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Bombus (Bombo - Bumblebee)
I bombi sono caratterizzati da una livrea gialla e nera a bande, anche se ne esistono delle specie tutte nere o con delle bande arancioni, sono generalmente più grossi e pelosi delle comuni api ed hanno, generalmente, le bande di colore più larghe.
La principale caratteristica di questi imenotteri è senz'altro la soffice peluria che li ricopre e che li fa apparire piuttosto pelosi.
I bombi sono poco aggressivi; le regine e le operaie sono in grado però di pungere ed il loro pungiglione, non avendo seghettatura, permette loro di pungere anche più di una volta a differenza delle api comuni.
I bombi sono insetti sociali che vivono in piccole colonie, formate da pochi esemplari, che non sopravvivono generalmente all'inverno. Gli unici esemplari che sopravvivono all'inverno sono le femmine fecondate che dopo la morte della colonia, cercheranno un luogo riparato dove trascorrere i rigori della stagione invernale. In primavera la femmina fecondata si sveglierà dal letargo e cercherà subito dei fiori per rifocillarsi e cominciare a creare la nuova colonia. In genere si tratta di piccole cavità nel terreno o negli alberi come tane abbandonate, tronchi di alberi cavi, fessure tra muri di pietra, ecc… La femmina provvederà a costruire una piccola cella di cera dalla caratteristica forma ad anfora nella quale depositerà alcune uova e che riempirà di cibo. Queste prime uova danno origine a femmine sterili che si occuperanno, come operaie, della raccolta di cibo per la colonia e di aiutare la madre nella costruzione di nuove celle. A partire dalla metà dell'estate compaiono le prime femmine in grado di riprodursi, queste deporranno uova non fecondate che danno origine ai maschi. I maschi feconderanno le nuove femmine nate alla fine dell'estate e che andranno a sviluppare la nuova colonia l'anno successivo.
Questa sarà una femmina appena risvegliata dal letargo?
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sunday morning walk in Pieve Ligure, Golfo del Tigullio, Genoa, Liguria, railway, villas and an amazing sea!
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Klein zijstraatje van de Brielselaan waar alle muren zijn voorzien van vrolijke graffiti.
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The grain mill, built in French style in 1802 by by Lord Joseph Chavigny de la Chevrotiere, is now used as an exhibition hall, on the Chemin du Roy.
The Chemin du Roy or King's Highway is a historic road along the Saint Lawrence river built 1731-37, connecting communities between Quebec City and Montreal.
Graffity in France in Longwy / Rèhon
Artist: Grafodeco = Scaf Oner
Hinter Grafodeco steckt der französische Straßenkünstler Pierrot, auch bekannt als Scaf oder Scaf Oner. Er ist ein talentierter und kreativer Graffiti-Künstler, der sich auf beeindruckende 3D-Illusionen und interaktive Wandgemälde spezialisiert hat.
Diese gigantische Wand der Stadt Rehon ist mehr als 400 Meter lang und in der Fotografie nicht global zu sehen.
Pierre Bertolotti alias Scaf Er ist ein französischer Graffiti-Künstler. Er schafft auch gerne Klassiker (wie Skelette, Spinnen und Schlangen), um sein Repertoire zu diversifizieren. Er malt seine Tiere sehr oft in Anamorphose, um den Realismus seiner Babys zu steigern. Seine Werke sind ungewöhnlich, fantastisch und manchmal lustig. Die Form der Wände, die gewählten Winkel, die Perspektiven, die Schatten und die Reflexionen verwandeln den gesamten städtischen Raum in eine Bewegungseinstellung.
Es hat die Besonderheit, zwei verschiedene künstlerische Unterschriften zu haben: Grafodeco, wenn es um Auftragsarbeiten geht, und Scaf, wenn es um Straßenkunst geht.
Baldrian Desnoyers alias Valer ist ein Teil von Crew Mill. Er ist ein zeitgenössischer urbaner Künstler, der 1982 geboren wurde.
Dieses 450 m lange Fresko widmet sich der Geschichte der Stadt, einschließlich ihrer Stahlvergangenheit (Fotos Nov 2021).
Lage: Rue de Longwy, Rehon (Abteilung 54 - Meurthe et Moselle)
Fertigstellungstermin: August 2016
Realisierung: Scaf & Valer
Quelle:
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Captured this while sitting in Sedona drinking a coffee while Mrs. K was shopping. The flowers in the pretty planter caught my eye.
Here we have on display our very latest in modern home appliances suitable for any home..
..This model is "The Chicle" !! It is very flexible and can be used in any room you desire. It also comes with a guarantee to serve and keep you happy for many years to come...!!
Well that has just put feminism back 50 years..!!
But after I took this pic, I did think it looked like I should be in some sort of Kitchen Catalogue..😅💋💋
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I photographed this Black Skimmer skimming for a meal close to the Wildlife Drive/Road in one of the many ponds along the Black Point Wildlife Drive section of the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge located immediately north of the NASA Kennedy Space complex on Florida's Atlantic Coast. There were three skimmers taking turns skimming the pond. But when not skimming, they could be found nearer the wildlife drive/road resting within a group of Yellowlegs and Willets. I had seen the skimmers during earlier trips outside the refuge, but never in flight and certainly never skimming for a meal. This was quite a shock. It is amazing how fast they fly and how difficult it is to keep them within the camera frame and in focus. I took no chances and shot several hundred frames at just them during a number of flights. I’m just sorry that Jan Nagalski, my photographic partner during these trips, couldn’t be there to join in the fun. The Black Skimmer is a tern-like seabird, one of three very similar bird species in the skimmer genus in the gull family. It breeds in North and South America. Northern populations winter in the warmer waters of Florida, the Caribbean, and the tropical and subtropical Pacific coasts, but the South American races make only shorter movements in response to annual floods which extend their feeding areas into the river shallows. The Black Skimmer is the largest of the three skimmer species. It measures 16 to 20 inches (40–50cm) long with a 42-to-50-inch (107–127cm) wingspan. This species ranges from 7.5 to 15.8 ounces (212 to 447g), with males averaging about 12.3 ounces (349g), as compared to the smaller female's 9.0 ounces (254g). The basal half of the bill is red, the rest mainly black, and the lower mandible is much-elongated. The eye has a dark brown iris and catlike vertical pupil, unique for a bird. The legs are red. The call is a barking kak-kak-kak. Adults in breeding plumage have a black crown, nape and upper body. The forehead and underparts are white. The upper wings are black with white on the rear edge, and the tail and rump are dark grey with white edges. The underwing color varies from white to dusky grey depending on region. Non-breeding adults have paler and browner upperparts, and a white nape collar. Immature birds have brown upperparts with white feather tips and fringes. The underparts and forehead are white as in the underwings of the adult.
The Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge is a 140,000-acre (57,000 ha) U.S. National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) on the Atlantic coast of Florida's largest barrier island and immediately to the north of the NASA Kennedy Space Center. One thing not realized by its visitors is that NASA can restrict access to the refuge based on its operational needs. The NWR contains over 1000 species of plants, 117 species of fish, 68 amphibians and reptiles, 330 birds, and 31 mammal species, of which 21 species are listed as endangered by the state of Florida or by the US federal government. Management of the NWR is provided through the Merritt Island NWR Complex, which provides hiking and driving trails for the public, subject to access restrictions from NASA. It is a 'gateway site' for the Great Florida Birding Trail.
Additional information on the Black Skimmer may be found on Wikipedia.
Additional information on the Merritt Island NWR may be found at Wikipedia.
Explored April 15, 2025.
In Explore 10. Januar 2025, Platz 406
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Heinsberg, "Winterwonderland"
.... all of a sudden Winter has come .... once in a while we have snow also ..... :-)))))))
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..... Und plötzlich ist der Winter da ..... :-)
Auch in Heinsberg gibt es ab und zu mal Schnee ...... :-)))))
Fotografiert am 09. Januar 2025 um 07:38 Uhr
Traveling in a railroad car , Surrounded by Mountains on the rail road track of the Canadian run by Via rail , Trip from Toronto to Vancouver and back with stay in , Vancouver , cropped photograph , Martins photograph , Vancouver , British Columbia , Canada , June 21. 2014
Person’s eye view
Mountain view
Top of the train
The Canadian operated by Via Rail
Waterfall from a mountain
David Village Community Gardens
David Village Community Gardens , Gardening plots
David Village Community , Gardening plots
Gastown Steam Clock
Gastown Steam Clock in Vancouver
Gastown Steam Clock Vancouver , British Columbia
Vancouver rail yards
Mountains
Vancouver harbour
Vancouver harbour and rail yards
Mountains on the background in Vancouver
Night view at a bridge in downtown Vancouver
Allium in bloom VanDusen Botanical gardens in Vancouver
Botanical gardens
Allium in bloom
VanDusen Botanical gardens Vancouver
Alliums
VanDusen Botanical gardens
Allium in bloom VanDusen Botanical gardens
A-maze-ing-laughter
sculptures by Yuen’s Minjun
converted to black and white
Photographs converted to black and white
A-maze-ing-laughter sculptures
A-maze-ing-laughter sculptures by Yuen’s Minjun
Lions Gate Suspension Bridge across the Burrard inlet to the harbour , it’s connect of the Northern end of Stanley park to the North shore
Lions Gate Suspension Bridge
Burrard inlet to the harbour
the Burrard inlet
Fraser River
the Fraser River in Vancouver
Fraser River
Favourites
Bridge in Vancouver
Vancouver
British Columbia
Canada
Martin’s photographs
Bridge in Vancouver
June 2014
Bridge
Nikon
Nikon DF
DF
FX
rail road track
Monochrome
photograph converted to black and white
zwart & wit
zwart en wit
black and white
Black & white
This is where i went for 3 days last couple a weeks~ Andamooka.
"Andamooka is a town located approximately 600 km north of Adelaide in the South Australian outback. Opal was discovered in the region in the late 1920s,and the town developed out of the scattered miners' camps which established in the area. The Andamooka Opal was discovered in and named after Andamooka.
The town has a population of around 500 to 600 people, depending upon the season. The town's main industry was opal mining for many years, however since the establishment of the nearby Olympic Dam copper-uranium mine and the town of Roxby Downs in the 1980s, some residents of Andamooka are now employed in the mine or in Roxby Downs, and many others are retired." From en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andamooka,_South_Australia
Barbara's wonderful group has been hibernating for a couple of weeks but she's invited me to take it on for a while. It is, in my opinion, the best, high quality colour group in FlickrLand so I'd better not screw it up :-) Excellent images with great use of colour and super composition - that's the aim.
The craving for colour is a natural necessity just as for water and fire. Colour is a raw material indispensable to life. At every era of his existence and his history, the human being has associated colour with his joys, his actions and his pleasures. (Frenand Leger)
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Palmdale, CA
6/12/17
WMmaster626 and I headed out to Palmdale in search of many different trucks. In regards to Front Loaders, we were hoping to find the Cal City Volvo EDGE and/or this ex New Jersey Mack MR Wittke/Leach. While eating lunch earlier in the day we saw the Mack drive by but we were unable to find it after we finished lunch fast. Eventually a few hours later while looking for ex WM of the Desert Autoreaches, we came across the New Jersey Mack again, and it did not disappoint. The driver Luis was great and he sure knew how to rev the Mack and make it sound amazing. Currently, there are still several N.J. logos all over the Wittke/Leach body. One of the logos being 70,000 GVW which is a much larger GVW than what California trucks can legally hold in California. There was also a "N.J.D.E.P. 17273 40 CU. YDS" sticker on the body.
WMmaster626 found out that after Trenton demoed this MR Wittke/leach for less than 1 year, it was sent to Palmdale. The MR is LNG powered and it was part of a demo project in N.J. where the truck was filled with LNG from a nearby landfill in Pennsylvania.
Thank you Luis for putting on a great show and thank you to WMmaster626 for finding out all the information about this MR Wittke/Leach. Thanks to Waste Management of AV (Palmdale) for bringing this truck 2,700 miles from Trenton N.J. to Palmdale California.
Unfortunately since WMmaster626 and I filmed this ex New Jersey truck, it has been taken out of service and has been retired. WMmaster626 and I will getting more ex WM of the Desert Autoreach footage before those trucks are retired.
Allium christophii or Stars of Persia and poison Ivy to the side of Duffins trail in Discovery Bay , closeup photograph , Martin’s photographs , Ajax , Ontario , Canada , June 21. 2020
Allium christophii
Stars of Persia Alliums
Poison Ivy
large Willow tree with entrance at the base of it’s trunk
shadows
Large willow trees in the water also hanging over the water
seeing very high water levels this spring in Discovery bay
Willow tree
Large willow trees on the shore of Duffins creek
purple sweet rocket flowers
Duffins creek seeing high water levels this spring
June 2020
White sweet rocket flowers
A tree with beautiful trilliums at its base
the woods
great view past the trees over Duffins marsh
Trilliums
The beautiful lookout in the woods on the shore of Duffins marsh
shore of Duffins creek marsh
lookout point
half circular positioned group of white rocks
great view over Duffins marsh
Beautiful flowering trees
blue sky with beautiful clouds
White DeadNettles
weeds
For-get-me-nots flowers
Solomons Seal
Beautiful Solomons Seal flowers
Moss
Coltsfoot
Tamarack trees with cones
Tamarack trees
cones
Dogwood
Trees with their shadows
Lichen
Fungi
Logs
Discovery bay
Sky
Flowering shrubs
Flowers
Large Oak tree
Fallen tree
Ontario
Ajax
Canada
Pickering
Martin’s photographs
Discovery Bay
Trees
Sunset
Favourites
IPhone XR
Squires Beach
Duffins Creek
Waterfront Trail
Rotary Park
Lake Ontario
Bridge
Bridge across Duffins creek marsh
Sticks
Stones
Fallen trees
Fallen tree
Fungi
Mushrooms
Sand
Beach
Reflections
Reflection
Dogwood
Tall grasses
Duffins marsh
Duffins creek
Duffins trail
May 2020
A stolen shot taken while queuing in NYC. Have a great day!
Uno scatto rubato facendo la fila a NYC
Many thanks for your visit!!
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the millender center and the ren cen in detroit... a leftover shot from the mini-photo safari downtown last weekend.
If you are not French, it’s likely you haven’t ever heard the word “Saintonge”, and have no clue what it means. If you are French, it’s probably the same thing. Unless, that is, you are a fan of Romanesque, in which case you know that Saintonge, that small region of France centered around the town of Saintes (hence the name), not far from the Atlantic Ocean, just North of Bordeaux... features the highest density of Romanesque churches of all the country!
I had never visited that area of France, and so in the middle of October 2021, I took that long overdue trip and stayed two weeks in Saintes, driving left and right daily to photograph all the most significant Romanesque churches... and unfortunately leaving out many others, as they are so thick on the ground!
Being by nature a human activity, even the best and purest of arts can, in time, overdo itself and teeter upon the brink of baroque, exaggeration and overabundance. Built around 1160, about ten years after its magnificent neighbor in Rétaud (which we have seen a few days ago), the Notre-Dame church in Rioux is largely regarded among specialists as having gone slightly over the top in terms of outside decoration.
I have seen the exact same thing with the enclos paroissiaux (“parish enclosures”) in Brittany: the desire to do better and grander than the neighbors, combined with the existence of generous financial means, often leads to an overdoing of things in which the spiritual appears to be drowned in a wave of refinement and superficiality.
This almost exaggerated decoration is often cited as one of the chief reasons why this church was only listed as a Historic Landmark in 1903, while its neighbor in Rétaud was listed in 1862. In the late 1950s, François Eygun, Director of Historic Antiquities, wrote: “This is no more the elegant richness, but the exaggeration of a quality pushed beyond the limits of the reasonable and into bad taste.”
We, visitors of the 21st century, may take a more lenient approach... or maybe it is our own taste that has been distorted over the years by lack of backbone, cheap and self-fulfilling enjoyment (read: selfies!) and reality TV... I will let my viewers decide.
Strangely enough, the façade is probably the most understated part of this church. The top part of the bell tower is from the 15th century, but all the rest shows a remarkable restraint, with only the Virgin in a mandorla and abstract motifs on the voussures around and over the main door.
My exhibition opens tomorrow, Im so happy, but already Im wanting something more, to show my work further afield, London, or another great city.
After these beach selfportraits, Ive half a mind to try a body of work entirely with the sea.
As luck would have it Im headed to the coast this weekend - to shoot a wedding, perhaps I can snatch a moment for myself too.
In my garden, La Ceja, Colombia.
Calceolaria herbeohybrida
(Slipper flower / Zapatito de Venus)
Calceolaria is a genus of plants in the Calceolariaceae family, sometimes classified in Scrophulariaceae by some authors. This genus consists of about 388 species of shrubs, lianas and herbs, and the geographical range extends from Patagonia to central Mexico, with its distribution centre in Andean region.
Calceolaria species have usually yellow or orange flowers, which can have red or purple spots. The Calceolaria Herbeohybrida group, also called C. herbeohybrida Voss, is a group of ornamental hybrids known only in cultivation, called florists slipperwort.
It all started back in November, 2001, when the newly launched schooner SULTANA and the PRIDE OF BALTIMORE II, took a casual sail together on the Chester River the weekend before both vessels “downrigged” for the winter. The combination of a stiff breeze, the fall colors at their peak, and thousands of waterfowl flying overhead, made it a day few onboard either vessel would soon forget. “We’ll have to do this again next year,” remarked both Captains – and so Downrigging Weekend was born.
Now in its 16th year, Sultana’s Downrigging Weekend Tall Ship and Wooden Boat Festival has evolved into one of the largest annual Tall Ship gatherings on the East Coast.
Our Daily Challenge ... in my imagination.
Is this little bird really building its nest in my cup or am I imagining it? Maybe it's a dream ... might explain the mono colour!
Back in June on mine Wordpress blog, I posted a article about my winning photograph for the month of May, 2011 in “The Cazenove and Loyd Leica Travel Photographer Competition 2011″. Now that competition has come to an end all 12 monthly winners go to the Grand Final. The photographer with the most votes at the end of this period (between 11th and 23rd of January 2012) will be awarded the Grand Prize and the title of “cazenove+loyd Leica Travel Photographer of the Year 2011”. So, I’m asking all my friends, please vote and post it to your facebook or twitter to get more votes.
leica.cazloyd.com/photo-comp/vote-for-the-winner
This is the winning photograph, taken in Durbar Square Kathmandu, Nepal.
Really big THANKS to EVERYONE!!!
"If you can't figure out what you were meant to do in this life, figure out what you were meant to do in this moment.”
― Shira Tamir
I saw this man fishing and reading at Mill Lake in Abbotsford, BC, and I thought about how much patience it takes to fish. Then I remembered that if you're living in the moment, nothing else matters.
This duck couple appeared in our local ocean water when it was very turbulent due to the high wind. There were many new breeds of ducks out that day, but I have not been able to identify these. For some strange reason we are getting a lot more water fowl.
I wondered if they were a Common Goldeneye Duck Pair, but the female has a white ring around her neck and does not fit the profile. The male should have some white stripes and does not fit either.
In the style of Henri Rousseau
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