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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.
“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 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!
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.
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
"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
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.
Firescald Creek enters Savage Gulf across Greeter Falls and a few hundred yards downstream empties into Big Creek, one of three gorges that link to form a wide, steep valley that came to be known as Savage Gulf. The “Savage” part of the name is not necessarily meant to be descriptive but rather gets that moniker in honor of Samuel Savage, an early settler in the area. The “Gulf” part of the name is not necessarily meant to be confusing but rather is just a local term for “gorge”. Dedicated in 1974, the Savage Gulf State Natural Area is a 15,600 acre scenic wilderness with 55 miles of trails but no roads into the gulch. It also contains 500 acres of some of the finest virgin hardwood forest in the eastern United States, and is listed on the U.S. Registry of National Natural Landmarks.
Greeter Falls has two stages. This 15 foot drop is the upper section of the falls. A short distance downstream is the larger Lower Greeter Falls, a 50 foot drop, which can be seen here: www.flickr.com/photos/tim_lumley/43625147245/
Upper Greeter Falls, Savage Gulf State Natural Area, Grundy County, Tennessee, USA. Elevation: 1,703ft., October 27, 2014
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
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
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!
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.
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
"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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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)
Umbrellas and parasols often feature in Japanese Ukiyo-e prints as does rain, wind and snow, with this woodblock print the work of Kitagawa Utamaro in 1801. He lived in Edo, the modern Tokyo being born in 1753 and dying in 1806, producing this in his later life. He is one of the most respected of Ukiyo-e masters.
The print also goes by the alternative title of “Travellers in a rainy night” and comes from Vol 2 of a series called “Ehon Shiki no Hana” or in English “Flowers of the four seasons”. Many of the titles for prints are often very descriptive as in this case although I struggle to see how it fits in with the title of the series as I see no connection with flowers! Utamaro liked to produce work on nature or women so lots of his work featured geisha in various situations!
This is another print from my collection and is one of my favourites.
Windows Section, Arches National Park, Utah. The names South Window Arch and North Window Arch are quite mundane, so I prefer the more descriptive name, The Spectacles. This view, accessed by the trail around to the back side of the formation, is not the usual view seen by most visitors. I photographed this view in order to get good light on The Spectacles early in the day. Scanned from a color slide.
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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Again, forgive me for flora descriptive errors if any here… the State Flower of Oregon! An evergreen shrub that thrives in shaded gardens. Reaches three to six ft (90-180 cm) and spreads two to five ft (60-150 cm). The holly-like leaves emerge bronze-red in spring, mature to glossy dark green by summer, and turn deep burgundy in fall. In spring, it produces racemes of cheerful, bright golden-yellow flowers. After flowering, clusters of dark blue-purple, edible berries appear in late summer, attractive to birds and wildlife but can also be used to make excellent jellies!
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.
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.
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
--doughnut:
day thirty.
three hundred thirty-five days remain.
doughnut + emma. yeah.
my descriptions are just so descriptive.
+ 1 in the comments
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An appropriate descriptive for the Wood Anemone (Anemone quinquefolia), one inch beauties popping up in batches as the first of the wildflowers highlighting the northern landscape.
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.
The title is pretty self-descriptive. Balanced Rock, Arches National Park, Utah.
Once again, I had a wonderful time with some amazing people. You know who you are. Thank you!!
Not much to report from this location. It's a stunning drive through Arches National Park and Balanced Rock is right off the road but just because it is, does it make it less worth shooting than other locations which require some hiking to get to? No, definitely not, but it requires some extra effort to get something new, something that has not been done a million times before, but only 3729 times.
I am not claiming there was no Photoshop involved. So there, purists! Blend of two exposures. One for the foreground: 15 seconds, f/2.8, ISO 400. One for the Milky Way: 20seconds, f/2.8, ISO 800.
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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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.
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Very descriptive of my mood today and although Halloween is over a month away it just seemed appropriate to start decorating, if that's what I would call it.
With the rain and the storms, cabin fever, and turmoil it does seem as if the walls are closing in on me. I hope sunnier days are ahead. I wish I could stop the rain.
The Sobani's Bureau of Expansion had this beast designed to stay competitive in the fierce colonization of distant worlds. The biggest Capital Planetary Deployment Unit ever produced in vast numbers.
It feature a giant lifting gantry with unimaginable power. A pair of super articulated robotic arms that can performs almost any task. ITs super sized low pressure tires give it a smooth grip on most terrains.
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This was a loong loong build for me! For starters this thing is really big and then i had to wait for all of thse wheels to arrive. ;)
This build has some RC power functions in it ... quite a few lights, a spinning radard and the gantry can go up and down with a remote control.
Continuating to make the center image more of a 'scene' than a descriptive image.
As for the Gahnn , I will be posting a retrospective construction journal with the drastic evolution of the original through sketches.
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