The name "vaseux" is French, meaning muddy or murky, which is descriptive of the lake's silty water. The lake was likely named by French Canadian fur traders.

Vaseaux Lake features a variety of wetland and foreshore habitats that support large populations of migratory bird species along the inland portion of the Pacific Flyway. Bird species of note include trumpeter swan, great blue heron, western screech-owl, yellow-breasted chat, and the red-listed Lewis's woodpecker. It is for these reasons that the Canadian Wildlife Service designated the lake and its foreshore a Migratory Bird Sanctuary in 1923.

The semi-arid grasslands and forests surrounding the lake are also of ecological importance, and are protected within several different national and provincial protected areas. In 1956, the provincial government established Vaseux Lake Provincial Park at the northeastern end of the lake to providing space for recreation while also ensuring the ecological integrity of the lake's foreshore in this area is preserved.

In 1979, the Canadian Wildlife Service established Vaseux-Bighorn National Wildlife Area to protect winter rangeland for California Bighorn Sheep.[6] The provincial government added on to this nature preserve by establishing Vaseux Protected Area in 2001. (Wikipedia).

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Looking down the length of Vaseux Lake. It doesn't seem murky to me. We did see plenty of birds, though :-)

Vaseux Lake Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada. June 2022.

“Color is descriptive. Black and white is interpretive.” - Eliot’s Erwith

This is another attempt to do a black and white image. The wonderful play of light and shadow on the snowy hill seemed to lend itself to a monochrome edit. Happy Monochrome Monday!

Picture taken in Madrid, nearby the Plaza Mayor, under clear sky. Shadows of the small balconies are creating a powerful effect on the flat surface of the facade.

Many of the formations are given descriptive names – sculpted by the harsh desert winds into weird shapes which constantly change over time. There are ‘monoliths’ and ‘mushrooms’, ‘ice cream cones’, ‘tents’ and ‘crickets’, as well as the majestic conical flat-topped ‘inselbergs’, to name but a few of the formations.

Beyond this in the ‘New Desert’ which is only accessible by 4WD or camel, the landscape becomes even whiter. The boulders crowd together, are higher and larger and everywhere weird shapes appear that might remind you of a chicken or a hawk, a troupe of dancers or an old men wearing a hat. The shapes change constantly as the light changes and you move around them and as the sun begins to set they turn a softly glowing pink.

Very descriptive title there! I managed to make it to the Drune party today, and I am glad I did because...I won something in teh photo contest there!

This picture also featuring Sparkles name and lotsa random, half rezzed butts!

“Plicata” is a descriptive term for irises that have patterns of stitched, stippled or banded colors contrasting with the base color. I think that's a great description for this cattleya orchid. Seen at the 2017 San Francisco Orchid Exposition.

Hope you have a great weekend ahead! Thanks, as always, for stopping by and for all of your visits, comments, awards and faves - I appreciate them all.

© Melissa Post 2017

Very descriptive title, but well, it is in case someone is curious watching the thumbnail and theydont want to go all the way to the description.

"Sapsucker," is an appropriate descriptive name for this woodpecker. It consumes insects, arthropods, fruit and seeds, but its usual and main source of food is the sap of a tree. This is attained by drilling shallow holes in a tree called "sap wells," and using its specially adapted, brush tipped tongue, to lap up the syrup.

The Sapsucker is highly territorial of its sap tree and often nests in or near the tree. I have seen maple trees with so many Sapsucker holes in it that portions of the tree above the holes were dying because of the loss of sap. Josephine Co., OR

Select one descriptive word here:

List A

1. Striped

2. Jagged

3. Delicate

4. Curved

5. Metallic

Select one object to photograph:

List B

1. Pottery

2. Insect

3. Stone

4. Brush

5. Basket

Metallic brush : Found in my husband's hobby workshop ! :-)

Pity that collembola do not belong to the insect group, otherwise there would certainly have been a springtail here !!!

Zerene stack : 50

A stamped metal wall on which the letter M is attached, illuminated by the sun on the side. I stood in such a way that I was looking exactly at the front of the letter, which was unfolded only by the shadow. The shadow cast makes the semantics. Isn't that worth noting?

Castildetierra is the descriptive name of an incredible geological formation of the type known as Cabezo that is part of the semi-desert landscape of the Bardenas Reales Natural Park and Biosphere Reserve, located southeast of Navarra.

Castildetierra es el descriptivo nombre de una increíble formación geológica del tipo conocido como cabezo que forma parte del paisaje semidesértico del Parque Natural y Reserva de la Biosfera de Bardenas Reales, ubicado al sureste de Navarra.

a descriptive medium, one which in a single picture can give certain kinds of description in a way that is wholly beyond the power of words :-)

Ralph Evans

HSS!! Character Matters!

chrysanthemum, 'Shizu Aki', sarah p duke gardens, duke university, durham, north carolina

Otter - Lutra Lutra

Otters are carnivorous mammals in the subfamily Lutrinae. The 13 extant otter species are all semiaquatic, aquatic or marine, with diets based on fish and invertebrates. Lutrinae is a branch of the weasel family Mustelidae, which also includes badgers, honey badgers, martens, minks, polecats, and wolverines.

The word otter derives from the Old English word otor or oter.

An otter's den is called a holt or couch. Male otters are called dogs or boars, females are called bitches or sows, and their offspring are called pups. The collective nouns for otters are bevy, family, lodge, romp (being descriptive of their often playful nature) or, when in water, raft.

The feces of otters are typically identified by their distinctive aroma, the smell of which has been described as ranging from freshly mown hay to putrefied fish; these are known as spraints.

The gestation period in otters is about 60 to 86 days. The newborn pup is cared for by the bitch, dog and older offspring. Bitch otters reach sexual maturity at approximately two years of age and males at approximately three years. The holt is built under tree roots or a rocky cairn, more common in Scotland. It is lined with moss and grass.

After one month, the pup can leave the holt and after two months, it is able to swim. The pup lives with its family for approximately one year. Otters live up to 16 years; they are by nature playful, and frolic in the water with their pups. Its usual source of food is fish, and further downriver, eels, but it may sample frogs and birds.

The Eurasian otter is the most widely distributed otter species, its range including parts of Asia and Africa, as well as being spread across Europe, south to Israel. Though currently believed to be extinct in Liechtenstein and Switzerland, they are now very common in Latvia, along the coast of Norway, in the western regions of Spain and Portugal and across Great Britain, especially Shetland, where 12% of the UK breeding population exists.

Descriptive name! Riverdale Park, MD

The descriptive term morro is common to the Spanish (e.g. El Morro in Havana), Portuguese and Italian languages, and the word is part of many place names where there is a distinctive and prominent rock formation. Note that the similar Spanish descriptive word "moro" indicates a bluish color rather than a shape. Morro Bay is on the Central California coast.

A descriptive term used to identify small pieces of iceberg ice. This one could be an aggregate of large chunks of pack ice. It was lodged close to shore at Bauline, NL

Camera: Hasselblad 500 C/M medium format film camera

Lens: Carl Zeiss f/2.8 80mm Planar lens.

Film: Ilford HP5 Plus 400 120 Black and White.

Scanned by Walkens House of Film, Melbourne, Australia

[A warning to the reader: Everything I say here is descriptive, not prescriptive. I have no desire to convert you to any belief system. But it does us well to contemplate more deeply the riches of human thought and the following Buddhist text is nothing if not rich in content and importance.]

The Avatamsaka Sutra (the Sanskrit word for a spiritual teaching) was composed in various stages about 500 years after the death of Gautama Buddha. This puts it in about the same time as Jesus of Nazareth in Palestine. It is one of the most important scriptures in Mahayana Buddhism in East Asia, and the title could be translated as “Buddha's Fine Garland”.

www.pure-land-buddhism.com/other-sutras/the-avatamsaka-sutra

It begins in book one by recounting the moment when Gautama Buddha (6th-5th century BCE) achieved Full Awareness under the Bodhi Tree at Bodh Gaya (in the modern Indian state of Bihar).

“Thus have I heard. At one time the Buddha was in the land of Magadha (a kingdom in ancient India, in the eastern Ganges Plain), in a state of purity, at the site of enlightenment, having just realised true awareness….”

For more than 1,500 pages in Thomas Cleary’s phenomenal 1993 translation it seeks to provide sentient beings (true pilgrims in life) with a path of knowledge to Enlightenment. But perhaps the entire text, and fundamental principles of Buddhist philosophy, can be summarised by the following 11 stanzas:

“He who realises that the nature of things is without solidity

Appears in all the boundless lands of the ten directions:

Expounding the inconceivability of the realm of buddhahood, He causes all to return to the ocean of liberation.

This is the entry way of Wonderful Sound.”

I am not very much interested in Buddhism as a religious phenomenon. To be fair to most versions of Buddhism though, it is far more inclusive than the Abrahamic religions. That’s the problem with monotheism. One God brooks no rivals, and history is littered with examples of people killing in the name of their tribal God (“Their ignorance and pollution of views are much to be feared.”). But Buddhism is quite unique in the fact that it has no Gods. No need for a God in a Cosmos that is itself an Eternal cycle of birth-death-rebirth for all sentient beings (including all animal species) and even our own universe has been recycled over and over again according to modern cosmologists. These philosophical statements are packed with relevance for us all, and perhaps it takes Enlightenment to make sense of it all.

But we should not be so crass as to interpret these ideas literally. They do their most serious work on our psyche. That is why my interest in Buddhism is as one of the most comprehensive and profound systems of psychology. The Buddha is to my mind the greatest psychologist who ever lived, far more profound than Sigmund Freud or C.G. Jung (and Carl Jung would agree with me, I’m sure, given his extensive knowledge of eastern thought).

[I can recommend wholeheartedly the late Thich Nhat Hanh’s book Understanding Our Mind (Parallax Press, 2006) – a Buddhist psychology which seeks to interpret the meaning of consciousness.]

We are indeed, “sunk in an ocean of afflictions” created in no small measure by cravings: For ego, things, success, ecstasy, habits, immortality (though Buddhists see this as the ultimate problem that Nirvana frees us from). But equally we can become enslaved to fear, doubts, anxiety in all its forms, arrogance and a search for certainty. The results of this “ignorance and pollution of views are much to be feared”, because we repeat an endless cycle of merciless injustice and hatred of the “Other” (i.e. those who are not like “us”). And so human history is a history of warfare, no matter how well-intentioned most people are in personal face-to-face encounters. We are sick and in need of a mental physician. Buddhism is probably the most comprehensive program ever developed along these lines.

We must not allow ourselves to be ignorant of such a rich and powerful resource. Perhaps a good place to start would be Stephen Batchelor's Buddhism Without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening (Bloomsbury, 1997).

Health is but a victim of it's own success

that cauldron of foreboding recess

withering for all the world aspires to -

it's surely not too soon to hope for what is due

aggravated by the fire burning away my Soul

I'm at pains to understand this far-flung goal

challenging me in a bid for it's own gold

when I feel bronzed at best, for my medal's already sold

giving strength at every peaceable endeavour

I'm now as weak as the days call, 'whenever'

a case of what the hell for the mismatch

made in Heaven that left the gates off the latch

and that's where a glimpse crept in and saw

something so incredibly pure even pain couldn't ignore

the trial of it's hindering contempt of well-being

resulting in hurts own admission of defeat in foreseeing

the restoration of the right of way to vigour

in the role of duty to survive this life of rigour.

by anglia24

15h15: 21/04/2008

©2008anglia24

Many hummingbirds have descriptive and sometimes rather fanciful names, in keeping with their beautiful colours, and Glittering-bellied Emerald has to be one of the best handles in the entire family of over 300 species. In the right light the belly does indeed shimmer blue and green. This image doesn’t show that, but it does show the dark-tipped red bill.

This photo conveys the small size of this bird when we see it next to a Passionflower. A close look at this image shows that this individual is giving itself a bit of a break by holding on to a petal as it hovers to feed. A few small streaks show that it was raining lightly at the time.

This sighting came in the small town of Colonia Carlos Pellegrini in Corrientes province, Argentina, South America. That community is the usual base for visiting the rewarding wetlands of Parque Nacional Iberá.

The descriptive name stems from the cliff's distinctive multitudinous check lines in cross-bedded white sandstone which give the impression of a checkerboard. The horizontal lines are caused by cross-bedding, a remnant of ancient sand dunes. The vertical and sub-vertical lines formed by the contraction and expansion of the sandstone caused by temperature changes, freezing and thawing cycles, in combination with wetting and drying.

This is probably the best descriptive word I can think of when being in the mountains. You feel small. In comparison, everything around you is so much bigger and towers above you, leaving you breathless and small. This is one of those moments where I truly understand when the Psalmist writes, “What is man that You think of him and a son of man that You are concerned of him.” (Psalm 8:4) Creation is so big, so vast, and if you look out on the stars and galaxies, they go beyond what the eye can see or the heart can imagine. We are less than a spec in comparison to the universe, yet God cares for you more than any other part of creation! He cares for mankind, the people He made in His image, above all other aspects of His creation. What a marvelous truth that we can dwell on for all of eternity and still never fully grasp!

Descriptive label from a 1.5 lb jar of white sand that is in my collection of props for table-taop photography.

Focus stack (18 images) Shot with single off-camer strobe (Godox AD200Pro/Godox XPro II L trigger), round head, camera right 30 degrees 45 degrees bove table aimed at 8 x 10 inch white reflector camera left, angled toward front of subject, 4 x 5 inch mirror on table surface in front of jar. Reflectors used to minimize hot-spots on label.

Shot for Macro Mondays - "ONE WORD"

subject area 25 mm (h) x 53.5 mm (w)

"Color is descriptive. Black and white is interpretative." - Elliott Erwitt

My husband has been doing some amazing black and white images and the ones that truly surprise me are the ones he does of flowers. I am always drawn to the colors of the blooms but he has shown me that the patterns and textures are more visible when done in B&W. This is going out of my comfort zone to try a purple Iris in monochrome. Although the original color is beautiful, I was mainly enticed by the speckled lower petal on this bloom. By taking away the color, that pattern shows up much better. Thanks to my hubby for the inspiration and a few tips to try. I shall need some practice. :)

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Not the most descriptive title....anyone want to help me out on what buildings these are? I liked the vast difference in their architecture up there.

Thanks Zoltaan and CB804! These are: 333 North Michigan - Aon Center - Two Prudential Plaza - London Guarantee Building

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The descriptive name stems from the cliff's distinctive multitudinous check lines in cross-bedded white sandstone which give the impression of a checkerboard. The horizontal lines are caused by cross-bedding, a remnant of ancient sand dunes. The vertical and sub-vertical lines formed by the contraction and expansion of the sandstone caused by temperature changes, freezing and thawing cycles, in combination with wetting and drying.

Descriptive meanings

Discriminating conception

Causal antecedents

A pretty self-descriptive image! Looks better large and on black.

This is however my first upload since turning pro...so that's relatively exciting! Cheers for all of your views, insightful comments and favo(u)rites - I really do appreciate them. Thanks!

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One descriptive word

1. Striped

2. Jagged

3. Delicate

4. Curved

5. Metallic

One object

1. Pottery

2. Insect

3. Stone

4. Brush

5. Basket

Some butterflies have very descriptive names. This is a male Mexican bluewing (Myscelia ethusa), also known as the blue wing and it is mainly found in Mexico though strays can be found quite far north in Texas and as far south as Costa Rica. The "blue wing" part, I'm sure you agree to be very obvious.

This was, as most of my shots from the Haga Ocean butterfly house, shot using a tripod and a wired remote shutter to allow for longer exposure times without blur. Me and Mr. Bluewing here had a little trouble syncing our movements so it took a while before I got an acceptable shot.

Once I had set my rig up and gotten focus just right on the eyes, he decided to sit with the wings closed for a while - or simply move a bit, forcing me to start over.

It came out fine in the end though.

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Descriptives already used include: magical, fairytale like, dreamscape, otherworldly, mystical, enchanted, beautiful and mysterious.

Yes, in other words, this would be Panther Creek Falls, a place that ranks (currently) in my top four for waterfalls of the Pacific Northwest. It's not an easy place to shoot, despite all that crazy beauty, and I was quite pleased to come away with this shot, which showcases some of the amazing details this falls has and yet manages (I think) to avoid looking too "busy".

Taken with my Nikon FM.

Truth contained

Surface appearance

Objectivity peripheral

To see in colour is a delight for the eye but to see in black and white is a delight for the soul.

Andri Cauldwell

www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8xbkMqsE8A

Color is descriptive.

Black and white is interpretive.

© All rights reserved Anna Kwa. Please do not use this image on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit written permission

Sometimes even the most simple descriptive titles sound like a Dr. Seuss poem.

This shot is from mid-February during the very early part of the “superbloom” that is taking over many of the desert areas out west. Bluebonnets are a type of lupine. Compared to the lupines we have here in Maine and New Hampshire they are quite a bit smaller, but just as beautiful when they cover an otherwise barren desert. This was my first time seeing flowers in the desert, and it was quite a sight.

The Milky Way didn’t really get up above the hill here until just after astronomical twilight started before sunrise, so the sky is very blue from the scattered sunlight (like daytime) since it was not full darkness.

Nikon Z 6 with FTZ adapter and NIKKOR 14-24mm f/2.8 lens @ 14mm. Blend of 12 total images. The sky is from 10 exposures at ISO 3200 @ f/2.8 and 10 seconds each, star stacked with Starry Landscape (Mac only) for pinpoint stars and low noise. On Windows you can use Sequator for star stacking with landscapes. Photoshop can do it but it’s a manual pain in the butt and doesn’t always work. The foreground is from 2 exposures, both at f/11 and 30 seconds, but one was at ISO 800 and the other was at ISO 100. I pulled in focus to get the very close bluebonnets in focus in one of the shots. The scene was getting bright quickly as the sun was approaching the horizon, and in the 6 minutes that passed between the foreground shots that I ended up using (I was taking another foreground shot in between and checking out previous shots, etc) there was enough light that I could do ISO 100 at 30 seconds instead of 800 at 30 seconds. I kept the foreground exposures to 30 seconds to minimize any movement in the flowers from the wind, but I was lucky and it was just about dead calm, which was almost eerie in a very dark place in the middle of nowhere without any noise other than my own movements.

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I asked Midjourney to create this image by using this descriptive prompt: "super-realistic photo of Leonardo Da Vinci sitting at a desk typing on a vintage computer". I added the Coors Light, the computer mouse and the space suit on the screen in Photoshop later.

For 'Crazy Tuesday' group theme of 'embroidery'.

'Sunflower & Chrysanthemum'

Popularly known as an embroidered card but woven instead

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In the 1930's these flower cards known as 'Kensitas embroidered silks' were given away free inside each packet of Kensitas Cigarettes . Each silk flower came with its own descriptive, and protective cover. This is one from the set of 30 larger cards and printed opposite in the folded card are panels describing each flower.

Three sizes of the cards were issued - a packet of ten cigarettes contained one of the small size - the twenty pack one of the medium size Kensitas Silks, and one postcard size Kensitas Silk with the tins of 50 cigarettes, and two postcard silks with the tins of 100 cigarettes.

Are they of any value?

Depends on what you term valuable.

Staeble Kata 50mm f3.5

Descriptive signage amongst the bright lights of Broadway in Times Square. New York, New York, USA.

Señalización descriptiva entre las luces brillantes de Broadway en Times Square. Nueva York, Nueva York, Estados Unidos.

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Nothing like a descriptive title eh? :o)

I loved this abandoned house as it had so much character with the porch and the small round window, but I can't help thinking that the add on garage kind of let it down a bit.

Chrome Update for those of you who are interested...

It's only been a day, and already I have had issues with stats and contacts images loading. So I find myself alternating between browsers for different functions...Joy! It appears I only have issues with Flickr, all other websites are fine in any of the 3 browsers I now have on the go....So Thanks Flickr!

On the plus side my images don't look as soft in Chrome in here.