Showing posts with label irony. Show all posts
Showing posts with label irony. Show all posts

Saturday, July 31, 2021

Pic(k) of the Week: Osprey in nest on light pole

Osprey in nest on light pole

The osprey tolerates a wide variety of habitats, nesting in any location near a body of water providing an adequate food supply. Ospreys construct their nests at the tops of dead trees, atop power poles, on manmade nesting platforms, and sometimes on buoys, chimneys, or other structures.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (pdf)

Look up!

Call it "environmental irony" or (less humbly) "new topography": man-made elements intruding (?) in an image otherwise of natural beauty. But, if you do, you might see (and hear) ospreys in their nest, high overhead...on a light pole, in a supermarket parking lot, as I did in St. Augustine Beach, Florida, USA, on 3 July 2021.

The osprey —or, more specifically, the western osprey (Pandion haliaetus), also called sea hawk, river hawk, and fish hawk— is a diurnal, fish-eating bird of prey with a cosmopolitan range. It is a large raptor, reaching more than two feet in length (60 cm) and six feet across the wings (180 cm). It is brown on the upper parts and predominantly greyish on the head and underparts. It is found on all continents except Antarctica, although in South America it occurs only as a non-breeding migrant.
Wikipedia

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Saturday, May 30, 2020

Pic(k) of the Week: Safe soft drink?

Safe soft drink?

Hazardous indolence in the time of coronavirus.

As seen on a sidewalk in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, USA, on 22 May 2020.

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Saturday, January 19, 2019

Pic(k) of the Week: Rust in the forest

Rust in the forest
I wish we could all have good luck, all the time. I wish we had wings.
I wish rainwater was beer. But it isn't. *

A rusting bucket sits abandoned in Cascade Springs Nature Preserve, Atlanta, Georgia. 9 January 2018.

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Saturday, January 05, 2019

Pic(k) of the Week: Broken Windows

Broken windows

By documenting an unexpected (to the observer) element in a larger scene, a photographer can create a visually incongruous juxtaposition. One might call that photographic irony. One might also state that any irony presupposes a photographer's prejudices. (One might also scoff at all this pomposity!)

So ...

Broken windows, in Chattanooga (Southside Historic District), Tennessee, USA on 28 December 2018.

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Saturday, June 30, 2018

Pic(k) of the Week: Forgotten kicks

Forgotten kicks

Who left these shoes behind? And why? Stories struggle to be told.

Atlanta (Edgewood), Georgia. 28 June 2018.

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Saturday, September 30, 2017

Pic(k) of the Week: Bug in the yard

Bug in a yard

As seen in Atlanta (Edgewood), Georgia, on 12 September 2017.

Why was that Volkswagen Bug there? I don't know. But...it did appear snug as a Bug in a rut.

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