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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.
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.
Nuthatch - Sitta europaea
The Eurasian nuthatch or wood nuthatch (Sitta europaea) is a small passerine bird found throughout temperate Asia and in Europe, where its name is the nuthatch. Like other nuthatches, it is a short-tailed bird with a long bill, blue-grey upperparts and a black eye-stripe. It is a vocal bird with a repeated loud dwip call. There are more than 20 subspecies in three main groups; birds in the west of the range have orange-buff underparts and a white throat, those in Russia have whitish underparts, and those in the Far East have a similar appearance to European birds, but lack the white throat.
The preferred habitat is mature deciduous or mixed woodland with large, old trees, preferably oak. Pairs hold permanent territories, and nest in tree holes, usually old woodpecker nests, but sometimes natural cavities. If the entrance to the hole is too large, the female plasters it with mud to reduce its size, and often coats the inside of the cavity too. The 6–9 red-speckled white eggs are laid on a deep base of pine or other wood chips.
The Eurasian nuthatch eats mainly insects, particularly caterpillars and beetles, although in autumn and winter its diet is supplemented with nuts and seeds. The young are fed mainly on insects, with some seeds, food items mainly being found on tree trunks and large branches. The nuthatch can forage when descending trees head first, as well as when climbing. It readily visits bird tables, eating fatty man-made food items as well as seeds. It is an inveterate hoarder, storing food year-round. Its main natural predator is the Eurasian sparrowhawk.
It breeds throughout England and Wales and has recently began to breed in southern Scotland. It is a resident, with birds seldom travelling far from the woods where they hatch.
Population:
UK breeding:
220,000 territories
shot with a fujifilm x-s10, a pixco 0.71x focal reducer, and a pentax smc 50mm f/1.4 screw-mount lens.
Verdi: Messa di Requiem, Elena Obraztsova, Shirley Verrett - (Budapest 1981)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jzs4F6OzEXo
Elegie Op. 3 No. 1 , played by Rachmaninoff
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTUxrPJfpqk
The Editor in Chief of Lancet has this to say ( it takes only 1 minute or so )
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d5wxtAwn9Y
An American physician Rishi Desai, Md MPH Chief Medical Officer, an Infectious Disease Specialist and former Outbreak Investigator at the CDC, has this to say in a Fox News interview (1 minute or so ) : " We knew this on 31st December 2019..."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zb_WzB1Wm2w
Despite explicit racial hostility, a Czech expert has this to say :
www.dimsumdaily.hk/czech-molecular-biologist-dr-sona-peko...
COVID-19 | Ask Me Anything with Rishi Desai, Md MPH
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aThkVKn_-Gg
Know More about Covid 19 through "The Virus Hunter" Professor Ian Lipkin from University of Columbia
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyIsLx4RJs8
* In min. 33, it actually says top experts ( apparently from US ) are adamant on the use of FACE MASK, which would reduce community infection by 70% ...
Ringing Roger, Peak District, UK
© 2023 Paul Newcombe. Don't use without permission
Possibly my favourite composition at Ringing Roger with the foreground rock creating an 'x'. I've stood here many times perfecting the composition. It felt quite precarious yesterday with the frozen rocks.
These are the best conditions I've had. Often, patchy doesn't work, creating too much contrast. But the hard frost decreased the contrast on the rocks.
I couldn't fit the foreground rock into one frame for the previous upload as I only had 24mm equivalent lens. This is good though as going wider reduces the impact of Loose Hill and the Great Ridge.
Smoke on the horizon is from back burning. A method to reduce the amount combustible vegetation on the ground. View of Dales Gorge, Karijini National Park. Its climate can best be described as tropical semi-desert. A highly variable, mainly summer rainfall of 250–350 mm, often associated with thunderstorms and cyclones, is accompanied by temperatures frequently topping 40 degrees Celsius. The ideal times to visit the park are late autumn, winter and early spring. Winter days are warm and clear, but nights are cold and sometimes frosty.
Massive mountains and escarpments rise out of the flat valleys. The high plateau is dissected by breathtaking gorges, and stony, tree-lined watercourses wind their way over the dusty plain. Erosion has slowly carved this landscape out of rocks that are over 2,500 million years old. (information from Explore Parks W.A)
This is an old photo from my archives.
Snowy Owls are not fairing well and are decreasing in the arctic and are impacted by climate change. They are losing their habitat and their prey is reduced due to warmer temperatures causing ice and negatively impacting their main prey lemmings. It is always such a special treat to see one of these beautiful diurnal owls.
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GÉNÉRATION
En hommage à Florence, ma petite-fille, qui m’a spontanément proposé le titre de cette image.
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Sur ces rivages bordés d’infini, un père initie son jeune fils à l’art de la pêche en eau peu profonde. Au premier abord, on pourrait croire qu’il s’agit d’une simple scène de pêche, pourtant…
Dans nos sociétés, l’idée de génération est souvent réduite à une opposition statique entre le passé et l’avenir, entre l’ancien et le nouveau. Je crois plutôt qu’il faut y voir un mouvement, un mouvement continu de transmission et d’évolution des connaissances et des mentalités humaines. En somme, cette transmission, notamment par la filiation, permets à l’originel de rester original et de poursuivre l’aventure humaine. * Ce que nous appelons « l’avenir » est, en fait, le résultat de l’interaction et de la transmission par toutes les générations. **
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Ici, sur ces rivages bien en retrait des mondes utopiques qui alimentent la fureur de nos sociétés, le père et le fils renouent avec la patience et la modestie fondamentale de l’existence des êtres. Et aussi avec l’enchantement originel devant la beauté et le mystère de notre monde.
La pêche aura été un bon prétexte pour cela.
Patrice
* Charles Coutel, philosophe français.
** Tim Inglold, anthropologue britannique
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GENERATION
In honor of Florence, my granddaughter, who spontaneously suggested the title of this image.
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On these shores bordered by infinity, a father introduces his young son to the art of shallow-water fishing. At first glance, one might think this is a simple fishing scene, yet...
In our societies, the idea of generation is often reduced to a static opposition between past and future, between old and new. Instead, it should be seen as a movement, a continuous movement of transfer and evolution of knowledge and human mentalities. In short, this transfer, particularly through filiations (kinship), allows the original to remain original and to continue the human adventure.* What we call the future is, in fact, the result of all these generations interacting.
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Here, on these shores far removed from the utopian worlds that fuel the fury of our societies, father and son reconnect with the patience and fundamental modesty of being. Also with the original enchantment in front of the beauty and mystery of our world.
Fishing was a good excuse for this.
Patrice
* Charles Coutel, a French philosopher.
** Tim Ingold, British anthropologist.
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.
location: waterfront city, marina, dockland's, melbourne, australia
image info: nikon d90, 18-200mm@18.00mm focal length, manual settings w/ circular polarizer filter, iso:200, exposure:1/160s, aperture:f/3.5 and handheld.
shot taken last: january 16, 2011
photo process info: natural light, with crop and no hdr. pp in adobe cs2 (adjustment of brightness/ contrast, exposure, shadows/ highlights and color balance), picasa 3.0 (adjusment of sharpen, crop, glow, straighten, graduated tint, tuning and watermark) and neat images (reducing noise).
Here I am standing on the edge of Lake Michigan during a polar vortex. The wind and blowing snow made it nearly impossible to get one shot without snow completely covering my lens. But somehow I managed to get a few. The sun was trying to shine thru the clouds at sunset. Snow squalls come and go making a very dramatic stormy feel to it.
A fence I used once before. I use it again to christen a new lens, and because the fence pickings ain't so good in our neighborhood. Is anyone running fence tours?
HFF to all: Looking forward to seeing everyone's handiwork.
Always on the lookout for a composition, I spotted this feather tucked behind some woody bits of an old creeper on a stone wall. I reduced my exposure then in my edit I used curves to tone down the wood and lighten the feather to make it stand out .
Sap house where the volunteer's boil the sap until it is reduced to maple syrup. Around 40 gallons of sap,,,sometimes 20 to 60 gallons of sap, are evaporated down to one gallon and a 67% to 68% sugar level is reached. Volunteers at Pioneer Village at Caesar Creek Lake burn firewood to boil the sap. The syrup is used in a fund raising pancake breakfast. A lot of hours and a lot of work.
CFF 180 + QUADTCC @ F/5.2
TMB LZOS 152 + Riccardi Reducer @ F/6
Moravian G3 16200 + Chroma LRGB
Atik 460EX + Astrodon LRGB E series gen 2
Astro-Physics 130 GTX + QUADTCC @ F/4.5
Moravian G3 11002 + Astrodon RGB
Astro Physics 1200
L: 61x300s bin 1x1
RGB: 10x300s bin 1x1
Total exposure: 8h
Captured with Sequence Generator Pro
Processed with Pixinsight
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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И над ней слева ещё один #объект_глубокого_космоса - "Бегущий человек" - видите?
Tech.details-brief: Sony Alpha 7R2 / ILCE-7Rm2 (FF)(ISO500), Celestron C8-A XLT (CGE) Schmidt-Cassegrain Optical Tube Assembly (Model 91024-XLT) 8" 2032mm F/10 + Reducer-Corrector F/6.3 Celestron 94175(1280mm f/6.3), Multiexposure: 180s for nebula, 75s for stars
Roasted Chicken with Cabbage and Prunes
Coq au chou et aux pruneaux
(6 servings)
1/2 cup plus 4 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil, divided
16 pearl onions, peeled
5 carrots, peeled and cut into 2-inch pieces
4 celery stalks, cut into 2-inch pieces
6 cloves of garlic, separated and peeled
salt, to taste
3/4 teaspoon ground black pepper, divided
1 (4-5 lb) chicken, rinsed and patted dry
1 tablespoon fresh parsley, chopped
2 teaspoons dried rosemary, crushed
1 teaspoon dried thyme
1 tablespoon lemon zest
1 1/3 cup pitted prunes
1 very small green cabbage, cored and quartered
1/2 cup wine
1 cup chicken stock
Preheat oven to 450F. Heat 2 tablespoons of the olive oil in a large, heavy skillet over medium-high heat. Add the onions, carrots, celery, garlic cloves, and ¼ teaspoon pepper, and cook, stirring occasionally, for 10 minutes. When the vegetables are caramelized, spoon them along the sides of a large roasting pan and set it aside – or place in a romertopf.
Reduce the burner heat slightly and allow the pan to cool a bit.
Add 2 tablespoons oil to pan and return the pan to medium-high heat. Season the prepared chicken, and brown it in the hot oil (the chicken will not brown when baked.) Transfer the chicken to the center of the roasting pan where you have added the vegetables, pour the pan juices on top of it and rub it with the parsley, rosemary, thyme, and lemon zest.
Add the wine to the skillet and deglaze, scraping up any browned bits from the pan. After the wine has simmered for 30 seconds, add the chicken stock and heat through. Pour the wine sauce over the chicken and place the prunes and cabbage on the caramelized vegetables. Cover the roasting pan with a lid or tightly sealed foil and roast in the preheated oven for 60-70 minutes.
Serve with steamed potatoes.
Now reduced to running three days a week (down from five), CN 324 has just left Taschereau Yard and is on its way to Vermont, with CN 5612 & CN 2665 for power.
Always furtive, yet inquisitive,poping
in and out of cover to check on your whereabouts. A very endearing bird.....sadly much reduced in its former range by development, predation and toxic sprays in the environment.
Despite this Red Squirrel's environment being severely reduced by forestry works it has chosen [at less temporarily] not to relocate.
TMB LZOS 152 + Riccardi Reducer @ F/6
Moravian G3 16200 + Chroma LRGB
Parallax Instruments HD200c
Astro-Physics 130 GTX + QUADTCC @ F/4.5
Moravian G3 11002 + Astrodon RGB
Astro Physics 1200
L: 67x600s bin 1x1
RGB: 75x300s bin 1x1
FWHM: 2.5"
Total exposure: 30h
Captured with Sequence Generator Pro
Processed with Pixinsight
As I was walking by, I saw Susan at the computer in the dark. Since Susan decided to retire, she moved from her huge office to our hallway closet. My busy, energetic wife is working at reducing all obligations to concentrate on ART only.
#MookyBD