simone

[great-and-small]

The last time I managed to film a cattle egret neck swaying, my camera frustratingly cut out right before the actual strike. I am finally making it up to y’all with this highly satisfying wiggle and execution!

As mentioned last time, this neck swaying (also called head swaying) behavior is believed to give a bird parallax so they can strike at a prey item more accurately. As you can see from this egret snatching an unsuspecting bug- sometimes the silly wiggle pays off! Read more about neck swaying and similar bird behaviors here.

[aster-is-confused]

my favorite genre of bird picture

[birdwarde]

sea ducks!

[allthingseurope]

Marburg, Germany (by Christian Lue)

[huariqueje]

Film Centre Windows , May - Dmitri Cavander , 2023.

American, b. 1957 -

Oil on canvas , 50 x 40 in.

[zegalba]

Now abandoned, La Petite Centure is a 19th century railway that loops over 30km around Paris

[leehallfae]

@/girlglimmer (x) // @/christmas-winter (x) // fireflies - suzanne siegel // “orange and blue” - sarah jarosz // beautiful night - momcilo simic // christmas eve - julia andreevna petrova // @/hunting-brother (x) // @/bluecapsicum (x) // suzanne siegel

[internationalemeteorologie]

Henri Harpignies

Clair de lune (Moonlight). 1889, oil on canvas, 111 x 85 cm. Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada 

[metsang]

Ilya S. Glazunov, The Lake of Tears, 1988.

[galina]

Winter mornings at home: soft light, coffee, the faint sound of bells from the church, cyclists ticking by, a few more minutes in bed with a book

[blessyourheartlittleone]

virginia woolf's 1931 new years resolutions : "to have none. not to be tied. to be free & kindly with myself. sometimes to read, sometimes not to read. to go out, yes—but stay at home in spite of being asked. as for clothes, i think to buy good ones."

[migatito]

on the beach at night alone (2017) dir. by hong sang-soo

[whoreofwar]

Winter in Amsterdam, 1917

[excerptum]

In films, we are voyeurs, but in novels, we have the experience of being someone else: knowing another person's soul from the inside. No other art form does that. And this is why sometimes, when we put down a book, we find ourselves slightly altered as human beings. Novels change us from within.

Donna Tartt, Chatelaine Interview (2013)

[permdaydreamer]

This is for the people who didn’t party in their teens and twenties. For the people who didn’t have that “coming of age” movie experience with shenanigans and revelations. This is for the people who mostly keep to themselves. Who maybe prefer things to be quieter and gentler. This is for the people who don’t feel like they belong in a culture that values loud parties and flashing lights. I see you. And you are valid.

[nevver]

Lost horizon, Magali Cazo (because)

[snailfish-enthusiast]

The wonderful Glass Octopus. Living at depths of around 3000 ft and only being about a foot long, these strange little creatures are rarely seen by scientists.