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Competing for the light.
Infrared 720
Tree tops above Chapel Common in the South Downs National Park, England
About the 1934 LaSalle
In the 1920’s, General Motors (GM) competed against Ford’s “one size fits all” approach by building “a car for every purse and purpose.” GM’s Cadillac had become the market leader in both prestige and price. The LaSalle, first designed in 1927 by the talented Harley Earl, was the model to fit between the Cadillac and Oldsmobile brands. Following the success of the early LaSalle, Alfred P. Sloan, head of GM, promoted Earl to head a new design office: GM’s “Art and Color Section.” However, success began to wane as the Great Depression wreaked havoc on LaSalle sales.
In 1933 the LaSalle was scheduled for termination. Earl spotted an aircraft-inspired design on the drawing board of Jules Agramonte, a member of the Art and Color team. Immediately motivated, Earl and his team redesigned the LaSalle with new Art Deco features such as the tall, narrow front grill, pontoon fenders, biplane bumpers, portholes, chevrons, and chrome accents. Earl had a full-scale mockup built, and presented it to GM executives, proclaiming, “Gentlemen, if you decide to discontinue the LaSalle, this is the car you are not going to build.” GM quickly agreed to manufacture the beautiful new LaSalle, convinced it would revive sales and add excitement to their product line.
The 1934 LaSalle shared many aspects of its build with the Oldsmobile including, straight-8 engine components, frame, and transmission. Both cars also featured new, hydraulic brakes and a revolutionary independent front suspension, which Cadillac did not yet have. The LaSalle team was tasked with reducing production costs by 1/3 — a feat they achieved by sharing parts across model lines. The LaSalle was a design masterpiece, advertised as “the newest car in the world,” and was the pace car for the 1934 Indianapolis 500. LaSalle sales doubled for 1934 and continued to grow through 1936; however, as the US began to rise from the depths of the Depression, consumer demand trended away from such cars, toward smaller, less expensive brand models. By 1940, GM had finally conceded, cancelling production of the LaSalle.
After trying for a month, I finally got an Echeveria flower and its parent in the same frame. The flower can be ten inches to eight feet from home base. This insures that when the flowers set seed, they will not compete against the parent plant. It works: no other flower or plant is as numerous at Ruth Bancroft Garden than the Echeveria agavoides.
I can now finally reveal the competing images from the 2021 Sandwich Fair Competition.
These images continue the series from the Sandwich Fair, the biggest and the last county fair in the state of Illinois. Known simply as "The Fair" by locals, it was started in 1888 and is the oldest continually-operated county fair in Illinois as well.
Held the week after Labor Day, the Sandwich Fair can draw tens of thousands of visitors per day and is a photographer's delight.
It is the reason why my photography club, the Sandwich Photographic Society exists. Formed in 1986 to document every aspect of the 100th Sandwich Fair in 1987, SPS is now a Chicago Area Camera Club Association certified club.
SPS sponsors a "Sandwich Fair Challenge" every year a themed photographic competition open to all that consists of 10-15 categories with the only criteria being that all images need to be taken at the current year's Fair. Many of the images featured in this series were taken to fit these categories.
This image is inside the back door of the very old barn adjacent to the horse show arena. Inside this back storeroom are relics to Fairs long past. The sign probably dates to at least the 1970s, as many of the livestock buildings are not featured on the map.
2021 Category: Buildings
For more information on the Sandwich Fair, visit their website at www.sandwichfair.com/.
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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The Corsa 505 program is focused on developing drivers into accomplished racers by competing in the deepest and most competitive fields in the nation.
To that end, the Spec Racer Ford is the most successful purpose built road racing car in the United States, with fields of over 30 cars at regional SCCA races and over 60 cars at the National Championship Runoffs. Additionally the Spec Racer Ford (SRF/SRF3) rules, stipulate that no performance enhancing modifications can be made to the car and thus the success of any racer in this class, is solely based on his or her own skill and nothing else. These attributes make the SRF3 Class the ideal platform for our Driver Development Program.
We are proud to have MBI Racing as our technical partner, providing full service 'arrive and drive' track support and driver coaching.
Located at Buttonwillow Raceway Park, MBI Racing is a full service race shop. The MBI team primarily races Spec Racer Fords (SRF/SRF3) but has considerable knowledge and experience in racing Formula Mazda, Formula Continental, and Formula F. To date, MBI has won thirteen Regional Championships and four National Championships.
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.)
Two competing male stag beetles Cyclommatus bicolor (25mm, Coleoptera, Lucanidae). Collection specimens from Chiang Mai, N. Thailand (July 2019).
Studio work with dried specimens (rehydrated and staged). Focus bracketing, 37 images, assembled in Zerene Stacker (Pmax & Dmap). Canon EOS M6 mark II, EF 100mm macro 1:2.8L IS USM; ISO-100, f/3.2, 1/10sec, -1.7 step, diffused natural and ledlight.
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.
Competing with the Euphorbia in my garden are these Hellebores, also pale green but not quite so bright. They seem very robust and require hardly any attention, which is always an advantage!
The used App Hypocam has a few Filters preinstalled and here I used the Filter HC-01.
About the series
I was in Berlin for a few days and of course I wanted to shoot some Photos. My normal Camera was a little too big and unhandy for my business-trip and so I gave a Chance to my smartphone (Xiaomi Redmi Note 11) and a free B&W-App called “Hypocam”. I would like to share a few impressions, but it will not be a detailed test of the smartphone-camera or the software. For me it was more about the question: can my Smartphone compete with my normal Camera? And can I create a nice & appealing b&w-Series with this equipment?
I will try to answer it primarily by showing the final results and I want to add only a little Text to every Photo. I hope you like the photos and if you want to leave a comment: What experiences have you had so far? Can a smartphone compete with or even replace expensive equipment in some situations?