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Continuing on my theme of going back a little in time.
Male Kingfisher looking for small fish swimming past as he sits on Reed Mace.
Switzerland, May 2021
My best photos are here: www.lacerta-bilineata.com/ticino-best-photos-of-southern-...
My latest ANIMAL VIDEO (warning, it's a bit shocking): www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T2-Xszz7FI
You find a selection of my 80 BEST PHOTOS (mostly not yet on Flickr) here: www.lacerta-bilineata.com/western-green-lizard-lacerta-bi... (the website exists in ESPAÑOL, FRANÇAIS, ITALIANO, ENGLISH, DEUTSCH)
ABOUT THE PHOTO:
So this photo is a bit of a novelty for me - at least here on Flickr, but it's also a journey back in time in a sense. I've always loved b/w and sepia photography; already as a very young teenager I would go out into the woods with an old Pentax Spotmatic (which I had nicked from my father) whenever it was a foggy day to shoot b/w compositions of sunbeams cutting through the ghostlike trees.
I used films with a sensitivity of at least 1600 (for those of you who remember what that means 😉 ), and the resulting photos had an incredibly fine grain which I loved; I blew them up to the size of posters and hung them on the walls of my teenage man-cave next to Hendrix, Jim Morrison and Slash.
But then I abandoned photography altogether for 20 years, and when I finally picked up a camera again, it was one of the digital kind. Now neither film nor grain played any role in my photographic endeavours - let alone b/w compositions: because the reason I fell in love with shooting pictures once more was the rare and incredibly colorful lizard species that had chosen my garden as its habitat.
It's this species - the Lacerta bilineata aka the western green lizard - that my photo website www.lacerta-bilineata.com/ and also my Flickr gallery are dedicated to, but I've since expanded that theme a bit so that it now comprises the whole Lacerta bilineata habitat, which is to say my garden and its immediate surroundings and all the flora and fauna I find in it.
I like that my gallery and the website have this clear theme, because in order to rise to the challenge of portraying all aspects of a very specific little eco system (which also happens to be my home of sorts), it forces me to constantly explore it from fresh angles, and I keep discovering fascinating new motives as my photographic journey continues.
Which brings me to the horse pasture you see in this photo. This playground for happy horsies lies just outside my garden, and it normally only interests me insofar as my green reptile friends claim parts of it as their territory, and I very much prefer it to be horseless (which it thankfully often is).
Not that the horses bother the reptiles - the lizards don't mind them one bit, and I've even seen them jump from the safety of the fly honeysuckle shrub which the pasture borders on right between the deadly looking hooves of the horses to forage for snails, without any sign of fear or even respect.
No, the reason I have a very conflicted relationship with those horses is that they are mighty cute and that there's usually also foals. The sight of those beautiful, happy animals jumping around and frolicking (it's a huge pasture and you can tell the horses really love it) is irresistible: and that inevitably attracts what in the entire universe is known as the most destructive anti-matter and ultimate undoing of any nature photographer: other humans.
Unlike with the horses, the lizards ARE indeed very much bothered by specimens of loud, unpredictable Homo sapiens sapiens - which makes those (and by extension also the horses) the cryptonite of this here reptile photographer. It's not the horses' fault, I know that, but that doesn't change a thing. I'm just telling you how it is (and some of you might have read about the traumatic events I had to endure to get a particular photo - if not, read at your own risk here: www.flickr.com/photos/191055893@N07/51405389883/in/datepo... - which clearly demonstrated that even when it's entirely horseless, that pasture is still a threat for artistic endeavours).
But back to the photo. So one morning during my vacation back in May I got up quite early. It had rained all night, and now the fog was creeping up from the valley below to our village just as the sky cleared up and the morning sun started to shine through the trees.
And just as I did when I was a teenager I grabbed my camera and ran out to photograph this beautiful mood of ghostlike trees and sunbeams cutting through the mist. There had already been such a day a week earlier (which is when I took this photo: www.flickr.com/photos/191055893@N07/51543603732/in/datepo... ), but this time, the horses were also there.
Because of our slightly strained relationship I only took this one photo of them (I now wish I had taken more: talk about missed opportunities), and otherwise concentrated on the landscape. It was only later when I went through all the photos on my computer that I realized that I actually really liked those horses, even despite the whole composition being such a cliché. And I realized another thing: when I drained the photo of all the color, I liked it even better - because there was almost a bit of grain in it, like in the photos from my youth.
Since then I have experimented quite a bit with b/w and sepia compositions (some of which I will upload here eventually I guess), but this photo here is the first one that helped me rediscover my old passion. I hope you like it even though it builds quite a stark contrast with the rest of my tiny - and very colorful - gallery. But in the spirit of showing you the whole Lacerta bilineata habitat (and also in the spirit of expanding my gallery a bit beyond lizards and insects), I think it's not such a bad fit.
As always, many greetings to all of you, have a wonderful day and don't hesitate to let me know what you think 😊
Continuing on my clean up of the most recent images, still shooting and still staying safe.
Thank you for visiting and for all the very kind words, very much appreciated.
The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.
~Jim Fowler~
Hi all !!
We continue the Comment Challenge ahah!!
Sometimes comments inspire me. This was the case under a work of The G.O.A.T Pan Iconic.
The goal is therefore to create a photo from comments on flickr!
The picture of The G.O.A.T Pan Iconic (read the comments) is here.
Story : "Often we see harley directly as a badass girl, in love with the joker or poison ivy who tricks and lives her life as best she can. This time, I just wanted to represent her as she was before and what she will become after meeting her J."
I hope you'll like it !!
Thanks for watching and your support!! ♡
The music : 🎵.
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This work is done for continuing with my Positive Flags of the Nations with especially appreciating music during these lockdown times.
Also for Finding the Beauty in the World Today Despite the Hardships Given Us by the Coronavirus.
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In Explore.
This series of photos continues to show my fascination with misty scenes, all four were taken the same morning, but of disparate landscapes.
In this fourth and last image, even though the sun has been up for hours, it has only just cleared the mountain opposite and is finally burning off the last of the mist at Talybont Reservoir, the lake itself is still in shadow.
The distance traveled by car from the first to last shot is about 13 miles (although they are all much, much closer as the crow flies) and took 86 minutes, you just have to love the Brecon Beacons!
I continue to be in awe of the beauty I saw at Ox Bow Bend in Grand Teton National Park. Here is another look at this spectacular place. This image has a wider angle and less zoom than the one I posted several weeks ago. Any way you dice it, this is one of the most beautiful places on earth. Talk about a stress reliever.
Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
Autumn Continues, although when I finally got out yesterday, I saw that the trees weren't nearly as full as they were last week
© AnvilcloudPhotography
So they were sitting in the car talking.
He turned to her and began to tell a story of this and that, of pros and cons, of blacks and whites.
She listened for a while then her gaze turned uncontrollably skyward.
"I've never seen the sky like that...It seems to be split, right down the middle..." she said.
There was a brief pause.
"Sorry for interrupting...Please, continue..."
Cromford Mills.
OrWO Universal Negative 54 - iso 100
Voigtländer 35 CL
Ilfotec LC29 1:19 ~ 10 minutes (on one leg)
Epson 4490
I went back to visit the wasps nest five days later to see how the larvae were progressing. They became very protective this time. I made two photos and left them alone. The larvae have progressed tremendously.
Continuing my December theme:The colour Blue
Blue glass with freesias .... having fun with some flower shots from last month .... as it's too icy to venture out much this week ;o)
A Happy Bokeh Wednesday ;o)
The colour Blue: Here
Still Life Compositions: Here
The Glass set is here: Here
My freesia set: Here
Hello, anyone read this here? I decided to make a new flickr to upload more specific photos. I've been experimenting all this time so I've been uploading pictures of all kinds. And I will continue doing it here to feel free that my photographs are of different things, (And because I am an unbearable person). While in the other I will focus only on nature, and the woman on nature.
Thanks for reading if you did. ♥
....the deconstructed birthday bouquet.
lumen print, ADOX MCP 310 paper
all white daisies.
lumen color was adjusted using the scanning software.
Happy Friday everyone!!! Will continue catching up with everyone slowly ^___^ Hope you guys are well!
Packhorse bridge over Watendlath beck, Lake District
Cumbria, England, UK
June 2017
Near the vicinity of Keswick, you will find the secluded and scenic Watendlath hamlet and tarn. It is a peaceful and lovely location where you will see a beautifully historic 18th century packhorse bridge.
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Continuing on the theme of one sparrow a day this week, here is a beautiful Chipping Sparrow spotted near Nutter's Battery, Central Park, New York. They are now coming in increasing numbers...
While many other places in the northern hemisphere are showing signs of warming weather, we continue to demonstrate why it is not the weather that drew us here. No, ironically we came for the jobs.
Framed in my last picture, this shows the trail continuing, hugging the lakeshore. If you look closely you can see a man and his dog.
Continuing with the C-O-L-D theme...
This image was captured within minutes of yesterday violet-hued picture featuring the 'icebergs'. You can see the same-colored sky here.
At -10 below zero, the water near the shore has frozen and that is the blue and white ice here in the foreground. The darker blue on the horizon are the large waves rolling in the open water.
Fortunately the temperatures have moderated in the last few days and we feel warm at 25 f. :)
Enjoy the cold with me here!
Continuing my coastal Texas birding series with this Roseate Spoonbill flyby.
South Padre Island Birding And Nature Center.
My sparrow journey continues with one of North America's most common sparrows, very friendly, never flying too far, being a slow, methodic mover. I always thought its most prominent feature was a large chest spot....but unless I have the ID wrong, it's not always there! They form groups on migration with other sparrows and I never saw one in south Florida, although infrequently they are reported in the upper part of the state.
Member of Nature’s Spirit
Good Stewards of Nature
Continuing the series about current floods in Paris.
Don't miss the drowned building on the left ... usually people gather by the hundreds just in front of that building so they can share a picnic by the Seine.
Have nice day, my friends !
(Explored April 7, 2016)
Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, Oceanville, NJ, USA
DSC_31421G11 - Processed in GIMP 2.8.6
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After a brief stop for lunch, we meet up with the SB CWR again at Spence where they duck under a wooden bridge. This is one of the last wooden bridges within a couple hundred kilometers of Toronto. CP 6080 & 6045 continue their trek down the Mactier sub.
AZCR GP9R 3413, GP7 2279, and GP7 2164 lead the new pair of GP38-3s to supplement the Arizona Central's fleet across the majestic SOB Canyon as they approach their destination in Clarkdale, AZ. With seven locomotives on the property now, the three first generation Geeps somehow continue to be the primary power it seems with one of the new units being tossed into the mix sometimes.
Riding on some fast-moving water sports crafts is an exciting and thrilling experience. So, from early morning up and until late afternoon on Christmas Day, a number of guests at a popular beach resort, singly or in group, take a ride on jet skis and banana boats for an hour around a large area in Subic Bay designated by the resort's management as safe for such activities.
Captured in Subic, Zambales, Philippines.