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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**
The moon startled me momentarily last evening as it always does when I first spot it rising. Not sure why that is. Even when I'm expecting to see it I have a sudden wave of anxiousness. It passes immediately but it's there nonetheless. After that I'm more in awe of it than anything else, especially in those moments when it hangs low in the sky, caught up in the trees as I like to think of it. That's when the optical illusion of size is full apparent. It just looks enormous compared to the much smaller appearance it takes on as it rises high into the sky. Of course it's exactly the same size the entire time, but appearance, and more importantly, feeling, is everything for me. And watching the moonrise over a desolate cornfield and beneath the branches of an old tree made me feel utterly complete.
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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and i expect nothing less..
NS 8114 resting next to our local cascade BNSF 1915 in the refueling facility in the Kansas Avenue Yard.
I expected to see autumn colours, sunshine and this big karst field flooded. Well, flooded it was, mostly...
You can compare this view with the one in early summer:
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I knew that moving from Florida, that I would miss the burrowing and barred owls ... but I also knew that Colorado would offer up its own variety of owls. I put a few of them high on my list, but probably none higher than the northern pygmy owl. See, I had never seen one before. Several times I had been looking without success. I figured that it would happen when I least expected it.
On this day, we went out in a desperate search to find one ... or perhaps a saw whet owl. No such luck. We had all but given up. As we were driving about, Amy said she saw something that was "too small" to be anything, but I had my binoculars with me, so I fugured why not stop and check it out. So glad that we did ... because we found this guy perched in the bare tree branches! Finally .... it happened and as figured, when we had all but given up for that day anyway.
I couldn't believe how incredibly beautiful and mesmerizing its eyes were. It was clearly not the least bit concerned with us. It would look around from its perch in its vicinity for prey. When it would turn its head we noticed its dots on the back of its head ... "fake eyes" if you will. Amazing!
So excited and felt very thrilled that it blessed us with its presence. :-)
So this week's blog post features this amazing owl, as well as some other birds from the winter in Colorado. Feel free to check it out if you like by clicking:
Blog: www.tnwaphotography.wordpress.com
© 2018 Debbie Tubridy / TNWA Photography
Latham's Snipe (Gallinago hardwickii)
I needed to get out for a walk this morning so decided to head for Skeleton Creek. I went via the Federation Trail Bicycle Path and glad I did. This Snipe was on the western bank of the creek, as I was and I hadn't seen it until it flew across the creek to the eastern bank. Thankfully I chose to take a shot from a great distance (this image has been very heavily cropped) before moving upstream hoping to get a better angle and closer shot. I got the one shot before it flew into the long grass a bit behind where it is here. But at last I have a shot of a Latham's Snipe on the ground - having been trying for years to achieve this result at the Heathdale Glen Orden Wetlands and failing. I have not seen Snipe along Skeleton Creek before. They arrive from Japan (where they breed during the northern hemisphere Spring/Summer) during our Spring and return during our Autumn.
Were you expecting an exploding pen?
We don't really go in for that anymore.
Bond on buses, Dublin buses.
Its ALX400 heaven, with Ringsend AV 198 about to operate a route 49 service to Tallaght, while Phibsboro AX582 waits its time on a route 67 to Maynooth.
When planning a fall trip to Montana I never expected three separate snow storms within a week but that exactly what happened. Here an eastbound empty hopper train climbs Bozeman Pass on the morning after the third storm of the week as the sun highlights the mountain peaks above.
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Spiegelbeeld ("mirror image", 2003), by Maria Roosen, museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Boijmans van Beuningen, a museum in Rotterdam, celebrates its 175th birthday. The current building was started in 1928, designed by Ad van der Steur, and modified several times since.
Since 2019, the museum is closed for extensive restorations, expected to last until 2029.
In a very brief moment, the museum was open with a temporary exhibition, focusing on the architecture, exhibitions from the past, and dreams for the future.
"Snakken naar Boijmans" ( Craving for Boijmans"), Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
This was meant to be just a recce as I favour a good sunset (ok we don't seem to get those atm) but the walk from where you park the car is longer then I expected especially when I've been suffering from a bit of a Lyme flare up this week. However for me poppies are enough of a motivation to shake off any aches and pains!!
The light and shadows I think were enough for me to come away with a couple of shots that weren't completely flat but I do favour that golden light
I hope to return before they go over! And summer where are you?
Behind very non sexy name (Auto Sears) of the lens is hidden Rikenon (Tomioka?) 55mm f1.4. It may be a Tomioka lens, but my first impressions are that it is sharper than any other 55mm f1.4 I have. Bokeh is the one we expect.
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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.
They expect me to take part in the annual Lunar Festival, as if it's an easy feat to step into the spotlight without a moment’s rest. Yet no time is given to rehearse, no space offered to prepare — only expectations piled high like moonlight on snow. So here I am, practicing in secret, hidden away in quiet corners, stealing moments just to make sure I don't embarrass myself when the curtain rises.
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The prevalent winds in the Northern Hemisphere blow over the Great Lakes, picking up moisture, and dump large amount of rain or snow on the coastal counties. This is known as "lake effect". A good example is the Buffalo NY area where they have record levels of snow on a regular basis.
Here is Northern Michigan, we have our "snow belt" where higher amounts of snow are expected. This is highway 131, south of Petoskey where, for a few seconds, the road was visible! And yesterday, the temperature didn't get warmer than -16 C.
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!
Yes, it is April but that does not mean that we are guaranteed no more snow. I remember one year we had a major storm on April 17. So I am keeping those snow tires on and the shovel in the trunk.
Another bird we expect to see in our visits to Southern Arizona.
From the Cornell Lab:
"Dapper in looks and cheerful in song, the Pyrrhuloxia is a tough-as-nails songbird of baking hot deserts in the American Southwest and northern Mexico. They’re closely related to Northern Cardinals, but they are a crisp gray and red, with a longer, elegant crest and a stubby, parrotlike yellow bill. During breeding season Pyrrhuloxias are fiercely and vocally territorial, but in the winter they forget their disputes and join together in large foraging flocks."
This one was following the script, being "fiercely and vocally territorial" in Sabino Canyon Recreation Area, Arizona.
Aspettati il meglio. Preparati per il peggio. Fai tesoro di ciò che ti accade.
Zig Ziglar
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
Zig Ziglar