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Gracie is in the cardboard box on the bed in the front bedroom, and Millie is not happy about it. Taken by Edgar.
We have been having problems with Gracie and Millie because of aggressive behavior by both of them. We do not have photos of it, but Millie often stalks and chases Gracie or tries to keep her away from the water bowls. Despite what the photos show, Millie is more often the aggressor. We were off Flickr for a while because we wanted to find out if they were having any health problems. The vet says they are both physically healthy. For about a week, we have had a pheromone diffuser in their favorite room. The Pheromone diffuser is supposed to calm them.
Most animals don't physically express emotions using facial motions like humans, but I tend to assign emotions to animals anyways. Here, this Snowshoe hare looks to me like he is a bit grumpy.
Taken 14 July 2020 at Wrangell St. Elias National Park & Preserve, Alaska.
A flock of these beautiful swallows were flying low and fast along the Wenyu River in Beijing on a hot summer's day. Very challenging to photograph and physically difficult to track, but also a really exciting opportunity to finally capture some clear shots of swallows in flight.
I've seen Snowy Egrets be aggressive with one another, but it usually was all bluster. Yesterday, I witnessed one physically attack another one.
If you look at this photo in the largest size, you should be able to see the top Snowy with its beak trapping the other Snowy's beak, holding the beak tightly together with its foot.! This is all happening mid-air!
The shot was taken at quite a distance. Fortunately, I had my 500mm lens with my 1.4 teleconverter. It's really a beast to handhold - the teleconverter throws off the weight distribution for me, but I'm so glad I had it to get this shot.
Snowy Egret
Egretta thula
Member of the Nature’s Spirit
Good Stewards of Nature
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I `m in love with seas, fells and mountains. And none of them are physically close to me. So it’s just the love of the soul but I escape to their closeness in my dreams and of course on holidays.... love is careless in its choices. Norway. ICM, single exposure.
👱♀️🎧 Soul Love ( David Bowie )
‘The Key to Lock-Down’. Keep busy physically & mentally during your Lock-Down, social networking & photography is a good start. If you can’t get out at home, or don’t have a garden then try jogging up & down stairs! What ever you come up with do STAY IN folks to stay VIRUS FREE and to NOT be a vehicle to pass it on to others, Alan:-)
366 - I’ve decided to do this to force me to pick up a camera other than when we are away on our travels (they will be posted as normal) - I will be interested to see what transpires, they will be varied I’m sure so we’ll see where inspiration takes me over the course of the year, hopefully at the end of it I will be a better photographer. Feel free to critique as you see fit, but please don’t feel obliged, I anticipate they will not be to all tastes. Have a great year and if you also have embarked on a 365 project then good luck in seeing it through, Alan:-)
For the interested I’m growing my Shutterstock catalogue regularly here, now sold 38 images :- www.shutterstock.com/g/Alan+Foster?rid=223484589&utm_...
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"Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot see physically with his eyes."
Arshile Gorky
How do you like my fuzzy little beak? This Common Nighthawk is one strange looking bird, don’t you think? It’s fun to be able to examine it up close without actually having to be physically very close.
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Chordeiles minor
Hey my friends, it's so good to be back on flickr, so to speak. I'm not sure if you guys are having the same issues that i'm having but my account has been silent(dead) for the last 8 months. The only way I know of any type of activity is if I physically go and look on my laptop, no notifications, no e-mail, nothing. The silence is maddening!! Yeah, Yeah, of course I've checked the settings, I think that Insta-wreck(instagram) is somehow blocking my Flickr notifications. I uninstalled instagram but Flickr still remains silent. :-)
Speaking of silent, I spent weekend before last scouring the tablelands for petroglyphs to line up under the Milky Way. At this time of year the temperatures were in the 90's throughout the day so most of my time was spent searching during dusk or dawn. As I walked along the trail out of my last location I suddenly felt quite ill. I was having problems keeping my balance as if my equilibrium was on the fritz. I shook it off and soldiered off down the trial towards the car. About a mile later it happened again. Hmmm, why am I feeling so dizzy? I just had a big fat hamburger back in town not three or four hours ago, I can't be hungry already. I decided to stop off the trail and quickly scarf down a protein bar to see if that would help when my phone rang. It was my wife asking if I was O.K. Yeah I'm fine Why, I asked. She informed me that there where just a couple of 7+ magnitude earthquakes in ridgecrest just within the last hour less than 100 miles away as the crow flies......... Ah-hah!!!
Have you ever heard the expression " No one can hear you scream in space" (well they can't hear you out in the boondocks either). Well did you know that when your out in the middle of nowhere an earthquake is literally silent! It's true. I shit you not!! not a sound!! Just movement!!
I've been living in Southern California my whole life which is kinda like living on gods etch-a-sketch but had never realized that the noise associated with an earthquake is all the manmade crap rattling around you, LOL. :-)
Tale-of-The-Take:
Instead of sweltering in the tent or car down in the Owens Valley I decided to drive up to the Bristlecone forest and stay the night at the campground which is almost 10,000ft. in elevation which would help cool things off for the evening. It's a great place for night photography because it is a registered dark-sky location. I found this spot while wandering around the outskirts of the campground during a sunset on a previous trip and had marked it in Gaia GPS for later reference.
Here it is referenced!! Hope you like it!!!
I have started a Meet-up group for those of you who live in So Cal.
In an effort to bring my photography interests closer to home I have created this group to build a community of landscape, nightscape, and nature photographers here in the Southern California area.
Here's the link www.meetup.com/Adventure-Photography-Network-Group/
These are not workshops! This is hanging out together shooting the outdoors, sharing ideas, being creative, and growing a community…..together as friends and colleagues. Each participant will need to be self-sufficient!!
**To purchase prints click the link below, If not there contact me and I'll add it there.
adventureinfineartphotography.smugmug.com/
To find out more about the "Adventure Photography Network" click the link below.
ericgphotodude.wixsite.com/adventure
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Diablo Lake, North Cascades, Washington. I brought my demons to paradise. At the time, months of constant sciatic pain were a cloud around me, physically and mentally. If there was devil, he had gotten into my leg and made every day an agony. Part of me just wanted to lie in a fetal position where nothing hurt. I tried to exert the nerve into remission, but the more I pushed it, the worse it got. But I am a stubborn man. I felt I could cure myself if I could just make my body stronger, stretch it out, exorcise the pain. Despite everyone's criticisms that I was aggravating things more, I ultimately refused to give up a planned trip, and came to this slice of heaven, to climb mountains. Every day I hurt at the start and end, but not so much as I pushed myself through the hikes. Since I began coming out here, the North Cascades had always seemed mystical to me. Darkly forested and impossibly steep, the trails are often lost under snow pack late into August, and yet they are a pure pleasure to hike, and a feast for the eyes. This day's slog was over, and, camp made, I went looking for a sunset. I found it above the water-can't-really-be-that-color-i-don't-believe-it of Diablo Lake. But it's real. Maybe the devil in me decided to go play in paradise while I was so distracted. Maybe it was more a departure than a cure. Within a couple of weeks of returning home, my nerve pain was gone, the cloud had lifted like the one I saw on this night, revealing the shine of hope. I left some pain in these mountains. But, there is always more to be found. I remain stubborn. Maybe I can find another devil's paradise.
France. 2016
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This is one of three experimental works focused on the physical look and smell of the Lily.
With heartfelt and genuine thanks for your kind visit. Have a beautiful day, be well, keep your eyes open, appreciate the beauty surrounding you, enjoy creating, stay safe, and laugh often! ❤️❤️❤️
One of the most iconic landmarks on the North Sea coast. St Mary's lighthouse and island. A once working lighthouse is now redundant as such since the advent of G P S . It is now a thriving nature reserve and education center and the physically fit can actually climb the stars to the light.
It is accessible only at low tide by way of a causeway.
Chicago. 2017
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The Great Curassow is a physically large Cracid that ranges from eastern Mexico, through Central America to western Colombia and northwestern Ecuador. It is a secretive species found in humid tropical forests that feeds mostly on fruits but also eats small invertebrates as well as vertebrates.
The species is declining due to habitat loss and overhunting, but it still can be seen stealing across the forest floor or feeding in the upper levels of the tree canopy.
neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/portal/species/overview?p_p...
Photo taken at the AVIARIO NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA, Barú.
Colombia is the number one country in the world to have the largest varieties of birds, having about 1,876 species and almost 70 kinds that belong specially to Colombia. AVIARIO NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA has done an amazing job to show that. You see some of birds free and others in beautiful habitats. Peacocks, Toucans, Pink Flamingos, Crane Corona, Guacamayas, Pelicanos, Ducks, all types of little colorful birds Colombia is most famous for it, every imaginable birds are here.
This place is so well design, and so well taking care of, that you think some times you are in paradise!
www.tripadvisor.com.au/Attraction_Review-g1507145-d982271...
Shot wide-open, contre-jour (with two LED lamps plus reflector). In the public discourse of the West, there is a resurgence of medieval brutality. Some interest groups believing in the righteousness of their cause show a worrying tendency to publicly shame those with a different point of view. These are not just considered as thinking differently, they are publicly "exposed" as traitors. As in any ferocious kind of religiosity, "heretics" need to be persecuted, tortured by the thought police and then quartered and burned - if not physically, then at least in the social media. As I said, these are worrying times. The re-introduction of the Inquisition can be in nobody's interest.
Smile on Saturday! - "PICTURE A PROVERB"
A warning against accidentally throwing away something good when discarding something you no longer want – either physically or metaphorically.
Summer warmth, summer dreams, summer memories. A picture that arouses many emotions in me. When I'm alone in this place - I call it my little forgotten paradise - I can recover from a busy day. Not physically but mentally. My little world helps me to fill my heart and soul with fresh energy. This small but nice nature reserve was one of my favorite playgrounds when I was a child, where I could be whoever I wanted. Mostly I wanted to be a proud and free Indian who fought and defended his beloved country against the people who wanted to take everything from him. He protected his loved ones and treated all living things with respect, no matter how small. I loved this place built out of rocks. I was the happiest boy on earth there and that's where I started to discover the world of small things for myself. Today I come back there to rediscover the little things through the viewfinder of my camera. I always discover something new, something valuable or beautiful. All the treasures of creation touch my heart and my soul anew in this place. So last year I was able to discover the fox family and I was allowed to photograph them. One of my most beautiful experiences in my life. But it is mainly the butterflies that I look for there in the summer days and usually find them. The perfect time to do this is in the evening hours. I love being there and spending hours photographing the different kind of butterflies. They are so beautiful but also fragile and usually only live for a short time. All her beauty fascinates me every time. I love nature, I love my little paradise.
Butterflies are free and fly high out into the light and dance with the summer breeze. Be like them and live every moment.
Lindsey Stirling - Shatter Me ft. Lzzy Hale
RECEIVED A MESSAGE OFF KEVIN " ElitePphotobox2 " THAT SHE WAS IN LIVERPOOL . THE ABOVE SHOT WAS TAKEN IN JERSEY .
BUILT IN SOUTHAMPTON , LAUNCHED 2000. IMO.1005679.
586 GT. L.54m ( 65m WITH BOWSPRIT) X B.10.6m.
A THREE MASTED BARQUE. PERMANENT CREW 11. VOYAGE CREW UP TO 40 INCLUDING SOME WITH SENSORY IMPAIRMENT OR PHYSICALLY DISABLED.
OWNED BY THE " JUBILEE SAILING TRUST " WHO ALSO OWN THE " LORD NELSON " SAILING SHIP.
This species is an essential piece of our ecosystem which is kept healthy because these birds clean up carcasses that would otherwise rot and decay and lead to diseases that would undoubtedly spread through living animals. They are capable of digesting pretty much anything since there stomach acids are so acidic. They are physically suited for their purpose having a keen sense of smell and a bright red, naked head that carrion will not adhere to like it would on feathers.
This adult bird has spotted a group of vultures enjoying a carrion buffet so has decided to drop in and join them on this very foggy morning.
Chicago. 2018
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Chicago. 2018
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When composing a shot, I see a combination of the real facts of my subject and the camera's transformation of their image at the same time.
Nicholas Nixon
HGGT! Character Matters!
Alaska Viking cruise, Inside Passage
The Inside Passage is a coastal route for ships and boats along a network of passages which weave through the islands on the Pacific Northwest coast of the North American Fjordland. The route extends from southeastern Alaska in the United States, through western British Columbia in Canada, to northwestern Washington state in the United States. Ships using the route can avoid some of the bad weather in the open ocean and may visit some of the many isolated communities along the route. The Inside Passage is heavily travelled by cruise ships, freighters, tugs with tows, fishing craft, pleasure craft, and ships of the Alaska Marine Highway, BC Ferries, and Washington State Ferries systems. Coast Guard vessels of both Canada and the United States patrol and transit in the Passage.
Being a club bouncer isn't an easy job. Always getting harassed, even attacked physically from time to time. You have to be the tough guy mostly, but the payback comes at the end of the night. The house lights come up and your hear the DJ spin Elvis Costello's "Radio Sweetheart". Then you have the privilege of watching all the last call stragglers stumble out the door and on their way. Occassionally one will literally try to crawl out. You have to help them back onto their feet and take their keys, so the bartender doesn't get in trouble. So many great songs run through your mind as you watch them stagger out - Joe Jackson's "Is She Really Going Out with Him?" or Semisonic's "Closing Time" for example. Tonight I am just a little tired of the freak show. I am singing in my mind . . . 🎵 Fuck All The Perfect People 🎶
Fuck All The Perfect People (2012) Chip Taylor & The New Ukrainians, Chip Taylor (James Wesley Voight)
To be or not to be
To free or not to free
To crawl or not to crawl
Fuck all those perfect people!
To sleep or not to sleep
To creep or not to creep
And some can't remember, what others recall
Fuck all those perfect people!
Sleepy eyes, waltzing through
No I'm not talking about you!
To stand or not to stand
To plan or not to plan
To store or not to store
Fuck all those perfect people!
To drink or not to drink
To think or not to think
Some choose to dismember, you're rising your thoughts
And fuck all those perfect people!
Sleepy eyes, waltzing through
No I, I'm talking about you!
To sing or not to sing
To swing or not to swing
(Hell) He fills up the silence like a choke on the wall
Fuck all those perfect people!
To pray or not to pray
To sway or not to sway
Jesus died for something - or nothing at all.
Fuck all those perfect people!
Sleepy eyes, waltzing through
No I, I'm talking about you!
Pic taken in a commercial shopping area. It had the security fence. I forgot to write down which one. Sorry.
Chicago. 2017
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The Monastery in Washington was built to serve those who could not physically travel to the Holy Land and includes replicas of many of the sites that the Franciscans oversee in the Holy Land, including Nativity Grotto in Bethlehem and the tomb of Christ in Jerusalem. There are also full-size replicas of the Catacombs and martyr’s crypts.
Its a hard life living in the desert.
"Mike" has sarcoptic mange. Mange affects a variety of mammals – most notably foxes and other canids, bears, coyotes, rabbits, squirrels, and raccoons. Sarcoptic mange is a zoonotic disease – domestic mammals and humans can also contract the disease.
Animals affected by sarcoptic mange often exhibit intense itchiness, hair thinning and loss, thickened skin, and scabbing. Hair loss is typically most pronounced around the animal’s face and ears. (Mike has no hair on his tail. I'll spare everyone the photos.) The infected animal may also develop a secondary bacterial skin infection, noted by additional foul-smelling crusts.
Severely affected animals will become thin, depressed, and lethargic. Although affected animals are usually physically capable of eating, they often cannot consume enough calories to support themselves nutritionally while also trying to fight off the disease. Some animals will develop compromised sight/hearing due to the severity of crusting around the ears/eyes.
See photo below.
Full frame. No crop. No post processing.
"Romantic love is useless to beings who do not need to physically procreate", Said the Cruel Seraph. At a forgotten shrine, the people disagreed. If cynicism would take them to heaven, it was not a heaven worth going to.
Bio-Cup round 2, 9 circles of hell, Heresy. More on Cyclopic Bricks.
Suspended at a height of more than 25 m above the piazza of K21 is the enormous installation in orbit, a work by the artist Tomás Saraceno. The installation appears as a surreal landscape, and is reminiscent of a sea of clouds or floating planetary bodies. The physically accessible work is constructed of virtually transparent steel mesh that interlaces three levels spanning the massive glass dome. Five air-filled “spheres” are positioned within the net structure that encompasses an area of 2500 m².
Visitors are invited to enter the installation, and explore it by climbing. The brave ones who venture into the structure look upon museum visitors down below, wandering in the piazza, as miniature figures that occupy a miniature-like world. From the ground floor and the mezzanines of the Ständehaus, the installation’s visitors on the net look like floating in the sky.
Once several people enter the structure simultaneously, it is set to motion, altering the tension of the steel cables and distances between the three levels of the interlaced net. The floating space now becomes a vibrating web of relationships, resonances, and synchronous communication.
Like a spider in a web, visitors perceive the presence of others through vibrations. This echoes Saraceno's interest and research, carried in his studio in Berlin, on new hybrid and more-than-human forms of communication, and co-habitation.
In terms of scale and discourse, in orbit is at forefront of Saraceno's oeuvre. Even those who are reluctant to enter the structure, suspended high above an abyss, and who decide instead to explore the installation in exclusively visual terms, will find themselves confronted with themes of flying, falling, and floating, and gripped by archetypal emotions that are associated with these experiences.
"To describe the work means to describe the people that use it – and their emotions," explains Saraceno. Rarely does a work of art touch fears and desires of viewers so intensely, and alters the perspectives of those who decide to step into an airborne condition.
in orbit was planned by Saraceno together with engineers, architects, and biologists from 2011 to 2013, and it is one of the artist’s most elaborate installations. Despite the fact that the network construction alone weighs three tons, and the largest of the "spheres" 300 kg, the work, created specially to the spatial condition of the Ständehaus with a meticulous precision, is remarkably light: its fineness and stability hints to the structure of a spider's web.
Der Todtnauer Wasserfall zählt zu den höchsten Wasserfällen in Deutschland. Dabei stürzt der Stübenbach über vier Stufen insgesamt knapp 100 Meter in die Tiefe. Jährlich besuchen etwa eine halbe Millionen Interessierte dieses wunderschöne Ausflugsziel. Daher wurden die Wege zum Wasserfall auch barrierefrei ausgebaut und bieten somit auch Zugang für körperlich eingeschränkte Personen. Der Todtnauer Wasserfall ist gemeinhin auch als Hangloch-Wasserfall bekannt, wurde 1987 unter Naturdenkmalschutz gestellt und ist während der letzten Eiszeiten entstanden.
In diesem Foto Zeige ich euch den Anfang des Wasserfalles, mehr Bilder dazu folgen in Kürze...
The Todtnauer waterfall is one of the highest waterfalls in Germany. Here, the Stübenbach rushes over four stages nearly 100 meters in depth. Every year about half a million interested people of this beautiful destination. Therefore, the paths were also extended to the waterfall barrier-free and thus also offer access for physically impaired persons. The Todtnauer waterfall is also commonly known as a hang hole waterfall, was declared a natural monument in 1987 and is formed during the last ice ages.
In this photo, I show unto you the beginning of the waterfall, more pictures will follow shortly
30 Sek ƒ/18 ISO 200 28 mm
Eastbound NS I34-20 bridges the Ohio River at Kenova, W. Va. on a beautiful late Winter Afternoon. With the several mile length of the average 'PSR-ed' Norfolk Southern train nowadays, there's no doubt this guy is physically located in Ohio and West Virginia simultaneously at the time of this pic.
Due to a few bitter setbacks that I had to deal with yesterday, I am unfortunately neither mentally, emotionally nor physically able to formulate constructive or even motivating texts today. So I picked an image that best suits my current mood. It comes from the morning on the Winterstein, which you should already know well enough.
But don't worry, just as the sun will soon shine here again and the fog will disappear and young and strong trees will soon stand here again (even if that will take a little more time than the fog thing), so will I I'll soon be back on track, as the saying goes. I'm basing myself more on the former comparison here.
That was quite motivating, wasn't it? So it seems that I'm on the right
Auf Grund von ein paar herben Rückschlägen, die ich gestern verkraften durfte, bin ich leider heute weder mental, emotional noch physisch in der Lage aufbauende oder gar motivierende Texte zu formulieren. Also habe ich ein Bild herausgesucht, was am besten zu meiner momentanen Stimmung passt. Es stammt von dem Morgen auf dem Winterstein, den Ihr jetzt schon zur Genüge kennen solltet.
Doch keine Sorge so wie hier wird auch bei mir bald wieder die Sonne scheinen und der Nebel verschwinden. Und so wie hier werden bald wieder junge und kräftige Bäume stehen werden (auch wenn das etwas mehr Zeit brauchen wird, als die Sache mit dem Nebel), so werd auch ich in Kürze (ich orientiere mich hier eher an ersterem Vergleich) wieder auf der Spur sein, wie man so schön sagt.
Das war ja jetzt doch recht motivierend oder ? Bin also scheinbar auf dem richtigen Weg.
The final stages of the Cook County Children's Hospital demolition. Chicago. 2017
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Chicago. 2017
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Shelter Dogs
The food for the dogs must be prepared, this is done over an open fire and wood is needed. Like most jobs at the shelter it is physically demanding work without any aids.
Every day, all the year round, the people at the shelter takes care of 150-200 dogs; cooking, feeding, cleaning, giving nursing care of the animals. The staff has dedicated their lives to giving these animals a second chance, some of them giving up successful careers to spend all their time looking after the welfare of the animals.
Apart from dogs there are cats, cows and buffalos, just to mention some of the species living at the shelter. The shelter also works to reduce the stray dog population by their catch-neuter-return program.
vspca.org is a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO). To conduct their business the shelter is dependent on donations for medication, food and maintenance of the facility. So why not give the animals in Visakhaptnam a christmas gift? vspca.org/donate/
To see the whole serie:
Chicago. 2018
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But I saw it flying. How is it physically possible for a dragonfly to fly with just three wings!
UC Davis Arboretum, September 2019.
Italy. 2013
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Bar-tailed Godwiths hold the world record for the longest land migration non-stop flight over 11,000km.
Bar-tailed Godwits alter themselves physically before migration.
Gain body fat (accounts for 55% of their weight)
To do this they shrink their liver, kidney and gut
Only the organs essential for long-distance flight are maintained.
They use a mental-maps for navigation which almost certainly includes star-charts and beak-compasses.
The birds follow patterns of movement engrained into a culture that evolved with the ecosystem they inhabit today,
Amazing Nature.