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"Egret Intimate Interaction" by Patti Deters. A Great White Egret (Ardea alba) parent gently nurtures her very alert chick in a nest made of twigs and branches. The intimate scene lasted just long enough for me to capture the tender moment. It was almost as if they were silently communicating - perhaps "discussing" some important survival lessons. There were other chicks in the nest as you can see by the white fluffy feathers, but this particular baby was the most eager to nestle with mama. These wading birds are found throughout the USA, and this particular spring nest was seen in Fergus Falls, Minnesota. Thank you for viewing this picture. If you like outdoor nature photography, please enjoy more birds, animals, and other wildlife images at patti-deters.pixels.com/featured/egret-intimate-interacti....
Quite a different image from the usual things I take and display,, a totally different genre, but nothing wrong with diversifying a little, especially while the chance is available to shoot these fantastic sea birds. Puffins are always a joy to shoot or indeed just to sit and watch if you find a good place to see them.
This was taken on the fantastic Isle of May off the coast of Fife, where up to 120,000 Puffins nest between April at the beginning of August, this particular pair were quite comical and I shot them for a while, this being my favourite image with the interaction between the two of them clear to see.
"Three Redpolls on a Branch" by Patti Deters. Three Common Redpolls (Acanthis flammea) engage in an animated interaction as they perch on a small tree branch. Their small, plump bodies are adorned with streaked brown and white feathers, while their distinctive red crowns add a pop of color. A hint of pink blush decorates their chests, a characteristic of these hardy finches found in northern boreal forests. The birds appear to be communicating - one with its beak open as if mid-chatter - while the others listen attentively, creating a dynamic and heartwarming scene. In the quiet of the woodland of the Sax-Zim Bog in northern Minnesota, USA, this composite trio might be sharing the latest news of the winter season - perhaps discussing the best feeding spots or warning of an approaching predator. Their tiny claws grip the rough bark, unfazed by the chilly air, as they embody resilience and camaraderie. Common redpolls are known for their social nature and remarkable ability to withstand frigid temperatures, even burrowing into snow for warmth at night. Watching them interact offers a glimpse into the fascinating world of these spirited little songbirds. Thank you for viewing this image. If you like outdoor nature photography, please enjoy more birds, animals, and other wildlife images at patti-deters.pixels.com/featured/three-redpolls-on-a-bran...
Street performer and Broadway actor Orion Griffiths engages an audience along San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf.
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My computer is right next to a book shelf, so I've been stealing titles from there. xD I'm weird. But Wendi isn't, she's so pretty I love her!
My interpretation of the most significant interaction between groups in the LEGO wargame Decisive Action 4 if condensed to just one word each. Granted, this simplification omits many other aspects of the game.
Annihilation + Alliance = Annihilliance
I made this up. In this game the combination seems like a single fluid activity.
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The wonderful Fatoumata Diawara from her gig in Vincennes, a suburb of Paris, in May 2014.
I've loved Fatoumata since I first saw her at WOMAD 2009 as a backing singer to Oumou Sangare. She just shows such great joy when she's performing...and I love her music.
I'd arranged a photo pass via her assistant, Sophie. When I turned up at the gig, security said (en français, naturellement!) that I could only shoot the first three songs.
However, before the gig, Sophie came out to introduce herself. When I checked about the three songs, she replied: "Three songs? Who told you that? She's barely getting warmed up after three songs. Shoot the whole gig, I'll square it!"
Music to my ears. :-)
You can see a video of Fatoumata singing 'Bissa' here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=E82BifytoYY
You can see more of my shots of her, here: Fatoumata Diawara
My profound thanks are due to Sophie Cragg, for arranging my photo pass and particularly for allowing me to shoot the full show.
She was taking a break, on her thoughts I guess she would never expect someone was about to approach her asking for a photo... but she agreed and approved the result, so here it is for you!
Why do I love becoming a woman? A question I often ask myself as well as hearing from others who know of my liking to take ion a female persona. Do I regret being a man that desires to dress as a woman? Where is it all going to end up?
Questions, questions…
I accept we all have our own motivations and aspirations for expressing our desire to dress as women and which can also be a desire to inhabit a female persona. I have my personal feelings, emotional needs and ambitions for my female alter-ego which are not necessarily a reflection of how others feel about their own situation. For me, I have a need to actually pass as a woman and be perceived as being female when I cross-dress. I will admit to frustration over the years through a combination of my lack of skills in the art of male to female transformation, limits imposed by my physicality (being male) and I’m sure well meant advice telling me to forget passing and just enjoy it. To forget passing undermines everything that motivates my female side. When I become Helene I want to be a woman not simply a man dressed up. I dream of having a feminine appearance and emotionally being female rather than male. If this all sounds like serious transexual characteristics and an urgent need to start transition then let me say with utter certainty that is not what I want.
I don’t buy into the simplistic view that if you have a powerful desire to be a woman then the only answer is to transition. Nothing is that straightforward that you can boil it down to a one or the other answer. There exists a huge area of crossover. I genuinely like my male life and like being me. The idea of killing off my male self and only existing as a woman is not something I want. If I were to indulge in being simplistic, I could say I want it all, to be both a man and a woman. However, I know, especially now I am sixty years of age, how my feelings operate in terms of my transgender feelings. I can see now I have real intense moments of wanting to be female and this are all consuming when they occur. I do understand though, that these intense desires being too diminish and I am happy to return to being a man again. I would say that is reasonably creative cut as to why transitioning would not be a happy course of action for me.
I doubt I am alone in having these intense moments of wanting to be female forever but knowing they will at some point ease off. I will admit that it is these feelings that drive me to want to actually look convincingly female and to behave as a female both physically and emotionally when I transform myself from a man into a woman. It’s a fundamental part of my being and needs to be set free now and again.
In recent months my focus and aspirations for my female self has shifted towards passing myself off in a believable way as being a real woman. I find myself observing real women more and more and noting their choices in clothing, footwear and make-up. I also observe what men find attractive in women they encounter My goal is to be accomplished enough to be perceived as being a female and I too want to behave and respond as a female with any social interactions be that shopping, a polite hell, having a coffee in a cafe, visiting a gallery, having a meal and even creating some intrigue and desire with men. In short my aim for the few hours I take on my female persona I want o be able to cease being a man in every way and exist as a female.
Having outlined my feelings and aspirations does that answer any of the questions I began this narrative with? I think it partly addresses them. I do have many regrets about being a man that dresses as a woman. I kind of regret I never accepted this part of myself throughout my life. It caused me a lot of angst and made me a shy not very sociable person. I think I was far more transexual as a teenager and young man than I am now. Once I settled into a career I liked and a relationship that means more to me than my own inner desires and then had a family, everything took on a different level of contentment and also responsibility. My wife and family far outweigh my lifelong desire to become female, I would hate to cause any disruption to that. I do regret my cowardice as a young person not to act on my inner feelings in regard to desiring to be female. I chose the easy option of denial and suppression. Inevitably, I failed in that attempt at self control and had to come out as being transgender at the age of forty one. I do have regrets that certain people I came out to have used it against me, I misjudged their trust. I have regrets I don’t have breasts, a female body and look female, I dream of being feminine. Im not feminine though so this does distress me somewhat and I regret the lack of femininity.
Despite the regrets, they are not enough to crush me as I do enjoy my life, it’s an aspect I can handle, I know it is down to my own inaction that these regrets exist. I try to not let them intrude as I do enjoy my rare moments as a woman and find each opportunity incredibly rewarding and fulfilling.
Recently I was asked by a female friend where all of this was going to end up? It really made me think and I wanted to answer as honestly as I could. At the moment I think in the next few years I will start to spend time out and about as a woman not a man. This is a reflection of where I am going emotionally and also I do have personal ambitions in regard to the challenge of existing as a (part-time) woman. I want to do it well and never be considered as a man when I head out as a woman. I therefore see an increase in this kind of activity and a change in my wardrobe, hair and make-up to reflect this. I did consider what would occur if I were single. I don’t want to be single but it was a hypothetical scenario I felt I should muse over. I believe I would likely spend a lot more time as my female self if I were single but I’m pretty certain I would not transition. I still like my male self so I see such a scenario as being a less inhibited opportunity to fully express myself more freely.
It has taken me pretty much fifty years to accept myself and I don’t feel I’m still quite there yet, there is a lot more self acceptance I need to embrace. I think it’s my fear of damaging my relationship with my wife and family, who all know I have a female alter-ego, that prevents me from pushing things further. Al I can say is I do feel a lot more at ease with my inner female self than I did in past decades.
For a nice variety of Killdeers over the past decade, please check out my album: www.flickr.com/photos/8666250@N02/albums/72177720316032232
Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus) with
Mallard pair (Anas platyrhynchos).
Playing field near Gordon Bridge, Kelowna, BC.
Killdeer: "Sheesh! I just got back here, and you two are heading south already?!"
Mallard drake: "Hey, Killy, I just go where she goes, ya know what I mean?"
I got better shots of a pair of Killdeers when I returned to the south side of the Marsh in late afternoon....
After witnessing the brilliance of Lady Gaga's latest "Born This Way Ball" today, some of the things she said struck a chord with me. Everyone deserves their own spotlight, to do the things they are good at, to shine. Anyone who stands in the way of our spotlight should be pushed aside, because, in her own words, "i don't give a fuck, do you give a fuck?". We are in SL for fun, to fuel our creativities (or lack thereof) and to do something we are passionate about, anyone who stands in the way of us fulfilling these things which we are passionate about should be shut out because we are here for ourselves, and the few people we call friends, people who harbor no hidden agenda. Even if the day comes when no one reads our blog or likes our pics, it doesn't matter, because all these things we are doing, it is not to get the approval of others, it is simply, for us to discover and know ourselves better.
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27/11/2016; No idea what this lady was checking on her phone, but this was one of the more normal looks she had on her face in the minute that I was watching her. :D And it makes me wonder whether I make funny faces too whenever I'm checking something on my mobile phone.
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30 Days of Perception: Day 23
As I lift my eyes towards this slender branch against the pale blue of the November sky, I feel a resonance within me. There's a sense of reciprocity as my eyes take in all the details of what I see. The branch, the seedpods and leaves take on another meaning under my gaze. In that moment, we are joined in an exchange.
The tips of the secondary branches all curve upwards and tightly furled spring buds hold me in their spell.
I honour such encounters as these.
My dentist lets me bring Molly to the office, and while my teeth are getting cleaned, Molly is on my lap and pays close attention to what's going on in my mouth. Today, when the cleaning was done, she turned around and looked out the window into the woods it looks out on, where I've seen birds and deer and wild turkeys and others have seen a fox. This morning a squirrel approached and Molly got very attentive. It turned out to be a most curious squirrel, which came up to the window and kept staring at Molly, who was staring at it. This went on for several minutes. The whole staff saw the interaction and said that they'd never, in all the years of wildlife watching from the window, seen a squirrel come up to the window like that. It was a special moment.
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