Showing posts with label Wildlife. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wildlife. Show all posts
Literature
It was my turn to choose the theme for this weeks header challenge and so I thought through lots of ideas, my family gave me lots of ideas and then at the last minute, I went with “Literature”. No real thought as to what I was going to do for it, it just popped into my head as a theme. So this weeks theme, is “Literature”. I also added the little caveat that there was to be no bookcase photos for it, instead everyone had to be more creative when thinking about their headers. So where did that leave me? I think the inspiration for the theme must have come from one book by Rudyard Kipling, “Jungle Book”. It has great characters in it such as Hathi, an old Indian bull elephant, here perhaps is one of his sons…
There’s also Akela the wolf pack leader…
and Shere Khan the Bengal Tiger…
and Jacala the crocodile…
and many others within the pages of this wonderful piece of children's literature if you've only ever seen the film Jungle Book
you don't know what you are missing there is so much more in the book…
you don't know what you are missing there is so much more in the book…
My header therefore has been created with character's from the story and I’ve used classical works of literature to spell out the title Jungle Book.
Remember to call in at the other headbangers blogs to see what literary masterpieces they have concocted for their headers this week, just follow their links at the top of my right hand menu bar.
The monkeys are coming out of the jungle...
No monkey business today...
I've got to get ready for today's headbanger challenge.
Its that Grasshopper again!
The grasshopper has jumped in for another appearance, this time super macro!
Some people might not like him, describing him as a bug but I thing he's really interesting. This little chap jumped into our conservatory and landed on my desk in front of me, so I just had to take his picture. He didn't stay still for very long though and I had to follow him around the conservatory camera in hand trying to get a good shot or two. I hope you agree he strikes a good pose. He eventually decided the photo session was over and leapt off back into the garden. Lovely little fella.
Sea Lion
Coming slowly back to the surface from below the water line.
and relaxing in the sunshine...
Below the Water Line!
Well it looks as if the crocodile from this mornings post hasn’t eaten anybody so he must have gone far enough away for me to post this weeks header challenge photos.
This weeks Header Challenge has been set by imac and he has chosen to go “Below the water line”.
Now what's one of the main things you see below the water line? Well for me I think it’s fish…
Sad looking fish…
Smiley looking fish…
Colourful fish…
Slippery fish (well eel really)…
Predatory…
Cute… Look we've found Nemo!
I hope you haven't got too wet on our little trip below the water line, and the crocodile has stayed away for the whole post. I hope he hasn’t gone to pester any of the other headbangers as they do their headers for this weeks challenge. Why don’t you drop in on them to see if he has, or if they have succeed to post below the water line. Just follow the links to their blogs in my right hand menu bar.
Thanks for dropping in feel and free to browse any of my other posts there's lots more photography and blogs for you to enjoy.
Crocodile
Are we ready to go "below the water line" for this weeks Header challenge? Well not if this monsters waiting for us there. I'll put up my full post and header later and maybe something or someone will have scared him off by then.
Header Challenge 22nd June 2011 – What’s Buggin’ You
This weeks challenge has been set from across the pond by Lanny and is “What’s Buggin’ You?
She said she excepts great things from the photographers amongst us, does that mean me?
Well Lanny If I decided to list everything that was buggin’ me in the world this would be a very long and boring blog post today and probably wouldn’t contain very many photographs. Instead I’ve stolen just a bit of your theme and gone with the buggin’ bit. Garden bugs to be exact.
This afternoon I went out with macro lens attached and overturned a few logs and looked on a few leaves to see what I could find.
Under the first log I found this brightly coloured individual…
He was scurrying around obviously anxious to be back hidden so I was happy to oblige.
Looking further around the garden there sunbathing on a leaf was a tiny little fly…
No sooner had I taken this photo had he gone.
The next photo is one of his bigger brothers the Blue Bottle Fly…
If you click on the image and enlarge it you can see that its body is so shiny that I've been captured in a self portrait.
Lots of people’s first impression of bugs are eehhhhhh! but there are many who are very helpful for the gardener and farmer and when I was turned over a bit of soil to look for bugs to take photos of I found one of the gardeners best friends. The worm…
Maybe not truly a bug but certainly bug like.
So bugs are good, yes?
My header therefore is full of bugs I hope you like them and don’t go eeeehhhhh!!!
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