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While boating we quite often experience weather changes and you will notice that it was raining away from us and in this instance we got back home before experiencing the storm. We are not always so lucky.
Chickadees have always been a favorite bird of mine. I love their happy singsong trills, and when I see them in the harshest of times (like say, 30 degrees below zero fahrenheit, where you or I wouldn't last the morning), I marvel at their resilience and how happy they seem to be given their circumstances. I still believe they are. But, I was reading a study on their songs, and as it turns out the more intricate they get, the greater the predatorial threat they are warning others of. When you hear "Chicka-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee," a much greater threat is present than if you just heard the ever famous, "Fee-bee." Now, you or I might think a more complex call would mean a bigger predator with a huge beak and scary claws was close by. But, Chickadees know better. A smaller more agile predator would have a much greater chance at pinning a lightning fast Chickadee. For instance, A large Great Gray Owl elicited only two "dees," but a much smaller (but also more aerially adept) Pygmy Owl merited an extra four to twenty-some "dees." I also read that they have words for types of predatorial threats e.g. when you hear them wisp out a "Seet" it warns of flying threats from above. I will always associate their songs with happiness though, to me it is unmistakably so, and for that Bliss is far from Ignorance.
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.
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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“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
The Summer isles of the Scottish North West coast, one of the col de Sacs of the NC500 route, missed by lots but not all.
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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.
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.
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
Found at Ft. Snelling State Park - central Minnesota. Unsure if buck (or) doe.. in either case posed well this instance.
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A Jealopus is CREATURE OF YOUR MIND (my mind, in this instance.) SUCH a word like JEALOPUS doesn't exist, it was invented by someone (Gitu's) typing mistake when she was addressing something to Jero (cute guy.)
In an instance where you still want to feel equal parts sexy yet dressed for Fall, nothing marries the two quite like this gorgeous Just Because [JB] Nala Sweater Dress - clinging to your body with an unintentionally insulated yet very attractive vibe.
Looking more closely at its texturing, you will discover how its beautifully beaded reverse ridge stitch knit patterning is divinely juxtaposed to a diagonal, delicate leaf type ribbed knit patterning across the chest.
I love how this JB dress comes with 18 different color options for the main body and its secondary Milano patterned trims.
The buckled shoulder strap and waist sash combines these same 18 solid color choices with an additional 18 Tartan plaid options to accentuate the look (not shown).
This JB Nala sweater dress makes for a must have timeless fall and winter classic for your SL wardrobe arsenal.
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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
This building was rather weird.
When we stayed in a cottage on holiday just before lockdown this was in the garden. And every morning we would wake up and the structure would have moved around in the night…
This was taken one moonlit evening in March just before lockdown.
It was one of those instances where monochrome works better than colour - the house lights illuminated the foreground sail with tungsten orange which looked really odd against the blue star-scaped sky. But that is great in the conversion because it means you can balance the front sail brightness against the rest just by tweaking a colour channel in the B&W adjustment.
For the Thursday Monochrome group and for my 100x monochrome project.
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image! Happy Donnerstagsmonochrom (& 100x) :)
[Handheld - leaning on a bench- in moonlight (don’t often say that ;) ).
Converted in Affinity Photo on the iPaddle. Not much else really…]
Often overlooked as ordinary, I want to assure you that I, for one, love you dearly. I’ve known you all my life. You’re right outside the door of my house, my car and my store. You sing in the garden and you hop in the park. The most untidy and overgrown hedges in the neighborhood are the ones that come alive from the inside with the fluttering and flitting about of happy little sparrow families. That’s why I celebrate untidy hedges!
I said I’ve known you all my life but I should probably be more honest and say I’ve been vaguely aware of you. Until today I didn’t know, for instance, that you mate for life or that you can live for almost 20 years. Your first year is the toughest one to survive, though. After that, you grow wise and street smart.
The simple pleasure of seeing a little clan of sparrows hopping across the sun-warmed grass together - such a moment is given no value amidst today's global tsunami of instant needless information. But such are the moments that can get us through to the next day. Such are the moments that I will remember fondly. And what else is there, really? You know as much about that as anybody. The bottom line is that when I shut down the computer and take a deep breath, it is your happy chirpy chatter in the bushes outside that tells me everything is going to be alright.
Be the extraordinary friend right outside.
Claudia
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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Fish oil capsules in a whisky tumbler.
Repetition in photographic composition is a curious thing, both good and bad. Our minds like it. That’s good. We see a few instances of an object and assume the rest are the same. Then our minds switch off. Which is a problem. We’re bored…
So my theory is that we need to combine repetition with something else, some contrast to the sameness. Composition thrives on contrasts like a good compost (!). Contrasts can be all sorts of things: colour, tone, distance; shape; size; texture…
I struggled with this theme. The irony, of course, is that I was responsible for it in part. I had various ideas and then tried a few things. This was about the best I came up with.
The repetition is in the shape, size, and colour of the capsules. The contrasts are in the orientation, the tones, the overlapping shapes and the shape of the capsules with the round glass… I think it just about works with enough interest :)
Fish oil contains lots of Omega 3s which are good for your heart. The trouble is that nobody has done any research on whether taking it in capsule form actually works, whether the body absorbs it like that. Probably best to stick to eating real oily fish if you can - that works!
I hope you enjoyed the theme. You can blame me if you didn’t!
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Smile on Saturday :)
Sometimes it just depends on how you look at something. For instance can you guess what this is? I left a nearly empty water bottle in my car and the moisture inside of it froze. Fun stuff everywhere if you look around. :)
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 .
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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Basically you sit and smash at the water....well it worked in this instance. This bear was scrambling when it had 3 fish out of the water but it only walked away with one, after all you can only eat one at a time.
The Fountain of Arethusa is a natural fountain on the island of Ortygia in the historical centre of the city of Syracuse in Sicily. According to Greek mythology, the fresh water fountain is the place where the nymph Arethusa, the patron figure of ancient Syracuse, returned to earth's surface after escaping from her undersea home in Arcadia.
The fountain is mentioned in a number of works of literature, for instance John Milton’s pastoral elegy Lycidas and his masque Arcades, as well as Alexander Pope’s satire The Dunciad and William Wordsworth's blank verse poem The Prelude. These writers would have known the fountain from references in ancient Roman and Greek sources, such as Virgil's 10th Eclogue and Theocritus' pastoral poem Idylls. Virgil reckons the eponymous nymph as the divinity who inspired bucolic or pastoral poetry. In Moby-Dick, Herman Melville writes that waters from the fountain were said to come from the Holy Land.
The Fountain of Arethusa, the river Ciane, south of Syracuse, and the river Fiume Freddo in the province of Catania are the only places in Europe where papyrus grows.
This is a part of my son's fascinating mini model of a Stirling engine that actually works when you put it on top of a cup of hot water for instance. A cup filled with ice also works.
A Stirling engine ( invented and patented in 1816 by Robert Stirling ) is a heat engine that operates by cyclic compression and expansion of air or other gas at different temperatures, such that there is a conversion of heat energy to mechanical work.
Stirling engines have a high efficiency compared to internal combustion engines. They are also capable of quiet operation and can use almost any heat source. The heat energy source is generated external to the Stirling engine rather than by internal combustion. Because the Stirling engine is compatible with alternative and renewable energy sources it could become increasingly significant as the price of conventional fuels rises, and also in light of concerns such as depletion of oil supplies and climate change.
Manorbier
Taken from the grounds of St. James the Great Church. Throughout the castle's long history, it was only ever attacked twice. Both instances were minor skirmishes. In 1327 Richard de Barri attacked the castle in a dispute over family succession. Three hundred years later in 1645, during the English Civil War, the castle was seized by Parliamentarian forces. It was then deliberately damaged to prevent further military use by the Royalists.
During 17th and 18th centuries it fell into decay. In 1880 the castle was partially restored by a Mr J.R.Cobb, a tenant who carried out repairs to the buildings and walls. It now in private ownership and along with the gardens is open to the public.
Thank you for your visit and your comments, they are greatly appreciated.
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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.
This is a portion of the Matanuska River flood-plane in the Mat-Su Valley. It looks very impressive stretched out before Pioneer Peak - centered in the distance. You can see levels in the flood plane, for instance, all of the logs are one one level. There is a lower level still filled with ice and snow, and in the distance and to the right is the current river flowing along. As the water level rises and shrinks it continues to change the flood plane constantly over time. In fact, there are many channels this river carves into the floodplane that are active conduits of water - earning it the name braided river.
This photo is stitched together from three images.
Pioneer Peak was named for the group of farmers who came to this area during the great depression to start fresh with government assistance. It's an interesting historical story that is told at the Palmer Visitor Center.
Taken 24 April 2023 in Palmer, Alaska.
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
Zwei kreisten im blauen Himmel über den Häusern und Fabriken der Stadt, ich dachte wirklich zuerst an zwei entflohene Papageien oder Kakadus.
Two were circling in the blue sky over the city . I first thought it were two escapees, Cockatoos for instance.
One of the wonderful opportunities for photography, especially in South Australia, and in particular in this instance in the Clare Valley north of Adelaide are the many old stone farmhouses, sheds and other buildings from the 19th century that have been abandoned and in many cases, are just falling down. With the new crops of wheat and grain coming along, the fields are very green and recent rains right across the region will help farmers no end. We found this outstanding scene between Clare and Burra and I was gobsmacked by its sheer beauty and the isolation of this typical old farmhouse, now long abandoned in the field of green.
Towie and Glenkindie the Don valley Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
The turbines are Kildrummy Windfarm on Clashnarae Hill, with Buck of Cabrach behind. Photo taken from 440116 near Newton on the county road.
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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.
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
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Everything has a context. All things must be put into their proper proportion. There are too many times, especially in moral judgments, where people make false equivalences. For instance, minor mishaps are referred to as tragedies. No, what is happening in Ukraine right now is real tragedy, the passing of cricketing great Shane Warne is not.
Don't get me wrong. Everyone in the world who follows the sport of cricket feels the sudden loss of Rod Marsh and Shane Warne - both from heart attacks. They are significant losses for many people, not least their loved ones, and I have no wish to minimise that. I'm reeling at the news myself this morning. But the passing of Marsh and Warne cannot be compared to the loss of thousands of civilians in Ukraine. Never. That's a false equivalence.
So let this picture today be a tribute to two fine cricketers from someone who played the game, but at a far lower level than their sublime skills. Both men were in their own way free spirits. But how often on the sporting field they soared to new heights. We will miss them.
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If you look closely you'll see this is a composite of three shots. It's the same seagull as it swept across the water below me.
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.
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.
I don’t know about you but the news is so depressing at the moment. Yes this is a tragic time, we need to stay up to date with the situation and advice, but our constantly fed appetite for instance news is now starting bite into our mental wellbeing and making some to act irrationally. I stopped looking at twitter and now filtered out most of the virus news from my google feed, so Instagram is some much needed relief. This morning I saw a lovely photo of Tarn Hows by @m_l_robbins this morning, which took me back to a March 2 years ago where I had a fantastic early morning wander around this beautiful place and decided to look up one of those photos and have another bash at processing it.
Okavango Delta
Botswana
Southern Africa
The Giraffe of Botswana are of the southern Africa race or commonly known as the southern Giraffe. The Botswana giraffe population is stable.
Giraffe 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.
Giraffe 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 holding 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 moving off.
The Giraffe of the Okavango Delta suffer from an eye infection that often blinds them in both eyes resulting in the particular animal staggering around until taken by a predator or falling and unable to stand up. This disease flares up at unspecified times.
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.
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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'.