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The White Canvas Gallery presents an open challenge to enable you to stand united for peace. Lets disown the mindless violence around us and lets DO something about it as artists.
I nominate all Flickr Friends
Rules of the challenge (go to this link): www.flickr.com/photos/goodcross/28068142260/in/dateposted/
NOMINATED (3^/7^ CLASS.) AT EXPOSURE.AE IPC, NIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY THEME, 2019.
FINALIST AT S.I.P.A. IPC, 2020.
8^ CLASS. AT FESTIVAL NATURE AIN PC, WILDLIFE THEME, 2022.
HONORABLE MENTION, AT VIEPA PHOTO AWARD, AVAILABLE LIGHT/NIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY THEME, 2022.
Well... some poor misguided person nominated me for the Bloggies. So, I talk about that on the blog, PLUS, newness, PLUS... other things. You're going to have to read it to find out. readmeri.wordpress.com/2020/10/09/nom-nom-nominated/
A view looking east into downtown Austin from the rusted rails of the West 3rd St. Railroad Trestle over Shoal Creek. Constructed in 1925 by the International-Great Northern Railroad as a replacement to an earlier 1876 bridge, the wooden structure is one of the last physical reminders of the rail lines that fueled Austin's rapid development as a regional hub starting in the 1870s. The trestle was last used in the 1990s, and is currently nominated for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places.
With a population of just over one million residents, Austin is the 10th largest city in the United States. The Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos Metropolitan Area, now with a population of 2.3M, also is the fastest growing large metropolitan area in the country having added more than 579,000 residents since 2010.
Thank you all for the tremendous level of kindness and support you have shown me this past year, including nominating me for the 2020 BLOGGER AND VLOGGER Bloggies awards. I have been nominated for Best Female Fashion Blogger and Best Male Fashion Blogger.
It is time to vote. I would deeply appreciate it if you vote for me in the finals!
You may cast your votes for the 2020 here.
I have been nominated!!! In the following categores: Best Landscape and Garden Blogger and Best Interior Blogger categories ...
I will try to keep this short as there is so much I want to say...
I know I say it all the time but THANK YOU for all of your support....I would say thank you to my "followers" but I've become friends on some level with so many of you that "followers" just isn't enough for me...so thank you my friends for all of your support and for those of you that voted to nominate me, there are no words to let you know how grateful I am. When I first started Home and Garden photography on Flickr, I really had no idea that all of this would come of it, but I'm so glad I did because some of the most amazing people I've gotten to know in Second Life and from other parts of the world, I met here first on Flickr ....THANK YOU!!!!!! ❤️
Kelly
Vote for your favorites here: www.bvnsl.com/the-bloggies/
I can't believe this!!! Thank you very much to all people that nominated me for your support. *hugs*
Gracias a los que leéis mis historias locas y subidas de tono y a los que me habéis dado vuestro apoyo.
You can vote here your favorites bloggers www.bvnsl.com/the-bloggies/
Thank you so much
After being nominated by several people here is my SLBareface Challenge 2020 picture.
I guess not that different to my usual pictures anyways as I barely use any makeup except a little eyeliner. My lashes as they are also not that big I kept on, as even without makeup I have some in RL right? But I took off my hair and wrapped it up so the attention is on the face.
Thank you for challenging me and I wish you all an amazing humpday! <3
#slbarefacechallenge #slbareface
I really can't believe it and to be honest, I didn't expect this.
I'm very grateful and many thanks to everyone who nominated me in the category " "Most Improved Blogger"
and of course, I would like to thanks each one of you, who follow and support me ♥
Vote - HERE , if you like ♥
Voting is open from now until October 18th @ NOON SLT
SecondLife
The White Canvas Gallery presents an open challenge to enable you to stand united for peace. Lets disown the mindless violence around us and lets DO something about it as artists. Rules of this challenge are pretty simple.
RULES
1. Post one pic on your flickr stream with this theme in mind. All creative decisions are yours. You can post more if you like, no ones gonna shoot you *grins*.
2. Nominate at least 3 other of your friends to post a pic with this theme. Tag them on the pic if you like.
3. All pics done for this challenge can be posted to this group.
www.flickr.com/groups/istandforpeace
4. Please add the text between the lines in your description of your picture so that anyone who wants to join the challenge knows how to.
5. If anyone not tagged here wants to do this challenge, tag yourself here and do it :).
Nominees: Moon Edenbaum, Bay Addens, WolfattheDoor, Fantino Sella, cocolinox decuir
Just Outside San Jose
Virgin Forest Reserve
Costa Rica
Talamanca Mountains
The Talamanca hummingbird (Eugenes spectabilis) or admirable hummingbird, is a large hummingbird. Some taxonomic authorities, such as the International Ornithological Committee, split the magnificent hummingbird into two species, in which case the nominate subspecies fulgens is renamed Rivoli's hummingbird and spectabilis is named the admirable hummingbird. Other taxonomic authorities have not recognized the split. The talamanca hummingbird's range is Costa Rica to Panama. – Wikipedia
I have been nominated by Derek Roberts to carryout the 5 day B&W challenge, so here is my second contribution.
Many thanks Derek
www.flickr.com/photos/100105811@N05/
2 of 5 B&W challenge
I Nominate Jo Fields to take on the 5 day B&W Challenge
www.flickr.com/photos/36374833@N04/
www.flickr.com/groups/2812175@N21/ 5 Day B&W Challenge Group
HFF
I've been nominated for a 2017 BVN Blogger and Vlogger Award in the following categories :
♥♥ Best Male Fashion Blogger
♥♥ Best Destination Blogger
VOTING IS HELD BETWEEN SEPTEMBER 15, 2017 AND SEPTEMBER 30, 2017
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I'm made my first blogpost the 13th sept. 2016, so it's a very great & nice surprise to be nominated.
Thank you to all of you who made this possible.
It means a lot for me ♥
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Mon premier article a été posté le 13 sept. 2016, alors c'est vraiment une grande et belle surprise d'avoir été nominé.
Merci à vous tous d'avoir rendu cela possible.
Cela signifie beaucoup pour moi ♥
I have been nominated by Derek Roberts to carryout the 5 day B&W challenge, so here is my fifth contribution.
Many thanks Derek
www.flickr.com/photos/100105811@N05/
5 of 5 B&W challenge
I Nominate Louise Soe to take on the 5 day B&W Challenge
www.flickr.com/photos/soephotos/
www.flickr.com/groups/2812175@N21/ 5 Day B&W Challenge Group
The adult male of the nominate subspecies, P. p. pica, is 44–46 cm (17–18 in) in length, of which more than half is the tail. The wingspan is 52–62 cm (20–24 in). The head, neck and breast are glossy black with a metallic green and violet sheen; the belly and scapulars (shoulder feathers) are pure white; the wings are black glossed with green or purple, and the primaries have white inner webs, conspicuous when the wing is open. The graduated tail is black, glossed with green and reddish purple. The legs and bill are black; the iris is dark brown. The plumage of the sexes is similar but females are slightly smaller. The tail feathers of both sexes are quite long, about 12–28 cm long. Males of the nominate subspecies weigh 210–272 g (7.4–9.6 oz) while females weigh 182–214 g (6.4–7.5 oz). The young resemble the adults, but are at first without much of the gloss on the sooty plumage. The young have the malar region pink, and somewhat clear eyes. The tail is much shorter than the adults.
The subspecies differ in their size, the amount of white on their plumage and the colour of the gloss on their black feathers. The Asian subspecies P. p. bactriana has more extensive white on the primaries and a prominent white rump.
Adults undergo an annual complete moult after breeding. Moult begins in June or July and ends in September or October. The primary flight feathers are replaced over a period of three months. Juvenile birds undergo a partial moult beginning about one month later than the adult birds in which their body feathers are replaced but not those of the wings or the tail.
Eurasian magpies have a well-known call. It is a choking chatter "chac-chac" or a repetitive "chac-chac-chac-chac". The young also emit the previous call, although they also emit an acute call similar to a "Uik Uik", which may resemble the barking of a small dog. Both adults and young can emit a kind of hiss barely noticeable from afar.
I was nominated , the world through my eyes, how I see it?
FIVE.
Hold me, embrace me, cocoon me...
One of my persona;l favourites, stark, bold.
magdaindigo.blogspot.com/2009/04/metaphor-of-life-of-knot...;
thanx for your time and comments, M, (*_*)
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Nominated for the #SLBareFaceChallenge2020 by my beautiful friend Aziza Rose x
No make up ( Lip shine comes with skin)
No filter
Minimal lashes
No editing
This month's theme of "beauty in the eye of the beholder" was nominated by Andrew
As I went for a walk this lovely foggy and sun-kissed, dewy morning I was struck by the beauty of this spider's web
Nature makes the best of every situation and a web, whilst designed to entrap prey has a beauty of it's own
The hooded pitta is a passerine bird. It is common in eastern and southeastern Asia and maritime Southeast Asia, where it lives in several types of forests as well as on plantations and other cultivated areas.
Scientific name: Pitta sordida
Other common names: Green-breasted(!) Pitta, Black-headed Pitta
Taxonomy: Turdus sordidus Statius Muller, 1776, Philippine Islands.
Recently treated as forming a superspecies with P. superba and P. maxima, sometimes also including P. steerii, but morphological differences seem too great for this treatment; probably closest to last of those three. The four New Guinea races novaeguineae, from which described race hebetior (from Karkar I, off N Papuan coast) considered indistinguishable, mefoorana, rosenbergii and goodfellowi are geographically isolated from others and show several plumage differences from them; may represent a separate species. Race palawanensis possibly better treated as synonymous with nominate. In original description, race mulleri was written thus (without umlaut), so this is correct spelling rather than muelleri. Twelve subspecies recognized.
Got this poster sent and I´m nominated in several categories.
Proud to post it - please vote for me 😘👍😁
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This week the Snap Happy theme was chosen by Andrew who nominated 'macro- up close' as his chosen challenge.
This is my image for the theme... a drained battery that served its purpose well.
Purple Coot / Purple Swamphen (Prophyrio poliocephalus).(කිතලා) Nominate sub species P.p. poliocephalus is a resident of Sri Lanka. An adult. Belongs Rallidae family. Clicked at Baddegana Wetland Park.
WOW!
I'm both thrilled and humbled
*Best Landscape and Garden Blogger
*Best Interior Blogger
*Best Photographer
To know that some thought about it and wrote down my name among such talented and amazing bloggers and artists, is already the prize.
Thank you so so much ♥♥♥
Go and check the list of nominees and vote for your favs! 👏👏👏
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I have been nominated three times!
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I was nominated by my friend Jolie to do the Bunny's Challenge for Children Battling Cancer at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Thank you Jolie. This is a great cause and I am happy to be a part of this challenge..
To those of you reading this, please go ahead and participate. Instructions in Naria's and Jolie's videos.
Lagopus muta muta (nominate, french name : Lagopède alpin) - Around Mont de Grange, Upper-Savoy, France
This species being tight to cold climates, it is in the high mountains that it lives all year round in France, over 2000 masl, and it is where I came to find him, around the magnificent Mont de Grange, maybe the wildest mountain around my home.
I had met this bird it this place two years ago, when I was not using a camera, so I came back with a good hope that they might be resident and still here, and thus take a picture.
Indeed two of them were there, feeding on a slope mixing grass and rocks lanslides, its prefered habitat, that compose the background of the picture. They first gave clue of their presence by the so peculiar song, described as "that of a stick being pulled rapidly across the slats of a picket fence", a sort of strange rattle. Then one showed up near the trail, and stay standing a long time, for the best sight I could expect.
This species has the particularity of moulting three times a year, so that it is perfectly camouflaged all year round according to the seasons and the changing colors in its environment. Also, the red comb above the eye is more or less swollen by a blood supply controlled by the bird. During my observation, the size of the eyebrow varied greatly, and was sometimes much more visible than when I took the photo.
The male is completly white during winter when snow covers everything, only the comb remains red, and here it is the breeding plumage. Another adaptation to its life in the snow is found in its tarsi, which are covered with feathers.
It is a fantastic bird, and we enjoy to be close to some individuals during a hike in the most preserved mountains.
I was nominated by someone to upload 7 images of places that had meaning to me.
ONE
Taken awhile back!
We'd left Whitby because of the incoming sea mist.
The light gone, not dressed for it on this otherwise lovely summer's day for the cold surprise that suddenly enveloped us, we decided to go inland to capture the sunset.
The road took us passed Robin Hood's Bay.
Now, on that part of the beautiful North-Yorkshire Heritage Coast, you drive along the top of the cliffs, you are high up, it was sunny again, we gave into the temptation and turned in, with Nature, you never know, maybe it was just around Whitby...
You have to park your car above the village and walk down.
Before we arrived there we wanted to let our dog out, I followed the white plume of his tail as he wandered off into a field full of wildflowers, nettles and brambles, to my amazement this was the scene that unfolded in front of my feasting eyes, the mist was already grabbing the church.
I ran for my camera, back just in time for this.
Underneath that thick blanket are the bay and the sea.
By the time Paul got his gear out, that day he had decided on a Hasselblad-day + tripod... everything was covered in mist, yeah, sigh, when you miss it, you miss it!
Hope your day is clear, thanx for viewing, Magda, (*_*)
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I was nominated , the world through my eyes
SIX
RUNSWICK BAY.
We drove through the Cleveland Hills, North-Yorkshire, the weather getting more and more ominous as we got closer to the Heritage Coast, flat light, no detail in the sky, ah well it was going to be 'an outing' of discovery and mental photography...
That's how we came to this beautiful little village, the road ends just before this, I was so enthralled by what I saw, grabbed my stuff, jumped out of the car, ran towards the sea, this was my first shot.
Thank you for all your kindness and as always, thanks for your visits and comments today, M, (*_*)
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Le Blaireau européen (en réalité plutôt eurasien) porte le nom scientifique Meles meles. C'est la plus grosse espèce de Mustélidés d'Europe. Trapu et court sur pattes, il peut atteindre 70 cm de long (90 cm avec la queue, qui mesure 20 cm environ), pour 25 à 30 cm au garrot et jusqu'à une vingtaine de kilogrammes (12 kg en moyenne).
Meles meles possède 34 dents. Il présente parfois une très petite prémolaire derrière les canines.
Il est très reconnaissable aux bandes longitudinales noires qu'il porte sur son museau blanc. Ce blaireau vit potentiellement dans presque toute l'Europe et une grande partie du nord de l'Asie centrale et du nord, au sud du cercle polaire (jusqu'à 2 000 m d'altitude en France).
Il semble aujourd'hui confiné à certaines forêts et bordures de haies prairiales et plus rarement en milieu ouvert, mais alors près d'un bosquet, d'une haie épaisse. Cette répartition pourrait aussi résulter des pressions de chasse faites sur l'espèce depuis plusieurs millénaires.
C'est un animal fouisseur, capable de construire de vastes galeries « familiales ».
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The European badger (Meles meles), also known as the Eurasian badger, is a badger species in the family Mustelidae native to almost all of Europe and some parts of Western Asia. It is classified as least concern on the IUCN Red List as it has a wide range and a large stable population size, and is thought to be increasing in some regions. Several subspecies are recognized with the nominate subspecies (M. meles meles) predominating in most of Europe.
The European badger is a powerfully built black, white, brown and grey animal with a small head, a stocky body, small black eyes and short tail. Its weight varies, being 7–13 kg (15–29 lb) in spring but building up to 15–17 kg (33–37 lb) in autumn before the winter sleep period. It is nocturnal and is a social, burrowing animal that sleeps during the day in one of several setts in its territorial range. These burrows have multiple chambers and entrances, and are extensive systems of underground passages of 35–81 m (115–266 ft) length. They house several badger families that use these setts for decades. Badgers are fussy over the cleanliness of their burrow, carrying in fresh bedding and removing soiled material, and they defecate in latrines strategically situated outside their setts.
Although classified as a carnivore, the European badger feeds on a wide variety of plant and animal foods, feeding on earthworms, large insects, small mammals, carrion, cereals and tubers. Litters of up to five cubs are produced in spring. The young are weaned a few months later but usually remain within the family group. The European badger has been known to share its burrow with other species such as rabbits, red foxes and raccoon dogs, but it can be ferocious when provoked, a trait which has been exploited in the now illegal blood sport of badger-baiting. Badgers are a reservoir for bovine tuberculosis, which also affects cattle. In England, culling of badger populations is used to reduce the incidence of bovine tuberculosis in cattle.
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I was nominated , the world through my eyes.
FOUR.
I am a sensitive realists who through photography escapes from reality, by capturing real moments in time.
That is how I see the world.
The cathedral like trees, dappled light, and again, the silence only broken by a bumblebee, a bird, a distant moo, the shutter of the camera.
This is ZEN.
Hope your day is filled with smiles and thank you,,M, (*_*)
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The adult male of the nominate subspecies, S. e. europaea is 14 cm (5.5 in) long with a 22.5–27 cm (8.9–10.6 in) wingspan. It weighs 17–28 g (0.6–1 oz). It has blue-grey upperparts, a black eye-stripe and whitish throat and underparts. The flanks and lower belly are orange-red, mottled with white on the undertail. The stout bill is dark grey with a paler area on the base of the lower mandible, the iris is dark brown and the legs and feet are pale brown or greyish. Most other members of the S. e. europaea group differ only in detail from the nominate form, often with respect to the hue of the underparts, but S. e. arctica is quite distinctive. It is large, pale, has a white forehead and a reduced eye-stripe, and it has more white in the tail and wings than any other subspecies. Nuthatches move on trees with short leaps, and do not use their tails for support. In flight, they have a characteristic appearance, with a pointed head, round wings and a short, square tail. Their flight is fast, with wings closed between beats, and is usually of short duration.
S. e. caesia, the most widespread of the western subspecies, has orange-buff underparts except for a white throat and cheeks. The other western forms mainly differ in the exact shade of the underparts, although some southeastern forms also show a white forehead and supercilium. S. e. sinensis and S. e. formosana, of China and Taiwan respectively, have buff underparts like the western races, but have buff, instead of white, throats.
The female is similar in appearance to the male, but may be identified by her slightly paler upperparts, a browner eyestripe and a more washed-out tone to the flanks and lower belly. In the eastern form, S. e. asiatica, some males have buff underparts like the female, and birds with this appearance are difficult to sex in the field. Young birds resemble the female, although their plumage is duller and they have paler legs. Individuals can be reliably sexed as female from about 12 days old by their paler and buffer flanks, or, in some white-breasted subspecies, by the creamier hue of their underparts.
Adults have a complete moult after breeding which takes about 80 days, starting from late May onwards and finishing by late September. The moult period for Siberian birds is more compressed, running from June to mid-September. Fledged juveniles moult some of their wing coverts when they are about eight weeks old.
In much of its range, Eurasian is the only nuthatch present. In southeast Europe and southwest Asia, the western and eastern rock nuthatches are larger and paler than the Eurasian species. They also lack white spots in the tail and are usually found in a different, stony habitat, and Krüper's nuthatch is small and has a black cap and reddish breast patch. In southwest China, the chestnut-vented nuthatch is very similar to the European bird, but is darker above, has less white on the face and has greyer underparts.
Nominate race are a passage Bird in Sufolk.This male was in the Car Park at Alton Water this Morning.
I want to really thank you to everyone who voted me. I am so happy and honored to be nominated as Best New Blogger :)
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The adult male of the nominate subspecies, S. e. europaea is 14 cm (5.5 in) long with a 22.5–27 cm (8.9–10.6 in) wingspan. It weighs 17–28 g (0.6–1 oz). It has blue-grey upperparts, a black eye-stripe and whitish throat and underparts. The flanks and lower belly are orange-red, mottled with white on the undertail. The stout bill is dark grey with a paler area on the base of the lower mandible, the iris is dark brown and the legs and feet are pale brown or greyish. Most other members of the S. e. europaea group differ only in detail from the nominate form, often with respect to the hue of the underparts, but S. e. arctica is quite distinctive. It is large, pale, has a white forehead and a reduced eye-stripe, and it has more white in the tail and wings than any other subspecies. Nuthatches move on trees with short leaps, and do not use their tails for support. In flight, they have a characteristic appearance, with a pointed head, round wings and a short, square tail. Their flight is fast, with wings closed between beats, and is usually of short duration.
S. e. caesia, the most widespread of the western subspecies, has orange-buff underparts except for a white throat and cheeks. The other western forms mainly differ in the exact shade of the underparts, although some southeastern forms also show a white forehead and supercilium. S. e. sinensis and S. e. formosana, of China and Taiwan respectively, have buff underparts like the western races, but have buff, instead of white, throats.
The female is similar in appearance to the male, but may be identified by her slightly paler upperparts, a browner eyestripe and a more washed-out tone to the flanks and lower belly. In the eastern form, S. e. asiatica, some males have buff underparts like the female, and birds with this appearance are difficult to sex in the field. Young birds resemble the female, although their plumage is duller and they have paler legs. Individuals can be reliably sexed as female from about 12 days old by their paler and buffer flanks, or, in some white-breasted subspecies, by the creamier hue of their underparts.
Adults have a complete moult after breeding which takes about 80 days, starting from late May onwards and finishing by late September. The moult period for Siberian birds is more compressed, running from June to mid-September. Fledged juveniles moult some of their wing coverts when they are about eight weeks old.
In much of its range, Eurasian is the only nuthatch present. In southeast Europe and southwest Asia, the western and eastern rock nuthatches are larger and paler than the Eurasian species. They also lack white spots in the tail and are usually found in a different, stony habitat, and Krüper's nuthatch is small and has a black cap and reddish breast patch. In southwest China, the chestnut-vented nuthatch is very similar to the European bird, but is darker above, has less white on the face and has greyer underparts.