peachfront @toot.community Senior parrots, birds, birding, rock swaps, crystals & stone-cutting. Sometimes I write funny dialogue for the birds in your photographs. I read books, & I vote!
Formerly known as Peachfront on Twitter & Instagram, & Amethyst Qu on Medium.
Haven't owned peachfront.com domain in years but you may find my old trip reports at peachfront.diaryland.com.
Pro Tip: Diaryland does not have any www's.
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I did a sky replacement exercise with this old photo from the aughts, but i don't like it now so i'm going to do another round of practice later... i think this was just using the paint bucket instead
I did a sky replacement exercise with this old photo from the aughts, but i don't like it now so i'm going to do another round of practice later... i think this was just using the paint bucket instead of dropping in a better sky...
#Fensterfreitag #WindowFriday #Photography #Photograph #City #Windows #PostProcessing #AffintiyPhoto2 #Beginner
awwwwwww
"i'm Big Mad u took the shot before i was ready for my closeup" -- Madder than a Wet Kinglet
someone asked about my Mockingbirds, they're here, & for once they do not rule the roost, yesterday i actually saw the Warblers "mob" one of them while hapless birb tries to steal warbler butter from
someone asked about my Mockingbirds, they're here, & for once they do not rule the roost, yesterday i actually saw the Warblers "mob" one of them while hapless birb tries to steal warbler butter from the suet feeder...
so they're fine but they're BIg Mad about this shabby excuse for a southern climate
#bird #birds #Snowmageddon2025 #BirdPhotography #Photography #Nature #Outdoors #Snow #Noladon #NikonZ8
"FFS, my toes are cold & there's a snowflake on my head & i blame u"--bluebird of crappiness
"FFS, my toes are cold & there's a snowflake on my head & i blame u"--bluebird of crappiness
the snow is REALLY coming down hard on the northshore
#Snowmageddon2025 #Snow #Snowstorm #Brrrrr #Birds #Birding #Bird #Photography #BirdPhotography #Nola #Noladon #Northshore
"you look like you might be tasty!"
a blast from the past with the old Olympus UZI
a blast from the past with the old Olympus UZI
#Fotomontag #PhotoMonday #Photograph #Photography #bird #birds #birding #BirdOfPrey #hawk
in fairness that has always been Zuck's stance on women
"i didn't hide in these thorns to get noticed by the paps & yet here we are" - big mad hoopoe
🤣
tee hee
i did see a fairy but wasn't able to photograph them (purple-crowned fairy)
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ha that little guy is a pretty peaceful birb
the real terror is their cousin the White-bellied Woodstar, similar size but it has a bouncing flight & "buzzes" as it flies so that you keep thinking it's a big bee flying at you
i gather that it's a great adaptation for making the larger hummingbirds stay back!!! besides making photographers jump 🤣
they're something else!
i don't know that people can always get a fair idea of the size of a birb in a picture but Woodstars are truly tiny...
i don't know that people can always get a fair idea of the size of a birb in a picture but Woodstars are truly tiny...
Male Amethyst Woodstar
#BirdInFlight #BIFPhotography #bird #birds #hummingbird #hummingbirds #BirdPhotography #NikonZ8 #Nature #outdoors #birding #Photograph #Photography
oh... i didn't know about this name change, i need to fix my list
"jingle all the way loud enough to be heard in the back or i'll know the reason why" -- choirmaster Violetear
"jingle all the way loud enough to be heard in the back or i'll know the reason why" -- choirmaster Violetear
🐦🥳 🎁 🎄
#bird #birds #hummingbird #hummingbirds #BirdPhotography #NikonZ8 #Nature #outdoors #birding #Photograph #Photography #Christmas #MerryChristmas2024 #HappyHolidays
"crank up the nectar production, boys, we have incoming!"
"crank up the nectar production, boys, we have incoming!"
i now have 30 different species of hummingbirds in my Northern Peru Workshop album & I still have more remaining to be edited & uploaded-- take a peek if you want, i'm not selling anything 🤣
<https://www.flickr.com/photos/98553536@N03/albums/72177720322039889/>
#BirdInFlight #BIFPhotography #Photography #Photograph #bird #birds #hummingbird #hummingbirds #BirdPhotography #NikonZ8 #Nature #outdoors #birding
"i would have laughed if you told better jokes"-- grimly serious Laughing Falcon, probably
(PS- love these birbs!)
OK it's answer time
this one is the same female Green Trainbearer from the photo I posted before but she's turned so you can't see the long tail-- thus she is super hard to distinguish (in a photo where you have just this angle) from one of many other green spotty hummingbirds, for example, Many Spotted Hummingbird...
can you name this birb in just one note?
can you name this birb in just one note?
tfw your photo manages to miss the whole point of the bird...
#bird #birds #hummingbird #hummingbirds #BirdPhotography #NikonZ8 #Nature #outdoors #birding #quiz #photography
A swallowtail butterfly species from northern Peru, now you know as much as I do, apparently there are hundreds of swallowtail species, anybody know more? tell me!!!
A swallowtail butterfly species from northern Peru, now you know as much as I do, apparently there are hundreds of swallowtail species, anybody know more? tell me!!!
#NikonZ8 #Nature #outdoors #photograph #photography #insect #butterfly #swallowtail
"you're making me nervous with a comment like that, pal"--Goldfinch, probably
(PS-- so cute birb is blushing with false modesty)
"that curly tongue you thought you saw proves nothing!
"that curly tongue you thought you saw proves nothing!
i am a rare & previously unknown species of hummingbird that can too twirl its tongue into a complete circle
i am a real birb!"-- flying shrimp, again
#photograph #Photography #NikonZ8 #Nature #outdoors #birding #hummingbirds #insects #moth #mimicry #funny
"i am too a hummingbird, in fact, i am a kind of hummingbird known as a thorntail, you see that white band over my hips, all thorntails have that white band...
"i am too a hummingbird, in fact, i am a kind of hummingbird known as a thorntail, you see that white band over my hips, all thorntails have that white band...
"ignore the rumors suggesting i am a flying shrimp!" -- flying shrimp, probably
#photograph #birds #birding #hummingbirds #insects #lepidotera #mimicry #illusions #wildlife #nature #outdoors #photography #nikon
i've missed a few #ThickTrunkTuesday postings but i'm back with a game of...
i've missed a few #ThickTrunkTuesday postings but i'm back with a game of...
Spot The Woodpecker
taken through my office window in the rain so it's a bit dark but that's all part of the run, right?
#outdoors #nature #Photograph #Bird #birds #woodpecker #trees #ThickTrunk #Photography
my first beta test of Affinity Photo 2.6 object selection
my first beta test of Affinity Photo 2.6 object selection
Boobear the 28-year-old cockatiel is helping me by posing on a white/messy background, i think that's a tough enough test
snap the photo, select the bird, select the not bird, apply gaussian blur & desaturate to the not bird channel
had to do a little tinkering because object selection missed part of the crest but it's... semi-OK?
comments welcome
#AffinityPhoto2 #PostProcessing #Beta #Photography #Cockatiel #Pet #PetBird
trip report about my photography workshop in northern Peru https://peachfront.diaryland.com/r2024.html
trip report about my photography workshop in northern Peru <https://peachfront.diaryland.com/r2024.html>
photos at Flickr <https://www.flickr.com/photos/98553536@N03/albums/72177720322039889>
also i edit & post a few here every day
safety note-- i masked all airports, all flights & ate or drank only at altitude where a lot of air is moving thru the cabin, group itself was tiny 4 students, 1 guide, 1 driver, most restaurants open air
questions welcome
#Hummingbird #hummingbirds #Photography #Workshop
"all prayers are answered, i prayed for the ability to not smack the living **** out of absolute fools, & the answer was NO"-- Chestnut-breasted Coronet, probably
"all prayers are answered, i prayed for the ability to not smack the living **** out of absolute fools, & the answer was NO"-- Chestnut-breasted Coronet, probably
would love to see a cage match between a Rufous Hummingbird & a Chestnut-breasted Coronet, it's hard to say who is the crankier birb
#bird #birds #Hummingbird #hummingbirds #BirdPhotography #Photography #Nikon z8
"i will floof you until you scream for mercy"
#meermittwoch #photograph #PacificOcean #Lima #Peru #ParqueDelAmor #Photography #NikonZ7ii
#meermittwoch #photograph #PacificOcean #Lima #Peru #ParqueDelAmor #Photography #NikonZ7ii
#ThickTrunk #ThickTrunkTuesday #Photograph #Photography #CityTrees
#ThickTrunk #ThickTrunkTuesday #Photograph #Photography #CityTrees
in a way
northern South America
i've seen them in Ecuador but this photo was taken in northern Peru
Some challenging bright light on a good subject. Our first photography session of the tour centered on a small flock of Yellow-tufted Woodpeckers. He was backlit but this male was fairly cooperative
Some challenging bright light on a good subject. Our first photography session of the tour centered on a small flock of Yellow-tufted Woodpeckers. He was backlit but this male was fairly cooperative with me.
#Bird #Birds #Birding #Photography #BirdPhotography #Outdoors #Nature #Woodpeckers