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Capté au Parc Oméga - Montebello Québec
Shot taken at the Omega Park, Montebello -Québec
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Ringlet / aphantopus hyperantus. Fermyn Woods, Northamptonshire. 01/07/17.
Image made in the early evening sunshine. Nice how the dark brown, almost black looking Ringlet has been transformed by a few well placed rays!
THE SIXTH EXTINCTION
Exerpts by Niles Eldredge
There is little doubt left in the minds of professional biologists that Earth is currently faced with a mounting loss of species that threatens to rival the five great mass extinctions of the geological past. As long ago as 1993, Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson estimated that Earth is currently losing something on the order of 30,000 species per year — which breaks down to the even more daunting statistic of some three species per hour. Some biologists have begun to feel that this biodiversity crisis — this “Sixth Extinction” — is even more severe, and more imminent, than Wilson had supposed.
Extinction in the past
The major global biotic turnovers were all caused by physical events that lay outside the normal climatic and other physical disturbances which species, and entire ecosystems, experience and survive. What caused them?
The previous mass extinctions were due to natural causes.
First major extinction (c. 440 mya): Climate change (relatively severe and sudden global cooling) seems to have been at work at the first of these-the end-Ordovician mass extinction that caused such pronounced change in marine life (little or no life existed on land at that time). 25% of families lost (a family may consist of a few to thousands of species).
Second major extinction (c. 370 mya): The next such event, near the end of the Devonian Period, may or may not have been the result of global climate change. 19% of families lost.
Third major Extinction (c. 245 mya): Scenarios explaining what happened at the greatest mass extinction event of them all (so far, at least!) at the end of the Permian Period have been complex amalgams of climate change perhaps rooted in plate tectonics movements. Very recently, however, evidence suggests that a bolide impact similar to the end-Cretaceous event may have been the cause. 54% of families lost.
Fourth major extinction (c. 210 mya): The event at the end of the Triassic Period, shortly after dinosaurs and mammals had first evolved, also remains difficult to pin down in terms of precise causes. 23% of families lost.
Fifth major extinction (c. 65 mya): Most famous, perhaps, was the most recent of these events at the end-Cretaceous. It wiped out the remaining terrestrial dinosaurs and marine ammonites, as well as many other species across the phylogenetic spectrum, in all habitats sampled from the fossil record. Consensus has emerged in the past decade that this event was caused by one (possibly multiple) collisions between Earth and an extraterrestrial bolide (probably cometary). Some geologists, however, point to the great volcanic event that produced the Deccan traps of India as part of the chain of physical events that disrupted ecosystems so severely that many species on land and sea rapidly succumbed to extinction. 17% of families lost.
How is The Sixth Extinction different from previous events?
The current mass extinction is caused by humans.
At first glance, the physically caused extinction events of the past might seem to have little or nothing to tell us about the current Sixth Extinction, which is a patently human-caused event. For there is little doubt that humans are the direct cause of ecosystem stress and species destruction in the modern world through such activities as:
-transformation of the landscape
-overexploitation of species
-pollution
-the introduction of alien species
And, because Homo sapiens is clearly a species of animal (however behaviorally and ecologically peculiar an animal), the Sixth Extinction would seem to be the first recorded global extinction event that has a biotic, rather than a physical, cause.
We are bringing about massive changes in the environment.
Yet, upon further reflection, human impact on the planet is a direct analogue of the Cretaceous cometary collision. Sixty-five million years ago that extraterrestrial impact — through its sheer explosive power, followed immediately by its injections of so much debris into the upper reaches of the atmosphere that global temperatures plummeted and, most critically, photosynthesis was severely inhibited — wreaked havoc on the living systems of Earth. That is precisely what human beings are doing to the planet right now: humans are causing vast physical changes on the planet.
What is the Sixth Extinction?
We can divide the Sixth Extinction into two discrete phases:
-Phase One began when the first modern humans began to disperse to different parts of the world about 100,000 years ago.
-Phase Two began about 10,000 years ago when humans turned to agriculture.
Humans began disrupting the environment as soon as they appeared on Earth.
The first phase began shortly after Homo sapiens evolved in Africa and the anatomically modern humans began migrating out of Africa and spreading throughout the world. Humans reached the middle east 90,000 years ago. They were in Europe starting around 40,000 years ago. Neanderthals, who had long lived in Europe, survived our arrival for less than 10,000 years, but then abruptly disappeared — victims, according to many paleoanthropologists, of our arrival through outright warfare or the more subtle, though potentially no less devastating effects, of being on the losing side of ecological competition.
Everywhere, shortly after modern humans arrived, many (especially, though by no means exclusively, the larger) native species typically became extinct. Humans were like bulls in a China shop:
-They disrupted ecosystems by overhunting game species, which never experienced contact with humans before.
-And perhaps they spread microbial disease-causing organisms as well.
The fossil record attests to human destruction of ecosystems:
-Wherever early humans migrated, other species became extinct.
-Humans arrived in large numbers in North America roughly 12,500 years ago-and sites revealing the butchering of mammoths, mastodons and extinct buffalo are well documented throughout the continent. The demise of the bulk of the La Brea tar pit Pleistocene fauna coincided with our arrival.
-The Caribbean lost several of its larger species when humans arrived some 8000 years ago.
-Extinction struck elements of the Australian megafauna much earlier-when humans arrived some 40,000 years ago. Madagascar-something of an anomaly, as humans only arrived there two thousand years ago-also fits the pattern well: the larger species (elephant birds, a species of hippo, plus larger lemurs) rapidly disappeared soon after humans arrived.
Indeed, only in places where earlier hominid species had lived (Africa, of course, but also most of Europe and Asia) did the fauna, already adapted to hominid presence, survive the first wave of the Sixth Extinction pretty much intact. The rest of the world’s species, which had never before encountered hominids in their local ecosystems, were as naively unwary as all but the most recently arrived species (such as Vermilion Flycatchers) of the Galapagos Islands remain to this day.
Why does the Sixth Extinction continue?
The invention of agriculture accelerated the pace of the Sixth Extinction.
Phase two of the Sixth Extinction began around 10,000 years ago with the invention of agriculture-perhaps first in the Natufian culture of the Middle East. Agriculture appears to have been invented several different times in various different places, and has, in the intervening years, spread around the entire globe.
Agriculture represents the single most profound ecological change in the entire 3.5 billion-year history of life. With its invention:
-Humans did not have to interact with other species for survival, and so could manipulate other species for their own use
-Humans did not have to adhere to the ecosystem’s carrying capacity, and so could overpopulate
-Humans do not live with nature but outside it.
Homo sapiens became the first species to stop living inside local ecosystems. All other species, including our ancestral hominid ancestors, all pre-agricultural humans, and remnant hunter-gatherer societies still extant exist as semi-isolated populations playing specific roles (i.e., have “niches”) in local ecosystems. This is not so with post-agricultural revolution humans, who in effect have stepped outside local ecosystems. Indeed, to develop agriculture is essentially to declare war on ecosystems - converting land to produce one or two food crops, with all other native plant species all now classified as unwanted “weeds” — and all but a few domesticated species of animals now considered as pests.
The total number of organisms within a species is limited by many factors-most crucial of which is the “carrying capacity” of the local ecosystem: given the energetic needs and energy-procuring adaptations of a given species, there are only so many squirrels, oak trees and hawks that can inhabit a given stretch of habitat. Agriculture had the effect of removing the natural local-ecosystem upper limit of the size of human populations. Though crops still fail regularly, and famine and disease still stalk the land, there is no doubt that agriculture in the main has had an enormous impact on human population size:
-Earth can’t sustain the trend in human population growth. It is reaching its limit in carrying capacity.
-Estimates vary, but range between 1 and 10 million people on earth 10,000 years ago.
-There are now over 6 billion people.
-The numbers continue to increase logarithmically — so that there will be 8 billion by 2020.
-There is presumably an upper limit to the carrying capacity of humans on earth — of the numbers that agriculture can support — and that number is usually estimated at between 13-15 billion, though some people think the ultimate numbers might be much higher.
This explosion of human population, especially in the post-Industrial Revolution years of the past two centuries, coupled with the unequal distribution and consumption of wealth on the planet, is the underlying cause of the Sixth Extinction. There is a vicious cycle:
-Overpopulation, invasive species, and overexploitation are fueling the extinction.
-More lands are cleared and more efficient production techniques (most recently engendered largely through genetic engineering) to feed the growing number of humans — and in response, the human population continues to expand.
-Higher fossil energy use is helping agriculture spread, further modifying the environment.
-Humans continue to fish (12 of the 13 major fisheries on the planet are now considered severely depleted) and harvest timber for building materials and just plain fuel, pollution, and soil erosion from agriculture creates dead zones in fisheries (as in the Gulf of Mexico)
-While the human Diaspora has meant the spread, as well, of alien species that more often than not thrive at the detriment of native species. For example, invasive species have contributed to 42% of all threatened and endangered species in the U.S.
Can conservation measures stop the Sixth Extinction?
Only 10% of the world’s species survived the third mass extinction. Will any survive this one?
The world’s ecosystems have been plunged into chaos, with some conservation biologists thinking that no system, not even the vast oceans, remains untouched by human presence. Conservation measures, sustainable development, and, ultimately, stabilization of human population numbers and consumption patterns seem to offer some hope that the Sixth Extinction will not develop to the extent of the third global extinction, some 245 mya, when 90% of the world’s species were lost.
Though it is true that life, so incredibly resilient, has always recovered (though after long lags) after major extinction spasms, it is only after whatever has caused the extinction event has dissipated. That cause, in the case of the Sixth Extinction, is ourselves — Homo sapiens. This means we can continue on the path to our own extinction, or, preferably, we modify our behavior toward the global ecosystem of which we are still very much a part. The latter must happen before the Sixth Extinction can be declared over, and life can once again rebound.
© 2005, American Institute of Biological Sciences. Educators have permission to reprint articles for classroom use; other users, please contact editor@actionbioscience.org for reprint permission. See reprint policy.
Paleontologist Dr. Niles Eldredge is the Curator-in-Chief of the permanent exhibition “Hall of Biodiversity” at the American Museum of Natural History and adjunct professor at the City University of New York. He has devoted his career to examining evolutionary theory through the fossil record, publishing his views in more than 160 scientific articles, reviews, and books. Life in the Balance: Humanity and the Biodiversity Crisisis his most recent book.
www.gc.cuny.edu/directories/faculty/E.htm
Articles and Resources on The Sixth Extinction
Consequences of the Sixth Extinction
The article “How Will Sixth Extinction Affect Evolution of Species?,” on our site, describes how the current loss of biodiversity will affect evolution in the long run.
www.actionbioscience.org/newfrontiers/myers_knoll.html
BioScience Article
“Global Conservation of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services.”
Habitat destruction has driven much of the current biodiversity extinction crisis, and it compromises the essential benefits, or ecosystem services that humans derive from functioning ecosystems. Securing both species and ecosystem services might be accomplished with common solutions. Yet it is unknown whether these two major conservation objectives coincide broadly enough worldwide to enable global strategies for both goals to gain synergy. In this November 2007, BioScience article, Will Turner and his colleagues assess the concordance between these two objectives, explore how the concordance varies across different regions, and examine the global potential for safeguarding biodiversity and ecosystem services simultaneously. Read the abstract, or log in to purchase the full article.
caliber.ucpress.net/doi/abs/10.1641/B571009
Biodiversity in the next millennium
American Museum of Natural History’s nationwide survey (undated) “reveals biodiversity crisis — the fastest mass extinction in Earth’s history.”
cbc.amnh.org/crisis/mncntnt.html
National Geographic
A 2/99 article about the Sixth Extinction, with views from several leading scientists.
www.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/9902/fngm/index.html
Extinction through time
Find out about cycles of life and death and extinction patterns through time.
www.carleton.ca/Museum/extinction/tablecont.html
Is Humanity Suicidal?
Edward O. Wilson asks us why we stay on the course to our own self-destruction.
www.well.com/user/davidu/suicidal.html
A Field Guide to the Sixth Extinction
Niles Eldredge writes in 1999 about a few of the millions of plants and animals that won’t make it to the next millennium. The second link takes you to the site’s main page, entitled “Mass Extinction Underway — The World Wide Web’s most comprehensive source of information on the current mass extinction,” which provides links to numerous other resources.
www.well.com/user/davidu/fieldguide.html
www.well.com/user/davidu/extinction.html
Global Environment Outlook 3
The United Nations Environment Programme released this major report in May 2002. The report collated the thoughts of more than 1,000 contributors to assess the environmental impact of the last 30 years and outline policy ideas for the next three decades. It concluded that without action, the world may experience severe environmental problems within 30 years. The entire report can be read online or purchased online.
www.unep.org/geo/geo3/index.htm
Test your environmental knowledge
A 1999 survey showed that only one in three adult Americans had a passing understanding of the most pressing environmental issues. How do you measure up? Explanatory answers provided.
www.youthactionnet.org/quizzes/global_environment.cfm
World Atlas of Biodiversity — interactive map
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) released the firstWorld Atlas of Biodiversityin August 2002. This link takes you to their online interactive map that helps you search for data about species/land/water loss, extinction over time, and human global development. Click on the “?” for a help page that explains how to interact with this map.
stort.unep-wcmc.org/imaps/gb2002/book/viewer.htm
The Sixth Great Extinction: A Status Report
Earth Policy Institute’s 2004 update on the status of loss of biodiversity.
www.earth-policy.org/Updates/Update35.htm
Books
» The Biodiversity Crisis: Losing What Countsby The American Museum of Natural History (New Press, 2001).
» The Sixth Extinction: Patterns of of Life and the Future of Humankindby Richard Leakey and Roger Lewin (Doubleday and Company, 1996).
Get Involved
The Biodiversity Project
You can choose a way to get involved in protecting biodiversity — from educational resources to community outreach.
www.biodiversityproject.org/html/resources/introduction.htm
The Nature Conservancy
Select a state from the menu and find out how you can become an environmental volunteer in that state.
Information for Action
“This website explains the environmental problems & offers solutions to fix them. There are many valuable resources available” including lobbying info, contacts database, & news updates.
Harmony
“Harmony Foundation is all about education for the environment. We offer publications and programs… ‘Building Sustainable Societies’ offers innovative training for educators and community group leaders to support local action on important environmental issues.”
Earth Talk: Environmental advocacy for professionals
This discussion community and learning network seeks to contribute to global ecological sustainability by enabling communication connections between those working on behalf of forests, water, and climate.
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Tiger Illustration by Dorothy Lathrop from
"Fierce-Face: The story of a tiger" by Dhan Gopal Mukerji (1936)
My annual Pro subscription exited my bank account this week I noticed. A timely prompt to upload something!
This is an Iberian Lynx - the rarest species of cat in the world with an estimated 2,000 individuals extant.
Though still vulnerable this is a much improved from when I first looked for the species in the early 1990s in Coto Donana where one of the two discrete populations then existed. There were less than a 100 cats in the wild then. I spoke with a ranger in the park at the time who had never seen a wild one and was more confident of making contact with an Andalusian Hemipode in Donana rather than a Lynx.
A captive breeding programme - which has seen releases in other areas of Spain and Portugal has kick-started the revival.
This one was photographed in Andujar in Jaén, Andalusia - probably the most reliable place to see one in the wild.
Música e imagen van unidas, adjunto una hermosa composición de Vangelis
Pulsar botón derecho mouse y abrir una pestaña nueva en todos los enlaces.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoj3SxBGmII
whytake.net/Portfolio/FranciscoDominguez/5334
www.linkingoo.com/foto/13/1304/francisco_dominguez.html
www.fluidr.com/photos/35196188@N03
www.fotonatura.org/galerias/6318/
www.youtube.com/user/25elgaucho
www.youtube.com/user/25elgaucho/videos?tag_id=&view=0...
es.wikiloc.com/wikiloc/spatialArtifacts.do
Ver vídeo del mismo autor que grabe en la Selva de Irati:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3_G3ETYUvQ&list=UUn_FRdMLWzj...
En España, Irati es el río que presta su nombre para dotar de apellido al mayor bosque de hayas de Europa occidental. En la cabecera de este cauce, en los valles navarros de Salazar y Aezkoa, un halo fantástico parece presidir las 17.000 hectáreas de la selva de Irati. Cuando las tonalidades de las hojas de este inmenso hayedo se alían con los abetos blancos, crean una fiesta cromática en medio de un melancólico silencio arropado por la bruma. El boj, el acebo o el endrino son algunos de los arbustos que engalanan un suelo marcado por las hozaduras de jabalíes o las huellas de los discretos gatos de monte.
In Spain, Irati is the river that lends its name to provide the greatest name beech forest in Western Europe. At the head of this river, in Navarre and Salazar valleys Aezkoa a fantastic halo seems to preside over the 17,000 hectares of the forest of Irati. When the shades of the leaves of this immense beech ally with white spruce, create a color party amid a gloomy silence enveloped by haze. The boxwood, holly or blackthorn are some shrubs that adorn a floor marked by hozaduras boar or traces of discrete bobcats.
France, Paris, "Fouquet's", a historic high-end brasserie at the corner of the Champs-Élysées & George V avenues, in 1899 founded by Louis Fouquet. The menu continues the tradition of classic French cuisine & is also famous for its red awnings spreading over the two terraces.
The restaurant is listed as a historical French monument since 1990. The historical decor includes mahogany wood panelling. Harcourt portraits of famous actresses & actors, a discrete brass plaques indicate the preferred tables of famous people. Today a silver napkin rings with their name engraved has replaced the brass plaques tradition.
In 1998, Fouquet's was purchased by the casinos operator Groupe Barrière & since 1989 part of the "Hotel Barrière Le Fouquet's Paris". The family owned French group created Hotel Barrière Le Fouquet's Paris by acquiring buildings around the brasserie & inaugurated other Fouquet's restaurants, in Toulouse, Courchevel, Cannes, La Baule, Enghien-les-Bains, Montreux & Marrakech.
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The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
-- Robert Frost
As the sun went down over Mount Laguna in Cleveland National Forest, San Diego County, California, this beautiful yet creepy landscape unfolded in front of me with dried pine trees making silhouette for the dark and rich background.
We can overlook the desert from this place.
Nature is always Deep Dark and Discrete.
The National Park Service began a 15-month project to restore the roofs, repair the stone, and clean the marble at the Thomas Jefferson Memorial. The memorial will remain open for the duration of the project, although some areas will be inaccessible.
The roof restoration and repair will consist of replacing the two flat upper and lower roofs that circle the dome to keep the building watertight and dry. Additionally, the large marble “tiles” covering the portico, the dramatic front entry that projects towards the Tidal Basin, will be lifted to replace the deteriorated water-proofing below. Stone will also be repaired under the portico and along the colonnade ceilings. Improvements to roof drains, downspouts, and gutters will also be completed.
Cleaning the visible marble on the dome and roof of the memorial will utilize specialized lasers to remove the black biofilm (a microbial colony of algae, fungi and bacteria) seen growing on upper portions of the memorial. The biofilm was first noticed in discrete areas of the white marble in 2006 and has become more pronounced in recent years. The National Park Service studied this growth since 2014 to determine the best treatment options.
Access to the front of the memorial, including the steps, accessible route, chamber with the statue of Thomas Jefferson, exhibit area, restrooms and elevator will remain open to the public during the construction. The east side of the memorial will be closed for construction staging.
The contract for this work was awarded on September 19, 2018, to Grunley Construction for $8.750 million. The Thomas Jefferson Memorial roof replacement, stone repair and biofilm removal project expected to be complete by May 2020.
Via NPS
... at the Ness Hotel, Shaldon, Devon, England.
The Hub by Bishopsteignton Outdoor Art Group (BOAG): "The post-apocalypse survivors' encampment was made from 1,500 hub caps, the remnants of a greenhouse, found chicken wire, donated fabric and other recycled materials. Many hub caps were collected from the wayside as road 'spin offs" (see: www.trail.org.uk/cboag.htm).
Part of the Trail Recycled Art In Landscape (TRAIL) sculpture trail on the south Devon coast between Shaldon and Dawlish. "Trail is an unique mix of professional artist and artist led community groups, an event that is continuously evolving with performance, literary and visual arts coming together exploring environmental issues" (see: www.trail.org.uk/).
See my other Trail Recycled Art In Landscape photos (including 2008).
Forty-spotted Pardalote, Pardalotus quadragintus, 9 - 10 cm. / 3.5 - 3.9 in. ENDANGERED, RARE and DECLINING. Named after the discrete, white dots on the folded wings. In Tasmania's drier, coastal eucalyptus forest and woodland. More reliable on Bruny Island. Main food source is Manna "White" Gum, Eucalyptus viminalis, where they forage in the canopy for insects and manna.
South Bruny Island, Tasmania, Australia. ©bryanjsmith.
This was taken from a wooden structure to look at birds discretely at Brooker Creek Preserve.
I didn't see any birds but I thought natural frame was neat.
Chaque soir il arrive discrètement jusqu'au jardin, me lance des oeillades amicales et attend sa friandise...
Ma page naturaliste sur Facebook : www.facebook.com/BaladesSauvages
American Oystercatcher
The American Oystercatchers are a group of waders forming the family Haematopodidae, which has a single genus, Haematopus. They are found on coasts worldwide apart from the Polar Regions and some tropical regions of Africa and South East Asia. The exception to this is the Eurasian Oystercatcher and the South Island Oystercatcher, both of which breed inland, far inland in some cases. In the past there has been a great deal of confusion as to the species limits, with discrete populations of all black oystercatchers being afforded specific status but pied oystercatchers being considered one single species.
The name Oystercatcher was coined by Mark Catesby in 1731 as a common name for the North American species H. Palliatus, described as eating oysters. Yarrell in 1843 established this as the preferred term, replacing the older name Sea Pie.
For more info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oystercatcher
American Oystercatcher
The American Oystercatchers are a group of waders forming the family Haematopodidae, which has a single genus, Haematopus. They are found on coasts worldwide apart from the Polar Regions and some tropical regions of Africa and South East Asia. The exception to this is the Eurasian Oystercatcher and the South Island Oystercatcher, both of which breed inland, far inland in some cases. In the past there has been a great deal of confusion as to the species limits, with discrete populations of all black oystercatchers being afforded specific status but pied oystercatchers being considered one single species.
The name Oystercatcher was coined by Mark Catesby in 1731 as a common name for the North American species H. Palliatus, described as eating oysters. Yarrell in 1843 established this as the preferred term, replacing the older name Sea Pie.
For more info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oystercatcher
Ankaramena (Madagascar) - Le marché aux zébus d’Ankaramena n’est pas un grands rendez-vous pour les éleveurs de bovins. En tout cas, pas comme celui d’Ambalavao à plusieurs centaines de kilomètres vers l’Ouest, où l’on peut voir des rassemblements de plus de 1000 bovins.
Ici, quand une petite soixantaine de zébus changent de propriétaires, c’est une bonne journée pour le négoce.
Elever des zébus à Madagascar est une profession particulièrement rentable. Si certains vieux éleveurs aiment toujours se vêtir en guenilles pour illustrer le dicton selon lequel il vaut mieux faire pitié qu’envie, les plus jeunes n’hésitent plus à s’habiller dans le style « branché malgache ».
Sur cette scène deux zébus vont changer de propriétaire. L’homme accroupi tient dans ses mains une petite boite en plastique dans laquelle se trouve l’argent de la transaction.
Ankaramena (Madagascar) - The Ankaramena zebu market is not a major event for cattle breeders. In any case, not like that of Ambalavao several hundred kilometers to the West, where we can see gatherings of more than 1000 cattle.
Here, when around fifty zebus change owners, it’s a good day.
Raising zebus in Madagascar is a particularly profitable profession. If some old breeders still like to dress in rags to illustrate the saying that it is better to be pitied than envied, the youngest no longer hesitate to dress in the “trendy Malagasy” style.
On this scene two zebus will change owners. The crouching man holds in his hands a small plastic box containing the money from the transaction.
Saw this young woman at the cathedral on top of the hill, and then again here in the commercial plaza at the bottom. Just standing, in both places, late morning on a Thursday, where groups of mostly elderly tourists could see her. Took a discrete photo each time. She didn’t notice, or at least didn’t respond.
Yes, I wondered.
No, I didn’t ask.
Not worth posting, really, but I like to alternate images with portrait and landscape orientation.
I tried to discretely take a photo of this duck while she was napping but I guess the sound of the camera woke her up. Another reason to get a mirrorless camera I guess. This photo was taken at Bombay Hook NWR.
To expand the operational capability of the air expeditonary wing, I needed an eye in the sky - an airborne surveillance and command post: an AWACS in its pre 2000 configuration. It is 88 studs long by 84 studs wide. As far as I can tell, at this scale, it is unique. The only functional elements are a free turning radome and front crew door. As the wings are long and made of slopes laying horizontaly, I've used a fishing line tied to engines #2 & 3 to hold them into position. The system is discrete and works very well - for transport and display purpose.
règle numéro 1 : de photo de moi tu ne prendras point…. ou alors je bouge na !
photo donc ratée de prime abord, mais...y a quelque chose qui me plait en elle...
Ane Brun - Don't Run And Hide youtu.be/6dNzwEfEW4Q
At a certain point you say to the woods, to the sea, to the mountains, the world. Now I am ready.
Now I will stop and be wholly attentive.
You empty yourself and wait, listening.
After a time you hear it: there is nothing there.
There is nothing but those things only, those created objects, discrete, growing or holding, or swaying, being rained on or raining, held, flooding or ebbing, standing, or spread.
You feel the world's word as a tension, a hum, a single chorused note everywhere the same.
This is it: this hum is the silence.
~ Annie Dillard
Ringlet / aphantopus hyperantus. Stanton Canal, Derbyshire. 27/06/16.
A large clump of thistles tempted several Ringlets up to nectar.
It was good to have them 'anchored' for a few minutes, preoccupied with feeding, rather than fluttering among the grasses at ankle height.
Taille : 15 cm - Poids : 15 à 23 g
Merci à tous pour vos visites, favoris et commentaires.
Bonne journée.
Thanks you all for your visits, faves and comments.
Have a good day.
Silver-studded Blue / plebejus argus. Westleton Heath, Suffolk. 29/06/18.
A male SSB basking on top of Bell Heather. Not the best angle from where I was working to get detail of all four wings, but nevertheless, it shows their broad black borders and white edge fringes quite nicely.
He had torn part of a hind wing already, despite looking so fresh and bright.
Wood ducks are very skittish birds unlike the mallards who had joined them and who were still floating around watching me curiously. It's like mallards are city ducks used to handouts, wandering around in traffic, swooping down at picnic sights. The wood ducks are like royalty once the guards raise the alarm they're off.
Here i sent Joanne on a divergent trail behind the bank where they were all hiding while i discretely stood in front of the bush well away from the pond hoping for some shots in the open. They sensed the subterfuge and bolted.
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El Tozal del Mallo es un pico situado en los Pirineos, en el valle de Ordesa, en el término municipal de Torla-Ordesa (provincia de Huesca). Estribación sur del pico Mondarruego, destaca desde la entrada del valle por su impresionante cara sur a pesar de contar con altura discreta (2280 metros).
Wikipedia
El Tozal del Mallo is a peak located in the Pyrenees, in the Ordesa valley, in the municipality of Torla-Ordesa (Huesca province). South foothills of the Mondarruego peak, it stands out from the entrance of the valley for its impressive south face despite having a discrete height (2280 meters).
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El Tozal del Mallo est un sommet situé dans les Pyrénées, dans la vallée d'Ordesa, dans la municipalité de Torla-Ordesa (province de Huesca). Contreforts sud du pic Mondarruego, il se distingue de l'entrée de la vallée par son impressionnante face sud malgré une hauteur discrète (2280 mètres).
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El Tozal del Mallo ist ein Gipfel in den Pyrenäen im Ordesa-Tal in der Gemeinde Torla-Ordesa (Provinz Huesca). Das südliche Vorgebirge des Mondarruego-Gipfels hebt sich trotz seiner diskreten Höhe (2280 m) vom Taleingang durch seine beeindruckende Südwand ab.
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After this morning's high altitude diffused smokey sunrise (www.flickr.com/photos/79387036@N07/50570112386/in/photost...), this evening's smoke formed discrete bands. This display was definitely smoke since weather satellite showed no clouds looking west. It was both a unique and beautiful event.
Taken 9 minutes after sunset on 5 Nov using iPhone 11 Pro Max.
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The architecture of the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art is rather subtle, rather than big flashy glass boxes that seem so popular these days it forms a series of discrete buildings within the landscape connected by corridors. The differing spaces form a series of spaces with unique qualities giving options to Curators when putting together new exhibitions.
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From Wikipedia : "The name of the museum derives from the first owner of the property, Alexander Brun, who named the villa after his three wives, all named Louise. The museum was created in 1958 by Knud W. Jensen, the owner at the time. He contacted architects Vilhelm Wohlert and Jørgen Bo who spent a few months walking around the property before deciding how a new construction would best fit into the landscape. This study resulted in the first version of the museum consisting of three buildings connected by glass corridors. Since then it has been extended several times until it reached its present circular shape in 1991."
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HP5+, 120 film taken with a Pentax 645. I have wanted to photograph this clock with a multi-second exposure for a while due to its discrete second hand movements.
Festival des lumières qui a lieu chaque année depuis 6 ans. Pendant 10 jours
les artistes exposent des "sculptures ou créations originales lumineuses" disséminées dans toute la ville. Certaines de ces œuvres ne figurent pas dans mes photos car trop discrètes.
GENEVA LUX (lux meaning light in latin)
Festival of lights which has been held every year for 6 years. During 10 days
the artists exhibit "luminous original sculptures or creations" scattered throughout the city. Some of these works do not appear in my photos because they are too discreet.
New Urbanist communities, Rosemary Beach is an architectural treasure trove, boasting influences from the West Indies, New Orleans, Charleston and St. Augustine, among others.
The grand homes (many with adjoining carriage houses that are just as extraordinary) are interconnected by a discrete network of pedestrian paths and boardwalks, which become even more charming at night, basked in the soft flicker of gas-lit lanterns.
Like most Traditional Neighborhood Developments (TNDs), the best way to explore Rosemary Beach is on foot (or on a beach cruiser). Wood-plank pathways meander through the town’s striking architecture, often revealing hidden amenities such as playgrounds, bubbling fountains, tennis courts or one of the community’s several cosmopolitan swimming pools.
Aurorae are classified as diffuse and discrete. The diffuse aurora is a featureless glow in the sky that may not be visible to the naked eye, even on a dark night. It defines the extent of the auroral zone. The discrete aurorae are sharply defined features within the diffuse aurora that vary in brightness from just barely visible to the naked eye, to bright enough to read a newspaper by at night. Discrete aurorae are usually seen in only the night sky, because they are not as bright as the sunlit sky. Aurorae occasionally occur poleward of the auroral zone as diffuse patches or arcs