Eurasian penduline tit
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Low tide
Aut.MISBetley, CC-BY-NC It was a warm afternoon on an estuary, 168 million years ago. The mud was soft, still wet from the tide. Something large — eight metres long, two metres tall at the hip, moving on two legs with a stride of roughly two metres — passed through. A megalosaur, or something close enough to one that the distinction hardly mattered in the moment. It was not in a hurry. It was not…
Silhouettes
A shadow defines reality. Without it, we enter a world of illusion. But what about the shadow itself? Is it real? How real can a shadow be? Is it a bird or just its reflection? Aut.MISBetley, CC-BY-NC
Those rockin' seventies
Wild camping, Aut.MISBetley, CC-BY-NC Those were strange times. We’d leave town for a month or two, staying in tents or hostels, and kept in touch with our parents through letters. Yes, despite living in different places during those months, we had just one address! It was: POSTE RESTANTE.
Scarecrow
Aut.MISBetley, CC-BY-NC The Scarecrow Walter de la Mare "All winter through I bow my head Beneath the driving rain; The wild wind shakes me from the hook And fixes me again. I have no home, I have no friend, I have no food to eat; But I am brave and I am strong, And I have no feet. I see the stars above me shine, I see the moon so bright; I watch the world go round and round Throughout the silent…
Nineteen-nineties
The nineteen-nineties in Poland were a crash course in Stoicism — no textbook, but plenty of inflation. Certainties collapsed, queues vanished along with the state-owned shops, and peace of mind turned out to be the only currency that could not be devalued. Street photo, Warsaw, 90', aut.MISBetley, CC-BY-NC That decade altered everything at once and only those who distinguished what depended on…
Droplet
Aut.MISBetley, CC-BY-NC Rain The rain is raining all around, It falls on field and tree, It rains on the umbrellas here, And on the ships at sea. Robert Louis Stevenson "A Child's Garden of Verses"
Three-toed woodpecker
Aut.MISBetley, CC-BY-NC The Eurasian three-toed woodpecker is 21–22 cm (8.3–8.7 in) in length, just a little smaller than the great spotted woodpecker. The adult has black and white plumage except for the yellow crown of the male. Neither sex has any red feathers. It has black wings and rump, and white from the throat to the belly; the flanks are white with black bars. The back is white with black…
Golden Eagle
Aut.MISBetley, CC-BY-NC Dolina Batyżowiecka, Tatra Mountains, Slovakia
The Peak
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