Cabbage. Click for full size.
© C. Ford.
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Art, Fun, & Nonsense.
Cabbage. Click for full size.
© C. Ford.
Yeah, yeah, minds out of the gutter! :D From Charly, shots of Parus major. Charly mentions their facility in grabbing sunseeds and whooshing into the trees to crack them open. That’s something I never tire of seeing here, with a relative of the Great Tit, the Black-capped Chickadee. Wonderful shots, click for full size!
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An abandoned U.S. missile base.
An abandoned Soviet missile base.
Be it the deliberate destruction of something or its sheer neglect, what transgresses is rarely the complete story. I photograph the visual footprints that the human race leaves on the landscape during its march through time. When the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union signaled the end of the Cold War, the holdings of American and Russian nuclear armaments were significantly reduced with many of the supporting facilities being closed and abandoned. All that now remains are decaying reminders of the might once exhibited by two opposing forces heading towards an unimaginable end. Just like time, photography can strip away the extraneous distraction of life to leave a meditative stillness. Sometimes silence speaks the loudest.
Soviet and American Nuclear Missile Bases by Brett Leigh Dicks.
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From rq: Because sometimes you have to take a bad photo of the moon and Venus (I presume), subtly underlit by the sodium streetlights. Click for full size.
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From Ice Swimmer, click for full size! Spectacular shots.
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From rq, click for full size! Stunning shots all.
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From Ice Swimmer, click for full size!
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A treetop terrorist (Fox squirrel), who has designs on my bird food, waving the tail of war. Click for full size.
© C. Ford.
From rq, click for full size!
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From Ice Swimmer, click for full size! Breathtaking.
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Joy, a fluffy, happy dog, from Giliell. Click for full size.
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From rq: As created inadvertently, a by-product of the skating rink, and from what creates itself on the ground from fallen water-ice.
This effect is particularly impressive when water is first misted onto open grass, because the ice is then perfectly clear, like glass marbles all over the lawn. The first year we tried rink-making, this happened, and it was glorious. Since our method has changed from then, I haven’t had the pleasure of seeing that same gloriousness, but this is a small taste. Click for full size!
