The First Sunny Day after a New Snow ~ A Perfect Opportunity for Outdoor Photography
Pennypack Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Another Three Day Weekend is here.
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Especially if you like dragons.
Be kind to one another and post your creative stuff.
... and please don't forget to vote up this article, art lovers.
Dark shadows cast across white snow
Among the trunks and branches cold
Photographers are bound to know
Their pictures of it are like gold.
Am Yisroel Chai.
When we were still in Zhengzhou much farther north...
No, my darling wife, you shouldn't try to bike through snow.
Arvo...the last gasp of Summer..
One of my favourite flowers the hibiscus in my garden..
For those of us who are getting tired of winter, beautiful flowers like that are a good thing to look at.
Photo by John Murillo / courtesy of the New York Times
Green honeycreeper: This bird, spotted on a farm in Columbia, exhibits a rare condition known as bilateral gynandromorphism - it is half male & half female.
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Thanks for your post, Vic!
The 60g cube is planted and is doing well all week.
With the plants I had left over I planted the second wabi kusa ball in the bowel I had gotten made at the local art glass shop and moved both wabi kusa in between the 2 big tanks.
If the water tests good on Saturday I'll move the fish over and start cleaning out the 75g and setting it up for Mbuna Cichlids.
A screenshot from my webcam...
how do you keep from turning the tank into a glass tub of mud when you add water to that media?
I add the water very slowly and even then it sometimes makes a little mess. This stuff is made for aquarium use, but it's older and does break down. I've had to go in and syphon a little bit of loose dirt out already.
That said some aquarists do what's called a "dirted" tank setup and use either sifted garden soil or pond soil and then pour 2 to 3 inches of sand on top to keep it down. That's not something I want to do.
I guess neon colored gravel is really old school now...
I still see a lot of people start out that way and love their little boxes of water. Whatever gets them excited for the hobby.
It's an AQUARED taste.
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well it was 50 years ago, my mental frame of reference was a bit altered, and my fish choices kind of blended in.
Fin-tastic pun!
you'll be sorry ...
If fish were capable of being thankful, they should be so for your providing them such a beautiful, safe and comfortable environment.
What's in your backyard?
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If you REALLY want to know what's in my backyard, then click this link.
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One time there was a deer as well.
Morning.... such a stunning photo...
The first two are in my backyard.
Ornamental Pear Flowers with Butterfly (© G. Gam)
Sunset (© G. Gam)
Bamboo Forest with Lantern, Kyoto (© G. Gam)
A more than worthy response!
Thank you very much!
that b/w shot of the bamboo forest is great.
Thanks, dev.
at first, I thought the lantern was a bird feeder.
I'm really impressed - your split image concept for the sunset is an incredible idea. That bamboo forest may have a lantern, but it really needs some pandas. Never mind, it's pretty good as is.
The presentation is is known as a "diptych" - As an art term a diptych is an artwork consisting of two pieces or panels that together create a single art piece. These can be fastened together or presented adjoining each other.
Thank you.
The working title was "Sunset Diptych". I should probably still call it that.
When it comes to a lantern being swallowed up by a forest...a photo I took many years ago.
How about a lantern forest?
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Lanterns, Nara (© G. Gam)
LOL. They look like gravestones. Now THESE are Chinese lanterns :
I guess you're not familiar with Japanese stone lanterns. There are about 3,000 of them associated with the Shinto shrine in Nara Park. Some are very old.
You're quite right, I've never been to Japan and never knew about their stone lanterns.
Stone lanterns originated in China as early as the Han Dynasty.
Here is another photo with some stone lanterns that I took at the Kasuga Shinto Shrine in Nara Park.
Nara 682 (© G. Gam)
This is an interesting link --
Good link. Thanks for posting it. Isn't it those who practised the Shinto religion the ones who attacked Pearl Harbor?
Shinto is Japan's indigenous religion. It is commonly practiced throughout Japan. Check this link:
The famous torii gates are found at the entrance to Shinto shrines. The link above has a beautiful photo of a torii gate.
This is a piece I did a few years ago --
Torii Gate with Full Moon (© G. Gam)
Speaking of Torii gates, check out this one in Miyajima, Japan. This is on UNESCO’s list of World Heritage Sites.
Here is when the tide is high and the Torii gate appears to be floating on water:
Here is a closer view when the tide was low and we could literally go out and touch the Torii gate:
As you can tell, this is a gargantuan Torii gate. The biggest I have ever seen.
Nice image. China has blocked Wikipedia.
That is probably the most well-known of the torii gates, and it is in a really beautiful setting, although I saw many torii gates in Japan as I'm certain you did, too.
Thanks. I didn't know they blocked Wikipedia. Can you get the Britannica website?
No problem with Britannica. I was particularly interested in the alternating positive and negative dance of Shinto with Buddhism and Confucianism, as my wife and her extended family are practising Buddhists. Shinto is obviously different from Buddhism since I can't imagine a nation where Buddhism prevailed would even dream of invading another nation. I will have to spend more time with the Britannica article as there is much in it to learn.
Yeah we saw quite a few. Indeed, there are thousands of torii gates right here at the Fushimi Inari Shrine:
The walkway was constructed by creating a series of torii gates. Gets much denser as one walks into the pathway in the back. You can even see what looks like a red wall. That is not a wall.
For God's sake, TiG. give those two people something filling to eat.
We spent an afternoon at Fushimi Inari Shrine. It was a beautiful place. Each of the gates had a plaque with a dedication. I was just looking through my photos from there to find one to post on here, but you beat me to it!
Those were tourists. Have no access to them.
I was amazed just thinking of the amount of work involved to produce that place. But, then again, I was often amazed while traveling through Japan.
Amazing is a good word to describe Japan. One of my favorite places I've ever been. I would love to visit there again.
One of our resident eagles was a little angry when it thought that the photographer was there to take his lunch.
Photo by our resident expert photographer.
A slow easy trip up the Silver River and the turtles were out in force. Turtles were getting ready to model for the new magazine, ''Turtles, Saviors of Mankind''....They did of course save the human race when the turtle and lowly muskrat succeeded when the most powerful animals on earth failed.
Hey, you off my log, I don't want any bird poo on my log.
Who has the right of way?
And of course when it came to a race between a hare and a tortoise, we all know who won.
There is a reason that NAs call north American, ''Turtle Island''.
So tell us what it is.
Two reasons, the first is that if you look at North America from space it is the outline of a turtle and the second reason is that the Turtle and Muskrat represent to us no matter how small or seemingly insignificant to us each creature is has a special talent/skill that keeps the circle intact.
My former client, the late famous Ojibwe "Woodlands" artist Norval Morrisseau painted many images of turtles. Here are a few of them:
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Beautiful
Cape May, New Jersey, 1992
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Morning...that photo is brilliant.. can't beat the sea when it comes to sunrises and sunsets...
Sea-Fever
A couple new additions to the mancave. These guys are almost life size, and the fur is real, the eyes are strikingly realistic and they have soft eyebrows and eyelashes. Another random Craigslist find while out of town.
Closing shop until Thursday night. Thanks to all.