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As the sun declined, I discovered these two cup agrions in this face-to-face encounter.
When night falls, these damselflies group together on common or nearby supports, and hide behind them with their long silhouettes when they detect a presence.
Enallagma cyathigerum, the cutting agrion, is a species of odonate insect that belongs to the European damselflies.
Agrions colonise the banks of clear, slow-flowing, well-oxygenated watercourses that receive plenty of sunlight.
The main threat to the agrionid is the modification of its habitat by man (mowing, dredging, water pollution). A National Action Plan for dragonflies was set up in 2010, with the aim of acquiring new knowledge about the ecology of the species in order to improve the protection of its habitat.
Freehand shot in natural light at the ponds in my village in Haute Normandie (France)
Fujifilm X-T5 + Fujinon 80mm f2.8 macro lens; 1/2000s at f/4; ISO 125
I want to forget about you.
Beneath the tears I tried to drown my hearbeats,
They were begging for you to feel something.
But now there are times I would like to destroy these pieces of you that, in the night, keeps my heart and skin awaken.
But we can't fight against a ghost, we can only accept it,
Until we feel his presence fade into the backgrounds of our two lives.
Until then, no matter the place, the decors keep whispering in my ear about you.
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~the aim~
it takes a lot of skill throwing a large, round net like this to land and sink properly! - look at the concentration in his eye!
one of my favorites.... and still a couple more textured net fishing shots to come (((:
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AIM's critter, 1936, moves cars about as they are loaded with scrap. The cars are loaded with a front end loader (visible between the LH80 and the gons), and the LH80 is used to distribute the loads.
Thank you Lya Seerose for letting me bring to life this picture ! If you don't already know her, run check out her amazing work :)
Here is the story she wrote for this :
Three days. The hunt lasted three entire days. It was a personal matter for her, he would not escape this time. When she started to look for him, she first heard rumors spreading about « this charming nobleman with a damned smile » that just rented the biggest mansion in the smallest village the farthest away from his last home. She knew immediately it was HIM. Finding him was easier than she thought, she just had to follow the words on the streets, the tittle-tattle of Ladies swooning and blushing and the praise of Gentlemans vowing about his good reputation and his manners after only a few hours with this man. He was a master of disguise, his sweet talk could make you do anything that he chose to and his stare alone could force any last bit of resistance out of you. No one unprepared stood a chance against him, he had that power, a dark one and he was using it to play with people, making them puppets in his private theatre
But she would not be fooled like them, not again, she knew too good now who she was after and that the next time that they would meet eachother, one of them would not see the light of the day again. When she finally caught up with him he was sweet-talking a blond-haired girl in the streets, drawing the contours of her face with his satin gloved finger and the Lady was having a hard time keeping her composure. He had that effect on you, making you a weak creature between his hands. The day was about to end but it was still too early, and, for the lucky innoncent girl, people were still roaming the streets. He was well aware of that so he decided to return home and just wait for the night to fall completely, to help cover his steps as well as his sins before coming back for her, later. He took a last look at her appetizing throat and left. At the end of the street, he turned around the corner, proceeding to walk back to the mansion with no idea he was being followed by a retributive shadow this time. When he entered the deep and dark woods in front of the propriety, the pitter-patter of the civilized word vanished completely and all was calm around him. That's when she decided to stop the hunt. No more prey and predator, no more hiding and lurking.... only Him and Her, reunited once again. She stepped out in front of him in the pale moonlight, revealing herself to his gaze, and simply said to that smirking bastard « - Darling, smile for me one last time ! » while aiming at him
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This "beautiful" creature was photographed at The Pond at Elephant Head last year. The way it's done is to set up flashes aimed where the bat is hoped to come in for a drink. the pond itself is tiny, making the target reasonably small. The camera is set to take repeated photographs until the battery runs out and the flashes are set off by a motion trigger. This allows the photographers to enjoy a nice glass of wine or beer and swap stories watching the flashes go off a short distance away. Now that's photography at its best!
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Three Tulips, in touch with each other.
Double Tulips, speaking a silent language that I seem to understand.
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Two hunters were quick to take aim when they spotted the prize - a fox, but after much chasing, the entourage was unable to catch the sly fox!
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American Iron and Metals, AIM, is a recycling plant in the north end of Hamilton. Here, their TP90 locomotive shoves back a load of cars in to their facility. The 1936 on the cab signifies the year the company was founded by Peter Black.
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It is a beautiful, sunny but frigid day! And oh the wind! The walk is enjoyable because I am dressed for it ... that means long johns! This city is fantastic. It is larger than life. A place for dreamers to build their dreams. Even if they are this big. This city is one of a kind. Artistic, cultural and steeped in learning.
Montréal is the cradle of civilization. The warmth of the people is unmatched.
Caddo Lake, Uncertain, Texas, USA
On the first morning of Sapna’s workshop we set off on a boat before sunrise. The start time had to be changed at short notice when it was realised the clocks in Texas went back an hour the night before - a week later than here in the UK.
With Capt. Rich at the helm the 7 of us (6 Participants and Sapna) set off to see what was out on the bayou. For a few seconds on the way out we thought there might be some mist but our hopes were soon dashed. With not a cloud in the sky we knew we would get nothing interesting from it so after a bit of searching we settled on trying to get a sunrise between a group of trees. “Can you stop here please Rich.?”, Can you back up a bit please Rich?”, “Can you move us a bit to the left please?”, Can you turn the engine off please Rich and let us drift a bit”......and so it went on! Capt. Rich must have been used to this as I gather he’s done workshop trips for Sapna before but I did admire his forbearance. Perhaps it wasn’t just coffee in that flask he was drinking from.
Now as you may appreciate even with the engines off a boat is rarely completely stationary. It tends to drift, even if very slowly, so all 7 of us trying to line ourselves up in exactly the right place for where we thought the sun would rise isn’t easy and, of course, moving positions when the boat is drifting just makes things worse. When you are trying to get a shot like this, doing so from a drifting/bobbing boat is not ideal to say the least. So this is basically my excuse for not getting the sun dead centre of the image which I admit was my aim. I shot several images attempting to get a sunstar but only two shots showed any sign of a sunstar and this was the best of the two. I particularly like the backlit Spanish Moss. I admit I’ve tried to clean the image up by removing a phone mast in the background and some branches from adjacent trees that encroached into the image. I know the purists amongst you may not agree with that but I’m OK with doing that and it’s my image plus I’ve declared it.
Once we had all filled our memory cards with our sunrise shots off we went with Capt. Rich in search of our next shooting spot.
If anyone is interested Sapna has fixed the dates for her 2026 workshop here www.sapnareddy.com/products/copy-of-beauty-of-the-bayou It’s a different location for the accommodation next year but I happened to stay there for 3 nights after the workshop finished and it’s probably the best B&B I’ve ever stayed in. I’m not on a commission
Oh, and I expect most of you over the age of 60 got this but the title relates to the 1966 Beatles song of the same name - just thought it was appropriate www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTapImFT9Sc&list=RDLTapImFT9S... Apologies to anyone who now suffers from the ear worm
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The National Eagle Center says the average weight of a female eagle is around 10-14 pounds with male counterparts weighing in about 25% less. Eagles in our part of Minnesota are smaller than ones from way up north as in Alaska they can weigh as much as 18 pounds.
Heavier or lighter it is still quite an acrobatic feat to observe one land on the very top of a pine tree like this one who looked like he would not be supported. This particular photo presented me with a lot of difficulties including shooting against the brightness of the rising sun.
A drive through the Icefields always requires a pause to look at Athabasca Falls. Although the sun had already risen and I was too late for the sun to be lower and too early for the sun to have moved behind me. Next time I'll aim to avoid the sun flare (or hope for more cloud cover).
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A trio of female southern white rhinoceroses at Longleat Safari Park is playing a crucial role in a desperate race against time to save the northern white rhino from extinction
A team of international scientists is attempting to save the
sub-species, which is down to its last two surviving individuals, from disappearing forever by using assisted reproductive technologies and stem-cell associated techniques.
Eggs collected from Razina, Ebun and Murashi at Longleat will be used as part of the ground-breaking scientific work to create viable northern white rhino offspring.
Initially it is hoped embryos created from their eggs will be implanted into surrogate southern white rhino mothers in the first stage of a plan which aims to effectively resurrect the northern white rhinos’ dying bloodline.
Longleat is the first UK-based zoological collection to be involved in this ground-breaking project, with a number of other zoos in mainland Europe also participating.
“The aim is to use eggs collected from our females, fertilise them in vitro, and then implant them into surrogate female southern white rhinos at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya,” said Longleat’s lead rhino keeper Leah Russell.
“If this proves successful, they will then attempt implanting 12 pure northern rhino embryos, which have been fertilised with frozen sperm from deceased males, into southern surrogates,” she added.
The BioRescue research consortium (www.biorescue.org) is being led by Professor Thomas Hildebrandt, who is head of the Department of Reproduction Management at Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz-IZW) and Professor of Wildlife Reproduction Medicine at Freie Universität Berlin.
“BioRescue is such a challenging and complex conservation science project. Therefore, it is really important that we are joined by competent international partners such as Longleat to master this ambitious mission,” said Professor Thomas Hildebrandt.
Once the eggs are extracted, Professor Hildebrandt and his team will have a race against time to get them back to the Avantea laboratory in Italy where they will be fertilised using sperm from a male white rhino, prior to being flown to Africa for the implantation procedures.
The northern white rhino is a subspecies of white rhino, which used to range over parts of Uganda, Chad, Sudan, the Central African Republic, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Years of widespread poaching and civil war in their home range have devastated northern white rhino populations, and they are now considered to be extinct in the wild.
The two surviving northern white rhinos Fatu and Najin, both females, live under 24-hour armed guard on the 360 km² Ol Pejeta Conservancy, near Mount Kenya.
Sudan, the last surviving male northern white rhinoceros, died of an age-related illness at Ol Pejeta on the 19th of March, 2018.
If the treatment proves successful it is hoped it could also be used, alongside conservation programmes, to help boost numbers of other highly endangered species
Information by Longleat Safari Park.