Friday Photography - Looking For Colour?

Have been busy getting Ollas into the garden today for some colourful edibles.

I hope you are all well and making the best of these fractured times.

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dystopian's picture

What great colors you have Janis! Gorgeous! Awesome! WOW! Pardon my ignorance, are those the edible Ollas? They look like a type of houseplant sold here sometimes, which I can't think of the name of. Will go see if I have any color handy, but methinks pale in comparison. That neon pink is wonderful!

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Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein

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@dystopian

Liveliness in photography takes all kinds of different forms. The translation of colour with a digital camera always blows me away. It made it easier to go from b&w film to digital years ago.

When I tell you what the leaves are you will think, "of course I knew that". They're Canna leaves lit at the end of the day.

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My Ollas are these ...

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not exactly these, but ones made just like them. This is a photo from google images.

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Rocky Mountain Bigtooth Maple, last week at 29.6N.
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Cypress Trees are going rust here now.
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otc suggested we post pics of our places, so here is mine... never had anyone break in through the roof.
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I will ask around and find out what this building was, maybe phone switching or somesuch?

This is an adult White-crowned Sparrow, of the nominate leucophrys subspecies, which is the type found in the eastern half of the U.S. and Canada. Note pinkish bill and black in lores (between eye and bill). Some subspecies are orange-billed, some gray lored, some are migratory and some are not.
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The immature White-crowned Sparrow have brown and buff crown stripes until next spring.
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Hope all are doing well! Play it safe!

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@dystopian

Now that is a bunker! Playing it safe, are you ; ).

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@dystopian
It makes my place look like a shack.
Nice shots. I really love the orange tones in the Bigtooth Maple leaves.

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i'm a sucker for intense colors and, well, there you go.

have a great weekend!

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@joe shikspack

I was just thinking today that I missed your colourful photos of flowers and their companions.

I hope you and your family are all doing well.

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@janis b

well, for obvious reasons, i haven't gotten out much to take pictures this year. my camera is sitting forlorn and feeling abandoned in its closet, its batteries slowly draining out.

this doggoned pandemic can't end too soon.

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@joe shikspack

How sad, I'm sorry for you both.

To better days!

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@janis b
sits in same manner in my closet. I wanted to get it out and take photos of the birds who live with us on our patio and I think I am pretty ready to do so. Just that the little I got to know about taking photos is all gone and has to be relearned. But I can't wait posting the photos of our birds here. I could imagine Dystopian might like them.
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May be I can make a video of their 'talk'. Lately we had serious family in-fighting among some of them. Would be fun to ask Dystopian if he can recognize the birds by their 'talk'.

Have a very good one in these awful times, janis. It's such a joy to read and watch this Friday evening series. BTW the colors of our leaves are so strong, you can't get your eyes off them. We have beautiful deep red japanese maples in the front yard and at the side of our patio.

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@mimi

make me want to dedicate next Friday's Photography to getting the cameras out of the closet ; ).

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I really love that shot, Janis. It jumps right off the page at you.

Some shots of a few of the local residents at nearby Santee Lakes.

Male Wood Duck
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Pied-billed Grebe
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Mr and Mrs Wood Duck
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Snowy Egret
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Red-winged Blackbird
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Green Heron
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@Socialprogressive

The Green Heron is absolutely beautiful in its subtle colours and patterns of its wings. Thank you for making it visible to us.

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@janis b
The best part about Friday photos is getting to see what everyone else here is seeing.

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@Socialprogressive great photos SP! Awesome bird shots! I love that Wood Duck. Every one is a winner though! Outstanding work man!

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@Socialprogressive Google "Andean Duck". There are always several to a bunch of pairs and ducklings at Laguna LLaviucu, a wetlands recovery project of an old abandoned brewery along a stream from the high Cajas Mountains, that is administered by Parque Nacional Cajas. There are also Andean Teal, Andean gulls, and the Gray Breasted Mountain Toucan (somewhat hard to find) there often. I've seen the gulls higher, ~12,000', along the road up into the park and then down to the coast and Guayaquil.

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@Socialprogressive birds. DH and I love birds and have the mini library of bird books from the US and now France, Europe and GB. Many birds here can be pan EurAsian, so it is a whole new world for us.

We have seen some very similar birds if not exactly the same as we saw in the Pacific NW: English Sparrows, Crows, MagPies, Starlings, Barn Swallows, Belted Kingfisher, Common Swifts, White Egrets, Night Herons, Common Snipe, Coots (although different), Goshawk, Northern Harrier, Golden Eagles, Pheasants, Osprey, Blackbird (really a Black Robin - all behaviors, body size and shape the same, sings more and during the day in Spring. The birdsong at the end of the Beatle's Blackbird is the real deal).

We miss terribly Humming Birds, which are strictly a North and South American bird group; Juncos, Quail (California), Black Headed Grosbeaks, Swainson's Thrush, Varied Thrush.

We do have multiple versions of five, of Chickadees (Mésanges), Green Woodpecker (gorgeous)flies like a Flicker - flap, flap, gliiiide, Herons, Egrets, Eurasian Orioles,

Our latitude is the same as Astoria, Oregon, Mt. St. Helens and that creates weather much the same with continental variables thrown in, making it more complex, with the Atlantic and Mediterranean on either side.

We feel that if say six couples of Annas were brought here, they would thrive. All the conditions and bugs are right. The Europeans rarely distinguish Natives (how far back do you want to go?) from locals. If they are here, they are here.

Now some birds which are exotic to us but found throughout GB and Europe are: Cuckoos, Huppoe, Nightengale, and many small but incredibly colored birds. The Owls here are noisy and many. We still have some sounding at night, but expect that to change when the next blast of cold, rainy weather arrives.

We have to have at least two books: French with Latin names to British common names and Latin. Otherwise we can't pin down what they are. It makes life interesting.

Thanks again for the wonderful bird photos.

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Mostly white at the moment, so here's a little colour from months ago.

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Gëzuar!!
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@Bollox Ref

Mostly white, that means snow and frost?

Keep warm in the available light. Say hi to Fred from me.

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@janis b

Fred is his normal Freddy self:

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That's quite the plant at the beginning of the post.

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I only have time for a drive by tonight. These three photos were taken from the patio of the Madre Tierra Eco Spa and Resort, Vilcabamaba, Ecuador. in Feb 2020. The three were spaced over 20-30 minutes as we sat on the patio eating dinner. I'm not sure I've seen the sky put on such a nice display. The mountain is called The Sleeping Inca by locals. You'll see him. I may have posted these here before but I'm not sure. Later.

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Another - The Sleeping Giant (Kauai) ...


attribution: https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/03/31/hawaii-3-free-and-totally-awesome...

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The color brought to you is Red Square.
I was there just about the time there was big controversy over where to put Stalin's body.
Cheers, fellow photographers!

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@on the cusp

of colour and geometric composition. Thank you OtC.

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