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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 😊
- foto © Eugenio Costa - Tutti i diritti riservati
Ritratto strada - Street portrait
“Dentro ogni persona anziana c'è una persona più giovane che si sta chiedendo cosa diavolo sia successo.”
"Within each older person there is a younger person who wonders what the hell happened."
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Nějak se stalo, žes uměl mít rád
Tohle ti opravdu nechci zazlívat
Jednu chvíli se to stalo
A že se tohle stalo, není málo
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Somehow it happened you knew how to like someone
I really don't want to blame you for this
One moment it happened
That it happened --- is no small thing [Jednu chvíli]
Edited for Smile on Saturday's #mushrooms theme
There's something about mushrooms that always makes me think of magic and fairies. Not seen one yet though... :-(
One of my recent in-camera monochromes with the helios lens, but given a slight creative twist for fun. (Produced by adding coloured pixel layers and using blend ranges to restrict the colours to just the highlights. With a bit of masking to get the colours where I wanted them. [The colours were purposefully kept really subtle, so don't worry if you miss them!] )
Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen- that stillness becomes a radiance.
Morgan Freeman
This happens to be one of the sunflowers from the bird seed. I did plant some colorful sunflowers that will be opening soon. I love how nature takes its course with the bird seeds and gives us not only chances to see the birds, but beauty in flowers also.
Our Alfie🐈 is today (Sunday August 1th 2021) in urgently,
operated on a bladder obstruction due to bladder stones.
I do hope he will survive 🙏 He is strong but has also 12 years.
Be well our sweetest💕 darling friend!
My love for 12 years passed away on August 5th, 2021
at kidney and liver insufficiency after bladder obstruction.
He was a fighter but has lost his battle....
Now he has passed the rainbow bridge.
We meet again my dearest Alfie, our red tiger! Love you so much!
Main Branch ~ Chicago River ~ Downtown Chicago, Illinois
Nikon D7500, Sigma 18-300, ISO 200, f/10.0, 18mm, 1/320s
That's what happens when it's warm and sunny and it's FRIDAY ! :) Sometimes it doesn't take much to make Cleo happy.
I took several photos of her today. Maybe I should store them somewhere for the long weeks and months of winter when I'll hardly have any chance to get a Cleo photo.
34:52 A Place I Love
I love the Oregon coast, and I also love being in the forest, so here, I was in the forest on the Oregon coast. I find that being in a forest, I immediately feel a sense of calm and oneness with nature, and am in awe of everything around me. When I try to capture that on camera, it's never what I experienced, so have a hard time working with any of my forest images. The magic happens when I'm there, but it doesn't seem to look the same on the screen. Oh well....
I wasn't able to be online much the past couple of days, so most likely, you only received faves from me. I'll try to remedy that today. Have a lovely Monday!
Zoom in and take a look around :)
Preparing for tomorrows Macro Mondays Theme ........it was securely set up..........Then Accidents Happen !
I happened to walk by kitchen window and saw this turkey walking around in backyard looking for food. I had to photograph bird through the door window as I could not open door or he would have been gone in a flash. At least the window allowed me to get a few images.
I ran into my next door neighbor and his dog on my walk today.
We crossed paths on the German Club driveway.
After we chatted a few minutes, he headed on down the driveway toward the road, when a herd of deer went running across the driveway right in front of him.
I had been heading up the driveway in the opposite direction, but just happened to turn around to look behind me, just in time to get this shot.
(17/365) Best to zoom or view Large. A trawler with one of it's nets raised in Kilmore Quay harbour. Just to prove we don't have blue skies every day but at least we had 4 dry days during my sister's visit. That wouldn't have happened back in Co. Cork in January.
For 117 pictures in 2017 #83 Vertical/portrait format
I happened to be in Stillwater on this day, and seeing the nice updates from the peeps in the field about a late transfer from the CN, I decided to take a little detour north before heading home. Managed to hike to the bridge with only about 10 minutes of waiting before this nice trio of matching SDs pulled across in perfect light.
Now I'm in the bathtub, cryin'
Think I'm slowly sinking, bubbles in my eyes
Now, maybe I'm just dreamin'
Now I'm in the sad club, just tryna get a backrub (lonely)
I'm a sad girl, in this big world
It's a mad world
All of my friends know what's happened
You're a B-A-D T-H-I-N-G
pst: I'm using my laptop work to xD take the pic so is kinda crappy
While going through some older photos, I happened to find this little gem. It's Trinity, posing at the dog park. It was originally in color, but it just didn't look right, so I changed it to black & white to give it a more softer and dramatic effect.
It finally happened, last night it snowed and it was the beautiful kind of snow that sticks to everything. Central Park reported 1.1 inches and here in the northern part of Manhattan we got more.
Grey heron (Ardea cinerea) defecating while perched on a branch.
Czapla siwa (Ardea cinerea) wypróżniająca się siedząc na gałęzi.
The 2020 Ferrari 812 Superfast is an example of what happens when an automaker commits to crafting a vehicle that offers the best performance money can buy. With almost 800 horses under the hood, this coupe provides brutish power, facilitating a zero-to-60-mph sprint that clocks in at less than three seconds. Fuel economy is poor, and the 812 Superfast's $330,000-plus price makes it accessible only to the very privileged few. Still, if you have deep pockets and a thirst for spectacular handling, this skilled Ferrari won't disappoint.
Ferrari's 812 Superfast gets its muscle from a 6.5-liter V-12 powerplant, and this engine delivers a bracing 788 horsepower and 529 lb-ft of torque. A seven-speed automatic transmission sends power to the rear wheels. The 812 Superfast holds a place among the quickest of the quick. In our track tests, it sprinted from zero to 60 mph in a scant 2.8 seconds. That's a dazzling performance, but it trails that of the McLaren 720S. That car made the run in just 2.7 seconds. Handling is nimble, especially when you consider this Ferrari's relatively hefty curb weight. The engine note is mellifluous, and the car's brakes are potent enough to bring this beast to a quick and decisive standstill.
Thanks to Car And Driver for the above.
Freezing cold, only 2C and windy, and spring flowers, green grass and snow 😁😊
Everything is quite normal, this happens more or less every year 😅
...on rainy dark november days.
When The Levee Breaks-- Robert Plant Jimmy Page
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jL3nFxSoApE
made with stable diffusion,topaz and photoshop.