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One of nature's little wonders......
You can see this marvellously equipped, colourful fellow is pretty small by those tiny buddleia florets he’s standing on. A type of hover fly Rhingia campestris perfectly designed for all the nooks and crannies. That feeding pouch membrane isn’t always visible. I have quite a few clear photographs like this one and, looking closely it seems a tongue / feeding tube emerges from his throat from directly below his eye - you can just make it out in the photo, and once deployed it can be expanded into that pouch, rather like a vacuum bag I feel. That hole in the end of his snout is perhaps used to fill it or as some sort of deflation valve. It’s not a stabilising membrane as it isn’t always expanded when the tongue / tube is fully deployed.
in Explore September 1, 2020
Cosmos is a genus, with the same common name of cosmos, consisting of flowering plants in the sunflower family. Wikipedia
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- Evangelisch-Lutherische Pfarrkirche Rust am See (AD 1784), Rust - Austria
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Contest #2 -- Architecture in Black and White (Sepia is Welcome)
Explore September 17, 2022
Art- Dry brush and Texture to photo image
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A landscape image of the car park at Leeds University, Yorkshire, designed by CJCT Architects. Photo taken in January 2022.
Here's the square format version of this photograph: flic.kr/p/2nxGRFH
This is an atmospheric scene from an ancient wood on an unexpected misty morning.
It’s busy composition but I think your eye will tend to look through the middle or maybe you see the mossy foreground.
Explore! July 28, 2022
Art - Black and White
A transmission tower, also known as an electricity pylon or simply a pylon
Tower top clearance is the vertical clearance between earth wire and top conductor which is governed by the angle of shielding. The shield angle varies from about 250 to 300, depending on the configuration of conductors. Tower top clearance shall be taken 1.5 and 2.25 m for 132 kV and 220 kV respectively for 00 swings.
double-circuit 500-kV LSTs generally range from 150 to over 200 feet tall, and single-circuit 500-kV towers generally range from 80 to 200 feet tall.
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This was almost a perfect start to the day just before sunrise. It was my 3rd visit in 4 days with mirror like water and misty sub zero temperatures on the canal near Exeter. The view looking across at the The Old Lock Keepers Cottage on the opposite bank was stunning.
I was set up on the path waiting patiently for some interesting light and noticed the first person of the morning pushing his bicycle walking towards me. As he became closer I greeted him good morning but he didn’t reply or even look up. Instead he pushed the front wheel of his bike into me tripod almost knocking it over. I was so shocked and said what the hell are you doing? He just kept moving forward with his head down. It took me a few seconds to respond as he walked away before I shouted “Why did you do that? You could have moved half a step around me!” Still no response. “You are a horrible person and a disgrace to humanity!”
It almost ruined my morning. I wish I had pushed him and his bike in the canal.
I visit the John F Kennedy Arboretum near New Ross quite regularly so I have decided to take a photo each month (from approximately the same spot) to document the subtle changes in this huge Magnolia tree as the seasons change. According to the metal plaque on the tree the species is Magnolia campbellii 'mollicomata'.
This is the album which will feature 12 images by the end of 2022 www.flickr.com/photos/juliek1967/albums/72177720295726328
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It was dull, misty morning with poor light but the iPhone has captured the blossoms quite well given the circumstances (best viewed Large). The most obvious change I've noticed from the February photo is that the flowers are in full bloom. Quite a few petals have fallen off already, their magnificence doesn't last long sadly. The Daffodils are still going strong but the Snowdrops have finished. The equally impressive Rhododendron behind this Magnolia is also just starting to bloom.
When Worlds Collide. Halifax, West Yorkshire. The Victorian iron and stone North Bridge, opened in 1871, architects John and James Fraser of Leeds, overshadowed by the Burdock Way flyover, opened in 1973.
This photo is in my album called "West Yorkshire Monochrome". Here's the link to it: (flic.kr/s/aHBqjBT16D)
Taken on a short walk in the area around Humlum fishing village north of Struer, Denmark - October 11, 2020.
(14/366) Leycesteria formosa is a deciduous shrub in the family Caprifoliaceae, native to the Himalayas & southwestern China. It is commonly known as Himalayan Honeysuckle or the Pheasant Berry bush. This one in our garden is over 6ft tall. Perhaps it should be renamed the "Bullfinch bush" as we've had a pair of Bullfinches sat in it busily devouring the plump berries (sadly they didn't pose for a photo).
A large, black, and conspicuous waterbird, the cormorant has an almost primitive appearance with its long neck making it appear reptilian. It is often seen standing with its wings held out to dry.
Schokland (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈsxɔklɑnt]) is a former island in the Dutch Zuiderzee, in the municipality of Noordoostpolder. Schokland was an elongated strip of peat land which ceased to be an island when the Noordoostpolder was reclaimed from the sea in 1942. It is now just a slightly elevated part of the polder, with a still partly intact retaining wall of the waterfront of Middelbuurt (Wikipedia)
Kanade Hamawaki distributed papers with circles on them and asked the audience to fill them with red colour. The papers she hung with her team on the walls of the room. seen at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf as part of the final art works of the graduating students.