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A female Snowy Owl (Nyctea scandiaca) does a fly by to check out the area as we travel the backroads near Holden, Alberta, Canada.
It will not be too long before they start to work their way northwards with the arrival of spring - lets hope that is the case!!
26 January, 2012.
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Belen del Ayuntamiento de Málaga (España), Diciembre 2012. Bethlehem the Town Hall of Malaga (Spain), December 2012.
Colaboración del mes MAYO para el calendario de bears illustrated 2012. Lo pueden ver y descargar en:
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Contribution for bears illustrated calendar 2012. I did MAY. Visit and download in:
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Highest Explore Position: 45
This maybe the last image I upload from 2011 and best wishes for 2012
Taken using a bucket of Water with a few drops of cooking oil. I then printed a Union Flag image and taped the image to my Canon flash gun. I faced the flashgun at a slight angle but used the TTL setting but Manual Focus & Program on the Camera.
Its good fun, I did use other images to use over the flashgun and hopefully will load them up soon.
Equipment & Settings Used.
Camera: Canon EOS 60D
Lens: Canon EF100mm f/2.8 Macro USM
Program: Manual
Flash: Canon Speedlight 430EX II
Flash Settings: TTL used
Exposure: 0.004 sec (1/250)
Aperture: f/8.0
Focal Length: 100 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Remote
Tripod: Giottos 9351B
Tripod Head: Giottos MH1300-621 Ball Head
Bucket
Cooking Oil
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This picture of red rose was taken during Independence Day Flower Show, 2012 at Lalbagh, Botanical Garden, Bangalore.
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"50+4 Τales of the sea":Τhassos culture festival 2012.(Solo exhibition)
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Thanks for all visits and comments. Taken with a cell Nokia N8. This photo was taken on November 2, 2012
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Moved forward for those who might have missed it the first time
This scene from 2010 is now gone. The Lake St Interlocking tower in the background was demolished in 2012. The tracks still exist but a tunnel was built over them, and the small lot off frame at Canal and Lake now has a Hi-Rise condo going up. This was one of my most favorite photo locations till high dollar real estate wheeling and dealing destroyed it.
This woman was walking down Canal and as she passed the signal, it tripped off. After crossing one of the triple tracks she started running. The exposure was a bit dark, and after psudo HDR-ing it, I realized she had iPod headphones also. Train was 200 yards away from her. Train was on track she is about to cross.
Taken in the Cassidy Tire parking lot along Canal, near Kinzie. This was the second person to walk across train tracks with signals going today
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Some see nature all ridicule and deformity...and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
William Blake
Here's another 'Good Omen.'
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"The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be imopoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life." - Frank Lloyd
"Difficult times have helped me to understand better, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever..." - Isak Dinesen
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Pulsa L para verlo en grande y caja de luz (fondo negro).
La estación de segovia como no hacía mucho tiempoq ue estaba....
La UT440 que hizo el Tren Especial Rio Eresma en su viaje piloto.
La gata, 269.604 con 2 vagones restaurante y el furgon de equipajes para la presentación en sociedad del Tren Rio Eresma.
Por último, una unidad S446 (que pasaba por allí) haciendo el cercanias segovía - guadalajara.
Una pasada de viaje y de día.
Made For Photoadayapril Day 21 : Bottle
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Shot at Home !!!
Shot by my talented wife, this is the beautiful purple Orchid Vanda pachara 'Delight'. It was seen in the Aquatic House in the Steinhardt Conservatory at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
Visit this great place of learning and beauty at www.bbg.org.
Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.
Lynn Abbey
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A young Horned Grebe (Podiceps auritus) rides safely on its mother back on a storm water pond in southwest Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
It appears to be playing "Hide & Seek" with the world on the pond.
13 July, 2012.
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One of our more colorful birds here in New Jersey, which I think is making a comeback in recent years. 2012
Canon 50d; 400mm f5.6
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Tribute to the Series known as "Large Flowers", Hokusai Katsushika.Musée du Louvre-Lens.
Fulmars are seabirds of the family Procellariidae. The family consists of two extant species and two that are extinct.
Taxonomy
As members of Procellaridae and then the order Procellariiformes, they share certain traits. First, they have nasal passages that attach to the upper bill called naricorns. Although the nostrils on the Albatross are on the sides of the bill. The bills of Procellariiformes are also unique in that they are split into between 7 and 9 horny plates. Finally, they produce a stomach oil made up of wax esters and triglycerides that is stored in the proventriculus. This is used against predators as well as an energy rich food source for chicks and for the adults during their long flights.[1] It will matt the plumage of avian predators, and can lead to their death. They also have a salt gland that is situated above the nasal passage and helps desalinate their bodies, due to the high amount of ocean water that they imbibe. It excretes a high saline solution from their nose.[2]
Two prehistoric species have been described from fossil bones found on the Pacific coast of California: Fulmarus miocaenus from the Middle and Fulmarus hammeri from the Late Miocene.
Etymology
The genus name Fulmarus is derived from the Old Norse word full meaning foul, and mar meaning gull. This foul-gull is in reference to their stomach oil.
Description
The two Fulmars are closely related seabirds occupying the same niche in different oceans. The Northern Fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis) or just Fulmar lives in the north Atlantic and north Pacific, whereas the Southern Fulmar, (Fulmarus glacialoides) is, as its name implies, a bird of the southern oceans. These birds look superficially like gulls, but are unrelated, and are in fact petrels. The northern species is grey and white with a yellow bill, 43–52 cm (17–20 in) in length with a 102–112 cm (40–44 in) wingspan.[4] The southern form is a paler bird with dark wing tips, 45–50 cm (18–20 in) long, with a 115–120 cm (45–47 in) wingspan.
Behavior
Breeding
Both recent species breed on cliffs, laying a single white egg.[4] Unlike many small to medium birds in the Procellariiformes, they are neither nocturnal breeders, nor do they use burrows; their eggs are laid on the bare rock or in shallow depressions lined with plant material.
In Britain, Northern Fulmars historically bred on St. Kilda, and spread into northern Scotland in the 19th century, and to the rest of the United Kingdom by 1930. For example, establishment of colonies at the Fowlsheugh Reserve in Scotland was one of the first areas to be developed for new permanent Fulmar breeding areas.[citation needed]
The expansion has continued further South; the Fulmar can now often be seen in the English Channel and in France along the Northern and Western coasts, with breeding pairs or small colonies in Nord, Picardy, Normandy and along the Atlantic coast in Brittany.
Feeding
They are highly pelagic outside the breeding season, like most tubenoses, feeding on fish, oil or offal. Recent studies in the North Sea have shown them especially susceptible to plastic discards[citation needed]. The range of these species increased greatly last century due to the availability of fish offal from commercial fleets, but may contract because of less food from this source and climatic change.[4] The population increase has been especially notable in the British Isles.[6]
Like other petrels, their walking ability is limited, but they are strong fliers, with a stiff wing action quite unlike the gulls. They look bull-necked compared to gulls, and have short stubby bills. They are long-lived, with a lifespan of 40 years not uncommon.