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Switzerland, May 2021
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ABOUT THE PHOTO:
So this photo is a bit of a novelty for me - at least here on Flickr, but it's also a journey back in time in a sense. I've always loved b/w and sepia photography; already as a very young teenager I would go out into the woods with an old Pentax Spotmatic (which I had nicked from my father) whenever it was a foggy day to shoot b/w compositions of sunbeams cutting through the ghostlike trees.
I used films with a sensitivity of at least 1600 (for those of you who remember what that means 😉 ), and the resulting photos had an incredibly fine grain which I loved; I blew them up to the size of posters and hung them on the walls of my teenage man-cave next to Hendrix, Jim Morrison and Slash.
But then I abandoned photography altogether for 20 years, and when I finally picked up a camera again, it was one of the digital kind. Now neither film nor grain played any role in my photographic endeavours - let alone b/w compositions: because the reason I fell in love with shooting pictures once more was the rare and incredibly colorful lizard species that had chosen my garden as its habitat.
It's this species - the Lacerta bilineata aka the western green lizard - that my photo website www.lacerta-bilineata.com/ and also my Flickr gallery are dedicated to, but I've since expanded that theme a bit so that it now comprises the whole Lacerta bilineata habitat, which is to say my garden and its immediate surroundings and all the flora and fauna I find in it.
I like that my gallery and the website have this clear theme, because in order to rise to the challenge of portraying all aspects of a very specific little eco system (which also happens to be my home of sorts), it forces me to constantly explore it from fresh angles, and I keep discovering fascinating new motives as my photographic journey continues.
Which brings me to the horse pasture you see in this photo. This playground for happy horsies lies just outside my garden, and it normally only interests me insofar as my green reptile friends claim parts of it as their territory, and I very much prefer it to be horseless (which it thankfully often is).
Not that the horses bother the reptiles - the lizards don't mind them one bit, and I've even seen them jump from the safety of the fly honeysuckle shrub which the pasture borders on right between the deadly looking hooves of the horses to forage for snails, without any sign of fear or even respect.
No, the reason I have a very conflicted relationship with those horses is that they are mighty cute and that there's usually also foals. The sight of those beautiful, happy animals jumping around and frolicking (it's a huge pasture and you can tell the horses really love it) is irresistible: and that inevitably attracts what in the entire universe is known as the most destructive anti-matter and ultimate undoing of any nature photographer: other humans.
Unlike with the horses, the lizards ARE indeed very much bothered by specimens of loud, unpredictable Homo sapiens sapiens - which makes those (and by extension also the horses) the cryptonite of this here reptile photographer. It's not the horses' fault, I know that, but that doesn't change a thing. I'm just telling you how it is (and some of you might have read about the traumatic events I had to endure to get a particular photo - if not, read at your own risk here: www.flickr.com/photos/191055893@N07/51405389883/in/datepo... - which clearly demonstrated that even when it's entirely horseless, that pasture is still a threat for artistic endeavours).
But back to the photo. So one morning during my vacation back in May I got up quite early. It had rained all night, and now the fog was creeping up from the valley below to our village just as the sky cleared up and the morning sun started to shine through the trees.
And just as I did when I was a teenager I grabbed my camera and ran out to photograph this beautiful mood of ghostlike trees and sunbeams cutting through the mist. There had already been such a day a week earlier (which is when I took this photo: www.flickr.com/photos/191055893@N07/51543603732/in/datepo... ), but this time, the horses were also there.
Because of our slightly strained relationship I only took this one photo of them (I now wish I had taken more: talk about missed opportunities), and otherwise concentrated on the landscape. It was only later when I went through all the photos on my computer that I realized that I actually really liked those horses, even despite the whole composition being such a cliché. And I realized another thing: when I drained the photo of all the color, I liked it even better - because there was almost a bit of grain in it, like in the photos from my youth.
Since then I have experimented quite a bit with b/w and sepia compositions (some of which I will upload here eventually I guess), but this photo here is the first one that helped me rediscover my old passion. I hope you like it even though it builds quite a stark contrast with the rest of my tiny - and very colorful - gallery. But in the spirit of showing you the whole Lacerta bilineata habitat (and also in the spirit of expanding my gallery a bit beyond lizards and insects), I think it's not such a bad fit.
As always, many greetings to all of you, have a wonderful day and don't hesitate to let me know what you think 😊
"Red sky at night,
Shepherds' delight.
Red sky in the morning,
Sailors' warning."
According to the folk wisdom it was going to rain. And it did, slightly.
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Update:
Flickr heeft het probleem van illegaal en gratis downloaden verholpen, maar een gewaarschuwd mens telt voor twee!!!
Flickr has solved the problem of illegal and free downloading, but one has to be alerted!!
Waarschuwing
Gisteren ontdekte ik het bestaan van diverse foto-websites waar al mijn foto's, die op mijn Flickr account staan, gewoon te downloaden zijn, terwijl ik daar nooit toestemming voor gegeven heb! En ik ben niet de enige!!
Als je je settings verandert, dan verdwijnen je fotos op die desbetreffende sites.
Lees meer: Read more: www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/72157707457137135/#reply7...
Warning!!!
Yesterday I noticed that there are several photo-sharing websites, who have ALL my photos from my Flickr account for free download . I never have given permission for that!
It seems I'm not the only one! If you change your settings, the photos disappear on those sites.
Read more: www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/72157707457137135/#reply7...
A dense fog warning was the forecast for the next morning. So I set my alarm clock to wake up early around 5am and headed down to this spot near the River. A walkway with some light poles that stretch for quite awhile. The Missouri River is just to the right side of the frame where there is a good size drop-off. It was eerily quiet and spooky to say the least.
Mike D.
Spotted Sandpiper, Actitis macularius, non-breeding. Just outside Seabourne Creek Nature Park in Rosenberg Texas.
Happy Crazy Tuesday!
A scene in the Flinders Ranges, in South Australia, 20-hours before a dust storm visited the area. . . . .Sigma 18 -200mm f3.5 -6.3 DC OS HSM
Take care, don`t get carried away with your vegan diet. This is what could befall !!!
Taken at the RHS garden of Harlow Carr, Harrogate, Yorks.
Click on image to see the grisly details.
Mount Warning is a mountain in the Tweed Range in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, Australia.
Mount Warning is the central volcanic remnant of an ancient shield volcano, the Tweed Volcano, which would have been about 1,900 m (6,200 ft) above sea level or just under twice the height of the current mountain. This volcano last erupted around 23 million years ago.
This afternoon shot taken from the beach at Byron Bay, a popular beachside town located in the far-northeastern corner of the state of New South Wales.
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Ecological Cycle: Lesson One
I took a long walk in search of shore birds along the coast of a Massachusetts beach; at the end of two miles, I stumbled across a group of gulls feeding on a seal carcass. For reasons unknown, the seal was not able to overcome his fight for survival. On the other hand, this dominant gull secures the find, fending several other gulls – the very essence of Mother Nature; call it survival of the fittest!
Massachusetts, USA | 03-Jun-17
Late Summer along the Southern Outer Banks. A new day is greeted with the Red Rip Tide Warning Flag.
Australia : Junping crocodile at Adelaide River - Northern Territory
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This is not meant to be a joke. I have seen it myself...
A lady was carrying two wonderful icecream cones when she was attacked by a seagull.
She dropped one of the ice cream cones and the seagull went after it and swallowed the whole thing in one go - icecream and cone.
It was awe inspiring. Although I am much bigger than a seagull I could not have done this ;-)