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The black-winged stilt (Himantopus himantopus) is a widely distributed, very long-legged wader in the avocet and stilt family Recurvirostridae. Its scientific name, Himantopus himantopus, is sometimes used to generalize a single, almost cosmopolitan species. Alternatively, it is restricted to the form that is widespread in Europe, Asia and Africa, which equals the nominate group of H. himantopus sensu lato. Meanwhile, the black-necked (H. mexicanus) and white-backed stilts (H. melanurus) both inhabit the Americas; the pied stilt (H. leucocephalus) ranges from Australasia and New Zealand. Today, most sources accept between one and four actual species.
Adults are 33–36 cm (13–14 in) long, with long, pink legs, and a long, rather thin black bill. The birds are generally black above and white below, with a white head and neck (with a varying amount of black, species-dependent). Males have a black back, often with a greenish gloss or sheen. Females' backs have a brownish hue, contrasting with the black remiges. In populations where the top of the head is normally white (at least in winter), females tend to have less black on the head and neck the entire year-round, while males often have much more black, particularly in summer. This difference is not clear-cut, however, and males usually grow all-white head feathers in winter.[citation needed]
Immature birds are grey, instead of black, and have a markedly sandy hue on their wings, with light feather fringes appearing as a whitish line in flight.
I keep feeling all space as my image
but lines are leading beyond the image
and what they touch is the marvelous...
From Poem by Sanders Russell.
I have just uploaded 4 stills from my film Atlas Dei. This film is largley constructed of my art animated to the most magnificicent music of Robert Rich. To learn more about the film go to www.atlasdei.com
Air Atlanta Icelandic flight ABD764 with the TF-AMP touches down on Runway 25 at Rockford, IL on a 9 hour flight from Frankfurt, Germany.
Sometimes I wonder why I love so much to work on sky textures, tones, lights...
Maybe it's because it gives me a vast space to play with, this "negative space" that is so positive to me!! It's trough these negative spaces that I can express things I want to say but for which I don't always have the words.
They certainly represent a kind of continuation of my thoughts :)
Second picture from my recent series of seflies ;)
These photos were taken during the Spring 2009 migration of the Sandhill Cranes. About 20,000 of them pass through Colorado on their way to summer breeding grounds near Yellowstone. The Monte Vista Wildlife Refuge is in the San Luis Valley of Colorado, surrounded by 14,000' mountains and covered in farmland and wetlands.
This photo was made for Richard Renaldi's Touching Strangers project (www.touchingstrangers.org). "Since 2007, Richard Renaldi has been working on a series of photographs that involve approaching and asking complete strangers to physically interact while posing together for a portrait. Working on the street with a large format eight-by-ten-inch view camera, Renaldi encounters the subjects for his photographs in towns and cities all over the United States. He pairs them up and invites them to pose together, intimately, in ways that people are usually taught to reserve for their close friends and loved ones."
My photo was taken at at the TEDx Leiden event (www.tedx-leiden.nl). These strangers did not need much direction in terms of making a connection.
Baima snow mountain
Yunnan Province, China
Heading toward Kawakarpo in the far northwest of Yunnan (and approaching Tibet) , the long and winding road is breathtaking as views of unusual geology and the Baima snow mountain reserve come into view. They were shrouded in snow storm clouds for much of the day but occasionally they peaked through enough for us to stop and snap a couple.
The day was bleak but for some reason flickr seems to not want to show the yellow trees very well :\
"Here were gulls who thought like he thought. For each of them, the most important thing in living was to reach out and touch perfection in that which they most loved to do, and that was to fly." Jonathon Livingstone Seagull by Richard Bach
Texture with thanks by Boccacino
On a visit to Paradise Harbour, Antarctica, the zodiac drivers let visitors "touch the icebergs" on our way back to our ship Discovery.
Grape vines shot early morning in Trinity county, Ca.
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Nikon D40x
Nikkor 18-200 mm
Hand-held
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1/125 sec.
75 mm
f/5.3
Iso 200