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“This is for the birds! Oh wait – I AM a bird!”
The challenge:
A photograph can be technically perfect, and have a great composition – that’s already hard enough to achieve sometimes! But for me, a photograph really stands out if it touches me. If it conveys a feeling, or stirs an emotion within. A really great image is one that evokes a mood and pulls the viewer into the scene. That’s what this week’s challenge is about: capturing emotion and feeling.
My process:
This is not the image I thought I was going to take this week. I started off the week thinking I would need to make a difficult and heartrending decision. The rainy weather forecast looked like it would match my mood and I planned to see what I could capture during a downpour. As it turned out, the sun appeared during a break in the clouds at about the same time I got the news that all my worry was for naught. In an effort to calm my frayed nerves, I turned to my camera and started taking photos of birds in my back yard.
I take a LOT of photos of birds – thousands upon thousands of photos often of the same exact birds. Sometimes I question my sanity, but the reason is because I’m hoping to capture the rare instance when a bird seems to express an emotion that we humans can identify with. I’m pretty sure we anthropomorphize the emotions, but we identify with them nonetheless.
Grackles seem to be particularly expressive – maybe because of their bright yellow eyes. This particular grackle has a bum leg that he never puts weight on, but the wind was making it particularly challenging for him to stay upright while perching on the post. He was using his tail as a rudder and he looks like he’s had just about enough! (We’ve all had those days buddy.)
The lighting helped to further enhance the mood of the photo as well. There was a small shaft of sunlight on the bird, but the background was in shade and was especially dark because of dark clouds overhead. The sun highlighted the iridescent colors in the wings and lightened the overall dark colors of the bird to help differentiate it from the dark background.
Lesson learned:
As you probably know, I strive hard to capture technically perfect images. However I am slowly learning (as Maaike said in her opening paragraph) that even though an image might be technically perfect, if it’s void of emotion the technical perfection doesn’t make up for that. Conversely, an image with emotional impact can make technical imperfections almost irrelevant. Perhaps this is because emotions connect us to the deepest parts of ourselves. Technical perfection is about what the eyes see; emotion is about what the heart feels – and it is entirely possible for our eyes to overlook something that our heart feels strongly about.
This is me and my friend Yolanda on the couch at my home. Yolanda is a great lady and a good friend, and we have the same taste for dresses and in particularly also for ballgowns. That's why I'm wearing a ballgown today; I know Yolanda appreciates it a lot. Yolanda herself is not wearing a ballgown because she is visiting me and had to do all the traveling, and wearing a big ballgown when driving and when walking in the busy streets near my house is not very practical. Therefore she's wearing an easier dress, which is also beautiful and looks great on her.
The same butterfly as the previous photo. I sat by the plant until the sun came out from behind a cloud and as soon as he warmed up he opened his wings.
In my garden Stafford UK 1st May 2018
In Northern Italy we have the same vassels as in Northern Europe
for sailing on Po, Brenta and Naviglio rivers.
Here you can see one of the most famous of these, docked in Stazione Marittima in Venice from where they start.
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No Photoshop, no digital processing, sunset light only.
The soft fog on the background is very frequent in Venice even in sushining days.
"It's another tequila sunrise, this old world still looks the same,
Another frame, mm... "
Thanks to Eagles.
Found these two carrots in the same bag. Well, come on, you just have to make 'Carrot Man' with welly boots.
I'm ok, Mrs.F. laughed. 😏
"I sometimes have the same dream... I wake up in the middle of a lonely lake. No one is around, no living sound to hear. The dense mist covers nearly all, blending the lake with the white horizon. I begin to feel how the ice water pierces my skin as fine needles... I follow the path of smoke lights until I see the tree and its face with closed eyes emerging slowly from the depths of the lake. I observe it while I wait for something to happen when I start wheezing... And then, I woke up! And still felling the fog in my lungs and the cold water deep in my bones", says him. "And what do you think it means?", ask his psychologist. "I don't know, Dr., that I have a vivid imagination?"
New short story for my new store release: the Stars Fireflies lights path.
Read more:
evestudio3d.wordpress.com/2015/10/13/stars-fireflies-ligh...
Yesterday, Friday, 18 July 2025, I decided to do a drive W and SW of Calgary. Having checked the weather forecast, there was rain for several more days after yesterday. Last night, we had a huge thunder and lightning storm with torrential rain. The sky was lit up with almost continuous flashes of light for around an hour and a half, during the rain. I turned off my computer and TV and ended up going to bed much earlier than I normally do. Today has been sunny so far.
Though I didn't see all that many birds yesterday, I was so happy to finally see two Common Loons at a location where I tend to see them. I had already driven to that spot about seven times this year and seen no Loons. Yesterday, these two birds were the far side of a huge pond and only stayed there for maybe five minutes, before taking flight and disappearing. Too far for any decent shots, but just glad that I saw them and managed to get a few very distant, zoomed and cropped, photos.
The roads travelled in the SW were all my usual roads, finding several usual birds such as a pair of Mountain Bluebirds and a few Brewer's Blackbirds. It was windy and the birds were not always in the best pose while battling to stay put. A bit closer to home, I also came across a Swainson's Hawk with its catch - maybe a Richardson's Ground Squirrel? Will need to lighten my few photos to see what it caught.
Few photos were taken yesterday, so I thought I would upload them and then get back to editing and posting images from the Coutts Centre for Western Heritage, taken on 15 July 2025. I have barely started on those photos, there was so much to see and enjoy.
Rolling Stones - Time Is on My Side www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCfv09eXADM&feature=fvwrel
ODC -Time- www.flickr.com/groups/ourdailychallenge/
100. Time 112 pictures in 2012 www.flickr.com/groups/1843711@N21/
37. Time the great 150 Scavenger hunt www.flickr.com/groups/150hunt/
in the present time with cell and smartphones it's hard to find an old fashion payphone with people in Alajuela I found 3 at the same time , 1 for the kids 2 for adults
Same surfer , same wave but a few seconds apart. This guy was really flying along, love his shape and form and where i captured him on the wave. Lith print on Agfa Multicontrast. Nikon F and Nikkor 600mm f4 with 2x teleconvertor.
A photo from the same foggy sequence as yesterday's image. The veteran Manly Ferry North Head slowly and carefully gropes her way toward the Circular Quay wharves during a heavy Sydney Harbour Winter fog.
It's a weekday midwinter morning in 1979 and North Head's decks (particularly her aft deck in this image) are jammed with peak hour commuters on their way to work in the Sydney CBD. North Head - being the largest of the Manly Ferries at this time - tended to do the heaviest of the AM and PM peak hour commuter trips when she was operating.
They are not visible here, but at there was also a small assembly of ferry staff on the end of Wharf 3 at the time of this photo. One was ringing the large fog bell mounted on the wharf structure for use on just such a day as this - in order to help North Head's skipper find his way (hopefully) without mishap.
Also completely absent in this unfiltered image is West Circular Quay - not visible in the background.
Stuart McPherson photo. June 1979.
Same gate - different views ...
Camera: Mamiya C220 Professional F
Lens: Mamiya-Sekor 80mm F:2.8 Blue Dot with yellow filter
Exposure: 1/125 @ F/9.5
Film: Rollei 200 Superpan dev. in Xtol 1+1 in the Jobo ATL-1500 film processor
Love Oxygen
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We are one. We inhale and exhale together. We live in two different bodies but share one air and soul. Find your soulmate and create your own world together.
Photo & edit: Jovana Rikalo
Models: Dijana Cvijetić & Aleksa Tomašević
Dress: EDITH VAL
Different location!
FXE 4618 leads another CP 680 sand train, this time through Norma Junction in Des Plaines, IL.
Same bird in each photo. Taken in the demonstration garden at the visitor center Mitchell Canyon, Mt. Diablo State Park. This bird was surprisingly cooperative - they usually skulk around in the undergrowth and act all camera shy.