Peter T wrote:
New life, lamb Number 1. Photo taken earlier this morning during the one walk I am permitted to take each day.
A few years ago (perhaps 4 or 5) Number 1 would have appeared in late January but the changing climate has meant that these early lambs didn't survive because of the increasingly wet winters and early spring (never more so than this year). So now the farmer has adapted by delaying lambing.
Kierzkow wrote:
I congratulate you on a lovely image with a great message - New Life.
It brings to my mind Leonard Cohen's words:
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in
P.S, What a pity I sold my Contax Sonnar 180mm F2.8
Thanks Henryk, some great lyrics from the great Leonard Cohen. The Contax 180 isn’t perfect but it does some things quite well.
The village of Borgo Vignoni (also named as Vignoni Alto) with the millenary fortress at the top.
This place is located just beside the more famous Bagno Vignoni and images were taken from the road next to Podere Poggio Covili. Val d'Orcia, of course
[reminds one of those trucks with like 5-6 lamps on the bumper bar, bet he sees where he is going, his brain must do pixel-shift.]
Below, a Tibetan girl circumambulates the chorten ('chur-deh'n'), prayer beads in hand. She moves her grip from one bead to the next, murmuring a mantra as she goes. Samye Monastery, Tibet's first, dates from around 800 AD.
waterden wrote:
Gosh, Shalu, that is a stunning picture! Are there really two birds here? Sorry to ask.
Thank you, waterden.
Yes, there are two white-tailed kites here. This is a ritual we call "food exchange". During breeding season, the male hunts and brings back food, sometimes the female would take off from the nest and grab the prey from the male in air. This behavior also happens when the juveniles fledge, the youngsters would then do food exchange with their parent(s) in the air.
