THANKS for your interest in yesterday's eagle shot - you made me stop and appreciate it myself. I almost didn't post it because I didn't think it was clear enough. There are eagles around us every day and I didn't think much of the shot. The fact that it was so large and as close to the house as it was grabbed my attention otherwise I wouldn't have bothered to get the camera. Your comments and genuine excitement made me stop and think about my surroundings and how I sometimes take it for granted. Don't get me wrong, I pinch myself daily that I live where I do and have the view that I do. But it was "just another eagle" until your words made me reflect and really look at it and think about its beauty. So thanks for more than the comments and favs, thanks for making me think! I should also say I'm not sure if it's a golden eagle as so many of you speculated or a juvenile bald eagle. I'm not really a bird person. It seemed different than the regular juveniles so I'm thinking maybe it is a golden eagle.
Today's image is a collection of five faces my son and I found carved into trees on our 5km hike today. I thought I'd convert them to B&W and make them look like a photo booth strip using Picmonkey.
Love the top one the best, reminds me of an Indian in those cave drawings!! Congratulations on your TT but I personally think it should have taken the number one space!!!
Great presentation! I always love your shots, because they are a total opposite to what is my life here in the city. I think the beauty of 365 is the openness of people in this community, we all invite strangers into our lives through a medium we all enjoy, and we are all respectful of that.
How I would love to get .. 'just another eagle'.. we have Hawkes in NZ and @dide and I are both on the race to get 'The Hawke shot'.. These tree faces are fantastic.. have they grown with the tree..
These are so cool... and I love your idea here. Thank you for sharing your reflections about yesterdays photo... it's brilliant when we can see another perspective.
I love the photo strip idea- and once I read that I totally "see" it in the presentation. Very creative! I hoped the trees survived the carving- they are fun discoveries. As for the eagle, I looked in my 3 bird books today and of course, none of them have the bird depicted from the front! But I'm pretty sure that's what it is. I have had the same thing happen to me here- I don't always appreciate where I live, but someone will comment on a shot and I begin to see my "world" in a more appreciative way.
I think we're dealing with multiple perps here—2 juvenile males most likely. One with more training but an inflated sense of his own skills. Fancies himself an artist. Should probably circulate this at local coffee shops, poetry slams. The other is older, more confident, less conflicted about his self-concept, yet taking his drawing cues from others, and has less pride in his work. Thanks for gathering this evidence, constable. With your help we can finally collar the Woodface Gang.
Those are really need finds..and a perfect way to present them...so glad you found renewed gratitude for those eagles. I think they are striking and rare.
It's so easy to forget that what is normal in one place is magical or different elsewhere.