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Snow in March and 50 Male Robins!

Via: a-macarthur • Photography & Art • 8 Comments • 11 years ago

I've been photographing nature and wildlife for years and have a degree in biology but never saw what I saw (and photographed) today! Snow in March -- been there, done that! 50 ROBINS ALL AT...

Restoration du Jour; I hope They're not Still Waiting

Via: a-macarthur • Photography & Art • 1 Comments • 11 years ago

Resumed restorations of the Magic Lantern Slides today. It's a bit of American genre of the late Nineteenth, early Twentieth Century. A Family Waits for a Trolley Car; Boston, Massachusetts,...

The Robins Move On … or so it Seems.

Via: a-macarthur • Photography & Art • 2 Comments • 11 years ago

The 50 or so male robins that recently took up residence in my backyard have apparently moved on, or, spread out in the area. In an earlier article I noted that I've seen large numbers of...

The Thought of Fishing with Good Friends Inspired a New Poster Image

Via: a-macarthur • Photography & Art • 36 Comments • 11 years ago

The PAST is gone, the FUTURE is an illusion and there is only NOW. There those good people who have passed -- some of them old fishing buddies. I hope the fishing is good wherever they are....

Spring in Central China

Via: buzz-of-the-orient • Photography & Art • 6 Comments • 11 years ago

Forsythia - a sure sign of Spring Flowering Quince (as identified by Ambivalent) I never saw anyone catch anything here.

Functional Art? Fishing is a Source.

Via: a-macarthur • Photography & Art • 19 Comments • 11 years ago

Functional art refers to aesthetic objects that serve utilitarian purposes. I'd say that much having to do with fishing qualifies as such. And what's interesting is how functional art can be the...

Early Spring … Even in its Sparse Appearnces … It has its Quiet Delights

Via: a-macarthur • Photography & Art • 30 Comments • 11 years ago

The greening and blossoms will come, but do not miss the subtle beauty that comes as the prelude. Get out there! Don't miss it.

Dark-Thirty A.K.A "Half-hour After Sunset"

Via: a-macarthur • Photography & Art • 17 Comments • 11 years ago

New Poster Image. During the summer, I will often go fishing until I can't see my hand in front of my face. That's the hour known to fishermen as "Dark-Thirty" A. Mac!

"And a River Runs Through it … "

Via: a-macarthur • Photography & Art • 2 Comments • 11 years ago

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. Norman Maclean To him, all good things - trout as well as eternal salvation - came by grace; and grace comes by...

A Present for Trista

Via: broliver-thesquirrel-stagnasty • Photography & Art • 18 Comments • 11 years ago

Just got done making a box for my niece Trista's birthday. Here is a picture of it with the lid on..... And here is a picture of it with the lid off... Here are some pictures of other...

Hysterical, (Historical), Photo of the Week

Via: dowser • Photography & Art • 18 Comments • 11 years ago

I have come across some really neat historical photos at my mother's house, and hoping that I'll find more! The invention of the Kodak camera, seems to have taken my family by storm, and as soon...

One Last Winter Painting … for Now.

Via: a-macarthur • Photography & Art • 14 Comments • 11 years ago

Female Red-bellied Woodpecker

Chill Out With Art

Via: ambivalent • Photography & Art • 13 Comments • 11 years ago

A Question of Etiquette; "Is it Proper to Tweet with Your Beak-Full?

Via: a-macarthur • Photography & Art • 20 Comments • 11 years ago

Inquiring minds want to know. Male Downy Woodpecker; "Twethhhsfhhhjh". I'm pretty sure I heard him correctly.

One of Nature's Most Beautiful Creatures

Via: a-macarthur • Photography & Art • 9 Comments • 11 years ago

Carolina (Winter) Wren "Nature is the Art of God" (Sir Thomas Browne)

The Only Black Bird with a White Eye -- The Grackle

Via: a-macarthur • Photography & Art • 6 Comments • 11 years ago

grackle A songbird of the American blackbird family, the male of which has shiny black plumage with a blue-green sheen (Quiscalus quiscula). The white eye is one of the species' identifying...

My Darling, it's a Starling

Via: a-macarthur • Photography & Art • 3 Comments • 11 years ago

This member of the Blackbird family is aggressive at my feeders; but I find Starlings photograph beautifully. A. Macarthur

Something New for The NewsTalkers' Authors, Poets and Photo Lovers (And Any/All Interested Members)

Via: a-macarthur • Photography & Art • 12 Comments • 11 years ago

A Challenge to The NewsTalkers Authors and Poets from A. Mac & Sara G. ~ Here's How it Will Work ~ A Discussion with a PHOTOGRAPH will be posted on the Front Page from...

Sara G & A.Mac's Authors Challenge #1 • "What Happened in that Building?"

Via: a-macarthur • Photography & Art • 40 Comments • 11 years ago

THE CHALLENGE "What Happened in that Building?" All submissions must be in by Monday, April 28, 2014, NO LATER THAN 8:PM EDST. Sara G & A. Mac (Based on the Picture...

Three Dog Night? Nah; Three Bird Day.

Via: a-macarthur • Photography & Art • 25 Comments • 11 years ago

Sunny Sunday Morning Walkabout in China

Via: buzz-of-the-orient • Photography & Art • 10 Comments • 11 years ago

Sunny Sunday Morning Walkabout in China My wife and I went for a walk this morning. It was sunny and warm and the flowers were blooming. Many people were out either walking or involved in some...

A Picture In Need of a Caption

Via: robert-in-ohio • Photography & Art • 35 Comments • 11 years ago

In addition to a caption for the picture what do you think the workers on each side are saying to each other?

Showcase ~ Sara G & A. Mac's Authors Challenge Number One

Via: a-macarthur • Photography & Art • 41 Comments • 11 years ago

The First Sara G & A. Mac Authors Challenge on The NewsTalkers was based on the image above. For those not familiar with the Challenge, authors/poets were given the following information...

Blue and Gold: Recent Bird Images