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Place de la Haute Vieille Tour, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France
More from France can be found in my album En France
© 2017-2019 Ivan van Nek
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Green and gold are Australia's national colours. As one of the oldest little towns in Australia, it is fitting that I use this Evandale garden to create some photo art that captures these colours. The double sun star is actually the same one at the point the zoom begins and ends. On the right you can catch a glimpse of the old house through the leaves.
PHOTO NOTE: This photograph is produced manually in camera through a photo zoom (and in this case also without a tripod). While this would not be considered "pure photography" by Ansel Adams (what digital photography could?), I want to remain true to the spirit of his dogma: I do not believe in the use of apps to create effects, replace skies or do anything other than to enhance the information already present in the RAW files. But what others choose to do is their business and fine with me.
I took this shot while travelling down the Tempisque river, in the Palo verde. Green Iguanas are great climbers & we saw dozens of them basking in the trees that lined the river. This big guys rather impressive looking orange beard, shows that he is a mature male.
At 1.7 metres long, including his very impressive whip-like tail, I wouldn't want to quarrel with him.
Costa Rica - Oct 2019.
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I found this guy lurking in my archives. I think it is the first usable image of a Green Heron that I have made, and I can’t believe I forgot about it for the last five years.
Heron Pond, Williamson County, Tennessee, USA. April 27, 2015
The Green Heron is one of my favorite birds to photograph because they don't seem to have a bad angle. They are photogenic all the time and they know how to pose.
Canon EOS 7D2, EF400 f5.6L USM, f/5.6, 1/400, ISO 1000
This eagle was dropping quickly for a fish and was really close as it passed by filling the frame. Zoom large to take in those details.
Taken at Astrium - A Medieval Fantasy Roleplay Sim
"The snow slowly melted away in Astrium as green swept over the lands once again. Letting out a long yawn while stretching out her arms her eyes fluttered open. A smile crossed her face until she noticed a stranger nearby, she immediately covered herself suddenly feeling shy."
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This red and green necklace is one I made and have been wearing this season. To enhance the festive spirit, I’ve hanged it from a holly branch.
HMM 🎄
From: 2020 Sketchbook.
It all started in December 2019, here I was trying to shop in June 2020. Two years of mask wearing, shutdowns and social distancing have made us nuts. We are so sick of the news, so mad at our overpaid do nothing politicians [congress especially]. Now we can't afford gas or food. Great going America, you're headed into the toilet bowl, Too bad we couldn't flush you all away.
The Green Wood Hoopoe is a bird species found in Sub-Saharan Africa. They have distinctive black, green, and white feathers with a long, curved beak. They are arboreal and can often be found in wooded areas or forests, where they feed on insects and small vertebrates. Green Wood Hoopoes are known for their loud calls and elaborate courtship displays, which involve bobbing and flicking their wings. They are monogamous and form long-lasting pair bonds, often nesting in tree cavities or old woodpecker holes. Overall, Green Wood Hoopoes are important members of their ecosystem, playing a role in insect control and seed dispersal.
I was finally able to get a shot of this beautiful bird! Here is some information about about them...
The heron you’re most likely to see in North America is the tall Great Blue Heron. But this stately bird has a much smaller and more secretive relative — the Green Heron.
This chunky, short-legged heron is about a foot and a half long, maybe about a third of the size of its larger cousin. And it’s a deep forest-green color, with a chestnut-colored neck.
The Green Heron forages for fish and small amphibians on the banks of small bodies of fresh water, using its plumage to camouflage itself amid the trees and shrubs. It perches, body horizontal and stretched forward over the water, still as a statue, waiting for small fish to come close.
Now, here’s the really cool part. This heron sometimes uses “bait” to lure its prey. It will break twigs into pieces small enough to make convincing lures and then cleverly drop them onto the water’s surface. Sometimes, instead of a stick, the heron will use a feather or even a live insect. Then the bird hunkers down and waits for an unsuspecting fish to swim close.
The Great Blue Heron may be easier to see, but be sure to keep an eye out for the small — and clever — Green Heron.
This Green Heron made a sudden appearance, and I managed it catch it as it rose to land in a high branch close to where I was standing. (Wakodahatchee Wetlands) Greenies, as I like to call them, have a lot of personality. They have a wide range of vocalizations, often chase each other around, like to fish from a branch above the surface of the water, and have that slinky-like neck that can scrunch down or stretch way out, and can raise the feathers on their head like a crown. As juveniles, they are ridiculously cute, with the emphasis on ridiculous. I hope to get some of those this nesting season.
As some of you know, I keep a list of Sony shooters and share information that may be useful to them. I also send descriptions like this one to another list of people who have asked me to share my work with them in that fashion. I’m happy to add anyone who wishes to either list.
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Wishing everyone a wonderful 2025 and hope to see you out there.
Mike
(Butorides virescens) (Sony a1M2, 200-600 lens @ 474mm, 1/4000 second, f/6.3, ISO 6400)