Tugs Taking the Strain
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...for victory.
One final shot from the Dragon Boat Races 2016. Didn't heed my own advice and came back for the finals, luckily brought a longer lens (and didn't schlepp my tripod to there).
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Spotted Pardalote straining to see something.
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This view did some very wonky things to my eyes so I figured it would make for an interesting shot. At first glance, the eyes are challenged as they strain to figure out what is being viewed. But, upon further inspection one can tell it is a snow lined shore with colored trees reflecting in the river. The combination of cold and warm colors also contributed to an interesting look.
Credits:
Body: Lara by Maitreya
Head: Uma by Catwa
Head Applier: Susanne new from Session @ eBENTO
Skin Tone: Tone01 from Session
Hair: Salma new from Sintiklia @ eBENTO
Dress: Kathia new from Avale @ Cosmopolitan
Footwear: Nicol new from Nanika @ The Chapter Four
Tattoo: Exquisite Perfume new from K-tarsis @ eBENTO
Pose and Weights: Celly Pose #1 new from Kokoro Poses @ eBENTO
Nikon D7000, Tokina 12-28. F stop small enough to show a million sensor spots. An old one, re-processed.
With the wind blowing, this all puffed-out GRPR seems content to hide herself in the interior of this low bush. I spotted her feeding there and she seemed to me like a bee jumping all around the bush and then down onto the ground and back up, eating small pieces of buds and other delectables off this shrub and insects here and there as well. While watching her and waiting for her to "pop out," I noticed also she was puffed up when in the bush but on the ground she tucked her feathers into a much sleeker look... can't say why :-)
Again, with all the wind, there was so much motion in the greenery, I bumped up the SS to try to compensate and that seems to have helped...
I'm not sure what was going on but all the birds on this Valentine's Day that I saw seemed jumpy, a little unsettled, and I kind of felt it also... could be soooo many things (slight earth tremor, rapid change in air pressure, the wind, bad moon rising - I don't know)... but the day ended for me, slipping off a wet rock and falling from the top of a low wall onto of course - a bed of pointy stones below... no damage to any of the equipment but slightly bruised ribs and a left calf muscle strain... life happens... :-) but I plan to be back out this week...
From my India travel archive (2015 )....An incredibly overloaded lorry ( truck ) on a highway......
A very sad pandemic situation that have gone terribly out of control in India with the latest and very virulent mutant Covid virus strains. Just like this image it is becoming an ever heavy burden for the Indian Health system. Hopefully with the help from other countries supplying oxygen tanks and ventilators the dire situation will improve not only for the sake of the Indians but for the whole of humanity.
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No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.
Ernest Renan.
Joseph Ernest Renan (28 February 1823 – 2 October 1892) was a French expert of Semitic languages and civilizations (philology), philosopher, historian, and writer, devoted to his native province of Brittany. He is best known for his influential historical works on Early Christianity, and his political theories, especially concerning nationalism and national identity. Renan is credited as being among the first scholars to advance the Khazar theory, which held that Ashkenazi Jews were descendants of the Khazars, Turkic peoples who had adopted Jewish religion and migrated to Western Europe following the collapse of their khanate. Source Wikipedia.
After seeing how small a Least Bittern was I was amazed at the size of this American Bittern, a much larger bird. Here this bird is about to strike and eat a frog that still had it's tail. I loved watching this bird move like a glacier as it first spotted the frog, then contorted its body to position itself for the strike. Its concentration seems absolute!
Another new bird for me on my Florida trip this April!
Sorry I haven't been doing Flickr much this week, I'm recovering from an Influenza A strain which struck me like a train.
Taken 6 April 2019 at Peaceful Waters Sanctuary, Florida.
A rather unproductive week photowise.
Started a new job after being invited to the world of redundancy, found it didn’t quite live up to its part time description...7 to 8hrs per day instead of 4.
Something has triggered another deliciously agonising episode of g**t, so I’m at a bit of a lower ebb than normal...
...in addition our holiday to Spain has been knocked on the head due to a rising spike in Covid...oh the effin joys.
So this pic is an alternative take on an earlier posting for which I do not apologise.
Anyone from the UK and of a certain vintage may well associate the image with Hovis bread and the strains of the New World Symphony.
A loaded coal train off the Union Pacific at Kansas City heads south on the MKT toward Texas. Katy traffic was going through the roof in the late 1980s as a flood of Powder River Basin mined coal destined for utilities in the south was straining motive power needs. Witness the second out second hand Illinois Central Gulf GP38AC rust bucket. Katy bought 18 of these from the ICG in 1986.
You could say the success of moving PRB coal was also the downfall of Miss Katy as the Union Pacific was in the process of completing their purchase of the M-K-T at the time of this photo.
A Great Blue Heron strains to get some momentum into a strong wind at the Shiawassee NWR on this evening, June, 2022. The "Shiawassee Flats" are a delta where the Flint, Cass, and Shiawassee Rivers converge before joining the Tittabawassee River to form the Saginaw River.
Unfortunately my other gorgeous bear Razz had to stay with dad as we have to keep his exercise at a minimum so it does not put a strain on his heart!