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The alluvial plain about a mile south of Markyate in Hertfordshire. The River Ver is on its way south and here, just three miles from its source, still dependent on heavy rainfall. If there is, a few local roads will be flooded, if there is none, there will also be no river. At this point, the River Ver is almost seasonal and dependent on the willingness of the limestone hills to let go of its waters.
Thought I'd give everyone a break from fall pics. Since we've had some crappy weather, I've been indoors more. That's usually when I turn to Photoshop.
This was inspired by a sketch of an American Indian I did back in my collage daze. I had scanned it years ago then pretty much forgot about it. When I rediscovered it, I went into overdrive with it!! There were a few versions before it morphed into this.
This photo is part of a series within a series. In my post of the female bighorn sheep yesterday, I mentioned that the males of some ungulate species aren't the only ones with horns or antlers. So within my horns and antlers set, I'm posting some ladies with horns.
Here, a Plains Bison cow makes her way across the grasslands of Custer State Park, South Dakota.
TGIF right? It’s been highly anticipated this week to be honest. I’m still roaming around the town and looking to shoot some more IR images. It gets me out of my usual routine and that is always a good thing. If you would like to try something different in your photography, what would that be?
Elk Island National Park
There were 2 fellows coming our way and Tabby, my dog, and I going the other way with this bison in between. It took 20 minutes to coax her/him off the trail.
The slaughter of the buffalo on the plains, being the main source of food and clothing for indigenous people contributed to their plight of hunger.
There are approximately 400 bison in Elk Island park
between Au (SG) and Altstätten in Switzerland. View from a Thurbo commuter train on Aug 31, 2009 at midday.
See where this video starts in Au, direction to Heerbrugg [?]
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The Pannonian Plain is a large plain in Central Europe that remained when the Pliocene Pannonian Sea dried out. It is a geomorphological subsystem of the Alps-Himalaya system.
The river Danube divides the plain roughly in half.
The plain is divided among Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine.
The plain is roughly bounded by the Carpathian mountains, the Alps, the Dinaric Alps and the Balkan mountains.
Although rain is not plentiful, it usually falls when necessary and the plain is a major agricultural area; it is sometimes said that these fields of rich loamy loess soil could feed the whole of Europe. For its early settlers, the plain offered few sources of metals or stone. Thus when archaeologists come upon objects of obsidian or chert, copper or gold, they have almost unparalleled opportunities to interpret ancient pathways of trade.
The precursor to the present plain was a shallow sea that reached its greatest extent during the Pliocene, when three to four kilometres of sediments were deposited.
The plain was named after the Pannonians, a northern Illyrian tribe. Various different peoples inhabited the plain during its history. In the first century BC, the eastern parts of the plain belonged to the Dacian state, and in the first century AD its western parts were subsumed into the Roman Empire. The Roman province named Pannonia was established in the area, and the city of Sirmium, today Sremska Mitrovica, Serbia, became one of the four capital cities of the Roman Empire in the 3rd century.
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Explore January 20, 2008
The herd of Plains Bison that reside near Delta Junction Alaska came from Montana back in 1928. As of the last count, there are around 900 Plains Bison that roam Alaska in the wild. The biggest herd is the one near Delta Junction Alaska. There are smaller herds located in Chitna Alaska, Copper River Alaska and Farewell Alaska.
The male bison can weigh up to 2000 lbs and stand 6 feet tall while the females can weigh up to 1000 lbs and stand up to 5 feet tall.
Commonly, Bison are referred to as Buffalo. The word buffalo is derived from the French “bœuf,” a name given to bison when French fur trappers working in the US in the early 1600s saw the animals. The word bœuf came from what the French knew as true buffalo, animals living in Africa and Asia, and bison comes from the Greek word for beef animal or ox.
Almost all of my images from Tombstone come from a small number of places along an outstanding hike, however the park does have a number of other spots to see beyond the crazy and massive jagged peaks. The park goes from these vertical peaks to almost plains where from the right vantage point you can see for what seems to be ages. This year, I made sure to try at least one hike that wasn’t the well-known one.
These images were from a relatively easy hike which my friend and I did when we first arrived in Tombstone. The vantage points along this hike were really something. You could get up onto these spires and almost feel like you’re flying - it gave a completely unobstructed view of a really dynamic landscape. I couldn’t get over the changes in textures and patterns through the landscape, with some passing clouds, rain, and sunny spots really making the scene change by the minute. Neat!
Located just south of Spokane, in Washington state, The Palouse is a rich farming area of some 3,000 square miles. It is somewhat reminiscent of Tuscany, in Italy, except instead of vineyards the main crop here is wheat and rapeseed (Canola).
For the Macro Mondays challenge "Monochrome" (February 5th 2017)
For "Life is a Rainbow" January White no. 3
I wanted to create a macro monochrome image without using the short-cut of Photoshop post-processing. So this is the best I could do with daylight, enhanced with LED lighting giving a cool white light. The paper is thick watercolour art paper, and not as white as heavily processed printing paper. The paper was set on a sheet of 'bubble' glass to add reflected light. The size measured against a 2x3" credit card is in the first comment field.
HMM!
Life is a Rainbow Here
My 2018 set: 2018 Macro Mondays
All the previous years of the challenge:
My 2017 set: 2017 Macro Mondays
My 2016 set: 2016 Macro Mondays
My 2015 set: 2015 Macro Mondays
My 2014 set: 2014 Macro Mondays
My 2013 set: 2013 Macro Mondays
NECR 608 crosses Plains Road in Tolland, CT while throttling out of Stafford. These blue and golds are supposedly on their last breaths.
With the old searchlights standing strong the night gas heads back to Missoula knocking down Plains on the way back.
Plains, Georgia
For more info on this church and other historic rural churches in Georgia go to: www.hrcga.org/church/plains-baptist/
Parc animalier de Thoiry ( WOW Safari Thoiry)
Circuit safari en voiture
De nombreuses hypothèses ont été émises pour expliquer l’utilité des rayures des zèbres : identification des individus, camouflage, perturbation des prédateurs, thermorégulation… L’explication principale retenue par la communauté scientifique est finalement que les rayures des zèbres repoussent les insectes piqueurs comme les taons ou la mouche tsé-tsé. Ceux-ci pouvant transmettre des maladies, diminuer les risques d’être piqués est un avantage conséquent. Les sous-espèces de Chapman (présentée à Thoiry) et de Burchell ont la particularité d’avoir des rayures beiges entre leurs rayures noires au niveau de la croupe.
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Plains-wanderer (female)
Pedionomus torquatus
Critically Endangered in Victoria & Australia
Winter 2019
Patho Plains of Victoria, Australia
Canon EOS 1D X Mark II
Canon EF 100-400mm f4.5-5.6L IS II USM lens
Canon 600EX II-RT flash
One from a very memorable (and cold!) encounter with a couple of Plains-wanderers out on the native grasslands of Northern Victoria. Absolutely stunning little birds.
Les bruants des plaines sont des purs migrateurs, c'est à dire que leur aire de nidification est totalement différente de leur aire d'hivernage. A l'automne, les oiseaux partent en bandes vers le Texas et le Mexique, mais des errants sont trouvés à la fois sur la côte Atlantique et sur le littoral Pacifique. Un petit oiseau rare au Québec.
Carrizo Plain,
Eastern San Luis Obispo Co., California
Foreground flowers include Layia platyglossa, Tidy Tips, Phacelia ciliata, Valley Phacelia, Streptanthus anceps, Purple Haze & Amsinckia tessellata, Fiddlenecks.
ELEPHANT PLAINS: Located in the Sabi Sand Game Reserve, neighbouring the Kruger National Park, the Elephant Plains Game Lodge promises a Big Five game viewing experience with high class luxurious and comfortable accommodation facilities. From rondavels to intimate honeymoon suites the lodge provides its guests with a vast range of options to choose from for their accommodation. Elephant Plains Game Lodge is famous for the enthralling Big Five game viewing where guests can avail two game drives a day. With amazing facilities like swimming pool, spa, gym, library, games room and much more; Elephant Plains Game Lodge serves the guests with one of the best accommodation services in South Africa. The lodge can accommodate up to 24 guests at a time and also offer wedding planning services for those who wish to celebrate the wedding in the wilderness of South Africa. www.elephantplains.co.za
KRUGER NATIONAL PARK is one of the largest game reserves in Africa. It covers an area of 19,485 km2 in the provinces of Limpopo and Mpumalanga in northeastern South Africa, and extends 360 km from north to south and 65 km from east to west. The administrative headquarters are in Skukuza. Areas of the park were first protected by the government of the South African Republic in 1898, and it became South Africa's first national park in 1926. To the west and south of the Kruger National Park are the two South African provinces of Limpopo and Mpumalanga. In the north is Zimbabwe, and to the east is Mozambique. It is now part of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park, a peace park that links Kruger National Park with the Gonarezhou National Park in Zimbabwe, and with the Limpopo National Park in Mozambique. The park is part of the Kruger to Canyons Biosphere an area designated by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as an International Man and Biosphere Reserve (the "Biosphere"). The park has nine main gates allowing entrance to the different camps. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kruger_National_Park
SABI SAND: The Sabi Sand Game Reserve is situated in the southwestern corner of the world-renowned Kruger National Park in South Africa and consists of 65000 hectares. It is the most prestigious game reserve in South Africa and is famous for incredible leopard and lion sightings. www.sabisandsgamereserve.com