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Great Green Bush-cricket (Tettigonia viridissima), male (L) and female (R). Holme Fen National Nature Reserve, Cambridgeshire. Thursday, 17 July 2014.
The Great Green Bush-cricket has a very resticted distribution on the Great Fen, being found only in a few small areas of bramble scrub, bracken and Phragmites reed on Holme Fen National Nature Reserve. Sadly, most of the areas where I've found it in the past have been mown flat over the winter, so I'm not at all optimistic for the long-term future of this impressive insect on the reserve.
For those of us going through the cold days of winter, a little optimistic view..............:):)
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Pour ceux d'entre nous qui traversent les froides journées d'hiver, un petit point de vue optimiste .............. :) :)
Looking back through the archives, I think I played more with lenses and hues years ago. Certainly in 2012.
(And if the algorithm found this old photo, then doesn’t this prove I felt more optimistic then?
Yes, weak argument.)
circles his prey waiting patiently for the opportune time to move in and pounce.
The target of the Fin's strike seemed to be pre-occupied with, it looked like, a cellular device. Distracted driving may provide an appropriate analogy. When travelling in Fin territory one should have access to all of their senses.
Fins are known to travel in packs. Our camera crew became somewhat skittish. We vacated the scene to the safety of our four-wheel drive Smart Car.
We do not know what happened to the unsuspecting, some would say negligent, cell phone user. One could say, perhaps optimistically, that she was calling for help but the picture did not lead us to that conclusion.
(Kinsmen Beach, Invermere, British Columbia)
Yangon 26-Jan-2015. Ten years ago today.
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Back then in 2015 a cautiously optimistic outlook was tangible everywhere. A feeling of young freedom and hope. The country was opening up slowly, under a still fairly new democratically elected government, the first time since independence from colonial rule long ago. Sadly since 2021 the country is again ruled by another repressive junta, and i can only wonder how the little girl is today and what dreams for the future she holds?
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We connected for a brief moment without a spoken word. I was walking the street, attracted by the light and busy coming and going in morning 'rush hour'. A little earlier i had seen many kids here in front of the old building housing amongst others things a school, probably just before 1st classes were about to start. By the time i arrived the kids had gone. But then, the young girl appeared. We just looked at each other with something like equal friendly curiosity. My request for a pic was silent, she just smiled a little and flashed the peace gesture. May peace return ✌
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The composition isn't my best, but i like the moment, colour and light. How do you think?
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Please feel free to check my Myanmar album for more from Yangon.
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This has nothing to do with the photo, I just like the proverb !!
“Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Love more, and all good things will be yours"
Swedish Proverb
A few days ago we had snow on deck for the Sunday forecast at lower elevations. Plenty of precipitation and the temperatures were supposed to dip below freezing, but just barely. As is often the case, the snowflake has turned into a more familiar rain cloud....bummer.
I really hope we get snow in Portland this winter. I know I can head east and get all the snow I can handle, but the city just looks so pretty under a fresh coat.
Image with my Hasselblad 500cm
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Flies are buzzing round my head
Vultures circling my bed
Picking up every last crumb
The big fish eat the little ones
Big fish eat the little ones
Not my problem, give me some
You can try the best you can
You can try the best you can
The best you can is good enough
You can try the best you can
You can try the best you can
The best you can is good enough
This one’s optimistic
This one went to market
This one just came out of the swamp
This one drops a payload
Of fodder for the animals
Living on an animal farm
You can try the best you can
You can try the best you can
The best you can is good enough
You can try the best you can
You can try the best you can
The best you can is good enough
I’d really like to help you man
I’d really like to help you man
Nervous messed up marionettes
Float around on a prison ship
You can try the best you can
You can try the best you can
The best you can is good enough
You can try the best you can
You can try the best you can
Dinosaurs roaming the earth
Dinosaurs roaming the earth
Dinosaurs roaming the earth
Radiohead
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We're Here! : Optimistic Cloudgoat
Strobist: AB1600 with gridded 60X30 softbox camera right. Triggered by Cybersync.
Photo captured via Minolta Maxxum AF Zoom 70-210mm F/4 "Beer Can" Lens. Washington's Central Cascades Range. Wenatchee/Chelan Highlands section within the North Cascades Region. Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest. Chelan County, Washington. Late October 2021.
Exposure Time: 1/30 sec. * ISO Speed: ISO-100 * Aperture: F/11 * Bracketing: None * Color Temperature: 4148 K * Plug-In: Vibrant Fall - Lou & Marks * Elevation: 2,211 feet above sea-level
This mother turkey seems to be getting started way too late in the season. I took these this morning. Her nest is along a fence between Hwy 94 and a rail corridor in St. Paul. When she stands the piece of styrofoam rises. When she sits it covers her and her 12 eggs. The cars on 94 were roaring by at 65 MPH 20 feet behind me as I shot. Those are railroad tracks behind the fence in the background. I took a few shots and left when she stood up. I didn't want to stress her. I'm afraid she has enough to worry about.
The cutting-edge technology that keeps the Silverstone motor racing track in tip-top condition could be coming to Croydon. John Bownas spoke to the team hoping to bring it here.
Pot holes – we all hate ‘em, and Croydon certainly has its share.
But now, the borough’s highways team is taking a lead from the people responsible for maintaining Silverstone’s grand prix circuit.
New technology that is good enough for the world’s top racing drivers is being tested in Croydon to see if it is up to the council’s exacting standards.
If trials are successful, the infrared-powered Nu-Phalt repair system could become invaluable to Croydon’s road repair crews who would be the first in London to realise its potential benefits.
Apart from a significant possible cost saving, the biggest advantages that the new technique has over traditional methods are:
•speed: a typical 1 square metre repair can be completed in just 20 minutes; currently, the same job takes considerably longer, and would be only a temporary fix;
•durability: the infra-red triggered thermal bonding means that patch repairs are far more permanent and blend seamlessly into the surrounding road surface;
•environmentally friendly: the process starts by recycling the existing macadam and needs only a small amount of new material to top off the repair.
The council has recently announced a multi-million pound investment project to resurface many of its roads.
However, there will always be a need for fast and efficient repairs in those cases where small patches of tarmac work loose.
This can happen at any time of the year – although it is usually after spells of wet or cold weather that these small holes open up to create a real headache for motorists and cyclists.
In total, the council’s emergency repairs operation currently costs about £560k every year in manpower and materials – and that’s not including the money that is budgeted separately for the major road resurfacing schemes that we will be seeing a lot more of over the next few years.
Steve Iles is the council’s head of highways, and he knows better than anyone else in the borough just how big a task it is to stay on top of the thousands of road repairs that his teams have to carry out every year.
Talking to Your Croydon about this mammoth job and his hopes for the promising high-tech solution, he first ran through some of the big numbers involved.
“We’ve got nearly 3,000 roads in Croydon, and these all get inspected by the council at least twice a year.
“We look out for any problems that might have arisen since the last visit – and particularly any new holes or cracks that could pose a hazard.
“Since January our system’s logged nearly 5,000 new reports from both streetscene inspectors and those members of the public who phone or email to tell us about possible problems.”
In that same time we’ve managed to fill in or repair about 9,800 – but there’s still around 8,600 that we know about waiting to be fixed.
“That takes a lot of doing,” continued Steve, “I’ve got six full-time staff who spend the majority of their day out doing this sort of work.
“And when they can’t do road repairs, because of snow and ice, they drive the gritting lorries to try to keep the roads clear.”
Tony Whyatt is the highways engineer whose research into improved technology solutions has led to the trial of the Nu-Phalt system.
“I’m really optimistic about how this will save us time and money.
“We reuse most of the existing road material on-site and need to add only a small amount of fresh material to each repair.
“There’s no noisy compressors, and the system cuts the number of vehicles and staff involved in each repair.
“We also minimise disruption to traffic – which is good for drivers – and these repairs can be driven over again almost immediately they’re finished.”
Indeed, driving away from our meeting with Tony we drove over a number of holes that had just been filled – and the first thing we noticed was that we didn’t notice them at all.
The repaired road was as smooth as the day it was originally laid.
We are going through tough times at the moment with Covid-19, but we remain optimistic that by October many of the restrictions will have been lifted, and so Anne Strickland and I are continuing with our plans to run our workshop in Senja, northern Norway at the end of October. We are also offering you the opportunity to 'hold' your place on the tour with a minimal deposit of $100. A full deposit will be taken at a later time, but even then that deposit will be fully refunded if we are unable to run the workshop due to travel restrictions beyond our control.
This picture was taken on our scouting trip last month. The trip had to be cut short, but we were so excited with what Senja has to offer the landscape photographer, and furthermore we had all but one location to ourselves the whole time we were there!
If you'd like information about our workshop, which will coincide with one of the peak times for northern lights, then visit www.earthfocusphototours.com to find out more information.
Group of Four Optimistic Cactus Flowers In My Front Garden
These glorious cactus flowers in my front garden open at night and last for a single day. They are so optimistic that they will be fertilized quickly.
🌙♥ The Good Witch of the North ♥🌙
She is humble, optimistic, mild-mannered, and extremely kind.
She gave Dorothy a powerful magical kiss on her forehead that protected her from being abused by any who would wish her harm.
Her whole ensemble can be found at PurpleMoon for Only L$100 from Oct 26 to Nov 1. It includes, gown, sleeves, crown and staff.
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I'm not sure what this nursery web spider (Pisura mirabilis) was up to on the garden sage bush. It looks like it is eyeing up the Bombus lapidarius queen as a snack. Normally it goes for much smaller prey which it subdues physically rather than poisons so the bee represented quite a challenge!. I shall never know as the bee flew off before the spider could make its intentions clear.
This is the third species of queen bumblebee seen in the garden this year - the other two being B. terrestris and B. hypnorum. There have also been honeybees and a single male mining bee.
The spider is interesting because although I've seen them in the local countryside it's the first time I have seen the species in the garden.
Popped out on an optimistic grebe hunt this arvo...as you'll surmise from this pic, the grebes were havin' none of it! The swans were quite accommodating though. Ignore the EXIF data, this was taken with a 300mm mf lens.
Taken at Nanpantan Reservoir between the rains.
Thank you for looking in :)
..."Choose to be optimistic, it feels better." --Dalai Lama XIV
For ODC: Dalai Lama quotes
And Color My World Daily (yellow day on Wednesday)
Some very optimistic yellow crocuses starting to bloom. It was too cold for the flowers to open today!
Which is what Google found when I asked if pink and yellow compliment each other. They do for me, at least in nature.
Taken at the Salinas do Samouco, near Lisbon, Portugal.
Later that same year, and on a little more optimistic note, a pair of SD40-2's lead a southbound freight towards Texas. The welded rail installed in the '60s from El Reno to Rush Springs (about 50 miles) makes the track a little better, but I'm sure the 60mph we were doing as I rode #97 over three years ago is only a fond memory. But the new SD40-2 and U30c units had tonnage to haul.
The Grand Hotel designed by John Whichcord Jr., 1864, in a Victorian Italianate style finished in cream-painted stucco. Grade 2 listed.
Below, the optimistically named "World Famous Pump Room". City of Brighton & Hove, Sussex, UK.
(CC BY-NC-ND - credit: Images George Rex)
The We're Here! gang is looking for optimistic cloudgoats today. This one thinks he's going to get fried eggs for breakfast...but they are only "fried-egg poppies", not the real thing.
Fynn and his human and furry family wish all our Flickr friends a Happy New Year. May the sun shine on you and your loved ones in 2017 and may the year be all you hope it will be.
I have chosen Fynn for my New Year's greetings because it's often not easy to stay optimistic when you have to deal with his health issues. He ends the year with more problems than he started it and I'm not sure what the next months will bring but I know that Fynn is a fighter otherwise his life would have been over years ago. If anyone has taught me not to give up easily it's him.
Seasons greetings from Colchester. We have had no appreciable snow since 2013 locally so I have had to resort to an old image. This Stowmarket - Willesden move features a 57, 47 & 37 in the perfect combination of sun and snow passing Ardleigh. I am not optimistic of seeing anything similar this winter. Still with snow in the Sahara desert for the first time in 37 years today never say never!
After optimistically mistaking a pair of turkey vultures for our resident hawks, I spotted Mom perched in a tree at the Oval. Before I could get my exposure set, she took off to the ballfield and into this pine tree. It was a very nice surprise to find her sitting next to T4. Yes, that is ice on Mom's right eye.
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Rappelez-vous que les jours se lèvent toujours.
Savez-vous qu'être optimiste,
partager plus et vouloir moins,
vivre de manière plus simple et moins compliquée
est pour nous aussi protecteur que la lumière du jour,
chaque jour nous invitant à danser
avec la danse du temps d'aujourd'hui.
Oui c'est vrai mes amis(es),
: )
Ivan
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Remember the days always rises.
Know you that being optimistic,
share more and want less,
try to live in a simple and less complicated way
for every day inviting us to dance
with the dance of today's time,
is for us as protective as the days'light.
Yes my friends, all will be fine.
: )
Ivan
I wasn't terribly optimistic when I went looking for the BNSF's local on the Hanley Falls branch to Madison, MN. Good news! I saw a headlight when I crossed the tracks at this rural crossing west of Boyd. Bad news: it soon became obvious they were running east as light power. Consolation: the east facing locomotive was an ex-Frisco GP38-2 still wearing H1 paint. I gave a little chase back to Clarkfield, but I think I'll need to come back to try again. This telephoto view shows how little grading was done when the Minneapolis & St Louis Railway laid the first tracks down back in the late 19th century.
My (optimistic) Order...
Please deliver a massive Starling murmuration very close to home during the lock-down
Status...
Delivered
20-30,000 birds
Payment Details...
1 tube of meal-worms and crushed peanuts in the garden feeder every morning
(Only 20-30 Starlings will attend)
Done
Transaction completed
Thank you
20,000 Starlings
The early morning sun is shining bright and therefore, there's a good reason to be joyful and optimistic.
However, a man and a young girl (who is most probably his daughter) are both wearing cold and gloomy faces as they ride on a bicycle along a side street at the town proper of Subic, Zambales, Philippines.