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The third installment of my Spring Series is another Shot from the Archives. Hopefully this brings a bit of Sunshine into your Day : )
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Swallowtail Butterfly
Swallowtail butterflies are large, colorful butterflies in the family Papilionidae, and include over 550 species. Though the majority are tropical, members of the family inhabit every continent except Antarctica. The forked appearance in some of the swallowtails' hindwings, which can be seen when the butterfly is resting with its wings spread, gave rise to the common name swallowtail.
(Nikon, 300 mm, 1/2500 @ f/5.0, ISO 400, edited to taste)
Ps. Got lucky catching this Swallowtail as it comes in for a landing on a Cherry Blossom.
I had to pull the third installment of “Birds stepping on turtles” for quality control issues.. Truth be told, there were no turtles in the third image. Just a Cormorant airing it’s wings after landing on the same log after displacing four turtles in the process. I know this, because I saw the turtles before the Cormorant landed and heard the splash as they went back into the water, but you would have to take my word for it, so no third installment. I’m moderately open to suggestions for topics on future quirky bird photos...........
Hope you enjoy this Tern shot instead
Caspian Tern 2627
This is the 9th installment of the "Emotions in Black and White" collection.
The series of photos can found here at this link or in this Flickr album.
Tonight is the second installment of an extensively researched (???) photo essay about birds stepping on turtles. After many days of research (2), involving huge hours (a couple or so), and many photos (12) I have narrowed it down to a fascinating collection of shots (3) which will be posted over the next several days (3). Enjoy!!
Great Blue Heron 1878
This is the 8th installment of the "Emotions in Black and White" collection.
The series of photos can found here at this link or in this Flickr album.
This is installment number 2 of the Billy Joel collection. It's amazing how Billy captured every day scenarios that anyone can relate to.
This song is dedicated to everyone that is being told what is best for them or that they are doing something wrong.
It's important to have strong convictions and stay true to yourself. While it's great to receive advice from others, ultimately it's up to you to make your own decisions in order to achieve true happiness. Failure to do so can lead to feelings of regret, which can be a burden to bear on your own. It's crucial to follow your dreams and pursue your passions in life, as this is the surest way to live a fulfilling and satisfying life.
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Lyrics
Got a call from an old friend we used to be real close
Said he couldn't go on the American way
Closed the shop, sold a house, bought a ticket to the west coast
Now he gives them a stand-up routine in L.A.
I don't need you to worry for me 'cause I'm alright
I don't want you to tell me it's time to come home
I don't care what you say anymore this is my life
Go ahead with your own life leave me alone
I never said you had to offer me a second chance
(I never said you had to)
I never said I was a victim of circumstance
(I never said)
I still belong (still belong)
Don't get me wrong (don't get me wrong)
You can speak your mind but not on my time
They will tell you you can't sleep alone in a strange place
Then they'll tell you you can't sleep with somebody else
Oh, but sooner or later you sleep in your own space
Either way it's okay, you wake up with yourself
I don't need you to worry for me 'cause I'm alright
I don't want you to tell me it's time to come home
I don't care what you say anymore this is my life
Go ahead with your own life leave me alone
I never said you had to offer me a second chance
(I never said you had to)
I never said I was a victim of circumstance
(Gf circumstance)
I still belong (still belong)
Don't get me wrong (don't get me wrong)
You can speak your mind but not on my time
I don't care what you say anymore this is my life
Go ahead with your own life leave me alone
Installment 16 of the Emotions in Black & White Collection.
I went for disappointed with this emotion.
I've been told I also look disgusted here.
I hope that the message comes across.
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Welcome to Zamonia!
We are starting the installments here by bringing back a bit of The Empire of Dreaming Books with...the Path to Buchhaim.
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This is the 10th installment of the "Emotions in Black and White" collection.
The series of photos can found here at this link or in this Flickr album.
This art installment "flying boats" by Lino Tagliapietra can be seen in the Columbus Museum of Art right at the entrance. I had to go up to the second floor to catch it at this angle. The vibrant colors and the shape of the boats are what caught my attention. There were so many of them I couldn't just focus on one! A beautiful display :)
The next installment in my moms and babies series is this Bighorn Sheep mom and her very young baby found in Badlands National Park.
Another installment of Fuzztar Lens Friday. I have made mention of the 75-200 Vivitar lens that I foolishly used during the late 1980s when I lived in Texas, then New Hampshire, then Montana before I realized that a good camera cant take good photos with a POS lens. I still find shots such as this that make me cringe at my stupidity. I guess you were suppose to focus as well as zoom. And what's a loupe? At least photo shop can now minimize the severe vignette around the edges.
These Mo Pac C36-7s were f-ing neat!
Here is the 2nd installment of the 2022 Tall Ships Festival tour in Two Harbors, MN.
We stayed right in Two Harbors so it was convenient to keep going down to the harbor during different times of the day. I have a few different compositions during very foggy times, night and both morning.
I tried to get several different angles to keep them interesting. These 3 ships are the Nao Trinidad, US Brig Niagara, and the Pride of Baltimore II. Here is some more interesting information on them.
The first ship on the left is the Nao Trinidad and is a replica built in 2018. Per Wiki "Trinidad was the flagship of Ferdinand Magellan's voyage of circumnavigation. Unlike Elcano's Victoria, which returned to Spain sailing across the Indian Ocean, Trinidad tried and failed to sail east across the Pacific to New Spain or modern-day Mexico. Trinidad was a nao (ship) of 100 tons (or 110 tons, Morrison has both) with square sails on the fore and main masts and a lateen mizzen. Its original crew was 61. After Magellan's death and the burning of the Concepcion, Victoria and Trinidad (the San Antonio and the Santiago being lost earlier) reached Tidore on 8 November 1521. In mid-December both ships attempted to depart loaded with cloves, but Trinidad almost immediately began to leak badly. Inspection showed that the problem was serious. It was agreed that Victoria would leave for Spain and Trinidad would remain for repairs."
The 2nd ship is the US Brig Niagara. Per Wiki "Niagara was constructed from 1812 to 1813 to protect the vulnerable American coastline on Lake Erie from the British and played a pivotal role in the battle for the lake. Along with most warships that served in the war, Niagara was sunk for preservation on Presque Isle in 1820. Raised in 1913, it was rebuilt for the centennial of the Battle of Lake Erie. After deteriorating, the restoration of Niagara was started again in the 1930s, but was hampered by the lack of funds caused by the Great Depression and remained uncompleted until 1963. A more extensive restoration was carried out in 1988 in which much of the original ship was largely destroyed. The incorporation of new materials and modern equipment makes it ambiguous as to whether it is or is not a replica."
The 3rd ship on the right is the Pride of Baltimore II. This is a replica built in 1987. Per Wiki "The Pride of Baltimore was a reproduction of a typical early 19th-century "Baltimore clipper" topsail schooner, a style of vessel made famous by its success as a privateer commerce raider and small but nimble warship in the War of 1812 (1812–1815), against British merchant shipping and a vastly superior world-wide British Royal Navy. After the end of the war, Baltimore Clippers did not have sufficient cargo carrying capacity for normal merchant trade, so some were used in the illegal opium trade into China and vessels of the same type were used in the transatlantic slave trade from Africa.[1]
Pride of Baltimore was commissioned on 1 May 1977 by the 44th Mayor of Baltimore, William Donald Schaefer, in an elaborate public ceremony in the historic Inner Harbor watched by thousands of Baltimoreans and Marylanders, she spent nine years at sea logging over 150,000 miles, equivalent to six times around the globe. On 14 May 1986, the first Pride of Baltimore was lost at sea in the Caribbean Sea, and her captain and three of the crew died."
Third and final installment in my Alaska min-series.
This bull moose was eyeing some leaves on a low hanging branch for his next snack. Well, they weren't that low hanging...probably eight feet off the ground.
Another installment in my big birds of North America. This GBH was perched high in a cypress tree in Wakodahatchee Wetlands, Delray Beach, Florida.
From the Cornell Lab:
Height: 4.5 ft.
Weight: 5.5 LBS
Wingspan: 6.5 ft.
Another installment of my walks in the woods.
I'm happy whenever there's fog.
I am then in another world, another dimension.
Fourth installment in my hooved wildlife series. A bull elk marches across a frosty meadow in Banff National Park, Alberta Canada.
Yet another installment of Fuzztar Lens Fuck-ups - MoPac Monday Edition. I have made mention of the 75-200 Vivitar lens that I foolishly used during the late 1980s when I lived in Texas, then New Hampshire, then Montana before I realized that a good camera cant take good photos with a POS lens. I still find shots such as this that make me cringe at my stupidity. And I guess you were supposed to focus as well as zoom. And what's a loupe? Besides I had other priorities back then.
At least photo shop can now minimize the severe vignette around the edges. This slide didn't clean up too bad. These Mo Pac C36-7s were f-ing neat!
My second installment folks, what I tried to do was to capture each wing movement and in a different position throughout the sequence, so please bear with me, it was not easy, but very gratifying.
Thank you as always for stopping by, and have a great day.
The second installment in my brief Alaska wildlife series.
In previous posts, I've mentioned that it rained, misted, drizzled during our entire three-day visit to the Seward Peninsula. This muskox cow didn't seem to like it any more than we did.
Another installment in my wildlife in water series, a sea otter checks me out in the harbor of Homer, Alaska.
I've posted shots of this otter before. It was our first sea otter sighting. He was sleeping soundly when we spotted him and snoring loudly. When his nap was over, he showed no concern with our presence and proceeded to entertain us by grooming and diving for shellfish.
Third installment in my wildlife headshot series.
This isn't a fully mature Northern Elephant Seal bull but he's well on his way to being one. In this shot, he was assessing his chances of a quick mating opportunity before being dismissed by a bigger bull.
Photographed on a California Beach near Piedras Blancas.
Second installment in my colorful birds series. If viewed only from the back, this member of the flycatcher family would have belonged in my brown bird set. But it's a different story when viewed from this angle.
The Great Kiskadee is one of the most widespread flycatchers in the western hemisphere. But its presence in the U.S. is limited to extreme south Texas.
I'm not sure if that's a building or a fence in the background. I would have preferred something more natural but since it isn't too distracting I'm ok with it.
Photographed in the Rio Grande Valley, Texas.
Another installment in my year in review series. Our sixth and last trip of 2022 was back to Badlands National Park and Custer State Park in South Dakota. Our third visit to those parks during the year.
During a morning drive through Custer, we encountered Mule Deer, Bison, Prairie Dogs, Wild Turkeys and some lovely fall foliage. But the highlight of the morning was watching several pronghorn does doing full speed sprints back and forth across a long, narrow meadow. No predators chasing them...they just seemed to be in the mood to run. Their harem master, a nice buck, stood by calmly just observing the frenzy. Saving his energy for more important duty.
Pronghorns are built for speed. Top speed is 55-60 mph. They can run long distances at 30-40 mph. Though these two weren't at full speed, they were fast enough to be a blast to watch.
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Fourth installment in my brown bird series. This long-billed sandpiper is the largest North American shorebird. It spends the summer on the grasslands of the arid west, appearing on coastal mudflats only in migration and winter, and even then likely to be on prairies instead. It often occurs alongside the Marbled Godwit, which is very similar in size and color pattern; but the godwit's bill curves up, not down.
We found this one along the beach at Packery Channel on Padre Island, Texas.
another installment from my Green World, previously :
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Fifth and last installment in the white bird set.
The bill on this Snowy Egret is quite unusual. From the lore to the tip, the bill of a mature Snowy is normally all black. As you can see, this Snowy's bill is partially black near the lore but then yellow, like it's cousin, the Great Egret.
I searched Flickr and Google images and couldn't find a Snowy bill like this.
We found this one on South Padre Island, Texas.
Fourth installment on my headshot series. This crane and its mate followed us for quite a distance on a trail at Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge in Florida.
another installment from my Green World, previously :
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Second installment in my white bird set. A small percentage of the Reddish Egret population in Florida and the Gulf Coast have entirely white plumage. We encountered this one giving a pretty cool pose on South Padre Island, Texas.
Last installment of my raptor hat trick after messing up the day's start. It's not the most perfect Bald Eagle, a youngster with a frazzled tail from probably hanging out at the swamp or in the damp morning grasses, but it is a baldy, always exciting to see. By then, I was watching the wintering duck life, but this guy circled and circled so I gave it a little time to turn into the mid-morning light. Feeling pretty good by now.😉
Here's another installment in my Monarch Butterfly story. You might remember I posted my first pupa, hanging low in a Pride of Madeira, over a month ago. It finally emerged 32 days later, way after the slew of those hanging in my garage eaves. So I post this certainly not for the esthetics with all the busyness and shadows and highlights, but because it is #1. Of note, the timing here is just about 2.5 minutes from when I spotted the first crack in the pupa. Especially, though, I like that it shows how kinked up the wings are from being tightly wrapped. I find it interesting too that the rear wings - the lighter (bottom side) color at the right, straighten out first, while it takes quite a bit longer for the larger forewings. You can actually see how the right forewing has straightened out a little more than the left. Fascinating stuff. She emerged pretty late in the afternoon, so she hung all night and didn't fly till the next morning. I'm guessing it took her a lot longer to emerge because she was in shade almost entirely all day long and maybe not as warm as the ones hanging in the protection of the garage eaves.
I thought it was time for another installment of "Gina's closet" so I put something sassy sexy together for you.
Head and Body are the usual suspects:
LeLutka Briannon head 3.1 w/ 89 hairbase & custom shape
The Skinnery Darma Skin
Make up: Idtty - Talk Dirty lips and eyes
Maitreyia body w/ custom shape
My outfit is from Amias
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Cruz Jacket & Eco swimsuit as well as the Coralie collar
My boots are from Venus Shoes and are the Naomi Boots
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Another Saturday installment of "They are only switchers, where is the BIG stuff."
While waiting for CP train no.923 to make a pick up out of the yard I nabbed this shot of a couple of jobs with pairs of SW1200RS units. But of course we didn't stick around long as 923 had a pair of BIGs as seen here:
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Yet another installment from the "it only looks cold" department. It's actually warming up, which is why the ice is breaking up!
Thanks for stopping by everyone... another busy day here at the writing /editing sweatshop but I am determined to sneak off to visit your streams LOL.
xx Rosy
Installment 3, you gotta love the look on the face of the Hawk folks, and wondering if this vulture lost his mind or did I, and goes on and on from here, as you will see.
Thanks for all you've done.
The second installment of BOB comes from under the bridge. Numerous people were playing in the water by the sandy shore, but these few ventured farther out. They personalize the image while also offering scale.
Another installment on the 2019 White-tailed Kites. Here dad sits on the **stick** and observes junior's developing flight skills. The 3 juvenile kites have been flying only one week here on this day.
Here's another installment of the Galapagos Sally Lightfoots. This one is further along in its molt to adulthood than the one I posted yesterday. Of course, they were one of the great highlights of my expedition. and we'll get to the final adult stage one day soon. 😊
It was really cloudy and dark this particular morning. Looking back, I'm surprised I shot the 7D at ISO 4000. I ran this image through Topaz and I guess it's an improvement.
Final installment of the "House of the dead" series.
Thank you all for your comments and appreciation.
Another installment in my short drama: Yup, it's an invader in our Acorn Woodpeckers' tree, the European Starling. Can you believe the nerve of this guy?? While they're pretty, they're also not native to North America, having been introduced from Europe to New York in the late 1800s. They are now very common. I don't like them because they are showing up in our woodpecker territory. The woodpeckers have their own problems, as sometimes the local park personnel have to consider the public safety if a dead tree or branch were to fall. They do understand the trees of nesting birds are off limits from their saws though.
To those of you who have referenced in your comments the PBS show "Woodpeckers: The Hole Story", I wasn't aware of it. Our Acorns are featured about 30 minutes in. Just fantastic. Thank you all so much.