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Everyone likes to see a Cormorant dry its wings, but a backlit juvenile with such vibrant colors is a special treat. At the Harlem Meer, Central Park, New York
On Sunday a Swiss Airlines pilot who likes flying small aircraft invited us to join the Bay Tour, a flight in a four seater Cessna 172 all over the San Francisco Bay in California. It was a perfect day for flying. After passing directly over the San Jose International Airport we flew over the Apple headquarters called Apple Park, known by locals simply as the spaceship. It's big, its diameter rivals the Pentagon, houses more than 12,000 employees, and took 5 billion to build. See more photos of the Bay Tour at bit.ly/319JeYv
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Hank likes to greet us with all sorts of toys. We bought this one recently cause all his other toys were damaged by him of course. Instead of grabbing it by the outer part, he does with the inner part and flips it over his face. We all had a good laugh the first time. He's so funny don't you think?
My Alf, just a funshot! This was the best I could get.....
He likes pink...........and music! He has a large ton and takes sometimes a cd out with his nails and starts playing with it............ (on the floor 1 mtr down..)
Unfortunately my lovely friend Alfie
has passed away ♱ on August 5th 2021
Minnie likes to take a nap on the swivel chair. She likesit very much when we let her "merry-go-round" on the chair:-)
Minnie sitzt und schläft gerne auf dem Drehstuhl. Besonders liebt sie es, darauf Karusell zu fahren, wenn jemand den Stuhl dreht.:-)
One likes to imagine that BM113 Gretel K, seen here waiting patiently for the tide to flood the harbour at Lyme Regis, is usually to be found fishing for ammonites or belemnites. Maybe ichthyosaurs play around her bows as she chases down the occasional plesiosaur with her sophisticated sonar systems.
However, I suspect that in reality, her catch is actually somewhat run-of-the-mill.
Thème de Macro Monday "La beauté est dans l'oeil de celui qui regarde"
Macro Mondays Theme "Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder"
Qui aime la poésie?
J’aime lire ou écouter de la poésie, en vers ou en prose.
Lorsque je lis un poème qui m'interpelle, j’ai l’impression de pouvoir y trouver une solution simple et absolue, à travers le prisme de la beauté, à tout ce qui m’ennuie, m’interroge ou m’obsède.
Je ne dirais pas que la plupart des gens trouve la poésie laide (pour rejoindre le thème du jour), mais je crois savoir qu'en lire peut paraître ennuyeux, ou peut être que certaines œuvres semblent hermétiques ou donnent l'impression de demander trop de temps pour ressentir ce qu'il s'y dit?
La photo est un passage très connu du Petit Prince de Saint-Exupery, où le renard explique ce que signifie « apprivoiser » au Petit Prince ; ce même passage que j’ai d’ailleurs dû apprendre par cœur vers 8-9 ans à l’école, et auquel je n'avais rien compris à l'époque...
Je ne me lasse jamais de ce livre, un livre pour enfants: à chaque fois que je le lis, j’y trouve une allégorie nouvelle.
Pour moi c'est un mélange de sagesse et de sublime à l'état pur!
I hope I am in the theme.
I really like written poetry, whether in verse or prose.
When I read a poem that speaks to me, I feel I’m suddenly able to find a simple and absolute solution -through beauty- to everything that annoys, questions or obsesses me.
I wouldn't say people find poetry ugly, but I guess it is often found boring, hermetic, or seems to be too time-consuming to read, and feel?
The photo is a well known passage of "the Little Prince" by Saint-Exupery, where the fox explains what “to tame” means to the Little Prince; this same passage that I had to learn by heart when I was 8-9 years old at school, but at that time, it hadn't made any sense to me...
I never get tired of this book, a children's one, everytime I read it, I find a new allegory.
Pure wisdom and beauty to me!
118/365
Hylaeus nelumbonis. The bee likes wetlands and... wetland plants, by implication, love this bee. American lotus (Nelumbo) and water lily were early on noted as hosting this species on its flowers. Side note. I wonder how Robertson (the guy who described the species and whose mission was to document floral use by bees) collected these bees - on at least water lilies, which lie on the surface of the water (Lotus has the good sense to project its flowers above the water). If you try to net a bee on a water lily, everything gets wet and essentially goes under water and you end up with nothing. I know this from first hand experience. When I was trying my hand I had to slowly glide up on a waterlily, wait for a bee to land and crawl inside the waterlily, then grab the whole head of the flower with my hand and throw the everytthing in a net to extract the bee (and not fall out of the canoe by reaching a bit too far). In any case, these bees can be found on a variety of flowers, but always in and around wetlands. It is unclear why this should be. What is it that keeps them next to wetlands if not that they need some of those flowers specifically? Maybe its the pollen of one of the plant groups that is required for its young but it will sip nectar and party with the males on a variety of other flowers. H. ornatus and H. schwarzii do pretty much the same thing (more to the east). A nice tidy research project that could save the world (because you never know what you will discover when you poke around Mother Nature). ~~~~~~~~~~{{{{{{0}}}}}}~~~~~~~~~~
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Photography Information:
Canon Mark II 5D, Zerene Stacker, Stackshot Sled, 65mm Canon MP-E 1-5X macro lens, Twin Macro Flash in Styrofoam Cooler, F5.0, ISO 100, Shutter Speed 200
We Are Made One with What We Touch and See
We are resolved into the supreme air,
We are made one with what we touch and see,
With our heart's blood each crimson sun is fair,
With our young lives each spring impassioned tree
Flames into green, the wildest beasts that range
The moor our kinsmen are, all life is one, and all is change.
- Oscar Wilde
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Want some Useful Links to the Techniques We Use? Well now here you go Citizen:
Best over all technical resource for photo stacking:
Art Photo Book: Bees: An Up-Close Look at Pollinators Around the World:
www.amazon.com/Bees-Up-Close-Pollinators-Around-World/dp/...
Free Field Guide to Bee Genera of Maryland:
bio2.elmira.edu/fieldbio/beesofmarylandbookversion1.pdf
Basic USGSBIML set up:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-_yvIsucOY
USGSBIML Photoshopping Technique: Note that we now have added using the burn tool at 50% opacity set to shadows to clean up the halos that bleed into the black background from "hot" color sections of the picture.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdmx_8zqvN4
Bees of Maryland Organized by Taxa with information on each Genus
www.flickr.com/photos/usgsbiml/collections
PDF of Basic USGSBIML Photography Set Up:
Google Hangout Demonstration of Techniques:
plus.google.com/events/c5569losvskrv2nu606ltof8odo
or
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c15neFttoU
Excellent Technical Form on Stacking:
Contact information:
Sam Droege
sdroege@usgs.gov
301 497 5840
Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the world, as universal as a bird?
David Attenborough
Hennessy likes sticks, even little ones.
She's kind of scary-looking, but she plays with Finn, the Corgi.
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Camera Model : Canon EOS 5D Mark III
Exposure : 1/4000 seconds
Aperture : f/4
ISO Speed : 320
Focal Length : 200 mm
Jasper likes staying in hotels. Tonight, we stopped in Sioux Falls, South Dakota on our trip to visit family. Or as we call it, La Quinta Across America (La Quinta hotels all allow dogs to stay free :) The one in Sioux Falls is brand new so everything has that new stuff smell. Japser's into it. And he get's his OWN bed tonight!