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The blackbirds made this nest weeks ago and there is only one egg left. They've abandoned this one and I think have started another. Gave me the chance to get up close to this lone egg.
Happy New Year, everyone! 🎇🎄
It's been a long and hard year, but the direction has finally turned positive, so let's keep that momentum, and hope for a better year.
The first upload of 2023, but the last photos taken in 2022, so let's file 'em under 2022.
Taken with Canon EOS 5D Mark II digital SLR camera and adapted manual focus Tamron SP Adaptall-2 52B 90mm F2.5 Macro lens. Slightly tweaked colour balance, a dose of noise reduction, a bit of unsharp mask and that's all, not even a crop.
✨ Thank you all for pushing this photo into Explore at #345 at one point in time. Yay!
Thanks for all your lovely comments and faves, most appreciated.
That is exactly how I feel this morning when I look out of the window. The snow we had yesterday has been washed away by drizzle rain and now it´s foggy and unpleasant outside.
Autumn is coming to Western Pennsylvania in ragged bits and pieces this year. Patches of flame next to a totally green tree next to a bare one. Sumac is a weed tree, but I let it grow in the untamed part of my property just for it's fall color - but mine is still green. I found this one in a park. Go figure!
We have a Camilla bush that's really blooming now....so much that the ground is littered with pink petals. The blooms only last a day or two before falling apart.
Well, this is by far the cutest damselfly shot that I've taken so far. Very similar to the other violet dancer damselfly shot that I took, but a totally different fly though.
Dear Tamino,
Who would have thought it? In the beginning, it was only my wife who wanted you and then you quickly became, alongside her, my most important friend and most loyal companion.
Together we walked thousands, no - even tens of thousands of kilometres across meadows, through forests and up mountains. You always listened to me, whether I was laughing, crying or just talking. And I always talked to you a lot. Even if you never answered, it was always as if you understood me.
You always followed me, even when the path became increasingly difficult for you. I'm thinking in particular of the densely overgrown forest floors, where the wild brambles caused you a few problems. But that never stopped you from standing exactly where I stood.
You had many rough edges, just like all of us, but that's what made you such a special dog that will never be seen again.
I could write so much more now, because we experienced so damn much, but I just cry too much when I call up my memories.
The last few days and weeks have been very intense and we have spent much more time together than perhaps in the time before and I am so glad to have done so.
Two weeks ago, on Saturday 19 April, all three of us (Dexter, you and I) were still out in the forest and everything was as usual. You were slower and had your problems, but who would have thought that 6 days later you would no longer be with us. Although you still are and always will be.
I thank you for every moment we spent together over the past 12 years. I was always afraid of this moment and now I know why. A part of me is now empty and my heart is a little bit broken. They say you are so-called ‘life stage companions’, but you are so much more.
You've just gone ahead now, I'm sure we'll meet again.
Your ‘master’ Stefan
Tamino 20.11.12 - 25.04.25
I was taking photos yesterday for a Saturday challenge group and ended up with three images. Well, it seemed a shame to waste the other two, so I'm posting them today. :)
The little flower is from a Japanese ornamental apricot tree in my garden, which is looking gorgeous at the moment despite everything the weather has been throwing at it. Don't laugh, but the background is a cushion on a chair with a pile of ironing thrown over it. I was trying a couple of test shots before adding a background, but decided I liked it the way it was with only minor rearrangement of the colours. Ah, the mysterious, glamorous world of photography, eh? :)
I’ve enjoyed watching the starlings wash in my pond; they queued for it last week! (This photo is through my patio doors.)