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extreme pano of Reine on the Norwegian Lofoten islands during the twilight hours of very early dawn.
A tropical water plant, native to the Amazon but introduced to other regions of the world. It is often sold by pond suppliers and is used in residential ponds and water gardens. Each spring we buy 6 plants and put them in the upper level of our pond, where the long fibrous roots filter contaminants from the water, while the mass of floating plants provides shelter for fish and frogs. Within a few days the plants have spread, covering about half of the surface of the upper pond. Because these plants float, rather than root to s surface, we have a barrier installed which keeps them confined to the upper pond. Every two weeks we then thin them out and add the plants to the compost pile.
From Wikipedia: Water hyacinth is a free-floating perennial aquatic plant (or hydrophyte) native to tropical and sub-tropical South America. With broad, thick, glossy, ovate leaves, water hyacinth may rise above the surface of the water as much as 1 meter (3 feet) in height. The leaves are 10–20 cm (4–8 inches) across on a stem which is floating by means of buoyant bulb-like nodules at its base above the water surface. They have long, spongy and bulbous stalks. The feathery, freely hanging roots are purple-black. An erect stalk supports a single spike of 8–15 conspicuously attractive flowers, mostly lavender to pink in colour with six petals.
The Water Hyacinth, Eichhornia crassipes, is in the family Pontederiaceae, which includes other aquatic plants such as Pickerelweed and the Mud Plantains. It is native to Brazil. Unlike Pickerelweeds, which root themselves in the mud at the shoreline, Water Hyacinth is free-floating, consisting of wide rosettes of thick round or fan-shaped leaves, each leafstalk with a bulbous swelling near the base that provides flotation. The feathery roots dangle into the water, and the violet-blue flowers bloom on stalks that can extend as much as three feet above the plant. Water Hyacinth is the fastest-reproducing plant that has ever been measured--in addition to seeds, the plant can reproduce asexually by sending out horizontal runners called "stolons" which produce daughter plants. A single plant is capable of producing as many as 600 offspring within four months. A patch of Water Hyacinth can easily double its size in less than two weeks, and form thick dense mats in which most of the individual plants are linked to each other through stolons.
Because of its free-floating lifestyle and its attractive foliage and flowers, Water Hyacinth has long been popular for use as an ornamental plant in water gardens, fish ponds and aquariums, and has been widely exported around the world (many Internet aquarium shops sell it). As a result, it is one of the most common invasive plants on earth, and has now been established in over 50 countries in Africa, Asia and Australia. In the US, Water Hyacinth has become introduced throughout the Southeast, from North Carolina to Texas, and also in southern California and Hawaii. The plants have also been found in the wild in New York, Tennessee, Kentucky, Washington, Missouri, Arkansas and Oregon, but because the tropical Water Hyacinth cannot tolerate cold temperatures, they cannot survive the winter in these northern areas.
Once it becomes established, the plant can quickly cover an entire body of water, from shore to shore. The dense mats block out sunlight, killing off most of the native aquatic plants. They also reduce oxygen levels in the water, which can kill fish and other aquatic life. One acre of Water Hyacinth plants can weigh over 200 tons, enough to interfere with boats, making many rivers un-navigable, and to choke off water flow, turning the water stagnant. It also deposits about 500 tons of dead and rotted plant material on the bottom each year, leading to ponds and waterways being filled in.
It is believed that Water Hyacinth first entered Florida in 1884, by way of New Orleans. In 1884, at the New Orleans World Fair, a pavilion from Japan was giving out free Water Hyacinths as ornamental water plants (why the Japanese were giving out a plant from Brazil is a question that can no longer be answered.) One of the visitors to the World's Fair was Mrs WF Fuller from Florida, who took the lovely little plant with her back to Palatka, on the St John's River, and put it in her outdoors fish pond. When a sheet of Water Hyacinth covered her pond, she thinned it out, tossing some extra plants around her boat dock on the St John's River. By 1896, the plant covered more than 200 miles of river. When cattle rancher Eli Morgan saw how quickly the plant grew, he in turn decided it would make a good food source for his cattle, and transferred some Water Hyacinths to his ranch on the Kissimmee River. As it turned out, Water Hyacinths aren't very nutritious and the cattle didn't like them anyway. But the plants soon spread along the Kissimmee River, reaching Lake Okeechobee and fanning out across southern Florida. By the 1960's, Water Hyacinth mats covered some 120,000 acres of ponds and rivers all over Florida.
The state launched a multi-million dollar campaign to eradicate the invader. The plant was made illegal to import, keep, or release. Waterborne machines were developed to grind the mats into pulp, and large amounts of plant poisons were sprayed onto them. In some areas, two species of Hyacinth Weevils, insects from Brazil that kill the plants, were released as a form of biological control. Although reduced by over 98%, however, the plant defied all efforts to eradicate it. Today, Florida uses a constant program of "maintenance control" to keep the invasive plant at a tolerable level.
I found these growing and blooming in Lake Kissimmee, in Polk County, Florida.
Bodie Island Brown Seaweed Sunset Wave Crash
Dare County, Coastal North Carolina
Accessed via NC-12 (Outer Banks Scenic Byway)
Date taken: August 20, 2015
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While easterly facing sunrise photography abounds along the Cape Hatteras National Seashore, westerly facing sunset photography can be a bit more challenging as access to the sounds are a bit more restrictive than that to the ocean. So, some evenings after running up and down state highway twelve searching unsuccessfully for good sunset opportunities, I would just end up returning to my campsite at Oregon Inlet and walking the beach looking for reflected light opportunities.
I was somewhat in my own head when I stumbled upon a stretch of beach that was thickly blanketed with seaweed. The stretch had caught my eye before, but now the tides had progressed and some interesting interaction was occurring. I can only assume that the physical weight of the seaweed was creating some neat scouring in the nearshore sand as the Atlantic was lapping at the beach. I immediately snapped back to earth and noticed some similarities between the interaction here and that which I had photographed with friend and photographer, Dave Allen, a few years back between Coquina Rock and the Atlantic Ocean in Florida. While the interaction here was far less dramatic, the opportunity and the feature was very odd and rare for me along the Cape Hatteras National Seashore (I returned the following morning to try my hand at a sunrise but the tides had completely erased the elevation changes and features away and left only a smooth beach with some brown seaweed).
I believe that the seaweed was Pelagic Sargassum, a brown alga that is free-floating in the Atlantic Ocean washing ashore when winds blow a certain direction. While it's decaying smell can be somewhat abrasive to some visitors, the seaweed performs a number of valuable services within the beach ecosystem, the least of which might be beach nourishment and stabilization. This mass of seaweed was found along the four-wheel drive beach access on Bodie Island. Bodie Island is not a true "island" as it remains connected to neighboring Nags Head and the Northern Banks; however, most resources denote Bodie Island as the ten or so mile stretch from Whalebone Junction to the Oregon Inlet Bridge via state highway twelve.
32 Meter of the new 112 Meter long Office Building are freefloating in the Air, embedded in a Park of Rhododendrons and a 75 Meter long Waterbasin.
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This small clump of pond-lilies growing in a patch of aquatic weeds appears to be floating in thin air.
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Found on a Costa Rican beach today. Female Argonaut Octopuses create their own shells by secreting a calcite substance from two elongated tentacles, like a pair of 3D-printers.
"What’s interesting about the argonaut is that its ancestors long ago evolved away the shell, then later on evolved an entirely new way of constructing it and an entirely new use for it as a reproductive aid. Still, though, it arrived at the same solution to the buoyancy problem that the early cephalopods solved with their own shells, which just goes to show what an endlessly creative force evolution is." — WIRED
Figure'd I'd show you guys I'm still alive and designing stuff.
The XM338 Improved Combat Sniper Platform was designed by Sweetwater Precision Weapons for the 2019 US Army trials. It follows a very basic bolt-action design but its designed with modularity in mind. The freefloating rail system and barrel can be interchanged within 30 seconds, and the stock can be fully adjusted for compact transport.
The bolt and its locking mechanism are placed below the bolt handle assembly to keep the package as low-profile as possible.
After budget limitations the US Army decided to drop their replacement program. The XM338 slightly improved and started service in the United States Marine Corps as the Mk.338/MOD1 where it remains in service to this day. It saw action in the hands of NATO soldiers throughout both the Ukranian conflict and Operation Korea Freedom. A Mk.2 version was made with an enormous supressed barrel for use behind enemy lines.
In 2022 it became available for civillian sales as the CSP338.
Made in Algodoo by Juice.
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32 Meter of the new 112 Meter long Office Building are freefloating in the Air, embedded in a Park of Rhododendrons and a 75 Meter long Waterbasin.
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Sea Nettles at the Aquarium of the Bay on Pier 39 in San Francisco, California.
Chrysaora fuscescens (commonly known as the Pacific sea nettle or West Coast sea nettle) is a common free-floating scyphozoa that lives in the East Pacific Ocean from Canada to Mexico. Sea nettles have a distinctive golden-brown bell with a reddish tint. The bell can grow to be larger than one meter (three feet) in diameter in the wild, though most are less than 50 cm across. The long, spiraling, white oral arms and the 24 undulating maroon tentacles may trail behind as far as 10 feet. For humans, its sting is often irritating, but rarely dangerous. Chrysaora fuscescens swim using jet propulsion by squeezing their bell and pushing water behind them, allowing them to swim against currents, although most of the time they prefer to simply float. Sometimes they pick up hitchhikers, including small fish and crabs, which hide inside the sea nettle’s bell and may feed on it.
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Aquarium of the Bay is a public aquarium located at Embarcadero and Beach Street, at the edge of Pier 39 in San Francisco, California. The Aquarium is focused on local aquatic animals from the San Francisco Bay and neighboring waters.
Found this female argonaut on the beach. She's the world's only free-floating octopus, trapping gulps of air in her secreted shell for neutral buoyancy. The male weighs 600x less, has no shell and leaves a detached arm/penis with her to mate.
Freak of the sea.
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CALMNESS / FREE-FLOATING ANXIETY
My own kiln-fired ceramic creation : "Calmness / over Free-Floating Anxiety" Notice the "bubbles" beneath the "Free-Floating Anxiety" words.
A wise person presents a calm exterior, even though they may have much anxiety within.
Dictionary : Free- floating • Psychiatry (of anxiety) chronic and generalized, without an obvious cause.
“You and I in a little toy shop
buy a bag of balloons with the money we've got
Set them free at the break of dawn
'Til one by one, they were gone…”
~99 Red Balloons~ Lyrics by Blondie
New addition to my enchanted art room….
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This fan is situated at Jørgen Tranbergs cowshed on the island Samsø, Denmark. The shed can carry 140 cows. Nowadays he hasn't got that many cows, as he is close to retirement and has made several good investments in sustainable energi. The roof of this shed facing south is covered with suncells, and a few hundred meters away, he has his 78 meter high windmill. These enrgysourcesses give the same income as 140 cows, but a lot less work.
Duckweed is abundant on standing water and on mud of recently receded water in the Indreland Audubon Wetland Preserve, Bozeman, Montana. Duckweed form the light yellow mat on the water surface where Salix fragilis (crack willow) sits in the background.
Pop Art with Pop Psychology !! My own kiln-fired ceramic for Macro Monday Pop Art theme
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My ceramic Pop Psychology creation: Explanation - maintain an outward sense of CALMNESS - despite your FREE-FLOATING ANXIETY. By the way, this ceramic was created for an artists' group on my other photo site, and does not reflect on anything personal. The theme was "Consciousness" and this was my creation for that theme.
Psychology 101
"under that stoic calmness
is an iceberg
of free-floating anxiety"
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This is the flower of the floating water hyacinth.
When not controlled, water hyacinth can cover waterways preventing sunlight from reaching the native water plants and reducing the oxygen in the water thus killing native fish.
Its rapid growth puts in peril the native flora and fauna of the areas it invades.
Louisiana Swamp SOOC; Picture take during the great Cajun Swamp Tours. Bryan Champagne was a knowledgeable, informative, and entertaining guide. We saw lots of beautiful scenery, and wildlife including exotic birds, and huge alligators. Tour is highly recommended.
See previous image for an example of Topaz Adjust 5 Dark Ghostly preset filter
Louisiana Swamp ~ Topaz Adjust 5 Ghostly processing
Happy Slider Sunday
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Louisiana Swamp SOOC; Picture take during the great Cajun Swamp Tours. Bryan Champagne was a knowledgeable, informative, and entertaining guide. We saw lots of beautiful scenery, and wildlife including exotic birds, and huge alligators. Tour is highly recommended.
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This is an 18-gun ship-of-the-line I modeled in LDD. The sails seen in the digital model are actually a bunch of freefloating 1x2 tiles I painstakingly arranged in space to give the impression of sails (if I were to create this model out of physical bricks I would use paper or thin fabric for the sails, as well as add string for rigging). I plan to eventually make some more renders to show other details like the interior and such.
Deep blue By-the-Wind-Sailor (Velella velella) in subtidal lagoon, Fitzgerald Marine Reserve, Moss Beach, CA, 23 July 2014
2014-07-23 GGP05099 Tidepool Palette
Root tendrils (?) floating on the surface of a lake, presumably after being dislodged by recent heavy wage action.
©ArtsySF Politicians are trying to convey CALMNESS while we all have Free Floating Anxiety!
I thought this is applicable for today's American political / economic iceberg situation. The "Calmness" part of the iceberg is what the politicians are trying to maintain, while the "Free-Floating Anxiety" is what the typical American is feeling. Any thoughts on this?
Background story: I created this ceramic artwork two years ago for one of the themes ("Consciousness") of a group called BuzzArt. The BuzzArt group disbanded and I have never posted this photo, but I still have this ceramic piece in my art studio and looked at it today and thought - Aha, a chance to post it.
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"The Triad", a large Pecos-River-style pictograph panel in Fate Bell.
"Called the Triad, although at least four and perhaps five figures are discernible through the layers of superimposed paint, this panel dominates the rock art at Fate Bell Shelter, the largest shelter in the Lower Pecos area and the focal point of Seminole Canyon State Park & Historic Site. The figure in the center of the panel is one of a type identified by their antler headdresses, animal ears, squared off wings, and unusual shoulder protrusions. The clouds of power that emanate from this figure, obscuring two previously painted shamans, are also identified as wings by the crossed bar motifs pendant from their lower edge. This design is an abstraction that stands for feathers, thus adding to the symbolic flight implied by the wings. The freefloating antlers are also shorthand for the spirit guides or animal familiars associated with this particular shaman. The obliterated or obscured anthropomorphs have human feet, while the central figure advertises his animal transformation with claws. This panel was also superimposed upon a feline figure no longer visible, possibly making a statement about site ownership or territoriality." (www.rockart.org/gallery/rock1.html)
These were all over the strandline of Newgale beach. Velella Velella are related to jelly fish and appear in swarms. The float on the surface of the ocean. More info here: www.mcsuk.org/downloads/wildlife/Jellyfishguide.pdf
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1. Spongebob animation
2. First i found the picture of spongebob holding a net and made both spongebob and the net connected with the arms free-floating images. I also made a freefloating image of the jellyfish. Then i made copies of the net and moved it a little more each time closer to the jellyfish. I had to erase some of the arms when they were on top of spongebob's body. once the net got on top of the jellyfish, i had to make a new copy of the jellyfish and erase the parts of it that would be inside of the net. then i went to the animation window and put the frames together.
3. I like the outcome of this animation. it turned out a lot better than my last one becuase i got the hang of how to use it.
For this collage I was inspired by my great friend, the converse high-top. I'm not much of a high heel wearer....I find them extreme and way too hard to walk in.
My focal point is the red converse shoe. Besides text your eyes are drawn to the color red first, next orange, yellow, etc., all the way around the color wheel. And not only is it a dynamic color but it pops against black and white, which are not colors but the exact opposite in hue. And there's contrast. There isn't a shoe that's bigger than the converse one, and also it's the only TENNIS SHOE. The rest are just high heels. When using the rule of thirds I debated putting my shoe further up on the line, but then I realized that I wanted the line to draw your eyes down to see the converse, not have the converse lead you throughout the picture.
I have evidence of lines in my collage by using a black and white gradient I created a linear line between the top left corner and the bottom right. The only shoe that breaks up that line is the Converse, for the purpose that if you were to follow the line there would be the focal point.
In my collage I saw a lot of the magic wand tool, through quick selection and its normal function because I had to make everything freefloating. I then free transformed each shoe and rotated it in order to make them fit together more like puzzle pieces.
I chose just a simple background gradient because converse shoes are simple, and most high heels are rather extravagant so I wanted that balance to be there. White on Black and Black on White. Just so the shoes would overall pop.