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Vulnerable tree.
It was rather amusing to embellish this fragile tree, by giving it a fanciful crown. No significant post processing, but waiting for the right illuminated cloud to pass. The rising sun didn't reach the valley yet. Despite the modest light, the soundless lake surface gives rise to remarkable reflections.
I'm very grateful for all your visits and would like to thank you for stopping by, and any comments you may leave. Much appreciated, Frans...
Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission. ©2017 Frans van Hoogstraten. All rights reserved.
when something is taken when you least expect it.
I had my laptop stolen from my house... there was a robbery last night whilst we were all out of the house. I lost a lot of work.. both photographs and written work. I have learnt to back up my work the hard way. I haven't lost a massive amount, as I back up now and again, but still it's frustrating. We had CSI round today to take finger prints, was so interesting to watch them dust around.
So annoying, there were quite a few pictures I'd wanted to upload... but now they are gone :( this is just an old shot I found, I had more hair then haha.
Well apart from that I have had nice things happen to me. Having such fun work experience at the moment, assisted a filmed photo shoot for a magazine cover, and will be assisting another cover shoot again soon. Such great experience, I'm learning so much.
A Journey to connect Heart-to-Heart takes buy a moment; it involves the risk of being Vulnerable... Quote Mrs Happy Face ..
“Vulnerability is not weakness, and the uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure we face every day are not optional. Our only choice is a question of engagement. Our willingness to own and engage with our vulnerability determines the depth of our courage and the clarity of our purpose; the level to which we protect ourselves from being vulnerable is a measure of our fear and disconnection.” ― Brené Brown
Looking out over the windswept Oregon coastline, ominous clouds gather overhead as a curtain of rain softens the horizon. A lone rock offers tenuous shelter to the seabirds and seals that live along this stretch of the Pacific ocean. Misty light filters down through the darkening, roiling sky, lending a soft glow to the moody seascape.
As the storm moves ashore, I capture a few frames and think about how it is difficult not to feel small in a world of such overwhelming beauty. Read more on the blog.
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My photograph 'Goodbye my lover' was used as album art for a song cover of Jeff Buckley's 'Last Goodbye' by musician Patrick Thomas!
Patrick is an extraordinarily talented musician & I'm beyond honored that he asked me to contribute art. I had never heard 'Last Goodbye' before & was completely astonished with how it perfectly represented the emotions I felt when I took that photograph.
To listen to Patrick's cover of 'Last Goodbye',click here.
I truly feel that forms of art can play off of each other to create an unbelievably powerful emotional experience.
This is one of them.
I send a warm thank you to Patrick Thomas for his compassion & gratitude!
Other websites you can find Patrick:
Drinking water seems a real struggle and dangerous for giraffes. When they do, their neck is too short to reach the ground, so they take at least 15 minutes to spread their legs and bend down in an awkward position that makes them vulnerable to predators.
This giraffe came to the waterhole during sunset at Etosha National Park. Under the sunset, its reflection was glowing.
Click on or press L for the enlarged image.
The most vulnerable people in the United States include people of all ages, poor, under-educated, unemployed, mentally ill, drug addicts, immigrants, anyone whose skin isn't white, physically ill, ex-convicts, and those who are homeless. These people are virtually helpless and while our government can put men on the moon, we can't find it in our hearts to have enough compassion to put our own people in places of safety and care.
We can find a way to give tax cuts to billionaires but we can't find a way to provide affordable healthcare for much of our population.
Indianapolis, IN
2025
© James Rice, All Rights Reserved
Mayfly nymphs swim to the water's surface before they emerge after spending up to two years living on the river bed. As they do their skin splits open and the adult mayfly wriggles out, they rest briefly on the water surface before taking to the wing. The whole process only takes a few seconds as they are vulnerable to predation from fish at this time.
I watched many of these emerge today but trying to photograph the whole moment proved difficult on a flowing river and a brisk breeze.
This little beauty suddenly burst open and revealed the stamens with lots of yellow pollen, something I had never seen before...
Dicentra's flowering period: April to May, arching sprays of dainty, rose-pink, heart-shaped flowers appear in late spring above fern-like, fresh green leaves.
They come in white and pale pink too.
A single flower of Dicentra spectabilis, about the size of the tip of my thumb, it will never cease to fill me with wonder and marvel at the intricacy and beauty of Nature.
English: Venus's car, bleeding heart or lyre flower
Français : Cœur de Marie ou Cœur-de-Jeannette
German: Tränendes Herz
Nederlands: Gebroken hartje, Mariatranen, bloedend hartje.
Italian: Cuor di Maria
When you look closely you see their hidden tears...Dicentra Spectabilis
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In Aug of 2018....The IUCN has up-graded this EVENING GROSBEAK from least concern to VULNERABLE statues.. (One step closer to "Endangered".)
(Image captured at Algonquin Provincial Park.)
Southern Ground-hornbills are both culturally and ecologically important. They are hailed across their sub-Saharan range as the thunderbirds or rainbirds. They are also a valuable flagship species for the savannah biome as they are easily recognizable and with such large spatial requirements, any successful conservation action in even one of their expansive territories benefits all the other savanna and grassland species, including threatened species such as vultures, wild dog, and cheetah. Their populations continue to decline towards being "Critically Endangered" in South Africa. The reasons for their decline are predominantly loss of habitat to bush-encroachment and development, overgrazing, large-scale monoculture, loss of large nesting trees, besides secondary poisoning, lead toxicosis from spent lead ammunition, and electrocution on transformer boxes.
Info sourced from ground-hornbill.org.za/
Photo capture date & Location: 2017-02 Bushtime at Mabula
We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone.
I'm sorry guys, the previous photo sucks! I'm going to re-do that concept probably!
Please press L or don't look at this at all.
Part IIII
A glimpse of what I hate to crave
will carve out almost fourteen days
A yellow sky, a bright red cloud,
a special song... we laughed so loud...
If it's a strength then why it tore my chest?
Must save myself; it's for the best.
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Vulnerability © Ilina S.
Vulnerable (EPBC Act ) or Endangered (SA National Parks and Wildlife Service Act) Fairy Tern (Sternula nereis) and chick in the nesting area
Photos were taken under guidance by Birdlife Australia staff who monitor the breeding birds under strict permitting conditions
BirdLife Australia’s Guidelines for Photographing Beach-nesting Birds
Bird Island, off the tip of the Lefevre Peninsula, Adelaide, South Australia
Photo by Bill Doyle on behalf of Green Adelaide
Central Kalahari Game Reserve
Botswana
Southern Africa
Happy Caturday !!
The lion (Panthera leo) is a species in the cat family (Felidae);
A lion pride consists of a few adult males, related females and cubs. Groups of female lions typically hunt together, preying mostly on large ungulates. The species is an apex and keystone predator, although they scavenge when opportunities occur.
Typically, the lion inhabits grasslands and savannas but is absent in dense forests. It is usually more diurnal than other big cats, but when persecuted it adapts to being active at night and at twilight.
It has been listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List since 1996 because populations in African countries have declined by about 43% since the early 1990s. Habitat loss and conflicts with humans are the greatest causes for concern. – Wikipedia
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable. [C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves]
... the quiet orb of communication after my dear friend introduced me to one of her dear friends...
... another 5 minutes with CS Lewis for www.flickr.com/photos/a_walden/
mu textures
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
~ 6 month old cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) called "Ilangha" is on break and watching people watching her.
Ilangha and her sister "Tombi-Jeanne" are in training to become Animal Ambassadors for the San Diego Zoo. Now ~27 pounds each, the girls are rapidly catching up to their new dog companions, Murray and Elvis.
Conservation Status: Vulnerable
Erlebniszoo Hannover
Eisbär
(Polarbär)
Ursus maritimus
Vorkommen:Arktis (Kanada, USA (Alaska), Grönland, Norwegen (Spitzbergen = Svalbard), N-Russland)
Lebensraum:Eisflächen mit Meereszugang, arktische Inseln und Küstengebiete
Kopf-Rumpf-Länge:180 - 280 cm
Schwanzlänge:6 - 13 cm
Gewicht:150 - 650 (800) kg
Nahrung:Robben, gestrandete Wale, Aas, menschl. Abfälle; selten auch Kräuter, Gräser und Beeren
Gefährdungsstatus:VU (gefährdet)
These trees look beautiful as they stand in rows, creating such depth with light and lines.
This beauty if man made. None of these trees are old.
This trail followed used to be a road to a town in the middle of the forest. A little mill town. A forest fire whiped out the town and the trees.
People planted these trees closely in rows.
The trees are real, but they are too perfect, a fake perfect.