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This gnarly hawthorn tree would not have got a second glance without the help of this little flurry snow, now it has been transformed. All I had to do was to get some sort of separation from the chaos around it.
Macro Mondays
{BAM 17 of 52}
Theme: Transformation
I normally don't wear this much make-up but when I do I can honestly say I feel transformed. lol
Happy Macro Monday everyone! Hope everyone has a wonderful week!
By the way my eyebrows are having a bad day lol
PETER:
Today is International Read a Faerie Tale Day 2024
Will you read me the story of the Frog King Oleg?
OLEG:
I'm not very good at reading a story aloud, then you should ask Paddy or Orson for it.
www.flickr.com/photos/40262251@N03/
PETER:
Please Oleg...You just have to read out the beginning and the end of the story.
OLEG:
Well...give me that book then
(Oleg starts reading)
Once upon a time there was a princess
PETER:
The princess is Princess Rosie
OLEG:
Ok...again
Once upon a time, there was a princess called Rosie.
Princess Rosie, when it is hot, often goes to play by the well under the old lime tree in the dark forest near the castle. There it is cool. Princess Rosie often plays with a golden ball and one day the ball falls into a deep well. A frog hears her crying and wants to get the ball out of the well for her. He wants friendship with Princess Rosie as a reward
The frog gives her the ball and Princess Rosie runs away without saying anything.
PETER:
My princess Rosie would never do that
OLEG:
I tell on
The next day, the frog stands at the door of the castle and is let in
by the princess's father. Princess Rosie and the frog eat together from a golden plate and she takes the frog to her bedroom.
When the frog accidentally touches her cheek, it turns into a beautiful prince
PETER:
That's me, that's me!!! I am the prince
OLEG:
The prince....eh...I mean Prince Peter and Princess Rosie fall in love and they lived happily ever after.
PETER:
How could I be a frog
I don't get that.
OLEG:
Well....an ugly old witch had turned the prince into a frog and only the princess could free him from the well.
PETER:
Hehe...that witch was you Oleg
OLEG:
Peter!!! I am not old and ugly
PETER:
If you look angry you are
Can you read that last line again Oleg
Oleg reads the last line again.
PETER:
One more time Oleg!
OLEG:
Now I think it's enough
Thank you www.flickr.com/photos/40262251@N03/ for the use of Rosie's image in my photo montage.
Starting out as a young Boy Scout crossing lands of nature and now a young man marching through fields of blood...
Lemme know what you guys think! :)
(Based off of my Grandpa who served in WW2 as a tank commander and was a Boy Scout as a kid. Now he is one of 30 BSA Leaders in the USA.
P.S. Sorry its not much!
We were back to the gannet colony on Oct 10, 26 days later than when this image was taken. There has been quite a change in the appearance of the chicks and many of them had already left the nesting rock. I believe this to be the same chick as I photographed on Oct 10th (see previous image)
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Northern Gannets
Cape St Mary's NL
So far, the hominid seemed to anticipate the taking possession of himself. But as, in complete silence, a transformation begins, TiC suddenly hears an increasing rattling sound coming from deep down:
"A pupa (Latin pupa for doll, pl: pupae or pupas) is the life stage of some insects undergoing transformation. The pupal stage is found only in holometabolous insects, those that undergo a complete metamorphosis, going through four life stages; embryo, larva, pupa and imago."
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Nature often holds up a mirror so we can see more clearly the ongoing processes of growth, renewal, and transformation in our lives.”
from Lenareh's Garden, Lopez, Quezon
Explored: highest position #13
"I suggest that the most significant basis for meeting of men of different religious traditions is the level of fear and trembling, of humility and contrition, where our individual moments of faith are mere waves in the endless ocean of mankind's reaching out for God, where all formulations and articulations appear pear as understatements, where our souls are swept away by the awareness of the urgency of answering God's commandment, while stripped of pretension and conceit we sense the tragic insufficiency of human faith." This "tragic insufficiency sufficiency of human faith," according to Heschel, coupled with an acute yearning for God's presence, could foster the spiritual companionship of "humility mility and contrition," open-mindedness, as a precondition of true interfaith dialogue.'
--Abraham Joshua Heschel, (as quoted in Edward K. Kaplan, Spiritual Radical: Abraham Joshua Heschel in America, 1940-1972)
"The supreme issue today is not the halakhah for the Jew or the Church for the Christian-but the premise underlying derlying both religions, namely, whether there is a pathos, a divine reality concerned with the destiny of man which mysteriously impinges upon history."
--Abraham Joshua Heschel, (as quoted in Edward K. Kaplan, Spiritual Radical: Abraham Joshua Heschel in America, 1940-1972)
A Golden-crowned Sparrow appeared in a local park back in November and stayed through the winter until it left sometime around second half of April. This gave an opportunity to study how the bird plumage changed over the months from basic to breeding. Here's a composite of two photos, the one on the left was taken on Nov 21 2021, whereas the second on the right was taken on April 17, 2022. The faint yellow on its crown transformed into bright yellow with black marking around the eyebrow, giving it a full adult breeding plumage. Scarborough Heights Park, Toronto, Ontario.
Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.
– Robert Frank
"Du sollst aus Bösem Gutes machen, denn es gibt nichts, woraus man es sonst erschaffen könnte." (R.P. Warren)
(aus "Picknick am Wegesrand" von Arkadi und Boris Strugatzki)
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"You shall make good out of evil, for there is nothing else from which it can be created." (R.P. Warren)
(from "Roadside. Picnic" von Arkadi and Boris Strugatzki)
Transformation. The former EC-1 power plant in Łódź. After closing, transformed into a center of science and technology.
polaroid originals 600 color film converted to black and white
And please check out the new article on the Pryme Editions blog, featuring the ethereal photography of Rachael Baez: www.flickr.com/photos/rachaelbaez.
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I feel that butterlies perfectly represent the New Year or rather the change from one year to the next. It's rather funny how so much emphasis gets put on the changing of a calendar, does that much change from Dec 31 to January 1st?
While butterflies represent the new year, to me they also act as a metaphor to my own year it seems. I feel like I've made a slight transformation from hobbiest photographer to deciding to make art my priority and call myself an artist. It's been a crazy year full of all sorts of wonderful and unexpected twists and turns but that's what makes life so interesting!
No more oppression!
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Flickr, today was a pretty sad day- one of my pets died this night. she was quite old, a 14 year old cat. But I was really sad today and I feel like I am missing her.
I hope she is doing good, where ever she might be!
Keep it up, Annabel ♥
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Treat This #184 Friday Nov 24 --> Thurs Nov 30 thanks to SolanoSnapper for the source images flic.kr/p/21DXHFm and flic.kr/p/21GxXNi
i glitter upon your arrival
embracing your warmth
melting into you
~mao~
There is nothing more welcoming than the morning sun rising to bring warmth. It is even more exciting to watch the overnight icy crystal formation comes to life before your eyes the next morning, glittering like a beautiful symphony and melting away to start my day. I would like to thank all my wonderful friend, my ray of sunshine, my inspiration and my symphony conductors to start my 2024.
Just several months ago, these young pretty boys were colorless, skittish and not much different in appearance from their sisters.
The transformation into beautiful young males is complete and in the spring they will compete for the attention of eligible females in the countryside and the cycle of pheasant life will continue for another generation.
Ringed-neck pheasants after hatching in spring take between 2-3 months to become independent and can have up to a dozen or more siblings. If they make it through their first harsh Minnesota winter, they begin their mating season in mid-March.
Unlike some other birds, they are not monogamous and normally have a small harem they defend against intrusion from other males.
Once the female begins preparation for nesting, the male is nowhere to be found. He doesn’t help with nest building nor does he get involved in raising the chicks. Sometimes if you are lucky when driving in the countryside you can catch glimpses of tired, frustrated females reading self-help books in order to cope.
Though our pheasants are hardy birds, their lifespan is heavily influenced by the availability of food and adequate habitat during our inclement winters and cold springs.
A severe winter can see up to 50% of the pheasant population perish.
(Photographed near Cambridge, MN)