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Protection.
Photo: Jovana Rikalo
Model: Tijana Šućur
Dress: EDITH VAL
Wings: Krylia wings
Horse: Mandic Marko
A palisade—sometimes called a stakewall or a paling—is typically a fence or wall made from wooden stakes or tree trunks and used as a defensive structure or enclosure
Sometimes in life whilst turning a corner, and on this occasion on the lookout for a animal, a much different and a very unexpected one altogether stands before you (and luckily behind a very strong 5 bar gate!) I managed a few bursts and continued on around the corner that I should have taken!! So…. it set me off when I got home to find out more about what I had seen as I had never heard of them nor had I ever met them: “Heck Cattle!! —- and by heck!! they were certainly big”! So here is the Fascinating history (it was for me - so I hope I don’t bore you!) of the Heck Herd!!
The aurochs is the ancestor of all cattle and thereby a most important animal in the history of mankind. It is also a keystone species for many European ecosystems, but was hunted to its extinction in 1627. They have not been in Britain since the Iron Age more than 2000 years ago. The only real reason why the aurochs disappeared was because man hunted it to extinction. First for meat, but when man later brought in domestic cattle, it was also an intentional extermination because of grazing competition from the aurochs.
However, its DNA is still alive, but distributed among a number of the ancient original cattle breeds. “The Tauros Programme” 2009 aims to bring back the aurochs as a functional wild animal, by back-breeding the closest relatives of the original aurochs. In order to graze the landscapes of Europe to help maintain biodiversity. The final goal of the programme, to be met in some 20 years, is the presence of the Tauros as a self-sufficient wild bovine grazer in herds of at least 150 animals each in several rewilding areas in Europe.
The Heck Cattle were the forerunners of the Tauros Programme initiated in the 1930’s by the German Heck brothers who independently cross bred auroch genetically linked cattle.
There is only one Heck herd in Britain and is owned by the conservationist Derek Gow who initially imported the herd from Europe consisting of 4 bulls and 9 cows. They bred successfully and the herd grew to 20. However, the unpredictable and very aggressive aspect in their genes caused the herd to endanger staff and all but a few cattle tried to kill anyone entering their environment. Therefore culling of the most aggressive and dangerous members of the herd was done. Since then the herd is growing again and although not domesticated is manageable.
(My words - a précis of the sourced material/information found on the internet)
A Youtube link:
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Aurochs were immortalised in prehistoric cave paintings and admired for their brute strength and "elephantine" size by Julius Caesar.
Aurochs are also depicted in ochre and charcoal in paintings found on the walls of cave galleries such as those at Lascaux in France Photo: ALAMY
Bukchon, Seoul, Korea.
September 2013.
Canon 6D.
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From my series "My Wild Nature..."
Polaroid 110A, expired polaroid 664 film.
Blog post on the idea of "Nest," a meditation on motherhood, nesting, grief, loss, healing.
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Nearly 70 years ago, I had several teachers who believed corporal punishment should not be limited to a student’s home. I discovered this, much to my chagrin, when I stepped over an invisible behavioral line they had drawn for budding criminals like myself.
One teacher was shorter than I already was in junior high, but unfortunately, he was built like a fireplug and had quick reflexes, so quick, in fact, that he might have set a state record closing the distance between his desk and mine after I might have caused a minor disruption.
He didn’t administer a long discipline session with his frantic efforts, but it was effective enough to open a two-inch cut above my eyebrow.
An uneasy silence engulfed our classroom when he clumsily handed me a paper towel to staunch the flow of blood and told me to go to the boy’s locker room. I was met there by the football coach. He took one look at me and said, “I don’t even have to ask who did that to you.” I have always wondered what he meant by that.
In retrospect, that incident could have been somewhat alleviated if I would have had a tongue like this Pileated Woodpecker.
The largest woodpecker in the US has a tongue that can extend up to 4 inches beyond the tip of its bill. When the woodpecker is pounding its head against a tree, the tongue retracts inwardly and wraps around the back of its skull to protect it from the concussions of the taps.
I wish my mom and dad had thought of that.
(Photographed near Cambridge, MN)
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Boone County Fire Protection District training exercise in Columbia, Missouri. Photography by Notley Hawkins. Taken with a Canon EOS R5 camera with a Canon RF24-70mm F2.8 L IS USM lens at ƒ/4.0 with a 1/1600-second exposure at ISO 400. Processed with Adobe Lightroom CC.
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Wall protection of St-James abbey in Mimizan.
Old abbey and church of Mimizan, Landes, South West of France and ancient benedictine priory.
This awesome Abbey is on the UNESCO World Culture Heritage List. In the Middle Ages Mimizan was one of the stops on the Saint-Jacques-de-Compostelle pilgrim road and a protected area where people could get protection.
The westbound Zephyr arrived in Denver 9 minutes late, but ended up departing 1 hour and 45 minutes late. The reason being that AMTK 139 (the second P42DC) developed a mechanical issue. AMTK 142 is a "protection unit" that has been kept in Denver. Essentially, it's a spare unit for just such an occurrence. Three units is a little unusual to see on the Zephyr. Unfortunately, it mean that AMTK 161 (the Phase 1 Heritage unit) was no longer leading. Here, the westbound highballs through Leyden.
Least Bitterns, the smallest members of the heron family, are fairly secretive birds, rarely venturing far from the protection of the thick bulrushes that line areas of Horsepen Bayou. When they fly, it is usually low and fast and with little warning. My shots of them in flight are often from a distance as they cross the width of the bayou, or against a busy, cluttered background as they make a short hop from one clump of reeds to the next. But this particular bird telegraphed its launch and then crossed an open channel only a few yards from the bow of my kayak, giving me a close view with a pleasing bokeh background for this sequence that showcases its grace and beauty.
1 of 3- I wanted some sort of doors or covering on the front of my Barbie house. I can't keep up with dusting it and I wanted to make sure my work was preserved. We found a different brand but the same stuff as plexiglass at Lowes that had a broken off corner. They have it to us for 50% off and cut the two pieces to size. My husband found these thumb screws that will hold them in place but make it easy for me to turn them and remove the "windows". We put weather stripping around the edges of the glass, which makes it nice and airtight. I'm so happy with it!! With the lights on. There are a few things that got knocked over or are askew that I've not adjusted back into place, but I can do that later. I'm so excited for less dusting!!
The title above is a complete misnomer, but seems to fit the image.
What you are seeing is one of the very early Los Angeles-class (SSN-688) nuclear attack submarines transitting outbound in the Straits of Gibraltar late in 1980. The old-school break-bulk merchant ship silhouetted on the horizon beyond is coincidentally doing the same thing. They are most definitely not in company or operating together.
This image was taken from aboard HMS Ardent (F184) within a couple of hours of departing Gibraltar heading into the Mediterranean, en route to the Gulf of Oman for the commencement of our participation in Operation Armilla. Seeing what was then such a modern American submarine on the surface was a novelty - no-one aboard had seen a 688 before...
The shot was looking directly into the sun and I have converted it to black and white. Scanned from a slide.