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Stack of 25 shots at 200mm focal length and F5.6
10 x 120s RGB @ 1000ISO
15 x 180s H-alpha @ 4000ISO.
D810A + Sigma 120-300mm F2.8 + NEQ6
Shooting conditions were dry and dusty on the ground, very clear dark skies, a bit of wind and mild to no seeing.
I replaced the red channel from the RGB images with the H-alpha, but still can't figure out how to trick Nebulosity3 into adding the H-alpha to the RGB ...
I have asked for a free PixInsight trial and will try this image again.
The stars near the edge of the frame look elongated because of how the lens displays problems when shooting through the IR645 filter at F5.6 ... something like F7.1 would be better, but I'd loose so much light that for an unguided setup like this it becomes really problematic !
Focal Length (35mm format) - 26 mm
Camera Type - Cameraphone
Samsung S7
tool for flickr
FLUIDR
good for Login into flickr
Allied Spyrius Colonies transport
Spaceship Kitiara is new flagship of Spyrius. Main purpose is transport of both machinery and crew and support of smaller spacecraft in space. She can also serve as a small space station. The ship is operated by crew of 15 and there are currently 41 passangers.
The front is equipped with various sensors; main communication antennae and shields generators are on the roof. In the front section are two hangar bays openned to one side and moonbase airlock connector on the other side. Middle section has entrance ramp, crew rooms, cantina and kitchen on port side. On starbord side is bathroom, infirmary, computer workstations and relaxation room with swimming pool. On the rear is engine maintenance room with elevator to the control tower where are pilots and the captain. On the wings are FTL engines and on the hull are main sublight thrusters.
About the build:
Length:155 studs
Width: 76 studs
height: 45 bricks
Originally I planned to do this SHIP for Shiptember 2019 but one month was way too short. Since my last ship was 130 studs long, I wanted to make this one bigger. Also I wanted to feature asymetric design, spaceous open hangar bay with rised catwalk, full interier with bar/restaurant. I was playing with the shape for a while when finally this long design with two hangar bays, glass bubble and a control tower came up on my paper.
Main structure is from technic beams which make the ship very sturdy but it cannot be separated in smaller parts. Smaller technic frame is also in the middle part supporting the side rooms.
Interior is fuly furnished and almost fully accessible (both for human and figs, except the control tower, which has fake elevator for figs). Most of the roofs and also the rooms in second floor can be removed to access the lower deck.
There are currently all my space figs (cca 50+) and there is still some room left for more.
A busy morning at Sharpness, the Tall bridge gives a good overlook......
CELTIC FORESTER (IMO 9256171, MMSI 232020953) is a General Cargo Ship built in 2003 (21 years old) and currently sailing under the flag of United Kingdom (UK). Her length overall (LOA) is 89.98 meters and her width is 15.3 meters.
PATRON (IMO 9376464, MMSI 244227000) is a General Cargo Ship built in 2008 (16 years old) and currently sailing under the flag of Netherlands. Her length overall (LOA) is 118.9 meters and her width is 13.35 meters.
3.0 mm body length
The beetle was wandering when it came across a little ant, it tried to grap the beetle which stayed passive but could not get a hold so it gave up eventually...
The ant is a Solenopsis fugax, thanks to el.gritche for the ID !
Length 70-92cm (27-36ins)
Wingspan 200-245cm (78-96ins)
Distribution:- Breeds very locally and sparsely in E Europe, SE Europe, Scotland and Iceland, more commonly in Scandinavia, wanders in winter,
Madrid Maersk, the largest container vessel (in tdw) in the world
Madrid Maersk
Length 399m, beam 58.60m, BRZ 214.286, tdw 210.000, TEU 20.568
After taking the full length of RAF Mildenhall's huge runway, USAFE Boeing KC-135R Stratotanker 63-8871 makes a rarely seen 'One-Eighty' before trundling back to her South-side parking stand.
With the spoilers and flaps still deployed she was quite nimble for a '50 plus' year old airframe albeit re-worked and re-engined with those four huge CFM-56 Turbo-Fans.
Equipped with both her standard 'Flying Boom' and two wing-mounted Hose & Drogue pods, she is one of a dozen or so based there to provide Air-to-Air refuelling capability for both USAFE and NATO assets operating across the European theatre.
HDR on a single frame
DSCN6173
This bug is about 4mm in length and taken in Singapore. The color is slightly darken as compared to this image, the shot was over expose to show the detail of the bug.
I saw a lot of bug today by the edges of the nature reserve. They were the huge Leather Bugs. I counted at least 3 of them. They are so still and motionless. Beside them is this robot looking bug that kept still for a while and started to tramp his way from leaf to leaf. He walks like an elephant, tramping his feet as he moved along. Then I found another one just like him. There were two of them.
Anyone can ID for me?
Thanks
Found from Laura's question to an expert Entomologist
Hi. One reason you won't find anything on the web is that they're not adults, and most insects are best recognized when they're mature. Those appear to be in the family Coreidae, a large group with thousands of different species worldwide, commonly known as "leaf-footed bugs". You can see where they get the name. They're not beetles, and they don't bite - they suck plant fluids.
File: 2016005-0020
In my back garden, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom. Taken in the morning of Friday 15th November 2016.
Note: My camera was incorrectly set to the wrong year, the EXIF recorded the year as 2015, but it is really 2016.
About this photograph.
This is Marie, whom was known as LadyArtist on the model booking websites.
Marie was booked for a two hours photo-shoot project at my home. The first hour was to be standard modelling as part of a graphic design project, and the second hour was to be glamour kind of modelling.
The first hour was split into two parts. The first part was to be a general winter style fashion wear, modelling in fur coats, wearing a scarf, with jeans tucked into knee-length boots. Those can be found in my Photostream and Albums. Most of the shoots were to be used in various graphic design projects, such as magazines, catalogues, adverts, etc.
Now about the second part…
I explained to her that for this task, I needed a fictional female singer/songwriter posing for a fictional CD album art cover as part of my graphic design project. The character she pretends to be, would be a singer/songwriter, is a guitarist, and plays rock / alternative rock / soul or thereabouts. Say for example, the likes of Sharleen Spiteri, Sheryl Crow, etc.
It is not just only for a CD album art cover, but also for anything else related to the album, like tour poster, advert, magazine interview, etc, in additional to the mock-up CD case.
I asked her to pose in this black fur jacket, while keeping the rest of her outfit as she worn, carry my acoustic guitar, and stand beside the back wall of the outbuilding. The reason for this location, the need for this kind of background, is because I may want to create the album’s title on it in the form of a writing on the wall.
I may be deaf with speech impaired, so communications can sometimes be difficult, but as a very good and experienced model herself, she was able to understand my project, my plan, and my instructions, and carried out her task very well. I got the kind of shots I planned for and hoped for.
After that, bearing in mind that I was a busy full-time single parent, I did manage to get some graphic design artwork done while the kids were at school. But that task was done using CorelDRAW software on my old 32-bit Windows XP computer, and I later upgraded to a new computer with 64-bit Windows 7 Professional Edition, so sadly the old CorelDRAW software was incompatible with the new computer. As a result of this, I took the opportunity to switch to Adobe software (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, etc.,) but I have not yet had a chance to try to convert the old Corel files into the new Adobe format. I also consider on redoing the project, by improving it.
So, this is the story of the photo-shoot.
About LadyArtist.
Marie was a model (either professional or amateur, I forgotten which), and adverted on a few of the model booking websites like PurplePort and similar, under her handle of LadyArtist. But at least two years after this photo-shoot I did, she had passed away of cancer or something. I only found out two years after her death (four years after the photo-shoot), when I saw her online account was turned into some kind of a memorial by her husband. I believe by now, most of her accounts have been deactivated.
About my project.
In 1987-89, I studied traditional graphic design at college, while working for a professional photographer as a darkroom technician and photographer’s assistant. After leaving college, it was difficult to get a job because of discrimination, due to my being a deaf person. Because the college did not have much computers, the graphic design I did was the old fashion way, pencils, pens, masking tapes, prints, glue, etc., so while unemployment and seeking a job, I did self-study in digital graphic design.
For me, photography is not a hobby. I do enjoy doing photography, but not as a hobby, I would prefer it should be as a career. I considered photography as my first choice, while graphic design as my secondary choice. When I became single parent, I put it all on hold to look after the kids.
At first, when the kids were old enough, I attempted to do some graphic design for myself, mostly to keep my skills going, and to keep a portfolio full of fresh ideas to show to employers during interviews. Or if needed, I would consider going freelance for myself.
Most of my graphic design projects are generally more of publicity and media, like posters, book covers, DVD covers, etc., Often I would design CD album art covers, and this photo-shoot is part of the project. Usually I prefer to try to use my own photographs rather than rely on stock images.
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F:1.4
Speed:1/320
ISO:64
Focal Length:50 mm
AF Fine Tune Adj:0
Focus Mode:AF-C
AF Area:Dynamic Area (3D-tracking)
Shooting Mode:Single-Frame, [9]
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Dof:0.007 m (0.470 - 0.477)
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A four-car train of R32 cars (Budd, 1964-1965), with no. 3888 as the lead motor, is seen racing through Neck Rd on the Brighton Line during the 2022 Parade of Trains.
Taken during my 5th trip to Nova Scotia, in September of 1980, here's William deGarthe working on a huge granite mural that extends the entire length of an outcrop on his property. Just visible at the top center is the cross on the steeple of St. John's Anglican Church. Complete information on deGarthe and his works can be found here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_E._deGarthe
When viewing the high resolution photo of the completed mural that's in the Wikipedia article, I noticed that the left end of the completed work did NOT match the same area of my photo, which shows his original marked layout. There are significant differences between my photo and his finished work in the area to the left of St. Elmo. Where today on the finished mural you see a gull about to land on a bollard, and to its left a figure standing at a vessel's spoked wheel, in my photo of his original design you see a two masted schooner sailing left toward a lighthouse on a rock. Above the schooner is a gull flying to the right. Since the mural was nowhere near completion, a great deal of rough layout work is visible throughout. I wouldn't have noticed this if I hadn't been looking on line for some information about the mural. Viewing both at their large size, compare the left end of my image with that of the Wikipedia image. Their differences will be readily apparent.
I phoned the William deGarthe Art Gallery in Peggy's Cove this morning expecting to get a Covid closure recorded message but was surprised when a staff member answered. We had an interesting conversation where I asked about a design change that might possibly have been made before extensive work was done in the area to the left of St. Elmo. I sent a copy of this image to the gallery for their reference, as the differences were a complete surprise to both of us. I asked why the original design might have been modified. Was there any chance that rendering a sailing vessel in stone might have presented problems... details such as lines / rigging being unsuitable for presenting in rough stone? Had he left any notes regarding the work that might include a reference to the design change? It's interesting to imagine what the finished mural would look like (on that end), had work on the original design been carried out to completion.
Concerning his tools used for the project... I remember the rock hammer/drill being heavy and awkward to hold... even with the extra side handle. It was NOISY, and vibrated like crazy... and this was when it wasn't in contact with the rock. I know he wore glasses, a good thing with stone chips and particles flying about, but I cannot remember if he wore any kind of ear protection. His working for so long on this project, using power tools of this nature, could have resulted in some kind of work related disability. I cannot remember the manufacturer of the power hammer he was using that day... wish I could.
Mr deGarthe did not live to see the mural completed, passing away in 1983 with about 80% of the work finished.
The camera I used for this image was my first interchangeable lens SLR... a Nikkormat FT-n fitted with a Nikon 35mm f/2.8 lens.I used it for many years, until the exposure meter failed, then replaced it with a used Nikon F3 HP. I always carried a selection of cameras on my photo trips. There would be one 35mm SLR, one 35mm Stereo camera (3D), and usually one medium format camera... a Pentax 6x7, a Century Graphic (2 1/4 x 3 1/4), or a Mamiya Universal Press. I remember having to provide customs officials with a list of equipment and serial numbers going into Canada, declaring that no equipment was for sale, and do the same returning to the US, assuring customs that none of my gear was purchased in Canada. The only time I ever had a problem at customs was in Calais, Maine where a US agent took exception to my having a plaque-mounted set of deer antlers with me, a gift from the cook at the motel in Parrsboro we stayed at for over 30 years. He wouldn't "confiscate" them, suggesting I drive back to Parrsboro and return them. I said that his suggestion made no sense, then he said to go back over the border and leave them alongside the road somewhere. I might have been a bit rude at that point and he called the senior inspector. Since it was a busy time, my line wasn't moving and folks behind me were becoming "restless", they both said they "hadn't seen anything" and told me to "Get lost".
Peg Cove Mon 9-80-33A
What is the best budget portrait lens for amateurs?
Budget is important because we are amateurs only and some good large aperture lenses are just outside of our affordable range. We need large aperture since blurred background is always preferred in portraits.
The possible lens choices (take Nikon as example) listed with Canadian street prices are:
- 50mm F1.4D $370
- 85mm F1.4D $1,200
- 70-200mm F2.8 VR $2,200
It is an obvious choice in 50mm when we compare the price and value for money. When it is used with my APS-C sensor D300, it is 75mm equivalent. It is light weight and very sharp.
I brought my 50mm F1.4 to the group shooting of Jennifer's portrait. I think it is good for full length shots. Later I found I could be blocking other photographer's shots when I got closer. So I switched to the Sigma 70-200mm lens.
I also found Jennifer (may be the same for other models) needed warm-up as the poses in the beginning of the shooting were not as natural as the ones afterwards. Anyways I am new to this and totally have no idea about posing too.
Please feel free to share your suggestion about portrait lens and experiences.
This is the shot using 50mm F.14 at the beginning of the shooting with Jennifer.
Have a great weekend!
“My hair was slicked down with a part. But that was before I discovered the blow-dryer. Now I’m fabulous.” ― Barry Manilow
Photography Challenge: Victorian-Style Long Hair Portrait
This was a self-assignment that I did in tribute to all of those fascinating portraits of Victorian women who let their floor-length tresses down in the photography studios of yesteryear.
Victorians considered long hair to be the epitome of femininity, and some took this to a wonderful extreme: www.google.com/search?q=victorian+long+hair&source=ln...
My real hair is actually only about 24" long, so I had to add some longer locks in Photoshop.
©2016 Linda Sue Kocsis - StudioCandelabra.com
(Camera settings)
Camera: FinePix HS20EXR (FUJIFILM)
Focal Length: 6 mm
ISO Speed: 3.6
Shutter Speed: 1/40
shot while driving (waiting) on the fdr - manhattan, nyc
large view for detail
airport_sleeper's evolving nyc set
File: 2016001-0021
Photo bumped up to mark the 10th anniversary of my photo-shoot with Lulu.
Near the Newport City Footbridge over the River Usk, in the city of Newport (Welsh: Casnewydd), Gwent, Wales (Cymru), United Kingdom, on Friday 29th January 2016.
Photos were taken opposite the Friars Walk Shopping Centre, and the Kingfisher Shopping Centre, next to the A4042 known as Usk Way. It is also near the University of South Wales, Newport City Campus, which can be seen in the background in a few of the photos.
About this photograph.
As well as being a photographer, I am also a graphic designer, but in both cases I’m currently out of work. At that time the above photograph was taken, I was a busy full-time single parent, so my careers were put on hold.
However, in order to ensure the I do not lose my skills, and also to keep gaining more experience, I often try to do photography or graphic design projects, while the kids were at school. This was one of the few graphic design projects I was doing.
As a graphic designer, I prefer to make an effort to take my own photos, and include them in my design works, rather than use stock images. The above photo of the model is for my own design.
The graphic design project I was doing, was to be a DVD case cover and a boxset design, for a non-existence fictional police and detective television show. This was to showcase my creative skills in designing case covers for DVDs.
The theme of the non-existence DVD was to be a police drama, the idea was a civilian woman, herself a single mother of two teenager kids, helping the police as a consultant. The idea of the story was for her to balance her life between being a single mother, struggle with dating, her work, and her role as a consultant.
So, I needed a woman in her later 40s or early 50s. That’s all I wanted, since I only thought of her character as being in that approximate age range. I never thought of what colour her hair should be, what she looks like, etc. That allowed me some flexibility with finding any models available for a photo-shoot.
Plus I wanted it to be set in a city, as the theme of the story was set in a city.
I searched on some of the model booking websites, like PurplePort, and found Lulu, whom was living in Newport, Wales, on ModelFolio. We exchanced email, mostly pre-shoot communications, and finally I booked her for a two-hours photo-shoot in Newport.
I managed to arrange for my ex-wife to pick up the kids from school on Friday, and look after them for the weekend, so that as soon as I drop of the kids, I drove to Newport, to her home. We made preparations for the outdoor photo-shoot, and her husband offered to drive us into city centre, to the location you see in the photograph.
Here, Lulu is wearing a typical women’s winter outfit. She is seen posing in a size XL animal print faux fur coat from Roman Originals.
She is also wearing her own dark blue jeans, tucked into her own brown flat-heeled knee-length boots, with full length zippers on the sides of the boots. She is also wearing a casual top under the fur coat, not seen in the photos. The weather was gloomy with light winds, hence her hair is sometimes seen flying in the wind.
She was aware from pre-shoot communications, of what the photo-shoot is all about, and I directed her to the kind of poses I wanted. I asked her to pose like a woman lost in deep thoughts, over her personal life and the investigation, which is what I hoped her pose in the photo would imply.
Despite myself being a deaf person with speech impaired, she had remarked that we had worked together well, and she also left a positive review on my account on ModelFolio, stating that I was able to give directions well.
About the Roman Originals fur coat.
Roman Originals was originally established in 1957 in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom.
It started as a family owned manufacturing business, designing and making ladieswear, for the high street shops in Britain. It grew to include evening wear, wedding outfits, smart casual day wear, work wear, and holiday wear, for the women.
The meaning of the company name was from an inspiration of Italian fabrics they used in their designs, and over the years, continue to change the styles as the fashion style changed over time, mostly for the younger customers, and try to design their fashion to fit customers of all ages.
As the company grew, by around 1990’s, they decided to open their High Street stores, and ended up with about 150 stores nationwide. They later renamed to simply Roman, but still trading as Roman Originals PLC.
Many special thanks for your time in reading about it.
You are welcome to comment on my photograph, about the photography itself, or about the subject in the photograph, or about your similar experience.
City trip In Amsterdam - July 2021 - Day 1
Various pics of the day 1 in Amsterdam with no particular subject
Diverses photos prisent a Amsterdam (jour : 1) sans sujet reel.
( A little city trip in Amsterdam
Un petit city trip a Amsterdam )
Le Bambole Mk.XIV, Pinholgaroid pinhole camera.
- 45mm focal length, 82º angle of view.
- Pinhole aperture approx. 0.30mm, f/150.
- Impossible Project SX 70 and 600 instant integral film.
- Full frame.
I hacked together a Holga 120N toy camera, Polaroid CB-70 instant film back, assorted bits of bamboo, hobby wood, hardware, and created a FUN instant film pinhole camera!
Parts needed to construct this simple pinhole camera are shown in more detail: [Click Here].
YouTube video showing the My Pinholgaroid in action: youtu.be/h94m4vNTXjo
Here are two of the main Ontario Place structures, the Pods and Cinesphere. The five pods were display and event venues; one is still in operation and hosting a wedding this evening.
The geodesic dome is called Cinesphere, the first IMAX theater in Ontario. The first feature length movie was "North of Superior". This was a fabulous movie with aerial flyovers of the rugged Northern Ontario landscape.
I was looking for a skirt like this for so long but couldn't find what I wanted, namely ankle length. Everything I saw was too short, and then I saw this style, in a tan colour.
I bought it and loved it. And then to by excitement, it became available in 3 other colours as well.
Every time I wear one of them out I get a reaction from at least a couple of passers by or punters.
D. tinctorius azureus is a medium-sized frog that weighs approximately three grams. It grows between 3 and 4.5 cm in length and has a typical lifespan of 4-6 years in the wild. Its bright blue skin serves as a warning to predators. The glands of poisonous alkaloids located in the skin serve as a defense mechanism to potential predators. These poisons paralyze and sometimes kill the predator. The black spots are unique to each frog, serving as an identification tool. Each foot contains four toes which each have a flattened tip with a suction cup pad which is used for gripping. This species of frog is also identifiable by a hunch-backed posture.
Physical appearance also differs with the sex of the animal. Females are larger and about half a centimeter longer than males, but makes have larger toes. The tips of the toes in females are round while males have heart-shaped tips.
Tadpoles vary greatly in appearance from adults. The larvae have a long tail, about six millimeters, with a total length of about ten millimeters. They lack legs and have gills instead of lungs
Dendrobates azureus is a mainland animal, but stays close to water sources. These frogs spend most of their awake time during the day, hopping around in short leaps. They are very territorial and aggressive both towards their own species and others. In order to ward off intruders, they use a series of calls, chases, and wrestling, which usually occurs within the same sex.
Although poison dart frogs are known for their skin toxin, used on the tips of arrows or darts of natives, in reality only the species of the Phyllobates genus are used in this manner, although all poison dart frogs have some level of toxicity
The Blue Poison Dart Frog breeds seasonally, usually during the months of February or March when it is rainy. In order to find a mate, the males sit on a rock and produce quiet calls, which the female follows and tracks down the male. The females then physically fight over the male. The male takes the female to a quiet place by water to mate, which becomes the site of the egg-laying.
Between five to ten offspring are produced, and eggs are laid in the male’s territory, which he defends. The male takes care of the eggs most of the time, but sometimes the female does as well. The eggs hatch between fourteen and eighteen days, and after anywhere from ten to twelve weeks, the tadpoles are fully mature. Both sexes reach sexual maturity at two years of age. The expected lifespan of an average D. azureus is between four and six years in the while, and about ten years in captivity.
Feeding on primarily insects such as ants, flies, spiders, and caterpillars, the Dendrobates azureus is primarily an insectivore, but occasionally feeds on non-insect arthropods. The mother provides unfertilized eggs for the tadpoles’ nutrition
-Wikipedia-
Great hall of City of London Corporation ceremonial and administrative centre
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guildhall,_London
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Focal Length (35mm format) - 26 mm
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Date and Time (Original): 2018:08:06 21:06:45
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Die aktuelle Temperatur am Flughafen Stuttgart beträgt 29 °C, die Luftfeuchtigkeit ist bei 39 %.
Der Wind kommt mit einer Geschwindigkeit von 2 km/h aus 80° oder aus verschiedenen Richtungen.
Die Wolken ziehen von Westen nach Osten.
Das Barometer zeigt 1014 mb und die Sichtweite liegt bei 10 km.
[picture to the left: the male laced woodpecker]
DESCRIPTION
The Laced woodpecker (Picus vittatus), - a monotypic bird species in the family Picidae -, has a total length of about 30-33 cm cm and a body-weight of 94-132g. The male has a red forehead to crown and short crest, bordered by thin black line. Other features are (1) narrow white eyering and short supercilium, (2) pale greyish to buffish ear-coverts, faintly streaked brown, (3) a black malar stripe with some white streaks or spots, (4) plain whitish-buff to pale yellow-green or yellow chin and throat, (5) yellow-green upperparts, more yellowish on rump, (6) bronze-green wings with blackish-brown flight-feathers, (7) blackish uppertail with some thin pale bars on outer feathers, (8) buffish-yellow or olive-buff breast, lower breast with scaly pattern, and (9) a longish, broad-based, blackish bill with curved culmen, lower mandible dull yellow. Females are shorter-billed and have a black forehead and nape. Juveniles are duller with more diffuse underparts markings.
Similar species
Paler throat, yellow breast, more prominent black malar stripe and less bronzy upperparts separate this species from Streak-breasted Woodpecker.
DISTRIBUTION
It is found throughout Southeast Asia in the countries of Cambodia, China, Indonesia (Sumatra, Java, Bali and Kangean Islands), Laos, Cambodia, peninsular Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. A sole specimen recorded for Bangladesh has since been reidentified as a streak-breasted woodpecker.
HABITAT
The Laced woodpecker is a resident species. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forest, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical mangrove forest, and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest. It is found in deciduous forest, evergreen forest, secondary growth, bamboo, gardens, and also in open coastal forest and scrub, including casuarinas and coconut plantations. Mainly in mangroves, where the range overlaps with the Streak-breasted woodpecker in western and southwestern Thailand. The Laced woodpecker occurs from sea-level up to 200m in Greater Sundas, up to 1500m in Southeast Asia.
DIET
The Laced woodpecker feeds on beetles and flies. Usually in pairs or singly, pairs keeping in close contact. They forage on the ground as well as in trees.
BREEDING
Breeding season is from February to July; breeding has been recorded in January, April and September in Java. The nest-hole is excavated at 0.5 to 9m in a tree. It lays 3 to 4 eggs.
Sources: Wikipedia, birdforum.net
Knee-length summer dress in blue with golden ornaments and blue patent high heels - I'm happy.
Awena, 💋💋
The longest railway tunnel in Ireland 1 mile in length ,built in 1864 abandoned in 1957 . . Lissummon Tunnel
The Northern Cardinal is a mid-sized songbird with a body length of 7.9 - 9.3 inches (20 - 23.5 cm) and a wingspan of 9.8 - 12 inches (25 - 31 cm). It has fairly long tail with a short, very thick bill and a prominent crest. Cardinals often sit with a hunched over posture and with the tail pointed straight down.
Males are brilliant red all over, with a reddish bill and black face immediately around the bill. Females are pale brown overall with warm reddish tinges in the wings, tail, and crest. They have the same black face and red-orange bill.
The common name, as well as the scientific name, of the Northern Cardinal refers to the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church, who wear distinctive red robes and caps. The term "Northern" refers to its range, as it is the northernmost cardinal species. It ranges from southern Canada, through the eastern United States from Maine to Texas and south through Mexico. It is found in woodlands, gardens, shrublands, and swamps.
Northern Cardinals tend to sit low in shrubs and trees or forage on or near the ground, often in pairs. They are common at bird feeders but may be inconspicuous away from them, at least until you learn their loud, metallic chip note. The diet consists mainly (up to 90 percent) of weed seeds, grains, and fruits. It eats beetles, cicadas, grasshoppers, snails, wild fruit and berries, corn and oats, sunflower seeds, the blossoms and bark of elm trees, and drinks maple sap from holes made by sapsuckers, an example of commensalism. During the summer months, it shows preference for seeds that are easily husked, but is less selective during winter, when food is scarce. Northern Cardinals feed their young almost exclusively on insects.
Pairs mate for life, and stay together year-round. Mated pairs sometimes sing together before nesting. During courtship they may also participate in a bonding behavior where the male collects food and brings it to the female, feeding her beak-to-beak. If the mating is successful, this mate-feeding may continue throughout the period of incubation. A clutch of three to four eggs is laid, and up to two - four clutches are produced each year. The Cardinal was once prized as a pet, but its sale as cage birds is now banned in the United States by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918.
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3144 interconnected bicycles cover area of 100-feet in length and 30-feet in width and height
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Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2013 all-night arts festival
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Nikon D300 + Nikon DX Nikkor AF-S 35mm 1:1.8G SWM Aspherical
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Although of a length that could be run around at Liskeard station the cement train ran on to Lostwithiel station for this operation to be performed, allowing this shot of 70805 returning from the latter location leading the tanks across Moorswater viaduct in the first of the day's "proper" sunshine.
The pier seen against the sky within the left hand arch is a remnant of the viaduct completed by Brunel in 1859. The current bridge replaced it in 1881.
The new viaduct and the 6 extant piers of the original structure were listed Grade II in 1985.
The Liskeard - Looe branch can be seen running below.
IMO: 9053830
MMSI: 214182417
Call Sign: ERXQ
Flag: Moldova [MD]
AIS Vessel Type: Cargo
Gross Tonnage: 4927
Deadweight: 6918 t
Length Overall x Breadth Extreme: 107m × 18m
Year Built: 1995
Status: Active
The great white pelican is a huge bird—only the Dalmatian pelican is, on average, larger among pelicans. It measures 140 to 180 cm (55 to 71 in) in length[2] with a 28.9 to 47.1 cm (11.4 to 18.5 in) enormous pink and yellow bill, and a dull pale-yellow gular pouch. The wingspan measures 226 to 360 cm (7.41 to 11.81 ft),the latter measurement being the highest among extant flying animals outside of the great albatross.The adult male measures about 175 cm (69 in) in length; it weighs from 9 to 15 kg (20 to 33 lb) and larger races from the Palaearctic are usually around 11 kg (24 lb), with few exceeding 13 kg (29 lb).[8] It has a bill measuring 34.7 to 47.1 cm (13.7 to 18.5 in). The female measures about 148 cm (58 in) in length, and is considerably less bulky, weighing 5.4 to 9 kg (12 to 20 lb), and has a bill that measures 28.9 to 40.0 cm (11.4 to 15.7 in) in length.[8] In Lake Edward, Uganda, the average weight of 52 males was found to 11.45 kg (25.2 lb) and in 22 females it was 7.59 kg (16.7 lb). In South Africa, the average weight of males was 9.6 kg (21 lb) and of females was 6.9 kg (15 lb). Thus the sexual dimorphism is especially pronounced in this species (perhaps the greatest known in any extant pelican), as at times the male can average more than 30% more massive than the female. Among standard measurements, the wing chord is 60 to 73 cm (24 to 29 in), the tail 16 to 21 cm (6.3 to 8.3 in), and the tarsus 13 to 14.9 cm (5.1 to 5.9 in) long. Standard measurements from different areas indicate that pelicans from the Western Palaearctic are somewhat larger than those from Asia and Africa.
The male has a downward bend in the neck and the female has a shorter, straighter beak. The plumage is predominantly white except on remiges, with a faint pink tinge on the neck and a yellowish base on the foreneck.[3] The primary feathers are black, with white shafts at the bases, occasionally with paler tips and narrow fringes. The secondary feathers are also black, but with a whitish fringe. The upperwing coverts, underwing coverts, and tertials are white. The forehead is swollen and pinkish skin surrounds the bare, dark eyes having brown-red to dark brown irides.It has fleshy-yellow legs and pointed forehead-feathers where meeting the culmen.In breeding season, the male has pinkish skin while the female has orangey skin on its face. The bill is mostly bluish grey, with a red tip, reddish maxilla edges, and a cream-yellow to yolk-yellow gular pouch.The white plumage becomes tinged-pink with a yellow patch on the breast, and the body is tinged yellowish-rosy. It also has a short, shaggy crest on the nape. The white covert feathers contrast with the solid black primary and secondary feathers. The legs are yellow-flesh to pinkish orange. Both male and female are similar, but the female is smaller and has brighter orange facial skin in the breeding season.
The juvenile has darker, brownish underparts that are palest at the rump, center of the belly, and uppertail coverts. The underwing coverts are mostly dull-white, but the greater coverts are dark and there is a dark brownish bar over the lesser coverts. The rear tertials upperwing coverts mostly have paler tips with a silvery-grey tinge on the greater secondary coverts and tertials. It has dark flight feathers, and brown-edged wings. The head, neck, and upperparts, including the upperwing coverts, are mostly brown—this is the darkest part of the neck. The facial skin and the bill, including its gular pouch, are greyish to dusky greyish.The forehead, rump, and abdomen are white, and its legs and feet are grey. Its blackish tail occasionally has a silvery-grey tinge. Its underparts and back are initially browner and darker than those of the Dalmatian pelican, and the underwing is strongly patterned, similar to the juvenile brown pelican.
The great white pelican is distinguished from all other pelicans by its plumage. Its face is naked and the feathering on its forehead tapers to a fine point, whereas other species are completely feathered. In flight, the white underwing with black remiges of the adult are similar only to those of the American white pelican (P. erythrorhynchos), but the latter has white inner secondary feathers.It differs from the Dalmatian pelican in its pure white – rather than greyish-white – plumage, a bare pink facial patch around the eye, and pinkish legs. The spot-billed pelican (P. philippensis) of Asia is slightly smaller than the great white pelican, with greyish tinged white plumage, and a paler, duller-colored bill. Similarly, the pink-backed pelican (P. rufescens) is smaller, with brownish-grey plumage, a light pink to off-grey bill, and a pinkish wash on the back.
The bird is mostly silent but has a variety of low-pitched lowing, grunting, and growling calls. The flight call is a deep, quiet croak., while at breeding colonies, it gives deep moooo calls.
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The Afon (River) Crafnant as it travels through the village of Trefriw in County Conwy, North Wales.
The Afon Crafnant is a tributary of the River Conwy, which is the main river of the Conwy valley in north-west Wales. It flows from picturesque Llyn Crafnant, joining the river Conwy at Trefriw. It is about 2.5 miles (4.0 km) in length.
The Afon Crafnant itself has a tributary, the river Geirionydd which flows from Llyn Geirionydd. These two join a little below the former Klondyke Mill, which used water from both rivers. Klondyke was a mining and milling complex connected with some of the metal mines of the Gwydir Forest.
The Crafnant is also fed by several unnamed streams draining from Cefn Cyfarwydd, the ridge to the north-west.
At Trefriw some water from the river is extracted to pass through the Trefriw Woollen Mills to generate hydroelectricity for the machinery, after which the river flows over the Fairy Falls, a popular attraction.
Coed Crafnant, an area of woodland in the valley, is managed by the North Wales Wildlife Trust. Cwm Glas Crafnant is a National Nature Reserve administered by Natural Resources Wales which lies at the head of the narrow Crafnant valley, beneath the rocky masses of Crimpiau and Craig Wen about 5 kilometres from Betws-y-Coed in Conwy. Partly surrounded by a ridge of volcanic rock, the reserve supports a range of habitats including woodland, marshland, and cliffs. This quiet upland area is believed to be home to such species of threatened mammal as the red squirrel and pine marten.
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This tiny fingernail-length space thruster chip runs on the greenest propellant of all: water.
Designed to manoeuvre the smallest classes of satellite, the operation of this Iridium Catalysed Electrolysis CubeSat Thruster (ICE-Cube Thruster) developed with Imperial College in the UK is based on electrolysis.
Avoiding any need for bulky gaseous propellant storage, an associated electrolyser runs a 20-watt current through water to produce hydrogen and oxygen to propel the thruster.
The ICE-Cube Thruster is so small in scale – with its combustion chamber and nozzle measuring less than 1mm in length – that it could only be assembled using a MEMS (Micro-Electrical Mechanical Systems) approach, borrowing methods from the microelectronics sector.
A test campaign achieved 1.25 millinewtons of thrust at a specific impulse of 185 seconds on a sustained basis. Testing took place through an ESA General Support Technology Programme De-Risk activity, to prove the thruster’s feasibility in a laboratory testing.
The experimental data gathered during this activity will help guide development of a flight-representative ‘Engineering Model’ of the propulsion system, including the electrolyser.
Credits: Imperial College
The great white pelican (Pelecanus onocrotalus) also known as the eastern white pelican, rosy pelican or white pelican is a bird in the pelican family. It breeds from southeastern Europe through Asia and Africa, in swamps and shallow lakes.
The great white pelican is a huge bird—only the Dalmatian pelican is, on average, larger among pelicans. It measures 140 to 180 cm (55 to 71 in) in length with a 28.9 to 47.1 cm (11.4 to 18.5 in) enormous pink and yellow bill, and a dull pale-yellow gular pouch. The wingspan measures 226 to 360 cm (7.41 to 11.81 ft), the latter measurement being the highest among extant flying animals outside of the great albatross. The adult male measures about 175 cm (69 in) in length; it weighs from 9 to 15 kg (20 to 33 lb) and larger races from the Palaearctic are usually around 11 kg (24 lb), with few exceeding 13 kg (29 lb). It has a bill measuring 34.7 to 47.1 cm (13.7 to 18.5 in). The female measures about 148 cm (58 in) in length, and is considerably less bulky, weighing 5.4 to 9 kg (12 to 20 lb), and has a bill that measures 28.9 to 40.0 cm (11.4 to 15.7 in) in length. In Lake Edward, Uganda, the average weight of 52 males was found to 11.45 kg (25.2 lb) and in 22 females it was 7.59 kg (16.7 lb). In South Africa, the average weight of males was 9.6 kg (21 lb) and of females was 6.9 kg (15 lb). Thus the sexual dimorphism is especially pronounced in this species (perhaps the greatest known in any extant pelican), as at times the male can average more than 30% more massive than the female. Among standard measurements, the wing chord is 60 to 73 cm (24 to 29 in), the tail 16 to 21 cm (6.3 to 8.3 in), and the tarsus 13 to 14.9 cm (5.1 to 5.9 in) long. Standard measurements from different areas indicate that pelicans from the Western Palaearctic are somewhat larger than those from Asia and Africa.
The male has a downward bend in the neck and the female has a shorter, straighter beak. The plumage is predominantly white except on remiges, with a faint pink tinge on the neck and a yellowish base on the foreneck. The primary feathers are black, with white shafts at the bases, occasionally with paler tips and narrow fringes. The secondary feathers are also black, but with a whitish fringe. The upperwing coverts, underwing coverts, and tertials are white. The forehead is swollen and pinkish skin surrounds the bare, dark eyes having brown-red to dark brown irides. It has fleshy-yellow legs and pointed forehead-feathers where meeting the culmen. In breeding season, the male has pinkish skin while the female has orangey skin on its face. The bill is mostly bluish grey, with a red tip, reddish maxilla edges, and a cream-yellow to yolk-yellow gular pouch. The white plumage becomes tinged-pink with a yellow patch on the breast, and the body is tinged yellowish-rosy. It also has a short, shaggy crest on the nape. The white covert feathers contrast with the solid black primary and secondary feathers. The legs are yellow-flesh to pinkish orange. Both male and female are similar, but the female is smaller and has brighter orange facial skin in the breeding season.
The juvenile has darker, brownish underparts that are palest at the rump, center of the belly, and uppertail coverts. The underwing coverts are mostly dull-white, but the greater coverts are dark and there is a dark brownish bar over the lesser coverts. The rear tertials upperwing coverts mostly have paler tips with a silvery-grey tinge on the greater secondary coverts and tertials. It has dark flight feathers, and brown-edged wings. The head, neck, and upperparts, including the upperwing coverts, are mostly brown—this is the darkest part of the neck. The facial skin and the bill, including its gular pouch, are greyish to dusky greyish. The forehead, rump, and abdomen are white, and its legs and feet are grey. Its blackish tail occasionally has a silvery-grey tinge. Its underparts and back are initially browner and darker than those of the Dalmatian pelican, and the underwing is strongly patterned, similar to the juvenile brown pelican.
The great white pelican is distinguished from all other pelicans by its plumage. Its face is naked and the feathering on its forehead tapers to a fine point, whereas other species are completely feathered. In flight, the white underwing with black remiges of the adult are similar only to those of the American white pelican (P. erythrorhynchos), but the latter has white inner secondary feathers. It differs from the Dalmatian pelican in its pure white – rather than greyish-white – plumage, a bare pink facial patch around the eye, and pinkish legs. The spot-billed pelican (P. philippensis) of Asia is slightly smaller than the great white pelican, with greyish tinged white plumage, and a paler, duller-colored bill.[5] Similarly, the pink-backed pelican (P. rufescens) is smaller, with brownish-grey plumage, a light pink to off-grey bill, and a pinkish wash on the back.
The bird is mostly silent but has a variety of low-pitched lowing, grunting, and growling calls. The flight call is a deep, quiet croak., while at breeding colonies, it gives deep moooo calls.
The breeding range of the great white pelican extends to Ethiopia, Tanzania, Chad, northern Cameroons, and Nigeria in Africa, and has been observed or reported breeding in Zambia, Botswana, and South Africa. In the 1990s, 6,700 to 11,000 breeding pairs in 23 to 25 breeding sites, were found in the Palearctic region. A 1991 study noted about 3,070 to 4,300 pairs were present in the Soviet Union. Only two breeding colonies are located in the Mediterranean basin, one having 250 to 400 pairs in Turkey and the other having 50 to 100 pairs in northern Greece. The breeding colony at Lake Rukwa, Tanzania is the largest known breeding colony in Africa, followed by the Lake Shala, Ethiopia colony which is probably of crucial importance to the species in Africa.
The African population of about 75,000 pairs of the great white pelican is resident. The ones breeding in the Palearctic region are migrants, although it is possible that the majority of the western Palearctic populations stop-over in Israel during their autumn migration. The migration routes are only partially known. Migratory populations are found from Eastern Europe to Kazakhstan during the breeding season. More than 50% of Eurasian great white pelicans breed in the Danube Delta in Romania. They also prefer staying in the Lakes near Burgas, Bulgaria and in Srebarna Lake in Bulgaria. The pelicans arrive in the Danube in late March or early April and depart after breeding from September to late November. Wintering locations for European pelicans are not exactly known but wintering birds may occur in northeastern Africa through Iraq to north India, with a particularly large number of breeders from Asia wintering around Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Northern populations migrate to China, India, Myanmar, with stragglers reaching Java and Bali in Indonesia. These are birds that are found mostly in lowlands, though in East Africa and Nepal may be found living at elevations of up to 1,372 m (4,501 ft).
Overall, the great white pelican is one of the most widely distributed species. Although some areas still hold quite large colonies, it ranks behind the brown pelican and possibly the Australian pelican in overall abundance. Europe now holds an estimated 7,345–10,000 breeding pairs, with over 4,000 pairs that are known to nest in Russia. During migration, more than 75,000 have been observed in Israel and, in winter, over 45,000 may stay in Pakistan. In all its colonies combined, 75,000 pairs are estimated to nest in Africa. It is possibly extinct in Serbia and Montenegro, and regionally extinct in Hungary.
Great white pelicans usually prefer shallow, (seasonally or tropical) warm fresh water. Well scattered groups of breeding pelicans occur through Eurasia from the eastern Mediterranean to Vietnam. In Eurasia, fresh or brackish waters may be inhabited and the pelicans may be found in lakes, deltas, lagoons and marshes, usually with dense reed beds nearby for nesting purposes. Additionally, sedentary populations are found year-round in Africa, south of the Sahara Desert although these are patchy. In Africa, great white pelicans occur mainly around freshwater and alkaline lakes and may also be found in coastal, estuarine areas. Beyond reed beds, African pelicans have nested on inselbergs and flat inshore islands off of Banc d'Arguin National Park.
For more information, please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_white_pelican