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46 | Get Out!
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#stoneridgecontest2017 | 2nd entry
-{Picture was taken inside the Eyecandy Collective store}-
Entry #3 for the Splash Story Contest.
I had so much fun creating this 'innocent tourist' scene! If you want to check out this sim, click the link below.
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For this scene, (Scene #3) I wanted to show the side of an innocent tourist. As shes enjoying the time at the beach with a beautiful view, she doesn't know the secrets that splash beach offers.
Moving goalposts Vol. IV
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55 | Winter Wonderland
I'm back! I took a break from Second Life and flickr for awhile to just relax and enjoy myself. It was well needed, and I'm happy to be back. Happy new year's eve! <3
Another photo, taken a few years back in the Masai Mara. He was so obfuscated by leaves that a good natural wildlife rendering was impossible. I got rid of the leaves today and offered him a peaceful impressionist place to dream.
After reading all the comments about the flowers I've been posting, I'm guessing that in some parts of North America, things are dark, cold,drab, depressing, and/or a downer. Well, not much I can do about that - especially after the week of torrential rain, plus lightening and thunder (although, after 20+ years of nothing like that, I loved every minute) - but I know that thanks toi our weather, there will be a whole new crop of flowers starting as soon as we dry out a bit. But, now I also have a backlog of birds, and today I give you one of the "rarer" birds where I live, the Downy Woodpecker. Btw, it's only rare because I've only seen four in the last 20+ years, but uit's range is most of North America.
The Downy can be confused with the Hairy and the Hairy with the Nuttall's, but I have a suffcient number of all to give you a pretty good idea. Maybe I'll have a Woodpecker Wednesday. Not a bad idea. Okay, this is the first WW.
The downy woodpecker (Dryobates pubescens) is a species of woodpecker, the smallest in North America. Length ranges from 14 to 18 cm (5.5 to 7.1 in). Downy woodpeckers primarily live in forested areas throughout the United States and Canada, with the exception of deserts in the southwest and the northern tundra. The bird nests in tree cavities and feeds primarily on insects, although it supplements its diet with seeds and berries. The downy woodpecker is very similar in appearance to the hairy woodpecker, although they are not closely related. Why they evolved this way cannot be explained with confidence; it may be relevant that the species exploit rather different-sized foodstuffs and do not compete very much ecologically. Well, I can explain it with confidence. I'll be wrong, but I might be the only one who can obfuscate with such skill ... or use the word obfuscate more than once every five years. I can use the word, but better still, I have been known to practice obfuscation every week. I'm proud of my limited skills.
Anyway, I found all four of my Downy Woodpeckers on Mt. Dalo between 2010 and 2014. I misidentified it four times as a Nuttall's woodpecker. And then did that again with my one and only Hairy and the Nuttall's. If I could get all three on one branch, the differences would be obvious. I'll see what I can do when I post the Nuttall's and the other two opn the same Flickr page.
Did I tell you that the Downy is NA's smallest woodpecker? It is, but all measurements are given in metrics, and I feel that you should reall do some pf this work yourselves. This particular Downy was found hammering away on an old pear tree new Old Borges Ranch. One day, if I ever see a member of the Borges familll hav to ask what the bird life was 50 or 60 years ago. The downy woodpecker is mainly black on the upperparts and wings, with a white back, throat and belly and white spotting on the wings. There is one white bar above the eye, and one below. They have a black tail with white outer feathers barred with black. Adult males have a red patch on the back of the head whereas juvenile birds display a red cap.
Enjoy a little more color which I'll provide in everthing but the weather. Flowers, blue birds, and insects have already started to return, and I plan on posting more color from old and just the last two years at the Garden. The past 23 years have been the best in so many ways. Certainly, digital photography; long lenses on the SX Canon series allowing me to move from flowers to sparrows and raptors; great landscape capabilities at the other end... and, honestly Flickr (and first, Smug Mug) that gave me a platform to share as I've never had in the first 60 year of my nature photography. And, of course, so many of you and the stories you tell. Remember, the experience of taking a picture is often more memorable than the image like the time that mammoth came after me...
At low tide, the many rocks around Half Moon Bay offer an interesting playground. Here, they deliver an interesting foreground that also obfuscates the ocean beyond. The rich browns are drying in the sun, while a sailing vessel appears between their rounded edges.
The tide is beginning to turn and it will soon be a wet journey back to the dry shores. In other words, it is time to leave and get back to the chores of the day.
Sometimes it all comes together at the last minute!
After a stressful few days with no end of incompetence and obfuscation by Transnet and South Africa in general we were gifted a 60 second window of glint between Kimberley and Blofontheim for our Farrail charter.
For me the whole trip was worth it for this shot alone but I'm not sure I can face another trip to South Africa given how unhelpful the railway authorities are there!