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One of our highlights during our visits to Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan, is always walking around this cottage with its many flowers. In some instances the flowers can be seen to be overflowing the short walls along the sidewalk. Though taken on October 15, the leaves have yet to change color around the cottage. [FA]
This particular structure is from the Cotswold Hills in southeast England. The Fords were attracted to the distinctive character of Cotswold buildings, which are characterized by the yellow-brown stone, tall gables, steeply pitched roofs, and stone ornamentation around windows and doors. Several decorative additions were made to this house in England, before dismantling and re-erecting it in Greenfield Village. When I photographed this cottage years ago (shown at this link: www.flickr.com/photos/bobcarter/5991430846/in/album-72157... , there was a huge tree in the left foreground and ivy covered the left portion of the structure.
“The text also just grows increasingly garbled. For instance, here it says that our new subway system will streamline the rush-hour commute, but about halfway down, it's a series of nearly indecipherable glyphs our experts insist hint at "non-Euclidian emotions" and "appeasement" (though we think this may be a euphemism for "fares").”
― Joseph Fink, The Great Glowing Coils of the Universe
European Court of Justice / Kirchberg Plateau / Luxembourg City / Luxembourg
EXIF wrong: 21mm Voigtländer Ultron, not Vario-Elmar
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Modern art galleries and museums have always wanted to tell a story in the usual fashion of linear history. So as a rule rooms in galleries tended to be set out in historical periods or particular styles. The contemporary curator however eschews all that, throws everything into the mix and allows the viewer to piece together their own story.
Now this is all very well for the informed art lover, but can be very confusing to those who have never studied art history. It's a sink or swim model, and the jury is still out on whether this approach is going to be successful.
This section of the QVMAG was recently renovated to allow for more works to be shown from the very large collection that Launceston has built up over 200 years (the settlement itself was founded in 1806). One problem for photographers is that the light intensity has been reduced to 40 lumens per square metre (for example a 60 watt light bulb provides 800 lumens per square metre). This is so the works are not damaged by excess light. But it does make getting good photographs of the works very difficult indeed. This photograph, for instance, appears much brighter than the lighting actually was.
Okavango Delta
Botswana
Southern Africa
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The giraffes of Botswana are of the southern Africa race or commonly known as the southern Giraffe. The Botswana giraffe population is stable.
Giraffes have the loosest social structure in the animal kingdom with the groups changing in size constantly as individuals move from one place to another. Despite this loose social structure male Giraffe tussle for dominance for it is the stronger that gets the females when they are in heat.
Giraffes in Botswana are preyed upon by lions and hyenas and leopards. They mainly attack youngsters under one year of age. In one instance, a leopard attacked a four-day old giraffe and held it by the throat until chased off by the mother. The baby slowly hobbled to its feet with help from the mother, but it was very badly injured. The mother began to move off slowly for the baby to follow but it finally succumbed to its injuries. The mother hung around for some time before leaving the dead calf.
The Giraffes of the Okavango Delta suffer from an eye infection that often blinds them in both eyes resulting in the animal staggering around until taken by a predator or falling and unable to stand up. This disease flares up at unspecified times. – Internet
In this instance Tufty was without his trademark tufts which moult during the summer months.
Sadly now despite his road safety campaign in the 60's Tufty is very rare in most of the UK.
Was anyone else a member of the Tufty Club - I still have my badge.
Red Squirrel (Sciurus Vulgaris)
Highland Titles Nature Reserve, Duror - Scotland
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This Wilson's snipe is searching for food in one of the last remaining spots in the region where the mud is still soft enough to probe for worms and other wiggly critters. For instance, the ground at Cardinal Marsh is hard as a rock now, but springs here at Pool Slough keep a constant supply of water above freezing flowing through.
like money, for instance ;-)
Henri De Regnier (1864 – 1936) a French symbolist poet
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Icelandic horse, Vikng Iceland cruise, Rural East Iceland land excursion from Djupivogur
In this instance Tufty was without his trademark tufts which moult during the summer months.
Sadly now despite his road safety campaign in the 60's Tufty is very rare in most of the UK.
Although the shots of him in the tree are my preferred, I still like this shot as he made off across the track directly in front of us.
Red Squirrel (Sciurus Vulgaris)
Highland Titles Nature Reserve, Duror - Scotland
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"In every life there’s a moment or two
when the self disappears, the cruel wound
takes over, and then again
at times we are filled with sky
or with birds or
simply with the sugary tea on the table
said the old woman
I know what you mean said the tulip
about epiphanies
for instance a cloudless April sky
the approach of a butterfly
but as to the disappearing self
no
I have not yet experienced that
You are creating distinctions
that do not exist in reality
where “self” and “not-self” are like salt
in ocean, cloud in sky
oxygen in fire
said the philosophical dog
under the table scratching his balls"
In Every Life by, Alicia Ostriker
b. 1937
#MacroMondays
#Ridge
This is a ridge that "came to me", or I stumbled upon, rather than having it included in my list of possible objects for our theme. Not that I had much of a list, but there were a few possible candidates.
It's funny with "Ridge" because with every possible idea I kept thinking, "Is this a ridge, or is it just an edge, or is it neither?" Regarding a mountain's ridge (or an Australian Ridgeback's characteristic back), the concept was perfectly clear. But otherwise... But it's probably just a language thing. Several things in the example gallery weren't subjects we would call a "ridge" in German, so it was a little difficult to wrap my head around it.
Sticking to the mountain context helped, however, and the "ridge" (which also happens to be an edge) of this small porcelain baking mould suddenly ticked the box. It's a tiny thing (when thinking cake-sized) and meant for one portion of desserts or tartlets and such. Since I don't bake often, I'm using it as a small bowl for my afternoon snack (olives, for instance). And yesterday, when I had just finished that snack and carried the mould/bowl to the kitchen, I looked at its wavy edge ... and carried it straight back to my photo table. The next thing that came to my mind was the impressive footage of the partly frozen Niagara Falls I had seen on the news the other day.
And while this is nowhere close to the mighty water and ice masses of the real thing (the shapes here look more like soft drizzles of ice), I decided to give it a try. Once again, I went for high-key to create a cold, snowy, icy look. I used my daylight photo lamp as a bright light source from above, and my small LED flashlight (handheld from the left) to bring out the wavy shape of the mould's ridge and outer edge. For the blue hue, I equipped one of the warm-light LEDs with the blue glass jar (from the right). No focus stacking this time, as the scene lent itself to single captures.
Size info: The mould's outer edge is 2,5 cm/0,98 inches high.
HMM, Everyone!
Photograph taken at Craigie Bushland Reserve. The bushland reserve is fenced off and feral-free. I was taken by these "flowers" on the Knobby rush. They emerged as white flowers and in some instances they produced these webs of white before dying off leaving blackened seed pods. If you zoom in you will see a fly feeding off the flowers. The droplets are from rain that fell just before I photographed this seed head
Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. . . . To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on."
Oscar Wilde
Tanjung Piai, Malaysia. Found sprawled across the mudflats at Tanjung Piai, these mudskippers are known for their "dances" when they square up against each other. The dancers typically puff up their bodies and mouths, and extend their fins to appear as big they can, and leap up into the air to show off their prowess. These jumps happen in a split second so I am glad to capture this instance of this individual trying to intimidate his rival for posterity.
The Temple Island in Henley-On-Thames is a beautiful little spot tucked away amongst the more exalted bustle of the Henley Regatta. I first caught wind of this place a few years ago when I had been a spectator at the Henley Regatta. Although I wanted to take some shots, there were not a lot of cloud cover to make it worth my while.
As a landscape photographer, everyone would nod their heads in unison that whilst sunny weather is preferred, all sun with little clouds does not really make for some compelling viewing especially at dusk.
So I went back thinking I should be here on other day when the clouds would play ball. Thing is you do not need too much of wind either or your reflection would be shot. So in all, there are a lot of factors that need to come together to get a good photograph of a place. There wasn't much of a wind blowing although there were a lot of boats going backwards and forwards which leaves a big wake every now and then. So you have to time the shot in between such instances.
In all, it was a decent evening's work at the temple island. Midsummer is a good time to be here with the sun setting adjacent to this location.
EXIF - f/11.0, ISO100 38mm 99 sec
Magenta Filter (handheld)
I can turn them upside down and they're still interesting to me as pictures. If you turn a picture that's not well organized upside down, it won't work :-)
William Eggleston
HBW!! Truth Matters!
hardy ground orchid, 'Brigantes', sarah p duke gardens, duke university, durham, north carolina
Taken near Knowhead farm on the county road not far from the Milltown of Kildrummy in the Don Valley, Aberdeenshire North East Scotland.
Terry Eve Photography Copyright 2018
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Another instance where I was playing with underexposing, this time with a juvenile little blue heron. What I didn't realize at the time I shot this, was the fact that the heron had caught a insect nymph and that nymph was in the light and glowing. So cool!
Underexposed by 3 2/3 stops. Best viewed large.
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This is an ancient landscape. Granite can be found over the mountain plateau, but by far the most predominant rock formation is dolerite from the Jurassic era (180 million years ago).
Tasmania has the largest exposure of dolerite in the world and it forms the characteristic features seen on many of its mountains ("The Organ Pipes" on Mount Wellington in Hobart for instance, and yesterday I showed you "Old Bill's Monument" here on Ben Lomond). These rocks are in fact the magma from huge volcanic activity that spread across the "island". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geology_of_Tasmania
Ben Lomond/turapina was also the only mountain in Tasmania to be crusted with a glacier, but more of that in coming days. But all of these extreme events led to the development of highly adaptable alpine plants, which are showing beautiful shades of green. orange, red and yellow. The colours actually remind me of some Persian carpets. In spring, when the wildflowers bloom, this is truly a magical place.
"Ben Lomond National Park protects a representative cross-section of Tasmania's north-east alpine plant communities. Although much of the plateau is stony with areas of low and often stunted forms of vegetation, the remainder of the mountain contains a wide variety of habitats ranging from alpine moorland to dense forest. A total of 222 plant species have been recorded on the Ben Lomond plateau, represented by 152 dicotyledons, 62 monocotyledons, 1 gymnosperm and 7 fern and fern ally families. The five most common families (Asteraceae, Poaceae, Epacridaceae, Cyperaceae and Proteaceae) account for about half the total number of species recorded. Most families, however, are only represented by one or two species. Some introduced plants have naturalised on the plateau from introduced grasses, clovers and straw used to stabilise soil and revegetate areas affected by slope grooming, road works and other site disturbances. The most common native species recorded on the plateau are the herbs Poa gunnii (tussock grass) and Gentianella diemensis, the shrubs, Richea scoparia, Orites acicularis and Pentachondra pumila, Baeckea gunniana and Epacris serpyllifolia. Cushion plants are abundant throughout the plateau. One species, the rock cushion plant Chionohebe ciliolata, is known only from a small localised area within the Park. Other rare and threatened species include the rare endemic Oreomyrrhis sessiliflora, and the endangered Colobanthus curtisiae." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Lomond_(Tasmania)
Another instance where persistence pays off. 45 minutes sticking with this guy yielded the best views to date of this beautiful warbler. I’m not a big fan of the lighting but I’ll take what I can get!
Susquehanna State Park
Harford County
Maryland
There will always be brighter days ahead. Sometimes I get too focused on the now, and see only the darkness. Today for instance, the stock market is down; the Omicron variant is causing another winter Covid scare; the politics in Washington is rancorous; rumors of wars, rumors of this, rumors of that. And yet, brighter days will surely come again. Back in August of 2015, the sun was shining brightly on the Bean in Chicago. It may be dark outside now, but the sun will surely shine again.
Chicago, IL
2015
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One of those instances where having the fancy lens makes a difference. Able to freeze the action of the waves and still shoot at a somewhat reasonable ISO thanks to f/1.2. The long exposure version of this (with the water all misty) has little to no drama .
In this instance, I have tried to import the colour "red". I mixed it myself trying to imitate the pinkish-red colour scheme of the original plant. I myself can see that my mix is different from the original. In the morning that is. I am sure I would perceive the colour of this rose differently at different times of the day. Our colour perception may anyway differ from person to person, but also in relation to the kind of light illuminating the rose. I could say, the rose does not have a colour that is once and for all defined. Colour, like everything else, is relative.
I took this photo from a moving car a couple of years ago when I was scouting locations for the “Al Hitchcock Society.” They are going to make a horror film to rival Friday the Thirteenth and were looking for a good location. I got a call the other day that they want to use this house.
Since most of you are probably sitting around bemoaning the fact that you can’t go out to dinner at a nice restaurant or go to the theater for Valentine’s Day, I could use your help. The director said that the first ten people to give him a plausible horror film scene will be in the film.
For instance:
1. People enter house and door locks behind them.
2. Some idiot says, “Let’s Explore the Basement,”
3. Group is scared by a baby crying, only to realize Chrystal has brought her two month old baby. “Chrystal, get your baby out of here. You scared us to death!”
Now that you have the idea, be sure you leave a suggestion, if you want to be in the film. You get paid, of course. Thank you in advance from the “Al Hitchcock Society.”
Choose yours.
noun
1. an act or instance of isolating.
2. the state of being isolated.
3. the complete separation from others of a person suffering from contagious or infectious disease; quarantine.
4. the separation of a nation from other nations by isolationism.
5. Psychoanalysis. a process whereby an idea or memory is divested of its emotional component.
6. Sociology. social isolation.
7. The act of being shunned by one's peers for being different. For shining a little brighter.
The first known instance of man using the wind to power a mechanical task was by Heron of Alexandria in the first century. Since then windmills have been helping human beings to power grist mills, pump water, power cities and more. This example, located in Paradise Valley Park in Middletown, Rhode Island, was built in 1810 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.
In~Stance at Pose Fair 2014
Details here :http://belledejourstyle.wordpress.com/2014/04/29/instance-for-pose-fair-2014/
This shot was captured at the Northern Lights Village near Levi, Finland. These are heated sleds for guided tours to see the Aurora Borealis. In this instance they serve as the subjects.
"For instance, if you come at four in the afternoon, I'll begin to be happy by three. The closer it gets to four, the happier I'll feel. By four I'll be all excited and worried; I'll discover what it costs to be happy! But if you come at any old time, I'll never know when I should prepare my heart..." There must be rites. "
~ Fragment of "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Stropharia caerulea is one of very few blue-green fungi. (In most instances the caps are much nearer to green than to blue, but when young and fresh they are very beautiful and quite startling.) The caps, initially bell-shaped, flatten and turn paler from the centre. White scales near the cap rim help to identify this unusual fungus.
Blue Roundhead mushrooms are an occasional find and very localised in Britain and Ireland, occurring mainly in alkaline areas of humus-rich Beech woodland. These striking mushrooms are found throughout mainland Europe - Sweden, France, Portugal and Slovenia - and they are also recorded in parts of North America.
Although this blue mushroom has been known to science for more than two centuries, its separation from Stropharia aeruginosa had not been clearly defined until, in 1979, the German mycologist Hanns Kreisel (b. 1931) published a paper in Sydowia (an international Mycological journal produced in Austria), which established its currently-accepted scientific name Stropharia caerulea.
Stropharia, the genus name, comes from the Greek word strophos meaning a belt, and it is a reference to the stem rings of fungi in this generic grouping. The specific epithet caerulea means blue, and often it refers to a deep blue rather than the blue-green colouring of the cap
Young caps are bell-shaped, blue-green and slimy, peppered with small white veil fragments. Older specimens, like the one illustrated here, are paler and scaly mainly near the rim of the cap, which expands but does not completely flatten out. In sunlight the slime dries up on older caps, which gradually turn pale tan from the centre outwards. The cap diameter at maturity usually ranges between 2 and 8cm.
At first pale grey, the crowded sinuate (notched near to the stem) gills become purple-brown as the spores mature. (The gills of the rarer Verdigris Roundhead, Stropharia aeruginosa are adnate or only slightly notched, and the gill edges of that species remain white as the gill faces mature and turn brown.)
Whitish above the ring, which is transient and soon discoloured brown by falling spores; slightly more obvious pale blue-green below the ring zone and peppered with small white scales. 5 to 12 mm in diameter and 2 to 6cm tall.
In the picture on the left, which shows of the stem and ring zone of a mature fruitbody, the stem ring has almost vanished apart from a slight annular bulge highlighted by brown spore stain.
#MacroMondays
#Keychain
I have my keys attached to a – by now pretty battered but still fully functional – carabiner hook I got for my 12th birthday. On that carabiner, there is one main, pretty large keyring, and on that several smaller keyrings and other things (such as my long-gone dog's last dog tag), other good luck charms (Tintin as photographer, Snowy in the red racing car), and even a small key of which I have long forgotten what it once opened. One of the smaller keyrings holds my main keys (house, apartment, mailbox), and whenever I want to have it small and lightweight, on a photo walk, for instance, I remove that keyring from the main ring.
One of those extra keyrings is the steel cable in my photo. It came with a stylised kitty figure on it. The kitty figure is made of aluminium and it's shaped like a 3D pictogram. In the setup for my photo, the kitty helped to keep the steel cable in position. The clasp (1,3 cm/0,51 inches long) and the steel cable are of a silver colour, of course, but the LED lamps turned it into gold. The blue shape behind the keyring is my small LED flashlight that emits a cold light. The flashlight was set on spotlight, and since its battery is a little low, it wasn't too bright but nicely served as an extra element in the photo (one single shot).
HMM, Everyone, and a Happy, healthy, and peaceful 2025!
It's been such a busy week...
I took this at the same time as my last photo, but only just had chance to upload it. I thought I'd leave this one in colour :).
Does anyone use Affinity Photo for Mac? I downloaded the free trial today, and so far I love it. I've yet to find certain features (vignette, for instance), but it has more features for working in RAW than photoshop elements.
...sometimes we have them... and well, sometimes we don't.
I guess the Trick is to know the difference.
Chicks haven't opened eyes yet, but they have no problems eating, even difficult food to swallow like a dragonfly for instance. Well, maybe a little difficulty.
This is one instance where the female looks about as pretty as the male, if not prettier.
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Nature, as we all know, is far from simple. Just a few instances here in this photo. One, this beautiful purple Ruellia hails originally from Mexico; and yet during the last century it's been naturalised all over the tropical world, also in Kuala Lumpur and environs. In this case, apparently, naturalisation is simple. And also - different often from those in human worlds - this exotic is nurtured carefully; here in park borders far from Mexico. Two, our Asian Honeybee seems to have no problem at all in her symbiotic relationship with North American Ruellia. Three, pollination might seem to be a simple process... but just think how many factors come into its success. I watched these Bees for a bit and noticed that it was only very occasionally that their pollen-laden backs touched the Flower's pistil. The pay-load seemed very low indeed. And yet Nature 'works'.
I have to post more than my usual one post per day to catch up with some of the lovely birds I have photographed over the past few weeks!
The Variegated fairywren was another first for me, one at Lake Tyrrell in Northen Victoria and the this one from the Sunshine Coast. None are particularly brilliant as it was dark, drab grey and rainy but they are such pretty birds.
This is another instance where I got attacked by mosquitoes. I counted about 50 bites on one arm alone!
Jan and I had to give up and leave in the end.
158719 heads north west across the low plains between Keith and Elgin with an Inverness bound service. The signal to the right of the train is superfluous in this instance, but are the lineside wires?
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Cladonia is a genus of moss-like lichenized fungi in the family Cladoniaceae. They are the primary food source for reindeer/caribou. Cladonia species are of economic importance to reindeer-herders, such as the Sami in Scandinavia or the Nenets in Russia. Antibiotic compounds are extracted from some species to create antibiotic cream. The light green species Cladonia stellaris is used in flower decorations. (Wikipedia)
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Birding with a naturalist during the quiet season has revealed some interesting finds this summer. For instance, I had no idea that reindeer lichens could be found in our area, especially since no reindeer or caribou can be found for thousands of miles. This tiny lichen and their cute little cups are only found in a few areas around Ottawa. Perhaps the deer eat them too.
Morris Island Conservation Area, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. July 2024.
Eastern Ontario Birding.