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Newly hatched (day-old) sandhill crane (Grus canadensis) colts follow one of their parents out on their first field trip.
Sarasota, FL (22 March, 2024)
These new parents look tuckered out, no doubt with 22 babes!! Guess where the chicks all are in this picture?!
These Preston Marina Common Tern chicks having made it through the bad weather should now begin to flourish. Unknown number lost through weather preventing parent birds hunting for fish.
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SIG visit to Wollerton Wetlands in August.
My camera. not having seen daylight all weekend, I can only be thankful for my archives!
As we approach the election of 2024, something that is on everyone's minds is freedom. As in, what does it mean, and will we still enjoy it after the results of the election are announced. Yale professor Timothy Snyder has written a book on the subject called "On Freedom". I've read it twice this season. It's one of the most important books I've ever read. My entries for this Polaroid Week are based on interpretations of points made in his book.
Snyder posits that there is a difference in conceptions of freedom, one of which is negative freedom, which can be thought of as "freedom from", and positive freedom, or "freedom to". Postive freedom is about enabling free people to live their lives to the fullest, and negative freedom is about preventing anything from preventing you from doing whatever you want. Positive freedom leads to democracy. Negative freedom leads in the opposite direction.
There are five components to positive freedom in Snyder's estimation. The first of these is Sovereignty. Each person is sovereign over their own selves. They are responsible for their own being, their own decisions, their own beliefs. The task of a parent raising a child is to teach them to be a sovereign being, capable of judging right from wrong and living their life in a way that is true to themselves.
My first entry for Polaroid Week represents Sovereignty with a mixed media piece, one of my construction paper people on Polaroid Retinex Type-I film, with a piece of construction paper glued onto the frame so it extends outside the circular frame of the Retinex film.
Snyder's book is available at timothysnyder.org/on-freedom .
31 years ago today my mom died. This was her last picture. My youngest son was just 6 weeks old, and my parents were going to Florida for the winter. I was going to miss them. They would be back by April to file their income taxes. Home shopping club had been advertising this new telephone device, that you plugged your phone into it, and if someone had the same device, you could see them while you were talking to them! Futuristic for sure! We didn’t buy them. My mom died the next day, after they arrived in Florida to their house trailer from a heart attack. She was 70 years old. That was a Sunday morning August 8, 1991. I was just remembering our conversations of how I was going to miss her and how I wished we had those devices to see each other while we talked. 31 years later, I just finished talking to my older son and daughter in law from my Ipad with FaceTime. We FaceTime all the time without thinking about it. 31 years ago it was a dream. I never had another phone call from my mom after she left, and she didn’t come back in April. My Dad came back two days later. I saw my mom at her funeral. She has been with the Lord these past 31 years. My dad joined her on October 31, 1999. Time sure does fly by and things change so much in this world. The Good news is The Lord never changes! His Word doesn’t change either. Some people think it should change to accept today’s changes. I have peace that it doesn’t change. The Bible says, Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever. Hebrews 13:8❤️
This young Barn Swallow had landed on this bolted sticking out the side of this food bridge and the parent went down to encourage to fly. I was less than 5 feet from them, so I took a quick couple shots and backed off and watched until I saw them fly up out of the area. Thinking teaching a kid to walk is hard, try to teach it to fly!
These Parent shieldbugs were in the same place as the Parents with eggs that I photographed earlier in the year though I haven't seen them there since they hatched despite looking. There were many leaves all covered in these bugs in various stages of development. There were about six leaves all covered in these bugs in various stages of development - a good year for Parent Shieldbugs
July 2016 TQ150693 - TQ150694
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This little guy seemed lonely up in that nest awaiting the parent to return. Seen here assuming position to receive regurgitated lunch.
They are divorced for more that 15 years but I found these polaroids from their wedding...
explored <3
Meopta Flexaret IIa (S/N:30130190a)
Meopta Mirar II 1:3.5 f=80cm (S/N: 20449300)
Foma Fomapan 100 (200 ISO)
Agfa Rodinal 1:50 for 12 min (20C)
Black Oyster (Haematopus bachmani) parents lead 2 of their 3 chicks to safety on the beach after descending large rock where nest was; 3rd chick is lagging behind but eventually joins the family
107/366/2020, 3394 days in a row.
Taken on an evening visit to drop stuff to my parents who are "Cocooning" during the Lockdown, really miss giving them a hug xx
© Aurora Santiago
These bald eagle fledglings have outgrown their nest. They now hang out at nearby tree limbs under the watchful eyes of their parents. They are about 12 weeks old.
A female Downy woodpecker (Dryobates pubescens) passes suet to the youngster at the top of the feeder. Eventually it was persuaded to get some directly.