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During ISV's Costa Rican adventure, volunteers get the chance to help endangered sea turtles.
This photo was taken by Alana Heilbig from Australia.
To sign up for a similar volunteer project abroad, visit www.isvolunteers.org today!
Digging the spike as his teammate looks on. This one just makes me laugh. Taken at Maligne Lake, there was a whole flock of Canadian geese, but this one was paddling towards me, giving me a good look, and the mmmHmmm attitude head cock too. Really happy I got him in focus. On the big screen, you can even see the water droplets on his/her head from feeding.
i like how its proboscis is the only really straight line in this shot.....the flower is tansy vulgare......(this one should be viewed large)
There's always that one spot where you can't quite reach....but wingtip to tail balance helps Dad Swan to have a good go at it!
Kelvin, Charlton and John finishing off the last bit of excavations for the outside walls to house 5. We had left this section because we hoped that a lorry would delivery laterite right onto the site in the position we wanted, but later the haulier said we didn't want to reverse this far down the site.
This dirt is terrible to dig. I've dug a fair number of holes, but I've never had dirt this clay-like. I'd slam the shovel point in, and it would just stop 0.5" into the thick stuff. It also stuck to the shovel like an adhesive, and large clumps had to be banged off the shovel after each scooping. It would have been a lot easier to dig this tiny trench in the loose, soily dirt of my old NJ home.
A sequence of the amazing solifug digging behaviour:
1- Turning a rock 5 times bigger and 20 times heavier;
2- For one the most powerful chelicerae in the animal kingdom biting a sandy rock is like having a muffin for breakfast;
3- The bitten rock is them passed under the body and pushed away through the back legs;
4- Shooing in more rock;
5- and shooing and using the suctorial ability of the palps to grab "small" rocks;
6- And them using the chelicerae as a shovel and pushing the rocky remains out;
(Geneva, Switzerland)
2 photos total at Daily Travel Photo for July 14, 2011.
www.dailytravelphotos.com/archive/2011/07/14/
A men's beach volleyball player sacrifices his body in a dive, positioning himself nearly horizontal to the sand.
A final note concerning the capture of fast-paced sports is to use the tracking (or continuous) focus feature on your camera. All dSLRs have this feature which allows the camera to continually adjust and maintain focus on the subject when the shutter button is continuously pressed halfway. In addition to activating this feature, make sure all your focus points are active instead of choosing a single spot focus. Activating all your focus points allows you to track the motion over a greater area of your frame instead of, say, only the single middle focus point/spot.
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Today we were digging a trench for the fence we're putting in for the Kingdom Hall. We worked from 9am-2pm. It was hot, the ground was incredibly hard, and we had faulty tools that kept breaking. We loved it.
First we put down a string and broke through with the tools, then we moved the string and did the same on the otherside. After that, we started removing the grass from on top. After the grass was off, we softened the soil by digging into it and breaking up the clumps. The dirt was mixed with clay and rocks, so a few of the tools broke and bent. It was actually extremely hard work in the incredibly hot sun. Good news, the clouds rolled in after we were all done. Figures. :]
(This is Samuel, and he worked so hard for such a little guy! The sunglasses that were being passed around just didn't fit him!)
Raina and I take a moment to be cheesy after a morning of digging out the foundation. About halfway done! (thanks to Tessa and Jojo)
Heather took some great pictures of James during a BBQ on Sunday. I thought I'd try out some "reverse orton" photoshopping and while I was playing around with a texture layer, I accidentally came across this tint.
I'll try to come up with a couple more variations...
this place is a big place where digging for moclay is made for commercial purpose and the moclay is being used for cat-strey and for tiles inside the fireplace...
We are allowed to walk there and look for fossils and when we were there nobody were working...but trucks use to drive in and out on working days....