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A mix of cold, light hoarfrost and fog lay over the landscape near my place of residence during the sunset.
Ein Mix aus Kälte, leichtem Raureif und Nebel lag während des Sonnenuntergangs über der Landschaft nahe meines Wohnortes.
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Approaching thunderstorm in Val D'Orcia.
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The gentle hills of Val d'Orcia/Tuscany on a spring morning.
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The Aloha Spirit, never forgotten by the people who created it. One teaching states :
Aloha is being a part of all, and all being a part of me. When there is pain - it is my pain. When there is joy - it is also mine. I respect all that is as part of the Creator and part of me. I will not willfully harm anyone or anything. When food is needed I will take only my need and explain why it is being taken. The earth, the sky, the sea are mine to care for, to cherish and to protect. This is Hawaiian - this is Aloha !
Switzerland, May 2021
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My latest ANIMAL VIDEO (warning, it's a bit shocking): www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T2-Xszz7FI
You find a selection of my 80 BEST PHOTOS (mostly not yet on Flickr) here: www.lacerta-bilineata.com/western-green-lizard-lacerta-bi... (the website exists in ESPAÑOL, FRANÇAIS, ITALIANO, ENGLISH, DEUTSCH)
ABOUT THE PHOTO:
So this photo is a bit of a novelty for me - at least here on Flickr, but it's also a journey back in time in a sense. I've always loved b/w and sepia photography; already as a very young teenager I would go out into the woods with an old Pentax Spotmatic (which I had nicked from my father) whenever it was a foggy day to shoot b/w compositions of sunbeams cutting through the ghostlike trees.
I used films with a sensitivity of at least 1600 (for those of you who remember what that means 😉 ), and the resulting photos had an incredibly fine grain which I loved; I blew them up to the size of posters and hung them on the walls of my teenage man-cave next to Hendrix, Jim Morrison and Slash.
But then I abandoned photography altogether for 20 years, and when I finally picked up a camera again, it was one of the digital kind. Now neither film nor grain played any role in my photographic endeavours - let alone b/w compositions: because the reason I fell in love with shooting pictures once more was the rare and incredibly colorful lizard species that had chosen my garden as its habitat.
It's this species - the Lacerta bilineata aka the western green lizard - that my photo website www.lacerta-bilineata.com/ and also my Flickr gallery are dedicated to, but I've since expanded that theme a bit so that it now comprises the whole Lacerta bilineata habitat, which is to say my garden and its immediate surroundings and all the flora and fauna I find in it.
I like that my gallery and the website have this clear theme, because in order to rise to the challenge of portraying all aspects of a very specific little eco system (which also happens to be my home of sorts), it forces me to constantly explore it from fresh angles, and I keep discovering fascinating new motives as my photographic journey continues.
Which brings me to the horse pasture you see in this photo. This playground for happy horsies lies just outside my garden, and it normally only interests me insofar as my green reptile friends claim parts of it as their territory, and I very much prefer it to be horseless (which it thankfully often is).
Not that the horses bother the reptiles - the lizards don't mind them one bit, and I've even seen them jump from the safety of the fly honeysuckle shrub which the pasture borders on right between the deadly looking hooves of the horses to forage for snails, without any sign of fear or even respect.
No, the reason I have a very conflicted relationship with those horses is that they are mighty cute and that there's usually also foals. The sight of those beautiful, happy animals jumping around and frolicking (it's a huge pasture and you can tell the horses really love it) is irresistible: and that inevitably attracts what in the entire universe is known as the most destructive anti-matter and ultimate undoing of any nature photographer: other humans.
Unlike with the horses, the lizards ARE indeed very much bothered by specimens of loud, unpredictable Homo sapiens sapiens - which makes those (and by extension also the horses) the cryptonite of this here reptile photographer. It's not the horses' fault, I know that, but that doesn't change a thing. I'm just telling you how it is (and some of you might have read about the traumatic events I had to endure to get a particular photo - if not, read at your own risk here: www.flickr.com/photos/191055893@N07/51405389883/in/datepo... - which clearly demonstrated that even when it's entirely horseless, that pasture is still a threat for artistic endeavours).
But back to the photo. So one morning during my vacation back in May I got up quite early. It had rained all night, and now the fog was creeping up from the valley below to our village just as the sky cleared up and the morning sun started to shine through the trees.
And just as I did when I was a teenager I grabbed my camera and ran out to photograph this beautiful mood of ghostlike trees and sunbeams cutting through the mist. There had already been such a day a week earlier (which is when I took this photo: www.flickr.com/photos/191055893@N07/51543603732/in/datepo... ), but this time, the horses were also there.
Because of our slightly strained relationship I only took this one photo of them (I now wish I had taken more: talk about missed opportunities), and otherwise concentrated on the landscape. It was only later when I went through all the photos on my computer that I realized that I actually really liked those horses, even despite the whole composition being such a cliché. And I realized another thing: when I drained the photo of all the color, I liked it even better - because there was almost a bit of grain in it, like in the photos from my youth.
Since then I have experimented quite a bit with b/w and sepia compositions (some of which I will upload here eventually I guess), but this photo here is the first one that helped me rediscover my old passion. I hope you like it even though it builds quite a stark contrast with the rest of my tiny - and very colorful - gallery. But in the spirit of showing you the whole Lacerta bilineata habitat (and also in the spirit of expanding my gallery a bit beyond lizards and insects), I think it's not such a bad fit.
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In the morning before sunrise in the valley.
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Mesquite Flat Sanddunes between Blue Hour and Sunrise.
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A tighter crop on a beautiful sunrise in Canmore AB. Mt. Lawrence Grassi, Ha Ling Peak and Ship's Prow reflected in Policeman's Creek.
Mount Lawrence Grassi is named for an Italian miner, who emigrated to the country in 1912. In addition to his career as a miner, he was an avid climber and became well-known and well-respected as a climbing guide at the time.
Mt. Ha Ling is named for the intrepid Chinese cook that first scaled its intimidating summit in 1896, who climbed it on a bet. This prominent peak is situated between Mt. Rundle and the Three Sisters and is over 2408 meters.
So much beauty in the Canadian Rockies.
I'm off to visit my 93 year-old father and other family members I've not seen for over a year. Many hugs ahead!
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Caligo es un género de lepidópteros ditrisios de la familia Nymphalidae conocidos vulgarmente como mariposas búho. Incluye 20 especies propias de las selvas de Centro y Sudamérica hasta los 1800 m s. n. m., desde el sur de México hasta el sur de Brasil, y en Trinidad y Tobago.
Destacan por su tamaño. Las larvas llegan a medir hasta 15 cm de largo y los adultos pueden superar 20 cm de envergadura
Su nombre común proviene de los grandes ocelos en la parte posterior de las alas, que parecen ojos grandes.
Aunque actualmente no se sabe a ciencia cierta la significación de estos ocelos, sí se conoce que en otras mariposas, particularmente en el caso de Satyrinae, cumplen la función de desviar el ataque de los pájaros hacia partes menos vulnerables del cuerpo, mientras se protege el abdomen y la cabeza de la mariposa. Se requiere sin embargo mucha más investigación para descifrar cómo aprecian los depredadores a estas mariposas, ya que una cosa es el camuflaje frente al observador humano y otra con respecto a aves que pueden apreciar los rayos ultravioleta.
En cualquier caso se considera que los ocelos forman parte de una estrategia de cripsis que protege a las mariposas. Algunas especies vuelan solamente unos pocos metros para evitar exponerse a los pájaros. Las mariposas búho tienen hábitos crepusculares y son pocos los pájaros activos a las mismas horas que ellas, por lo cual sus principales depredadores son aparentemente lagartijas tales como las del género Anolis. Se ha sugerido que los ocelos de las mariposas búho tratan de semejar la cabeza de las ranas Hyla a las que temen los Anolis. Esta hipótesis tampoco ha sido probada, pero es cierto que los ocelos sirven a varias especies para protegerse de los depredadores
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A Northern Gannet shown from another angle. These birds have a very expressive appearance - this for example is what they show each other when they want to impress - before they attack or dance, depends who is watching: another male or a beautiful gannet lady.
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*Süntelbuche im Herbst*
Last Wednesday I drove to the northern Eifel to catch a few autumn moods. Fortunately, the over 200 year old dwarf beech tree on a Celtic burial mound near Blankenheim still had a few autumn-colored leaves ... and occasionally the sun came out.
Letzte Mittwoch fuhr ich in die Nordeifel, um ein paar herbstliche Stimmungen einzufangen. Die über 200 Jahre alte Süntelbuche auf einem keltischen Grabhügel bei Blankenheim hatte zum Glück noch ein paar herbstlich gefärbte Blätter...und gelegentlich zeigte sich auch die Sonne.
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on a sunny autumn afternoon on the river Moselle. Beilstein is called the "Cinderella of the Moselle" because of its location and the winding streets .
an einem sonnigen Herbst-Nachmittag an der Mosel. Beilstein wird wegen seiner Lage und den verwinkelten Gassen das "Dornröschen der Mosel" genannt.
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The Laohuzui terraced landscape is the steepest, most spectacular and magnificent terraced landscape in chinese province Yunnan.
Here I show one of the many possible variants from a photographic point of view to present this exceptional landscape in the afternoon light.
The managers of this Chinese World Heritage Site have built superb viewing platforms above the rice terraces. One has the impression of floating above the landscape and does not need a drone here.
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At the end of a night on the Devils Garden Campground in Arches NP, the thunder of a thunderstorm approaching from Canyonlands woke us up. From a safe distance, we were able to observe and photograph the scenery during the golden hour before sunrise.
Am Ende einer Nacht auf dem Devils Garden Campground im Arches NP weckte uns der Donner eines von Canyonlands heranziehenden Gewitters. Aus sicherer Entfernung konnten wir die Szenerie während der goldenen Stunde ca. 1/2 Stunde vor Sonnenaufgang beobachten und fotografieren.
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7:30 a.m. on the edge of a wildflower field on the Moselle near Trier.
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Title: "A man of the sea !!!"
Il arrive parfois que l'on rencontre les potes de Flickr en vrai.
Quelques photos souvenirs sont d'usages.
Si possible à marée basse, sinon nous aurions fait "Gla...Gla" !!!
Traitement Photoshop et DXO "Nik-Collection".
Merci de ne pas utiliser mes photos sans mon autorisation.
Thank you not use my photos without my permission.
Pour retrouver une sélection de mes photos :
To find a selection of my photos :
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Merci à tous les administrateurs de groupes pour leur multiples invitations.
Je suis désolé de ne pas avoir le temps de publier rapidement mais je respecte les règles de chaque groupe pour toute publication.
Thank hou to all administrators for their multiple group invitations.
I'm sorry I did not have time to publiciste quickly, but I respect the rules of each group for the entier publication.
When I took this picture, the owner told me to keep my fingers away from the beak. They have very powerful beaks that can generate a pressure of 500 up to 2,000+ psi (pounds per square inch). Humans, for example, average a bite force of around 150 psi.
This image was captured at Parrot In Paradise, a parrot rescue, rehabilitation, education and adoption center. We were fortunate enough to stay on the property during our travels on the Big Island of Hawaii. . Being invited into the aviaries with these gorgeous birds was exciting. I was new to using a macro lens and found myself moving closer and closer to the birds. Before leaving I offered many of my photographs to the owners and throughout the years, those images have been used on their website. What golden memories!
Bien dissimulés dans nos affûts respectifs avec www.flickr.com/photos/143937078@N03/ , on attend tranquillement l'arrivée des petits passereaux et quelle surprise de voir débarquer ce joli gallinacé sortant de nulle part qui se gave royalement au sol des miettes tombées de la cantine .
Sa contenance est fière, sa démarche grave, son naturel hardi, courageux, son tempérament chaud, vigoureux. Son chant est l'horloge de la campagne, jour et nuit, sa voix tire du bas de la trachée-artère. La poule est sa femelle. Au milieu de son sérail, tantôt en amant doux, complaisant, attentif, il est aux petits soins : avertit les poules du danger, les appelle pour partager avec lui sa bonne fortune, pousse même la galanterie jusqu'à leur abandonner tout entière ; tantôt c'est un souverain jaloux qui ne souffre pas la présence d'un rival. Si l'on contrefait le chant du coq, il est inquiet, en alarmes, rassemble ses poules, veille sur elles avec assiduité. Le coq est un oiseau très lubrique et coche la poule en plein air et jusqu'à cinquante fois dans un jour.
image réalisée en milieu naturel et depuis la tente affût .
Design and build the most beautiful bridge in the world, win awards and accolades, even get a statue erected in your honor. And what happens? I tell ya, I don't get no respect.
Joseph Strauss
Die Blüten, inkl. Stiel, haben eine ungefähre Länge von 15 cm, geöffnete Blüten messen ca. 20 cm länge und haben einen Durchmesser von ca. 10-13 cm.
Schade blühen sie nur einen Tag lang.
The flower, including the stem, have an approximate length of 15 cm, opened flowers measure about 20 cm long and have a diameter of about 10-13 cm.
Too bad they bloom only for one day.
Las flores, incluido el tallo, tienen una longitud aproximada de 15 cm, las flores abiertas miden unos 20 cm de largo y tienen un diámetro de unos 10-13 cm.
Es una pena que sólo florezcan durante un día.
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Please respect my copyright. No use of the photo without my expressly permission.
Por favor, respete mis derechos de autor. Ningún uso de la foto sin mi permiso explícito.
I guess that is what I like about the sea
It reminds me of feelings
Roaring like this
The noise can be incredible
Crashing waves
This time there was no wind
Just the underlying rest of the storm
Still in the sea
That is us, isn't it
We keep stuff inside
Stuff that needed to be said out loud
Injustice
Being treated with no respect
Mean words from others
Even mean actions from others
All the scars we get
Maybe we act mean towards others because we don't deal with the people that actually was mean to us in the first place
All what we endure
And we just keep them inside us
Doesn't do us any good at all
So important to react
Out of respect for yourself
You grow you know, when you are standing up for yourself
Because that is your job
Luckily there is calm sea too
We all love the reflections and serenity that goes with the calmness
I guess that is what most of us want for ourselves too
Maybe that's why we love water
Water feeds us, nourish us
We can see all sides of our personality in the water and we respect that
We actually love it
Just as we should love ourselves
Just as we should do the honor of respecting ourselves
That's my recipe for nourishing myself
Maybe it will be the recipe for others too
When we do love and respect ourselves, then others will too
It all comes from you
suitable for today:
Berger's clouded yellow on a common daisy in the morning sun.
passend zum heutigen Hochsommertag:
Hufeisenklee-Gelbling auf einer Wiesenmargerite in der Morgensonne.
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Sometimes photographers don't respect the situation which it demands🙏
Dokra making Process:
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Dhokra or Dokra art is non–ferrous metal casting using the lost-wax casting technique. This sort of metal casting has been used in India for over 4,000 years and is still used. One of the earliest known lost wax artefacts is the dancing girl of Mohenjo-daro
From the heart of West Bengal comes an art so eternal, it is cast in the absoluteness of metal. An ancient method of making metal artefacts, Dhokra art goes back 5000 years. What’s shocking, however, is that this tribal art form, done by the traditional metalsmiths of Bengal – the Dhokra Damar tribes, has survived the test of time and is still in use today. Here’s a look at the journey of this metal art from the heartlands of Bengal to the rest of the world.
More details can be found here: www.mashindia.com/dhokra-art-the-unusual-craft-of-brass-f...
In the photo it is seen that a man is selling his dhokra art!
STOP !
DO NOT COME CLOSER !
RESPECT MY SOCIAL DISTANCE !
MASK YOURSELF !
Or
YOU WILL BE LOCKED DOWN !
😄 Happy Monochrome Thursday 😄
The Royal Arrival is a stray cat which has found a new home in this Wild Garden in West Wales (Ceredigion). He’s been cared for as much as he allows to be cared for.... and he is most welcome here.
[Dedicated to CRA (ILYWAMHASAM)]
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Wishing all my WTBW friends Congratulations for our Third Anniversary! Thanks to you all for your wonderful artistic contributions for a better world over the past 3 years. Hopefully, in a small way we make a difference.
Let's all reach out beyond the divide and come together in kindness, tolerance, understanding, love, help, respect, positive thinking and actions, compassion and embrace our differences, my friends!
Thank you for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day! ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
OUTFIT: Sweet Thing. Wicked Royalty
HAIR: Opale . Ophelie Hair
EARRINGS: EARRING HOOP BLACK/PLATINUM
BRACELET: :::NOIR::: Twin Soul Bracelet
Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice :-)
Henry David Thoreau
HSS!! Justice Matters!
camellia, 'Yuletide', our yard, cary, north carolina
A version of the Steller's Jay using selective color to show the beautiful feathers in the wings and tail. The head is almost completely black, but you can see some detail in the feathers and eye . Please let me know which version you prefer.
Thanks, as always, for stopping by and for all of your kind comments -- I appreciate them all.
© Melissa Post 2015
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It amazes me to think that the subtle, slow moving and constant forces of nature are seemingly always at work. Take an old railway track like this one where the force of nature has bent and changed the shape of this railway track. Simply Amazing.
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Hydro electricity would be a great way to go in Iceland, but then there is so much geothermal activity on the Island that I suppose it doesn't matter how you do it. Energy is abundant in this part of the world, from natural renewable sources. This is one of millions of waterfalls on this island. In fact after visiting Iceland all other waterfalls have paled in comparison. It the type of place to go if you love waterfalls as there are so many that most in the backcountry go unmarked unless they are monstrous. This is an unmarked waterfall in the backcountry. Many of the most beautiful places in Iceland require a jeep capable of being submerged around 3 feet deep in a river. Some places more. I have a new found respect for the capabilities of modern automobiles after visiting this place.
Photo prise dans le jardin public à Bordeaux.
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Mille mercis par avance à vous tous pour vos visites, commentaires, critiques et compliments toujours très appréciés.
Je ne manquerais pas de visiter vos galeries respectives et d'y laisser un petit mot..
Bon week-end à vous.