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Red Kites are distinctive because of their forked tail and striking colour - predominantly chestnut red with white patches under the wings and a pale grey head.
They have a wingspan of nearly two metres (about five-and-a-half-feet), but a relatively small body weight of 2 - 3 Ibs.
This means the bird is incredibly agile, and can stay in the air for many hours with hardly a beat of its wings
Nikon D90
Nikon 70mm - 300mm /f4.5
ISO 800
EV +1.7
Honolulu Chinatown has a distinctively different feel from those I've been to in Boston, New York, London, Yokohama...
There's a feeling of age, of being run-down, to be sure, but that in itself is not so unique.
There's something about the way the shops and streets are arranged, a single awning running the whole length of the street, uniting it all, signs hanging from it in front of each shop.
I've never been to China; I can't say for sure which city or which neighborhood this reminds me of. But surely there are places (or there were places, in some past decade) which look like this, right?
Draco – the dragon standard, AD 190–260
Niederbieber, Germany
Bronze
By the AD 100s, a distinctive windsock-like standard especially suited to being wielded from the saddle had been adopted from Rome's Sarmatian (nomadic Iranian) foes – the draco. This bronze standard head originally had a tube of colourful materials attached.
Carried by a draconarius, the material trailed behind the rider, blown by the breeze and emitting a whistling sound to suggest the fearsome beast's howl. Its pole was attached through two holes on the top and bottom of the head.*
From the exhibition
Legion - life in the Roman army
(February – June 2024)
From family life on the fort to the brutality of the battlefield, this exhibition experienced Rome's war machine through the people who knew it best – the soldiers who served in it.
Few men are born brave; many become so from care and force of discipline.
Vegetius, Fourth-century Roman writer
The Roman Empire spanned more than a million square miles and owed its existence to its military might. By promising citizenship to those without it, the Roman army – the West's first modern, professional fighting force – also became an engine for creating citizens, offering a better life for soldiers who survived their service.
Expansive yet deeply personal, this exhibition transported you across the empire, as well as through the life and service of a real Roman soldier, Claudius Terentianus, from enlistment and campaigns to enforcing occupation then finally, in Terentianus' case, retirement. Objects included letters written on papyri by soldiers from Roman Egypt and the Vindolanda tablets – some of the oldest surviving handwritten documents in Britain. The tablets, from the fort near Hadrian's wall, revealed first-hand what daily life was like for soldiers and the women, children and enslaved people who accompanied them.
Roman military history perhaps stretches as far back as the sixth century BC but it wasn't until the first emperor, Augustus (63 BC – AD 14), that soldiering became a career choice. While the rewards of army life were enticing – those in the legions could earn a substantial pension and those entering the auxiliary troops could attain citizenship for themselves and their families – the perils were real. Soldiers were viewed with fear and hostility by civilians – not helped by their casual abuses and extra roles as executioners and enforcers of occupation – and they could meet grim ends off, as well as on, the battlefield. Finds in Britain, featured in the exhibition, included the remains of two soldiers probably murdered and clandestinely buried in Canterbury, suggesting local resistance.
What did life in the Roman army look like from a soldier's perspective? What did their families make of life in the fort? How did the newly-conquered react? Legion explored life in settled military communities from Scotland to the Red Sea through the people who lived it.
[*British Museum]
Taken at the British Museum
Banksy is a pseudonymous England-based street artist, political activist, and film director whose real name and identity remain unconfirmed and the subject of speculation. Active since the 1990s, his satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine dark humour with graffiti executed in a distinctive stenciling technique. His works of political and social commentary have appeared on streets, walls, and bridges throughout the world. His work grew out of the Bristol underground scene, which involved collaborations between artists and musicians. Banksy says that he was inspired by 3D, a graffiti artist and founding member of the musical group Massive Attack.
Banksy displays his art on publicly visible surfaces such as walls and self-built physical prop pieces. He no longer sells photographs or reproductions of his street graffiti, but his public "installations" are regularly resold, often even by removing the wall on which they were painted. Much of his work can be classified as temporary art. A small number of his works are officially, non-publicly, sold through an agency he created called Pest Control. Banksy's documentary film Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010) made its debut at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. In January 2011, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for the film. In 2014, he was awarded Person of the Year at the 2014 Webby Awards.
Banksy's name and identity remain unconfirmed and the subject of speculation. In a 2003 interview with Simon Hattenstone of The Guardian, Banksy is described as "white, 28, scruffy casual—jeans, T-shirt, a silver tooth, silver chain and silver earring. He looks like a cross between Jimmy Nail and Mike Skinner of The Streets." An ITV News segment of 2003 featured a short interview with someone identified in the reporting as Banksy. Banksy began as an artist at the age of 14, was expelled from school, and served time in prison for petty crime. According to Hattenstone, "anonymity is vital to him because graffiti is illegal". Banksy reportedly lived in Easton, Bristol, during the late 1990s, before moving to London around 2000.
In an interview with the BBC in 2003, which was rediscovered in November 2023, reporter Nigel Wrench asked if Banksy is called Robert Banks; Banksy responded that his forename is Robbie. The Mail on Sunday claimed in 2008 that Banksy is Robin Gunningham, born on 28 July 1974 in Yate, 12 miles (19 km) from Bristol. Several of Gunningham's associates and former schoolmates at Bristol Cathedral School have corroborated this, and, in 2016, a study by researchers at the Queen Mary University of London using geographic profiling found that the incidence of Banksy's works correlated with the known movements of Gunningham. According to The Sunday Times, Gunningham began employing the name Robin Banks, which eventually became Banksy. Two cassette sleeves featuring his art work from 1993, for the Bristol band Mother Samosa, exist with his signature. In June 2017, DJ Goldie referred to Banksy as "Rob" in an interview for a podcast.
Other speculations on Banksy's identity include the following:
Robert Del Naja (also known as 3D), a member of the trip hop band Massive Attack, had been a graffiti artist during the 1980s prior to forming the band, and was previously identified as a personal friend of Banksy.
In 2020, users on Twitter began to speculate that former Art Attack presenter Neil Buchanan was Banksy. This was denied by Buchanan's publicist.
In 2022, Billy Gannon, a local councillor in Pembroke Dock was rumoured to be Banksy. He subsequently resigned because the speculation was affecting his ability to carry out the duties of a councillor. "I'm being asked to prove who I am not, and the person that I am not may not exist," he said. "I mean, how am I supposed to prove that I'm not somebody who doesn't exist? Just how do you do that?"
In October 2014, an internet hoax circulated that Banksy had been arrested and his identity revealed.
Distinctive great red cliff running across northern Arizona. Seen from US Airways flight over Arizona in December 2009.
The Grove Experience / Distinctive Catering In Cedar Grove NJ
Photography by Arpi pap 2011 www.PAPstudio.com
Male Great Frigatebird (Fregata minor) with its distinctive red gular pouch on a nest / An afternoon “dry” landing via Prince Philip's Steps to explore the higher elevations of Genovesa Island, named after the Italian city of Genoa, in honor of Christopher Columbus, (referred to in English as Tower Island). This island is a shield volcano in the Galápagos Islands. The island occupies about 14 square kilometers (5 sq. mi), and its maximum elevation is 64 m (210 ft). The horse-shoe shaped island has a volcanic caldera whose wall has collapsed, forming the Great Darwin Bay, surrounded by cliffs. Lake Arcturus, filled with salt water, lies in the center, and sediment within this crater lake is less than 6,000 years old. Although no historical eruptions are known from Genovesa, there are very young lava flows on the flanks of the volcano. This island is known as Bird Island, because of the large and varied bird colonies which nest here. There are an abundance of frigatebirds and it is among the best place in the archipelago to see red-footed boobies, Nazca boobies, swallow-tailed gulls, storm petrels, tropicbirds, Darwin's finches, and Galápagos mockingbirds. Prince Philip's Steps is an extraordinary steep path that leads through a seabird colony full of life, up to cliffs that are 25 meters (82 feet) high. At the top, the trail continues inland, passing more seabird colonies in a thin forest of Palo Santo (Bursera graveolens), an aromatic tree endemic to the Galapagos Islands.
www.english-heritage.org.uk/kenilworthcastle
I loved the texture created by wind and rain erosion - I hope that isn’t an off-the-wall remark!?
A distinctive and quite scarce Tachinid fly. The wing has no crossvein m-cu and vein m does not reach the wing margin - although this latter feature is not apparent in this damaged specimen.
Hollies Wood, Haughmond Hill, Shropshire 22 May 2018
Distinctive Moustache - A man with a distinctive moustache stares into the lens in Coonoor, India.. To Download this image without watermarks for Free, visit: www.sourcepics.com/free-stock-photography/24678654-distin...
A distinctive landmark in the Helsinki cityscape, with its tall, green dome surrounded by four smaller domes, the building is in the neoclassical style. It was designed by Carl Ludvig Engel as the climax of his Senate Square layout: it is surrounded by other, smaller buildings designed by him.
A distinctive feature of Semana Santa in Seville is the style of marching of the pasos. A team of men, the costaleros (literally "sack men", for their distinctive - and functional - headdress), supporting the beams upon their shoulders and necks, lift, move and lower the paso. As they are all inside the structure and hidden from the external view by a curtain, the paso seems to move by itself. On the outside an overseer (capataz), guides the team by voice, and/or through a ceremonial hammer el llamador (caller) attached to the paso.
Depending on weight (most weigh over a metric tonne), a paso requires between twenty-four and fifty-four costaleros to move. Each brotherhood has a distinctive way to raise and move a paso, and even each paso within the procession.
A distinctive form because of its leafless green bunched and zigzaggy stems. Stephanomeria tenuifolia myrioclada is most common on the open lava fields throughout the Upper Snake River plains in southeastern Idaho. This site lies in the sagebrush steppe along the Tree Molds trail, Craters of the Moon National Monument, Butte County, Idaho.
The Caspian tern is a large distinctive gull-like tern of shallow coastal waters and, particularly outside of the breeding season, inland lakes and rivers throughout New Zealand. It is an attractive sleek species whose guttural call is often heard before the bird is seen.
The Caspian tern is the largest of all species of terns. With its 1 metre wingspan, it is similar in size to a black-backed gull. Caspian terns are silver-grey above and white below, with dark wing tips. The tail is relatively short and only slightly forked compared to other terns. The large bill is mostly bright red in adults, becoming dark near the tip, with the extreme tip yellowish (only apparent at close range). Adults have black legs and a black cap to below the eye during the breeding season. The cap becomes speckled with white and less sharply delineated at other times of the year. Juveniles have some brown mottling on the back that is lost during the first autumn moult, while the diffuse brown cap is retained for longer. The bill is orange and smaller than adults at first. The legs and feet may be dull orange or black. The flight of Caspian terns is direct, with purposeful shallow beats - www.nzbirdsonline.org.nz
“Distinctive, beautiful, stylish and affordable…” I’m not sure what their definition of affordable is, houses at Edlogan Wharf range from £250,000 to £330,000.
Distinctive pleated copper red paired new leaves make this Cunoniaceous tree easy to pick out in the rainforest. This one is on the margin of a patch of rainforest within moist sclerophyll forest in the Herberton Range, north-east Queensland.
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Cambodia. Siem Reap. Angkor.
The Bayon (Khmer: ប្រាសាទបាយ័ន, Prasat Bayon) is a well-known and richly decorated Khmer temple at Angkor in Cambodia. Built in the late 12th or early 13th century as the official state temple of the Mahayana Buddhist King Jayavarman VII, the Bayon stands at the centre of Jayavarman's capital, Angkor Thom. Following Jayavarman's death, it was modified and augmented by later Hindu and Theravada Buddhist kings in accordance with their own religious preferences.
The Bayon's most distinctive feature is the multitude of serene and massive stone faces on the many towers which jut out from the upper terrace and cluster around its central peak.[3] The temple is known also for two impressive sets of bas-reliefs, which present an unusual combination of mythological, historical, and mundane scenes.
We all know the shape of those wings...
My photographs have been quite nerdy recently - lots of trains - and this reputation will not be helped by a set from the UK's largest radio-controlled model airshow.
I love taking photographs of 'tribes at play' !
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North Weald airfiled, Epping, Essex, UK
A distinctive bunched penstemon distinguished by a lack of basal leaves, stems leaves strongly serrate, and inhabiting dry exposed rocky outcrops at lower montane elevations. The anthers are distinctive in that they are glabrous and the sacs remain parallel (or together form a U shape). The pollen is dispersed via buzz pollination through pores that are seemingly terminal but actually basal (near the point of attachments to the filament). This site lies along Silver Bow Creek west of Miles Crossing, Silver Bow County, Montana.
Distinctive Doll couple from Mexico; note his portrait is embroidered on her blouse! The beading and embroidery are exquisitely done on these two. China Poblena clothing on her.
A very distinctive fall aster found in the longleaf pine tracts of the Carolina Sandhills NWR in late summer. The leaves of this fall aster are very distinctive as they are (1) decumbent or nearly so and (2) covered with fine hairs, leading to the common name of "Cottony Goldenaster". The terminal portion of the stem is often slightly erect, supporting a single showy blossom.
As I noted yesterday, I am catching up with a few images and sharing them with Name That Plant , a wonderful native plant resource for the southeastern hiker, gardener, plant enthusiast, naturalist.....