Probably a sibling to the previous post folks but a good find just the same I think, especially about the way I feel for these birds and species, but very sorry for the redundancy.

Thank you so very much for stopping by, and have a great day.

Steichen took over 1,000 exposures of a single white teacup and saucer against a graduated scale of tones from pure white to black velvet. While this redundancy may seem obscure, in A life in Photography, Steichen stated that "the experiment was to a photographer what finger exercises were to a pianist."

Edward Steichen

HFF! this confused magnolia blossom normally blooms early spring

Loebner magnolia, 'Leonard Messel', sarah p duke gardens, duke university, durham, north carolina

A graveyard of boats lies along the river edge near Pin Mill on the River Orwell.

Had a pretty good day yesterday photographing. My Red-Shouldered Hawks' eggs have hatched, and I got some photos of the chicks and the Mamma, with a story. Coming this week. This Yellow Warbler was a real treat. I'm glad it was a good day, as I don't know when the weather will be nice again, and of course I am still working from home--until June 4, I believe.

I hope the redundancy in photos isn't too boring or repetitive--the Cardinals have been cooperative, the RSHs have allowed me to get close (though yesterday the Mamma frightened me some), the Tree Swallows keep gladly posing for shots.

I may start posting some multiple uploads of the same subject to break up feared redundancy. Seems paradoxical, but it makes sense in my weird head.

I've had a helluva time trying to ID the bush he's in. Not a wild honeysuckle.

Thanks for Viewing.

I don't have a clue how this ended up back on Flickr. I'm trying to learn how to post on Instagram and something happened.

shows how really technically advanced I am. Not.

sorry for the redundancy, but thank you for the faves and comments and invites.

Dettaglio urbano. Urban detail. Building next to Via Massarenti. Edificio nelle vicinanze di Via Massarenti. Bologna 2018

A half price young maple tree at a garden center in pouring rain this afternoon. I didn't buy it as we already have one and my family accountant doesn't do redundancy. Have a good week ahead and hope your weather is better than ours

Sunrise in the bean field. Unposted from December of 2017..

Thanks for the views, comments and faves. Have a great evenging.

Salmon River, Adirondacks, NY

There are several rivers in the Adirondacks named Salmon. This iteration comes out of Salmon Pond, quietly wandering its way through the lowlands of the Blue Mountain Wild Forest, where it intersected my wanderings in the greater Adirondack Park. Daylight was on the downward swing across the sky, the shadows already turning chilly. The river is reflective, spilling the warmer colors in the open meadow upstream, and the colder blues where the sun can’t penetrate the crowded forest, pressing ever in for water. For 30 years, my obsession in life was music. Music, in its patterns and structures, is redundancy, with nuance. So it is I can see my existence as compartments of repetition. Work, food, sleep, play, all in continuous performances…. some good, some bad, with nuances. Even photography doesn’t totally break that mold. I have seen this type of scene repeat in other locations, north of here in the Paul Smith’s area, south near Raquette Lake, in the lowlands of Pharoah and Lake George...each is similar: dark, smooth waters, essing through the forest of a glaciated plain. The differences are nuance, subtleties of geography, illusions of seasons. Today’s is in the warm light of a late winter afternoon. I often return. We are creatures of habit after all, and if I go back to the same places I’ve been before...forgive me for repeating myself.

If this image looks vaguely familiar, it is...because only yesterday we were stepping into spring and I decided what the heck, since we were on the steps anyway, might as well try another season, eh? It's amazing what a difference a day makes...and a few processing clicks as well. And please feel free to ignore the redundancy if you so choose...no offense will be taken...;-))

Today was such an asshole of a day. If you see my "OFF" by the name, you must know, that i´m involved in a project for a few days. I have a short time period to update & upgrade an VMWare Cluster (you do not have to know). And that is not a kind of funny thing. Especially if you lose one of the hosts (a cluster is more than one host which keeps redundancy with the others etc. etc.) during an normal upgrade situation. So i have to set up this guy from scratch, without losing data and the other ones. Hell yeah, exactly what i want at the end of the day.

So now, for that a more funny pic from me. To brighten mine and your day.

Cheers!

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Taken in Munich during the walk with Das StadtKind.

Half time and it's nil, nil.

Strange week. Redundancies. From the title I think you can gather how I stand.

New-Delhi (Inde) - En Inde il suffit parfois de se baisser pour « ramasser » une photo. Idéal quand on travaille une série où il est impératif de diversifier les angles pour éviter les redondances visuelles.

Selection of tomatoes

New-Delhi (India) - In India it is sometimes enough to bend down to "pick up" a photo. Ideal when working on a series where it is imperative to diversify the angles to avoid visual redundancies.

A rather unproductive week photowise.

Started a new job after being invited to the world of redundancy, found it didn’t quite live up to its part time description...7 to 8hrs per day instead of 4.

Something has triggered another deliciously agonising episode of g**t, so I’m at a bit of a lower ebb than normal...

...in addition our holiday to Spain has been knocked on the head due to a rising spike in Covid...oh the effin joys.

So this pic is an alternative take on an earlier posting for which I do not apologise.

Anyone from the UK and of a certain vintage may well associate the image with Hovis bread and the strains of the New World Symphony.

Hi folks, promise this will be the last in the series, and will try not to do another series of images for fear of redundancy, and try not to bore anyone, it's just for me it's an honor to see these wonderful birds doing things in there environment and allow me to photograph them, and display them here on Flickr for all to see.

Hope you all understand how I feel, and I thank you for stopping by and voicing your opinion, it is so very much appreciated.

Location: Ystradgynlais, near Swansea, Powys

The ironworks developed from a blast furnace built in 1696. There was a succession of owners, but no great success until the works was taken over in the early 1820s by George Crane of Bromsgrove. In 1837 there were three blast furnaces in production, increased to six by 1853. A tinplate works of three mills was built on the ironworks site in 1889. It was operative for sixty years and its plant was finally dismantled in, 1946 under the Tinplate Redundancy Scheme [1]

I was going to post anything today but it is the only way I know how to get out a message, and one that everyone has seen before, hate the redundancy but I do not want to make enemies, love seeing all posts from everyone and for me it's very special seeing images from all over the world.

But there is not enough time in the day to keep up with the guys that post 3-4-5 or more images a day, so if I miss some or do not see some and miss a comment or two let me apologize now, very sorry for that but it just cannot be helped.

Hope everyone understands.

...and much better view large along with the photos in the comment section.

Good morning and Happy Dragonfly Thursday to everyone. After mentioning in last week's dragonfly series how good of a poser both male Blue Dashers and Halloween Pennants (Celithemis eponina) were I thought I would post this series on a very accommodating young male Halloween Pennant. As you can see from this series it allowed me to photograph it from just about every angle, which was quite nice of him. The only thing missing is a straight down shot, but the long reed stem it was using as a perch was about at eye level so it wasn't possible.

I hope in spite of the redundancy you enjoy this series on this lovely dragonfly and find the provided text in the comment section informative

Thank you for visiting...and I hope you have a most wonderful day while the countdown continues with only 15 shopping days left.

Lacey

ISO400, aperture f/11, exposure .011 seconds (1/90) focal length 300mm

Macro Monday’s theme this week is “The Odd One”.

This view is of three Australian coins, two by $2 coins (which by the way are confusingly smaller than $1 coins and a 10 cent coin which along with the 5 cent not shown is under some threat of redundancy.

The maximum dimension of the coins in this shot is about 2.5 inches and taken on a Nikon 105mm f2.8 macro lens.

Happy Macro Monday all.

Golitha Falls National Nature Reserve, Liskeard, Cornwall

I’ve held back on posting this image since the day I got back from Cornwall. It has special significance for me… not because its an awesome picture, capable of sweeping all before it in competitions, but just a moment in time and a state of mind. I know everyone has had a tough time over the last few years with Covid and lockdowns, followed by the global meltdown exacerbated by the war in Ukraine etc, etc. If we are truly honest with ourselves, most of us have gotten through the worst of the worst unscathed… those who have lost close loved ones or been bombed out of house and home might say ours are first world problems and they’d be right.

Still, everybody has their own personal stories to tell and life can drag you down at the most unexpected moments. I’m envious of those who can pick themselves up, dust themselves down and get on with life, unfortunately, I’m not one of them… I thought I was, but everyone has their breaking point. Mine came on the 6th September 2021 at 10:10am. Without going into all the detail, I put it down to a few things - the lockdowns, family health problems, legal battles and just for good measure – redundancy right in the middle of it all! I suffered a total breakdown resulting in severe anxiety and panic attacks that lasted for months and months. I can’t count the number of counselling sessions I had with Kathy over that time frame. I developed a scale - 10 down to 1 with 10 being the 6th September.

Recovery has been a very long road to travel with many ups and downs but the general trend (and no I haven’t done a spreadsheet on this) has been downwards towards 1. I’m only writing this now as the Cornwall trip was such a highlight for me last year and this very moment, sat on a fallen tree truck snapping away at the leaf covered rocks in the stream had such an uplifting happiness for me. But why three? I haven’t worked out what 1 or 2 means on my scale yet… I don’t think a lottery win would warrant that score as money truly doesn’t buy you happiness, but 3 is a very good day for me and I’m happy with that.

If you’re reading this and feel in a similar situation… yes, there IS light at the end of the tunnel, you will climb out of that pit of gloom. Speak to family and friends, it was the best thing I ever did.

Thanks too all those that helped.

Thanks to an X396 derailment on the Main Line of Mid-America, CN was forced to detour several freights up the Peoria and Gilman Subs, underutilized secondary lines that come in quite handy for network redundancy. This U757 ethanol empty is charging through the quiet hamlet of Parnell, just outside of Farmer City, Illinois on the Gilman Subdivision. This line still sports several US&S mast-mounted P-2 signals in ABS territory and no PTC.

As some of you know, today I was due to fly to the Greek island of Skiathos, then take a boat to the equally Greek island of Skopelos for a week of late summer sun, Mythos & baklava for breakfast, and lots and lots of photography. BUT (obviously there’s a ‘but’ because I’m still here!) as I was due to fly with Thomas Cook, if you’re in the UK you will know why our trip was cancelled. In fact if you’re not in the UK you will probably know anyway, as the impact to the tourist industry of the demise of this well-established airline and tour operator is going to be worldwide.

It’s been heartbreaking to see how the TC employees have been treated- thinking of those thousands of people who, this time last week had a job, and now don’t. Keeping things in perspective, the inconvenience/disappointment of a cancelled trip is nothing compared to what’s happened to them. I strongly feel that those ‘at the top’ should be donating some of their multi-million-pound bonuses into the redundancy pot for those people.

So as I’m not in Greece, here is a photo taken at the equally exotic location of…..Ipswich Waterfront!! Not sure why I chose this one really- maybe it represents the lock on my suitcase which never got to see the light of day!

Wishing you all a fabulous weekend :)

This opportunity had me thinking of todays title because there is so very much at the top, and so little at the bottom. This theory purports that " tax breaks and benefits for corporations and the wealthy will trickle down to everyone else". This economic notion persists, although we are overwhelmingly witness to various corporations taking larger gross profit margins, while starving off and slowing down, exhausting payouts.

Take for example the world of telephony in our Country. Amalgamating companies should lead to fewer redundancies, thus decreasing corporate costs. Increased profits could then trickle down to customers and lower their bills. Instead, our waterfalls better illustrates any words I could harvest to explain what actually happens..

www.photographycoach.ca/

Good Sunday mornimg everyone And so hope that everyone had a great weekend, I think that this will be my next to last and another one I really liked, probably my favorite, thank you all and so sorry for any redundancy.

First let me apologize folks for any redundancy in thus series. I was told that the series of images was redundant but feel the series was done the way it was taken and that the images are all stand alone images and represent and recorded as I saw it, and still a lot are missing because they were redundant, so I am sorry but will finish this series up tomorrow. This image looks nothing like the others and the wings here is nothing I've ever seen before or photographed before, thank you for your patience, have a great day and thanks for the visit, and it will be over tomorrow.

I went to our local Woolworth to see what they had for Halloween and I found myself being watched. Maybe I should confront this employee I thought and was stumped by the worried look. Is it possible redundancies are on the agenda?

PS: Until I went close to this skeleton (life size) I had no idea it had eyes, it was almost a bit scary

Well, it’s been a cr@p year, starting with the loss of my mother in February, some pandemic or other, lockdowns, redundancy, being employed by a pharmaceutical company with the morals and ethics of Rachman (look him up yourself, I’m not your mum), the loss of both my uncle and his wife to COVID...I could go on but I’m sure many of you in the flickerverse have similar narratives.

I know it’s early but try to have a Merry Christmas and let’s hope 2021 proves to be less painful for all.

Pile of staples

Shot with a Steinheil Optronic "57 mm F 2.8" lens on a Canon EOS R5.

At the risk of redundancy, here is one more image derived from #2. Sorry, fans of square composition, I feel this rectangular crop better emphasizes the bend from the blowing wind.

654H+W4 Purkersdorf

UK. For three days in June, strike action will cause the nation's train services to reduce by 80 per cent.

Around 50,000 workers are expected to be striking over June 21, June 23 and June 25, causing chaos to commuters, people heading on holiday as well as Glastonbury ticket holders.

Train workers are striking over pay, working conditions and redundancies in what is set to be Britain's most widespread industrial action this century.

One or two more of this guy folks, sorry for any redundancy, but a flight image is a flight image is a flight image, and personally I will take whatever I can get.

Thank you for stopping by and for all the kind words, always appreciated.

A bit of redundancy in the title, but I’ll try to explain. I struggled to get the capture and then I struggled to get the color out of it. I spotted this green tucked away in the deep shadows of the bayou in the early morning hours, but even in the shadows, I could tell that he/she had some marvelous green feathers and that’s not always the case. I managed to get the shot and then struggled to find those green colors in an extremely dark photo that took a lot of processing. It’s not the best but you’ll get the picture of the Greenie.

I also want to add that he was not the only Greenie in town as there were like 8 or 10 of them within a half mile stretch of the bayou. I’d call that a target rich environment. Green Heron (alias Bayou Leprechaun) captured on Horsepen Bayou.

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Lough Corrib, Galway, Ireland.

sorry for the redundancy but i like those ;-)

One of many ports on the side of a steel oven in an abandoned steel factory…

I absolutely adore the Oak Titmouse. Have you ever wondered why they named them that? I looked it up and apparently it comes from the blending of two Anglo-Saxon words: tit, meaning small, and mouse, a common term for a small bird or rodent. Basically, we're left with a redundancy: a small small bird. Is that kinda like it's a small small world??? ;)

I’m getting the bathroom done next week and the anxiety levels are growing again. My problem is that I’m a control freak. I’ve lived in our current house for nearly 38 years and apart from getting two gas boilers fitted and electrical rewiring, internally I’ve done everything myself. Two kitchen refits, the bathroom in question refurbished, removed metres of lead piping, built a shower room by extending a poky downstairs cloakroom and all the decorating. The main reason I’m getting the professionals in is that an old cast iron bath has to be removed, and that’s to heavy for me at my age. So to take my mind of the job I’ve retired to the Lake District in autumn 2021 with my Canon EOSR, the last photography trip I took it on before it was replaced with an R6. To be honest I wished I’d kept it longer but I was hung up on it only having one card, I don’t know why as I’ve never had a memory card go wrong.

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December 19, 2016

Pleonasm:

[plee-uh-naz-uh m]

noun

1. the use of more words than are necessary to express an idea; redundancy.

2. an instance of this, as free gift or true fact.

3. a redundant word or expression.

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A quiet day with work, which was a nice break after the chaos of the past few weeks. I'm hoping this pace keeps up thoughout the week as people start to gear down for their Christmas holidays.

After finishing up with work, I grabbed the camera and hit up a nearby park to try and get a quick shot while there was some day light left.

I'm really looking forward to when the days start to get longer. Sun down by 1700 is getting real old real fast!

Anyway, hope everyone has had a good day.

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"if you're a bird, i'm a bird" - noah {the notebook}

despite my annoyance with nicholas sparks and his epic love stories full of predictability and redundancy, i happen to love, "the notebook." :)

i'd also like to credit:

www.flickr.com/photos/bal93/

for the inspiration & idea :)

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I try not to post too many redundancies, but I thought this one was worth a closer look.