Sentences with phrase «pictures of birds as»

I am always so happy to see pictures of birds as I am a big bird enthusiast!

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It appears that Las Vegas oddsmakers are not in total agreement with movie experts, as the online gambling site Bovada actually has Three Billboards (20/23) as the odds - on bet to win the Best Picture race over the likes of The Shape of Water (7/5), Get Out (11/2), and Lady Bird (14/1).

I was alone in my father's house, watching the Wisconsin winter through the big picture windows — goldfinches and cardinals at the bird feeder, flights of mallards rising and circling and landing on the Menomonee across the road, icicles dripping from the eaves and then freezing again as the sun went down — but I wasn't seeing a bit of it.

Picture this, we don't come out of the gate firing on all cylinders, Wenger speaks of how there wasn't enough time for the first - teamers to build chemistry, several key players aren't even playing because of Wenger's utterly ridiculous policy regarding players who played in the Confed Cup or the under21s and the boo - birds have returned in full flight... if these things were to happen, which is quite possible considering the Groundhog Day mentality of this club, how long do you think it will take for Wenger to recant his earlier statements regarding Europa... I would suggest that it's these sorts of comments from Wenger which are often his undoing... why would any manager worth his weight in salt make such a definitive statement before the season has even started... why would any manager who fashions himself an educated man make such pronouncements before even knowing what his starting 11 will be come Friday, let alone on September 1st... why would any manager who has a tenuous relationship with a great many supporters offer up such a potentially contentious talking point considering how many times his own words have come back to bite him in the ass... I think he does this because he doesn't care what you or I think, in fact he's more than slightly infuriated by the very idea of having to answer to the likes of you and me... that might have been acceptable during his formative years in charge, when the fans were rewarded with an scintillating brand of football and success felt like a forgone conclusion, but this new Wenger led team barely resembles that team of ore... whereas in times past we relished a few words from our seemingly cerebral manager, in recent times those words have been replaced by a myriad of excuses, a plethora of infuriating stories about who he could have signed but didn't and what can only be construed as outright fabrications... it's kind of funny that when we want some answers, like during the whole contract debacle of last season, we can't get an intelligent word out of him, but when we just what him to show his managerial acumen through his actions, we can't seem to get him to shut - up... I beg you to prove me wrong Arsene

This incredible support continued as I met all the Malaysian fans at open training and on match day, everyone wanted a picture with this handsome bird, I lost track of how many selfies I had!

From his armchair at home outside Atlanta, de Waal is just as likely to be looking out the picture window («I have a forest full of possums and raccoons and birds and cats and deer») as picking up from the coffee table:

The picture was painted during Audubon's 1826 trip to England and Scotland, when he was playing up his role as the American woodsman to raise money for his opus, The Birds of America.

It uses some of the same long - term data as the climate change report and as a «collective statement of both governmental and non-governmental organizations... [it] presents a more accurate picture» of where birds stand, says Mark Eaton, a conservation scientist for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) in Sandy,birds stand, says Mark Eaton, a conservation scientist for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) in Sandy,Birds (RSPB) in Sandy, U.K.

When combined with other surveys such as the Breeding Bird Survey, it provides a picture of how the continent's bird populations have changed in time and space over the past hundred yeBird Survey, it provides a picture of how the continent's bird populations have changed in time and space over the past hundred yebird populations have changed in time and space over the past hundred years.

For eco-artists such as Rupp, there is a haunting beauty in bringing the past back, of recreating the dead and gathering them together — in this picture, a pair of moas, a great auk, and a dodo, birds that never would have met while alive — so that those of us in the world of the living can learn from them.

«Finding that Theory of Mind is present in birds would require us to give up a popular story as to what makes humans special, but completing this evolutionary and developmental picture will bring us much closer to figuring out what's really unique about the human mind,» he said.

As we work up to Bird of Paradise we'll spend more time breaking down the shape pictured above.

Director Will Gluck, who penned the screenplay along with Rob Lieber, quickly establishes the production's overtly slapstick tone right from the start, as a quartet of singing birds encircling the iconic Columbia Pictures «Torch Lady» end up as the dazed victims of a hit - and - run by an out - of - control Peter Rabbit (Corden).

Greta Gerwig who wrote and directed «Lady Bird,» which won Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy, noted that «it's been such an incredible year for women in film both as actors and also writers and directors and producers and people who are really coming to the forefront to tell their stories about the world as they know it from where they are standing, and I think that the response to these projects and the support that these projects have gotten and the way that audiences are going to see them or watching them in their homes, I think all of this just makes it so much easier for the next crop of filmmakers who want to tell stories about women.»

And I also enjoyed the victory of Lady Bird for top prize in Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy Actress; as well as its star for Actress, Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy (Saoirse Ronan).

The Scalphunters is pitched roughly on the same level as one of those live - action Disney pictures from the Sixties and Seventies, like The Cat from Outer Space or Blackbeard's Ghost — all Technicolor and slapstick and even, I shit you not, tweetie bird sounds whenever our heroes get conked on the head.

Get Out, the winner, was seen as the favorite but there were also trumpets blared for Lady Bird «s last stand to stake a claim of a guild win (it did not) and then the creeping feeling that if The Shape of Water is the Best Picture frontrunner then it winning WGA wouldn't be out of the blue and could signal a true lead.

Saoirse Ronan (left) and Laurie Metcalf star in «Lady Bird,» one of two highly personal films nominated as best picture.

When Truffaut calls The Birds an «apocalyptic tone poem,» he could easily be talking about this picture that paints a cold, tiny portrait of a settlement hewn together from wet logs and animal comforts wholly inadequate as insulation against the wild.

The idea of a renewal of society is common in Hitchcock's work (even The Birds, his most nihilistic piece, finds Melanie eventually supplanting the mother and taking her catatonic place as the broken, passive, utterly domesticated housewife), but in Mr. and Mrs. Smith, the standard sunny resolution to the screwball master plot doesn't land with a hint of irony — the suffering in the picture is the couple's joy.

Its main competitors for Best Picture are now the horror - satire Get Out and the teen coming - of - age dramedy Lady Bird, each of which received nominations for their screenplays as well as Best Picture and Director nods.

«Super Bowl weekend, you know that people are going to be watching TV for pretty much the whole weekend — they may even be shopping for a TV on Saturday,» says Olivier Gauthier - Mercier, the distribution and sales director for Elevation Pictures, the Toronto - based distributor of such current hits as Lady Bird, The Florida Project and The Breadwinner.

For instance, a few of the female voters weren't completely sold on Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird as a Best Picture film.

After an hour and 40 minutes of rules, elaborate deaths, and even more insane detective work, Death Note abruptly ends with L (Lakeith Stanfield) maniacally laughing at a picture and Light (Nat Wolff) free as a bird.

Bringing an end to one of the most wide open best picture races in years, «The Shape of Water» — a fantastical fable about a mute woman who falls in love with an aquatic creature — claimed the top prize Sunday night at the 90th Academy Awards, beating out a strong field of eight rivals that included box office hits such as «Dunkirk» and «Get Out» as well as smaller, more intimate fare such as «Call Me By Your Name» and «Lady Bird.»

As with the draw - and - write page, look up images of the state bird and flower on the internet so that students can color the pictures accurately.

you can use the sounds available, such as a quacking of a duck, a toy rattle, or a chirping bird or squeaking toy, to get their attention long enough for that picture - perfect shot.

As I pointed out earlier this month, though, the predation Loyd documented was notable for how little there was — especially where birds were concerned (though, of course, ABC and The Wildlife Society painted a very different picture in their joint media release).

The pictures range from simple lines, to complex shapes resembling a number of animals, such as monkeys, fish, lizards, spiders, and birds.

From the solitary birds of prey such as the Brahminy kite, pictured at top and bottom, to the flocks of migrating terns gathered on the beach to feed and rest before moving on.

The Yorkey's Knob property has an 18 acre Billabong in the middle of the property which is home to a huge array of migrating birds and animals such as geese, peacocks, ducks and even a resident crocodile or two so make sure you bring your camera along to take some pictures.

Others of note include the aesthetically dynamic and conceptually dense Bobby Jesus» Alma Mater b / w Reading the Book of David and / or Paying Attention is Free by Frances Stark combining a hip - hop soundtrack with transcribed conversations and take home flyers; Taryn Simon's Birds of the West Indies features the cars, weapons and women of the James Bond franchise pictured as they are now, meaning that while the objects appear as they did in the films, the women bear the effects of age (some are well into their 60s and 70s), which effectively distances them from the roles they had played by reinforcing the reality and humanity that separates them from the objects amongst them.

As with much of his work, the picture is taken above the scene, giving a spectacular birds - eye view while also capturing extraordinary detail.

In the late 1960s and early»70s, he produced works that incorporated, among other items, a parrot, tablets of burning fuel, live birds in cages functioning as picture frames, and a violinist and a ballerina.

The group show features the abstracted bird shapes of Boleta (pictured above right), Fefe (who creates «typographical monsters» from letters cut out of street posters, pictured here), Highraff's mix of illustration, comics and organic forms, Kboco who paints totemic aboriginal forms, Onesto (pictured above left), Speto, Titi Freak, and Zezão who paints in sewers as well as on the streets.

It is based on the way in which the brain recognises similar patterns, e.g. if you show someone a picture of a bird and then only show the tips of the wings and head, it will still recognise it as a bird or a possibility that it might be a bird.