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Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
Quite a few of these around in pairs wading and feeding on the sand flats with their chicks.
Scientific name: Calidris acuminata
Una luminosa tarde de verano; Av. Vitacura abajo, mirando al Este (Cerro Manquehue a la izquierda y Cordillera de los Andes atrás).
A bright summer afternoon at Southern Hemisphere; Vitacura district looking East (Manquehue hill at left and Andes Mountains far back).
9228 - Straight Out Of Camera (SOOC) jpeg.
WB Red -1, 6600K; Yellow filter; Sharpness -1, good enough for full screen :-).
Santiago, Chile.
Accipiter striatus
This morning I woke up early and though I had planned on sleeping in the cool weather outside motivated me to make a run out to Smith Point to see if any hawks were moving. Smith Point is a peninsula that juts out between Galveston and Trinity Bays. The thing that makes it interesting (at least when it comes to birds) this time of year is that, much like Cape May, NJ, it acts as a funnel that concentrates birds that are migrating south. As I headed to Smith Point the weather was looking pretty dreary and I had the strong feeling that I was making a mistake going but I decided to press on and take my chances on the weather. When I arrived I was pleased that it was not raining and there were some raptors moving. Most of the birds I saw were Sharp-shinned Hawks like this one and I was delighted to see a couple come close in the early morning light.
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This was an experiment to see how altering the settings on the camera affected the sharpness of the bee.
Date: February 16, 2021
Location: Warfield Pond Park - Glenwood, Maryland (Howard County)
Woodbine
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YPD51 rounds the extremely sharp curve just short of the switch to the Steel Bridge on the east side of the Willamette River. This undoubtedly has to be one of the sharpest curves on a major main line in North America today. Trains creep through here at a little more than walking speed.
Crazy for my sharp dressed man.
See his version here: www.flickr.com/photos/jaisoncobalt/54996897563/in/datepos...
Sharp-tailed Grouse (Tympanuchus phasianellus) male on a "lek" or dancing grounds on the prairie landscape of Camp Wainwright Military Base at Wainwright, Alberta, Canada.
3 May, 2016.
Slide # GWB_20160503_0183.CR2
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Photographed at my home while snowing. More snow forecast for this afternoon and tonight. Snow results in large number of birds at my feeders. This bird or perhaps several Sharp-shinned Hawks are frequent visitors to my home. IMG_9052
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Long Island, New York
Great Gray Owl
Wallowa-Whitman National Forest, OR
Gray suit, bow tie, every girl's crazy about a sharp-dressed owl. Or at least I am.
From the archives, shot with a Nikon D300 and manual focus Nikkor 500mm lens with 1.4 teleconverter.
I found SD60s on two of the Twin Cities' classic transfers on this morning: CN's L506 and this UP transfer from East Minneapolis to the Belt Yard. The EMD trio on this eastbound transfer has been rotated and permutated since the last time I saw them putting the '60 in the lead. They follow the Portland Z down the hill at Jackson Street.
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Long Island, New York
A 4 shot pano in landscape mode and stitched by my brother Graham.
For some reason my Elements stitching would not work properly.
This entrance also gives access to The Gloucester and Sharpness Canal .
The Severn Bridge can also just be seen,middle left.
20220916_1161_7D2-100 Logan Mat Cutter blade
For Marco Mondays challenge: Sharp
For Crazy Tuesday challenge: Made of Metal
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‘She would have been a good woman if there had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life’!
-Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man is Hard to Find
This quotation, at the end of the story, reveals the Misfit’s understanding of what has occurred in the grandmother’s final moments, and he seems to recognize two things about her. First, he fully understands that despite her obvious belief in her moral superiority—which she conveys through her self-proclaimed identification as a “lady” and religious instruction—the grandmother is not, in fact, a good woman. She is flawed and weak, and her age grants her no particular rights for respect or reverence. Second, the Misfit recognizes that when facing death, the grandmother has the capacity to be a good woman. In her final moments, she foregoes the moral high ground she’d staunchly held and instead embraces her and the Misfit’s common humanity. The Misfit observes this shift and seems to realize what it means: if the grandmother could have lived her life at gunpoint, so to speak, she could have gained the self-awareness and compassion that she’d lacked.
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“For me Christian faith fulfils us by dismantling us in unwelcome ways.“
-The Human Poetry of Faith A Spiritual Guide to Life Michael Paul Gallagher, S.J.
“Even on a human level we are afraid to love. We fear its price. Therefore we compromise and look for a cheaper way to live.“
.. “Can we ever be changed by grace without a blasting annihilating light, a blast that will last a lifetime? Grace is not always gentle. It has to be rough to get through the fortifications.”
-The Human Poetry of Faith A Spiritual Guide to Life Michael Paul Gallagher, S.J.
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Candid street photography from Glasgow, Scotland. Captured up close, I loved the sharp focus of this woman looking down the street and was so pleased to get some sharp focus of my own for the image.
This is the same woman I captured 'Turning Around' here flic.kr/p/MHyk6A. She had such a strikingly beautiful profile but I was so pleased to, unusually for me, click the shutter again when she turned around. Enjoy!
Best viewed large, just press 'L' or click on the image.