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Mallard Duck
The Mallard or Wild Duck is a Dabbling Duck which breeds throughout the temperate and subtropical Americas, Europe, Asia, and North Africa, and has been introduced to New Zealand, Australia, Peru, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, the Falkland Islands and South Africa. This duck belongs to the subfamily Anatinae of the waterfowl family Anatidae.
The male birds (drakes) have a glossy green head and are grey on wings and belly, while the females have mainly brown-speckled plumage. Mallards live in wetlands, eat water plants and small animals, and are gregarious. This species is the ancestor of most breeds of domestic ducks.
Dabbling around trying to learn Photoshop and/or Paint Shop tonight - even with help from a million tutorials I find it bloody hard going! This wasn't what I set out to do at all but it's my first go so hope to get my head round them eventually!
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Slow going this Summer, hope I have something to show by October! A nice collection or something. Art for art's sake will end up looking bollocks though, so I'll take it as it comes.
When I first started dabbling in RenderMan a few years ago, I began by converting LEGO Digital Designer files, with the idea that I could tackle LDraw later. Now that LDD is discontinued, someone else has written l2rib that can do the job of converting LDraw to RenderMan, but I thought it would be fun to add the capability to my program since I'm already so far into this.
This modular street scene shows what I've accomplished so far: the LDraw geometry extracts correctly and I've got most of the material types rendering properly, including subsurface scattering for the opaque colours. There's even a glow-in-the-dark ghost in this scene. (I still need to do glitter and speckle materials, and do a pass for colour correctness.) I support scene files that let you automatically attach lights to, say, "all round 1x1 bricks in transparent yellow", which made lighting the night time scene easy.
I've yet to smooth out the curved surfaces in a way that I like. I tried subdivision surfaces and they look lovely for some bricks but not others. This render enables subdivision surfaces for the bricks that work properly, which are most of them. When I have time, I think I'll add smoothed normals for the bricks that don't work with subdivision.
I downloaded some lovely HDRI images from HDRIHaven.com to light the scenes and provide backdrops. They're an excellent and free resource and I highly recommend their Patreon.
Each of these images took 2-4h to render on my 16 core machine. I haven't made serious attempts to optimize yet because I'm mostly enjoying playing with the look. This is how I relax after work. :)
At UT I dabbled in metal casting and fabrication. For my final I had this idea for a one-man grill. It is kind of lonely but with a sense of humor, something close to independence. The Steak Grill is made of steel and based on measurements from what was a delicious steak. It was some of the most fun I have had working on a school project and I have wanted to get back into a metal shop like that ever since.
The best part is it works. I guess you could only do one side of a T-bone but a couple dogs and a burger is perfect. The Steak Grill has had a few homes over the years and was trapped in a busted car trunk for a while.
Now that the grill is preserved in pictures I would like to try to get the rust off, or at least keep it from getting worse. Even if it was clean I am not sure how to keep it that way and still be able to eat off of it.
The Steak Grill won me an “A” and I have the pictures so maybe it is time for it to retire to rust somewhere permanent with the base buried like it sprouted out of the ground.
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Here is a photo taken by my nephew (12 years old) and that I edited. I like how the light meters below is playing off the inside of this light house.
Herman's Pond, Rancho San Rafael, Reno, Washoe Co, Nevada (July 22nd, 2013). 9. Large county park in NW Reno.
Male in eclipse plumage dabbling with Gadwalls and coots in the waterweed just off shore. Note the bright yellow bill and the flecks of green on the side of the head.
There are always a few tame Mallards at Herman's Pond.
More Mallard photos--
www.flickr.com/photos/fugl/albums/72157602221544709
More head/neck closeups—
One of the most rare ducks in the world! Photographed at Zealandia, Karori Sanctuary, Wellington, New Zealand.
Family: Anatidae (Dabbling ducks)
Status: endangered endemic
Brown teal is one of three closely related species of teal in New Zealand. The other two being the flightless subantarctic Auckland teal and Campbell Island teal.
Once common throughout New Zealand, habitat destruction, especially swamp drainage and predation, have resulted in brown teal becoming one of our most nationally endangered species of waterfowl. Approximately 1300 birds were surviving nationwide in 1999making it one of the rarest ducks in the world!
Most birds are to be found on Great Barrier Island. There are a few brown teal on Kapiti, Mana, and Tiritiri Matangi Islands, the eastern side of Northland and a new population has recently been established in the Coromandel area. Brown teal are regularly present at the Waikanae Estuary, probably part of the Kapiti Island population.
In the South Island, a few birds survive in Fiordland.
Recognition: About half the size of the common mallard duck, brown teal stand 48cm tall and weigh just over half a kilo as an adult. The male is slightly larger than the female. Brown teal have a warm brown plumage, with dark-brown mottling on the breast. Breeding males have a glossy green head, a narrow white collar, broad green and narrow white bands on the wings and a white flank patch. A distinctive feature of all brown teal is their blue-black bill and the narrow white ring around the eye. Their eyes are brown. Males give a soft whistle, and the female a low quack and growl.
Brown teal are often referred to as bush ducks, since they prefer stream and bushland habitats. They are reluctant flyers and are shallow divers, dabbling just below the surface for food. Their favourite food is invertebrates and they mainly feed in the evening or at night.
Breeding: Most brown teal breed from June to October but are able to breed at almost any time of the year.
They begin breeding at about 2 years of age and can lay clutches of up to 8 eggs. • Brown teal build a bowl-shaped nest near water, under the cover of dense tussocks or ferns, constructed with grasses lined with down. The female incubates the eggs about 30 days while the drake guards the nest - they are strongly territorial during breeding. Chicks fledge at an age of about 2 months. Brown teal pairs generally have stable relationships. The oldest known teal in the wild lived over 6 years.
Brown teal at Karori Sanctuary. 18 brown teal were initially released in 2000 and 2001. Breeding started from late 2002 and good productivity has resulted in increased competition for preferred wetland habitats and, because these habitats are limited in the Sanctuary, losses have occurred as a result.
Supplementary feeding of maize has been largely discontinued since early 2006 to reduce productivity and competition for territories.
Genetic analysis of the population in 2006-2007 should clarify whether or not there has been a loss of genetic diversity and whether additional birds need to be released into the population in future.
Active monitoring over the breeding season was ceased in 200x due to the fact that the population is self-sustaining.
Brown teal are readily seen on the lower and upper lakes. Being forest dwellers as well as water dwellers, some are being regularly seen at the kaka feeders below the upper dam at dusk and also at the southern end of the Faultline Track. The brown teal’s omnivorous diet, restricted annual range and mainly terrestrial lifestyle give it a unique ecological niche among waterfowl, somewhat akin to a wetland rodent, and it serves as a classic example of the influence of selective forces that operated on birds in pre-human New Zealand.
Cupcakes I made for Ana's birthday (ana works at Dabble). Ana loves bugs. Although there are a couple of flowers too.
I’ve been dabbling with other metals then silver lately, trying to force myself into thinking of new creative approaches and this is the first piece emerging.
From a copper sheet I sawed out two circles and hammered them heavily. I really like the hammered effect so I gave the discs quite a rough time before I was happy. The hammering makes the metal’s edges rise and I decided to keep them like that and I also made sure to hammer the edges so the circles weren’t perfectly round anymore, but slightly wavy. (Something my dear husband, the ever lasting perfectionist immediately pointed out. LOL) I paired the discs with a tassel of lovely polished drops of rich, dark red Garnet and a few equally rich, dark red faceted rondelles of Garnet. Lastly I wrapped them to sterling silver chain that ends in my handmade hook style clasp.
I oxidised the whole piece and gave it only a gentle polish.
Female. "Northern shovelers feed by dabbling for plant food, often by swinging their bill from side to side and using the bill to strain food from the water. They use their highly specialized bill (from which their name is derived) to forage for aquatic invertebrates – a carnivorous diet. Their wide-flat bill is equipped with well-developed lamellae – small, comb-like structures on the edge of the bill that act like sieves (much like baleen in a whale), allowing the birds to skim crustaceans and plankton from the water's surface.-- Wikipedia
Muskegon County, Michigan, USA.
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As I've said before, Fate is one of those series that I've collected for a while now and is still relevant in the world. While the plus side is that this means new stuff gets released as the property expands, it also means that people don't liquidate their "irrelevant" stuff as easily and thus the addition of moderately to cheap priced figures is a slow process.
But hey, the struggle adds to the sweet taste of victory and besides I dabble in so many things it's not like I get bored.
Gilgamesh is a character that was introduced in the Fate/Grand Order online rpg game which of course I've never played - I was personally introduced to this character in the Fate/Extella game, which I played on the Vita during its initial release. Based on the ancient Babylonian King of the same name, he calls himself the "King of Heroes" though I was sure I read "King of Kings" in the video game.
Final Fantasy players may also find the name familiar as he was one of the optional bosses that wielded a variety of weapons, including Excalibur, and could be used as a summon.
While I'm not super knowledgeable about this character, I'm pretty sure that in the world of Fate, this guy is probably one of the biggest douchebags around, which automatically perks my interest. The character design is also quite nice, being a blonde guy wearing golden armour that reminds me a lot of the suit that a fully decked out Arthur does in Super Ghouls and Ghosts.
Finally, this version of Gilgamesh (Archer class servant in Fate/Grand Order and prior, and I think Caster in the newest game) uses the Noble Phantasm Gate of Babylon, which summons a crap ton of pointy weapons that fly at his opponent, similar to that of Archer in Fate/Stay Night.
Whilst scanning through Kijiji one day in July, I think it was, I came across this used figure for a decent price (slightly less than MSRP) and decided to take the plunge.
I'm not sure if it was because of the character, or because it was number 300, but the box is definitely fancier than the typical Figma release, featuring an additional outer flap fastened with some velcro.
The set comes the main figure, Ea (the lance weapon), 6 addition hands, two addition expression plates (3 in total being neutral with eyes left, smirking, and a WTF face). Furthermore, you'll notice the additional naked torso with non-spiked hair, which apparently allows you to replicate his third ascension appear... whatever that means. Three additional sets of hands for exclusive use with this naked torso are included, along with a weighted metal chain. Finally, there is an extra part to use that allows for a cross armed look.
Definitely more pieces than your typical Figma.
Lets start with the typical full armoured body.
Not that I own a whole lot of them, but the armour on Gilgamesh is probably the most complicated I've seen on any figure of that size - even the Varia suit on the Metroid Prime 3 Figma doesn't come close.
In addition to your expected points of articulation (made possible due the various pieces of the armour being separate pieces) there are joints on effectively all the pieces of the outfit that are around the waist, which allows for some nice dynamic posing, and for the lower body articulation of the figure to be actually utilized.
Speaking of posing, it's my experience that you're probably going to want to use the stand with this one.. I couldn't for the life of me get Gilgamesh to stand straight on his own.
Face plates are well done and definitely replicate the look of the character quite well.
QC on painting, molding and detailing are top notch. Nitpicky point at this juncture would be that this is the first time I've seen something on a final product that was missing from the prototype - the joints on the waist are not painted gold, just of gold plastic.. wear and tear issue, yes I know, but would have looked fantastic.
Swapping out of parts is generally easy though, as I learned from Black Widow, keep an eye on any loose parts that come off the thing because there are quite a few of them.
The third ascension torso is a nice addition, and maybe for those that played the game it would have more meaning, but for me the jointing and segmenting system kind of kill the look for me. But for those who care for it, the detailing on the torso is again nicely done, and opens up more display options for owners. Also, to their credit, a fully articulated torso is a hell of a lot more expensive to make than a fixed torso, so kudos to GSC for including it to give the set that much more of a luxurious feel.
I was excited to finally open up and review this figure, and I was not disappointed. Everything about this figure screams high quality and is probably the most complicated Figma I own. I'm kind of kicking myself for not telling my brother to pick me up the Jeanne d'Arc while he was in Japan. While it would have been nice to do a compare and contrast on the outfits, I've got bills to pay and life to live.
All hail the King of Heroes!
see here for tutorial
mewithmyheadintheclouds.blogspot.co.uk/p/painted-circles-...
and here for further inspiration
In September, 2012, I went to Jamaica to take photos for Dabble Magazine.
Well, today, on this snowy, cold day ( at least in Montreal! ), the issue is live!
Here is the link -
One of the most rare ducks in the world! Photographed at Zealandia, Karori Sanctuary, Wellington, New Zealand.
Family: Anatidae (Dabbling ducks)
Status: endangered endemic
Brown teal is one of three closely related species of teal in New Zealand. The other two being the flightless subantarctic Auckland teal and Campbell Island teal.
Once common throughout New Zealand, habitat destruction, especially swamp drainage and predation, have resulted in brown teal becoming one of our most nationally endangered species of waterfowl. Approximately 1300 birds were surviving nationwide in 1999making it one of the rarest ducks in the world!
Most birds are to be found on Great Barrier Island. There are a few brown teal on Kapiti, Mana, and Tiritiri Matangi Islands, the eastern side of Northland and a new population has recently been established in the Coromandel area. Brown teal are regularly present at the Waikanae Estuary, probably part of the Kapiti Island population.
In the South Island, a few birds survive in Fiordland.
Recognition: About half the size of the common mallard duck, brown teal stand 48cm tall and weigh just over half a kilo as an adult. The male is slightly larger than the female. Brown teal have a warm brown plumage, with dark-brown mottling on the breast. Breeding males have a glossy green head, a narrow white collar, broad green and narrow white bands on the wings and a white flank patch. A distinctive feature of all brown teal is their blue-black bill and the narrow white ring around the eye. Their eyes are brown. Males give a soft whistle, and the female a low quack and growl.
Brown teal are often referred to as bush ducks, since they prefer stream and bushland habitats. They are reluctant flyers and are shallow divers, dabbling just below the surface for food. Their favourite food is invertebrates and they mainly feed in the evening or at night.
Breeding: Most brown teal breed from June to October but are able to breed at almost any time of the year.
They begin breeding at about 2 years of age and can lay clutches of up to 8 eggs. • Brown teal build a bowl-shaped nest near water, under the cover of dense tussocks or ferns, constructed with grasses lined with down. The female incubates the eggs about 30 days while the drake guards the nest - they are strongly territorial during breeding. Chicks fledge at an age of about 2 months. Brown teal pairs generally have stable relationships. The oldest known teal in the wild lived over 6 years.
Brown teal at Karori Sanctuary. 18 brown teal were initially released in 2000 and 2001. Breeding started from late 2002 and good productivity has resulted in increased competition for preferred wetland habitats and, because these habitats are limited in the Sanctuary, losses have occurred as a result.
Supplementary feeding of maize has been largely discontinued since early 2006 to reduce productivity and competition for territories.
Genetic analysis of the population in 2006-2007 should clarify whether or not there has been a loss of genetic diversity and whether additional birds need to be released into the population in future.
Active monitoring over the breeding season was ceased in 200x due to the fact that the population is self-sustaining.
Brown teal are readily seen on the lower and upper lakes. Being forest dwellers as well as water dwellers, some are being regularly seen at the kaka feeders below the upper dam at dusk and also at the southern end of the Faultline Track. The brown teal’s omnivorous diet, restricted annual range and mainly terrestrial lifestyle give it a unique ecological niche among waterfowl, somewhat akin to a wetland rodent, and it serves as a classic example of the influence of selective forces that operated on birds in pre-human New Zealand.
Dabbling a bit with textures, my intent was to create a more painterly effect on this image. I posted a different variation of this a while back, but I kinda like the linear motion in this one.
Wow, feels like a Sunday evening to me as I just arrive back home after a rockin weekend in San Diego. So, here's to an awesome week! I'll leave you with this quote:
"No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow." - Lon Yutang
I dabbled in commercial photography in my youth. It all started with web design; if the client needed photos, I was happy to provide them. In this case, I had built a website for a school clothing outlet and we needed images for the site. So friend poppy enlisted the help of her girl scout troop to help us with the project. The owner gave them some uniforms, and we took them to a playground in the city. Although I had no true ambitions to be a commercial photographer, it was fun to try.
This image was shot in 35mm film using a Canon Rebel and the negative was scanned.
Early Spring as small shallow wetland open large numbers of dabbling duck and geese species can be seen in the open shallow wetlands. Huron Wetland Management District in east Central South Dakota. Photo: Sandra Uecker\USFWS
Carson Nature Center, Platte River Park, Littleton, Arapahoe County, Colorado. A dabbling duck dabbling on the shore
At UT I dabbled in metal casting and fabrication. For my final I had this idea for a one-man grill. It is kind of lonely but with a sense of humor, something close to independence. The Steak Grill is made of steel and based on measurements from what was a delicious steak. It was some of the most fun I have had working on a school project and I have wanted to get back into a metal shop like that ever since.
The best part is it works. I guess you could only do one side of a T-bone but a couple dogs and a burger is perfect. The Steak Grill has had a few homes over the years and was trapped in a busted car trunk for a while.
Now that the grill is preserved in pictures I would like to try to get the rust off, or at least keep it from getting worse. Even if it was clean I am not sure how to keep it that way and still be able to eat off of it.
The Steak Grill won me an “A” and I have the pictures so maybe it is time for it to retire to rust somewhere permanent with the base buried like it sprouted out of the ground.
For more photos and videos by Mark Lewis visit mlewisphotovideo.com
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One of the most rare ducks in the world! Photographed at Zealandia, Karori Sanctuary, Wellington, New Zealand.
Family: Anatidae (Dabbling ducks)
Status: endangered endemic
Brown teal is one of three closely related species of teal in New Zealand. The other two being the flightless subantarctic Auckland teal and Campbell Island teal.
Once common throughout New Zealand, habitat destruction, especially swamp drainage and predation, have resulted in brown teal becoming one of our most nationally endangered species of waterfowl. Approximately 1300 birds were surviving nationwide in 1999making it one of the rarest ducks in the world!
Most birds are to be found on Great Barrier Island. There are a few brown teal on Kapiti, Mana, and Tiritiri Matangi Islands, the eastern side of Northland and a new population has recently been established in the Coromandel area. Brown teal are regularly present at the Waikanae Estuary, probably part of the Kapiti Island population.
In the South Island, a few birds survive in Fiordland.
Recognition: About half the size of the common mallard duck, brown teal stand 48cm tall and weigh just over half a kilo as an adult. The male is slightly larger than the female. Brown teal have a warm brown plumage, with dark-brown mottling on the breast. Breeding males have a glossy green head, a narrow white collar, broad green and narrow white bands on the wings and a white flank patch. A distinctive feature of all brown teal is their blue-black bill and the narrow white ring around the eye. Their eyes are brown. Males give a soft whistle, and the female a low quack and growl.
Brown teal are often referred to as bush ducks, since they prefer stream and bushland habitats. They are reluctant flyers and are shallow divers, dabbling just below the surface for food. Their favourite food is invertebrates and they mainly feed in the evening or at night.
Breeding: Most brown teal breed from June to October but are able to breed at almost any time of the year.
They begin breeding at about 2 years of age and can lay clutches of up to 8 eggs. • Brown teal build a bowl-shaped nest near water, under the cover of dense tussocks or ferns, constructed with grasses lined with down. The female incubates the eggs about 30 days while the drake guards the nest - they are strongly territorial during breeding. Chicks fledge at an age of about 2 months. Brown teal pairs generally have stable relationships. The oldest known teal in the wild lived over 6 years.
Brown teal at Karori Sanctuary. 18 brown teal were initially released in 2000 and 2001. Breeding started from late 2002 and good productivity has resulted in increased competition for preferred wetland habitats and, because these habitats are limited in the Sanctuary, losses have occurred as a result.
Supplementary feeding of maize has been largely discontinued since early 2006 to reduce productivity and competition for territories.
Genetic analysis of the population in 2006-2007 should clarify whether or not there has been a loss of genetic diversity and whether additional birds need to be released into the population in future.
Active monitoring over the breeding season was ceased in 200x due to the fact that the population is self-sustaining.
Brown teal are readily seen on the lower and upper lakes. Being forest dwellers as well as water dwellers, some are being regularly seen at the kaka feeders below the upper dam at dusk and also at the southern end of the Faultline Track. The brown teal’s omnivorous diet, restricted annual range and mainly terrestrial lifestyle give it a unique ecological niche among waterfowl, somewhat akin to a wetland rodent, and it serves as a classic example of the influence of selective forces that operated on birds in pre-human New Zealand.
Teals dabbling at Shollenberger Park
Related blog post on ducks: The Case Against Hunting on National Wildlife Refuges
Northern Pintails forage in shallow water by dabbling at the George C. Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary Delta BC Canada
I also dabble in clay tiles. i handcut most and paint them.. well isnt that fitting, painting on clay. both my loves come into one here. i love it all, the whole process. i have made oddles of em, this is just a pinch of my collection. made just for fun! and arent they.