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Light filters through the stained glass in the National Cathedral.
Here's to hoping those in Japan make their way through the tough days ahead.
Thanks for looking!
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Since the liquid was so prominent in this photo, I figured it would be perfect for macro Monday in 7 DOS. Thanks to all who have commented so far :-) This was the 1st of the 5 photos that I felt were good enough to post. I just love her dainty little feet as she comes in for a landing to drink that wonderfully sweet liquid in the feeder.
The series is my first (ever) attempt at shooting such a small and fast bird. I was really pleased with all 5, but this is by far my favorite. I believe this is a female of the Magnificent species.
Currently this is one of my favorite shot, for the (her) beauty, for the use of light, for the treatment and post-production.
It reminds me a lot of the album "Adore" by The Smashing Pumpkins (...yeah, i'm a bit obsessed by this band...).
angel. you know it's not the end
we'll always be good friends
but the letters have been sent on
so please. you always were so free
you'll see, i promise we'll be perfect
perfect
perfect
strangers when we meet
strangers on the street
lovers while we sleep
perfect
you know this has to be
we always were so free
we promised that we'd be
(Perfect - The Smashing Pumpkins)
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i dont want to live in a gated community, i dont want to bend to society's expectations, i dont want to live my life pretending, im okay, things are okay, we are okay. I want to live, without limitations. I've been spending all my life, pushing to get to college, and now that im actually doing it, i dont want this. i want to go backbacking through europe, and open a fruit stand in mexico, i want to live.
i want to live.
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home-roasted harar horse lot 14659 ethiopian coffee from sweet marias. this is the third ethiopian coffee i've roasted, looking for something resembling Peet's ethiopian super natural. the absolute best we've had so far is Organic Yirgacheffe beans from Burman Coffee. The green coffee beans cost ~1/3 to 1/2 the price of roasted coffee, and they taste much better than store-bought roasted beans during the first week or two (nothing has lasted two weeks yet).
tahoe soap features this photo in their tutorial on soap ingredients.
copyright © 2007 sean dreilinger
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The Badshahi Mosque in Lahore at dusk. The telltale Mughal architecture and the magnificent domes that accompany it makes this the most beautiful mosque I've had the pleasure of visiting. The mood was very relaxed and as we wandered around waiting for a well-timed dusk photo session we were treated to a well-sung call to prayer (not always the case), the evening prayer itself presenting photo ops.
I'm going to Damascus in January and one of the photo projects is the Umayyad Mosque, a worthy contender to runner-up.
EF16-35mm f/2.8L USM | 20.0 sec | 16 mm | f/13 | ISO 100 | Aperture priority mode | 0 EV
This is for my dearest friend ITALA, a most special person, full of "Joie de Vivre" who gives joy and all .. a special person with a huge heart, an artist and so much more... so on occasion of her birthday I dedicate this photo and these roses (which she knows have a special meaning - sao "suas" rosas)) . HAPPY BIRTHDAY - PARABENS amiga querida tudo de bom para voce sempre !! Amor, Harmonia, Saude e Felicidade. You give all near you so much JOY!! ...its true )) - Obrigada pela sua amizade.
"A alegria de ver e entender é o mais perfeito dom da natureza." (Albert Einstein)
"The joy of "being" and being understood is the most perfect gift of Nature "
“There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.” Kahlil Gibran
Listen to a bit of Bossa Nova (nice and soft) :
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Ballygluin is now best remembered as the station in the opening scene of John Fordes Irish epic “The Quiet Man”. Ballygluin posed as “Castletown” station as a bemused John Wayne steps from the train, enquiring from curious locals for the way to his ancestorial home of “Innisfree” in the 1952 academy award winning movie.
Ballygluin was opened as part of the Athenry and Tuam Railway in 1860. Ballygluin was also part of the long straggling route of the Waterford, Limerick & Western Railway. The station saw it’s last regular trains in 1975, Part of this 185Km line (Limerick to Athenry) is due to reopen this year after a multi-million euro refurbishment, when it’s the turn of Athenry to Collooney section is now anybody’s guess. For more info visit www.westontrack.com
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Some local landmarks taken on a night meet with the fine folks of the CCC. Me and Scott stopped off at the sculpture Temenos to see what we could get from that view point. I like it, it was tough going but the results please me.
I honestly suggest large on black. View On Black
El pasado día 15 de febrero nos fuimos al Hotel Fuente de la Aceña para hacerle una sesión que también incluye lencería.
Contamos con la ayuda de Esther Vega y Luisa Rodríguez para peluquería y maquillaje.
Localización: Hotel Fuente de la Aceña, Quintanilla de Onésimo, Valladolid.
(Muchas gracias a Azucena Casas)
Federatuon Square (wikipedia)
Federation Square (also colloquially known as Fed Square) is a cultural precinct in the city of Melbourne, Australia. It comprises a series of buildings containing a public broadcaster, art galleries, a museum, cinemas, exhibition spaces, auditoria, restaurants, bars and shops around two major public spaces, one covered (The Atrium), the other open to the sky, and composed of two spaces that flow into one another (St. Paul's Court and The Square). The majority of the precinct is built on top of a concrete deck over busy railway lines. Construction began in 1998 and the site opened in 2002.
A major addition to the precinct in 2006 was Federation Wharf, which extended Federation Square to the Yarra by redeveloping the vaults under the Princes Bridge into cafes and ferry terminals with elevator access to Federation Square.
I took a lot of photos that looked much nicer than this, but my view finder did not tell me what was really happening… I was using my 12mm lens with a circular polarizer filter which when used together make a huge dark blue blob in the middle of the sky. I am now going to sell off that filter… och! Funny thing was just before I took this trip I found an article warning not to use a CPF with a wide angle lens for just this very exact reason… yeah, I need to learn to listen, but it was exactly because of that warning that I took this one shot without it on.
You are looking at a Great Blue Heron Rookery!! On the way to Ottawa I saw this beautiful scene on the wrong side of the highway.....We just couldn't stop to take photos. We remembered about where we saw this Rookery so on the way back home I was excited to be able to get out and grab a few shots. What better way for me to wish you all a Happy Mother's Day than by sharing this photo of all the good Blue Heron Mothers here ;)
"Large, gray bird.
Long legs
Long, "S"-shaped neck.
Long, thick bill.
White crown stripe.
Black plume extending from behind eye to off the back of the neck.
Shaggy feathers on neck and back.
Bluish gray back, wings, and belly.
Reddish or gray neck.
White morph all white with pale legs, yellow bill."
"The Great Blue Heron is mostly a colonial nester, occasionally they nest in single pairs. Colonies are typically found in lowland swamps, islands, upland hardwoods, and forests adjacent to lakes, ponds and rivers. Nests are usually in trees, as high as 98 ft. (30m) or more from the ground. The platform like nests are constructed out of medium sized sticks and materials may be added throughout the nesting cycle. Nests are usually lined with finer twigs, leaves, grass and pine needles, moss, reeds or dry grass. The same nests are refurbished and used year after year."
Best viewed LARGE. (Happy Mother's Day!!) I will catch up with everyone later on today as I'm having everyone over for dinner to celebrate tonight........(Lots of work to be done lol) ENJOY!!!
Hilo de la Fotohistoria en Pullip .es: DATING AT CINEMA (5 of 5): The cliff lookout /
CITA EN EL CINE (5 de 5): El Mirador
(Read in this order) PAG: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210, 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 226, 227, 228, 229, 230, 231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 236, 237, 238, 239, 240, 241, 242, 243, 244, 245, 246, 247, 248, 249, 250, 251, 252, 253, 254, 255, 256, 257, 258, 259, 260, 261, 262, 263, 264, 265, 266, 267, 268, 269, 270, 271, 272, 273, 274, 275, 276, 277, 278, 279, 280, 281, 282, 283, 284, 285, 286.
PHOTOSTORY: In English / En Español
Dom: Hahaha, is that okay? Are you happy now? (well, it worth to spend an embarrassing moment if she gets happy)
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Dom: Jajaja, ya? Ya estás contenta? (bueno, merece la pena pasar vergüenza si es para que ella esté contenta)
COLLABORATION:
- Dom y Akari en el Foro de Pullips: Pullip .es
- Cinema's diorama by Minao. Sweets shop's diorama by Sheryl and Minao Collaboration.
- Little interpretation of Mad_Pullip's Emily as a MUSE fan.
SHERYL LINKS:
- Pullip .es: Las Fotohistorias de Sheryl
- Sheryl's Flickr: Photostories 2011 - Sketches 2011 / Photostories 2012 - Sketches 2012
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-->> That's what it was all about, Man .. growin' up in the '90s, Man - - it was alla'bout "BREAKIN' ALL THE RULES" randomly, Man. Not conformin' to society's standards, Man .. and provin' to the world you were a real stinker, Man .. and you enjoyed every single fuggin' minute of it, Man !!
Dive' bomin' a RANDOM ..steamin' hot slice'a pizza,Man - WITH YOUR EYES CLOSED. Vibrant Neon ball-caps tilted to the side let society KNOW ..YOU WERE A NON-CONFORMIST,MAN .. YOU WEREN'T PLAYIN' BY THEM B8TCHES RULES !!
"No, Siree BOB'AROO-SKIE" .. as we used ta say in the '90s, Man. We rode our skateboards down random, obscure suburban streets - causing all sortsa of'a rukus and shenanigans just like out hero Bart Simpson, Man.
Yeah, Man .. we wore our sneakers with the laces untied IN SPITE OF THE LAW, MAN !! !! !! And about a 1/4 of us usually fell off the skateboards, tripped over the laces & slammed our skulls on the pavement rippin' up our fancy Turtle fleeces, and gettin' our blocks knocked off ( as well as our neon ball-caps ) by the big bully that usually had less than flattering things to say about out freakish '90s decorum. Yeh, there's pizza on ya face, Kid !!
Awe' - these fuggin' ol' ad clippings are pretty awesome, Man.
Oi !!
~ t
The monastery, dedicated to Saints James and Benedict, was founded in around 739/740 as a Benedictine abbey by members of the Huosi, a Bavarian noble clan, who also provided the three brothers who served one after the other as the first three abbots, traditionally named as Lanfrid, Waldram (or Wulfram), and Eliland, for nearly a century. It seems certain that Saint Boniface had an involvement in the foundation. There was here a school of writing, whose work survives in the form of numerous codices of the 8th and 9th centuries.
In 955 however the monastery was destroyed by the Hungarians [1]. It was restored in 969 by Wolfold, a priest, as a house of canons.
Under the influence of Emperor Henry III it was rebuilt by Saint Ulrich, Bishop of Augsburg, and in 1031 returned to the Benedictine rule and re-settled by monks from Tegernsee Abbey under the first abbot of the new foundation, Ellinger. Under the second abbot, Gothelm (1032–1062), and the monks Gotschalk and Adalbert the school and scriptorium were re-established. Gotschalk, later third abbot, was responsible for the translation of the relics of Saint Anastasia here in 1053, which by making the abbey a place of pilgrimage added substantially to its fame and prosperity; he was also its first historian [2].
Benediktbeuern suffered four serious fires, in 1248, 1377, 1378, and 1490, but was prosperous enough to re-build each time.
The abbey enjoyed for centuries an extremely high reputation as a place of learning and research. Botanical research and the establishment of a medicinal herb garden in about 1200 are also evidenced. In about 1250 the library [3] covered the whole range of higher education as it then existed. The abbey also excelled at theological, philosophical and scientific studies. In the 1530s Dom Antonius Funda made considerable advances in the systematic writing of monastic history.
During the secularisation of Bavaria in 1803 the abbey, then comprising thirty-four monks, was dissolved. Some of the former monks took posts as university professors: for example, Ägidius Jais went to Salzburg as a pastoral theologian; Sebastian Mall to Landshut as an orientalist; and Florian Meilinger to Munich as a mathematician.
In the course of the disposal of the library and archives, there came to light the manuscript of the Carmina Burana, a 13th century collection of songs by wandering scholars. The manuscript, also known as the Codex Buranus, is also now in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.
The abbey premises were acquired by Josef von Utzschneider, who in 1805 set up an experimental glassworks here, known as the Optical Institute. He was joined by Joseph von Fraunhofer, who was able here among other things to develop flawless or "waveless" flint glass and discover the Fraunhofer lines which have become of importance in the development of spectroscopic analysis.
Since 1930 the buildings have been used by the Salesians, of whom about 45 now live and work here.
The abbey church was declared a "basilica minor" in 1972.
Eine Information zur Kirche in Deutsch findet sich hier:
One of the archway patterns at the Badshahi mosque in Lahore, Pakistan.
Built in 1673 by the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb, the mosque is capable of holding 55,000 worshipers. The prayer chamber is very deep and is divided into seven compartments by rich engraved arches carried on very heavy piers, this is one of the archways.
This link is just in Dutch unfortunately. Here is a brief translation I just cooked up:
In early times only the Steenweg ‘Rock road’, could be found here. An old road paved with cobblestones which connected the ‘Grootbrug’, or ‘Large Bridge’ and the present day Steenweg, part of an important route from Bavay in the North of present day France to Utrecht in the Netherlands. A canal was dug in the 13th century along the Steenweg which connected the river Dijle and the Koolvliet. On the Eastern bank of this canal a Vismarkt (fishmarket) was built.
In 1532 this canal was put underground and the Vismarkt moved to where it nowadays. The last part of the canal on the Ijzeren Leen was filled up in 1675.
The name Ijzeren Leen dates from the 17th century, and stems from the iron railings (ijzeren leuningen), which were put along the canal in the century before. They were probably manufactured between 1531 and 1534 and restored between 1783 and 1927.
(source: Bouwen door de eeuwen heen in Vlaanderen)
Nowadays the Ijzeren Leen called the Champs Elysees of Mechelen. It contains the ‘Schepenhuis’, which is the former town hall. This houses a small museum with 16th and 17th century art.
This is perhaps my favourite photo of all the ones I took while I was away.
Not technically brilliant or anything like that, but it captured a 'feeling'. A day of sunshine and white fluffy cloud, walking for miles along a coastline without meeting a soul - a feeling of peace. A beautiful sandy beach, waves rolling in, the mountains rising up in the distance ...
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But it was also the scene of a sad tale of the times we live in ...
At the end of the day I decided to visit somewhere I hadn't been before - the beach at Achnahaird Bay. A short track led down to a carpark which was full ... there must have been at least 6 other cars there! I found somewhere to park and then headed out along the path towards the beach. On the way I met someone else with a camera. He stopped to chat and compare cameras, and I discovered that he was in his mid 70s and had just lost his wife. He seemed rather frail and was obviously upset about her death. He had always had a love of photography and his son had bought him a Nikon D90 which he was loving using. He looked at the photos I had taken, I looked at his, then we both decided that we needed to wait for the clouds to clear from the mountains before taking the shot we wanted. I left him sitting on a rock on the headland while I scrambled down to the shore to take this photo.
A few minutes later I could hear shouting coming from the headland - "Pervert! Taking photos of the kiddies ..." in a strong Yorkshire accent.
I went back up and saw a guy in his 30s trying to grab the camera from the guy I had been talking to. I went over and asked what was going on. The old guy was clearly upset and the younger guy was continuing to shout that he was a pervert who had been "taking photos of the kiddies". Now he was obviously as thick as pig-shit [and twice as ugly] and was clearly unable to understand when I explained that there was no way on earth a man with a 16-85 lens was going to be able to take photos of 'kiddies' who were at least 250 metres away.
He then turned to me and said "So you're a pervert as well then. Have you got pictures of the kiddies?"
To say I saw red would be an understatement. Years of pent-up anger and frustration came bursting out, remembering how I had felt when a few years ago someone had said the same sort of things to me.
I rather impolitely pointed out his shortcomings, his filthy mind for seeing children in the way he was accusing others, his stupidity at not understanding the nature of cameras and that if he wanted to bully someone I was ready and waiting.
He looked more and more shame-faced as I ranted, and after a couple of minutes mumbled "I'm sorry, Can I go now?" I told him that he could.
As he walked back down to the beach several people who had been walking by stood and laughed at him, then came over to say how much they had enjoyed the show. The old guy was by now in tears, sitting holding his camera to his chest and saying that he just wanted to smash it and go home. A few of us sat with him, telling him not to worry about other people's ignorance, and eventually he dried his eyes and began to look better.
I stayed with him for about half an hour as we both took [and mainly deleted!] photos of the sea and the waves breaking on the rocks, the distant hills and beauty of the place. He chatted more and more and I told him about some other places he should visit in the area. He got out his map and we worked out a good route for him to take to find photo opps.
He was a lovely old guy.
I hope he never has to go through that again.
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HDRI (3 exposures by three different HDRs)in Photomatix, Panorama in Photostitch, Polaroid-Filter (Alien Skin Exposure 2, Plug-In for PS), Unsharp Mask (overall 9 separate shots)
Info:
Exposures: 1/6 Sec.; 1/25 Sec.; 0.6 Sec.;
0.3 Sec.; 1/13 Sec.; 1.3 Sec.;
0.5 Sec.; 1/8 Sec.; 2 Sec.;
Aperture: f/3.5
ISO-Speed: 100
Focal Length: 18mm
Best Large | Primates | Edinburgh Zoo
About the shot
The squirrel monkey is housed in Edinburgh Zoo's Living Links Centre, a dimly-lit building which is ideal for the monkeys but challenging for any photographer. As with all monkeys, these would not stay still long enough most of the time for a decent shot. This is what makes them so endearing; the jumping and the swinging and the coming up to the glass to look at the strange humans. A lot of my shots were a blur of frenzied activity as they played around, the young ones in particular. Occasionally, there were some lovely obliging models like this mum and baby.
About the Squirrel Monkey
The squirrel monkeys are the New World monkeys of the genus Saimiri. They are the only genus in the subfamily Saimirinae. Squirrel monkey fur is short and close, colored olive at the shoulders and yellowish orange on its back and extremities. Their throat and the ears are white and their mouths are black. The upper part of their head is hairy. This black and white face gives them their German name, "skull monkeys".
Squirrel monkeys grow to 25 to 35 cm, plus a 35 to 42 cm tail. They weigh 750 to 1100g. Remarkably, the brain mass to body mass ratio for squirrel monkeys is 1:17, which gives them the largest brain, proportionately, of all the primates. Monkeys are the closest animals to humans.Humans have a 1:35 ratio.
Female squirrel monkeys have a pseudo-penis that they use to display dominance over smaller monkeys, much like the way the male squirrel monkeys display their dominance.
They live together in multi-male/multi-female groups with up to 500 members. These large groups can, however, occasionally break into smaller troops. They have a number of vocal calls, including warning sounds to protect themselves from large falcons, which are a natural threat to them. Their small body size also makes them susceptible to predators such as snakes and felids. For marking territory, squirrel monkeys rub their tail and their skin with their own urine. Squirrel monkeys are omnivores, eating primarily fruits and insects. Occasionally they also eat nuts, buds, eggs and small vertebrates.
The Common Squirrel Monkey S. sciureus is captured for the pet trade and for medical research but it is not endangered. Three squirrel monkey species are in danger of extinction. S. o. oerstedti is listed as endangered, S. o. citrinellus is listed as critically endangered and S. vanzolinii is listed as Vulnerable.
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1/25 | f.40 | ISO 800
Wasser ist nach wie vor ein schönes Thema an diesem heißen Wochenende. Gestern abend war ich mit Peter auf Fotosafari im Großen Garten von Herrenhausen. Ein wunderschöner und lustiger Abend war's :-) Ich bin mir sicher, daß in Peters Photostream auch noch tolle Bilder von gestern erscheinen werden.
Die große Fontäne im Herrenhäuser Garten hat eine lange technische Geschichte, die mehreren Fontainenmeister den Job kosteten. Erst 1696 kam Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz auf die Idee, die Leine aufzustauen und mit einem das Gefälle nutzenden Pumpwerk die Wasserversorgung der Gartenanlage zu sichern.
Aus England kamen der Mechaniker Andrews sowie der Kunstmeister Joseph Cleeves mit seinem Sohn Johann, die, nachdem andere Mechaniker gescheitert waren, mit der Realisierung betraut wurden. Zur Einweihung 1719 kam der König von England, Georg I., nach Hannover.
Statt der erhofften zwanzig war der Wasserstrahl der Fontäne jedoch nur enttäuschende fünf Meter hoch. Der französische Mechaniker Desagulier erkannte den Fehler: Das Verbindungsrohr vom Bassin war nicht gekrümmt, sondern rechtwinklig gebogen. Im September 1720 waren die Arbeiten endlich beendet. Joseph Cleeves und sein Sohn wurden bei der Stadt als Kunstmeister angestellt, um die Funktionalität auf Dauer zu gewährleisten.
Die Große Fontäne erreicht erstmals 1721 eine Höhe von ungefähr 36 Metern, die Leistung wurde in den Folgejahren bis auf etwa 70 Meter gesteigert; durch Einsatz einer Ringdüse wird ein Hohlstrahl erzeugt. Das als Wasserkunst bezeichnete Pumpwerk liegt außerhalb der Gartenanlage und ist heute ein funktionsfähiges technisches Denkmal.
Quelle: Wikipedia
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Detail from the large fountain into the Herrenhausen Gardens in Hannover. The large fountain which can, with optimal weather conditions, reach a maximum height of 80 meter.
a skeletalmess texture was applied
Swayambhunath (Devnagari: स्वयम्भूनाथ स्तुप; sometimes romanized Swoyambhunath) is an ancient religious complex atop a hill in the Kathmandu Valley, west of Kathmandu city. It is also known as the Monkey Temple as there are holy monkeys living in parts of the temple in the north-west. The Tibetan name for the site means 'Sublime Trees' (Wylie:Phags.pa Shing.kun), for the many varieties of trees found on the hill. However, Shing.kun may be a corruption of the local Newari name for the complex, Singgu, meaning 'self-sprung'.
For the Buddhist Newars in whose mythological history and origin myth as well as day-to-day religious practice, Swayambhunath occupies a central position, it is probably the most sacred among Buddhist pilgrimage sites. For Tibetans and followers of Tibetan Buddhism, it second only to Boudhanath.
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View Haley and Norine Map/EXIF
Nikon D800E + 400 mm f/2.8 @ 400 mm - 1/160 sec at f/2.8, ISO 50
Manual mode @ 1/3 EV E.C - Pattern metering - no flash
Subject Distance: unknown
Two minutes after I took this, the sun streaked across where they were standing. I didn't make them stay, though, to avoid holding up foot traffic.
48°25'24" N 122°26'49" W, 9.8 ft
Skagit Valley Tulip Festival, Skagit Valley
Mount Vernon, Washington, United States
Taken on 04.14.2013, uploaded on 04.17.2013.
©2013 Adam James Steenwyk. Please contact me at ajamess [at] gmail [dot] com if you would like to use this photo. Blog: www.f128.info
Entre otras cosas porque o te llenas de cardos, o te llenas de barro o te hace la visita típica la Guardia Civil....
Nuevas galerías en www.mariorubio.com y www.fotografonocturno.com
Canal TV en YOUTUBE NightPhotography
Nuevos dominios en www.lightpainting.es y en www.cursosdefotografianocturna.com
Hay ocasiones en que el sujeto en el visor de la cámara es tan fascinante que olvido apretar el disparador. Ken Padley.
Cita extraída de El lenguaje del arte de José B. Ruiz
Exif:
Camera Nikon D700
Exposure 300.7
Aperture f/8.0
Focal Length 19 mm
ISO Speed 200
WB 3300
Blue gelled flash and warm light torch
Lumbier, Navarra (Spain).
ENGLISH
The Foz de Lumbier is carved out of the limestone rock by the river Irati at the western end of the Leyre range of mountains, at the foot of the Navarrese Pyrenees. It is one of the most spectacular gorges in Navarre, a landscape created over millions of years by the waters of the river Irati, which have left their mark on this sanctuary of nature day by day. The gorge was declared a Nature Reserve in 1987.
Lumbier is a narrow and small gorge, just 1,300 metres long, but of spectacular beauty. Its vertical walls reach a maximum height of 150 metres and large birds of prey live in the cracks and ledges, with species such as griffon vultures whose flights will accompany you in your visit to the gorge. It is also a refuge for foxes, boar, badgers and owls, and is strewn with gall and kermes oaks and bushes such as thyme, lavender and gorse that hang from the cracks, vegetation that is transformed into woods of poplars, willows and ash trees at the entry and exit of the gorge.
In contrast to many other canyons, you can walk through Lumbier along an easy track that runs along the bottom of the cliffs for 2.6 kilometres. The route was created for the old Irati train (the first electric train in Spain) that linked Pamplona with Sangüesa between 1911 and 1955.
The signposted path runs along the river and crosses the rock through two tunnels (206 and 160 metres long) that do not have artificial light. Towards the end of the path the route goes around the rock and reaches the remains of the Puente del Diablo (Devil's Bridge), which was built in the 16th century with a raised arch 15 metres above the river. It was destroyed by the French in 1812 during the War of Independence, and owes its name to a legend that says that its builder asked the devil for help to finish it.
More info: www.visitnavarra.es/eng/organice-viaje/recurso/relacionad...
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La foz de Lumbier es un desfiladero excavado por el río Irati sobre la roca caliza en el extremo occidental de la sierra de Leire, al pie del Pirineo navarro. Es una de las gargantas más espectaculares de Navarra, un paisaje labrado a lo largo de millones de años por la acción del río Irati que, día a día, sigue marcando su huella en este santuario de la naturaleza, reserva natural desde 1987.
La de Lumbier es una hoz estrecha y pequeña, de 1.300 metros de longitud, y de una belleza espectacular. Sus paredes verticales alcanzan en su cota máxima 150 metros de altura, y en sus grietas, roturas y repisas viven grandes rapaces, entre los que abundan los buitres leonados, cuyo vuelo le acompañará en su visita al desfiladero. La foz, que también sirve de refugio para zorros, jabalíes, tejones y alimoches, está poblada de quejigos y coscojas, además de arbustos como tomillo, espliego y ollaga que se cuelan por las grietas, vegetación que se transforma en bosques de álamos, sauces y fresnos a la entrada y salida de la foz.
A diferencia de otras gargantas, la de Lumbier puede ser recorrida a través de un sencillo camino que discurre al pie de los acantilados, a lo largo de 2,6 kilómetros. El trazado fue realizado para el tren Irati, el primer tren eléctrico de España, que comunicó Pamplona con Sangüesa entre 1911 y 1955.
El camino está señalizado, discurre junto al río y atraviesa la roca a través de dos túneles, de 206 y 160 metros de longitud, que no poseen luz artificial. En la parte final del sendero, el camino bordea la roca y llega hasta los restos del Puente del Diablo, construido en el siglo XVI, con un arco elevado 15 metros sobre el río. Destruido por los franceses en 1812, durante la Guerra de la Independencia, debe su nombre a una leyenda según la cual su constructor pidió ayuda al diablo para levantar el puente.
Más info: www.visitnavarra.es/esp/organice-viaje/recurso.aspx?o=303...
At night, the big red "Domino Sugars" sign, literally the size of a basketball court, glows from the refinery rooftop. You can see it from I-95, from the aquarium, from the old 1900 Power Plant they've tarted up with a Hard Rock Cafe and an ESPN Zone. Like the Orioles, crab cakes and John Waters, the Domino sign screams Baltimore. It costs $100,000 a year to power and to keep the 1950s-vintage neon tubes in good repair. In this town, rich in the physical remnants of its working past, that's money well spent: a blazing reminder that people and machines still make things, that the world hasn't gone entirely virtual, no matter how much the Chamber of Commerce hypes the "Digital Harbor" and the dot-com future it hopes to house in the city's old factories and loft spaces.
This is one of the cars showcased at a car show this past Saturday sponsored by Holman Howe Funeral Homes. There were lots of great old cars and trucks from the area. I got there a bit too late to see all of them, a brief shower prompted many to pack up a bit early. The president of the Funeral Home owns several vintage vehicles, some of which he uses in his business. One special car in the collection is a Harry S Truman Limousine.
Hilo de la Fotohistoria en Pullip .es: MUSE CONCERT AT BARCELONA: PALAU SANT JORDI (5 of 9): Lenn's Market /
CONCIERTO DE MUSE EN BARCELONA: PALAU SANT JORDI (5 de 9): El mercadillo de Lenn
(Read in order, this is: SHOT/FOTO 49 of 115) PAG: Entrada, 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115.
FOTOSTORY: In English / En Español
Lenn: (They are here...) COOOOME ON PRETTY WOMEEEN I GOT ALL OF IT FOR NOTHING!!! THEY ARE PULLING ALL OF IT OUT OF MY HAAAAANDS!! OOOOVER HERE GORGEOUS! LOOK HOW WONDERFUL ARE THIS MUSE SWEETERS! LEEEET'S GOOO!
Velvet: (Oooff.. he shouts it out so loud... XD)
Natsuki: -whispering – I want one for me but this guy scares me... talk with him...
Velvet: XDD Okay... Hello! ^_^u
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Lenn: (Ya están aquí...) VAAAAAMOS GUAPAS QUE LO TENGO REGALAAAO!!! ME LO QUITAN NIÑA, ME LO QUITAN DE LAS MAAAAANOS OYEEES!! MIRA QUE GUAAAAAPA! MIRA NENA QUE SUDADERAS DE LOS MUSE! VENGA VAAAMONOS!
Velvet: (juer...cómo grita... XD)
Natsuki: - susurrando – Yo quiero una pero a mi este tío me da un poco de miedo... habla tu con él...
Velvet: XDD Vale... Hola! ^_^u
LINKS:
- Las FOTOHISTORIAS de Sheryl en el Foro de Pullips: Pullip .es
- Sheryl Photostories at Flickr
COLLAVORATIONS:
wow, this looks awful small. okay, you must view large. seriously. it's plain embarrassing small.
also, i'm terribly sorry that i haven't had time to look through everyone's new uploads in a couple days :( i promise i will catch up on that this weekend, if not before.
this is old, super old, sorry you are probably tired of all these canal pictures.
anyway, i uploaded it since i had no new photos and i was tagged by audrey hutchinson (: so here goes, ten things about me...
1. i go through phases of music...i will pick two or three songs and literally ONLY listen to them for the next month. right now...it's two songs from the coraline soundtrack. don't make fun of me :'( haha.
2. i LOVE root beer dumdums (as in the lollipops)
3. i was obsessed with neopets for like 5 years...and i still go on every once in awhile. heh
4. i have a cat named ember, who is actually a vampire and i have ten million scars on my arms to prove it.
5. i haven't worn a pair of flaired jeans in practically a year, i live for skinny jeans. especially colored skinny jeans, i have a ridiculous amount of them.
6. i studied college-level ancient Greek for three weeks this summer (yessir, i'm a nerd. i went to CTY camp) and the best thing i learned from it was the ability to write secret notes to myself in transliterated greek (SO HELPFUL).
7. i loveeee snow and the sound it makes when it falls.
8. once i ate nothing but eggo waffles for two days straight.
9. i have three brothers, whom i frequently want to toss out the window.
10. i love band geeks.
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Sturnus unicolor
El estornino negro (Sturnus unicolor) es un ave paseriforme de la familia de los estorninos, Sturnidae. Está estrechamente relacionado con el estornino pinto, pero tiene una distribución mucho más limitada y no es migratorio. Este estornino es residente de la península ibérica, noroeste de África, Sicilia, Córcega y Cerdeña.
Su color negro y característica silueta con sus cortos cuello y cola hacen su identificación sencilla con la única posibilidad de confusión durante el invierno, cuando los estorninos pintos también están en la misma región. Los estorninos negros en invierno tienen un color negro grisáceo ligeramente moteado aunque no tan abundante y marcado como el pinto. Aunque al llegar la primavera pierden todas las pequeñas motas y adquieren un plumaje más negro y más brillante que el del estornino pinto, en especial los machos. Las patas son rosadas y sus estrechos y puntiagudos picos tienen tonalidad amarilla, más intensa en los machos durante la temporada de cría. Los estorninos negros andan en lugar de brincar y tienen un vuelo fuerte y directo. En vuelo se pueden apreciar sus alas en forma triángular y su cola corta. Sus polluelos son de color marrón apagado y los juveniles son de color gris oscuro motedado muy similares a los del pinto.
El estornino negro se puede encontrar en cualquier lugar abierto, incluso dentro de los núcleos urbanos. Al igual que el estornino pinto esta especie es omnívora y se alimenta de invertebrados, bayas, etc. También es gregaria y forma bandadas grandes durante el invierno, aunque no tan grandes que las del estornino pinto. Es un ave ruidosa y puede imitar sonidos muy bien. Su canto es semejante al del estornino pinto pero es más claro y tiene un tono más alto.
Esta especie suele anidar en cavidades, que pueden ser un hueco en un árbol o agujeros en los edificios. Normalmente ponen cuatro huevos.
Gay & Lesbian Pride March 2010
It’s back in 2010, the event that stops traffic… On Sunday February 7th, the 15th annual Pride March takes over Fitzroy St, St Kilda in a blaze of colour, noise and movement!
Pride March 2010 is an open air celebration culminating in a Pride March down Fitzroy Street St Kilda and finishing with performances on the foreshore. Pride March is to express courage, solidarity, pride, diversity and a strong sense of community.
Gay & Lesbian Pride March
Down Fitzroy Street to Catani Gardens
Sunday 7 February 2010
Fitzroy St, St Kilda Victoria 3182 Australia.
Telephone: 03 9513 3054
Turning 30 in 2010, St Kilda Festival is one of Australia’s best known and Melbourne’s most loved events. It utilises St Kilda’s stunning foreshore and celebrates the cream of Australia’s musical talents.
Saturday 6 February is Yalukit Wilam Ngargee: People, Place Gathering, an outdoor Indigenous festival featuring music, dance, children’s activities and more that welcomes people to St Kilda for the week ahead, O’Donnell Gardens.
From 7-13 February experience Live N Local: St Kilda venues throw open their doors to host a variety of local bands, musicians, performers, artists and comedians in a series of one off and special events - everything you love about St Kilda and more.
I hiked up Mt Israel again today for another sunrise photo. I LOVE the sunrises up there!
No color added... it really was that pretty this morning!
Nikon D90
Nikkor 17-55 f/2.8
3-shot bracketed HDR merged in Photomatix Pro
ISO 200 -- f/16 -- 1/160 -- 20mm
Feel the rain; View this large and on black!!!
Weather is a passion of mine. Snow...thunderstorms...rain...hurricanes...extreme temperatures...I love it all. I'm utterly amazed at the raw power of mother nature. To see man's best engineering feats...which probably took countless man hours to construct...wiped from the face of the earth in a matter of minutes by something we often times take for granted is absolutely awe inspiring. (Not to mention sobering, knowing that someone's life is being forever changed in that moment.)
Still, the rumble of thunder, the roar of the wind, the colors in the sky, the smell of rain, etc, etc, is one of the most relaxing, yet invigorating things in the world to me.
It likely stems back to my childhood growing up in South Carolina, where I used to sit and watch the storms with my dad. While it's no tornado alley, we get our fair share of thunderstorms back there. Some of my most fond memories are of the times I spent sitting on the porch with dad, watching the wonderful shows that these these magnificent "creatures" would put on. It was a sensory overload for me, and I enjoyed every minute of it.
This love of weather continued into my adult life, affording me one of the best experiences I've had in my life. When I graduated from college in May 2005, myself and three of my buddies gave ourselves a graduation present....we went storm chasing for a week out in the plains! I won't bother writing a "chase account" of this particular day...especially not when a well known storm chaser, and EXCELLENT storm photographer happened to also be on this particular storm. Instead, I'll just link you to the account that Mike Hollingshead wrote on his website about this day/storm. As a side note, while you're on his page you should definitely look around. Fantastic photographs!
Anyway, this image is symbolic to me for a couple of reasons.
- The first is that I bought my Canon Rebel T2 (my first camera ever) specifically to go on this storm chasing trip back in 2005....thus beginning this photography adventure I'm currently on!
- Second, for the first time in 4yrs I'm going storm chasing again! WHOO HOO! This month marks the beginning of my short-term savings goal to fund my storm chasing trip in May.
Hope I didn't bore you with the ramblings...but, after spending several hours over the past few days working on this image, I felt the need to blabber. I learned how to use masks and blend two images in my efforts to process this image. I really tried to pull out the golden colors behind this line of storms...specifically to get the rain shafts to come out. I think it came out good! It's pretty darn true to what I saw with my eyes...only the open sky on the right wasn't quite so blown out, and the blues on the left were a little more pronounced. Otherwise, this is darn close!
Taken with a Canon Rebel T2 and the 28-90mm stock lens...likely @ 28mm.
Have no clue what the other settings were.
Reddish pigment blotching of body extends subepidermally into mesial face of cerata (1), often reaching half way up or further on large specimens. Upper surface of foot translucent white with no reddish pigment (2).
Full SPECIES DESCRIPTION BELOW
Sets of OTHER SPECIES at: www.flickr.com/photos/56388191@N08/collections/
Doto coronata Gmelin, 1791
Current taxonomy; World Register of Marine Species
www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=139631
Synonyms
D. coronata was formerly an aggregate of species, many of which have now been segregated; seven are listed in 'Similar Species' below. It may still have other undescribed species within it.
GLOSSARY BELOW
Body description
Usually up to 12 mm long, exceptionally to 15 mm. Translucent whitish with dorsal blotches and streaks of red surface pigment extending between cerata onto flanks, but not around immediate base of each ceras (fig.1 flic.kr/p/SCsNxg ) and not onto upper surface of foot (fig. 2 flic.kr/p/Sr7NE2 ). Intensity of markings varies; if not too intense, yellowish spheroids of the ovotestis may be seen through the translucent dorsum within the body of mature individuals (fig. 3 flic.kr/p/SCsNii ). Pigment reduced or absent on juveniles (fig. 4 flic.kr/p/SCsZh2 ). There are a dorsolateral anal papilla between the first and second ceras on the right (fig. 5 flic.kr/p/SCsMX8), and a hermaphrodite genital papilla below the first ceras, sometimes with the penis partly extruded (fig. 6 flic.kr/p/Sr7N4T ).
The head has a crescentic oral veil, which extends into lateral flaps when spread (fig. 7 flic.kr/p/SCsMPx ), but no oral tentacles. A slight head crest runs from in front of each rhinophore to the base of the oral veil (fig. 5 flic.kr/p/SCsMX8 ); but they are often inconspicuous (fig. 8 flic.kr/p/Sr7MVX ); Thompson and Brown (1984) did not detect them, but they were described by Shipman & Gosliner (2015).
Reddish pigment on the dorsal surface of the head extends back between the rhinophores and forwards onto the central part of oral veil, but pigment is usually slight or absent laterally on the head and veil flaps (fig. 8 flic.kr/p/Sr7MVX ). The finger-like, smooth, translucent, white rhinophores have variable amounts of opaque white freckling (fig. 7 flic.kr/p/SCsMPx & fig. 9 flic.kr/p/Sr7Mtz ), mainly in the distal half. Each arises, tilting forwards, from a translucent white basal sheath with a smooth rim which is dilated, particularly at the front. The sheath usually has a few white pigment spots and, sometimes, some reddish pigment (fig. 9 flic.kr/p/Sr7Mtz ).
There is a longitudinal row of single cerata on each side of the body. The number of cerata in each row increases with growth to seven or eight
(fig. 4 flic.kr/p/SCsZh2 ); the most recent addition, at the posterior, is often small and easily overlooked (fig. 10 flic.kr/p/Sr7MeM ). The size of cerata varies; when they are plump and held over the body, little of the dorsum is exposed (fig. 9 flic.kr/p/Sr7Mtz). Cerata are translucent whitish, revealing the red, orange, white (fig. 4 flic.kr/p/SCsZh2 ) or pink (fig. 10 flic.kr/p/Sr7MeM ) internal digestive gland which extends almost to the apex as there are no cnidosacs. The colour of the digestive gland is influenced by diet; juveniles may feed on hydroid species different from those eaten by adults. The red pigment blotching of the body extends subepidermally into the mesial face of cerata, often reaching half way up or further (fig. 2 flic.kr/p/Sr7NE2 ) on large specimens, but less extensively on small adults (fig. 11 flic.kr/p/Sr7LVk ), and often absent on juveniles (fig. 12 flic.kr/p/Sr7LHB ). Each ceras usually has up to four (fig. 10 flic.kr/p/Sr7MeM ) rings of rounded b>tubercles, often with an indistinct partially formed fifth ring at the base, and a protruding apical tubercle. Internally, each tubercle usually has an apical reddish spheroid of varying shade and saturation (fig. 13 flic.kr/p/Sr7LDP ) and several sub-apical, white, granular bodies (fig. 10 flic.kr/p/Sr7MeM ). Small juveniles lack well developed tubercles and reddish spheroids (fig. 4 flic.kr/p/SCsZh2 & fig. 12 flic.kr/p/Sr7LHB ), and some adults have them weakly developed or missing (fig. 14 flic.kr/p/SCsLuD ). The mesial faces of cerata sometimes have indistinct pseudobranchs.
The foot has a translucent white sole (fig. 15 flic.kr/p/RoqWK2 ), which reveals the yellowish spheroids of the ovotestis in mature individuals.
There are no propodial tentacles but, from above, the flaps of the oral veil might be mistaken for tentacles. The upper surface of the foot is translucent white with no reddish pigment. (fig. 2 flic.kr/p/Sr7NE2 ). The foot can spread wide to crawl on flat surfaces, or curl into a deep gutter to grip round the stem of hydroid prey (fig. 15 flic.kr/p/RoqWK2 ).
Key identification features
1: oligophage, reported to feed on a range of hydroid species, including Dynamena pumila (fig. 16 flic.kr/p/Sr7KUT ), Obelia dichotoma (fig. 17 flic.kr/p/2ms4kU2 ), Obelia geniculata (fig. 18 flic.kr/p/2ms4kS8 ) and Sertularia cupressina (fig. 19 flic.kr/p/2mrVEoW ).
2: red pigment extends half way up mesial face of cerata on large adults (fig. 2 flic.kr/p/Sr7NE2 ); “the most distinguishable characteristic of D. coronata” (Shipman & Gosliner, 2015) but pigment is less or absent on juveniles (fig. 12 flic.kr/p/Sr7LHB ) and see D. hydrallmaniae in ‘similar species’, below. Unless a juvenile is on an appropriate food hydroid, its identification is usually unreliable.
3: usually each ceras has up to four concentric rings of rounded tubercles, often with an indistinct partially formed fifth ring at base, (fig. 10 flic.kr/p/Sr7MeM ); tubercles may be absent on juveniles.
4: each tubercle has a red spheroid and several white granular bodies on adults (fig. 10 flic.kr/p/Sr7MeM ).
5: pseudobranchs indistinct or absent.
Similar species
Specimens identified in the past as D. coronata are in a complex of species that have since been segregated with molecular methods. Some unrecognised species in the complex probably remain to be discovered.
“Morrow et al. discovered D. hydrallmaniae and D. sarsiae with the use of morphology, early molecular methods, and hydroid prey. -- - The relationships of D. eireana, D. sarsiae, and D.hydrallmaniae to the true D. coronata also require further investigation since D. eireana’s relationship within the complex clade is unresolved and D. sarsiae and D. hydrallmaniae were not incorporated [in the Shipman & Gosliner study] owing to the absence of appropriately preserved material.” (Shipman & Gosliner, 2015).
Few recorders feel able to confidently identify D. eireana, D. sarsiae, D. hydrallmaniae and some other segregates by morphology alone, so identifications usually rely on the species of hydroid they are found on. This can lead to misidentification unless feeding, rather than mere presence, is observed. Seaslugs are often most easily noticed when displaced from their usual prey on which they are well camouflaged. Some consumed hydroids are small, unobtrusive species which live epizoically on larger hydroids, leading the latter to be mistakenly assumed to be the prey. Knowledge of which slug species feed on which hydroid species is incomplete. Assumed monophages may subsequently be found to be oligophages like D. coronata, which feeds on some hydroid species used by monophages. Collaborating identification evidence, such as morphology, should be used in addition to species of prey.
With the exception of some D. hydrallmaniae, none of the following segregates have reddish pigment on the mesial faces of their cerata resembling that on D. coronata. Links in the list are to on-line images and information in Picton, B.E. & Morrow, C.C., 2016. Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland.
D. hydrallmaniae Morrow, Thorpe & Picton, 1992.
www.habitas.org.uk/marinelife/species.asp?item=W12795
1: monophage, feeds exclusively on Hydrallmania falcata (fig. 20 flic.kr/p/Sr7Ksk , fig. 21 flic.kr/p/2ms4mjF and
www.habitas.org.uk/marinelife/species.asp?item=D6530 ).
2: subepidermal, dark brown-red pigment on lower part of mesial face of cerata (fig. 22 flic.kr/p/Sr7M3K ) on many, but not all (fig. 21 flic.kr/p/2ms4mjF ) adults (so red mesial face pigment is not unique to D. coronata).
3: typically 5 or 6 rings of tubercles on the larger cerata, with up to 9 tubercles in the third ring from the top. (fig. 23 flic.kr/p/SyLuvJ ).
4: dark red spheroid and several white granular bodies in each tubercle on adults (fig. 22 flic.kr/p/Sr7M3K & fig. 21 flic.kr/p/2ms4mjF ).
5: tips of the large pseudobranchs reach the third ring of tubercles from the top of the ceras and have a dark red spheroid like that of the tubercles (fig. 24 flic.kr/p/Sr7LcM ).
6: oral veil rectangular with broad lateral flaps (fig.25 flic.kr/p/Sr7JRv ).
Red pigment extending up to half way up the mesial face of cerata [on adults] is “the most distinguishable characteristic of D. coronata” (Shipman & Gosliner, 2015). D. hydrallmaniae is an exception to this is with “dark red marks on the inner faces of the cerata” (Morrow et al., 1992) on most specimens, though not the one in fig. 21.
D. sarsiae Morrow, Thorpe & Picton, 1992. www.habitas.org.uk/marinelife/species.asp?item=W12885
Feeds on Coryne eximia (fig. 26 flic.kr/p/2mrVET3 and
www.habitas.org.uk/marinelife/species.asp?item=D1700 ).
Specimens which might be D. sarsiae were found on Garveia nutans (fig. 27 flic.kr/p/SyLrSN and www.habitas.org.uk/marinelife/species.asp?item=D3180 ), but they did not exactly fit the description of D. sarsiae as, apart from their prey differing, their cerata had high apical tubercles, many or all of which contained no reddish spheroid.
D. dunnei Lemche, 1976.
www.habitas.org.uk/marinelife/species.asp?item=W12770 Genetically very close to D. millbayana, might be conspecific (Shipman & Gosliner, 2015).
Feeds on Kirchenpaueria pinnata (fig. 28 flic.kr/p/2ms4mgQ and www.habitas.org.uk/marinelife/species.asp?item=D5850 ).
D. eireana Lemche, 1976. www.habitas.org.uk/marinelife/species.asp?item=W12780
Feeds on Amphisbetia operculata (fig. 29 flic.kr/p/2ms1QmN and www.habitas.org.uk/marinelife/species.asp?item=D6320 ).
D. koenneckeri Lemche, 1976. www.habitas.org.uk/marinelife/species.asp?item=W12810
Feeds on Aglaophenia pluma (fig. 30 flic.kr/p/2ms1Qdm and
www.habitas.org.uk/marinelife/species.asp?item=D5540 ).
D. maculata (Montagu, 1804).
www.habitas.org.uk/marinelife/species.asp?item=W12830
Feeds on Halopteris catharina (fig. 31 flic.kr/p/2ms4m1E and
www.habitas.org.uk/marinelife/species.asp?item=D5780 ).
D. millbayana Lemche, 1976.
www.habitas.org.uk/marinelife/species.asp?item=W12840 Genetically very close to D. dunnei, might be conspecific (Shipman & Gosliner, 2015).
Feeds on Plumularia setacea which often grows on larger hydroids. (fig. 32 flic.kr/p/2mrZGSp and
www.habitas.org.uk/marinelife/species.asp?item=D6050 ).
Habits and ecology
D. coronata lives on the lower shore and sublittoral on hard substrate with hydroids. It is a generalist feeder (Shipman & Gosliner, 2015) and has been reported from a wide range of hydroids, but some records were of species now segregated from D. coronata. Specimens with D.N.A. conforming to that of the neotype established by Shipman & Gosliner (2015) were obtained by them from Obelia dichotoma (fig. 17 flic.kr/p/2ms4kU2 and www.habitas.org.uk/marinelife/species.asp?item=D7300 ), Obelia geniculata (fig. 18 flic.kr/p/2ms4kS8 and www.habitas.org.uk/marinelife/species.asp?item=D7310 ),
and Sertularia cupressina (fig. 19 flic.kr/p/2mrVEoW ). Intertidally, I have found numerous specimens on Dynamena pumila (fig. 16 flic.kr/p/Sr7KUT ) that morphologically match the redescription of D. coronata by Shipman & Gosliner (2015) (fig. 33 flic.kr/p/SCsKxZ ). Lemche (1985, in Picton & Morrow 2016) opined that D. onusta Hesse, 1872 specializes on Dynamena pumila, but none of the Doto specimens that I found on it had the black markings described by Hesse or illustrated tentatively at www.habitas.org.uk/marinelife/species.asp?item=W12860 . Dotidae differ from Aeolidiidae in avoiding the polyps of hydroids containing the stinging nematocysts by puncturing the stalks and sucking out the contents. Consequently, they have no need for cnidosacs to store ingested nematocysts.
D. coronata is a simultaneous hermaphrodite. It matures sexually at a small size; spawn masses vary with the size of the animal. The spawn is a white or pinkish-white band crimped into a regular Greek key pattern; a thin, adhesive line of mucus appears to hold the crimps in position (fig. 34 flic.kr/p/S3AXnd ). It breeds in most months, with up to four generations per year. Shelled veligers live in the plankton before transforming into adults.
Distribution and status
D. coronata is found from Iceland and Spitzbergen to the Mediterranean, and in New England, USA. Records from South Africa are another species (Shipman & Gosliner, 2015), GBIF map www.gbif.org/species/5190041 . It is widespread and often common in Britain and Ireland, but many records are of species now segregated from D. coronata sensu lato or are species yet to be recognised. UK map species.nbnatlas.org/species/NBNSYS0000175014
Acknowledgement
I thank Justin Evans of www.justinevans.co.uk for use of his image of Doto hydrallmaniae.
References & links
Alder, J. & Hancock, A. 1845-1855. A monograph of the British nudibranchiate mollusca. London, Ray Society.
www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/65015#/summary
Index, old nomenclature; most listed in genus Eolis or Doris, at www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41958183#page/551/mode/1up .
Hesse, H. 1872. Diagnoses de nudibranches nouveaux des côtes de Bretagne. Journal de Conchyliologie. 20: 345-348.
www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15684555#page/352/mode/1up .
Hincks, T. 1868. A history of the British hydroid zoophytes vol. 1 & 2. London, Van Voorst.
www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/16848#page/7/mode/1up .
Morrow, C.C., Thorpe, J.P. & Picton, B.E. 1992. Genetic divergence and cryptic speciation in two morphs of the common subtidal nudibranch Doto coronata (Opisthobranchia: Dendronota: Dotoidae) from the northern Irish Sea. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 84: 53 to 61. www.int-res.com/articles/meps/84/m084p053.pdf? .
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Current taxonomy; World Register of Marine Species
www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=139631
GLOSSARY
anal papilla = small nipplelike protruberance bearing anus.
cerata = (sing. ceras) lobes on dorsum of Aeolidiidae and some other seaslugs, including Dotidae.
cnidaria = hydroids, jellyfish, sea anemones etc.
cnidosac = storage capsule at tips of cerata of Aeolidiidae, but not Dotidae, for ingested unexploded nematocysts.
dorsolateral = at or near junction/merging of dorsal and lateral surfaces.
epizoic = living on the exterior of another living animal.
gastrozooid = feeding polyp of a hydroid.
genital papilla = nipplelike protruberance bearing genital opening.
gonotheca = chitinous receptacle in which gonozooids are produced on a hydroid.
gonozooid = reproductive polyp of a hydroid.
head crest (on Doto) = raised rib from front of rhinophore to anterior edge of head.
hermaphrodite, simultaneous = individual acts as both male and female at the same time with similar partner(s).
hydroid = cnidarian with a stem and, often, branches bearing a colony of gastrozooids (feeding polyps) and gonozooids (reproductive polyps).
hydrotheca = chitinous receptacle containing a gastrozooid on a hydroid. monophage = an animal which feeds exclusively on a single prey species.
mesial = on or facing towards the midline of the body.
nematocysts = explosive stinging cells of hydroids, jellyfish, sea anemones etc.
oligophage = an animal which feeds on a restricted number of species.
oral tentacles = pair of tentacles on or near anterior edge of head near mouth.
oral veil = flat anterior extension of head.
ovotestis = hermaphrodite organ serving as both ovary and testis.
plankton = animals and plants that drift in pelagic zone (main body of water).
pseudobranch = (on Doto)feature located at base of mesial faces of cerata; definition and function uncertain. May be rudimentary and indistinct , irregularly shaped, bifurcating, finger-like or fan-shaped, and sometimes tipped with a red spot.
rhinophore = chemo-receptor tentacle; nudibranch sea slugs have a pair on top of head.
sensu lato = (abbreviation s.l.) in the wide sense, possibly an aggregate of more than one species.
sensu stricto = (abbreviation s.s.) in the strict sense, excluding species that have been aggregated or confused with it.
subepidermal = below surface of skin.
veliger = shelled larva of marine gastropod or bivalve mollusc which swims by beating cilia of a velum (bilobed flap). Stage may be passed in plankton or within liquid-filled egg-capsule.
Le zèbre est-il blanc à rayures noires ou noir à rayures blanches, comme le demande une légende africaine ? Les zèbres sont avant tout reconnaissables aux bandes noires sur fond blanc de leur pelage. Si le zèbre de Burchell possède de vingt-cinq à trente raies, le zèbre de Grévy en compte environ quatre-vingts et le zèbre des montagnes quarante-trois.