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Eguene Delacroix's mural of Heliodorus Driven from the Temple in the Chapel of Guardian Angels in the Church of Saint-Sulpice in Paris, France
My first film back from my new Olympus 35 SP. The shutter on this camera makes an odd noise… the sort of noise a shutter normall makes when it doesn't work properly! So I was pleseantly surprised to see these nicely exposed photos in the envelope! And the 42mm f1.7 lens produces really nice bokeh wide-open… I think this camea is going to see a lot of use!
So, I accidentally deleted my other bat picture from my photo stream so I had to go look in the archives for it again and found this one also. Looks like he is waving at you!!!
St John. The four Gospel writers are symbolized as winged creature (as described in Ezekiel and Revelation) known as the Beasts of the Evangelists. These are at Shadyside Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh.
Chapel of the Souls in Purgatory in the Church of Saint-Sulpice, Paris, France - The Pièta is by Jean-Baptiste Auguste Clésinger from 1868, and the stained glass is by Lucien Léopold Lobin from 1869.
Fun Loving Birds - Canary Parrot
Warbling Grass parakeet / Canary Parrot
Nomadic birds, native of Australia are found as pets and zoos in most of the countries.
They are very Friendly, Fun Loving birds and adaptable.
This bee is clearly hungry, because he's really digging in there. Imagine if that's how we all ate -- a plate of food on the table, our hindquarters wriggling up in the air, our faces mashed down on the plate with our elbows in the table.
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Oh, wait, that is how I eat.
Really, it explains a lot. Like why most of my shirts have a very short life span.
Anyway, this bee is digging into some flower that I am unable to identify, because I am not a Certified Flowerologist, nor am I a Licensed Florapist.
That's one of the things about Hawaii, and not knowing about the flowers you're looking at -- everything is basically, "Muhhhh, that flower pretty. Hey! Guhh! That flower pretty too. Clap hands! Clap hands for pretty flower!"
Thankfully, the botanical garden (the origin of this photo) labels a lot of their flowers and plants.
Not so thankfully, I photographed zero of those plaques to help me identify these items.
So, we can just make something up. This is the Purple-Pronged Popcorn Lily, a favorite of all bees and their butts.
Oh, HBW, peeples.
While having lunch, I happened to spot this butterfly resting on the Hostas. Can't believe it stayed around while I grabbed the camera!
Summer sure is a great time to catch all kinds of life. God certainly created a lot of varieties to take care of the earth. I'm so glad to have the opportunity to put some of His creation on display for all to see and appreciate. Plus it's a lot of fun when you don't have to go far to get some good shots! All 5 of these were done with the +4 close up filter. Enjoy!
worshipped as gods by the ancient Egyptians. This bird (whilst alive) is usually silent, but occasionally makes some croaking noises.
The Zoological Museum - St. Petersburg, Russia
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This was at Finley Wildlife Refuge, in Corvallis, Oregon. The eagle and swans were at Cabell Pond/Marsh. Trying to focus on a Bald Eagle and hold my camera up to the telescope, I also got a couple of Arctic Trumpet or Tundra Swans, that migrate over 2,000 miles to winter here.
Considering my camera was a sub-megapixel Sony Mavica, and my experience in photographing things through telescopes was none, I think it turned out kind of artsy.
I try not to do my bird photography in bright sunlight due to the harsh shadows, but this duck was just too cute to pass on. This is at Melody Lake in West Milford, New Jersey. Temperatures were in the low 40's F, or about 5 C.
Files from the X-E1 do seem to convert into very nice black & white photographs. I can't explain why I think X-E1 shots make better b&w photos than my other cameas, and the difference is very subtle, but I do like the effect.
On a recent trip to London I visited Kensal Green Cemetery, one of London's 'Magnificent Seven' suburban Victorian cemteries. It is indeed magnificent, and perhaps my favourtite so far (I've already visited Hampstead and Highgate... I guess I'll just have to visits the other 4 to complete the set now!
All of these photographs were shot on a Fujifilm XE-1 with a variety of classic Olympus Pen F lenses (but mostly the 40mm f/1.4).
Black and white just seems to suit the atmosphere of a tumble-down Vctorian cemetery like Kensal Green, and I used Silver FX Pro 2 for all but one of these photographs.
This is the Monastery of the Holy Transfiguration of God, near Veliko Turnovo in Bulgaria. It is no longer a working building, but the Bulgarians are working hard to restore and conserve this very beautiful complex of buildings.
The chapel, with it's amazing painted decorations both inside and out is of particular note.
My wife and I went for walk around the pond at Continental Soldiers Park in Mahwah, New Jersey. We spotted this magnificent bird, and of course he took off after a few shots, but I found it again on the other side of the pond for the other two shots. I did not have on the real long lens, so I had to sneak up as close as I dared without alarming it. Pretty satisfied with the end results. Thank you to Maricelli63 for helping me to correctly identify this beautiful bird.
The Zoological Museum - St. Petersburg, Russia
The Little Egret, Egretta garzetta is a small white heron. It is the Old World counterpart to the very similar New World Snowy Egret.
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bangkok, thailand
1972
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My wife and I went for walk around the pond at Continental Soldiers Park in Mahwah, New Jersey. We spotted this magnificent bird, and of course he took off after a few shots, but I found it again on the other side of the pond for the other two shots. I did not have on the real long lens, so I had to sneak up as close as I dared without alarming it. Pretty satisfied with the end results. Thank you to Maricelli63 for helping me to correctly identify this beautiful bird.
The young one (we came to call him "Stubby")didn't mature as fast as his fledglings and he was ABANDONED! by his family. His tail wasn't as long as his bros and sis' and he couldn't fly with them. He was land bound on our lawn! He spent a week or so on our front lawn, hopping up to the bird bath via our log deer. No shelter. No flying! We have 2 cats! etc. etc.! It was a very harrowing time! Stubby sat on that bird bath-RAIN or SHINE! A family member would stop for food or water and he would squawk and try to talk to them and they ignored him! Mr.69 even put umbrellas over him during rain storms to protect him. We took pictures of Stubby under his cloaks, but they didn't turn out!(dammit!).He survived and so did we, and we are pretty sure we see short-tailed blue jays that come by all the time...TRUE STORY! HONEST!