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Metallic Starling
Aplonis metallica
January 14th, 2023
Brinsmead, Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Canon EOS R5
Canon RF 100-500mm F4.5-7.1L IS USM lens
One of my favourite species from Far North Queensland, the fantastic Metallic Starling.
These amazingly coloured birds migrate from New Guinea to Far North Queensland each year for the wet season to breed. They construct these incredible communal nests in specific trees, with some locations housing hundreds of nests all together. As you can see in this image, the nest are built right on top of each other & can cover the whole tree, like a sprawling high-rise of Metallic Starling apartments!
As you can imagine the noise (& sometimes smell!) is something else! There are often squabbles amongst neighbouring birds & sometimes they will try & steal nesting materials from one another! It can be quite chaotic.
If you look closely, this pair both have food in their mouths ready to feed their demanding offspring safely concealed within their nest.
Amazingly, each year these birds return to the same trees they have nested in previously to breed & raise their young, before heading back to New Guinea.
Fantastic birds!
Beautiful conditions at Forresters Beach on the Central Coast. Underwater shot from the small shore break waves and shallow waters.
Thin-spined jumping spider, Tutelina elegans. Just the coolest little critter -- looked metallic green-gold as it moved. Quite friendly, kept trying to jump to me.
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An ATW 158 speeds across the BCN Old Line heading towards Galton Bridge, Smethwick. A long exposure to capture the blur through the railings of the LM&S Railway Turnover Bridge; Terry's photo shows the camera bag replacement for an absent tripod, and the photter taking it easy on the deck! Saturday 15.10.16
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The container crane resembles a metallic giraffe heading for food.
Who says giraffe can only be seen at the Singapore zoo :)
To make this "sculpture" clearly visible in detail, I enhanced light on the metal. I also drew outlines around it to make it stand out clearly. No digital alteration was made by me on the sculpture except the brighter light on it.
Nikon D80 1/200 @ f/11 ISO 160
SB600 off camera to the left, SB800 in shoe
Sigma 150mm
1.4x TC
36mm Of extension
Hand held
Metallic Starling (Aplonis metallica) No post-processing done on photo. Nikon NEF (RAW) files available. NPP Straight Photography at noPhotoShopping.com
Arsipoda. Absolutely everywhere in the Juncus flowers. This one was intent on feeding on the fruit and didn't even bring its head out.
from a shoot that was published in lucy's magazine.
model is georgina udolph with modelwerk, hair&makeup by Alex Merk with Close-Up Agency
At high pressure and temperatures, metallic hydrogen might exist as a liquid rather than a solid, and it is thought to be present in large amounts in the gravitationally compressed interiors of Jupiter, Saturn, and in some extrasolar planets.
In October 2016, there were claims that metallic hydrogen has been observed in the laboratory at a pressure of around 495 GPa. As of January 2017, these findings have not yet been replicated.
- Wikipedia