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(Photo by NYRP/John Wasiutynski)
Greene Acres Community Garden incorporated a pond into their rainwater harvesting project.
Digging for Clams
23 June 2014 -- 174/365
Providence, Rhode Island
It was a beautiful day today, so I decided to visit India Point Park at lunch for today's photo. There were several groups of people on the rocky shore taking advantage of the low tide and digging for clams. Now, clams are extremely popular in the state, and there's nothing better than a fresh little neck on the half-shell, but knowing the history of this area there's not a chance I'd ever eat shellfish from this spot! For almost a century, this area was a metal scrapyard. Your guess is as good as mine as to how high the concentration of heavy metal toxins you may find in the sand along that shoreline. With 400 miles of coastline, there are far better places in the state from which to harvest shellfish.
Post processing started with a neutral greyscale filter in Topaz B&W FX. I adjusted color sensitivity sliders, adaptive exposure, regions, contrast, boost black, boost white, and protect highlights. A levels adjustment was added in PSE.
These people dig for days in dry river beds to find water in temps exceeding 128 degrees. Kids do most of the work. They then sell the water to nomads to give to their animals.
This was in Louisiana when the Ant Lab at LSU was commissioned by a British TV show to dig up a leaf cutter ant nest. This species, Atta texana, is the only one that occurs in North America.
This was in Louisiana when the Ant Lab at LSU was commissioned by a British TV show to dig up a leaf cutter ant nest. This species, Atta texana, is the only one that occurs in North America and Louisiana is the leaf cutter ant's most northern range.
Here the leaves are macerated into bits and the white fuzz is the fungus which the ant then will eat. The symbiosis is strict and complex.
Taken for the Shutter Sisters Superhero Photo Challenge. Our task was to take a photo with a different perspective.
Tom digging the drain in the Blind Pit (the pit is on a fault; breccia on the right, slickenslides on the left wall)
Fender enjoys the game too! We've always played it with Sophie, where you toss a rock into the water and they have to stick their head under water and find it. And now Fender plays it too! He loves it.
(Sam, this is the picture I was talking about!! Not as good as yours, but funny that I took a pic of him doing that too!)