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to wear dark sunglasses and a wig. The wheelchair gives me away :-)
― Stephen Hawking
fothergilla, sarah p duke gardens, duke university, durham, north carolina
Upside down, downside up
Reflected beauty in natures cup
That all eyes, see and look
At the mirrored page, of life's wild book
Where the water shines like glass
Reflecting the trees, plants and grass
Placing beauty in natures cup
That's upside down, downside up
A brisk morning walk led me into a tree that was absolutely covered in spiders! I didn't realise that until I'd jigged about for a few minutes trying to take a photo of this particular spider silhouetted against the sun. I'm not scared of them, but what appeared to be quite a few dozen above my head was a little disconcerting. Taken with my trusty Minolta Rokkor.
On May 22th I made my plans to photograph Hobbys on my favourite patch... the wind was right, and the light should be right if the cloud cover did not materialise !
Has I got nearer to the hide my old eyes spotted numerous dark birds flying and swooping through the air..... Hobbies I thought ... what an afternoon this going to be !!!
On gaining a better focus distance the Hobbies had transformed into Jackdaws... several dozen Jackdaws throwing themselves across the sky chasing after the Dragonflies caught in the updraft .
The shots shown here are of separate Jackdaws flying roughly 30 minutes apart .
A friend who witnessed this agreed they could well have copied the Hobby's technic, and they were proving very good at it !
The downside to this we only saw 2 Hobbys pass over head at considerable height :-(((
Is this new behaviour or have any of you seen it before ???
I would love to hear from you if you have :-))
Best regards ... Martin
downside up
PRESS L YO!
I entered a photography competition!! The prize is a mk ii so I REALLY want to win. That would be nice, right about now. Anyway, the theme was umbrella, so I went with this. I'll let everyone know when the voting opens :D
So... the downside of this weekend was having to clip Gritty. He’s an absolute terror about it, but I intend to keep him in heavy work throughout Fall and Winter. Despite robbing him of some hair, we got 3rd place in the first round of the Trick or Trot jumping series! I’m extremely happy with this placement, but we’ll have to keep practicing and see what the future holds. Everyone did great out there and we had a lot of fun! ♥
The Fall color was on the downside.
St. James Farm Forest Preserve
In 1920, Chauncey and Marion McCormick purchased St. James Farm as a private retreat to accommodate their interests in horses and dairy farming. The McCormicks' son, Brooks, later transformed St. James Farm into a renowned equestrian facility. Brooks McCormick sold St. James Farm as a life estate to the Forest Preserve District in 2000. The Forest Preserve District officially took possession of the 607-acre property in 2007. Today, visitors can explore the forest preserve via scenic trails, tree-lined allees and guided quail-wagon tours or enjoy one of its inviting fishing or picnic spots. A series of permanent informational signs presents the history of the property, including its stables, barns, indoor and outdoor riding arenas, and artwork.
This is a lovely scene from a fair way back in time. It shows that even into the 1990s some very old pumps were still in use, if for not much longer. As can be seen in the other photo from around this era, the pumps were almost immediately replaced. I've posted one photo before of this garage when branded Butler from a few years later, and commented then that the mini canopy at this site was a clear indication that it had once been an Esso site, and the pumps in this photo only go further to back up that claim, they are both models that were extensively used at Esso garages in the 1950s/1960s. In the background behind the Land Rover recovery vehicle is an even older pump, in sky blue, and as the sign would indicate next to it, used for serving Esso Blue. The cars on show are nothing amazing but that's the only downside to the scene.
The garage here still exists, stopped selling petrol some time back, and the main area of the forecourt eventually had a new workshop building occupying it, so it looks quite different in the present day, but the older garage building with the pitched roof is still there.
Below I've added the slightly later image of it when the pumps had been replaced, then one when it was branded Butler and finally a contemporary image as the garage stood in the summer of 2025.
January 03, 2015
"Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within." - Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Well, it was too good to last. I should have known seeing grass in January was too good to be true. *Sigh*
And yes, of course, the wind was up so I froze while out shooting today. If it would just snow without the wind, I think winter would be a lot more tolerable.
But on the upside, I finally got my camera back from repairs, and on the downside, no change in how my camera is operating. I guess it'll be going back in the very near future. Such a frustrating process.
Anyway, hope everyone has had a good day.
Click "L" for a larger view.
The only downside of the 500pf is the longer min focus at 3metre though i would not trade an inch for any loss of quality of focusing speed. This a little cropped still fills the frame quite well at 3m though smaller medium size butterflies i may still use my 200-500 and a good reason to keep it. Plus the flexibly of a zoom can be handy :-)
Our AirBnB host had slipped a page into the guest book saying "My favorite place to stargaze in the desert is a plot of land out in the middle of Wonder Valley. I call it the Star Box. It's far from light pollution and you'll be all alone out there. Venmo $25 for access to the land. I do not take responsibility for nails or glass in tires. Arrive before sunset or you'll never find the place." The tire thing worried us, but we paid up, got the coords, and checked it out in daylight - soft sand road, but seemed fine. It was indeed magical - I hadn't seen a sky this big before - free of obstructions in every direction, ringed by distant mountains all the way around, a totally enveloping experience. I'd expected the temps to drop with nightfall, but a warm wind persisted. We ate pizza and watched the North Star appear, then watched as cosmos lit up. The downside of the location for astro photography is that there were no landmarks, so there's nothing to include (skies with stars and nothing else are boring). But we had fun doing some light painting in the desert while we waited for the full star show. Amazing evening.
Black and white shot of the tram viaduct aka fishnet stocking (in dutch Netkous) at the Beatrixkwartier. The Hague, the Netherlands
Downside of using a prime is being to close and not being able to zoom back to get all the bird in though the quality and improved bokeh i am getting with the 500pf is amazing
I have not yet figured out if those flowers sprouting from the water or hanging down from the sky...
Non ho ancora capito se quei fiori spuntavano dall'acqua oppure penzolavano giù dal cielo...
Peter Gabriel - Downside up
out of the converted Polaroid 110A.
still don't know what i did wrong...
but i had misloaded the pack of 669.
downside: a waste of $12.
upside: the next pack worked. the shutter worked. the camera works.
Explore #45.
Seemed to work nicely with a square crop, gets rid of all of the stuff at the sides that frankly isn't as attractive!
Bath, Somerset.
Nikon D40 & Nikon 18-55mm.
A sad shot this time :-(
This turtle was under a rock shelf hiding away. I had my 100mm macro lens on so could get a reasonably close shot with the strobe on but subsequent viewing at 1:1 showed that there is fishing line around its neck causing the bleeding there. Some divers will try to help turtles remove problems like this but I think that this would be too difficult.
@Logan_heiman and I went to an abandoned factory after a rained out session with Crandall. Neither of us properly rode this glass riddled DEAH-I-Y spot, so it was a wild scene. DIY is tight. A flat and a fix later I shot @logan_heiman downside footjam whipping this thing with my Canon 6D with an old Nikkor 50mm 1.4 @f/2.8 1/400th iso 1600.
They say that lions are not supposed to climb trees but then I guess no one informed the lions. In places like Tanzania's Serengeti, the practice seems to becoming more popular. Young lions, because of their smaller size, are more adept at the practice than larger, full grown lions. That being said, I have never seen a full grown male in a tree although full grown females up a tree are not unheard of. There are many questions surrounding this activity, not the least of which is, "why would a lion climb a tree?" Experts have suggested that the cats like the cooler temperatures and it may also help them escape from insect predators that tend to stay lower to the ground. One thing is certain, climbing up a tree is easier than climbing down. Unlike leopards that are adept and agile amongst the arbor, lions are clumsy and sometimes very, very tentative. Watching the process of a lion climbing down can be nothing short of hysterical. That's the downside to being on the upside! #iLoveNature #iLoveWildlife #WildlifePhotography in #Tanzania #Nature in #Africa #Serengeti #Lions #DrDADBooks #Canon #WildlifeConservation
Love to turn the World "downside up" - isn´t it Fun to change the Perspektives Sometimes?
Get a fresh View on the Things we already "know so well"... isn´t the World exciting?
(This is the only Duett I`ve made with Robert Rauschenberg btw, whatever that means... ;)
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