could a man love a room?

eli, 26, freak, he

[pacogabby]

American bison and European starlings.

[alexsiple]

Jeanne

[geopsych]

Walking along a road on a warm morning looking at land, July 2020

[smsomah]

Cormorant fishing in Yangshuo near Guilin, Guangxi, China. Christian Vaisse

Cormorant fishing is an old tradition in which fishermen use trained cormorants to catch fish.

[yiffmaster]

I can't find any mention of a photographer Christian Vaisse that's not reblogs of this post, but I want to add smth about this guy:

Most cormorant fishermen are essentially historical re-enactors, who post for photos for money. Sort of like the Elmo guys in Times Square, if they dressed up as pilgrims.

Lao Huang, photographed here by Peter Yan, actually grew up doing real cormorant fishing for a living. He's now retired, and does this more as a hobby (although he does make a good income from breeding the birds). As such, he's one of the few remaining authentic links to this pre-industrial fishing technique.

More photos and an interview with the photographer

[frostedmagnolias]

Brown Wool Bathing Suit

c. 1900

Kerry Taylor Auctions

[blondebrainpowered]

Cat paw prints in the medieval floor tiles of the 12th century CE St Peter Church in Wormleighton, England

[sendentaryworm]

Some wide angle shots I took back in the start of May. It was the transition of seasons and introduction of new palettes.

[bodhi-devotee]

ough the ocean,,,,, she makes me emotional,,,,

[rongzhi]

Snail crossing

English added by me :)

[therobotwig]

One year ago today I posted this practically shot Iron Giant photo I created using real figures, lighting, miniature sets & my trusty old tin foil for water technique & cotton wool for the splashes.

[rachellaurenimagery]

Moraine Lake - Different Light

Instagram: rachel.lauren.imagery

[iliothermia]

[sirensoftherocks]

Ofra Haza in the 1970s

[snailpass]

gnarp gnarp

[rolledincense]

Andre 3000 in Honey Magazine, 2002 shot by Marc Baptiste

[salvalopez]

Tarifa, Spain. May 2012.

[apoemaday]

A Note

by Wislawa Szymborksa tr. Clare Cavanagh and Stanislaw Baranczak

Life is the only way to get covered in leaves, catch your breath on sand, rise on wings;

to be a dog, or stroke its warm fur;

to tell pain from everything it’s not;

to squeeze inside events, dawdle in views, to seek the least of all possible mistakes;

An extraordinary chance to remember for a moment a conversation held with the lamp switched off;

and if only once to stumble on a stone, end up soaked in one downpour or another,

mislay your keys in the grass; and to follow a spark on the wind with your eyes;

and to keep on not knowing something important.

[prokopetz]

You know, when I've remarked that a lot of the responses to my posts feel like people are just plucking out keywords they think they recognise based on the shape of them and replying to what they imagine the post says based on that, the possibility never occurred to me that this is actually how many American schools are currently teaching kids to read.

[prokopetz]

Like, my assumption this whole time has been that when folks go "I misunderstood this post that says [thing] as saying [unrelated thing] because I mistook [word] for [completely different word that happens to start with the same letter]", that was a bit. What do you mean they're teaching kids a reading method that's tailored to produce this exact error?

[buggyhuman]

Three cueing. Once you learn about it, a whole lot of very frustrating online discourse with US Americans makes so much sense 😭

How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers

For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have

[woodsfae]

If you were taught to read with the three cueing method, and now struggle to read fluently, you can still learn to read properly!

-> Phonics For Adults <-

If you're a teenager, you can still use this resource.