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When I'm wandering around in woodland, I'm quite used to seeing wee Springtails (Collembola sp.) trucking around under logs and so on, but I rarely come across the marine species. When I was on Skye in June, however, there were lots of them in the brackish pools near the beach. It's fascinating to watch them grouping together and breaking off regularly from the main body .... ping, ping, ping .... as though they are being propelled by some extraneous force. They then form either new groups or re-aggregate with the main group, and so it goes on. I saw several pools with them doing this marine dance while I was there. These are a few of them. This species may be Anurida maritima, but that is not definitive.
This is information from Wiki:
"The entire body of the Collembola is covered with white hydrophobic hairs which allow the animal to stay above the surface of the water on which it spends much of its life. Aggregation is an important aspect of collembolan biology, and A. maritima has been shown to produce an aggregating pheromone. Like many intertidal animals, A. maritima moves in rhythm with the tidal cycle, and has an endogenous circatidal rhythm with a period of hours, using visual cues to orient themselves during their movements."
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In full view of the camera, the Canada Goose puts on a full display of dazzling feathers and plumage.
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I always had the plan to post more shots of the wonderful Iskanderkul in Tajikistan, but it is already three years ago that I finished my trip through central Asia, and how the world has changed since then.
Beside this shot www.flickr.com/photos/115540984@N02/49221949713/in/photol..., that I posted a long time ago, there were many more.
This image was taken when we left early next morning. The scenery was gorgeous thanks to the light and the haze, and the lake got a wonderful turquoise color.
Iskanderkul is situated in the northwest of Tajikistan, in the Fann-mountains. I am not sure if it was named after Alexander the great, the stories are somewhat vague on this matter, but what is sure is that the dacha of the Tajik president is situated at the east end of the lake.
We spent two days at this lake, and although this scenery is fantastic it took me a lot of pictures to capture its grandness. Not only the lake but the surrounding mountains are so stunning you don't know where to look all the time. Enjoy!
20 September 2019 I came back from my journey over a part of the Silk Road to and through Central Asia. 4 months of traveling through 14 countries (Germany, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Iran) before I flew home from Teheran. An impressive journey in countries that are extremely beautiful, with lovely and welcoming people and diverse cultures and history.
Intense traveling with more than 20000 kilometers in our mobile home on sometimes roads that hardly could be called that way. We saw many villages and cities (some wonderful, others very ugly), countries that are transforming from the old Soviet era into something more related to older cultures and the way people live, often funded by oil readily available around the Caspian sea. We saw the amazing mountains south of the Black Sea, the wonderful Caucasus, and the high mountains in the far east close to China with peaks over 7000 meter, and not to forget the (Bulgarian) Alps!
We crossed the great steppe of Kazakhstan. a drive of at least 5000 km, the remnants of lake Aral, once one of the biggest lakes of the world, saw a rocket launch from Baikonur (this little part is Russian owned), we crossed many high mountains passes, and drove the breathtaking canyon that comes from the Pamir, beginning at ca 4500 meter, and going down for ca. 400km to an altitude of 1300 meter, driving for 100's of kilometers along the Afghan border.
And then the numerous lakes with all sorts of different colors from deep cobalt blue to turquoise, and one rare spectacle in Turkmenistan where a gas crater is burning already for more than 40 years. And finally and certainly not the least to mention an enormous amount of wonderful, hospitable and welcoming people. The woman often dressed in wonderful dresses, and bringing a lot of color in the streets of almost of all countries we visited.
Schloss Schwetzingen ist ein Schloss in Schwetzingen, das vor allem den pfälzischen Kurfürsten Karl Philipp und Karl Theodor als Sommerresidenz diente. Bekannt ist in erster Linie der im 18. Jahrhundert angelegte Schlossgarten
Architecture in London: View From St Paul's
The skies were moody. The hail came down. Then the sun came out. So did the rainbow.
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A flour sack dish cloth (the only proper cloth used to dry dishes per my farm-raised mom) in between the grip of a very old wooden clothes pin. HMM!
In der Früh gibt es einige zusätzliche Einschube für Schüler, hier werden häuftig auch noch die 500er eingesetzt, die letzte Generation Hochflur in Graz in planmäßigen Linienbetrieb!
TW 507 ist als Linei 1 von Eggenberg / UKH kommend am Weg zur Remise 3 (Alte Poststraße), Georgigasse
In the tube.
A train pulls out of Museum Station.
It is loaded with mostly well dressed commuters who are coming and going oblivious to their surroundings.
Many appear to be lost in their own world of ear pieces attached to a mobile phone, carrying a laptop or a newspaper, heads down and no one smiles.
The rush either onto the train to get what is by now a hard to find seat.
Others have just alighted and are rushing to the exit points with OPAL cards in hand ready to electronically scan and record their departure.
It has been many years now since the human ticket collector disappeared into the abyss of redundancy.
All too quickly they disperse onto the streets their persona doesn't alter.
Rushing somewhere but to where?
Perhaps to yet another train to take them away from the manic mayhem of daily life.
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
A happy Bunny, in the sun today. I'd gone to a local reservoir hoping to see an Osprey (they tend to visit every year) but not a feather! The European Rabbit was brought to Britain by the Normans and quickly became very numerous. Valued then for their fur and meat, they spread so quickly that in modern times they became looked on as a pest and Myxomatosis was released into their population to cull their numbers. A horrible disease which effects many Rabbits in our area.The virus effects the eyes, liver, lungs, skin and genitals.It is generally fatal leading to a miserable death. Such a cruel disease.This beauty seems unaffected, thank goodness.
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(snapped by director friend, Belgrade, 2007)
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Singing please, please, please
Come back and sing to me
To me, me
Come on and sing it out, now, now
Come on and sing it out, to me, me
Come back and sing
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Coldplay, In My Place
Small street in Mostar, with restaurants and shops :)
Mostar is a city and the administrative center of Herzegovina-Neretva Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, situated on the Neretva River. The most important monument of Mostar is the 16th-century stone Old Bridge located in the center. The Old Bridge, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, built by the Ottomans, is one of Bosnia and Herzegovina's most visited landmarks, and is considered an exemplary piece of Islamic architecture in the Balkans. Human settlements on the river Neretva have existed since prehistory. In 1468 the region came under Ottoman rule and the urbanization of the settlement began. The town was fortified between the years 1520 and 1566, and the wooden bridge rebuilt in stone. Austria-Hungary took control over Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1878 and ruled the region until the aftermath of World War I in 1918, when it became part of the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs and then Yugoslavia. After Bosnia and Herzegovina declared independence from Yugoslavia in April 1992, the town was besieged by the Yugoslav People's Army. Two wars (Serb forces versus Bosniak and Croatian and Croat-Bosniak war) left Mostar physically devastated and ethno-territorially divided between a Croat-majority west bank and a Bosniak-majority old City and east bank, with the frontline running parallel to the Neretva River. Since the end of the war in 1995, great progress has been made in the reconstruction of the city of Mostar. In July 2005, UNESCO inscribed the Old Bridge and its closest vicinity onto the World Heritage List.
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Uliczka w Mostarze, z restauracjami i sklepikami :)
Mostar – miasto w Bośni i Hercegowinie, stolica kantonu hercegowińsko-neretwiańskiego, położony nad Neretwą. Stanowi jeden z największych ośrodków miejskich w kraju. Najważniejszym zabytkiem Mostaru jest położony w centrum XVI-wieczny kamienny Stary Most. W 1993, w wyniku działań wojennych, został on zburzony przez Chorwatów, a jego odbudowę zakończono w 2004. W lipcu 2005 Stary Most i jego najbliższe otoczenie zostały wpisane na listę światowego dziedzictwa kulturowego UNESCO. Pierwsze ślady osadnictwa na tych terenach pochodzą z czasów prehistorycznych. Po raz pierwszy nazwa Mostar pojawia się w tureckim spisie z lat 1468–1469. W XVI wieku Turcy założyli tu twierdzę, a w 1566 roku dotychczasowy drewniany most został zastąpiony kamiennym, który znany jako Stary Most. Po jego obu stronach rozwinęło się miasto, które było tureckim centrum administracyjnym, handlowym i rzemieślniczym w Hercegowinie. W 1875 roku wybuchło tu powstanie antytureckie. Po jego upadku miasto przeszło pod panowanie Austro-Węgier (do 1918 roku). Od marca 1992 Mostar znajdował się w granicach niepodległej Bośni i Hercegowiny. Jednak w maju 1992 rozpętały się bratobójcze walki pomiędzy Bośniakami, Chorwatami i Serbami. Od 1994 roku miasto, pod nadzorem międzynarodowym, pozostaje podzielone na dwie części – bośniacką (muzułmańską) i chorwacką. Od zakończenia wojny w 1995 roku miasto jest odbudowywane, głównie przy pomocy finansowej UNESCO oraz Unii Europejskiej i powoli odzyskuje znaczenie głównego ośrodka politycznego, gospodarczego i kulturowego Hercegowiny.
Weaver in the reeds, Rietvlei Nature Reserve, Pretoria
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Mushrooms in the woods on Duffins trail in Discovery bay , Martins photograph , Ajax , Ontario , Canada , October 14. 2021
reflections of a tree on a street in a south Ajax
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In Flanders Field
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throuw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, through the poppies grouw
In Flanders fields.
In really nice springtime weather, the crew of Union Pacific’s LJP45 “dirt train” has lunch at the Valdez Drive-In at East Carbon, Utah, on May 4, 2004. As food is prepared, a couple of locals discuss who-knows-what, as most of the crew enjoys burgers and fries outside on a picnic table, while the four locomotives wait patiently across the street. The crew of LJP45 almost always took the power light up to East Carbon near the track warrant limits of mile 14.5 for a bite to eat in the middle of the day.
In Frankfurt Südbahnhof. I imagine there is some sort of technical space behind these doors which are more orange in real life.
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Vika in between trees
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Two young sisters, ages eight and five-years old, play joyfully in the warm early morning sunshine at a village seashore in Subic, Zambales, Philippines.
Playing in the kitchen again! From taking a macro of a seashell, then spraying water to add effect, I ended up with a blob of water. Wow, this looks interesting lets clear the seashell and do the 'blob' instead. This was on a black tile with lovely natural backlighting and an additional light on the RH side for fun.