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Switzerland, May 2021
My best photos are here: www.lacerta-bilineata.com/ticino-best-photos-of-southern-...
My latest ANIMAL VIDEO (warning, it's a bit shocking): www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T2-Xszz7FI
You find a selection of my 80 BEST PHOTOS (mostly not yet on Flickr) here: www.lacerta-bilineata.com/western-green-lizard-lacerta-bi... (the website exists in ESPAÑOL, FRANÇAIS, ITALIANO, ENGLISH, DEUTSCH)
ABOUT THE PHOTO:
So this photo is a bit of a novelty for me - at least here on Flickr, but it's also a journey back in time in a sense. I've always loved b/w and sepia photography; already as a very young teenager I would go out into the woods with an old Pentax Spotmatic (which I had nicked from my father) whenever it was a foggy day to shoot b/w compositions of sunbeams cutting through the ghostlike trees.
I used films with a sensitivity of at least 1600 (for those of you who remember what that means 😉 ), and the resulting photos had an incredibly fine grain which I loved; I blew them up to the size of posters and hung them on the walls of my teenage man-cave next to Hendrix, Jim Morrison and Slash.
But then I abandoned photography altogether for 20 years, and when I finally picked up a camera again, it was one of the digital kind. Now neither film nor grain played any role in my photographic endeavours - let alone b/w compositions: because the reason I fell in love with shooting pictures once more was the rare and incredibly colorful lizard species that had chosen my garden as its habitat.
It's this species - the Lacerta bilineata aka the western green lizard - that my photo website www.lacerta-bilineata.com/ and also my Flickr gallery are dedicated to, but I've since expanded that theme a bit so that it now comprises the whole Lacerta bilineata habitat, which is to say my garden and its immediate surroundings and all the flora and fauna I find in it.
I like that my gallery and the website have this clear theme, because in order to rise to the challenge of portraying all aspects of a very specific little eco system (which also happens to be my home of sorts), it forces me to constantly explore it from fresh angles, and I keep discovering fascinating new motives as my photographic journey continues.
Which brings me to the horse pasture you see in this photo. This playground for happy horsies lies just outside my garden, and it normally only interests me insofar as my green reptile friends claim parts of it as their territory, and I very much prefer it to be horseless (which it thankfully often is).
Not that the horses bother the reptiles - the lizards don't mind them one bit, and I've even seen them jump from the safety of the fly honeysuckle shrub which the pasture borders on right between the deadly looking hooves of the horses to forage for snails, without any sign of fear or even respect.
No, the reason I have a very conflicted relationship with those horses is that they are mighty cute and that there's usually also foals. The sight of those beautiful, happy animals jumping around and frolicking (it's a huge pasture and you can tell the horses really love it) is irresistible: and that inevitably attracts what in the entire universe is known as the most destructive anti-matter and ultimate undoing of any nature photographer: other humans.
Unlike with the horses, the lizards ARE indeed very much bothered by specimens of loud, unpredictable Homo sapiens sapiens - which makes those (and by extension also the horses) the cryptonite of this here reptile photographer. It's not the horses' fault, I know that, but that doesn't change a thing. I'm just telling you how it is (and some of you might have read about the traumatic events I had to endure to get a particular photo - if not, read at your own risk here: www.flickr.com/photos/191055893@N07/51405389883/in/datepo... - which clearly demonstrated that even when it's entirely horseless, that pasture is still a threat for artistic endeavours).
But back to the photo. So one morning during my vacation back in May I got up quite early. It had rained all night, and now the fog was creeping up from the valley below to our village just as the sky cleared up and the morning sun started to shine through the trees.
And just as I did when I was a teenager I grabbed my camera and ran out to photograph this beautiful mood of ghostlike trees and sunbeams cutting through the mist. There had already been such a day a week earlier (which is when I took this photo: www.flickr.com/photos/191055893@N07/51543603732/in/datepo... ), but this time, the horses were also there.
Because of our slightly strained relationship I only took this one photo of them (I now wish I had taken more: talk about missed opportunities), and otherwise concentrated on the landscape. It was only later when I went through all the photos on my computer that I realized that I actually really liked those horses, even despite the whole composition being such a cliché. And I realized another thing: when I drained the photo of all the color, I liked it even better - because there was almost a bit of grain in it, like in the photos from my youth.
Since then I have experimented quite a bit with b/w and sepia compositions (some of which I will upload here eventually I guess), but this photo here is the first one that helped me rediscover my old passion. I hope you like it even though it builds quite a stark contrast with the rest of my tiny - and very colorful - gallery. But in the spirit of showing you the whole Lacerta bilineata habitat (and also in the spirit of expanding my gallery a bit beyond lizards and insects), I think it's not such a bad fit.
As always, many greetings to all of you, have a wonderful day and don't hesitate to let me know what you think 😊
Today I fancied an Oriental theme & with the use of The Nippon Dream Oriental Skybox I was able to achieve just that.
A great little skybox with far more to offer than can be seen in just this one shot, see below for full details:
SkyBox: Nippon Dream 32X32 Land Impact 349
This Oriental Style SkyBox includes:
- bed with 69 poses
- bench with 26 poses
- small lake and temple, a statue, a fountain and a park
- the box that contains the sky is separate and can be removed completely or the owner may change the sky to any one of the many included in the built in texture menu.
SEE DEMO AND MANY OTHER SKYBOX, BACKDROPS AND LANDSCAPES @ DiMi's Mainstore
DiMi's: MarketPlace
For Macro Monday, Aug 14
Theme: high key
I'm deeply saddened by the events over the weekend and felt the need to speak of love in a visual art form, so I combined the MM theme with the message.
Love,
Dee
Fallen. In the park/forest/pnd across the street many apple trees are loosing there fruit. The Geese and the insects Luv it.
With the feathers you are found, you can build yourself something beautiful. I was lucky to get some pale lens flares too.
Press "L" for a better view.
Taken with Helios 44 M, posted for this weeks HSoS theme,
"smile on saturday" "feathers".
~HSoS~ , nice weekend all!
For Macro Monday's "Broken" Theme. Thought I'd combine a little "Intentional Blur" with "Egg". And with a catchy tune. In German we are calling a song which you can't get out of your mind an "Ohrwurm" = earworm.
A Happy Macro Monday, Everyone!
Für das Macro-Monday-Thema "Broken". Ein bisschen "Intentional Blur", kombiniert mit "Egg" und einem Ohrwum. Ich wünsche Euch einen schönen, sonnigen Montag ;-)!
Vielen Dank für Eure tollen Kommentare und Faves!
My choice for the "Macro Mondays" "Redux 2018 Theme :"Flame"
A Very Happy and Peaceful Christmas to you all
Macro Monday: #Circles
7DWF, Monday: Anything Goes Theme
Width: 5,5 x 5,5 cm / 2,1 x 2,1 inches
Some M&M's for MM ;-) A quick capture from today. Got home late yesterday, and the living room was filled with sunshine - which is nice, but it gave me rather harsh shadows. Made a new attempt a little later with light from my DIY softbox, but still got shadows, and the light was too yellow-ish for my taste. So I decided to give it another try today, with natural daylight (and no sunshine in the room, yet). Set ISO to 250, because I took the capture handheld. It's a little noisy and grainy, so I cleaned the background in Dfine (and brightened it a little in Viveza). Well, life is noisy and grainy sometimes, isn't it? Oh, and there is a word "hidden" here...
A Happy Macro Monday, Everyone!
Heute noch schnell fotografierte M&M's für MM. Gestern kam ich spät nach Hause und die Sonne schien ins Wohnzimmer, was mich sehr erfreute, aber keine guten Lichtverhältnisse abgab (harte Schatten). Ich versuchte es etwas später noch mal mit Licht von meiner selbstgebauten Softbox, aber das war mir zu gelblich, also habe ich es heute, bei Tageslicht, noch einmal fotografiert. Aus der Hand, daher die ISO-Einstellungen ein wenig hochgeschraubt. Den Hintergrund habe ich in Dfine wieder vorsichtig entrauscht und in Viveza noch etwas aufgehellt. Ach ja, und hier ist ein Wort versteckt...
Ich wünsche Euch eine sonnige Frühlingswoche (endlich!), Ihr Lieben ;-)
Canarinho
Canário-da-terra-verdadeiro
Illustration/Art
Digital Art - Photo Art
High Quality (HQ) - 3D
Double Exposure
Collage
Software: Windows Paint 3D; Pixlr;
Edits made to my original photos
Edições feitas em minhas fotos originais
Pássaro Silvestre
Sesc Pantanal
Hotel Porto Cercado
Barão de Melgaço
Mato Grosso, Brasil
Art Week Gallery Theme
21 Jan - 27 Jan.. our theme is:
~~~Mirror Art~~~
22/01/2024
Hello There!
Macro Mondays is a weekly theme-based challenge group. This week's theme was "Trash!" No kidding! I felt like a garbage hoarder until I could figure out what to photograph!
The "person" and "hat" were made from the peel of a roasted sweet potato and the background is the used parchment paper. The figure is 2-1/4" high. Happy Macro Mondays! HMM!
Thanks a million for stopping by and for leaving a comment. I do love hearing from you!
Have a terrific day and week!
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In August of 2019, two women tourists reported that they were snapping pictures one night near the Chicago riverfront when they were approached by a pair of alien-like creatures who emitted a strange glow and asked if they had any spare change. At the time, local authorities discounted the report, but a blurry, third-party photo that was purportedly taken just before the encounter has recently surfaced, lending an air of credibility to the story.
Smile On Saturday: "Nothing In Focus" theme
HSoS
Macro Mondays , May31,2021
Theme : Orange
With the deadly second wave and so many things happening around, photography has taken a back seat. My daughter pushed me to participate in today's challenge.
This was the concept shot I had taken, thinking will redo it with better setup.. but just couldn't push myself to do another take .. so here it is... shot on my phone and highly cropped so please excuse the grains.
Hope you all are safe and healthy in your part of the world.
HMM
Editing: Crop, brightness adjustment
Thank you all for your comments and Fav's.
Continuing my December theme:The colour Blue
Blue glass with freesias .... having fun with some flower shots from last month .... as it's too icy to venture out much this week ;o)
A Happy Bokeh Wednesday ;o)
The colour Blue: Here
Still Life Compositions: Here
The Glass set is here: Here
My freesia set: Here
Theme - Junk
From my Jewellery Junk Draw, my favourite earings that broke and I'll never throw them out :)
Reclining Buddhas are commonplace in Thailand and also here in Laos.
A reclining Buddha is an image that represents Buddha lying down and is a major iconographic theme in Buddhist art. It represents the historical Buddha during his last illness, about to enter the parinirvana. He is lying on his right side, his head resting on a cushion or relying on his right elbow, supporting his head with his hand.
This pattern seems to have emerged at the same time as other representations of the Buddha in the Greco-Buddhist art of Gandhara.
At Pashley Manor Gardens you will discover 11 acres of beautiful borders and vistas – the culmination of a lifetime of passion for gardening, an appetite for beauty and an admiration of the tradition of the English Country garden. These graceful gardens, on the border of Sussex and Kent, are family owned and maintained – visitors often express delight at the attention to detail displayed throughout and the intimate, peaceful atmosphere.
All the ingredients of the English Country Garden are present – sweeping herbaceous borders, ha-ha, well maintained lawns, box hedges, espaliered rose walk, historic walled garden, inspiring kitchen garden, venerable trees and the Grade I listed house as a backdrop. The gardens are a haven for wildlife – bees, butterflies and small birds as well as moor hens, ducks and a black swan. Then, of course, the plants! Borders overflowing with perennials and annuals – the look changing through the seasons, but always abundantly filled, and each garden ‘room’ planted in a different colour theme.
Pashley is also renowned for fantastic displays of tulips, roses and dahlias. Our annual Tulip Festival features more than 48,000 tulips this year! During Special Rose Week over a hundred varieties of rose swathe the walls, climb obelisks and bloom in flower beds. Then in late summer our Dahlia Days event transforms the gardens once more with bountiful, brightly coloured dahlias in every border and pot.
Add to all this a Café and Terrace with excellent garden views, serving delicious homemade lunches, scones and cakes; Sculpture and Art Exhibitions; a Gift Shop with Plant Sales; and a friendly, knowledgeable team waiting to welcome you, and the recipe for a wonderful day out is complete.
For more information please visit www.pashleymanorgardens.com/
“Star” photograph taken of bottom of a Waterford crystal glass with backlighting bounced off glitter paper. Star diameter is 1 1/4 inches.
RIAT 2022 on static display as part of our training theme will be a collection of eight light aircraft from the Italian based Fly Fano team. This little known team outside of Italy became popular in 2015 when the pilots flew in formation from their home airfield directly to RAF Cosford to participate in the airshow
Asso Aerei Asso X Jewel