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King Romeo II of the Double Cross Pride does not seem very pleased with his sub-adult son's behaviour and seems to be putting him in his place by showing him his massive canines early in the morning.
Photographed in the Maasai Mara Game Reserve, Kenya.
A Great Egret Ardea alba taking to the air at Ham Wall RSPB, Somerset Levels. This area is where this species first bred in Britain in 2012 and the core of the developing British breeding population.
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Suki had more off-leash freedom than ever before today. Good job, Suki!
Check out the entire story at the blog post: Suki, Unleashed!
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While photographing this ram, a magpie landed on his back and sat there for a few minutes before taking off. He didn't seem to be a bit bothered by its presence which was kind of surprising; apparently they have learned to coexist. Didn't even realize I captured the take off until sorting through the images when I returned; a nice bonus.
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For me, this is as good as it gets, managing to get a globemallow beetle in flight! I've no idea if this one is the same one as I posted back on June 29, but it was kind enough to take off for me so I could see both sets of wings!
Beetles still have two pairs of wings, but their first pair have evolved into protective cases, the elytra while the hind wings are membranous and can still be used for flight. The elytra protect the hindwings and the abdomen.
As usual I have no idea why doing this sprang to mind just thought of beans flying off of my toast....so there you have it :-))
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I will overshare. Sometimes you go through periods where things don't line up. Bad things happen to everyone. I've been lucky but I've had my share of times where I'm just hanging in. This scene today is just something I came across on my way to work. Random. And I took the shot and I was glad to be presented with it, but when I was processing it after I saw that what made it beautiful was how out of kilter it was. I think there is a lesson in that for me, for everyone, who thinks everything has to be perfect to be good. Not true...perhaps.
This is a repost of a shot. The previous image that is still on my timeline is over processed due to my lack of experience at the time. I like this image a lot better. I just made some minor adjustments to this image.
One advantage of driving Lewis to school this morning was being able to catch the lovely sunlight falling across the fields - I might use my nifty fifty more often for landscapes!!
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African Darter Anhinga rufa
The African Darter is a member of the darter family, Anhingidae, and is closely related to American (Anhinga anhinga), Oriental (Anhinga melanogaster), and Australasian (Anhinga novaehollandiae) darters. The male is mainly glossy black with white streaking, but females and immature birds are browner. The African darter differs in appearance from the American darter most recognisably by its thin white lateral neck stripe against a rufous background colour.
[Ref: Wikipedia]
This fellow has grabbed himself a quick take-away breakfast and is on his way home to enjoy it in peace.
This image was captured alongside our boat on the Chobe River, near Kasane, northern Botswana, Southern Africa.
© 2014 Duncan Blackburn
A couple of mornings ago my compliant spotter and I were headed out of a deserted parking area near a quiet country lake. As we drove slowly toward the main tar road, I spotted a bluish-gray bird swooping over the adjacent fields of tall grass with its head pointed downward.
From my past experiences, I knew this was a Norther Harrier on a morning hunt so I stopped our vehicle, got out and leaned against it for some support. I extended my telephoto lens and centered in on the action but with the old eyes I now have I realized I could only follow the shape in the lens without really seeing much detail from about 60 yards away.
After tracking it for a while, I figured it would take me about a day and a half to go through all the photos I had taken so I quit. I climbed back into our SUV where my wife reminded me again not to let mosquitos in although I had not seen any since last October.
I remarked to her that I thought I caught a glimpse of another bird that photo-bombed the photos of the harrier and was eager to get home to see on my large monitor what it might have been.
Imagine my surprise to bring up this photo with two differently colored raptors that necessitated an online search of bird apps to find out what I was looking at. Turns out they are both Northern Harriers, a male and a female. Like in a lot of cases, the female harriers are larger and more aggressive than males and often chase the males away when food is involved.
Females are colored brown while their mates weigh in with black wingtips on a grayish-blue body. Some research suggests the females will even steal prey mid-air from their male counterpart while he is flying somewhere on his way to eat it.
Armed with all this new knowledge, I have begun to be a little more aware of my wife when I am in the kitchen preparing a snack.
(Photographed near Cambridge, MN)
From the Bois de l'Ile Bizard Nature Park ...
Ile Bizard, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Edinburgh tram 251 seen accelerating away from Edinburgh Park Central heading for Edinburgh Airport 25/7/21. (Taken using a pole)
Many a time I've snapped off a frame acting on nothing more than pure impulse. It's usually kick-started by a momentary feeling of weirdness or oddness in the world around me. I think we've all experienced that at one time or another. You see something that causes a feeling of uncertainty, possibly anxiety, or just confusion (or any number of other emotions). There's usually no apparent basis for these moments, they just hit you and often pass just as suddenly. For me anyway, there's often no visual cue; sometimes it's more a matter of crossing into some space or unseen energy field. These can be fixed in a certain space or completely transitory. I might experience it in a certain place one day, then never again in that exact spot. Other places seem to harness the energy and tend to raise that mental awareness each and every time I pass there (like a Ley line). There's one place in a local cemetery that causes me that sensation. I discovered it quite by accident one day. It's a fairly strong current of energy; actually causes goosebumps to raise on my skin. And it's a very narrow corridor. I can move into it, and right back out again with just a couple of steps. What I've come to notice is the ability to channel this energy into the visual realm. It's simply a matter of responding the moment you feel something like taking photos. It's not a good time to question the why or where, or worry too much about composition. I rely more on instinct for all of that. I truly believe it's a case of the universe picking the moment to shoot a photo rather than you. This photo is a case in point. I was walking down the street, totally preoccupied in thought when I was gripped with that weird energy flow. I immediately raised the camera and this is the resulting image. It's just a neighborhood house but somehow I've captured a dark aura. It's like looking at the photo of a crime scene; the outward beauty and charm of the house and yard belied by a sense of grimness. I can't help but think that a few seconds delay in taking the photo would have resulted in the energy diminishing. I think the dark aura would have lifted and the house would appear normal again.