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Sometimes it's nice to take photos just because. There's no reason for this one at all. I just happen to have bought these handmade ceramic beads recently and I pointed my camera at them. I like the colours. Perhaps that's reason enough. :)
Sometimes I like to jazz-up a pic purely to make it somewhat different to the norm. Roses are always beautiful 'au naturelle' but I liked the impact of the colourful effect on this one.
My go to post processing is usually done with Paintshop Pro , but I used 'Smart Photo Editor' for this pic. They have hundreds of instant artistic effects to choose from, which themselves can be altered/ adjusted to your own taste. They are effects that have been submitted by the site's users. It's great fun and gets the creative juices flowing.
~Sometimes we let affection,
go unspoken
Sometime we let our love,
go unexpressed,
Sometimes we can't find words to tell
our feeling
Especially towards those we
Love best.~
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Sometimes I wonder how I can possibly do all the things I want in life,
and it can get to a point where I feel completely overwhelmed and lost.
Episyrphus balteatus, sometimes called the marmalade hoverfly, is a relatively small hoverfly (9–12 mm) of the Syrphidae family, widespread throughout the Palaearctic region, which covers Europe, North Asia, and North Africa. The upper side of the abdomen is patterned with orange and black bands. Two further identification characters are the presence of secondary black bands on the third and fourth dorsal plates and faint greyish longitudinal stripes on the thorax. Its colour patterns may appear wasp-like to other animals, such as birds, protecting it from predation.
E. balteatus can be found throughout the year in various habitats, including urban gardens, visiting flowers for pollen and nectar. They often form dense migratory swarms, which may cause panic among people for their resemblance to wasps. It is among the very few species of flies capable of crushing pollen grains and feeding on them. The larva is terrestrial and feeds on aphids.
As in most other hoverflies, males can be easily identified by their holoptic eyes, i.e., left and right compound eyes touching at the top of their heads, like this one here.
Hoverflies, as their common name suggests, are often seen hovering or nectaring at flowers; the adults of many species feed mainly on nectar and pollen, while the larvae (maggots) eat a wide range of foods. In some species, the larvae are saprotrophs, eating decaying plant and animal matter in the soil or in ponds and streams. In other species, the larvae are insectivores and prey on aphids, thrips, and other plant-sucking insects.
About 6,000 species in 200 genera have been described. Hoverflies are common throughout the world and can be found on all continents except Antarctica. Hoverflies are harmless to most mammals, though many species are mimics of stinging wasps and bees, a mimicry which may serve to ward off predators.
This insect is feed of a common thistle; Cirsium vulgare, also known as spear thistle or bull thistle, which is a species of the Asteraceae genus Cirsium, native throughout most of Europe (north to 66°N, locally 68°N (the latitude here is 51°N)). It is the national flower of Scotland.
The plant provides a great deal of nectar for pollinators. It was rated in the top 10 for most nectar production (nectar per unit cover per year) in a UK plants survey conducted by the AgriLand project which is supported by the UK Insect Pollinators Initiative. Marsh thistle, Cirsium palustre, was ranked in first place while this thistle was ranked in sixth place. It also was a top producer of nectar sugar in another study in Britain, ranked third with a production per floral unit of (2300 ± 400 μg).
Thistles are known for their effusive flower heads, usually purple, rose or pink, also yellow or white. Cirsium thistles are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species, and the seeds are attractive to small finches.
Thistle is the common name of a group of flowering plants characterised by leaves with sharp prickles on the margins, mostly in the family Asteraceae. Prickles can also occur all over the plant – on the stem and on the flat parts of the leaves. These prickles are an adaptation that protects the plant from being eaten by herbivores. Typically, an involucre (a modified or specialized leaf) with a clasping shape similar to a cup or urn subtends each of a thistle's flowerheads.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Episyrphus_balteatus
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoverfly
Out along the smokies you can occasionally find yourself looking out along the endless rolling mountains. The light begins to build, the clouds begin to build. Not form the sky, not form afar, but lifting from the forest floor, slowly reaching higher, and higher. Creating an evolving picture of a sea of clouds. As the light peaks up over the mountains, illuminating contours and crevices, the sky begins to turn from blue, to orange. In a fleeting moment you watch the sky blend light and dark, and before you fully comprehend what just happened you are amazed at what is left behind. Sometimes, even rarely, you can see that brief moment linger long enough to get a photo of the mixing sky. Soon you may finding yourself chasing the morning light again.
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Aperture: f8
ISO: 320
SS: 1/15th
Focal: 56mm
Fujinon 50-140mm
Sometimes I teach young people the basics of photography. Many of them complain that there's nothing interesting to shoot in such a small town, except some seascapes, boats etc. I answer that everywhere there is something to shoot, even inside their homes.
I try sometimes to break this frustration, searching for photo subjects in the "hard" part of town, where there are cars, boring architecture, trashcans etc.
I also created a new album on Flickr, called "Neighborhood Photowalks" to motivate myself to go out and shoot more in my everyday life.
Yesterday I made a short photowalk in a range of 1 km from home with my old manual telescope lens (Vivitar 70-210) to have a different view on the same things I 'm passing by every day.
This is one of the photos I liked, just 30 m. from home.
Sometimes, I enjoy to post fake photos, just to remind me (and you) always to keep some level of alertness, mistrust or suspiciousness : )
Actually, this boy was playing very energetically, but very naively, while holding this beverage in his hand : )
Explored Mar 10, 2014 #383
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Sometimes the night blossoms
and blooms forth in the day
burgeoning in dark ripe buds and berries
never to be found in May
always out in September
all trace gone by March fulfilling November
I to the hills
King James Bible
I Will Lift Up My Eyes to the Hills
1{A Song of degrees.} I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.
2My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.
3He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.
4Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
5The LORD is thy keeper: the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand.
6The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.
7The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.
8The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.
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Sometimes it's fun exploring on your own. Sometimes it's fun exploring with a friend.
This was a standard shot with the figures out in the sun rather than in the shadows like the previous shot.
Sometimes I return
Because I have a
thought
desire
wish
To see it differently
To hope it will be different
Always in search of something different
And it always is
In ways that are
subtle
intriguing
beautiful
And that makes me happy...
So I will return again,
everyday...
sometimes water, which seems so peaceful, can .....
♫♫
Wish you an excellent weekend ♥☼♥
Thanks to all my friends ♥♫♥
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A lovely North Dakota barn - different from the typical Wisconsin barn - the roof is flat and angular not rounded. Still, it was so lovely that I had to walk into one of their fields to take its picture.
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A sunday walk in the park on a fine sunny Autumn day. This is the best time to escape for from the hustle and bustle of city life, and reflect with positive energy with a breath of new life and hope.
“I love you, but…”
Yet the “but” takes away the ‘I love you’. In love their are no ‘buts’ or ‘if’s’ or ‘when’. It’s just there, and always. No beginning, no end. It’s the condition-less state of the heart. Not a feeling that comes and goes at the whim of the emotions. It is there in our heart, a part of our heart…eventually grafting itself into each limb and cell of our bodies. Love changes our brain, the way we move and talk. Love lives in our spirit and graces us with its presence each day, until death.
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🎧 Lana Del Rey Summertime Sadness 🎧
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Kiss me hard before you go
Summertime sadness
I just wanted you to know
That baby, you the best
I got my red dress on tonight
Dancin' in the dark, in the pale moonlight
Done my hair up real big, beauty queen style
High heels off, I'm feelin' alive
Oh, my God, I feel it in the air
Telephone wires above are sizzlin' like a snare
Honey, I'm on fire, I feel it everywhere
Nothin' scares me anymore
(One, two, three, four)
Kiss me hard before you go
Summertime sadness
I just wanted you to know
That baby, you the best
I got that summertime, summertime sadness
Su-su-summertime, summertime sadness
Got that summertime, summertime sadness
Oh, oh-oh, oh-oh
I'm feelin' electric tonight
Cruisin' down the coast, goin' about 99
Got my bad baby by my heavenly side
I know if I go, I'll die happy tonight
Oh, my God, I feel it in the air
Telephone wires above are sizzlin' like a snare
Honey, I'm on fire, I feel it everywhere
Nothin' scares me anymore
(One, two, three, four)
Kiss me hard before you go
Summertime sadness
I just wanted you to know
That baby, you the best
I got that summertime, summertime sadness
Su-su-summertime, summertime sadness
Got that summertime, summertime sadness
Oh, oh-oh, oh-oh
Think I'll miss you forever
Like the stars miss the sun in the morning sky
Later's better than never
Even if you're gone, I'm gonna drive (drive), drive
I got that summertime, summertime sadness
Su-su-summertime, summertime sadness
Got that summertime, summertime sadness
Oh, oh-oh, oh-oh
Kiss me hard before you go
Summertime sadness
I just wanted you to know
That baby, you the best
I got that summertime, summertime sadness
Su-su-summertime, summertime sadness
Got that summertime, summertime sadness
Oh, oh-oh, oh-oh
Long exposure rapids next to an old tree which has seen it all before and has the scars to prove it (on the left in this shot). It's roots are constantly eroded by the monsoon surges of water, which can sometimes reach 2-meters in hight through this narrow chasm, and tsunami-like walls of water caused by fallen trees damming the watercourse or landslides upstream.