Laowa FFii 90mm f/2.8 2x Ultra Macro APO, developed in Affinity Photo

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"Why spiders? Why can't it be 'follow the butterflies'?!"

- Ron Weasley, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Just why! The Daear Ddu ridge is obviously less appealing than their own face 😆

A brilliant low stress scramble on lovely solid rock that deposits you directly on the summit of Moel Siabod.

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black-crowned night heron

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found itself in a freak beam of early morning sun, but couldn't muster the energy to move.

Why can't we all just get along?

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Did the chicken cross the road..

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captured in the abandoned Hospital CMH. (2015)

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Today I was thinking of the theme for Flickr Friday so I took a shot of my home office window looking out and then abstracted the photo........WHY NOT????

Why travel to the mountains? When the mountains come to you.

Wozu noch in die Berge reisen? Wenn die Berge zu einem kommen.

Clearly, I do not own the copyright on this.

Pentax KX.

Why bother I wonder shooting film when becomes a digital jpeg after all?

The prints are so much better than the CD scans. Keepers are few, and gems fewer even with prints.

Just must, I suppose.

I keep asking myself this question in 2023. In addition to the desolation, the heavy winds were bitterly cold.

I had a pretty good day, nonetheless, photographing rural dilapidation but only saw two Snowy Owls.

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The family is growing....

You see things;

you say "Why?"

But I dream things that never were;

And I say "Why not?"

Back to posting my series of 9. ⠀

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7 of 9: Why?

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Heading back to February of this year when I took a trip out to Vegas for our @photofocus writer's retreat and one morning when we headed out to Black Velvet Canyon for some photography therapy. Morning sun makes for great backlight and well nature takes care of the shapes of things.

-Perchè io?- sembra dire cadendo la prima foglia che un albero abbandona nell'autunno

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Padova, sabato scorso, vicino Piazzale Boschetti.

Buona giornata

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As seen on the lower left of the bridge abutment; BECAUSE it's 1309!!! The Frostburg Flyer lead by 1309 crosses the potomac enroute to the Cumberland Station to pick up passengers for the run up to Frostburg, Md.

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The red life saver on the banks of the River Severn at Bridgnorth.Shropshire .

The cost of freedom... eternal vigilance

why is it the birds only seem to show up on the days when the light is lousy?

is my space bar sticking lol? ♥♥

CAMO - Brianna Braids

Creator Not Salty (dread.bae)

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EARRINGS: erratic / tear-drop earings recolorable

Continuing this brief series of cool sights I saw on a single morning outing to Grasslands, the park at my doorstep. These two Moose with their calves were a surprise; I tend to see moose more often in fall and winter. And last year there was considerable noise and commotion as contractors built a new bridge across the Frenchman River - resulting in many wildlife species, including moose, steering clear of the area until things settled down.

But.. they're ba-ack!

I'm so happy. They add an extra touch of wildness to the prairie landscape. Twenty-four years ago, when I first spent some extended time hanging out in this place, moose were a rare sighting. In the interim, they have arrived to occupy the valley, and other prairie locations, too; biologists are not sure why.

My theory? They find ample food and shelter here, where there are no natural predators, no hunting, and an abundance of peace and quiet. Essentially these are the same reasons I moved here full time in 2011. I'd like to think I'm smarter than the average moose. But maybe I'm not.

More to come...

Photographed in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2024 James R. Page - all rights reserved.

Breathing in, I touch the sorrow I have caused.

Breathing out, I hold it with compassion.

Breathing in, I smile at the miracle of being.

Breathing out, I ask—why not joy?

Just thought I would post another shot of Sir Lance-A-Lot standing erect in the same water that he was hunting in. I’m thinking that I might should ask as it could me Miss Lance-A-Lot, but that’s another story. I’ve seen this particular Tri-colored Heron hunt from a number of different position but it really does prefer that skimming the top of the water technique. It’s still beyond me how it spots the prey under the surface of the water at such a shallow angle. BTW, this one rarely misses. Photo taken on Horsepen Bayou.

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try HDR in b/w when black and white are the dominant colours ?

This weekend started in East-Westphalia with heavy snowfalls already on early Friday morning, causing massive problems on the roads. The mild temperatures in the afternoon and early Saturday melted away most of the snow, so we had to speed up to get some Winter shots in the spa gardens of Bad Oeynhausen.

Bad Oeynhausen is a nice little town in East Westphalia, famous as a spa centre for more than a century. My favourite place in town is the Kurpark (spa gardens) with beautiful garden architecture and historical buildings of the early days of the spa era.

Caspar David Friedrich at the Met, New York City

I am occasionally asked why I like hill walking so much. After all, as people point out to me, you can get very cold, very wet, very tired and very lost. And there is always a degree of risk involved.

All this is true.

I have been very cold, very wet, very tired and very lost.

But I still love it.

I love the quiet satisfaction of getting from A to B with nothing more than a map and compass.

I love the fresh air.

I love the quietness.

I love seeing the wildlife.

I love the hunger that a day on the hills brings, and the fact that the food tastes so much better.

I love the thirst that a long walk brings and there’s nothing better than to sit in a nice warm pub, with a pint of good beer and let the ache of tiredness waft over me.

But most of all, I love it because I get to see scenery like this.