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Inveraray and the Vital Spark
Moored beside Inveraray’s stone quay, the Vital Spark makes a characterful foreground to the town’s whitewashed waterfront, with autumn colour spreading across the hillside beyond. Together, town and vessel bring a little of Scotland’s coastal history into one view.
Inveraray stands on the shores of Loch Fyne, and its harbour once served a busy herring fishery and coastal cargo trade. Small vessels were an important link between waterside communities, carrying goods and supplies along Scotland’s west coast.
The connection with the Vital Spark is also literary. Inveraray was the birthplace of Neil Munro, whose Para Handy stories first appeared in 1905. His fictional skipper and the crew of the puffer Vital Spark captured the humour and everyday adventures of that working maritime world.
The vessel pictured is a real working survivor, built in Hull in 1944 as VIC 72 for naval stores duties. She later carried civilian cargo under other names, including Eilean Eisdeal, before coming to Inveraray in 2001. Renamed Vital Spark in 2006, she honours Munro’s fictional vessel and provides a fitting link between his hometown, his stories and the coastal trade they celebrated.
Taken with my Nikon Z50.
Features of Tyneside around Newcastle Castle. The Castle Keep, offering superb views across the city, down to the River Tyne and across Gateshead, also providing a grandstand view of the railway and the station.
The bridge carries the East Coast Main Line across the access road to the High Level Bridge. The plaque on the bridge is "Abbot & Co 1848 Gateshead", indicating it was completed before the High Level Bridge across the River Tyne.
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Leaf cutter bee having a snack and collecting pollen.
Single shot, hand-held. Wish the pollen was in focus, too but she was moving quickly.
Taxiing to Terminal 1 ～ RWY22下りの「ピカチュウジェットBC」は遠すぎてメラメラにやられたんで、転がりでGET。
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✈️JA73AB - Boeing 737-8AL - Skymark Airlines (Pokemon Livery) - BC518(OKA-HND)
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✨Taken at Haneda Innovation City(HICity) on July 11th, 2021
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📷Canon EOS-1D X Mark III
🔭EF500mm F4L IS II USM + EF1.4×III (700mm)
⚙️MANUAL・F8.0・1/1000th・-1 1/3EV・ISO125(AUTO)
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High up in a giant acacia a mother leopard rests with her young cub. Cubs are born with their eyes closed. These open about one week after birth, but she will keep them hidden for weeks before introducing them to the open wild. Even with her vigilant care cub mortality rates approach 50% in just the first year. The number seems terribly high, but even lion cubs suffer similar numbers. The branches of this tree offer some safety from other predators, less able to scale these large trees of the Serengeti. Leopards with frequently drag a kill high up into tree branches to protect what they have captured for future meals. At about 3 to 4 months of age this cub will accompany mom out on hunts. It teaches valuable lessons but also increases the risks that the cub could be injured or killed. such is the enigma of raising young of all species. Motherly love seems almost universal, but overprotection leads to inexperience, and the opposite, to potential injury or worse. Such is the conundrum of a parent's twisted love. #iLoveNature #iLoveWildlife #Wildlife in #Tanzania #Nature in #Africa #Serengeti #Leopards #DrDADBooks #Canon #Photography #Picoftheday #Photooftheday