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Mount Helvellyn is the third highest mountain in England (950 m).
This peak in England's Lake District is best known for its dangerous Striding Edge Trail, a narrow ridge that forms the route to the top of the mountain.
The photo shows the Striding Edge ridge from the top of Helvellyn.
The Gerridae are a family of insects in the order Hemiptera, commonly known as water striders, water bugs, pond skaters, water skippers, or jesus bugs.
Scavenger Challenge - July 2017 Assignment - My Favourite Things - I love to watch natures little creatures
Another from our morning shooting in Bexhill, not sure what it is but I really struggled with all of my shots from that day.
View on the edge. You can see the easier path underneath if you are scared of heights.
Left hand side is Helvellyn summit, right is the rest of the edge going to the hole in the wall.
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This was a try at panoramics with 3 exposures and enfuse exposure blending at the end. It doesn't make abig difference, except for the clouds that look a lot more dramatic.
Our goldfish pond is very small, but gets a wide variety of visitors - - large and small. Water striders going about their business skating along on the surface tension always fascinate me.
Early Halloween spooks, a relatively simple moc with (mostly) well lit photos!
Able to engulf a minifigure whole!
Wide-angle view of a shopping area in Durham, Tyne and Wear, taken against the late-morning sun.
Nikon D300 plus Sigma 10-20 mm lens.
The Common Water Strider is water bug that looks a lot like a big mosquito walking on the surface of the water.
Its body can grow just over 1/2 inch long and is dark brown or black. Like all insects, it has six legs. The front pair of legs is short, and the middle and back legs are very long.
Water striders live on the surface of ponds, slow streams, marshes, and other quiet waters.
Common Water Striders eat living and dead insects on the surface of the water. Some are aquatic (water) insects, such as mosquito larvae coming up from the bottom, and others are terrestrial (land) insects, such as butterflies or beetles that accidentally land on the surface.
Injured dragonflies are a favorite food, as are worms that fall in the water. Water striders have a sharp mouthpart, called a rostrum, to suck up body juices from prey.
You can't always choose your lighting when a bighorn jumps up on your lunch rock, so I went with the shadow and backlighting.
This is my 5 year old daughter on her strider bmx bike. She races at seatac bmx, just outside of Seattle WA. Addie has a prosthetic leg but it doesn't stop her from racing or riding her skateboard, cool huh? She's riding her 2 wheeler and will graduate to a larger racing bike later in the season.
- and yes those are remnant hair strands blowing off of an apparently freshly-styled barnet and a half highlighted as he strides purposefully into a spring headwind, oblivious to how great he looks sideways.
Perhaps his sister? should have said something.
( Did he offend his rug editor perchance ? - ed )
Welwyn GC, Herts.
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" "Barnet " is a British slang term, referring to "hair" - it derives from the phrase "Barnet Fair" which is old time London rhyming slang for "hair," originating from the famous annual horse fair held in Barnet, Hertfordshire "