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Taken at Sandy Camp Rd Wetlands Reserve, Lytton, Queensland.
Aka Lotusbird.
With its long legs and oversized feet, at first glance the Comb-crested Jacana appears particularly ungainly. However, anyone who has watched one nimbly picking its way across precarious platforms of floating aquatic vegetation would disagree. Similarly, those strangely elongated appendages would seem to render any attempts at long-distance movements problematical. Again, this is incorrect. They have been occasionally recorded as making very long distance journeys.
Birdlife Australia.
"Macro Mondays” for theme “Lost/Found".
I came close to not posting this one. I thought my concept was interesting but executing it and making it into something decent was problematic for me, Maybe it was me and not the camera that lost focus this week,
Happy Macro Monday!
It is the photographer’s job to get this medium to say what you need it to say :-)
Joel Sternfeld
HMM! HPPT!
Truth Matters! Lies have consequences.
prunus mums, pink japanese flowering apricot, 'Bonita', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
A pleasant enough afternoons jolly on Catcott heath with Steve Balcombe. The weather was making it hard work... Cloud, sun, cloud, sun, cloud, rain, sun... You get the idea.
A few bugs about, getting them to time their appearance with the sunshine was a little problematic... Still, a few made the effort. We had to make a dash to Tower hide at one point, as it looked like a good soaking was imminent, only to find the hide full of hornets... Well, when I say full, there were three in there, but it's a small hide...
This little lady was out on the heath and stayed still just long enough for me to shove the camera in her face and bag a couple of shots. I do love hornets, give me one over a common wasp any day. :@)
In der Stadt, in deren Nähe der Sekretär aufwuchs und in der er viele Jahre zur Schule ging, gibt es ein problematisches Monument, ein «Kriegerdenkmal» für die Toten des (Ersten) Weltkrieges, das später für den Zweiten Weltkrieg erweitert wurde. Errichtet wurde es 1936. Wer den Stil dieser Zeit kennt, weiss, was er zu erwarten hat. Bei der Errichtung wurden übrigens die fünf jüdischen Gefallenen des Ersten Weltkriegs «vergessen» und erst bei der Erweiterung 1959 ergänzt. Bei Angehörigen der SS wurden nebenbei bemerkt statt ihrer richtigen Dienstgrade solche der Wehrmacht aufgeführt. Seit einigen Jahren gibt es immerhin eine Texttafel zur historisch-kritischen Einordnung und auch ein «Gegendenkmal» in Sichtweite (de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weinheimer_Kriegerdenkmal).
Seit der Sekretär Denkmäler fotografiert, fand er immer, dass er sich auch dieses reichlich problematischen Werkes einmal annehmen müsste, hatte aber kaum Gelegenheit und auch recht viel Respekt. Bei einem kurzen Besuch in diesem Sommer war er aber mit der Kamera da und machte sich ans Werk. Hier werden die Bilder nun in loser Folge nacheinander vorgestellt.
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In the town near which the secretary grew up and where he went to school for many years, there is a problematic monument, a "war memorial" for the dead of the (First) World War, which was later expanded for the Second World War. It was erected in 1936, and those who know the style of that period know what to expect. Incidentally, when the memorial was erected, the five Jewish fallen soldiers of the First World War were "forgotten" and only added when the memorial was extended in 1959. By the way, members of the SS were listed with ranks of the Wehrmacht instead of their actual SS ranks. Since a few years there is at least a text panel for historical-critical discussion and also a "counter monument" in sight (de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weinheimer_Kriegerdenkmal).
Since the secretary photographs monuments, he always thought that he would also have to deal with this highly problematic work once, but had hardly any opportunity and also quite a lot of respect. During a short visit this summer, however, he was there with his camera and got to work. Here the pictures are presented now in loose sequence one after the other.
Die Natur sucht sich immer einen Weg, aber bei dieser Wahl des Nistplatzes haben die Altvögel eine problematische Wahl getroffen. Es kommt auf die Perspektive an, von einem anderen Punkt aus ist wohl weniger Metall rundum, aber für Flugversuche ist es trotzdem eine schwierige Umgebung.
Nature always finds a way, but in this choice of nesting site, the parent birds have made a problematic choice. It depends on the perspective, from another point there is probably less metal all around, but for flight attempts it is still a difficult environment.
Another retrospective from our trip down the SE Coast of NSW, taken at Bermagui. Its a gorgeous little coastal village ... this was taken at "rush hour" from our cabin. I had to wait for ages for a car to come past!!
I've still got some issues with my shoulders which makes computer work rather problematic, please forgive me if I'm not particularly active in my comments.
Europe, The Netherlands, Zuid Holland, Den Haag, Amare education & culture centre, muziekgebouw (slightly cropped)
The Amare education & culture building with its 4 concert halls has a delightfully intricate structure to accommodate the concert halls, lobbies, foyers and restaurant.
The building was designed by NOAHH/Patrick Fransen, JCAU/Jo Coenen en NL Architects/Kamiel Klaasse. Jo Coenen left the project prematurely.
The building houses the Dance and Music centre, the Residentie Orchestra, the Dutch Dance Theatre and the Royal Conservatory and actually consists of five separate buildings: the outer shell and four separate boxes - the concert halls. They each have their own foundation to prevent the rest of the complex from being affected by ‘crosstalk’ vibrations of one building hindering the others.
This construction allowed two of the four concert halls to slightly sag. As a result, the doors of one of halls and the hall of the royal conservatory can hardly be closed anymore. As a temporary solution, parts of the floor covering has been removed. Building sinking is by the way a not uncommon thing but sagging isn't. It's problematic since it's happens partially / a-symmetrically.
Lookin' for Escher in strange places (1) is here.
Shot during an extended Den Haag lunch with Leuntje.
This is number 37 of Theatres & Concert halls.
Chrysobalanus icaco, the cocoplum, paradise plum, abajeru or icaco, is found near sea beaches and inland throughout tropical Africa, tropical Americas and the Caribbean, and in southern Florida and the Bahamas. It is also found as an exotic species on other tropical islands, where it has become a problematic invasive. Although taxonomists disagree on whether Chrysobalanus icaco has multiple subspecies or varieties, it is recognized as having two ecotypes, 1- inland which is less salt-tolerant and more upright and 2-coastal. Both the ripe fruit and the seed are considered edible.
Biscayne Park FL
At last a bit of sunshine so spent a few hours at The National Botanic Gardens of Wales including a visit to The British Birds of Prey Centre situated there. The sun being so low in the sky proved to be problematical but still, it was good to see sunshine and get out in the fresh air.
The Ducal Palace is a Renaissance building in the Italian city of Urbino in the Marche. One of the most important monuments in Italy, it is listed as UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1998.
The construction of the Ducal Palace was begun for Duke Federico III da Montefeltro around the mid-fifteenth century by the Florentine Maso di Bartolomeo. The new construction included the pre-existing Palace of the Jole. The solid rock hillside salient was impregnable to siege but was problematic for carving out the foundation of a palace. Thus, a prominent fortress-builder, Luciano Laurana, from Dalmatia, was hired to build the substructure; but Laurana departed Urbino before the living quarters of the palace were begun. After Laurana, the designer or designers of the Ducal Palace are unknown with certainty. Leading High Renaissance architect Donato Bramante was a native of Urbino and may have worked on the completion of the palace.
The Ducal Palace is famous as the setting of the conversations which Baldassare Castiglione represents as having taken place in the Hall of Vigils in 1507 in his Book of the Courtier.
The palace continued in use as a government building into the 20th century, housing municipal archives and offices, and public collections of antique inscriptions and sculpture (the Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, see below). Restorations completed in 1985 have reopened the extensive subterranean network to visitors.
Early morning at Torrey Pines at La Jolla, near San Diego, California, USA, unfortunately the park opens to vehicles too late for sunrise, unless you hike several miles up, parking in the area outside the "pay" area even at sunrise is problematic, even during the worst days of a pandemic (taken in late November when the shit was starting to hit the fan).
This is a native and common wildflower in the Mount Shasta area. Wildflower photography has been difficult this season. I know where to find my favorites, but the when has been quite problematic. They're either quite late but it's anyone's guess how much, or now and again on time but I assume they will be late and thus miss them. I was glad to find these beauties which seemed to look best in this filtered sunlight.
This bridge was built in 1675 to link Grange to the main road into Keswick. Travel in Borrowdale in those days could be problematic. Pack horse routes tended to avoid the soggy valley bottoms and kept to the mid heights on mountain tracks now gratefully used by fell walkers to get around.
Widespread and abundant in much of North America, the introduced European starling is arguably and problematically the most successful bird on the continent. Often characterized as bold, this bird is actually fairly wary and can be difficult to approach. Poly-typic. Length 8.7" (22 cm). Stocky and short tailed, often seen strutting about lawns and parking lots. Flight profile distinctive: buzzy in sustained flight, wings look triangular in more leisurely flight. In flight, wings appear translucent. Adult: one molt per year, but fresh fall adults look very different from summer birds. On freshly molted birds, black plumage has white spots all over; by winter, spots start to disappear; and by spring, the birds are glossy black all over, with strong suffusions of iridescent pinks, greens, and ambers. Bill usually gray in fall and yellow by winter, but this character varies with diet. Male: with good look, note blue-based bill. Female: with good look, note pink-based bill, paler eyes. Juvenile: distinctive; dark gray-brown feathering all over. Birds begin a complete molt into adultlike plumage soon after fledging, and briefly exhibit a striking mosaic of juvenal and adult feathers.
New Gamboge? What color was Old Gamboge?
"The color of Gamboge has a long history as being a preferred warm, transparent yellow for use by artists spanning cultures and centuries. 8th century watercolor paintings from Eastern Asia, illuminated illustrations from the Middle Ages in Europe, and paintings by Rembrandt and Turner are among a few works making brilliant use of the pigment.
Gamboge is derived from the resin of a tree that frequents South East Asia, the Garcinia evergreen. When a tree is aged 10 years, then they are suitable to have the resin extracted. Then the substance is loaded into bamboo cylinders and fire-roasted, and finally the now-hardened resin is powdered.
A problematic trait of true Gamboge is its poor lightfastness, as well as its high level of toxicity. In the early 17th century doses of Gamboge were prescribed as a medicine for various maladies, but rapidly dropped in popularity when recipients started dying from the stuff.
Enter Winsor and Newton. Although they had been making Gamboge paint true to its historical recipe, they changed over to a less toxic and more lightfast alternative formula in 2005, and named the new formulation New Gamboge. However, recently, the pigments being used were discontinued, so Winsor and Newton has reformulated New Gamboge, now made with pigments PY150 (an azo nickel) and PR209 (quinacridone red), which brings this color closer to its original counterpart, making it more authentic." Winsor and Newton
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I had been meaning to go back and try some of the other images from this day. The OG Dysfunctional Family image won me the title The 2025 Australian Photographic Prize Macro Photographer of the year and Classic Photographer of the year.
And there is often some gold hiding in your forgotten about unedited RAW files..
I have not added my usual 5:4 aspect ratio crop to this Dysfunctional Family Portrait
This was the very first Hand held internally focus bracketed set I got of these cheeky fellas.
I found them the evening prior and went back the next day when it was cooler to shoot them hoping I would catch a cool shot of them all nice and evenly spaced out before the sun got them heated up enough to escape the ugly camera man.
69 images make this one up. Assembled with Helicon Focus Pro . The pro version is 100% worth it for the retouching. (In case you where wondering)
With most live subjects there can be movement and with the Pro version I was able to retouch in parts that where not right like the antennae that can be problematic.
OG Dysfunctional Family is here www.flickr.com/photos/197602498@N04/54206840864/in/datepo...
Olympus EM1 MKii --- OM SYSTEM 90 F3.5 PRO Macro -- Godox V1 --- CJ DIFFUSER
Have a nice day
IN ENGLISH BELOW THE LINE
Els colleges medievals d'Oxford foren clàrament la inspiració per a H. K. Rowling per a crear el mon màgic de Hogwarts i Harry Potter. I entre aquests el més espectacular és Christchurch College.
Enlloc és més evident que al "great hall" del Christchurch College, el menjador universitari medieval més gran i espectacular de tots. Penseu que durant la guerra civil anglesa, feu de palau reial i tot.
Respecte les pel·licules de Harry Potter, en aquesta impressionant sala no es va filmar cap escena, però una copia directa seva es va construir als estudis de cinema prop de Londres. Actualment és la exposició permanent sobre les pel·licules.
ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_Church_College_(Oxford)
followthebutterflies.com/harry-potter-locations-oxford/
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The medieval colleges of Oxford were clearly the inspiration for H. K. Rowling to create the magical world of Hogwarts and Harry Potter. And among these the most spectacular is Christchurch College.
In fact, no filming took place in the great hall itself, probably because it would had been quite problematic for the respective schedules between the film and the university. They ended building a quite similar copy in Wadford, which now could be visited allong all the other scenarios and props built for the movies.
This year I decided to try pansies in a bed that has been problematic. We had hard rain soon after planting them and they looked flattened. They eventually came back. I particularly liked this purple one.
Sensory overload trying to figure this all out. And what the heck is that little walkway in the middle used for? It looks a bit rickety.
Couchiching Beach Park includes the town dock and sandy beach areas that attract many to Lake Couchiching each summer. This 14.5-acre park is home to many special events and features the historic Champlain Monument
—Controversy echoes from coast to coast with every toppling of yet another second-rate statue of a “problematic” figure from Canadian history. But few outsiders even noticed last year when the signature work of public art in the Ontario town of Orillia — a towering monument of dramatically posed bronze figures topped by French explorer Samuel de Champlain in full court dress, bestriding the New World like a Spanish Conquistador — quietly disappeared from the lakefront park it has dominated for most of a century.
-| In memory of Andrea Bella. |-
A beer stein full of mixed fasteners. Some of you may be familiar with that container of fasteners that is just too time-consuming to sort, but might just have that one screw you were looking for; this is just the collection.
This glass, featuring a design of mine on the back that includes a design pun on the toast “bottoms up,” was from my college days. Alas, I cannot show the imprint here due to a reference to certain beverages and the inclusion of the university's name, both now legally problematic.
The title riffs on a well known coffee brand, whose origins lie in a chain of New York City coffee shops that started as nut shops.
Today was a cold wet day in the Pennine Hills near Grassington, North Yorkshire, England with horizontal hail in some showers.
Photography was very problematic at best.
The path crossing the shot is part of the Dales Way long distant path from Ilkley to Bowness on Windermere (78 miles - 125 km)
An early spring snowfall is pretty more than problematic. You have to get out and about early as well to record the moment. HFF
This easily ranks as one of the most awkward photos I have ever taken, and I thought it would be straightforward! Needed to get right on to doing this, as I wanted to get out into the garden and the weather was forecast to deteriorate for the next few days. I intended to photograph a fuchsia flower from directly underneath so had to make use of two pieces of kit I don't often use - the centre column of my tripod can adjust to horizontal (so getting the camera to point straight up was easy) and also the back live-view screen can flip out and rotate (so I could see the subject without being behind the camera). But the camera had to be quite close to the ground where there was less breeze, and I was fussing with frustration as I struggled to use the camera controls when I couldn't see them, and my long-sightedness gave problems focusing using the live-view screen. Even getting the camera into a suitable position was problematic. I played with various fuchsia flowers taking several dozen shots, and all I produced were some 'interesting' (to put it kindly) abstracts that I wasn't happy with - so I decided to give up...
Then I found myself wondering what would happen if I tried this with a snail (things couldn't get any worse) even though that had not been my original intention. I spent quite a while getting the camera in the best possible position under a suitable flower before finding a very tiny Brian to try. Because of the poor light under the fuchsia bush, I had to resort to f3.5 at ISO800, settings I would never normally use with a snail. After just a few attempts, I got the resulting shot - although I generally want the eyes in focus, I didn't think I could do any better.
For Macro Mondays theme 'Look Up'. This turned out to be an excellent challenge, and I had so much 'fun' I may want to try it again (just not right away). The image has not been cropped and spans just under 3 cm.
No snails were harmed in the making of this photograph.
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In der Stadt, in deren Nähe der Sekretär aufwuchs und in der er viele Jahre zur Schule ging, gibt es ein problematisches Monument, ein «Kriegerdenkmal» für die Toten des (Ersten) Weltkrieges, das später für den Zweiten Weltkrieg erweitert wurde. Errichtet wurde es 1936. Wer den Stil dieser Zeit kennt, weiss, was er zu erwarten hat. Bei der Errichtung wurden übrigens die fünf jüdischen Gefallenen des Ersten Weltkriegs «vergessen» und erst bei der Erweiterung 1959 ergänzt. Bei Angehörigen der SS wurden nebenbei bemerkt statt ihrer richtigen Dienstgrade solche der Wehrmacht aufgeführt. Seit einigen Jahren gibt es immerhin eine Texttafel zur historisch-kritischen Einordnung und auch ein «Gegendenkmal» in Sichtweite (de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weinheimer_Kriegerdenkmal).
Seit der Sekretär Denkmäler fotografiert, fand er immer, dass er sich auch dieses reichlich problematischen Werkes einmal annehmen müsste, hatte aber kaum Gelegenheit und auch recht viel Respekt. Bei einem kurzen Besuch in diesem Sommer war er aber mit der Kamera da und machte sich ans Werk. Hier werden die Bilder nun in loser Folge nacheinander vorgestellt.
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In the town near which the secretary grew up and where he went to school for many years, there is a problematic monument, a "war memorial" for the dead of the (First) World War, which was later expanded for the Second World War. It was erected in 1936, and those who know the style of that period know what to expect. Incidentally, when the memorial was erected, the five Jewish fallen soldiers of the First World War were "forgotten" and only added when the memorial was extended in 1959. By the way, members of the SS were listed with ranks of the Wehrmacht instead of their actual SS ranks. Since a few years there is at least a text panel for historical-critical discussion and also a "counter monument" in sight (de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weinheimer_Kriegerdenkmal).
Since the secretary photographs monuments, he always thought that he would also have to deal with this highly problematic work once, but had hardly any opportunity and also quite a lot of respect. During a short visit this summer, however, he was there with his camera and got to work. Here the pictures are presented now in loose sequence one after the other.
In der Stadt, in deren Nähe der Sekretär aufwuchs und in der er viele Jahre zur Schule ging, gibt es ein problematisches Monument, ein «Kriegerdenkmal» für die Toten des (Ersten) Weltkrieges, das später für den Zweiten Weltkrieg erweitert wurde. Errichtet wurde es 1936. Wer den Stil dieser Zeit kennt, weiss, was er zu erwarten hat. Seit einigen Jahren gibt es immerhin eine Texttafel zur historisch-kritischen Einordnung und auch ein «Gegendenkmal» in Sichtweite (de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weinheimer_Kriegerdenkmal).
Seit der Sekretär Denkmäler fotografiert, fand er immer, dass er sich auch dieses reichlich problematischen Werkes einmal annehmen müsste, hatte aber kaum Gelegenheit und auch recht viel Respekt. Bei einem kurzen Besuch in diesem Sommer war er aber mit der Kamera da und machte sich ans Werk. Hier werden die Bilder nun in loser Folge nach nacheinander vorgestellt.
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In the town near which the secretary grew up and where he went to school for many years, there is a problematic monument, a "war memorial" for the dead of the (First) World War, which was later expanded for the Second World War. It was erected in 1936, and those who know the style of that period know what to expect. Since a few years there is at least a text panel for historical-critical discussion and also a "counter monument" in sight (de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weinheimer_Kriegerdenkmal).
Since the secretary photographs monuments, he always thought that he would also have to deal with this highly problematic work once, but had hardly any opportunity and also quite a lot of respect. During a short visit this summer, however, he was there with his camera and got to work. Here the pictures are presented now in loose sequence one after the other.
In der Stadt, in deren Nähe der Sekretär aufwuchs und in der er viele Jahre zur Schule ging, gibt es ein problematisches Monument, ein «Kriegerdenkmal» für die Toten des (Ersten) Weltkrieges, das später für den Zweiten Weltkrieg erweitert wurde. Errichtet wurde es 1936. Wer den Stil dieser Zeit kennt, weiss, was er zu erwarten hat. Bei der Errichtung wurden übrigens die fünf jüdischen Gefallenen des Ersten Weltkriegs «vergessen» und erst bei der Erweiterung 1959 ergänzt. Bei Angehörigen der SS wurden nebenbei bemerkt statt ihrer richtigen Dienstgrade solche der Wehrmacht aufgeführt. Seit einigen Jahren gibt es immerhin eine Texttafel zur historisch-kritischen Einordnung und auch ein «Gegendenkmal» in Sichtweite (de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weinheimer_Kriegerdenkmal).
Seit der Sekretär Denkmäler fotografiert, fand er immer, dass er sich auch dieses reichlich problematischen Werkes einmal annehmen müsste, hatte aber kaum Gelegenheit und auch recht viel Respekt. Bei einem kurzen Besuch in diesem Sommer war er aber mit der Kamera da und machte sich ans Werk. Hier werden die Bilder nun in loser Folge nacheinander vorgestellt.
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In the town near which the secretary grew up and where he went to school for many years, there is a problematic monument, a "war memorial" for the dead of the (First) World War, which was later expanded for the Second World War. It was erected in 1936, and those who know the style of that period know what to expect. Incidentally, when the memorial was erected, the five Jewish fallen soldiers of the First World War were "forgotten" and only added when the memorial was extended in 1959. By the way, members of the SS were listed with ranks of the Wehrmacht instead of their actual SS ranks. Since a few years there is at least a text panel for historical-critical discussion and also a "counter monument" in sight (de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weinheimer_Kriegerdenkmal).
Since the secretary photographs monuments, he always thought that he would also have to deal with this highly problematic work once, but had hardly any opportunity and also quite a lot of respect. During a short visit this summer, however, he was there with his camera and got to work. Here the pictures are presented now in loose sequence one after the other.
If you like symmetry and architecture then one of the sights in Washington, DC happens to be the metro system. Of course, the rides themselves are often delayed and problematic, but hey, who's complaining?
This scene was taken at the base of the Dupont Circle Metro System. This escalator is a whopping 188' in length but is only the sixth longest in the Washington Metro system.
The photo is in monochrome and processed with a low key in mind to create a sense of quiet desperation. It feels like the Washington of now. We have so far to go to get this place straightened out. The madness only seems to be getting worse with each passing month.
Especie abundante en la Puça y que debemos confirmar su asentamiento en el paraje. No porque sea problemática su presencia sino porque el año 2020 fue la primera vez que lo visitamos.
Comparte territorio en ese lugar con O. brunneum pero fácil de distinguir por el color del morrete y por sus posados, mayormente, en la vegetación.
Fotograma completo y adaptado a formato panorámico.
En La Puça. Petrer (Alicante) España)
Abundant species in the Puça and that we must confirm its settlement in the place. Not because its presence is problematic but because 2020 was the first time we visited it.
It shares territory in that place with O. brunneum but easy to distinguish by the color of the morret and by its perches, mainly in the vegetation.
Full frame and adapted to panoramic format.
In La Puça. Petrer (Alicante) Spain)
Vauxhall Bridge is a Grade II* listed steel and granite deck arch bridge in central London. It crosses the River Thames in a southeast–northwest direction between Vauxhall on the south bank and Pimlico on the north bank. Opened in 1906, it replaced an earlier bridge, originally known as Regent Bridge but later renamed Vauxhall Bridge, built between 1809 and 1816 as part of a scheme for redeveloping the south bank of the Thames. The bridge was built at a location in the river previously served by a ferry.
The building of both iterations of the bridge was problematic, with both the first and second bridges requiring several redesigns from multiple architects. The original bridge, the first iron bridge over the Thames, was built by a private company and operated as a toll bridge before being taken into public ownership in 1879. The second bridge, which took eight years to build, was the first in London to carry trams and later one of the first two roads in London to have a bus lane.
In 1963 it was proposed to replace the bridge with a modern development containing seven floors of shops, office space, hotel rooms and leisure facilities supported above the river, but the plans were abandoned because of costs. With the exception of alterations to the road layout and the balustrade, the design and appearance of the current bridge has remained almost unchanged since 1907. The bridge today is an important part of London's road system and carries the A202 road and Cycle Superhighway 5 (CS5) across the Thames
From Wikipedia
I doubt if I were to ask all those of your in North America to name the woodpeckers we might to be able to see in a lifetime, you probably wouldn't mention the Northern Flicker or either of the two Sapsuckers. Well, Sapsuckers and Flickers do peck at wood for insects or sap (nectar), and they are definitely classified as Picidae, the family of woodpeckers.
I'll try to make this simple, but there are two subspecies of Northern Flickers, the Red and the Yellow Shafted. The image I'm presenting today is, of course, the Yellow Shafted. And, now we come to the hard part: The Red-shafted and Yellow-shafted Northern Flickers share a genome that is over 99% identical. However, the 0.01% difference in DNA between the two groups is all that is required to have significant differences in appearance! It is the "interbreeding" that creates the problems.
If you take a look at the range maps, you'll find three, not two: Red-shafted, Yellow-shafted, and "Zone of Integradation," aka. where the two interbreed. (To make it easy on me, please see: www.flockingaround.com/post/northern-flicker-intergrades)
Initially, I thought that the shafted flickers were regionally defined. After a year of seeing these "odd" neither-here-nor-there species, I was told that I live in the Integradation zone where I will find all three. Yellow and Red are easy, but the overlaps can be difficult. Furthermore, Flickers feed on the ground as well as in trees, practice anting (getting ants to spray tjem with formic acid to avoid pests such as ... ants, gnats, etc.) And, of course, the first four Northern Flickers I found were rolling around on an ant mound, kicking up dust (they also takedust baths), and that all four were females. Other than "Flicker" I had no idea as to species until I saw two sets of males watching from an oak tree, and both sets had bright red or yellow shafts.
The northern flicker or common flicker (Colaptes auratus) is a medium-sized bird of the woodpecker family. It is native to most of North America, parts of Central America, Cuba, and the Cayman Islands, and is one of the few woodpecker species that migrate. Over 100 common names for the northern flicker are known, including yellowhammer. Many of these names derive from attempts to imitate some of its calls. It is the state bird of Alabama (known by its colloquial name "yellowhammer.")
There are 10 subspecies and I'll stop there. It actually becomes more problematic, and I'll leave the rest of the discussion for "real" birders.
Very briefly: Britsh Columbia is split almost exactly in half (vertically): Red to the south; yellow to the north. WA, OR, and CA are all "mixed." NV, CO, and AZ all red. Then two-thirds of the continent east of the Rockies, all yellow.
Next week, a real treat: my one and only real morph woodpecker, and the second photo I got of the species. (I've been very luky with morphs ... all three of them ;-)
The day today is grey, but the garden is already colorful, with Tulips and blossoms!! ❤ Springtime!!! ❤
And Liza, as most of the Springs, is busy gardening hard!! Weeding is the major occupation, which I perform on my knees, turning the soil right afterwards, in each spot where I work. This action helps eliminate most of the weeds, even the tiniest ones, because it destroys the plant, drying it off at the same time…I should not water right afterwards, for better results…
Gardening is a major healing occupation for mind, and body, and spirit!! For the body, because movement is always beneficial for us, unless it is against a certain physical problem of ours…For the mind, because we are concentrated fully to the land and our job while working, something that takes us away from problematic areas of our lives during this creative occupation!! For our spirit, because we become one with the Existence and Creation of Life! And, I must say, its Rebirth now in Spring!! Therefore, we refill our beings with beneficial, uplifting, Earth Force Energy!! The Energy of Life itself! ❤❤!
❤️ youtu.be/MxvUcVKf3AY ❤️
Black Redstart (Phoenicuras ochruros)
0700.08.09.2020
I was not able this year to make any images of black redstarts with a wide-angle lens, since I lost my only wide-angle lens in the Irwell Valley last year and I have not replaced it. So my only option for more extreme photography was to shoot close birds at 1000mm FL. The problem for me is that I am pretty crap at hand-held shooting in low light. I do not have good upper body strength and I have chronic cervical spondylosis making it difficult to hold almost anything at head height for more than a few seconds. Shooting at 1000mm for a very close subject was always going to be a big ask in any event because the depth of field would necessarily be very shallow: between just 3mm-4mm!...so even if I was steady, getting critical focus would always be problematic. Happily, I took one shot at 1000mm @ 1/125 Sec and that single shot paid off. I expected a blur but was pleasantly surprised when viewing the back of the camera screen. However, we all know that the camera back screen can lie and the computer monitor would be the acid test. Well if the image was soft I would not have shown it here. I was blown away by the detail. Because I can only shoot with the centre focus spot using the Canon 7Dii with a 2X converter, it meant the bird's eye would be dead centre of the image which compositionally would be unacceptable. I have therefore applied a crop to improve composition.
I feel a surge of love and confidence when I look at my cats. Nothing seems annoying, important, or problematic anymore.
It's a wonderful feeling.
Milky Way photographed in the area of Ebnat-Kappel.
I had a little trouble with the grazing cows, which were constantly very curious. Cows&Tracking == problematic :-).
Sky: Tracked 240s ISO400 with MSM Tracker.
Aligned to polaris with MSM polarscope.
Foreground: 6.5s ISO 640.
Well...sort of...I'm about halfway done backing up the harddrive. The computer is still problematic...but I can still post here and there.
My target date for getting all this done is around Monday. Hope you all have a great Friday and a wonderful weekend!
A novel malady afflicted lunar space workers in the late 21st century called Lunar Rigor, a mental illness whose symptoms ranged from chronic insomnia to clinical depression. Sufferers all disclosed feeling an acute discomfort and aversion to the starkness of the lunar environment (or rather lack thereof). It's extremes of night and day, blinding light and deep, unearthly shadows.
The utter stillness.
Astronauts could be trained to endure physical discomfort but mental adaptation was problematic. Evolution hadn't prepared the human brain to live within a desolate void. Patients trialled listening to birdsongs and other nature recordings whilst on EVA but this was found to have a nocent effect.
35mm Ricoh 35 ZF set to infinity with Ilford FP4.
Windswept wild grass. Silhouette.
Film Photography. Black and white.
Framing a shot through the vegetation infiltrated viewfinder with the 1977 Ricoh can be problematic. A learning curve.
Na ons kort uitstapje naar de Schnellfahrstrecke en een stop in de plaatstelijke supermarkt voor wat aankopen op aanvraag (Manner-koekjes, Spätzle en Mezzo-Mix), kwamen we rond 16u15 terug aan de oevers van de Rijn toe.
Al vrij snel kregen we een cargo in de gaten - ik had al eens aangegeven dat je die hier vanop afstand kunt zien aankomen - waardoor we wisten dat het na een paar minuten prijs zou zijn. Alleen duurden die paar minuten nu gevoelsmatig wel uren... zo lang dat de Quietschie die uit Koblenz richting noorden onderweg was (en een InterCity volgde - weeral?) zorgde voor kruising met de ertstrein Rotterdam - Dillingen.
Dan maar op de volgende wachten, die was al trouwens al vrij snel zichtbaar... maar ook hier duurde het minuten vooraleer de trein dichterbij kwam en ook hier kregen we te maken met een kruising met een goederentrein in noordelijke richting die tergend langzaam naar het rood tonende inrijsein van het station van Linz am Rhein spoorde.
Het bleek dat door werken het doorgaande spoor in zuidelijke richting in Linz am Rhein geblokkeerd was waardoor alle treinen hier via een zijspoor werden getrokken, wat tot stremmingen leidde omdat er dus twee keer gekruist moest worden met het spoor in noordelijke richting.
Gelukkig voor ons was de Taurus met zijn goederentrein - naar mijn gevoel lijkt die zeer sterk op een Linz shuttle die door Railtraxx in België gereden wordt - zo traag dat de cargo in noordelijke richting (een Traxx met een bloktrein oranje containers) enkel nog in de verte waar te nemen valt.
[M] Een storende witte vrachtwagen werd digitaal verwijderd.
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Stress in Linz am Rhein. Due to engineering works at the station all southbound trains had to take a sidetrack, which laid to delays because this meant that they had to cross twice the track for northbound trains.
So our photo of the first freight train towards Koblenz - an iron train from Rotterdam to Dillingen - was for the trash can, as he crossed a northbound local services at a wrong moment.
This was the second freight train we've get to see at the bridge in Dattenberg and yes... this mixed train with an ÖBB Taurus in front also crossed another freight train. Luckely for us, at a better moment so it wasn't that problematic.
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Dattenberg, 22/09/2021
ÖBB 1116 141
I know that this world exists.
That I am placed in it like my eye in its visual field.
That something about it is problematic, which we call its meaning.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Is it bad to drag philosophers into all of this?
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The Bahia Palace, set in extensive gardens, was built in the late 19th century by the Grand Vizier of Marrakesh, Si Ahmed ben Musa (Bou-Ahmed). Bou Ahmed resided here with his four wives, 24 concubines and many children.
Submitted 04/04/2015
Accepted 06/05/2015
Published:
- (China) 19-Jul-2017
Disappeared from Getty
REsubmitted: 09/02/2022
Rejected: 12/02/2022
Rejection Reasons
Legal: Problematic Location (Private Property/Access Restriction)
This type of property or event restricts access through fees/tickets, which typically means that photography is prohibited without special permission. contributors.gettyimages.com/article.aspx?article_id=3715
Many steps at the botanical garden lead to seeing different plants of interest! UC Berkeley. Here's a corner of the southern Africa section, which is starting to bloom (very early spring).
The only problem is that there are almost no handrails at the Garden, and for visitors of a 'certain age' like me that makes them problematic.
HSfS!