It´s a privilage to be around when the first post happens :)
Welcome to ... Well, whatever you shape your echoe-chamber to be :)

It´s for a dress re-hearse-al.

Is this a Soylent Green reference?

Och, this is beautiful! It might have taken an age, but it seems to me, it was worth every brush stroke. I like this.

In photography, it´s not about the subject you are capturing, but the moment you choose to capture - and how you develop the image. In painting subjects from "real" life, the artist chooses which parts of the scene to accentuate, and which parts are irrelevant; the bird´s coolness becomes the Art.

I get odd ads too sometimes. And sometimes the ads are so far off base, that they come full circle, and I learn something new :)
I hope you have a wonderful day. For example a day in which you get to smell something that makes you smile. My favourite smell recently has been a freshly sliced apple.

This photo looks like a painting! Wow.

The left wing makes it look like the bird is about to "dab".

Growing up in South Africa, I got to know these as "Bull-Rushes". And yes, we did play with them - every chance we got :)