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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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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!
Thicket tunnel...or allée over the trail?
Clyde Shepherd Nature Preserve
DeKalb County (Medlock Park), Georgia, USA.
8 February 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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Rain on pavement.
Red no. 2 and yellow no. 5.
Poor thing almost made it.
DeKalb County (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
11 September 2022.
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▶ Photographer's notes:
☞ On 13 September 2024, the administrator for the Flickr group "Paths we walk" rejected this photo for NOT displaying a path that my dog and I walk almost daily. On that rainy day, my camera focused on the urban walkway beneath me instead of the scenery ahead. Despite this, the photo doesn’t break any of the group's established guidelines. My dog and I reject the rejection.
☞ I've 'appropriated' my doggerel's final line from a comment by viewer Susan, below!
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— Olympus WCON-P-01 Wide Converter (11 mm focal length).
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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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On the beach,
A morning sun struggles
Through cloud and ocean spray,
A beacon in gloom,
At peace.
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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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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— Focal length: 20 mm
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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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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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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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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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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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"What I really want to know,
Should I stay or should I go?"
Seminary Wood in Decatur Legacy Park
City of Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
13 June 2025.
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📷 Photographer's note.
An American bullfrog (Lithobates catesbeianus) sits in a small, pool fed by a natural spring. Decades ago, the pool was a source of water for dairy cows. Now, it's a haven for amphibians (and waterfowl). (Apologies to Joe Strummer.)
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👎 Rejections:
☞ Image unsuccessfully entered in the Flickr 2025 World Photography Day Contest under the 'Animals' category. (See the winning image: here.)
☞ On 19 July 2025, an administrator for the Flickr group "Nature Shoot All the World/ No flowers Wild animal only" rejected this photo for NOT displaying a wild animal. ?!? They not only refused to answer my query as to why, but also deleted the question!
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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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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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It was 'blowing a hoolie,' at sunrise, on the summit of ...
DeKalb County (Stone Mountain Park), Georgia, USA.
10 October 2025 (7:20 a.m. EDT).
... that is, it was cold and windy!
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👎 Rejection.
On 12 November 2025, an administrator for the Flickr group "A Kind of Minimalism" removed this photo from the group for NOT depicting 'minimalism.' Ils sont fous!
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Coquina rock at sunrise, on an Atlantic Ocean beach.
Washington Oaks Gardens State Park
Palm Coast, Florida, USA.
6 September 2025 (8:21 am EDT).
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📷 Photographer's notes.
☞ In addition to this color edition of the sunrise, I've also released a black-and-white edit. (See/compare it: here.) I don't know which I prefer.
☞ Sunrise occurred at 7:04 a.m. EDT, but I didn't capture this photo until 8:21, an hour and seventeen minutes later. Why the delay? When I arrived at the park entrance at 6:30, the gates were locked. Florida state parks don't open until 8 a.m. The moral of the story? Do your research.
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— Focal length: 40 mm
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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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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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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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Little Creek Horse Farm Conservancy
DeKalb County (Scottdale), Georgia, USA.
12 December 2021.
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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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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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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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A restored 19th-century water-powered gristmill, in...
DeKalb County, Georgia, USA.
10 October 2025.
▶ Reverse view: here.
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❖ About the gristmill:
☞ The mill was built in 1867, along a creek in Fannin County in north Georgia (near the current town of Ellijay). It fell into disuse and was eventually abandoned.
☞ In 1965, the mill was dismantled and moved to Stone Mountain Park. There, the mill and its milling equipment, including the mill house and millstones, were reassembled. Additionally, a thirteen-foot-diameter wooden overshot water-wheel and a stone millrace were replicated and put in place.
— Scenic USA.
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📷 Photographer's notes:
The mill is a well-loved spot in the park, easily accessible from the perimeter road. So, it took some time to capture the image without any visitors in the frame. Fortunately, I finished just as a large group of school children arrived.
The entire scene featured deep contrasts between sunlight and shadow. To capture the full range of tones, I took four separate exposures, blending them later during the editing process. Wind gusts were strong, and some of the foliage shows motion blur. C'est la da-guerre-otype!
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📖 Vocabulary note:
Per Merriam-Webster, "gristmill" is one word; the park spells it as two: "grist mill."
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— Focal length: 14 mm
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Drummer for Mandi Strachota and the Major 7s.
City of Decatur (Oakhurst), Georgia, USA.
11 October 2025.
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▶ Oakhurst Porchfest:
Since 2015, "a grassroots community music festival where front porches become stages, yards become venues, and radical generosity and goodwill rule the day."
📷 More photos: here.
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▶ Mandi Strachota and the Major 7:
"Born in Atlanta, Georgia and raised in the wilds of Wisconsin, Mandi Strachota is the product of southern roots and Midwest know-how, a potent mix of practicality and soulful dreaming. Mandi has become a fixture on the Atlanta scene, taking her music nationwide in 2019. She is known for her soulful vocals, but is a multi-instrumentalist who is quickly becoming known for her songwriting [...] embracing R&B, gospel, and soul, [...and] dabbling in jazz and blues, with a touch of grit and country sway."
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🎉 Commendation:
On 26 November 2025, Flickr's editors selected this image for inclusion in the Weekly Snapshot with Flickr Social.
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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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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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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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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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Morning in the woodland.
Soft camouflage
To fend the summer beast.
DeKalb County (Clairmont Heights), Georgia, USA.
23 June 2025.
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▶ As seen on the purple-blazed Three Creeks Trail: one in a "labyrinth of soft-surfaced trails" in and around a 120-acre suburban Piedmont forest located in three Atlanta, Georgia, metropolitan-area parks: Melton Park, Mason Mill Park, and Medlock Park.
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▶ Photo —and Pic(k) of the Week— by: YFGF.
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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 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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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 had misidentified it as a blue flag iris (also blue, also native to the eastern United States). I was wrong!
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Nearly obscured by growth, a weathered bench sits among the grasses and vines.
Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
24 September 2020.
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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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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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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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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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"Chiefly nocturnal, a barred owl does not generally tolerate close approach." Yet there he was, in late afternoon, perched only a few meters in front of us.
Seminary Wood in Decatur Legacy Park
City of Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
24 September 2025.
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🐤 Ornithological note:
"The barred owl (Strix varia) is a chunky owl with dark eyes, dark barring on its upper breast, and dark streaking below. It is a common resident in dense coniferous or mixed woods of river bottoms or swamps, and upland woods. Its distinctive call is a rhythmic series of loud hoots: 'who-cooks-for-you, who-cooks-for-you-all.' "
— National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern North America.
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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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A juvenile great blue heron (Ardea herodias), fishing on...
Decatur (Decatur Legacy Park), Georgia, USA.
1 August 2023.
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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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As I was setting up my tripod, a passing hiker greeted me.
"It's a beautiful day."
"Yes, indeed," I replied.
Arabia Lake on Arabia Mountain
DeKalb County (Stonecrest ), Georgia, USA.
6 November 2025.
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📷 Photographer's note:
Another image taken here, but in early spring: here.
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— Focal length: 14 mm
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— Panoramic stitch (10 images).
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The waning gibbous moon, setting at sunrise, over the...
St. Augustine (Anastasia), Florida, USA.
5 July 2023 (7:06 am).
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📷 Photographer's note.
Missed it by 'thaaat' much! Only two days earlier, the 'Buck' moon had been a full 'supermoon.'
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▶ "The St. Augustine Light Station is a privately maintained aid to navigation and an active, working lighthouse in St. Augustine, Florida. It stands at the north end of Anastasia Island and was built between 1871 and 1874. The current lighthouse tower, original first-order Fresnel lens, and the Light Station grounds are owned by the St. Augustine Lighthouse & Maritime Museum, Inc., a not-for-profit maritime museum.
☞ The St. Augustine Light Station comprises the 165-foot (50 m) 1874 tower, the 1876 Keepers' House, two summer kitchens added in 1886, a 1941 U.S. Coast Guard barracks, and a 1936 garage that housed a jeep repair facility during World War II. The site is also a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) weather station. The lighthouse was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.
☞ The tower, however, is the second lighthouse tower in St. Augustine, the first being lit officially by the American territorial government in May 1824 as Florida's first lighthouse. However, both the Spanish and British governments had earlier operated navigation aids here, including a series of wooden watchtowers and beacons dating from 1565."
— Wikipedia.
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