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My first build of the year is a little diorama featuring a very cute sea outpost combined with a very useful...um...outhouse.
Both the building has the same color scheme, medium azure for the walls, tan for little details and medium nougat for the roof. It's the first time I've used lavender plant leaves and I'm very happy with this color.
The little outpost is built half on rock and the other half on stilts. I added a handful of little details to let it fun and lively.
The white boat is inspired by that of Anthony Wilson.
Hope you like it!
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As the name suggests, the shaggy parasol has a shaggier cap than the parasol (Macrolepiota procera). The stipe (stem) is plain in the shaggy parasol, not patterned like Macrolepiota. Unlike Macrolepiota, it is not safe to eat -- some consumers suffer stomach upsets. The display on my new D5600 flips open and twists upwards, enabling pictures to be taken from a very low angle, a useful feature in this case.
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Once a very important contributor to the farm, this old machinery sets alone noticed only by the odd photographer passing by its lonely backroad.
This is a 'do over' trying to do justice to Senhor Vicente. Lightroom has new features that allow for more 'nuance' when 'developing' and 'printing' the 'negative.' The new tools are especially useful when working from photos made with a phone camera. :)
- Praia das Maçãs, Portugal -
Can you remember Ballerina, of course not, let me remind you. At the turn of the year I posted a photo of a twisted oak with its rusty leaves splayed out like a dancers tutu, all enhanced by the heavy frost on the trunk and branches of the tree. Well at last Ballerina has a new vibrant green tutu as I discovered last week while fighting with midges. This is my fifth visit in 8 months, it would of been more but it was cruelly curtailed by the lockdown where I missed some great snowy conditions. Anyway I’m really getting to know this woodland taking a leaf out of my woodland mentor @baxter.photos tree, which was extremely useful on this morning. Not wanting to hang around too long because of the midges, I knew exactly what I wanted to photograph documenting the seasonal change to the wood. Here is one tree I had earmarked for the morning, no misty conditions but its still centre stage for me.
BÄNDERSCHNECKEN (Cepaea) leben in Wäldern, Parks und Gärten. Am liebsten klettern sie auf Bäume. Ihrer Lebensweise entsprechend gibt es Wald-Schnirkelschnecken, Hain-Bänderschnecken, Garten-Bänderschnecken und die streng geschützte Gerippte Bänderschnecke. Ihnen allen gemeinsam ist die durch ein braunes Band hervorgehobende Spirale ihres kugeligen Gehäuses, dessen Grundfarbe zwischen Weiß, Gelb und Rosa variiert.
Der wesentliche äußere Unterschied zwischen Hain-Bänderschnecke und Garten-Bänderschnecke besteht in der Gehäusemündung: die HAIN-BÄNDERSCHNECKE besitzt eine dunkle Gehäusemündung, die GARTEN-BÄNDERSCHNECKE eine helle. Für den Garten stellen Bänderschnecken keine Gefahr dar, denn sie ernähren sich vorwiegend von Algen, die sie genüsslich abraspeln.
(Wikipedia)
Useful, no doubt, when lobster boats are tied up here, but nothing was on this rope today. There's no lobstering now, to protect endangered right whales in local waters.
For Smile on Saturday theme 'Lit by Candlelight'. Three candles were placed on the right of an old leaf that I had kept, thinking it might come in useful at some point.
The title for the image is misquoted from A Midsummer Night's Dream by WIlliam Shakespeare.
No snails were harmed in the making of this photograph.
This is my spotty cotton shawl which light and soft. I often carry it with me. I have used it as a scarf, a wrap, a blanket, a table cloth and a curtain. Further uses are still to be discovered.
Scene from trip to a favorite haunt, Olde Good Things in Scranton, PA
Postprocessed with Snapseed using portrait preset, contrast, local adjustments, and Lightroom to desaturate. .
Yesterday I spent a lot of time trying to track down information on this bench, and then for any other photo of the bench that might take me to a useful link....I gave up.
However, I am persistent, and this morning I searched for what was written as a heading on the bench i.e. Esk Coastal Habitat, and way down the URL list I spotted "There Is Another Alphabet - Invisible Dust", I nearly didn't click, but luckily I did and bingo!
invisibledust.com/projects/thereisanotheralphabet
And so discovered there are three three ‘There is another alphabet‘ benches, so we missed the other two; and that they date from 2022, so much newer than we realised.
The title comes from a poem by Dejan Stojanovic: “There is another alphabet, whispering from every leaf, singing from every river, shimmering from every sky.”
The link above has a pictorial map showing where the benches are.
As part of Wild Eye, the three sculptural benches were situated around Whitby Harbour, and were created with designs by local people about the wildlife of the Esk Estuary in collaboration with artists Juneau Projects.
BTW the list cross references to what is shown on bench - I have highlighted A, B and C with notes.
A. Beadlet anemone
B. Bottlenose dolphin
C. Cod
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S. Sandwich tern - I think that might have been on the back.
Useful fruit, pomegranate.
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Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
Buddha
Keep going on and take care my artist friend,
Sunny
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Sometimes, it's good to stand back and get a little bit of perspective on things. It's especially useful when showing your photo audience the size and scale of a scene, such as this one I captured of a couple taking in the immensity of the red-rock formations seen along the Navajo Loop Trail in Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah. Most photographers balk at including people - either because they don't want anything human in their landscapes or because they can't get model releases from them if they decide they want to try and sell the image.
For my editorial purposes, I like including people and man-made objects in my images (sometimes) for the purpose of scale as well as to give my viewers a perspective of the scene and some kind of reference for their mind to recognize.
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Still life photograph of a pretty pink yellow Pompon Dahlia.
Dahlia is a genus of bushy, tuberous, herbaceous perennial plants native to Mexico and Central America. A member of the Asteraceae family of dicotyledonous plants, its garden relatives thus include the sunflower, daisy, chrysanthemum, and zinnia.
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This would have been useful as protection from the rain and the hot sun at the Download Festival. Haven't decided which of the 1,100 shots I took to use as my shot of the week so I'll upload this one for a start.
The very useful foot (and bike!) ferry across the main Chicester channel. The channel eventually leads to the edge of the cathedral city of Chichester itself, the important remains of the Roman villa at Fishbourne and the site of the Roman harbour, now long silted up.
Part of a long and frustrating day's walk, the humid heat wave of late July broken overnight and replaced by flat grey cloud and a miserably cold wind I hadn't expected.
Taken with my phone as I thought I might need both hands for the ferry. A very useful service linking two remote corners of the harbour area, but also doing request stops, threading between the moored yachts on their buoys, picking up and dropping off their owners.
A long cold trudge of a day with few photographs due to the flat light.
[EN] Akebia quinta, flowering and wonderfully smelling creeper. In the photo you can see male and female flowers and the whole plant is useful, the leaves can be used for salad, flexible lianas, for example for knitting baskets and the fruits are also edible and very good.
[CZ] Akébie pětičetná, kvetoucí a úžasně vonící liána. Jinak rostlina je celá užitečná, listy se dají použít na saláty, liánovité výhony třeba na pletení košíků a plody jsou taktéž jedlé a výborné.
Dieses Affenkind hat seinen Lieblingsplatz gefunden. Gekonnt schaukelt er auf dem Ast und posiert sogar ein wenig kokett für fotografieren Touristen.
Ladybirds are useful garden insects, and although the Asian variety is an exotic here, it has much the same lifestyle as 'our' own kinds. So it's helpful as well in keeping aphids and other fungal pests at bay on garden plants.
Here's an Asian Ladybird in its late larval form on Artemisia absinthium, Absinthe or Wormwood (for another earlier larva see my www.flickr.com/photos/87453322@N00/43354130102/in/photoli...).
An adult is in the lower right inset, and a small flower of Absinthe in in the upper right. Absinthe, of course, is an additive to a notorious alcoholic drink. But it was once also medicinally used both as a purgative and as an antidote to intestinal worms (hence one of its common names). It's foliage is an attractive olive green; the flowers are tiny and yellow.