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So I've been a bit busy recently, working on some new writing projects, plus last week I celebrated 5 years sobriety, had me a bit distracted but now I am looking to get back to my photography. This butterfly I snapped a few weeks ago, it oddly stayed completely motionless as I got closer and closer with the Nikkor 55-200mm VR1, which was a surprise as they usually fly off right when you have the focus on.

It was something to note that I also saw several other photographers had take very similar captures and so I took it as a spiritual omen, hence the title.

I hope everyone is well and so as always, thank you! :)

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I ordinarily never do this, but as my own harshest critic I was rather unhappy with the former upload...

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...this time I slightly brightened the eye area to give this a better central focus, better poignancy, took out the blue of the water so the Coot looks like it's NOT swimming in petrol, raised the warmth of the Ballrush plants' hues and adopted a more organic and realistic tonality. Thus now I am much happier, this version is way better, I am going to keep the other one up, simply to testify that sometimes a bit of review, self criticism and simply a bit more care can go a long way. I am never afraid show my mistakes, it's how we learn after all!

I hope everyone is well and so as always, thank you!

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I don't ever give a rat's ass about the official word of anything, Spring starts when the flowers start growing and the buds on the trees start to appear, that is Spring, to say otherwise is assuming one knows better than nature itself, when I hear this - the official start of Spring is such and such a date, I just laugh, walk in nature, she decides for herself when to appear in her own good time, sometimes enthusiastically early, other years fashionably late.

The Blue Grape Hyacinth, as tiny and delicate as they are, made an appearance in the front garden and I was thrilled, I love them, Spring is my favourite time of year, particularly May, but here we are in the middle of April, who cares when as a macro photographer's dream field is abundantly starting to arise.

I hope everyone is well and so as always, thank you! :)

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I haven't done an abstract shot for quite a long time, and yes, this was completely by accident. Thanks to the inspiration of other macro photographers, I was scrutinising the moss growing on the trees locally, happened upon this unusual plant growth from a pocket of moss and so, on the Nikkor 55-200mm I affixed the DCR250 and thanks to the awkward focus points, I had to switch to manual, rocking on my ankles I got this shot, in PP I noticed it looked so Alien and yet ghostly at the time.

Thus it got me thinking, albeit all things are energetic wave form information, be in one realm of any given dimension, 3D, 4D, or 5D, spirits are absolute, so thus, isn't it unusual how we categorise Aliens and Ghosts into secular partitions? An Alien can surely have a spirit thus upon expiration of "physical" life, can go on energetically to the next realm as a Spirit. Concluding that Homosapiens, Aliens and Ghosts are in fact one and the same thing, acutely a conscious multiplicity of differing, interchangeable and energetic Interdimensional, waveform information constructs of infinite awareness.

Psst: Guess what? You never actually die.

I hope everyone is well and so as always, thank you! :)

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I don't know what the hell is wrong with me recently, in photography there is admittedly a lot to remember as there is to learn, in fact, this is one area where one simply never stops learning, but recently my brain has gone to mush, I need to get the words "check settings" tattooed to the back of my hand methinks!

However, that said I returned to the same spot I took...

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...and decided to see what was around during the day, this beautiful Heron flew over head, however just not quite close enough, hence I had to crop this down despite the 150-600mm range on the Tamron.

I hope everyone is well and so as always thank you! :)

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