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ELABORATE RITUAL DISPLAYS,, being performed in early springtime at Stodmarsh N.R in Kent. This Grebe is so elegant and graceful, love its long slender neck and dagger-like bill, It was pure joy seeing these, and made my trip worthwhile.
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The elaborate facade is all that remains (above ground) of St. Paul's Cathedral in the historic center of Macau. The cathedral was built in 1620-ies, mostly by Japanese Christians expelled from Japan. It was destroyed by fire during a typhoon in 1835 (at the first glance the typhoon should have brought enough water to quench the fire, but obviously it did not happen).
It was a bit too hot for this old guy to go looking for Elephants or Alligators, so I had to settle for taking Pics of the Hummingbirds that frequent my backyard. I believe this is an Allen’s Hummingbird.
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The Allen's Hummingbird:
In early spring, a narrow strip of scrub and chaparral along the Pacific Coast starts buzzing with the sights and sounds of the coppery and green Allen's Hummingbird. Males flash their brilliant reddish orange throat and put on an elaborate show for the females, swinging in pendulous arcs before climbing high into the sky and diving back down with a sharp squeal made by their tails. These early migrants mostly spend the winter in Mexico, but some stay in southern California year-round.
Allen's Hummingbirds breed in a narrow strip of habitat along coastal Oregon and California. Male and female Allen's Hummingbirds use different habitats during the breeding season. The male sets up a territory overseeing open areas of coastal scrub or chaparral, where he perches conspicuously on exposed branches. The female visits these areas, but after mating she heads into thickets or forests to build a nest and raise the young.
The Allen's Hummingbird is a remarkably early migrant compared with most North American birds. Northbound birds may depart their wintering grounds as early as December, arriving on their breeding grounds as early as January when winter rains produce an abundance of flowers.
Like other birds, Allen's Hummingbirds use their feet to help control their body temperature. When it's cold outside they tuck their feet up against their bellies while flying, but when temperatures soar, they let their feet dangle to cool down.
The oldest recorded Allen's Hummingbird was at least 5 years old when she was captured and rereleased in California during banding operations in 2009. She was banded in the same state in 2004.
(Sony, 200-600 @ 594 mm, 1/640 @ f/6.3, ISO 8000, edited to taste)
Great Crested Grebe - Podiceps Cristatus
The great crested grebe has an elaborate mating display. Like all grebes, it nests on the water's edge, since its legs are set relatively far back and it is thus unable to walk very well. Usually two eggs are laid, and the fluffy, striped young grebes are often carried on the adult's back. In a clutch of two or more hatchlings, male and female grebes will each identify their 'favourites', which they alone will care for and teach
Unusually, young grebes are capable of swimming and diving almost at hatching. The adults teach these skills to their young by carrying them on their back and diving, leaving the chicks to float on the surface; they then re-emerge a few feet away so that the chicks may swim back onto them.
The great crested grebe feeds mainly on fish, but also small crustaceans, insects small frogs and newts.
This species was hunted almost to extinction in the United Kingdom in the 19th century for its head plumes, which were used to decorate hats and ladies' undergarments. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds was set up to help protect this species, which is again a common sight.
The great crested grebe and its behaviour was the subject of one of the landmark publications in avian ethology: Julian Huxley's 1914 paper on The Courtship‐habits of the Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps cristatus).
Population:
UK breeding:
4,600 pairs
UK wintering:
19,000 individuals
of common columbines / Gewöhnliche Akelei (Aquilegia vulgaris)
in our garden - Frankfurt-Nordend
for a HBW!
Elaborate architectural details of a typical Parisian building on Place Vendome, yes. But the interesting part of this shot is the mystery figure, half-hidden in the shadows, suspiciously watching the photographer. Clearly, security is top notch here.
"I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree." -- excerpt from Trees by Joyce Kilmer
An elaborately branched tree in Kyoto, Japan
With their elaborate headdresses, the crowned pigeons are probably the most beautiful pigeons. They look majestic and impressive - but can also be different as we see in this photo. Deep down inside, they're looking just as sweet as sugar!
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Church on the Spilled Blood, St Petersburg Russia
This is St Petersburg's most elaborate church, with a classic Russian Orthodox exterior and interior decorated with some 7000 sq meters of mosaics. Designed by architect AA Parland and the archimandrite Ignaty, the church incorporates elements of 18th-century Russian architecture from Moscow and Yaroslavl, and is so lavish it took 24 years to build and went over budget by 1 million roubles - en enormous sum for the times.
Great blue herons don't mate for life, but they do have elaborate courtship rituals that help pairs form strong bonds. Their mating displays include bill snapping, neck stretching, moaning calls, preening, circular flights, twig shaking, twig exchanging, crest raising and even bill duels. Scuffles over females are common, but never end in death. Once their complex dance is finished, the male and the female heron will have the strong bond necessary to raise their hatchlings together.
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Michigan trip with WarblerWhisperer LLC.
We had so much fun and success with this species. Check out Mike Diersing's Flickr for another more elaborate set-up we used. We even ran across a rare variant adult male who had a near complete eye ring on both sides of his face. An interesting comparison to his western 'cousin'. I'll post an image of him down the road.
Michigan 2022 dates are now available for those interested. Interested or not thanks so much for your visits, and comments, and favs!
One circular structure, which frames the Borrowdale Valley, is believed to have been made from local slate and created by a “very talented [and] patient individual”.
The artist has been compared to Banksy by the local village because it is unclear who is behind several structures. A number of hikers have shared images online after spotting them while out walking.
Vessel is a structure and visitor attraction built as part of the Hudson Yards Redevelopment Project in Manhattan. Built to plans by the British designer Thomas Heatherwick, the elaborate copper-clad structure rises 46 metres and consists of 154 flights of stairs.
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Elaborate frost shines in the first light of the morning, with delicate branches and elaborate platelets, especially in the lower right. I find photographing frost difficult, as it often has an overwhelming amount of intricate detail. In the right light with some magnification it begins to be manageable, as long as you don't bump into or breathe on your subject.
Female spiders produce either one egg sac containing several to a thousand eggs or several egg sacs each with successively fewer eggs. Females of many species die after producing the last egg sac. Others provide care for the young for some period of time; these females live one or, at most, two years. Females of the mygalomorph spiders may live up to 25 years and those of the primitive haplogyne spiders up to 10 years.
The protective egg sac surrounding the eggs of most spiders is made of silk. Although a few spiders tie their eggs together with several strands of silk, most construct elaborate sacs of numerous layers of thick silk. Eggs, which often have the appearance of a drop of fluid, are deposited on a silk pad and then wrapped and covered so that the finished egg sac is spherical or disk-shaped. The females of many species place the egg sac on a stalk, attach it to a stone, or cover it with smooth silk before abandoning it. Other females guard their egg sacs or carry them either in their jaws or attached to the spinnerets.
I found this Four-spotted Pennant Dragonfly checking out what I think is a Spiders Egg Sack at Joe Overstreet Landing in Osceola County, Florida.
These elaborate eroded pockets in the Navajo Sandstone wall of the San Rafael River canyon are called tafoni. Their origin is debated among geomorphologists. Possible explanations include the leaching of minerals that cement some parts of the rock making it more resistant to erosion, variation in the velocity of wind currents blowing across the rock, or differential patterns of rock breakdown (weathering) due to temperature variations. This is yet another clear failing of science, despite squandering tens of dollars of taxpayer money on research to study geomorphological processes.
Using intuition and creative thinking as guides, I have an alternate explanation which works just as well as “science” to explain these formations. I believe that tafoni are constructed by a species of small humanoid creatures, who etched these pockets into the stone as places to escape the elements. They were contemporaries of the ancient Greeks, and were impressed with the architecture and stonework at Petra, thus producing aesthetically appealing arches such as the ones shown here. Although no remnants of these microhumans remain (they were probably consumed by packrats around 2000 years ago), their excavations (tafoni) can be found throughout the world, a testament to their diligence and perseverance.
New York City
The Vessel is a structure and landmark which was built as part of the Hudson Yards Redevelopment Project in Manhattan, New York City, New York. Construction began in April 2017; it opened on March 15, 2019.
Designed by the British architect Thomas Heatherwick, the elaborate honeycomb-like structure rises 16 stories and consists of 154 flights of stairs, 2,500 steps, and 80 landings for visitors to climb. Vessel is the main feature of the 5-acre (2.0 ha) Hudson Yards Public Square.
Pottering about in the delightful, small herbal patch of the Deacon's Garden next to the Hermitage, one of Amsterdam's fine museums, this Starflower reminded me of my youth. Hot bruises would be treated with thin slices of cool cucumber, and Borago smells and tastes like that wonderful vegetable. We would be warned to handle the growing fruits of cucumber in our vegetable garden carefully because their own bruising would turn them bitter-tasting. Whether our Grey-spotted Boxer Hoverfly needed bruise solace I don't know. The male - this is the female - has slightly thickened forelegs, hence its common name, elaborated from the Latin. And obviously it's here after Sweetness and not Pollen.
Elaborately carved Zanzibar doors manifest the cultural roots of the Swahili coast in Eastern Africa. The clash of Swahili, Arab, and Indian traditions is most notable in the design of Zanzibar doors. These giant teak masterpieces tell stories of the residents’ social status, religion, and profession.
I sometimes think my photography days are numbered, nearly over. It'll be due to pain if so. More on that when I have time to elaborate.
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Morongo Valley, Californie, U.S.A.
Ce soir je vous présente un petit oiseau qui bouge 2 à 3 fois plus que nos Grimpereaux brun. Sans plus d'éclats et anonyme dans son environnement, mesurant 11cm / 4.5 pouce pas vraiment plus gros qu'un oiseau mouche. Je l'avais observé l'année passée mais pas vraiment bien capté pour le présenter comme un Lifer... J'ai je crois eu la chance de capter les deux espèce le même soir et dans le Golden Hours... Les voici.
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La mésange buissonnière (Psaltriparus minimus) ou Orite buissonnière, est une espèce de passereaux de la famille des ægithalidés, l'unique représentante en Amérique du Nord et du genre Psaltriparus.
La sous-espèce melanotis est également appelée mésange masquée.
Morongo Valley, California, U.S.A.
Tonight I present you a little bird that moves 2 to 3 times more than our Brown Creepers. Without being so obvious in is environment and blending in perfectly, measuring 11cm / 4.5 inch not really bigger than a hummingbird. I had seen it last year but not really made a good captured to present it as a Lifer ... I think I had the chance to capture both species the same evening and in the Golden Hours ... Here they are.
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The American bushtit inhabits mixed open woodlands, often containing oaks and a scrubby chaparral understory ; it also inhabits parks and gardens. It is a year-round resident of the western United States and highland parts of Mexico, ranging from Vancouver through the Great Basin and the lowlands and foothills of California to southern Mexico and Guatemala.
The American bushtit is one of the smallest passerines in North America, at 11 cm (4.3 in) in length and 5–6 g (0.18–0.21 oz) in weight. It is gray-brown overall, with a large head, a short neck, a long tail, and a short stubby bill. The male has dark eyes and the adult female, yellow. Coastal forms have a brown "cap" while those in the interior have brown "mask."
The American bushtit is active and gregarious, foraging for small insects and spiders in mixed-species feeding flocks containing species such as chickadees and warblers, of 10 to over 40 individuals. Members of the group constantly make contact calls to each other that can be described as a short spit.
This species produces an elaborate pendant nest of moss and lichen assembled with spider silk and lined with feathers.
view of the western part (from the garden) of the Walewscy Palace in Walewice
Classicist building designed by Hilary Szpilowski or Stanislaw Zawadzki, built in 1773-1783 by Anastazy Walewski (chamberlain to King Stanislaw August Poniatowski); located on the Mroga River.
The palace is counted among the most interesting examples of classicist country seats in Poland, built at the end of the 18th century. The front faces east. It consists of a one-story rectangular main body and one-story side pavilions, also built on a rectangular plan, connected with the main body by communication galleries broken at right angles. The premise is based on the Palladian style, very popular in Poland in the second half of the 18th and first 19th centuries. From the front, the palace has a massive, four-column Ionic battered portico topped with a triangular pediment (tympanum) with the coat of arms of Pomian, the later owner Stanislaw Grabiński. From the garden there are two prominent extreme (side) risalits. Inside the palace, large representative halls with decorative brick fireplaces and elaborate furnishings were created, as well as spacious palace rooms. In one of the pavilions original painted wallpaper from the 19th century with mythological motifs has been preserved.
On May 4, 1810, the son of Napoleon Bonaparte and Maria Walewska, Alexander Colonna-Walewski, later French ambassador to Great Britain and foreign minister to Napoleon III, was born there. He also became heir to the estate, which he sold to Maria Walewska's brother, Teodor Łączyński, in 1831.
Much of the palace's charm is added by the perfect composition of the building with an extensive landscape park designed by Walerian Kronenberg. Original late Baroque and classicist sandstone sculptures depicting Mars, Venus, and Diana have been preserved there, as well as two hermits and an armed man in ancient costume.
In the mid-19th century, the palace and its estate passed into the hands of the Grabiński family of the Pomian coat of arms. The Grabinskis modernized and rebuilt the palace at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, established a stud farm for half-breed horses (Anglo-Arabians), developed the breeding of cockerel sheep (the only one in the country), a huge fish farm (on more than 100 hectares of ponds), a factory of potato flour and starch. The last owners of Walewice were papal chamberlain Stanislaw Bohdan Grabiński and his wife Jadwiga, née hr. Potocki, and after his death in 1930 their minor children Stanislaw Wojciech, Maria, Wladyslaw, Róża and Jan Grabiński. The palace still contains some of the furnishings and furniture from the last owners.
During World War II, on the night of September 9-10, 1939, the 17th Regiment of Wielkopolska Uhlans from Gniezno of the Wielkopolska Cavalry Brigade fought battles for the Palace and the village of Walewice during the Battle of the Bzura River.
Coming from southeast Texas where we pretty much get one species of hummingbird it is thrilling to visit Costa Rica where there are around 50 species possible. Many of those species are elaborately colored like this Purple-throated Mountain-gem that we photographed this past March in the Monteverde area. On this particular day we wrapped things up at a coffee shop with a bunch of feeders swarming with hummers. What a way to finish a great day of bird photography!
Lampornis calolaemus
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The elaborate auditorium of the theatre is designed according to the atmospheric style which was popular in movie houses built in the 1920s. This style simulates an outdoor theater-going experience. The Coronado's auditorium walls are decorated with the facades of gilded Spanish and Italian-style buildings, and the ceiling looks like a deep blue sky filled with twinkling stars and floating clouds. The auditorium is full of gilded detail.
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St. Thégonnec is a village in Finistere, the westernmost part of Brittany (and literally meaning the end of Earth). Its claim to fame is the parish close (walled church grounds with a number of buildings in it) in front of us. Parish closes with their characteristic Breton baroque architecture are common in the area, and St. Thégonnec is one of the more elaborate. Most of the buildings originate from late XVI or early XVII centuries. In addition to the church and its bell tower, there is an exuberant ossuary and a revered calvary erected in 1610, an object of local pilgrimage. The monumental entrance to the enclosure is an architectural gem in its own right. See more on Wikipedia
I don't know if the pastry shop on the left is still there, but I still remember its delicious pear tarts.
The great crested grebe is a delightfully elegant waterbird with ornate head plumes which led to its being hunted for its feathers, almost leading to its extermination from the UK. They dive to feed and also to escape, preferring this to flying. On land they are clumsy because their feet are placed so far back on their bodies. They have an elaborate courtship display in which they rise out of the water and shake their heads. Very young grebes often ride on their parents' backs.
Length 46-51 cm
Wingspan 85-90 cm
Weight 0,8 - 1kg
Hasedera (長谷寺) is another Buddhist temple near Koutoku'in (Big Buddha). The Japanese black pine (Pinus thunbergii) has grown to cover the gate of the temple. It is called "Mon-kaburi no Matsu (門被りの松)" in the Japanese gardening jargon meaning "gate-covering pine."
Both Hasedera and Koutoku'in advocate the Pure Land School of Buddhism (浄土教) and worship Amida Nyorai or Amitabha Tathagata. To put it simply, it is a faith to enter into Pure Land after death by chanting Buddhist invocation to worship Amitabha Tathagata. Pure Land is equivalent to heaven.
It is a major school of Mahayana Buddhism in China and Japan, but I don't think it is an authentic Buddhism.
Buddhism had developed based on the Indian religious traditions, one of which is the concept of reincarnation. In my opinion, the concept of Pure Land is a drastic departure from the original Buddhism possibly influenced by other religions.
The concept of Pure Land originated in Gandhara in northern Pakistan in the first century A.D. ruled by the Kushans from Central Asia under Iranian and Greek cultural influences.
It was elaborated and popularised in China most notably by Huiyuan (慧遠, 334-416) who lived on the mountainside of Lushan (廬山 flic.kr/p/2hCUmav). Without knowing the above-mentioned background, I happened to have visited Lushan and Donglin temple (東林寺 flic.kr/p/2hCwzYf) that was his base.
The Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Flower, is the cathedral of Florence (Duomo di Firenze).
Arnolfo di CambioIt began the construction in 1296 with a Gothic style, and was structurally completed by 1436, with the dome engineered by Filippo Brunelleschi.
The exterior of the basilica has an elaborate 19th-century Gothic Revival façade by Emilio De Fabris.
The Allegiance is a beautiful, historic, comfortably appointed and elegantly restored circa 1838 mansion located in upstate New York in the Finger Lakes region. The mansion is tastefully decorated to reveal the grandeur of the Victorian era with its high ceilings, elaborate moldings, and spacious rooms. The grounds surrounding the estate include a "secret hidden" garden with an arbor and a 35 mile green way on the edge of the property.115
Elaborate, Eclectic, Flamboyant. These are just a few of the words used to describe the Victorian era’s popular Queen Anne house style…
‘Think gingerbread trim, towers, turrets, and wraparound porches with multi-angled roofs and fancy lead-glass windows”.
Queen Anne homes are asymmetrical, with highly ornamented facades and more than one story. The Queen Anne style is all about decorative excess, with a variety of surface textures and materials like patterned brick, stone, wood, and occasionally stucco.
A great fall day for a photo of this historic home.
Victorian Queen Anne Style… painted lady.
Lonely Planet: This expansive temple, founded in the late Ayuthaya era, holds quite a bit of history. Foremost are the faded murals inside the beautiful bòht (ordination hall), which date back to about 1700, making them some of the oldest Thai-temple murals still in existence. Mostly they're rows of various deities though the entrance wall vividly shows the demon Mara and his army trying to stop the Buddha from reaching enlightenment.
Next door is a large, elaborate teak săh·lah (open pavilion; often spelt as sala) built in Ayuthaya during the 17th century and later moved to Phetchaburi by boat. Legend has it that the gash in the ornately carved wooden back door dates to the Burmese attack; however, this is highly unlikely. Finally there are also two hŏr đrai (sacred manuscript libraries) on stilts to guard against termites, a petite one in a pond and a tall one on land next to the monks' quarters.
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Once again from the festival of Durga Puja.......the deity in all her splendour.
The elaborate ritual of worshipping Devi Durga, in Bengal particularly, also involves showcasing the goddess in all her glory. Traditional handicrafts are frequently employed in decorating the goddess and her places of worship ("pandals" in local parlance). The intricacies of the crown, the background and all of the deity's other adornments here are essentially designed from pith and cardboard.
These are photos taken on my trip to Europe and the UK with a girl friend in October to November 2012. My camera I had then wasn't good with low light so some of these shots are not great but I have put them as my memories of the trip.
Day 2: Oxford on a cold October day in 2012. We stayed here two nights.
Oxford, a city in central southern England, revolves around its prestigious university, established in the 12th century. The architecture of its 38 colleges in the city’s medieval center led poet Matthew Arnold to nickname it the 'City of Dreaming Spires'. University College and Magdalen College are off the High Street, which runs from Carfax Tower (with city views) to the Botanic Garden on the River Cherwell.
In the park at the palace of Ludwigsburg, a place which is my second home, there is a little glasshouse which they use for exhibitions. These exhibitions are usually based on the themes of the season and right now the theme is Easter, of course. They show some nice spring flowers, lovely decorations and elaborately decorated Easter eggs like the one in this photo.
Koke'e State Park, Kauai, Hawaii
You are aware of chickens on Kauai from 3:30 a.m. until darkness falls, every day. Especially the roosters.