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Two for the price of one. I wasn't sure what to expect as I entered the QV Building in the Sydney CBD. At first I thought I would come away with an image of the main shopping mall. Then I found the stair cases but the light was awful that morning. So I kept wandering around and I noticed that all of the walls were painted in majestic bright colours. I had a tripod with me, but didn't use it for this particular shot. I tried the image from a few different vantage points, but this one taken from directly in front is my favourite. I had to crank up the ISO a little to enable the freehand shot, and then I adjusted the sharpness and noise reduction in Lightroom. Camera Settings: 24mm, f4, ISO800, 1/15sec. via 500px ift.tt/28SWjHX
The Sol Duc forest captures my fancy when I am here. The variance of color, especially the verdant mosses are amazing. Add a little moving water for ambience and soon the entire scene is complete.
The Badwater Salt Flats in Death Valley at sunset. A 4x GND filter was used on this shot.
The variance of light and darkness proves to be an exceptionally hard spot to shoot and edit. I edited three images manually to achieve this image.
The Badwater Salt Flats are located on the south end of Death Valley National Park.
Pato de la Florida, Blue-winged Teal (Spatula discors)
Status Migrante Comun (Mc)
pato de Florida o yaguasa aliazul, también conocida como pato media luna, pato de alas azules, barraquete aliazul, es una especie de ave anseriforme de la familia Anatidae nativa de América.
Es pardo manchado y punteado de negro, con diseño alar como el del pato pico cuchara sudamericano, cabeza y cuello ceniciento oscuro, notable medialuna en la cara y mancha blanca en los flancos, en los machos. La hembra no tiene la medialuna en la cara, pero tiene una leve ceja loreal clara.
sta especie de pato vive en lagunas, lagos y pantanos de agua dulce. No teniendo preferencias durante el invierno habita aguas salobres. Se alimenta de vegetación, insectos, y crustáceos acuáticos. Complementa su dieta con semillas, incluyendo las de campos cultivados.
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The blue-winged teal (Spatula discors) is a small dabbling duck from North America. The scientific name is derived from Latin Anas "duck", and discors, "variance", which may refer to the striking face pattern of the male
The adult male has a greyish blue head with a white facial crescent, a light brown body with a white patch near the rear and a black tail. The adult female is mottled brown, and has a whitish area at base of bill. Both sexes have sky-blue wing coverts, a green speculum, and yellow legs
Blue-winged teal inhabit shoreline more often than open water and prefer calm water or sluggish currents to fast water. They inhabit inland marshes, lakes, ponds, pools, and shallow streams with dense emergent vegetation.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Anseriformes
Family:Anatidae
Subfamily:Anatinae
Genus:Anas (disputed)
Species:S. discors
Binomial name
Spatula discors
Was lucky enough to be in Northridge at Warner center when the Mustang car show was going on, as well as Old Colorado City with Territory Days. I was using my M5, with 35mm Nikkor and the last of the stash of Arista Ultra 100. I hadn't used Diafine with it in a long time, and I was pleasantly surprised on how well the combination was sharp and captured good tonality despite the variance of light intensity. Have to start using Diafine much more. Gratitude to those flickeranians who continue to inspire - always makes me want to get out and capture images.
Fresh snow lies in Yosemite's valley floor after a fresh snowfall the night before. Taken before sunrise on El Capitan Rd at the Merced River bridge. This is a three shot HDR edited using Oloneo's hotoengine then using many layer variances in CS6. Shot at 10mm.
Taken in Yosemite National Park, California on February 20th, 2013.
Founded in 1846 in the Netherlands, Vlisco has been designing and manufacturing unique printed fabrics, made with time-honoured methods and quality materials originally derived from Indonesian wax-based batik. Vlisco’s heritage and design signature is a multicultural symbiosis of beauty and craftsmanship, where each print has its own distinctive identity.
For almost 200 years, Vlisco has created over 350,000 original textile designs and colour variances. Many of these designs have become cultural treasures, adopted and embraced by African women; and honoured with names and meanings by the traders of West and Central Africa.
Within this world of heritage, craftsmanship, design and storytelling, Vlisco’s fabrics form the starting point of fashion, creativity and bold self-expression, where every final piece, is indeed: one of a kind.
American Robin AMRO (Turdus migratorius)
typical look for time of year
(adult)
although winter plumage,there is not a lot of variance between seasons,just aspects of 'fresh' and worn or faded
McBig Reservoir. :: Private Access
E of Garcia’s Nursery
Martindale Flats
Greater Victoria
DSCN3548
The Palace on the Island located at the beautiful Lazienkowsi Park in Warsaw, Poland. via 500px ift.tt/2ijTNjl
This morning (Wednesday) Richard and Diane - www.flickr.com/photos/ricketdi/50695044062/in/dateposted/ - posted an image of a White-breasted Nuthatch taken by Richard, and I commented that it didn't look like our local nuthatches. Richard replied with an explanation about regional variances, and that set me off exploring.
First, I see White-breasted nuthatches every day. They come for one (and only one ... at a time) sunflower seed that I put on top of my fence. Then they will either bury it under the bark of my maple tree, or fly back to their nests in one of three 75 foot Coastal Redwoods across the street from my house. It's been this way for over 45 years when the redwoods were only 25 feet tall. All my images of nuthatches have been taken in the foothills of Mt. Diablo, and I could swear that there were Red-breasted nuthatches in that archive as well.
I also complained how difficult it was to get a good shot of nuthatches, as flitty as three other denizens of the Coastal Redwoods, Yellow-rumped warblers, Chestnut-backed chickadees, and bushtits. I complain but I know how lucky I am to have these three (plus 11 more species) locally and get to see them daily. That help with the frustration of getting a good shot. And yet, the one I'm posting today, isn't bad at all. It was on a huge Blue oak near the Rock City Trail on the mountain. Such a small bird; such a huge tree as is the redwood.
The white-breasted nuthatch (Sitta carolinensis) is a small songbird of the nuthatch family common across much of temperate North America. It is stocky, with a large head, short tail, powerful bill, and strong feet. It has a black cap, white face, chest, and flanks, blue-gray upperparts, and a chestnut lower belly. Its NINE subspecies differ mainly in the color of the body plumage. Then, there's the relative: the red-breasted nuthatch (Sitta canadensis) is a small songbird. The adult has blue-grey upperparts with cinnamon underparts, a white throat and face with a black stripe through the eyes, a straight grey bill and a black crown. Its call, which has been likened to a tin trumpet, is high-pitched and nasal. It breeds in coniferous forests across Canada, Alaska and the northeastern and western United States.
Richard and Diane live in eastern Canada. Richard's nuthatch is probably a c. carolinensis. My subspecies is likely a c. aculeata, a bird of the western states. In between, we have seven subspecies left over and each has little variations because of hundreds of years of interbreeding. Top that off with the fact that the Red-breasted nuthatch and its five subspecies range in almost the same areas as the other nuthatches.
I'll probably delve more deeply when the weather gets bad - which better happen pretty soon (we have many, many trees that are stressed by the ongoing drought) - but I think that the task may be more difficult than dragonflies and damselflies - but less than any butterflies. So, this may be the start of something great, but it depends on what you come to my Flickr pages for.
For 1 month a year Sydney lights up like a Christmas tree. This is Sydney Vivid. via 500px ift.tt/2slRiBO
Hello all and Happy New Year. To all my friends and Flickr contacts that despite the struggles of the world I know many of you have managed to still get out and produce some outstanding photography and perhaps in locations and scenes closer to home than you perhaps originally planned :) I thank you for your sharing your photography and I hope you will continue to do so in 2022.
Photography for me has been difficult in 2021. From riding the wave of creativity and ideas of 2020 in to 2021 quickly saw me burnout and crash with the worlds uncertainty. Frustrated with the lack of personal motivation, inspiration and energy, my photography and video output has taken a bit of a dive!
As such I have struggled greatly in trying to keep the photographic flame burning. I think this reflected no more so in the limited number of images I have posted to flickr this year. I'm quite sure im not alone in feeling this way too.
Still, looking back on the year that is now fast coming to an end (thankfully) i'm happy with the quality of imagery I have produce but maybe not so much with the qty and adventuring. so finding the selection of images to present in my yearly round up (which have been gathering digital dust on my pc) was in itself a challenge.
Alas the task is complete, and I think the images shown capture the months of the year and the adventures I have been on and a new variance of having to shoot more local and at time in the house.
Thank you one all, for the continued support you have shown me throughout 2021!
I have read every comment you guys have posted even from Solar Light Guy Buy on Amazon Man. and done my best to reply to everyone. Sorry if I did, miss anyone :)
To all my flickr mates, existing friends, and new friends that I will make in 2022. Wishing you all a great New Year .....(let's be honest it can't get any worse can it? and I look forward to seeing what you and I produce.
Regards
Geoff
Kushti (or Pehlwani) is a traditional wrestling sport. It is very popular at least in Varansi, and many small clubs exist. I find it very picturesque, yet, like any sport, very challenging for the accidental photographer. In the clubs I visited, I was impresses by the variance in age of the wrestlers: from young children, to men in their forties.
I take the opportunity to thank my wonderful friend, fixer and guide Manoj Yadav that brought me to many picturesque places, I could never reach without him: tinyurl.com/ydc3k263
DM skintone matches caucasian Barbie very closely, but if you're a Barbie collector, you'll know even Barbs have had slight color variances over time. Sometimes it's fairer and sometimes it's darker. Sometime's it's more pinkish or more yellowish.
Crested Anoles are a trunk-ground ecomorph, meaning they have evolved for life on the ground and the lower-mid trunks of trees. They have long limbs, stout bodies and their coloration is generally some shade of brown (with temperature and stress metachromatic variances). This species is native to the island of Puerto Rico and the neighboring U.S. Virgin Islands. They have been introduced to U.S. State of Florida where they have dense populations within a small range that is primarily confined to the greater Miami area. Some small populations have been observed further north in the state.
ABT's Ballet Terms Word Tree™
A new fun experiment with an old online App called "Wordle"
I have used too many words, too monochromatic, and a poor choice of word frequencies.
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How would this look on a T-Shirt, I wonder?
I checked the spellings in a ballet dictionary.
Composed in "Wordle" which is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.
I am redoing it to recreate the steps...
Save your text in a text edit program so you can try it out against different settings in Wordie. Type in words you want to be larger more often.
Paste your text into Wordie at www.wordle.net/create and hit Go.
Click on Color in the menu line above and select the color palette you want to try. For example, I used Worldle(TM).
Also select the level of variance you like at the bottom of the Color menu. I like lots of variance so word colors do not repeat as often and you get different shades of the basic colors..
You can click repeatedly on Recolor in the color menu, until you like the colors it chose.
Click on Layout. I like "Mostly Vertical" or "Mostly Horizontal"
You can also keep hitting "re-layout" with current settings until you get a layout you like.
I then used "Grab" and selected my area on the window I wanted to save. Grab is a nice screen selector and save program on Mac's OS X. There are plenty of similar applications on Microsoft Windows too.
Actually you should select and save the image whenever you like it because selecting changes seems to lose what you had. For me anyway.
Here's A Different Way:
It's also fun and interesting, on the create page, to use the option of giving it your webpage URL and have it select the words for you. It selects word sizes on the frequency of occurrence on the page. Or in your text for that matter.
Hope that helps.
Oh, I should mention. The colors from Wordle are too mute for my taste, so I imported it into Apple's iPhoto to give it a little more vibrancy. You can do the same in Flickr's Picnic. Or, you can use Photoshop, which is the real powerhouse.
Fort Langley, BC Canada
Fort Langley is a village community forming part of the Township of Langley in British Columbia, Canada. It has a population of 3,400. It is the home of Fort Langley National Historic Site, a former fur trade post of the Hudson's Bay Company. Lying on the Fraser River, Fort Langley is at the northern edge of the Township of Langley.
In recent years, many of the village's old buildings have been restored. The restorations, combined with its rural setting, access to the river and mountain vistas, local amenities and the old Fort itself, make it a thriving tourist centre.
Outdoor recreation includes canoeing, fishing, hiking and horseback riding. The town has served as a filming location for commercials, TV shows and movies, with its striking yellow community hall usually featured prominently.
Many new buildings in the area have been constructed in Fort Langley in the past few decades. All new buildings must follow strict style guidelines to match the heritage appearance, unless a variance is granted by the local government.
A recent example of this style of architecture is the Fort Mall (pictured). Additionally, there are few franchises in the village and this has raised its profile as a tourist and independent retail destination with hundreds of thousands of annual visitors.
(Wikipedia)
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Thank-you for your visit!
I really appreciate it!
Sonja
The Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex is a dark nebula of gas and dust that is located near the star Rho Ophiuchi of the constellation Ophiuchus. At an estimated distance of 460 light years, it is one of the closest star-forming regions to our Solar System. This region is quite large, covering an angular area of the sky that measures 4.5 x6.5 degrees in size.
This is the second image I have processed from those acquired from the stretch of clear skies we had during June 4th-6th. This one is from my new portable rig with the FPA400 72mm F/5.5 scope. This is much wider field than I can normally work with, providing a coverage of 3.6 x 2.7 degrees - but even with this scope, I can only image a subset of this huge region.
Why did I choose this target? Well, early summer pickings are a little on the thin side. We are on the tail end of Galaxy Season (very small targets) but we are too early for the rich set of summer targets - so right now the target list is a little weak. The next problem is my restricted field of view. I had to be a target that I can see in the gaps between my extensive tree lines.
This target only shows itself for about two hours a night so I planned on getting at least 3 nights of data.
I chose 2 minute subs, as I always had gotten good results on the ASI1600MM-Pro camera with this. This was a mistake - with the faster optical system, bright starts were not just saturated, they are being blown to hell and back again! Oops. Won't do that again!
I also found that I had some clouds moving through for the first two nights and after culling bad frames, I ended with about 4 hours of integration, rather than the six I had targeted. The ones that were left had a variety of contrasts levels as there were still some very thin clouds passing through. So I decided to keep them and see what happened.
The result was….. Just OK. The bright stars are blown out and the darker regions still have a lot of noise even with careful and aggressive noise reduction processing. The colors are not as clear as they would be with more integration. But you learn with each image and this one had many things to teach me.!
The good news is that the tracking looks reasonable. I was getting RMSerrors of 1.25 arcseconds most of the time with some exceptions into the 1.8 domain - and given the pixel scale of this system being about 2, this seemed good enough.
Here are the details for this image:
*Number of frames is after bad or questionable frames were culled.
36 x 120 seconds, bin 1x1 @ -15C, unity gain, ZWO Gen II L Filter
31 x 120 seconds, bin 1x1 @ -15C, Unity gain, ZWO Gen II R Filter
28 x 120 seconds, bin 1x1 @ -15C, unity gain, ZWO Gen II G Filter
29 x 120 seconds, bin 1x1 @ -15C, unity gain, ZWO Gen II B Filter
Total of 4.1 hours
30 Darks at 300 seconds, bin 1x1, -10C, gain 100
30 Darks at 90 seconds, bin 1x1, -10C, gain 0
30 Dark Flats at Flat exposure times, bin 1x1, -15C, gain 0
Flats done separately for each evening to account for camera rotator variances:
30 L Flats
30 R Flats
30 G Flats
30 B Flats
Capture Hardware:
Scope: Aslar FPA400 73MM F/5/5 Quntuplet Astrograph
Guide Scope: Sharpstar 66EDPHII
Camera: ZWO ASI1600mm-pro with ZWO Filter wheel with ZWO LRGB filter set,
and Astronomiks 6nm Narrowband filter set
Guide Camera: ZWO ASI290Mini
Focus Motor: Pegasus ZWO EAF 5V
Mount: Ioptron CEM 26
Polar Alignment: Ipolar camera
Software:
Capture Software: PHD2 Guider, Sequence Generator Pro controller
Image Processing: Pixinsight, Photoshop - assisted by Coffee, extensive processing indecision and second guessing, editor regret and much swearing….. Given the problems on this image, more than the usual whining….
View in original size. A manually blended inage of the Salt Flats at Badwater in Death Valley at sunset. This is very similar to my "Badwater Salt Flats at Twilight" but shot from a different location resulting in a different pattern on the salt flats.
The variance of light and darkness proves to be an exceptionally hard spot to shoot and edit. I edited three images manually to achieve this image.
The salt flats are located on the south end of Death Valley National Park.
Academic and musical life flourished in the Pieta, so much so that it directed the ebb and flow of all creativity in Venice. If the Pieta were a midwife-priestess of sorts, the inhabitants, all females, were its Vestal Virgins. But this was not Rome in the height of her glory. No, this was La Serenissima, the Republic of Venice, the Byzantine jewel of the Roman Catholic world. This was the world of high Baroque life and art and politics, the world of a peculiar Maryolatry and great variances in morality. Religion and politics, having travelled together along convoluted pathways from Rome and Constantinople, had found their home in the city. And Antonio Vivaldi had been born at precisely the right time for his destiny to be in alignment with his city’s. The earthquake on the day of his birth had been no coincidence. [from Antonia of Venice by Ellyn Peirson}
Antonio Vivaldi's Church in the heart of Venice
my textures
Schwabacher's Landing, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming. Once again - one of the more photographed spots in TNP, my first visit and it was late morning with Spotty light. But - what a view! All shot hand held and more variances in my versions loaded in my stream. As always - thank you very much for the visit and comments.
~ ~ ~ Worth a click - large on Black ~ ~ ~
Big Horn Profile, Tetons B&W, Teton Sunset, Grizzly, TA Moulton Barn, Swainson's Hawk, Raven, American Pelicans, Pintail Pair, Osprey, Mountain Bluebird, GWH Profile, Killdeer, Big Horns, Pheasant, RTH Launch, GBH Rookery, Young Moose, Juvenile Baldy, Sage Grouse Strut, Golden Eagle Launch, Rocky Mountain Goats
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Crested Anoles are a trunk-ground ecomorph, meaning they have evolved for life on the ground and the lower-mid trunks of trees. They have long limbs, stout bodies and their coloration is generally some shade of brown (with temperature and stress metachromatic variances). This species is native to the island of Puerto Rico and the neighboring U.S. Virgin Islands. They have been introduced to U.S. State of Florida where they have dense populations within a small range that is primarily confined to the greater Miami area. Some small populations have been observed further north in the state.
This is only a variance on an earlier pic, "bench warmer" but i like it too so I will post it
I like whats going on here,
the light on the rail and how it flows into the wood lining the path
the shadow of the tree
the light on the water
i think his picture would be perfect is someone was sitting on the bench enjoying the moment
It looks warm doesn't it? well it was freezing, trust me ;)
Edit: The title here sucks...my brains not working so well this morning help me out!
Better Name just came to me
By the way no photoshpping was done, this is straight out of the camera...except the frame:)
The light is a result of 2 things, there is cloud almost up to the sun and its early in the morning so the sun is rather golden, also there is a little haze over the lake
Bodega (2021). This piece represents the hundreds, if not thousands, of neighborhood bodegas in New York City. It is a mash-up of two corner bodegas on my former block in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn.
I am happy with the feel I’ve attained in this piece and quite think it represents my neighborhood very well. Of note on the body of the building I used thin LEGO plates instead of LEGO bricks. I did this in an effort to attain the realism of a bricked façade. Also notable are the color variations in the LEGO pieces. The color variances greatly assist in providing the realism I strive for in my work. Lastly, I had hoped to include a bodega cat, but could not find the LEGO cat I thought I had. Not sure where she ran off to. Enjoy!
This is the second image in a Layered Series that I will be posting. All will be the same subject-- the early morning Kettle Moraine Forest, captured from atop the Parnell Tower. But there will be a considerable difference in the appearance of the images due to my changes in post-processing.
The final outcome of the same image can be dramatically different depending on the 'developing' or processing workflow. I thought it would be fun to show these variances in this series... Hope you enjoy!
www.travelwisconsin.com/trails-and-hiking/parnell-tower-2...
www.stateparks.com/kettle_moraine_state_forest_in_wiscons...
A shot from last year (Fall) along the Ottawa River. I had posted a shot of this Snowy Owl (m) with an almost black bg and one with the blue river as bg...just a slight angle variance and in this instance the change in angle picked up the shoreline on the Quebec side of the river to give some late Fall colors...
Green laser pen and purple-gelled LED flashlight on the side of a wrecked semi-trailer. I shot this as a demo during one of the September 2010 Pearsonville night photography workshop.
The laser has interchangeable lenses; this one breaks the beam into hundreds of smaller points of light. I taped it in the on position and set it on the ground, off camera, left, about 20 feet away. It was totally stationary. I left it on for about 30 seconds of this 2 minute exposure. The purple was skimmed down the side of the trailer from the right, just enough to add a little variance to the color.
A weekend down on the south coast proved a bit challenging on the weather front. Some pretty extreme rainfall followed by cloudy skies for two days. Had to resort to long exposure work as dramatic sunsets and sunrises were unfortunately not going to happen. It's difficult to avoid the cliched shots but the conditions can sometimes bring some variance. Fisrt one up is the good old groins on Teignmouth beach.
Best viewed on black (Press L)
Website: www.stuartleche.photography/
[Tirages meilleurs jusqu'à 141 x 79 cm maximum]
[Prints best within 141 x 79 cm / 55 x 31 inches]
Vitrail de Jeanne d'Arc à l'Église Saint Rémy / Stained-glass window of Saint Joan of Arc at Saint Rémy Church in Domrémy.
How is it possible to enter the house of my Saint Joan of Arc and feel almost nothing, and then to enter the church of her baptism and feel everything?... Everything and too much. The only thing more difficult than entering Saint Rémy Church is leaving it. It's not unlike pulling away from a magnet, as if the gravitational force outside its walls were at variance from that within.
Entering Saint Rémy Church is to virtually enter another dimension. There is no up or down, left or right. There are no road signs. There is only one direction, and the church itself guides you. It's no wonder then that one must tear oneself away in order to leave its grace.
A monument of another world beyond any price, you'll find no toll to be paid at its doorway, other than the cost of bracing yourself... always.
Codi von Richthofen,
Saint Joan of Arc Superstar ©
Arrows showing variation of magnetic north from true north. Found on 1958 Batholomews map of Mid-Wales.
The writing says the variance is 10 deg 25 mins west. but the arrow shows it as 9 degrees west.
Did not have to look for arrows at all as I immediately thought of this when the subject was posted. Good job I love maps.
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One of my favourite locations to shoot in Western Australia, Wyadup rocks always has lots of interesting compositions to explore. Sunrise didn't provide any colour but the fast moving clouds drifting north lent themselves to some long exposure work.
Nikon D800 & Nikkor 16-35mm, HiTech Firecrest 16 stop IRND filter. PP in PS CC using Nik Software and luminosity masks.
Pato de la Florida, Blue-winged Teal (Spatula discors)
Status Migrante Comun (Mc) NoIG
pato de Florida o yaguasa aliazul, también conocida como pato media luna, pato de alas azules, barraquete aliazul, es una especie de ave anseriforme de la familia Anatidae nativa de América.
Es pardo manchado y punteado de negro, con diseño alar como el del pato pico cuchara sudamericano, cabeza y cuello ceniciento oscuro, notable medialuna en la cara y mancha blanca en los flancos, en los machos. La hembra no tiene la medialuna en la cara, pero tiene una leve ceja loreal clara.
sta especie de pato vive en lagunas, lagos y pantanos de agua dulce. No teniendo preferencias durante el invierno habita aguas salobres. Se alimenta de vegetación, insectos, y crustáceos acuáticos. Complementa su dieta con semillas, incluyendo las de campos cultivados.
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The blue-winged teal (Spatula discors) is a small dabbling duck from North America. The scientific name is derived from Latin Anas "duck", and discors, "variance", which may refer to the striking face pattern of the male
The adult male has a greyish blue head with a white facial crescent, a light brown body with a white patch near the rear and a black tail. The adult female is mottled brown, and has a whitish area at base of bill. Both sexes have sky-blue wing coverts, a green speculum, and yellow legs
Blue-winged teal inhabit shoreline more often than open water and prefer calm water or sluggish currents to fast water. They inhabit inland marshes, lakes, ponds, pools, and shallow streams with dense emergent vegetation.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Anseriformes
Family:Anatidae
Subfamily:Anatinae
Genus:Anas (disputed)
Species:S. discors
Binomial name
Spatula discors
The skyline of Bunker Hill in Downtown Los Angeles taken from the DWP (Department of Water and Power) Fountains. This was a spur of the moment shoot and I only had a lightweight tripod. I'll be back with the proper lenses and tripod and hopefull get some better photos.
This is a three shot HDR shot with a 2 stop variance. Next time a 3 stop variance, closer to sunset and a sturdy tripod using my 10mm lens and not a 17mm!
This day included a WTF moment.
Covidiots were out in high drama at Memorial Park by White Rock’s museum building.
Definition of Covidiots:
Someone who ignores the warnings regarding public health or safety.
Basically, a covidiot doesn’t take COVID-19 and the risks of the virus seriously, despite what government officials and the global health community say.
At the same time, they may also engage in selfish behavior that doesn’t look out for the greater good when it comes to slowing down and stopping the spread of the coronavirus.
A list of Covidiot symptoms:
* Extraordinary sense of self importance - ego on steroids, oh yeh.
* Generally low I.Q. - who added this trait, but - - -
* Naturally attracted to toilet paper - in large quantities.
* Predominant diet of pasta - more selfish hoarding behaviour.
* Has no idea of personal space - and do you smell bad, back off.
Treatment: No effective anti-idiot drug currently available.
Enough frivolity.
Here we are, a year and counting, with COVID-19 “D” variant slithering down our air passageway and these dam idiots come along and spew their shit. Give your head a shake you blockheads.
Remember, on social media, myths spreed deeper and faster than truth. Even small exposure to falsehoods make people less likely to want a COVID-19 vaccine shot.
Apparently two thirds of unvaccinated adults believe at least one vaccine lie. The outcomes of believing in pseudo-science, deception, bogus health-care claims, scams, misinformation and fake doctors can be catastrophic.
The poor dears are so tired of covering their mouths and noses. We hear this constantly.
Infringing on their rights, get real, how about my right to be protected from you. You selfish shitheads. If you don't like the mask, you definitely won't like the ventilator.
It’s time for governments (politicians) to grow a spine and get tough. There needs to be consequences for not getting vaccinated.
To make one thing clear, vaccinated people are not as likely to get and spread the coronavirus as unvaccinated people. Vaccines work remarkably well.
I pity the heath care workers, emergency responders and business employees who already face enough risks on the job without having to worry about these imbeciles they have to deal with on a daily basis.
Give these people a break you dickheads, just put on a damn mask when required and go get vaccinated, immediately.
Poor babies. These malcontents are God Dam lucky they weren't living during the 1918 flu pandemic.
It is estimated one-third of the world’s population became infected with this virus. The number of deaths was estimated to be at least 50 million worldwide with about 675,000 occurring in the United States.
Mortality was high in people younger than 5 years old, 20-40 years old, and 65 years plus. The high mortality in healthy people, including the 20-40 year age group, was a unique feature of this pandemic.
With no vaccine to protect against influenza infection and no antibiotics to treat secondary bacterial infections associated with influenza infections, control efforts worldwide were limited to non-pharmaceutical interventions such as isolation, quarantine, good personal hygiene, use of disinfectants, and limitations of public gatherings.
And here we are today with a proven, effective vaccine defence and yet too many “intelligent” (?) assholes are ignoring the plea to get vaccinated or wear masks.
It’s good a shift by companies & some governments are taking the lead on requiring employees be vaccinated before returning to the office environment.
It’s high time for a national vaccine immunization certificate.
If they or any of the loved ones of this bunch of malcontents wind up in hospital with COVID-19, just maybe they’ll figure out what assholes holes they are. Oh yes, they will expect and receive the best of public health care regardless.
OK, if you have a legitimate medial exemption (a hand written note from your veterinary doesn’t qualify) as to why you can not be vaccinated, you are absolved.
We are in a race against the clock to vaccinate enough people to avoid a fourth wave of the pandemic - come on go get vaccinated!!
Guess what, the latest US figures from CDC show 99% of current USA COVID deaths are people unvaccinated, Canada’s statistics are not much different.
You super spreading dummies, go get a vaccine. The pandemic has become a pandemic of the unvaccinated.
Jesus H Christ, don’t get me started.
And do not forget, COVID variant “L” is waiting in the wings to surge into a variant of concern and we are only a few variants away that will evade existing vaccines.
“It sounds like you're fearful of the possible side effects of the vaccine. And that makes sense.".
Not on your life but let’s humour you anyway.
"It seems like you don't trust the pharmaceutical companies that are producing the vaccines. I understand that"
"You're worried that we don't have long-term data on the effectiveness and safety of the vaccines. I get that."
“It sounds like you and I want people to be both healthy and free from coercion. And this virus is sort of pitting those values against each other, and I'm coming down more strongly on the side of health, and you appear to value freedom more.
I hear your concerns about your health. And actually, I'm in favor of vaccination because I think it will give us all more freedom."
Go get yourself vaccinated.
Vancouver Sun 19 August 2021:
By Pete McMartin:
Enough is enough. I'm done with all of the COVID-19 skeptics
Opinion: I’m done with those whose ignorance of science is so profound and intractable that, rather than heeding the advice of scientists, doctors and virologists, they put their trust in celebrities, politicians and quacks.
Pete McMartin is done with those who are so mentally lazy that they refuse to trust in anything beyond hearsay, urban legend, apocrypha, conservative wing-nut provocateurs and the whole digital witch-doctor network of chat rooms, Facebook forums and the first hit that pops up on their Google searches that are designed to reaffirm their ignorance rather than challenge it.
Enough.
I’m done.
I’m done with those whose fear of vaccinations arises from studies that were long ago peer-disproved and retracted.
I’m done with those whose ignorance of science is so profound and intractable that, rather than heeding the advice of scientists, doctors and virologists, they put their trust in celebrities, politicians and quacks who, unable to tell the difference between their outsized egos and reality, and who in the face of reason and the damage they leave in their wake, continue to spout self-aggrandizing bullshit in the dangerous belief that their notoriety somehow gives them a platform from which to spout lies to a credulous public.
I’m done with those who are so mentally lazy that they refuse to trust in anything beyond hearsay, urban legend, apocrypha, conservative wing-nut provocateurs and the whole digital witch-doctor network of chat rooms, Facebook forums and the first hit that pops up on their Google searches that are designed to reaffirm their ignorance rather than challenge it.
I’m done with those who believe political beliefs are the same thing as incontrovertible facts.
I’m done with those who demonize science and scientists.
I’m done with those who are so fuelled by their sense of resentment that they see the ongoing pandemic as a manifestation of class war rather than a war against reason, which they themselves have prosecuted.
I’m done with those who believe we all have our version of reality, because no, we don’t all have our own version of reality. Singular undeniable realities exist. The earth is round. COVID-19 has killed millions. There are no microchips in vaccines. Vaccines are not designed by governments, Bill Gates or the Illuminati to harvest your DNA, track your movements or enslave you. There is no conspiracy here other than the one designed to save your miserable, undeserving life. That is reality. Deal with it.
I’m done with conspiracies and those who believe in them. You think the world believes you are important enough to conspire against? Believe me, it doesn’t.
I’m done with those whose fear of vaccinations is so rigid and unthinking that, as an unintended consequence of their ignorance, they would drag us back into the Third World by helping to resuscitate polio and whooping cough and mumps and measles — all those diseases that used to kill and maim children by the hundreds of thousands not three generations ago. They do this even though they had been vaccinated in their youth for those very things, and they would do this while the citizens of the Third World, begging for vaccines, are dying by the thousands.
I’m done with any person, government or business that would coddle anti-vaxxers, or who, like desperate parents trying to entice a spoiled child to eat his vegetables, would offer them tax breaks, lottery tickets or beer as rewards for getting vaccinated.
I’m done with rewarding dangerous, antisocial behaviour rather than punishing it.
I’m done with governments that can’t stay on message, that speak in euphemism rather than plain, honest language, that quail at the thought of mandates, that change health protocols without any seeming rationale, and that take their cues from the Chamber of Commerce rather than public health agencies — all while acting as if we can massage ourselves out of this endless loop of economic disruption, misery and death we have been trapped in for the past two years by applying the old tried and true political manipulations, in which the greatest sin is to do anything that might cause you to be voted out of office.
I’m done with anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers who, while literally weaponizing themselves by refusing to get vaccinated and putting other lives in danger as surely as if they were carrying a loaded gun, see themselves as brave freedom fighters protecting their constitutional freedoms, not because they believe in equality, but because they believe exactly the opposite, that their rights are preeminent over all others.
I’m done with anyone who characterizes people who wear masks, social-distance and get vaccinated as “sheeple.”
I’m done with those who complain about wearing masks, as if having to wear a piece of fabric designed to stop the inhalation of a deadly virus was akin to torture. I’m especially done with the puerile idiots who compare wearing a mask to Jews having to wear a Star of David during the Holocaust. It isn’t a mask these fools should be wearing, but a muzzle.
I’m done with those who, after a visit to the intensive care unit and death’s door, experience their moment of revelation that, yes, they are so sorry that they didn’t get vaccinated because — with the usual egocentricity and selfishness that characterizes anti-vaxxer sentiment — they could have died rather than, you know, the untold number of people their stupidity put at risk.
Other than those with legitimate health concerns or compromised immune systems, I’m done with trying to understand, accommodate or politely tolerate anti-vaxxers, or those who are just too stupid, tuned out or unconcerned with the health and safety of others to get vaccinated.
I’m done with living life in limbo, with the hundreds of thousands of needless deaths and the hundreds of thousands more to come, with the travel bans, with the slow-motion unravelling of the economy, with the dispiriting and seemingly endless pattern of peak, trough and peak, and with the only variance in life coming with the arrival of the virus’s latest reincarnation.
I’m done because all of this terrible nightmare we are trapped in could have been avoided.
mcmartincharles@gmail.com
Pete McMartin is a former Vancouver Sun columnist.
St Swithun was an Anglo Saxon saint, born in Winchester and Bishop of Winchester from his consecration on 30 October 852 until his death on 2 July 863. However, he is scarcely mentioned in any document of his own time. He died in 863 when King Alfred the Great was still a young man. It is possible that St Swithun was tutor to the young king and accompanied him on a pilgrimage to Rome. His death is entered in the Canterbury manuscript of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (MS F) under the year 861. He is recorded as a witness to nine charters, the earliest of which (S 308) is dated 854.
More than a hundred years later, when Dunstan and Æthelwold of Winchester were inaugurating their church reform, Swithun was adopted as patron of the restored church at Winchester, formerly dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul. His body was transferred from its almost forgotten grave to Æthelwold's new basilica on 15 July 971; according to contemporary writers, numerous miracles preceded and followed the move.
According to legend, St Swithun has a special association with the English weather, a legend which dates from July 971 when the bones of the saint were moved from outside the old Saxon cathedral and brought inside the building, apparently causing a great thunderstorm:
"On St Swithun's Day, if then dost rain,
For forty days it will remain:
St Swithun's Day, if then be fair,
For forty days 'twill rain nae mair."
A Buckinghamshire variation has
“If on St Swithun's day it really pours
You're better off to stay indoors.”
Swithun was initially buried out of doors, rather than in his cathedral, apparently at his own request. William of Malmesbury recorded that the bishop left instructions that his body should be buried outside the church, ubi et pedibus praetereuntium et stillicidiis ex alto rorantibus esset obnoxius [where it might be subject to the feet of passers-by and to the raindrops pouring from on high], which has been taken as indicating that the legend was already well known in the 12th century.
In 971 it was decided to move his body to a new indoor shrine, and one theory traces the origin of the legend to a heavy shower by which, on the day of the move, the saint marked his displeasure towards those who were removing his remains. This story, however, cannot be traced further back than the 17th or 18th century. Also, it is at variance with the 10th century writers, who all agreed that the move took place in accordance with the saint's desire expressed in a vision. James Raine suggested that the legend was derived from the tremendous downpour of rain that occurred, according to the Durham chroniclers, on St. Swithun's Day, 1315.
John Earle suggests that the legend comes from a pagan or possibly prehistoric day of augury. In France, St. Medard (8 June), Urban of Langres, and St. Gervase and St. Protais (19 June) are credited with an influence on the weather almost identical with that attributed to St Swithun in England. In Flanders, there is St Godelieve (6 July) and in Germany the Seven Sleepers' Day (27 June). There is a scientific basis to the weather pattern behind the legend of St Swithun's day. Around the middle of July, the jet stream settles into a pattern which, in the majority of years, holds reasonably steady until the end of August. When the jet stream lies north of the British Isles then continental high pressure is able to move in; when it lies across or south of the British Isles, Arctic air and Atlantic weather systems predominate.
The most false that the prediction has been, according to the Guinness Book of Records, were 1924 when 13.5 hours of sunshine in London were followed by 30 of the next 40 days being wet, and 1913 when a 15-hour rainstorm was followed by 30 dry days of 40.
St Swithun's Day is celebrated on 15 July. Wikipedia
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