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on the South Downs, South Downs National Park, East Sussex England
Definition of achlorophyllous, having no chlorophyll
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definition: any of various free-swimming, mostly marine cnidarians (esp. class Scyphozoa) with a body made up largely of jellylike substance and shaped like an umbrella: it has long, hanging tentacles with stinging cells on them
seen in sealife oberhausen
German Abatros DV Scout on the tail of a hapless and slow RE8.
The text below is interesting for those who wish to read it.
The early definition of the word 'dogfight' meant an aerial battle between two or more aircraft. As the First World War broke out not long after the aeroplane had been invented, there had not been time to develop guns which could be built into the body of a plane. The first fighter planes were only equipped with machine-guns which were fixed onto the top wing.
These early fighter aircraft had two two seats, with a man sitting in the rear controlling the guns. Dogfights were extremely difficult because the pilot would have to dodge other enemy aircraft while listening to the commands of the gunner as to where to fly to get the enemy into his sights.
The first dog-fight is believed to have taken place on 28th August 1914, when Lieutenant Norman Spratt, flying a Sopwith Tabloid, forced down a German two-seater. This was an amazing achievement as his Sopwith was not armed.
One of Britain's first star pilots was Louis Strange. He devised a safety strap system in his Avro 504 so that it was possible for his gunner to "stand up and fire all round over the top of the plane and behind". Strange's gunner, Rabagliati, used a Lewis Gun and was soon bringing down German aircraft over the Western Front. By October 1915 the Royal Flying Corps decided to fit this safety harness to all their aircraft. As well as using guns, some crews carried grenades which they tried to drop onto enemy fliers below them.
The first Victoria Cross for air combat was won by Captain Lanoe Hawker on 25th June, 1915. Flying a single-seater Bristol Scout and armed with a single-shot cavalry carbine mounted on the starboard side of the fuselage, Hawker attacked an enemy two-seater over Ypres. After forcing it to land he brought down two more enemy planes. What made the achievement so remarkable was that all three German aircraft were armed with machine-guns.
In 1915 the French pilot, Roland Garros, added deflector plates to the blades of his propeller. These small wedges of toughened steel diverted the passage of those bullets which struck the blades. It was now possible for a pilot in a single-seater aircraft to successfully fire a machine-gun.
Anton Fokker, a Dutch designer who had set up an aircraft factory in Schwerin, German, was also trying to develop a machine-gun that could fire through revolving propeller blades. By the autumn of 1915 Fokker was fitting his Eindecker monoplanes with interrupter gear, therefore producing the first true fighter aircraft. Also called a synchronising gear, the propeller was linked by a shaft to the trigger to block fire whenever they were in line.
German pilots such as Max Immelmann and Oswald Boelcke began destroying large numbers of British aircraft using their synchronised machine-guns. Immelmann destroyed seventeen Allied aircraft in his Eindecker before being shot down and killed on 15 June 1916. Boelcke went on to claim forty victims before he was also killed in October 1916. Pilots such as Immelmann and Boelcke, who had more than eight 'kills', became known as Flying Aces. It was not long before Britain and France began fitting synchronised machine-guns to their aircraft and pilots such as Rene Fonck and William Bishop developed reputations as flying aces.
By the spring of 1916 the British had produced the Avro DH2 fighter plane. The DH2 was a single-seater biplane with the engine behind the pilot. It carried a forward-firing Lewis machine-gun and the absence of an engine in front gave the pilot and uninterupted view of his target.
Another important innovation was the development of tracer ammunition. The Royal Flying Corps began using it in July 1916 and its pilots found it very useful. With every seventh round a tracer was fired so the gunner-pilot could see his stream of fire and adjust his aim accordingly.
Organisation and tactics changed with the introduction of the synchronized machine-gun. At first flying aces adopted "lone wolf" tactics. However, by 1917 British pilots tended to seek out enemy aircraft in groups of six. The flight commander would be in front, with an aircraft on either side forming a V shape. To the rear and above were two other planes and at the back was the sub-leader. However, when in combat, the pilots operated in pairs, one to attack, and the other to defend. German pilots preferred larger formations and these were later known as circuses.
One of the most important figures in the development of dogfight tactics was Major Mick Mannock. Between May 1917 and his death in July 1918, Mannock became Britain's leading flying ace with seventry-three victories. When attacking, the best tactic was to dive upon the target out of the sun. This strategy reduced the time that the pilot being attacked could bank or dive and avoid being hit. Later in the war some observers fixed mirrors in line with their gun, which could them be used to reflect the rays of the sun back into the eyes of the attacking pilot.
Fighter pilots also made good use of cloud-cover. This enabled a pilot to attack the enemy and quickly return to the safety of the cloud. Pilots did not have long to destroy their target. Fighter aircraft at that time only carried enough ammunition to fire at the enemy for about fifty seconds. Therefore pilots had to make sure they used their machine-guns wisely. Rene Fonck, the French flying ace, usually took no more than five or six rounds to down an enemy aircraft.
Almost all the pilots involved in flying aircraft in the First World War were under the age of twenty-five. As the death-rate was very high by 1918 a large proportion of the pilots were aged between eighteen and twenty-one. Pilots were sent into combat after only some thirty hours of air training. Training in how to take part in dogfights had to be given by the more experienced pilots at the battle front.
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Candid eye contact street portrait taken in Glasgow, Scotland. This young woman was filming her street performing friends when I stepped in with my lens. Enjoy full screen by pressing 'L' or clicking on the image. Oh, she wasn't smiling at me... she was just constantly smiling!
When looking at the American bison the best description is simply "Massive". We observed two large males appear to resolve a territory dispute with a stare down. Eventually one decided the best decision was to move on. In the North Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota.
This is one of the famous market stalls that sets up on railway lines in Thailand. When a train is due to either arrive or depart, she must dismantle her stall and make way for the train. As soon as it passes, she will set up again.
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CHRISTIAN DEDEENE, THE BALLET DANCER...
Still one of my favourite portraits.
He was for 5 years a solo and star dancer with one of the greatest choreographers of the last century, Maurice Béjart .
I was fortunate to have him in our studio a couple of times, and what an experience it was, each time.
After I'd seen him in action and done the 'dance photos', I asked him if he would pose for this portrait I had in my head.
I know how these people work out day after day, I admired the definition in the muscle-tones and tendons.
The result is what I had imagined, the proud profile, the wild hair, and THE DEFINITION.
I love dramatic lighting, especially for this kind of subject.
Thanks Christian, for being so patient and sharing my artistic vision.
Thank you, M, (*_*)
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Yellow
Cowardly; hence, dishonorable; mean; contemptible; as, he has a yellow streak.
Sensational; -- said of some newspapers, their makers, etc.; as, yellow journal, journalism, etc.
Being of a bright saffronlike color; of the color of gold or brass; having the hue of that part of the rainbow, or of the solar spectrum, which is between the orange and the green.
A bright golden color, reflecting more light than any other except white; the color of that part of the spectrum which is between the orange and green.
A yellow pigment.
To make yellow; to cause to have a yellow tinge or color; to dye yellow.
To become yellow or yellower.
texture: flypaper
hbw :)
Monkey likes to stretch out when he sleeps! If he were any more relaxed, he would melt!
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Definition of tagger
: one that tags
especially : a person who marks surfaces with graffiti.
Some where in Melbourne Aust.
Tom is, by any definition, a cook…a very fine cook, but that does little to explain why he's carrying a turkey baster around in his coat pocket.
Tom_1144_raw.psd
In botany, a tree is a plant with an elongated stem, or trunk, supporting leaves or branches.
In some usages, the definition of a tree may be narrower, including only woody plants, only plants that are usable as lumber, only plants above a specified height or only perennial species. At its broadest, trees include the taller palms, the tree ferns, bananas and bamboo.
A tree typically has many secondary branches supported clear of the ground by the trunk. This trunk typically contains woody tissue for strength, and vascular tissue to carry materials from one part of the tree to another. For most trees it is surrounded by a layer of bark which serves as a protective barrier. Below the ground, the roots branch and spread out widely; they serve to anchor the tree and extract moisture and nutrients from the soil. Above ground, the branches divide into smaller branches and shoots. The shoots typically bear leaves, which capture light energy and convert it into chemical energy by photosynthesis, providing the food needed by the tree for its growth and development.
Flowers and fruit may also be present, but some trees such as conifers instead have pollen cones and seed cones, and others such as tree ferns produce spores instead.
NOT straight from the camera. ;)
I don't usually don't ever post process my light paintings but this one had so much detail I thought it deserved the HDR treatment!
Cuando la Carraca está posada solamente se destacan dos colores: el castaño claro de su dorso y el tono general azulado del resto del plumaje. Es al volar cuando se pueden apreciar bien los diversos matices y sobre todo la ámplia y colorida gama de tonos azules que adornan su bellísimo plumaje, que van de los tonos violáceos a los turquesas, pasando por los colores verdosos y particularmente un llamativo y característico color azul cobalto que domina en su plumaje.
Los interesados en ampliar información sobre esta especie, pueden acceder, a través del siguiente enlace, a un trabajo mío, en el que también publico más fotos de esta singular ave en diferentes actitudes:
fotosjoseangelrodriguez.blogspot.com/2012/03/la-carraca-c...
I saw two of these signs on the march, but I liked the more simple looking one with the yellow background.
This is also a frame capture from HD video, using the Canon EOS Rebel T6 Camera, with the Canon 18-55mm zoom lens.
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Definition: "gratitude" means thankfulness or the state of being grateful.
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.-- Cicero
And Anonymous said:
Life is short!
Break the rules!
Forgive quickly!
Kiss slowly!
Love truly,
Laugh uncontrollably..
And never regret anything that made you smile.
EXPLORE # 482 on Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Definition : A leat is an artificial channel that supplies water to a watermill.
This one is along the River Piddle at Affpuddle. It seems that every village along Dorset's River Piddle used to have a watermill to process grain. In this photo, the leat in the foreground powered a watermill behind the big tree to the right side. Out of sight in this photo, the mill buildings are now a private house. In the top middle of the photo is the River Piddle itself. Some water still flows through where the water wheel used to be. However, just beyond the tree, before the mill, most of the water cascades down to the river via an open sluice.
The photo is taken from the back of Affpuddle churchyard.
An Englishman will say, can I have a sweet please
An American will say, where is the Candy Man?
An Australian will say, can I have a little sugar
An Irishman will say, can I lick your Candy Man
I hope its' not too sweet, thank you Sugar...
~quoted from: poemhunter~
F is for fumble, fall, and fortunate [there wasn't more damage ...]
F is also for
frosted adj. a surface coating on glass that cannot be seen through clearly
fragment v. 1. To break or separate [something] into fragments
2. To become broken into fragments, e.g., After the fall, the light bulb fragmented
filament n. A fine wire [heated electrically to incandescence in an electric lamp]