Winter Bobcat

I’d given up and was on my way out, already thinking about someplace to go look for mushrooms to photograph, when I spotted the bobcat sitting near the edge of the meadow. There was no way to make a direct approach without having to ford a rushing stream, so I circled around an unfamiliar area to try my luck. Stepping carefully among fallen eucalyptus twigs to keep quiet, I approached the edge

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Winter Bobcat

 Free Seminar with Director & Writer of Captain Abu Raed!

Amin Matalqa, Director & Writer of Captain Abu Raed Join us on Thursday, February 11 at the IUPUI Campus Center for a FREE seminar with Amin Matalqa, Director and Writer of 2008 Heartland Film Festival Grand Prize winning film, Captain Abu Raed .

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 A Shine of Rainbows – in Theaters March 26

Tomas is a young boy that is bullied and unhappy at an orphanage. He is suddenly and mysteriously adopted by a childless couple, who live simply and modestly on a very remote Irish island. The mother, although in ill health, is a woman of astounding positive energy and beauty and sets herself to healing the mental and physical scars of the boy’s unfortunate upbringing.

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A Shine of Rainbows – in Theaters March 26

 The Bobcat of Happiness

Coming down out of the hills this afternoon I was asked by a man and woman sitting on a park bench if they could see a picture of the bobcat I’d been photographing. I don’t normally view my pictures on the tiny screen on the back of my camera, but I would have been embarrassed to be unable to figure out how to do it for the couple. I turned on the camera and got the last image to appear.

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The Bobcat of Happiness

 Vernal Pools by David Hunter

Vernal Sunrise NEW Originally uploaded by dvdhntr I recently tried to get a California Nature Photography blog going, but it never really came together as I’d envisioned. I’m not sure this is going to work, either, but let’s take a crack at it. What I want to do here is showcase California natural history photo essays

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Vernal Pools by David Hunter

 A Walk In The Park

I spotted the Marsh Hawk on a fence post at the other end of the parking lot before I’d even pulled into my space and turned off the engine. A couple of ravens were keeping an eye on him from telephone wires overhead, but he paid them no mind as he watched for prey in the adjacent marsh

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A Walk In The Park

 More Fun In The Fog

Despite passing very close to my Jeep, the coyote didn’t even flick an ear when I clicked the shutter. He just kept on moving north at an easy walk, pausing now and then to check out a sound of possible prey in the long grass.

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More Fun In The Fog

 Bobcat Country

While Pam and I were hanging out with cat #1 and sharing the sighting with passers-by, some of whom had never seen a bobcat before, we got wind of a second bobcat maybe 50 yards up the trail. Some days the closest thing you see to a bobcat is a track in the mud or a scat in the trail

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Bobcat Country

 Gift of Bobcats

A visitor from Chicago looked at the Marin Headlands out the car window. “Look at all that wasted space!” she said. If not for the work of some very persistent people, much if not all of that “wasted” space would have been “developed” by now.

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Gift of Bobcats

 Fitzgerald Marine Reserve

The seals ( Phoca vitulina ) were off-limits when I first arrived. A docent clad in a yellow slicker against intermittent rain squalls shouted at a couple of people who tried to get past the roped-off line that separated the beasts from the seals

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Fitzgerald Marine Reserve

 Tiny Tidepoolers

As I wandered over the slick granodiorite at Fitzgerald Marine Reserve I had my eyes peeled for nudibranchs, but all I found in the wee interstices of reef and wrack were the usual suspects — hermit crabs, sculpins, and shrimp. Shrimp, you say? I checked my photo library and found no shrimp at all

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 Mushroom Hunting

I started seeing mushrooms long before I got to my destination of Cataract Creek. I hadn’t been planning to photograph mushrooms and hadn’t brought any wax paper bags to collect them in. Although I had a pretty good idea what most of them were, I’d have been much better off with specimens to look up at home

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Mushroom Hunting

 Limits of Focus Stacking

One of the mushrooms I wanted to photograph while I was hiking through the dripping woods from the bottom of the Cataract Trail on the north side of Mt. Tam was the little one-inch-tall orange guy (small but deadly since it harbors amanita toxins) in these pictures.

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Limits of Focus Stacking

 Scent-Marking Bobcat

When I spotted this bobcat quite a ways off, I immediately scouted the landscape for the best approach route — the “best” being the one that lets me get in camera range without scaring him off. Even though he could plainly see me no matter what I did, I didn’t want to approach upwind of him.

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Scent-Marking Bobcat

 Zaira Batool Doing Online MBA From UK

Zaira Batool belongs to Lahore. Zaira complete her exercise sextet months past and today is doing her MBA online from metropolis Business School øf ÙK. Zaira writes in her telecommunicate that it was her imagine to do MBA but cod lake of possibleness she couldn’t did so.

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 Hot Desi College Girls

WOW! Once again we are featuring Khyber Girls College Mardan beauties, this is added represent of these girls from their teacher’s date party. These girls are from Mardan where Mullahs are effort brawny with every expiration day, destroying woman schools, restricting women. We at edesibabes.com objurgate Taliban for their noxious terrorist acts, permit the ! Shumaila is a course woman from Islamabad

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Hot Desi College Girls

 Kestrel, Mt. Tamalpais

As its scientific name attests, the American Kestrel ( Falco sparverius ) is a member of the falcon family, and as such, it takes no guff from the likes of meadowlarks despite being about the same size and being at a numerical disadvantage. As I was watching the kestrel in these photos it flew off its perch on the Douglas fir, crossed a small valley, and commenced to shriek and swoop over a small flock of meadowlarks feeding in a grassy field, finally landing on the ground with its wings spread to bolster its menacing demeanor

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Kestrel, Mt. Tamalpais

 The Crystal Heart Awards Ceremony is gearing up to kick off!

Fans and filmmakers alike are arriving at The Murat Centre dressed to the gills.  The black tie event will commence with a reception and dinner, and then move on to the awarding of the Crystal Heart Awards for the Short Films.  Then, at 8:00 p.m., the Awards Ceremony will continue with the presentation of the Crystal Heart Awards for the Dramatic Features and Documentary Features, followed by the Best Dramatic Feature  and Best Documentary Feature awards! Tune in to our live webcast starting at 7:00 p.m.

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The Crystal Heart Awards Ceremony is gearing up to kick off!

 First day of screenings under way!

We’re about halfway through the first full day of screenings! Many of the screenings are being followed by question and answer sessions with the filmmakers.  The collections of Short Films are always popular, considering that you can talk to three or four filmmakers afterward, instead of one! So far Shorts Collection #2 has screened, and was followed by a thorough Q&A session with Dean Yamada (director, Bicycle (Jitensha) ), Christian Sonderby Jepsen (director, Side by Side ), Jeremiah Crowell (director, Small Collection ), and Chris Witt (editor, Kavi .) The Shorts Collection #1 will screen shortly, with appearances by Melody George (director, Marbles With Thoreau ), Irene Taylor Brodsky ( The Final Inch ), and Daniel Harrich (producer, Acholiland ). Irene is no stranger to Heartland; her Crystal Heart Award-winning Documentary Feature Hear and Now won the Best Documentary Feature award and will be on DVD starting next week ! There’s still time to make it; come and join us for the Crystal Heart Award-winning shorts! Filmmakers from the Dramatic Features scheduled to attend include: – Renè Bo Hansen (director) of The Eagle Hunter’s Son – Gloria La Morte (co-director and co-writer) and Paola Mendoza (co-director, co-writer, and star) of Entre Nos – Zvi Spielmann (producer) of For My Father – Omri Givon (director and writer) and Eldad Prives (star) of Seven Minutes in Heaven – Philippe Lioret (director) of Welcome Filmmakers from the Documentary Features scheduled to attend include: – Hilla Medalia (director) and James Lecesne (producer and featured individual) of After the Storm – Dag Hoel (producer), Håvard Bustnes (director) and Ole Klemetsen (featured individual) of Big John – Gabriel Noble (director), Priscilla (P-Star) Diaz and Jesse Diaz (featured individuals) of P-Star Rising – Eureka and Sdudla Sibiya (featured individuals) of Rough Aunties – Greg Barker (producer/director) of Sergio

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 Ayesha Gilani,7th Annual Miss Pakistan World 2009

Ayesha Gilani,7th Annual Miss Pakistan World 2009 Bikini Pictures Beautiful smiles, gorgeous outfits and amazing talent: it was an evening of glamour, excitement and fun at the Miss Pakistan World pageant 2009, held at the Lotus Convention Centre on June 27th 2009.

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Ayesha Gilani,7th Annual Miss Pakistan World 2009