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Another Snowy Egret feeding at the Riparian Preserve in Gilbert, Arizona.
"The color contrast between black legs (including the forward directed tarsi) and yellow toes is not accidental and serves a vital function for the bird. Snowy egrets use several types of foot movements during prey capture. They might vibrate the leg and foot, drag a foot over the substrate, probe the substrate, or stomp the foot up and down. All of these serve to startle potential prey, including crawfish, insects, snakes, fish, molluscs, and frogs. Sometimes they run about and grab their prey, other times they are patient stalkers. One peculiar behavior they have is called bill-vibrating, whereby they place their bill in the water and rapidly open and close it, thus scaring and confusing critters swimming in the area."
Gorgonians are colonial animals attached to the substrate. Sea fans, sea whips and sea plumes are common examples. A colony's hold fast, although appearing rootlike, does not gather nutrients. The supportive skeleton of a stem is formed by tightly bound or fused calcareous spicules. This core is surrounded by gelatinous material called the rind. Retractable polyps are embedded in the rind extending their tentacles and bodies through the surface openings. Lembeh Strait, North Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Another sandstone peak resting on a substrate of hard pre-Cambrian gneiss. From a slide.
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Nature’s sculptures are indiscriminately created of living and inanimate elements, organic and inorganic substrates. It makes use of the matter that rests on the shelves of its terrestrial studio. The wildlife photographer is inspired by nature’s creativity and uses the photograph as a medium to record that beauty. The art in photography derives not from creation of the subject but from the desire to search out that which nature has provided and capture it through a manipulation of light and surroundings. It is a labor of patience and love that grants remuneration predominantly through an enrichment and elevation of one’s spirit. #YellowRumpedWarbler
One of the more common and easily recognised Galerina species in that the cap has a papilla (a raised area in the centre of the cap).
Common name: None
Found: Native Forest
Substrate: On wood
Spore: BrownHeight: 60 mm
Width: 25 - 35 mm
Season: Autumn
Edible: No
Little Egret (Egretta garzetta) stirring up the substrate for small fish and invertebrates, Hertfordshire
Taking an old, unused "Pano-Sabotage ( TumbleWorld ) piece from last Spring ( 2015 ) and subjecting it to photo manipulation to express the explosion of colour that Spring is. My 'take' is a visionary one as opposed to a pure recording. In my mind, this is how I see these things. ( This version created May 5, 2016 ).
Again, the pixelation provides a few themes - an open admission of the digital medium from which this image sprang and where it resides, a contrast to the irregularity and "irrationality" of Nature, a springboard from which to see that contrast leap, and an understanding that we somehow need a balance of both.
Jackson Pollock and Ad Reinhardt run smack into each other. ;-)
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Music Link: "Lux" - Brian Eno, from his album "Lux". This is a 4 minute plus edit that was played online on Nov. 17, 2012, four times that day. Each playing was meant to coincide with four periods of the day, Sunrise, Morning, Afternoon and Night. This specific project was called "Day of Light".
Photographers from all over the world were invited to register on Eno's website and to participate by sending images in that were shot ONLY while "Lux" was performed. So unless you were fast, your images were pretty unprocessed.
As a registered participant, you were able to send in as many images as you wished, one after another. Eno and his staff were standing by, capturing submissions and then showing them as visuals to the performance of "Lux". Once submitted, there was a short lag, followed by an automatic email confirmation that your piece was accepted and was in queue to be played. It was very exciting. So each photographer could rightly say that they had collaborated with Brian Eno on the "Day of Light" project.
I was one of those photographers. 3 of my shots were used. Since thousands of submissions were tendered, it's not surprising that none of my three made the final cut that you see here. No matter. I am proud to have participated in the actual event.
Light - bright, heaven-like radiance, being the main support and substrate of my image here, I chose "Lux" as accompaniment for that reason and also to remember my participation in the "Day of Light" project. "The Bursting Life" ... was NOT one of the images used.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H0aflNXCGo
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Widow Skimmer is one of the group of dragonflies known as king skimmers. The nymphs live in the water, molting and growing until they are ready to emerge from the water and then molting a final time to reveal their wings.
This species can be found commonly across the United States (except in the higher Rocky Mountains areas) and in southern Ontario and Quebec.
This species is found commonly in muddy substrates, or still bodies of waters such as ponds, lakes, streams, and creeks. They are predators that prey on other insects such as mosquitoes. They catch their prey using their legs. Use their fangs to bring prey into mouth. (wiki)
Nikon D7100
Nikon 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6G IF-ED AF-S VR
280mm - f5.6 - 1/400 - ISO 200
Island Of Madagascar
Off the East Coast of Africa
Berenty Reserve
This lemur was photographed in an area called the spiny forest. Here it is sitting in the middle of some cactus.
Verreaux's sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi), or the white sifaka, is a medium-sized primate in one of the lemur families, the Indriidae. It lives in Madagascar and can be found in a variety of habitats from rainforest to western Madagascar dry deciduous forests and dry and spiny forests. Its fur is thick and silky and generally white with brown on the sides, top of the head, and on the arms. Like all sifakas, it has a long tail that it uses as a balance when leaping from tree to tree. However, its body is so highly adapted to an arboreal existence, on the ground its only means of locomotion is hopping. The species lives in small troops which forage for food.
The Madagascar spiny forests (also known as the Madagascar spiny thickets) is an ecoregion in the southwest of Madagascar. The vegetation type is found on poor substrates with low, erratic winter rainfall. The ecoregion contains an outstanding proportion of endemic plant species and is part of the Global 200.
Notable inhabitants of the spiny thickets include the spider tortoise (Pyxis arachnoides) and the radiated tortoise (Astrochelys radiata), the gecko Ebenavia maintimainty, several lemurs including Verreaux's sifaka, Grandidier's mongoose, and eight endemic birds.
I feel so fortunate that I was able to visit the Blue Ridge Parkway during the peak bloom time for the spectacular Pinkshell azaleas. The display along the higher elevations was absolutely spectacular! According to the North Carolina Plant Toolbox, this species is native only to the mountains of North Carolina and grows in acidic, moist and wet substrates.