Entomology at Forstenrieder Park + Van Gogh

Dear Friends
coming back to the subject of modern cameras and their integrated capabilities, I am delight to see how close to the subject to be captured they allow to arrive by using the Macro option. During my visit to the Forstenrieder Park, near Munich:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forstenrieder_Park
I arrived to capture the following close images of bees concentrated in their normal work. Notwithstanding the close distance (about 20 cm) I captured the images, the bees apparently don't care of my camera and of me. This allow me now to present these images  that appears in some way inspired by the Post-Impressionism of Van Gogh
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh
Salutations
Giancarlo

 

 

Ornitology at Carrick a Rede

Dear Friends
if you have to buy a camera, don't hesitate to buy one provided with a long zoom. A long zoom normally at long focal lengths slightly degrades the quality of the images because of the sometime inaccurate movement and relative positioning of the lenses and the blurring introduced by inefficient hand-shake correction. However, the advantage is that at said longer focal lengths you can capture images without perturbing your subject. Better if the camera can do all rapidly and automatically by itself, so you can capture your images just when desired. All this I have found already integrated on my Nikon Coolpix 9500 that unexpectedly has provided me with the opportunity of dealing with Ornithology at Carrick a Rede in Northern Ireland:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrick-a-Rede
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrick-a-Rede_Rope_Bridge .

The birds of the Carrick Island you see in the images were not visible at naked eyes, so I am happy to have the possibility to show them to you. I would be grateful to you if you can help me in identify these birds.
Salutations
Giancarlo
P.S.: I thank our Alexei for the identification of he birds in this post - see blow

 

Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica)

Common murre or Common guillemot (Uria aalge)

Yellow-legged gull (Laurus michaellis)

 

Belfast - London in flight

Dear Friends
in the airplane, I ask always a place near a window. This allow me  during the flight to catch and document all the aspects that the nature, both wild and tamed by the humanity, decides to disclose. Many times tenuous links between both them, known or unknown to us, become clear and evident as shown by the following images. Any comment from your side is welcome.
Salutations
Giancarlo

Belfast - Presbyterian Assembly Building

Dear Friends
the gargoyles, thematic or centre of interest of our M.Polo Club I found surprisingly and extensively developed on the Church House or Presbyterian General Assembly Building in Belfast - https://www.presbyterianireland.org/About-Us/Assembly-Buildings . What I find interesting is that the artists were well able to materialize by the stone aggressive gargoyles in their act of jumping against any possible church's material and spiritual aggressors.
Salutations
Giancarlo

Belfast - Fisherwick Church

Dear Friends
it was because of the summer university stage of my son, that I moved for hree days in Belfast (Northern Ireland) -  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belfast . Now that the confrontation between Nationalists and Unionists (Catholic and Protestants)  -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969_Northern_Ireland_riots has ceased it is possible to enjoy Belfast and concentrate the attention on its monuments. As you can see from the images, the Fisherwick Presbyterian Church (http://www.fisherwick.net ) by its the frozen aggressive gargoyles and its at least 100 year ld organ unifies in itself two our centres of interest: organs and gargoyles. In particular, I am grateful to Mr. Neale Agnew director of Music of the Church who permitted us to taste the organ in its intimate structure and harmonic capability - taste you too under:  http://www.freewebs.com/fisherwick/history.htm . No further comment; please have a look to images and links and tell me your opinion.
Salutations
Giancarlo