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Oystercatcher
Haematopus palliatus
As you can tell, I took quite a few shots of the different families. It's fasinating to watch and with one little squawk from Mom, the youngsters would come running. If a gull would show up, it's all out war. A mass of catchers come to the rescue.
There is a little bump in sand between me and the birds, making for a misty look.
Lido Beach, NY
The city's streets continue to be bathed in fluorescence -- so much so that it's considered the most light-polluted place in the world.
Hong Kong de stad die overspoeld wordt door neon's zo erg dat het de meest light vervuilende stad ter wereld word genoemd
Fasinating place often overlooked
The Thermae Antonianae, one of the largest and best preserved examples of an ancient spa complex,
was constructed under the auspices of the Emperor Caracalla in the southern part of the city.
The building was finished in 216 A.D. and exhibits the rectangular plan typical of Imperial spa centres.
The spa itself was not simply a place for bathing, sport and health, it was also a place of study and for relaxing.
Entrance to the heart of the building was by one of four porticos on the north-east face.
Around the centre of the structure the various parts of the spa are found in sequential order:
the "Calidarium", the "Tepidarium", the "Frigidarium" and the "Natatio".
There are also other zones and areas to be found around the two gymnasiums.
The spa of Caracalla is one of those rare ancient
Male Siskin with a metal ring on right leg. Fasinating to know when it was caught but I guess we will never know unless it is found dead.
....why I am fasinated with thes sport field lights. They are all silver, really they are. It is the setting sun that is turning some gold. Gotta luv it.
© Jeff R. Clow
As I stood at the Northern Moulton Barn earlier this summer, I remember thinking to myself that this scene pretty much possessed everything a photographer could hope for in a landscape image:
-Early morning light
-Iconic scene
-Great clouds overhead
-Rays of sun
I shot this with a Sigma 10-20mm wide angle lens coupled with a Nikon D80. I then ran the single frame jpeg image through Dynamic Photo HDR software to bring out the nuances of light and color that were present at the scene. I then color matched the scene with the classic color scheme utilized by A. Bierstadt, the famous landscape artist.
If you have the time, I hope you'll view this at the larger size linked below:
13 fascinating facts about giraffes:
- There are four distinct species of giraffe: Northern giraffe Giraffa camelopardalis, Southern giraffe giraffa, Reticulated giraffe G. reticulata and Masai giraffe G. tippelskirchi.
- Giraffe are already extinct in at least seven countries in Africa.
- Just like human fingerprints, no two giraffe have the same coat pattern.
- Giraffe feet are the size of a dinner plate with a diameter of 30 cm.
- Giraffe tongues are bluish-purple and between 45 and 50 cm long.
- Both male and female giraffe have horns already at birth. These ossicones lie flat and are not attached to the skull to avoid injury at birth. They only fuse with the skull later in life.
- The giraffe is the tallest mammal in the world. Even newborn giraffe are taller than most humans.
- Female giraffe give birth standing up. Their young fall about 2 m to the ground and can stand up within an hour of birth.
- In some populations, over 50% of all giraffe calves do not survive their first year.
- A giraffe’s neck is too short to reach the ground. To drink, giraffe first have to splay their forelegs and/or bend their knees, and only then can they lower their necks to reach the surface of the water.
- Giraffe only drink once every few days. Even when water is readily available, evidence shows that many giraffe do not drink regularly – sometimes not at all.
- To protect the giraffe’s brain from sudden changes in blood pressure when it lowers its head to drink, it has valves to stop the back-flow of blood and elastic-walled vessels that dilate and constrict to manage flow. NASA has done research on the blood vessels in giraffe legs to get inspiration for human space suits.
- A giraffe heart weighs approximately 11 kilograms and is the biggest of any land mammal. It is used to pump 60 litres of blood around its body every minute at a blood pressure twice that of an average human.
And more facts about these fasinating animals HERE!
Thornicroft giraffe / Thornicroft-Giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis thornicrofti) in South Luangwa N.P., Zambia.
Giraffes are widely distributed throughout sub-Saharan Africa, but the subspecies Giraffa Camelopardalis thornicrofti is endemic to Zambia with a population of less than 1,500. It is considered to be geographically isolated, occurring only in Zambia’s South Luangwa Valley. (Wikipedia)
This wasp hive was hanging from a tree like an apple very close to the boardwalk. It was fasinating and frightening at the same time.
Another image from my Out of the Dark series. I am always fasinated when two forms of water combine in an image - still and moving - and here I also like the reflections in the areas distorted by surface tension.
A manual focus stack.
This bush is evergreen with waxy leaves and the way the leaves grow is in my opinion very unusual, one is oblong elliptic and the other is narrow obviate in shape and the bush is a slow growing variety. It produces some lovely yellow flowers and when the flowers start to fade they then do something that is surprising, the original flower case starts to close again just as it was before the flower originally opened, but this time it gradually changes colour from its original green colour to peach and onwards until its red. This case now changes to a fleshy, waxy disk which is blood red in colour and within this case it starts to produces between 1 – 6 green berry like or seedpod type berries which are green to begin with and as they grow older they turn black. When we first saw this bush we thought that it was two bushes growing very close together but the more we inspected it we eventually realised that it was just one bush with a fascinating manner of growth.
Victor, CO - I really like gem and rock shows, but not necessarily for the obvious reasons. It's not the shiny rocks or fossils, it's the types of people who go to these shows. Such a great mix of hippies, punk rock, and wizards in training. Event's like these supply numerous opportunities for some fasinating street photography.
White Gold(finch)
Every winter I await the hopeful arrival of this specific bird. She is a American Goldfinch that has Leucism, which is a partial pigment defect, similar to albinism but it can only effect hair, feathers and skin. ( Note her eyes are normal colored as the primary flight feathers ) She is VERY easy to spot in the winter, being bright white up against the grey of the tree but with a touch of snow, she vanishes. I have seen her a few times in the spring and summer and when she molts, its almost back to normal goldfinch coloration which is even more fasinating. Anyway, with it being so cold these past two days, she was present for both but I lucked out today when she sat on a branch down at feeder level when I was photographing the birds.
May 12, 2016. Fasinated by the Bock, which offering a natural fortification, its rocky cliffs tower above the River Alzette which surrounds it on three sides n the north-eastern corner of Luxembourg City's old historical district.
MEL GIBSON is
MAD MAX
BEYOND THUNDERDOME
starring TINA TURNER
Aunty Entity: Remember where you are - this is Thunderdome,and death is listening, and will take the first man that screams
"We don't need another hero" Tina Turner.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gi_IGuKx4U&feature=share&...
NOTE: This picture is a tribute to Richard Amsel who was a popular artist in America during the seventies and the eighties he designed posters for classic films such as Indiana jones raiders of the lost ark and The Sting but the poster he did for Mad Max beyond thunderdome would be his last and to me personally his best and in a league of it's own just like all of his other art work. I have always wanted to draw the original but was'nt ready at the time so i waited a bit. A brillant artist who's artwork for the mad max movie has always fasinated me since i was young.A talent sadly cut short drawing this picture was a challenge.
R.I.P Richard Amsel (1947-1985)
Its always fasinating how fast time passes by. Today it is one year since i joined Flickr and with it the real world of photography. Looking at the amazing work of all those talented people around here just pushed me higher than i ever thought to be.
But more of that, i really want to thank my dearest friends who have supported me until today. Thanks for your kind comments and for given me some insight into your own work. This always gives me a great motivation and encouragement.
The lake shown today is a reminescence of the picture i posted one year ago - sit down and enjoy the view. :o)
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I don't know why I am so fasinated with radio telescopes and observatorys, but I think it has something to do with the (un)known.
We are the universe.
I have for a long periode been fasinated by willow bark among other things in nature....and I have seen so many wonderful willow bark containers or baskets that are so beautiful....unfortunately it is too early this season to get some fresh willow bark it is in may that you are able to get it off the trees while everything including trees bark are much more juicy and workable....
But i just had to do something that i could do in this beautiful weather yeaterday and i went into the garden and also used some materials that i had found month ago.....the birchbark ex.....but all the stuff almost used here will shrink and the contruction will get loose.....I know...but i couldn´t help making something from these willowbranches and the other things...the rush are soft rush or in latin: Jungus effusus....I have used both some that were a bit dried and some fresh ones...
Old dry riverbed on Warraweena Station.
Scenes like this fasinate me. They are today when I take the shot but they are yesterday when the rains came and were regular. The River Red Gums are trees that tended to germinate during periods of flood.
I just got back from the Sierra Nevada Music Festival in Mendocino County. The music was great, but I was fasinated the surrounding landscapes. This was taken at sunrise off the balcony where we were staying. DJI_0938
Our tour guide pointed that out to us. Not only did we see the ruins of this city, but we saw the beehive tombs. One which they thought might have been Agamemnon's because of all the gold and other artifacts taken from it. You can see those in the national museum in Athens. Some more photos of this area that I took survived the fire, but it is going to take a lot of work to save them.I have gone through half the photos I found at the bottom of the big box in the shed. I still have maybe a thousand to look at. Out of the ones I have looked at ( maybe a little more than 1000 ) I was able to save 66 of them ( repairable ). They are made up of a little bit of everything.
if i were to make a list of stuff i have had to pitch it would look like this to date. ( remember i still have a few to go through )
Photos taken at sea in the Gulf of Tonkin- all of them, Photos of models from art classes, private, and portfolio shoots thousands, includes those we pitched when we were packing up at the remains of the fire. ( that includes everything I took with my Mamyia 645 on 120 film , none of the 120 film survived ). family photos so far - just about everything, Vacation photos ( having better luck here ) only half have been pitched, Photos I took at ports of call, a bunch ! i have a bunch to work on as well,. some are border line. I will post them as i get them cleaned up.
i have the time to do this right now because the weather and landscape are really not conclusive to photo taking. Very damp, overcast and drab looking. OK for macro work but not much else.
Up on the left hand side the dark is caused by discoloration. there is nothing I can do about that right now. I am not real steady of hand since the strokes and seizure so I haven't attempted to use paint or any of the other programs.
part of my Knock, Knock series. This was taken yesterday in New Hope, PA. Another favorite location of mine. :) So many beautiful, colorful doors. Sophia was cute, when she saw a door that was interesting to her she would smile at me and run for the door. I have never met a kid that is so fasinated with doors. lol.
Cute little tower
I am always fasinated by these things...
And I guess Danbo is too, cause he made a tower out of 3 of them :)
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I saw this sculpture in Creemore, Ontario and became fasinated with how the artist captured the emotion. I would hope that one day I would have the opportunity to photograph the artist in her studio.
The Valley of Fire a fasinating geologic landscape is located only 50 miles northeast of Las Vegas. The rough floor and jagged walls of the park contain brilliant formations of eroded sandstone and sand dunes more than 150 million years old. This image shows a kind of pancake rock that stacks up . Bring water when you go hiking here and a hat too. Once part of the ocean floor but now its part of natures vast sculpture garden carved by time and heat, wind, and water.
PS: For some great music Ask Spotify, Alexa, Siri, and Amazon to music by JOHN WILLIAM HAMMOND (me) (use all 3 names. lots of variety to enjoy.
Explored. HIghest possition #442 on october 12, 2011.
on the third day of our hike we walked from Roussayrolles to Vaour when suddenly in the middle of a forest we came on an abondoned village. It would not be the last abondoned village we would see. It was totally fasinating, there was a wonderful atmosphere around all these ruins.
One of Solomons favourite past times since he was young was to travel and see the world, finding exotic muggle and magical plants whihch fasinated him.
In this image it pictures Solomon and his partner who he is soon to wed.
They have seemingly disturbed the dead, and now try and flee the spirits.
Photographed at The Tall Ships Festival in Fairport Harbor, Ohio, USA. The riggings on these ships are fasinating and they make for some great photos.
“second-hand pebbles anyone????”
although these pebbles now make up the beach at Budleigh Salterton in south west england (about 5 miles from my home)..........they're there by default really......not washed to the sea from hills inland...nor longshore drifted from down the coast........oh no these pebbles have come ready rounded and sorted from within the cliffs!! they contain remarkable red Permo-Triassic clastic strata , made up of mudstones, sandstones and pebbles beds that developed betweem 250 to 203 million years ago in the harsh desert environments of the Pangaea supercontinent ...at this time southern Britain was at about 15 degrees north, the latitude that the modern Sahara desert.is today..!!! these amazing red sandstone cliffs contain many fasinating features include ventifacts or dreikanter, rhizoconcretions.... …..as well as some radioactive nodules containing uranium and vanadium and many other “interesting “metallic elements...............oooh!! ...maxxxi in her “element”!!!!!!!!!!
ok geology lesson over.....LOL
love rockhugging maxxxi
ok so yes they've had maxxxi "mess with" photoshop treatment .....in order that i can show you how stunningly beautiful they look when sunstruck and wavewet!!!
This beautiful young lady/girl entertained us with traditional dancing in the hotel. It was so fasinating to watch I went back a second night. She was so graceful.
My Nana and my Mum both had glass, button jars - I used to find them fasinating, each one tell a different story..
A small crab that lives comensally in several species of large anemones where it is immune from being stung. It has a pair of specially adapted limbs which terminate in a sort of net arrangent. It periodically projects these into the water column - as in the photo - and spreads out the "nets", which are actually a fan of fine tentacles, to trap passing particles of plankton. It then withdraws them and licks them clean. Fasinating to watch and a highly sought after species for marine aquaria.
please try it large and on black for more detail View On Black
on the third day of our hike we walked from Roussayrolles to Vaour when suddenly in the middle of a forest we came on an abondoned village. It would not be the last abondoned village we would see. It was totally fasinating, there was a wonderful atmosphere around all these ruins.
with the texture of Cathairstudios:
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Last night I was down at the Hallett Cove Conservation park. It was a great night. The Ball of Light was in fine form revealing its self in all sorts of colours. This Bluey Greeny dude was hanging around a bit.
The waves were pretty crazy. I was fasinated how the Ball of Light managed it out there in them. The water level was rising and lowering pretty crazily, and once i got home and looked closely at this image I couldnt believe the effect that had on the reflections.
I have uploaded this much larger than I normally would so you can check out the refection in the water, it is pretty sweet. The reflection of the moon off the rocks was pretty special too.
I love this place and will be venturing back plenty over time.
Have fun!!!
(There is no photoshop manipulation of this image at all. It is taken in a single exposure, with no use of "mechanical devices". Only adjustments are to level, brightness sat etc)