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We traveled to Sequoia National Park in winter. It's a challenging time to visit this location, even when there isn't a federal government shutdown reducing the staff to only the essential rangers required for safety.
Unfortunately, though near the entrance the skies were relatively clear, and the temperatures were in the 50s, the conditions at elevation were thick fog with ice covered roads. Worse, many people were taking advantage of the free entry to the park and ignoring the posted signs for snow chains. So, getting to the Sequoia groves proved impossible, and we returned to our hotel, but not before seeing these beautiful gnarled old oak trees near the entrance in the soft warm setting sunlight.
Visit Sequoia National Park; but, be advised, winter travel can be difficult, and give the rangers their due - especially when they are working at skeleton levels with no pay during a government shutdown!
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Este elegante diablillo posó así para mi satisfacción.
Es un macho adulto de Ceriagrion tenellum. Inconfundible.
Fotograma completo adaptado a formato panorámico.
En la rambla del Zurca. Barinas (Murcia) España
This elegant little imp posed like this to my satisfaction.
It is an adult male of Ceriagrion tenellum. unmistakable.
Full frame adapted to panoramic format.
In the boulevard of Zurca. Barinas (Murcia) Spain
Les pierres nous racontent l'Histoire. Balivernes !
La pierre s'en fiche pas mal de l'Histoire, elle ne fait pas d'histoires, elle se contente de voir le soleil, la pluie et toutes autres sortes de choses en intemporelles intempéries. La mousse elle supporte bien et s'en accommode, mais ce qu'elle n'aime pas c'est l'arbre qui avec une belle forme d'audace et de sans-gêne vient parfois la bousculer.
Stones tell us history. Nonsense!
The stone doesn't give a damn about history, it doesn't make a fuss, it just sees the sun, the rain and all other sorts of things in timeless bad weather. The moss supports it well and adapts to it, but what it does not like is the tree which, with a beautiful form of audacity and without embarrassment, sometimes jostles it.
Kestrel - Falco tinnunculus (M)
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The common kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) is a bird of prey species belonging to the kestrel group of the falcon family Falconidae. It is also known as the European kestrel, Eurasian kestrel, or Old World kestrel. In Britain, where no other kestrel species occurs, it is generally just called "the kestrel".
This species occurs over a large range. It is widespread in Europe, Asia, and Africa, as well as occasionally reaching the east coast of North America.
Kestrels can hover in still air, even indoors in barns. Because they face towards any slight wind when hovering, the common kestrel is called a "windhover" in some areas.
Unusual for falcons, plumage often differs between male and female, although as is usual with monogamous raptors the female is slightly larger than the male. This allows a pair to fill different feeding niches over their home range. Kestrels are bold and have adapted well to human encroachment, nesting in buildings and hunting by major roads. Kestrels do not build their own nests, but use nests built by other species.
Their plumage is mainly light chestnut brown with blackish spots on the upperside and buff with narrow blackish streaks on the underside; the remiges are also blackish. Unlike most raptors, they display sexual colour dimorphism with the male having fewer black spots and streaks, as well as a blue-grey cap and tail. The tail is brown with black bars in females, and has a black tip with a narrow white rim in both sexes. All common kestrels have a prominent black malar stripe like their closest relatives.
The cere, feet, and a narrow ring around the eye are bright yellow; the toenails, bill and iris are dark. Juveniles look like adult females, but the underside streaks are wider; the yellow of their bare parts is paler. Hatchlings are covered in white down feathers, changing to a buff-grey second down coat before they grow their first true plumage.
Data from Britain shows nesting pairs bringing up about 2–3 chicks on average, though this includes a considerable rate of total brood failures; actually, few pairs that do manage to fledge offspring raise less than 3 or 4. Compared to their siblings, first-hatched chicks have greater survival and recruitment probability, thought to be due to the first-hatched chicks obtaining a higher body condition when in the nest. Population cycles of prey, particularly voles, have a considerable influence on breeding success. Most common kestrels die before they reach 2 years of age; mortality up until the first birthday may be as high as 70%. At least females generally breed at one year of age; possibly, some males take a year longer to maturity as they do in related species. The biological lifespan to death from senescence can be 16 years or more, however; one was recorded to have lived almost 24 years.
Population:
UK breeding:
46,000 pairs
A member of the pea family, these are the remains of the seed pods of Broom. They release the seeds from their pods with an explosive split that throws the contents out. What remains in the autumn are lifeless, dried shells seen here.
Olympus EM1 + adapted MInolta 50mm f1.4.
Some say that Nature adapts to cohabitation with our human species. We instead, should realize that We are the ones who have to react, adapt and accept. Nature has the real power and providence over the earth, sky and earth. And water always wins.
~Tom Cousteau Handy from "Deep Thoughts About Sandbars"
A great musical example of reacting to changes in tempo, tone and atmosphere.
Free form and beautiful flute imaginations from Nicole Mitchell~ "Adaptability"
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One photo. All images and art by me, Tom. Textures are naturally occurring.
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Last Sunday I spent a day on Camera Show. I sold one lens but acquired few quirky old enlarger and large format lenses so I will torture you with a photos made by them. All are adapted with glue, camera caps and some helicoids.
So this one is Kinex Paris France Kinn Anastigmat 105mm f4.5 lens for large format cameras. Shutter jams easily and nicely. Soft, low contrast, unsaturated natural colors, at moments quirky bokeh. In one word, all that contemporary HD sharpens junkies hate.
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Kestrel - Falco tinnunculus (M)
(Double click)
The common kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) is a bird of prey species belonging to the kestrel group of the falcon family Falconidae. It is also known as the European kestrel, Eurasian kestrel, or Old World kestrel. In Britain, where no other kestrel species occurs, it is generally just called "the kestrel".
This species occurs over a large range. It is widespread in Europe, Asia, and Africa, as well as occasionally reaching the east coast of North America.
Kestrels can hover in still air, even indoors in barns. Because they face towards any slight wind when hovering, the common kestrel is called a "windhover" in some areas.
Unusual for falcons, plumage often differs between male and female, although as is usual with monogamous raptors the female is slightly larger than the male. This allows a pair to fill different feeding niches over their home range. Kestrels are bold and have adapted well to human encroachment, nesting in buildings and hunting by major roads. Kestrels do not build their own nests, but use nests built by other species.
Their plumage is mainly light chestnut brown with blackish spots on the upperside and buff with narrow blackish streaks on the underside; the remiges are also blackish. Unlike most raptors, they display sexual colour dimorphism with the male having fewer black spots and streaks, as well as a blue-grey cap and tail. The tail is brown with black bars in females, and has a black tip with a narrow white rim in both sexes. All common kestrels have a prominent black malar stripe like their closest relatives.
The cere, feet, and a narrow ring around the eye are bright yellow; the toenails, bill and iris are dark. Juveniles look like adult females, but the underside streaks are wider; the yellow of their bare parts is paler. Hatchlings are covered in white down feathers, changing to a buff-grey second down coat before they grow their first true plumage.
Data from Britain shows nesting pairs bringing up about 2–3 chicks on average, though this includes a considerable rate of total brood failures; actually, few pairs that do manage to fledge offspring raise less than 3 or 4. Compared to their siblings, first-hatched chicks have greater survival and recruitment probability, thought to be due to the first-hatched chicks obtaining a higher body condition when in the nest. Population cycles of prey, particularly voles, have a considerable influence on breeding success. Most common kestrels die before they reach 2 years of age; mortality up until the first birthday may be as high as 70%. At least females generally breed at one year of age; possibly, some males take a year longer to maturity as they do in related species. The biological lifespan to death from senescence can be 16 years or more, however; one was recorded to have lived almost 24 years.
Population:
UK breeding:
46,000 pairs
Los antófilos (Anthophila, griego ‘que aman las flores’), conocidos comúnmente como abejas, son un clado de insectos himenópteros, sin ubicación en categoría taxonómica, dentro de la superfamilia Apoidea. Se trata de un linaje monofilético con más de 20 000 especies conocidas. Las abejas, al igual que las hormigas, evolucionaron a partir de himenópteros aculeados. Los antepasados de las abejas estaban relacionados con la familia Crabronidae y eran depredadores de insectos. Es posible que las primeras abejas se hayan alimentado del polen que cubría a algunas de sus presas y que, gradualmente, hayan empezado a alimentar a sus crías con polen en lugar de insectos.1
Hay muchas más especies que aún no han sido descritas. Se las encuentra en todos los continentes, excepto en la Antártida. Están en todos los hábitats donde hay plantas con flores (magnoliofitas o angiospermas). Están adaptadas para alimentarse de polen y néctar, usando el primero fundamentalmente como alimento para las larvas y el segundo como material energético. La especie más conocida es la abeja doméstica (Apis mellifera), a veces simplemente llamada “abeja”; esta especie es un insecto social que vive en enjambres formados por tres clases de individuos: reina, obreras y zánganos;
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Lugar de captura / Taken: Refugio de Vida Silvestre Río Higuamo , San Pedro de Macorís, República Dominicana
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Arthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Hymenoptera
(unranked):Unicalcarida
Suborder:Apocrita
Superfamily:Apoidea
Clade:Anthophila
Families
Andrenidae
Apidae
Colletidae
Halictidae
Megachilidae
Melittidae
Stenotritidae
Synonyms
Apiformes (from Latin 'apis')
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This Tri-colored Heron would normally be cruising the shallow waters and scooping up fish as he goes, but when the tides are high, they can adapt to a different technique and use an old branch over the water to help with the process. Photo taken on Horsepen Bayou.
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70 Allan Street: This small, frame house has its entrance situated in the short side to adapt to a narrow lot. Probably built during the third quarter of the 19th century, it has a remarkably elaborate entrance with plain, classical details which are out of scale with the small building.
Machu Picchu 20221127
Machu Picchu not only offers the visitor the view of the temples and stone houses that are on its cusp, but also gives a look of its terraces and irrigation systems, which give a unique personality to the Incan citadel and its surroundings.
The Functions of the Platforms
These constructions are wide steps built on the mountains’s slopes that allowed the Incas to gain land in order to develop agriculture adapted to the landscape.
Without a doubt, creating great steps meant a great effort, but without these, the constant rains, the humidity of the environment and the steepness of the area would have triggered large landslides that would have destroyed the ruins of Machu Picchu.
This terrace system fulfills three main functions:
Containment: These constructions prevented the land’s erosion from creating landslides when carrying out the construction of cities, houses and temples.
Agriculture: Through the construction of these platforms, the Incas expanded the amount of land used for agricultural activity. These terraces allowed to take advantage of the rainwater as a source of crop irrigation directly from channels that connected each of the levels. Nowadays, crops are not cultivated anymore to maintain their integrity, due to the condition of World Heritage of Machu Picchu.
Ceremonial centers: these finer and more extensive construction platforms were intended to decorate ceremonial and/or administrative centers.
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A small land scene adapted for 64x64 (4096 sqm) parcel size.
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This home is a spontaneous collaboration with Jacky Macpherson and I'm extremely excited to release it for you all. Feel free to come visit and see the demo at Messines!
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The Plaza de España, designed by Aníbal González, was a principal building built on the Maria Luisa Park's edge to showcase Spain's industry and technology exhibits. González combined a mix of 1920s Art Deco and Spanish Renaissance Revival, Spanish Baroque Revival and Neo-Mudéjar styles. The Plaza de España complex is a huge half-circle; the buildings are accessible by four bridges over the moat, which represent the ancient kingdoms of Spain. In the centre is the Vicente Traver fountain.
Many tiled alcoves were built around the plaza, each representing a different province of Spain. The Plaza's tiled Alcoves of the Provinces are frequent backdrops for visitors' portrait photographs, taken in their own home province. Each alcove is flanked by a pair of covered bookshelves, now used by visitors in the manner of a; Little Free Library. Each bookshelf often contains works with information about their province. Visitors have also donated favorite novels and other books for others to read.
Today the buildings of the Plaza de España have been renovated and adapted for use as offices for government agencies. The central government departments, with sensitive adaptive redesign, are located within it. Toward the end of the park, the grandest mansions from the fair have been adapted as museums. The most distant museum contains the city's archaeology collections. The main exhibits are Roman mosaics and artefacts from nearby Italica.
The Plaza de España has been used as a filming location, including scenes for Lawrence of Arabia (1962). The building was used as a location in the Star Wars movie series Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002) — in which it featured in exterior shots of the City of Theed on the Planet Naboo. It also featured in the 2012 film The Dictator. The 2023 Netflix series, Kaos, also featured scenes filmed at the Plaza.
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With an area of over 930 km2 (360 sq mi), the Camargue is western Europe's largest river delta. It is a vast plain comprising large brine lagoons or étangs, cut off from the sea by sandbars and encircled by reed-covered marshes. These are in turn surrounded by a large cultivated area.
Approximately a third of the Camargue is either lakes or marshland. The central area around the shoreline of the Étang de Vaccarès has been protected as a regional park since 1927, in recognition of its great importance as a haven for wild birds. In 2008, it was incorporated into the larger Parc naturel régional de Camargue.
Flora and fauna
Flamingos in the Camargue
Horses and cattle in the Camargue
The Camargue is home to more than 400 species of birds and has been identified as an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International. Its brine ponds provide one of the few European habitats for the greater flamingo. The marshes are also a prime habitat for many species of insects, notably (and notoriously) some of the most ferocious mosquitos to be found anywhere in France. Camargue horses (Camarguais) roam the extensive marshlands, along with Camargue cattle (see below).
The native flora of the Camargue have adapted to the saline conditions. Sea lavender and glasswort flourish, along with tamarisks and reeds.
For more information, please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camargue
L’ancien siège de la "Royale Belge" (compagnie d'assurances) et son parc, datant de 1965-1967, sont par excellence un exemple de réussite de l’architecture moderne en Belgique.
Le défi consistant à créer un bâtiment novateur dans un cadre exceptionnel a été relevé à merveille par le duo d’architectes franco-belge Pierre Dufau et René Stapels.
Le bâtiment est érigé en zone marécageuse. Le bâti, tout de verre et d'acier, repose sur des vérins hydrauliques qui en assurent la stabilité.
Le parc qui l'entoure ainsi que les étangs qui l'encerclent est le fruit du travail des architectes paysagistes Jean Delogne et Claude Rebold.
L’aménagement contemporain s’est fait dans le respect du site en tentant de préserver le paysage originel de la Woluwe (cours d'eau local).
L’édifice présente un intérêt historique, technique, scientifique, artistique et esthétique majeur pour la Région Bruxelloise.
Son inscription à la Commission Royale des monuments et des sites fin 2017 permettra une certaine souplesse quant à la nécessaire adaptation du bâtiment tout en préservant ses grandes lignes architecturales que sont la rigueur des façades, la fonctionnalité et la qualité des espaces intérieurs et sa parfaite intégration dans un cadre d’exception.
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This small tuft of grass really caught my eye. Just randomly sticking out of the water but quite clearly learnt to adapt and live amphibiously amongst the rocks!!!
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After seeing Simon's utak's YouTube video about the Petri 50mm f/1.8, I decided to cycle it back into the vintage glass this morning. The specific lens is the Pentri C.C 50mm f/1.8 and I'm shooting it on a helicoid adapter here. This lens has a busy quality that is somehow pleasant, and I chose it here to complement the grass and buttercup stems.
As the land becomes saltier, nature adapts with salt-tolerant plants surviving in the conditions,
Holland Track by Fatbike – September 2016 - #Holland 28
This tree was amazing to see as it has been growing at a 90 degree angle with its 2 limbs. The limb going off to the right gets better anchorage farther away from the water and in less of a sandy environment.
Adapted from "The Bugler of Arlington" by unknown. I am the bugler of Sarasota National Cemetery.
But this honor belongs not to one man alone.
Today, I stand the watch.
Yesterday in our history, it was stood by the many who have gone before me.
Tomorrow in our future, others will carry on when I am gone,
Because this great nation of ours will always have a need
for paying tribute to its honored dead.
So today, I am the bugler of Sarasota National Cemetery.
I stand alone with my thoughts
On the brow of a windswept hill
Beneath the swaying bows of a protective oak
Watching o’er our nation’s dead.
Around me stand the living,
Beneath me lie the dead.
The open grave not far away
Leaves little to be said.
So, I stand alone with my thoughts today,
And find so much for which to be thankful.
Yes, I’m profoundly thankful
For these stones upon this hillside
Over which I daily play,
They tell a story of our country; For them I duly pray