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DennisN · May 24, 2023

A western jackdaw with an open mouth, shot today:
(that beak looks pretty sharp

)

Western jackdaw with grey nape and pale eye standing on a wooden surface, beak open, backlit against a blurred background.

Tom.G · May 24, 2023

morrobay said:

Well! It certainly looks like you caught a prime incarnation.

Point Conception · May 25, 2023

Tom.G said:

Well! It certainly looks like you caught a prime incarnation.

Same Thai girl: Neng, 39

A woman with reddish-brown hair in a ponytail, wearing a black top and jeans, holds a grey bag while buying fruit from a street market stall piled with oranges, mangoes and bagged fruit.

Point Conception · May 25, 2023

And another one : Kul , 41.Black on Black

A woman with long dark hair sits on a wooden chair on a rooftop terrace at night, lit by green light, with a blue-tiled bench, metal bowls, and city lights in the background.

TonyStewart · May 25, 2023

A blue jay standing on a light-colored surface beside a piece of bread, with a rusty cast-iron cat figure blurred in the background.

Blue Jay perched on a white surface against a grey, blurred background, with a striped cushion at the left edge.

I had a visitor one day in my $50 poly solarium over patio awning during the winter. It is sealed from snow and rain but there is a small exit for my dog which this Blue Jay discovered (near Toronto like the baseball team). It took about 10 minutes for him to find the exit. It wasn't interested in the multi-grain bread pc on the table that I tossed in nor the cast-iron rusty cat.
Canon EOS REBEL T2i f/5.6

Point Conception · May 26, 2023

Point Conception · May 27, 2023

As I was leaving small supermarket, a Russian lady with a parrot.

A bright green parrot with an orange beak and red and blue wing feathers perches on a person's dark-sleeved arm outdoors beside a shop front.

A bright green parrot with an orange beak and blue and red wing markings perches on a person's arm wearing a black sleeve, in front of a shop window with bottles on shelves.

DennisN · May 27, 2023

TonyStewart said:

I had a visitor one day in my $50 poly solarium over patio awning during the winter. It is sealed from snow and rain but there is a small exit for my dog which this Blue Jay discovered

What a beautiful bird! Lovely "pastel" light blue color!

DennisN · May 27, 2023

morrobay said:

As I was leaving small supermarket, a Russian lady with a parrot.

A gorgeous bird! They are such cool animals!

DennisN · May 27, 2023

Red leaves with a rainbow lens flare...
I haven't seen this effect with any of my other lenses.

Photo of red-leaved branches in a garden with a bright sun behind them, showing a curved rainbow-coloured lens flare across the lower half of the frame.

(Lens: Yashica Auto Yashikor 35mm f/2.8)

phinds · May 28, 2023

A very happy foot bridge

Curved brown metal footbridge over a path in a green garden, with the shadow of the railings cast on the ground forming the letters HAHA.

BillTre · May 28, 2023

Hydro-Dynamics in Action:

DennisN · May 29, 2023

BillTre said:

Hydro-Dynamics in Action:

A stunningly cool capture!

pinball1970 · May 31, 2023

DennisN said:

A stunningly cool capture!

It looks like CGI it's so perfect!

pinball1970 · May 31, 2023

DennisN said:

Red leaves with a rainbow lens flare...
I haven't seen this effect with any of my other lenses.

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(Lens: Yashica Auto Yashikor 35mm f/2.8)

Beautiful, the rainbow frames it. Lovely image.

pinball1970 · May 31, 2023

morrobay said:

As I was leaving small supermarket, a Russian lady with a parrot.View attachment 327120 View attachment 327121

When I retire I would like one these guys. Read up on them first.

pinball1970 · May 31, 2023

DennisN said:

By the way, I just checked the fieldfare page on Swedish Wikipedia and saw these two nice photos:

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Turdus pilaris in snow, Väsby, by EstrellaSuecia

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Turdus pilaris in Stockholm, Sweden in 2015 by Frankie Fouganthin

I think they are gorgeous birds.

They are gorgeous. The plumage is quite Thrush like but I am not an expert.
You have anything nice @Astranut ?

DennisN · May 31, 2023

pinball1970 said:

When I retire I would like one these guys. Read up on them first.

I've thought about that too. Or some other bird.
But in my case I have feeling it won't be good to combine them with cats, and I'll probably have cats all my life, since I enjoy them very much.

Parrots, as far as I understand, bond strongly with their owner and consider them a mate. Which means they can get jealous.

By the way, I've discovered that cats can get jealous too.
Sometimes when one of my female cats is lying on my chest, the other female cat tries to get in between the other cat and my head. Competition for attention.

jtbell · Jun 1, 2023

Sign of the South:

Hand-painted roadside sign on a wooden stake in a grass verge reading FRESH BOILED PEANUTS with peanut drawings and a red arrow pointing STRAIGHT AHEAD; a blue garbage truck passes on the road.

gmax137 · Jun 1, 2023

I haven't seen any peanut farms here in Nevada, will have to look into that. I do love boiled peanuts!

DennisN · Jun 3, 2023

Flag time... I was down at a marina on a windy day and happened to shoot some flags.
Do you know them?

Germany.

German national flag with horizontal black, red and gold stripes, flying from a white flagpole against a deep blue sky.

Netherlands.

Horizontal tricolour flag of red, white and blue bands, flying from a white flagpole against a deep blue sky.

Denmark.

Red flag with a white Nordic cross extending to the edges, flying from a white flagpole against a deep blue sky.

Sweden.

Blue flag with a yellow Nordic cross extending to the edges, flying from a white flagpole against a deep blue sky.

Norway.

Norwegian flag with a red field, a white-edged blue Nordic cross, flying from a white flagpole against a deep blue sky.

EU (European Union).

Blue flag with a circle of twelve yellow five-pointed stars, flying on a silver flagpole against a deep blue sky.

Ibix · Jun 3, 2023

I got ##(5+i)/6##. I carelessly said France instead of the Netherlands, but since I'm only out by 90° I claim ##i## points for that.

pinball1970 · Jun 3, 2023

DennisN said:

Flag time... I was down at a marina on a windy day and happened to shoot some flags.
Do you know them?

Germany.

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That is Navy not black?

pinball1970 · Jun 3, 2023

I totally messed that up but that stripe is not black in the German flag.

DennisN · Jun 3, 2023

pinball1970 said:

I totally messed that up but that stripe is not black in the German flag.

I didn't pay attention to the actual color when I was there.
Maybe it looks dark blue on that photo due to partial transparency of the flag (i.e. the light from the blue background sky comes partly through, just a guess), and/or I did something weird when I edited in Photoshop

.

Here's another photo with four of the flags from another angle:

Four flags flying from tall poles against a clear blue sky: from left, a red-and-white Danish flag, a German tricolour of black, red and gold, a Dutch-style red, white and blue flag, and a Swedish blue flag with a yellow cross. A dark vehicle and a city skyline are at the bottom.

It looks at least to me like the flags are partially transparent.

DennisN · Jun 4, 2023

Summer is here, so here are some plants:

Yellow roses:

Close-up of a shrub with small yellow five-petalled flowers, one in sharp focus at the centre, with serrated green leaves and reddish-brown hips and buds among dark, blurred foliage.

Flowering bush (Spirea):

Photo of a flowering branch against a black background, with clusters of small white five-petalled blossoms and green leaves along the stems.

Yellow flowers on a tree:
(Google picture search says the species is golden chain (Laburnum anagyroides))

Branches of a tree with drooping clusters of yellow pea-shaped flowers and green compound leaves against a deep blue sky.

(Lens used (all three photos): Yashinon-DS 50mm f/1.9)

Point Conception · Jun 5, 2023

Large freestanding multicolored letters spelling PAT...ANI on a tiled sidewalk, red P, orange A, green, blue, teal and purple letters, with trees and a street behind.

nsaspook · Jun 6, 2023

Close-up portrait of a young child with dark shoulder-length hair with bangs, wearing a pink hooded top, in front of a wooden chair.

A young woman with long dark hair sits at a wooden restaurant table, smiling, with a single lit candle in a dessert dish in front of her; plates of food, drinks and a lobster shell are on the table.

18 years old ...

DennisN · Jun 6, 2023

A lovely redstart singing a tune in the afternoon:

A small songbird with a black face, white forehead, orange-rust breast and dark tail perched on a bare branch against a clear blue sky, with green leaves below.

Small songbird with an orange-brown breast, dark grey head and black tail, perched with open beak on a bare branch against a clear blue sky.

Rive · Jun 7, 2023

When you make a bunch of photos of a noisy hole on a tree, some of them are bound to be lucky, right?

A small songbird perched at a dark hole in a tree trunk with rough bark, while a second bird with a white face flies in blurred motion toward it through green forest foliage.

This harmless looking plant has quite an epic name: might be translated as 'scythe-bane', I think...

Field of tall purple flowering plants with feathery green foliage in the foreground, a wooded hillside and overcast sky behind them.

After rain

Overcast landscape of a green grassy field in the foreground, with rolling wooded hills and distant mountains under a cloudy sky, and a power line at the upper left.

I did not dare to bring any decent gear to that hike, and I was sooo right

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