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Flawless reflection of Machapucchre at Phewa lake with the vibrant contrast of greenery and the mighty mountains.
Fishtail Lagoon | Lymington-Keyhaven Nature Reserve
There were only a few Brent Geese standing around in the shallows on Fishtail Lagoon as I started my long walk to Lymington, but on the way back there must have been well over a thousand of them; most of which were participating in a mass communal bathing session. Here's a couple of shots from the morning, and three of them splashing around in the afternoon.
In Pokhara early in the morning, the holy unclimbed mountain Macchapucchre (or also known as Fishtail Mountain), located in the middle of the Annapurna range, can be seen standing right in front of our nose.
Another nice formal gown I purchased to wear somewhere nice. Wearing more red, now that a number of you have expressed how much you like it!
Sunset ~ Florida Everglades U.S.A.
Summer 2015 ~ Palm Beach County
Fire-light Sunset ~ South Florida
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2nd Place Competition Winner ~ Sept. '15 ~ Super Shots Group
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4th Place Competition Winner ~ September 2016
TMI Group ~ Theme : Magical Light on Clouds
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Sailfin Catfish...Pterygoplichthys multiradiatus (introduced to Florida)
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Uploaded this quite a while back, but was recently made aware of Lightroom's "profile correction" feature by tomms. It straightened out the firsteye perspective while retaining the UWA view. Awesome!
Annapurna Range in early morning mist, from top of Sarangkot
Pokhara, Nepal
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Martha, of course.
Seattle, Sept 2010.
Sorry I have been so MIA. Not too good with the internet these days. Still shooting a lot! Gotta scan my Polaroids.
'It would have saved us, modern botanists, a great deal of trouble', fumed Louis Pierre Pyrame de Candolle (1806-1893) in 1880, 'if those priest-botanists of the past had kept to writing homilies instead of venturing on the path of scientific botany'. Elmer Drew Merrill (1876-1956), writing in 1933 about João de Loureiro (1717-1791), the first describer of our Fishtail Palm (1790), takes a milder view. He remarks that people such as Loureiro worked at a time when Carolus Linnaeus's binomial classification system was just coming into use. Moreover, these intrepid priests in the remoter regions of East and West did their botantical work under the most extreme of circumstances. We must be grateful for their descriptions and in particular, too, for their drawings.
Loureiro went to the Far East as a Jesuit missionary early in the 1740s. But he quickly realised that his work of conversion fell on deaf ears. Soon in 1742 Loureiro came into the service of Nguyễn Phúc Khoát (1714-1765), king of Cochinchina, as a mathematician - in line with the importance of astronomy at court and indeed in general - and he could also indulge in his botanical avocation. By the time he was banished from the kingdom in 1750, he had made an enormous collection of plants and he published a Flora of Cochinchina (1790) upon his return to Europe. In that book he describes this Caryota mitis.
There are several stands of this beatuiful Fishtail Palm in the pleasant KLCC Park. Given their poisonous nature - fruits as well as other parts - it might be a good idea to put up some little signs warning the less than careful that Caryota mitis can be highly allergenic on touching its parts.
Cute little Fishtail cuddles with a stuffed teddy bear while taking his afternoon nap.
Taken with Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT. All Rights Reserved.
Flawless reflection of Machapucchre at Phewa lake with the vibrant contrast of greenery and the mighty mountains.
Approaching Fishtail by Ultra Light Flight...Amazing and Freezing ^__^
Thanks for the views, comments, faves ^__^
You can see the plume of the jetstream hit the much higher top of Annapurna II in the background. Nepal. www.anindodeyphotography.com