Little Orphan Raccoons there mother was bringing them up here to mooch some food, she started when she was expecting, foraging hard for something to eat, when she had the babies she brought them up to eat. One day they came by themselves, then the next day, they were starving, they had not learned to find food yet. I started to feed them, the dark one was very aggressive, the other two not so much. They got bigger and did survive, they learned to hunt. The dark one still comes by occasionally, I recognized him because of color, the other two probably are out there. They got a bit destructive for a bit, then calmed down.

...seen in a Peruvian Amazon village on my last trip before Covid. Uploaded for Smile on Saturday! :-) theme: animal face.

HSoS everyone!

This shot is similar to an image taken many months ago. However, this one also includes a foreground that depicts a place where orphaned logs collect, that have run astray from their booms.

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I've seen this fawn several times, but never with its mother, so I'm thinking it might be an orphan. It was eating some corn a park visitor left by the trail and wasn't scared of me at all as I stood nearby and took pictures.

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this is her body

shielding as daddy, too, dies -

you are born again

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Baby birds are my theme for today. Here a shot of a hungry orphaned Tawny frogmouth chick that was raised by a neighbour.

The Tawny frogmouth is a unique bird native to Australia, often mistaken for an owl because of its nocturnal habits and similar appearance. However, it belongs to a different family altogether. Tawny frogmouths have distinctive wide, flattened beaks and large, yellow eyes. Their plumage is well-camouflaged with mottled patterns of gray, brown, and black, helping them blend seamlessly into tree bark.

These birds are known for their excellent mimicry; during the day, they remain very still, perching on branches and posing like broken stumps to avoid detection by predators. At night, they become active hunters, primarily feeding on insects and other small prey.

Orphan Orangutan, Borneo.

Sadly the Orangutan has recently been moved to Critically Endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature which means there is “an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild”. In the last 10 years we have lost almost half the wild Orangutans due to deforestation, mostly for the Palm Oil industry.

www.orangutan-appeal.org.uk/

This sweet little baby is the only one that comes around without a family so we are assuming something happened to them all. We're doing what we can to help it. The good news is that this was taken July 26th and it is doing ok but I'm sure it's a difficult life for it.

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Storm orphans - young acorns with velvet catching the light.

GOLD Medalist - Round 13 - OPEN THEME Perpetual Contest - 2009

Color Photo Award - PREMIER.

3rd Place Winner, Daarklands' Challenge 22.0 - Through my Lens - April 2010.

Featured on the group's Front Page as a result.

Olympus digital camera

I went to check on her today to make sure she wasn't mistakenly put in with the lambs that are going to the sales. She seemed happy to see me but not nearly as happy as I was to see her. She's a real trooper.

Mehlinger Heide

Pinnawala, Sri Lanka

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Canon EOS 760D

TAMRON 16-300mm F/3,5-6,3

f/6,3

1/160

41 mm

ISO 100

This is what happens when I don’t touch my camera for a few weeks.

Fortunately, my camera was temporarily orphaned unlike those of these journalists:

Ahmed Abu Aziz

Mohammed Salama

Moaz Abu Taha

Hussam al-Masri

Mariam Abu Dagga

Anas al-Sharif,Mohammed Noufal

Ibrahim Zaher

Mohammed Qreiqeh

Moamen Aliwa

Mohammad al-Khaldi

Ismail Abu Hatab

Moamen Abu AlOuf

Ahmad Qalaja

Ismail Baddah

Suleiman Hajjaj

Hassan Abu Warda

Hassan Samour

Ahmed al-Helou

Yahya Sobeih

Noureddine Abdo

Fatma Hassouna

Hilmi al-Faqaawi

Ahmed Mansour

Mohammed Mansour

Hossam Shabat

Mahmoud Islim al-Basos

Ahmed al-Shayyah

Ahmed Abu al-Rous

Mohammed al-Talmas

Saed Abu Nabhan

Omar al-Dirawi

Areej Shaheen

Hassan al-Qishawi

Ayman al-Gedi

Faisal Abu al-Qumsan

Mohammed al-Ladaa

Fadi Hassouna

Ibrahim Sheikh Ali

Mohammed al-Sharafi

Ahmed al-Louh

Mohammed al-Qrinawi

Mohammed Balousha

Iman al-Shanti

Maisara Ahmed Salah

Mamdouh Qanita

Ahmed Abu Sharia

Mahdi al-Mamluk

Ahmed Abu Skheil

Zahraa Abu Skheil

Bilal Rajab

Amr Abu Odeh

Saed Radwan

Nadia Emad al-Sayed

Haneen Baroud,Tareq AlSalhi

Mohammed al-Tanani

AlHassan Hamad

Abdul Rahman Bahr

Nour Abu Oweimer

Wafa al-Udaini

Mohammed Abed Rabbo

Hussam al-Dabbaka

Hamza Murtaja

Ibrahim Muhareb

Tamim Abu Muammar

Mohammed Issa Abu Saada

Rami al-Refee

Ismail al-Ghoul

Mohammed Abu Daqqa

Mohammed Abu Jasser

Mohamed Meshmesh

Mohamed Manhal Abu Armana

Amjad Juhjouh

Wafaa Abu Dabaan

Rizq Abu Shakian

Saadi Madoukh

Mohammed al-Sakani

Mohammed Abu Sharia

Rasheed Albably

Ola Al Dahdouh

Mahmoud Juhjouh

Bahaaddine Yassine

Mustafa Ayyad

Salem Abu Toyour

Ibrahim al-Gharbawi

Ayman al-Gharbawi

Mohammed Bassam al-Jamal

Mustafa Bahr

Mohamed Adel Abu Skheil

Saher Akram Rayan

Mohamed el Sayed Abu Skheil

Tarek El Sayed Abu Skheil

Mohamed el-Reefi

Abdul Rahman Saima

Muhammad Salama

Mohamed Yaghi

Zayd Abu Zayed

Ayman al-Rafati

Angam Ahmad Edwan

Alaa al-Hams

Yasser Mamdouh el-Fady

Nafez Abdel Jawad

Rizq al-Gharabli

Mohammed Atallah

Tariq al-Maidna

Iyad el-Ruwagh

Yazan al-Zuweidi

Mohamed Jamal Sobhi al-Thalathini

Ahmed Bdeir

Shareef Okasha

Heba al-Abadla

Abdallah Iyad Breis

Mustafa Thuraya

Hamza al-Dahdouh

Akram ElShafie

Jabr Abu Hadrous

Ahmed Khaireddine

Ahmad Jamal al-Madhoun

Mohamad al-Iff

Mohamed Azzaytouniyah

Mohamed Naser Abu Huwaidi

Mohamed Khalifeh

Adel Zorob

Abdallah Alwan

Haneen Kashtan

Assem Kamal Moussa

Samer Abu Daqqa

Ola Atallah

Duaa Jabbour

Shaima el-Gazzar

Hamada al-Yaziji

Hassan Farajallah

Abdullah Darwish

Montaser al-Sawaf

Adham Hassouna

Marwan al-Sawaf

Mostafa Bakeer

Mohamed Mouin Ayyash

Mohamed Nabil al-Zaq

Assem al-Barsh

Jamal Mohamed Haniyeh

Ayat Khadoura

Bilal Jadallah

Mossab Ashour

Sari Mansour

Mostafa al-Sawaf

Hassouneh Salim

Abdel Rahman al-Tanani

Amal Zohud

Abdelhalim Awad

Amro Salah Abu Hayah

Yacoup al-Borsh

Moussa al-Borsh

Ahmed al-Qara,Yahya Abu Manih

Mohamed Abu Hassira

Mohamad al-Bayyari

Mohammed Abu Hatab

Majd Fadl Arandas

Iyad Matar

Imad al-Wahidi

Majed Kashko

Nazmi al-Nadim

Yasser Abu Namous

Duaa Sharaf

Jamal al-Faqaawi

Saed al-Halabi

Ahmed Abu Mhadi

Tasneem Bkheet

Ibrahim Marzouq

Mohammed Imad Labad

Roshdi Sarraj

Mohammed Ali

Khalil Abu Aathra

Sameeh al-Nady

Issam Bhar

Mohammad Balousha

Abdulhadi Habib

Yousef Maher Dawas

Salam Mema

Husam Mubarak

Ahmed Shehab

Hisham Alnwajha

Mohammed Sobh

Saeed al-Taweel

Ibrahim Mohammad Lafi

Mohammad Jarghoun

Mohammed al-Salhi

Sorry I've been missing for a while but I'm spending a lot of lockdown looking after lambs! This is Orphan Annie (named for obvious reasons) and I've just managed to feed her in the last few days. Now she comes to meet me but is not very tame - yet.

This is the second time in 3 days that I've seen these two fawns close to the road and without their mother. I assume she's dead. There have been recent reports of a cougar sighting nearby and while extremely rare, it's not impossible. The poor babies have no fear. Check the focal length- 44mm. After the shot, I scared them off. Hope they make it.

" Between 1854 and 1929, so-called orphan trains transported more than two hundred thousand orphaned, abandoned and homeless children - many of whom, like the character in this book, were first-generation Irish Catholic immigrants - from the coastal cities of the eastern United States to the Midwest for "adoption", which often turned out to be indentured servitude"

When the train stopped - babies and healthy looking boys were chosen first. Children who were not picked were sent to the next town or even back to the children's home in the east.

This book is a fictional story about what happens to an Irish girl who was transported on such a train from New York to Minnesota in 1929..

The story links the life of a foster girl in 2011 to the life of the woman who was a foster child in 1929.

A really interesting read with a bit real history and pictures after the story.

White Lion Street, Islington

living quite happily in a Nursery for Water Babies :)

It was a day early in 2012 that my obsession with abandoned buildings began, I felt this huge unity with these places, they spoke to my soul and being inside them was the greatest feeling ever. Consumed by the beauty I found in their decay and history, for 5 years I have been photographing these places.

I have travelled all around Europe and last year the world, in 2014 I produced my first book Soviet Ghosts and this year my second one Fukushima will come out in the shops in April. But for these 5 years, what I have really been collecting these photos for is something truly special, an indulgent celebration of the photos I have created for my series Orphans of Time.

I will be producing a very special limited edition book of 2000 copies, all will be signed and numbered, they will look like old Victorian photo albums, each will have a black cover, embossing, and gold debossed lettering, the edges of the paper will be gold leaf and a metal clasp will hold the book shut. Inside will be hundreds of photos taken over the last 5 years. The book itself will look like a remnant from the past, perhaps more at home on the old dusty bookshelf of one of the abandoned houses that I roam.

Who would be interested in getting a copy?

Video made by the talented Chris Lavelle using my photography

This solitary barn is all that remains of a once vibrant farm in Knox County IL.

A living reminder for people to slow down when driving though the wilderness. This is a shot from spring of an orphaned North American Brown Bear or Grizzly Bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) who had recently woken up from winter hibernation at the Grouse Mountain Refuge for Endangered Wildlife in North Vancouver. Sadly cubs are often left behind when their mothers are hit by cars or trucks. Orphaned cubs that are human socialised though the rescue process are difficult to reintroduce to the wild, often spending their entire life in reserves such as this one if they are lucky enough not to be put down. Massive in stature, the largest Grizzlies have been known to weigh up to 680 kg (1,500 lb), standing up to 3 metres (9.8 ft) tall on their hind legs , or 1.5 metres (4.9 ft) at the shoulder when on all four legs. British Columbia, Canada

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She was an abandoned/orphaned lamb last year and I managed to feed her for a few months until she would have been weaned.

I went looking for her today without much expectation of finding her but she knew me! I was shouting "Orphan Annie" at all the sheep and only one came towards me - all the rest headed off. I then recognized the black dot above her left eye.

We had a wee chat and then off she went too. She will have her own lamb in the Spring.

These siblings have been orphaned (abandoned?) since they were little. At first, I thought they'll never it make but here they are, few weeks later and they are still together watching for each other. This is new to me. I have never seen white ducklings by the lake before.

Happy New Week, Everyone! I hope your all had a nice weekend!

Thank you so much for looking!

The lil' Orphan Girl and her pound hound find solice in each others arms : ) <3

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMsG8b-hO7g

Thanks to Wendy Rundel a most amazing lady, for the kind loan of Lilly Lament (Unidoll UH21)

PS. Please note the dog is as it came out of the box, his full glory is yet to be realized by the skilled hands of a lovely lady i know <3

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Thanks for your respect and consideration.

David Ballard.

Sheldrick Wildlife Trust - Nairobi 2011

Even at this age, their skin is rough, and the hair as stiff as an industrial scrub brush.

Genesee & Wyoming Australia locomotives 1907/CK3 approach Whyalla with their loaded export iron ore train from Iron Duke on the isolated 1067mm gauge Whyalla network in South Australia - 10 February 2013.

1907 was formerly a Western Australian Government Railways DA class (EMD) that was rebuilt with a cut down cab for DOO operations in 2003. In 2006, when the G & W ops in WA were sold off to Aurizon, it was the sole member of the class to be transferred for GWA operations at Whyalla in 2006.

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In the Geonosian arena, a young Boba Fett mourns the loss of his father Jango.

My entry for the last day of RebelLUG's Vignweek challenge.

The category was Star Wars Bounty Hunter. I chose to build the scene where young Boba Fett mourns his father's death in the Geonosian arena.

Definitely not a huge fan of this vignette. This one was probably most rushed of all. And of course there's only so many pieces in dark orange and medium flesh.

Overall Vignweek 2019 was a lot of fun and lot of sleepless nights.