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Last year, during a summer morning walk at Bolsa Chica wetlands, I came across a bird that surprised me. It had a bright yellow underbelly but was too large to be a common yellowthroat, which is the local yellow bird in these parts. It also had a peculiar call that I hadn’t heard before. I was stumped on the bird's ID, but the Merlin app came to the rescue and identified it as a yellow-breasted chat. The name surprised me since I had only seen chats in YouTube videos from Europe, and I hadn’t realized there was one on this side of the Atlantic. Even though the lighting conditions were atrocious that day, I was excited to photograph a bird I hadn’t even known existed before that morning.
Anadara - the building inspired by clouds in striking sunset livery.
Abstracts from Sydney at night during Vivid
I had a longer than usual visit there last Sunday--I seemed to be the only one there, despite the better-than-predicted weather.
Published on N°1 of 5x5 Magazine March 2012
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The Church of the Nativity, or Basilica of the Nativity is a basilica located in Bethlehem in the Palestinian West Bank. The grotto it contains holds a prominent religious significance to Christians of various denominations as the birthplace of Jesus. The grotto is the oldest site continuously used as a place of worship in Christianity, and the basilica is the oldest major church in the Holy Land.
The church was originally commissioned by Constantine the Great a short time after his mother Helena's visit to Jerusalem and Bethlehem in 325-326, on the site that was traditionally considered to be the birthplace of Jesus.[3][4] That original basilica was likely built between 330-333, being already mentioned in 333, and was dedicated on 31 May 339. It was destroyed by fire during the Samaritan revolts of the sixth century, possibly in 529, and a new basilica was built a number of years later by Byzantine Emperor Justinian (r. 527-565), who added a porch or narthex, and replaced the octagonal sanctuary with a cruciform transept complete with three apses, but largely preserved the original character of the building, with an atrium and a basilica consisting of a nave with four side aisles.
The Church of the Nativity, while remaining basically unchanged since the Justinianic reconstruction, has seen numerous repairs and additions, especially from the Crusader period, such as two bell towers (now gone), wall mosaics and paintings (partially preserved). Over the centuries, the surrounding compound has been expanded, and today it covers approximately 12,000 square meters, comprising three different monasteries: one Greek Orthodox, one Armenian Apostolic, and one Roman Catholic, of which the first two contain bell towers built during the modern era.
The silver star marking the spot where Christ was born was stolen in 1847. Some assert that this was a contributing factor in the Crimean War against the Russian Empire. Others assert that the war grew out of the wider European situation.
Since 2012, the Church of the Nativity is a World Heritage Site and was the first to be listed by UNESCO under 'Palestine'.
A 250-year-old understanding among religious communities, the Status Quo, applies to the site.
On all our tours I encourage our guests to also shoot verticals, not only horizontals. Magazines for instance, are all based on verticals, so if you ever want your picture to grace the cover or to be published on a full page, you'll need to shoot verticals as well.
A little while back I got an email from British Airways, asking whether I had a vertical version of my famous picture The Edge, of an elephant at Victoria Falls. And as a matter of fact I did, I just never processed it. When I started processing the image, I wondered why I hadn't done it earlier - the vertical version seems to make more sense because you can actually see the height of the falls and you can see all the water falling down.
Anyway, British Airways published the shot and I was happy they had given me a good reason to dive into my image library again.
Here's the background story that I wrote for the horizontal version:
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It's hard enough to make original pictures, but with some subjects it simply borders the impossible.
When I was at Victoria Falls last year, I thought about the billions of photographs that must have been taken there, and I almost decided to just visit the place without my camera. That was until I spoke with some of the local people, who told me that they had seen a bull elephant crossing the Zambezi river the day before. During my research I had not seen any images of the falls with an elephant in it, so I decided to stay a few extra days and try my luck.
The course of the Zambezi is dotted with numerous tree-covered islands, which increase in number as the river approaches the falls. As the dry season takes effect, the islets on the crest become wider and more numerous, and with the water level of the Zambezi dropping, once submerged walkways and fresh foraging possibilities present themselves. This elephant was apparently aware of this.
On the third day I left very early with a small boat to reach my location. On my way to the edge I suddenly saw the lone bull wading through shallow parts of the river, but it was far away and light levels were low, so I decided to continue to the falls. I took some sunrise shots and half an hour later I saw the elephant approaching the falls. I quickly collected my gear and moved carefully towards the edge where the water plummeted into a 360ft chasm - not particularly nice when you're afraid of heights... I set everything up in order to include as much as possible of the falls and made a composition. Luckily the elephant was aware of my preference to shoot into the light, so his position couldn't be better.
After I took the shots, I knew I had just witnessed and captured something very special. Later that day local people confirmed this by telling me that they had never seen an elephant so close to the edge of the falls before - exactly what I wanted to hear!
This image was featured as a double page spread in National Geographic, and won First Prize in the European Wildlife Photographer of the Year Awards.
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Marsel
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Note: this photo was published in an Apr 11, 2011 blog titled "Open Forum Food Crisis." I have to admit that I still don't know what kind of vegetables these are: onions? Celery? Something else? It was also published in an undated (late Apr 2011) Havelock Farmers Market blog.
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Contrary to what you might think, New Yorkers do not eat all of their meals at Starbucks or pizza joints. Nor do they buy all of their food at supermarkets or corner delis.
We also buy our food at farmer's markets, where organically grown fruits, vegetables, cheese, and other items are brought from farms in nearby New Jersey and upstate New York. Some of these are large and noisy, some specialize in ethnic foods; and some operate every day, with great fanfare and publicity.
But then there are the neighborhood farmer's markets, many of which operate only one day a week. In my neighborhood, it's Fridays mornings: on 97th Street, between Amsterdam and Columbus, you can find an assortment of beans and beets, tomatoes and potatoes, carrots and garlic, peaces and cucumbers.
These photos will give you an idea of the kind of food that many of us are lucky enough to enjoy...
The bright green seaweed growing on this rock shelf would hav been a major focal point if the sunrise hadn't stolen the show.
An amazing sunrise at Bungan Beach / Mona Vale Headland.
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Apostlebird (one of about twenty that landed in a tree within 5 metres from where I was sitting. They are unbelievably noisy! Not the most attractive bird, but they are real characters of the bush and always scruffy and grubby. They are also a very social bird. They went about their business as if I was not there.)
Scientific Name: Struthidea cinerea
Description: The Apostlebird is a medium-sized dark grey bird with a short strong bill, brown wings and black tail. It is normally seen in groups of six to ten birds, and is usally seen on the ground. It belongs to the group of birds known as 'mud-nesters', the Family Corcoracidae, noted for their communal life style and their bowl nests constructed of mud and plant fibres.
Similar species: The Apostlebird is often found in association with the White-winged Chough, which belongs to the same family and has similar habits (communal living, mud nests, ground-foraging). However the White-winged Chough is quite distinctive, being black with white wing panels visible in flight, as well as having a long curved beak and a bright red eye.
Distribution: The Apostlebird is found in eastern Australia in inland areas from lower Cape York Peninsula, Queensland to northern Victoria and from Naracoorte to Mount Lofty Ranges, South Australia. There is also an isolated population in the Elliott and Katherine areas, Northern Territory.
Habitat: The Apostlebird is found in open dry forests and woodlands near water. It may also be found in farmlands with trees, as well as along roadsides, in orchards and on golf courses
Seasonal movements: Sedentary, with some local movements to more open areas in autumn and winter.
Feeding: The Apostlebird usually eats seeds and vegetable matter, insects and other invertebrates and, sometimes, small vertebrates. In autumn and winter, it will move to more open country, where seeds become the more important part of its diet. The Apostlebird forages on the ground in groups, often in association with the White-winged Chough. The Apostlebird can also be known as the 'Grey Jumper', for its hopping gait and, because it lives in groups, it can be known collectively as the 'Happy Family' or the 'Twelve Apostles'.
Breeding: Apostlebirds form a 'breeding unit' of around ten related birds - a dominant male and several females plus immature birds (the previous season's young) that act as helpers. The nest is a large mud bowl, placed on a horizontal branch 3 - 20 m high, and reinforced and lined with grass. All members of a group assist with nest building, as well as feeding of nestlings, while only the adults usually incubate the eggs. More than one female may lay eggs in the same nest. While many eggs may be laid usually only four nestlings will survive to fledge, with numbers possibly restricted by the size of the nest. Two broods may be raised in a season.
Calls: Rough, scratchy, discordant: 'ch-kew ch-kew'; also: nasal 'git-out' when disturbed.
Minimum Size: 29cm
Maximum Size: 33cm
Average size: 31cm
Average weight: 128g
Breeding season: August to March
Clutch Size: Two to five; more when more than one female lays
Incubation: 18 days
Nestling Period: 18 days
(Source: www.birdsinbackyards.net)
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Compilation of the Krautrock label Ohr, published in 1971. 2 LPs, both good, particularly the second one, which has mostly instrumental tracks that are unusually experimental and long for a compilation. Some of them, however, have been cut shorter. Well, they had to make some compromise, I guess. Annexus Quam is gigantic.
I have another Ohr compilation, called Ohrenschmaus, with similar music. But I don't like its cover so I won't post it on Flickr.
Gatefold cover designed by Helmut Friz. Later a CD with a very similar cover became available, but it's not as good as this one.
Birthcontrol: Stop Little Lady - 7:16
Floh de Cologne: He, Hallo Stift - 1:21
Floh de Cologne: Die Luft gehört denen, die sie atmen - 1:46
Floh de Cologne: Wir werden immer mehr - 2:24
Embryo: You Don't Know what's Happening - 4:43
Witthüser & Westrupp: Orienta - 7:35
Amon Düül: Love Is Peace - 7:10
Paul & Limpe Fuchs Anima-Sound: How to Dream - You - 4:00
Annexus Quam: Seite 1 A - 4:10
Ash Ra Tempel: Amboss (Ausschnitt) - 8:50
Tangerine Dream: Fly and Collision of Comas Sola (Ausschnitt) - 7:15
Guru Guru: Electric Junk - 10:58
Xhol: Breit (Ausschnitt) - 7:15
Limbus: Heiku - 2:00
A large and conspicuous waterbird, the cormorant has an almost primitive appearance with its long neck making it appear almost reptilian...It is often seen standing with its wings held out to dry. Regarded by some as black, sinister and greedy, cormorants are supreme fishers which can bring them into conflict with anglers and they have been persecuted in the past...The UK holds internationally important wintering numbers...
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“Lucy Locket lost her pocket,
Kitty Fisher found it;
Not a penny was there in it,
Only ribbon round it.”
Traditional English Nursery Rhyme, published in 1842, but sung for centuries beforehand.
I don’t know if you know the nursery rhyme about Lucy Locket and Kitty Fisher above, but it was so much a part of my childhood, that I still know the words and the tune all these years later. What I didn’t know was the much more adult, scandalous and true story that is about Lucy Locket and Kitty Fisher and the infamous pocket that Lucy Locket lost, which Kitty Fisher found.
You might be wondering what a pocket means in the rhyme. Historically, the term "pocket" referred to a pouch worn around the waist by women in the Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries. Skirts or dresses of the time had an opening at the waistline to allow access to the pocket which hung around the woman's waist by a ribbon or tape. The opening in the skirt was formed by leaving unstitched, near the waist, the panels of fabric for the skirt. Fabrics could be around twenty inches wide, so seaming the selvedges offered a reliable opportunity for an opening. Corresponding opening in the panels of fabric forming the petticoat underneath.
Now for the scandalous truth of Lucy Locket and Kitty Fisher. In Georgian London of the Eighteenth Century, prostitution was rife and one of the most famous courtesans at the time was Catherine Maria "Kitty" Fisher. Originally a milliner, but after seeing how much more money she could make and how much more fun she could have making it, inside and outside the boudoir, Kitty decided to take matters into her own hands and made a career change. Aside from her more notable talents, Kitty was also known for her "clever and witty conversation", and her light-hearted antics, including reportedly eating "a thousand-pound banknote on her bread and butter". The second harlot in the rhyme, is Lucy Locket a barmaid at Ye Olde Cock Tavern in Fleet Street. Lucy Locket had regular customers also known as "pockets". She had one pocket who obviously liked her services a little too much, as he quickly ran out of money and was dumped by Lucy. He then turned his attention to Kitty and hence she "found the pocket" and since he was broke, there was not a penny in it. The ribbon refers to the custom among prostitutes to keep their bank notes tied to their thigh with a ribbon. So, the nursery rhyme of Lucy Locket, is all about Kitty taunting Lucy for dumping her lover and her taking him on. Fancy that!
This true story about Lucy Locket and Kitty Fisher, and the nursery rhyme itself inspired me to create this image. So here are our two ladies of the night in their fine Georgian pomaded wigs, brightly coloured plumes and elegant dresses as two German half-dolls Lucy Locket is on the right with a slightly distracted look on her face, whilst Kitty Fisher on the left is more attentive towards the lost pocket which is a small blue coin purse I was given, and woven through this little assemblage is an embroidered cotton ribbon that came from a slow stitching kit I bought. The scene is displayed on some beautiful Art Nouveau rose patterned fabric that was sent to me from Dorset by a friend a few months ago.
The "half-doll" is a dainty porcelain or bisque figurine, fashionable in the early Twentieth Century with an upper body, head, arms, but no legs. These dolls were produced in the thousands at the height of their popularity by German factories such as Dressel and Kister, Heubach, Goebel and Kestner. Later they were produced in France, America and later still, in Japan. They commonly served as handles and toppers for fabric covers made for powder boxes on ladies’ dressing tables and small brushes, however they were also made for jewellery boxes, pincushions, tea cosies and other covers. In this case, my two beautifully hand painted German half-doll with her Eighteenth Century finery, would have been made for a lady’s boudoir. They are two of my larger half-dolls at nine centimetres in height, so I imagine they would have probably been a topper for a jewellery box, brush or pincushion.
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My first paying gig! Like a lot of us I've allowed a few of my photos to be used in everything from online travel sites to small magazines to album covers. However, it wasn't until SKI magazine contacted me about using my photo of Dome Peak that I was actually offered cold cash for any of my work. In the Feb '09 issue they are running a short blurb on the Ptarmigan Traverse, a legendary alpine traverse in the Washington Cascades. If you've ever wanted to get out there, off trail, crossing glaciers and rambling over all sorts of mountain terrain, I highly urge you to put the traverse way up there on your list! This photo was taken in '05 from White Rock Lakes, probably the most visually stunning, not to mention difficult to access, campsite along the traverse. In the background is Dome peak and our next day's route took us through the glaciated col just right of center. Another interesting note is the photo was taken with an old 3.2 MP Canon A300!
Published in West Indian Supplementary Service - London 1974-1975. Cafe Royal Books 2023
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The sanstone cliffs of Sydney feel insignificant against the endless ocean and under the tumultuous skies
This photo of Inukshuk bathing alone in the trysting pool has won First Prize in Photo Life's Image International 2010 Photo Contest's Nature Category. It will be published in their February/March, 2011 issue.
This photograph of mine is in a new book about New York City called
"New York: Portrait of a City" by Reuel Golden, published by Taschen.
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The Blue mountains at their broody best.
A major inversion event. Rain and mist fills the valley and shrouds the cliffs.
The Three Sisters peeking through from Sublime Point
Red Deer Stag
(Cervus elaphus)
Photographed near Glencoe, he posed nicely with the snow covered mountains as a backdrop.
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( Published as the "Picture Of The Day" in The Glasgow Herald – Mar 10, 2020 )
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Published in the Southport Visiter newspaper.
Two of this years brood of six cygnets born @ Southport's Hesketh Park. Here, seen peeking out from between their mother's wings.
Photo of my photo by FrizzText (to whom I am much indebted for going out and purchasing a copy in Germany).
See Tomorrow Magazine, April, 2008 issue for a spread of 13 images by 13 Flickr photographers. Web -- www.Tomorrow.de
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The photo next to mine to the right is by FARL and is one of the great flickr shots and below me (not seen) is a great shot of the eclipse by FJNY.
It was fun to get published, but the real pleasure has been this great community of people -- especially my contacts --who are so kind and encouraging. I always look forward to what you are going to say about a photograph and to seeing what you are next going to upload. Thanks everyone.
My friends in neighboring Clark's Beach Newfoundland were shocked to see this image on the front of the Tourist Guide. This was taken last summer during a photopaddle of Juggler's Cove at Bay Roberts. Known for it's incredibly beautiful shore walk, Madd Rock trail has been the subject of much photography, but very few images have been taken from the water. My pic was seen on flickr and the rest is history.