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So today I chose to wear stockings to keep my legs warm and a jacket, when it warms up later I will take it off :)
A bit more stand-up paddle board (SUP) action from Compton Bay, Isle of Wight, on a gloriously sunny and warm spring evening last week.
Deliberately shot into the sun for a silhouette and maximum shimmering sea, and then edited up into a Vertorama, and finished off using some flypaper textures to complete the style i was looking for when I visualised the image.
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Attended the inaugural Brick Assembly: Bricks in the Six this past weekend in Toronto.
Had a blast seeing awesome builds, hanging with outstanding humans and discovering the city together. Received some stellar swag (and a trophy 😁), picked up some great finds and bucket list items.
Highly recommend taking part in the future!
Thanks for the good times BITS!
Bit of fun with a recent template from my monthly mag
For those interested October Issue of Digital Photo
January's king tides and a storm drove quite a bit of driftwood onto the beach. It's the most I've seen in ten months. Some, like this one, are large sections of tree trunks.
Of all the big driftwood I've encountered, this is the only piece that has been relentlessly tunneled by marine organisms. To judge by the dense layer of barnacles on the larger end, the trunk drifted in the ocean for a long time before the tide left it stranded on the sand.
It's not inconceivable that the wood made the passage across the wide Pacific from Japan.
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This discovery called for an explanation. What turned this tree trunk into so much cellulose Swiss cheese? The answer is "a bivalve mollusc in the family Teredinidae: a group of saltwater clams with long, soft, naked bodies."
How do shipworms accomplish this feat? Here are the mechanics:
"There are many different types of shipworms, the largest of which is up to 2 metres long. The worm has a head with two shells (they do the damage), and a wormlike body that follows behind…
They invade wood while in the tiny larval stage…The shipworm uses the shell on its head to burrow. Their ridged and rough surfaces rub the wood away as the worm first turns its head one way then the other. This cuts away a perfectly circular tube that is just a bit larger than the shell itself. The worm then eats the wood it has cut away, turning the cellulose in the wood into glucose that it uses for energy. The wormlike body follows behind the shell, producing a substance like chalk to line the burrow…The worm gets its oxygen from water. It draws the water in then passes it out again through through two tubes on its tail called siphons. These stick out from the opening of the burrow but can be pulled in and the burrow closed by special small plates called pallets. These seal the tube so tightly that shipworms can survive when the timber is temporarily out of water."
asknature.org/strategy/head-bores-through-wood/
Wikipedia says:
They are notorious for boring into (and commonly eventually destroying) wood that is immersed in sea water, including such structures as wooden piers, docks and ships; they drill passages by means of a pair of very small shells borne at one end, with which they rasp their way through. Sometimes called "termites of the sea", they also are known as "Teredo worms" or simply Teredo, from the Greek τερηδών teredōn, via Latin. Eventually biologists adopted the common name Teredo as the name for the best-known genus.
Removed from its burrow, the fully grown teredo ranges from several centimetres to about a metre in length, depending on the species. The body is cylindrical, slender, naked and superficially vermiform, meaning "worm-shaped". In spite of their slender, worm-like forms, shipworms possess the characteristic morphology of bivalves. The ctinidia lie mainly within the branchial siphon, through which the animal pumps the water that passes over the gills.
The two siphons are very long and protrude from the posterior end of the animal. Where they leave the end of the main part of the body, the siphons pass between a pair of calcareous plates called pallets. If the animal is alarmed, it withdraws the siphons and the pallets protectively block the opening of the tunnel.
The pallets are not to be confused with the two valves of the main shell, which are at the anterior end of the animal. Because they are the organs that the animal applies to boring its tunnel, they generally are located at the tunnel's end.
They are borne on the slightly thickened, muscular anterior end of the cylindrical body and they are roughly triangular in shape and markedly concave on their interior surfaces.
The outer surfaces are convex and in most species are deeply sculpted into sharp grinding surfaces with which the animals bore their way through the wood or similar medium in which they live and feed.
The valves of shipworms are separated and the aperture of the mantle lies between them. The small "foot" (correspond-ing to the foot of a clam) can protrude through the aperture.
The shipworm lives in waters with oceanic salinity. Accordingly, it is rare in the brackish Baltic Sea, where wooden shipwrecks are preserved for much longer than in the oceans.[1]
The range of various species has changed over time based on human activity. Many waters in developed countries that had been plagued by shipworms were cleared of them by pollution from the Industrial Revolution and the modern era; as environmental regulation led to cleaner waters, shipworms have returned.[2] Climate change has also changed the range of species; some once found only in warmer and more salty waters like the Caribbean have established habitats in the Mediterranean.[2]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shipworms
Ocean Park, Washington.
Seri sonu
aşk nasıl biterse öyle bitti bu aşk da
Uzun bir hastalık gibi
Aralıksız dinlediğim alaturka bir fasıl gibi
Gökyüzüne bakmayı, dostlara mektup yazmayı
Çiçekleri sulamayı unutmuşluğum gibi
Bitti.
Bir aşk nasıl biterse öyle bitti bu aşk da
Yürümeyi yeniden öğrenen felçli bir çocuk gibi
Sokağa çıkmalıyım şimdi ve çoktandır
İhmal ettiğim dostlara yeni bir adres bırakmalıyım
Pencereleri açmalı, kitapları düzenlemeliyim
Belki bir yağmur yağar akşama doğru
Yarıda bıraktığım şiirleri tamamlarım
Aşk da bitti diyordu ya bir şair
Aşk bitti işte tam da öyle
AHMET TELLİ
Arkadaşlar seriyi zevkle ve merakla takip ettiğiniz için ve güzel yorumlarınız için hepinize teşekkurler
A bit of a first for me here, a shot taken, processed & uploaded all on the same day.
I took an afternoon walk along the creek near home, first time in a few months, and was pleased to see plenty of birds and quite a few with young ones too. I am thinking this is a juvenile rainbow lori, it did not seem able to fly and climbed up the branches if I got a bit too close.
Bit of a strange framing I know ... what do you think?
C'est un peu bizarre le cadrage, je le sais bien ... qu'en pensez-vous ?
A detail of San Marco from my quick walk through #Venice in November last year (which already feels like 50 years ago).
Playing around with light, macro lens, flashlight, and kitchen colander. Inspired by Suus.... thanks for your appreciation, Gail
As the sun rose over glacial peaks near Jokulsarlon lagoon, I groggily grabbed my gear and crossed the black sand and a narrow bridge to arrive on the ice-strewn shore. As brilliant orange-red light struck the countless chunks of glacier, I knew that I would never again see something so uniquely beautiful.
This is the first of several photos I will be posting from my trip to Iceland back in May; these and many more are available in print as part of my project "Eilifur: Eternal Iceland"! If you are interested in purchasing limited edition prints or a copy of the full photo book, please notify me via Private Message.
I love to visit the woodlands in Autumn, the colours are wonderful life transitioning as the leaves fall and die creating some beautiful colours and scenes, then there are the fungi. Nature in all its unbeatable glory.
The "two bits" I know are mining industry's diamond drill bit lower left and oil patch's tri-cone bit upper right. Can anyone identify any of the rest of these shiny beauties?
Leduc No. 1 Energy Discovery Centre is a history-and-science-and-technology museum awaaay out in the countryside of Alberta. The 1947 discovery was the first hole drilled into western Canada's conventional oil fields. Seven decades of Canadian petroleum industry contributed to this world-class facility and its collections. Great educational stop for schools and well-stocked naturalist gift shop for kids of all ages.
Everything and anything related to the Alberta Oil Patch are inside and outside but the place needs flickrites with big bags of lenses instead of me and my point-n-shoot.
Leduc No. 1 drillhole
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leduc_No._1
particulars of the discovery centre are here
With a bit of clag, GBRF 66736 powers over the level crossing at St Germains with 6S45. This is on Saturday 27th May 2017 in a brief spell of sunshine at 1251. 66736 is working the Blyth - Fort William loaded Alumina train ( Alcans )
Bit of a play on words here ... ☺
Wonder what chive honey tastes like ?
Thank you very much everyone for the favourites and lovely comments ... ☺
Especially for my German Flickr friends!
Just click the link to hear Der Bitburger Song:
www.youtube.com/watch?gl=DE&hl=de&v=IqsljZxtuuk&a...
The company slogan is, "Bitte ein Bit." This is literally, "Please, a Bit," or "a Bit, please." In the 1970s a second slogan was introduced, "Abends Bit, morgens fit" ("Bit in the evening, fit in the morning") implying that the consumption wouldn't lead to a hangover. During that time either of the slogans could be found on Bitburger glasses. [...]
Bitburger is a 4.8% abv Pilsner with annual sales of 1.2 million hectolitres. The popularity of Bitburger extends beyond the local area of Bitburg. Although Germans generally prefer local breweries, it is a popular beer throughout Western Germany, and is favored in many areas of North Rhine Westphalia over even Alt beer or Kölsch, which are popular in Düsseldorf and Köln.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitburger
Prost!
Have a great week and thanks for visiting.
bit of Barry the monkey fan art for my pals over at Rumpus Animation Studios - www.rumpusanimation.com/
there's a bit of a story behind this one, so bear with me ... recently on a fun-filled flickrwalk to yosemite, we were all lined up on a bridge waiting for the clouds to clear so we could get some images of the evening sun on the face of half dome ... the clouds never cleared but i kept looking over to yosemite falls and kept thinking something was so familiar about it ... i finally walked over to the parking lot and started looking thru the viewfinder and took a couple of shots of the upper falls just for the heck of it ... all the way home i was still trying to figure out just why i bothered with this shot ... the composition isn't the greatest, and in some ways it's kinda blah, and it's been bugging me ...
the other day a cousin called me and we talked for awhile and got talking about an aunt and uncle we used to visit, and it hit me!! ... the room i stayed in when i visited them had a picture almost just like this on the wall next to the bed i used to sleep in when visiting them ... i would fall asleep staring at in, almost hearing the roar of the falls ... so, here is the image with a bit of textures and some orton tossed about here and there to represent that picture my uncle took with his old folding camera ... thanks for the memories unc!
It's Woodpecker Wednesday. To mix things up just a bit, I'll try to limit Acorn Woodpeckers to every third week. I don't want you to get tired of a favorite bird of my, both in beauty and behaviorally.
The Red-breasted Sapsucker is native to my home range. (Yes, I have a range: it's about 300 yards in any direction if walking, 12 miles if driving, and I refuse to fly anymore until I have leg room. Oh, how I envy the Acorn Woodpecker!) The red-breasted sapsucker (Sphyrapicus ruber) is a medium-sized woodpecker of the forests of the west coast of North America. I can tell you that if you want to see one, find a forest of redwoods or, better, a wooded area with mixed species of trees. The sapsucker has definite preferences: Mt. Diablo is not one of them. I found this one outside the town of Copperopolis in the Sierra Foothills.
The red-breasted sapsucker, the red-naped sapsucker (Sphyrapicus nuchalis) and the yellow-bellied sapsucker (Sphyrapicus varius) were formerly treated as a single species, the yellow-bellied sapsucker. The red-breasted and red-naped sapsuckers interbreed where their ranges overlap.[8] Sapsuckers are in the Picidae, or woodpecker, family, in the order Piciformes.
These birds make various noises; their vocalizations include a variety of chatter, squeals, and scream-like calls, and they also drum with their bills on various surfaces. Many of these noises serve to establish territory and attract a mate. This is in addition to the noise made by drilling holes for feeding and by excavating nest cavities. Not all woodpeckers peck on something other than wood to call for a mate or announce their territory. I came upon an Acorn Woodpecker that had found a water pipe to his liking, but he got no results until he switched to a metal drain pipe on a home. I can tell you right now; you do not want to live in that house. The sound can travel, especially in the gullies around a mountain, for up to three miles.
Red-breasted sapsuckers breed from southeast Alaska and British Columbia south through the Pacific Coast Ranges of western Washington and Oregon and northern California. The breeding habitat is usually forest that includes pine, hemlock, Douglas-fir, fir, and spruce, though they are known to use other woodland habitats. They prefer old-growth forest. They require living trees to provide the sap on which they feed.
It would be great if I could find woodpeckers whenever I want, but other than the Nuttall's here, they are not plentiful. I don't know why - there doesn't always have to be a "why" - but when I'm walking in the woods up by Redwood National Forest, or bird trees in southern Utah, and mixed wooded areas in Sequoia, NP, when I hear a woodpecker, I have to stop. I have to look and try to find the bird. Such is not the same when I hear a wren or a robin or other songbird. I don't know what it is, but I love the rhythmic drumming of a woodpecker. With most species, there are at least two or three types of drumming and I find them fascinating. I do wonder if they use the drumming with echos in forests for a specific reason. Btw, if the drumming is fairly regular, it may very well be a sapsucker that circles the trunk of a tree to get sap flowing, and then covers its tracks again so to speak to get the "sweet nectar." They also will eat bark beetles and other destructive insects, so if you ever see one, enjoy it with your eyes and ears. If I see one more kid with a slingshot ("arrested" by a park ranger while the parent stood by), I'd be happy to give my lecture and a thousand hours of cleaning up after people on the Pacific Rim Trail.
I could not find Copperopolis on the Flickr map. It's off Route 4 coming in toward Yosemite. I chose another town in Gold Country that is on the map, and still ended up with Rawhide which I've never heard of before. Copperopolis is just south of Gold Country and southeast of Groveland which you will find once you're in the area. Hopefully you'll find the three species of woodpeckers that I did when we spent a week in Copperopolis (no room at the Inn at Yosemite so to speak).
Sorry, I'm pretty much always MIA now. But don't think I've stopped taking pictures; I actually shoot all the time and just don't upload. This is a habit I'm trying to break.
I've graduated from high school and am actually on a road trip with my family at the moment. We're driving all through the South, driving across Texas, through Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, South Carolina, and later on we'll be in North Carolina. It's really amazing to see so much of the country at once and to see all the different kinds of landscaping and people that cover the various states.
This is a beach that is located in a state park in South Carolina. It was the most hauntingly beautiful beach I've ever seen. I spent the whole 3+ hours taking pictures and then looking for shells and sharks teeth.
I found seven.
I cropped the main quite a bit so you could see more of the detail, but view here anyway.
Hopefully it's not too pixelated.
+1 in comments.
