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When I saw these baby shoes I couldn't help but buy them. They are probably from the beginning of the last century and are nailed to the raised heel sole with eight tiny copper pins each.
Switzerland, May 2021
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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 😊
Question for all you photography buffs. We’re going to Rome for a few days in March and I was thinking about getting a Wide angle lens. 10-24mm. Not sure if its worth it or if my 18-105 will be good enough. What’s your opinions on it? Will be back laters for a catch up. HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL TOO ☺️xx
It was all about the colors. And I could 'feel' them only after I tried to be a bit more abstract than usual. Selecting a shutter speed of 1/8 sec finally helped me to get everything right
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And this time, here is a photo with my Coxy !! This time, I worked on two characters. Something that I still find complex. Hope you like it!
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I ventured out again the other morning to help Marybeth clean up the barn and noticed the barn swallows were busy flying back and forth, building their nest. As I said on the Snoopy post, I'm not big on patience with birds but I am an opportunist when it comes to photography so if birds want to be photographed well then, I'll do it! And on this morning the barn swallows wanted to be photographed. Here's a more traditional perspective that shows off its beautiful colors! Love the beautiful blues like the Tree Swallows have. If you look in the catchlight you can see the doorway to the barn that I'm standing in.
On Sunday afternoon I heard some grumpy chirping in my mum's garden:
" Turn your world upside down, they said ... Performing a handstand improves concentration, they said ... But no one has told me how to get out of this posture again ... Help, please ?? "
And there it was: a tiny critter on a Colza blossom (a very young dark bush-cricket, I think - about 5 to 7 mm small), performing some kind of handstand yoga posture ...
It was finally able to get upright again - it was gone some minutes later : ))
In the first comment you can see a photo of my thumb and Colza in full bloom to get a size comparison ... it was really tiny : ))
Theme of May 11, 2021: Something smaller than a thumb nail
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A gray fox stopped by my campsite in Boot Canyon, gave me the once-over, then looked skyward for divine guidance. The apparent response was to just move on along and let the hapless biped fend for himself. Big Bend National Park, Brewster County, Texas.
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Trino helps with decorations. He is very camera shy, I think the flash bothers him so I try to photograph him in good light but this time the flash was on. Thank you for viewing, faving and commenting on my photos, everyone! It is very much appreciated.
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I`m planing an Shooting-Session for the next view days and my tiny little helpers preparing the handles for the camera. First of all they need to get the Anchors into the right position. :)
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Ich möchte die kommenden Tage eine größere Foto-Tour machen. Und meine kleinen Helferlein sind bereits fleissig am vorbereiten. Die peak design Anchors müssen in Position gebracht werden. :)
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A 4-pack of mid-train helpers lead by MRL 4319 assist a freight train around the iconic horseshoe trestle at Skyline Trestle on Mullan Pass.
The R-LAUBOZ tackles the grade up Bozeman Pass at O'Rea Creek Road with five MRL units leading. The three lead locomotives are part of the Livingston helper pool, while the two rear units are the assigned LAUBOZ power that day.
Storm clouds drift as Amtrak's California Zephyr pulls through Spring Glen the evening of June 4, 2021. In less than five minutes, train No. 5 will be stopped at the former Rio Grande depot in Helper.
please help if you can!!! every little helps... even a share : )
I miss this place so much and cant wait to get back up there.
they have had to nearly rebuild the hides there and as well as the cost of feeding these stunning raptors... so please help if you can... THANK YOU!!
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“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anyone else finding their butterfly bush leaves all chewed up like this... and I never see any insects!! Do they come out at night to party??!!
This happens every year and looks terrible...
I'd appreciate suggestions... but I can't use pesticides because it is near the Milkweed....
cries come and cries go
some by death and some by slow
slow slow degrees
let our cries be realized
put your hand where your heart lies
so no one dies from sorrow, hunger,
and the magic we can wonder
will come alive and thrive
on a planet called earth.