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Cockscomb flowers are also known as Wool Flowers or Brain Celosia, suggestive of a highly colored brain. The flowers belong to the amaranth family, Amaranthaceae. Cockscomb blooms with a compacted crested head 2-5 inches across, on leafy stems that are 12-28 inches long. The flower's name is suggestive of a rooster's comb. The Cockscomb flower blooms from late summer through late fall. The Celosia plant is an annual
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The cock fighting culture in SE Asia is fascinating. Male dominated obsessions in which houses and life savings are won and lost. Doping and skulduggery is apparently rife, Lance Armstrong may not be running the most sophisticated doping program after all.
About the Breed
The merry and frolicsome Cocker Spaniel, with his big, dreamy eyes and impish personality, is one of the world's best-loved breeds. They were developed as hunting dogs, but Cockers gained their wide popularity as all-around companions. Those big, dark eyes; that sweet expression; those long, lush ears that practically demand to be touched'no wonder the Cocker spent years as America's most popular breed. The Cocker is the AKC's smallest sporting spaniel, standing about 14 to 15 inches. The coat comes in enough colors and patterns to please any taste. The well-balanced body is sturdy and solid, and these quick, durable gundogs move with a smooth, easy gait. Cockers are eager playmates for kids and are easily trained as companions and athletes. They are big enough to be sporty, but compact enough to be portable. A Cocker in full coat rewards extra grooming time by being the prettiest dog on the block. These energetic sporting dogs love playtime and brisk walks.
About the Breed
The merry and frolicsome Cocker Spaniel, with his big, dreamy eyes and impish personality, is one of the world's best-loved breeds. They were developed as hunting dogs, but Cockers gained their wide popularity as all-around companions. Those big, dark eyes; that sweet expression; those long, lush ears that practically demand to be touched'no wonder the Cocker spent years as America's most popular breed. The Cocker is the AKC's smallest sporting spaniel, standing about 14 to 15 inches. The coat comes in enough colors and patterns to please any taste. The well-balanced body is sturdy and solid, and these quick, durable gundogs move with a smooth, easy gait. Cockers are eager playmates for kids and are easily trained as companions and athletes. They are big enough to be sporty, but compact enough to be portable. A Cocker in full coat rewards extra grooming time by being the prettiest dog on the block. These energetic sporting dogs love playtime and brisk walks.
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The birds stamp their feet and cock their heads in an uncanny imitation of boxers before a match. They can have their eyes pecked out by a more vigorous adversary. They can be impaled through the brain with one of the plastic spikes that are affixed to the foot of every fighting bird. Or, if a lung is punctured, the end may come in slow, raspy gasps.If you put two roosters together, they will fight,But if you put a thousand hens together, they will never fight. The roosters have this in them.”What does that tell you?
But in the Dominican Republic, cockfighting is celebrated as a symbol of the country’s warrior spirit. Nearly every neighborhood and country village has a gallera, or cockfighting arena, and the sport is legal and regulated.
There are 1,500 galleras registered with the country’s National Commission of Cockfighting, and the industry employs thousands of people,The roosters begin their day at around 10 a.m., when they are weighed and matched with an opponent, then placed in numbered cages. Next a licensed rooster inspector dressed in white scrubs, uses an acid rinse that change colors when illegal substances are present on the birds’ skin. Overzealous owners sometimes rub tobacco or other chemicals on the roosters, which they believe makes them fight harder, While a helper holds each rooster’s legs, Then a inspector rubs the rinse into the neck feathers, then wipes the head and beak.By the time the roosters reach the ring they have spent an average of two years preparing for the fight, Their underbellies are shaved and their combs and wattles are surgically removed. Many were hatched from hens with a record of mothering good fighting birds. They are fed a diet of special grains, vitamins and antibiotics. The feathers are trimmed just so by professional groomers.
Cockfighting is especially popular in the countryside,in the Dominican Republic “They play baseball, they play stickball, and they have cockfights,” On Sundays, the women go to church, and the men go to the cockfight.”I will never forget the time when my friends and I were leaving a fight one time in Thailand as we were out in
the parking lot, as the buzzer signaled the start of another fight, a stray dog weaving between cars had something in its mouth.
It was the head of a fallen rooster.
Good evening everyone!
Check out me sucking on a ………….
……….no no wait.
Actually – I will mail a t-shirt to the person who can correctly ascertain what the fuck is in my mouth. Do not doubt me – a t-shirt is yours if you can figure it out.
First correct comment wins. Do not doubt me people.
I mean – it’s hard to see. I dodged and burned the fuck out of unnamed object for it to be more received as a cigarette or some other cool object.
Not a cigarette.
And no cock jokes you assholes. Fuck you all! Ha-ha.
Has anyone noticed my new section on my signature in which I am beginning to proclaim an album of the day? No one cares? Fuck you all – again. (giggle)
I’m decent at photography. I’m pretty good at writing. But my music tastes probably surpass both of these formally mentioned hobbies.
I remember when I was in my 20’s. I would meet a girl by whatever means and eventually bring her by my “pad”. I’d always try to woo her with my music knowledge and kickass CD collection.
I swear to god I have the “mix tape” (when I was a teenager) and the “mix cd” (until present day) to thank for me scoring at least a couple of chicks. I’d bust out this badass mix and personalize it for them and they’d swoon for more.
Works every time!!
The key guys (and I mean my fellow males) is to change it up. The songs on the mix I mean. Decades, genre’s, slow, fast, etc. Change it up, like sex sort of?
Me so slick.
The shot at hand? Pimp running out of time for a shot of the day. I was tired as shit and didn’t feel like going outside to lay down on the fucking ground yet again. So I went into my bathroom and sucked on unseen object for all of you.
Yummy.
Location: in my bathroom; Alameda, California
Taken: August 17th, 2009
Posted: August 23rd, 2009
Album of the Day: Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix by Phoenix
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Cock fight :O
Un antico rituale di combattimento (non cruento) fra galli, nel villaggio dei Cacciatori di Teste. Dalle parti del fiume Batang Ai, Borneo.
Unione di due scatti, mano libera, con teleobbiettivo.
Buona giornata
Royal Air Force No.43 'Fighting Cocks' Squadron Panavia Tornado F.3 ZE887/GF on the flight line at the 2008 Biggin Hill 'Air Fair'
Introduced as the ADV (Air Defence Version) of the original MRCA (Multi-Role Combat Aircraft) concept that became the Tornado, these specialised F.3 variants serviced our QRA and front-line fighter squadrons out of Leuchars in Scotland, Coningsby in Lincolnshire and Leeming in North Yorkshire until the advent of the Typhoon which superceded the type
Coningsby also hosted the F.2/F.3 OCU No.229
Retired from use in 2011, the F.3 fleet were processed and 'parted out' through BAE's Leeming facility to help keep the GR.4 fleet flying
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Prized cock in Ngarchelong state, Republic of Palau.
Camera: Olympus XA
Lens: F-Zuiko 35mm f/2.8
Film: Fujifilm Superia X-TRA 400
Developer: The Darkroom, San Clemente, CA
large old large format camera made before the First War. Fitted with a custom made back for modern film. How does something like this survive for 103 years and still function like new?!
* Focal plane shutter speeds from 1/10 to 1/1000 sec.
* Bausch & Lomb Zeiss Tessar made in the USA in 1911. No shutter - straight thru'
* Single Lens Reflex with moving mirror ( same as modern SLR ) - screen showing right way up image on top, viewed through shielded "chimney".
* Mirror is cocked which frees the shutter to be wound to the correct speed. When mirror is cocked no light can reach film plane, meaning a film adapter can be used without having to use a slide between exposures. A very rapid rate of fire can be achieved.
This is a thoroughly modern camera, built like a tank that will probably be working on its 200th. birthday.