Diving Gondola :: Tauchgondel - Seebrücke Sellin

Eine Tauchgondel besteht aus einer mit Fenstern ausgestatteten Besuchergondel, die Sitzplätze und einen Maschinentisch enthält, sowie einem zentralen Pfeiler, an dem sie ins Wasser und zurück fährt. Mehr in der Wikipedia - Tauchgondel.

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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

Ingredients:

Sony ILCE-7

The Beast

lots of Bokeh

“Do your homework. Find your voice. Be authentic. And then dive in with purpose.”

Julie Foudy

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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.

Chiesa di Dio Padre Misericordioso, Roma quartiere Tor Tre Teste. Architetto Richard Meier.

My Best on black - My Recent on black

Diving

Kingfisher about to enter the water after retracting his wings into a cigar shape bullet, catching his prey virtually undisturbed.

diving

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.

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

"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.

Osprey executes a swift dive, talons extended!

Native Bee

This one presented me the perfect opportunity for a butt shot.

Scientific name: Dives dives

Common name: Melodious blackbird

Nombre: Tordo cantor

Lugar de la captura: Costa Rica

*glub glub*

The new Deprived Diving Helmet, from Short Leash. It is on sale at Aenigma now!

*glub*

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Diving in Borneo, like a big aquarium.

Tiny tiny fish

Calgary Alberta, Canada.

A Short-eared Owl diving for Voles! Photo taken at Shillapoo Lake, Vancouver, Washington.

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.

Anoice - Forever Sadness

NGV water window.

All in camera.

Melbourne, Australia.

The first snow is just around the corner, so a few thoughts of a wonderful summer are good :-)

To see more pics of this set of poses please see my blog

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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.

Kingsland Road, Hackney

Bonaventure Island, QC

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

Diving down from the Snow Covered Branches while hunting.

The drakes of this species are very conspicuous when they raise their white crest they display like a fan. This flashy headgear seems to have two purposes - one to attract females during courtship and second to signal possible danger. They are very attractive but also very shy.

While feeding they dive for fish, aquatic insects, crayfish and snails in both clear and shallow or brackish water. Their thin serrated bills enable them to hold slippery fish securely.

Earlier on the river

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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Honey Bee diving into a burdock flower HSS

Der frühe Vogel fängt den Wurm.. oder so in der Art.

Dieses Blässhuhn war schon früh aktiv und hat sich sein Frühstück besorgt. Es war noch ziemlich dunkel und dazu leicht nebelig auf dem Wasser..

Diving Blackberry. There are never enough Blackberries at home 😁. This glass candlestick stands on a colorful cloth napkin. I put just a litlle water inside to make the refraction look bigger.