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The existence of 3rd class travel was an eye opener to me when i visited Sri Lanka recently. To be honest there wasn't much difference between 3rd and 2nd nor 1st on some trains.
These old carriages were built in Romania in the 1940s and are very basic. The ride is incredible and you feel that the carriage could bounce off the track at any time. You get used to the noise of metal on metal as the suspension struggles to separate the carriage from the bogies.
Sri Lanka is a colourful country. This lady looks for her seat on this service heading north which is listed as an Office Train. The time was 1545ish and the location Colombo Fort station. Normally you would expect the train to be full to bursting with 4 or 5 passengers hanging out of each door.
..."And I don't believe in the existence of angels
But looking at you I wonder if that's true
But if I did I would summon them together
And ask them to watch over you"...
Into My Arms
-Nick Cave
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
Susan Sontag
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Winter in the Rockies..
~Romain Rolland
India's southern most pieces of land, very well revered.
Photomatix Pro 3.0, 9 exposure HDR.
June 30, 2009. Kanyakumari, Tamilnadu, India. land's end.
Behind a blood-stained curtain,
Love has spread its gardens.
Remove the thorn of existence
from the foot of the heart;
so that you may see the gardens within.
~Rumi
A lone tree is perched on a precarious rock ledge in the Canyon of the Yellowstone as seen from Lookout Point.
Camera Nikon D800
Exposure 0.001 sec (1/1600)
Aperture f/6.3
Focal Length 500 mm
ISO Speed 1600
Exposure Bias -1/3 EV
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"the concept of continuous existence." This is one of the definitions for Time. Time is an interesting concept and as I grow older it becomes more and more an enigma.
In regards to this photo. Does it read as my artistic interpretation of Time? or does it look like a photo for a timepiece in a catalog? Oh well. (:-)
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Willie Wagtail on a grey kangaroo.
© Chris Burns 2014
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Watching the sun rise or set over the sand dunes of Merzouga may be the most spectacular experience you have on your trip to Morocco. The Erg Chebbi, the name of these sand dunes, is said to have some of the highest dunes in Morocco. Indeed, the dunes and the desert wildlife are impressive.
The dunes of Erg Chebbi is a strikingly strange natural formation. On the top of the flattest area you could imagine, suddenly a long mountain of sand rises. This mountain is surrounded by flat and desolate nature on all sides, and you could end up wondering if it really is real. But so it is, even if its existence is so weird that it has given rise to lengeds and myths among the locals. One legend tells us that the dunes of Erg Chebbi were created by God as a punishment to the locals of nearby Merzouga after they refused to give shelter to a woman and her child during a local festival. A sandstorm came, and buried the village of Merzouga is it was then.
Morocco and especially Sahara desert with its very dark skies is perfect for seeing and also capturing the night sky with the glorious Milky Way. The sky in the desert is wonderfully dark with minimum light pollution, which gives a great sight, which you can also see in the :
► MOROCCO'S NIGHT SKY WITH MILKY WAY - Timelapse Video
This timelapse video offers night view at some iconic or less known locations in various parts of Morocco, might it be Sahara desert, Ksar Aït Benhaddou (UNESCO), High Atlas Mountains & Toubkal National Park or Telouet Kasbah along former caravan route from Sahara over Atlas Mountains to Marrakech.
Camera Model: NIKON D70; Lens: 18.00 - 70.00 mm f/3.5 - 4.5; Focal length: 70.00 mm; Aperture: 8.0; Exposure time: 1/250 s; ISO: 250
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Ps: from the picture above even this “Tinny things” in existence which make dissimilarity …..
Like all flowering plants, agricultural crops require pollination. Crops derived from grasses, such as corn, wheat, oats and rice, are usually pollinated by the wind, while most other crops are pollinated by animals.
Animals that pollinate crops include bees, wasps, butterflies, flies, birds, bats and other mammals. However, bees are generally the most important, pollinating 95% of all food crop species worldwide that have been studied.
The most important bee pollinators are the many different genera of wild bees. These bees pollinate more than 80% of all food crop species worldwide that have been studied. In contrast, managed honeybees (Apis) pollinate only one-sixth the number of food crop species that wild bees do.
Another negative aspect of depending on honeybees for pollination is that the number of their colonies, and their pollination efficiency, is currently declining in the USA because of epidemics and interbreeding with Africanized bees. The latter process has led many honeybee keepers to destroy their colonies and retire because of the dangers of working with aggressive Africanized bees, and the fear of having to pay lawsuits arising from attacks by these bees on people. If the use of honeybees continues to decline, farmers will probably have to rely even more on wild bees for pollination services in the future.
To maintain healthy populations of wild bees for pollinating crops, farmers need to preserve or create natural habitats next to their fields, such as unplowed prairies and woodlands with a diversity of flowering plants. These habitats provide places for wild bees to build their nests and wild plants for food. The latter are important because they bloom and produce nectar for bees when crops are not in flower.
Farmers also need to be aware that applying too many pesticides can inhibit pollination. Insecticides kill bees as well as insect pests. Herbicides kill plants that bloom and provide nectar for bees when crops are not in flower.
Nectar is a sugar solution produced by flowers. It is the main food of individual bees and the main source of energy for bee hives. Pollen are fine, dustlike grains found on the male parts of flowers. When bees visit many flowers to feed upon or collect nectar, they move pollen from one flower to the stigma of another, leading to fertilization of the female ovule and the start of seed production. This process is called pollination.
Flow: The creative moment when a person is completely involved in an activity for it's own sake.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
About flow: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_%28psychology%29
Orang Utan Bukit Merah
Orang Utan Island is located within the exotic, eco-friendly getaway of Bukit Merah Laketown Resort, a 7,000 acre freshwater lakeside haven in Semanggol, Perak. The Orang Utan Island itself, which was formerly known as Pulau Panjang, comprises a vast 35 acre area, 5 acres of which has been set aside as a research centre for these endangered primates.
It was within the nurturing borders of this island that the Orang Utan Island Research and Development Programme was born in an effort to study, breed, monitor, train and rehabilitate the increasingly endangered orang utan.
The island also serves as a valuable educational tool for reaching out to people who may know nothing about the crisis the orang utans are facing, and how close they are to becoming extinct. Upon their visit to the island, visitors are exposed to all aspects of the orang utan’s existence, including how they behave, eat, breed and socialise, and the dangers they face.
Having started with just 3 orang utans in 1999, the island’s primate population has grown to 23, 12 of which were born on the island itself. The centre’s rehabilitation programme focuses on teaching the orang utans the essential skills they need to survive in the wild, such as foraging for food, nest building, tree climbing and socialising, in anticipation for their eventual release into their natural habitat.
The Bukit Merah Orang Utan Island Foundation is the driving force behind the island’s operations as well as its research centre’s main source of funding. The foundation’s main responsibilities include the setting up and maintenance of the island’s facilities, facilitating sponsorships and donations, organising orang utan infant relocation, displacement support, rehabilitation, and education programmes, in addition to collaborating with universities, government agencies, schools, charitable organisations and non-government organisations.
The foundation aims to:
Support and assist the Government via its agencies in carrying out orang utan research, education, development, conservation, breeding, and rehabilitation programmes, and drawing up protection policies;
Garner the support of individuals, corporations, private organisations, government agencies and societies, universities, schools, and non-government agencies via donations or assistance.
Serve as a comprehensive, national resource centre for information on orang utans, orang utan research, and link to collaborations with other related information centres worldwide.
"nature is man's teacher. she unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence."
~alfred billings street
Packed her bags and said bye bye to the circus.
This is an art installation highlighting human impact on animal migration. Co Existence.
Island Of Madagascar
Off the East Coast of Africa
Berenty Reserve
This lemur was photographed in an area called the spiny forest.
Verreaux's sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi), or the white sifaka, is a medium-sized primate in one of the lemur families, the Indriidae. It lives in Madagascar and can be found in a variety of habitats from rainforest to western Madagascar dry deciduous forests and dry and spiny forests.
Its fur is thick and silky and generally white with brown on the sides, top of the head, and on the arms. Like all sifakas, it has a long tail that it uses as a balance when leaping from tree to tree. However, its body is so highly adapted to an arboreal existence, on the ground its only means of locomotion is hopping.
The species lives in small troops which forage for food.
The Madagascar spiny forests (also known as the Madagascar spiny thickets) is an ecoregion in the southwest of Madagascar. The vegetation type is found on poor substrates with low, erratic winter rainfall. The ecoregion contains an outstanding proportion of endemic plant species and is part of the Global 200.
Notable inhabitants of the spiny thickets include the spider tortoise (Pyxis arachnoides) and the radiated tortoise (Astrochelys radiata), the gecko Ebenavia maintimainty, several lemurs including Verreaux's sifaka, Grandidier's mongoose, and eight endemic birds.