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The pond slider (Trachemys scripta) is a species of common, medium-sized, semiaquatic turtle. Three subspecies are described, the most recognizable of which is the red-eared slider (T. s. elegans), which is popular in the pet trade and has been introduced to other parts of the world by people releasing it to the wild. Hatchling and juvenile pond sliders have a green upper shell (carapace), yellow bottom shell (plastron), and green and yellow stripes and markings on their skin. These patterns and colors in the skin and shell fade with age until the carapace is a muted olive green to brown and the plastron is a dull yellow or darker. Some sliders become almost black with few visible markings. The carapace is oval with a bit of rounding and a central crest with knobs, but these features soften and fade with age, adults being smoother and flatter. For determining an adult slider's sex, males typically have much longer front claws than adult females, while females usually have shorter, more slender tails than males. Their lifespans range from 20 to 50 years.
Etymology
The origin of the name slider stems from the behavior of these turtles when startled. Groups of sliders, sometimes quite large, as well as many other types of less abundant freshwater turtles, are often seen basking and sunning on logs, branches, and vegetation at or even well above the water's surface, but they readily and quickly scramble if they sense danger, shooting back in and darting away to safety underwater.
Distribution
Pond sliders are native to the south-central and southeastern United States and northern Mexico.
In the 1900s, many pond sliders were captured for sale. In the 1950s, millions of turtles were being farmed and shipped abroad as part of the pet trade.
These turtles often compete with native species for food, habitat, and other resources. Eventually, they bully many native species out of basking sites, where sunlight (and warmth) is available for the species. When basking, pond sliders commonly bask on birds' nests, thereby killing the eggs. They also prey on young birds.
Turtles that were raised in captivity can develop diseases that are unfamiliar to native species, which can be harmful. Turtles raised in captivity are often released because they become too much to handle or grow bigger than expected. Not uncommonly, they also escape.
Conservationists have warned owners of turtles to not release them into the wild. Many states also have passed legislation to control the possession and release of pond sliders. Two states have completely banned the sale of these turtles.
In Europe, T. scripta is included since 2016 in the list of Invasive Alien Species of Union concern (the Union list). This implies that this species cannot be imported, bred, transported, commercialized, or intentionally released into the environment in the whole of the European Union. By the first quarter of the 21st century, this species has spread widely across the waters of Europe and Southeast Asia, and is also found in the Urals and Siberia.
Hybridization between yellow-bellied and red-eared sliders is not uncommon where the ranges of the two subspecies overlap.
I found some more old photos (slides, thank goodness) in an attic room that had been invaded by squirrels.
Thankfully squirrels don't actually like film, so most of them were actually scannable (there are a few more that apparently disintegrated when I cleaned them, because the scans ended up looking like they were in a rainstorm :-( )
These must have been taken in the summer of '71 and just starting out as a trainspotter, because the photo quality is about what you'd expect when you give a cheap plastic kodak to an 11 year old and let them wander off to North La Crosse to look at trains.
Alas, no pictures of the Milwaukee Road's rsc-2ms were in the batch. Probably because they were _always there_ and not interesting and new like the S1, SDP40F, and trains in southern Illinois. Ah well, my memories are a little more durable than these slides (at least until I have a power failure, at which point it all will go *poof*)
My son built a camera slider for a shooting assignment he has to do for class. In the video they did it for under $8, that surely can't be in Canada as ours was around $36 at Home Depot. Works great, though! All built from parts in the electrical dept: youtu.be/W9BrPCVuqCo
(pardon the very bad quality shot from my very old phone)
View of house. Kodachrome slide. Slide is part of a set dating to the 1940s and 1950s that was bought on eBay.
Slide from a set used to teach biology at Belleville Collegiate Institute and Vocational School, Belleville, Ontario, possibly in the 1920s. The original boxes were labelled 'Junior' and 'Senior', but the contents appear to have been mixed up.
Donated to the Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County by Mike and Sue Mills in October 2015.
former sliding closet doors, stripped, painted black on one side, raw redwood backside, re-hung as barn doors, separating office from random room
Slide (YACB-4) produced by the Province of Ontario Picture Bureau, probably in the 1920s, for use in Ontario schools.
Donated to the Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County by Mike and Sue Mills in October 2015.
Slides from 1977 copied using Bower slide adaptor, 105mm lens on D700
June and I drove from Singapore to Penang in a Datsun 120Y
Camera Nikon F2 50mm lens
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I just had to do this. So we rushed to Samal Island even if we had only half a day to waste there. I saw this once in a local sports/adventure show and it called my name. It's a tarp that slides straight into the ocean. well, not really. you slide down the tarp and you hang in the air for a split second before a hard 4 feet drop into Davao waters. It's dehm painful. But it's so worth the high.
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Maxima's Giant Ocean Slide, in the Island Garden City of Samal, Davao, Mindanao, Philippines
Taken handheld with a Nikon d90+18-105mm at standard 3 exposure shot (+2..0..-2 EV) in JPEG.
Tonemapped in Photomatix.
Further processed in Photoshop through layers:
- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'levels' for overall brightness.
- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'vibrance' to tone down the harsh light.
- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'selective color' (yellows) to adjust tarp.
- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'selective color' (greens) to adjust trees.
Resized then watermarked.
ODC THE SLIDE
This is an activity that many of you will never have even heard of, let alone experienced. However, those of us who are old enough to remember Kodachrome ll will know exactly what this is all about. getting your processed slides back was always exciting and sticking them into a slide projector tray for a quick look was only the start. Eventually, you wanted to sort them into a slide show, and this involved selecting the appropriate slides and then sorting them into the order of presentation, then to be loaded into a slide tray. The last step was to capture an audience and make them sit through you holiday snaps!
Close-up view showing the way in which slides are organised within the Visual Resources Centre's main art and design slide collection.
A helicopter aids in the fight against the Slide Fire in Oak Creek Canyon near a fork called Sterling Canyon in efforts to keep the Slide Fire from moving east toward Pumphouse Wash Canyon. Taken on 5/22/14 by Brady Smith. Credit: U.S. Forest Service, Coconino National Forest.
Water slides, Typhoon Lagoon, Walt Disney World, Florida
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Slide from a set used to teach biology at Belleville Collegiate Institute and Vocational School, Belleville, Ontario, possibly in the 1920s. The original boxes were labelled 'Junior' and 'Senior', but the contents appear to have been mixed up.
Donated to the Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County by Mike and Sue Mills in October 2015.