The blossoms on this star magnolia tree have been bitten by frost, yet they continue to declare that spring is here!

This was a dizzying display. It was quite windy and the Striated Pardalote was being blown around at a different rate to the leaf with the lerp. So every time they came close to each other the Pardalote made a lunge for the treat. This went on for a few minutes with dozens of attempts.

(Peter)

This beautiful red-bellied woodpecker kept coming to the suet feeder again and again. "You will get fat eating like that!"

Peak District National Park in August. This was one of those moments where the reward came only after patience and quiet persistence. Reaching this viewpoint meant walking slowly as the light changed minute by minute, waiting for the sun to drop just enough to set the valley on fire. The heather in the foreground was alive with colour, the rocks anchoring the scene while the landscape unfolded endlessly below. The struggle was resisting the urge to rush the shot, trusting that the light would align, and it did. That calm golden glow was the payoff, a reminder that nature always works on its own schedule and rewards those willing to slow down and observe.

If this view resonates with you, show some love and share it with someone who needs a little inspiration today. Follow for more landscape stories and visit Dariocphotography.com to explore my work.

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Own Storm.

Elements, as a great cycle in nature, as life.

Elements, as composing cycles of reminds, along hours in a watch, along days on calendar...

Turbulences in our minds. They last.

How much is too much? Sometimes forever.

"Love is probably the strongest emotion that you can feel.

It's very natural -

and I wouldn't want to say easy -

but natural and comfortable to write about,

and there are so many different forms of it,

millions of layers -

you could write forever about it."

~ Shawn Mendes ~

When macular degeneration took away much of her ability to see "the whole picture" Jane gave up oil painting for paper collage . . . just another way to express the many layers of her long, phenomenal life, shared in an infinite array of mediums.

Jane loved Sedona and visited there every September to absorb the landscape and interpret it on canvas or in journals.

I'm blessed to be surrounded by her art in every corner of my home, so her spirit will live on forever.

bumblebee on turk's cap, Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center, Austin, TX. Sony nex5r and micro nikkor 55/3.5.

A quality I admire regarding of continuity, craftsmanship and goal in a character.

youtu.be/dcoCxLnMN7E

I Love you ,my Sunbeam💕

Uniquely beautiful carving of the Tennessee rock created by the persistent flow of water makes the new Winding Stair Park in Lafayette a jewel.

From my observations I can say that bees are territorial. The smaller long-horned bees are often "patrolling" the sunflower patch for interlopers and then pouncing on their backs in an attempt to get the bigger bees to leave.

Os ventos que às vezes tiram

algo que amamos, são os

mesmos que trazem algo que

aprendemos a amar...

Por isso não devemos chorar

pelo que nos foi tirado e sim,

aprender a amar o que nos foi

dado.Pois tudo aquilo que é

realmente nosso, nunca se vai

para sempre...

Chinita esforzándose por sobrevivir a su infortunio.

Persistence is Bei's second name

Lady In Red

Chris De Burgh

I've never seen you looking so gorgeous as you did tonight

I've never seen you shine so bright, you were amazing

I've never seen so many people want to be there by your side

And when you turned to me and smiled, you took my breath away

I have never had such a feeling

Such a feeling of complete and utter love, as I do tonight

Lady in red

Is dancing with me, cheek to cheek

There's nobody here, it's just you and me

It's where I want to be

But I hardly know this beauty by my side

I'll never forget the way you look tonight

I never will forget the way you look tonight

The lady in red, the lady in red

The lady in red, my lady in red

This is one of the most satisifying images I have ever captured, and I can honestly say one of the most tiring.

We headed down to this location for sunset, around 7pm, with the promise that the Aurora was going to make an appearance at some stage that night.

Well, sunset was a fizzer, and the bus loads of tourists left quickly, until it was just myself and my poor wife, sitting there on a clifftop, in freezing windy conditions, waiting and waiting and......well, waiting..

At 11pm, I decided to pull the pin, and we headed back to our hotel at Port Campbell.

I set my alarm to go off on every hour from 1am till 4am.

1am...check apps...nothing

2am...check apps...nothing

3am...check apps...nothing

4am...check apps...Chaos in the sky!!!

Back into the car, a 12km dash down the road to the shoot location, and the sky just lit up!! It was an amazing sight to witness.

At this stage, this was my very first sighting in my lifetime of an Aurora, and it was exhillarating to say the least.

Thanks to my wife Monique for putting up with my persistence to get this image, and being my wingwoman.

For the togs, settings used were:

ISO 1600

10 sec shutter

F1.8

Light painted the foreground with my torch, one sweep.

Hope you like "Lady In Red"

Cheers, Mike

see more DOORs here.

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This pied shag thought that a leaf might be a nice gift. Despite all the efforts and persistence to give the offering, the other shag was not interested in the least. Uploaded three images of this series, because these two birds made me smile.

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Please do not use this photo on any websites or for personal use.

Thank you.

©2015 Fantommst

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Persistence pays off at last. A new site brings much closer views of this fantastic bird

Same shot of the other one posted but with my presence too, i'm not completely satisfied ... not the best composition i think , just a step on the right and it would be sure better

Just few correction with Photoshop CS3 and B&W conversion with Silver Efex Pro

Title inspiration: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJTzc3zrIrw

Nikon d60+sigma 10-20 @ f 9 iso 100 109 sec + B+W ND 10 stop + Reverse GND 0.9

Better on black www.flickriver.com/photos/tommyrave/

I upload the 1024 px

Thanks all for your visits and comments

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@Memento mori

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This shot was taken at the beginning of the winter in Lignano (Friuli Venezia-Giulia, Italy): as the title suggests, the symmetry and the persistence of the various elements ware what caught my attention.

That's right...it's that same chunk of curbing and the same bit of red PVC wire. I'd thought by now the wind would have blown away all evidence of that strange twining of asphalt and wire.

But no.

Despite 3 nights of light frost and falling leaves. Plus about 3 months after their blooming season, this one lone Azalea bloom opens and shows it's great color as if nothing was out of the ordinary.

I have no doubt there is a message in this unusual event.

Feel free to share what this image says to you in your comments here. I look forward to seeing them.

Thank you all for your visits, wonderful comments, many invitations and awards. Thank you also for following my work.

I have met some amazing people here in Flickr and thank you all for being who you are and for the lovely art you speak through.

Happy Weekend to all.

Breece

Just a day after it experienced two separate mechanical failures and came close to being pulled from service, Metrolink F59PHR 856 charges down the rails once again as it leads an evening train to San Bernardino. Built in 1992, 856 is one of Metrolink's original locomotives, starting from Day 1 of the railroad. It was one of the seven F59PHs that were overhauled in the late-2000s and it served consistently until mid-2020 when it was initially removed from service. It has since made appearances from time to time on work trains and when extra locomotives were needed to cover for those that were in for servicing. It is always a question when 856's last run will be; if this could be the final photo I capture of it in regular service. That day will come, but for now, 856 persists.

I hate to steal a title from Dalí, but I just can't seem to find the right word I'm thinking of for this, and that title is as close as I can get for the moment.

Model: Carly P.

Part 5 of 10 of a photo story shot April 2013.

Inspired by of the ideas put forth in Edgar Allen Poe's "The Philosophy of Composition" and based on a couple of photos from back in my 365.

"the death, then, of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world---and equally is it beyond doubt that the lips best suited for such topic are those of a bereaved lover."

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As goofy as Mr. Personality is, he never gives up. Points for persistence & ambition. Unfortunately, I got distracted by a raptor flyover & didn't see what happened. The log was empty when I next looked.

Mississippi Map Turtle (Graptemys pseudogeographica kohni)

Yellow-bellied Slider x Red-eared Slider intergrade (Trachemys scripta scripta x Trachemys scripta elegans)

My photos can also be found at kapturedbykala.com

persistence of flight

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

~ Anatole France

You want this... i know you do!

Happy Bokeh Wednesday Eve =)

Explore #82, Thanks to ya all, u guys are the best ;)

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musée d'Orsay, Paris. no tripod. senò veniva meglio u.u

on black.

il tutorial di come si fa questa roba è sempre questo qui.

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For whatever reason, most of the hummingbirds I catch feeding are either females or juveniles. It could be that they just out number the males. The females could be gathering lots of energy for feeding their babies (they catch little bugs for them). Or the males spend lots of time showing off, watching over their territories.

I finally figured out where this guy fed - past tense, as these flowers are all gone. So I waited...and waited. He was a stealth feeder! Sometimes I'd hear him, see him at the flowers, and then he'd be off, chasing another hummingbird or going back to his favorite lookout.

He is catching enough light here that his head feathers are reflecting some color and aren't all black. See how cute he is when you View Large On Black

where there's a will there's a way !

We need strength or energy, persistence and last but not least balance in order to move forward.

I watched people doing stand up paddle surfing in False Creek last weekend when I had a walk on Cambie Bridge.

Happy Monday and great week ahead!

window with a view

Gone now. Those of us that came here with our cameras will never forget it. These ruins in the woods were full of some mysterious voice that spoke in tongues of light. Artillery rounds for the U. S. Civil War were cast in this foundry.

Now the buildings and the woodland have been scraped from the earth. A clay lined basin containing waste from a paper mill has been installed where these bones stood.

I think this guy has been down in front of the Statehouse every time I've been down there recently. In his power chair with his BLM flag, and today with a megaphone broadcasting a message I couldn't quite make out.

olympus snap 35mm film fujicolor fujifilm 200 remote location wisconsin dells abandoned but ready for business #analog #analogue #athenian #marathoner #filmisnotdead #film #filmart #35mmfilm #35mm #olympus #olympustylus #stylus

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Listen to Russian Red

Take me home

This was a first for me. This little mushroom somehow grew through this hole in the leaf.

Persistence

McConnell penalized Sen Warren for trying to read Coretta Scott King's letter to Sen Thurmond written when Sessions was first nominated to a judgeship years ago. He forbade her from speaking at all in the Senate until after the vote. He said she was warned, but "nevertheless she persisted."

Resistance Needs Persistence

HTmT!