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Sharp-tailed Grouse (Tympanuchus phasianellus) male performs on the "lek" or "dancing ground" in defence of its territory on the prairie landscape near the Great Sandhills south of Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Fortunately the landscape is groomed by a herd of beef cattle which keep it in a nice state for photographing the birds on the grass cover.
22 May, 2018.
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Versute Sharpshooter (Graphocephala versuta) - Power-cut west of Bethany Lane, Ellicott City, Maryland
A colorful, tiny little, hoppy guy.
And yes it is a "sharpshooter".
Not so much that it shoots things,
but more like a "sharp dressed man" kinda sharp,
that "shoots" from one leaf to the next when it hops.
"In human closeness there is a secret edge"
-- Anna Akhmatova
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Micro-Nikkor 55mm f2.8 AIS, Nikon D5500. ISO 200, f8, 1/800.
Explored: May 10th
Best Position: 186
I don't really care for this shot anymore. Sure the knife and dof is cool and all but I would have done alot differently today. Strangely it made explore some time back...
A male great white shark makes a sharp right turn just before he reaches my camera.
A few of the sharks at Guadalupe were coming very close to the camera on my last trip in September. A couple of individuals seemed more curious than normal, but none of them ever attempted to grab the camera, fortunately.
Another Alexander convoy, this time involving three operators. Sharpes 1999 ex-Dublin Volvo Olympian CLZ 208 is tailed by much newer TrentBarton and NCT vehicles on 11.10.21
Arkwright Street, Nottingham.
This is an image of an iris in my garden, taken in May. We don’t have many irises but last year we bought some bulbs of this type and planted them in a pot. They’re very pretty.
I've taken the photo from above with a very shallow depth of focus on the fall petal to render it as an abstract mainly about colour and curves.
This is one for the Wednesday Macro group. One of the nice things about the genre is you get to play with familiar sights in more puzzling and intriguing ways. I love macros that others do where I have to guess what they are…
The usual culprits were used in the processing (Capture One then Affinity with Nik Color Efex, the latter for vignettes, selective local contrast and tonal management. Topaz AI DeNoise played a part and that tends to be the main tool I use for reducing grain after sharpening).
I seem to have taken a lot of flowers this year. I’ll have to process some and share them when I have a moment.
I hope you are having a good summer!
Thanks for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Mittwochsmakro :)
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This morning we had a lot of fun watching the antics of the Sharp-tailed Grouse on their lek. There was a little cloud cover making photography a little more challenging than the other mornings on the trip so far. It also didn’t help that a Northern Harrier kept buzzing the lek but I think everyone got nice photos anyhow. An added treat was a hybrid Greater Prairie Chicken – Sharp-tailed Grouse that looked like a Greater Prairie Chicken with purple air sacs and very short pinnae and a display that was a cross between the two species. The poor guy wasn’t getting any attention at all. Here is a typical Sharp-tailed Grouse.
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Sharp-shinned hawk is one of he smallest of hawks but is still a giant compared to all of the birds at my feeder ,, has been terrorizing all them for more than a couple of years ... and culls the herd
The Gloucester & Sharpness Canal was once the broadest and deepest in the world. Even today, it stands out from other navigations because of its sheer scale and impressive engineering. Its immense swing-bridges and ornate bridge-keepers’ houses add to its unique identity. It connects Gloucester to Sharpness, allowing boats to bypass a treacherous stretch of the River Severn. From the canal, there are spectacular views of the Severn Estuary, the Forest of Dean and the Cotswolds.
The canal is 16 miles (25.7 km) long and this is Sellars Bridge at Hardwicke, near Gloucester, with The Pilot Inn in the background. Although this is an area I know very well, including all 16 bridges, I have only just walked the whole length of the canal.