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Small Pointed Snail (Cochlicella barbara)
A new species of Pointed Snail for me today. This one stood about 3 mm in height.
Very unusual to Snails out and about at this time of year, especially on a 36°C day.
St. Stephen's is the parish church of Higham in the Forest Heath district of Suffolk midway between Bury St. Edmunds and Newmarket. Considering that it stands less than 500m south of both the busy A14 and the main railway line, it still seems somewhat remote.
Whereas almost all other East Anglian round-towers have Saxon, Norman or Gothic origins, St.Stephen’s is Victorian. It is certainly the newest of the 38 round-towered churches in Suffolk. The parish, which had previously been a hamlet of Gazeley to the west, was created in 1861 and named after a local landowning family - perhaps unaware that there was already a village in the county that bore this name.
The architect was Sir George Gilbert Scott, best known for the Albert Memorial and red phone boxes. It is his only complete Suffolk church. Consisting of a round tower with conical roof, a nave with a north aisle, a south porch and a chancel, it is built in the First Pointed style that had entranced Scott since as a boy he visited the Early English church at Chetwode, Buckinghamshire. The tower design is loosely based on nearby, much older examples at Risby, Snailwell and particularly Little Saxham.
Today, a copy of the original plan hangs inside, because Scott appears to have designed or commissioned everything inside, even down to the altar frontals which are still in use more than a century later. The furnishings were the work of the Cambridge carpenter Rattee, the glass is by Clayton and Bell, but all bear Scott's fingerprints.
Small finch. Sharply pointed bill is pink in summer, grayish-brown in winter. Small head, long wings, and short, notched tail. Adult males in spring and summer are bright yellow with black forehead and wings. Females are dull yellow below and olive above with two distinct wingbars. In winter, they are drab, buffy-brown. Active and acrobatic. Sometimes in large numbers at feeders or on ground below. Found in weedy fields, cultivated areas, roadsides, orchards, and backyards.
...from a road trip 'way back in 2008. The summer sun has already turned the lush coastal hillsides their trademark golden color.
Split rail fencing is believed to be a borrowed idea from Europe. It appeared in America around the 17th century in colonial Virginia. Split rail fencing is still used today and is quite popular.
In the United Kingdom (and increasingly in suburban America) a different style of split-rail fence is used. This is not free-standing but consists of vertical posts placed in the ground, having holes (mortises) in each side into which the roughly pointed ends of split rails (usually of sweet chestnut) are placed. No zig-zagging is necessary. This style is commonly used as decorative fencing, or for horse-keeping. Such fences are a specific type of a more general form, called post-and-rail fences.
Building with pointed roof - Bethlehem, PA - Fujicolor Superia X-tra 400 - scanned on Epson V600 - Canon EOS Rebel G.
Little Blue Heron has a long, finely-pointed bill that is bicoloured, bluish at the base and a darker tip. The shaggy plumes on the head and breast of adults are most evident during the breeding season, but these are actually moulted in during the pre-basic moult in late/summer fall and take many months to reach full length, perfectly timed to become very obvious during breeding.
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I found also a group of Ceratophysella armata at the fen and this little one...
I have only this 2 photos merged in photoshop in one photo and I'm puzzled what it is...
A juvenile C. armata perhaps ???
female northern cardinal, Laguna Seca Ranch, near Edinburg, TX. Sony A6500 and FE 70-300G. She has similar markings and coloration to a female pyrrhuloxia, but the pyrrhuloxia has a more parrot like beak. This series of bird photos is from Brian Loflin's South Texas Bird Photography Workshop.
These are a 'specialty' Tulip, with pointed petals, when they open completely, they look like stars... and this one was a superstar, with the odd green bit grown in.
To me: quirky=interesting=special.
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This Photoshopped simulated reflection makes it look like the sun is stuck on the end of the shoreline.
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This bird was hopping about in a Gorse bush as if it was not sharp at all .There were about 40 birds in the flock mostly Great tit, Blue tit ,Longtailed tit and Chaffinch and a solitary Wren they passed by in less than 5 minutes . Long-tailed tits are not really members of the Tit family but of the Aegithalidae family They grow to a length of 6 " (150mm) and adults weigh approx 1/4 ounce (6 grams)
The roofline of Alexandra Tower apartment building in Liverpool.
The 27 storey building is on the waterfront of the River Mersey.
There’s always something magical when certain kinds of things are hit with backlight. Things like the prickling spines of the cylindropuntia bigelovii cactus, which is nicknamed the teddy bear cholla. With a glowing edge just like you would see with fine hair, the outlines of these unfriendly plants can be seen against a sun that will soon disappear behind the mountains to the west. Also known as the jumping teddy bear, these cacti do like to give hugs but not let go. In fact this cactus spreads primarily by just that. Curiously, few if any viable seeds are produced and instead the little stems detach easily when they are picked up by an unfortunate animal or person (or fall off) and then those stems will take root in a new location. The spines are known to be particularly painful to remove should you become ensnared. It’s possible that this entire garden is from one single original plant that spread and spread into this forest of potential pain. I really hope this park and all the rest can be fully staffed soon. I fear for the damage being done there currently.
With the roof of an old barn pointed right at one of the thickest, most concentrated parts of the Milky Way Galaxy, it felt like the earth stopped rotating and time stopped passing for just a moment... before starting back up again...
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Year end's a time for reflection. Many changes since this time last year. Hopefully I'm wiser. Still struggling with not taking some things personally (vis-à-vis Four Agreements) - I've made progress, but still a long way to go. I know it will lead to harmony so it's worth the work.
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This is a photograph of my friend Taylor. I used a softbox to illuminate her hand dramatically while the rest of her remains quite dark, appealing to a low-key style and making the shot more emotive overall.
in explore: highest position: 120 on Wednesday, January 16, 2019
I leaned over the barrier and pointed my lens into the canyon with the river running through it one day at Yellowstone. I loved the play of textures, colours, and light that the shaft of sunlight, rock, dark water, whitecaps, and churning foam made.
The dramatic cinammon coloured splotches visible on the ryolite canyon wall are formed when iron in the ryolite is exposed to moisture and oxygen.
Ryolite is an igneous volcanic rock of silica rich composition. The mineral composition is usually quartz, sanidine, and plagioclase. Ryolite is found in about 9 areas in the U.S., including Yellostone and Crater Lake National Parks.
An attractive and durable plant, Tradescantia pallida ’Purpurea' (Purple Heart) is a popular trailing evergreen perennial noted for its remarkable foliage of narrow, pointed, purple leaves, 2-5 in. long (5-12 cm). Arranged alternately along thick, but fragile, purple stems, the leaves are deep royal purple above, and bright violet underneath. Blooming constantly during warm weather with small clusters of bright pink, 3-petalled, pale orchid-pink flowers. 1 in. (2.5 cm), emerge at the stem tips. Tradescantia pallida is a tender perennial which makes a beautiful groundcover. Its sprawling stems root in the moist soil, to create a carpet of ground-hugging foliage. Evergreen in frost-free areas, it dies back with mild freezes, but sprouts back in spring. In colder areas, it may be grown as a bedding annual, in a container or hanging basket, or as a houseplant.
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Earlier this year I was stood amongst these trees when a couple of guys came along and pointed out that this was in fact a shot taken by some famous photographer. As I don't follow Instagram I'm clearly not part of the real world. At the time I put this composition into the back of my head. That was back in the fall, I left the two guys to shoot it in the middle of the day. Step forward a few months and I had a chance to shoot it on my own with good conditions. I got some nice shots with low lying fog at sunrise and then two months later I got this shot in the snow.
I confess to being a bit lazy, I knew this was going to look good in snow, I wasn't sure if some of my other locations in the vicinity would look as good and because slogging around in thigh deep snow is difficult (I also had a sprained ankle) I chose the easy subject that I knew was going to work.
A lot of people assume that we get great snow conditions here in the winter but that's not true. We're quite close to the ocean and not very high up. There's far less snow here than for instance Bariloche. I hiked up here in the late afternoon with a forecast telling me the cloud cover would be thick until the morning. It was quite a tough hike in deep snow. During the hike a puma ran across the trail barely 100 feet in front of me. I had no time to react to it, and thankfully it paid me no attention. As I approached these trees Cerro Torre was still socked in with cloud, I wanted to take a look to see the subject none the less. As luck would have it the clouds began to open up. I began to tear things out of my pack. A lens cap and spare battery were dropped in the deep snow, things that would later require some digging to find. I yanked out my tripod and took a couple of shots exposing first for the mountain as I knew I could worry about the foreground later.
Three 20 second exposures were needed for the foreground, each focussing on a different part of the scene for a focus stack in post.
I would have shot more, but had no more than three minutes to work before it became too dark.
All that effort in the snow had got me soaked in sweat and so I had a rather unpleasant night camped in my tent. I woke the following morning to frozen boots and clothing that needed a lot of agitating before I could get dressed. Sunrise was uneventful and as so often happens snow had began falling from the tree and spoiling the foreground making pockmarks like meteor craters on the moon.
I hiked off trail back to town through a beautiful forest. All in all a good bit of work.
I understand the Dutch photographer Max Rive may well have shot this scene first. It’s a shame I didn’t consider shooting it years ago. I always used to prefer to have the mountains covering the largest percentage of the image, this most recent trip to Patagonia has seen me change my style somewhat and it has certainly opened up some new compositions for me. The mountain looks small, I shot this with a 20mm prime lens. Stood at this spot the main peak of Cerro Torre does look much bigger. I have no problem doing a focal length blend because if done right it creates an image that better represents the scene. I don't however have the skills to pull that off and make it look right.
When I get it on my large monitor I'll look at it again.