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A blue dasher skimmer dragonfly, momentarily at rest in late morning.
Decatur (Decatur Legacy Park), Georgia, USA.
27 May 2023.
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▶ Thank you to Flickr-er Dah Professor for identifying the species of dragonfly pictured. [See comment below.]
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Thicket tunnel...or allée over the trail?
Clyde Shepherd Nature Preserve
DeKalb County (Medlock Park), Georgia, USA.
8 February 2023.
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This photo was taken with a big (glas) bowl filled with water. The bowl was illuminated from different sides with light (each light source had a different color)
Depending on the strength of each waterdrop, waves with different heights are caused. Depending on the height, different light colors are reflected in the water.
Here is the result. What you need?
Ingredients:
- e.g. Canon EOS 70D
- e.g. Canon EF 100mm
- e.g. 2x Yongnuo YN560-III Flash
- Several light sources
- Transparent color masks
- A big bowl with water
- 1 Pipet
Chosen as pick of the week in Nice as it gets (www.flickr.com/groups/nice_as_it_gets_level_2/) 10/04/2015. Thanks alot!
Canada goose (Branta canadensis), wintering on...
Postal Pond
Decatur (Decatur Legacy Park), Georgia, USA.
4 March 2023.
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An autumn breeding pair of mallards dabbling in a wetland pond of Burnt Fork Creek.
DeKalb County (North Druid Hills), Georgia, USA.
6 December 2022.
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▶ Photographer's note.
I used a 5:2 ratio to crop the image for a 'cinematic' look that included the edges of the 'whirlpool' the mallards were creating. I rather like the look.
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Morning woodland,
Autumn light.
Silent mien.
Decatur (Legacy Park), Georgia, USA.
29 November 2022.
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A pair of turkey vultures (Cathartes aura) scope the carrion scene, atop a pine tree near the summit of Arabia Mountain.
Arabia Mountain National Heritage Area
DeKalb County (Stonecrest), Georgia, USA.
27 January 2023.
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There were pink coneflowers (Echinacea purpurea) a-plenty, in the...
Trailhead Community Park, of the...
Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
1 July 2022.
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In a summer garden, an eastern tiger swallowtail pollinates a zinnia.
DeKalb County (Northlake), Georgia, USA.
11 August 2022.
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▶ Thank you to Flickr-er Lasse for the butterfly identification. (See comment below.)
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Not really a grotto, but, in cold winter, the sylvan feel of Crooked Creek and its surroundings exuded Arcadian seclusion. We tarried awhile.
Mountain Lake, in...
Arabia Mountain National Heritage Area
DeKalb County (Stonecrest), Georgia, USA.
26 January 2023.
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On the beach,
A morning sun struggles
Through cloud and ocean spray
Like a beacon limning gloom.
St. Augustine Beach (Crescent Beach), Florida, USA.
30 October 2022.
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▶ Photographer's note.
The administrator of the "Fine Art Photography (Curated)" group deemed my image insufficiently "prestigious, exclusive, creative, technically advanced, and/or original" and summarily rejected it from the group.
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Thanksgiving in rear mirror.
Pumpkins on back stoop.
DeKalb County (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
26 November 2021.
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Ephemeral pools, overfilled by rain, empty down the exposed rock face of...
DeKalb County (Stonecrest), Georgia, USA.
26 January 2023.
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▶ Composed primarily of granite-gneiss migmatite rock, Arabia Mountain is a monadnock —"an isolated small mountain that rises abruptly from a gently sloping or virtually level surrounding plain."
▶ Arabia Mountain is 955 feet (290 m) above sea level, but it rises only 172 feet (52 m) above the surrounding countryside. The hillcrest in the image is a short climb from the summit.
▶ These temporarily cascading rivulets eventually flow into Crooked Creek, itself a tributary of the South River.
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It may have been 0 °C, but the native plant restoration was blossoming!
Clyde Shepherd Nature Preserve
DeKalb County (Medlock Park), Georgia, USA.
19 March 2023.
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▶ "Podophyllum peltatum is an herbaceous woodland plant in the family Berberidaceae —with common names of mayapple, American mandrake, wild mandrake, and ground lemon— widespread across most of the eastern United States and southeastern Canada. Mayapple is unique in that It has only 2 leaves and 1 flower, which grows in the axil of the leaves [where the leaf joins the stem].
The stems grow to 30–40 cm (12 in to 16 in) tall, with leaves up to 8 inches in diameter (20–40 cm) with 3–9 deeply cut lobes. The flowers are white, yellow or red, 1-2 inches in diameter (2–6 cm) with 6–9 petals, and mature into a large, fleshy, lemon-shaped berry, 1 -2 inches long (2–5 cm). All the parts of the plant are poisonous, including the green fruit, but once the fruit has ripened and turned yellow, it can be safely eaten, as the ripe fruit does not produce toxicity."
— Wikipedia.
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▶ "Last year [2022]. we introduced Mayapple to one of the areas [in Clyde Shepherd Nature Preserve] we have been restoring with sheep. Exciting to see it popping up. When we started, this area was wildly overgrown with English ivy. Now, it is supporting native plants.
— ACEcology (Instagram)
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▶ Photographer's note:
The administrator of a Flickr group called "Georgia in Spring" rejected this image (although it follows his rules: spring nature in the state of Georgia). When I asked why, he summarily removed me from the group.
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Who knew that the simple parking lot of a strip mall could provide the backdrop for the magnificent panorama of a summer-storm sunset?
Tucker, Georgia, USA.
10 August 2022. (8:14 pm EDT)
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A northern mockingbird stopped upon, well, a stop sign. And, then, she sang...and sang...and sang!
Decatur (East Decatur Station), Georgia, USA.
14 May 2023.
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Up, they jumped,
Winter sprites,
Vernal rising.
DeKalb County (Forrest Hills), Georgia, USA.
7 March 2023.
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▶ This is a closeup. The blossoms appear larger in the image than they did in 'real' life.
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Almost painterly: autumnal tree, in morning mist, on the boggy banks of Postal Pond, in...
Decatur (Legacy Park), Georgia, USA.
28 October 2020.
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A synadoche maze,
These tractorial innards.
Now, idled in the mead.
An old tractor parked in a field in...
Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
25 February 2022.
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Looking north, on the Matanzas River, at the Castillo de San Marcos.
St. Augustine (Historic District ), Florida, USA.
7 September 2022.
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▶ "The Castillo de San Marcos (Spanish for "St. Mark's Castle") is the oldest masonry fort in the continental United States; it is located on the western shore of Matanzas Bay in the city of St. Augustine, Florida, built by the Spanish to protect the city.
The Castillo is a masonry star fort made of a stone called coquina (Spanish for "small shells"), which consists of ancient shells that have bonded together to form a sedimentary rock similar to limestone. Construction began in 1672 and was completed in 1695, though the structure would undergo many alterations and renovations over the centuries. Native Americans from Spain's nearby missions did most of the labor, with additional skilled workers brought in from Havana, Cuba."
— Wikipedia.
▶ In 1924, the Castillo (then named Fort Marion) was declared a U.S. National Monument. In 1933, the National Park Service assumed responsibility. In 1942, the original name, Castillo de San Marcos, was restored.
— National Park Service pamphlet.
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Hazy sunrise over the summit of...
DeKalb County (Stonecrest ), Georgia, USA.
8 June 2023 (6:52 am EDT).
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▶ Smoke from rampant Canadian wildfires reached as far south as northern Georgia (even if nowhere as severe as in the U.S. northeast and mid-Atlantic).
▶ Compare to an image taken 10 minutes earlier, as the sun was just beginning to rise over a ridge beneath the summit: here.
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Preying,
She hunts.
Prematurely autumnal.
Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
22 August 2021.
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▶ The praying mantis (Mantodea), like the cockroach, has existed since the Cretaceous period, 145 million years ago.
▶ Photographer's note
Close-up via a telephoto lens; closer yet via cropping to 16:9.
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Even decaying and solitary, the dead tree can seem reborn when 'kissed' by morning sun and mist.
Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
20 November 2022.
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A glorious German-brewed pilsner, served on draught, on the patio, at ...
Avondale Estates, Georgia, USA.
7 May 2023.
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▶ Brewery description:
"The Rothaus Tannenzäpfle is the absolute classic among our beers - and has been since 1956. That is why it is also the namesake and figurehead of the Gäpfle family. The best aromatic hops from Tettnang and the Hallertau as well as local malt made from summer barley and the purest spring water from the Black Forest give Rothaus Tannenzäpfle its uniquely spicy and fresh taste."
— Badische Staatsbrauerei Rothaus (Baden State Brewery Rothaus)
▶ Me:
For having traveled so far, beer was in good form. Brilliant clarity under a long-lived collar of white foam. Slightly grassy nose; subtle cracker-wafer malt; hints of honey and green apple; subdued tree-sap and mowed-grass hops; dry, slightly sulfury finish. Bonus points: served on draught, in a brewery serving glass, out-of-doors, on a spring afternoon. Delightful!
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▶ Words matter:
☞ Tannenzäpfle = German for "fir cone."
☞ Hochschwarzwald = German for "high black forest."
▶ The brewery:
☞ Wikipedia.
☞ "The Cult of Rothaus"
— Punch (2019).
▶ The pub:
My Parents' Basement is a comic/graphic-novel emporium, game arcade, and 'craft' beer pub, combined.
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South Africa invades the southeastern US!
Crocosmia, blooming wild and creek-side, on the...
DeKalb County (Forrest Hills), Georgia, USA.
1 July 2022.
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▶ "Crocosmia —also known as montbretia— is a small genus of flowering plants in the iris family, Iridaceae. It is native to the grasslands of southern and eastern Africa, ranging from South Africa to Sudan. The plants have colorful inflorescences of 4 to 20 vivid red and orange flowers on a horizontally branched stem, flowering from early summer well into fall."
— Wikipedia.
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Little Creek Horse Farm Conservancy
DeKalb County (Scottdale), Georgia, USA.
12 December 2021.
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Look up! You might see (and hear) ospreys in their nest, high overhead...on a light pole, in a supermarket parking lot.
St. Augustine Beach, Florida, USA.
3 July 2021.
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▶ "The osprey tolerates a wide variety of habitats, nesting in any location near a body of water providing an adequate food supply. Ospreys construct their nests at the tops of dead trees, atop power poles, on manmade nesting platforms, and sometimes on buoys, chimneys, or other structures."
— U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
▶ "The osprey —or, more specifically, the western osprey (Pandion haliaetus), also called sea hawk, river hawk, and fish hawk— is a diurnal, fish-eating bird of prey with a cosmopolitan range. It is a large raptor, reaching more than two feet in length (60 cm) and six feet across the wings (180 cm). It is brown on the upper parts and predominantly greyish on the head and underparts. It is found on all continents except Antarctica, although in South America it occurs only as a non-breeding migrant."
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In the forest
One, expected, returns
Mauve, too briefly.
Decatur (Legacy Park), Georgia, USA.
31 July 2021.
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▶ "Hibiscus syriacus is a species of flowering plant in the mallow family, Malvaceae. It is native to south-central and southeast China but widely introduced elsewhere. Common names include the rose of Sharon (in North America), Syrian ketmia, and shrub althea (UK)."
▶ "Mauve is a pale purple color named after the mallow flower. The first use of the word mauve as a color was in 1796–98 according to the Oxford English Dictionary. Another name for the color is mallow, with the first recorded use of mallow as a color name in English in 1611."
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A wood stork (Mycteria americana) perches in a tree, on a hammock in a brackish marsh.
St. Augustine, Florida, USA.
5 September 2022.
▶ See a phalanx of storks at the park: here.
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▶ "To the north [of Fort Mosé], there is a rookery, a nesting colony of gregarious birds, such as wood storks, egrets, and herons. These birds showcase their breeding plumage from mid-March through July.
One of the largest birds to nest in this area is the wood stork [— a large American wading bird]. This area is ideal for nesting because the changing water level reveals higher concentrations of fish during lower tides. Females lay two to five eggs, which both parents incubate for about one month. A pair of nesting wood storks and their young need approximately 443 pounds of fish during the breeding season to survive.
In the 1930s, there were an estimated 20,000 breeding pairs of wood storks [in Florida]; today, the population is approximately 8,000. The numbers have declined drastically, mainly from loss of feeding grounds due to land development, logging, and draining."
— Fort Mosé placard
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Charlie the dog and I were walking through the wood. We paused to take in this view of an autumn thicket, chaotic yet calm. Well, I did, anyway.
Decatur (Legacy Park), Georgia, USA.
12 November 2020.
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Swamp thing! A dead tree retains grandeur as a spring storm gathers.
City of Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
3 May 2025.
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📷 Photographer's note:
It felt good to walk about again with my weathered Olympus Pen E-PL1. Even though the camera is fourteen years old and has developed a few quirks, it still captures great images.
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▶ Camera: Olympus Pen E-PL1.
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— Edit: Photoshop Elements 15, Nik Collection (2016).
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Native to China, a flowering quince shrub (Chaenomeles speciosa) blooms in winter, far from home.
DeKalb County (Oak Grove), Georgia, USA.
25 February 2025.
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▶ Photo —and Pic(k) of the Week— by: YFGF.
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A copse of Callery pear trees (Pyrus calleryana) is limned by low-angle late-afternoon late-winter sun.
On the shores of Postal Pond in Legacy Park
City of Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
7 March 2025.
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▶ Although beautiful when blooming, Callery pear trees —also known as Bradford pears— are considered invasive in the eastern and midwest United States. Plus, they stink!
▶ See closeup of single blossom: here.
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▶ Photographer's notes:
☞ I used a telephoto lens to capture a more intimate landscape: 'zooming' across the pond to reveal the beautiful light on the trees and pond reeds, while avoiding the bright reflection of the sun on the pond.
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▶ Rejections:
☞ On 17 March 2025, the administrator for the Flickr group "FIELD GUIDE: FLOWERING TREES of the WORLD" rejected this photo for NOT depicting a flowering tree. Upon reconsideration, the image was kindly re-invited to the group.
☞ On 19 March 2025, the administrator of "Telephoto Landscapes" rejected this image for NOT depicting a "Landscape shot with a long focal length." Really? I could not disagree more.
☞ On 22 March 2025, a moderator for the Flickr group "GEORGIA, THE PEACH STATE" rejected this photo for NOT displaying "scenic beauty of the State of Georgia, USA." It isn't easy to fathom any reasonable rationale other than petty animus.
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▶ Photo —and Pic(k) of the Week— by: YFGF.
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Rapids and riffles on the South Fork Peachtree Creek, as seen, after rain, from the...
DeKalb County (Mason Mill Park), Georgia, USA.
9 February 2023.
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▶ Photographer's note.
Not precisely on the PATH Foundation's South Peachtree Trail, but connected to it via the Watershed Trail, one in a newly blazed series of trails in and around a 120-acre suburban Piedmont forest, in Mason Mill Park, a DeKalb County park.
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— Filter: polarizer.
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A native dwarf crested iris (Iris cristata) wildflower, blooming creekside.
Trailhead Community Park of the East Decatur Greenway
Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
7 May 2025.
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📷 Photographer's note:
When I originally posted this photo, I misidentified it as a blue flag iris (also blue, also native to the eastern United States). I was wrong!
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▶ Photo —and Pic(k) of the Week— by: YFGF.
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Desolation on...
St. Augustine Beach (Crescent Beach), Florida, USA.
30 June 2021.
▶ See the dune fencing restored, two years later: here.
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▶ Photographer's note:
On 13 July 2021, Flickr's editors chose this image for inclusion in Flickr's Explore feature.
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— Monochrome rendering via Nik Collection.
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Waxing gibbous Harvest Moon (52% illuminated), overhead...
DeKalb County (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
14 September 2021 (8:20 pm EDT)
▶ The evening sky was hazy (humidity + growing cloud cover), but you get the picture, handheld.
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▶ In the Northern Hemisphere, the Harvest Moon is the full moon closest to the autumn equinox. Depending on the year, the full Harvest Moon can occur anywhere from two weeks before the autumn equinox to two weeks after. Thus, the Harvest Moon is either the last full moon of the summer season or the first full moon in autumn.
In 2021, the Northern Hemisphere autumn equinox comes on September 22. The full moon falls less than two days earlier, on September 20. Thus, for the Northern Hemisphere, this upcoming full moon is the Harvest Moon and the last full moon of summer.
— EarthSky
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A juvenile great blue heron (Ardea herodias), fishing on...
Decatur (Decatur Legacy Park), Georgia, USA.
1 August 2023.
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Nearly obscured by growth, a weathered bench sits among the grasses and reeds.
Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
24 September 2020.
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Night kegs at the diner.
Off-Ford-able cooperage
On a mighty dray.
Decatur (Oakhurst), Georgia, USA.
1 October 2021.
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▶ Photographer's note.
I pre-envisioned this shot as a black-and-white night street scene. But its teal-and-orange cinematic look —supplied in situ— made me reconsider. See it in black-and-white: here.
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Pens down! In a 'sketch-off,' participants had only a short time to draw a portrait of the person sitting across from them.
Atlanta Dogwood Festival in...Piedmont Park
Atlanta (Midtown), Georgia, USA.
13 April 2025.
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▶ ▶ Photo —and Pic(k) of the Week— by: YFGF.
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▶ Camera: Olympus OM-D E-M10 II.
— Meike MK 25mm f/1.8
— Focal length: 25.0 mm
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— Shutter speed: 1/2500
— ISO: 200
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Look down! When the frost melts, the leaves glisten.
Decatur (Legacy Park), Georgia, USA.
18 December 2020.
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The residents of a beaver lodge have been busy building a dam on Cecilia Creek.
Seminary Wood in Decatur Legacy Park
City of Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
15 March 2025.
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Late afternoon on Frog Bog, a marshy channel of Cecilia Creek.
City of Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
3 December 2024
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▶ Photo by —and Pic(k) of the Week on— YFGF.
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Sunset after a violent storm.
Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
12 January 2023.
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▶ a bop for rayden
"i am afraid of what happens
when it stops storming this way round
when the clouds have blown,
and all that is left are me and my prayers for rain.
i'm trying to enjoy the thunder while it lasts,
but it's hard not to miss a storm before it leaves."
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▶ Poem plaque installed on Arabia Mountain PATH by Georgia Poetry in the Parks.
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The Guide (June 2022)
galvanized steel, acrylic LED light bar
— Phil Proctor (Atlanta, Georgia, USA)
Decatur (Sycamore Ridge), Georgia, USA.
Picture taken: 24 June 2022.
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▶ "The Guide is a figurative work fabricated entirely from 8" I-beams. The figure stands in the classical contrapposto pose and holds an acrylic staff that illuminates his path through dark times."
— Phil Proctor.
▶The sculpture is one piece in the Decatur Artway public arts project.
▶ See the sculpture from a different perspective (taken during the day): here.
▶ MARTA = Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority.
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▶ Photographer's note:
Handheld (at 1/6 second), lying on my back, looking up.
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A red-eared slider turtle blows bubbles as she surfaces.
St. Augustine Beach (Crescent Beach), Florida, USA.
3 July 2023.
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▶ "The red-eared slider or red-eared terrapin (Trachemys scripta elegans) is a subspecies of the pond slider (Trachemys scripta), a semiaquatic turtle belonging to the family Emydidae. The red-eared slider is native from the Midwestern United States to northern Mexico, but has become established in other places because of pet releases, and has become invasive in many areas where it out-competes native species. The turtle gets its name from the small, red stripe around its ears, or where its ears would be, and from its ability to slide quickly off rocks and logs into the water."
— Wikipedia.
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▶ Photographer's note:
On 16 July 2023, Flickr's editors selected this image for inclusion in Flickr's Explore feature.
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A rare lunar convergence: August's full sturgeon moon was a blue moon AND a supermoon!
Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
19 August 2024 (21:21 EDT)
▶ Taken on World Photography Day.
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▶ Photographer's note:
To create this image, I photographed the church steeple with a 40 mm focal length and a long exposure of 30 seconds. Then, a few minutes later, I photographed the moon as it rose parallel to the church, with a longer 300 mm focal length and a shorter shutter speed of 1/200th of a second.
I merged the two photos in post-production: in effect, a focal length blend and a time blend. This created an image closely mimicking what I had actually observed. A stellar (or would that be, lunar?) sight!
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▶ Astronomical notes:
☞ "The name Sturgeon Moon comes from the giant lake sturgeon of the American Great Lakes; this native freshwater fish was readily caught during this part of summer and an important food staple for Native Americans who lived in the region. At one time the lake sturgeon was quite abundant in late summer, though they are rarer today."
☞ "The super moon part refers to the moon's orbit, which brings it slightly closer to Earth this month, making it appear bigger and brighter. This occurs since the moon’s orbit around the Earth is elliptical instead of just a circle, and thus there are times when the moon is further and closer to our planet."
☞ "A blue moon is not about the color of the moon, but instead the frequency of the full moon. There are two definitions of a blue moon—the first describes when there are two full moons in a single month. Since the moon’s cycle is 29.5 days, and our average calendar month is 30-31 days, this blue moon occurs every two to three years. There are also seasonal blue moons, in which a calendar season contains four full moons instead of the usual three, and the blue moon is the third of the four full moons. August’s full moon is of this variety. The next seasonal blue moon is expected in May 2027."
☞ "The combination of the super moon and the blue moon is rare, and the time between their occurrences is quite 'irregular' and could be as much as 20 years, with 10 years between the average. Though we had a super blue moon somewhat recently, in August 2023, the next super blue moon will not occur until January 2037."
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▶ Photo and story by: YFGF.
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☞ Focal length blend
---> Image 1 (Church)
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— Focal length: 40 mm
— Aperture: ƒ/5.6
— Shutter speed: 30 sec
— ISO: 200
---> Image 2 (Moon)
— Lens: Lumix G Vario 100-300/F4.0-5.6
— Focal length: 300 mm
— Aperture: ƒ/5.6
— Shutter speed: 1/200 sec
— ISO: 200
☞ Edit: Photoshop Elements 15, Nik Collection (2016).
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