Art & Creativity from the islands of the Pacific.
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And now for something completely different as they say.
A bit of an oldie and a similar image was posted a while ago in a triptych but not as a single image. For the group, "Looking close... on Friday!" Theme: "Crown"
Stu was number three in the rooster pecking order from our potluck pack of pandemic chickens we picked up in 2020. He never crowed and was the outlier of the group. Well, that all changed when number 1 and then 2 got eaten by a fox! After that the "free range" days ended, more fence was added and Stu assumed a leadership role. He really turned into a tough little nut and most definitely was the ruler of the roost. He would crow whenever someone was near or something strange was going on but then he also turned into an obnoxious bad ass attack chicken.
In 2021 he fathered some chicks and one turned out to be another rooster. As the son reached adulthood, Stu got demoted and now his son is the ruler of the roost. Stu still hangs in there but is kept in his place. I know he's just waiting until his son gets eaten!!
Something a bit different from Tonbridge.
Colas 'Shed' 66850 ‘David Maidment OBE’ is captured looming out of the mist with the 7.14am Hoo Junction - Springhead Junction (6C01) engineers' train. Taken from the High Street bridge, and given a toned monochrome finish.
Not for everyone.
8.11am, 26th March 2022
Running through a red light
Like we're trying to burn the night away
Away-way, oh, away-way, oh
This is my favorite part oh
Help me piece it all together darling
Before it falls apart oh
Help me piece it all together
It's a quarter past midnight
And the speakers are blowing
Yeah, yeah, We want the bodies on the billboards
Not the lives underneath them
Yeah, yeah, yeah, and now we're crawling up the walls again
And its a quarter past the world
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✭Friday January 11th
6:00pm The Red Door
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✭Saturday January 12th
8:00pm Black Sabbath Club
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Live soaring vocals & electric guitar feat classic rock, 80's rock, AOR, Hard Rock, Guns'N'Roses, Motley Crue, Whitesnake, KISS, ACDC, Queen, Foreigner, Firehouse, Winger, Originals, Requests & more!
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[DB]Poses - "when i see you again"
Don't close your eyes, dear, don't you be nervous
You put this hold damn place in a spell
I see your friends here, and some of them jealous
'Cause they know this love don't come off the shelf
I saw your mother, she looks so beautiful
Remember when she didn't think I would stay?
But all of those late-night, broke-as-hell dinners
Led us to where we're standing today
I'm feeling time move slow
I'm seeing faces glow
None of them shine as bright
As you tonight
I'm hearing voices hush
There's no one else but us
Darling, there's so much love
Under these lights
If it's okay, let's just have the time
Of our lives
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These are some of the pelicans cruising around The Entrance, not far from home, waiting for a feed. They have a great little story.
Just over twenty years ago, the pelican feeding started almost by accident, when staff from a local fish and chip shop began throwing out scraps for the birds. It became such a ritual that if the staff were late with the scraps, the pelicans would cross the road and wander up to the shop looking for them. You have to admire that sort of initiative.
From those beginnings, Pelican Feeding Time was established by local volunteers and businesses, both to help injured pelicans and to raise awareness of the importance of protecting local wildlife.
Today, the daily feeding provides an opportunity to keep an eye on the health of the local pelican population. Sick or injured birds are identified and cared for by wildlife rescuers.
Looking at this photo, I reckon there’s probably a life lesson in here somewhere too.
The majority of the pelicans seem to have agreed on a plan. They know where they’re going, they’re travelling together, and presumably someone up front has at least a vague idea why.
Probably food.
Then there are a couple of smaller breakaway groups who seem less convinced. They’re heading in roughly the same direction but keeping their options open. Sensible. Never fully commit until you know exactly where the food will be, I always say.
And then there’s "that one" right at the back.
Going completely the other direction. No destination and no idea whatsoever what the plan was in the first place.
I can relate.
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Alternate title (provided by my daughter) - be back soon
As I've been working on trying to improve my photography skills, I have become a light worshiper. I'm constantly aware of the light around me, wanting to understand it so I can manipulate it to make better images. I feel like I am beginning to get a grip on it but now really need to work on creating light too. I've recently read Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell and have years to go before I'll get in my 10,000 hours but until then I am happy to keep practicing on daily improvements.
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Street photography from Glasgow, Scotland.
Previously unpublished shot from May 2019.
I had to find a shot connected with music for my favourite evening of the year. I'll be enjoying the Eurovision Song Contest tonight celebrating by mixing a Ukrainian dish with some British fodder for dinner and a smorgasbord of European delicacies later.
No dancing this year though. My fractured foot is just getting more painful and more swollen each day and I suspect that the advice given was wrong. 'Walk on it as normal' is the outlier in medical advice for a fractured fifth metatarsal. I can't put weight through it and frankly don't think that I should.
So... no alcohol and no dancing but there will be good food and some good music, and some less good music too - that's why I love Eurovision! Enjoy!
The Mollestad Oak (in Norwegian: Mollestadeika or Vetteika) is a monumental, legendary oak near the Norwegian village of Mollestad in the municipality of Birkenes, Norway.
The oak has a circumference of 9.21 metres (30.2 ft), measured in 2001, and a height of around 13 metres (43 ft), which makes the Mollestad Oak one of the largest trees in Norway. Estimates of the age are between 450 and 550 years, but there are also outliers to around 1000 years. The oak is traditionally a knot oak and the trunk extends to a height of four meters.
The oak is located on a field. In the direction of the oak from the road, there is a grassy strip over which the oak can be reached.
The nickname Vetteika comes from the vættir. She believed that when the farm builder died, he returned as a guardian spirit. The trees that grew around his burial mound were protected and the surrounding land sacred. It was believed that when these trees were damaged this would bring bad luck.
To ensure that everything went well, sacrifices were made to the tree, including the first brewed beer of the year. wikipedia
Been doing a bit of archive mining to break up the stream a bit.
This is the eastern end of the Beinn Eighe range, the biggest and most complex of the Torridon giants. The shot was taken from the col between Beinn Eighe and it's outlier Ruadh Stac Beag. It's the sort of spot where you are very unlikely to see anyone else; quiet and remote, but the views are superb.
...And this was the last time I walked on snow in June.
The other side of this mountain, with its famous 'arret' is the Estaube - a cirque and river with patches of its bed in white marble. The run of peaks chains to the boarder with Spain (left) and the Pico Capilla, which is an outlier behind the Circo de Pineta.
North Cascades, Washington
Sometimes the best moments on a hike are the ones I wasn't looking for. The ones that flow from simply being present in a place and open to what surrounds me; suspending the constraints of time and conscious thought. That's where the magic happens.
Along a narrow trail that climbs above the beautiful Blue Lake in the North Cascade mountains, there lies a small tarn. Ringed by alpine larches and towering walls of rock, it has a quiet unassuming presence in a vast landscape of majestic peaks. On this October day which hovered on the cusp of winter, the tarn was coated in a layer of ice, and snow dusted the surrounding edges.
And yet, as I sat on a rocky outcropping and contemplated the view before me, I could feel an inviting warmth emanating from this frozen lakelet. The larches began to glow as the sun emerged from behind the clouds, its rays illuminating the golden needles. As I felt that that same sun warm my face, a sense of peacefulness suffused my soul. Then I slowly sank into the calm, and surrendered to the magic of the moment.
Larches
A side note for those who may be unfamiliar with larches: they are a deciduous conifer, so they drop their needles in the winter after turning from green to gold for a short period of time in the fall. There are several species of larch but the ones here are the alpine larch, Larix lyallii. They live at subalpine and alpine elevations (5900 to 7900 feet/1800-2400 meters) and are mostly found in the Rocky Mountains, however there is one small outlier population that happens to grow in the North Cascades in Washington. The spectacular colors and limited population of the trees brings crowds of hikers flocking to the North Cascades trails for a couple of weeks every fall for "larch madness". (I am including a close up shot of the needles in the first comment below for those who may be interested.)
“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien
A simple collage combining a few of my recent images from our city's fabulous lakeshore...
Going clockwise from upper left:
1 - Three amigo gulls hang out to watch the sunset
2 - A mallard drake takes to the air and flies past me
3 - A swamp sparrow sings its heart out
4 - Our city's landmark lighthouse at the North Pier
Technically number 3 is an outlier, with my photographing the sparrow at a local marsh.
Is the lakeshore always this colorful and 'perfect'? Of course not. No place is. Plenty of dreary and drizzly days. Lots of cold and bitter winds. Grey and drab colors abound.
But they are offset by bright sunny days, warm summer sunsets, and birds and wildlife that make us smile. It's all about spending time in the field, training one’s eyes to see possibilities, and loving the outdoors and nature.
And of course, good processing is critical to good outcomes :)
Sheboygan, Wisconsin, USA....
I love you, Sheboygan!
Was having a cleanup of old photos today when I stumbled across this one. I remember thinking at the time there wasn't enough foreground interest, so it was a bit bland. It is a merge of three bracketed exposures. So it was never looked at again.
These days I have a new appreciation for clouds. I love them, in all their forms. I'll be out with people and they will say "what a beautiful day, hey". My usual response is "it's okay but, there aren't any clouds.
Anyway, the clouds performing their "opera" here caught my interest tonight. There is the drama of the rain, the glory of the sun peaking , the roiling of the mid levels, the whispering of the outliers. That's how I remember it anyway.
Any other cloud lovers out there?
Have a great cloudy day everyone :)
The Iceland Gull is one of a few predictable or regular occurring rarities along the Great Lakes. This bird can also be found on the northern range of both the east and west coasts.
The IG breeds in the arctic as well as Greenland, but the color coded map on allaboutbirds indicates it is non-breeding in its namesake Iceland. Hmm!
The IG shows up as a single in large groups of Ringbills and Herrings, so when out for a bit of winter birding, one should peruse carefully a flock of gulls to see if an outlier is hanging out.
This is a juvenile Iceland. Notice the full black beak. Another outlier, the Glaucous Gull, will have only a half black bill on the juvenile. The Iceland can easily blend in with a juvenile Herring Gull, except the juvenile Iceland will not have any black on the wing tips and will generally have lighter markings.
I found this gull last winter in a lake-like river out a mile or two before it empties into Lake Michigan. Because the water moves, it stays open while providing shelter, and many ducks and gulls will gather there.
In any population there are always the special ones--the artists, the writers, the musicians, the inventors that seem to soar above the heads of we mortals. Without them, it would be a pretty mundane world.
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Mynydd Mawr is a mountain in Snowdonia, North Wales, approximately 7 km west of Snowdon itself, overlooking Llyn Cwellyn and being the northern outlier of the Moel Hebog group. A popular ascent starts from Rhyd Ddu. On its western flank are the remains of ancient settlements and field systems.
"Listen, people like me and you, we're different. We're original thinkers, intrepid outliers in this vast cesspool of adolescence. We don't need these inane rites of passage to validate who we are." -Wednesday Addams
Thank you to Mya Potato for this amazing collaboration. And for inspiring me to always embrace my weirdness. I can't wait for more collabs!