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My latest ANIMAL VIDEO (warning, it's a bit shocking): www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T2-Xszz7FI
ABOUT THE PHOTO:
The photo above was taken this past May and shows parts of my garden and the surrounding hills just as the sun was setting after a heavy thunderstorm, which is when the light and the colors are at their most intense, most magical; it was one of those rare moments that usually only last for a few minutes (sometimes not even that), and you have to be quick to capture them.
The reason I like the photo quite a bit is that it shows a side of my country that is far less known to the people abroad than our snowy mountains and green meadows with friendly cows or the glitz of St. Moritz, Zermatt and Zurich: it shows you "my" tropical Switzerland 😊.
And the thing is, the spot in Ticino where I'm fortunate enough to own a vacation home - a tiny, 400-year old stone building only 70 meters from the Italian border - doesn't just look like it lies in the tropics: it actually sort of does, at least during the summer months.
With temperatures frequently in the mid 30s (Celsius) and a level of humidity that is high enough to make you break out in a sweat the second you leave the house, the micro-climate is not that dissimilar from what you might find in a rain forest.
The air can grow so heavy that people unaccustomed to it might feel like they have a hard time breathing (when friends of mine who originally are from Brazil visited me for a couple of days during a particularly hot period, even they struggled and told me they felt as if they were inhaling steam).
On the plus-side, this tropical micro-climate allows the people in our village to grow lemons, peaches, figs and kiwi fruits in addition to the more traditional apricots, grapes apples and cherries, and even palm trees like the one in this photo are a very common sight throughout the region.
Luckily our houses are traditionally built in a way to keep out the heat even during the hottest months, so the few remaining permanent residents of the village (around 40 people most of whom are over the age of sixty), find soothing cool as soon as they enter the thick stone walls of their homes.
The village itself is built on a rock that is surrounded by dense chestnut forest on all sides that stretches on until the horizon, only interrupted every now and then by a village, a vineyard or a small stream in a valley with a few fields.
So it's hardly a surprise that this tiny tropical paradise is a place where a great variety of beautiful insects, snakes and colorful lizards (that most people probably wouldn't immediately associate with typical Swiss fauna either) feel very much at home, and I feel incredibly blessed that I need only step outside and enter my garden to capture it with my camera 😊.
In case people are interested I might upload a photo that shows a bit more of our village one day, but for now I'll continue to stick with my beloved "creepy crawlies" (as some of my friends here jokingly refer to them) and continue to concentrate on nature, wildlife and landscape photos. 😉
I hope you like the photo and wish you all a wonderful weekend! Many greetings from Switzerland, and as always: let me know what you think in the comments 🙏 😊 ❤!
P.S. This is probably going to be my last upload in 2022, so HAPPY HOLIDAYS everyone!! 🎄💕🎉😃!!
You can just see the pilot as he concentrates to bring this Cessna Citation Longitude in to land at Houston’s West Side Airport. This is a business jet produced by Cessna, part of the Cessna Citation family. The Model 700 made its first flight on October 8, 2016.
This Hawk flew through my frame while I was concentrating on composing another shot, what luck!....:D
Still escaping to my garden to avoid the ubiquitous and ever-disgusting "orange menace" currently in the White House" ...
"Your life will always be better off when you concentrate on the simplest joys of life like drinking a cup of coffee."
~ Mehmet Murat ildan
"It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them." ~Paul Coehlo
Many, many thanks to all my Flickr friends for your visits, faves, and kind comments - you are always an inspiration and source of encouragement to me!
Nei giorni di nebbia puoi smettere per un attimo di guardare, puoi respirare, ed ascoltare… chiudi gli occhi e concentrati sulle tue sensazioni, perchè anche un giorno di nebbia non è per caso.
(Stephen Littleword)
On foggy days you can stop watching for a moment, you can breathe, and listen ... close your eyes and concentrate on your feelings, because even a foggy day is not by chance.
(Stephen Littleword)
I spent some time today witnessing one of the most remarkable waterfowl sights in the whole world. Somewhere between 10,000 - 15,000 tundra swans are staging right here in the Upper Mississippi River before heading east to Chesapeake Bay for the winter. I took video footage on my smartphone to add some sound, which is sensational, but then I wasn't smart enough to get it on Flickr. Sorry.
Little Egret (Egretta garzetta)
Seen in the Werribee River Park at Werribee South in March last year.
Eastern Great Egret (Ardea modesta)
So intent on scanning the water it paid no attention to us as my mate Gil and I walked along the boardwalk.
it gives you a real image. I believe photography is about real life. I hate being in the studio and setting things up. To get an image of real life you have to be part of it. You can't be a photographer standing there with a camera. As soon as you do that everyone starts posing or behaving in a different way. The Lomo is perfect for taking pictures without interrupting the flow of life :-)
Fabian Monheim
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camellia, sarah p duke gardens, duke university, durham, north carolina
A GREY HERON fully concentrating on its fish prey edges closer to a large crocodile, but the croc remains in a sleepy mode. Maybe it had a successful kill just before, or knowing it was out of the water to attack, the heron would be unsuccessful. Who knows, but the heron lived to tell the tale.
Seen in the Gambia Africa.
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THANK YOU for your visit and friendship, I am still digging out old images, hope you enjoy them as much as me.
Keep safe and well, God bless
.............Tomx
A loaded iron concentrate train rounds a curve between Charles and Baker on the south end of the Cartier. We followed this train from Lac Valilee near Dog camp on a cloudless morning, a rarity in this part of Eastern Quebec.
White-faced Heron (Egretta novaehollandiae)
I'm not sure what this one was concentrating on. From 20
Shampoo bubbles.
I took a partially-emptied 32-fluid-ounce (0.946L) bottle (which looks like a 2/3-scale liquor bottle) of shampoo and shook it vigorously. The shots, with the bottle resting atop a light box, were taken about 10-20 minutes after agitation.
Isle of Skye, Scotland
The guys out on manoeuvres in Skye at the aptly named Manse.
The conditions were constantly changing and light moving rapidly over the landscape. Just happened to catch these two in the sunlight whilst concentrating on their own compositions. One of my own personal favourites from the trip... and for once I’m delighted to see that red cap in frame!
The 173,000 heliostats of the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility concentrate sunlight onto three towers containing boilers to generate steam for electricity in California near the Nevada border.
Great Egret (Ardea alba) hunting for prey at Six Mile Cypress Slough Preserve in Lee County, Florida, USA.
They are active during the day and at night. They are most often seen basking on rocks, stumps, or brush. During the day, they hunt among plants at the water's edge, looking for small fish, frogs, worms, leeches, crayfish, salamanders, small birds and mammals. At night, they concentrate on minnows and other small fish sleeping in shallow water.
Northern Water snake (Nerodia sipedon) spotted at Wildwood Nature Preserve, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.