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Post by laughter on Dec 12, 2015 20:36:35 GMT -5
D@mn this is some good stuff!  all around! Could keep a poet busy for a lifetime. 
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Post by someNOTHING! on Dec 12, 2015 22:24:08 GMT -5
An afternoon hiking up into the wax palms in Colombia gave us plenty of opportunities to observe some unique nature. Caught this hummingbird doing its natural ritual with wings at 50 flaps per second. Sometimes, if you sit real still, put red flowers behind your ear, protruding just enough, they'll come right up to your face, if not for a second. Eye contact between creatures is something I've always enjoyed. I like to get close and watch.  |
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Post by justlikeyou on Dec 12, 2015 22:31:07 GMT -5
An afternoon hiking up into the wax palms in Colombia gave us plenty of opportunities to observe some unique nature. Caught this hummingbird doing its natural ritual with wings at 50 flaps per second. Sometimes, if you sit real still, put red flowers behind your ear, protruding just enough, they'll come right up to your face, if not for a second. Eye contact between creatures is something I've always enjoyed. I like to get close and watch. AWESOME Pic!! Needs a bit of image editing i.e brighten and saturation, to bring the little guy out from the shadow a bit but a very very cool pic!! |
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Post by someNOTHING! on Dec 12, 2015 22:57:25 GMT -5
AWESOME Pic!! Needs a bit of image editing i.e brighten and saturation, to bring the little guy out from the shadow a bit but a very very cool pic!! Thanks. Yeah, I've spent a little time using such software on photos, but fact is I just love playing in the moment of observing and catching things in movement. But, as my wife has mentioned, I'm a lazy SOB when it comes to storing and fiddling with the damm things! In this one, it was just a cloudy day in a cloud forest! More recently, we've gotten a camera that makes some of that tweaking available before the photo is taken, so I tinker on and on. |
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Post by zin on Dec 13, 2015 11:23:00 GMT -5
D@mn this is some good stuff! all around! Could keep a poet busy for a lifetime. I concur!  Nice, isn't it? |
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Post by figgles on Dec 13, 2015 11:38:01 GMT -5
AWESOME Pic!! Needs a bit of image editing i.e brighten and saturation, to bring the little guy out from the shadow a bit but a very very cool pic!! Thanks. Yeah, I've spent a little time using such software on photos, but fact is I just love playing in the moment of observing and catching things in movement. But, as my wife has mentioned, I'm a lazy SOB when it comes to storing and fiddling with the damm things! In this one, it was just a cloudy day in a cloud forest! More recently, we've gotten a camera that makes some of that tweaking available before the photo is taken, so I tinker on and on. It's incredible....evokes so many feelings....the angle of wings...the light shining thru like that.... I've been awaiting inspiration to finish a painting I've had on hold for awhile now, shown below, .........I think perhaps I've found my muse..... Thanks.   |
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Post by zin on Dec 13, 2015 11:56:05 GMT -5
AWESOME Pic!! Needs a bit of image editing i.e brighten and saturation, to bring the little guy out from the shadow a bit but a very very cool pic!! Thanks. Yeah, I've spent a little time using such software on photos, but fact is I just love playing in the moment of observing and catching things in movement. But, as my wife has mentioned, I'm a lazy SOB when it comes to storing and fiddling with the damm things! In this one, it was just a cloudy day in a cloud forest! More recently, we've gotten a camera that makes some of that tweaking available before the photo is taken, so I tinker on and on. An afternoon hiking up into the wax palms in Colombia gave us plenty of opportunities to observe some unique nature. Caught this hummingbird doing its natural ritual with wings at 50 flaps per second. Sometimes, if you sit real still, put red flowers behind your ear, protruding just enough, they'll come right up to your face, if not for a second. Eye contact between creatures is something I've always enjoyed. I like to get close and watch. That was a wonderful picture! So you put red flowers behind your ears and the bird comes to you... How nice! I like "the moment of observing and catching things in movement", too; if at the moment of taking the pic I have the "this is OK" feeling I am not curious about looking at the pic later. But one must keep some! And I don't usually touch the pics afterwards, except a bit of cropping but sometimes it is useful as jly said here. I will attach one example, it is still not a good pic (after making it darker) but it's good enough to remind me of that day, the surprise of noticing the web while passing : )  |
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Post by someNOTHING! on Dec 14, 2015 21:12:05 GMT -5
Thanks. Yeah, I've spent a little time using such software on photos, but fact is I just love playing in the moment of observing and catching things in movement. But, as my wife has mentioned, I'm a lazy SOB when it comes to storing and fiddling with the damm things! In this one, it was just a cloudy day in a cloud forest! More recently, we've gotten a camera that makes some of that tweaking available before the photo is taken, so I tinker on and on. It's incredible....evokes so many feelings....the angle of wings...the light shining thru like that.... I've been awaiting inspiration to finish a painting I've had on hold for awhile now, shown below, .........I think perhaps I've found my muse..... Thanks. Cool. Very nice painting there...kinda reminds me of my own ladies selection of colors and form. And yes, she does work in phases, searching for the stimuli. You must be a nut too! hehe There are plenty of other photos in the hard drive...I'll throw some out over time. |
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Post by someNOTHING! on Dec 14, 2015 21:21:31 GMT -5
Thanks. Yeah, I've spent a little time using such software on photos, but fact is I just love playing in the moment of observing and catching things in movement. But, as my wife has mentioned, I'm a lazy SOB when it comes to storing and fiddling with the damm things! In this one, it was just a cloudy day in a cloud forest! More recently, we've gotten a camera that makes some of that tweaking available before the photo is taken, so I tinker on and on. An afternoon hiking up into the wax palms in Colombia gave us plenty of opportunities to observe some unique nature. Caught this hummingbird doing its natural ritual with wings at 50 flaps per second. Sometimes, if you sit real still, put red flowers behind your ear, protruding just enough, they'll come right up to your face, if not for a second. Eye contact between creatures is something I've always enjoyed. I like to get close and watch. That was a wonderful picture! So you put red flowers behind your ears and the bird comes to you... How nice! I like "the moment of observing and catching things in movement", too; if at the moment of taking the pic I have the "this is OK" feeling I am not curious about looking at the pic later. But one must keep some! And I don't usually touch the pics afterwards, except a bit of cropping but sometimes it is useful as jly said here. I will attach one example, it is still not a good pic (after making it darker) but it's good enough to remind me of that day, the surprise of noticing the web while passing : ) I dig spiders; I always have. I have billions of memories from life on my grandparents farms. I actually used to "feed them" to watch them in action...brilliant, really. And when the dew would settle on their webs, I was enraptured. About the time my head exploded while living up in the Himalayas, one of my morning gigs was to walk the perimeter of the hut I lived in, checking out the different kinds of spiders that lived in the area. I simple walk with chai in hand might take an hour, though of course, stopping to watch and listen to the magpies carrying on was almost inevitable. I think I got a pic of the shack somewhere...I'll post it. Again, I have this think about imagining what this body form would like like form their perspective. For whatever reason, that opens up something that translates into....well, openness. Pretty much a dance of perspectives. Just a thing... |
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Post by figgles on Dec 14, 2015 21:35:58 GMT -5
It's incredible....evokes so many feelings....the angle of wings...the light shining thru like that.... I've been awaiting inspiration to finish a painting I've had on hold for awhile now, shown below, .........I think perhaps I've found my muse..... Thanks. Cool. Very nice painting there.. .kinda reminds me of my own ladies selection of colors and form. And yes, she does work in phases, searching for the stimuli. You must be a nut too! hehe There are plenty of other photos in the hard drive...I'll throw some out over time. Thanks. Cool-io to the bolded!..Jeez, what a team you must Be....you photographing and she, painting..? And yes..hehe...as if you have to ask...   While I still love your photo, and will remain inspired (and would LOVE to see more!)....this is what happened....... have since painted over......  ...hummingbird with bountiful booty, not exactly what I was after...  |
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Post by someNOTHING! on Dec 14, 2015 22:02:48 GMT -5
Cool. Very nice painting there.. .kinda reminds me of my own ladies selection of colors and form. And yes, she does work in phases, searching for the stimuli. You must be a nut too! hehe There are plenty of other photos in the hard drive...I'll throw some out over time. Thanks. Cool-io to the bolded!..Jeez, what a team you must Be....you photographing and she, painting..? And yes..hehe...as if you have to ask... While I still love your photo, and will remain inspired (and would LOVE to see more!)....this is what happened....... have since painted over...... ...hummingbird with bountiful booty, not exactly what I was after... THAT is bold. Very BOLD. That takes guts. And to see that inspiration came from a photo,,, consider some time in Colombia. There is a great artist movement there, it's relatively cheap, and the diversity will blow you away. Even the street art in Bogota is quite robust. My wife was highly inspired by many facets of Colombian life. And birds continue to draw her interest and push her dreaminess...there are some amazing outcomes. She'll likely never let me post them, but some of the hummingbird series is found throughout our walls. |
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Post by figgles on Dec 14, 2015 22:26:59 GMT -5
Thanks. Cool-io to the bolded!..Jeez, what a team you must Be....you photographing and she, painting..? And yes..hehe...as if you have to ask... While I still love your photo, and will remain inspired (and would LOVE to see more!)....this is what happened....... have since painted over...... ...hummingbird with bountiful booty, not exactly what I was after... THAT is bold. Very BOLD. That takes guts. And to see that inspiration came from a photo,,, consider some time in Colombia. There is a great artist movement there, it's relatively cheap, and the diversity will blow you away. Even the street art in Bogota is quite robust.My wife was highly inspired by many facets of Colombian life. And birds continue to draw her interest and push her dreaminess...there are some amazing outcomes. She'll likely never let me post them, but some of the hummingbird series is found throughout our walls. Ooooh....you are giving me retirement ideas... Oh...ask her please...I am like a junkie when it comes to seeing other artist works....haha...artist 'porn'.... ..I already know they're awesome. speaking of which....and recently, also speaking of booty...and BOLD.....  ...... ......Thank you..... |
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Post by someNOTHING! on Dec 14, 2015 23:00:11 GMT -5
More on the desert motif. We heard of this place down in south Peru called Huacachina. It's a desert oasis off the coast a ways. Lotsa folks want to go there to ride the dunes on snowboards.....I know, kinda uuuhh, really? The small town had a few shops, a handful of cheapo guesthouses, and a nice variety of hummingbirds too! Anyway, I just liked hiking back into the dunes for sunrises and sets, taking in the space and silence. Going up was a pain in the arse; going down was wooohooo! These were some of the bigger dunes I've ever seen. To the mid-left, you can see a itty bitty person walking along the big curve that gives some perspective.  |
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Post by someNOTHING! on Dec 14, 2015 23:04:20 GMT -5
D@mn this is some good stuff! all around! Could keep a poet busy for a lifetime. I concur! Nice, isn't it? I love the turning of trees in the fall! If it's not oaks, it's aspen. If it ain't aspen, I'll take the maples. Seasons each have their charm! BTW, are those red oaks? Looks like a great place for a spacey morning walk. |
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Post by laughter on Dec 15, 2015 0:34:44 GMT -5
I concur! Nice, isn't it? I love the turning of trees in the fall! If it's not oaks, it's aspen. If it ain't aspen, I'll take the maples. Seasons each have their charm! BTW, are those red oaks? Looks like a great place for a spacey morning walk. Elms. Lots of streets on the East Coast used to be lined with them, those are disease resistant like the ones on the poets walk. When those canopy's went it had to be a loss for peeps back then.  |
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...hummingbird with bountiful booty, not exactly what I was after... 
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