weekly CatClick's 52 week challenge - 2022

[-Oy-]

Great Grebes! The classic shot!

 

[catclick]

Gotta love a grebe. Fabulous shot, well captured.

That's a great shot with lovely colours and reflections.

Great Grebes! The classic shot!

They are earlier this year, about a month later last year. I'm pretty new to wildlife, lockdown was responsible for me giving it a go, so I've only got last year to compare it to, perhaps they were late last year? Just after sunrise.

 

[Darkslinger]

That's very cool Catherine. Never heard of the weed dance before. I'll have to have a look and see if there is a video on YouTube.

 

[seaodyssey]

A cool capture, animals can have funny ways.

 

[HelenC]

That's a fabulous shot. Love the colours you've captured.

 

[Donnie]

Loving the colours and reflections, the lights great and really adds to the shot

 

[catclick]

That's very cool Catherine. Never heard of the weed dance before. I'll have to have a look and see if there is a video on YouTube.

A cool capture, animals can have funny ways.

That's a fabulous shot. Love the colours you've captured.

Loving the colours and reflections, the lights great and really adds to the shot

Thank you. They are very cool birds and when the chicks come along, they piggy back on the parents backs. It was a real privilege to follow their progress last year and great it has started again this year. A few more early starts to continue following their progress.

 

[catclick]

Week 10 - Seen Through A Window

Taken through my kitchen window. A crow sitting on top of my shed, eyeing up the feeders.

 

[Darkslinger]

And a handsome fellow he is. Nice capture Catherine. I sometimes leave peanuts in the shell out on our fence just for the crows (and the odd Stellar Jay).

 

[SimonH]

Crows can often look so dull. The light here is shining on the feathers beautifully To show their sheen.

 

[Bebop]

Nicely shot. You've captured the blue sheen in his feathers beautifully. I have two crows in my garden and I love watching them.

 

[Peter123]

Well captured. Nice profile of that very effective beak.

 

[HelenC]

Some lovely textures in there and a good dof for the shot.

 

[-Oy-]

Lovely shot - and people think they're black

 

[Simonbrown16]

So much detail captured on the crow, I never knew that they had such a blue sheen!

 

[catclick]

Thank you for taking time to comment, I've only just caught up as life has been a bit hectic of late.

 

[catclick]

Week 11 - Technology

A picture of technology, taken with technology (my phone)

 

[Peter123]

Nice take on the theme Catherine.
I like the way you have angled the keyboard.

 

[Darkslinger]

I think that you should get double tech points Catherine!

 

[Boots]

Nicely framed

 

[SimonH]

A nice and unusual perspective. Works well (the photo)!

 

[ShinySideUp]

Love the picture of the crow.

 

[HelenC]

Double whammy. Fits the bill nicely.

 

[catclick]

Week 12 - Discarded
A little late as I've been away on holiday.
Many houses across Lewis and Harris have been discarded by families.

 

[catclick]

Week 13 - Flora

 

[Simonbrown16]

Quite a dramatic scene! Ticks the box for the theme

 

[HelenC]

Stunning shots. It's a location that's on my list sometime soon.
Discarded is very atmospheric and Flora has a wonderful sky and colour.

 

[SimonH]

Both superb shots Catherine. I especially like the Flora one.

 

[-Oy-]

That's a beauty!

 

[Peter123]

Excellent shots.
the flora one is well taken and different.

 

[Chevin]

Very dramatic scene ... love the brooding clouds and hills through the marram grass

 

[Darkslinger]

Discarded - A good choice I think but I'm thinking that it could use some TLC in Lightroom (or the software of you choice),,,just my opinion.
Flora - A wonderful shot, love the contrast between the sunlit grass and the brooding skies

 

[catclick]

I'm thinking that it could use some TLC in Lightroom (or the software of you choice),,,just my opinion.

Totally agree, my processing skills are not great, it is something I need to improve. I only do very basic adjustments at present.

 

[catclick]

Week 14 - Unusual

An unusual candlestick. I can't help but wonder if there is a candlestick underneath the wax, or a bottle?

 

[Darkslinger]

Definitely unusual Catherine, I wonder how many years it took to build up all that wax.

 

[LC2]

That really is odd isn't it.
Interesting the way that the brickwork, with the smoke stains, shows the growth of the candle over time (at least it looks to me as though it has slowly gotten higher).

 

[catclick]

That really is odd isn't it.
Interesting the way that the brickwork, with the smoke stains, shows the growth of the candle over time (at least it looks to me as though it has slowly gotten higher).

I hadn't noticed that, yes it does look that way!

 

[catclick]

Definitely unusual Catherine, I wonder how many years it took to build up all that wax.

Must be a long time and I wonder if the red wax was Christmas time?

 

[wornish]

Been there a while it seems. Very unusual. I like it

 

[ShinySideUp]

I presume that every time a candle burns down they just melt a bit of wax and plonk the new one on top and they must have been doing that for years looking at the black mark on the wall (as others have said). It is certainly unusual. Where is it?