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This underside belongs to a northern fruit bug (Carpocoris fuscispinus) which was climbing around on the flowers outside the front of my house back in mid-September of 2025.
From this angle, you can see the long proboscis which shield bugs use to feed on pland sap and fruit.
This week .12 Jan.18 Jan. our theme is:
~~~~~ FACES...all kinds ~~~~~
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This early 5th century BC Illyrian-Greek helmet is in the Budva City Museum in Budva, Montenegro. Paragnathids on either side of the helmet protected the face and neck of the wearer.
This is a result that is not good enough at all. I would have to say it's the upper edge of best for this canon XSI, but there is a real reason for the 40D and Nikon's D300 series camera's. If you're not using your camera to the fullest, please send it to me so I can test it to find the upper edge.
BTW, I get to keep the camera. :-)
This Boeing 777-367ER took its first flight on June 15, 2011 and was delivered to CX on June 25, 2011...(c/n 37901/ 941)
This eagle made so many low passes over my head that I finally began to think it was showing off its spectacular plumage design. The encounter took place on a private estancia in Chilean Patagonia.
66736 passes Marston Jabbett with a rake of GBRF JNA's , normally this Tunstead to Northampton trip is operated by Freightliner Heavy Haul , hopefully this is a change and we get to see GB running this trip
This was done as a vertical long exposure shot. You are looking at the center windowsill that fallows all the way up to the ceiling of the two identical buildings. It was quite difficult to get it lined up.
This Deltic has been under reswtortaion for many years now and Jane got a sneaky pic of me sat in the drivers seat.
This was another request for the Picnic cake, but with peppa and george this time!! First time of making peppa and george, so pleased with how they look for a first attempt. Hope your not bored of seeing this cake.
I had a lovely Easter Break away, I hope all you Flickr Friends had a lovely Easter too....I'm off to football practice with Harris now and then were going to get his hair cut, After all that i will be back to try and catch up on all your wonderful Creations while i have been away!!
Sarah x
This sandhill was laying in the marsh grass in a different spot she looked like she was sleeping off and on and moving a bit then she got up went over to her nest sat down wiggled around and in about 5 min stood up and there was an egg. Very cool experience.
This octopus put on quite a show for us, cruising around the reef as it hunted in an out of cracks and crevices.
I shot this on the night of August 3, 2019 in the Mount Laguna area of the the Cleveland National Forest. At around 0:19, you can see the green meteor that was featured in the photo I posted the other day.
As the title mentions, these are some of my favorite trees in the area. I shot this with a Canon 6D and Sigma 15mm EX DG lens. This video is made from 698 frames and was processed using LRTimelapse and Blender VSE. Background music is a portion of Present Moment by Borrtex .
Note: Although the peak of the Perseids this year will occur around August 11 - 13, these dates will coincide with a full moon. In my opinion, you're better off heading out to here or another dark sky area right now - when there will still be several hours of dark sky after moonset - rather than waiting for the peak.
Mount Laguna consists of a small general store, rustic lodge and cabins, local restaurant, rural post office, and campgrounds adjacent to the Pacific Crest Trail. The Laguna Mountain Recreation Area surrounds the village, and the visitor's center for the pine-covered area is located here. The mountain backcountry of San Diego County is high enough to receive snowfall in winter months, and the Mount Laguna region offers locally-unique winter recreation in the form of snow play, sledding, and cross country skiing for several days after larger storms. Mount Laguna is part of the Cleveland National Forest in San Diego County. This forest is named after former president Grover Cleveland.
This is the last of the bottle babies I am currently fostering. We named it Hendrix. All of them have 60''s names so he had to be Hendrix. He is the tiny runt of the litter and is a bit behind on his motor skills. He LOVES his food and is our best eater so I have no worries. He will catch up in no time!
This species rarely visits my backyard in the Texas Hill Country. The Inca Dove had a significant impact on the native American tribes and on the westward bound settlers, traders, trappers, explorers, and other human critters who ventured across the arid expanse of the southwestern frontiers. You could bet your life that the flight of an Inca Dove would lead you directly to the nearest water hole!
This will be my last upload for a few days as I've now run out of new stuff! Plus we're away this weekend, and the forecast isn't that great so it might be a while before I'm able to upload anything new. But I shall keep looking at all your lovely shots and leaving some comments.
So it was out into my back garden as the little pink weed is back again! This was taken using my nifty fifty and the good old Raynox DCR250 and my homemade flash diffuser :-)
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So! This was taken on my Yashica-Mat 124 using Kodak Ektachrome 64T. The film is tungsten balanced and then I had it cross-processed at the lab. This was the result, but I don't know that my scanning does it justice. The whites are very white and all the other colors are shifted towards blue/turquoise/green.
This was a major experiment. I had no idea how it would turn out. But I had fun with it and I like the uniqueness of the end result.
I have several of these shots that I've uploaded and you can view them all in my Hawaii set.
As this is my first time trying this technique - any and all feedback is welcome!!!
This tire shop on South Tacoma Way has a great retro awning. I took this on a cold morning and the frost was kissing the tops of the steel belted radials. I really like the framing and layering on this shot.
This tidy late MK3 has recently appeared on a local used car lot; so I thought it was worth a look at. It's a little too new for my liking as I prefer the pre-facelift model, but this Arctic II example is lavishly equipped with velour seats, body coloured bumpers and wait for it....air con! Considering it's 19 years old, it was bloody tidy having had one owner until last year and under 42,000 miles on the clock.
The modern number plates are not my cup of tea but it does have the original Kinnery dealer stickers on the rear window and bootlid. The interior was as new apart from some marks on the centre console and bar one or two tiny parking dents the paintwork was mint. The original mudflaps are present and correct and the wheel trims aren't the originals but are a good retro alternative. Furthermore the MOT history is quite alarming to read but the important bits seem to have been replaced and the rust seems to have been kept under control.
All this for £799, which I must admit isn't too bad at all.
This photo was taken at the Lingerie Football League's game on Friday October 23, 2009 in Grand Prairie, Texas between the Dallas Desire and the Los Angeles Temptation.
By the way ladies, if you are a member of the Dallas Desire and you need some professional photos, contact me and I'll be happy to have a photo shoot with you and give you all the images we shoot. I just can't believe how awesome you all are, and am happy to help out if I can.
Cheers!
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This is species I have very rarely photographed as I find them very flighty and they are always off before I can get the lens up or are too far away. This was was quite close and despite the appallingly black backlight I didn't think it was too bad. Great birds of moorland and upland fringe
This unusual looking vehicle was once in fact a small capacity city bus (most likely imported from Austria), but now the separated driver's room made it a good candidate for a mobile sauna.
Angelo Rotta rakpart, Budapest, HU
This my own take on the Sazabi mobile suit from the Gundam Series. This is a hybrid of Sinanju and Sazabi as i like certain aspects of each mech. Its coming full circle since i actually started out with my mech building through gunpla and then finally being able to replicate it back in lego :D
Build Video on youtube youtu.be/CM1_k6wkbOY
This was a bit of a surprise its in excellent condition for one of these! this is by far the best example I’ve found! On the rear its all complete too and its the rarer 13” version
This is an annual event in Williamstown, MA . I always enjoy taking some pics of the storefront displays
this was shot on an early morning photo day with www.flickr.com/photos/adambender/. the 1st time we have done the early rise in a long time where the skies and the weather worked out for us.
This is the Coast Guard Building at Race Point, Provincetown, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. One of my favorite artists, Edward Hopper, represented this building in one of his paintings many years ago.
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Charles and Odette Swann's eggs have finally hatched, and here's the family. I am as proud as if they were my own brood. The Swanns have built their nest in a brilliant place, it's a real struggle to get anywhere near them. I was literally paddling to get this close.
Had this idea while I was changing a bulb in my lamp.
Right now I am working in Barcelona for a few weeks, and near my new house there's this lush forest. I use to live in a big city in which you have to drive miles to get to a green point, so being here its a great opportunity for my to experiment and take new pictures in touch with nature.
To make this photograph I took several pictures of myself around the forest and my boufriend lighted me up with a huge lantern. Then I photoshopped the lamps on my heads. I hasn't been easy get to the colours I wanted for this picture, I liked the cold tones of the dark night and th warm of the lights.
This 1986 photo of dominoes players in Lampasas will be in a gallery show in Valley View next month. I has a 20x20 print made and matted with burlap and put in and old 26x26 window frame I reclaimed from an abandoned house. Nancy thinks it would look better in plain black.
Thoughts?
This Marketplace opened in 1988. In the mid-1990s it was renovated to its current rose-and-teal scheme. Some things have been replaced over the last five years, namely the aisle markers, and in May 2023 it was expected to be renovated soon afterwards. Given the Aldi acquisition situation it has yet to be remodeled as of October.
This is one of at least four places on my block were someone has written "Free Palestine" (or Gaza) and another person has followed with a more specific "From Hamas" message. I've seen one case where a third person painted over the "From Hamas." I don't know how long this has been going on, but I first saw them on January 26.
Vanderbilt Avenue, Prospect Heights. Brooklyn, NY
This is a special exhibition that is at the NGV at Federation Square in Melbourne and running until January 27, 2025. We get into a lift with this reminder on its door. "I was always here."
The exhibition is for Kamilaroi artist, Reko Rennie. It encompasses the intersection between culture, politics and identity from a First Nations perspective. Two of the main themes in Rennie's exhibition is the historic present tense, "I was always here," which ties him to his ancestors, and "Remember me," of which I will say something in the art work of that title.
another picture of one of those little warblers down at Cape May.
I just can't believe how cooperative these little cuties were about letting me get so close! I swear they were actually posing...lol!
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That’s my bedroom.
Or a reflection of it anyway.
I’ve lived in this fucking apartment almost 4 years. Living paycheck to paycheck, having shit credit combined with a money laundering bomb that I think is going to hit me in a few months weeks, I’m pretty much stuck here for the time being. So I decided over the past weekend to make the best of it and redo the fucker.
I figured the cheapest and most effective way to do this was to take everything down from my walls. So…….
All those 4x6 pictures I took 5 years ago that I probably edited in Microsoft Paint sitting in dusty broken frames. BYE BYE.
Some bullshit painting I got at that yard sale in 2006? ADIOS!
That lame ass Sears photo of my kid my mom demanded I put on my wall back in 2007? CIAO!
Sick of it ALL! I take and produce all these pictures on the internet and have nothing to show for it but a stupid soon to be forgotten photo stream on the internet. How lame?
Where you live should be your sanctuary. Whether it’s a small apartment like mine or a big giant house in the country or even a fucking cement dorm room, it doesn’t matter. There are countless things you can and should do to your living quarters to make it feel like home.
I think you can tell a whole damn lot about a person going off of what their home looks like. I remember last year I went over this couples apartment with my kid. Well, their apartment had nothing on the walls, a TV on the floor, no where to even sit. I felt like I was hanging out in that apartment they shot up heroin in the movie “Trainspotting” or something.
What does your place look like? Are you married and your spouse does all the décor? Do you at least have a room that is “yours”? Do you feel that this shit is as important as I do? Do you live in a cereal box? And lastly if so, is it a Captain Crunch cereal box? (then you rock) (otherwise you’re a loser)
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In researching this flower I learned that it has many names including "Naked Ladies". "Belladona Lilly" and "Belladonna Amaryllis". The flowers are growing up against a granite boulder and next to a fig tree on our property. The first time I posted a picture of these flowers back in August of 2013 I titled them Naked Ladies, and they became, and have remained, my most viewed image on Flickr. Currently that picture has over 200,000 views. The following year I photographed the 2014 version of the flowers and they became my second most viewed image on Flickr with over 160,000 views. Since then, people have gotten over the name and they receive normal view numbers when I photograph them every summer. This is one of the 2018 versions.
Lighting stuff: This was a three light setup using all Yongnuo strobes. From the front of the flowers I used simple, even lighting which comes from two Yongnuo flashes in 24 inch soft boxes, in front and on either side of the flowers, and pointed at the center. I used a 3rd flash in a Rogue grid, hand-held behind the flowers for back lighting. The strobes and my tripod mounted camera were triggered with a Yongnuo RF-603N trigger.
I've photographed a lot of plants and flowers, because they're all around us, work cheap, and never complain. I have an album of these images with over 1200 pictures, and for each one, I have described how I lit them, in case you're interested in that kind of thing.
From Wikipedia:
The common warthog is a medium-sized species, with a head-and-body length ranging from 0.9 to 1.5 m (3.0 to 4.9 ft), and shoulder height from 63.5 to 85 cm (25.0 to 33.5 in). Females, at 45 to 75 kg (99 to 165 lb), are typically a bit smaller and lighter in weight than males, at 60 to 150 kg (130 to 330 lb).[4][5] A warthog is identifiable by the two pairs of tusks protruding from the mouth and curving upwards. The lower pair, which is far shorter than the upper pair, becomes razor-sharp by rubbing against the upper pair every time the mouth is opened and closed. The upper canine teeth can grow to 25.5 cm (10.0 in) long and have a wide elliptical cross section, being about 4.5 cm (1.8 in) deep and 2.5 cm (0.98 in) wide. A tusk will curve 90° or more from the root, and will not lie flat on a table, as it curves somewhat backwards as it grows. The tusks are used for digging, for combat with other hogs, and in defense against predators – the lower set can inflict severe wounds.
Common warthog ivory is taken from the constantly growing canine teeth. The tusks, particularly the upper set, work in much the same way as elephant tusks with all designs scaled down. Tusks are carved predominantly for the tourist trade in east and southern Africa.
The head of the common warthog is large, with a mane down the spine to the middle of the back. Sparse hair covers the body. Its color is usually black or brown. Tails are long and end with a tuft of hair. Common warthogs do not have subcutaneous fat and the coat is sparse, making them susceptible to extreme environmental temperatures.
Ecology
The common warthog is the only pig species that has adapted to grazing and savanna habitats.[6] Its diet is omnivorous, composed of grasses, roots, berries and other fruits, bark, fungi, insects, eggs and carrion. The diet is seasonably variable, depending on availability of different food items. During the wet seasons, warthogs graze[6] on short perennial grasses. During the dry seasons, they subsist on bulbs, rhizomes, and nutritious roots. Warthogs are powerful diggers, using both their snouts and feet. Whilst feeding, they often bend their front feet backwards and move around on the wrists. Calloused pads that protect the wrists during such movement form quite early in the development of the fetus. Although they can dig their own burrows, they commonly occupy abandoned burrows of aardvarks[8] and other animals. The common warthog commonly reverses into burrows, with its head facing the opening and ready to burst out if necessary. Common warthogs will wallow in mud to cope with high temperatures and huddle together to cope with low temperatures.
Although capable of fighting (males aggressively fight each other during mating season), the common warthog's primary defense is to flee by means of fast sprinting. The common warthog's main predators are humans, lions, leopards, cheetahs, crocodiles, wild dogs and hyenas. Birds of prey such as Verreaux's eagle owls and martial eagles sometimes prey on piglets. However, if a female common warthog has any piglets, she will defend them very aggressively. On occasion, common warthogs have been observed charging and even wounding large predators. Common warthogs have also been observed allowing banded mongooses and vervet monkeys to groom them to remove ticks.
Social behavior and reproduction
Common warthogs are not territorial, but instead occupy a home range. Common warthogs live in groups called sounders. Females live in sounders with their young and with other females Females tend to stay in their natal groups, while males leave, but stay within the home range. Subadult males associate in bachelor groups, but live alone when they become adults. Adult males only join sounders with estrous females. Warthogs have two facial glands: the tusk gland and the sebaceous gland. Common warthogs of both sexes begin to mark around six to seven months old. Males tend to mark more than females. They mark sleeping and feeding areas and waterholes. Common warthogs use tusk marking for courtship, for antagonistic behaviors, and to establish status.
Common warthogs are seasonal breeders.[6] Rutting begins in the late rainy or early dry season and birthing begins near the start of the following rainy season. The mating system is described as "overlap promiscuity"; the males have ranges overlapping several female ranges, and the daily behavior of the female is unpredictable. Boars employ two mating strategies during the rut. With the "staying tactic", a boar will stay and defend certain females or a resource valuable to them. In the "roaming tactic", boars seek out estrous sows and compete for them. Boars will wait for sows to emerge outside their burrows. A dominant boar will displace any other boar that also tries to court his female. When a sow leaves her den, the boar will try to demonstrate his dominance and then follow her before copulation For the "staying tactic", monogamy, female-defense polygyny, or resource-defense polygyny is promoted, while the "roaming tactic" promotes scramble-competition polygyny.
The typical gestation period is five to six months. When they are about to give birth, sows temporarily leave their families to farrow in a separate hole. The litter is 2–8 piglets, with 2–4 typical. The sow will stay in the hole for several weeks, nursing her piglets. Common warthog sows have been observed to nurse foster piglets if they lose their own litter. This behavior, known as allosucking, makes them cooperative breeders. Allosucking does not seem to be a case of mistaken identity or milk theft, and may be a sign of kin altruism. Piglets begin grazing at about two to three weeks and are weaned by six months.[6] Warthog young quickly attain mobility and stay close to their mothers for defense.
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haha i had the best fun ever making this you will need your sunglasses for this one . it is a dark cold wet day so i decided to make mine full of colours hahaha and i learned how to make a photo huge . did all this on picknik dont really know how i decided this time to press every second button and this is what i got . i love big bright bold colours and i sure did get them . i loooooove pressing buttons to see what happens . running out of buttons on picknik to press will have to find something new to try out that is not too hard for me as i am not very good with computers lol as you can see haha
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