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Smallest of all the anteaters, the Northern Silky Anteater (Cyclopes dorsalis) is seldom seen because it spends much of its life high in the rainforest canopy, often curled up as an indistinguishable ball of fluff. They have no teeth and can only defend themselves by means of their razor sharp sickle-like fore-claws, which are usually used for tearing open ant nests. Females bear a single youngster at a time, which is carried on their back until large enough to feed on its own. Esmeraldas, Ecuador.
I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who commented or mailed me regarding my last series of shots. The time you took and the words you wrote meant a lot to me. They also inspired me to make a commitment to push both my writing and that side of my photography a little more. For now though, this one is for Hazel.
Someone very close to Hazel became very ill over this weekend. The last few days have been a bit of a daze for myself. Only now are the adrenaline visions fading and a hard reality creeping back into view. Selfish worries are giving way to a more human empathy and it’s fair to say that tears are never too far from my eyes. If this is how I feel, I can only imagine how my dearest little friend is feeling right now.
Over the next few days, weeks and months I will help out in every practical way I can but in truth, all you can do at times like these is to be there and hope that for a minute or two that this is enough. There is however, not a word I can say or a gesture to be made that will stop Hazels chest aching or stop her thoughts whirling as she fades to sleep. That is not said to bemoan my lot or draw sympathy towards myself, Hazel is the one truly hurting right now, not me.
What I had hoped as I travelled home tonight was that I would find an image that would somehow help, even in a small way. I scoured the archive for something that seemed appropriate and very predictably, nothing did.
Hazel, I eventually picked this image because for me there is a sadness to it, but also beauty and warmth. For me, time has changed these leaves, the vibrant proud colours of spring may be gone but they are still there to be loved and enjoyed in just the same way as before.
I hope that maybe when I am not around and you need a place to rest your head, you can come here from time to time.
Explore - January 9, 2009 (#52)
Tiny snowberry (Symphoricarpos x doorenbosii 'Amethyst') covered with snow seen at Berlin Tiergarten.
"Grazie mille" and "Dankeschön" to White Red Flower and scorpion 13 for the extraordinary wonderful testimonials they have written for me! You are both very special and dear friends to me!
Have a fantastic weekend!
The harbor at Depoe Bay bills itself as the world's smallest navigable harbor. It's an interesting assertion and I'm not sure I entirely buy into it. I've seen too many small harbors along the Greek and Italian coasts. England too, has its share of small coves. But for now, I have no proof otherwise and have to believe their claim. So believe it, or not.
Depoe Bay OR
Malacca is the third smallest Malaysian state after Perlis and Penang. It is located in the southern region of the Malay Peninsula. This historical city centre has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 7 July 2008.
Sand Martin / riparia riparia. Bawdsey, Suffolk. 29/06/21.
I'm sure my image will get a Marmite response ... love it, hate it ... an acquired taste!
I deliberately tried to capture a sense of motion in this feeding shot, the blurred rush of an incoming parent bird and the expectant wing quivering of the juvenile about to be fed. I like it because it captures and tells the story of a moment between parent and youngster. I just wish I hadn't clipped the wings of the juvenile though!!!
BEST VIEWED LARGE.
This bird is the smallest European bird (4g-5g).
It is so small that people dont see them.
It is 2x or 3s smaller than a tit (depending on th tit).
As it is so small and always moving it is not easy to get a photo of them.
For this shooting I used a monopod.
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They are the smallest and lightest birds in Europe. Their weight is roughly equivalent to a DIN A4 page!
Ever since I saw a really great picture of this little punk by Werner Lippert years ago, I've never been able to get it out of my head. Two years ago I started researching it, then I went to the relevant hunting grounds more often. And at the end of last year I finally saw them for the first time. They really aren't easy to photograph: they usually stay right up in the treetops, are super lively and very small.
Wintergoldhähnchen sind die kleinsten und leichtesten Vögel Europas. Ihr Gewicht entspricht in etwa einer DIN-A 4 Seite!
Seitdem ich vor Jahren mal ein ganz tolles Bild dieses kleinen Punkers von Werner Lippert gesehen habe, will er mir nicht mehr aus dem Kopf gehen. Vor 2 Jahren habe ich dann angefangen zunächst zu recherchieren, dann bin ich öfter in entsprechende Reviere gefahren. Und Ende letzten Jahres habe ich sie dann endlich das erste mal gesehen. Sie sind wirklich nicht einfach zu fotografieren: normalerweise halten sie sich ganz oben in den Baumwipfeln auf, sind super quirlig und sehr klein.
Ethics statement
- Free living animals
- Freilebende Tiere
Peeping out from the hawthorn
Fen Drayton Lakes, Cambridgeshire
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the ferry in toreboda is pulled by a human, in this picture a friend passed by to meet him. Lina is swedens smallest ferry and the takeover takes only 20-25 seconds
I have this small Quran, it is printed and in good condition but the first and last pages (sticky). it is merely 2X1X2.5 c.m. Look at the size in relation to a regular Pencil eraser.
The World's Smallest Post Office/Mailing Office outside "The Smallest Church in 48 States!", Our Lady of The Pines.
I have more pics of this from the last time I was here which I'll probably upload eventually.
After casting-off its familiar 'helicopter' seedcase, this baby Sycamore could eventually grow to over a hundred feet tall...
10mm Meike extension tube, handheld
a Wren on the way to fly away
They are so small (one of the smallest European birds with the goldcrest) but in winter they look big with small wings.
So funny
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Step right into the "Smallest Mancave" - a quirky converted outhouse that's disguised as your average everyday shack, but wait for the surprise when you swing open the door! Inside, you'll find a delightful disaster zone filled with weed, posters that scream "bro, it's man time," an impressive collection of beer bottles that rivals a frat party, and more men's magazines than you can shake a mustache comb at. It's proof that size doesn't matter when it comes to having a hilarious, tongue-in-cheek escape all to yourself. So, gentlemen, prepare to chuckle, kick back, and embrace the epic messiness of the "Smallest Mancave" - because a little chaos with a side of laughter never hurt anyone!
The smallest mancave will be available at Alpha
OPENS ON THE 22ND
We were on the Prinsendam, the smallest of Holland America's ships but the largest ship to transit the Canal.
Testing the Hasselblad Teleconverter 1.4x e with a 250mm Sonnar lens. Amazing sharpness as seen by the little hairs along the edge of the leaf, very shallow depth of field at f5.6 in this image.
The Smallest
You hear God speak
and you see God in action
not in the lives of men
with their closed minds
and selfish hearts,
their souls too deeply entrenched;
but in the smiling faces, the voices
the breath and heart beats
of the smallest.
God is here among us
in the open, tender souls
of the children.
It is our doing
our growing away
instead of up
that silences the voice and
blurs the vision
of his presence within.
Kumari Herath
Azenhas do Mar, especially this year, is really small. You have to wait until the low tide to have any sand at all, at the high tide there are only rocks.
I was taking shots of Sanderlings when this Sparrow-sized bird skittered by. He was so small - hence the name: Least Sandpiper.
Least Sandpiper
Calidris minutilla
Member of the Nature’s Spirit
Good Stewards of Nature
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Corona Australis is one of the smallest constellations in the southern sky with no stars brighter than magnitude 3.0. Fortunately, its distinctive crescent shape certainly helps when trying to locate this faint constellation. It lies within the third quadrant of the southern hemisphere and can be seen from +40 through -90, and is at its best in August.
Reflection nebula certainly can be beautiful to look at. I love the pale blue colour, with subtle hints of red speckled throughout. When I first started to process the data, I was delighted with the lovely blue structure, almost inset within a background of dark dust lanes. The dark and light differences only seemed to enhance the scene with an extra element of depth. The colour and textures are reminiscent of the popular Pleiades.
The fan-shaped NGC 6729 is both reflection and emission nebula. Describing it as dramatic looking would be understated, it looks angry. When I was thinking of what I wanted to achieve with this rendition, and knowing just how dim the Ha component was, I knew many hours would be required only to give that little extra definition, and hopefully, reveal the emission components spread throughout the scene. Hopefully, the inclusion of Ha is not too distracting as the real star is the blue reflection nebula.
Another structure of interest is that pink / reddish comet looking thing. Whenever I look at it, I see a galactic weather vane displaying the effects of high-velocity materials interacting with its surroundings. This is a Herbig-Haro (HH) object, bright patches of nebulosity associated with newborn stars. Their formation happens when stars collide with nearby clouds of dust and gas at high speeds ejecting narrow jets of partially ionized gas. HH objects are found in star-forming regions, and it is not unusual to see several around a single star. These objects have been shown to evolve over timescales of only a few years. They may become brighter or fainter, even completely disappearing completely, and then new knots forming where previously nothing was detected.
At the bottom of the frame, I have included an image that I shot in 2015 using the same telescope, an RCOS 10 inch, and SBIG-STL 11000 astronomical camera. Within a couple of years, there has been a reasonably change with the appearance of this object. Photographing this and seeing the results is very cool.
Initially, I had thoughts of trimming the outer stars of the globular cluster NGC 6723 on the right. When I cropped the stars, it seemed to affect the balance of the photo and somehow lost that wide field open look of the original. The inclusion of something that is just out of frame adds to the scene, and all the blue stars are certainly a bonus as well.
Equipment Details:
•10 Inch RCOS fl 9.1
•Astro Physics AP-900 Mount
•SBIG STL 11000m
•FLI Filter Wheel
•Astrodon LRGB Filters
•Baader Planetarium H-alpha 7nm Narrowband-Filter
Exposure Details: Total time 53.5 hours
•35 X 450 Blue binned
•17 X 450 Green binned
•24 X 450 Red binned 9.5 hours of colour
•40 X 900 Lum 10.0 hour of luminance
•68 X 1800 Ha 34.0 hours of Ha
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The smallest city I have ever built. Complete with: town gate, town hall, four houses and a town square with well.
See flic.kr/p/2oAD2Yh for a top view
And flic.kr/p/2oAA6G6 for the town square