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Clue de Chasteuil is a very scenic drive located in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France. It’s one of the famous French balcony roads.Driving on this narrow road between walls of cliffs and gorges is a delight.
The road to the clue, a place where the river breaks through a band of limestone and is pushed into a short canyon, is called Route Departementale D952 and links the villages of Castellane and Palud-sur-Verdon. The surface of the road, with the Verdon river sparkling deep below in the canyon, is asphalted. There are not many roads like this in Europe, if you can handle the height and the prospect of a very long freefall this road absolutely has to be on the list of any road connoisseur. The journey offers superb views. It’s definitely worth it. A drive not to be missed! Don't forget your camera with lots of film/memory, fully charged batteries and an empty memory card! But to make photostops is almost impossible here.
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A tiny bird that overflows with energy, the Ruby-crowned Kinglet (Regulus calendula) seems to forage almost frantically through lower branches of shrubs and trees. Its habit of constantly flicking its wings is a key identification clue. Outside of hummingbirds, Kinglets are the smallest of Northern American birds. This plain green-gray bird has a white eyering and a white bar on the wing. The male’s brilliant ruby crown patch usually stays hidden. Your best chance to see it is to find an excited male singing in spring or summer. The Ruby-crowned Kinglet lays a very large clutch of eggs. There can be up to 12 in a single nest. Although the eggs themselves weigh only about a fiftieth of an ounce, an entire clutch can weigh as much as the female herself. Metabolic studies on Ruby-crowned Kinglets suggest that these tiny birds use only about 10 calories per day.
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Built for Round 4 of the 2014 MocOlympics.
Category: Bored game: It’s raining outside, the power is out, and the battery died on your devise. Looking for something to do, you happen across a cupboard full of board games. Build a MOC showing us which one you would choose to play.
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I have no clue on what to title this shot. Overcast and late in the day near Barview, Or. CoosBay area.
I loved the Arkham games. Well, most of them. I don't know what was with that tank. Nonetheless, those odd clues left by the Riddler, and this piece? Well, I'm not the only one right...
This tiny hexagonal snowflake is beautiful with its geometry, but if you look a little closer, you’ll find some elusive clues to how bubbles form inside of a snowflake. This little gem is one I have been searching for, because it tells so very much about snowflake formation!
There are two primary ways that bubbles can form in a snowflake: one, simply put, is that the center part of an outgrowing crystal facet grows slower than the edges, creating a “cavity” inside. If environmental variables change for more rapid growth, this is sealed off into a bubble. This is how I always understood bubbles to form, but there is another way… and this alternative method explains a great deal.
Snowflakes will grow with thinner sections of their plates, often appearing somewhat “wrinkled” with waves of different thickness. We see that just outside of the center here. These areas actually “fill in” as the snowflake grows. Well after the footprint of the snowflake has grown beyond these features, they continue to evolve and grow. With a physics model that I cannot explain on a molecular level, during this internal thickening, bubbles will form just below the surface.
I have an idea how this might happen. If the “valleys” of the thin section of the snowflake increase thickness to the same profile as the rest of the crystal, the outer edge can become more like a canyon wall than a river bed. That near-90-degree angle might change things. If you have a sharp angle, water molecules might be more inclined to attach to that point, and potentially grow out as a “ceiling” over top of the canyon below. This would trap air inside, forming bubbles. Because these bubbles would be very thin and very close to the surface of the snowflake, it could evoke the colours we sometimes see due to thin film optical interference.
And moreover, this can happen multiple times, in “waves” or “layers”! On the left and upper right, just beyond the existing “ceiling” growth, we see bubbles already trapped in the layer of ice underneath it. This “canyon wall” concept could also potentially explain how small speckles of bubbles form, as the majority of a thinner layer would fill in until only a few pockets remain, that get covered over. If you have a keen eye, in the lower left, you can see some bubbles forming in the remaining valleys as they are being filled in.
Shot with a Lumix S1R and the Canon MP-E 65mm F/2.8 1x-5x macro lens, focus stacked and shot entirely handheld. Such moments are fleeting, and when a snowflake like this presents itself I need to act quickly. All images were shot in the span of a minute, and for a subject only 1mm in diameter, there is a treasure trove of discovery. It’s the reason I still head out and photograph snowflakes at every opportunity!
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For Macro Mondays - Printed Word.
Some of the clues for the cryptic crossword in this morning's newspaper.
Happy Macro Monday!
A group of passengers from ATW's 1W18 1510 Swansea to Chester gather by the information board at Crewe to check their onward connections. One lady already has the gen.
8th September 2017
Colonel Mustard
With a pistol
In the library
I grew up playing board games. Checkers, Parcheesi, Monopoly, Easy Money, Chinese Checkers, Sorry, Mousetrap BattleShip, Stratego, Chess. Then Later on came Clue, Facts In Five, Scrabble, Trivial Pursuit, Bonkers, Yahtzee, and a lot more that escape my mind right now. Just good old fashioned fun that never got old or went out of style.