UK Class 334/458/460 - The Junipers
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Here's another composition from my last visit to Joshua Tree. A shot of the Ancient Juniper taken facing north with the glow from the city of Twenty Palms. I have decided to embrace the glow instead of complain about it. :)
I have started saturating my photos a little bit more than usual after I made a few test prints on an Epson 9900 using a custom RGB profile. Those photos I selected to print, seems to be a little weak in color based on the sRGB colorspace which has a much smaller color gamut then the AdobeRGB1998 colorspace which is available on most cameras and I was using for my photos. But, if I then convert to the AdobeRGB1998 colorspace from sRGB I reduce the amount of colors that get clipped down during conversion. My wish on the next "first star" will be to have the profile supported by the web changed to AdobeRGB1998, It would make for a brighter more colorful internet.
I would like to take a moment to explain my reduced activity here on Flickr. I work in a prepress/advertising environment which gets crazy busy during the Christmas season, I have been working 12 hr shifts and haven't been able to spend as much time Flickering as I usually do. I will be heading out to shoot saturday night but I have vowed to spend all day Sunday catching up!! Please be patient with my busy schedule. Man am I looking forward to the new year when things usually slow down a little. :)
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Firecrest - Regulus ignicapilla
The common firecrest (Regulus ignicapilla) also known as the firecrest, is a very small passerine bird in the kinglet family. It breeds in most of temperate Europe and northwestern Africa, and is partially migratory, with birds from central Europe wintering to the south and west of their breeding range.
The head crest, orange in the male and yellow in the female, is displayed during breeding, and gives rise to the English and scientific names for the species. This bird superficially resembles the goldcrest, which largely shares its European range, but the firecrest's bronze shoulders and strong face pattern are distinctive.
The common firecrest breeds in lowland broadleaf forest, preferring cork oak and alder where available, otherwise beech and holly. It also uses mixed broadleaf and conifer woodland, and stands of spruce, European silver fir, cedar and pines, often with undergrowth of juniper, ivy and wild rose. In drier Mediterranean habitats it is found in conifers, evergreen oak, and mixed woodlands up to 2,800 m (9,200 ft). Unlike more specialised birds such as Eurasian nuthatch and common treecreeper, both of which forage on trunks, the crests do not need large woodlands, and their population density is independent of forest size. In winter it is less reliant on conifers than the goldcrest, moving from forest to fringes and scrub. It occurs singly or in pairs, spending much time in the tree canopy, although frequently venturing into bushes and other lower vegetation. This species can thrive in fairly urban areas, provided that suitable habitat is available in parks or large gardens; population densities in gardens can be comparable with the maximum levels found in natural habitats.
Population:
UK breeding:
550 territories
Lone Juniper tree silhouette provides the foreground to another spectacular sunset over Howe Sound. This is the second photo that I've added to my stream of this composition. I like the glow on the water and the cloud action making this one of my favourites.
Found this little guy up on the Colorado National Monument. First time getting to photograph this cuties. I am wondering if that is a pine nut in his beak.
Blue Star Juniper in our garden.
Happy Bokeh Wednesday!
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© Melissa Post 2020
As summer gives way to fall in the southwest, relentless blue skies are replaced during late afternoons with the clouds of the monsoon season. With them come rain storms that may be brief but drop inches of sorely needed rain. This was one of those moments outside Moab -- just before a lovely, cooling storm.
Photo taken Dec 29, 2019. This tree never ceases to inspire me as it is a lone tree, sculpted by the wind, in the most hostile, bitter cold, arid place one can imagine. I relate to Thoreau here..."I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines."
-Henry David Thoreau
Juniper berries are best known for flavouring gin and for getting birds drunk in early winter. Do you sense a theme here?
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Photo Taken at The Glass Slipper
It is special to discover different birds in our zone, and this is the first winter I've seen this bird. There is a pair here. While we do have the habitat they like (pinyon/juniper woods), their range maps indicate they are scarce here and prefer the milder Arizona/Utah/New Mexico/southern Colorado locations. They are tricky to photograph as they hop and flit around quickly and also have superb camouflage cover in grey-toned tree branches.
Photo taken January 24, 2021
More info here:
"The Juniper Titmouse is a plain gray bird with a prominent black eye and a feisty tuft of feathers on its head. What it lacks in color, it makes up for with attitude, and its scratchy chatter can be heard all year in the pinyon-juniper woodlands of the interior West. They are very similar to the Oak Titmouse and were previously considered the same species, the Plain Titmouse, but they live in different habitats."
Bonsai in training.
22 April 2022
'Roid Week Spring 2022, day 3/2
Polaroid SX-70 BW film and SX-70 OneStep (rainbow) camera.
From yesterday's photo adventure in our back yard! Just the tip of a Juniper Sprig, with a lone Berry. The drop refractions really show the abundance of berries in our trees. The Deer love them too!
Back home now after a wonderful break up in Scotland. This is Barton Grange Marina near home and the sky looked quite interesting just before sunset, so I nipped here to catch the reflections in the waters of the Marina.
This is a very popular spot with the Canal Boats moored up alongside the Garden Centre and the "Flower Bowl" Entertainment Centre with is large domed grass roof. There is a Cinema, Restaurant, Crazy Golf, Curling Rink and other fun things to do here.
The female juniper described in the prior photo in my gallery is in the foreground, and the male juniper in that photo is behind her.
One thing to know is that junipers are generally very scrappy, character trees, growing out of rocks and loamy soil. They live on arid cliffs and in extreme cold and windy conditions. These 2 junipers are the exception, in that they both receive abundant water and are very well developed. Deeper in my gallery is a b&w photo of a juniper entitled "First Light" and that is more typical of a juniper in the arid, high altitude western mountains.
Photo was taken early on a beautiful fall morning, Nov 21, 2016
Cress Creek, Idaho
This very plain songbird resides only in semi-arid, juniper dominated woodlands in the American Inter-Mountain West.
Juniper Titmouse on the Juniper trees at the City of Rocks, Idaho
"The Juniper Titmouse is a plain gray bird with a prominent black eye and a feisty tuft of feathers on its head. What it lacks in color, it makes up for with attitude, and its scratchy chatter can be heard all year in the pinyon-juniper woodlands of the interior West."
"Sunfire Junipers", Capture at 1/400 sec @F/8.0 ISO 400 ; 38mm on a Sigma 18-250mm F/3.5-6.3 Lens; The sun was at 12.30 position and shining right into this grove of trees beside a road, That had been just cleared 30ft or so back from the edge of the roadway revealing these junipers. They were lit up in such a way they looked like to be on Fire. It was just beautiful makes a photographer's heart ache to own a Medium format camera with a sharp lens to capture the scenes beauty. Malagash, NS 05-06 2020.
The trailhead is at the big juniper and the cairn. The cairns mark the trail. See the next post for a trail marked by cairns
We do not see snow often here where we live. Juniper was NOT amused! She sat and watched and waited patiently at the door, then expected me to make it go away by the time she got to the other door out! :)
We miss Juniper since a year after this, in 2016; always a wild spirit. She was one of Holly #1's only babies.
Happy Caturday!