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Coyote Hills Regional Park, Fremont. Hopefully, LEO will stay around after raining so hard for the last few days.
Listening to the warm voice of Meryem Aboulouafa - Welcome back to me www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb4Na5WqECY
“Do your homework. Find your voice. Be authentic. And then dive in with purpose.”
Julie Foudy
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Common Kingfisher, also called Eurasian Kingfisher
Alcedo atthis
ijsvogel
martin-pêcheur d'Europe
Eisvogel
Martín Pescador Común
Martin pescatore
guarda-rios
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The Caspean tern zooms by and tucks into a dive when he sees his target prey. Many times they pull up if the fish dissapears but this time he is in for the dive. He came up empty though. Like a pellican they turn into an aerodynamic missile when they mean business.
Kingfisher about to enter the water after retracting his wings into a cigar shape bullet, catching his prey virtually undisturbed.
Dive bombing the long grass
I suppose the ultimate would be to 'catch' the target in the photo at the same time
Never done it yet
But., as long as I can hold a camera I'll keep trying for that elusive shot
Watching Osprey at work is inspiring. They work hard, sometimes hovering in the wind for long periods of time, finding nothing. When they do dive, they usually submerge, sinking at least one set of talons into an unsuspected fish, shaking their head at the surface to clear their vision they fight to get airborne with the added weight of their prey if they were successful.
Sometimes pelicans attempt to steal the prey and on occasion, have been seen to attack the osprey to get them to drop their fish. If it's bald eagle territory, eagles will chase the osprey threatening them with an airborne attack and usually getting them to drop the fish. It can be a touch way to make a living! I chose this image to share because I like the eye contact, usually focused down during a dive.
"Art enable us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same." - Thomas Merton
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Recently I have been truly inspired by some true artists in here. The way they see things, their visions and how the things are executed by them are simply lovely. Within this piece, I tried to express the deepness that art can bring to us, the knowledge and content that it contains with it.
"To understand water is to understand the cosmos, the marvels of nature, and life itself."
Masaru Emoto
Scientific name: Dives dives
Common name: Melodious blackbird
Nombre: Tordo cantor
Lugar de la captura: Costa Rica
Wir haben unseren Pool aufgebaut und unsere Tochter wollte sich darin mit mir abkühlen.
We have built our swimming pool and our daughter wanted to cool it with me.
Nous avons construit notre piscine et notre fille voulait refroidir avec moi.
Hemos construido nuestra piscina y nuestra hija quería enfriar conmigo.
Abbiamo costruito la nostra piscina e la nostra figlia ha voluto raffreddare con me.
This Belted kingfisher was seen diving towards the lagoon at Berkeley Aquatic Park, Berkeley California.
Summer action continues in this photo of a Belted Kingfisher diving into the pond in search of small fish. It is 98% crop. Markham, Ontario.
To see more pics of this set of poses please see my blog
rachelswallows.blogspot.com/2020/08/midnight-dive.html
LUSH POSES
Waterfall Poses @ The Mainstore
Set of 8 poses, poseballs, posestand and loose pose.
Shoot Location: Lake Delaria Resort.
"A long time ago, I read in a book that a woman's homeland is wherever she fell in love.”
― António Lobo Antunes, Portuguese novelist.
Happy Slider Sunday
HSS!!
Some of my contacts wanted to know where Waterfall Park was. I put that together with AI. I figured everyone knew that. I got the inspiration from a waterfall park in Central Mexico. I took my then girl friend there thinking she would be impressed because we also stayed in the hotel next door. All she did was complain that it was too load to sleep. I went down to the front desk and had them switch room. We left the next day.
This image was put together with AI as well
Happy Weekend Everyone
So don't call me baby
Unless you mean it
And don't tell me you need me
If you don't believe it
So let me know the truth
Before I dive right into you...
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