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cercis, chinese redbud, 'Kay's Early Hope', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
Miami Beach 20 minutes after sunrise. Only a few people on the beach: On the phone, practising yoga, jogging or shooting photos. So: No lifeguard required!
A tiny patch of sunlight is all that's required for this male Metalmark to show off his gorgeous blue iridescence.
My first Infrared landscape, captured in Chatsworth Park. This image required a 20 second long exposure, making it surprisingly challenging to photograph a tree, as even the slightest movement in the leaf's could soften the final result. Fortunately, the conditions were calm enough to make this possible.
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📷 Camera: Nikon D850
🔍 Lens: Nikon AF-S 24-120mm f/4G ED VR + Hoya Infrared R72 Filter
Edited in Lightroom Classic
Weather, Geology, and Nature paint a unique scene.
A Green Heron puts a bit of an effort in to finding its next meal.
So actually two bonuses - I was photographing the dead trees along the Creek - then a Green Heron pops in - bonus - then it stretches its neck - 2nd bonus!!
Some of the causes of the death of the trees along this section of the Creek include:
Record-Breaking Droughts: The area has faced prolonged, multi-month droughts that left sections of the creek near the outpost bone-dry for long stretches. This severely starves the cypress root systems of the consistent moisture they require to keep their canopy alive. NOTE - the droughts have been going on most every year not just this year - these trees have been dead for years that I know about.
Violent Water Fluctuations: When rains do return, the water levels bounce erratically. The creek can swing from completely dry to swelling up over seven feet deep within days. This sudden, extreme shift from drought to deep, stagnant flooding suffocates the stressed tree roots.
New Cowbone Marsh Channeling: Changes and new channels cut through the nearby Cowbone Marsh have altered how water drains away from the Palmdale section. This causes the creek's water to drop much faster than it historically did, exposing the trees to rapid hydration shock.
Just looking back over some old shots I came across this from 7 years ago. Some of my followers may remember that I've issued this previously but I still find it astonishing that a bird can even attempt to swallow something so large. In the end the cormorant gave up trying and the bream eventually recovered and swam off to tell its pals about its near death experience.
Thanks to all who have visited, commented or faved (it would be nice if you left a comment too) my photos. It is very much appreciated. Constructive criticism welcomed.
The local Streetcar makes it way down Mainstreet.
A quick in the moment capture. I stepped out of my car and grabbed this scene at traffic light. Handheld.
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Can anyone tell me what type of bird this is please? Taken in my garden (south east England) in May.
It looks a bit like a young Robin, but also looks too developed to be a young bird.
thanks
Having been referred to as a “cluster of tree houses”, a “crumpled paper bag” and an “urban sandcastle”, the Dr Chau Chak Wing building’s unique masonry façade—contorting and twisting in a three-dimensional plane for the full height of the 14-storey structure—created structural engineering challenges requiring innovative solutions.
In collaboration with UTS and the brick supplier, AECOM (an infrastructure consulting firm) developed a unique brick, tie, mortar and backing system that solved the load, constructability and complex geometrical issues, allowing a near impossible feat of engineering to be realised. This unique solution makes this brick facade one of its kind.
The rare White-faced Darter requires relatively deep, oligotrophic, acidic bog pools with considerable rafts of Sphagnum at the edges in which to breed. My thanks to Flickrite David Williams for showing me three male White-faced Darters in Shropshire.
This photo of a Night Heron was taken in Malaysia. The species is a medium-sized, stocky heron (about 60 cm) with a black crown and back, grey wings, white underside, and striking red eyes. It has a strong black bill, yellowish-green legs, and mainly hunts at night or during twilight along calm waters such as mangroves, lakes, or marshes.
The species is distributed worldwide. In Malaysia it is usually resident year-round and often occurs in larger colonies, making encounters more frequent. In Europe it is mostly migratory, locally distributed, and often noticeably more wary, especially in breeding areas or quiet wetlands. This makes it harder to approach and typically requires more patience and careful fieldcraft for successful wildlife photography.
Redhead ducks rely on distinct habitats depending on the season, favoring the Prairie Pothole Region of the US and Canada for breeding. They require shallow, vegetation-rich marshes for nesting, but migrate to expansive coastal bays, lagoons, and large inland lakes to form large winter flocks
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Im wearing a special LV Body Suit from Kitty Couture. Many Colors available in her fatpack!
just a test shot.
I would like to have two versions. Each while snowing...
1. Daylight. Strong high key with strong contrasts. --> with a WHITE background
2. Nighttime again with snow. Flash the basket and the snowflakes from below. --> with a BLACK Background!
where is the problem? It was snowing this early morning/night. I could have made both pictures. ...But I had to work...
so I just made a test at noon if the perspective works
SL18b Hunting for a free Centaur -
This is the Freebie Jinx Centaur body:
1. You will be required to pick up a hud and complete a quest.
2. There is more information here on the hunt rules - make sure to scroll down to June 22, 2021 post date.
LM: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SLB%20Captivate/112/129/30
They're here, and they're scanning for something. Combing the coast of Cornwall for who knows what their giant alien minds might require from our lonely little planet.
Perhaps they have a shortage of plastic and are hoovering up the results of our indifference.
Perhaps they've identified something wonderful and are busy cataloguing the discovery before we unwittingly destroy it.
Maybe Doris Day said it best, 'Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps'...
Or
Crepuscular rays at Sandymouth Bay one Winter's afternoon in January. Note the tiny skein of geese.
It's funny when you see a photo posted by a fellow photographer of a place they recently visited and it immediately reminds you of a time when you visited it with your camera.
In this case the photographer is Phil Norton and I shall post his image below in the comment boxes. He's a Nisi Ambassador so if anyone requires any information on filters, he's a great guy to ask.
The place is the little fishing tarn of Llyn Y Dywarchen in Snowdonia. The date was Saturday 5th August 2011, the time 10pm. I visited this wonderful little place and decided that the rowing boats needed some illumination, so out came the head torch and fifteen seconds later, voilà
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Capture this morning while walking the dogs...the leaf was so vibrant it required a shot.
It actual looks great enlarged you can see the veins in the leaf.
Parque, Playa de las Américas, Tenerife
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The Nanday Parakeet (Aratinga nenday), often called the Nanday Conure or Black-hooded Parakeet, is a medium-small Neotropical parrot known for its striking appearance and boisterous personality.
Physical Appearance
Distinctive Hood:
Its most defining feature is a jet-black facial mask and beak.
Vibrant Plumage:
The body is primarily green, with a bluish-green upper chest and red feathers covering its thighs (often called "red stockings").
Wing and Tail Details:
It features black trailing flight feathers and a long tail tipped with blue.
Size:
They typically measure about 11–12 inches (27–30 cm) in length and weigh around 5 ounces (140 g).
Habitat and Distribution
Native Range:
Originally from central South America, specifically the Pantanal region spanning southeast Bolivia, southwest Brazil, central Paraguay, and northern Argentina.
Feral Populations:
Due to escaped or released pets, self-sustaining wild colonies have established themselves in several urban areas, most notably in Florida, California, Texas, and Israel.
Ecology:
In the wild, they frequent open savannahs, grasslands, and scrub forests.
Behavior and Personality
Loud and Social:
They are highly gregarious, often traveling in noisy flocks of 10 to 20 birds. They are known for high-pitched, screeching calls that can be heard from a distance.
Intelligence:
Nandays are exceptionally smart and can learn to mimic human speech, perform tricks, and solve simple puzzles.
Playful Nature:
They are often described as "clowns" and have a unique habit of sleeping on their backs with their feet in the air, which can sometimes startle owners into thinking they are "playing dead".
Care and Lifespan
Diet:
In the wild, they eat seeds, fruit, palm nuts, berries, and flowers. As pets, they require a balanced diet of high-quality pellets, fresh vegetables, and fruits.
Lifespan:
They typically live 18 to 25 years, though some captive individuals have been reported to live up to 30–45 years with optimal care.
Space Requirements:
They are high-energy birds that need a large cage (at least 3 feet tall) and several hours of daily interaction and flight time outside the cage.
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Taken at the Bayard Cutting Arboretum after almost a week of rain....
Navigating a Callistemon (bottlebrush) inflorescence requires a different strategy than visiting a flat-petaled flower. Lacking a central landing platform, the plant presents a dense arrangement of elongated, bright red stamens. To reach the pollen and nectar, a honeybee (Apis mellifera) must squeeze directly through this forest of filaments.
As the bee maneuvers between the tightly packed structures, pollen grains attach to her body, which she gradually sweeps into the corbiculae (pollen baskets) on her hind legs. In the process, she transfers pollen between different filaments, facilitating pollination for the plant. Unlike the straightforward landing on open blossoms, this is a more demanding approach — yet an efficient, functional one, where the insect secures resource-rich pollen while fulfilling the plant's reproductive cycle.
Armenoi, Crete, Greece
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Street photography from Glasgow, Scotland.
Candid portrait of Alex, a familiar sight in Glasgow where he let's his clarinet do the singing. Previously unpublished shot captured in September 2019. Enjoy!
Kodak Ektar 100 f/22 1s.
Yes, a still from the recent Robert Eggers film Nosferatu. But also my sunrise sky over Pt Arkwright in Queensland. Strange how the universe works sometimes, but it seems the vision of European Romanticism as the overarching visual aesthetic of the movie required a revised background mat for this scene, obviously analog to match the colour and character of the remaining 35mm footage, and sunrise over water. So look no further than the east coast of Australia. Rescanned and licensed to Paramount Pictures, this frame made the final cut, proudly playing a tiny part in one of the most beautiful cinematic creations of recent times.
Everyone knows that most agricultural products require the fields to change every season, meaning you need to let fields sit fallow sometimes, to rest. The same is true at the Wooden Show Tulip Farm. Every year the tulips are in a different field. They have one field that lines up particularly well with Mt. Hood, that's the field they used this year. The last time this field was used was when they shut down the whole event for Covid. It's been about 6 years since the public got to see flowers in this field.
I had the treat this year of having my son greet me there, he worked at the event this year, his first job. He is also know getting into photography, so we were shooting side by side, how neat is that?
Let me know what you think if this one, my wife liked it, which means it had tons of color (she only likes the colorful shots).
So today, I hear Willow (Goose) screaming a distress call. I go into our storage area (where she isn't normally allowed) and find her in a picture box. Photo is looking down at her...she immediately gave me her " Look where I am!" look and squeezed her way back out. sigh... I thought something was seriously wrong. lol
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Seaweed is one of the living plant that requires present of sea water, sunlight and solid ground to grow. It is one of the example that shows everything on the earth including us human being rely on one or another to grow and survive, eventhough sometime the relationship maybe indirect.
海藻需要海水，陽光和穩固的平台成長。它和其它地球上的生物包括人類一樣，我們都需要依附他人才能成長和生存，即使這層關係有時候並非直接的。
Brambling - Fringilla montifringilla
The brambling (Fringilla montifringilla) is a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae. It has also been called the cock o' the north and the mountain finch.
The brambling is similar in size and shape to a common chaffinch. Breeding-plumaged male bramblings are very distinctive, with a black head, dark upperparts, orange breast and white belly. Females and younger birds are less distinct, and more similar in appearance to some chaffinches. In all plumages, however, bramblings differs from chaffinches in a number of features:
brambling has a white rump whereas that of chaffinch is grey-green;
the breast is orange, contrasting with a white belly on brambling, whereas on chaffinch the underparts of more uniformly coloured (pink or buff);
brambling's scapular feathers are orange, whereas chaffinch's are grey or grey-brown;
the flanks are dark-spotted on brambling, plain on chaffinch;
bramblings lack the white outer tail feathers of chaffinch.
An additional difference for all plumages except breeding-plumaged males is the bill colour - yellow in brambling, dull pinkish in chaffinch (breeding-plumaged male bramblings have black bills, chaffinches in the corresponding plumage have grey bills).
This bird is widespread, in the breeding season, throughout the forests of northern Europe and Asia. It is migratory, wintering in southern Europe, north Africa, north India, northern Pakistan, China, and Japan. It regularly strays into Alaska during migration and may continue as far south as the western United States. The global population of bramblings consists in about 100 - 200 million birds, with a decreasing trend.
This species is almost entirely migratory. In Europe, it forms large flocks in the winter, sometimes with thousands or even millions of birds in a single flock. Such large gatherings occur especially if beech mast is abundant. Bramblings do not require beech mast in the winter, but winter flocks of bramblings will move until they find it. This may be an adaptation to avoid competition with the Chaffinch. Bramblings mostly eat seeds, but unlike most finches, their young are fed largely on insects.
Population:
UK breeding:
0-2 pairs
UK wintering:
45,000-1,800,000 birds
Europe:
13-22 million pairs
"Mr Al Cedo-Atthis (14-11-'19) At A Location, So Secret, Where You Can't See The Water For The Shrubs..."
The Common Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis), is one of Britains most brightly coloured and interesting birds...Kingfishers are widespread, especially in central and southern England, becoming less common further north, however, following some declines last century, they are currently increasing in their range in Scotland.
Kingfishers are found by still or slow flowing water such as lakes, canals and rivers in lowland areas. In winter, some individuals move to estuaries and the coast. Occasionally they may visit suitably sized garden ponds...
Male kingfishers and female kingfishers are are almost identical except for an orange colouration with a black tip on the lower part of the females beak/mandibles. Young kingfishers are similar to the adults in appearance, however, they have duller and greener upperparts, paler underparts, black beak and initially, black legs.
Kingfishers have very keen eyesight...The kingfisher has monocular vision (in which each eye is used separately) in the air and binocular vision (in which both eyes are used together) in water...The underwater vision is not as a sharp as in the air, however, the ability to judge the distance of moving prey is more important than the sharpness of the image..."
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** Thanks all for the really cool reception of this shot
the comments have been fun to read
A quick explanation of this;
Im using my 300mm lens. Im on-shore. This is the end of a fast section
Im shooting in manual mode and have my settings geared to the action further right in the steeper part of the wave. As the surfer exited the section I would continue to shoot in the same setting, as i looked in the monitor to see the shot it would always look kind of cool, so I never reajusted
I actually have quite a few shots just like this. : )
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From the bridge over its northern arm. Looking towards Sgùrr an Fhuarain (L, 901m) and Sgùrr Mòr (centre, 1003m). These mountains are quite inaccessible, requiring either a long walk in from the Loch Quoich dam, or a kayak trip across the loch.
An ancient shot scanned from the colour negative and processed with Nik Silver Efex.
Butchers reservoir was created in 1937. In 1862, gold was discovered in Butchers Gully. There once was a store, butcher's shop and hotel here, back in the gold days... eventually the dam was created and the gully flooded.....
It is said that when the water levels get low, you can still see the chimneystacks under the surface. The water is so clear and glass like, I tried this day to see them. All I saw was reflecting clouds.
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Had another look down to the local wood, Wild Garlic still not out in full bloom. Seems to be behind other woodlands. Maybe another week before the white carpet.
I don’t think any explanation is required for this famous Parisian landmark, even though it is only the lower section 😁
“Ancient gates were built to intimidate. Curiosity has never been very obedient.”
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Church windows, also known as stained-glass windows or leaded glass windows, are windows in churches that are often made of colored glass and often depict elaborate motifs or depictions. These windows play an important role in church architecture and have a long tradition dating back to the Middle Ages.
The production of church windows is a complex process that requires both craftsmanship and artistic skill. Stained-glass painting involves various techniques such as cutting and painting the glass, setting it in lead rods, and firing it in a kiln.
Church / Window of Bonn Minster, a Catholic church with approximately 1,000-year-old foundations.
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