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What a difference a year can make.

 

This morning Facebook asked if I wanted to share a memory from one year ago. The photo was of a Reddish egret taken in January of 2022 at Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge on Sanibel Island, Florida.

 

A year ago, at this time Sanibel was swamped with both tourists and resident and seasonal birds, an estimated 247 different species. If you looked for it, you could find evidence of past hurricanes and tropical storms that had visited, mainly in the live oaks, but you had to look closely. Then 28 September of 2022 arrived with Hurricane Ian, a direct hit by a category four hurricane.

 

I sat and staired at the photo for quite some time, wondering if this beautiful creature survived. Wildlife doesn’t have many options when nature is at its worst. In the case of birds, they have two basic options. Some use the winds of the initial bands to propel them out of harms way. Others ride it out, taking shelter where they can.

 

While researching what wildlife does in hurricanes, a sad scenario was presented. It is well documented that birds often become trapped in the eye of hurricanes, taking flight possibly thinking it is over, then flying in a panic unable to escape the storms walls.

 

Here is an unreleased archive shot of the beautiful creature I was blessed to photograph, as I hope and pray it is well.

 

Thursday October 6th - Clarity

It seems at first glance that the ruins of Dunstanburgh Castle are sitting on the headland of Cullernose Point. Not so! They are in fact a further 3km distant.

Very different visibility from the vista the day before looking towards Dunstanburgh from a much closer spot on the other (north) side of Cullernose Point!

Sharp attention

Action initiation

Temporal duration

Hope they make up soon...

 

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The annual vivarium that is setup at New York’s American Museum of Natural History as the Butterfly Conservatory is a wonderful 80 degree temporary home to almost 500 living butterflies and moths that just closed up at the end of May. Butterfly diversity is decreasing more and more all over the world. In fact I remember growing up not too far from where I live now in northern New Jersey and the many butterflies I would see in our back yard and the park up the street where my parents still reside. The one striking difference is the lack and in some cases total lack of butterflies and moths in many places in New Jersey and New York. They play such a vital role in the life cycle of plants so one can only wonder what effects their decreasing numbers is having on vegetation as insects like butterflies and bees continue to dwindle in number. So this wonderful Conservatory that the American Museum of Natural History sets up annually brings attention to the plight of these wonderfully diverse arthropods and allows one to literally enter into their world. I stayed within the vivarium over an hour, patiently waiting for these gifted insects would come to an area where I could photograph them. Definitely worth seeing if visiting the museum when the conservatory is up.

Taken with Olympus E-5 using a ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 40-150mm F4.0-5.6 handheld RAW file processed in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.

 

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"I’m not spoiled, my master is just well trained."

......Someone said

 

Sony 70 - 300mm f4.5 - 5.6

75mm

1/1250s

f5.6

ISO 100

 

Huge differences in weather from the eastern part of Norway to the west coast, so now there is only rain and wind ahead 😂

[Topaz Studio 2]

 

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…One for Sliders Sunday - besides the obvious B&W -V- Colour can you see some magic sliding gone on to make them nearer to the Olympic rings - no photoshop only Lightroom and no washers were mutilated in the process! See 1st comment box for other shot - original one from last weeks Macro Monday. Happy Sliders Sunday, Alan:-) HSS…..

 

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A Tree within a Tree!!!

 

Corregidor Island

Cavite

Philippines

 

One image was taken last night at 10 PM. The other image was taken at 8 AM this morning. Do you see the one difference? Poor Pumpkin! 😂

...touching your eyes

OR

...touching you soul...

 

Is how much you let yourself go.....

  

LIVE!!!

Hong Kong Disneyland.

 

I got so much inspirations when I started to capture the bubbles.

 

Timing, was out of my control.

 

I started to realize that,

 

I cannot control all the things with the same method,

 

I cannot expect all the outcomes with the same way.

 

This was the most wonderful inspiration I get from Disneyland@

    

The difference between the two is startling when they're close together. The Great Egret towers over the Snowy Egret! Lovely birds that look so much alike from a distance but are so startlingly different when seen together.

Yesterday evening at Sunset....Temp: 13C.

 

The second image was a day earlier and 23C.

 

Song: Dinah Washington ~ What Difference A Day Makes

 

Noordpolderzijl: Pearl in the Waddenzee

Falling in love is to love the coincidences. To love is to fall in love with differences.

World desperately is in need of cutting out the differences and work towards peace, be it race, religion, region, politics, caste and opinion; it needs to be more healthy in the interest of humanity.

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These two Bald Eagles had their own idea where this stick should be placed in the nest . They each tugged on it for a bit trying to convince the other before one finally gave in.

 

They have been working hard to make improvements to the nest but I am not in favor of some of their stick placements. These sticks are getting difficult to shoot between to get a good shot.

Two different species of turtle sharing a rock in the Chinese Garden in Singapore

... Between Night & Day :)

 

Captures taken about 12 hours apart. Both were at two seconds exposure time, one at ISO 100 and a 400ND Filter on, and the other at ISO 3200.

What a difference 30 minutes and 24 km makes, we arrived in Zutphen damp but drying out the sun actually tried to break through several times after leaving the car at a nearby parking lot exploring our way to the old town of this lovely historic Hanseatic town.

 

Zutphen has been inhabited for over 1700 years and was founded by the Franks during the time of the Roman Empire making it one of Holland’s oldest cities.

 

Being founders of the Hanseatic League the town has always been prosperous and despite its small size boasts over 450 national monuments thanks to its long wealthy history.

 

When you are slogging about dripping wet hunched over loaded down with camera gear in the pissing rain you just have to persevere and hope for a break in the weather or good spots that can shield you from the wet while shooting.

 

For most travel photographers its not like we will always have another opportunity to be back in the same direction so good wet weather gear and umbrellas are the order of the day when traveling in the fall most especially in the Netherlands.

 

Captured here is the pedestrian mall leading to the Tower of the Walburgis church which was at one time 113m tall but since 1600 reduced to a mere 76m though small in stature it is still a beauty and has been around since the 13th century ushering the locals to sermon.

 

I took this on September 19th, 2017 with my D750 and Nikon 28-300mm f/3.5-5.6 Lens at 28mm 1/8s, f/11 ISO 100 processed in LR, PS +Lumenzia, Topaz , Luminar and DXO

 

Disclaimer: My style is a study of romantic realism as well as a work in progress.

 

First time trying to recreate a photo. The light situation was similar. It was interesting for me to see how much the Planet guys worked on their image. I think they had to do an HDR to get those details and colours in the shadows. Also, some more heavy manipulation happening beside the changes time did to this situation.

Macro Mondays- The space in between..HMM

..at least not visibly..male and female..

Playing with colors may change the shape of the original.

Respect is earned,

Honesty is appreciated,

Trust is gained,

Loyalty is returned.

Auliq Ice

 

Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson

 

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

John F. Kennedy

 

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

Jimmy Carter

 

We all do better when we work together. Our differences do matter, but our common humanity matters more,

Bill Clinton

 

Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Barack Obama

 

Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other.

Brian Tracey

 

To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

Nelson Mandela

 

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Benoît est un adulte que j'accompagne en tant qu'éducateur depuis plus dix ans..c'est un homme lumineux..Merci a lui et à sa mère de me permettre de poster ce portrait dont je suis particulièrement fiert...

Benoît is the man... I host him since more than ten years in the adult handicap center I worked..A bright man...

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