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Longwood Gardens Pa.
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Macro Mondays group challenge for 14/08/17 - "High Key"
Stuck for which image to choose - again. This is 1 of 2 possibles but there are actually many more high key shots in the pipeline...
HMM to one and all. Another challenge that involved eating (some of) the subject matter!
After meeting two at Winston, it was time to "Poach" the East Helena local as it tore west by the searchlight signals with some nice EMD smoke.
Moremi Game Reserve
Okavango Delta
Botswana
Southern Africa
The African bush elephant (Loxodonta africana), also known as the African savanna elephant, is the largest living terrestrial animal with bulls reaching a shoulder height of up to 4 m (13 ft). Both sexes have tusks, which erupt when they are 1–3 years old and grow throughout life.
It is distributed across 37 African countries and inhabits forests, grasslands and woodlands, wetlands and agricultural land. It is a social mammal, traveling in herds composed of cows and their offspring. Adult bulls usually live alone or in small bachelor groups. It is a herbivore, feeding on grasses, creepers, herbs, leaves and bark.
Since 2004, it has been listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List. It is threatened foremost by habitat destruction, and in parts of its range also by poaching for meat and ivory.
They can weigh 7 t (7.7 short tons). The heaviest male on record weighed 10.4 t (11.5 short tons) and was shot in 1974 in Angola. Females are much smaller at about 2.2–2.6 m (7.2–8.5 ft) tall at the shoulder and up to 4 t (4.4 short tons) in weight.
Elephants attain their maximum stature when they complete the fusion of long-bone epiphyses, occurring in males around the age of 40 and females around the age of 25. - Wikipedia
The white rhinoceros or square-lipped rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) is the largest extant species of rhinoceros. It has a wide mouth used for grazing and is the most social of all rhino species.
Despite its name the white rhino is not actually white at all, its skin is grey in colour.
The white rhino is a grazer and can often be found grazing on grass in the open plains. They need to feed on a daily basis but can survive for 4 to 5 days without water.
Populations of white rhino have recovered from an all time low of around 100 in 1895 to the current wild population of around 20,170. However, an increase in rhino poaching since 2008 is once again threatening the total population.
Photographed on a late evening game drive in the open savannah plains of Africa.
An aggressive snowy egret had just faced down this reddish egret and intruded on its territory. It now has a wee fish in its beak as the reddish egret unhappily looks on. Merritt Island on 10/10/10.
The pixie dust industry is highly illegal, but very profitable, and Gargamel the troll is the best in the business. He has made a fortune capturing pixies, grinding them up, and selling the resulting dust.
Pixies are most often found in mushroom forests around magical ponds. They are very vain creatures and love looking at their own reflections in the pond.
Normally invisible to most creatures, gnomes are one of the few that can spot the flying fairies. Though not normally the industrious folk, Gargamel has a way of working with Gnomes to get them to catch the Pixes...
Once caught and put in their Pixe proof cages, Gargamel takes them to . . .
A westbound Union Pacific empty coal train exits 75-foot Tunnel 29 east of Pinecliffe, Colorado. Thanks to Jason Cary and Moephat Man for letting me poach on their territory.
Hippos are the third-largest living land mammal, after elephants and white rhinos. Their feet have four-webbed toes that splay out to distribute weight evenly and therefore adequately support them on land, and their short legs provide powerful propulsion through the water. They have very thick skin that is virtually hairless except for the thick bristle-like hair on their heads and tails. The outer layers of skin are quite thin, making them prone to wounds from fighting. Their flat, paddle-like tail is used to spread excrement, which marks territory borders and indicates the status of an individual. Their powerful jaws are capable of opening up to 150 degrees revealing their enormous incisors.
Served with 'rosettes of ham' on the side, sprinkled with black pepper. I should imagine this dish would also be tasty served on an English Muffin ... or two.
With the aroma of freshly brewed coffee still in the air, this made the perfect breakfast dish.
Fish stocks in Lake Oguemoué, Gabon, Central Africa, are dwindling due to uncontrolled over harvesting of undersized fish by local residents.
Once a year event, Chinese New Year's Eve, a day where Chinese families gather for their annual reunion dinner, is known as Chúxī (除夕) or "Eve of the Passing Year." Because the Chinese calendar is lunisolar, the Chinese New Year is often referred to as the "Lunar New Year".
Despite anti-poaching efforts rhinos are critcally endangered, still being senselessly killed for their horns. Always special to see rhinos in the wild and was so happy to encounter this beautiful pair In Kruger National Park, South Africa.