Here's to all my good Flickr friends, for which I am very thankful, on this happy Thanksgiving day! May our relationships grow and our photography skills improve as we continue on this journey together, in the spirit of fun and artistic expression.
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Explore #456, 3/13/08.
He must've thought I looked strange.
The Blue Dacnis (Dacnis cayana) or Turquoise Honeycreeper is a fairly common Tanager in tropical South America and parts of Central America, that lives in the sunlit canopy of the rain forests. The females are green. Thanks to TwinkleToes' mom for the ID.
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Shooting at The Drip was a bust, yesterday, so I didn't mind at all when my wife, Jan, came up behind me and said that she had seen three large old ships leaving the harbor, while on her walk, and that I should come and take a look at them. We had no idea what was going on, but it was a real adventure to have the story pieced together by three or four people that we met, including a docent from the Maritime Museum, while on different parts of the peninsula.
It seems that the Star of India, a ship which is part of the San Diego Maritime Museum and which we have seen many times before and have even been inside of on one occasion, and which is the world's oldest active sailing ship, needs to re-certify every year, in order to prove that she is still seaworthy and we just happened to be at the Monument while she was doing that. Accompanying the Star of India were two other tall ships from the Maritime Museum, the HMS Surprise and the Californian, both replica ships. It was such a thrill to learn about a piece of history and to witness it while it is still being made.
We waited around for as long as we could, but alas, they couldn't find enough wind to open their square sails. That would have been an awesome sight, especially if they had been open as they were sailing back into the harbor, so that I could get a closer shot. What a blast it must have been to be on that ship or even the sailboat behind it!
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When I got to my favorite spot at Huntington Central Park to shoot hummingbirds, I found what I think was an Asian photography club, and this is only a guess, since I didn't understand a word they were saying, but they were having a great time. They had a couple of props set up, with flowers attached to lighting equipment, which I thought looked pretty cheesy, but I guess they worked, based on some of the shots that I got, like this one. I like how the catchlight picked up the color of the Plumbago flower and how the flower complements the Pride of Madeira, even though, in reality, it wasn't that attractive.
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