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This is Kiwi, and she let me take her picture. She belongs to a friend and I mentioned wanting to take a picture of Kiwi, so she said, I will leave the door unlocked, just go in and get her and grab some treats and make a go of it. She was extremely well behaved, she sat and she stayed and she posed. I got down on her level, my camera was basically @ ground level, used my 85mm, shot wide open for that creamy background, and my flash was mounted and diffused~
this is what I see looking out my kitchen door...this is very importent to me becouse for 30 years what I saw out my back door was my drunken neighbor sitting in his underwear.
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.
The rare Fly Bee Hybrid Orchid. Gloucestershire
Ophrys apifera x insectifera
From John and Gerry's Orchids of Britain and Europe:
Ths hybrid has been known since 1962 when the pollinia of O. insectifera was artificially introduced to O. apifera in the Halle district of the then East Germany. The first plants appeared in 1967 and were named O x pietzschii in recognition of the botanist who first undertook the pollination experiment. These plants did not however flourish and had disappeared by 1975.
In 1968, while the above events were happening in East Germany, similar plants were discovered at a woodland site in the Avon Gorge, Bristol, initially being considered aberrant forms of O. insectifera. It was not until 1976 that they were recognized as O. x pietzschii and as such were the first wholly natural offspring of a hybridization between O. apifera and O. insectifera. These plants survived for just over 15 years but in 1993 they followed their artificially created cousins into extinction.
The plant was however rediscovered in 2003 when three specimens were found growing at a most unlikely site on an embankment alongside the A303 in Somerset. This colony is currently thriving and in 2014 numbered nearly 40 individual plants, it seems that hybridisation is ongoing and interestingly only very small numbers of the parent species are ever present within the population. O x pietzschii is only known to be extant at one other site in Southern England and this orchid is therefore considered to be an extreme rarity. Despite being a hybrid it is not particularly variable, the lip being a uniform brown with sepals which are basically dull green, though often washed pink, sometimes heavily so. It can be a tall, robust plant with a dozen flowers which appear from mid May to early June.
This is the bulb I bought last year as "Ambiance". It had very different colouring and looked like Moonscene. This is it flowering again now - and it's very much like "Ambiance". How puzzling!
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This photo was shot during the Tuscany November 2015 photo workshop. There is a new workshop in Tuscany in November 2017. Please find the description here www.hanskrusephotography.com/Hans-Kruse-Photo-Workshops/T...
....this longtime (3-Generation old) Company
on Chicago's South Side- actively Buys/Sells/Repairs/Leases/Finances Industrial Food Preparation Equipment....
and is
also
where Bookwallah Organization
(my better 1/2's Life-Work!)
is fortunate to "rent" storage
for the huge Inventory of donated Children's Story Books-
that they use to supply the many Libraries they create & support around The Planet,
rehabilitating Orphans lives-
one soul-at-a-time.
This is what balsomroot is supposed to look like. Please check out my previous mutant balsomroot...it's so cool!
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mute swan ~ cygnus olor
This was a very friendly swan, it just seemed to want to communicate with us. Perhaps it was just asking for food.
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 huge turkey vulture stood on the hand rail of a bridge crossing and kept staring at me while I was approaching head on. I wasn't sure he was welcoming me or checking me out to see if I was a big piece of walking dead meat. As soon as I raised up my camera and took this shot, he decided to yield and fly off. So much so for the confrontation.
I had preset my camera to shutter priority mode (Tv) hoping that I could capture a few shots of him flying off. But I like this stationary shot better.
CameraCanon EOS 7D
Lens EF 100-400mm F4.5-5.6L IS USM
Exposure0.001 sec (1/1600)
Aperturef/6.3
Focal Length380 mm
ISO Speed1250
Exposure Bias+5/3 EV
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
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Model Valentina Gribkova
© i see the moon photography
For caring is a breeze that blows by
And returns only when it wants to
So cry, cry little angel forever because
You can't wrap your arms around the wind
Within lie the reasons for
This tangled web we weave
-johnny indovina
This is more interesting than the daytime photo I took here a couple of years ago. It was taken during the Lumiere event. This part of the riverside is not lit, but the church interior and market square behind the houses were lit up and this made a difference. Technically it is softer in the corners , some experimenting needed to understand exactly why. HDR used because of the extremes of lighting.
This photograph was made in the middle of nowhere in a place called Patseo just of Zingznbar on the Leh–Manali Highway.
We stopped here after long drive from Manali while heading to Leh. It was a strange feeling standing there alone, knowing that there was no civilization for miles...
This water is not even ankle deep, and yet by going underwater with the GoPro you enter a completely different world that almost might be a different planet! I love that! That's why I went back for a second newt shoot and tried some video! Watch for Blanca standing there at the end, wondering what I'm doing!
southern Oregon, USA
This southern beachfront lies at the entrance to the Cabo San Lucas Marina. Photo from the Espinoza Carmona Luis walkway on the North. Photo by my wife Barb. Print Size 13x19 inches.
Another five images taken on 22 August 2024, when I drove a long way SE of Calgary, to visit a familiar old ghost town.
This ghost town is only tiny. You can walk anywhere, right up to each building. There is usually information posted about what you are seeing. I never go inside these old structures (only the restored church), but you can look through the windows.
29 August 2024 - rain, rain and more rain yesterday. Had my heating on, too. When I went to close my kitchen blinds late in the evening, it looked like there was a thin layer of snow on my neighbours's cars!? Rain is more welcome than ever at the moment, as Calgary is yet again going through water restrictions, including indoor use. On 26 August, the first day of this second water main repair episode, Calgarians apparently were not cutting back anywhere near enough, and if this doesn't improve, Calgary is going to run out of water. Warning! Going to be 'fun' for the next few weeks. Today, 29 August, it is sunny and warmer. Apparently, snow now in the mountains, though!
Another five images taken on 22 August 2024, when I drove a long way SE of Calgary, to visit a familiar old ghost town.
This ghost town is only tiny. You can walk anywhere, right up to each building. There is usually information posted about what you are seeing. I never go inside these old structures (only the restored church), but you can look through the windows.
On 22 August 2024, I made a long trip SE of Calgary. My destination was a small, almost-ghost town that I had visited three (?) times before. If I remember correctly, this was my fourth visit - the others were in July 2020, August 2022 and 18 September 2023.
Basically, my day was pretty much similar to the day I last went out there, on 18 September 2023, so I am going to use the description I wrote under last year's photos, with a few changes.
On 22 August 2024, the weather forecast was pretty good and turned out to be unusually correct. Sunny, blue sky, and puffy, white clouds.
Most of my driving was on the main roads, in order to get to my destination as quickly as possible. The total drive of 489 kms took me just over 9 and a half hours, between 8:35 am and 6:00 pm. Much as I would have loved to check out a few back roads, I knew I absolutely had to get home before my car ran out of gas. The only time I left the highway was to quickly keep an eye open for any Common Nighthawks - none.
Last year, the small ghost town, that I was so keen to revisit yet again, had to be seen from my car, because it was too windy to walk, which was a shame. A challenge to take photos, sitting in a car that is being rocked by the extreme wind.
Once I reached the ghost town, I was the only person there. It is only a small place with a handful of old buildings, but very nicely kept. One of its main buildings is a small, country United Church, kept in great condition both inside and out. I had read online beforehand that people can go inside the church and sign their Guest Book, otherwise I probably would not have gone in. Really like the door knobs to the front door. The link below gives a very interesting, detailed history, including an old photo of the church in 1980, before restoration. I would love to have seen it back then.
www.facebook.com/LethbridgeHistoricalSociety/posts/retlaw...
As well as the old ghost town, I also wanted to check on a favourite abandoned house - simple, old and leaning. It was a relief to find that it was still standing. When I had slowed down to take a few photos, a truck came from the opposite direction and stopped. I was delighted when the driver said she was the owner of the old house! So interesting. She gave me permission to go closer, with a warning that there are pit holes, so to be careful. I thanked her, but told her that I always take photos of old barns/houses from the road, anyway.
From there, I took more or less the same route home. Rather late in the season for wildflowers, but I was happy to spot one little cluster of Chicory growing at a road edge. Very few birds to be seen, too, apart from a few hawks, Horned Larks, and a Vesper Sparrow. Fortunately, I still had a little gas left in the gas tank. Always a concern when I do a long drive.
It was a great day. and my timing was good, as the other evening, we had a huge storm! Lots of rain, thunder, continuous lightning in all directions for quite a while. I have rarely seen a lightning storm like that.
This gorgeous sky added to the excitement and glitz of being on the boardwalk in Wildwood, New Jersey.
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 is a picture I deliberately made gray. Taken on a not sunny day, post processing reduced the already dark green even more.
The picture was taken with the Nikkor AF-S 50 mm/1.4G, to get the unsharp plant double in the background.
#307 on Explore on 2009-03-27.
...And I love it that way too! ...And I know you love it too!
Evening of Day Two at Keystone 2015 had me wearing this ensemble to the bar for a last drink before retiring to take up my flickr- um... responsibilities!
This ensemble is built around this incredibly snug fitting black vinyl & red lycra spandex minidress with laser cutouts on the left side & arm that came from greatglam.com. I've matched it up with my black Platino Luxe 40 denier pantyhose worn over Hanes Alive Barely There support hose from onehanesplace.com and finished off with my black vinyl peep toe platform pumps from venus.com.
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Taken through the kitchen window. I'd looked out earlier but the sun was clouded over and the peanut feeder seemed to be in darkness. Then this beautiful little Blue Tit landed on it, but of course had his back to me for ages... just as he turned around the sun came out and I had this perfect moment as he lifted his head and posed for just a millisecond :)
Have a very happy weekend everyone.... I'm off to work :( :(
Thankfully it's only until lunch time :)
Thank you everyone for the fantastic comments on my last upload and sorry again that I'm taking forever to catch up :(
Because I went outside to take pictures for myself, not for my 365. And that was a nice feeling.
Inspired by all the amazing water pictures I've seen lately. There have been too many to even attempt to put all the links in.
I may upload more from this at some point. They're all a little grainy but I got over it.
This has been a great year for monarchs, but some of the plants are quite full. I took multiple photos of this duo hoping that one would end up with both in focus in good poses.
This truck from the Republic of Macedonia was travelling down the A14 road, between Huntingdon and Cambridge. The trailer and truck was registered to the municipality of Å tip (Shtip), located in the central-east of the Republic of Macedonia.
A14, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
This yacht has been parked in the same spot since at least 2005, although the mast has been unstepped since then. It's not clear if it's a very slow restoration or if it's been abandoned.
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 mountain is esentially a corner, with the bowl around the lake acting as a turn around the mountain. Off to both the left and the right of the mountain are long, wide valleys, which RAF jets often fly low along for training.
This is a stereo photo that can be viewed by crossing your eyes to overlap the two photos in the middle.
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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[ EXPLORED # 94 BEST POSITION EVER . march 5th 2011 ]
This mobbing
Not so fragile, after a very strong wind that has damaged strong buildings, and the frost...
Took this photo in Ingram street in Glasgow's merchant city
"Hi can i take a photo of you it's for a project called people of Glasgow
" I'm not from Glasgow"
"That's okay where you from?"
"I'm from Greece"
"How long have you been in Glasgow?"
" A few months, I am working here and i love Glasgow it is such a vibrant city. I'm sure your project will do well since Glasgow is so friendly"
This picture is #79 in my 100 strangers project. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page
This picture was taken at a Christmas party that my husband and I went to on December 6, 2018. This is at the Kitalou Gin just east of Lubbock. This is an old cotton gin that is now an event center that is used for weddings and parties.
I for some reason really like this one not sure way though.
I am getting into the whole 20s to 40s period its was such a nice time for fashion up until the war years of course when things got a little plain. mind you those troubled years then led to the explosion known as the 50s and we all love those styles don't we
This castle owes it's current decor due to the work of one man who renovated and expanded the building during the 19th century.
The building can be traced back to the Roman periods. It is reported that in 780 Charlemagne could have passed by the place on his way back from Rome, where he went to have his son baptized by the Pope.
In the 1970’s from the 20th century the castle was transformed into a hotel, only to close its doors in the 1990’s. The castle remains unused to this day.
The castle is built in different styles; including Moorish and Indian. It has 365 rooms and every room has a different theme.
The man down Italian toll tour. Taking in some Italian delights on a 4 day explore.
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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 :-)
Thanks for taking the time to visit. Any comments or faves are appreciated