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I don't know how these Blue Jays find out so quickly that peanuts have been tossed out for them. They show up immediately to snatch them up and within minutes, the peanuts are gone. You have to be quick with your snap because they fly away quickly after the pick up.
This photo was taken through my patio door window on one of our colder mornings. You can see some frost that has formed around his eye. The temps have been dipping down to -18°F (-28°C) on/off with windchills at -35°F.
Thank you so much for your visits, faves and comments. Happy Wing Wednesday!
Switzerland, May 2021
My best photos are here: www.lacerta-bilineata.com/ticino-best-photos-of-southern-...
My latest ANIMAL VIDEO (warning, it's a bit shocking): www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T2-Xszz7FI
You find a selection of my 80 BEST PHOTOS (mostly not yet on Flickr) here: www.lacerta-bilineata.com/western-green-lizard-lacerta-bi... (the website exists in ESPAÑOL, FRANÇAIS, ITALIANO, ENGLISH, DEUTSCH)
ABOUT THE PHOTO:
So this photo is a bit of a novelty for me - at least here on Flickr, but it's also a journey back in time in a sense. I've always loved b/w and sepia photography; already as a very young teenager I would go out into the woods with an old Pentax Spotmatic (which I had nicked from my father) whenever it was a foggy day to shoot b/w compositions of sunbeams cutting through the ghostlike trees.
I used films with a sensitivity of at least 1600 (for those of you who remember what that means 😉 ), and the resulting photos had an incredibly fine grain which I loved; I blew them up to the size of posters and hung them on the walls of my teenage man-cave next to Hendrix, Jim Morrison and Slash.
But then I abandoned photography altogether for 20 years, and when I finally picked up a camera again, it was one of the digital kind. Now neither film nor grain played any role in my photographic endeavours - let alone b/w compositions: because the reason I fell in love with shooting pictures once more was the rare and incredibly colorful lizard species that had chosen my garden as its habitat.
It's this species - the Lacerta bilineata aka the western green lizard - that my photo website www.lacerta-bilineata.com/ and also my Flickr gallery are dedicated to, but I've since expanded that theme a bit so that it now comprises the whole Lacerta bilineata habitat, which is to say my garden and its immediate surroundings and all the flora and fauna I find in it.
I like that my gallery and the website have this clear theme, because in order to rise to the challenge of portraying all aspects of a very specific little eco system (which also happens to be my home of sorts), it forces me to constantly explore it from fresh angles, and I keep discovering fascinating new motives as my photographic journey continues.
Which brings me to the horse pasture you see in this photo. This playground for happy horsies lies just outside my garden, and it normally only interests me insofar as my green reptile friends claim parts of it as their territory, and I very much prefer it to be horseless (which it thankfully often is).
Not that the horses bother the reptiles - the lizards don't mind them one bit, and I've even seen them jump from the safety of the fly honeysuckle shrub which the pasture borders on right between the deadly looking hooves of the horses to forage for snails, without any sign of fear or even respect.
No, the reason I have a very conflicted relationship with those horses is that they are mighty cute and that there's usually also foals. The sight of those beautiful, happy animals jumping around and frolicking (it's a huge pasture and you can tell the horses really love it) is irresistible: and that inevitably attracts what in the entire universe is known as the most destructive anti-matter and ultimate undoing of any nature photographer: other humans.
Unlike with the horses, the lizards ARE indeed very much bothered by specimens of loud, unpredictable Homo sapiens sapiens - which makes those (and by extension also the horses) the cryptonite of this here reptile photographer. It's not the horses' fault, I know that, but that doesn't change a thing. I'm just telling you how it is (and some of you might have read about the traumatic events I had to endure to get a particular photo - if not, read at your own risk here: www.flickr.com/photos/191055893@N07/51405389883/in/datepo... - which clearly demonstrated that even when it's entirely horseless, that pasture is still a threat for artistic endeavours).
But back to the photo. So one morning during my vacation back in May I got up quite early. It had rained all night, and now the fog was creeping up from the valley below to our village just as the sky cleared up and the morning sun started to shine through the trees.
And just as I did when I was a teenager I grabbed my camera and ran out to photograph this beautiful mood of ghostlike trees and sunbeams cutting through the mist. There had already been such a day a week earlier (which is when I took this photo: www.flickr.com/photos/191055893@N07/51543603732/in/datepo... ), but this time, the horses were also there.
Because of our slightly strained relationship I only took this one photo of them (I now wish I had taken more: talk about missed opportunities), and otherwise concentrated on the landscape. It was only later when I went through all the photos on my computer that I realized that I actually really liked those horses, even despite the whole composition being such a cliché. And I realized another thing: when I drained the photo of all the color, I liked it even better - because there was almost a bit of grain in it, like in the photos from my youth.
Since then I have experimented quite a bit with b/w and sepia compositions (some of which I will upload here eventually I guess), but this photo here is the first one that helped me rediscover my old passion. I hope you like it even though it builds quite a stark contrast with the rest of my tiny - and very colorful - gallery. But in the spirit of showing you the whole Lacerta bilineata habitat (and also in the spirit of expanding my gallery a bit beyond lizards and insects), I think it's not such a bad fit.
As always, many greetings to all of you, have a wonderful day and don't hesitate to let me know what you think 😊
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I was photographing these "Lucifer" buds the other day right after the rain stopped. When I uploaded this image, I saw these awesome green rays behind the bud, and realized that they must have been leaves. I love surprises!
while waiting for more salmon.
This is one of the very tiny triplets I've posted lots of shots of on here
Got so many shots of these little ones. You haven't seen the last. So bear with me. ( I know! Eye roll! LOL!)
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Early one morning we were driving along Lake Superior in Minnesota, south of Split Rock Lighthouse, when we came across this scene. Though it was misting and miserable, I had to grab my umbrella and try.
Ein altes Familiengrab auf dem Johannisfriedhof in Zeitz.
An old family grave in the Johannisfriedhof in Zeitz.
After dropping off a cut of loaded centerbeams, Quincy 12 makes its way down the steep hill that connects the UP interchange to the American Valley. After getting to the bottom of the hill, the crew would take another cut or two of loads to the interchange before heading back to the Sierra Pacific facility in East Quincy to tie down for the day.
The Seasons Story opened today with a beautiful array of items and fashion dedicated to winter. Zenith has provided a Vintage Winter Coat and Boots in both soft and neutral colors. The fur trimmed coat and cape are adorable and I am wearing it here in my favorite pastel blue color. The Mystic, Zenith’s sister store, created the fox headdress…. And well you know how I feel about foxes….
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The relatively balmy weather we've had this January means that there is no ice on the Mississippi, and thus the eagles are spread out. We saw quite a few of them-- well over 50-- but they all along a number of miles of the river, rather than being concentrated at the locks. They also were able to fish the entire width of the river, which resulted in more distant fishing shots like this one. The 'Eagle Days' event in Clarksville Missouri was packed with people, though.
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Fujipro 400H
In Switzerland, when you park your bike in a forbidden zone, huge hands emerge from the ground and drag your bike underground to be melted in magma. Once in a while, an unlucky driver is sucked down with it.
Whilst bouncing up and down on the boat and returning to the mainland this cormorant (I think) came swooping down. Rather than duck (no pun intended) I grabbed this one shot and even though it is clearly out of focus it has a certain something that I find quite likeable.
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The Grab
Eagle fishing on the Susquehanna River. Normally I like to show the eagle with the fish but in this case the eagle missed the fish
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A green heron grabs a small fish as it prowls the shore of the Arboretum Pond at the For-Mar Nature Preserve and Arboretum, July, 2021.
"Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons."
Art Hirschfeld
Painting this Blue Spotted Coral Reef fish was such a pleasure. I found myself smiling as it found its way onto the watercolor paper.
I usually have a feeder underneath my porch awning every winter. I was watching this Carolina wren as it emerged with a peanut in its beak. They love peanuts and usually get them to go.
Gräber des jüdischen Friedhofs im Heidelberger Bergfriedhof
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Graves at the Jewish cemetery in the Heidelberg mountain cemetery (Bergfriedhof)
This Rufous-tailed Jacamar was hunting from a somewhat concealed perch in a strip of wooded area next to a fairly large pond during our Pantanal trip earlier this month. It was fun to watch as it flew out to grab insects. This bird was incredibly fast, it almost seemed like it was running on a different clock than we were.
Galbula ruficauda
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We will be doing this trip again next year, if you think you might be interested more information is available here: www.texastargetbirds.com/group-photo-trips/2018-brazil-s-...
Ruddy Darter dragonflies mating. The male is blood-red, the female ochre-yellow.
Ruddy Darter (Sympetrum sanguineum).
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Seeing Arthur, the Noisy Miner, in hot pursuit of ... something, I followed him and, when he landed on our neighbours' roof, lifted my camera and... Voila ! He had grabbed a juicy Katydid in flight.
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A moody fall day in Montenegro. It rained like crazy the whole time I stayed in the bay, cancelling all hiking plans. I grabbed this shot of a beautiful little town in between two storms, putting the weather sealing of my camera to the test as I had to stay on location for a long time to timeblend it.
INDIEN, Mausoleum Akbar,
Das Akbar-Mausoleum ist der Grabbau von Jalaludin Muhammad (1542–1605), des ab 1561 regierenden dritten und bedeutendsten Herrschers der Mogul-Dynastie, der schon zu Lebzeiten Akbar ('Der Große') genannt wurde. Es ist das flächenmäßig größte Grabmal Indiens.