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'Synchronous Flight Back Home' - [Special Series: 'Sometimes The World Is Blue'.. ]
A wonderful winter day near a smal lake in Munich ends slowly.. Snow white swans flying in the dark blue sky with interesting flight formation over my head.. Although the animals are not easy and hardly any wind blowing, you just glide through the air. It was very nice savor the freedom to travel into the distance, the vastness of it, so it in the air and float by the wind. It´s time to say good bye and for 'Synchronous Flight Back Home' in Munich!
I watch the swans and there seems to me a thought in mind: It must be fantastic to be able to fly as! Learning to fly and you are free! - 'I wish you a wonderful day'! ;-))
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When the sun finally started to clear the morning cloudbank ..
Olympus OM-1 w M.Zuiko 40-150/2.8 Pro
ISO500 f/8 75mm -2.7 and +0.3ev
Two frames raw developed in DxO PhotoLab 8.5, stacked and blended (foreground and sky) in Affinity Photo 2.6.2, colour graded in NIk 7 Color Efex and finished off back in PhotoLab.
Wombarra rock platform, Wombarra, Wollongong, NSW
Some gulls trying to fly synchronised. They need some more practice for a perfect landing in the Emscher river.
Zwei gleiche. Die Geschwister sehen fast identisch aus und weichen sich nicht von der Seite. Und jetzt haben sich sich tatsächlich nebeneinander aufgestellt um ihr morgendliches Ritual des Putzens syncron auszuführen. Fast wie extra für mich.
Lagoon Pond, Martha's Vineyard. You will notice that this cardinal is lacking in feathers. This is a perfectly healthy bird that has had what is known as a "catastrophic molt". Unlike most birds that replace feathers individually, after breeding cardinals will often loose all their head feathers synchronously, resulting in a "bald" cardinal. They will grow back.
Young and adult House Sparrows (Passer domesticus).
Sony Alpha7 II
Tamron SP 70-300 mm F/4-5,6 Di VC USD and Sony LA-EA3 35-mm adapter
Get in harmony with nature for a richer life.
Being connected to natural surroundings is vital to good mental and even physical health. Research has shown that patients in wards with good views out to trees and greenery heal quicker than patients with restricted views of brick walls or buildings.
And... HBW!
This is a selective-color B&W abstract of one of the slatted canopies at the Getty Museum. The blue visible is the sky showing through the curved slats.
I left Ely, Nevada, around 6:30 that morning to head down the road to Great Basin National Park. About 30-ish miles (give or take), I drove down into a flat, wide valley where the hazy sun shone over a field of wind turbines and silhouetted mountains.
These wind turbines were a geographic marker for me on the way out of the park back toward Ely and onward to my home in WA. At night, they blink synchronously (more or less). I left the park at 2 a.m, so it was still dark ss I drove to Ely. When I saw the blinking red lights of this wind turbine field, I knew I was over halfway to Ely (and a gas station).
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Colours of two rowers in the blue/green nature.
They are just rowing synchronously and enyoy the flow.
"Cathedral in the Clouds:" The morning after a night of mist and rain, dramatic fog and clouds enveloped the famous Cathedral Rocks in Sedona. It was fascinating to watch the veils of fog drift and move in apparent synchronous rhythm, first encroaching, then receding, and sometimes completely obscuring entire ridgelines from sight. Even I, standing where I was atop a hillside, felt a part of nature's peek-a-boo game when I periodically would see the vapor up close and feel the mist falling directly on me. It was as if nature was exhaling and I could see its breath pouring out upon the land and feel it moisten my own face. The coloration of the clouds during this sunrise was unlike any other I had witnessed, and instead of brandishing bright and vibrant colors, the hues on this morning were more muted and softer, the sun's rays being mostly obscured by the incredible atmospherics below.
Apalachicola National Forest, Liberty County, Florida.
Many-flowered Grass-pink generally has more individual flowers per stem than other species of Calopogon. Additionally, the flowers bloom more synchronously than the sequential flowering progression of other species of Calopogon. Notice that this one has thirteen flowers and buds, most of them open.
The water is all churned up from this pair mating, but in spite of the dunking she got, things were quickly very harmonious afterwards. Mallards, Siskiyou County, California
Germany, Munich, Swans, sunbathing synchronously "on the Rocks", an early, warm spring day in March on the banks of the Isar river, swans warm themselves in the sun on the stones from the icy water.
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Here is a photo taken of the Moon from Balbriggan observatory Some information regarding the Moon. The Moon is in synchronous rotation with Earth. Its near side is marked by large dark plains volcanic maria that fill the spaces between the bright ancient crustal highlands and the prominent impact craters. The Moon’s surface is actually dark Although compared to the night sky it appears very bright, with a reflectance just slightly higher than that of worn asphalt. Its gravitational influence produces the ocean tides, and the slight lengthening of the day. The Sun and the Moon are not the same size from Earth, both the Sun and the Moon look about same size. This is because, the Moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun, but also 400 times closer to Earth. The Moon is moving approximately 3.8 cm away from our planet every year.
Clear Skies.
A composite of 900 frames w/o meteors captured with D500, 35mm f2.8 set to f5.6, 13 sec exposures, 1 sec interval, between 3:28 AM and 7am on Dec 14, 2021. Merge in StarStaX.
BTW, if you look a ¾ of the frame above the "35mm" text 9boxed), you will note a green streak going from top right to lower left for about an inch (on a large screen). This is not a meteor, it is a mystery...The streak formed progressively during the build up of the star trail, suggesting a man-made object in a geo-synchronous object above Cincinnati. You can see it in this image from which i deleted all the meteor-containing frames. Spooky....
Telechron is the name of a U.S. company that manufactured electric clocks between 1912 and 1992. "Telechron" is derived from the Greek words tele, meaning "far off," and chronos, "time," thus referring to the transmission of time over long distances. Founded by Henry Ellis Warren, Telechron introduced the synchronous electric clock, which keeps time by the oscillations of the alternating current electricity that powers it from the electric power grid. Telechron had its heyday between 1925 and 1955, when it sold millions of electric clocks to American consumers.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telechron
Appleton is a city in Outagamie (mostly), Calumet, and Winnebago counties in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. One of the Fox Cities, it is situated on the Fox River, 30 miles (48 km) southwest of Green Bay and 100 miles (160 km) north of Milwaukee. Appleton is the county seat of Outagamie County. The population was 72,623 at the 2010 census. Of this figure, 60,045 resided in Outagamie County, 11,088 in Calumet County, and 1,490 in Winnebago County. Appleton is the principal city of the Appleton, Wisconsin Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is included in the Appleton-Oshkosh-Neenah, Wisconsin Combined Statistical Area. Appleton is home to the two tallest buildings in Outagamie County, the Zuelke Building and the 222 Building, at 168 and 183 feet, respectively. Appleton serves as the heart of the Fox River Valley, and is home to the Fox Cities Exhibition Center, Fox Cities Performing Arts Center, Fox River Mall, Neuroscience Group Field at Fox Cities Stadium, Appleton International Airport, and the Valley's two major hospitals: St. Elizabeth Hospital and ThedaCare Regional Medical Center–Appleton (better known as "Appleton Medical Center"). It also hosts a large number of regional events such as its Flag Day parade, Memorial Day parade, Christmas parade, Octoberfest, Mile of Music, and others.
Gooden's Nomad bee, Nomada goodeniana. (male).
9-13mm
Gooden’s Nomad bee (Nomada goodeniana) is one of the largest and most common Nomad bees, (often called Cuckoo Bees), in the UK. Seen from April to June and commonly found throughout the south of Britain, with some more localised records in Scotland and Ireland.
Found in a wide variety of habitats, including open, woodland, coastal and inland, (anywhere that the host Andrena nests are found), and is one of the most common Nomad bees found in urban areas.
They feed from a wide variety of spring blossoms, including Dandelions, Buttercups, Forget-me-nots, Cow Parsley, Rape and Greater Stitchwort.
Hosts include the Buffish Mining Bee (Andrena nigroaenea), Grey Patched Mining Bee (Andrena nitida), Cliff Mining Bee (Andrena thoracica) and possibly the Chocolate Mining Bee (Andrena scotica).
Nomads are wasp-like cleptoparasites which, instead of digging their own underground nest site, will target unsealed pollen-stocked nest cells created by their Mining bee hosts. The female Nomada goodeniana waits until an Andrena female has excavated a nest tunnel and has provisioned a nest cell with pollen for her larva. This will take many pollen gathering trips and the Nomada female will take advantage of the host's absence to visit the cell and lay her own egg in it.
After a Nomad larva’s first moult, they are able to use their large sickle-shaped mouth parts to destroy the host’s resident egg or grub, meaning all the stored pollen is theirs for the taking. The adults of the 'Cuckoo' species will emerge the next season, synchronously with the new generation of the host bees.
Males are similar to females, although slightly smaller, with more yellow on the face and some black markings on the antennal segments.
Females are mainly hairless with bold yellow markings across the abdomen, and pairs of yellow spots at the base of the thorax, the collar of the thorax and where the wings stem from. Their legs and antennae are orange. Marsham’s Nomad bee (Nomada marshamella) is similar but the first yellow abdominal band is either absent or very faint and the second is quite obviously separated into two parts.
Two male Stream Ruby Damselflies are fighting it out with all their might.
How do they fight you ask?
They take to the air and engage in a face-off just above the stream, constantly flapping their wings to flash their vibrant colors at each other while synchronously ascending higher and higher only to end in a abrupt mid air pause and a perfetcly timed dive back towards the stream.
The 2 rest on their perches for a few minutes only to start the process all over again unitl one of them unanimously emerges as the winner.
How I wish all fights were this beautiful. No weapons, no blood, no suffering, just put on a grand show and display your best qualities until one of you accept defeat and peacefully withdraw.
"The moon and you appear to be
So near and yet so far from me
And here am I on a night in June
Reaching for the moon and you,
I wonder if we'll ever meet
My song of love is incomplete
I'm just the words, looking for the tune
Reaching for the moon and you.
I'm just the words, looking for the tune
Reaching for the moon and you."
~ Songwriter, Irving Berlin
Photo shot over Cape Canaveral National Seashore, Florida, on Sunday night, January 20, 2019.
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I have several pictures of this godwit couple that are copying their actions more or less synchronous.
The fourth Spacebus Neo satellite to benefit from ESA’s Neosat programme has launched into space on board the second Ariane 5 launch mission of 2022.
The 8.9 metre, three-storeys-high communications satellite – which will deliver high-speed broadband and in-flight connectivity across Europe for its operator, Eutelsat – weighs 6.525 tonnes and accounted for 99% of the 6.62-tonne launch mass.
Called Eutelsat Konnect Very High Throughput Satellite, it includes several innovative features developed under an ESA Partnership Project with satellite manufacturer Thales Alenia Space.
The satellite was launched at 23:45 CEST (18:45 local time) on 6 September from Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, into a sub-synchronous transfer orbit. This highly elliptical trajectory, which loops from close to Earth to up to 60 000 kilometres away from the planet at an inclination of 3.5°, will enable it to transfer into a geostationary orbit some 36 000 kilometres above Earth.
After reaching geostationary orbit the satellite – the tallest ever built in Europe – will be tested further before it enters commercial service.
The satellite features new antenna deployment and pointing mechanisms used within the antenna tracking system, as well as other innovative features including next-generation batteries and structural panels, all developed under the ESA Partnership Project.
Credits: ESA / CNES / Arianespace / Optique vidéo du CSG - P. Piron
BB 20011 with the coaches of a test train. At the rear end is a NS 2400 and to the left a NS 1100. All three Alsthom engines.
Boxtel (NL), 5-12-1986.
After the testing as a pre Sybic for the synchronous three phase motors had finished, the BB 20011 continued life as BB 22379 in the outfit of Infra.
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Eiders often nest in close proximity to one another, and have highly synchronous hatching which overwhelms predators by swamping the market. This is known as the Fraser Darling effect and is well-known amongst social nesting birds like seabirds en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraser_Darling_effect . Broods of recently hatched Eider ducklings often group together forming crèches. The benefits of crèching include the fact that mother Eiders can dive for food leaving their young attended by other mothers. And being selfish, being in a crèche reduces the chances of it being one of yours when a predator calls. Some mothers lose their offspring to a crèche but they will still be guarded by other females. Eiders lay 4 to 6 eggs in a brood and this crèche has 18 ducklings, so I would guess there are three or four broods mixed in here. The main predators, by the way, are large gulls, particularly Great Black-backed Gull, which will swoop in and snatch an unattended duckling. This was taken at Amble on the Northumberland coast and I know it won't get praise for photographic excellence, but it is certainly interesting enough to post.
"Bibio femoratus is commonly known as the March fly. It is one of at least 90 types of March flies, which occur in the United States and Canada. In the southeastern United States, especially around the Gulf Coast, Bibio femoratus is known as the lovebug.
Bibio femoratus is a slow and clumsy flier and is usually found a couple feet off the ground. They can be observed tumbling around and flailing their legs in an effort to right themselves. After synchronous emergence, Bibio femoratus forms large swarms of mating pairs. The mating pairs are joined at the abdomen and stay that way for a while. They seem oblivious and unaware of humans as a threat, and will not make any efforts to avoid sudden movements or threatening gestures."
This is a long exposure. I hope to combine multiple shots to get a composite view of the majesty of this. But first I have to learn new software. :-(
The Boat-tailed Grackle is a large, conspicuous blackbird (subfamily Icterinae) found along the coasts of eastern North America. The species was first described in 1819 by the French ornithologist Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot from a specimen collected in New Orleans, Louisiana. The easily recognized, pigeon-sized male is loud, with a long tail and iridescent blue-green plumage. The less conspicuous, cinnamon-colored female is half the size of the male and, to a casual observer, appears to be a different species.
This grackle is an opportunistic omnivore that eats foods ranging from seeds and insects to crabs and lizards. In many areas it has established a commensal relationship with humans; by doing so, it may increase its rate of food intake and gain protection from predators.
The Boat-tailed Grackle's mating system (harem polygyny) appears to be unique among North American songbirds but has been found in the oropendolas (Psarocolius) of the American tropics. Boat-tailed Grackle sexes remain apart most of the year, except in the nesting season when females gather in large, dense colonies, usually on small islands in marshes or in isolated trees in settled areas. Many males are attracted to each nesting colony, but only a few high-ranked individuals succeed in mating there. Relative positions in the male dominance hierarchy are maintained from year to year; the alpha male may be ten years or older. Despite the high mating success of alpha males within the nesting colony proper, a high percentage of young are sired by noncolony males.
The reproductive behavior of female Boat-tailed Grackles is molded by the potentially high rate of predation occurring in marshes. Females nest synchronously in predator-safe sites such as marsh islands patrolled by alligators, or in trees in highway traffic islands. Their incubation and nestling periods are shorter than in other similar-sized songbirds. Young leave the nest prematurely, and weight gain is sacrificed for early maturation of legs and plumage.
Little is known about the complex vocal repertoire of this species. Its song and Precopulatory Vocalization are of particular interest because of the role they may play in maintaining reproductive isolation from the very similar Great-tailed Grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus), which is expanding its range into areas occupied by the Boat-tailed Grackle.
Found this one in my Front Yard. Frostproof, Florida.
Manufacturer: Adam Opel AG, Rüsselsheim - Germany / General Motors Company, Detroit - USA
Type: 1,3 Liter Typ 1397 4-door Limousine
Production time: January 1934 – October 1935
Production outlet: 29,002 (all models, including officially 2 pre-production cars, late 1933)
Engine: 1288cc straight-4 side valve (designed by GM America)
Power: 24 bhp / 3.200 rpm
Torque: 68 Nm / 1.600 rpm
Drivetrain: rear wheels
Speed: 90 km/h
Curb weight: 1014 kg
Wheelbase: 97.6 inch
Chassis: “torsion resistant” box frame with cross bar and separate steel body
Steering: worm & roller
Gearbox: four-speed manual / III and IV synchronized / floor shift
Clutch: single dry plate disc
Carburettor: Opel downdraft with accelerator pump
Fuel tank: 34 liter
Electric system: 6 Volts 72 Ah
Ignition system: distributor and coil
Brakes front: hydraulic drums (system Lockheed)
Brakes rear: hydraulic drums (system Lockheed)
Suspension front: : independent "synchronous” reaction strut (Dubonnet strut type), swing arms, spiral springs + double-acting hydraulic shock absorbers
Suspension rear: press-steel housing trucs, sway bar, longitudinal semi-elliptical leaf springs + hydraulic shock absorbers
Rear axle: live
Differential: spiral bevel
Wheels: 5.50 x 16 steel discs
Tires: 5.25 x 16
Special:
- It was Opels first car with „Synchron“-Achse / "synchronous" front axle (Dubonnet strut type) and hydraulic drum brakes all around was also very advanced for that era.
- With 19,840 units produced in 1934 alone, representing the equivalent of 15% of the overall German auto-market, it was a great success.
- The 1.3 Liter Series was available as this 4-door Limousine, as 2-door Limousine, as 2-door Kabrio-Limousine, as 2-door Kabriolett and as rolling chassis (especially for the German Wehrmacht / Army, all assembled in Rüsselsheim (Germany).
The moon's rotation is synchronous with the earth, and thus always shows the same side to Earth, the near side. Because of libration, slightly more than half (about 59%) of the total lunar surface can be viewed from Earth. The near side is marked by dark volcanic maria that fill the spaces between the bright ancient crustal highlands and the prominent impact craters.
Members of a group stand together and display to each other by stretching their necks upwards, then uttering calls while head-flagging, and then flapping their wings. The displays do not seem to be directed towards an individual, but instead occur randomly. These displays stimulate "synchronous nesting" and help pair up those birds that do not already have mates
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Here's the first photo from my annual firefly photography trip.
Have a nice weekend---synchronous eat
Dutch:
De visarend vloog erg ver weg, tijd om even naar iets anders te kijken.
Met bewondering voor de manier waarop deze 4 Canadese ganzen nagenoeg perfect synchroon aan het eten waren.
De achterste lijken een kopie van de voorste twee.
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Automated drone deployed on Mars, printing habitats, moving slowly in precise, crab-like movements. Guided by synchronous GPS and local field markers. When the filament tanks are empty, another drone replaces the pallet with fresh tanks. Astronaut added for scale.
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Late at night, when the sun has settled for the day, the forest wakes up to play.
Gooden's Nomad bee, Nomada goodeniana. (male).
9-13mm
Gooden’s Nomad bee (Nomada goodeniana) is one of the largest and most common Nomad bees, (often called Cuckoo Bees), in the UK. Seen from April to June and commonly found throughout the south of Britain, with some more localised records in Scotland and Ireland.
Found in a wide variety of habitats, including open, woodland, coastal and inland, (anywhere that the host Andrena nests are found), and is one of the most common Nomad bees found in urban areas.
They feed from a wide variety of spring blossoms, including Dandelions, Buttercups, Forget-me-nots, Cow Parsley, Rape and Greater Stitchwort.
Hosts include the Buffish Mining Bee (Andrena nigroaenea), Grey Patched Mining Bee (Andrena nitida), Cliff Mining Bee (Andrena thoracica) and possibly the Chocolate Mining Bee (Andrena scotica).
Nomads are wasp-like cleptoparasites which, instead of digging their own underground nest site, will target unsealed pollen-stocked nest cells created by their Mining bee hosts. The female Nomada goodeniana waits until an Andrena female has excavated a nest tunnel and has provisioned a nest cell with pollen for her larva. This will take many pollen gathering trips and the Nomada female will take advantage of the host's absence to visit the cell and lay her own egg in it.
After a Nomad larva’s first moult, they are able to use their large sickle-shaped mouth parts to destroy the host’s resident egg or grub, meaning all the stored pollen is theirs for the taking. The adults of the 'Cuckoo' species will emerge the next season, synchronously with the new generation of the host bees.
Males are similar to females, although slightly smaller, with more yellow on the face and some black markings on the antennal segments.
Females are mainly hairless with bold yellow markings across the abdomen, and pairs of yellow spots at the base of the thorax, the collar of the thorax and where the wings stem from. Their legs and antennae are orange. Marsham’s Nomad bee (Nomada marshamella) is similar but the first yellow abdominal band is either absent or very faint and the second is quite obviously separated into two parts.
I wish all my fans, friends and followers a successful and happy 2011.
Enjoy the world, the different cultures, traditions, people , nature .........and my Lifescapes :-) - I promise to discover more in 2011.
Cheers ! to a blu hour rendezvous.
And a key takeaway for me - "Take time to Smell The Roses" - Thank You J
The fourth Spacebus Neo satellite to benefit from ESA’s Neosat programme has launched into space on board the second Ariane 5 launch mission of 2022.
The 8.9 metre, three-storeys-high communications satellite – which will deliver high-speed broadband and in-flight connectivity across Europe for its operator, Eutelsat – weighs 6.525 tonnes and accounted for 99% of the 6.62-tonne launch mass.
Called Eutelsat Konnect Very High Throughput Satellite, it includes several innovative features developed under an ESA Partnership Project with satellite manufacturer Thales Alenia Space.
The satellite was launched at 23:45 CEST (18:45 local time) on 6 September from Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, into a sub-synchronous transfer orbit. This highly elliptical trajectory, which loops from close to Earth to up to 60 000 kilometres away from the planet at an inclination of 3.5°, will enable it to transfer into a geostationary orbit some 36 000 kilometres above Earth.
After reaching geostationary orbit the satellite – the tallest ever built in Europe – will be tested further before it enters commercial service.
The satellite features new antenna deployment and pointing mechanisms used within the antenna tracking system, as well as other innovative features including next-generation batteries and structural panels, all developed under the ESA Partnership Project.
Credits: ESA / CNES / Arianespace / Optique vidéo du CSG - P. Piron