The Photography Thread

[FETCHER.]

Forgot to add this, sorry for the double post.


My nephew has a little sore eye in this but they were both staring at me with a blank expression.

[Frownland]

Your dog's adorable, Fetcher.

[CanwllCorfe]

[FETCHER.]

Originally Posted by Frownland

Your dog's adorable, Fetcher.

Thank you! She is a little rascal, don't let her cuteness deceive you haha

[Psychedub Dude]

Heres some shots I took with my phone

[Zaqarbal]

Originally Posted by VEGANGELICA

A couple days ago I was looking at a record I used to enjoy playing as a preschooler, when I read the lyrics for one of the songs...and they immediately made me think of you and your blackbirds:

The Ash Grove - lyrics for a Welsh folk song

"Down yonder green valleys where streamlets meander,
when twilight is fading I pensively rove,
or at the bright noontide in solitude wander
amid the dark shades of the lonely ash grove.
'Tis there where the blackbird is cheerfully singing,
each warbler enchants with his notes from the tree;
ah, then little think I of sorrow or sadness.
The ash grove entrancing spells beauty for me."

And below is the tune. I have felt as if I've always known it but never realized why until two days ago when I saw the song on one of my favorite records from childhood..."Walt Disney presents It's a Small World: 18 Favorite Folk Songs."

The Ash Grove - tune


The Ashgrove - YouTube


About bird song: I wanted to think of a distinctive bird song that I could give to you in return for the blackbirds. Finally I remembered that I hear great horned owls hooting in the evening sometimes. I love the sound of their distant hooo-hooo-hoo-hooooos:


Great horned owl hooting - YouTube

I don't have a picture of a great horned owl , but I *do* have a photo that I took several years ago looking southwest from my backyard toward the forested area where the owls live near a stream and mouse-filled meadow:

Thank you, Erika. Beautiful music, beautiful bird-song and beautiful picture!

Guess what? I'm getting more and more interested in birds. For the past months I've been photographing a lot of them. I've taken many pictures of several species. OMG, will I become a birder? And to think that all this started when I was just trying a zoom lens....

These beauties are Iberian Woodpeckers (a subespecies of the European Green Woodpecker). Male (left) and female (right):

Green Woodpeckers are very skittish. But one day I stealthily got as close as I could to a female. I hid behind a tree and took this pic:

This is how Green Woodpeckers sing (which is NOT how Woody Woodpecker laughs, BTW ):

[Ashra]

liking the Woodpecker shots Zaqarbal, do a bit of wildlife photography myself, cant get near our Green Woodies as they are very cagey.

[Frownland]

Here's a few pictures I took last week when feeling particularly inspired. The last two are from a drainage pipe that my band and I perform at (the acoustics are fantastic).

[Zaqarbal]

Highly metaphorical:

Originally Posted by Frownland

Sailing is the door to new worlds, etc...

[Zaqarbal]

Originally Posted by VEGANGELICA

I didn't realize that blackbirds' eyelids create rings of gold that match their beaks!

Closer:

Lunchtime:

I've even recorded a vid. Bath time!:

This is a female (dark-brown plumage):