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Delighted to announce my British Wildlife Photography Award 2015 - Animal Behaviour Category "Highly Commended" , Peregrine Pair- "Treading Carefully" Congrats to all the other winners, a few of my Facebook/Flickr friends too :-)
The image will feature in the book (Collection 6) and be part of the touring exhibition, starting at the Mall Galleries in London
I won't be able to make the presentation ceremony at the Mall Gallery London unfortunately...http://www.bwpawards.org/static/2015/winner-2015.html
Harvestman can often be colourful, they fluoresce under ultraviolet light, and they come in a bewildering variety of forms. They engage in parental care, building elaborate nests to brood their eggs and engage in battles to deter rivals and predators.
As if that weren't enough to stoke interest, some harvestman also possess a viscoelastic fluid used in prey capture. This means that fluid maintains its form under stress, resulting in an essentially highly flexible solid, and indeed, the greater the stress (movement caused by prey) the stronger the bonding. The adaptation is thought to have evolved in order to ensnare mobile, and evasive springtails.
Shot 'in situ' from Bilsa reserve, Ecuador.
More can be read here: www.newscientist.com/…/dn26340-zoologger-no-escape…/
A real joy to finally meet the pair of pine marten kits whose antics have been entertaining me via my trail camera footage.
One of those shots where you think did I get that, of course a quicker shutter speed and clean background would have been better but sometimes you get what you get with bird and wildlife photography.
I didn't put on before wasn't keen on photo but seeing a contacts pic with damsel buzzing female emperor I thought this is strange behaviour
This composite shows the male Nuthatch retrieving a seed it had previously hidden under the bark of a tree. White-breasted Nuthatches often store seeds and insects one at a time, under loose bark on their territory. They typically hide the food by covering it with a piece of bark, lichen or moss.
Santa Cruz county, Southern Arizona.
Gonna go back and change the other one to look like this.
It got so heavy when I tried to colour it.
COLOUR! With a U.
I think this is a Warbler, possibly an Audubon Warbler, getting at food on the underside of this rock formation.
Late in the day with the gulls feeding on midges. Unfortunately I didn't get any when they suddenly rise up open beaked into a swarm, next time perhaps.
They're at it again. I"m assuming the 2 scuffling hogs are males and the smaller one is a female.
Apologies for the clock, it should read 21:33
A pair of jackdaws kept coming to a nest box and dropping in lumps of dried mud. Eventually the chicks were on a thick layer of dried mud and the jackdaws could reach in the hole and get them.
Album Title: Exotic Behaviour
Model: 虹羚
Photographer: Edwin Setiawan
Place: 士林官邸
Date: 2009/07/12
Just about Photography: edwinsetiawan.wordpress.com
Edwin Setiawan Photography: www.edwinsetiawan.com
Posted two pictures in one day ... how shocking is that ?..lol...
I do look somewhat angelic here, but I am no angel, not at all...lol...
Happy New Year !
I think I'm coming out of the stupor mode...lol...
P.S. I'm tired of watermarking my images in the same way, so I'm injecting variety here and there... :O)
BTW - I was tagged (strange game going around Flickr) too, but I refused to cooperate... :O)
but I can provide few funny and not so funny facts about myself, just like Paul (ifido) did...lol..
Random facts about me
1. I have red hair and blue eyes.
2. I sleep late, very late, in fact I lead a bohemian lifestyle - it suits me (I'm a creative person...:O))
3. I love, love rain ! ........ and fog and blizzards and storms and lightning and thunder, but I'm terrified of tsunamis.... I'm worried we all going to be washed away one day here in Northern California. We all gonna die !
4. I don't like Vodka, Vodka doesn't love me too.
5. I sleep naked.
6. I can't swim.
7. I can write and really well, but I'm too lazy to finish books I've started writing about 13 years ago. One day I'll publish them all.
8. I love dogs and lions.
9. I don't trust a single politician because I spent long time working with them (for newspaper).
10. I do take a bazillion of different pills so I can fall asleep at night, which in turn leads to binge sleeping.
11. I get the best ideas for writing while I'm driving my car and listen to music.
12. I don't believe into stupid New Year resolutions, I'm not local :O)
13. I love meat, can't leave a single day without eating something or someone meaty. I was a predator in my previous life and probably still am.
14. English is not my native language, although I started learning it when I was 7 years old.
15. I hate rap, Janis Joplin and Yoko Ono, when she (the last one) sings, she sounds like a goat who is about to be slaughtered/sacrificed.
16. I love potatoes, meat, asparagus, prosciutto, carpaccio, beer and whiskey, also Pinot Noir and Porto wine.
17. Potatoes love me too. I'm not sure beer loves me back.
18. My husband still thinks I'm beautiful, although I'm not sure I am that beautiful.
19. Vegetarians frighten me (joking).
20. I've been married for long time (to one guy).
21. I hate dry weather.
22. I love spicy food.
23. I can shoot with a gun, but I don't own one (prob. is a good idea).
24. Bush is a worst American president in my lifetime.
25. Stalin was a monster.
26. Hitler too.
27. I would love to learn to fly an airplane, fight with a sword and ride a horse, but I don't want to learn to jump with a parachute.
28. I am allergic to school teachers.
More to come.... with my next portrait or something like that...