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A partir de entonces ....el mundo se hizo suyo a través de la lectura. Nunca más se sentiría sola, nunca más añoraría la compañía de un amigo querido. Los libros se volvieron sus únicos aliados. Había uno para cada momento : los de poesía eran compañeros tranquilos, los de aventuras eran bienvenidos cuando se aburría y las biografías cuando deseaba conocer a alguien. Ya adolescente, llegarían las historias de amor. La tarde que descubrió que podía leer; se prometió leer un libro al día durante el resto de su vida.....
(Un árbol crece en Brooklyn. Betty Smith).
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Seems like a good place to hang out but in Newfoundland wind it didn't stay here long and I ended up chasing that red leaf until I lost it.
Switzerland, May 2021
My best photos are here: www.lacerta-bilineata.com/ticino-best-photos-of-southern-...
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.
As always, many greetings to all of you, have a wonderful day and don't hesitate to let me know what you think 😊
Paws for thought… Portrait of a beautiful Sand Cat. In the wild these cats inhabit sandy and stony deserts far from water sources. With its sandy to light grey fur it is well camouflaged in a desert environment. The Sand Cat usually rests in underground dens during the day and hunts at night.
This captive example was seen at Exmoor Zoo.
after sunset we found 3 lionesses that had been feasting on a blue wildebeest they had killed earlier that day .
They were resting near a waterhole and this large lioness was lying down on a mound
Madikwe Game Reserve, South Africa
IUCN RED LIST STATUS: Vulnerable
panthera leo
leeuw
lion
Löwe
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Caper White (Belenois java)
One from this day last year. I have only seen two this season and both of those were flying past very quickly
Taken on Dya's little Jordan
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Corsair F4U Ww2 fighter aircraft on static display with wings folded as in Carrier aircraft, beautiful restoration, found in North Carolina .
the original image is from Nelson Ghost Town, the moon from the Bregenz Forest - and the rest graphite tray
www.flickr.com/photos/142421249@N02/49060765846/in/datepo...
Fresh Eastern Tiger Swallowtail butterfly on momentary shutdown.
Common from late spring through early fall.
Detail shivering spiral
The shivering spiral is a classic at any party. Try to get from the beginning to the end as quickly as possible without letting the loop touch the thread. Does the buzzer sound or do you hear an alarm? Then you have to go back to the beginning or the last resting point.
Oyfo, techniekmuseum, Hengelo
an earthy intermingling of spirit lives, past and present, under the vast expanse of a wholly unreachable sky ...
littletinperson
Poking at female pixels is fun once in a while, more so when there's stuff to play with. This is said stuff I had a lot of fun with.
Featuring the Devoradora Bodysuit by [The DeadBoy]. Them mean Vidorra heels are also here to stab someone in the soul, but they need their own not-so-monochrome moment to properly show - this ain't doing them justice. I'll need to revisit that.
Pose by SAPA Poses - and tell you what, it's part of the gift set at the landing point. Grab those for some fun surprises.
Nebel, Amrum, 2019.
The Frisian inscription on the cross says,
"Uun jesus as rau as an frees"
In English, this means, „In Jesus there is rest and peace.“
I am not religious in any way, but religious symbols often are a hell of a subject. 😈
There’s more on www.chm-photography.com.
These creatures are absolutely majestic. Those antlers jutting up like a wooden crown, the whole way they hold themselves... It's almost regal. You can tell, as he lays there, he knows he's in charge. I walked from nearly where that car in the background is to this new spot finding better framing opportunities, I wanted to actually capture this elk properly this time.
This is a second image of the one earlier, sans the distracting car in the background.
ISO: 800
Aperture: f11
SS: 1/30
Focal 196
This was taken with my 50-140 with a 1.4 Teleconverter.
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