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Ok so the weather is not as it should be here this time of year. Spring is here though and that means major allergies for Connor. Poor dude has been hacking up a lung lately. Took him to the allergist yesterday and they had to give him an emergency treatment in the office because he was so bad....
Day #2 of probably staying home from school. Extra neb treatments and prednisone. Then some weirdo inhaler thing that is like a powder that you inhale. Seriously, that can't be real good.....
Anyway - where is the warmer weather? We need to break through this pollen crap!
Springtime allergies are on the way in the form of pine tree pollen. Pine trees release copius amounts of pollen that effect many people with seasonal allergies.
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Early spring flowering plants along the canyons in Southern California release their seeds and pollen into the breeze.
On a photo shooting break with my daughter...even her allergies could not prevent her from testing a contrast of her new dress against the canola field background...
When we were in St. Paul the other day we stopped a park and I took this picture. My allergies were killing me and I couldn't stop sneezing. That's what I think of when I see this now.
Two of my favorite photogs told me about this area in Kern County to shoot. Beautiful flowers, now I need to use my allergy medicine. Hard to believe this is only 40 minutes from where I live.
Saw this mustard field in full bloom just right across Canon office in North San Jose today. I think the allergy season has just started.
The only way to stay in a flowered field in the spring season for whom suffer from allergies....
Date: April 2018
Location: Novara
Model: Giovanni Riccioni
ph: Giovanni Riccioni
Shutter release: Phottix Plato
Strobe: Speedlight 580EX II Canon, off camera| Power 1/4
Trigger: Pixel King Wireless E-TTL Flash for Canon
Note:
same mask used in another shot of my friend Davide
I got so much trouble getting out of the house at the moment. There are so many pollen in the air... even though it isn't really what most people are looking for I can't wait for it to rain.
Our Daily Challenge for April 11th, 2011: Exactly Three Colours
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24mm - f5.6 - 1/250 - ISO 100
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SB-80dx (24mm - 1/4) into shoot-through umbrella from overhead, SB-80dx (diffusor - 1/4) bare on background, flashes tiggered via PocketWizard Plus II and optical trigger.
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I missed my focus point on this but I kinda like the way it looks otherwise, hope you don't mind.
I've had a head cold or allergies for the last three day's..... just layed around and read, sorry that I've not been visiting, I'll catch-up soon.
BTW I read the Odd Thomas series by Dean Koontz this weekend (on my Kindle of course:-) and loved them all. www.deankoontz.com/odd-thomas-series/
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The first thing we need to understand is what an allergy is. An allergy is a reaction to something outside the body that the body itself feels is a threat to it. More specifically, this is the immune system.
The truth of the matter is, everybody has allergies in as much as the body is...
With apologies to Jesse and the family! Taken in my garden amongst the Pig Faces.
The genus Argiope includes rather large spiders that often have a strikingly coloured abdomen. These spiders are distributed throughout the world. Most countries in tropical or temperate climates host one or more species that are similar in appearance. The etymology of Argiope is from a Latin word argentum meaning silver. The carapace of Argiope species is typically covered in silvery hairs, and when crawling in the sun, they reflect it in a way that gives them a metallic, white appearance.
In Australia, Argiope keyserlingi and Argiope aetherea are known as St Andrew's cross spiders, for their habit of resting in the web with paired legs outstretched in the shape of an X and mirroring the large white web decoration (the cross of St. Andrew (having the same form). This white zigzag in the centre of its web is called the stabilimentum or web decoration.
In North America, Argiope aurantia is commonly known as the black and yellow garden spider, zipper spider, corn spider, or writing spider, because of the similarity of the web stabilimenta to writing.
The average orb web is practically invisible, and it is easy to blunder into one and end up covered with a sticky web. The visible pattern of banded silk made by Argiope is pure white, and some species make an "X" form, or a zigzag type of web (often with a hollow centre). The spider then aligns one pair of its legs with each of the four lines in the hollow "X", making a complete "X" of white lines with a very eye-catching spider forming its centre.
The zigzag patterns, called stabilimenta, reflect UV light. They have been shown to play a role in attracting prey to the web, and possibly in preventing its destruction by large animals. The centres of their large webs are often just under 1 metre above the ground, so they are too low for anything much larger than a rabbit to walk under. The overtness of the spider and its web thus has been speculated to prevent larger creatures from accidentally destroying the web and possibly crushing the spider underfoot.
Other studies suggest that the stabilimenta may actually lead predators to the spider; species such as A. keyserlingi place their web predominantly in closed, complex habitats such as among sedges.
As Argiope sit in the centre of their web during the day, they have developed several responses to predators, such as dropping off the web, retreating to the periphery of the web, or even rapidly pumping the web in bursts of up to 30 seconds, similar to the motion done by the unrelated Pholcus phalangioides.
The male spider is much smaller than the female, and unassumingly marked. When it is time to mate, the male spins a companion web alongside the female's. After mating, the female lays her eggs, placing her egg sac into the web. The sac contains between 400 and 1400 eggs.
These eggs hatch in autumn, but the spiderlings overwinter in the sac and emerge during the spring. The egg sac is composed of multiple layers of silk and protects its contents from damage; however, many species of insects have been observed to parasitise the egg sacs.
Like almost all other spiders, Argiope are harmless to humans. As is the case with most garden spiders, they eat insects, and they are capable of consuming prey up to twice their size. A. savigny was even reported to occasionally feed on the small bat Rhynchonycteris naso.
They can potentially bite if grabbed, but other than for defense, they do not attack large animals. Their venom is not regarded as a serious medical problem for humans; it often contains a wide variety of polyamine toxins with potential as therapeutic medicinal agents. Notable among these is the argiotoxin ArgTX-636 (A. lobata).
A bite by the black and yellow garden spider (Argiope aurantia) is comparable to a bee sting, with redness and swelling. For a healthy adult, a bite is not considered an issue.
Though they are not aggressive spiders, the very young, elderly, those with compromised immune systems, or those with known venom allergies should exercise caution, just as one would around a beehive.
Maybe just a bit grumpy due to seasonal allergies. I had forgotten that I had taken this picture and it sort of stuck out from the rest when I was reviewing them. After a little work on photoshop it is now the background on my computer.
The name Piz Gloria originated in Ian Fleming's James Bond novel On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1963), wherein the hideout of the villain, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, is a mountain-top building containing an allergies investigation clinic.
A little westie blowing his nose because of the spring allergy season.
Prompt in the style of Disney Pixar, Westie sitting in a stuff chair, wiping his nose with a tissue to his, tissue box on a table --ar 4:5
I was on my way to pick up my son from kindergarten when I had to quickly stop and take this picture when I saw the field of goldenrod and those beautiful wispy clouds. Luckily I don't suffer from allergies!
Caught a nice rainbow a few weeks ago after a storm broke up at sunset. I love the spring, but hate the horrendous allergies that come with it! I shot this standing in a field of timothy grass…the stuff that sets my hay-fever off;-) Hope you enjoy!
Cherry blossoms are always a pleasant sight to see after a long winter. Most of the flowering trees are in prime bloom here in Southeastern PA. My allergies are in prime bloom as well! I decided to break-out my macro lens to see what I could do with these white cherry tree blossoms.
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