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Pied Flycatcher (M) - Ficedula hypoleuca
The European pied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca) is a small passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family. One of the four species of Western Palearctic black-and-white flycatchers, it hybridizes to a limited extent with the collared flycatcher. It breeds in most of Europe and western Asia.
It is migratory, wintering mainly in tropical Africa.
It usually builds its nests in holes on oak trees. This species practices polygyny, usually bigamy, with the male travelling large distances to acquire a second mate. The male will mate with the secondary female and then return to the primary female in order to help with aspects of child rearing, such as feeding.
The European pied flycatcher is mainly insectivorous, although its diet also includes other arthropods. This species commonly feeds on spiders, ants, bees and similar prey.
The European pied flycatcher predominately practices a mixed mating system of monogamy and polygyny. Their mating system has also been described as successive polygyny. Within the latter system, the males leave their home territory once their primary mates lays their first eggs. Males then create a second territory, presumably in order to attract a secondary female to breed. Even when they succeed at acquiring a second mate, the males typically return to the first female to exclusively provide for her and her offspring.
Males will sometimes care for both mates if the nests of the primary and secondary female are close together. The male may also care for both mates once the offspring of the primary female have fledged. The male bird usually does not exceed two mates, practicing bigamy. Only two cases of trigyny had been observed.
Population:
UK breeding:
17,000-20,000 pairs
~When you try your best, but you don't succeed
When you get what you want but not what you need
When you feel so tired, but you can't sleep
Stuck in reverse
And the tears come streaming down your face
When you lose something, you can't replace
When you love someone, but it goes to waste
Could it be worse?
Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you
And high up above or down below
When you're too in love to let it go
But if you never try, you'll never know
Just what you're worth
Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you
Tears stream down your face
When you lose something, you cannot replace
Tears stream down your face and I
Tears stream down your face
I promise you, I will learn from my mistakes
Tears stream down your face and I
Lights will guide you home~
The old adage of if you don't succeed try, try again is well known to those shooting landscapes and cityscapes. We've all encountered the time when the weather, the sun, the clouds, the city lights, or maybe all of the above just don't want to cooperate when you're trying to get that perfect shot. If we're lucky we get to go back to try again and hope the next opportunity turns out better.
That's the story of this beautiful area along False Creek in Vancouver overlooking Science World and BC Place stadium. I was hoping to get a decent blue hour shot here and luckily was in Vancouver for 4 days which allowed for multiple attempts. On the first attempt the rain came pouring down right around when sunset was supposed to be through blue hour. The second attempt I was very hopeful. It was Victoria Day, a major holiday in Canada, and the weather was going to be wonderful! My hopes were up dreaming of fireworks and the Science World dome with amazing lights... only to find no fireworks and most of the dome lights off with only a small section in red... Luck was on my side on the 3rd try with the dome fully lit with a cool purple! Eureka! Third time turned out to be a charm :)
♫ Yes - Owner of a Lonely Heart ♫
Say - you don't want to chance it
You've been hurt so before
Watch it now
The eagle in the sky
How he dancin' one and only
You - lose yourself
No not for pity's sake
There's no real reason to be lonely
Be yourself
Give your free will a chance
You've got to want to succeed
Owner of a lonely heart
Owner of a lonely heart
Much better than - a
Owner of a broken heart
Owner of a lonely heart
Owner of a lonely heart
The castle was built between 1350 and 1375. In 1534 Renswoude was recognised as a knight royal residence. In 1623 castle Borchwal already expire as Johan van Reede become the owner . This Calvinistic priest finds a church more important than the rebuilding, of his own castle. In the house, on its property where Protestant meetinings kept, the house become much too small. He gets authorisation to build its own church near the castle. This fine cupola church was taken in 1641 in use. Then late Johan van Reede demolishes in 1654 the old castle and build the new, current castle.
The castle park developed itself as from that time slowly in a baroque park, with a straight alley pattern. In 1682 Johan are succeeded by his third zoon, Frederik Adriaan. He was married with Maria Duyst van Voorhout. During the absence of her man she let dig now the Grand still existing canal, compared with the castle alley. Because of this big work, much unemployed persons could helped with the work. But it had been especially intended as a surprise for her man, They are Versailles lgarden overs in that time, so they build there own French garden. On 28 November 1985 there was a big fire on the castle. The fire made a damage of millions of guldens. All the next day, they started with setting up wharf and rebuild the damage. This was reached by the energy of the current owner, baron Taets van Amerongen. In the meantime the castle has been restored entirely. For groups the castle be visit.
The little trader hails a taxi…
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Stay focused.
Stay strong.
And keep shining bright, my friends!
This image is almost entirely out of focus except for the ear and a small part on Iolanda's hair. I'm not sure everyone will like this, but I have a thing for out-of-focus images. Maybe this doesn't succeed, but I want to provide just enough detail to allow the viewer to fill in the rest. I think it kinda works with the title, too. We don't always see people who pass by "in focus".
This image was taken at Chesapeake. Unfortunately, the sim is gone, now.
Our little gorgeous friend the CKF is back. She is my first capture of the season. Drizzling a little. She is simply beautiful and loves the way she poses with her tail up.
Been struggling to get back to birding after the CV lockdown for months now. Got used to the routine and comfort of home with 6 months staying home. Hopefully this time around i succeed in getting back to shooting again. At least for the last week I have been out everyday taking pics. Keep finger cross.
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Take care and stay safe everyone
Thank you
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the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot :-)
Mark Twain
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rose, 'Gemini', little theater rose garden, Raleigh, north carolina
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To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer. Keith Degreen
Arundel Castle is a restored and remodelled medieval castle in Arundel, West Sussex, England. It was established during the reign of Edward the Confessor and completed by Roger de Montgomery. The castle was damaged in the English Civil War and then restored in the 18th and 19th centuries by Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk.
Since the 11th century, the castle has been the seat of the Earls of Arundel and the Dukes of Norfolk. It is a Grade I listed building.
The original structure was a motte-and-bailey castle. Roger de Montgomery was declared the first Earl of Arundel as the King granted him the property as part of a much larger package of hundreds of manors. Roger, who was a cousin of William the Conqueror, had stayed in Normandy to keep the peace there while William was away from England. He was rewarded for his loyalty with extensive lands in the Welsh Marches and across the country, together with one fifth of Sussex (Arundel Rape). He began work on Arundel Castle in around 1067.
The castle then passed to Adeliza of Louvain (who had previously been married to Henry I) and her husband William d'Aubigny. Empress Matilda stayed in the castle, in 1139. It then passed down the d'Aubigny line until the death of Hugh d'Aubigny, 5th Earl of Arundel in 1243. John Fitzalan then inherited jure matris the castle and honour of Arundel, by which, according to Henry VI's "admission" of 1433, he was later retrospectively held to have become de jure Earl of Arundel.
The FitzAlan male line ceased on the death of Henry Fitzalan, 12th Earl of Arundel, whose daughter and heiress Mary FitzAlan married Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, to whose descendants the castle and earldom passed.
In 1643, during the First English Civil War, the castle was besieged. The 800 royalists inside surrendered after 18 days. Afterwards in 1653 Parliament ordered the slighting of the castle; however "weather probably destroyed more".
Although the castle remained in the hands of the Howard family over the succeeding centuries, it was not their favourite residence, and the various Dukes of Norfolk invested their time and energy into improving other ducal estates, including Norfolk House in London. Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk, was known for his restoration work and improvements to the castle beginning in 1787. The folly that still stands on the hill above Swanbourne Lake was commissioned by and built for the Duke by Francis Hiorne at this time.
In 1846, Queen Victoria and her husband, Prince Albert, visited Arundel Castle for three days. Henry Howard, 13th Duke of Norfolk, remodelled the castle in time for her visit to a design by an architectural firm, Morant: a suite of six rooms were built on the second floor of the south-east range at this time.
The 19th-century embellishments had not been completed when this picture was published in 1880. Soon after the 1846 Royal visit the 14th Duke began re-structuring the castle again. The work, which was done to the designs of Charles Alban Buckler and undertaken by Rattee and Kett of Cambridge, was completed in the late 19th century. The 16th Duke had planned to give the castle to the National Trust but following his death in 1975 the 17th Duke cancelled the plan. He created an independent charitable trust to guarantee the castle's future, and oversaw restorative works.
The extensive gardens had received significant improvements by early 2020 through the efforts of head gardener Martin Duncan and his crew. A horticulturalist and landscape designer, Duncan has been working at the Castle since 2009; in 2018, he received the Kew Guild Medal. The gardeners and volunteers "have worked wonders with their bold and innovative plantings", according to an April 2020 report by Country Life. Their most recent efforts led to a wild water garden around the ponds.
For further information please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arundel_Castle, www.arundelcastle.org/gardens/ and www.arundelcastle.org/
Photographing in the woods is always something special for me. Not only that I love to be in the forest, it's the creativ process what is drawing me here again and again. Photographing in the forest is quite ambitious. To find a system inside of this chaos is like searching for the needle in a haystack. So it’s even more delightful when I'm succeeding (what is not hapening every time) and I'm able to create a photograph what is meeting the grade of harmony of a place like this.
Fotografieren im Wald ist für mich immer etwas ganz besonderes. Nicht nur, dass ich es liebe im Wald zu sein, es ist auch der kreative Prozeß, der mich immer wieder dort hin zieht. Fotografieren im Wald empfinde ich als sehr anspruchsvoll. Ein System in diesem Chaos zu finden ist wie die Suche nach der Nadel im Heuhaufen. Um so mehr freue mich mich, wenn es mir gelingt (das passiert nicht jedesmal) und ich ein Bild schaffen kann, was der Harmonie dieses Ortes gerecht wird.
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Until the Autumn 2018 I had never visited the Abbey of Saint Remi in Reims. This is strange because I must have visited the city many times . I guess I was so familiar with the centre of the city I have not consulted a guide book on Reims for years. Every visit would certainly include a look into the magnificent Reims cathedral which is always a joy.
I was unaware that only twenty minutes away from the cathedral was another incredibly beautiful and historic church. I found out about it at an exhibition I saw in Provence that featured the sites in France designated as World Heritage sites by UNESCO . Reims did not have one but two fine churches on the list.The Abbey of Saint-Remi, together with the nearby cathedral of Notre-Dame de Reims became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1991. All I can say its well worth seeing its more austere than the cathedral though it does have extraordinary thirteenth century stained glass windows . This is a view from the alter looking towards the West door
A little history
The obscure origins of the great abbey at Reims lie in a little 6th-century chapel dedicated to Saint Christopher. The abbey's success was founded on its acquisition of the relics of St. Remi in 553; subsequently gifts poured in upon it from pious donors. By the 9th century the abbey possessed about 700 domains and was perhaps the most richly endowed in France. It seems probable that secular priests were the first guardians of the relics, but were succeeded by the Benedictines. From 780 to 945 the archbishops of Reims served as its abbots. At the abbey of St Remi King Charlemagne received Pope Leo III. Abbot Theodoric erected the magnificent surviving basilica which Pope Leo IX dedicated in 1049 and to which he granted many privileges.
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Yellow Mountain magnolia, j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
Blowing in the Wind this little Wren was trying to get bird seed in a strong wind, he succeeded but looks a bit annoyed.
Another highlight of last year was doing some work with trying to capture dragonflies in flight. After a lot of hard work and a sore shoulder I think I succeeded
This gull was so happy to have captured this big fish.
But she never succeeded to eat it.
Why ?
I let to find the reason.
Explanation : the fish is fake, it is a fish in plastic that fisher use to fish.
Fortunately she couldnt eat it, else I think she would died.
Cette mouette était si heureuse d'avoir capturé ce gros poisson.
Mais elle n'a jamais réussi à le manger.
Pourquoi ?
Je laisse chercher la raison.
Explication : le poisson est faux, c'est un poisson en plastique que les pêcheurs utilisent pour pêcher.
Heureusement elle n'a pas pu le manger, sinon je pense qu'elle serait morte.
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She circled overhead for a minute or two as if she wanted land under her should she drop her catch.
Once the fish was secure, she left the area.
Well, it seems winter isn't done with us yet ... just as we were beginning to see the shingles on our rooftops and the gravel in our driveways Mother Nature decided to blanket it all with more snow - and she is not done yet apparently. Those weather wizards are calling for another 20 cm's of snow over the next 3 days. You can see the sun trying to peek through in this photo but he (the sun is a he and the moon is a she - right?) never really succeeded as the day progressed ... the clouds bearing snow won the day.
Yes, it is a colour photograph. :)
- Keefer Lake, Ontario, Canada -
"To succeed in life you need three things:
a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone."
Quote – Dr Kavanagh
~~~~The Three Bones of Life~~~
The wishbone is about the importance of having a goal or a dream. Something to aspire to and focus on. After all ‘if you don’t have a dream, how you gonna have a dream come true’? Anyone singing?! We all need motivation, and a goal or dream is a great way to keep moving forward. Your dream might be short or long term but it will be something that you can aim towards. Dreams help you go beyond your perceived limits and aim high. It’s so important that we don’t allow indecision or fear of failure or change to destroy our dreams and stop us achieving them.
The backbone is about strength and courage, keeping our feet on the ground and our head above water. If we want to achieve our dream, we need to be resilient, to stretch ourselves and see things through. It’s also about believing in yourself and having clear boundaries. Sometimes we have to say no to other people and put ourselves first in order to give ourselves strength and energy. It’s easy to be ordinary, so much harder to stand out from the crowd and stand up for what you believe in.
The funny bone reminds us that humour is so important in our daily lives. We need to be able to laugh at ourselves, be vulnerable and accept that making mistakes is all part of the journey. If we can be less serious and see the funny side of things, we will not only enjoy life more but we will be less self-absorbed and far more optimistic. It’s also about looking for the silver lining in the inevitable clouds.~~~~
Info from the internet
Model: origami Fish Bones
Design: Sebastien Limet (Sebl)
Diagrams in the book 'Origami Fish And Other Sea Creatures by Nick Robinson'
Paper one piece of silver paper 17x17cm
Finasize: length 9cm, height 2,3cm
“To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.”
~ Benjamin Franklin
A jump
is a joy
is lotsa fun!
:P
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Malay, Aklan,
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try, try again. Snowy Egret on the hunt 6 and final. And that's all folks! Thanks for your visits and hopefully your comments and faves!
“To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you”
Tony Dorsett
Clutching to different reed stems and trying to stand up, this bird succeeded in showing off its skills..
This is Wildsee, a moor lake in the higher regions of the Northern Black Forest, and it's one of the most eerie places I know. There is often a strange light as the sun tries to find its way through the clouds and the fog and usually doesn't succeed. It's also rather dark there. What's most disturbing, though, is the complete silence. When you walk along the path over the moor which leads there, you always hear birds and other noises but as soon as you arrive at the lake there is just silence.
All but Death, can be Adjusted—
Dynasties repaired—
Systems—settled in their Sockets—
Citadels—dissolved—
Wastes of Lives—resown with Colors
By Succeeding Springs—
Death—unto itself—Exception—
Is exempt from Change—
Emily Dickinson
Turquoise is used to describe things that are of a light greenish-blue colour. ... a clear turquoise sea.
Spring, also known as springtime, is one of the four temperate seasons, succeeding winter and preceding summer. There are various technical definitions of spring, but local usage of the term varies according to local climate, cultures and customs. When it is spring in the Northern Hemisphere, it is autumn in the Southern Hemisphere and vice versa. At the spring (or vernal) equinox, days and nights are approximately twelve hours long, with daytime length increasing and nighttime length decreasing as the season progresses.
Hey, friends! A happy day for me today: that trick with my 'visual diet' succeeded, i enforced my processing work and finally finished preparing May 2016 pics which means i can stop that endless April show. It took more than 8 months to share more than 800 pics... i was intended to stop after about 600 pics but the show was prolonged due the reasons i described in this post <-
So, what's next?
1. The May 2016 was the same productive as April, which means i got to upload a tonn of prepared pics (i expect it gonna be about 2000 of them) and range them step by step to reduce it for about 600 pic which i will be sharing in the next 6 months or so.
2. Then i'll start sorting the raw pics from June 2016, then will process the selected ones. Same with Jule and August. A lot of work for sure: the summer months altogether is something like 1,5 of April or May by the number of pics. The good news is each next month after May my productivity reduced, so from now the time is on my side, and each next mounth-show will be shorter than the preceding.
3. When all three summer months of 2016 will be sorted and processed, i'll return to viewing my flickr fellows streams, maybe to my groups too (not so sure about them right now). Hopefully in the early 2022. Regarding my own pics - i plan to change my approach of working with my archive to more chaotic and less meticulous one starting from Autumn 2016.
Now I take one (or two) day off and then back with May's pics.
Nothing succeeds like excess ;-)
Oscar Wilde
HBW! Public Education Matters! Resist!!
j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
Junge Küstenseeschwalbe (Sterna paradisaea)
Basalt Insel Grimsey am nördlichen Polarkreis. Zurzeit hat Grímsey 90 Bewohner.
*In Island heisst die Küstenseeschwalbe "Kria"...der Schrei der Kria lässt jeden erschrecken bevor sie angreifen um ihre Jungen zu schützen.
Die Kamera in der einen und den Zeigefinger der anderen Hand hoch über dem Kopf erhoben ist mir diese Aufnahme gelungen !*
Basalt Grimsey Island in the Arctic Circle. At present Grímsey has 90 inhabitants.
In Iceland, the arctic tern is called "kria"...the cry of the kria scares everyone before they attack to protect their young.
The camera in one hand and the index finger of the other hand raised high above my head, I succeeded in taking this picture!
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Nikon Coolpix P900, 1/500, Brennweite 340mm, ISO200
Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.
Gian Carlo Menotti
When you try your best but you don't succeed
When you get what you want but not what you need
When you feel so tired but you can't sleep
Stuck in reverse.
When the tears come streaming down your face
When you lose something you can't replace
When you love someone but it goes to waste
Could it be worse?
*fix you by coldblay <<< I love that song =')
Shot taken by me
A dude in the street in paris =P
Edited by ηαseЯ ◦ ن .. tslam ymnak thaaank you man =D
لو سمحتوا علقوا بدون صوركم الاخيره..شكرا نقدر نشوفها في الكونتكات =)
is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding !!
~ Gian Carlo Menotti.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try, again! And that's exactly what the Northern Hawk Owl did when trying to place the vole between the bark and the tree trunk.
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
È meglio fallire nell’originalità che riuscire nell’imitazione.
(Herman Melville)
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I finally succeeded at my 3rd attempt to photograph an HST with the reflection here at Stanford on Soar today. The loco in view is 43102 'The Journey Shrinker' and is at the head of 1534 London St Pancras - Nottingham
Burlington, VT
10-16-2019
Processed: 02/16/22
I only spent one night in Burlington during my Fall Leaf Peeping Vacation in 2019. I'd spent two nights in New Hampshire, and the days were filled with lots of miles, and lots of photography. After a day of attempting (and largely succeeding) in photographing most of the covered bridges along the Ashuelot River, I finally checked into the hotel and retired at about 9pm.
I wanted to photograph the sun rising above Lake Champlain, but would have had to drive around the lake. I almost missed the sunrise altogether, because when I realized I wouldn't have time to get to the "right place" I had a bite to eat at the breakfast bar, which was open at 6am, and as I packed my things in the car, noticed the pinkness was fantastic.
It was only a few blocks to the downtown area, and this is the first photo I took after I parked the car.
In the 1950s Europe's economy flourished, bringing about a complete restructuring of the roads, greatly improving the quality. This created the 'need' for faster, better handling cars known as Grand Tourers. Maserati recognized the potential and for the first time in their company's thirty year existence, they set about developing a real road car; the 3500 GT. In the past the Italian racing car specialist had produced small runs of road cars, but they were nothing more than thinly disguised racers. The new machine would have to combine the finesse and poise of the marque's racing cars with the luxury and quality demanded by the high-end market.
Maserati did not have look far for the 3500 GT's running gear. The six cylinder engine was directly derived from that of the 350 S sportsracer, which was based the engines in highly successful 250 F single seater and 300 S sports racer. Tamed down for street use and reliability, the twin-spark engine produced a healthy 220 bhp. Thanks to its 'oversquare' bore/stroke ratio, the 3.5 litre engine also produced an abundance of low-end torque. Mated to a four-speed gearbox, the 'six' was mounted in a tubular chassis. In good Italian fashion, stopping power was provided by drum brakes all-round.
Unlike the previous road going Maseratis, the 3500 GT was going to be offered as a complete model, so Maserati's engineers had the control over every bit of the car for the first time. For the interior and other trim Maserati's chief designer Ing. Giulio Alfieri spent a lot of time looking at British manufacturers and suppliers. The end-result was a very well appointed interior that offered room for two adults up front and two children at the back. Alfieri commissioned various Italian coachbuilders to draw up designs for the 3500 GT, from which Maserati would pick the final version. At the 1957 Geneva launch an Allemano and Touring Coupe were shown. Touring's design was eventually chosen and production got underway later in the year and the first cars delivered early in 1958.
Maserati's gamble paid off as the 3500 GT proved to a big commercial success. That was really what the doctor ordered after the hugely expensive 1957 racing, which saw many of the Maserati Works cars destroyed. At the end of the season, the company withdrew from active racing to fully focus on passenger cars. Alfieri continued working on perfecting the 3500 GT by adding front disc brakes and Fuel Injection. A bigger development was the introduction of a convertible model on a shortened 3500 GT chassis. Again various coachbuilders had a go at penning a candidate, and this time the commission was granted to Vignale. The final design was pretty similar to the Touring coupe, which made the 'Spyder' easily recognizable as a 3500 GT. Series production began in 1960.
By 1963 the Maserati 3500 GT was showing its age, although technically it was still up to par with the best Ferrari or Aston Martin had to offer. Alfieri decided to replace the successful Grand Tourer with not one, but two models. Both were technically very similar to the 3500 GT and sported slightly larger versions of the six cylinder engine. The first of the two to be announced was the Sebring, which sported a 2+2 Coupe body penned by Vignale. The second was a strict two seater; the Mistral. This very elegant Coupe was designed by Pietro Frua. Later a Mistral Spyder was also added to the line-up. For a small racing car manufacturer it must have been a massive step to start series production, but Maserati succeeded with surprising ease. Eventually well over 2200 examples were produced; more than all previous Maseratis combined.