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"Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations" - Melchor Lim.
Taken almost at the top of the Hardknott Pass, the most challenging road I've ever driven. No way to get lost here - it's either straight up or straight down, far better than driving in a city or its outskirts. Taken last summer, my sister Margaret and I can't wait to get back to the Lake District this coming May.
Textured with Topaz and one of my own.
Thanks as always for having a look, your comments, faves and all your support - and may you all have a wonderful Easter weekend, even if you have to work or don't celebrate Easter in any way.
di pace e serenità per tutti, credenti e non, e non solo per Natale.
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We had it confirmed yesterday that our dear Flickr friend, Gérard had left us. I say confirmed because I had noticed he had not reappeared as he always did and the days of his absence were increasingly disturbing. I thought about him often of late...his loyalty, consistent presence and most of all his humor. He is the only one I've ever known who I could really hear laugh when he wrote "LOL."
It's funny how this medium can actually develop what can only be defined as real friendships when one anticipates and looks forward to daily interactions and comments. I recall the shock I felt when he informed us of his condition...and clearly recall also the shock he himself felt in just those few dramatic words. I eagerly awaited his return to Flickr from his treatments and, when he did, marveled at his spirit during this impossibly difficult time.
Gérard and I shared musical tastes and frequently exchanged YouTube links we thought appropriate to an image or an expressed thought. In many ways, we were on the same "wave length" and we discussed and mourned the losses in the musical arena this year. And now he has joined them. It has indeed been a year of loss.
So adieu, mon ami. You will be missed deeply by many, as myself, who have never met or even spoken to you...a tribute indeed. Oh, and I can tell that's you captured in this image by the white head...;-)
And one more link to carry you onward...
Much more difficult to get photos of Red Kite on the ground than in the air. But this hide helped a lot!
It´s a little bit difficult to create a frozen bubble.
It´s not my first try ;-)
But in the morning with the first sunbeams there it works ;-)
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Jay - Garrulus Glandarius
Although they are the most colourful members of the crow family, jays are actually quite difficult to see. They are shy woodland birds, rarely moving far from cover. The screaming call usually lets you know a jay is nearby and it is usually given when a bird is on the move, so watch for a bird flying between the trees with its distinctive flash of white on the rump. Jays are famous for their acorn feeding habits and in the autumn you may see them burying acorns for retrieving later in the winter.
The word jay has an archaic meaning in American slang meaning a person who chatters impertinently.
The term jaywalking was coined in 1915 to label persons crossing a busy street carelessly and becoming a traffic hazard. The term began to imply recklessness or impertinent behavior as the convention became established.
In January 2014, Canadian author Robert Joseph Greene embarked on a lobbying campaign among ornithologists in Europe and North America to get Merriam-Websters Dictionary to have a "Jabber of Jays" as an official term under bird groups.
Population:
UK breeding:
170,000 territories
Difficult times ahead , but like the weather the sun will shine again , be responsible , stay safe and take care all my Flickr friends
Unseen Photo Fair in Amsterdam was a wonderful experience for me. The world of photography has been more extensive than I expected. Emerging talents from all over the world amazed me by their imagination, creativity and craftsmanship; on the other hand, I felt that what photography has achieved was sometimes neglected. In other words, they don't need the realities in front of them now… Anyway, participating in Unseen made me think about what I actually want to do. It's getting more and more difficult and interesting to take/make pictures…
I saw the cute foal yesterday on a paddock. It seems to be very young, but I don't know horses very well.
Oopsie, aller Anfang ist schwer.
Ich sah das süße Fohlen gestern auf einerKoppel. Es scheint noch sehr jung zu sein, aber ich kenne mich mit Pferden nicht so gut aus.
No matter how difficult the last times have been, we should all strive to add some magic around us.
It would be fantastic if we could do it every day of life, but especially at this time of year when those who love us, even from a distance, will be thinking and wishing us the best!
Merry Christmas to all my Flickr friends and contacts!
May we go through these difficult times with hope in our hearts. ❤
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Eurasian Jay taken against a Bluebell backdrop.
Although they are the most colourful members of the crow family, jays are actually quite difficult to see. They are shy woodland birds, rarely moving far from cover. The screaming call usually lets you know a jay is nearby and it is usually given when a bird is on the move, so watch for a bird flying between the trees with its distinctive flash of white on the rump. Jays are famous for their acorn feeding habits and in the autumn you may see them burying acorns for retrieving later in the winter.
What they eat: Mainly acorns, nuts, seeds and insects, but also eats nestlings of other birds and small (Courtesy RSPB).
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A difficult capture due to the lack of light in this very dense forest spot. A very shy bird photographed through a window in the foliage.
O'Reilly's Rainforest Retreat, Lamington National Park, Queensland
Although my back and spine are making life very difficult for me at the moment, I am at least trying to work shortened hours because otherwise my project will fall on my feet....
That's why I'm going to be very quiet again for the next few days.
Every day a little more, until Friday, when I probably won't be able to do anything at all.
That's how I'm taking it step by step, this difficult road.
I wish you good last Sunday hours 😘
It is often difficult to comprehend and appreciate the size and scale of a glacier until you’ve seen it from the air. Mendenhall Glacier here for example is 13.6 miles long, 3.8 miles wide, around 2000 feet at its deepest, and rises from beneath sea level to over 6200 feet in elevation.
Having seen glaciers from a distance on foot in Iceland, it was a completely different experience to see one via helicopter. We flew over the glacier for several minutes before landing on a flat area for some hiking. A few things that amazed me while flying overhead though was how deep the crevasses were, how insanely blue the ponds of melted glacier water were, and how far the ice field stretched up into the mountains. But most of all, the sheer size of the glacier was just incredible.
The other remarkable thing was the visible path of dirt and sediment that revealed the flow of the glacier as it bent around the curves of the mountains on its way to the sea. The path must have represented decades of movement.
If you ever get a chance to visit Juneau, Alaska the Mendenhall Glacier is definitely worth a visit!
Difficult roads can lead to beautiful destinations"
Taken at Soul 2 Soul Mediterranean
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are difficult to access unless you are teeny tiny with a long skinny beak. This little one was going all in to get the nectar from almost each and every petunia in the pot. Sometimes you wouldn't see his little head at all. Just his little body sticking out. Those tiny wings work hard keeping them in place while they drink the nectar. These little birds are so amazing to me. I could watch them constantly. I've got several shots of this guy and another one flying close like it's trying to get a good look at who this little invader of petunias is. I'll post one soon
It’s difficult to see a field this size and not want to run through it and touch each one of these Sunflowers. It looks like a “Neighborhood” unto itself. The setting sun just intensifies the beauty that’s already there. Thanks for viewing my work, Be Grateful for everything.
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I love pandas and hope this shot of a three month old will bring you a smile in these difficult times.
“Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”
Lao Tzu
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LET'S FACE THE MUSIC AND DANCE – DIANA KRALL
Time is a beautiful illusion
it cannot be quantified
as I sweep away last year's patterns
a residue resides
a little broken fading mosaic
veined with cracks and studded with tears
so small and fragile, I lift it up
and clasp it to my heartfelt fears
it's difficult to let the old ways go
it's hard to step into the new
but it's important to preserve sweet memories
and leave behind those that made me feel blue
Spring is a time for gentle renewal
moving on with life and regrowth
static is a negative charge of apathy
forward motion a positive oath
Softly I whisper my daily mantra
today is the first day of the rest of my life
and knowing this brings me succour and comfort
to my once ailing heart that was wrought with strife
ring out the bells; new change is here
there's a spring in my step; there's no room for fear
for today I begin an exciting new time
making new memories for this soft heart of mine
I put down the tiny fragment that represents broken dreams
cushioned in velvet; swaddled in reams
there it can't hurt me; I go forward; feel free
to walk in the sunlight; the shadows behind me.
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Barn Owl - Tyto Alba
Like most owls, the barn owl is nocturnal, relying on its acute sense of hearing when hunting in complete darkness. It often becomes active shortly before dusk and can sometimes be seen during the day when relocating from one roosting site to another. In Britain, on various Pacific Islands and perhaps elsewhere, it sometimes hunts by day. This practice may depend on whether the owl is mobbed by other birds if it emerges in daylight. However, in Britain, some birds continue to hunt by day even when mobbed by such birds as magpies, rooks and black-headed gulls, such diurnal activity possibly occurring when the previous night has been wet making hunting difficult. By contrast, in southern Europe and the tropics, the birds seem to be almost exclusively nocturnal, with the few birds that hunt by day being severely mobbed.
Barn owls are not particularly territorial but have a home range inside which they forage. For males in Scotland this has a radius of about 1 km (0.6 mi) from the nest site and an average size of about 300 hectares. Female home ranges largely coincide with that of their mates. Outside the breeding season, males and females usually roost separately, each one having about three favoured sites in which to conceal themselves by day, and which are also visited for short periods during the night. Roosting sites include holes in trees, fissures in cliffs, disused buildings, chimneys and haysheds and are often small in comparison to nesting sites. As the breeding season approaches, the birds move back to the vicinity of the chosen nest to roost.
Once a pair-bond has been formed, the male will make short flights at dusk around the nesting and roosting sites and then longer circuits to establish a home range. When he is later joined by the female, there is much chasing, turning and twisting in flight, and frequent screeches, the male's being high-pitched and tremulous and the female's lower and harsher. At later stages of courtship, the male emerges at dusk, climbs high into the sky and then swoops back to the vicinity of the female at speed. He then sets off to forage. The female meanwhile sits in an eminent position and preens, returning to the nest a minute or two before the male arrives with food for her. Such feeding behaviour of the female by the male is common, helps build the pair-bond and increases the female's fitness before egg-laying commences.
Barn owls are cavity nesters. They choose holes in trees, fissures in cliff faces, the large nests of other birds such as the hamerkop (Scopus umbretta) and, particularly in Europe and North America, old buildings such as farm sheds and church towers. Buildings are preferred to trees in wetter climates in the British Isles and provide better protection for fledglings from inclement weather. Trees tend to be in open habitats rather than in the middle of woodland and nest holes tend to be higher in North America than in Europe because of possible predation.
This bird has suffered declines through the 20th century and is thought to have been adversely affected by organochlorine pesticides such as DDT in the 1950s and '60s.
Nocturnal birds like the barn owl are poorly monitored by the Breeding Bird Survey and, subject to this caveat, numbers may have increased between 1995-2008.
Barn owls are a Schedule 1 and 9 species.
Population:
UK breeding:
4,000 pairs
Europe:
110-220,000 pairs
Another difficult slide restoration, but we are on holiday again and this time in France, June 1973.
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Not sure what I am trying to achieve here but it was a learning situation
Done before I had to re-load windows and lost my photoshop (cannot find the disks)
Will be back later today or if not, tomorrow
sorry for the double posting
Very difficult to get a shot of one of these out in the open but this Cetti's Warbler from earlier in the year at Lodmore RSPB was out and about foraging for at least 4 fledglings as far as I could make out. Case of right place at the right time for once :-)
I was so surprised by meeting the tea terraces while we went hiking to the Golden Orange Tree Mountain trail last Sunday. It is a very original forest with very narrow and difficult paths.We even encountered a Taiwanese(Formosa) Black bear that day. To find this tea terrace, I felt I seemed to go to the wrong world. :-) How those farmers go so far here to plant them everyday by walk. That is why the Taiwanese Oolong tea is so fresh and nice to taste. :-)
From last year, taken at my favourite little lake which is so beautiful but I never seem to be able to do the turquoise water justice! I keep trying though. Here you can actually see the colour a little bit. This summer I discovered (I'm sure) Kingfishers there. Nobody else seemed to notice them. I hope they'll come back next year.
Alstrom point was very difficult to access if any type of weather condition is in effect. It is a plain dirt road going up and down, in the middle of huge canyons. There’s no trace of a human presence, no animals, nothing except desert. One and half hours driving in a twisted unpaved one way road, 21km road, the scenery along the road was like driving through Mars, the Moon, then back on Earth. The road is bumpy, 3km before the end of the sunset point, full of stones, the SUV could not climb the stone hills, had to park the car, run to the sunset point. But could not reach to the highest sunset point, ended up in a beautiful place to look at the sunset lake Powell. The sunrays scattered on the Lake Powell, with the mountains behind the sunrays.
Action coup de poing des éboueurs à Arles, des détritus déversés devant la mairie durant la Féria de Pâques.
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Small birds in flight are very difficult to capture. Much more so than Bald Eagles and herons. I got lucky with this Male Orchard Oriole and managed to get a decent shot even though he was a long ways away. Always room for improvement. I will keep practicing.
There are a huge number of cats in Egypt. No one hurts cats in Egypt, so it is difficult to photograph them - as soon as a cat sees that you pay attention to it, it immediately runs to you and begs for food. Very often locals feed stray cats. Most cats in Egypt are red or with red spots, but other colors are also found. The rarest color is gray striped. It is interesting that in Egypt cats do not conflict with dogs - they just keep each with their own, at the same time they can sit quite close, and no one chases each other.
Today we went down to the coast, to Herne Bay, a place we've never visited. We were treated with warm sun, no wind and very calm waters, which was difficult for the 20 or so sale surf boarders (not sure what they are called) who had to paddle by hand back to shore! If you look closely you will see the horizon where the sea almost blends into the perfect blue sky.
Its always a difficult location to try and come up with a different take at St Mary's Lighthouse Whitley Bay.
I 've used the side of the causeway path to create a lead in, as Ive not taken one from here before. The causeway is flooded at high tide and is completely submerged, cutting off the island until the tide recedes again.
I got some nice movement in the sky from the long exposure, pity the sunrise was too far to the right.
A pretty difficult shot - framed into the light. The dynamic range of the machine coupled with post processing came to the rescue. Captured along the west coast of the Island.
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Rather a difficult challenge to make a macro of a calendar ... we have a large wall one, small one-day-a-page ones, and everything else is digital! So I decided to play around with a sheet of the 2021 months ... and ended up with a 3cm cube. ;o)
Macro-Looking Close: Here
Still Life Compositions: Here
Difficult to get him to focus on modelling….pfffff :p
His version, wonderful edit btw!!
www.flickr.com/photos/jomolinaro/48161547507
Pic taken at North Brother Island