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this Rainbow Lorikeet was absolutely soaked when it rained this afternoon, but was having a lovely time in the Callistemon in my garden.
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Zo af en toe kom je nog een volhouder tegen (20-1-22)
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Every now and then you come across a persistent (20-1-22)
Perseverance doesn't always mean winning and losing. Perseverance means showing up and rising to the occasion and performing. (Michael Chiesa)
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Big old tree of Japanese Clethra looks gnarled & fantastic.
Botanical name: Clethra Anatolia; English name: Japanese Clethra. This tree grows slowly at this barren land.
リョウブは成長すると樹皮が剝げ落ちて, 木肌がツルツルになります。地上根は逞しい反面, 地下根は浅く短く, 幹は傾きがちです。特に土壌層が薄くて直ぐ溶岩層となる天城では, こんな格好に成ります。リョウブは成長速度が遅いので, この古木の樹齢は全く見当が付きません。
"Meine vollkommen neu entwickelte Marssonde wird die entmannte Raumfahrt revolutionieren, und für Jedermann erschwinglich machen", so der Raumfartpionier des VEB Traktorenwerk Schönebeck, Erich Wuttke heute auf der Pressekonferenz.
My first time to photograph oil on water. I find it challenging but I had fun. I took some photos yesterday but not successful and I did a lot of mess. I tried again this morning and this time I used a decorative plate and some flower petals and then put my clear round dish on top of it. After some more "trial and errors" and 24 shots all together, I think this one is good enough to share with you.
Marco Monday: Oil on water.
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Back to reality!!! My brain is still foggy and resisting the idea of going back to work. I hope everyone enjoyed the holidays.
Found baby sea turtles last Christmas. I like the message of hope and strength they represent. Last year was certainly challenging but pushing through this year with a mindset of perseverance against adversity 😊
When I go out to take pictures of dragonflies in flight, THIS is the picture I have in my mind - something I rarely achieve. This picture has all the attributes I look for; front 3/4 view from slightly above. All four wings visible but with slight motion blur, good focus on the face, background not completely plain. Today I relearned the importance of perseverance when out shooting wildlife. After a couple of hours in the hot sun, I had virtually nothing to show for my efforts. As I was walking back to the car, I decided to have one last go at capturing a good shot and climbed over the low wall atop the dam and went down to the water's edge. I had spotted this beautiful female flying around, and to my delight, after a few minutes, she flew right at me, and for a brief 2 seconds, I managed to lock focus and got 26 shots, several of them usable. I consider today's shoot a success, even though 1,000 of the 1,400 frames went straight in the 'delete' folder. One good picture makes it all worth while!
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Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying 'I will try again tomorrow.'
Mary Anne Radmacher
“By perseverance the snail reached the ark.”
We were out in the garden filling up Randie's little watering can
to water the flowers. We must have filled it up 3 times before I noticed
this little guy trying to escape sudden death trapped in the can filled with
water. A moment later another little fella followed :)
Good thing my mother in law was not around.. she would have stomped
on them!! Happy Sunday Everyone!!
Despite all the fallen leaves and browns, yellows and rusty colors, this maidenhair fern and its little companion cousin are steadfastly hanging on to their spring-time colors. Photographed on a rainy day in the Hass Tract of the Mississippi Valley Conservancy, La Crosse, Wisconsin.
I have always seen images from this location. It is called secret beach, a funny name given that it is not so secret. It did take a while to find the location though. Its quite a trek from my house, a good 5 hours. Once I found the location, I was determined to get this image.
I packed the family in the truck, put the trailer on the back, and headed out. We got to Bandon and it was foggy, very foggy. Ah, it will blow off, right? I mean, you can really only shoot the Milky Way during a new moon, so the weather was going know that I needed this image and it would blow off, right? Nope. Fog city all weekend. Well, I did get a chance to go to the beach and scout out where I would shoot from, some day. So I guess it was not a total waste.
I set up another trip, on another new moon date but this time I watched the weather a little more closely. The weekend came up, and fog again. This time I did not even go to the beach.
But then the stars aligned, a new moon, and the whether said it would be a clear night. I made the trip with the family again, but this time tried to make it more fun (and faster) by making it a tent, trip. That worked well, it had been years since we camped in a tent. Everyone liked it and had a great time. Even the two big dogs. So I set out on Friday night to the beach. Guess what. Fog. Totally fogged out. I waited for hours and hours hoping it would clear up. Chatted with a few other photographers who laughed at me sitting there in the fog waiting. Good thing I brought a camp chair. There would be no image this night. I was not about to give up, this place was not close, and a pain to get the forces all in my favor.
I went back out the second night. This time I won, sort of. I like to use a star tracker to shoot stars, but I did not realize that because of the forest, you could not see the North Star from here, so the star tracker could not be aligned. So I shot this one old-school, long shutter, higher ISO. Glad photoshop can address the noise better now.
Anyway, got the image. Let me know what you think.
*Working Towards a Better World
Never give up. Have hope. Expect only the best from life and take action to get it. -
Catherine Pulsifer
Do not forget to hope and happy be. - John McLeod
No matter the number of times you fail you must be determined to succeed. You must not lose hope. Don't stop in your storm. Don't give up so easily. -
Tony Narams, Top Secret: You Can Fly Like An Eagle
Hope is grief's best music. -Author Unknown
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