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Every February there's an absolutely stunning phenomenon that occurs in Yosemite National Park: a waterfall appears as if it's on fire! Horsetail Falls, which runs from snowmelt off the eastern side of the giant rock known as "El Capitan", hasn't existed for the last 5 years due to the California drought. But this year, thanks to El Niño, it has returned! As the sun sets with its orange light, and if it's located in the right place in the sky, its light reflects off the granite walls and onto the waterfall, making it look as if it's on fire! I last photographed this in 2011 and I was very eager to capture it again.
The angle in which the sun can hit the waterfall is fairly limited, and knowing which angles will work, I'm able to write a computer program every year that predicts on which days and what times the waterfall will erupt. This year, the ideal days were on Sunday, Febraury 21 and Monday, February 22. I had seen a number of amazing photos taken earlier than this but with my busy schedule, I planned on making 2 trips to Yosemite to see the Fire Falls. On Sunday, Willie, Mike, Sammi and I drove to Yosemite, rustled with the massive crowds (thanks to Social Media, thousands of people flock to Yosemite to see this), and then left in disappointment as clouds rolled in at the last minute and blocked the sun from hitting the falls.
On Monday I had planned to take 8 of my SmugMug co-workers to see the waterfall and we left work at 6:30am to get to Yosemite in time. A few people hadn't ever visited Yosemite, so we left some time to explore a bit of the park. Knowing the crouds could get large, we immediately dropped off Willie and our tripods and then ventured off to explore the park. Having photographed this in 2011 from one of the two main locations (South Side Drive), I was determined to try a new angle this year: near the North Side Drive, El Capitan Picnic Grounds.
Clouds began to roll in during the afternoon and I began to get worried that our chance at the Fire Falls would be ruined, for a second straight day. Fortunately for us, the clouds (mostly) disappeared. Sure enough, by 5:15pm the rockface and waterfall started to turn orange. We all began snapping away like crazy. And then the light died! A cloud had gotten in the way! I wasn't ready to give up and sure enough, after 10 minutes, the sun dipped below the cloud deck and sure enough, the Fire Falls erupted again, this time with the sun in position to turn it a glowing red color!
While I photographed this with my D800, I also setup my old D700 with an 80-200mm lens and recorded 30 minutes of timelapse footage, taking 1 photo every second for 30 minutes. I combined 1,890 photos into this minute long clip, which you can see here. In it you can see how the light starts orange, fades to white, and then returns to red:
vimeo.com/leftquark/firefalls2016.
For information on when to see Horsetail Falls, how to shoot it, and what the best days will be, visit my blog at blog.aaronmphotography.com.
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Yellow China Orchid
These flowers appear after a fire and only flower for one or two years. This was the second year flower and was much paler yellow than the previous year when we first saw it here.
Photo: Jean
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We've taken a break from chasing UP6936 on a Falls City Sub. excursion to shoot this Nearman, KS coal train which is about to leave BN rails for UP iron at Falls City, NE. The UP GP's in the consist appears to be somewhat unusual for this service. 10-10-1992
What appears to be mist, is actually the waves, and the result of a 17 second exposure. The long exposure was achieved using a Neutral Density filter. The little carbon fibre tripod that I like to use with my Leica works well for most things. It's not the best choice for shots like this, in fact I tend to think I'd be better off with one of my two heaviest tripods. There was quite a bit of wind, and many shots didn't turn out.
The photo itself was processed in Capture One v21, with minor cleanup on the lower right with Adobe Photoshop.
Bartlettina sordida, with the common names Purple torch and Blue mist flower, is endemic to cloud forest habitats in Mexico. It was formerly classified in the genus Eupatorium. The plant is an evergreen, erect shrub, growing to 2.4 m tall and 1.2 m wide. Bartlettina sordida has reddish-purple branches clothed in slightly rough, dark green leaves with prominent venation and paler undersides. The leaves are very large, up to 25 cm long and 20 cm wide. The inflorescence is a terminal corymbose panicle, 20–30 cm across. The large clusters of scented flowers appear in spring, mauve to lilac to magenta-blue in color. The clusters have a bursting fireworks appearance. The seed has a fluffy pappus and is easily dispersed by wind. R_16517
Little green hair appears to be a bit late for the gathering of the rocks :)
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It appears our summer yard crew flew south yesterday. We should still see some migrants, but I will miss the regulars. Safe travels little ones!
I have not added any color to this, it really is this color! The top looks like velvet doesn't it? It has rained here again and we need to go back to Beman park to see if the blue mushrooms are blooming, yes they really do have blue mushrooms there!! Nature is so full of surprises if you look Have a wonderful weekend my friends and thanks for stopping by!!!!
The National Trust is usually thought of as an organisation to protect historic buildings but as I learnt in Dorset they all protect precious habitats. These delightful sand dunes on Studland Bay are managed by the Trust and appear to be thriving . Maintaining a sand dune is clearly a complex process . The following notes are from the Trust website the information contained I thought was fascinating .
“What we know about sand dunes, how they function and thrive, has changed. Previously, we thought dunes should be stabilised – protected from disturbance and cornered off from people. And so, fences were put up, we were told to stay away, and the dunes had nothing to keep them dynamic. Climate change and air pollution only made matters worse. They sent a boost of energy and nutrients into an ecosystem that had formed on the bare minimum, catalysing plant growth. Combine our intentional and unintentional efforts, and we began to lose the essence of our sand dunes.
We removed factors that would normally result in cycles of dune formation and instead accelerated the forward process. Now Studland’s mosaic landscape is slowly becoming smothered by gorse and trees. Open sandy habitats are being buried and rare wildlife pushed out. Data from the Cyril Diver citizen science project in 2016, reveals species like the Sand Lizard and Meadow Pipit shrinking in distribution, their numbers squeezed to the dune edges.
Studland’s dunes need our help. We need to slow down the acceleration of plant growth, restore Studland’s mosaic landscape and bring back the dynamic nature of our dunes into a self-regulating system. These are the aims of the Dynamic Dunescapes project. The project is a partnership between Natural England, Plantlife, Natural Resources Wales, The Wildlife Trusts and the National Trust, with National Trust sites including Woolacombe and Studland Bay.
At Studland Bay, four routes will be taken to restore the dunes:
1 Bare ground creation: Using tractors and mechanical excavators to clear sections of dense vegetation and re-create areas of bare sandy ground.
2 Reintroducing cattle grazing: Cattle mimic the benefits wild herbivores have on an ecosystem; they create bare ground, crop vegetation and form mosaic landscapes. In 2021, ten Red Devon cattle will arrive to Studland and start grazing the dense vegetation at the centre of the dunes.
3 Removing invasive carp from Little Sea: Carp were illegally introduced to a freshwater lake, known as Little Sea, triggering an ecological collapse. Dynamic Dunescapes will provide funding to remove carp from Little Sea and restore the ecosystem.
4 People: What better way to open the land, limit vegetation growth and create some much-needed disturbance than our very own feet? We want to remove the presumption that exploring the dunes will harm them. Instead we want to encourage people into the dunes, to learn about them, experience their beauty and help get them back to their sandy ways.
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Made the trip to this spot hoping the trees here would be more colourful, Autumn seems to be appearing in some places later than others this year with the warmer temperatures. Maybe next year then :)
These beautiful seedpods of the Sacred Lotus are one of my favourite things to photograph at the Calgary Zoo. The tropical flowering shrub in the background created a bit of bokeh to add colour to the image. Macro photo taken in the ENMAX Conservatory on 9 AUgust 2012.
"The pods/seed heads contain the Lotus seeds within little circular chambers on the flat surface of the top of the pod. These circles appeared to cradle the seeds, which are round, within the pod until fully ripe. Both the chamber of each seed and the seed itself got larger and larger until the pod bent over to finally release the seeds into the water."
Appears to be three of the 747-422s of United on the ramp. Shame to see. Funny I don't like 747s ground up but couldn't careless about the VWs, they were just an bunch of metal, no souls.
First figure of the new year!
I wanted to make Cad Bane in the first outfit that he appears in for a long time, which in my opinion is the best look of Cad Bane.
His pistols are made from BrickArms Spy Carbine, I cut off the stock the front of the scope and a bit of the barrel.
Glued on the back of the scope from another pisto and l use procreate to sculpt all the accurate details.
The hat is just the official Lego one.
I used Legos second Cad Bane head for a base so yes I did cheat.The hose is rolled up procreate, the little rings are procreate that I made using a fabric puncher, the gas tank on the back? idk what it is. Is also made out of procreate.
The forearm gauntlets are made from procreate so are the sleeves. Around the wrist is a strip of electrical tape.
The belt on the inside of the torso is electrical tape and rolled up pieces of procreate.
The Duster coat is made from a CM trench coat, the metal clamps on the corners of his coat are made from procreate, the satchel is made out of procreate and electrical tape.
The holsters and boot jets are made from procreate.
I painted everything you see!
So let me know what you think!
It appears that the loco is either speeding or the flag man is lagging. Maybe he never had his three Shredded Wheat that morning.
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The name appears to be derived from a belief that the dried plants repelled fleas or that the plants were poisonous to fleas.
A return trip to the iconic cliffs of RSPB Bempton after several years on a lovely sunny day.
This has to be one of my favourite reserves and activity levels were high.
This little beauty was just about to take flight. sadly the resultant flight shot was a little disappointing so won't be appearing here any time soon.
Puffin - Fratercula
RSPB Bempton Cliffs
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Hoarfrost appeared on the trees here, surprisingly it stayed on for the whole day. Here a grain train heads south 1x2 style on the Marshall Sub near Clara City. Oh yeah, first shot of the year I guess, I'll take it.
There appears to be a good influx of painted ladies this year. It is 10 years since I have seen so many. This is one of a number that over the past couple of days have been basking on the tarmac of the lane.
A truly magical scene appeared in front of my eyes during this fall, when I had fine conditions in this beautiful wild garden. There were many interesting things going on and it was quite a task to compose this scene. There are smaller and bigger nut trees, a five trunk Himalayan birch tree and the red one could possibly be a royal purple (Roter Perückenstrauch) but I am really not sure.
October 2020 | Niefern-Öschelbronn
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In 2021 or so, startup vehicle OEM Arrival appeared on the scene with grand plans for battery-electric buses and vans. Its products would be revolutionary and bear no resemblance to those built by existing manufacturers, Arrival said. That indeed proved to be the case, as can be seen by an example of its bus range here.
Further positivity came with news that First Bus was planning to place an order for no fewer than 193 Arrival products for fleets in England as part of its involvement in successful Zero Emission Bus Regional Areas bids. Quite a number of Arrival buses were built, but only one was registered for demonstration purposes as EV22 BUS. The others were used as test vehicles at the MIRA and Idiada centres.
History now shows that Arrival's efforts were a step too far. Later on in 2022 it first announced that the bus project was to be 'paused', before subsequently revealing that its focus was being shifted to vans in North America. First Bus instead placed its order with Wrightbus.
It thus seems that the bus is dead in the water. As a vehicle it was indeed revolutionary, although perhaps a bit too much so for what is generally still a conservative market in the UK. Some elements of it were indicative of a gross lack of on-the-ground knowledge, such as the door arrangement as visible; how is it to open if the driver has stopped without straightening the front wheels? Nonetheless, an interesting - if very brief - part of the UK bus industry's history.
Although it appeared on my website long ago, I’ve been holding this image in the archives for almost a year. Considering the gloomy 2013/2014 winter weather conditions here in the UK, this is probably a good moment to upload this image to flickr. Time for a splash of Spring sunshine perhaps?
Thanks for looking - Mk.
It appears to be very difficult to kill off the Pacers. Despite mass withdrawals at the end of last year a number of units look likely to be pressed back into service providing additional capacity whilst social distancing measures are required on public transport.
Although many people were glad to see the back of them this seems to be a sensible decision rather than increasing risk by having overcrowded trains or leaving people standing on the platforms.
Four units worked the 3Z01 ECS from Heaton, where they had been in warm storage, to Newton Heath.
142071 heads 065, 068 and 087 along the Tyne Valley line passing Blaydon signal box.
22nd June 2020.
Yosemite National Park - You never know with Horsetail Falls if conditions will be right for the Falls to glow. More often than not the magic doesn't happen, so when it does, it is magical indeed! On this occasion the Falls appeared more yellow than orange. I have been lucky enough to witness this phenomena on 3 separate occasions. The first time we visited was before it was so popular, many years ago.
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Photograph taken at an altitude of Fifty one metres at 15:54pm on an beautiful summer afternoon on Saturday 17th July 2021, off Woolacombe Road and Broad Walk in a garden in Blackheath, South East London.
Here we see an adult female Eastern Grey Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis), munching on some kitchen scraps.
The Grey (or Gray) squirrel, you either love 'em or you hate 'em. Cute and fluffy little funsters or destructive critters who ruin trees, kill bird chicks and trees and damage our homes... oh and it's their fault we lost our native Red squirrels as well!
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I get it and I see both sides of the story of course. For my part, I am a nature, wildlife and landscape photographer who prefers the company of animals and natural beauty to fellow humans who are systematically plundering Mother Earth's resources and killing off her beautiful creatures at an alarming rate! I believe there is a natural order of things, creatures kill other creatures to survive, they adapt to situations and when mankind encroaches on their territory to make a fast buck, those animals sometimes adapt to survive and the order changes. That is the balance of nature which is ever changing and affected by us..... the dumbest of the great apes.
Some species are driven out by others, some may be destined to become extinct, the fittest will survive, and sometime a species will need intervention and help from mankind in order to survive... usually as a direct consequence of mankind's own actions in destroying the animal kingdom's natural habitat of course.
I adore these little fellas and at almost sixty years old, I never grew up knowing red squirrels at all. I've seen reds in Scotland and black squirrels in Stanley Park on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada, but in my beloved home country of England I have always known and loved the cute little Greys. They visit my garden and give me hours, days, weeks of happiness and wonderful photographic opportunities, and I see them in Parks and forests all around me, so it's time to offer up an insight into the Grey squirrel, much loved, much hated... a sort of Marmite rodent if you will.
WHAT EXACTLY IS A SQUIRREL?
The word 'Squirrel', was first recorded in 1327 and hails from the Anglo-Norman word 'Esquirel', from old French 'Escurel', which was a reflex for the Latin word 'Sciurus'.The Eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) is also known as the Eastern Grey squirrel or simply grey squirrel depending on the region of the world it is found. It is a tree squirrel, of the squirrel family Sciuridae including over one hundred arboreal species native to all continents of the world other than Antarctica and Oceania. Tree squirrels live mostly in trees, apart from the flying squirrel. The best known genus is Sciurus, containing most of the bushy tailed squirrels which are found in Europe, North America, temperate Asia as well as central and south America.
The scientific classification for the Eastern Grey is:
KINGDOM: ANIMALIA PHYLUM: CHORDATA CLASS: MAMMALIA ORDER: RODENTIA FAMILY: SCIURIDAE GENUS: SCIURUS SUBGENUS: SCIURUS SPECIES: SCIURUS CAROLINENSIS
They were first noted by German naturalist, botanist, entomologist, herpetologist, and malacologist - Johann Friedrich Gmelin in 1788.
A mammal and rodent, predominantly herbivorous they are none the less an omnivore with a life span of between two and ten years. They can grow to 70cm in length and weigh up to 8kg. There are more than two hundred and sixty species of worldwide squirrel, the smallest being the African pygmy squirrel at just 10cm in length, whereas the Indian giant squirrel is three feet long! The oldest fossil of a squirrel, Hesperopetes, dates back to the late Eocene epoch period Chadronian period of 40-35 million years ago. The tree squirrels rotate their ankles by 180 degrees, so that the hind paws pointy backwards gripping tree bark which enables them to descend a tree headfirst.
Originally native to Eastern and Midwestern United States of America, they were first introduced into the United Kingdom in 1876 in Henbury Park, Macclesfield in Cheshire when Victorian banker Thomas V. Brocklehurst released a pair of Greys that he brought back from a business trip to America after their attraction as pets had waned. Victorians had a penchant for collecting exotic animals and birds of the world, but trends came and went and subsequently animals were simply discarded into the wilderness. There are early records of greys released near Denbighshire in north Wales from private collections. Later introduced to several regions in the UK, they quickly settled and spread, colonizing an area of three hundred miles in a quarter of a century between Argyll and Stirlingshire in Scotland.
Introductions of the Greys between 1902 and 1929 (the year of the last recorded introduction), included: Regent’s Park in London, Berkshire, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire, Devon, Warwickshire, Nottinghamshire, Suffolk and Hampshire. Grey Squirrels spread into Gloucestershire and eastern Wiltshire with animals coming directly from the United States or from Woburn. One hundred greys were released in Richmond Park in Surrey in 1902, Ninety one into Regent’s Park between 1905 and 1907 and a further ten New Jersey imported greys were introduced into Woburn Park in Bedfordshire.
Predators include hawks, weasels, raccoons, bobcats, foxes, domestic and feral cats, snakes, owls, and dogs, African harrier-hawks in Africa and... oh yes, Mankind pretty much everywhere who despise, mistreat, cull or eat it .
FACTS, MYTHS AND THAT POXY PARAPOX!
The massive decline in native red squirrels blamed upon the spread of the invasive greys has always been perhaps a little harsh as reds were already in a steep decline due to loss of habitat and disease and thus the greys simply took over the areas where the reds were dwindling. It's also a fact that reds were also seen as a plague, branded as pests who killed birds and damaged trees and the culling of reds almost brought them to the brink of extinction. Licenses to kill reds could still be obtained up until the seventies!
Reds suffered at the hands of mankind thanks to a combination of agricultural deforestation also linked with war and fuel needs which caused extinction in Southern Scotland and Ireland by the early eighteenth century, way before greys had been introduced. Harsh winters killed off the less hardy red population in the early nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Greys are more adept at finding food and adapting to locations and environments, but also carry the squirrel poxvirus (SQPV) which although not particularly harmful to them, is a serious infection for the reds.
Parapox in red squirrels causes swollen lesions around the mouth, eyes, ears and nose also the front paws and sometimes genitals and skin ulcers and kills a red within fifteen days. There is no definitive correlation between the spread of the virus and the spread of the Greys, it actually arrived in several areas before the greys began to colonize there. An epidemic virus was observed in Red squirrels from at least 1900 with isolation attempts failing, and the first case of Parapox in the UK was in 1980 in the county of Norfolk. Greys cannot transmit the virus to reds via saliva or faeces, but reds can between each other from bodily secretions and at animal feeders in gardens. The transmission from greys to reds is though to come from parasites. Eight to ten per cent of reds survive the virus, and there is some evidence that reds are slowly building an evolved resistance.
Greys are seen as pests to forest land, stripping bark from trees during May and June, and are also capable of destroying household bins, water pipes, causing roof damage not to mention taking eggs and killing young chicks of ground nesting and songbird populations. They also take from bird feeders and there is a whole industry for creating squirrel proof feeders these days.
THE CULLING OF GREY SQUIRRELS
Grey squirrels have limited legal protection and can be legally controlled all year round by a variety of methods including shooting and trapping. Methods of trapping and killing include Drey poking and shooting, Tunnel trapping using spring traps set in accordance with BASC’s trapping pest mammals code of practice. They can also be shot using a shotgun or powerful air rifle or up until September 30th 2014 poisoned by Warfarin (Now outlawed).
Whilst professional trapping and extermination is hopefully done as humanely as possible, there have been cases, many of them where cost savings have been gained by battering the squirrels to death! Grey squirrels are trapped in ghastly metal contraptions for hours and hours, wearing themselves out frantically trying to escape by gnawing at the metals bars. They bite the floor and scratch at them with their claws and do not get a moments peace or rest through absolute fear. Once the traps are retrieved, each squirrel, terrified will be thrown into a sack and smacked on the head countless times with a blunt instrument. When a mother is slaughtered, her babies who are totally dependent on her, will die a slow death of thirst and starvation.
There is an argument for the control of Greys on many grounds but also a counter argument that Culling does not work, and has not on countless times where, once a population of greys have been culled, the nearest group will move back in and claim the land. The university of Bristol concluded that there was little evidence that culling greys to save red squirrels was effective, and that perhaps finding a way of boosting red squirrel immunity to the poxvirus or planting areas of yew trees where reds are known to thrive and spending money on research into positive moves might be a better option.
In Ireland, the re-introduction of the Pine marten, a species made extinct originally by the very same land owners who also wish to do the same to the grey squirrel, has seen the rapid demise of the grey and the re-introduction of the native reds. Red squirrels are smaller and more nimble than their grey counterparts, and as such can get to the very ends of tree branches where neither the pine martins, nor more importantly the heavier greys can, thus surviving and thriving. As a result in Ireland, the grey squirrel population has crashed in approximately 9,000 km2 of its former range and the reds has become common once more after a thirty year absence... oh and Pine Martens are protected again!
In Scotland, Pine Martens exist in areas where Red squirrels thrive, and greys do not. So perhaps there is a lesson here, as in England where there are no pine martens, the greys are prolific breeders. So there is an argument against the barbarity of shooting and poisoning greys, and if, as so many believe, the greys MUST be controlled, how about a more humane and natural method that nature intended.. with re-introduction of predators. Just a thought!
So a few facts and figures on the greys and to wrap up, from a purely personal perspective I love these little guys, as I do almost every creature in nature other than those eight legged beasties that shall not be named and for which I have a deep and powerful phobia that borders on paranoia!
I could no more harm an animal deliberately than eat a McDonald's McRib (Once saw how they are made and let me just say... eeeuuuuuwwwww!!).
They are small, cute, cuddly, furry, they photograph beautifully, have great personality and make me smile. They trust me enough to take food from my hand in parks, and I can't bare the though of ugly, hairy land owners sticking a shotgun in their face and blowing them away! I appreciate they can be a pest, a problem, a menace, that their PR managers might have a bit of a problem winning you over when they flay small chicks alive on your lawn or decimate the songbird population by stealing their eggs.... and perhaps there is a need to keep the population under control and try and re-establish the red population.....
Yep I get that....
I just hope we can solve the problem more humanely to create a peaceful coexistence of the reds and greys in different areas. A man can dream can't he.
Paul Williams June 18th 2021
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this photo appears on the inside imogen heap's album cover. the album speak for yourself was released today (july 18th) plug plug. buy it here: immi's site amazon its also available on iTunes but if you get it form there you don't benefit from all the wonderful cover art! immi (her flickr member page) found me on flickr after finding this image of saint pauls and millennium bridge also on the same day i took this shot i also took this photo of immi that is my most popular photo and one of my personal favs as well its the one of the girl on the bike with the red coat. this one of the very few digital images i have in my flickr stream don't worry i have not been converted, after getting impressed with the canon EOS 300D i got me a EOS 1 film body (click here for my EOS1 pics) < much prefer the film version!
we did the shot on a very cold February night from about 6pm till 1am it was so cold so much so that i purchased a par of lowerpro photography gloves after very handed , if you live some where cold get a pair!
A sunbeam appears over some fields on the outskirts of Jericho. I bet you didn't think the West Bank looked like this? Surrounded by barren desert for many kilometres in every direction, but itself very fertile, its easy to see why Jericho is one of the longest continually inhabited places, perhaps even the very longest, on the planet.
Not a tank expert, but appears to be a Soviet made T-62 tank. It sits just off the road at Beale AFB, CA, near the entrance to the gun range.
Not knowing the history of this tank, it was probably one used by the US Marine Corps. The United States Marine Corps (USMC) obtained T-62 tanks from Egypt and Israel. The USMC used these tanks at the National Training Center.
The T-62 Main Battle Tank is a Soviet-era armored vehicle.
It was designed in the early 1960s and saw extensive use during the Cold War.
The T-62 featured advanced technology for its time, including a smoothbore gun and composite armor.
The T-62 Main Battle Tank (MBT) was the last in a series of excellent Soviet tank designs that began with the T-34 in the late 1930s.
T-62 production began in 1962, and an estimated 20,000 were built during the next eight years.
The T-62 was not as successful as Soviet designers had hoped. Its main gun could not be aimed low enough to deal with attacking infantry, and its rate of fire was slowed by the complicated fire control system.
Looking downstream at what appears to be a wall of karst limestone ahead. On the right bank can be seen a sampan and beyond that one of the numerous small craft composed of (typically) five lengths of bamboo lashed together.
Karst topography is a landscape shaped by the dissolution of a layer or layers of soluble bedrock, usually carbonate types such as limestone or dolomite. Subterranean rivers, cave systems and extravagant surface deformation due to weathering (all found along the Li River) are examples of some of the features found in karst scenery.
The pinnacle in the centre appears to lean unsupported to the left. But on closer inspection of the image, an almost-white cliff with a vertical edge can be seen under the darker vegetation, holding up the edifice.
South China Karst, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is one of the world’s most spectacular examples of humid tropical to sub-tropical karst landscapes. It is a serial site spread over the provinces of Guizhou, Guangxi, Yunnan and Chongqing and covers 176,228 hectares. It contains the most significant types of karst landforms, including tower karst, pinnacle karst and cone karst formations, along with other spectacular characteristics such as natural bridges, gorges and large cave systems. The Guilin Karst component in Guangxi province is located within Lijiang National Park and contains fenglin (tower) and fengcong (cone) karst formations.
I took this image during a leisurely boat ride down the Li River near Guilin in the summer of 1984. Scanned from a negative.
Appearing within the boundless darkness of space in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope snapshot, NGC 34 looks more like an otherworldly, bioluminescent creature from the deep oceans than a galaxy. Lying in the constellation Cetus (the Sea Monster), the galaxy’s outer region appears almost translucent, pinpricked with stars and strange wispy tendrils.
The main cause for this galaxy’s odd appearance lies in its past. If we were able to reverse time by a few million years, we would see two beautiful spiral galaxies on a direct collision course. When these galaxies collided into one another, their intricate patterns and spiral arms were permanently disturbed. This image shows the galaxy's bright center, a result of this merging event that has created a burst of new star formation and lit up the surrounding gas. As the galaxies continue to intertwine and become one, NGC 34’s shape will become more like that of a peculiar galaxy, devoid of any distinct shape.
In the vastness of space, collisions between galaxies are quite rare events, but they can be numerous in mega-clusters containing hundreds or even thousands of galaxies.
Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Adamo et al.
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