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Macro shot of a swan feather with the beautiful down tops waving to the mirror.
I placed it in the harsh light and this is the outcome !!
The Smile on Saturday theme for today, 8/14, is “flat lay”. It will probably come as no surprise to those who know me that I decided to use the tops/lids of some of the teapots in my collection. Of course, now I have to match them with the right teapots!
It's wonderful how the sun can light up the whole tree line in one minute and then let the shadows pass over only to come back and rim the tops of the trees in gold.
Just in the right place at the right time for this one. I was watching in another direction, waiting for the sun to do its magic. I looked to the right to move my position and noticed this oddity. A section of tree tops, and their reflections were being painted by the sun. So, I took the shot then moved on. Not a great photo, I did not have my tripod, but sometimes you just get lucky.
Taken near Hope, British Columbia, Canada.
We went out on Saturday morning and found a little used track in the mountains. By unusually good luck I found myself in the middle of a warbler fallout, almost all of the Yellow-rumped variety.
My attention (as may be expected) was focused on the tops of conifers where I would say 200+ warblers were cavorting from limb to limb with avian zest. In the midst of this event, this... this...... (might I say jealous resident) descended from on high and began to pose at close unobscured distances from my camera. I took this as a deliberate attempt by this vain fellow to purvey attention for himself (or for herself as the case may be......nuance).
Yes, this is an unusually camera friendly Steller's Jay!
*No peanuts were injured, unshelled, cached or consumed in the making of this photo. Not even in post-production!*
Steller's Jay
View from High town In the pretty little market town of Bridgnorth Shropshire....
Thank you for the views and lovely comment's my friends...
Tikki with Tops (my Darling with Dreidels)
Tikki doesn't usually have these tops as allocated cat toys, but struck me as possibly useful for an early holiday photo. Happy Caturday theme 17 October 2020 is 'Catphabet."
Note: photo was renamed above thanks to Karl Lembke. Happy Hanukkah / Chanukah!
"Doubly happy, however, is the man to whom lofty mountain tops are within reach."
- John Muir
“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.”
Back home after two wonderful weeks in Cullen.Last year we found our new favourite place to sit and relax.A short walk along the coastal path and you see a sign for Nelson's Seat,it points up a steep path to the top of the cliffs,So we followed the path and what a location it gives 360deg views ...out over the Moray Firth,back into Cullen and over to Bow Fiddle Rock,down the coast to these dramatic cliffs and back in land over the farm land filled with wheat and barley,We sat there for most of the morning just taking it all in ...After doing a little research I have found the the building in shot is Logie house and was last occupied in 1895 but records show a house here as early as 1745
Most mornings this spring, as I welcomed the sun from the blind at Brick Pond I was serenaded by the deep, resonating "rooom-rooom-rooom" sound of bullfrogs as they signaled to their mates. More often heard than seen, a few times I had scanned the water in front of the blind but previously hadn't located the culprit. On this overcast Saturday morning I had been looking further out when I noted a suspicious bump in the water nearby. Using my lens to pull me closer I peered out to find an eye glancing back at me. Shortly after I found a second, hiding in the reeds. Bullfrogs have eyes situated on the tops of their heads, allowing them to remain inconspicuous under water as they watch out for threats.
Late summer early light dawns over Blue Lake and the ragged peaks surrounding the Sabrina Basin. A bit windy on this morning, eliminating any chance of a great sunrise reflection in the lake. The view is hard to top in the Sierra, no matter the conditions.
John Muir Wilderness. Kings Canyon NP boundary at the peak tops.
Isaiah 17:13 “But he will put a stop to them, and make them go in flight far away, driving them like the waste of the grain on the tops of the mountains before the wind, and like the circling dust before the storm.”
B&O's Mineral City local soars over the roof tops of houses in Mineral City with loads of crude for a refinery in Pennsylvania. The oil was collected from loading racks at the end of the Huff Run branch which was a switchback from near the south end of the trestle. The 860 ft trestle crossed over Huff Run and the switchback then went 3 miles up the creek to reach the loading racks. Before oil was loaded, the branch was built to reach a coal mine, several brick yards and a sand/gravel operation. Oil gave new life to the branch and 3-4 times a week, the local would bring 10 loads back to Akron. A new loading rack was built in 1985 several miles to the north that allowed removing the trestle and the branch,. The W&LE bought the line from the B&O in the early 90's and continues to move oil from the new terminal between Mineral City and Sandyville. August 1974
First light as the morning sun sweeps down onto our beautiful town. Wirksworth awash with swirling smoking chimney tops, what an absolutely amazing place to live.
Happy Monochrome Bokeh Thursday ;o)
One from the archives, taken at Leith Hall gardens on a windy October day. I had no idea what it was I'd shot, and I've finally realised it is the remains of clematis flower heads! This year I bought more clematis plants, and some of the varieties produce these curling mop tops ... so at last I know!
Hope you had fun with Halloween - it was quiet here and too cold for many of the young ones to be out in the dark. So we had a welcome, restful evening after a manic start to the week.
B/W Tinted and Mono Here
My Clematis set: Here
(Continuation. See the texts of the earliest images of this series. The whole images from these series are already on my insta and behance www.behance.net/gallery/140662555/Give-Peace-a-Chance-%28..., but without these texts)
It’s like living in the nightmare, which have all the signs of nightmare but one or two. You’re pinch your elbow. You could feel it. You couldn’t wake up. So, it’s not the nightmare. But it definitely is. You know the feeling. And now all of us, trapped in this nightmare, are desperately need to stop it from within.
In Russia it’s worse because of living in it more than 20 years. And our lives turned into a nightmare little by little so as not to be noticed. Teeny-weeny little nightmarish element in the more or less normal life. More nightmare but partly acceptable one. Even more but we get used to it. Just a little bit more but we got Stockholm syndrome and our sensitivity dropped and severely damaged. After all we had the good old Europe to skip in emergency and every time when we needed just one more breath of fresh air, please. As well as all the beautiful world. We had our blessed inner emigration, we have the cosmopolitan circle of our own. We and the nightmare system barely noticed each other. That’s the very point. The system had nothing to do with our true real lives. Like the street crime, TNCs and sects. We had the biggest thing after our loves – our arts. Our tops of our semi-private worlds. And than – February 24th, the full-scale nightmare and not any comfortably numbness and Stockholm tricks and all other mean psychological manipulation which is those bread and high don't work anymore. Even the last vestige of all the system, the instinct for self-preservation, sometimes is ready to give up and now telling from its depths: “It depends”.
To be continued…
The spring dalesbus season is now operating, the main change is the firstgroup flirtation with the services is sadly over. East Yorkshire & Reliance now operate the Hawes route still with deckers and a slightly amended timetable. Here Reliance BJ11EAE climbs out of Cray and onto "the tops" before the decent into Richmondshire.