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A gregarious animal, the waterbuck may form herds consisting of six to 30 individuals. These groups are either nursery herds with females and their offspring or bachelor herds. Waterbuck can not tolerate dehydration in hot weather, and thus inhabits areas close to sources of water, hence their name. This one was seen in Kruger National Park.
Macro Mondays theme Slices
DIY homemade dried lemon and lime slices. Image measures 6cm in width. After deliberating all morning as to which photo to post, I finally settled on these cirtus slices I had spent most of Saturday dehydrating in the oven. I hope it was worth it 😊 HMM
A January ritual for me to dry fruit slices for this and that.
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#85/121 Shades of Orange: 121 Pictures in 2021
We joined a small local photography group this month. They started the season off with the theme “vegetables”. Some may argue that these tomatoes are technically fruits, but nutritionists categorize them as vegetables. Since I was inundated with delicious varieties from my neighbours and friends, I took an hour to set up this Still Life in my studio before chopping them up! This was my submission as well as the red onion I posted previously. Both were taken using natural light coming from a window. Although I love connecting with online friends, it is great to share ideas with local friends again. This year I tried dehydrating Roma tomatoes to take on our camping trips. That worked well. I plan to use mine for a morning omelette. I am doing a bit of supply work at nearby schools to make a bit of extra money to pay for the gas to go on our next road trip. Hubby and I have been watching a few tutorials on You Tube with tips on landscape photography from the professionals. Soon we will put all that to practice. We shall see all the fruits of our labor when we are settled into our next home away from home in the wilderness. I shall be in and out for the fall! I do hope everyone embraces the new season with their cameras ready!
He - So I am ignored just so that she can have a sip of water.
She - And we both have to be dehydrated because he wants to chat. He doesn't know yet we'll be having babies soon.
I actually don't know which bird is the father but just assumed that the bigger one is the male. Will appreciate being corrected if I am wrong.
Nikon F5
Nikon ED
AF-S Nikkor 24-85mm f3.5-4.5G
Eastman Hi Contrast 2369
Kodak HC-110
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A two shot collage of our food dehydrator showing the cherries and nectarines part way through the drying process.
High temperatures, dehydrated leaves….a typical Namibian summer.
Uploaded for Textural Tuesday and the Orms Group's theme "Summer".
Have a great day, everyone!
I recently referred to a mushroom as frozen when it was actually dehydrated. There's a bunch of older mushrooms and they loose moisture as they age. Next came a week of clear and dry air with night temps in the 30s. Those nights helped to dehydrate and cause desiccation of the mushrooms. Next has been a week of night temps in the 20s. All of the desiccated mushrooms look like this ~ Gray. I've read that they might last some time like this. It's the young Mycenia with thin cell walls and a lot of moisture the melt away when they freeze.
Taken from the main nature trail through the South Texas Botanical Gardens, this is the start of a boardwalk crossing what should be the wetlands on the banks of Oso Creek, which eventually drains into the Laguna Madre in Corpus Christi. It has been so dry here that the creek has mostly dried up at this location. Instead, now we have a small series of isolated (and evaporating) lakes that are failing to provide fresh water to the lagoon.
I placed a pot of purple tulips on the windowsill so they could be in the sun, and forgot that the heat from below would rise and dehydrate them. Sorry, tulips, your life was shortened, but you're still beautiful. -- February 25, 2021
Father and Son, Coconut merchants on Boca Chica beach
selling coconuts
to tourists.
dehydrated and miserable
they will never be tourists
they will never lay back on a chaise lounge
and have a clean beautiful hotel room
they will never fly away
they will never drive home
they will never know whats its like
to have a fistful of money in their pocket
they return to a dark dismal dusty dingy hut.
they will sleep in 90 degree heat
they will sleep on the same filthy mattress with others
they will eat rice and beans and maybe a piece of fish
they will feel and totally understand that they are poor
and that is their lot in life
and nothing they do can change things
NOTHING!
they know they will be there tomorrow
as sure as the sun
creeps up again over the horizon.
they know that unless they walk this beach every day they will suffer from hunger
as the tourists stand around and watch the sun go down,
the father and son walk hurriedly off the beach.
they are glad the sun goes down
it is no longer their beach.
they might also get robbed. these days. in the DR.
its is a hard life filled with struggle and pain and have to's in order to survive.
the sun is their enemy.
this is war
this is life
this is a battle
against the elements
they hate the sun!
and
many Dominicans are afraid of the sea!
Photography’s new conscience
A rapidly dehydrated desert left behind these wonderful patterns of cracked mud.
This image took quite a bit of forethought to put together. It’s a blend of two focus points and three focal lengths with a lot of light contouring, atmospherics enhancement, and needed several things like punching things up with selective color, color dodging, texture increases and decreases, some slight warping for perspective, etc, etc.
If you’re interested in learning how I created this puzzle in the field and then pieced it together in post, you can head to www.ryandyar.com/start-to-finish-3 to see it all on video!
Thank you for checking out this little image of mine. You’re an awesome human.
One teaspoon (5ml) of freeze-dried red onions.
I don't have much to write about the product as I usually do, but I'll note I found it on prominent display at a market and had to try it. After I was done with the shoot and in keeping with Flickr Rule #1, I added the teaspoonful to some marinara sauce that went on pasta for tonight's dinner, with flavorful results.
Just add rain...
Was working at the Maydena Bike Park last weekend. Maydena is up the road from Russell Falls and the Mount Field National Park and I called in on the way past. Was hoping for the shot I missed last time I was here - sort of got the shot but missing the water...
It was a good exercise nonetheless, had the waterfall and her spirits to myself for a while :-)
Nikon Z6, Nikkor Z 17-30/4 S, 1/15th sec at f/16, ISO 100
Breakthrough Photography 6 Stop ND filter.
A very big 'Thank You' to everyone that views, faves and comments on my work! It's really appreciated :-)
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I liked the abstract look of these apple chips underneath another empty tray after I removed them from the dehydrator.
An Osprey, male Perched on a Communications Tower
We observed and photographed an Osprey pair on May 4, May 24, June 2, 9, 11, 12, 18, 29 and July 25, with observation times of two hours during each period, ending shortly before nightfall. On June 11, 2022, we observed both Osprey parents in the nest, which included the male having provided a fish. However, on June 12, 2022, we saw only the female in the nest during the entire two hours. On each of the previous dates of observation, we watched as the male flew from the distance with a fish in its talons. After dropping the food into the nest, he would sit on the tower preening, then settle into the nest with her at dusk. We never saw any nestlings, but initially presumed they were still too small and hoped that by mid-July we would see them.
On June 12, 2022, the temperature was 74 F, then came the brutal, record-breaking heatwave with temperatures reaching over 100 F for nearly a week, followed by high 90's! We worried about how the Ospreys would fare. Sadly, we never saw either of the adult Ospreys after June 12, 2022. Osprey nesting failures are attributed to a number of factors, including eggs not being viable, chicks not receiving enough food, which is also how they obtain the required water they must have to avoid dehydration, receiving contaminated food, aerial predation by owls, crows, or hawks, and falling from the nest or being pushed out by a sibling. Additionally, extreme fluctuations in weather conditions certainly play a tremendous role in nest failure. Any of these conditions could have caused them to abandon their nest.
This Osprey pair may still be relatively new at parenting, so despite some early nesting failures, if they are the same pair and both make it back from their migration next spring, studies indicate they exhibit site fidelity and will try again.
With all of the environmental conditions they will face, all we can do is hope for the best. I will be looking for them next year!