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“She knocked and waited, because when the door was opened from within, it had the potential to lead someplace quite different.”
Quote ― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone
A great set of billowing clouds hung over Cwm Nash, and the wall of honey coloured limestone cliffs. I find myself always looking up to see potential cloud formations, so Up above my head, by Alabama 3 is perfect.
Ferns belong to an ancient group of plants that developed before flowering plants, and they do not produce flowers and therefore do not produce seed. Ferns reproduce by means of spores, a dust-like substance produced in capsules called sori on the underside of the fern leaf, or frond. Different types of ferns have their spores in different patterns. "It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them."
Louisa May Alcott
The seeds - shaped like darts - can penetrate a dog's skin or enter body cavities and burrow deeper, causing painful, and potentially lethal, tissue damage and infection.
Alberta, Canada
Yesterday evening our power blew out - again - and a major storm came rumbling through. When I saw the potential, I grabbed my oldest lens (the manual focus Nikon 24mm f/2.8) and tripod and drove to the edge of town where I set up inside my car, hoping for a few good lightning strikes within my field of view.
Bonus: the strobe from the sky caught a cloud of insects - maybe mayflies, possibly craneflies as their legs seem really long. They appear only in this one shot. Not quite as exciting as Bill Bowman's bat, but I'll take it.
It was a great storm to shoot, as the rain held off for almost 45 minutes while I watched the light show and shot frame after frame. I drove to three or four locations; needless to say, the best lightning bolts occurred while I was in transit. It's always like that. I should just pick a spot and stay there, but I'm a slow learner.
When the skies finally opened up, I drove home in blinding rain. Good thing I know the road well. I could barely see past the hood of my car, and definitely couldn't see the pavement. I just tried to stay out of the ditches, and somehow managed to navigate back to the safety of my driveway.
By then the power was back on. All's well that ends well.
Photographed in Val Marie, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2022 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
Another image from the trip to the poppy field with Jan
Potential poppy progeny
Pollinated and processed
Packed and parcelled
And perfectly protected
Pods are perforated
Proffered to be propagated
sources.
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and Jan:
Black Grouse courtship displays often include a behavior known as "jumping display," which is performed by males in combination with wing displays and vocalizations. This behavior adds another layer of complexity to their courtship rituals and is an important component of their mating behavior. The ability to perform vigorous jumps and displays demonstrates the physical fitness and health of male Black Grouse. Females may use these displays to assess the quality of potential mates and choose the most suitable partners for breeding
I started this 4 minute exposure with the sun just setting, and just before the colors exploded ... you can get a hint of those colors just starting here in this shot with the tones and hues in the clouds, as the clouds went from blue to purple with small amounts of pinks during this long exposure.
This time of sunset is always exciting as you just do not know what nature will be showing in the next few minutes ... and how rapidly it changes. A truly magical time of day and anticipation.
Happy Bench Monday :)
This image was a result of personal resistance to my own reluctance to journey out and capture some potential magical moments. I had just returned from a week-long photo project on the other side of the world, and was completely jet-lagged and exhausted.
In addition, I had just spent nine hours in a corporate environment that I really didn't care to be (and rarely ever wish to be). When I got home, I was completely drained. Still, the commute home and my observations of the sky and atmosphere were communicating that we could expect a very pleasant evening for photography in Seattle. (This is significant if you know how wet and rainy this particular Spring season has been this year, sans sunshine).
When the photographic senses start tingling, it is excruciatingly difficult to ignore them, even when I want to be wrapped around my blankets in bed.
Alas, I ignored my body's needs in exchange for my photography. Typically (and fortunately), I'm rarely disappointed upon making this type of decision. This image is the latest product from listening to my photographer's intuition. I am very happy with this one.
Sure enough, as soon as I got home, I slept, but only for a while. I instinctively woke up in the middle of the night, and began some post-processing so I wouldn't lose the remaining tingling sensations.
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the world is complicated and often tragic. my heart breaks open with sadness and compassion. the dalai lama says, “it is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.” right now, there is great potential for doing good. may we each take the next most skillful step toward wise, compassionate, impactful action.
Magnificent Frigatebird ~
(Fregata magnificens)
A Frigatebird swoops down close to the water for a refreshing drink. Frigatebirds cannot take off from the water, so accidentally taking a plunge could be a death sentence. So, watching them take a sip in this manner is just another reason these birds are totally awesome.
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This was how the sky looked about 10 minutes or so before sunset time along Middle River. At this time my dad who came out to see how things would unfold this evening were talking about the potential for colors this evening based on the cloud deck and the clearing in the sky farther to the west.
The winds were calm as well, creating a nice reflective surface. I like to call this time the 'potential energy' of the sunset colors was very HIGH at this moment ... all the elements were there as long as there were not farther off clouds below the horizon in the west that we could not see. Considering the skies were not forecasted to be clear until closer to the following morning ... you could not be 100 positive that the sun would be blocked cutting off the light as things progressed.
Alas, the potential energy was all released over the following 30 minutes.
One of the later captures is below in the comments.
100th FS "Red Tails", General Dynamics (Lockheed Martin) F-16C "Viper" (87-0332), MCAS Yuma, WTI 2-21.
Heliconius comprises a colorful and widespread genus of brush-footed butterflies commonly known as the longwings or heliconians. This genus is distributed throughout the tropical and subtropical regions of the New World, from South America as far north as the southern US. The larvae of these butterflies eat Passion flower vines (Passifloraceae). Adults exhibit bright wing color patterns to signal their distastefulness to potential predators.
Heliconius butterflies have been the subject of many studies, due partly to their abundance and the relative ease of breeding them under laboratory conditions, but also because of the extensive mimicry that occurs in this group. From the nineteenth century to the present-day, their study has helped scientists to understand how new species are formed and why nature is so diverse.
Because of the type of plant material that Heliconius caterpillars favor and the resulting poisons they store in their tissues, the adult butterflies are usually unpalatable to predators by bright colors and contrasting wing patterns, a phenomenon known as aposematism.
Heliconius antiochus
Wings of the Tropics, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Miami, FL
Lots of windows letting in the light and the warmth. HWW!
"Tropical Display Dome
Opened in 1977, the Tropical Display Dome at Brisbane Botanic Gardens Mt Coot-tha is a large geodesic (lattice) structure. It was built to display plants from the tropical regions of the world. This also includes plants that require a protected environment to thrive in Brisbane.
The climate-controlled atmosphere of the dome provides the plant collection with the right atmospheric conditions. It also protects them from potential threats found in their natural environment."
Louis Baltz saw the office parks, warehouses, parking lots, and walls in Irvine California as evolving American landscapes full of visual potential.
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You were born with potential
You were born with goodness and trust
You were born with ideals and dreams
You were born with greatness
You were born with wings
You are not meant for crawling, so don't
You have wings
Learn to use them and fly!*
*Jalal Ad-Din Rumi
May 14, 2025 - North Platte Nebraska
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I once again apologise for not being able to retribute the kind visits of my flikr friends as often as I would like o, but latelly I've had to reduce my flickr time to a minimum.
“To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last, to love it for what it is..."
Virginia Wolf
"You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly." - Rumi
Artist Seema Lisa Pandya's "Seed of Potential" is composed of two sculptures "The Seed" and "The Emerging Seed" with a glimpse of another artist's work in the background. Part of the "Branching Out: Trees As Community Hosts" exhibit at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
Material: Richlite - hundreds of layers of recycled and FSC-certified paper dipped in phenolic resin and pressed into board
Love (potentially) amid the sculptures along the Bondi to Tamarama coastal walk. Miss 18 finds a companion, lol.
But it's okay, she has not invited him home. Good.
Photographed on the occasion of Bondi's 'Sculptures By The Sea', 2025.
This sculpture is called 'Vital Threads' and is by the artist Geraldo Zamproni.
And here is 'Love Is A Stranger' by the Eurythmics (1982):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6f593X6rv8
My Canon EOS 5D Mk IV with the Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS II USM lens.
Processed in Adobe Lightroom.
The Elite, or Lotus Type 14, was the first purpose-designed road coupe from the innovative mind of Colin Chapman, founder of Lotus Cars (1952). This endeavor followed his open Six and Seven roadsters and a series of very successful sports racers, starting with his first fully enclosed aerodynamic 1954 Lotus Mk VIII.
Chapman’s approach was always to “add lightness,” instead of moving to bigger, heavier engines. He achieved this for the Elite by pioneering an all-fiberglass monocoque with only localized steel reinforcement. The 1953 Corvette showed the potential of a fiberglass body on a steel chassis, but Chapman took it a step further. The Elite was entirely fiberglass, including its load-bearing structure. Suspension parts and the front subframe supporting the engine, bolted directly to three box sections molded into the fiberglass body. His advanced glass-reinforced composite body panels were lightweight and cost-effective but, more importantly, it was the world’s first fiberglass monocoque production car.
The curvaceous body style was the work of Peter Kirwan-Taylor, John Frayling, and aerodynamicist, Frank Costin. The resulting design had a low drag coefficient of only 0.29. Underneath was an advanced suspension derived from Lotus 12 Formula 2 racing car and used “Chapman struts” at the rear. You can see their tops poking up through the rear window. The resulting build, and combined lighter weight, gave the Elite a nimble, exhilarating performance out of its 75hp 1.2-liter Coventry Climax “Feather Weight Elite” (FEW) inline four-cylinder engine. 1960 Motor magazine road test noted its maximum speed at 111.8 mph with 0–60 mph in 11.4 seconds. “Speed, controllability in all conditions and comfort in all its aspects make this compact two-seat coupe an extremely desirable property,” concluded the road test, calling it a “mettlesome thoroughbred.”
At roughly $5500 with tax, the Series 1 Elite was pricey, but it was gorgeous and fast! Series 2 developments included an improved design of rear suspension, and a better body build by Bristol Aircraft. In 1960, one could option a higher performance, special equipment (SE) Lotus model, like the one seen here. This included a ZF all-synchromesh close-ratio gearbox, two SU carburetors, and a modified exhaust manifold. Altogether, the package developed 85 bhp.
The Lotus Elite offered outstanding performance, but it was expensive to build and nearly bankrupted Lotus. In September 1963, after a mere five years, Elite production came to a halt. Road & Track magazine even ran “An Appreciation and an Obituary” for the elegant little car.