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breeding herd in Lake Manyara National Park, Tanzania
African Bush Elephant or African Savanna Elephant
loxodonta africana
Afrikaanse olifant
Eléphant d'Afrique
Afrikanischer Elefant
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" ... I wonder whether that is really a valuable gem stone but I hope it is of some value and I will become a rich bear ....."
[Dedicated to CRA (ILYWAMHASAM)]
Size : < 1 ½ “ x 2 ¼ “
😄 Happy Macro Monday 😄
Taken July 30, 2023 for the group
Macro Mondays #Stone
GigaSet GS290
ƒ/2.0
3.5 mm
1/50 Sec
ISO 245
... for a happy, hot Sunday!
Crimson clover / Inkarnat-Klee (Trifolium incarnatum)
in our garden - Frankfurt-Nordend
... a little favourite of mine.
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Type of potato flowers. This one is very tiny.
Probably Solanum Nigrum (wiki)
I was amazed to learn potatoes, eggplants, tomatos are all included in this Solanum family and flowers are all very similar.
* I like birds but this is not a bird
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Lesser celandine (Ficaria verna),
diameter approximately 15 milimetres
In german: Scharbockskraut, Durchmesser ca. 15 Milimeter
Copyright © 2019 by Scimo
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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 😊
My wife bought a small pot of this tiny plant in flower about a week ago. This flower was about the same size as my little finger nail. I had to bring it indoors to photograph, not something I like to do but it was breezy and playing havoc with this leggy little lady. I took it with a 90mm macro in apsc mode, effectively giving almost 1.5x magnification.
Mossy Saxifrage.
Alpino Early Limer
A tiny snail trying to ascend the wooden wall of our flower rack.
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Hello my amazing Flickr friends !
Today is a yellow day at Color my World Daily and this means we are in the middle of the week already !!! Isn’t that crazy ? The time flies so fast ! So here we are with another yellow picture. This one is all about watching what I eat. I need seriously to get back on track! And since we are Wednesday already that means that I have technically only one day left lol. We all know that starting a diet on Friday or during the weekend is virtually impossible for me… So you see, if i start something it has to be on Thursday … And since Thursday is a day off in Quebec this week, chances are that healthy eating will have to wait until next week or next year lol. Honestly my motivation is non existant right now. So that is why, we have Mr. Wooden Hand giving me a hand with my picture and showing a good exemple by holding a tiny apple (from a Lego set). This picture sums it all: I need a healthier diet and smaller portions ;-). And voilà !
But right now: another video meeting and coffee !! Mucho, mucho amor for you all !! Have a beautiful day my friends !! See you later!!
Thank you so much for all your lovely comments / favs/ general support / happy thoughts!! Stay safe and well!! And see you soon on Flickr !!
This tiny lichen - Cladonia cristatella or British Soldier were growing along my sister's fence.
Thanks Rodger_Evans and [https://www.flickr.com/photos/pogspix] for the ID!
HFF and TGIF!
that's the day i was born and hence, i had a birthday on april 9th, 2009! AHHHH!
it was a fun day. though it ended with bloatedness after drinking a soy chai at a restaurant. it was the powder mix chai, which, from experience, tends to be laden with dairy... Oh NOES! . . .
in any case, it was still fun. a guy gave me a HUGE purple cellophane wrapped basket of homemade peanut butter cookies he made himself, pretty white roses, funny balloons, and a card about BOOTYBUTTS (the card i received at work was about a toilet and poo... ironic much?)! his mom got me a to-die-for gift card to starbuck's (i whole-heartedly support the local coffee and tea shops, but sometimes, they just aren't around when you need 'em the most!)
then he and i went out to breakfast/lunch/brunch/whatever you wanna call it at T.C. Eggington's. they have great vegetarian choices... "portobellini"... yum! on the way to breakfast, we saw a mother and her tiny baby ducks by the freeway in the puddle-y canal/gutter/whatever you wanna call that. it was cool because it was my birthday and they were cute, yet odd because it was by a freeway and not in a park, or in my school's irrigation or something. them duckies must be suffering economically too, eh?
so after that, i contemplated going back home to work on a commedia dell'arte mask for theatre class, but decided to just veg and hang with this guy at his apartment (i find vegging out, doing nothing a bit difficult to do sometimes).
later on, we met up with my parents to eat dinner at the Euro Cafe in Gilbert, AZ. a great foodsie greeky place. and that's where, you know, *ahem*... the soy-chai-laden-with-dairy-omg-why-did-i-order-this fiasco happened. so after dinner, with all of us feeling like cows (even though i hardly ate anything and they ate like contestants in a hotdog eating contest), we went to Wal-Mart of all places. i'm particularly NOT a Wal-Mart fan, but since i was at Wal-Mart and it might be cheaper than at other places, i bought vanilla soy ice cream because i was magnetized/hankering for some.
we finally headed home around 11pm, after which i quickly shoved this guy out the door and kissed him goodbye, so i could heat up some of those peanut butter cookies and WHAM BAM!... inhale hot cookies n' ice cream. mmmmmmmmmm... no cake this year. and i wanted it that way. no one even sang to me either i noticed, but that's perfectly ok. it's not a crime. wait wait...i take that back: he played the weird al birthday song... so essentially, i was sung to in mp3 format. :)
oh yeah, and at work today for my 'employee birthday'... i made up fruit, granola, & yogurt parfaits for everyone. someone bought all the ingredients (i requested it instead of birthday cake), and i went right to work -- whipping up those babies during my lunch break. i was so amazed some people didn't know what a parfait was or how to make them.
well, now they know :)
suffice to say, i'm on a parfait kick now. i hadn't had one in a year before that day. soy yogurt though. yes, please. :)
p.s. thanks dude for taking these kickity arse photos!
Twop like a TwitterBunny
Hello my amazing Flickr friends !
Today is a green day at Color my World Daily and of course we have a green picture.
Apparently tiny houses are the « thing » right now ! Lot of people dream about living in their own, super modern and minimalistic, tiny house. You can even produce your own electricity and live from your tiny vegetable garden… I always wondered how you must feel living in a tiny house… since you have less possessions you must appreciate everything more … On the other hand, I don’t think I will ever be able to reduce my belongings in order to fit in a tiny house… In our case, the amount of stuff we have, I should consider to buy a village of tiny houses !! And as we all know by now, my green thumb is non existent so I assume we would starve to death after one year of living in our tiny house and eating our own vegetables from our tiny garden …
Today is my laundry day and just by looking at the amount of clothes in my laundry basket, the tiny house is out of question.
Mucho, mucho amor for you all !! And see you soon !!
Thank you so much for all your lovely comments / favs/ general support / happy thoughts!! Stay safe and well!!
... it doesn't matter , big or tiny,
perfect or imperfect,
big brooms know every corner,
tiny brooms smile tears,
both are floating,
sometimes ...
Stay safe out there everyone!!
This tiny critter called “Woolly Aphid” is the smallest insect I’ve ever photographed. About 1 mm long.
On a not so tiny bear :-)
So far, this is one of my favorite photos from my trip. I just really like how his eyes show up so nicely. We were close enough and this is cropped so little that the quality of the photo was not compromised.
I like how the fur on his face is so smooth from having been underwater and it really emphasizes the shape of his face. I also love how the hair that was not submerged stands up so nicely, kind of like a lion's mane. Then, the bubbles. I just liked how the bubbles looked rolling off his back.
He'd been snorkeling for fish. That's a method often used by the older and more experienced bears. When snorkeling, they move slowly through the water with just their faces submerged as they look and smell for salmon.
With this method, they expend very little energy which helps them accumulate more fat on their bodies rather than running and splashing all over the place, burning fat, when they need to store it.
Anyway, you guys might not like it as much as I do, I can never tell what others will like best. But this one does it for me.
A few days ago, I was in a small pond that had little water and was covered with plants and trees around it. The lights and shadows made pretty patterns on the water. I focused the camera on the brightest parts and took some photos to see what life forms I found and what surprise the pond gave me. Of the photos I took, I kept two, one that has the fly on a leaf and the other that has a party of lights and shadows in abstract mode.
Please, see it in Large, the fly is very tiny!
Sony ILCE-7M2 | Tamron 35mm
I've been sick on my back for a number of days with a sinus infection. This is to announce my return to health! (I hope I haven't spoken to soon.)