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This tree started life as a sapling that was given to me from a friend over 30 years ago, when we bought our house....
I can't get over the amount of perfect blossoms it gifted me this year....
Sorry... but I can't help myself...
This photograph was taken from the Lower Seletar Reservoir Heritage Bridge looking towards the Orchid Country Club at sunrise.
It was a slightly breezy morning, with some movements of the reservoir surface. The sun has arisen above the vegetation and appeared brightly while the sun was captured as a sunstar. The various slowly drifting clouds were illuminated differently and provided contrasting colours and shapes to the beautiful landscape.
Best wishes for a relaxing weekend!
This was used as artwork for a digital single release by musician Joe Hodgson who is launching his latest work and website this summer. All creative and arts folk are having to navigate difficult times this year!
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This little Pine Siskin blends well into his surroundings. I saw movement in the bushes but it took some looking up close and patience to capture him with my camera.
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This is a fall female and you can see the differences from the previous post. She is a rather dull female so she could be a first fall bird as sometimes it is hard to age this species. Notice the uniform brownish appearance of the face patch without any black along the upper and/posterior edge as you would be expected in a first fall male. First fall males also tend to have more black in the plumage dorsally. I did a more distant crop to bring in some of the early fall yellows in the leaves. My settings were a bit much here but in early morning with different lighting around and rapidly changing lighting with different birds in a flock moving around sometimes you just have to grab the shot with what you have.
This is National Tree Week here in Ireland {5th of March onwards} where we celebrate
our trees. We havent got many but thankfully since 2000 they have started planting more of our native hardwood species and less of those horrid Norway Spruce that block out light from the forest floor and prevent all the wonderful undergrowth, fungii and wild flowers from growing. Of course they are a commercial crop and vital for the economy. Indeed, Coilte, the forestry people here do great work as they allow access through there land and plantations to access the trails and mountain tracks which I love so much.
I dont think theres is anything more wonderful than Oak trees.
This tree which is an Irish Oak [Quercus Petraea] is reckoned to be over 400 years old and is growing in the Powerscourt Valley, near the waterfall here in Co. Wicklow. The ground and the humidity seems to suit them better than the more common English Oak [Quercus Robur] which are also magnificent trees.
I would really love to see more of your tree photos here on Flickr as the truly are such beautiful things.
Do hope you like it! Catch up with you later,
P@t. x.
This picture is a render I did some 5 years ago using Poser software. I think that I managed not only to capture a good likeness of her face but also her figure. I used 3 point lighting. The shadows accentuate the curves of her figure. : )
This anhinga has spearded this fish underwater and brought it to the surface.
The question remains, how do you get a double speared fish off your twin beaks and down your throat?
Well I will tell you if you have patience.
First and foremost is keep tension on your beaks; keep them spread apart so the fish can't 'wiggle' off your beaks.
Next - keep it at the end of your beak(s) for a long time, why?
Well you want it to stop struggling ....
Then, thrash it all about..................
See the photos in the comments
Now that the anhinga has moved it (quite quickly) up, down, sideways, and upside down, the anhinga prepares for the end of this phase of the process, which is the...........
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"Days like this.
Yeah you think about the ones that went before you.
Days like this.
Have you ever seen the sky such a clear blue."
*My planet, My Life.*
*Simple reason, Simple stories, Planet is circulate and “Life” is a season. *
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At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. - Abraham Lincoln, 1838
This was a shot taken this past week from Mesa Arch in Canyonlands. I have been wanting for months to capture the moon rising under Mesa Arch.
Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la Bête)
Tale as old as time
Tune as old as song
Bittersweet and strange
Finding you can change
Learning you were wrong
Certain as the sun
Rising in the east
Tale as old as time
Song as old as rhyme
Beauty and the Beast
« A Cat and goose chase »
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The Violin Player this lady was playing the violin at a turn of the century reenactment at the pioneer village in North Carolina.
This wooden house in the Carpenter's Gothic architectural style was build in 1888. It is called "The Arthouse" and is now a popular backpackers' hostel.
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