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Lens-Artists Challenge #342: It’s a Wild Life!

This week Egídio from Through Brazilian Eyes is hosting the Challenge, and his theme is, ‘It’s a Wild Life‘. ‘What is wild?’ Egídio asks. The dictionary says it is, ‘living in a state of nature, untamed, uncivilized, not inhabited or cultivated, uncontrolled, unruly,’ and Egídio asks the question, ‘I am curious about what you consider wild. Is it a place, a person, wildlife, wildflowers, or something else?’

Living in the countryside we get a lot of wildlife, cranes nesting on electricity pylons, eagles living in the nearby woods, but we only ever see them from afar. So I’m left with the smaller animals and insects that dominate the local woodlands, and occasionally even land in our garden: flies, bees, reptiles, and so forth.

We used to have some large cypress trees in the garden, and occasionally we would get spiders making a web in the spaces between two trees. Here the spider is in the middle of preparing their lunch.

This dragonfly probably accidentally flew into the shade in our garden. Fortunately we were able to encourage it back into the sunshine, where it perked up and soon flew off.

The neighbours have a small orchard, and a few years ago it was completely overgrown. I would take my camera out to photograph the flowers and insects in the spring, and this bee was feeding from a flower. Taken with a zoom lens, I love this image.

After the rain one day, I came across this wasp on a rosebush in the garden. It was still quite cold, and a little sluggish. Just as well, I’m very wary of wasps.

In the woods behind our house, my photos are not limited to the trees. This fly was caught from a really low angle, and the lovely colour in the background is the clear blue sky.

We get a lot of small lizards everywhere in Portugal, and as often as not they’ll be spotted basking in the sun or running away when approached. This one, though, was caught in the shade on the wall of our office. It probably didn’t hang around for long, though. Just long enough for me to grab a portrait.

Themes for the Lens-Artists Challenge are posted each Saturday at 12:00 noon EST (which is 4pm, GMT) and anyone who wants to take part can po3st their images during the week. If you want to know more about the Challenge, details can be found here, and entries can be found on the WordPress reader using the tag ‘Lens-Artists’.

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I spotted lizards in the garden during a break in the rain so I got my Proper Camera and Long Lens out and did a photo shoot session with the 3-legged water skink, who was a very obliging model.

Its tail continues to regrow, but seems to be coming in with a bit of a kink at the transition. In lizards that can drop and regrow their tail the regrown tails always do look different, often having different colouration and lacking pattern, and they are usually shorter and stubbier than the original.

It seems like most of the adult water skinks that I see have a regrown tail. Being a medium sized lizard in a world full of birds and cats can be tough.

Photo of an Eastern Water Skink on concrete paving slabs, seen from the front left of the lizard. Its has a partially regrown tail, noticeable because it doesn't have the patterns of the rest of the lizard.
Photo of an Eastern Water Skink on concrete paving slabs, seen from the front right of the lizard. Its rear right leg is missing, there is just a small stump where it was.
Photo of an Eastern Water Skink on concrete paving slabs, seen from above and right. Its rear right leg is missing, there is just a small stump where it was.
Closeup photo of an Easter Water Skink from the right side.
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#TwoForTuesday :
Beaded #Turtle & Beaded #Lizard Umbilical Pouches
On display at Santa Rosa Junior College Multicultural Museum (CA, USA)
“Umbilical pouches are created by Plains women when babies are born. The umbilical cord of the newborn is dried & then sewn into the pouch. The pouch may then be then hung on cradleboards or blankets as a protective amulet or hung on a tree to draw spirits away from the child. Lizards represent boys & turtles represent girls.”
#NativeAmericanArt #IndigenousArt

14. Beaded Turtle Umbilical Pouch Unknown date, unidentified artist Donated by Sharon Koch 114.398 15. Beaded Lizard Umbilical Pouch, Ca. 1980s 88.082 Artist: Kaiwe Fastwolf This is a replica of an Arapaho fetish, created for the SRJC Museum by the artist. Umbilical pouches are created by Plains women when babies are born. The umbilical cord of the newborn is dried and then sewn into the pouch. The pouch may then be then hung on cradleboards or blankets as a protective amulet or hung on a tree to draw spirits away from the child. Lizards represent boys and turtles represent girls.”
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