Capture: Upside Down, Inside Out
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Jos,
Where would you be without your walnut tree
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Chris Waugh, in reply to
Where would you be without your walnut tree
In the hospital or infirmary? Oh, sorry, wrong song.
Loving this thread. Great shots everybody.
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ChrisW, in reply to
Oh, sorry, wrong song.
One of life's mysteries to ponder - why no songs about walnut trees? Meanwhile,
early one morning just as the sun was rising,
I saw a walnut branchlet with two heavy drops below. -
Jos,
Just needs snow
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Snow not too far away in the hills tonight ...
This WalnutDrop with animalistic appearance, possibly influenced by Triceratops, but cheerful like?A different angle, and the image refracted in through the right side of the drop is that of the dawn redwood tree beyond to the left -
Indeed, more readily appreciated when upside down.
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JacksonP, in reply to
Yes, this is my favorite Capture thread, of all time. Magnificence on every page.
Cheers Chris. I’m kind of blown away by it all. The world has looked different since we started. Nature’s surrealism.
And Nora is in the zone. Along with the rest of you of course.
Loving it.
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
The world has looked different since we started.
Never look at a puddle quite the same again…
In between downpours yesterday. -
Rainy days mean…. jumping in puddles, then complaining that your feet are wet.
... no work to do, so the bengbengche (ute, China-style) stays home. (oops, forgot the picture)
... and the mountains have reappeared.
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"chris", in reply to
It's a one hell of a trip Jackson, yes, I spent a while the other day looking at Nora's snowman cloud wondering if that was a digital effect, until - "No "chris" it's water. that's what it does, try spending a little less time in front of a computer screen".
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
… and the mountains have reappeared.
looking like they are draped in the finest emerald green velvet!
like the walking on water shot too.... maybe that could come over here to the watery thread?
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
looking at Nora’s snowman cloud wondering if that was a digital effect
way too lazy for digital effects!! same snow man, looking more ghosty and looming behind tourists...
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Sunset in Newmarket
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Before the rain and southerly ...
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On the riverbank,
Sheila the pied shag was still nervous when any large creature approached from behind, even if its beak looked harmless enough. -
Jos,
Sheila has every reason to be nervous I witnessed shaggery going on this morning as one tried to pinch the other's eel
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Harumph! And who do you think you're looking at!
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Jos,
And a couple more small planets
Thornton Beach
Riverside twist
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ChrisW, in reply to
I witnessed shaggery going on this morning as one tried to pinch the other's eel
Very impressive capture! Yours and the shag's. I've not seen a shag with an eel that big before. With that feeding technique, a sizeable eel would be very hard for a shag to share.
Most entertaining to see them swallow a flounder - it takes them quite a while to get a flounder rolled up enough to swallow, even a small one, but worth the trouble apparently. Never seen when digital camera to hand ... -
Jos,
Like this? :)
and shags herding fish into the shallows as a group, never seen that before or sinceprevious eel catch
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Islander, in reply to
In the Okarito lagoon shallows at low tides, they form what we call the shag-stake-out...anything up to a dozen birds who seem to take turns at being at the back of a reverse arrow-head...where they invariably get a fish...
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ChrisW, in reply to
Splendid! That group of shags working together is of 'little black shags', very characteristic of that particular species. I see them doing this now and then in the Taruheru at lowish tide, generally over half of them swimming under water at any one time, but rather than "herding" fish I rather think it's more like drag-netting and they'll take each fish as they find it. Definitely cooperative in maximising the chances of each individual in the group by minimising the chance a prey-fish would escape.
Most remarkable is seeing say 12-18 of them on one side of the river channel with a white-faced heron keeping pace with them stalking along off the end of the line in the shallow edge and grabbing the odd would-be escapee. But never seen with camera in hand or handy.
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Still jealous of all your wonderful bird pics.....
small offering, ordinary bird, but he's admiring yesterday's great rainbow
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Still in Newmarket, queues of cars trying to get home - abstracted by strange woman crouching to photograph a roadside puddle.
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On the riverbank, this time yesterday, passing showers -
What's wetter than a shag?And a minute later (see what I didn't do there?) -
Things are looking up. -
Went back to the duck pond late evening, at first it looked really dull and brown…. but I found the shining pockets of colour
deep jade glade
'on golden pond'
pond imitates land and sea
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