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The Painted bunting is a small brightly-colored member of the cardinal family. The males are brightly colored with blue, green, red and yellow plumage. Females and juveniles are bright green with pale rings around their eyes. The male is considered by many to be North America's most beautiful bird, and they are one of the most popular visitors to bird feeders. Painted buntings are one of the most spectacularly colored and visually impressive birds in the United States and are the only U.S. bird with a blue head along with red underparts.
Painted Buntings are still fairly common, but populations have been dropping for several decades. The North American Breeding Bird Survey estimated a decline of 62% between 1966 and 1995, but the 1966-2014 survey does not find significant decreases, suggesting that populations may have stabilized, or at least the decline has slowed, since 1995. Partners in Flight estimates a global breeding population of 13 million, with 80% spending at least part of the year in the U.S., and 51% in Mexico. The species rates a 12 out of 20 on the Continental Concern Score, and is not on the 2014 State of the Birds Watch List. Painted Bunting is listed as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List.
Found this male in Lake Wales, Polk County, Florida.
The Lacon Bridge is a continuous through bridge over the Illinois River on Illinois Route 17 at Lacon in Marshall County. Built in 1939, it is one of the oldest crossings of the Illinois River. The bridge was rehabilitated in 1990, and is tentatively scheduled for repairs to the structural steel, painting the entire structure, concrete repairs to the piers and abutments, and repairing the existing lighting in 2023.
This bridge has a distinctive appearance because its top chord and end posts visually seem comparatively smaller than one would expect to the point where they do not look much larger or heavier than the other truss members. As such, from a visual standpoint, all the members and chords on the bridge look to be about the same size. This is quite different from a traditional bridge of this design.
This is one of those bridges that looks exactly like a cantilever truss, with a variable depth truss forming "towers" over the piers, however it appears to lack hinges which means that it functions as a continuous truss, not a cantilever truss. As such, it does not have a suspended span. A series of steel stringer spans provide an approach to the through truss spans.
Marshall County, located in north central Illinois, is primarily an agriculture county. Lacon, the county seat, is the second most populous city in the county behind Henry with a recorded population of 1,878 at the 2020 census.
Sources: Wikipedia, HistoricBridge.org, and Marshall-Putnam Farm Bureau
These Silver or Grey Poplars have already dropped their leaves ready for the coming winter while all the other trees still have plenty. All of the trees in this avenue lean this way the remaining trees in the surrounding area do not. It is quite a visually confusing thing to see.
Open star cluster NGC 6939 (bottom center) is visually located close to the star Eta Cephei inside our galaxy, but in reality it lies more than 4,000 light-years away from us (this value is a bit uncertain). Its apparent magnitude is 7.8, meaning it can only be seen with binoculars or with a telescope.
By pure coincidence, less than one degree away lies the face-on galaxy NGC 6946 (center of image), an entirely separate galactic system outside our own Milky Way, at an estimated distance of about 25 million light-years (according to recent measurements). Because many supernova explosions were recorded at the last 100 years in this galaxy, it got the nickname of "Fireworks galaxy".
Both objects were discovered by William Herschel in 1798.
Thanks to everyone and clear skies!
Details:
Telescope: Orion EON 80ED
Camera: Canon EOS 20Da
Mount: Vixen Sphinx
Filter: Astronomik CLS
Guiding: Skywatcher 80/400 refractor - SkyWatcher SynGuider
Light frames: 12 x 5 mins (total: 60 mins), ISO 3200, Custom WB, calibrated with darks
Date: 25 October 2019
Processing: DSS 4.2.3, Adobe Photoshop 2020 with Astronomy Tools Actions set (spikes added to the brightest stars)
Metal railings that visually create a sense of flow…
Observing the dense railings from the outside seems to be safe and sturdy. Standing in the building, so many iron railings, the vision should be very different. You know…XD
Many buildings in Taiwan,
Must rely on metal railings,
Let the residents feel safe.
金屬的欄桿，在視覺上產生流動感…
從外面觀察密集的欄杆，似乎是安全堅固。站在建築物裡面，這麼多鐵欄杆，視覺應該很不一樣。你知道的…XD
台灣許多建築物，
必須依賴金屬欄杆，
讓住戶得到安全感。
This portrait by Evert Ploej done in oil on jute in 1989 was an Archibald prize finalist. Evert Ploeg (pronounced Ay-vert Plough; born 1963 in Sydney, New South Wales) is one of Australia's most highly regarded portrait painters, who has won a range of painting prizes, such as the 1999 and 2007 Archibald Prize (Category: People’s Choice) and was awarded the highly coveted ‘Signature Status’ of The Portrait Society of America. Working in a tonal realist style (mostly in oil), Ploeg’s pictures bespeak an approach to portraiture that is inspired by documentary methods. Putting emphasis on visually encoding a personal narrative in any given portrait, he builds connection to his subjects through conversation and extended observation both during their sitting as well as in their engagements outside of the atelier. 57337
A visually pleasing coastal landscape taken at the Hidden Bay in Ras Mohammed National Park, on a rainy day.
The image employs a horizontal, layered structure of water, land, and mountains which creates a stable and balanced feel. The distribution of the small trees along the shoreline provides a rhythmic element that leads the eye across the frame.
The vast, clear sky and open water act as negative space, isolating the thin strip of land and emphasizing a sense of solitude and vastness.
The photograph successfully utilizes three distinct layers: the turquoise water (foreground), the sandy shore with vegetation (midground), and the hazy mountain range (background). This layering adds a three-dimensional quality to the 2D image.
The horizon line between the land and the mountains is placed near the upper third of the frame, which is often more dynamic and aesthetically pleasing than a centered horizon.
The use of analogous colors like shades of blue, cyan, and sandy tan creates a harmonious and soothing impression. The turquoise water provides a subtle pop of color against the more neutral tones of the desert.
The overall low contrast and muted saturation contribute to a "dreamy" pastel look. The atmospheric haze over the mountains further softens the image and enhances the feeling of distance and scale.
The primary subject is the natural beauty of the desert meeting the sea. The image conveys a sense of peaceful isolation and natural tranquility. The minimal human presence (no boats or people are visible) emphasizes the untouched nature of the landscape. The small mangrove trees add a touch of life and resilience to the otherwise barren shoreline.
It’s time for the next edition of my photographic homage to fellow Flickr photographers.
This time I recommend you to check out the diverse and visually stunning photo stream of
He has an eye for the little details, color composition and makes amazing film photos.
Here are a few examples
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The past features:
1. The underground Cathedral - inspired by Dennis Yap
2. Together against the unknown - inspired by Ralf Kirchner
3. Hunting the last sunlight - inspired by Christoph Hetzmann.
Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts building with a little creative coloring. The architecture continues to dazzle visually under a sunset and a hint of red.
Mike D.
Just Right
iridescence
Something About A Bird: Corvid Iridescence
One of the things we humans appreciate so much about birds is their colors. Of the animals we most commonly encounter, they’re the most visually interesting. They’re bigger than insects, they’re not confined to water like fish, and they’re more colorful than mammals. And we seem to especially appreciate the bright and shiny, which is a preference we share with certain wearers of iridescence: the crows, jays, and magpies, or corvids.
Iridescence is the term for when something appears to change color as the angle changes. Usually it’s caused by differences in the layers of material that affect the bending of light. It’s in oil slicks and soap bubbles, and it’s also in bird feathers, where it’s a feature of tiny microstructures in the feathers that work to bend the light in interesting ways.
Ravens and crows tend to be described as having “glossy” feathers, and that’s also an effect of the iridescence, amplifying the play of light on the feathers and making them appear almost metallic.
This is the most iridescence I've ever captured in a Raven's feathers. The sun was very bright and low in the sky - and the bird turned in just the right direction to 'catch' the light.
Talking about the Pentacon 3.5/30 vintage lens. It may be half a century old, but optically it is a true 'generalist'. You can use it for any situation as long as the light is good. I prefer this lens to be wide open, as here. But that is a personal choice.
Both visually and audibly, the action of a swan rising from the water and stretching out those 2m wings is a sight to behold.
There is a bunch of this particular varietal in the dahlia garden and they are the most visually striking of all the different beautiful dahlias.
Macro Monday's and the theme of "Smoke".
With every egg in the right circumstances there is the possibility of a chemical reaction that will give way to a new life.
So this week I decided to use an egg along with a match to visually represent this regular but nonetheless miraculous occurrence.
This is simply sidelit from the right and just behind with a reflector bouncing light back into the scene.
(n.) *Look
1. the act of directing the eyes toward something and perceiving it visually.
He Gave me a Good Look, St-Donat, Quebec, Canada.
PixQuote:
"The closer one looks the farther one sees."
-David Cavagnaro
The most visually striking building in the 200 block of E. Front St. is this Victorian Romanesque-style structure designed by Bloomington architect George Miller and completed in 1886. For seventy years the building was the home of the Higgins, Jung and Kleinau Monument Co.
Designed by Bloomington architect George H. Miller in Victorian Romanesque-style, the building was constructed for Civil War veteran Hamer J. Higgins. The name "H. J. Higgins & Co. Marble Works" is clearly visible above the center bay of second-story windows. The building's appearance attests to the stone curlers skill and medium with dealing detailing Bedford Limestone, Indiana Marble, and St. Cloud Granite. Miller orchestrated these materials taking full advantage of the craftsmen's talent.
After monument and headstone production came to an end in 1956, the next long-term tenant was Nybakke Vacuum who had offices in the building from 1960 until 1992. That same year, the building was restored by Mike Temple to include apartments on the second floor. Presently Pars Rug Warehouse occupies on the first floor, with apartments on the upper floors.
The Higgins, Jung and Kleinau Monument Co. Building is contributing architectural property in the Bloomington Central Business District listed in 1985 in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). The district includes roughly twelve square blocks of the city and encompasses 140 buildings, 118 of which are contributing buildings to the district's historic character.
Bloomington is the seat of McLean County. It is adjacent to Normal, and is the more populous of the two principal municipalities of the Bloomington-Normal metropolitan area. Bloomington is 135 miles (217 km) southwest of Chicago, and 162 miles (261 km) northeast of St. Louis. The estimated population of Bloomington in 2019 was 77,330, with a metro population of 191,067.
before ICM, the only way that you could visually distort woodlands in your mind was by going to Woodstock! 518. Pentax paraphernalia.
Sunsets are visually pleasing with their blend of warm and vibrant colors that emerge as the sun dips below the horizon.
A source of inspiration and spiritual insight for people around the world. These daily events offer more than just visual beauty; they provide a gateway to deeper understanding and connection.
Passionate photographers, artists, poets, and philosophers have long been inspired by the hues of a sunset, capturing its essence in their works.
Shot from a riverside of the Nile with a Canon EOS700D
Garden Lily 2..
There is something so visually pleasing about a lily, it is the mixture of complimentary colours that draw you in. the contrast of yellow and red. I am sure this is as intoxicating to humans as it is to bees and other pollen gatherers.
I am sure there is a solid science behind the reasoning for the many varied colours of lilies; but suffice to say they make my garden look amazing while they are in bloom and i thank God for eyes to see them with.
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Visually it matches with Japanese Beetle, but clicked in Bangalore, India. Indian Beetles look little different. So I am not sure about the exact name.
Visually (in terms of shape, size, and color) one of my favorite vegetables. Those pictured are of the honeynut variety.
Visually she has strong traits of the Italian, her mix of Carniolan would be a darker honey bee. Some of her sisters show the Carniolan traits. She has a different personality, the Italian Queen is graceful and confident. This hybrid queen is a runner, maybe she will be more confident as time goes by. R.O. premium stock bred. This is the time I'm supposed to leave her alone and let her make brood. They must have let her out of her queen cage quickly. With 60% colony loss worldwide this year, this is a God send.
Warbling Vireos can be distinguished visually from Red-eyed Vireos by the lack of a dark border between the crown and supercilium, which is a prominent mark of the Red-eyed Vireo.
They also lack the dark lores between the eye and the base of the bill. This feature gives their face a pale and washed out look. They are more gray on the cape and wing coverts than the bright olive of the Red-eyed Vireo. Warbling Vireos have a dark iris compared to the red iris of the Red-eyed Vireo. The red iris of the Red-eyed Vireo doesn't always show in a photo though.
A bright Warbling Vireo can look similar to a drab Philadelphia Vireo due to a pale yellow wash along the breast, throat, and flanks. The bill of a Philadelphia Vireo is obviously shorter in comparison. The Philadelphia Vireo has a dark lore area compared to the pale lore of the Warbling Vireo.
The songs of the Vireo species are very distinct, but they are not singing much at this time of year.
St. Albert, Alberta.
Mount Cheam visually dominates much of the Fraser Valley near Vancouver, BC., Canada. It is the highest mountain in the valley and is part of the Cascade Range of mountains. Here, despite its distance from the resort community of Harrison Hotsprings, seen in the foreground, it appears to look down upon the 1600-member community. In reality Cheam is not “looking down “on the community at all, in fact it’s a fair distance away. This distortion between the town and the mountain is due to the affect of foreshortening from the telephoto lens. The telephoto lens with its narrow field of view makes the distance between these two objects appear much closer than they actually are. Compounding the foreshortening distortion is the use of a series of these images blended to create the panorama. It was a clear day with a great view and the haze in the valley added depth and layering.
“Creation becomes a hierarchy of mirrors, each casting an image of God. The farther off the individual image is from God, the smaller the image of Him it reflects, but his brightness never diminishes.”
-James Miller, “Three Mirrors of Dante’s Paradiso,” 266.
What Dante sees in the Primum Mobile is this perspective[11] visually reversed; instead of being the outer “crust” of the universe, the Primum Mobile is actually next to the central Still Point, whirling with inconceivable speed. God, the Still Point, is a non-spatial entity which is everywhere and nowhere.
-Allen Tate, “The Symbolic Imagination,” 271.
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-Air, Alone in Kyoto
Since it's supposed to be very hot today, I'll at least cool things off visually.
And so I'll take you again to the Erawan Waterfall in Thailand.
A bit of effort is still necessary to get to this wonderfully beautiful place. After all, as you may remember, this is Stage Three.
But after about 30 minutes of sweating we arrived here. In a place that, at least for me, seems truly paradisiacal.
We can sit in the shade of the forest and listen to the sound of the waterfall, accompanied by the songs of many exotic birds, or take off our shoes and wade through the shallow water and let small silver-gray fish care for our feet. But be careful, the rocks are quite slippery in some places. And I don't want anyone to hurt themselves.
Or, if that's not enough to cool you down, just dive into the lagoon right in front of the waterfall. Because here, at almost 2 meters, the water is deep enough to completely submerge.
Yes, that's really bearable, isn't it?
Da es heute sehr heiß werden soll, sorge ich wenigstens optisch für etwas Abkühlung.
Und so nehme ich Euch noch einmal mit zum Erawan Wasserfall nach Thailand.
Ein bisschen Anstrengung ist noch nötig, um bis zu diesem traumhaft schönen Ort zu kommen. Schließlich ist das, vielleicht erinnert Ihr Euch noch, die Stufe Drei.
Doch nach etwa 30 Minuten Schwitzen sind wir dann hier angekommen. An einem, zumindest für mich, wahrlich paradiesisch wirkenden Ort.
Wir können im Schatten des Waldes sitzen und dem Rauschen des Wasserfalls lauschen, welches vom Gesang vieler exotischer Vögel untermalt ist, oder die Schuhe ausziehen und durch das flache Wasser waten und uns von kleinen silbergrauen Fischen die Füße pflegen lassen. Doch vorsicht, die Felsen sind an einigen Stellen ziemlich rutschig. Und ich will ja nicht, dass sich jemand weh tut.
Oder, wenn das als Abkühlung alles noch nicht reicht, dann taucht doch einfach in die Lagune direkt vor dem Wasserfall ein. Denn hier ist mit nahezu 2 Metern das Wasser tief genug um komplett unter zu tauchen.
Ja, so lässt es sich echt aushalten oder ?
more of this on my website at: www.shoot-to-catch.de
visually speaks of the thunders we experience up here in our highlands: a vast inland plateau averaged at 1,200m above sea level. the mountainous relief seen here is what they term a gold slag dump, 'waste piles left over from the smelting and refining process of gold ore' - my friend now living in England, Gregory, says he misses our loud storms here, that he never finds them there.
Britannia needs no bulwarks,
No towers along the steep;
Her march is o'er the mountain waves,
Her home is on the deep.
With thunders from her native oak
She quells the floods below--
As they roar on the shore,
When the stormy winds do blow;
T. Campbell
When you visually understand that the moon and the sun won't meet today. They just crossed their lights on the Mont Giusalet (3312m) for a short moment.
Col du Mont Cenis (73) - France
Gear: Canon EOS7D / Canon EF-S 60mm F/2,8 Macro
Settings: F/8 - Focal Length: 60mm - ISO100 - 27x1/160s
Original = 6904x4315 px
Stack of 27 different photos
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Isopogon is a genus of around 35 species, only occurring here in Australia, found in the southern half of the continent in temperate regions.
Western Australia contains most of the species in a natural habitat. Most are small to medium sized shrubs having flower clusters arranged in globular heads. The fruits are also globular in shape giving rise to the common name of 'drumsticks'.
The foliage is unique and visually interesting I think.
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I had a talk with this silly little grasshopper. I specifically recommended a remedial course in camouflage or crypsis, and a beginning course in "Visually Hunting Predators."
This silly grasshopper reminded me of the people who see no need to get a vaccination.
Visually appealing for a photographer, but a regrettable loss of another small crumbling piece of history.
Thanks for viewing.
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I could visually see the pinkish nitrogen fringe moving west to east. From Spaceweather.com "Pink is hard to make because it requires particles from the sun to penetrate unusually deep into Earth's atmosphere. Most auroras are green, a color that comes from electrons hitting oxygen atoms 100 km to 300 km above Earth's surface. Pink requires those electrons to burrow even deeper, below 100 km, where they can find molecular nitrogen. N2 produces the pink. This "nitrogen fringe" appears only during strong storms with extra-penetrating particles from space."
Bees are indeed attracted to cornflowers (Centaurea cyanus), also known as bachelor's buttons, due to the ample nectar and pollen they provide. The vibrant blue (or other colors like pink, purple, white) petals are visually appealing to bees, and the flowers offer a reliable source of food from spring through summer. Cornflowers are considered a good choice for attracting bees to a garden
A visually captivating art shop in Deauville, France, that certainly brightens up the surrounding street environment.
If you're a London bloke like me you get to find beauty in buildings.
New York is probably my favourite city visually for the extreme drama of the skyscrapers - One of my favourite views is looking back at Manhattan across the River from Brooklyn.
This is one of my favourite London views - kind of the English version but with a difference - Here at the Blackwall Basin you can get a killer reflection if you time the conditions right - the East River like the Thames is not so smooth.
This took a bit of planning but everything went the way it was supposed to - even the birds cooperated this time!
Thanks to Everyone who took the trouble to view, comment or fave.
Taken with Sony A7iii, a 2x teleconverter and Helios 44M-7 at F2; contre-jour plus reflector. I have frequently photographed this sculpture of the Asantehene (traditional king of the Ashanti people in Ghana). I wanted to find out how the camera/lens combo would do in close-up mode and wide-open. Not too bad, is the answer, though not everyone would like the Helios-generated bokeh. The lens is basically a refined imitation of a postwar German one and therefore shares many of its characteristics (a bit weaker wide-open, but not disturbingly so, and fuzzy towards the corners). As an artistic tool, the lens is wonderful and visually expressive.
In my face...
Two visually identical species have been introduced into the north-west Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. Although identification information is given below, this was derived for specimens from the native range. Lionfishes in the invaded range may differ significantly from native range specimens. At this time, positive identification can only be achieved through genetic analysis.
Pterois volitans Red Lionfish
The Red Lionfish has greatly elongated dorsal-fin spines. The membranes of all fins are often spotted. The body is white or cream coloured red to reddish-brown vertical stripes. The vertical stripes alternate from wide to very thin (with the thin stripes being more numerous) and sometimes merge along the flank to form a V-shape.
Pterois miles Devil Firefish
A closely-related species, the Devil Firefish (Pterois miles), is similar to the Red Lionfish. The Devil Firefish is found primarily in Indian Ocean and Red Sea (as opposed to the Red Lionfish, which is predominantly a Pacific species); however, its range extends to Sumatra where the two species co-occur. Although it appears very similar to the Red Lionfish, the Devil Firefish has fewer dorsal- and anal-fin rays. The Devil Firefish generally has 10 dorsal-fin rays and 6 anal-fin rays; the Red Lionfish usually has 11 dorsal-fin rays and 7 anal-fin rays. (USGS.gov)
Nuweiba, Gulf of Aqaba, Egypt
An Potpurri (french) is a pot with dried plant material, increasing the room smell. This is the same, visually.
To make it perfect, listen to
Nothing is a bit visually spectacular about this photo but I want to share to my friends a little of history that I learned during my recent holiday in Korea.
The picture was taken at the Demilitarized Zone of the two Koreas. There is a conference building at the right side (not seen in pic) where meetings and negotiations are held between the two Koreas. Beyond the yellow line where the North Korea's terrain and territory can be seen, taking photographs are strictly prohibited as maybe part of the agreement. However, at the South's side, picture taking was never a problem. Quite bizarre to me as there was practically nothing to see at the North's side from that point, except for a wide almost frozen river, some dirt roads. vast farm lands and typical countryside terrains.