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Groynes reduce longshore transport by trapping beach material and causing the beach orientation to change relative to the dominant wave directions. They mainly influence bedload transport and are most effective on shingle or gravel beaches. Sand is carried in temporary suspension during higher energy wave or current conditions and will therefore tend to be carried over or around any cross-shore structures. Groynes can also be used successfully in estuaries to alter nearshore tidal flow patterns.
Scinque Ocellé (Chalcides Ocellatus)
mon deuxième de ce genre choper à nouveau en Grèce sur l'île de Rhodes
C'est un long lézard cylindrique aux courtes pattes dotées de cinq doigts. Grâce aux ondulations de son corps, il creuse le sable meuble, procédé qui évoque la nage. D'autres espèces agissant de la sorte ont un aspect plus serpentiforme que le scinque ocellé, leurs membres étant réduits avec seulement trois doigts, voire aucun. Fait inhabituel pour un lézard fouisseur, il possède des paupières et, son corps brun est recouvert d'écailles lisses et luisantes
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Ocellated Skink (Chalcides Ocellatus)
my second of its kind nab again in Greece on the island of Rhodes
It is a long cylindrical lizard with short legs with five fingers. Thanks to the undulations of his body, he digs loose sand, a process that evokes swimming. Other species that do this have a more serpent-like appearance than the Ocellated Skink, with their limbs reduced with only three fingers, if any. Unusually for a burrowing lizard, it has eyelids and, its brown body is covered in smooth, shiny scales
Whenever we go grocery shopping, I find that I look at the packaging our food comes in as a possible photographic subject. One afternoon my husband came home with a large bag of tangerines. I enjoy that fruit, yet the bag holding the orange orbs made me especially happy.
This capture was taken on our third night in Acadia / Bar Harbor area. The colorful sunset was over ... but a late blue hour capture with the clouds hanging was still possible.
Here I warmed up the white balance and then reduced the orange color saturation to give this balanced lighting from the town of Bar Harbor out onto the boats and pier over the water.
Did not want too long of an exposure here, just enough to smooth out the water and reflection, but not enough to have the boats moving too much. So I set the aperture to f/8 and shutter to 30 seconds, and this then required ISO 800 for the exposure I wanted.
An alternative shot of the Hau Giang and Can Tho Bridge.
People in the Mekong Delta have heavily depended on boat for transportation. There is an extensive network of rivers and canals, and goods can be delivered to any corners of the delta by boat.
The situation has started to change as the government is now hard at work to construct roads and bridges to improve the transport efficiency in the delta.
Construction of the Can Tho Bridge was a symbolic project for that move. The 2.75 km cable-stayed bridge was completed in 2010 by getting a soft loan from the government of Japan. It has a 6-lane carriageway measuring 23 metres in width. It has a clearance of 39 metres.
As a consequence, long distance passenger boat service is being replaced by bus. Further, floating markets, which is a tradition of the delta and also an important tourism attraction, are reducing in scale.
Tourism would be increasingly important to sustain the river transport tradition of the Mekong Delta.
Kaziranga National Park
Assam
Northeast India
To see the rhinos, you need to ride on elephants. It is an experience which is hard to forget. Image in the first comment section.
The Indian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis), also called the greater one-horned rhinoceros and great Indian rhinoceros, is a rhinoceros native to the Indian subcontinent. It is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List, as populations are fragmented and restricted to less than 20,000 km (7,700 sq mi). Moreover, the extent and quality of the rhino's most important habitat, alluvial grassland and riverine forest, is considered to be in decline due to human and livestock encroachment.
The Indian rhinoceros once ranged throughout the entire stretch of the Indo-Gangetic Plain, but excessive hunting and agricultural development reduced their range drastically to 11 sites in northern India and southern Nepal. In the early 1990s, between 1,870 to 1,895 rhinos were estimated to have been alive. In 2015, a total of 3,555 Indian rhinoceros are estimated to live in the wild. – Wikipedia
These guys are not to everyone's taste but are nevertheless very cute. However measures are planned to humanely reduce their numbers.
Grey Squirrel - Sciurus carolinensis
Golden Acre Park - Yeadon
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Back to the Lake District today with another shot of Ashness Bridge.
I posted a shot of this from my first trip to the lakes, but I think I actually prefer this version. It was a moody day which meant the lack of light reduced any harsh shadows on the rocks.
This visit was a lot quieter than my first time there which was in the middle of the school holidays. This time we pretty much had the place to ourselves so we could take a bit longer getting the shots we wanted.
This is quite possibly the most photographed bridge in the Lake District and with views towards Derwent Water and Skiddaw you can see why, it's just stunning.
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It is extremely sad to witness puffins resorting to using fishing line to construct their nests. This highlights the impact of human activity on the natural world and the dangerous consequences of littering. The use of fishing line puts the birds' lives at risk and has serious consequences for the puffin and its offspring, including entanglement, injury, and death. It is crucial that we all take responsibility for preserving the environment and its inhabitants by disposing of waste properly and reducing our reliance on harmful materials.
Taken at Sandy Camp Rd Wetlands Reserve, Lytton, Queensland.
A group of juvenile Black Faced Cuckoo Shrikes were occupying the tall tree-top of a dead tree, which made for an excellent aerial surveillance post. From there they undertook sorties to collect and feed on insects on the wing.
These young birds resemble the adults, except the black facial mask is reduced to an eye stripe, which may cause them to resemble the smaller White-bellied Cuckoo-shrike which also has a black eye stripe.
Having a bit of sunset fun with my reducing glass in the frame next to two local bridges.
The Royal Albert Bridge is a railway bridge which spans the River Tamar in England between Plymouth, Devon and Saltash, Cornwall. Its unique design consists of two 455-foot (138.7 m) lenticular iron trusses 100 feet (30.5 m) above the water, with conventional plate-girder approach spans. This gives it a total length of 2,187.5 feet (666.8 m). It carries the Cornish Main Line railway in and out of Cornwall. It is adjacent to the Tamar Bridge which opened in 1962 to carry the A38 road.
The Royal Albert Bridge was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Surveying started in 1848 and construction commenced in 1854. The first main span was positioned in 1857 and the completed bridge was opened by Prince Albert on 2 May 1859. Brunel died later that year and his name was then placed above the portals at either end of the bridge as a memorial. Work was carried out during the twentieth century to replace the approach spans and strengthen the main spans. It has attracted sightseers since its construction and has appeared in many paintings, photographs, guidebooks, postage stamps and on the UK £2 coin. Anniversary celebrations took place in 1959 and 2009.
After photographing the dome interior of Tokyo Station, we went up to the rooftop of Kitte building standing right next to the station to take a picture at the blue hour.
The red-brick building is a historic architecture which had received little damage from the Great Kanto Erthquake in 1923 and survived the Tokyo air raids during World War II, before reconstruction work on the building began in 2007.
The Passion of engineers restored the domes and brought the interior back to the way they looked when the station was originally built. Structural reinforcement was also completed, installing an innovative underground seismic isolation system for reducing the damage by possible earthquakes.
Surrounded by modern skyscrapers, this imposing building has regal dignity in the heart of Tokyo.
Quite often the call on No 908 was set back for the arrival of No 949 as power off No 908 would be reduced to protect the BAR traffic. After the CP retired the 244 fleet we started seeing EMD B units both 7's 9's.
A strong dairy barn stands ready to do what it once did but instead now houses goats. Once we reach a certain stage in life, our life's work is replaced by something else, usually with us playing a reduced role.
A migratory raptor from Central Asia, Eastern Europe that winters in India. They are quite similar to the Pallid Harriers and both these birds are often seen together and even hunt in the same habitat - grasslands. The prey base is also quite similar.
There was peak of Harrier activity around last November and a grassland had around 20+ harriers. The birds would hunt till 5 Am and once the sunlight starts to reduce, they would sit on the ground like this one and wait for the darkness. Then the birds come together within 50 feet of each other. We found groups 7+ several times mostly comprised of Montagu's, Pied and Pallid. Early morning though, they fly away 30 mins before sunrise making it hard to get them in good light!
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Europhenix liveried 37611 slows for a signal check at Beck Foot before getting looped at Grayrigg to allow faster traffic to pass. The tractor is dragging Transpennine 397005 running as 5N32 Kilmarnock - Longsight.
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Hard to ignore this rocky natural leading line to the lighthouse!
The history of Cape Palliser Lighthouse:
Cape Palliser features prominently in Maori history and the legends of Kupe. The area also featured in the colonisation of New Zealand.
The rugged coast and notorious Cook Strait gales contributed to many early shipwrecks. Six months before the light was lit in 1897, a ship was wrecked within 4 miles of the new tower and 12 of the 21 crew drowned. While a light on Cape Palliser reduced the number of shipwrecks, the area still remained hazardous for the unwary.
The tower at Cape Palliser has been painted with red and white stripes to make it stand out from the hills behind it. There are only two other lighthouses in New Zealand with stripes, rather than the standard plain white. Dog Island Lighthouse and Cape Campbell Lighthouse have black and white stripes.
Operation of the Cape Palliser light:
Cape Palliser lighthouse is still fitted with the original Fresnel lens, which was installed in 1897.
In 1954 the light was converted from oil to diesel-generated electricity. In 1967 it was connected to mains electricity. A diesel-electric generator provides standby emergency power.
The lighthouse was automated and the keepers were withdrawn in 1986.
The light is monitored remotely from Maritime New Zealand’s Wellington office.
Life at Cape Palliser light station:
Owing to its isolation in the early days, life at Cape Palliser created its own unique problems for the keepers and their families.
The original access to the lighthouse was a dirt track up a 58 metre-high cliff. This was a dangerous walk for the keepers, especially in stormy weather.
In 1912 a set of 258 steps were built up to the tower, which provided the keepers with much safer access, although still a physically demanding walk.
Stores were delivered to the station every 3 months. If the seas were too rough, the stores could be landed at the more sheltered Kawakawa Bay, some 6 kilometres away. The Cape Palliser letter book is filled with countless tales of stores being lost during the unloading process.
With the storage buildings and keepers’ homes at sea level, the unloading was easier than at many other stations where goods had to be hauled up cliffs using a trolley on rails. The keepers still had to haul the light supplies (oil and kerosene) up the cliff face to the light station. They did this on a railway, using a hand winch.
When the lighthouse was eventually connected to the nearby settlements by road, keepers would collect their mail and supplies once a week from Pirinoa. (Courtesy www.maritimenz.govt.nz)
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If you look closely you can see some fine wires running from the tips of the tail planes to the mid-rear fuselage on each side. These were an early form of 'friend or foe' detection; a radio signal from them helped differentiate defending RAF aircraft from others on the crude radar screens of the time.
This aircraft has a 'c' type wing, sometimes called the 'universal' wing which had provision for up to four 20mm cannon and four 0.303 Browning machine guns, although because of weight restrictions, not all could be carried at the same time without seriously degrading the aircraft performance. It is not uncommon to see two of the cannons capped off, as here. The red tape over the machine gun ports was to prevent debris from muddy airfields being blown back into the guns from the propeller while the engine was running on the ground. Wet mud could jam the guns. Of course, the first shots would go straight through the tape.
The outer machine guns were often considered to be not all that effective - the wings would vibrate when they were firing, so an ever widening cone of bullets would issue forth reducing the effectiveness on the target. The 'e' wing, which many later Spitfires sported, was a simplified 'c' wing, had the outer four machine guns bays deleted and could carry heavier machine guns and/or cannon in the four inner bays.
The Delaware & Hudson had several run-through trains with the Lehigh Valley. One of those trains, symbol MA-2 (Mechanicsville – Allentown) is seen here approaching the village of Siegfried, just north of Northampton, Pennsylvania. In just four days, the D&H will increase its route-miles tremendously, being named the competitive alternative to Conrail in the northeast. To help support the additional traffic, the D&H will be given 47 Lehigh Valley and Reading locomotives, neatly patched in their former owners’ paint. This will greatly reduce the odds of seeing pure lightning stripe sets, such as this RS36/U23B/U23B/RS36 lashup.
Despite this Red Squirrel's environment being severely reduced by forestry works it has chosen [at less temporarily] not to relocate.
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On the morning of December 28, 2024, it was reported that Amtrak's eastbound California Zephyr, with Phase IV Heritage Unit 164 on point, broke down somewhere way out west and Union Pacific stuck a freight unit on the train to drag it into Chicago. At that time, the train was running over 2 1/2 hours late, which would've put it into Chicago by mid-afternoon.
On this day, I had just started to recover from being sick from the previous two weeks, including Christmas Day, and I needed to get more medication. So I wanted to catch the train when I went to get more meds.
The train continued to lose time due to the reduced speeds of the freight unit. With long lines at the pharmacy, I went for the train first. But the Amtrak app was not updating, and I waited in the cold far longer than I thought. By the time the train passed me in Sandwich, IL, the sun had already set and was now well over 4 hours late into Chicago.
Not only would this be my last train I caught in 2024, these would actually be the last photos I took in 2024. Ironically, standing out in the cold for over an hour waiting for this was actually soothing to my sore throat, and the sickness finally broke the next night.
Vadi új pályán suhan az 1030-as miskolci honos Szili konténervonatával Székesfehérvár irányába. A képen jól látható az 1950-es évek végén készült aszfaltbeton alépítmény, mely Velencefürdőtől egészen Dinnyés határáig (körülbelül a 474. és 550. számú szelvények között) épült. Szintén említésre méltóak még az új, 60 kg/fm sínek gerincére ragasztott zajcsökkentő elemek, melyeket az országban elsőként itt építettek be, a velencei-tavi üdülőövezet zajterhelésének csökkentése érdekében.
The 1030 "Szili" from Miskolc is sweeping on a brand new track with a container train to Székesfehérvár. The asphalt concrete substructure made at the end of the 1950s is clearly visible in the picture, which was built from Velencefürdő to the border of Dinnyés (approximately between section 474 and 550). Also worth mentioning are the new, 60 kg/track meter noise-reducing elements glued to the spine of the rails, which were installed here for the first time in the country, in order to reduce the noise load of the Lake Velence resort area.
On my way home from what would be my last chase of a westbound over the west end of the Indiana Subdivision with CPLs, I made the decision to stop in at Campbellsburg on the former Monon, which now is, or was, the CSX Hoosier subdivision. A pair of semaphore masts guard the overgrown and now rail-less right of way of the Hoosier as time marches on, and the construction of the new Monon-south trail marches further south. I wasn't around to see the final days of operations over this once famous piece of railroad, but it's still sad to see it reduced to this.
This set still had blades throughout 2023, not sure when they were swiped.
The River Dee, Chester City, Cheshire, UK.
The River Dee Coordinates...52.8322°N 3.7656°W.
The River Dee was the traditional boundary of the Kingdom of Gwynedd in Wales for centuries, possibly since its founding in the 5th century. It was recorded in the 13th century (in mainstream Middle English orthography, lacking the letters v and w) as flumen Dubr Duiu; the name appears to derive from the Brythonic dēvā: "River of the Goddess" or "Holy River". The river is personified as the war and fate goddess Aerfen.
The river name inspired the name of Roman fortress Deva Victrix.
It is the only river in the UK to be subject to a Water Protection Zone along its whole length down to Chester weir.
West of Chester, the river flows along an artificial channel excavated between 1732 and 1736. The work was planned and undertaken by engineers from the Netherlands and paid for by local merchants and Chester Corporation. It was an attempt to improve navigation for shipping and reduce silting. Chester's trade had declined steadily since the end of the 17th century as sediment had prevented larger craft reaching the city, spelling the end for the Port of Chester.
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Premier Tower.
Designed by Elenberg Fraser, plans for a 294-metre (965 ft) tall building with 90-storeys were initially proposed in 2014 however, in order not to cast a shadow on the Yarra River to the south, both the height and the number of levels of the project were reduced in later plans, which were submitted to the Department of Planning.
In May 2015, Planning Minister Richard Wynne approved the development, which now consists of a 246–metre high residential and hotel skyscraper of 78 levels. According to Elenberg Fraser, the design of the building pays homage to a Beyonce music video that captures the curves of the human form.