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...... another image seen on thin, transparent ice at the edge of the reservoir. It's composed of bits of vegetation, stones, and a pocket of air beneath the ice, and reflections on its surface. The bits of vibrant red are, I think, reflections of my red gloves as I hovered precariously close to the surface to take the picture .....
tie rods, glass, struts, and golden sunset vinyl
... in the stairwell at te uru
single shot icm // slow shutter app // iphone 15 pro max
te uru series 2 of 5
If it stays cold enough for long enough even Lake Ontario can develop some pretty large ice formations. It is rare these days to see such ice build up.
It is actually very dangerous and foolish to climb around on the ice. There are cracks and holes that can be covered by thin layers of snow and ice one could easily fall through into the water. Death would come quickly.
Same old location I always shoot. The colors aren't as nice as yesterday's shot, but I liked the river of ice snaking away into the distance in this one.
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Lizard - Thin tree iguana.
Salida de la ROC a Altos de Chicauma, abril 2019.
Lampa, Región Metropolitana. Chile.
This was taken at sunrise on a January morning in Yosemite Valley. Ice was forming on the edge of the Merced River at the location known by photographers as Tahiti Beach. The gold color is a reflection of warm morning sunlight on the face of El Capitan. I liked the interplay of the golden fractal patterns of the thin ice with the blue water just underneath, which created a cool abstract.
This is a tight crop of a close-range shot taken at 173mm, the crop probably spanning a few inches in width.
"Don't be surprised when a crack in the ice
Appears under your feet.
You slip out of your depth and out of your mind
With your fear flowing out behind you
As you claw the thin ice."
This was so long ago! I think that not being happy with the first set of cheerleader pictures and lighting I again skipped school to try again. This time with my own pantyhose (I didn't shave my legs back then for fear of what people would think). I was 16 or 17 years old at the time. Now I no, nobody cares if guys shave their legs. If only I knew that then!
For those who don't know how I did it:
Back in these days before high quality digital cameras I would develop film myself after regular class hours in photography / graphic arts room at school. I would only take a couple of pictures at the end of a roll of film so I could quickly cut those off and if anyone wanted to see the negatives of what I was shooting it would look like I just didn't shoot the whole roll ;-)
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“God is working to raise your intellect and will to the highest perfection of supernatural activity in Union with His Holy Spirit. By pouring His Wisdom into your soul, He is accomplishing the greatest work of His love, forming the perfect likeness of Christ , His incarnate Word, in you, and perfecting His church through everything that you allow Him to perform by the agency of your free will transformed and elevated in Him. Praise and glorify God, you have tasted the first fruits of this marvelous grace, and pray to Him to continue His great work in your soul. Withdraw yourself from all care; trust not in yourself but in Him; do not be anxious or solicitous to perform great works for Him until He leads you Himself, by obedience and love and the events which His providence directs, to undertake the works He has planned for you and by which He will use you to communicate the fire of His love to other men.” - Thomas Merton from The Inner Experience (p. 103)
The level of this beaver pond had reached the level of the road, so Public Works let some of the water out. The result was these weird ice shelves held up by brush. As the level went down, the ice collapsed except the supported parts. It looked bizarre! *See Large
NOTE: The background (in the rectangle note) is actually water. The foreground parts are little islands of brush in the pond.
My sandwich creation. How yummy does this look? There are 2 different kinds of cheese, salami, roast beef, turkey, ham, tomato, lettuce and thinly sliced cucumber!! Didn't even make myself one lol.
Un piccolo ponte di materia si forma dallo scioglimento dei ghiacci millenari e meraviglia lo spettatore con la sua effimera fragilità
Ghiacciaio Forni, parco nazionale dello Stelvio
#stelvio #natural #park #glacier #ghiacciaio #ponte #bridge #water #cold #acqua #fiume #disgelo
This is the Patio broom, but it looks more like a poolside broom, poor thing.
We're Here, sweeping it all under the carpet.
Hand-held manually focused macro (super-wobblo-mode). Two layer composite in Photoshop, flattened, posterized, saturation boosted. HSS! ;-)
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Multiculturalism here is what politicians boast about on independence day and at pre-election speeches. Its what makes this country strong, gives it its diversity, and makes us who we are. Its our heritage as a nation. Our pride. Truth is, multiculturalism cuts both ways. Its the reason for our fears, remorse, resentment, spite and estrangement from each other. While some would share the same space and immerse in friendly banter others scrawl in blood a fundamentalist prophecy yet to be delivered. This is my Malaysia. That which promises to save us may be the death of us all.
©2008 Vignes Balasingam
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The snow weekend in Munich in December 2023. The view from the Nymphenburg Palace towards the canal. The sign warning about thin ice is barely visible. But the ice wasn't that thin anymore that weekend.
Antelope Canyon is without doubt a photographic shrine. Even though being there is stunning, it is one of the rare places that is maybe better on pictures than in real life. After a few shots, you want to take a picture with someone on it, just to be sure - in order to have a proof when you go home - that it's a real place. I know no place where the limit between art and nature is so thin. An dream of stone, light and wind ...
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Baya weavers are social and gregarious birds. They forage in flocks for seeds, both on the plants and on the ground. Flocks fly in close formations, often performing complicated manoeuvres. They are known to glean paddy and other grain in harvested fields, and occasionally damage ripening crops and are therefore sometimes considered as pests. They roost in reed-beds bordering waterbodies. They depend on wild grasses such as Guinea grass (Panicum maximum) as well as crops like rice for both their food (feeding on seedlings in the germination stage as well as on early stages of grain) and nesting material. They also feed on insects (including butterflies), sometimes taking small frogs, geckos and molluscs, especially to feed their young. Their seasonal movements are governed by food availability. Their calls are a continuous chit-chit-... sometimes ending in a wheezy cheee-eee-ee that is produced by males in a chorus. A lower intensity call is produced in the non-breeding season.
They are occasionally known to descend to the ground and indulge in dust bathing
The nest construction pattern at different stages of nest and variations in the nest microclimate, i.e., temperature and light intensity were assessed in different nests of Baya weaver (Ploceus philippinus) between November 2002 and March 2003 in Nagapattinam and Tiruvarur District of Tamil Nadu, India. The Baya weaver constructed nests in palm (Borassus flabellifer), coconut (Cocos nucifera) and date palm trees (Phoneix psuilla) and majority of the nests were found in the solitary palm. The male bird only involved in the construction and took 18 days to construct a single nest. The birds spent different amount of working hours (in terms of days) for completing various stages of nests viz., wad, ring and helmet stage and in which the 'helmet stage took a maximum of eight days. Furthermore, totally eight active nests were selected and once in a week the variations in the nest microclimate was investigated with reference to atmospheric temperature and light intensity (two active nests) across day throughout the study period. The mean temperature of the nests ranged from 25 degrees C to 29 degrees C and light intensity varied between 25 Lux and 625 Lux. The analysis of variance (ANOVA and ANCOVA) indicated that the nest microclimate varied among the nests in different hr of a day.
A widespread folk belief in India is that the baya sticks fireflies with mud to the nest walls to light up the interior of the nest at night. Clay, however is known to be used in the nests of baya weavers. Males alone have been seen to add blobs of mud and dung to the nest chamber prior to pairing with a female. It has been suggested that the clay may help to stabilise the nest in strong winds.
In earlier times, the baya weaver was trained by street performers in India for entertainment. They could pick up objects at the command of their trainers. They were trained to fire toy cannons, string beads, pick up coins and other objects. According to Edward Blyth "the truth is, that the feats performed by trained Bayas are really very wonderful, and must be witnessed to be fully credited. Exhibitors carry them about, we believe, to all parts of the country; and the usual procedure is, when ladies are present, for the bird, on a sign from its master, to take a sweetmeat in its bill, and deposit it between a lady's lips, and repeat this offering to every lady present, the bird following the look and gesture of its master. A miniature cannon is then brought, which the bird loads with coarse grains of powder...." Robert Tytler noted demonstrations where the bird would twirl a thin stick with fires at the ends over its head. These uses have been noted from the time of Akbar.
If you should go skating
On the thin ice of modern life
Dragging behind you the silent reproach
Of a million tear-stained eyes
Don't be surprised when a crack in the ice
Appears under your feet
You slip out of your depth and out of your mind
With your fear flowing out behind you
As you claw the thin ice
Pink Floyd--Thin Ice
This was the 2nd song that came up in iTunes. That's how I came up with the "Lockdown Song"