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Art installation on a construction site hoarding at the junction of Underhill Avenue and St. Johns Place in Brooklyn. Part of the Bronx Brewery Public Arts Initiative.
This is not what it seems.
Please do not steal my images. I may give permission to use if you ask me.
Still feeling crap here but i think about 2/3 of the population has a cold right now so i 'musnt grumble' to use a favourite old expression.
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HORACIO PATRONE: en Reserva Costanera Sur . RECS. - NIKON D 500 lens NIKON 300mm f :4 + TC 1.4 .BUENOS AIRES -ARGENTINA .es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserva_ecol%C3%B3gica_de_Buenos_Aires
'Rook With A Book' is a sculpture on Town Quay in Fowey.
Father and son team Gary and Thomas Thrussell created 'Isla' to celebrate the famous writer Daphne Du Maurier who lived in Fowey and was massively inspired by Cornwall.
One of Du Maurier most popular books is a short story called ‘The Birds’ this book was famously adapted for film by Alfred Hitchcock.
The hours when the mind is absorbed in beauty are the only hours when we truly live. Richard Jeffries
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A man is walking with his bird in cage early in the morning at Paramaribo, Suriname, South America at Tuesday, August 18, 2009.
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Happy 1-11-11!
Wishing you all a wonderful Tuesday. It's my two for Tuesday so I'll be back to post an iphone shot and check out what you all have been up to.
Southeast False Creek Olympic Plaza, which served as the site of the 2010 Olympic Village,
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Giant Sparrow sculpture, 'The Birds' by artist Myfanwy MacLeod, Olympic Village Plaza, False Creek, Vancouver, British Columbia.
Illuminated by deep blue lighting
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The Birds was also inspired by sustainability and the site's history as a shipyard, where sailors often wore sparrow tattoos. The sculptures have been called an "ode to immigration" based on MacLeod's interest in "alien species" and when non-native species are introduced to an environment (the house sparrow is not native to North America) MacLeod said: "My work for the Olympic Village tries to infuse the ordinary and commonplace sparrow with a touch of the ridiculous and the sublime. Locating this artwork in an urban plaza not only highlights what has become the 'natural' environment of the sparrow, it also reinforces the 'small' problem of introducing a foreign species and the subsequent havoc wreaked upon our ecosystems."
The work depicts one male and one female house sparrow, each between 4.5 and 5.5 m (15 and 18 ft) tall, or approximately 50 times life size. The birds have been described as realistic and "massive yet friendly-looking". Their bodies are made from hard coated expanded polystyrene (EPS) foam, coated with a polyurea skin and airbrush painted, all clad around a steel armature. Their cast bronze legs were sealed with wax. According to Heavy, the EPS form pieces were "glued together with pressure-sensitive adhesive, specifically formulated for bonding EPS to itself and other materials"
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... or watch out there's a starling about. This taken a while ago from the magic attic window. I've played with the contrast and graduated tint.
Starlings aren't my problem at the moment it's bluebottles in the kitchen! No sooner than I shoo one out the window with my teatowel then two more appear from nowhere!
... I think there is something up with flickr or me today - my pc is going very slow and acting strange - so apologies for not getting around to visiting all of my contacts - it's like walking through soup on here at the moment.
Hope it's back to normal tomorrow when I can catch up. Take care my friends.
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I've been on the road. Will catch up as soon as I master the jet lag battle.
On Monday night, we watched Alfred Hitchcock's film, "The Birds". On Tuesday morning, I came upon this scene.....
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Ai Weiwei
Murano glass
Edition of 100 each
GALERIE KOVACEK & ZETTER
When showing the middle finger, it depends very much on the perspective. Do you show it or are you shown it or do you see someone showing it to someone else and who shows it to whom?
If you use it to counter a dictatorship like the Chinese regime or the shady President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Thomas Bach, who is acting as an exculpatory witness in the case of the long-disappeared tennis player Peng Shuai, it is perfectly adequate.
www.artsy.net/artwork/ai-weiwei-study-of-perspective-in-g...
But what about those covidiots who refuse to be vaccinated against the coronavirus and loudly claim in demonstrations that the government's coronavirus measures are the beginning of a dictatorship? These idiots worry me a lot.
The crows had been gathering for about half an hour when they suddenly took flight - all at once! I wondered if this terrifying sight of so many crows together had anything to do with the collective noun applied to them: "A Murder of Crows".
A los amantes de las películas de Hitchcock este edificio les debería resultar conocido porque es el colegio que aparece en al película Los Pájaros de 1962. En la película aparece como el colegio de Bodega Bay pero se encuentra a unos 10 kilómetros tierra adentro en Bodega. Su nombre es Potter y se encontraba vacia cuando se convirtió en escenario de la película. Hoy en día es una residencia privada y se encuentra cerrada al público.
This is the schoolhouse that Alfred Hitchcock called Bodega Bay schoolhouse in the film "The Birds". Just that its name is Potter and it is not in Bodega Bay but instead in Bodega some 5 miles inland.
Panorámica de 3 tomas verticales.
To be perfectly honest, I'm not sure how the birds ended up being so well defined. They move in odd patterns. I suspect they all just happened to be changing direction as I took this exposure.
When photographing swarms of grackles, I highly recommend wearing machine washable clothing. And a hat.
Several hundred landed in a parking lot very near where I was shooting. Most were on the ground, but a few dozen were on top of a rather unfortunate car. And, there were thousands in the surrounding trees.
By the way, these grackles are known to attack bystanders:
www.chron.com/news/bizarre/article/Dive-bombing-grackles-...
#only_in_texas #hitchcockian
Exposure0.006 sec (1/160)
Aperturef/3.2
Focal Length50 mm
ISO Speed3200
Exposure Bias-0.7 EV
Photo of the Week on the Gap Year Blog:
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Featured on the Photojojo tumblr Feed:
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flickr mixer in Paris, with Cass D. and her wonderful husband Hanno -- who has the good sense to not spend his life being consumed by the sound of a flickring shutter release! This is their daughter, with our little c, transfixed by pigeons and a chocolate brownie that Hanno conjured up out of nowhere to appease some growling toddler bellies!
This bird mural on this building is near the spot where Alfred Hitchcock was born. The big bird on the right has Hitchcock's famous silhouette image in the eye.
Nikon D7000.
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Sliders Sunday
The Birds of Tiergarten :-) Crows gathering for the night in Berlin's Tiergarten park nearby the conference hall / House of the World's Cultures. Taken on the Spree side of the conference hall during the blue hour photowalk with Sabine.R (our blue hour captures of the conference hall were taken on the backside of the building). The late evening sky was cloudless and at that point pale blue. So I decided to give this capture the "Nik Color Efex treatment" and jazz it up with some of its colour filters. There were quite many crows, busily flying around before settling for the night, they were pretty talkative, or should I say noisy, too. But friendly (though we've heard of crow attacks during breeding season), minding their own business :-)
HSS Everyone, and have a beautiful new week ahead!
Die Vögel vom Tiergarten
Krähenansammlung zur Nacht in der Nähe der Berliner Kongresshalle. Aufgenommen auf der Spreeseite der Kongresshalle, bevor Sabine.R und ich für die Blaue-Stunde-Fotos zur Rückseite des Gebäudes gingen. Die Krähen machten einen ganz schönen Lärm, waren aber friedlich (es gab ja schon Meldungen von Attacken auf Menschen während der Brutsaison). Für Sliders Sunday habe ich den zu diesem Zeitpunkt blassblauen Himmel mit Farbfiltern der Nik Collection (Color Efex) ein wenig aufgepeppt. Ich hoffe, es gefällt Euch.
Ich wünsche Euch einen guten Start in die neue Woche!
This was my first time to visit Merced Nat'l Wildlife Refuge for Sunrise.
Merced National Wildlife Refuge encompasses more than 10,200 acres of wetlands, native grasslands, vernal pools, and riparian areas. The refuge hosts the largest wintering concentrations of lesser sandhill cranes and Ross’ geese along the Pacific Flyway. Wildlife are showcased from an auto tour route and four nature trails, which are open daily throughout the year for visitors.
I'd take you into the night
And show you a love
Like you've never seen, ever seen
I went back to the same spot today ... and this time the birds attacked; all that was missing was Rod Taylor and Tippi Hedren (a lil Hitchcock joke)
just shot this in vivid mode with my A610
It's storm season and I love the drama, beauty and energy of storms and shoot them every chance I get. Yesterday, the sky was getting dramatic and I was psyched to get some shots having recently watched one of my favorite movies about storm chasing, Twister. It's a movie I can watch over and over and never get tired of it. Because I know it so well, I sometimes have a habit of saying the lines at the same time as the characters or maybe a beat or two before.
"The Suck Zone. It's the point basically when the twister... sucks you up. That's not the technical term for it, obviously."
"it's the wonder of nature, baby!"
"Why do you call Billy the extreme?....Because... Bill is.....the EXTREME!!!!!!!
When eerie silence fills the air as a raging tornado abruptly ends, the scientist called Preacher and I say, at the same time and in the same reverent tone...
"It's the cone of silence" I love that line but it's a fallacy that tornadoes have a cone of silence. It's really a radar term. Directly over a radar tower is a blackout area where the weather readout is blank, it's a visual cone of silence, like my umbrella. But for the movie it's a great line and we don't care too much about accuracy,...it's a movie!
Sometimes I have to warn the characters...where'd it go? it's gone (meaning the twister)
"No, it's not, it's gonna back-build... It's back-building! It's gonna drop right on top of you! Get the hell out of there!"
"Getting yourself killed is not gonna bring your father back Jo!"
"It's not gonna fly, The pack is too light, it needs more weight! I told you it needed more weight!"
My hubby looked up at me perched on the back of the couch with my fists in the air and he said, I feel like I'm at the Rocky Horror Picture Show. Ha! for those who don't know, That's a cult classic horror spoof that was popular years ago to which everyone would go dressed as the characters every night and recite the lines. Imagine having that excitement right in the privacy of your own living room.
For ODC ~ S
My personal tribute to Alfred Hitchcock
It was to see in the Kunsthalle Berlin, Unter den Linden (2013)
I really didn't have to do much to this one in photoshop...it really did look eerie and surreal to see all of these crows sitting here on top of this barren tree in the moonlight on a very residential street by a restaurant called The Owl House. Quite creepy...my mouth really did drop..didn't know whether to snap a photo or run but I of couse ended up chancing my survival.