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I mostly like diving ducks of which the Pintail isn't one. But it is in my opinion they are the most graceful and elegant of the ducks. Its a dabbler and doesn't really dive like the divers. Also doesn't need the long runway to takeoff can just pop right off the water.
Need a cuppa after walking around Lindesfarne. Waiting for the tide.
Applied a Polaroid 690 LUT from the HaldCLUT collection.
A frantic Eastern Tiger Swallowtail butterfly attempting to use its foot to kick free a detached Teasel flower stuck to its proboscis.
Guess it's not easy being a butterfly.
My daughter having fun at our local play park on the zip wire.
Entered into Buckingham Camera Club's POTY 2019 Round 5 (Open):
Judge's comments : Ahhhhhh. Action. Movement. Her expression is capturing the moment which was why his first comment was 'Ahhhhh'. Not absolutely sharp but that doesn't matter too much. Aesthetic effect. It is a strong entry. Would it be better in colour?
Judge's score : 17/20
"Week 9 2025" "Wednesday, February 26, 2025" "52 Weeks: The 2025 Edition" "Composition" "Triangle"
Because of this winter's snowfall, I've got plenty of time, thankfully, to work on my putting before the golf courses open later this spring.
9/52 weeks - Composition-Triangle
"I need a sign to let me know you're here
All of these lines are being crossed over the atmosphere
I need to know that things are gonna look up
Cause I feel us drowning in a sea spilled from a cup
When there is no place safe and no safe place to put my head
When you feel the world shake from the words that are said
And I'm calling all angels
And I'm calling all you angels..."
---Train (Calling All Angels)
This is one of three mourning angles sculpted by Italian sculptor Francesco Riccardo Monti on top of the Quezon Memorial Shrine.
Quezon Memorial Shrine:
in purple: www.flickr.com/photos/akhombre/26967247886/in/dateposted/
in red and blue:
need to keep both my hands on the steering wheel right now so once again I will not be around for a period of time, the sphere of the life i'm passing at this moment is of a ultimate importance to me, full of soul filling ecstatic moments but still fragile so I have to keep all my attention focused on it to keep the momentum forever alive, so smile for me and cross your fingers.
The white Carrara marble appearance on the surface of the tide pool of ten days ago has been washed away, replaced by small collections of green seaweed, yellow algae coating the rocks, islands of tiny clustered bubbles, water striders, and a dusky orange background. No need to point out the obvious.
Gently processed to duplicate the appearance visible to the eye.
You tell me of a place you like to go
You say it will reach out and seize the sorrow
And we always mean to act on what we say
So come on, oh darling now hurry hurry let's go
We're all we need
Oh darling
We're all we need
Ooh darling
Hey we're all we need
Ooh darling
Hey, we're all we need
Ooh darling
I told you of a place that I had been
It was dark and I was supremely alone
No matter now if the compass fails again
'Cause in your love, I built a home
We're all we need
Oh darling
yeah we're all we need
Ooh darling
We're all we need
Oh darling
yeah, we're all we need
Oh darling
hey, we're all we need
hey, we're all we need
hey, we're all we need
hey, we're all we need
We're all we need
Oh darling
hey, we're all we need
Ooh darling
hey, we're all we need
Oh darling
hey, we're all we need
Ooh darling
Most certainly I'm where I'm supposed to be
In a molten sun, with you I am free
Today our hearts won first prize
'Cause we're wise with the feeling
Yeah we're all we need
After a solid week of rain and all of the somber news from Covid 19 sweeping the world I needed to post some color! I hope this brightens your day!!
With all the negativity we all see on the internet anymore, it's nice to just look at a bright, beautiful, vibrant blooming Sunflower.
of peace and relaxation, take a walk through the forest.” ~ Byron Pulsifer
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When I took a trip to south Texas in February one of the snakes I most wanted to see was the Texas Indigo snake. These are one of our biggest non-venomous snakes. They eat other snakes, frogs, lizards and a variety of other things. On my last full day of the trip I travelled to a location that a friend told me these beautiful snakes could be found.
Here is a youtube video of the search followed by the written account below.
I arrived at the location in the afternoon. The habitat consisted of farmland and scrubland which was intersected by a deep sided ditch. Waterways are often the best places to spot reptiles and amphibians so I searched carefully along the ditch hoping to see a big black snake somewhere in the vegetation or under a rock or at the mouth of a burrow. I was walking along one side of the ditch when I looked over to the other side and couldn't believe my eyes. There was a big Texas Indigo snake sitting there in the grass next to a shrub on the edge of the ditch. I was recording some video at the time and took my camera out to try to get some pics and it disappeared. The ditch was too wide to jump across at that point so I went down stream to where I could cross over a bridge and back to the spot I had seen the snake. I looked all around where I had seen it and it was unfortunately no where to be found.
As I stood in the spot where I had originally seen the snake in the grass, I thought about how close I had come to catching that beautiful snake and wondered if I had even gotten it on video. I thought that the snake had gone down a rodent hole or something. As I stood there in a mixture of emotions I happened to glance into the water and something dark caught my eye in the water in the undercut bank on the opposite side of the ditch where I had first seen the snake. As I looked closer, I was amazed and elated to see that the long dark object was the Indigo snake hiding there in the water under the bank. I think it had seen me and then dove into the water and decided to hide under the bank. I wasn't going to lose it this time so I decided I needed to jump the ditch. I got as much of a start as I could on the steep downhill next to the ditch and made my jump. I barely made it safely to the other side, ran over to the bank where I saw the snake and reached in to make a grab. I was overjoyed to pull this beautiful snake out of the water.
Indigo snakes are very gentle and this snake never made any attempt to bite but it did flatten out its neck as a threat display.
After a little photo session with this beautiful snake I returned it to its habitat along the bank of the ditch. I was very grateful for the opportunity to see this snake on my visit to Texas.
Note please don't confuse the Texas Indigo snake with the threatened Eastern Indigo snake which lives in the SE United states. They are closely related but the Texas Indigo snake has healthy populations in Texas and Mexico and is not threatened or endangered and is thus OK for me to catch, photograph and release. If this was an Eastern Indigo snake that would not be allowed without a permit.
You can download or view Macroscopic Solutions’ images in more detail by selecting any image and clicking the downward facing arrow in the lower-right corner of the image display screen. Three individuals of Macroscopic Solutions, LLC captured the images in this database collaboratively. Contact information: Mark Smith M.S. Geoscientist mark@macroscopicsolutions.com Daniel Saftner B.S. Geoscientist and Returned Peace Corps Volunteer daniel@macroscopicsolutions.com Annette Evans Ph.D. Student at the University of Connecticut annette@macroscopicsolutions.com