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One of my older models.

Folded from a square of roughly 35 x 35 cm washi paper, MC-treated.

This winged lion is based upon my winged elephant.

Brompton Cemetery, London - Shot on Impossible SX-70 B&W film using a classic Polaroid SX-70 Alpha 1 camera

Two winged brontosauruses each folded from a square of paper (25 x 25 and 15 x 15 cm).

Folded from the bird base.

The model were colorized and treated with crackle glaze (though the effect was a bit dissapointing).

Design by me.

I do not allow the commercial use of my artwork without my approval!

At long last, a butterfly visited my yard! I was able to follow this one butterfly around for a "photo shoot" by my mail box. Didn't last long, but I got a few shots anyway.

Brompton Cemetery, London - Shot on Impossible SX-70 B&W film using a classic Polaroid SX-70 Alpha 1 camera

Is this an American Robin? In a manual mode, I took a lot of bird shots yesterday and this one I guess is the best one that I got. First time in a tripod and in a manual mode bird shot. I hope you like it, my dear Flickr friends!

Thanks, Stavenn, for the ID!

2016 - St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Sofia, Bulgaria. Shot on an Olympus OM-D E-M10 with Panasonic Leica DG Summilux 25mm f/1.4 Asph lens

House Finch sitting on a wire.

House Finch sitting on a wire.

White-throated sparrow.

Lest anyone think I've succumbed totally to Snapseed digital madness, I thought I do some old-fashioned analogue print making today. This are emulsion lift prints on Spürsinn Smooth White paper from an Impossible PX-70 Color Protection print.

The subject is the Statue of Eros at Piccadilly Cirus in London.

This is the first time I've made emulsion lift prints using Impossible colour film and it was a bit more difficult that making prints using Polaroid SX-70 film. Normally I lift the emulsion out of the hot water tray to a tray of cold water which makes getting it fairly flat much easier as you can put your fingers in the water without worry.

But the Impossible emulsion went rather stiff when I did this so the whole process had to be done is a tray of hot water, which made things a bit tricky.

Also, the rubbery residue on the back of the emulsion layer comes away from a Polaroid print before the emulsion starts to separate from the transparent mylar layer. But that's not the case with Impossible film, hence all the white flecks on these prints.

If anyone has any tips for making emulsion lift prints from Impossible colour film please let me know!

I could not resist grabbing the camera when my wife told me there were butterflies on the flowers! These two were moving about very quickly, so I was happy to grab these shots! Have a great weekend everyone!

I believe this is a female as I don't see any red on its throat. A fun fact about hummingbirds is that they have an incredibly fast heartbeat and high metabolism. While at rest, their heart rate can range from 250 to over 1,200 beats per minute, depending on the species. This rapid heartbeat is essential to support their fast-paced flight and hovering abilities. To sustain their high energy demands, hummingbirds have one of the highest metabolic rates of any animal. They can consume up to half of their body weight in nectar each day and visit hundreds of flowers to fuel their energy needs. This unique adaptation allows them to be agile and maneuver swiftly, making them true marvels of nature.

Shot from about 30 feet away. I used the digital teleconverter at the max end of the zoom and the lens stabilizer. Overall okay for a small sensor point and shoot.

Robin hanging out on the wires to my house. Taken through my Kitchen window.

After creating a simple pig, it felt just logical to design a flying or winged pig as a next step. So here is my flying pig model, a modified version of this pig.

Wet-folded from a square of 40 x 40 cm Canson paper. Colored afterwards with bronze and copper acrylic paint.

Design by me.

I found an old box of Impossible 600 B&W film in the bottom of the fridge... it's pretty old, so I wasn't sure if it would produce anything useful, do I decided to just run it though my Instant lab to produce some images from my on-going 'Magnificent 7' project.

“Doyle and Haggard, Burroughs and Howard gave us the LOST WORLD novel. Science took it away. Now Science Gives it Back.

“From deep space came a signal, sent just under a thousand years before: a planet called Jauhar al-Ajr, third from its sun and of a type that could be made livable for human beings, was being terraformed as an experiment in observed evolution. Aboard the now ancient ship sent to colonize the planet were embryos modified by genetic engineering: feline, canine, ursine, saurian. And perhaps – but only pehaps – human.

“For a thousand years these creatures have developed on an alien world – into what? What strange quirks has the planet Jauhar al-Ajr imposed on the development of the species that on Earth became cats, dogs, bears, lizards . . . and men. After a thousand years of isolation, Earth means to find out. The mission will be dangerous, but it will be the making of everyone aboard. A lost world in space, ready for exploration, the world of KING DRAGON.” [From the back cover].

Includes 50 glorious black and white illustrations inside by famed Esteban Maroto.

American artist Rowena Morrill (1944–2021) who did the cover was famous for her influential science fiction and fantasy illustrations, particularly for paperback covers. She was one of the first female artists to significantly impact the paperback cover art industry.

Mascaron near the west entrance of Salisbury Cathedral.

Happy Butterfly Wednesday

my Flickr friends..

View On Black see that tiny fellow looking at me, as if saying hey common lenareh wanna try a picture of me, tiny jumping spider is challenging me, actually I didn't noticed it when I took this shot only when I viewed on my PC monitor... whew sometime from now I hope I can have a decent jumping spider shot worthy of sharing to you guys

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Eurema is a widespread genus of grass yellow butterflies in the family Pieridae. Species range from Asia, Africa, Australia, and Oceania, to the New World. The type species is the North American Virginia grass yellow.

There are over 70 species in the genus, but more than 300 names have been applied to them. Some species, such as the common African grass yellow, E. hecuba, have over 80 synonyms. The genus itself has over 15 junior generic synonyms. This is the price of being a widespread taxon, as well as a zoogeographical problem.

Close up of a Skipper Moth on a leaf.

Hello! If you land on my deck, there's a good chance you're going to be photographed.

KWIKKIE'S REISAVONTUREN (1937)

W. Ockerse

I love this picture. The colors are not terribly exciting, but the mass of swans and Canada Geese is awesome to me. As I said in an earlier picture, usually when startled the geese would take off first, and then the swans. Sometimes the swans wouldn't take off at all. The geese would circle around, calm down, and come back in the same general area. Definitely the swans were not as skittish. (MVC-526F) This picture has had nothing at all done to it. It was right out of my Sony Mavica camera.

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Tenuous Link: sign about Swan Lake but not swans >> an actual Swan Lake but no sign

P. S. I am dedicating this one to Josh & Evonne, because they didn't get to see swans at Yellowstone.

Birds hanging around in my yard.

This dudes wing span was at least 8 inches.This is a Snake Head Atlas Moth at the Forth Worth Botanical Garden. Let me say I walked right by this not realizing it was in fact REAL! A wonder of nature for sure!