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Exists in the true meaning of life is to cultivate trees, under whose shade you do not expect to pose and provide shades even to him who cuts off its boughs.
For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.
Therefore Trees are poetry that the earth corresponds under beneath the sky!
I just loved the way of my 8mm fisheye lens produced this fine capture, of this splendour tree branching out over the Edgbaston Reservoir!
Many thanks for your wonderful appreciation of comments and compliments to you here, my dear good friends !!!
Did you know that over 8 million tons of plastic flow into our ocean every year? By 2050 it is expected that there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish.
I've been thinking a lot about these stats recently and what I can do to raise awareness and give back - especially considering today is Earth Day.
So all sales from this weekend will be matched and donated to "Ocean Blue Project", a nonprofit committed to removing plastic from our ocean and beaches.
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New ((Krature)) releases at our mainstore for Wanderlust Weekend!
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Rings is my first ever custom mesh creation. Its everyone's least favorite piece of harmful trash - soda can rings.
Included are
✨ Two hold versions with pose sized for M/F
✨ One placed version that lines up with the string on RIPTIDE
✨ One Unrigged/Unscripted Version to Rezz in world or wear as you like.
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Trash is a mermaid tail applier HUD for RIPTIDE by Aii & Ego. It's created on the Alienwaves. RIPTIDE applier system, so if you have tails from other stores who use the same applier - no need to reinstall the scripts in your tail!
Trash is designed to look like black plastic bags wrapped around the tail, and the fins have custom materials which resemble the ever popular convenience store "THANK YOU" plastic bags.
This is my first release for this tail, I hope you enjoy it - I am excited to make more.
**Designed Exclusively for the Aii & Ego RIPTIDE Tail, you will need to buy this tail to use this product. You can purchase it from their mainstore**
From a tree in the parking lot of Broom's Bloom restaurant, Harford County, Maryland, USA. I expect that there has been a lot of pollen from these.
Thanks for looking! Isn't God a great artist?
i took a lot of long exposures the other night. so, expect more throughout the next week or so... :P View On Black
explore highest position so far - #99
At some stage, Ukraine will become EU member.
EU Council President Charles Michel said earlier today that he expects Zelensky to formally apply for EU membership some time soon. the EU commission will then formulate an advice, it will require a unanimous agreement of the 27 member states to approve the application and grant the status of candidate member state, which would be the start of the formal accession procedure for the Ukraine (this accession procedure takes several years).
Meanwhile, in a never before taken measure, yesterday the Council of National Ministers of the 27member states of the European Union, unanimously decided that Ukrainian refugees arriving in the EU will automatically get protected status for up to three years without having to go through the usual asylum procedure.
360,000 Ukrainian refugees have already arrived in the EU, a figure that is expected to rise to several millions over the next couple of days and weeks.
In Nassau on the Island of New Providence, looking at the sunset over Paradise Island. My visist there wasn't long but I expected something different then what it turned out to be.
(Pedionomus torquatus)
Somewhere 70km North of Deniliquin - NSW
Austrália
When we were planning our trip and looking for interesting places and species to photograph in/around Victoria, we came across this amazing but endangered bird. From that moment, we couldn’t wait to have the oportunity to get some shots of it!
However, when we contacted Patricia Maher in late April, we found out that Philip Maher’s available dates were super limited. Since we’d already booked our internal flights, it didn’t seem doable at first. But we’d left our last day in Melbourne free, partly to avoid the risk of delayed or canceled flights and partly to enjoy the city a bit before heading back home on the 26th.
That gave us a whole day (the 25th) to go for this bird! We booked two nights in Deniliquin and braced ourselves for a birding marathon starting at 6:30 AM and possibly ending at 2 AM on the 26th (luckily, our flight home from Melbourne wasn’t until 3 PM).
Two days before the big day, we got in touch with Patricia again, and she told us the weather forecast wasn’t looking great – rain was expected. But hey, plans are plans.
The day before, we drove from Melbourne to Deniliquin (a 3-hour, 270km drive) under nonstop rain. By this point, we were beyond exhausted: after 4 weeks of birding (our longest trip ever!), dealing with an 11-hour time difference, staying in 12 different accommodations, catching 5 internal flights and 3 international ones, eating food very different from what we were used to (and often skipping meals), waking up most days at 5 AM, we almost decided to turn back.
Plus, we already had a decent collection of photos on our hard drives. Honestly, all we wanted was to head back to Melbourne, relax, and enjoy the photos we’d taken.
The idea of driving in the rain for what might turn out to be a wasted effort wasn’t motivating at all. We were this close to turning around and heading back.
Thank goodness we didn’t! Not only did the rain ease up the next day, but we also managed to spot more than 40 new species – including both the male and female of this gorgeous bird. We got hundreds of photos from all the angles and distances we wanted! The female wasn’t super cooperative (she didn’t show off her pretty legs), but the male was a real show-off and a photographer’s dream. I’ll share his photos later too.
Note 1: This is the female of the species. She’s actually more colorful than the male, though some individuals are even more vibrant than this one.
Note 2: Nope, she’s not in the nest. Fun fact about this species: it’s the male that incubates the eggs and raises the chicks. The female focuses on defending her territory and mates with multiple males.
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All my photos are now organized into sets by the country where they were taken, by taxonomic order, by family, by species (often with just one photo for the rarer ones), and by the date they were taken.
So, you may find:
- All the photos for this trip Austrália (2024) (309)
- All the photos for this order CHARADRIIFORMES (1170)
- All the photos for this family Pedionomidae (Pedionomídeos) (4)
- All the photos for this species Pedionomus torquatus (4)
- All the photos taken this day 2024/11/25 (30)
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I never expected to see one of these on Mt. Diablo, and at first I thought I was mistaken. Perhaps this was a variation of Baby-Blue-Eyes, but no, this must be one of the 85 species that have traveled to this little mountain in North America.
Tradescantia is a genus of 85 species of herbaceous perennial wildflowers in the family Commelinaceae, native to the Americas from southern Canada to northern Argentina, including the West Indies. Members of the genus are known by many common names, including inchplant, wandering jew, spiderwort, and dayflower.
If you want to see diversity in flowers well, when I was a kid in New England, every adult's home that I visited would have a Wandering Jew - no, that still doesn't work, a green and white striped spiderwort hanging in the window so that it could get through winter. So, here's my contribution to more color for you trying to get through winter and you don't even have to hang it in the window.
Plants of the genus are called by many common names, varying by region and country. The name "inchplant" is thought to describe the plant's fast growth, or the fact that leaves are an inch apart on the stem. "Spiderwort" refers to the sap which dries into web-like threads when a stem is cut. The name "dayflower", shared with other members of the Commelinaceae family, refers to the flowers which open and close within a single day.
The controversial name "wandering Jew" originates from the Christian myth of the Wandering Jew, condemned to wander the earth for taunting Jesus on the way to his crucifixion. In recent years there have been efforts to stop using this and other potentially offensive common names, in favour of alternatives such as "wandering dude". Only in this world today would there be an attempt to change the name to "wandering dude!" Why now just call it the Qandering It in the window?"
Btw, this plant had about a seven foot wide spread and four foot deep under trees and in fairly deep shade. The flower is perhaps a half-an-inch, and it's the only purple plant I know.
After two hours of waiting I hear a gentle rustling of dry leaves and then here she comes out of the woods.
The scene will repeat itself punctually for several evenings.
Dopo due ore di attesa sento un delicato rumore di foglie secche e poi eccola uscire dal bosco.
La scena si ripeterà per alcune sere.
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We expect a species with the name Western Bluebird will be colourful, and it doesn’t disappoint. This male has the additional highlight of an area of bright chestnut plumage. This individual was seen in the White Lake Grasslands Protected Area near Okanagan Falls in southcentral British Columbia, Canada — a great spot to sight the species.
and i expect nothing less..
Expecting 8-14 inches of snow late tonight and into Thursday. The feeders are full! Hopefully, this will be the last big storm of the season.
Summertime, and the living is easy... unless you're a Coyote still wearing last winter's coat! Our summers can get as uncomfortably hot as the winters are cold, so twice a year the Coyotes have to change their dress code. This one is still moulting in late June as it traverses a field of grass, sage, and prairie coneflower. I expect to see it on the local fashion show catwalk - er, dogwalk? - by early November.
Tomorrow: another prairie mammal that doesn't look its best in summer...
Photographed in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2016 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
We can expect some more aurora borealis in the next few days. Although weather forecast predicts cloudy skies, I am still hoping for for the best. So perhaps there will be reason to turn the lens toward the sky :)
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October 2015, Estonia
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In a country full of spectacular waterfalls, and despite the obvious drawback in that one can never expect to experience this place alone, Skógafoss has been the one to set my pulses on red alert each time I’ve visited. Ok, so that’s only twice - well three times if you count the very brief pit stop we made here on the long journey east to Stafafell - but the mere sight of it makes for a display of extraordinary power. Not only in terms of the improbable physics that are happening right there in front of you, but also in the hold that it will take on your senses as you stand here at the bottom. Sixty metres tall and twenty-five wide, this is where the highlands end abruptly as that huge curtain of water crosses the divide and plummets down to earth in a resounding crescendo right there in front of you. There are bigger waterfalls in Iceland, but you can’t stand underneath many of them like this. And this one has such pleasing dimensions, that clean and uncomplicated single drop perfectly proportioned and surrounded by clouds of vapour that make you wonder whether you should have brought some shower gel and a bath towel. And a thermos full of piping hot coffee to help with the hypothermia afterwards.
We’d come here after breakfast on our third morning in the area, having agreed that the misty grey conditions would suit the subject well. Ironic that when we’d passed through here a week earlier, there had been a bright rainbow right in front of Skógafoss. There had also been a large number of visitors, taking endless Instaselfies as they tripped from their coaches and raced excitedly towards the action. That day we had to wait for a space in the large car park, such was the popularity of the place. Finding the visitor numbers too distracting, we soon moved on, although perhaps we should have photographed that rainbow and made merry with the clone tool later. At that stage we were getting rather blasé on the subject, having spent the previous day photographing a particularly fine example at Háifoss. But there were no more waterfall rainbows for the rest of the trip, and little did we realise we’d missed our chance.
Arriving in the middle of the morning seemed to have paid off. Although far from empty, the car park was noticeably quieter than last time, and with the aid of that trusty pair of welly boots I was soon paddling about in the shallow river, setting the tripod low to bring that foreground rush of water towards the bottom of the frame. And miraculously in these moments there were chances to get the shot with only minimum numbers of stragglers to contend with. There’s always someone standing as close as they dare to, but I only had to airbrush two spectres from the scene here. Bring your wellies and you can often go to places where others can’t.
Last time we came to Iceland, on that final night before heading back to Reykjavík, I got what became my favourite shot of the trip in the form of “Sandwich Bags, Spray and Spectators,” where I was that person standing as close to the white wall as I dared to. And now, an hour after this, I took my favourite shot of this second adventure with “The Watchers.” Very possibly my two most loved images of all time in fact - from a personal point of view anyway. I’m starting to wonder whether or not it’s a coincidence the place delivers pictures that make me feel this happy. I’m quite content with this one as well for that matter. While Skógafoss keeps giving me moments like these, I’ll carry on coming back for more.
Sandwich Bags, Spray and Spectators: www.flickr.com/photos/126574513@N04/50702613408/in/album-...
The Watchers: www.flickr.com/photos/126574513@N04/52420303660/in/album-...
A massive intermodal cut for a future BNSF Z Train gets hauled out of Alliance Yard by a pair of unique ITSX EMDs in Haslet, TX. Leading is ITSX #2839, a former SP SD40T-2 downgraded from SD45 specs, and second is ITSX #4027, an EMD SD39. These intermodal terminal servicing crews regularly work around Alliance Yard throughout the day, with multiple sets assigned to intermodal or autorack duties. If you’d asked me what I’d expect to find when I first researched the DFW area before I moved out here, one of the last things I’d ever think I’d see was a tunnel motor taking the point of an intermodal train (7/1/23).
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We were expecting 100km an hour winds here tonight. I feared it would rip all the leaves off these trees..so I made a last minute late afternoon drive across town to take a peek, just in case they disappeared. The storm never fully materialized, so I have to assume they are still there......well worth a return visit.
The man at the bottom of this shot was my subject, I was following him and had some half decent shots when suddenly another man came crashing down the wave. The inevitable happened a split second later, I got the shot, but it was never so dramatic as this one.
We went to a place in Arizona where we were assured that we would see these Warblers, but it didn't happen! However, in a totally different location where we did not expect to find them, we had one lone Warbler come and visit just long enough for us to get a few decent shots. The challenge made the success sweeter!
Never expected to see this guy were I did folks but who really cares he was a beauty and have not seen one in a while. hoping everyone had a great weekend and a very safe one as well, and a great week ahead.
I didn´t expect much when we decided to check this spot on our last photo-hunt, but afterall it turned out to be a surprisingly good session. I hope I managed to capture the mystery feel of the scene. What do you guys think? Top or flop?
Have a great monday folks!
Three years ago I published an image like this under the title Incubus. This was the text going with it:
"This is the tool, a pitchfork, that the man who wishes to be the British Prime Minister wants to use in order to drive out the "great incubus", namely the European Union. Words matter. "Incubus" is a term taken from religious language. It describes the Devil entering you sexually. When Mr Boris Johnson conjures up the scenario of the EU f...g the UK from behind and that he would "pitchfork" it off the back of the British people [BBC interview, 24/6/19] you know what you have to expect. You have been warned."
Today, Mr Johnson resigned from office. His incompetence and dishonesty caused great damage inside and outside of the UK. Those who supported him and swept him into power have to ask themselves how they are going to regain credibility.
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NGC 5139 (Omega Centauri) is a globular cluster in the Centaurus constellation, around 17000 light years from earth.
With an estimated 10 million individual stars making up the cluster and a mass around 10 times that of your typical globular, it’s the largest known globular cluster in our Milky Way galaxy. With those types of statistics, you’d expect earthlike planets (and potentially life?) to be abundant here. That’s probably highly unlikely though.
Stars in Omega Centauri are so densely packed that their gravitational interaction with one another would make it very difficult/unlikely for potential planets to maintain stable orbits and favourable conditions (extreme temperature fluctuations) long term.
Setup:
Planewave CDK24
Moravian C3-61000 Pro
Planewave L-600
Image acquisition details:
4-panel mosaic, each panel:
20x60” Red
15x60” Green
20x60” Blue
Had fun with this one....scrunched up kitchen foil reflected in a black granite chopping board. I never expected this result.
I've added this to the group Your Best Shot 2016 as it was the first planned shot with my very first DSLR.
Into the Light - Day 28 - Year 2022
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Taken through the kitchen window, which is double pane glass, so not the best for focus. We expect at least 15, possibly 18 inches of snow overnight with blizzard conditions. If so, this scene should look quite different tomorrow.
Acompañado de mi amigo Dario y con el horizonte a flor de piel, nos decantamos por bajar un poco más abajo con la finalidad de dar una entrada más limpia a la imagen.
Nos decantamos por una larga exposición para dar una mayor sensación de calma a la imagen, la marea alta nos había dejado el escenario preparado para disparar.
El sol comenzaba a calentar el ambiente, las estrellas nos habían dicho adiós, el espectáculo de la luz comenzaba; así que sólo nos quedaba disfrutar e inmortalizar el momento.