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This rather sartorial guy was walking past the Christmas market in the old town in Düsseldorf--I wish I knew more about him?? There must be a narrative there for sure!
GASET - ALI SET @ LEVEL event
▸ Ali Set is fitted for:
• Legacy
• Kupra
• Ebody Reborn
GASET - ANDY SET @ ALPHA event
▸ Andy Set is fitted for:
ㅤㅤ• Signature Gianni
ㅤㅤ• Signature Davis
ㅤㅤ• Legacy Male
ㅤㅤ• Legacy Female
ㅤㅤ• Ebody Reborn
ㅤㅤ• Belleza Jake
ㅤㅤ• Kario
both glasses @ BONDI
backdrop SYNNERGY.TAVIS// Ocean City Boardwalk
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Stone Harbor Point, New Jersey, USA
During August and September, we observed 4 juvenile Piping Plovers in the same general area of the beach. They were usually in the tire tracks or up in the dunes on the dry sand. Nice images but I prefer my shorebirds in the surf or on the wet sand. It was late in the afternoon with about 90 minutes of light left when we came upon our 4 friends. Were where they? In the tire tracks of course. We had to make a decision. Do we wait and hope that the birds move to the water or continue on our way and hope to find something else to work with. We decided to give them 15 minutes. Boy am I glad we waited. They did indeed head to the water and were outrageously cooperative. They made up for all the hours we patiently waited over the summer. We took tons of images but this was my favorite.
Nikon D7200 with Nikon 500mm f4 G VR lens and 1.4 converter
1/2000 f5.6 ISO 800
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For You are my rock and my fortress; Therefore, for Your name's sake, Lead me and guide me. - Psalm 31:3
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These American snout flies are always neat to see out in the woodlands where they live during the summer. Notice the long duck-like beak that let them drink nectar from deep inside a flower, reaching areas that other flies can't reach. That gave rise to their former common name, the American Heineken fly, a reference to an old ad run in the UK claiming that Heineken (beer) refreshes the parts other beers cannot reach. The American snout fly is a member of the hover fly or flower fly family (Syrphidae) depending on your preference. By the way, this guy grew up eating animal dung as that's what females lay their eggs on. I'll bet he's glad to be an adult drinking sweet flower nectar now!
In her poem, "When I am among the trees," Mary Oliver says,
"When I am among the trees,
especially the willows and the honey locust,
equally the beech, the oaks and the pines,
they give off such hints of gladness.
I would almost say that they save me, and daily."
Last Sunday afternoon, a friend and I found a splendid Pussy Willow tree on the shore of Lake Michigan near the Grand Traverse Lighthouse. I'd been wanting to photograph Pussy Willows, but had not gone to the Lighthouse expecting to see any. What a happy surprise to find this tree at this time of worry and lock downs, when "hints of gladness" are especially prized!
This bird is also known as the King Cormorant or the Phalacrocorax atriceps albiventer in latin... LOL! I am glad I do not have to remember these latin names. It is the larger of the two cormorant resident species of the Falklands. Apparently Rockhopper Penguins like to establish their nests in mixed colonies with Imperial Shags, as the Shags are actively defending their nests from predators and give a hard time to skuas and other birds trying to steal their eggs, something I was able to witness on several occasions and sadly enough sometimes on an ongoing basis... :(
Very glad I could finally collab with my great friend Rose! I had lots of fun with this and ready for more in the future ♥
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this gorgeous post is featuring...
DOUX
SULFUR
Petrichor
Aii & Ego
AERTH
RAWR
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More credits on Rose's version! flic.kr/p/2no5MPV
Glads grow vertically, but the stem had keeled over in a windstorm, providing a unique view of this elegant flower.
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Glad to announce that since late January of 2022, we are available to organize 7-10 days of winter railfanning group tours along the Trans-Mongolian Railway 👏 If you are fully vaccinated Mongolian border is open to you without isolation days.
You can reserve your flights from Aeroflot, Turkish Airlines, Asiana Airlines, Korean Air and MIAT Mongolian Airlines. ✈️
Watercolour on 140 lb. arches C.P.
This negative painting was based on a couple of photos I took of Gladiolus last summer. These do not, of course, grow like glads do, but I was mainly interested in the shapes of the petals and stamens, because in negative painting, realism is really not the main goal, at least for me. I find my negative paintings tend to to take on a life of their own, for better or worse. I ended up having to take this photo in full sunlight in order to get the true colours, so I had to wait until that condition actually existed in my part of the world. Today is absolutely freezing, but we do have SUN.
Size: 11" X 15" approx.
(White Capped variant!)
This small bird is a winter migrant to India from parts of the Central Asia and middle East. It prefers dry areas and desert regions for its habitat and we found it all over the desert - infact it was the most common bird in that area - more than the myna's or bulbuls and sighted in the dry bushes and often coming to the ground.
Wikipedia refers to three distinct morphs of the bird and we sighted all 3 of them, though 2 seemed fairly common - the 3rd one - the white cap - was a bit uncommon but did sight a few times. The one we get down in the Southern India has white on the belly all the way till the neck. We never found it in our home state despite searching several seasons, but am so am glad that we sighted all the 3 variants.
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