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The dark chanting goshawk (Melierax metabates) is a bird of prey in the family Accipitridae. The Amakhala Game Reserve, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
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An early morning visit to Jantar Mantar Protest area give indication of Day's preparation for protests in delhi
The chanter for the uilleann pipes has 8 tone holes and an open end, and can also include keyed holes for accidental notes. Unlike Scottish Highland pipes, it has a full chromatic range of two octaves.
I brought out some of my film camera's for this shoot to use as props. She was so funny, she kept asking Are these real? Do they really work?" Oh to be young and
innocent :-) OR just oh to be young ;-)
*This is my last upload of the Chantal series. I appreciate all your comments and feedback on the lighting! Thank you flickr friends :-)
This is almost certainly the Dark Chanting Goshawk and not the Pale variety - it would be easier to tell if we could see him from the back.
These guys wings are adapted for quick flying, often chasing prey through vegetation, with their long tail helping them maneuver quickly.
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They are chanting passages of the Buddha's teaching. The white thread symbolizes their unity in the Buddha's teachings. All Thai men serve as monks for a short time as a right of passage (this is also true in Laos, Burma, Cambodia and Sri Lanka.) A few go on to be monks for life if they feel so compelled. In the old days they learned to read and write during their time in the temple, thus giving peasants obvious advantages over mostly illiterate European peasants.
The monks from a local Thai temple in San Diego blessed the restaurant my wife used to work at for the New Year. The Thai used to change the year on April 13, but after WWII changed it to Jan. 1. They still celebrate new year the week of April 13, but the year does not change. This year will be 2551 of the Buddhist Era.
Mock advertisement with an image of myself as Chantal Thierry, a 1960s French secret agent from my "Absolutely Smashing" franchise.
1. Chantal Joffe, Face I,’ 2007, Oil on canvas, 25.4cm x 25.4cm. Private Collection, London
2. Chantal Joffe, Emily, 2009, Oil on canvas, 55cm x 46cm. Private Collection, London
'To Have a Voice', Mackintosh Museum at The Glasgow School of Art.
Group exhibition of figurative painting by Hernan Bas, Kaye Donachie, Moyna Flannigan, Chantal Joffe, Bruno Pacheco, Gideon Rubin and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
© Janet Wilson, 2012