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Explore! October 16, 2020
The bald eagle is a bird of prey found in North America. A sea eagle, it has two known subspecies and forms a species pair with the white-tailed eagle. Its range includes most of Canada and Alaska, all of the contiguous United States, and northern Mexico. Wikipedia
Die St. Valentin-Kirche oberhalb von Seis am Schlern zählt zu den schönsten Gotteshäusern des gesamten Schlerngebietes. Obwohl das Kirchlein inmitten der Wiesen steht, die sich oberhalb – östlich – von Seis am Schlern erstrecken, gehört dieses als Filialkirche zur Pfarrkirche Kastelruth.
Die Geschichte der St. Valentin-Kirche hat ihren Beginn bereits im 13. Jahrhundert. Erstmals wurde das Kirchlein im Jahr 1244 urkundlich erwähnt. Noch heute können aufmerksame Beobachter anhand des Glockenturms und der gekuppelten Fenster die Merkmale des Baustiles aus dem 13. Jahrhundert erkennen.
Im Jahr 1353 wurde die Kirche neu geweiht.
Im 15. Jahrhundert wurde die Kirche umgebaut. Diesem Umbau verdankt die Kirche ihren Chor, wie er heute zu sehen ist. Der Umbau kann aufgrund eines Ablassbriefes aus dem Jahr 1475, welcher sich im Pfarrarchiv befindet, genau datiert werden.
Quelle: seiseralm-schlerngebiet.com/schlerngebiet/sehenswertes/20...
She's a bit tattered, but I was surprised to see this one on some purple Salvia in the Dixon Gardens in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Good Stewards of Nature
A quiet moment, yesterday afternoon, walking through the woods towards that little archway!
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Explore November 20, 2020
The Canada goose is a large wild goose species with a black head and neck, white cheeks, white under its chin, and a brown body. It is native to arctic and temperate regions of North America, and its migration occasionally reaches northern Europe. Wikipedia
Lifespan: 10 – 24 years (In the wild)
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Big bull Elephant (Loxodonta africana) uses his trunk as a snorkel as he crosses the river. He was almost fully submerged at one point, and his destination was a rich patch of aquatic plants.
This was one of three Alpacas I came across whilst out walking. They are fascinating creatures and did not seem to mind the attention, but I think he was having a bad hair day.
Alpacas are domesticated versions of vicuñas, South American ruminants that live high in the Andes. Alpacas are related to llamas, which are domesticated versions of another wild Andean ruminant, the guanaco. While llamas are used as pack animals, alpacas are raised mainly for their soft wool.
Peak Rail 1940's Weekend. 6-7 July 2024.
Rowsley South Station, Matlock, Derbyshire.
A well organised event at this fabulous location in the Derbyshire Peak District. Re-enactors, vintage vehicles, dancing and not forgetting of course, unlimited travel on the steam trains.
There was also a Battle Re-Enactment. British and American Forces armed conflict against the Germans. Great to see the fire power to hand. Gunshots, explosions from all directions. It was a thrilling spectacle!
A thoroughly entertaining weekend had by all.
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Tierpark Hagenbeck, Hamburg
Nikon D750, f/10.0, 1/160 sec, 80.0mm, ISO 200
AF-S Nikkor 80-400mm f/4.5-5.6G ED VR
Part of my 'Duffus Castle through the seasons' project.
The castle is situated on the Laich of Moray, a fertile plain that was once the swampy foreshore of Spynie Loch. This was originally a more defensive position than it appears today, long after the loch was drained.
The motte is a huge man-made mound, with steep sides and a wide ditch separating it from the bailey. The whole site is enclosed by a water-filled ditch, which is more a mark of its boundary than it is a serious defensive measure.
Duffus Castle was built by a Flemish man named Freskin, who came to Scotland in the first half of the 1100s. After an uprising by the ‘men of Moray’ against David I in 1130, the king sent Freskin north as a representative of royal authority.
He was given the estate of Duffus, and here he built an earthwork-and-timber castle. Freskin’s son William adopted the title of ‘de Moravia’ – of Moray. By 1200, the family had become the most influential noble family in northern Scotland, giving rise to the earls of Sutherland and Clan Murray.
In about 1270, the castle passed to Sir Reginald Cheyne the Elder, Lord of Inverugie. He probably built the square stone keep on top of the motte, and the curtain wall encircling the bailey. In 1305, the invading King Edward I of England gave him a grant of 200 oaks from the royal forests of Darnaway and Longmorn, which were probably used for the castle’s floors and roofs.
The Squirrel Cuckoo is a pan-Neotropical inhabitant of a large diversity of forested, wooded, and disturbed habitats across the entire humidity gradient from tropical deciduous forest, coffee plantations, and gallery forests to primary humid lowland rainforest. It is common and is most often seen in gliding from one tree to another, or energetically hopping from branch to branch in search of a wide variety of arthropods.
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Photo taken at the AVIARIO NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA, Barú.
"Colombia is the number one country in the world to have the largest varieties of birds, having about 1,876 species and almost 70 kinds that belong specially to Colombia. AVIARIO NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA has done an amazing job to show that. You see some of birds free and others in beautiful habitats. Peacocks, Toucans, Pink Flamingos, Crane Corona, Guacamayas, Pelicanos, Ducks, all types of little colorful birds Colombia is most famous for it, every imaginable birds are here.
This place is so well design, and so well taking care of, that you think some times you are in paradise!"
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Art - from photo, watercolor Explore! December 3, 2021
Lucerne, a compact city in Switzerland known for its preserved medieval architecture, sits amid snowcapped mountains on Lake Lucerne. Its colorful Altstadt (Old Town) is bordered on the north by 870m Museggmauer (Musegg Wall), a 14-century rampart. The covered Kapellbrücke (Chapel Bridge), built in 1333, links the Aldstadt to the Reuss River's right bank. ― Google
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La météo pour ce mercredi 10 février 2021 . . .
Des chutes de neige ou du verglas, dans des proportions importantes pour la région, sont attendus. , Les conditions de circulation peuvent devenir rapidement très difficiles sur l'ensemble du réseau, tout particulièrement en secteur forestier où des chutes d'arbres peuvent accentuer les difficultés. , Les risques d'accident sont accrus. , Quelques dégâts peuvent affecter les réseaux de distribution d'électricité et de téléphone.
www.bfmtv.com/meteo/la-meteo-pour-ce-mercredi-10-fevrier-...
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This has to be one of my favourite Damselfly photos I’ve taken this season.
Laying in the wet grass is becoming a very familiar pastime photographing these dainty little Damselflies. I may take up yoga with all the peculiar contorted body shapes I create to frame a shot. It’s not exactly a cool Vogue ‘Strike a Pose’ moment.♂️
I’m very happy with the way this one turned out.
*The timing, precision and patience is so important to achieve an image like this and the enjoyment of course*
Techy info.
Controlling the exposure was tricky shooting directly into the sun with the limitations of the camera shooting at 1/8000s at iso50. Unexpectedly the damselfly actually flapped it’s wings at high speed for a split second. I was able to capture them without blurring because of such a high shutter speed. I must admit I was lucky🍀 because I wouldn’t normally shoot a still object with these settings but was forced to in such bright light trying to control the exposure.
The image on the screen of the camera looked very overexposed but it’s amazing the detail you can recover shooting in raw format. In post processing I moved the highlights slider all the way to the left and the wings surprisingly appeared. I looked at the sequence of shots hoping for one with splashes of dew flying off the hovering wings. Now that would have been special!
📍Stover Country Park, Devon
📷 Canon 5D mkiii
🔘 Canon EF 100mm f2.8L Macro IS USM + extension tubes
#damselfly #dragonflysociety #emeralddanselfly #stoverpark #macrophotography #morningdew #silhouette
An eerie fog clinging to the old twisted oak trees really adds a spooky atmosphere and depth to the scene.
I tried to find a name of the shape that the central tree made in this image. I came up with with an oval with pointed ends which apparently is the shape of a rare cut of diamond called a Marquise.
#treesofmystery #woodlands #mistywoods #mystical #hobbit #lordoftherings
Here's the fountain at Arnot Hill Park in a few differing guises.
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Selected for Flickr group 'in explore', by group admin David Kracht, on 10 Aug 2023. Thank you David.
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I came across this woodland path while chasing the mist and fog one morning on Dartmoor. There’s much to explore there so I’ll certainly be revisiting when there’s mist again.
📍 Dartmoor National Park, Devon UK
📷 Canon 5D Mark III with a EF24-70mm f/2.8 L USM
⚙ 1/30th second f/11 ISO400
Adobe Photoshop
Infrared IR 720 Monochrome. Canon 750D converted. Taken on my hours exercise walk from my front door.