“We have calcium in our bones, iron in our veins, carbon in our souls, and nitrogen in our brains. 93 percent stardust, with souls made of flames, we are all just stars that have people names.”

The ability of the camel to survive in desert conditions without water for long periods of time is rivalled by none. The many physiological adaptations the dromedary have even earned it the title "ship of the desert". Dromedaries can glean much of their needed water from desert vegetation, and can survive after losing over 40 percent of their body weight in water. When water is available, whether fresh or brackish (salty), camels drink well - up to 57 litres at a time.

1. During migration, 75 percent of the sandhill crane population can be found along a 75-mile stretch of the Platte River in Nebraska.

2. Sandhill crane offspring can be ready to leave the nest and even start swimming just eight hours after they hatch. Although the chicks are independently mobiles, they will stay with their parents up to 10 months after being born.

3. A female sandhill crane usually lays two pale-colored eggs with brown markings. She shares incubation duties with her mate for up to 32 days.

4. Both parents build a nest from cattails, sedges and grasses, but it’s unknown which parent chooses the nesting site. Nests can be up to 40 inches across and 6 inches high. (Read more: Meet the Best Bird Dads Around)

5. The oldest known sandhill crane fossil was found in the Macasphalt Shell Pit in Florida and is estimated to be 2.5 million years old.

6. Sandhill cranes mate for life and attract their partners via a courtship dance with moves like jumping into the air, bobbing their heads and stretching their wings to span up to 7 feet.

7. During migration, these cranes may travel more than 200 miles a day. They’re fast fliers, reaching speeds of up to 35 miles per hour.

8. Most of their diet (90 percent) is plant material, including waste grain, roots, berries, and nuts. Insects and snails are on the menu, too.

I found this one along Joe Ovestreet Road in Osceola County, Florida.

From Cornell:

The Osprey is the only hawk on the continent that eats almost exclusively live fish. In North America, more than 80 species of live fresh- and saltwater fish account for 99 percent of the Osprey’s diet. Captured fish usually measure about 6–13 inches in length and weigh one-third to two-thirds of a pound. The largest catch on record weighed about 2.5 pounds. On very rare occasions, Ospreys have been observed feeding on fish carcasses or on birds, snakes, voles, squirrels, muskrats, and salamanders. Ospreys probably get most of the water they need from the flesh of their prey, although there are reports of adults drinking on hot days.

Photographed at the Stuart Causeway perched on a lamp pole that illuminates the roadway.

You miss 100 percent of the shots you don't take? - So don't be intimidated by what you don't know, because your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else!

Can be done by hitting a bottle of Magnum !!!

I love walking around the streets of Digbeth? - Because one never knows, what one can find left abandoned, in these streets, that was once full of life!

So keep up your sprites and never let things pass you by, my cool flickr friends !!!

A tiny percent of rain —and lack of wind—drew me outside to photograph wild daisies of some sort. Borrowed my husband's Nikkor 200mm macro/prime lens and rested it on the trusty monopod. On my knees shot.

I know, based on my husband’s reaction, that this will appear too shallow for many. Don’t worry; I don’t expect you to comment ;-)

Primate DNA is only five percent different from ours. Like us, they feel jealousy, envy, love, shame, grief, depression... They are very social beings, they are sensitive and each one has a different personality, according to the experts, as happens in humans. They develop tools for specific purposes, which involves reasoning, anticipating the future and acting with the tool. They adopt orphans, which demonstrates social bonds, empathy and altruism. They have self-awareness, cooperative problem-solving and learning by example and experience, so they have symbolic capacity and a culture of their own, which they pass on from one generation to the next. Chimpanzees even surpass humans in certain memory tasks. An ape at the age of two is able to do small sums and use tools, while a two year old does not even know how to do sums or reason the why of the tool. They give pets to their children and they even learn words in sign language, being able to establish a conversation with their caregiver. They are able to teach their offspring sign language so that they can communicate with their caregivers. And so on. And they share a very important trait with humans, a trait not found in any other animal... laughter.

This image is dedicated to Bobby. Bobby was a chimpanzee used for decades as a laboratory animal at the Coulston Foundation in Alamogordo, New Mexico. He was born in captivity and at a very young age participated in biomedical experiments. By the age of 19, he had been anaesthetised more than 250 times and biopsied as many times. His life was spent in solitude inside a tiny metal cage. His body was bruised and scarred. In a deeply depressed state, he was incessantly self-harming, a clear sign that he intended to end his life. In 2002 he was transferred to Save the Chimps, a chimpanzee sanctuary in Louisiana, USA. Dedicated to Jeannie. Jeannie was in the service of science for nine years. At the age of six, she began her career in the pharmaceutical laboratories of Merck, Sharpe and Dohme. Shortly afterwards she was donated to the Buckshire Corporation and ended up at LEMSIP, Laboratory for Experimental Medicine and Surgery in Primates in New York at the age of 22. During that time she participated in several invasive experimental protocols including repeated vaginal douching, multiple cervical, liver and lymph node biopsies. She was infected with HIV and hepatitis C, and participated in rhinovirus vaccination protocols. She was anaesthetised more than 200 times. She died at the age of 31 at the Fauna Foundation, Canada's only primate sanctuary. Dedicated to Newt. Newt was born in 1979 at LEMSIP. At the age of four months he was sold to the Southwest National Primate Research Center in San Antonio, Texas. Newt was HIV-positive and was widely exposed to hepatitis B virus. Before he was four years old, he began intermittently self-harming. In 2003 he had his canines removed. Newt's clinical reports indicated that he had bites and lacerations on his hands, fingers, thighs, arms, legs, wrists and scrotum. A psychiatric report determined that Newt was in a profound state of insanity and derangement. He was attempting to commit suicide and end his life. This image is dedicated to all primates who have suffered psychological and physical torture, deprivation of liberty, abominable experiments and death in scientific laboratories, pharmaceutical, automobile, cosmetic, aeronautical, aerospace multinationals... and dedicated especially to Bobby, Jeannie and Newt.

The chimpanzee Mama, hours before she died and the reunion with her caretaker.

Silvio Rodríguez - Al final de este viaje / Al final de este viaje (1978)

We are the prehistory that will have the future. We are the remote annals of man. These years are the past of the sky. These years are a certain agility with which the sun draws you into the future. They are the truth or the end, they are god. We are left, those who can smile in the midst of death, in full light.

Supergrass - Tales of Endurance, Pt. 4, 5 & 6 / Road to Rouen (2005)

Making sense of what I've heard and what is on my mind.

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PS: When I look into the eyes of an ape, all I see in them is sadness and eyes that ask me, why, why? And I can only lower my gaze to the ground, while I shed some tears and feel a deep shame... shame of being human... a "Homo stupidus".

Aphex Twin - Stone In Focus / Selected Ambient Works II (1994)

This once a bustling 19th-century iron smelting industrial town surrounding Snail Shell Harbor was seen from the top of the limestone cliff which featured in my last post, taken about an hour before sunset.

The dock features 15 transient slips which provide overnight or day-use boating opportunities, it's like a RV park for the boats.

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"In the mid-1800s, iron ore was shipped from the Upper Peninsula mines to the foundries in the lower Great Lakes at an enormous cost. This high cost of shipping was caused by inefficient transportation combined with the nearly 40 percent waste the ore contained. The solution was to build a blast furnace close to the mine where the ore could be smelted into pig iron before it was shipped to the steel-making centers. The town had to be relatively close to the Escanaba ore docks, have a natural harbor, and be near the limestone and hardwood forests that were needed to smelt the iron ore.

Named after Fayette Brown, the Jackson Iron Company agent who chose the site, Fayette was once one of the Upper Peninsula's most productive iron-smelting operations. Located on the Garden Peninsula at Snail Shell Harbor, Fayette grew up around two blast furnaces, a large dock and several charcoal kilns after the Civil War. Nearly five hundred residents, many immigrating from Canada, the British Isles and northern Europe, lived in and near the town that existed to make pig iron.

During twenty-four years of operation, 1867 to l891, Fayette's blast furnaces produced a total of 229,288 tons of iron, using local hardwood forests for fuel and quarrying limestone from the bluffs to purify the iron ore. When the charcoal iron market began to decline, the Jackson Iron Company closed its Fayette smelting operation."

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As always, I appreciate your visit and support; please stay safe and have a happy weekend!

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(From my 2015 Archives)

I’m still rooting around in my archives trying to cull the 90 percent bad and keep the 10 percent that are okay.

Found this Pelican on a local pier, and thought it was doing a pretty good rendition of the Chicken Dance.

The Chicken Dance is a well-known drinking and dancing song at American Oktoberfest events. It is also a popular dance at weddings, particularly in whose culture includes polka music. Over 140 versions have been recorded worldwide, including some that were released by Walt Disney Records, together making an estimated 40,000,000 records or more pressed.

(Nikon, 300/4.0, 1/1250 @ f/5.6, ISO 250, edited to taste)

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My mother in law gave me this square decorative, painted glass plate for a gift a few years ago. When I decided to use it for this week's theme, the image I liked the best was of the very tip of one corner, so it's about 5% of the actual plate.

When we were visiting my mother in law at the beginning of January, she suffered a massive heart attack. When her heart stopped numerous times, the doctors performed CPR, breaking her ribs in the process. After surgery, the doctors came out and told us that at nearly 91 years old, only 5% of people in her age group survive an event like that. So she was one of that very small percent.

Recently, we went back and have spent the past week looking after her. She is a tiny, strong, independent and very positive person. Every day we could see her getting her strength back more, recovering, and she was smiling through her pain. By the last day, she got up before we did, moved her walker out of the way, made her own breakfast, and when we got up, she told us about her plans for next summer's vacation. That woman inspires me!

I will try to catch up with all of you over the next couple of days:)

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For July in Oklahoma this is great, the humidity is low tonight, cloud cover is minimum, cool night, the horrid heat is coming next week but hey it will only be 60 days until fall from what it appears will be our first 100 degrees this summer, usually it has already happened a few times by now, but the rains come weekly so temps are low and humidity is high. The moon at 80.5 percent visible, funny when it gets to 50 percent then it is a quarter moon. I know it is the whole vs. the visible but strange nonetheless.

According to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the Rusty Blackbird is one of North America’s most rapidly declining species. The population has plunged an estimated 85-99 percent over the past forty years and scientists are completely puzzled as to what is the cause.

They are relatively uncommon denizens of wooded swamps, breeding in the boreal forest and wintering in the eastern U.S. In winter, they travel in small flocks and are identified by their distinctive rusty feather edges and pallid yellow eyes.

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The lens (without camera) fell from the tripod and the lens hood end bounced down, flipped, and then the camera mount end punched a hole in the wall.

This is a test shot. No curves or noise reduction, obviously. About a 40 percent crop from RAW/NEF.

Phew? Anyone else drop a long focal length lens?

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Seventy percent of Point Pelee National Park in southwest Ontario is marsh that is dominated by cattails and ponds. Twenty-one percent of the park is forested areas. Ecologically it is important because the park contains more than 750 native plant species of which 8 species are considered to be rare, endangered or threatened in Canada.

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The results revealed that priming people to look for identifiable objects in random patterns is bound to create a few hits. The participants reported seeing faces 34 percent of the time and letters 38 percent of the time, despite there being none in the images they saw.

Over one half (fifty-percent) of the crew of each ship participating in the races must consist of young people.

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About an hour after sunset the orange glow of the sun is still visible over the Jordanelle Reservoir.

The 4.2% moon is 2 days old after the Great American Eclipse and this beautiful waxing crescent moon is setting over the Wasatch Mountains, the western edge of the Rocky Mountains

Raabs an der Thaya is a municipality with 3,114 inhabitants in the Northern part of Waldviertel in Lower Austria, near the Austrian border with the Czech Republic. About 27.6 percent of the municipality is forested.

Raabs Castle was built in the last half of the 11th century.

A picture-book castle high above the Thaya River – the perfect excursion destination!

Raabs Castle (German: Burg Raabs), one of Austria’s oldest fortified stone castles, is enthroned high above the confluence of the Moravian Thaya with the Austrian Thaya. It sits atop sheer rock walls, towering over the town below. Standing on the castle terrace is like being on the bow of a ship sailing far into the past. What events might have transpired here, what tales can be found within these ancient walls?

Bartolomé Island

Galapagos

Ecuador

South America

The Galápagos penguin (Spheniscus mendiculus) is a penguin endemic to the Galápagos Islands. It is the only penguin that lives north of the equator in the wild. It can survive due to the cool temperatures resulting from the Humboldt Current and cool waters from great depths brought up by the Cromwell Current.

While ninety percent of the Galápagos penguins live among the western islands of Fernandina and Isabela, they also occur on Santiago, Bartolomé, northern Santa Cruz, and Floriana. The northern tip of Isabela crosses the equator, meaning that some Galápagos penguins live the northern hemisphere, the only penguins to do so.

The species is endangered, with an estimated population size of around 1,500 individuals in 2004, according to a survey by the Charles Darwin Research Station. The population underwent an alarming decline of over 70% in the 1980s but is slowly recovering. It is therefore the rarest penguin species (a status which is often falsely attributed to the yellow-eyed penguin).

Population levels are influenced by the effects of the El Niño Southern Oscillation, which reduces the availability of shoaling fish, leading to low reproduction or starvation. However, anthropogenic factors (e.g. oil pollution, fishing by-catch and competition) may be adding to the ongoing demise of this species. On Isabela Island, cats, dogs, and rats attack penguins and destroy their nests. When in the water, they are preyed upon by sharks, fur seals, and sea lions. – Wikipedia

Colourful high cloud covered sunrise at Umina Beach on the Central Coast, NSW, Australia.

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This is my attempt at photographing the Eclipse. I used a welding glass (I'm a welder) that I mounted on the lens. It was nice and sunny all morning and then, unfortunately the clouds rolled in just in time for the eclipse. There were times when it disappeared. Thankfully the clouds thinned a little to get the 90 percent for our area. From my backyard in Central Bucks PA. What a fantastic event it was even with the clouds.

My snack and dessert is the chip, dark chocolate, the bitter sweet chocolate that smooths out with coffee, Im not much for the floury sweets or manufactured just the basic chip. A boarder line macro to close up, still larger than actual. F/3.5 at 1/100, basic jpeg no touch up or cropping. Center focused.

Each spring, 70-80 percent of all Sandhill Cranes residing in North America pass through Kearney, Nebraska. Thousands can be seen on the ground and in the air between late February and mid April.

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Freehand night shot of local fruit and veg shop at night

Ninety percent of an iceberg lies under the surface and in this image the underwater ice shelf of a berg is clearly marked by the area of turquoise water off Geikie Plateau, Scoresby Sund, East Greenland.

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Not 100 percent sure this grain elevator is abandoned (as the title say), but f@xk it, I'm gonna go for it anyway.

Think the HP5 and Atomal developer did a nice job here. Cropped top and bottom. Also used a yellow filter.

Hope you like it. Cheers, Jonny

Crane Valley, Saskatchewan, Canada

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Ilford HP5+ @ISO800

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I approached solo canoe to photography so many on this dead tree yet approximately 50 percent took off afraid of me.

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When there's nowhere to hide, you might as well keep on grazing. Wildebeests continue munching on fresh grass even under lashing rain in the Mara Triangle Conservancy in southwest Kenya. Photo made during a September 2022 safari. Production Notes: All those diagonal streaks are not a Photoshop effect; they actually are raindrops. The downpour was really heavy. Also, since the clouds, rain and fog already had sucked 95 percent of the color out of the scene, I went on and sucked the rest of the color out and made this a monochrome.) ©2022 | John M. Hudson

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Fundación La Choza

La Choza es una fundación situada en lo que anteriormente fuera la estancia del Dr. Bernardo de Irigoyen. Erigidas en el centro de estos terrenos se destacan la casa señorial y una capilla campestre, testigos históricos de la vida de Don Bernardo, quien llamaba a la Choza su "santuario de silencio donde meditar los grandes problemas del país".

Actualmente, el ochenta por ciento de la tierra está destinada al pastoreo del ganado bovino, fuente de la producción láctea y materia prima para el trabajo diario en el tambo.

La producción hortícola ocupa cuatro hectáreas, a la cual se suma alrededor de ciento cincuenta árboles frutales y cultivos de plantas aromáticas y medicinales.

Asimismo contamos con un vivero de plantas nativas de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, el cual presenta como principal objetivo la recuperación del control biológico del lugar mediante la forestación.

Con un fuerte componente educativo y un amplio compromiso con la producción biológico-dinámica de alimentos saludables, en la Fundación La Choza concebimos el trabajo agropecuario al servicio de la vida social.

Traslator:

La Choza Foundation

La Choza is a foundation located in what was previously the residence of Dr. Bernardo de Irigoyen. Erected in the middle of these grounds stands the manor house and a country chapel, historical witnesses of the life of Don Bernardo, who called the Shack his "sanctuary of silence where to meditate the great problems of the country."

At present, eighty percent of the land is destined to cattle grazing, source of dairy production and raw material for daily work in the dairy.

The horticultural production occupies four hectares, to which is added about one hundred and fifty fruit trees and crops of aromatic and medicinal plants.

We also have a nursery of native plants of the Province of Buenos Aires, which has as main objective the recovery of the biological control of the place by means of afforestation.

With a strong educational component and a broad commitment to the biological-dynamic production of healthy foods, at the La Choza Foundation we conceive agricultural work at the service of social life.

I'm deep in the archives ... this was taken more than two decades ago with my first digital camera somewhere off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada. Word to the wise, keyword your photos as you make and catalog them, not 20 years later. :)

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HMM! Climate Change Matters! Resist the Ignorant Orange Clown!!

japanese camellia, 'Cinnamon Scentsation', sarah p duke gardens, duke university, durham, north carolina

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Canola is a crop with plants from three to five feet tall that produce pods from which seeds are harvested and crushed to create canola oil and meal. These plants also produce small, yellow flowers, which beautify the environment.

Canola seeds contain about 45 percent oil. This large percentage of oil comes in a small package; canola seeds are similar in size to poppy seeds, though brownish-black in color.

Among consumers in the United Kingdom, there is a growing interest in reducing meat consumption. This has turned meat eaters into flexitarians, vegetarians, or even vegans.

In the UK:

Approximately seven percent identified themselves as vegetarian.

Approximately three percent identified themselves as vegan.

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