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“Street music is always good even it is bad, because actually there is only one melody over there: The melody of life struggle of a poor man!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan
there is the Kanupark of Markkleeberg near me + a good location to capture dynamic Sport photos in a very dynamic element!
when we were waiting in front of our domicile, this snake suddenly fell out of a flowerpot.. The snake was fighting with a Gecko and both were jerking back and forth very fast - we thought, that this would be the end of the gecko!!!
But after 4 minutes, when the snake started to open its mouth very wide, the snake had lost its attention and the gecko could escape!!! Lucky gecko, poor snake.
Long tailed tit struggling to keep balance. Its a bit windy in the garden. Photo taken while on coffee break
A teenage elk meeting frozen water for the first time.
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This amazing tree grows on the rim of the Grand Canyon. One branch, pointing toward the right, still lives. The other branches are dead.
Happy Tree-mendous Tuesday!
"The wings of transformation are born of patience and struggle."
~ Janet S. Dicken
A Blue Tiger (tirumala limniace) clicked at the Trivandrum Zoo.
Genovesa Island, its sandy coral beach with a great viewpoint of the bay, is one of the Galapagos’ jewels. It is also known as the “Bird Island“ offering the opportunity to enjoy the most representative birds of Galapagos as: Puffball–chicks, white both yellow–crowned and lava herons, Red footed boobies contrasting with the Nazca booby and also the Swallow–tailed gulls, the only nocturnal gulls in the world that will be nesting at the cliff’s edge.
I used some light painting and a two exposure composite to get this shot....the air glow seemed especially good that night.
When shooting the Royal Tern colony my favorite subject is the conflict between the terns and the Laughing Gulls. Usually, the conflict lasts only seconds and to get a decent shot, light, distance and the position of the birds all has to line up. The struggle often starts when the tern nears the colony. To find its chick it has to circle around, calling and listening for the chick’s call in the din of all the other birds doing the same thing. The gulls are always watching and will often mob one of the terns bringing in seafood. Most of the time the tern is agile enough to quickly avoid the gull(s) but on occasion, one or more gulls will get close enough make a grab for the fish. They don’t attack the tern but target the fish in its bill. When the flighting gets close in, as shown here, the gull wins. The terns have the agility but the gulls are fast, heavier and just plain tougher. In this shot, one gull attacked from below and another from the top. Whichever gull gets the fish, the other gull will try to steal it from him. It’s a gull vs gull world out there. (Royal Tern: Thalasseus maximus; Laughing Gull - Leucophaeus atricilla). (Sony a1ii, 100-400 lens, 340mm, f/6.3, 1/4000 second, ISO 2000)
My tribute to Chester........(also from old account)
If they say
Who cares if one more light goes out?
In a sky of a million stars
It flickers, flickers
Who cares when someone's time runs out?
If a moment is all we are
We're quicker, quicker
Who cares if one more light goes out?
Well I do
Looks like not many trees have survived on this side of Blakiston Creek. Winter conditions must be harsh in the Rockies.
Moved forward and renamed
The Ft Dodge to Waterloo local (L570) flying thru New Hardford, Iowa full of snow and with ditch lights out near sunset. They had just opened the main between Ft Dodge and Waterloo, and were the first train on this stretch of track since the overnight snowfall we had
Thanks to Scott Marsh for alerting me to this EB train. He got the same train at Sinclair, Ia a few miles West of me
I am pretty sure that winter is over here. It has been a wee bit cold still here but getting better all the time.
Happy Saturday
What are your associations when you hear the term "class struggle"? It is probably an educated guess that a lot of history will pop up, including that of the socialist and trade union movements and even that of Marxism and Communism. Can I invite you to widen the perspective and, as I would see it, to look at what goes really on in a lot of western societies, particularly that of the UK? What is happening here can indeed be described as class struggle, but it is not that coming from below. It is class struggle from above. It is the people of wealth who are using the political and legal systems of the modern state in order to gratify themselves and exclude the large majority from the benefits of their own work. Profits are invested wherever the most lucrative gains can be made, and this means that capital is being exported, not re-invested at home. Tax avoidance is another characteristic of class struggle from above, I probably don't need to go into details. You must also have noticed that over the last three decades work has become cheap. A generation ago, one earner (usually the husband) was able to sustain the life of a family, today, you would need two earners to do the same. And the jobs they would be having would be insecure too. In the UK, as in France as well, there is opposition to this process of continuously eroding the people's access to life's opportunities. In Britain, people are on strike for a very good reason. Fuji X-Pro3.
The weather has changed and suddenly a soggy Autumn is with us. The temperatures have dropped and the evenings have drawn in surprisingly quickly. This yesterday with the sun just struggling to show its face through dense clouds.
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I took a fair few images of seed heads today but nothing really struck me. I have a certain look in mind but I just can't pull it off …. yet!
So this is a kinda 'make do' shot for now :)
When the mystery we call God looks within us and through us, God sees only Himself (how ego-deflating). Yet when we look within ourselves we see someone seeking enlightenment despite the fact that the God we think we seek is already looking out of our eyes; has known us since before we were born (Jer 1:5). What enlightenment does without our asking it to, like the rose that blooms without a why, is engender, sustain, and invite us into a long process of integration of all our issues, faults and failings into our essential, enlightened being. The fruit of this integration is not the sanitization of our faults and transgressions but manifestations of Divine Light through what we may judge to be inappropriate given how long we have practiced and how many retreats we have been on.
-An Ocean of Light Contemplation, Transformation, and Liberation, Martin Laird, O.S.A.