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Taken at the Dayton Rodeo in Iowa.
They set off fireworks at the end of the show. In one are of the pen the horses freaked with the explosion sounds, they were back lit extremely well but I added a Topaz Glow filter to intensify the lighting and movement.
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"Beauty, pleasure, and the good things of life are intensified, and perhaps only exist, by reason of contrast."
- Walter J. Phillips
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"It's coming. It's coming and it's coming for me. The dark shadow is intensifying. I can see it."
“He turned to her and said, “You mean, none of the things you said were true?” She didn’t respond. All day he’d been trying to work her up, to make her say something, do something, be angry at him, anything, any thing. She would not grace the culmination of all that life, all those days when she wished him… It was too late. She didn’t respond, didn’t even look up. She was thinking this pencil was the best one she ever had. Why didn’t she buy two packs. They were even on sale. She should’ve bought two packs. “See how softly it glides. There’s a kindness to it. Yes, there surely is a kindness to it.” She turned the top upwards and for a few seconds stared at it. What was she looking for? The kindness? The kindness in which the pencil moved? Perhaps, she was. Perhaps, she was looking for kindness. He turned to leave the room. He was still breathing heavily. She couldn’t bear it. She could not possibly bear to hear that breathing one more time. She thought of turning the pen and…
She said something. He turned around suddenly, “What did you say?” She looked back down at her paper. “What did you say? You said something. What did you say? What did you say?” She was working on the background now. This whole wall needed yet another coat. She was examining the plan carefully. “It’ll all come out together. It will.” She couldn’t wait. In a day or two if she kept at it, it’d come together nicely. “It’ll come together real nice.” She just needed to make sure the pencil did not run out. No, the pencil could not run out. He had left the room some time ago. She knew. She sighed and let out a sudden rush of air emptying those lungs forcefully. She just had to be careful that pencil did not run out.”
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As I walk through this wicked world
Searchin' for light in the darkness of insanity
I ask myself, is all hope lost?
Is there only pain and hatred, and misery?
And each time I feel like this inside
There's one thing I wanna know
What's so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding? Oh
What's so funny 'bout peace love and understanding?
And as I walked on
Through troubled times
My spirit gets so downhearted sometimes
So where are the strong
And who are the trusted?
And where is the harmony?
Sweet harmony
'Cause each time I feel it slippin' away, just makes me wanna cry
What's so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding? Oh
What's so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding?
So where are the strong?
And who are the trusted?
And where is the harmony?
Sweet harmony
'Cause each time I feel it slippin' away, just makes me wanna cry
What's so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding? Oh
What's so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding? Oh
What's so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding?
Sung by the song's composer, Nick Lowe.
“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.” - John Lennon
The Canon 100mm Macro Lens shoots like a dream. Here are some of my own tips for creating fantastic bokeh:
- Control depth of field as narrow as possible by setting the lens aperture to maximum, most cases at F/2.8
- Position the subject closer or increase the distance between the subject and the background.
- Shooting in soft and warm light. Backlighting can really bring subjects with fine details to life and intensify the foreground/background bokeh.
- Shooting on the same or lower level as your subject, resulting in more choices of the background.
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Redstart (m) - Phoenicuros Phoenicuros
The common redstart (Phoenicurus phoenicurus), or often simply redstart, is a small passerine bird in the redstart genus Phoenicurus. Like its relatives, it was formerly classed as a member of the thrush family, (Turdidae), but is now known to be an Old World flycatcher (family Muscicapidae).
Common redstarts prefer open mature birch and oak woodland with a high horizontal visibility and low amounts of shrub and understorey especially where the trees are old enough to have holes suitable for its nest. They prefer to nest on the edge of woodland clearings. In Britain it occurs primarily in upland areas less affected by agricultural intensification, but further east in Europe also commonly in lowland areas, including parks and old gardens in urban areas. They nest in natural tree holes, so dead trees or those with dead limbs are beneficial to the species; nestboxes are sometimes used. A high cover of moss and lichen is also preferred. They also use mature open conifer woodland, particularly in the north of the breeding range. Management to thin out the trees is thus favoured.
In England, where it has declined by 55% in the past 25 years, the Forestry Commission offers grants under a scheme called England's Woodland Improvement Grant (EWIG); as does Natural Englands Environmental Stewardship Scheme. It is a very rare and irregular breeding bird in Ireland, with between one and five pairs breeding in most years, mainly in County Wicklow.
It is a summer visitor throughout most of Europe and western Asia (east to Lake Baikal), and also in northwest Africa in Morocco. It winters in central Africa and Arabia, south of the Sahara Desert but north of the Equator, from Senegal east to Yemen. It is widespread as a breeding bird in Great Britain, particularly in upland broadleaf woodlands and hedgerow trees, but in Ireland it is very local, and may not breed every year.
The males first arrive in early to mid April, often a few days in advance of the females. Five or six light blue eggs are laid during May, with a second brood in mid summer in the south of the breeding range. It departs for Africa between mid-August and early October. It often feeds like a flycatcher, making aerial sallies after passing insects, and most of its food consists of winged insects. The call is chat-like and the alarm a plaintive single note, wheet, like that of many other chats.
The male’s song is similar to that of the Robin, but never more than a prelude, since it has an unfinished, feeble ending.
Medicine Lake, Alberta CA
I just returned from a trip to the Canadian Rockies where an early snow provided challenges driving but also some nice photo opportunities. This "lake" is in Jasper National Park. The massive fire in 2017 destroyed many of the trees surrounding this lake as you can see off to the right.
From Wikipedia: Medicine Lake is a geologic anomaly in the sense that it is not actually a lake but rather an area in which the Maligne River (flowing from Maligne Lake into the Athabasca River) backs up and suddenly disappears underground as a losing stream. During the summer months during intensified meltwater runoff the lake (which during the winter months is a meandering frozen river) fills to levels which fluctuate over time and with the runoff events. Much like a bathtub that is filled too fast for it to drain, it becomes laden with water (lake) until it can slowly drain as the tap flow (runoff) is reduced (river). The underground system is extensive and during the 1970s researchers used a biodegradable dye to determine the underground river's extent. The dye showed up in many of the lakes and rivers in the area to the point where it became clear that the underground system was one of the most extensive in the world.
Genoa Nervi: Gropallo tower on the Anita Garibaldi promenade
The Gropallo tower, formerly also known as the Hay tower due to the wet hay that was burned on the top of the tower to produce smoke and signal dangers, takes its name from the Marquis Gaetano Gropallo, creator of the walk, who bought it in the middle of the 19th century.
The construction of the tower dates back to the mid-sixteenth century, and was part of the defensive system built due to the intensification of attacks by the Corsairs of Dragut, but over the centuries it has been modified and restored several times.
In 1936 the tower was purchased by the municipality of Genoa.
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Long after the sun had disappeared behind the peaks, the play of colors in the sky still intensified for almost an hour until the actual sunset. We thought about staying up there until the sunrise which would begin 2 hours later. But it was getting really cold and the moisture creped into our bones. Time for descent: 11:30 p.m
That sinking feeling...
A ghostly boat washed ashore on the east coast of Florida by Hurricane Irma. We are now halfway through the 2022 hurricane season and things are starting to intensify.
Lens: Nikkor 18 - 200mm f / 3.5 - 5.6G DX.
El otoño es una estación de colores, donde todos los árboles nos brindan una paleta de colores desde amarillos, hasta naranjas y rojos, cambiando los paisajes por completo. La foto la tomé cuando la luz intensifica mas los colores de las hojas a 50 mm con el objetivo del kit.
Autumn is a season of colors, where all the trees give us a palette of colors from yellows, to oranges and reds, changing landscapes completely. The photo I took when the light further intensifies the colors of the leaves to 50 mm with the objective of the kit.
In my garden. La Ceja, Colombia; 2.300 meters above sea level.
Centaurea cyanus, commonly known as cornflower is native to Europe. In the past it often grew as a weed in cornfields (in the broad sense of the word "corn", referring to grains, such as wheat, barley, rye, or oats), hence its name. It is now endangered in its native habitat by agricultural intensification, particularly over-use of herbicides, destroying its habitat.
In the United Kingdom it has declined from 264 sites to just 3 sites in the last 50 years. However, through introduction as an ornamental plant in gardens and a seed contaminant in crop seeds, now naturalised in many other parts of the world.
"'Green water' is pumped directly from aquifers and the wetlands area to provide as natural environment for wildlife as possible. Green Water contains an abundance of tiny single-cell algae and is the base of a food chain which feeds small zooplankton. Many birds and fish feed upon the algae and the zooplankton, as well as the worms and insects which are nourished by the zooplankton. Those small algae cells are high in protein content and contain many types of pigments, like betacarotene, which intensify the color of fish as well as many species of birds including Flamingos and Roseate Spoonbills.
Occasionally water from the wetlands may smell. The smell is caused by sulfur compound gasses produced by the natural decomposition process as bacteria decompose dead plants and animal matter that settles to the bottom of the water. While unpleasant to us, it is a natural occurrence in a shallow-water ecosystem."
Norfolk in the far east of England is renowned for its large skies. When we visited recently the skies were full of the sound of jet aircraft, which in all probability were F35s from nearby RAF Marham where there is a pilot training facility.
Norfolk is the fifth largest county in England at over 2,000 square miles, and is primarily rural with only five major towns of which the largest is the city of Norwich. In the centuries before the Norman Conquest the wetlands of the east of the county began to be converted to farmland, and settlements grew in these areas. By the time of the Domesday Book it was one of the most densely populated parts of the British Isles.
During the Middle Ages the county developed arable agriculture and woollen industries. Norfolk's prosperity at that time is evident from the county's large number of medieval churches. Out of an original total of over one thousand some 659 have survived, more than in any other county in Britain and the greatest concentration in the world.
During the Second World War agriculture rapidly intensified, and it has remained very intensive since, with the establishment of large fields for growing cereals and oilseed rape (pictured).
Yeyyyyyy !!!! Colours !!!!!!!! Watching these stunning Autumn colours in my pc (which are slightly intensified by me on purpose), I feel I- myself swim in colours, ….like the lucky ducks you see in my previous uploads…What a feeling!!!!....
(And, yes, again these captures are taken in the divine wonderland of Château De La Hulpe near my home…)
Friday Frenzy Storm Photo Images captured throughout the night! First sets I was able to be outside to capture as still light rain with wind just starting to pick up! 2nd set I was sitting on my couch inside my living room. The window is to the left! The rains were intensifying! 3rd set was from my inside front porch to the right looking out my row of windows that overlook the right side of my yard. Stay tuned as I go through the night. Photo images credited to Vickie L Klinkhammer of Vickielynne Photography and Designs (VLP&Designs)
I caught an image of leaves on my Sweetgum tree on a rainy day. The rain intensified their magical autumn colors.
"How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days."
~ John Burroughs
This image reminds me of those aerial photos of river tributaries flowing into the desert. In fact, it's patterns in the slate tiles of my floor, measures 3" across. (Note to self, remember to sweep the floor before photographing next time, dog hairs are showing). Some colour saturation to intensify the natural colour of the stone.
A lonely chair stands on the sidewalk, in front of the wall and a secured window, intensifying the sense of isolation that prevails in the urban environment.
A series with a double character: Architectural forms, objects, spaces and natural landscapes with or without elements of human intervention - all with a connecting element - the Absence of living creatures, while maybe somewhere around wanders the spirit of the creator or someone we know... Or not?
cornflower or bachelor's button, is an annual flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native to Europe. In the past it often grew as a weed in cornfields (in the broad sense of "corn", referring to grains, such as wheat, barley, rye, or oats), hence its name. It is now endangered in its native habitat by agricultural intensification, particularly over-use of herbicides, destroying its habitat. It is also, however, through introduction as an ornamental plant in gardens and a seed contaminant in crop seeds, now naturalised in many other parts of the world, including North America and parts of Australia.
Redstart (F) - Phoenicuros Phoenicuros
The common redstart (Phoenicurus phoenicurus), or often simply redstart, is a small passerine bird in the redstart genus Phoenicurus. Like its relatives, it was formerly classed as a member of the thrush family, (Turdidae), but is now known to be an Old World flycatcher (family Muscicapidae).
Common redstarts prefer open mature birch and oak woodland with a high horizontal visibility and low amounts of shrub and understorey especially where the trees are old enough to have holes suitable for its nest. They prefer to nest on the edge of woodland clearings. In Britain it occurs primarily in upland areas less affected by agricultural intensification, but further east in Europe also commonly in lowland areas, including parks and old gardens in urban areas. They nest in natural tree holes, so dead trees or those with dead limbs are beneficial to the species; nestboxes are sometimes used. A high cover of moss and lichen is also preferred. They also use mature open conifer woodland, particularly in the north of the breeding range. Management to thin out the trees is thus favoured.
In England, where it has declined by 55% in the past 25 years, the Forestry Commission offers grants under a scheme called England's Woodland Improvement Grant (EWIG); as does Natural Englands Environmental Stewardship Scheme. It is a very rare and irregular breeding bird in Ireland, with between one and five pairs breeding in most years, mainly in County Wicklow.
It is a summer visitor throughout most of Europe and western Asia (east to Lake Baikal), and also in northwest Africa in Morocco. It winters in central Africa and Arabia, south of the Sahara Desert but north of the Equator, from Senegal east to Yemen. It is widespread as a breeding bird in Great Britain, particularly in upland broadleaf woodlands and hedgerow trees, but in Ireland it is very local, and may not breed every year.
The males first arrive in early to mid April, often a few days in advance of the females. Five or six light blue eggs are laid during May, with a second brood in mid summer in the south of the breeding range. It departs for Africa between mid-August and early October. It often feeds like a flycatcher, making aerial sallies after passing insects, and most of its food consists of winged insects. The call is chat-like and the alarm a plaintive single note, wheet, like that of many other chats.
The male’s song is similar to that of the Robin, but never more than a prelude, since it has an unfinished, feeble ending.
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While driving home from work I was looking at the sunset hoping that the colour would intensify and last until I got home.
Redstart (M) - Phoenicuros Phoenicuros
The common redstart (Phoenicurus phoenicurus), or often simply redstart, is a small passerine bird in the redstart genus Phoenicurus. Like its relatives, it was formerly classed as a member of the thrush family, (Turdidae), but is now known to be an Old World flycatcher (family Muscicapidae).
Common redstarts prefer open mature birch and oak woodland with a high horizontal visibility and low amounts of shrub and understorey especially where the trees are old enough to have holes suitable for its nest. They prefer to nest on the edge of woodland clearings. In Britain it occurs primarily in upland areas less affected by agricultural intensification, but further east in Europe also commonly in lowland areas, including parks and old gardens in urban areas. They nest in natural tree holes, so dead trees or those with dead limbs are beneficial to the species; nestboxes are sometimes used. A high cover of moss and lichen is also preferred. They also use mature open conifer woodland, particularly in the north of the breeding range. Management to thin out the trees is thus favoured.
In England, where it has declined by 55% in the past 25 years, the Forestry Commission offers grants under a scheme called England's Woodland Improvement Grant (EWIG); as does Natural Englands Environmental Stewardship Scheme. It is a very rare and irregular breeding bird in Ireland, with between one and five pairs breeding in most years, mainly in County Wicklow.
It is a summer visitor throughout most of Europe and western Asia (east to Lake Baikal), and also in northwest Africa in Morocco. It winters in central Africa and Arabia, south of the Sahara Desert but north of the Equator, from Senegal east to Yemen. It is widespread as a breeding bird in Great Britain, particularly in upland broadleaf woodlands and hedgerow trees, but in Ireland it is very local, and may not breed every year.
The males first arrive in early to mid April, often a few days in advance of the females. Five or six light blue eggs are laid during May, with a second brood in mid summer in the south of the breeding range. It departs for Africa between mid-August and early October. It often feeds like a flycatcher, making aerial sallies after passing insects, and most of its food consists of winged insects. The call is chat-like and the alarm a plaintive single note, wheet, like that of many other chats.
The male’s song is similar to that of the Robin, but never more than a prelude, since it has an unfinished, feeble ending.
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Recently the activities for shooting the Grey Head intensified becos the local photographers were getting great action shots. I decided to join the crowd and managed to bring home a couple of action shots too. Here is one to share. Second last shot of the flight sequence before hitting the water to get his prey.
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I think this is the prettier of the two British Sparrows. Fortunately we have quite a healthy population in Central Scotland and they can be found at many sites. However, the English population is in severe trouble due to agricultural intensification changing practices.
Panoramic view of Castle Rock and Lake Powell, as seen from Wahweap, AZ in late afternoon sunset lighting. I love the way the red and orange color in these rocks intensifies in low-angle light.
We took a sunset dinner cruise on the Seine on evening. I had wanted an opportunity to shoot the cathedral from this angle and could not believe my luck at the timing. This was taken from the bow of our cruise boat.
I took a three shot bracket with one two under and one two over and did an HDR in LR. Then I used Color Efex Pro 4 to intensify the contrast, color and sharpness.
These amazing colours are all natural....not intensified during post processing. Best viewed large for the details.
Started with my photo shot back on Sunday, March 27th. It was a warm, sunny day about 4 pm a few blocks from home. Didn’t crop. Used normal oil painting effect at 75%, then remained on that screen for the overlay effect, intensifying the colors. Enclosed photo in Adobe photoshop express yellow orange basic edge. Finished by decorating with Adobe photoshop express animal sticker AN15.
The Arctic is seen as a window into the Earth's future. Polar amplification is the phenomenon that any change in the net radiation balance (for example greenhouse intensification) tends to produce a larger change in temperature near the poles than the planetary average. Average Arctic temperatures have risen twice as fast as the global average. The photo was taken under the midnight sun in Disko Bay, Greenland, Disko Island is in the background.
"Every time I look at you, every time we meet alone. I can’t help it, I burn inside.
So much time has passed... and each time the flame intensifies, over time. I have the impossible. So I love you forever and ever here and now".
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"Cada vez que te miro, cada vez que nos encontramos solos. No puedo evitarlo, ardo por dentro.
Tanto tiempo a pasado... y cada vez la llama se intensifica, con el tiempo. Tengo lo imposible. De modo que te quiero para siempre y siempre aquí y ahora".
I hope that you like it ^.^
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An enchanting, uplifting river of colorful blooms!!! In extra vivid colors, that I simply adore!!What else, to …intensify your Spring awaiting feeling inside you!! Already!! Yesss!
At the Keunkenhof Park of Holland!! What else!!!!!
( ….And for dancing at …home alone, …like I do!!!!!😊😊 : )
When last we touch
we rarely know
this time’s the last
you’re soon to go
But since we’ve touched
you’ll always be
a special light
inside of me
Farewell dear friend
Beth's final image was, fittingly, a tribute to another: www.flickr.com/photos/61357175@N08/15681796280/
See Beth's lovely work here: www.flickr.com/photos/61357175@N08/
Or say goodbye to Beth here: www.flickr.com/groups/photopigs/discuss/72157649159582490/
Female Masai ostrich has pink tones on neck and legs, the neck color intensifies in mating season. This species is too big to fly, but it can run at up to 60 mph. Seen in Tarangire. East Africa.
following a suggestion in a comment for a photo I posted over a year ago, I am re-posting this, in sharpened and intensified colour, and in larger size...improved, I think ! Thanks for the prod, Allan McKenzie!
The field hare, also called hare for short, is a mammal from the hare family. The species inhabits open and semi-open landscapes. Its natural range covers large parts of the south-western Palearctic; however, due to numerous naturalisations, the brown hare is now found on almost all continents. Due to the strong intensification of agriculture, the population of the brown hare is declining in many regions of Europe. The Schutzgemeinschaft Deutsches Wild has declared the brown hare the animal of the year for 2001 and again for 2015.
(Wikipedia)
Der Feldhase, kurz auch Hase genannt, ist ein Säugetier aus der Familie der Hasen. Die Art besiedelt offene und halboffene Landschaften. Das natürliche Verbreitungsgebiet umfasst weite Teile der südwestlichen Paläarktis; durch zahlreiche Einbürgerungen kommt der Feldhase heute jedoch auf fast allen Kontinenten vor. Aufgrund der starken Intensivierung der Landwirtschaft ist der Bestand des Feldhasen in vielen Regionen Europas rückläufig. Die Schutzgemeinschaft Deutsches Wild erklärte den Feldhasen für das Jahr 2001 und erneut 2015 zum Tier des Jahres.
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Redstart (m) - Phoenicuros Phoenicuros
The common redstart (Phoenicurus phoenicurus), or often simply redstart, is a small passerine bird in the redstart genus Phoenicurus. Like its relatives, it was formerly classed as a member of the thrush family, (Turdidae), but is now known to be an Old World flycatcher (family Muscicapidae).
Common redstarts prefer open mature birch and oak woodland with a high horizontal visibility and low amounts of shrub and understorey especially where the trees are old enough to have holes suitable for its nest. They prefer to nest on the edge of woodland clearings. In Britain it occurs primarily in upland areas less affected by agricultural intensification, but further east in Europe also commonly in lowland areas, including parks and old gardens in urban areas. They nest in natural tree holes, so dead trees or those with dead limbs are beneficial to the species; nestboxes are sometimes used. A high cover of moss and lichen is also preferred. They also use mature open conifer woodland, particularly in the north of the breeding range. Management to thin out the trees is thus favoured.
In England, where it has declined by 55% in the past 25 years, the Forestry Commission offers grants under a scheme called England's Woodland Improvement Grant (EWIG); as does Natural Englands Environmental Stewardship Scheme. It is a very rare and irregular breeding bird in Ireland, with between one and five pairs breeding in most years, mainly in County Wicklow.
It is a summer visitor throughout most of Europe and western Asia (east to Lake Baikal), and also in northwest Africa in Morocco. It winters in central Africa and Arabia, south of the Sahara Desert but north of the Equator, from Senegal east to Yemen. It is widespread as a breeding bird in Great Britain, particularly in upland broadleaf woodlands and hedgerow trees, but in Ireland it is very local, and may not breed every year.
The males first arrive in early to mid April, often a few days in advance of the females. Five or six light blue eggs are laid during May, with a second brood in mid summer in the south of the breeding range. It departs for Africa between mid-August and early October. It often feeds like a flycatcher, making aerial sallies after passing insects, and most of its food consists of winged insects. The call is chat-like and the alarm a plaintive single note, wheet, like that of many other chats.
The male’s song is similar to that of the Robin, but never more than a prelude, since it has an unfinished, feeble ending.
My First Edit with Aurora HDR
Processed with Affinity Photo, Aurora HDR, Intensify, ShockMyPic for OS X
In a cornflower inflorescence
TWU Butterfly Garden, Denton, Texas
Centaurea cyanus, commonly known as cornflower or bachelor's button, is an annual flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native to Europe. In the past it often grew as a weed in cornfields (in the broad sense of "corn", referring to grains, such as wheat, barley, rye, or oats), hence its name. It is now endangered in its native habitat by agricultural intensification, particularly over-use of herbicides, destroying its habitat. It is also, however, through introduction as an ornamental plant in gardens and a seed contaminant in crop seeds, now naturalised in many other parts of the world, including North America and parts of Australia. (Wikipedia)
Species: Carduelis cannabina.
The linnet can be seen on farmland and heathland across the UK. But, like so many other farmland birds, linnets are declining rapidly, mainly due to agricultural intensification. Info: The Wildlife Trusts.
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Declarations of love integrated into the season: "This autumn, my feelings for you bloom like the leaves in their last, splendid splendor, a love that warms more than the October sun," a phrase that describes the depth of feeling that intensifies with the season.♥😘 I love you my oppa ♥
Redstart (M) - Phoenicuros Phoenicuros
The common redstart (Phoenicurus phoenicurus), or often simply redstart, is a small passerine bird in the redstart genus Phoenicurus. Like its relatives, it was formerly classed as a member of the thrush family, (Turdidae), but is now known to be an Old World flycatcher (family Muscicapidae).
Common redstarts prefer open mature birch and oak woodland with a high horizontal visibility and low amounts of shrub and understorey especially where the trees are old enough to have holes suitable for its nest. They prefer to nest on the edge of woodland clearings. In Britain it occurs primarily in upland areas less affected by agricultural intensification, but further east in Europe also commonly in lowland areas, including parks and old gardens in urban areas. They nest in natural tree holes, so dead trees or those with dead limbs are beneficial to the species; nestboxes are sometimes used. A high cover of moss and lichen is also preferred. They also use mature open conifer woodland, particularly in the north of the breeding range. Management to thin out the trees is thus favoured.
In England, where it has declined by 55% in the past 25 years, the Forestry Commission offers grants under a scheme called England's Woodland Improvement Grant (EWIG); as does Natural Englands Environmental Stewardship Scheme. It is a very rare and irregular breeding bird in Ireland, with between one and five pairs breeding in most years, mainly in County Wicklow.
It is a summer visitor throughout most of Europe and western Asia (east to Lake Baikal), and also in northwest Africa in Morocco. It winters in central Africa and Arabia, south of the Sahara Desert but north of the Equator, from Senegal east to Yemen. It is widespread as a breeding bird in Great Britain, particularly in upland broadleaf woodlands and hedgerow trees, but in Ireland it is very local, and may not breed every year.
The males first arrive in early to mid April, often a few days in advance of the females. Five or six light blue eggs are laid during May, with a second brood in mid summer in the south of the breeding range. It departs for Africa between mid-August and early October. It often feeds like a flycatcher, making aerial sallies after passing insects, and most of its food consists of winged insects. The call is chat-like and the alarm a plaintive single note, wheet, like that of many other chats.
The male’s song is similar to that of the Robin, but never more than a prelude, since it has an unfinished, feeble ending.
Rain downpour in the distance across a valley of peaks located in the Badlands NP in South Dakota. We experienced some rain but knew it would enhance the colors in the rock formations. The beauty and mood intensified!
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Curve/Hue/Saturation adjustments and Topaz Glow layers
Nik ColorEfex2 border
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