My husband and I heard that there was a pileated woodpecker nest not far from where we live and at a small wildlife refuge we had never heard of. We decided to go check it out not knowing at all where the nest was. We walked along this trail that bordered a marsh until we finally spotted one fly into a tree located in the marsh. How excited I was when I saw this one feeding the chicks. This is the male identified by the red stripe on its cheek.

Lézard des murailles un mâle

(Podarcis muralis)

at the TOP with all her jewels and bridal clothes,

He is very excited, even swells his throat, seems to emit sounds, he chases a female, right in front of him...!,/

au TOP avec tous ses bijoux et son habit nuptial,

il est très excité, gonfle même sa gorge, semble émettre de sons, il chasse une femelle, juste devant lui.. !

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I don't think that i have ever had more birds in the garden than this year, mainly great tits, sparrows and blackbirds. The blackbirds have been rare for years and I'm happy that they are back, Tofu is even more excited than I am and spends hours watching them. They often land on the lawn to look for insects and worms and could be an easy prey for a cat. Luckily Tofu enjoys observing birds much more than chasing them.

I get pretty excited with anticipation when I see her in the chute because I know its going to be good every time, this ain't her first rodeo. I'm not on the right side of the buck but I felt I had to showcase her anyway. It is like she's going to buck herself right off the screen.

My favourite, catchy tune right now called "First Rodeo"

Love to dance to this song even when I'm by myself. The words could have been written about me back in the day. lol

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(the cows like it in the cow barn too, their heads bob up and down to it)

From a ferry sailing through the Norwegian fjords

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I am excited to show you this picture because it is the beginning of December, my favorite month I would believe and what a way to welcome it than by taking a picture with a beautiful backdrop created by .banana peel. It includes the little trees, the floating gifts and I will leave a preview so you can appreciate it better, I hope this month will be one of many laughs and joys for all of you, my little nanuk dog and I will do it, more when he saw me floating in happiness because of the food I think about (? lol

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A rich purple color winding out of a soft but clean white. No Photoshop. This is the actual purple color. Amazing what nature can offer.

Taken at Rutland Water

Getting excited for monsoon season again. Time to take that jeep in for her annual check up. I wonder how many times I'll get stuck this year. Maybe another 11 mile hike in the desert? Or perhaps dime sized hail that feels like it might break your windshield? Adventure awaits.

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While I've seen my share of ruby-crowned kinglets, not many share with me their crown ... for which they're named. I think that he was excited to see us. :-)

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Dettifoss is Europe's most powerful waterfall, located in the Vatnajökull National Park in the north-east of Iceland. Usually run over by tourists, we went there at 2am at night where we had the whole waterfall to ourselves. My friend John is standing at the cliff to take close up shots, while I was further away and taking shot with a long lens. He was so excited taking shots, repositioning himself, and taking more shots. I had a hard time catching up repositioning my camera from far away. For a brief moment he stood still, and I got this shot, which indicates the scale of Dettifoss.

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A Tufted Titmouse watches with great anticipation as some peanuts are placed out after heavy rains over the past days.

A little Pine Warbler rapidly downs some tiny berries.

Can you image me being excited by the display of all these warm colors! I usually leave the sun out of my photo but today the colors appeared after sunrise. Isn't this a lovely jetty, but I wonder .... why isn't it symmetrical?

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Excitedly, juices flow

Spurting out from down below

Flying here, flying there

Over the stone, hard and bare

That sinks down, down below

Making the juices, spurt and flow

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

~Willa Sibert Cather

We had our first big snow of the season and it blanketed the landscape with a foot of beautiful snow!

I hope that all is well, I have been extremely busy and an preparing to go to Washington DC this weekend to see my image being used by the US Navy Band during their Holiday Concert at DAR Constitution Hall! I am super excited and of course will be bringing my camera!

I will be catching up with everyone before Christmas, in the meantime sending holiday blessings to each of you!

Student excited to have his photo taken during a break in the Overseas Adventure Tour cycle rickshaw ride in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India.

We're excited to close out another great year with the Bentleigh Collection now available at the The Grand!

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This little Tufted Titmouse is fired up about something. Carried that green wild grape around forever. Our beautiful world, pass it on.

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Here are a few more pic of yesterday's jump. It was fabulous and I will describe it more once I have got over the post jump Party :-) Thank you for all your donations. I'm keeping the site open for another few months in case anyone else would like to donate.

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Actually this sweater was brand new, and it only cost 88 cents. I remember having taking this and felt excited, because for once I felt I had decent composition, which is something I lack In all Of my photos. I was proud I really didn't edit this. I developed some great indoor lighting techniques over time, thanks to you guys! The truth is development for me isn't a seen thing. One day I'll just get it, for no reason at all.

Perched

Since 2019, FPP has been releasing a series of B&W Monster films. To date they have: Dracula (64 ISO), Wolfman (100 ISO), Frankenstein (200 ISO), and TODAY they're adding one more. Introducing the Mummy, a 400 ISO B&W panchromatic film.

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This young Red squirrel appears to be enjoying its first venture out in snowy conditions.

Considering this a Rejected Build.

I made this in...July apparently, and I wasn't able to get any good photos of it (at least the closeups I wanted). The build was for Guilds of Historica on Eurobricks; I was going to us it as a story vehicle to introduce my character(s).

I've had this picture sitting around privately on my photostream for months now, but I figured I show it off. This is the only photo I now have of the build--a few weeks back my laptop crashed, and I lost everything (like all my photo hard-copies...) but a few things I managed to save (I got some Sentinel Images, but that's it). So this will have to do.

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In other news, I'm still building away for Brickworld Fort Wayne 2015. Expected online post date is Oct. 22/23. Incidentally, I've not yet decided if I'll be posting all of it...as it turns out I don't actually have time to build a tables worth from scratch, so I was forced to finish up a WIP I was building for Brickworld Chicago 2016...not sure if I want to spoil that yet! And Monday comes my Creations for Charity build; just waiting on parts--but I'm very happy with it, and excited for everyone to see the finished product.

Here I am, standing on the shoreline just after 3:30 in the morning, the horizon is already ablaze with colour, I’m excited. My tripod is already out and waiting for the camera as I rapidly change my lens under the illumination of my head torch, I’ll use my super EF16-35 f4L, I’m excited. I look for an early composition, these rock platforms look fantastic, leading lines galore carved out by millennia of sea erosion, I’m excited. It’s still low light, to keep that colour on the horizon I need a ND grad, I decide to use a medium 2 stop to lift the foreground darkness, I’m excited. I frame the image, check the settings, f11, calculate the shutter speed, back to ISO 100 and bulb, this is fun, I’m excited. The first photo taken with a 76 second exposure, I check the results but no pressure it’s still 40 minutes from sunrise, did I say I’m excited. The first photo of the morning, the day before the summer solstice, the time is 3:40.

So I work at Enchanted Forest. Which is like this little theme park, but today we're having this music festival! So all over the park are going to be a bunch of random local bands playing all day, so theres going to be sooo many extra people in the park. Its pretty much going to be all hell breaking loose at Enchanted Forest and I am so stoked. :)

But anyways, they did an article on it in the newspaper. I guess I'll have to update you all on how it went tonight :)

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So it wasn't quite as hectic as I was hoping. Dang. But still a very nice change from the usual day. I definitely enjoyed it - as I sat in the Entrance booth taking tickets and explaining repeatedly what we were doing I got to listen to various acoustic bands not too far away. So I was happy :)

I LOVE SOUTHALL!

We are promised, 'Most luxurious 3 screen cinema', showing all the latest Bollywood and

Lollywood blockbusters. It was once the very busy and popular Liberty (Lee-burr-tee, as pronounced in Lahore!) Cinema where I spent nearly every Sunday afternoon with my family watching all the latest releases; I distinctly remember watching Bobby, Pakeezah, and a few loud Pakistani Punjabi fillums here, as well as running up and down the stairs in the halls! The other two, both further down the road, were the Century and the Dominion cinemas.

All the shows were sold out, every weekend, and whole families would turn out. During

the Interval, we would always eat samosay and jalebi, and were always excited to drink Coke from a can. The current cinema was restored in the late 1990s for £3 million, and does a good trade since reopening in 2001, although nothing like the 1970s, where

there were crowds and crowds of cinema-goers thronging the pavements at show times.

I would definately recommend a visit to Southall if you're ever in town; there is fantastic shopping here for all things desi (not matched anywhere in London, not even in Green Street, imho), you can even speak to the shopkeepers in any desi language, Punjabi being the lingua-franca around here! There are numerous mouth-watering and unforgettable food places to eat, and ample places for you to worship, whether you are Muslim, Hindu, Sikh or Christian. And every religious day is celebrated with gusto, Eid, Diwali and Holi, and all the Gurus' birthdays. The Southall Mela draws hundreds every summer to Southall Park, as well as for Baisakhi and Basant celebrations. Parking and traffic is horrendous and rush-hour lasts all day long, seven days a-week. But, you are promised a total desi experience in the the west of London. It's not called Little India for nothing y'know!

Excited

I was attracted by excited chirping of birds in the trees and I noted this Rainbow Lorikeet ( Trichoglossus Molacannus ) is waiting for its turn to jump into this " natural bird bath " in a tree hole.

As soon as those who had their bath flew off. More Lorikeets arrived and take turn to jump into the bath. Taken at the Adelaide Botanical Gardens.

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Fall colours at Deer Lake in Burnaby near Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

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About this photo: Fall is my favourite season and that season starts tomorrow! I am so excited and can't wait for the leaves to change colours soon. In the mean time I will share a photo I took last year around mid October at beautiful Deer Lake in Burnaby near Vancouver. This place is only about 10-15 minute drive from my place, so I will be checking it out over there frequently and hope that the colours will be as vibrant this year as well.

~Camera Settings:

*Camera Model: Sony ILCA-77m2

*Focal Length: 85mm

*F-Number: F/8

*Exposure Time: 1/40 sec.

*ISO Speed: ISO-160

*Exposure Program: Manual Mode (M)

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Some information on Deer Lake Park: Burnaby is a city which belongs to the Greater Vancouver area and is about 10-15 minutes from downtown Vancouver. Deer Lake is a relaxing 5 kilometre/3 mile walk around an urban lake just outside of Vancouver. The walking trail around the lake is good any time of year and is very popular with dog walkers in and around Burnaby. Trails in the park lead to a kids playground, washrooms, a boat launch and picnic tables. In the summer months Deer Lake Boat Rentals offers canoe, kayak and pedal boat rentals. Gas or electric motors are not allowed on this lake.

Deer Lake Park is a great place for outdoor activities and cultural life in Burnaby. Whether you want to visit an art gallery or see an outdoor concert, Deer Lake Park is the place you will find it. Your kids will love the park for the beach, the playground, the water activities and the Burnaby Village Museum. In the summer months the park comes alive with outdoor concerts and lake activities and in the off season it is a relaxing park to go for a quiet walk around the scenic trails.

Another photo from our Trifecta Swap with Toby Mason and Hodaka Yamamoto.

We used Kodak Elitechrome EBX film for this and shot with the LC-A+ camera.

Toby shot Brighton Beach in the UK, Hodaka shot some cosmos petals in Japan and I shot a dry tree in one of Nevada's deserts.

I really enjoyed this project with them and still excited about the outcome of our next rolls.