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a winter sceen outside my window, but in here we are warm as a pear tart :)
natural image, no digital fiddling involved. i love this one:D
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This is not staged. Taken at the same time the guests got theirs, with this exact wine.
Estérel Resort, Laurentides, Québec, Canada. One of the greatest wine cellar in North America.
Pentax k3iii + 55mm F1.4 X Godox AD 200pro (1).
Badly aged.
On the reverse:
J. H. Riggs
Roff Oklahoma
as it is
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This is John H. Riggs (04 Aug 1851 - 14 Sep 1919) and Melvina Annette Stephens Riggs (24 Mar 1850 - 28 Mar 1932). They lived in Oklahoma a relatively short time, around 1910. This cabinet card was probably finished around then when John was about 60. He died in 1919 at 68 years old.
A pair of GM Buses Leyland Fleetlines rest on the cobbles on the forecourt of Atherton depot in 1991. Both had been new to Lancashire United in 1979.
Black Swan pair (Cygnus atratus), Sale Common, Victoria, Australia.
(2021-04-19_P0562KY_Sale_DxO_crop2_Nik)
I never saw a Pileated Woodpecker until one of our Sugar Maples died - but since 2009 this pair of Pileateds has visited this tree regularly. I happened to be outside with my camera yesterday when they flew into the yard. Not a prize-winning shot - I need a longer lens for that! - but my best yet of this pair.
The Pileated Woodpecker is one of the biggest, most striking forest birds on the continent. It’s nearly the size of a crow, black with bold white stripes down the neck and a flaming-red crest. Look (and listen) for Pileated Woodpeckers whacking at dead trees and fallen logs in search of their main prey, carpenter ants, leaving unique rectangular holes in the wood. The nest holes these birds make offer crucial shelter to many species including swifts, owls, ducks, bats, and pine martens.
Cool Facts: A Pileated Woodpecker pair stays together on its territory all year round. It will defend the territory in all seasons, but will tolerate new arrivals during the winter.
Food: The Pileated Woodpecker’s primary food is carpenter ants, supplemented by other ants, woodboring beetle larvae, termites, and other insects such as flies, spruce budworm, caterpillars, cockroaches, and grasshoppers. They also eat wild fruits and nuts, including greenbrier, hackberry, sassafrass, blackberries, sumac berries, poison ivy, holly, dogwood, persimmon, and elderberry. In some diet studies, ants constituted 40 percent of the diet, and up to 97 percent in some individuals. Occasionally, Pileated Woodpeckers visit backyard bird feeders for seeds or suet.
- www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Pileated_Woodpecker/lifehistory
So much better to be lucky than good. Hearing the recognizable Red-Bellied Woodpecker call, I searched the trees until I spotted one at the very top of a limbless dead tree. It was on a riverbank, so shooting angle was problematic. I moved around, lining up the shot, firing away to make certain I got something.
I could hear a second bird calling from a distance...but was occupied. Surprisingly, the second Red Belly flew right in with the first, stayed for perhaps a ten count, and then left. Because the camera was already at my eye...bingo.
Note to self on Using The Camera 101: I was having a problem dialing in +EV on the new camera. Using 'normal' settings, everything was coming out way overexposed, but looking normal on the LCD monitor!!! Duh! It helps to set the monitor brightness to reflect the final exposure. ** Jeesh...rookie mistake! **
No EXIF data here because the exposure was quite wrong for the conditions.
A pair of Razorbills, (Alca torda) greeting each other on the cliffs at Bempton, East Yorkshire, UK.
An early morning walk-on the beach and an extremely low tide left much to look at in the sand. Here, a pair of Washington clams. #cy365 225/365
Next time I'll take a few hard copy pictures to their owner for the pleaseure they bring me. They just shine too much to get the right colour on the digital camera.... yet!
Green Darner coupled pair - Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge (Brigantine Division), Jen's Trail fresh water pond, Oceanville, New Jersey
Rather than simply dropping their eggs into the water like the Meadowhawks, these guys deposit their eggs on the stems of submerged plants, and in order to ensure the eggs remain submerged the female will reach as far down the stem as she can without drowning. The male clasps her by the neck throughout the entire egg laying process, both to ensure that no other males will mate with her, and to pull her out of the water if she gets swamped by an unexpected wave.
These guys were about 10 or 15 feet offshore so a 600 mm lens with 60 mm of X-Tubes (and water-proof hiking shoes) made this capture possible.
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Is there anything better than walking in a woodland in Springtime, surrounded by a carpet of bluebells, with sun shining through fresh green beech leaves?
Perhaps only when there are also orchids?
Just finding a decent-looking Warbonnet has become nearly impossible, so how about a pair of them. The Z-STPCHC is just north of Savanna, IL powered by the BNSF 4717 and 794.