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Some very atmospheric and eerie misty conditions yesterday at Port Eynon Point on Gower. Not sure if the clouds would be classified as sea fog or a cloud inversion. If any experts out there could clarify I would be most grateful!
The beauty of the 50mm lens (and this AF-S Nikkor 50mm f/1.8G is a beautiful lens) is that it clarifies everything to a specific point of view. If you want to increase your field of view, you have to walk backwards. Or in this case you become part of the landscape itself. You can't zoom in, you just have to get in there among the wide grasses on the river bank. For me the highlight was capturing that green channel marker.
This Western Bluebird kept returning to feed its mirror image. Thanks to Bill Bouton for clarifying this territorial behavior. Next time I see this I will immediately cover the side mirrors. Sialia mexicana; Atascadero, CA
Imagine stepping onto the terrace of your caravan early in the morning and seeing this view.
You are surrounded by mountains covered in tropical forest, from which, in many places, wisps of mist rise. All around you, you hear the sounds of nature awakening: the singing of countless birds, mingled with the calls of various monkeys, and accompanied by the chirping of cicada.
It's truly something special to start a day in this atmosphere.
To clarify, I'd like to add that the title isn't entirely accurate. Actually, I didn't wake up on my own; my girlfriend woke me up, as Jerapa is much more of an early riser than I am (especially on vacation). I'm very glad she did that, because I would have missed this sight otherwise.
Stellt Euch vor, Ihr tretet früh morgens auf die Terrasse Eures Wohnwagens und Ihr habt diesen Anblick vor Augen.
Ihr seid umgeben von Bergen, die mit tropischem Wald bedeckt sind aus dem vielerorts Nebelschwaden empor steigen. Überall um Euch herum hört Ihr die Geräusche der erwachenden Natur, Das Singen von unzähligen Vögeln, gemischt mit den Rufen von verschiedenen Affen und untermalt von dem Zirpen der Zickaden.
Es ist schon etwas ganz besonderes, einen Tag in dieser Atmosphäre zu beginnen.
Zur Klarstellung möchte ich noch ergänzen, dass der Titel nicht ganz korrekt ist. Tatsächlich bin ich nicht von allein aufgewacht sondern meine Freundin hat mich geweckt, da Jerapa deutlich mehr ein Frühaufsteher ist, als ich es bin (vor allem im Urlaub). Ich bin sehr froh, dass sie das gemacht hat, da mir dieser Anblick sonst entgangen wäre.
Monarch butterflies lay their eggs only on one plant and that plant is milkweed (genus Asclepias). Unfortunately, milkweed often has a bad reputation. While awareness is rising around the importance of milkweed (as well as other native plants) for pollinators misconceptions need to be clarified. Because the fact is, planting the right species of milkweed for your area can be a huge help for monarchs and a number of other species.
Milkweed is a beautiful plant offering a habitat where monarchs lay their eggs. Milkweed is easy to grow and adds interest to the home garden.
The Cathedral of Seville is built on the old aljama mosque of the city, this shows the power that one culture exercises over another when it is conquered. This fact makes its plan different, facing Mecca and not Jerusalem, that is, facing south instead of east. It should be clarified that Mecca is oriented at 10o from Seville and not at 86o as the old mosque is oriented, this is due to the fact that in Al-Andalus the mosques had to be oriented towards the south quadrant and not towards the east, as the Christian churches did. When the Cathedral Chapter commissioned the design of the Gothic Cathedral, it stated verbatim that it wanted a Cathedral that everyone who saw it would take for crazy. For this, 5 naves were created that covered the 116 by 76 meter rectangle occupied by the Almohad mosque, this results, unlike what was usual in the great European Gothic Cathedrals, a hall plan with a Latin cross marked in height and in width by the central naves and the transept. This hall plan also results in the absence of an ambulatory at the head, which ends in a straight line like the wall of the old mosque. Later the Royal Chapel would be added, which is a Renaissance apse, but it does not really correspond to the Gothic company. In the naves of the Gospel and the Epistle, which are the lateral naves, there are many chapels. The 60 pillars support 68 ogive vaults, highlighting those of the transept and central nave with their star shapes. Instead of placing a clerestory, a continuous balcony was chosen along the main nave in order to be able to wander around the temple without being seen. Located in the central nave, in order from the feet, are the Retrochoir, the Choir, with two organs, the Transept, the Main Altar, the Back of Altar and the Royal Chapel.
The Ales stenar monument is located on a hill above the village of Kåseberga, east of Ystad, and is one of Sweden's most enigmatic sights. The significance of the facility has not yet been clearly clarified; There is much to suggest that it is a historical burial site, but there are also theories that Ales stenar represents an astronomical clock or a solar calendar. The latter is supported by the arrangement of the stones, which are positioned so that the sun sets in the northwest corner in summer and rises exactly in the opposite corner in winter.
The peony or paeony is a flowering plant in the genus Paeonia, the only genus in the family Paeoniaceae. Peonies are native to Asia, Europe and Western North America. Scientists differ on the number of species that can be distinguished, ranging from 25 to 40, although the current consensus is 33 known species. The relationships between the species need to be further clarified.
Most are herbaceous perennial plants 0.25–1 metre tall, but some are woody shrubs 0.25–3.5 metres tall. They have compound, deeply lobed leaves and large, often fragrant flowers, in colors ranging from purple and pink to red, white or yellow, in late spring and early summer. The flowers have a short blooming season, usually only 7–10 days.
Despite the fact the age of steam is long past, it is still common to speak of ships "steaming past". In the same way we refer to an earlier era when we say we are going "sailing" on a ship.
The motion blur on this photograph actually allows us to make a calculation of the speed of the "Spirit of Tasmania I" as it moves past us in the Mersey River. To clarify what I said yesterday, it is important to get everything else in sharp relief so that the only blur we see is the movement of the ship. So I've done some calculations.
The "Spirit of Tasmania I" is 194.33m long (637ft 7in). It is possible to see a single light that appears as a bar representing the distance travelled in the time of exposure. That's the simple formula. The one obvious example is the green light on the top starboard deck. [In the next photograph you will see that this is indeed a single point of green light.] My rough estimate is that this bar represents about 6m. Now given the exposure time here is 0.6 of a second, that equates to 10m per second or 36km/h (19.4 knots). From the river bank it looks even faster, but that speed sounds about right, as the ship slows to make its way into the narrow channel.
Fences
Some to separate
Pasture from pasture in order
To clarify the prairie,
Others to surround the farm,
Keeping the world
Out and the herd in.
Between the barbs designed
To bloom at intervals
Measuring the span of a hand,
Redwing blackbirds scolded
Both nations of grass
The fence divided.
The posts that stood
Where they’d been driven
Knee-deep in limestone
Had begun to lean
Like men forced to march
Into the wind.
And where oak saplings
Had had the audacity to grow,
They’d had no choice
But to swallow the wire,
Remembering via rings
The anniversary of that first summer
They sensed the wire tapping
Their bodies, then began,
Tentatively, to accept it,
To take it in, feeling
The wire grow taut
In the grip of their bark,
Until they began to believe
They needed it
In order to stand.
Austin Smith
Western Canada Road Trip, Section 8: Alberta
“There is one more thing: I may be interested in Oriental religions, etc. , but there can be no obscuring the essential difference—this personal communion with Christ at the center and heart of all reality, as a source of grace and life. “God is love” may perhaps be clarified if one says that “God is void” and if, in the void, one finds absolute indetermination and hence absolute freedom. (With freedom, the void becomes fullness and 0 = infinity.) All that is “interesting,” but none of it touches on the mystery of personality in God, and His personal love for me. Again, I am void too, and I have freedom, or am a kind of freedom, meaningless unless oriented to Him.”
-Thomas Merton (June 26, 1965) from A Year with Thomas Merton: Daily Meditations from His Journals
Fake pigs in my fake city
"URBAN SURREALISM" Vivid Art July 2020
#33 08/07/2020
I received a letter of protest from the Pigs for putting them in such a dirty place. But I explained to them that it was a sulreal image that I created to participate in a challenge by the Vivid Art group, so they allowed me to publish this image but to clarify that they were in a clean bog in Piauí. I apologize to the pigs and thank you for authorizing the use of this image made in October 2019 on a wonderful trip I took there. (I used Google Translate)
Recebi uma carta de protesto dos Porcos por colocá-los em um lugar tão sujo. Mas expliquei a eles que era uma imagem sulreal que eu criei para participar de um desafio do grupo Vivid Art, então eles permitiram que eu publicasse essa imagem mas que esclarecesse que eles estavam em um lamaçal limpo lá no Piauí. Peço desculpas aos porcos e agradeço por autorizarem o usa desta imagem feita em outubro de 2019 em uma viagem maravilhosa que fiz por lá.
Usei o Tradutor do Google
Image-editing
Effects - Texture - Collage
Double Exposure
Software: Pixlr; Windows Paint 3D; PicsArt Photo Studio
I thank everyone for their appreciation, comments and awards in the groups. Be well and safe my friend.
Urban Surrealism
Award Tree
Votei em 31/07/2020
Art Week Gallery Group
Creative Urban Art - 24/09/2020
To clarify some things:
- I made this to show myself and others that I'm still capable of making nice weapons in PMG.
- I'd like to apologize again for what I did and didn't.
- I know Jake likes this weapon.
- I probably won't be a full active member again, but I'll see what I can do. I really miss the community.
- Thanks for the positive feedback on the WIP.
Please leave a comment and note, and perhaps view the full size image.
Woitek
I rarely see Scaup ducks at the Esquimalt Lagoon. It is also a rather shy duck so, I was surprised to see it so close to the shore. I believe that the unusual cold weather in Victoria this Winter is impacting the behavior of some bird species. The Greater Scaup and the Lesser Scaup are very difficult to differentiate. The following website provides very useful information for comparison purpose.
birding.about.com/od/identifyingbirds/a/scaupidentificati...
Thanks to Gordon Hart who clarified for me the differences between the Greater Scaup and the Lesser Scaup. In this case, the narrow black "nail" on the bill, as well as the peaked head shape are indications that this is a Lesser Scaup. Gordon also indicated that the default for the Victoria area is the "Lesser Scaup" and not the Greater Scaup as I initially mentioned. Great Scaup can be found sometimes at Pat Bay.
The Constance is a rather newly converted boutique hotel in Constance Street, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane. It is a mural gallery with works on walls and framed on walls from many famous mural artists. The,link below contains further details.
Thanks to Andrew in Melbourne for clarifying that this is more likely to be by Rone.
Rouen (France) - Manifestation jeudi 19 Janvier contre le projet de réforme du gouvernement qui souhaite repousser l’âge du départ à la retraite. Le rassemblement des manifestants avant le départ du cortège est celui que je préfère pour photographier car les gens sont plus détendus. Et il est plus facile de travailler sur des éléments plus ou moins statiques. En marchant, on a plus de mal à travailler ses cadrages, d’où la nécessité de trop compter sur la chance et une part importante de déchets.
Sur la photo le manifestant dans la benne d’un camion, m’a expliqué qu’il avait des problèmes de garde d’enfant et qu’il avait été obligé d’emmener son fils avec lui car son institutrice était en grève. Il a aussi préciser que si la manifestation devait dégénérer -ce qui n’a pas été le cas-, il ne prendrait aucun risque et quitterait immédiatement les lieux.
Waiting for the procession to leave
Rouen (France) - Demonstration on Thursday January 19 against the government's reform project which wants to push back the official retirement age. The gathering of demonstrators before the departure of the procession is the one I prefer to photograph because people are more relaxed. And it is easier to work on more or less static elements. When walking, it is more difficult to work on your framing. We have to rely too much on luck, which generates a large amount of waste.
In the photo, the protester in the dumpster of a truck, explained to me that he had childcare problems and that he had been forced to take his son with him because his teacher was on strike. He also clarified that if the demonstration were to degenerate - which was not the case - he would not take any risks and would immediately leave the premises.
The Grove Photography Club
We meet every Saturday at 1130 AM SLT, Please join us.
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Club%20Road/130/193/34
36 Years ago, something happened that changed everything.
"The Berlin Wall was not one wall, but two. Measuring 155 kilometres (96 miles) long and four metres (13 feet) tall, these walls were separated by a heavily guarded, mined corridor of land known as the 'death strip'. It was under the constant surveillance of armed East German border guards who were authorised to shoot anyone attempting to escape into West Berlin. By 1989, the Wall was lined with 302 watchtowers
More than 100 people died trying to cross the Berlin Wall over the course of its 28-year history.
But the Wall was just one part of the larger 'inner German border' that separated East and West Germany, and hundreds more were killed trying to cross other fortified border points.
At a press conference on 9 November, East German spokesman Günter Schabowski announced that East Germans would be free to travel into West Germany, starting immediately. He failed to clarify that some regulations would remain in place. Western media inaccurately reported that the border had opened and crowds quickly gathered at checkpoints on both sides of the Wall. Passport checks were eventually abandoned and people crossed the border unrestricted. The political, economic and social impact of the fall of the Berlin Wall further weakened the already unstable East German government. Germany reunited on 3 October 1990, 11 months after the fall of the Berlin Wall."
Information borrowed from website below.
www.iwm.org.uk/history/what-was-the-berlin-wall-and-how-d....
A wall that kept people in, not allowing them to leave, was finally overcome by a mistake. Thank God. We need more peace.
ruminations on Harold Bloom's Genius
The question we need to put to any writer must be: does she or he augment our consciousness, and how is it done? I find this a rough but effectual test: however I have been entertained, has my awareness been intensified, my consciousness widened and clarified? If not, then I have encountered talent, not genius. What is best and oldest in myself has not been activated.
I would propose that the writer apply the "best and oldest in myself".
my textures with a touch of PicMonkey & Pixlr
The Cathedral of Seville is built on the old aljama mosque of the city, this shows the power that one culture exercises over another when it is conquered. This fact makes its plan different, facing Mecca and not Jerusalem, that is, facing south instead of east. It should be clarified that Mecca is oriented at 10o from Seville and not at 86o as the old mosque is oriented, this is due to the fact that in Al-Andalus the mosques had to be oriented towards the south quadrant and not towards the east, as the Christian churches did. When the Cathedral Chapter commissioned the design of the Gothic Cathedral, it stated verbatim that it wanted a Cathedral that everyone who saw it would take for crazy. For this, 5 naves were created that covered the 116 by 76 meter rectangle occupied by the Almohad mosque, this results, unlike what was usual in the great European Gothic Cathedrals, a hall plan with a Latin cross marked in height and in width by the central naves and the transept. This hall plan also results in the absence of an ambulatory at the head, which ends in a straight line like the wall of the old mosque. Later the Royal Chapel would be added, which is a Renaissance apse, but it does not really correspond to the Gothic company. In the naves of the Gospel and the Epistle, which are the lateral naves, there are many chapels. The 60 pillars support 68 ogive vaults, highlighting those of the transept and central nave with their star shapes. Instead of placing a clerestory, a continuous balcony was chosen along the main nave in order to be able to wander around the temple without being seen. Located in the central nave, in order from the feet, are the Retrochoir, the Choir, with two organs, the Transept, the Main Altar, the Back of Altar and the Royal Chapel.
In California in the early spring
there are pale yellow mornings
when the mist burns slowly into day,
the air stings like autumn,
clarifies like pain --
well, I have dreamed this coast myself.
~Robert Haas
Real People Series
Canon 6D camera Canon 70-200 L lens
All images my own
I am a bit late this morning and running far behind with my comments after a busy day yesterday, but I’ll get to everyone’s post. It’s cloudy here with a considerable amount of rain in the area, but little falling her. Even if it is cloudy and cold where you are at, I hope the sun comes to greet you today and brings a bit of warmth with it. If you don’t need the warmth, then I hope that it warms your spirits and lifts your mood. Take care and enjoy your day. Happy Wannabe Warmer Wednesday from this sunrise on Armand Bayou.
Also a footnote that I added that some were misled whether this was a sunrise or a sunset and so I added the fact that this was a sunrise after a number of people made their comments. Sorry for not clarifying things earlier.
Frost and no sunshine.
'frosty valley' On Black larger, but please wait for it to sharpen/clarify.
La Pipe : Pour clarifier le sujet... lol.
Bien sûr nous sommes toujours à St Claude
ine inegliche ...
Pipe: To clarify the subject ... lol.
Of course we are still in St Claude
Hello everyone!
This is my own version Clicker, and the inspiration has been taken from multiple photos of Clickers and zombies and all that stuff.
Before i get in to the detail I'll have to clarify that the pants look alot darker in person. So, the pants have been made out of clay, so were shirt, the fungus and the head.
This all has been painted by me.
Leave a comment and favorite and all that jazz.
The International Court of Justice has a twofold role.
First, it settles, in accordance with international law, legal disputes submitted to it by States. Such disputes may concern, in particular, land frontiers, maritime boundaries, territorial sovereignty, the non use of force, violation of international humanitarian law, non interference in the internal affairs of States, diplomatic relations, hostage taking, the right of asylum, nationality, guardianship, rights of passage and economic rights.
Second, the ICJ gives advisory opinions on legal questions referred to it by duly authorized United Nations organs and agencies. These opinions can clarify the ways in which such organizations may lawfully function, or strengthen their authority in relation to their member States.
The ICJ consists of 15 judges, all from different countries, who are elected for a period of nine years and can be re-elected. One third of the composition of the Court is renewed every three years. The President of the Court is elected by his peers every three years; the current President is Judge Ronny Abraham from France. The hearings of the ICJ are always public. French and English are the official languages of the Court
Still showing some of its "humbug" striping here's a photo of what I believe is a Little Grebe chick. It was taken on a visit to the Yorkshire Wildlife Park where its parents had seemingly made. a home on one of the lakes. If I have the type of grebe misidentified please feel free to clarify for me.
The first posted image of 2019. January 1.
After a string of very ornate work I thought it would be a refreshing thing to start the new year off with a straight out of the camera, pano-sabotage shot. There was no processing used other than standard tweaks to clarify and sharpen the image, take out excess white glare and bump up the saturation a bit.
The brightly coloured planes to the right of the image are not the result of filters or effects, post capture. The older buildings to the left are contrasted by another that is covered with long strips of highly irridescent metal that shift colour as you move around the structure. Hence the striking colour facets in the image to the right.
Pano-Sabotage, or more simply, "Pano", is a unique photographic practice that undermines, or sabotages the iPhone's camera Pano function. By deliberately moving the camera in a wide variety of motions OFF the guiding line that is meant to ensure a seamless panoramic image, the camera is "constantly trying to find North", as Tim Noonan once put it, and so is desperately trying to record what it sees as "up". The many "ups", tumbling against each other, is what results.
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In the late 19th century there was a lot of philosophical, spiritual and mathematic talk about the 4th dimension. This ferment of ideas, super potent and conceptually rich, made their way to one Pablo Picasso. The mathematical theories of Henri Poincaré, the poetic writings of Guillaume Appolinaire, two widely divergent thinkers, both influenced Picasso. He struggled with the ideas artistically, shutting himself away in the Bateau Lavoir until he gave birth to the painting that altered the course of Art, "Les Demoiselles D'Avignon". In it he finally realized how, on a 2 dimensional plane, to visually convey what a fourth dimensional image would show ... all angles of an object as seen simultaneously. The Analytical Cubist vision, then, asks the VERY potent question ... does anything, ultimately, have a defining, absolute shape ?
Albert Einstein, at the same time, also influenced by Poincaré, was asking strikingly similar questions about assumed absolutes, leading him, of course, to his theories of relativity.
Pano-Sabotage ( Pano ) seems to echo this view and offers, perhaps, through a new technology, another way to render, or at least strongly point to, the 4th dimension.
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© Richard S Warner ( Visionheart ) - 2018. All Rights Reserved. This image is not for use in any form without explicit, express, written permission.
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“The peony or paeony /ˈpiːəniː/ is a flowering plant in the genus Paeonia /piːˈoʊniːə/, the only genus in the family Paeoniaceae /piːˌoʊniːˈeɪsiːiː/. Peonies are native to Asia, Europe and Western North America. Scientists differ on the number of species that can be distinguished, ranging from 25 to 40, although the current consensus is 33 known species. The relationships between the species need to be further clarified.”
Edgar Bloom announced his decision on a Tuesday morning, shortly after breakfast, while the kettle was still warm.
“I am going to do nothing,” he said to no one in particular.
At first, it sounded like the sort of declaration people made before eventually doing something else. Edgar, however, meant it with the solemnity of a vow. He sat down in the armchair by the window, folded his hands, and waited for nothing to happen.
Nothing obliged.
From that day forward, Edgar committed himself to inaction with an almost athletic discipline. He did not work. He did not marry. He did not travel, protest, invent, create, improve, or regret. He allowed food to be placed near him and consumed it without preference. He slept when sleep arrived and woke when it left.
At first, people took note. Newspapers ran short items: “Local Man Chooses Nothing”. Philosophers wrote letters asking if he might clarify his position. Edgar did not reply. Children visited him on school trips. They stared, waiting for something interesting to occur. One child asked, “Is he finished yet?” A teacher said, “No, he’s still doing it.”
Old age came without ceremony. His body continued its private negotiations: bones thinned, breath shortened, skin folded itself patiently. Edgar made no comment.
On his final day, the light through the window lingered longer than usual. He lay still, listening to the smallest sounds: a clock ticking, the soft cut of wings passing overhead.
It was then he decided to speak. When a visitor asked him, gently, “Why?” Edgar considered this for a long moment, as though testing the weight of the word.
“I was afraid I’d choose the wrong path through life,” he said at last. “So I chose none.”
He paused. “And somehow,” he added, “it still took me exactly where I was meant to go.”
Mel loves a lot of things but one of his faves is 'tube-time' when we pull out the cat tube and pink feather wand for him to go nuts over. To be honest, I sometimes feel the same excitement for a decent beer :-)
Edit:
Ha ha, re-reading this description I laughed out loud and thought I should perhaps clarify that Mel is, in fact, a cat.
(He's the one in the pic actually :-)
Happy Monochrome Bokeh Thursday.
We couldn't make it to the lake this weekend as I was working and we had other in town activities. So I faked a lake photo using the mural painted on the shed in the park behind our house.
Aggie is still not a fan of solo walks, but she did great and only "pancaked" on the ground a couple of times and only once did she need me to carry her while walking to the shed. (to clarify I only need to carry her if she is freaked out and pancaked on a solo walk, but we have not yet hit our destination. It happens less frequently now than before). The shed is 500m from our house.
Kingsburg, Ca.
I got kind of lost in trying to sort out whether or not to use the word, "adolescents" rather than, "adolescence." I don't think they are homonyms, but, whether they are or not, it's interesting to ponder the difference as used in the title. Methinks this is a subject that some of my Flicker friends that possess greater intelligence than I do, will have to clarify.
For a great photograph, photo shooting time is as important as the quality of one's equipment ... Maybe even more ...
Great pictures in general call for great sacrifices on behalf of the photographer ... When the rising sun makes his first steady steps over the horizon, the photographer should already be at the desired place, his/her tripod should already be standing on its three feet and the camera's power switch should be set to ON ... That means in general less relaxing time ... Sometimes even no relaxing time at all ...
But why sunrise, why not sunset ???? Isn't it the same ? No my friends believe me it's not ... As Natalie Wolchover clarifies in her article "Do Sunrises Look Different from Sunsets ?" "... At sunset the sky is full of pollutants and wind-borne particles ... During the night, winds die down, smog-producing urban activity eases and the atmosphere cleanses itself. The dawn is clearer than any other time of day."
Also " ... At sunrise ... the night's darkness has left us with very acute night vision and every faint, minor change in the sky's color is evident." In short, you may perceive more colors at dawn than at dusk ... ... And your camera being an acute and technically flawless eye as well, encloses all those differences on its sensor ... The frame seen above was captured on November 2014 at Sidironero, Drama, a few kilometers away from the Greek Bulgarian borders ...
NIKON D90 DSLR with Nikon Nikkor 18 - 55 lens, Manual Mode, shutter speed 1/40s, ISO 200, f 8, focal length 18 mm, use of HOYA ND X 2 filter, cloudy weather white balance, center weighted average metering mode, HDR made by only one original RAW shot, no flash, use of tripod ...
The sea frog belongs to the family of true frogs (Ranidae). However, its exact distribution has not yet been conclusively clarified. They occur in a large part of Europe starting from western France and spreading out into the Middle East and about a quarter into Russia. There are also isolated populations in Saudi Arabia and the Russian Far East, along with some introduced populations in the United Kingdom and other places. The sea frog has a very close relationship with bodies of water. Even young animals only move a few meters away from the water. Sea frogs prefer larger, eutrophic bodies of water in the floodplain area, for example lakes, oxbow lakes, oxbow lakes, flood channels, calm river sections, brackish water, larger ponds and quarry ponds, sometimes also canals and wide ditches. This specimen was photographed through a glass pane of a terrarium at the Alpenzoos Innsbruck.
Der Seefrosch gehört zur Familie der Echten Frösche (Ranidae). Seine genaue Verbreitung ist jedoch noch nicht abschließend geklärt. Sie kommen in einem großen Teil Europas vor, beginnend in Westfrankreich, über den Nahen Osten und etwa ein Viertel Russlands. Es gibt auch isolierte Populationen in Saudi-Arabien und im Fernen Osten Russlands sowie einige eingeführte Populationen im Vereinigten Königreich und an anderen Orten. Der Seefrosch weist eine sehr enge Bindung an Gewässer auf. Selbst Jungtiere entfernen sich nur wenige Meter vom Gewässer. Seefrösche bevorzugen dabei größere, eutrophe Gewässer im Bereich der Flussauen, beispielsweise Seen, Altwässer, Altarme, Flutrinnen, ruhige Flussabschnitte, Bracks, größere Weiher und Baggerseen, manchmal auch Kanäle und breite Gräben. Dieses Exemplar wurde durch eine Glasscheibe eines Terrariums des Alpenzoos Innsbruck fotografiert.
Text from Wikipedia, modified and translated.
Four repainted UP SD70Ms lead LDG-88 east through Ellsworth on it's return trip to Salina. For fun, lets just imagine they're meeting an empty coal train here...but make no mistake, trains on the KP are slim pickins. What a shame too, this route has so many great spots.
By some miracle, the sun popped out here. This may be surprising looking at the shot. So let me clarify; it was clear to the south...it was clear to the west...it was clear to the north...heck it was clear above our damn heads! But you wanna know where it wasn't clear? Right in front of the damn sun...why?!?!?!?! It truly never ceases to amaze me what circumstances can arise to screw you.
What would have made the cloud screwing extra painful is that we had already dumped a lot of time and energy into this train for very little payout up to this point. We left Pueblo late on the promise of 3 repainted UP SD70Ms and an 0800 crew. Jerry Reed's East Bound and Down will forever be etched into my memory when looking at this photo, as we drove through eastern Colorado and Kansas at the dead of night running on Twizzlers and Red Bull.
We tied up, got a few hours of sleep, and awoke at 0700 to a message..."Train has left"...WTF! Time to try and play catchup...we walked away with something but damn...this was supposed to be so so much better. Outside of the CoPac, the trains were quite rude. At this point, unbeknownst to us at the time, we were going to end the trip exactly the same way it started...the symmetry would be beautiful if it were not at our expense.
My entry for the Group Build-off for the Cyberpunk Design Group, my take on the Stirling, I hope it's still vaguely recognizable.
Oh and the mag is like a sideways P90, for some reason whenever someone does a straight one (Hongooi springs to mind, damn I miss his stuff) it's accepted, but when a curved version is done some people freak out, so thought I'd just clarify.
"Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. But I believe this interpretive dance might help clarify a few things."
These ferns caught my eye I liked the way they caught the sunshine. Had a play in Topaz B&W and Clarify to produce this for Sliders Sunday.
Red flag is high hazard meaning high surf and/or strong currents. (full moon time)
The beach warning flag program uses the colors adopted by the International Lifesaving Federation, with symbols added to clarify the meaning of the flags. The program also includes the placement of interpretive signs along the beach to explain the meaning each flag used in the warning system.
www.volusia.org/services/public-protection/beach-safety/b...
Bubbles~
I really wanted to take a picture in Knot & Co’s little venue area because its really preciously decorated. There’s just something really light and happy about the place. We’re on our 3rd week now, have you guys been by to take a look?
I also wanted to clarify a little bit about some questions the organizers have been getting about the way Knot & Co. works. There’s been a few people asking about why the venue space looks a little empty, are people not set up? That’s not the case at all :D New items are being added into Knot & Co. constantly every Saturday - like this adorable hair from BarberYumYum & eyebags from Knot&Co. Cosmestics - but items released the previous weeks are all found in the back room. This approach is meant to let the event space grow organically as well as give an incentive for you guys to keep coming back.
So if the back room looks a little empty? Don’t fret! Totally meant to be; it’ll constantly be filled up with adorable fun summer goodies till end September!
BTW I’m an ambassador for Knot & Co. which is just a really fancy way to say that I endorse the event itself and will be around to answer any questions that you guys may have about it. But I do want to tip a hat to the main organizers for the event, Maririn Noel & Sallie Takao who have worked tirelessly to bring this adorable venue to you guys! Thank you to the two of you!
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Knot & Co.
Jun 3rd - Sep 30th
I hasten to clarify that this photo is an image of a rufous screech owl that has been mirrored, so it isn't a true representation of the owl, but it made me laugh!
I must clarify that the mystery is in my mind. The fact is that I am not certain why these dhows are perched on the sand bar in Sur as they are quite far away from the sea.
I would guess that they are waiting to be used. We saw dhows in Sur being built, in the water, or waiting to go into the water. Much of the damage from the tropical storm which hit this area very hard a few years ago has been cleared away.
One might conclude that Sur is filled with dhows which is not the case. It is also a sleepy little beach town where Omanis can go for a beach holiday. Enjoy the sea views today as tomorrow we are off to the desert and the sand dunes.
A reminder that all of my images are copyrighted and are not for your use in any way unless you contact me. Thank you so much for your visits and comments. Each one is appreciated and thank you for letting me sail right past 4.5 million views.
The Mystery of the Cigua de Constanza / Roufus Collared Sparrow
Zonotrichia capensis, or Cigua de Constanza is actually an Emberizid Sparrow, also called American Sparrows, and resembling the Old World or the Sparrows of the Old World.
The name of the genus Zonotrichia refers to the fringes or black areas that it has on its head. (Zonee: fringe, Trichia: hair-feathers for the case-). the name of species capensis, that probably is based on a writing error. because the suffix "ensis" means "that lives in" and is usually awarded to scientific names to indicate the location where a species was sighted or described for the first time. Ex: Buteo jamaicensis or Guaraguao / Red-tailed Hawk, which was described for the first time in Jamaica despite living in almost all of America.
Thus, capensis is a Latinization of the place where the bird sighting and its subsequent description was made. This name is used to designate species associated with the Cape of Good Hope in Africa and by becoming very creative we might think that it is associated with Cape Horn, where this species also lives. apparently it has been a confusion: "capensis" should have been "cayensis" making an allusion to the city of Cayenne, capital of French Guiana in South America; place referred to in the description of this species. Probably when writing the original texts, a "p" slipped in the place of a "and".
And the Mystery where is it? Well, precisely because this species that lives so far away is found only in some parts of the Central Cordillera of the Dominican Republic and nowhere else in the West Indies.
SOurce: Pedro Genaro.
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A MYSTERY OF THE HEIGHTS !!! As you explain the mystery that this species is of extensive distribution in Central America and South America, however in the Antilles it does NOT exist in Cuba, neither Jamaica nor Puerto Rico and only inhabits our Hispaniola Island and in a specific place that is the Central Mountain Range , for which reason it is called "Ciguita de Constanza".
And it said that it is a mystery of the heights because it is only found in high elevations above 900 meters, up to heights of 2400 meters above sea level.
The great thing of the case and to make it more difficult to clarify the mystery is that she is in our country since 1916, when the ornithologist W.L. Abbott sent a specimen of the species to the Smithsonian Institute of Washington D.C and for the first time confirmed the presence of Zonotrichia capensis in our country.
Its existence was a great surprise and to this day there is still no adequate explanation of the reason why it lives on our island and not in the other islands of the Caribbean.
It was known that the ciguita nested on this island due to the presence of young subjects, but it was not until May 1973 when a first nest was found.
Although it had only been found in the Cordillera Central, in the municipality of constanza, for what is called "Ciguita de Constanza", later Annabelle Stockton de Dod documented its presence in the Sierra de Neyba.
Anyway, why? and how this species came to our Island and not to Puerto Rico, Cuba or Jamaica is a Mystery.
source: Cimarron Mayor (MD.Jose M.Pantaleon
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Passeriformes
Family:Passerellidae
Genus:Zonotrichia
Species:Z. capensis
Binomial name
Zonotrichia capensis
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The Siq (Arabic: السيق, transliterated al-Sīq, transcribed as-Sīq,[a] literally 'the Shaft') is the main entrance to the ancient Nabatean city of Petra in southern Jordan. Also known as Siqit, the main entrance in Petra is a dim, narrow gorge (in some points no more than 3 metres (10 ft) wide) winds its way approximately 1.2 kilometres (0.75 mi) and ends at Petra's most elaborate ruin, Al Khazneh (the Treasury). A wide valley outside leading to the Siq is known as the Bab as-Sīq (Gateway to the Siq).
Unlike slot canyons like Antelope Canyon, which are directly shaped by water, the Siq is a natural geological fault split apart by tectonic forces; only later was it worn smooth by water. The walls that enclose the Siq stand between 91–182 metres (299–597 ft) in height.]
The entrance to the Siq contains a huge dam, reconstructed in 1963 and again in 1991, designed to bar the mouth of the Siq and reroute the waters of Wadi Musa. The dam is a fairly true reconstruction of what the Nabataeans did to control Wadi Musa between the 1st century BC and the beginning of the 1st century AD. The entrance also contains the remnants of a monumental arch, of which only the two abutments and some hewn stones of the arch itself have survived. The arch collapsed in 1896 following an earthquake, but its appearance is known from the lithographs of Matthew Boulby and David Roberts.
The Siq was used as the grand caravan entrance into Petra. Along both walls of the fissure are a number of votive niches containing baetyli, which suggest that the Siq was sacred to the Nabatean people. In 1998, a group of statues were uncovered when digging was conducted to lower the road by more than six feet. Although the upper part is greatly eroded, it is still possible to recognise the figures of two merchants, each leading two camels. The figures are almost twice lifesize.
Along the Siq are some underground chambers, the function of which has not yet been clarified. The possibility that they were tombs has been excluded, and archaeologists find it difficult to believe that they were dwellings. The majority consensus is that they housed the guards that defended the main entrance to Petra.
Today's image was taken early this evening in the Canley area of Coventry. The view is of the moon rising over the trees at the edge of Prior Deram park.
The photo was taken using the app Cortex Camera on my iPhone 6.
First I used the app Lightroom mobile to edit the picture. I cropped and straightened the image. I then applied the Dynamic colour preset along with adding some Clarity, Noise Reduction and a little bit of the Dehaze feature. Next I used the app Mextures to apply the formula called The Home, by Justin Johnston. Finally I used PhotoToaster to add the Clarify preset, the Vibrant FX and a medium dark vignette. I then added the Canvas texture and the Charcoal frame.
In an attempt to stabilize the Roman Empire after the crisis of the third century, the Emperor Diocletian imposed a new Imperial office structure: a four co-emperor ruling plan called The Tetrarchy. The famous porphyry statue of the Four Tetrarchs represents the interdependence of the four rulers. It was taken from Constantinople, during the Fourth Crusade in 1204, and set into the south-west corner of the basilica at the level of the Piazza San Marco. Part of the missing foot of one of the figures was discovered in Istanbul (near the Bodrum Mosque) in the 1960s, where it is still on display, clarifying the original location of the work. (Wikipedia)