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The only times I have ever seen one of these guys has been when I have made the trip to east of Tofield. I was hoping that I would find one, and while other trips had more, this was the only one I had come across on this trip. I only took a few shots as it was at some distance, and was content to keep feeding where it was. Some Short-billed Dowitchers can be seen in the background. They seemed to be all over the place and in good sized groups, as was shown in yesterday's post. Always a treat to find one of these unique looking birds. Although this was shot at some distance, and image is a heavy crop I am quite happy to have got the detail that I did. Heat distortion was evident in some long distance shots, but here it seemed to be fine.
#4773 - 2021 Day 24: Often the case that on the back of a fast-clearing front there are spectacular cloud and light effects. Under-exposure in the camera can reveal the iridescence in the clouds. Wonderful.
Drawn to the light shimmering off the surface of the water. Dark tones turning to light in the rapid flow of the river.
My favourite from a cracking day out near Forest-in-Teesdale. A few hours were not sufficient, days, weeks maybe...but you've got to go with the flow.
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I love finding butterfly wings and fascinated by their brilliant details. As I laid this on our windowsill, it glittered. I am amazed that the iridescence didn't fade. I've had this butterfly for years. One of the reasons I love macro photography is the practice of pausing to find beauty everywhere.
Water, iridescence and sunlight make a great combination for beauty. Starlings do have their good points.
European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris)
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Difficult to capture and depict as seen because of looking directly at the sun. High cirrocumulus clouds were thicker than usual allowing to see the actual sun's disc in the center of the brighter lit cloud.
L'iridescence du plumage des oiseaux noirs est un phénomène optique fascinant.
The iridescence of the plumage of black birds is a fascinating optical phenomenon.
When iridescence occurs, one usually has to deal with photographing near the sun. Looking for a convenient object to block the sun isn't always easy. However, this afternoon while walking through my neighborhood, I got lucky.
Picture of the Day x 2
Took this shot to capture the iridescence in the windows, but it seems I caught a dragon in the library...didn't see him at first, now it is the first thing I see. Halifax Public Library.
A crested pigeon in late afternoon sunlight showing off the iridescence on the wings. In taking this shot, I got down as low as I could using the official Ben Dover method and accidentally held up some people driving through the car park I was in who saw me attempting to take some shots across the carpark itself. Very kind of them to stop and wait - turned out to be photographers themselves!
This was taken in Port Pirie and I have never seen quite so many of these crested pigeons in one location before.
Happy Wing Wednesday!
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This individual is a mature male, as evidenced by the yellowish-white forehead and pink breast, which are absent in females. When viewed at a favourable angle, beautiful iridescent colours can be seen on the wings. This iridescence is seen in adult birds of both sexes.
Some olive oil floating on water in a glass dish on top of striped wrapping paper. I was hoping to get some iridescence to photograph, but no luck. So I had to content myself with bubbles instead! In this one, I liked the way the stripes are distorted in the large bubble and repeated in the smaller ones. Looks like a host of hot air balloons! I struggled with deciding whether to put up this one or one cropped tighter on the bubbles. I finally decided on this one because it shows the edges of the larger oil droplets on the right, with tiny air bubbles trapped inside. The tighter crop can be seen on my photostream, or try zooming in on the bubbles.
I love the sparkling iridescence of this blue butterfly!
Thin film interference, the same principle behind soap bubbles, apples to butterfly wings as well. Butterfly wings amplify the effects of iridescence because they have many more layers for the light to pass through and many more opportunities for the light waves to reflect and magnify one another.
Though small, butterfly wings are covered by thousands of microscopic scales, split into two to three layers -- thus their Greek order name, Lepidoptera, meaning scaled wings. In turn, each scale has multiple layers separated by air. Rather than having just the constructive interference from the top and bottom layer that you have in a bubble, the many, equally spaced layers of butterfly wings create multiple instances of constructive interference.
Heliconius doris
Wings of the Tropics, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Miami FL
Colours change. In the morning light red shines out bright and clear and the blues merge into their surroundings melting into the greens, By the evening the reds loose their piquancy embracing a quieter tone and shifting toward the blues in the rainbow. Yellow remains bright and white becomes luminous, shining like ghostly figures against a darkening green background.
~ Rosemary Verey
Common Grackle is very aggressive it will steal food from other birds,
when feeding most of the seeds windup on the ground,
they will then fly down and finish up the rest,
I love the Iridescence colors on their neck.
My reason for shooting this was to illustrate the vast difference in size between the redhead ducks and the young mute swan. However, something else has since caught my eye. The very subtle, purple iridescence of a redhead is surprisingly difficult to photograph. In 2015 I spent an entire month traveling to Cayuga lake hoping to catch it with no success. Look at this group of redheads and you can see that only one really exhibits that feature, the duck left of the swan. It's subtle, but definitely there. 'bout time! Thank you Lake Ontario! Now to get something a wee bit closer.
Glossy Ibis - In The Wild - Autumn '21
Green Cay Wetlands - Sept 23rd, 2021
South Florida - Palm Beach County, FL
*[left-double-click for a closer-look - pretty feather iridescence]
*[catch them 'just right' and their feathers are Gloriously Glossy!]
Their plumage appears dark, almost blackish, at a distance or in
poor light. At close range, much of the body is maroon, with the wing coverts showing metallic green, bronze, and violet tones. Glossy Ibises frequent almost any wetland environment with shallow water or exposed mud and also readily feeds in farm fields or open areas where soils are moist. - Sheen is amazing! Fun to observe.
I have about 20-30 Pigeons that show up very day to raid my feeding station. They will sit in the tall cottonwoods trees behind the house and wait for me to go inside. Then they swoop down in mass and devour all the bird seed within minutes.
I finally relented and bought a 50 pound bag of pigeon feed to mix with my regular mix.
They love it.
Many years ago back in Michigan we raised Show Pigeons and had two big pigeon lofts.
So, I still have a soft spot for pigeons.
This particular pigeon has overcome its fear and will let me get close (5-6 feet) from it and take head shots. The rest fly into the trees as soon as they see me.
I love the beautiful iridescence on the feathers.
Yesterday, we got our first snow. So, of course I was out photographing the fox.
There was a light wet snow coming down the whole time I was there. Hard to keep the camera dry.
I also saw 3 moose on my drive out to the fox.
One cow and two medium sized bulls that were fighting. But, the bulls were on the other side of a fence and it was still dark out.
So, I just watched.
No pictures.
Did get quite a few of the fox.
Also, saw a new fox to the area. It is a beauty.
Hopefully, I'll be able to get some closeups of it if the future.
Camera Settings: f/4 - 1/320 - 230mm - ISO 640
This was my second encounter with a Satin Flycatcher. The first one was two years ago in Wilsons Promontory. This time the bird was also moving constantly in rather dense thicket along the Two Bays Walking Track on Mornington Peninsula. But there was a moment in the sun...
(Myiagra cyanoleuca)
This ring-necked duck was with several others and among the geese at Gunner's Lake in Germantown, Maryland. I love the interesting purple iridescence on their head and neck.
Captured 26 February 2016.
Great theme for todays Smile on Saturday group, as I'm surrounded by wrapping paper and golden ribbons!
And as wrapping is today's fun job too, it works for photo of the day.
Happy SoS!
I wish the light had caught the iridescence better. They have the prettiest colors when in breeding plumage. I think starlings listen for worms like American Robins do. This one seemed to be, and caught a worm seconds later.
GAMBIA TOUR 2018.
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METALLIC BRONZY iridescence colors shown in certain light, but a real beauty. The Kotu area is lucky to have a small group resident in the area, as they are fairly rare, and difficult to approach . Normally associated with water, found in marshes, rice paddies and riverine forest, probing or picking up molluscs, aquatic worms, and diving beetles. Extremely noisy at dawn and dusk. Loved seeing them, but wonder for how much longer?
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A bit over exposed Pink "Full" Moon shows some iridescence around the moon including pink (maybe). Cirrostratus clouds were primed for creating this atmosphere optical phenomena.
Picture of the day x 2
Two images combined of an iridescent metal plate used to hold furniture together, with lots of adjustments.
Glossy Ibis - In The Wild - Winter '20-'21
Green Cay Wetlands - Jan. 19th, 2021
South Florida - Palm Beach County, FL
*[left-click for a closer-look - feather iridescence! - knee deep]
*[catch them 'just right' and their feathers are Gloriously Glossy!]
Their plumage appears dark, almost blackish, at a distance or in
poor light. At close range, much of the body is maroon, with the wing coverts showing metallic green, bronze, and violet tones. Glossy Ibises frequent almost any wetland environment with shallow water or exposed mud and also readily feeds in farm fields or open areas where soils are moist. - Sheen is amazing! Fun to observe.
Cloud iridescence or irisation is a colorful optical phenomenon that occurs in a cloud and appears in the general proximity of the Sun or Moon. The colors resemble those seen in soap bubbles and oil on a water surface.
An iridescent glow from the plumage of this Greater Blue-eared Glossy Starling. We caught this brilliant display while it fed on figs in the morning sunlight by Lake Langano, Ethiopia.
Breeding from Senegal east to Ethiopia and down the east of Africa to South Africa. The juvenile is a sooty brown with bottle green upperparts before developing this mature plumage of satiny blues and purples which glow with greater intensity when in brilliant sunlight.
Took a snowcoach tour while we were in Yellowstone...a great way to experience the park interior since most roads are closed to passenger vehicles. Walked around Porcelain Basin, located at the Norris Geyser Basin, which is always so much more magical in the midst of winter. As we were walking down the boardwalk, I happened to glance back and managed to capture the steam from the thermal features as the sunlight filtered through the trees. Couldn't pass it up :-)
Have a great Tuesday, and as always, thanks for all your visits and comments!!!!! Hoping to catch up with everyone sometime this week in between processing images and catching up with work.
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We just happened shoot sunset at this location because were were in between choosing to shoot at either Salt Creek or at the Superstition Mountains. We were saying the night at Lost Dutchman State Park, and wanted to check out Salt Creek for potential photo spots. We had never visited Salt Creek and needed to scout out the area first; but as we arrived at Salt Creek, the area looked good but the photo opportunities didn't look spectacular. So we rushed back towards our campground at Lost Dutchman.
We stayed the previous night at Lost Dutchman and did a brief 2 hour walk around the trails trying to find potential compositions for a sunrise/sunset, but had no luck. By now we arrive back at Lost Dutchman with barely any time to scout for sunset and decided to start wandering around for the day's sunset shot but the light was going to go fast.
Luckily within 5 minutes of walking the outer areas of the state park, we found an opening in the bushes with an interesting field of Saguaro cactus catching the sides of the sunset light. The light was amazing, the sky was amazing and the entire radiant colors in the frame makes for such a warm tasteful landscape photo. I can say we were rewarded with making an on the spot decision to ditch Salt Creek and grab an amazing shot of the Superstition Mountains.
Superstition Mountains
Arizona