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Tour to Ecuador:
A wonderful experience. I can only post my images and suggest how much we enjoyed this experience, this place is great for hosting photo tours!
Thanks to everyone for all the nice comments and re-shares. Very much appreciated!
Booted racket-tail
RJB Ecuador Tours
1/8000s f/4.0 at 360.0mm iso3200
Booted Racket-tail
Raymond's Ecuador Tours
ray@raymondbarlow.com
Nikon D810 ,Nikkor 200-400mm f/4G ED-IF AF-S VR
1/1000s f/4.0 at 400.0mm iso2500
#nature #birdphotography #birdsgallery #travel #raymond
This photo was created for the weekly theme "Handles" in The Flickr Lounge .
This is a semiabstract view of a tennis racket, looking towards the handle but from the inside of the racket.
It is an old and broken aluminiium racket that we sound on a tennis court.
Photo taken at Randfontein in South Africa.
Using the Tamron SP AF 60mm f/2 Di II MACRO 1:1 LD (IF) (model G005N II) lens.
I Shoot Raw and edit in GIMP.
Critique is welcomed.
Thank you all very much for your visits, favs and comments.
This tiny forest sprite is found at middle elevations in Andean cloud forest, from around 1,000–2,200 m. The male is one of the most distinctive hummingbirds with his long tail rackets and prominent white or orange leg puffs. Females can be identified by their white underparts with variable amounts of spotting, short straight bill, leg puffs, and tiny size. Can be seen foraging at low or middle levels of forest and edges.
This one was photographed in Ecuador guided by Neotropic Photo Tours.
The greater racket-tailed drongo (Dicrurus paradiseus) is a medium-sized Asian bird which is distinctive in having elongated outer tail feathers with webbing restricted to the tips. They are placed along with other drongos in the family Dicruridae. They are conspicuous in the forest habitats often perching in the open and by attracting attention with a wide range of loud calls that include perfect imitations of many other birds. It has been suggested that these imitations may help in the formation of mixed-species foraging flocks, a feature seen in forest bird communities where many insect feeders forage together. These drongos will sometimes steal insect prey caught or disturbed by other foragers in the flock. They are diurnal but are active well before dawn and late at dusk. Owing to their widespread distribution and distinctive regional variation, they have become iconic examples of speciation by isolation and genetic drift.
We had an amazing time on our Ecuador Birds trip! 🌿🇪🇨 From vibrant tanagers to elusive toucans, we spotted a stunning variety of tropical birds. One of the biggest highlights? Photographing the rambunctious booted racket-tail hummingbirds as they zipped through the air and faced off with one another — so much personality in such tiny creatures!
(Ocreatus underwoodii) Colibri coda a racchetta di underwood Ecuador
Luce inesistente, ma durante la sospensione in volo testa e corpo di questo colibrì possono essere ripresi con un tempo non velocissimo (1/1250) ed iso "accettabili (3200)" colpo di flash con illuminatore staccato dalla camera
Chaloem Rattanakosin National Park, Thailand
Contact me on jono_dashper@hotmail.com for use of this image.
This was only my second time shooting tennis, but my experience with shooting surf and fast moving jets has helped me to hone my tracking and action anticipation abilities which helped a lot. With the help of the blazing fast Z9 I was able to get loads of shots right when the ball was hitting the racket and being deformed. While it looks cool, I find it doesn't really tell a story. I like the shots just before the strike the best. Where the players are wound up, ready to pounce, all focus is on the ball and they are ready to strike!
A male Booted Racket-tail visits the flowers of an Andean Blueberry plant in the cloudforest of northwest Ecuador.
Canon 5DM3 | Canon 300mm f/2.8
"Beautiful Racket was born, in the summer of 2020, out of the need for accessible creative programming for the youth of Hudson, NY. We believe accessibility means more than financial access. We are committed to eliminating barriers that have historically prevented Black and Brown people from accessing the power of self-expression, by creating a safe and empowering environment rooted in: representation in leadership and instruction; tuition-free programming for students; and competitive wages that honor the true skills of the instructors. "
This picture was taken at San Jorge Eco-lodges and Botanical Reserves of Ecuador during the Magic Birding and Wildlife Photography Circuit of Ecuador! www.eco-lodgesanjorge.com
Hmmm... I got little time to spend for photography, I was busy last
few days. Work and studies occupies the hours..
Starting with a subtly PANO-sabotaged photo of a child's badminton racket on a garage floor, I then added layers from an old bird/grid project.
The prompt today asked for Sports Equipment.
I'm not really a sporting person these days. Maybe a couple of days cycling a year but nothing energetic. There was a time I liked a game of badminton, but that was many years ago. I almost reached the point of the owner of this racket, but not quite.
Staedtler 0.7 pencil
Uni Pin 0.1 and 0.3 pens
Cass Art watercolours
Seawhite A5 concertina sketch book
#EDiM
Wikipedia: The racket-tailed treepie (Crypsirina temia) is an Asian treepie, a member of the crow family, Corvidae.
It has a velvety-black forehead of short, plush black feathers with the rest of the bird being an oily green colour, though appearing black in dim light. The tail feathers which in this species are long and broaden at the tail's end are black also with a greenish tinge, as are the wings. The iris of the bird is a turquoise-blue darkening towards the pupil to a very deep or near black. The bill, legs and feet are black.
This bird occurs in southern Burma (Myanmar), Thailand, Indo-China, Sumatra, Java and Bali in scrub and secondary growth, open fields and gardens, bamboo thickets and open forest often near villages.
It almost always feeds in trees (arboreal) never feeding from the ground though coming down to bathe on occasion. It moves through the trees with great agility and uses its remarkable tail as a balancing organ. It eats mainly insects and fruit.
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#DoodlewashAugust2025 Prompt: 8-Pickleball. Did you know Pickleball was invented in 1965 on Bainbridge Island, near Seattle, Washington?
Sorry, I just couldn’t find much information about Pickleball! I already did the bit about how it got its name for a previous prompt.
Niji Watercolor on Leda Watercolor paper.
@yasutomo_art @ledaartsupply #WorldWatercolorGroup