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Bald Eagle. Usually one can tell that a eagle is about to take off, they fidget, and raise their wings as you see above and then away they go IMG_4955
Lift off ...
- from the Grubigstein (2233m), Tirol - Austria
- with the Zugspitze (2962m) in the background at the left in the clouds
Handsome aerialists with deep-blue iridescent backs and clean white fronts, Tree Swallows are a familiar sight in summer fields and wetlands across northern North America. They chase after flying insects with acrobatic twists and turns, their steely blue-green feathers flashing in the sunlight. Tree Swallows nest in tree cavities; they also readily take up residence in nest boxes.
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Image taken near Mata-mata
Before sunset we stayed to shot a raptor that we particularly liked. We worry on our way back to find the entry to the camp closed ! A few kilometers only from our destination and near a waterhole where apparently he just drink in, a cheetah was showing off before some admirers.At first lying on the ground, the animal roll sideways, seeming very calm, enjoying himself, ignoring us. Then he stand up and left us without hurry, coming back a few times, one or two bushes away, letting us admiring his feline beauty before leaving ...The wildlife photographer knows well this intense emotion which we never tires when wild nature offers us such a gift!
Image prise près de Mata-mata
Avant le coucher du soleil nous sommes restés pour photographier un rapace que nous aimons particulièrement. Nous nous inquiétons en revenant de trouver l'entrée du camp fermée! A quelques kilomètres seulement de notre destination , près d'un point d'eau où il venait certainement de boire, ce guépard est allongé et roule sur lui même devant quelques admirateurs !Le photographe animalier connait bien cette émotion intense qui nous envahit et dont on ne se lasse jamais lorsque la nature sauvage nous offre un pareil cadeau !
Puis le guépard va s'en aller ,allant d'un buisson à l'autre ,nous permettant d'admirer sa beauté féline !
Il est temps pour nous de rentrer , encore émervveillés des moments que nous venons de vivre ..
Explore 70 🌟July 12, 2024
As I was editing the image I noticed that there are small drops of water that are falling off the pelicans wings as he was taking off. I think this one is going to be printed.
Junk Food - "Slorona Tub" part of the Happy Weekend Sale. You know what that means....SALE! $60L gets you both the tub with clickable male & female bento beers and one for yourself. Perfect way to fight off this heat wave too but only available in-world.
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Junk Food MP:
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Junk Food on FB:
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Junk Food Flickr:
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TODAY, WE ARE OFF TO JAPAN, the land of the rising sun...
A BIG tick on our bucket list!
Look forward to some superb images? Fingers crossed eh.
SAYONARA, M, (*_*)
While I was taking this picture, five photographers came and went and got a picture of a perched eagle, sitting amongst a bunch of little twigs, with no clear shot. I ONLY had to wait 15-minutes, but I got a much better shot. When you're standing there waiting, it can seem like forever and turn tiring, BUT it will often result in a shot. Note that I said "often." You will also "often" get nothing. However, if you don't wait you'll almost never get the shot.
Here's another shot from Wednesday. I was at my delivery in Salt Lake City, trailer was being unloaded and I of course noticed the cool looking clouds. Stood on the top step outside of the truck cab and began taking pictures. Wasn't thrilled with my foreground until this express train came rushing by. Fortunately I was ready, as I was already shooting this exact composition, just had to time my shot. Only one chance, and I think I got it about right.
The thing I really liked and caught my eye was the cloud with a big hole in the middle. Kinda reminded me of one of the arches in Zion National Park. So lucky that train came by when it did. My other shots had the great sky and clouds, but damn I liked getting that train in there, completes the shot. Also, lucky it was very bright and used a pretty fast shutter speed. Like they say, sometimes it's better to be lucky than good.
Drove just short of 600 miles today and in Barstow California tonight, delivering in Anaheim tomorrow at noon. Only a hundred miles away. 11 PM now, going to spend about 30 minutes on Flickr then off to dreamland.
Oh, and happy fence Friday, though it's a pretty ugly fence as fences go.
FrontRunner Commuter Train, here a link if you're interested in that sort of thing.
As we were walking back from the High Bridge Anita spotted something glowing in the sun and we discovered telephone poles with these brilliant glass insulators. Well, of the five poles we found, only this one had the glass ones. These were set down below the pathway on what must have once been a road but was now nearly lost in the trees and brush. I just liked how these were sparkling in the bright sun that day.
2/3 I went to the beach on a foggy afternoon and spotted this Western Gull with a clam. It flew away three times, only to come back each time to drop the clam onto hard-packed sand from a height of about sixty feet. On the third try the clamshell opened and the gull got its meal.
Chicago. 2017
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“And yet what are we to do about this terribly significant business of "other people," which gets bled of the significance we think it has and takes on instead a significance that is ludicrous, so ill-equipped are we all to envision one another's interior workings and invisible aims? Is everyone to go off and lock the door and sit secluded like the lonely writers do, in a soundproof cell, summoning people out of words and then proposing that these word people are closer to the real thing than the real people that we mangle with our ignorance every day? The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It's getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again. That's how we know we're alive: we're wrong.”
Philip Roth, American Pastoral
It sure wasn't easy to catch this guy at ground level... during take-off! 😁
Have an exciting day, everyone...