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Camouflage, also called cryptic coloration, is a defense or tactic that organisms use to disguise their appearance, usually to blend in with their surroundings. Organisms use camouflage to mask their location, identity, and movement. This allows prey to avoid predators, and for predators to sneak up on prey.
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Beauty is not only found in fairy tales and mythical worlds. It can be found in the most unexpected places, the least expected of times. But that's art's way of doing things. To quote Paul Klee, a German artist, "Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see".
Same can be said for photography as an art! And to take it a little further, I'm borrowing another of his quotes that suits this exact occasion...
"The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not after all tied to the subject, but to the pictorial representation. In this way and in no other, does art overcome the ugly without avoiding it."
While the barley field is avoiding the wind and deeply bowing down before it, a group of poppies is standing upright and resisting.
That's how it is everywhere, that's how it always has been and that's how it will be forever, no matter if the farmer doesn't like it, or the neighbours or the barley.
The true nature will always find a way and it never was the unquestioning conformity.
Während das Gerstenfeld dem Wind ausweicht und sich tief vor ihm verneigt, stehen ein paar Mohnblumen aufrecht und halten dagegen.
So ist es überall, so war es immer und so wird es immer sein, auch wenn das dem Bauern nicht gefallen sollte, oder dem Nachbarn oder der Gerste.
Die wahre Natur, findet immer einen Weg und dieser war nie die bedingungslose Konformität.
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After a nasty start to October, the weather has happily found it's "normal" for the last week or so. Nevertheless, I usually pull the canoe around November 1...just to avoid the now likely snows which could arrive any time.
Rock Pipit - Anthus petrosus
The Eurasian rock pipit is closely related to the water pipit and the meadow pipit, and is rather similar in appearance. Compared to the meadow pipit, the Eurasian rock pipit is darker, larger and longer-winged than its relative, and has dark, rather than pinkish-red, legs. The water pipit in winter plumage is also confusable with the Eurasian rock pipit, but has a strong supercilium and greyer upperparts; it is also typically much warier. The Eurasian rock pipit's dusky, rather than white, outer tail feathers are also a distinction from all its relatives. The habitats used by Eurasian rock and water pipits are completely separate in the breeding season, and there is little overlap even when birds are not nesting.
The Eurasian rock pipit is almost entirely coastal, frequenting rocky areas typically below 100 metres (330 ft), although on St Kilda it breeds at up to 400 metres (1,300 ft).[15] The Eurasian rock pipit is not troubled by wind or rain, although it avoids very exposed situations. It may occur further inland in winter or on migration.[3]
The breeding range is temperate and Arctic Europe on western and Baltic Sea coasts, with a very small number sometimes nesting in Iceland. The nominate race is largely resident, with only limited movement. A. p. kleinschmidti, which nests on the Faroe Islands and the Scottish islands, may move to sandy beaches or inland to rivers and lakes in winter. A. p. littoralis is largely migratory, wintering on coasts from southern Scandinavia to southwest Europe, with a few reaching Morocco. Wanderers have reached Spitsbergen and the Canary Islands, but records in Europe away from the coast are rare.
The Eurasian rock pipit is a much more approachable bird than the water pipit. If startled, it flies a fairly short distance, close to the ground, before it alights, whereas its relative is warier and flies some distance before landing again. Eurasian rock pipits are usually solitary, only occasionally forming small flocks.
Estimates of the breeding population of the Eurasian rock pipit vary, but may be as high as 408,000 pairs, of which around 300,000 pairs are in Norway. Despite slight declines in the British population and some range expansion in Finland, the population is considered overall to be large and stable, and for this reason it is evaluated as a species of least concern by the IUCN.
Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!
-- Isaiah 5:8, The Bible, King James Version
[So endeth the Lesson for the day (and beyond)...]
Ataraxia (Ἀταραξία "tranquility") is a Greek term used by Pyrrho and Epicurus for a lucid state, characterized by freedom from worry or any other preoccupation.
For the Epicureans, ataraxia was synonymous with the only true happiness possible for a person.
It signifies the state of robust tranquility that derives from eschewing faith in an afterlife, not fearing the gods because they are distant and unconcerned with us, avoiding politics and vexatious people, surrounding oneself with trustworthy and affectionate friends and, most importantly, being an affectionate, virtuous person, worthy of trust.
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This section of Iguazu Falls is known as Devil's Throat. It is most easily seen/accessible from the Argentine side of the falls via a 1200-yard footbridge after getting off of the Jungle Train at Devil's Throat Station. I took this photo from the balcony at the end of the footbridge. The rushing water of the falls is so loud on the balcony that you almost can't hear anything else, and I got very wet from the misty overspray created by the falls. On the footbridge while walking to and from the falls we saw lots of animals and birds including Coatis and Plush Crested Jays.
Quote of the Day:
"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing." (Helen Keller)
"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."
- Victor Hugo
Musical Inspiration: Don't Put Dirt On My Grave Just Yet - Hayden Panettiere.
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Magnolia is a large genus of about 210 flowering plant species in the subfamily Magnolioideae of the family Magnoliaceae. Magnolia is an ancient genus. Appearing before bees did, the flowers are theorized to have evolved to encourage pollination by beetles. To avoid damage from pollinating beetles, the carpels of Magnolia flowers are extremely tough. The flowers are bisexual with numerous adnate carpels and stamens are arranged in a spiral fashion on the elongated receptacle. The natural range of Magnolia species is a disjunct distribution, with a main center in east and southeast Asia and a secondary center in eastern North America, Central America, the West Indies, and some species in South America. 7127
The picture represents the feelings and point of view of the intelligence behind the camera. This disease of our age is boredom and a good photographer must combat it. The way to do this is by invention – by surprise. When I say a good picture has surprise value I mean that it stimulates my thinking and intrigues me. The best way to achieve surprise quality is by avoiding clichés. Imitation is the greatest danger of the young photographer.
Alexey Brodovitch
Photography, February 1964
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The site is located on the banks of River Jordan at 380 Meters Below Sea Level, just 5 miles North of the Dead Sea, the final destination of the river.
River Jordan gives the pilgrims and tourists alike the feeling of authenticity.
This site is considered a holy place as it is where Jesus Christ was baptized by John the Baptist an event that changed human history and marked the dawn of Christianity.
Also, there is a number of Churches in the area.
Worth visiting. better during cooler months to avoid the Jordan Valley high temperatures.
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West Pier, Brighton, East Sussex, England
And now for something completely different! Slight interlude in the Scottish photos for something taken at the weekend.
The forecast was nothing special but the tides seemed right for shooting something at Shoreham mid morning. I decided I'd get up early and head over to Brighton to shoot the West Pier again.....who knows how much longer it will survive? This time I wanted to capture some posts (old pier supports?) that I'd seen.
Sure enough the sky was pretty grey and nothing much going on with the sea so I thought I'd try a 'Gary Gough Fine Art' type image. I'll leave it to you all to decide if I succeeded!
Had some challenges sorting out the lens distortion effect as I had to get quite close to the posts to make sure I excluded any beach. Another Tog there said he would clone out the beach if necessary but I wanted to avoid that. It's not 100% perfect but I think the distortion is removed as far as my capabilities/the software allow.
If you want to learn about the history of West Pier then pleasse see a shot I took last year of a Supermoon over the pierhttps://www.flickr.com/photos/184798091@N07/51409111073/in/album-72157719746898331/
© All rights reserved Steve Pellatt. Please do not use this image on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit written permission.
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Laowa C-Dreamer 7.5 F/2
This is the follow-up to my previous photo, the promised glance into the "Beehive". The Reichstag dome isn't at all easy to photograph from the inside. A wide angle lens is strongly recommended, and this was the very first time I was able to use the Laowa C-Dreamer 7.5 F/2 ultra wide-angle lens there. On that day the dome was also very well-patronised, if not to say crowded, which made it even more difficult to photograph. A few things I tried there simply didn't work out because there were always at least one or more persons too close to me which didn't exactly help with the composition, to say the least, and which also looked downright distracting in the photo ;-) The good thing is that I can re-visit this place as often as I wish, and I'm sure that one day I will find an emptier beehive ;-) At the moment the Reichstag roof-top terrace and the dome are still closed for public due to the Corona situation. I've read on the Bundestag website that the roof-top terrace and the restaurant will re-open in early July, and I hope that the dome will follow soon.
The atmosphere inside the beehive is usually very light and airy, even on a rainy day (and then it can also quickly get freezing cold inside, because the dome's top is open which also means that when you've climbed right to the top it will be wet and windy there on such a day). On the right you can see the cone which isn't just an architectural or design element. The cone is cased with 360 movable mirrors and serves as a "light deflecting element (...) which directs diffuse daylight into the plenary hall ten metres below. In addition, the light deflection element ensures that used air is removed from the plenary hall. It makes use of the thermal lift and directs the air upwards via an exhaust nozzle. This air then escapes through a 10-metre wide central opening at the top of the dome." (quote taken from the Bundestag website, bundestag.de).
The cone and its reverse, double-helix-like designed ramps (one is meant for walking up, the other, you've guessed it, for walking down inside the dome) have always reminded me of a whirlwind, albeit a "calm" and benign one. The Raw file was a little on the darker side, so I used several sliders in several editing programs to retrieve that airy, kind of "floaty" atmosphere. I've also slightly blurred the faces of the people standing closest to the cone to avoid recognition.
Happy Sliders Sunday, Everyone, stay safe and healthy, dear Flickr friends!
Nicht nur ich als Fotograf, sondern auch die Kohlmeise hat sich für Neues interessiert und sich der Gefahr des Neuen ausgesetzt. Ich hatte nur die Gefahr, dass sich die Tiere vor dem sonderbaren Gerät fürchten und meiden. Die Tiere wittern möglicherweise aber dahinter eine Falle, in der sie gefangen werden. Dem Mutigen, hier eine Kohlmeise, gehört die Welt, bzw. das bereit gelegte Futter.
Dare something new
Not only I as a photographer, but also the great tit was interested in new things and exposed to the danger of the new. I had only the danger that the animals are afraid of the strange device and avoid. However, the animals possibly smell behind it a trap in which they are caught. The brave one, here a great tit, owns the world, respectively the ready laid food.
"Each fall, white-crowned sparrows hop off branches in Alaska and begin journeys toward California, Arizona, New Mexico and west Texas. On their trip of several weeks, flying mostly at night, the tiny songbirds may cut back on their sleep by two-thirds....
Rattenborg and his colleagues wanted to see if the white-crowned sparrows that were sleeping less during migration were punch-drunk while awake, so they set up a test in which birds learned and repeated a three-response sequence of key pecks. The caged birds performed best on the test during fall migration time, when they were getting the least sleep....
When urges to migrate kick in, white-crowned sparrows and other songbirds begin flying perhaps as much as 300 miles at night while staying active during the day. Their ability to navigate, avoid predators and find food in different locations while sleep-deprived is a mystery ..."
Author:
Ned Rozell
Another fishing boat docked for the night in the small village of Alma on the Bay of Funday. Now this name of “Fundy Fury”, I can understand as I have experienced some of the fierce winds of the Maritimes. We actually drove down just after a light hurricane breezed through the Atlantic Provinces. That is another bonus of being retired. We can change our plans to avoid the bad weather! Then we get to enjoy the peaceful side of Fundy; like this scene.
Up until now I have studiously avoided the hundreds of tourists on the track. But on the beach at Wineglass Bay there was no chance of that! So here are some shots today of people enjoying the sun and fun of Wineglass Bay in the Freycinet National Park.
This shot is looking back out to sea through the entry points of Wineglass Bay. I keep thinking of what it looked like to the whalers 200 years ago - and shudder.
Mossy Throne - Recently, I had a dream encounter of a Gray Fox kit relaxing in a mossy Bigleaf Maple in the wilderness. Despite seeing several Gray Foxes over the years, I never had the opportunity to photograph kits before, let alone in a tree.
Gray Foxes fascinate me because they are the oldest extant lineage of canid (which means they branched off from other canids the longest time ago). They are not closely related to red foxes and consume more berries/vegetation than their more carnivorous distant relative. They also have several other unique adaptations and behaviors such as semi-retractile claws and tree-climbing.
It was challenging to expose the fox's eyes and avoid blowing the background - but I tried my best to do so real time. Special thanks to a good friend for making this opportunity possible.
Species: Gray Fox (Urocyon cinereoargentus)
Location: Northern California, CA, USA
Equipment: Canon EOS R5 + EF 100-400mm IS II + EF 1.4x Extender III, Handheld
Settings: 1/200s, ISO: 1600, f/8 @560mm, Electronic Shutter
This image didn’t go as planned, for the balloon I thought was a part of the setup was flown by the man sitting on the edge of the balloon and he did avoid the ship, but I was winded down by the balloon. So maybe I should have called the image for:
Handsome male Gray Comma butterfly using its natural camouflage to avoid prying eyes.
Considered uncommon to the area.
Normally I try to avoid to take a picture twice. But Friday evening last week, I had no better idea to catch the current blizzard in a railway environment.
Anyone else was trying to get home, but I did the opposite. The weather drew me outside. Arrived at the station, I had to recognize how difficult it is to make a picture under such conditions (wearing mask and glasses added some more difficulties). But finally I got one, I'm happy with.
It’s that time of year.
The elegant tern (Thalasseus elegans) is a tern in the family Laridae. It breeds on the Pacific coasts of the southern United States and Mexico and winters south to Peru, Ecuador and Chile.
This species breeds in very dense colonies on coasts and islands, including Montague Island (Mexico), and exceptionally inland on suitable large freshwater lakes close to the coast. It nests in a ground scrape and lays one to two eggs. Unlike some of the smaller white terns, it is not very aggressive toward potential predators, relying on the sheer density of the nests (often only 20–30 cm apart) and nesting close to other more aggressive species such as Heermann's gulls to avoid predation.
The elegant tern feeds by plunge-diving for fish, almost invariably from the sea, like most Thalasseus terns. It usually dives directly, and not from the "stepped-hover" favoured by the Arctic tern. The offering of fish by the male to the female is part of the courtship display.
This Pacific species has wandered to western Europe as a rare vagrant on a number of occasions, and has interbred with the Sandwich tern in France; there is also one record from Cape Town, South Africa in January 2006, the first record for Africa.
Leibniz (Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646 - 1716) was a German polymath. He is considered one of the most important pioneers of the Enlightenment.
Cafe Leibniz is not exactly an inviting place. I have never been in there.
On the other hand, the farmers' market, which takes place every morning except Sundays until 1 pm in Leibnizgasse, is a wonderful fruit and vegetable and criers' market and a must for any advanced visitor to Vienna. It is a part of the Viktor-Adler-Markt (far right in the picture), which is open all day.
This market in Favoriten, the 10th district of Vienna, is also very popular with Viennese from other districts. On Saturday it is better to avoid it.
Ponte Vecchio at dawn, when everyone is still asleep. Above, on the left side of the bridge you can see the Vasari Corridor. The path that, to avoid the streets, allowed the Medici to go from Palazzo Vecchio to Palazzo Pitti safely and without any danger.
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Oare Marshes Kent
One of the more elusive reedbed residents has to change its diet completely in order to survive the long, cold winter.
Bearded Reedlings spend the summer months feasting on insects. However, to avoid having to migrate south in winter as birds such as swallows and warblers do, the bearded reedlings change their diet to reed seeds in winter. The seeds are extremely tough so the birds use a nifty trick to make the seeds easy to digest - they eat grit. Grit trays are provided at Oare and it is a good place to get a view of these beautiful birds.
Roseate Spoonbill ~ (Platalea ajaja)
I got the feeling that this Roseate Spoonbill was trying its best to avoid being photographed as it appeared to sneak by me on the beach. It does tend to stand out a bit though.
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I usually avoid taking photos of a scene that I have seen photographed by so many before me. However not the other day. We finished a hike in the redwoods and when walking back to the car the sun broke through the clouds for a moment before setting so I set up my tripod and took this panorama.
HANDLEY PAGE VICTOR XL231_Yorkshire Air Museum_former RAF Elvington
The Handley Page Victor is a British jet-powered strategic bomber, developed and produced by the Handley Page Aircraft Company, which served during the Cold War. It was the third and final V-bomber to be operated by the Royal Air Force (RAF), the other two being the Avro Vulcan and the Vickers Valiant. The Victor had been developed as part of the United Kingdom's airborne nuclear deterrent. In 1968, it was retired from the nuclear mission following the discovery of fatigue cracks, which had been exacerbated by the RAF's adoption of a low-altitude flight profile to avoid interception.
A number of Victors were modified for strategic reconnaissance, using a combination of radar, cameras, and other sensors. As the nuclear deterrence mission was given to the Royal Navy's submarine-launched Polaris missiles in 1969, a large V-bomber fleet could not be justified. Consequently, many of the surviving Victors were converted into aerial refuelling tankers. During the Falklands War, Victor tankers were used in the airborne logistics operation to repeatedly refuel Vulcan bombers on their way to and from the Black Buck raids.
The Victor was the last of the V-bombers to be retired, the final aircraft being removed from service on 15 October 1993. In its refuelling role, it was replaced by the Vickers VC10 and the Lockheed Tristar.
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"They're called thestrals, people avoid them because. they're a bit... different."
The Scene:
• hair - doux - paty (out now at Tres Chic)
• coat - tetra - klee anorak jacket
• hat - kore - zaira's hat (coming soon to Wizarding Faire!)
• fire- lulub- lux (coming soon to Wizarding Faire!)
• thestrals - hopscotch - spooky horse (coming soon to Wizarding Faire!)
Wizarding Faire opens July 23rd at 12pm and runs until August 6th for you to come get all your wizarding world bits and bobs, and explore the amazing world created at the Mischief Managed sim. ♥
Hi, to all!! ^-^
I want to announce several sections in my blog, the reason. Avoid massive uploading on Flickr (because of its limited photographs) Comment to us, that all those photographs that are deleted from my Flickr, you can find them in my blog.
By the way, I want to thank all my followers and friends for their continued support. I love your comments and encouragement. Millions of thanks to each of you. Also thank my designers for the opportunity to grow together every day.
I hope you enjoy my news. :P
A strong embrace to each and every one of you!! ❤.❤ XoXO
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Hola, a todos!! ^-^
Quiero anunciaros varias secciones en mi Blog, el motivo. Evitar la carga masiva en Flickr (por su limitación de fotografías) Comentaros, que todas aquellas fotografías que sean borradas de mi Flickr, podeis encontrarlas en mi blog.
Ya de paso, quiero agradeceros a todos mis seguidores y amigos el continuo apoyo. Adoro vuestro comentarios y animos. Millones de gracias a cada uno de vosotros. También agradecer a mis diseñadores la oportunidad de crecer juntos cada día.
Espero que disfruteis de mis novedades. :P
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Yesterday was the first Kingsday, when King Willem-Alexander, Queen Maxima and the 3 princesses, Amalia, Arianne and Alexia came to visit our city. I chose to avoid the crowds and watch the whole ceremony on TV. This shot from the Wolwevershaven was from back in 2012 when the water levels was so high and we had some flooding in the harbour areas
This tributary crossing serves as a significant landmark leading to the side trails of Rich Falls, Big Falls and Dome Falls. On this day, my objective was to reach Rich Falls. According to the research info I had, the trail should have been 10 to 15 minutes past this crossing on the left. Well...I walked 10 to 15 minutes and didn't see a trail. I kept going. As a matter of fact, I kept going to a place on the trail where I could hear Big Falls raging and "raising a ruckus" like you wouldn't believe in the gorge below. I turned around to backtrack hoping to see the trail and instead ended back up at the tributary again with no results. Knowing full well how dangerous the descents down into the gorge are after this point and to avoid attempting a bushwhack (let wisdom prevail), so I headed back across the tributary. Not long afterwards I encountered Charlie, an experienced hiker on the trail who was on his way to Big Falls. I explained about not being able to locate either trailhead, and he obliged to lead me right to where the trail to Rich Falls began. We ultimately reached the trailhead, about 30 minutes after the tributary crossing which was rarely used and was hidden underneath the fallen leaves. Charlie spoke about some of the steep sections of the trail, and I thanked him for the info and assured him I would be fine after I had started. After sharing some friendly parting words, he headed off towards Big Falls and I headed down the trail to my destination.
To avoid predators a lot of caterpillars rely on camourflage, but some, like this Grey Dagger Moth caterpillar, advertise warning signs. Apart from the obvious dagger, by its striking red and yellow colouration it also signals it's poisonous to eat. This one appeared on a blackthorn bush in my garden, one of its host plants.
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Finally got chance to get out with my camera this morning for the first time in what feels like months (well, a month and a half if you're counting...). I was going to head to Blea Tarn, but given the weather, I thought I'd avoid that particular road so stuck with old favourite Ullswater
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