NOT-SO-YOUNG-PARENT WITH NOT-KID-NEMORE-CHILD
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Since the nesting site of Larus crassirostris was so crowded, a chick came out to a road. Its parent had to feed it along roadside. In Teuri Island, Hokkaido, Japan.
道に出てしまったヒナにエサを与えるウミネコです。
The Fly orchid (Ophrys insectifera), the Bee-Fly orchid hybrid (Ophrys x pietschii) and the Bee orchid (Ophrys apifera). The fly orchid is pollinated by special species of male dagger wasps from Argogorytes sp. The Bee orchid does not leave this important process to an occasional insect and are mostly self-pollinated. The thoughts are that the hybrid between the two plants came about when a bee transferred a sticky pollinium from the Fly orchid to the Bee orchid’s stigma creating this rare and beautiful hybrid between the two species sharing features of its parents. Obviously, that’s happen in the past and these three orchids are not related to each other directly anymore. The image of the Fly orchid was taken two weeks earlier (they are almost finished flowering). Whereas the Bee orchid just started its flowering season. The Selsley Common, Gloucestershire, England, U.K.
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I was photographing some ducklings and came across this juvenile waiting to be fed by the parents. A very windy day.
Barreiro, Setubal 🇵🇹
June 2022
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This was from Sunday afternoon at the Ravines. I was a little surprised that both the Eagles left the nest at the same time for a little while.
I came across this pair in a very tender moment where they touched and I also was touched, for I've seen this behavior before. The parent in front and with that beautiful red eye and the sibling with no color in the eye or in the feathers, they were inseparable, and thought that this image said it all folks, it did for me.
Have a great day everyone and thank you for the visit.
My mother, who died a week ago, and my father, who died in 2006, at a carnival ball in Memmingen in 1954. My mother was 22 years old then, my father 27 (their birthdays were later in the year), and I was about ten months old at the time. Certainly my grandmother took care of me that evening.
Cute Tibetan Kids enjoying a movie in their parents phone in a cafe while the parents were busy serving us food.
Adult Great Horned Owl and parent of the owlet shown in previous posts keeping a watchful eye (literally one eye) on the kid.
Always nice to see females with eggs! They're such good mothers though that they're infuriating, as they constantly lean towards the lens, to protect their brood!!
Upton Magna - Shropshire
Montcalm Point, Lake George
When we first spotted this particular loon family in early July it was two adults with twins. There were eagles, mink, and a fisher cat seen nearby. A week later, one baby had disappeared; in another week, there was only one parent. Today Tina looks small for the season, still wearing her baby down. Time for me to leave now; they will also need to go soon.
The promenade, Llandudno, North Wales
Kathy’s been working from home way before lockdown was imposed and also since it was her first break from work, staying home was not an option! We decided to invite her parents out and make a day of it. Couldn’t have picked a better day as the weather looks like it’s on the turn now... Winter is coming!
Not included a tune for a while so here goes...
A brother and I stopped at “Our Parents Place” to reminisce for a bit before going on a cruise together. It was a beautiful day and by chance we wanted to get a couple photos of our street rods. We live a few hundred apart and wanted to pay our folks the respect of a visit. We had a blast and our folks never said a negative word. Gratitude and Kindness paid off again.
After six months of redevelopment, the Natural History Museum this month reopened its centrepiece, Hintze Hall, with Dippy the Diplodocus replaced by the skeleton of a 25-metre blue whale named Hope. I was fortunate to be able to visit the museum a few days after it opened, and to behold the remarkable sight of this creature -- the largest ever to have lived -- suspended from the hall's ceiling and diving downwards with its jaws open.
Having last photographed Hintze Hall more than two years ago, it was fun to return to the location and to try an angle I hadn't photographed in a while. The challenge here is always the immense number of visitors the museum welcomes each day, and my workflow to capture the scene nearly empty was similar to my previous take, which is to say about 45 minutes of continuous shooting and then using Photoshop's Statistics function within the Scripts menu to calculate and remove any inconsistent elements. In addition to bracketing my exposures so that I could later blend them using luminosity masks, I was also drawn to the dramatic mid-morning sunlight coming through the windows, which cast a warm glow on Hope and created a wonderful array of patterns along the hall's floor. The sun on this particular morning was constantly dipping behind the clouds, however, so I was restricted to shooting only when the sun reappeared, as well as trying to capture each part of the scene without people at least once to ensure a clean and straightforward editing process.
Although I'd bracketed nine exposures and had a range of tonality to work with, the bulk of my workflow was geared towards the darker exposures, which captured all of the detail in the museum's windows and a moody sense of mystery beneath its arches, as well as emphasising the pattern of light and shadow along the ground. With this said, I used the brighter exposures to gently restore detail to the brickwork and to emphasise portions of the building's architecture, for example J. W. Beaufort's portrait of Alfred Russel Wallace to the right of Darwin's statue. After this, I used a mixture of Curves, Hue/Saturation, Colour Balance, Selective Colour and Gradient Map adjustments to find the right shade of blue for the shadows and to emphasise the warmth of the sunlight streaming through the windows. Inside Nik's Colour Efex Pro and Silver Efex Pro, I significantly lowered the midtones and softened the structure across the museum's floor, as well as applying a small amount of the Detail Extractor and Tonal Contrast filters to the walls to bring out their texture.
The mother and son beneath the whale were added further along in the workflow, but I felt they completed the image. Besides providing a sense of the scale of the skeleton towering over them, there seemed to be something meaningful about their presence beneath a display that's intended as a symbol of humanity's power to shape a sustainable future. This particular whale was stranded at Wexford Harbour in southeast Ireland in 1871, but the species was hunted to the brink of extinction during the 20th century, with the blue whale being the first species that humans finally resolved to save on a global scale. Their population has steadily begun to climb again, hence the name Hope, and there seemed to be something very hopeful about a parent and child visiting an environment where everyone is encouraged to be a part of that change.
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Mam Tor is a 517 m hill near Castleton in the High Peak of Derbyshire, England. Its name means "mother hill", so called because frequent landslips on its eastern face have resulted in a multitude of "mini-hills" beneath it. Wikipedia
Elevation: 517 m
Location: Derbyshire, England
Parent range: Peak District National Park
Parent peak: Kinder Scout
OS grid: SK127836
Swan parents - last week at Horn Pond. Thanks to the local Instagram community, I know at least half the eggs have hatched since then. I haven't had a chance to go back yet to try to see the babies - maybe sometime today, depending on the rain.
Red-breasted Sapsucker RBSA (Sphyrapicus ruber)
Elk /Beaver Lake Park
Ponds near Equestrian Center
Saanich
Greater Victoria BC
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Field Mark Cues ^i^
Sapsucker with predominantly red head & breast
This shot to feature/document front features as sub-species study/exercise
Parent male didn't look to match
S. r. ruber
or ssp. daggetti
so perhaps these are
ssp.
S. r. notkensis
?
but i was not able to find pictorial or photographic
x references at time of posting
No conclusions drawn ...
Exhausted Parent
Yellow-crowned Night Heron cat-napping while guarding her precious new hatchlings at Ocean City
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This busy parent made us jump as it flew out of the hollow of a tree, flying inches from our faces.
Retiring to a safer distance we watched both parents hurrying to feed the hungry youngsters within the tree.
The light made the photo a little challenging to say the least.
Great Tit - Parus Major
Tralee Bay - Scotland
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