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Part of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, mostly for critical winter habitat for bighorn sheep on Whiskey Mountain (behind me).
While walking in the Farnham Estate in Cavan I came across this ecosystem in a tree! It reminded me of the giant Kauri tree known as Tane Mahuta in the forest of Waipoua in New Zealand! This may not be quite as big but the range of plants living on it are almost as spectacular!
When you are out in the field shooting, many landscape photographers tell you to go take a nap during the flat mid-day light. I disagree with that advice. Yes, the light from the sun coming from high angles does give rather flat lighting conditions. I say, "Use the light you have." You are on a photo trip, you've shot at sunrise and now you have to look for other targets of opportunity. This time of day is great for looking for things in nature that are more abstract. Things like patterns, textures and shapes. This is also a great time to seek-out close-up shots and do some macro shooting. You can find all these things during the mid-day. Keep a collapsible reflector handy in your camera bag or vest. Use it with your camera on a tripod with the remote shutter release or the self-timer feature. Even on an overcast day, you can use a flash.
I took this shot at about 11AM. Was the light flat? Not really. You can see a shadow from the Joshua tree. In winter, the sun is lower in the sky all day than it is in summer, so the lower angle of the sun gives some degree of cross-lighting. In summer, the higher sun angles give us flater lighting.
The clouds make this image interesting. If I had gone back to my trailer and taken a nap, I'd have missed a lot of opportunities to get some great images. For this image, I positioned myself and the camera to get the tree and clouds into a pleasing configuration. I lined up the clouds with the top of the tree. When you see a great sky, with dramatic clouds and a nice foreground, don't just bring your camera to your eye and snap. During this part of the day, you are not hurried by the sun coming up or going down. Now is the time to set-up the camera on the tripod and carefully frame and compose your shots. Remember the 'Rule of Thirds.' Use contrasting colors. Take into account the dominance of the elements of your composition. Make it all work together. Take lots of shots. Use your camera's display to check for composition and exposure.
Notes
Although a few mushrooms with stems grow on tree bark, most do not. Bark mushrooms typically grow in the form of conk, also called a bract or Polypores are a group of fungi that form fruiting bodies with pores or tubes on the underside (see Delimitation for exceptions).
They are a morphological group of basidiomycetes like gilled mushrooms and hydnoid fungi, and not all polypores are closely related to each other. Polypores are also called bracket fungi, and their woody fruiting bodies are called conks.
Polypores are used in traditional medicine, and they are actively studied for their medicinal value and various industrial applications.
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Aambyvalley rd., Upper Lonavala Maharashtra India
To consider termites plunderers is unfair. They are the most important animals in a forest ecosystem, single-handedly decomposing 40% to 100% of the decaying wood and thereby enriching the soil. Subterranean termites, which are among the ones that bothers us humans, serve us well too. As they tunnel through the soil, building swarming tubes to forage for food, they increase the soil’s porosity, facilitating greater percolation of water. Termites are known to dig as deep as over 100 feet in search of water to maintain the humidity of their mounds. As early as 500 CE, Indian astronomer Varahamihira wrote in the Brihat-Samhita that termite mounds were indicators of ground water and mineral deposits.
The Rock Islands of Palau are a collection of several hundred limestone and coral uprises in the Palauan archipelago. They are extremely important to Palau as they support biodiversity, fisheries, tourism, and cultural values. The islands are also famous for their beaches, blue/turquoise lagoons, and have made UNESCO heritage status. There are over 746 species of fish, over 385 corals, 13 species of shark and manta rays, 7 species of giant clams, and all the endemic birds and over half of the endemic plants of Palau.
Aambyvalley Rd.,Lonavala,Mah.,India
larvae feeds on Ricinus communis and Tragia involucrata.I have yet to locate them.
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Prides are family units that may comprise anywhere from two to 40 lions—including up to to three or four males, a dozen or so females, and their young. All of a pride's lionesses are related, and female cubs typically stay with the group as they age.
One of the most discussed building sites in Hamburg. Costs exploded over the years. Everybody is blaming the other ones. But the building itself stands there in all its beauty and totally unimpressed about the discussions.
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This collection was created especially for nature lovers. We have collected these public domain illustrations from the Biodiversity Heritage Library, a big source of antique nature artwork. Explore this ecosystem of natural creatures for some rare flowers, birds, fish and much more. These vintage paintings are available for you to download for free under the Creative Commons 0 license.
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The orchids, and especially the mediterranean ones, are a curious and very interesting group of plants. Does the name come from the greek όρχις that means "testicles" since many of the species they possess two tubers that liken enough that part of the anatomy.
It used to be said of the orchids that are to the vegetable Kingdom that that the man to the animal Kingdom. Saving the comparisons, the sentence makes reference to that evolved, specialized and extended of this group. There are orchids in all the ecosystems of the planet, lacking alone in the deserts and in the poles. What has given a quantity of enormous species, between 20.000 and 40.000 different species, and growing (according to who you read).
Here in the Delta of the Llobregat there is around a thirty of species.
Of the most attractive adaptations in the orchids it is their seed. For the dispersion they have opted to reduce to the minimum expression the seed eliminating of her the nutritious reservations, in such a way that the "sheath" of an orchid contains thousands or even millions of minuscule seeds that you/they go from some few millimeters to microns. To be able to germinate, the seeds associate with diverse types of mushrooms that contribute them the necessary nutrients during the growth and good part of their mature life forming micorrizas colonies (mico: mushroom, riza: root). This is one of the main reasons for which artificial reproduction of these plants is so complicated. When being carried out the germination in the face of the absence of the mushrooms that you/they form the micorriza and to lack the seed of nutritious reservations their germination it must be necessarily carried out on a broth of artificial nutritious cultivation and carried out under conditions of maximum sterilization.
In these latitudes, the orchids begin to sprout with the first rains that you/they close the summer and toward the months of January February they begin to flourish. According to the species, the floración extends until final of June. With the arrival of the heat, the plant dries off and it disappears being only the bulb buried to tolerate the heat of the summer.
The Rock Islands of Palau are a collection of several hundred limestone and coral uprises in the Palauan archipelago. They are extremely important to Palau as they support biodiversity, fisheries, tourism, and cultural values. The islands are also famous for their beaches, blue/turquoise lagoons, and have made UNESCO heritage status. There are over 746 species of fish, over 385 corals, 13 species of shark and manta rays, 7 species of giant clams, and all the endemic birds and over half of the endemic plants of Palau.
This fern was growing in the moss on the giant beech I posted last week. It's amazing how these big trees can be a harbour for so many plants, animals and insects!
Reflection on a calm, still Loch Vale lake, a remote alpine lake in Rocky Mountain National Park Colorado
Check out the latest and greatest scientific instruments for environmental research from LI-COR Biosciences, in LEGO form! Several scientists measure photosynthesis, soil flux, leaf area, and light, while an eddy covariance tower silently measures CO2 and CH4 flux.
What Drew me to this shot was how such a small body of water existed so close and yet so far from the endless ocean. Reminds me of evolution, where the few life forms in the pond eventually become a different species than those in the ocean. Maybe some little fish will grow legs and upload their own pictures in Flickr some day.
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Aambyvalley rd., Upper Lonavala Maharashtra India.
a record monsoon for a extended period of time seems to have disturbed the rhythm of nature.
“Order is found in things working beneficially together. It is not the forced condition of neatness, tidiness, and straightness, all of which are, in design or energy terms, disordered. True order may lie in apparent confusion . ."
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The pinyon pine and juniper ecosystem of the interior is adapted to regular wildfires, so this is a common sight.
Bee Butts — Well, we may not "Break the Internet" with this one, but we like bee butts and we cannot lie!
This is the backend of a Lipotriches (Plain Sweat Bee) collected in Australia. This is one of the bees in which the males are known to form sleeping aggregations – small groups to dozens of individuals clustering together on the same twig late in the afternoon and remaining there until after dawn. There may be quite a lot of “jockeying for position” as males alight too close to another individual with low key aggressive interactions. Some clusters might contain more than one species. There has been little research on the reason for this aggregating behavior, although safety in numbers might play a role.
You can find more bees, all for public domain use, from our Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab at flickr.com/photos/usgsbiml.
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