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Another scene from the Euryops daisy patch, where most of our action is now. At first glance, I thought I'd caught a mosquito, but something was missing...Seek indicated "non-biting midge", a different Dipteran for this Fly Day Friday. HFDF!
Its traditional to say it was colder than it looks at this point - which it was. The biting wind chill was terrible. Then 3 blokes walk past me in lyrca shorts. I give up. I must be doing something wrong.
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One of three zebra species, the plains zebra is the main species of the savannahs of eastern and southern Africa.
Various theories have been proposed as to why the zebra has evolved stripes. One argues that the multitude of stripes in a herd confuses predators. Another states that it allows the animal better thermoregulation.
It is now also recognised that bold stripes deter biting insects more effectively than plain coats. A hint perhaps for those visiting mosquito-infested lands !
From a Fujichrome Sensia slide.
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Clouds at various elevations stack themselves atop the softly glowing Henry Mountains, with the canyons of the Green River glowing with sunrise light in the foreground, Grandview Point, Canyonlands National Park, Utah.
Investigating troves of images from the past, I discovered this one, which brought me back instantly to one of the most memorable sunrises I can recall, mostly due to the fact that I don't get out with my brother very often, and he was foolhardy enough to come with me and experience the biting cold, wind and light. Hot coffee helped, but it was still a bit of a motivational issue to leave the shelter of the van.
Here's to family and no common sense!
Ce qui mord la lumière.
CURVATURES
Dans cette série minimaliste, les plantes tracent des lignes délicates entre ombre et lumière.
Leur présence discrète invite à ralentir, à observer les formes essentielles et à redécouvrir la poésie du vivant dans sa plus simple expression. Une pause visuelle où le naturel tend à l'abstraction
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I don't get up to watch a sunrise often, but there is a magic in watching the colors gradually come alive as the sun slowly peeks up over the mountain ridges.
It was freezing ( 20s) and a biting wind was blowing, but it was all worth it.
One of the clearest days we have seen there at 6000+ feet.
The misty stripe to the right is Fontana Lake.
Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Jenny Pansing Photos
Grizzly Bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) pair in an amorous state prior to breeding. There were periods of gentle contact intermixed with biting along the neck of the female. Interesting behaviour to observed.
This took place during a guided trip to the K'tzim-a-deen Grizzly Bear Sanctuary in the Khutzeymateen Inlet along the west coast north of Prince Rupert, British Columbia, Canada.
The inlet is about a 30 minute flight by float plane, north of Prince Rupert. The tour of 6 wildlife photographers (including myself) was 5 days long and run by Ocean Light II Adventures. We stayed at the entrance of the reserve in a 72 ft sail boat (Ocean Light II) and accessed the reserve daily in a 19 ft Zodiac and spent most of the day looking for grizzly bear activity.
Our guide was amazed at the number of times we encountered this mating behaviour. He indicated that it was quite unusual to see this many breeding encounters as the bears tended to be more secretive in his past experiences.
26 May, 2015.
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The leopard (Panthera padrus pardus) is a solitary animal of the bush and forest and is mainly nocturnal in habit, although it sometimes basks in the sun. It is an agile climber and frequently stores the remains of its kills in the branches of a tree. It feeds upon any animals it can overpower, from small rodents to waterbuck, but generally preys on the smaller and medium-sized antelopes and deers. Leopards are very stealthy and like to stalk close and run a relatively short distance after their prey. They kill through suffocation by grabbing their prey by the throat and biting down with their powerful jaws.
The beautiful Luluka, female Leopard, gave birth to a cub 2-3 months ago. They normally move their dens so as to keep other predators away from the cub. Luluka was seen holding her cub in her jaws and moving dens nearly 3 kms away. Photographed during a photography safari on an early morning game drive in the Maasai Mara Game Reserve, Kenya.
Black-shouldered Kite
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This is one of the few young Kites we've seen in nearly 12 months.
This time last year we had as many as 16 young Kites working over the paddocks.
The female had remained on nest through some of the worst of our Spring weather with biting cold days and torrential downpours.
This is the only one of the clutch to make it.
Now we wait to see if they return of another try.
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon (Orthorrhapha)
Infraorder Tabanomorpha
Family Tabanidae (Horse and Deer Flies)
May 20, 2021; Wakulla Station, Wakulla County, Florida.
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What will probably be Iain's and my last photo trip before Christmas took us to Torridon yesterday. A good call by Iain to head initially along Loch Maree was justified by some nice light on the snow-topped Slioch though a biting breeze required a long exposure to tame the water.
...it's a classic cheese burger, delicious, but small.
Very small actually...so small that I bit my index finger at the first bite.
To excuse my stupidity, I say I was very hungry and the smell was mouthwatering.
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon (Orthorrhapha)
Infraorder Tabanomorpha
Family Tabanidae (Horse and Deer Flies)
May 20, 2021; Woodville Station, Wakulla County, Florida.
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All mine. :)
Published by Finch Publishing, an imprint of Simon & Schuster.
It's available in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa at the moment. My publishers are looking to potentially open distribution deals with the UK and US, too. But that will come later (they're tight markets to pull from this little corner of the world!).
It can be purchased, as far as I know, from here, in the meantime.
It was only launched at the end of last month. It is based on my diaries. It has recently been endorsed by the Eating Disorders Foundation of Australia.
I am still a little sensitive about the title and cover. I chose neither.
This is Lindisfarne Castle on Holy Island just off the Northumberland Coast in the North East Of England. The sun was setting and it was cold with a biting wind. Holy Island (or Lindisfarne) is an island connected to the mainland by a causeway that you can drive over at low tide. At high tide it is an island.
I've only recently discovered this area at the northern end of Hayling Island, which includes what were oyster beds and the central access path was once the old railway line that lead from Havant to the island, and is now known as the Puffing Billy Trail.
Despite the biting wind from the north, I tried a few panning shots and it was very much hit and miss. But I got lucky here with two Grey Plover in company with a Knot behind.
North Hayling, Hampshire
3rd January 2026
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By Bellisima Benelli
poet Frederick George Scott
WINTER forests mutely standing
Naked on your bed of snow,
Wide your knotted arms expanding
To the biting winds that blow,
Nought ye heed of storm or stress,
Stubborn, silent, passionless.
Buried is each woodland treasure,
Gone the leaves and mossy rills,
Gone the birds that filled with pleasure
All the valleys and the hills;
Ye alone of all that host
Stand like soldiers at your post.
Grand old trees, the words ye mutter,
Nodding in the frosty wind,
Wake some thoughts I cannot utter,
But which haunt the heart and mind,
With a meaning, strange and deep,
As of visions seen in sleep.
Something in my inmost thinking
Tells me I am one with you,
For a subtle bond is linking
Nature's offspring through and through,
And your spirit like a flood
Stirs the pulses of my blood.
While I linger here and listen
To the crackling boughs above,
Hung with icicles that glisten
As if kindling into love,
Human heart and soul unite
With your majesty and might.
Horizontal, rich with glory,
Through the boughs the red sun's rays
Clothe you as some grand life-story
Robes an aged man with praise,
When, before his setting sun,
Men recount what he has done.
But the light is swiftly fading,
And the wind is icy cold,
And a mist the moon is shading,
Pallid in the western gold;
In the night-winds still ye nod,
Sentinels of Nature's God.
Now with laggard steps returning
To the world from whence I came,
Leave I all the great West burning
With the day that died in flame, .
And the stars, with silver ray,
Light me on my homeward way.
Frederick George Scott
This shoot was all about Big crazy WILD hair. Biting handcuffs, applying lipstick like a Rockstar and a little Bad Habit of smoking. Hope you all enjoy. I had fun doing it.