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These trees look beautiful as they stand in rows, creating such depth with light and lines.
This beauty if man made. None of these trees are old.
This trail followed used to be a road to a town in the middle of the forest. A little mill town. A forest fire whiped out the town and the trees.
People planted these trees closely in rows.
The trees are real, but they are too perfect, a fake perfect.
The Very Beautiful yet Vulnerable - The Nilgiri Flycatcher (Male)
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@ Coonoor, Nilgiris Dist
Tamil Nadu, India
08 Mar 2022
Description Credit – Birds of the World (The Cornnel Lab) & Wiki
About the Bird - The Nilgiri Flycatcher a Vulnerable Species, is small and somewhat long-tailed flycatcher that is about 10 to 13 centimetres and is found mainly in the higher altitude Shola forests of the Western Ghats and the Nilgiris.
The Male is almost entirely deep indigo-blue, except for some violet-blue on the forehead and area over eye and darker lores. The female is duller with dark brown on the upperparts and dark grey below. The two central tail feathers are blue and the lateral feathers are dark brown and edged with indigo. The base of the outer tail feathers are white but this is not easily visible when the bird is sitting. The wing feathers are dark brown with a narrow outer fringe of blue.
With a very restricted range in the hills of Southern India, it is found mainly in the higher altitude Shola Forests of the Western Ghats and the Nilgiris which provide ideal oscillating climate and unique floral structure in the montane ecosystems provide special microclimatic conditions and habitat for the species, and such montane ecosystems are known as ‘sky islands’.
Climate change induced by human activities, restricted range and increased environmental degradation has put this beautiful bird at rink and is making it more and more vulnerable.
Photographed at British wildlife centre.
Hedgehogs are sadly endangered. ptes.org/state-britains-hedgehogs-report-2018/
Black Dragon Pool Park
Old Town Of Lijiang
Yunnan Province, People's Republic Of China
"The water that feeds the five-hectare Black Dragon Pool bubbles up
from the foot of Elephant Hill. Here a stone bridge and the elegant
three-tiered Deyue Pavilion offer stunning prospects of the mountain,
trailing a wisp of cloud like a scarf on the breeze" -- Peter Moss
(an excerpt from the book "Lijiang, The Imperiled Utopia")
Female leopard (Panthera pardus) named "Nkoveni" born August 2012 in the San River region of South Africa. She is the mother of two cubs who were born ~March 2021. Londolozi Game Reserve, Sabi Sands, South Africa. Conservation Status: Vulnerable
Took these shots in the window of a RR museum in Portland, Maine. Am hoping my flickr contact will give us a bit of history on them!
"“He liked to observe emotions;
they were like red lanterns
strung along the dark unknown of another's personality,
marking vulnerable points.”
~ Ayn Rand ~
Do you see Vulnerability or Defiance?
Today is officially something different Friday? :-) So something different from me. I would like to do more shots like these but if I'm honest I found "the body" quite hard a subject to shoot. It belongs together with my other image "Victim or Predator". I hope you like it.
And TFI Friday :-)
EXPLORE FRONT PAGE Wahooo, I can't believe it, I really can't believe it.
Explore #19
young Lioness lying on a huge rock in a dry bend of the Kafue River ( Kafue National Park, Zambia )
IUCN RED LIST STATUS: vulnerable
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@ Coonoor, Nilgiris Dist
Tamil Nadu, India
Dec 2021
About the Bird (as per Wiki)- The Nilgiri Flycatcher is a small and somewhat long-tailed flycatcher is about 13 cms. As seen in the shot, it is dark steely indigo blue with some violet-blue on the forehead and darker lores.The base of the outer tail feathers are white but this is not easily visible when the bird is sitting. The wing feathers are dark brown with a narrow outer fringe of blue.
With a very restricted range in the hills of southern India, it is found mainly in the higher altitude Shola Forests of the Western Ghats and the Nilgiris which provide ideal oscillating climate and unique floral structure in the montane ecosystems provide special microclimatic conditions and habitat for the species, and such montane ecosystems are known as ‘sky islands’.
Climate change induced by human activities, restricted range and increased environmental degradation has put this beautiful bird at rink and is making it more and more vulnerable.
Londolozi Game Reserve
Near Kruger National Park
South Africa
Happy Caturday!
The lion (Panthera leo) is a species in the cat family (Felidae). The lion is sexually dimorphic; males are larger than females with a typical weight range of 150 to 250 kg (331 to 551 lb) for the former and 120 to 182 kg (265 to 401 lb) for the latter. Male lions have a prominent mane, which is the most recognizable feature of the species.
A lion pride consists of a few adult males, related females and cubs. Groups of female lions typically hunt together, preying mostly on large ungulates. The species is an apex and keystone predator, although they scavenge when opportunities occur.
Typically, the lion inhabits grasslands and savannas but is absent in dense forests. It is usually more diurnal than other big cats, but when persecuted it adapts to being active at night and at twilight.
It has been listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List since 1996 because populations in African countries have declined by about 43% since the early 1990s. Habitat loss and conflicts with humans are the greatest causes for concern. – Wikipedia
Last year I went to see the cherry blossom event at Hakone Gardens, a Japanese garden in Saratoga, California. The garden was open at night for a short period of time, a rare opportunity. This is the stone garden at the lower house.
At tonight's dinner we had a conversation about leadership. My take: You don't need to be tough. It's okey to be vulnerable if you live a live with a Buddha mindset. Make decisions, communicate them well, and deflect inevitable arrows pointing your ways with your shield of conviction. There is no need to get emotionally involved. Stop, look, go. In other words, reflect, analyze, execute. Regular meditation helps me live with a Buddha mindset.
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"To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.”
“To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.”
Poem:
Cheer up, O grievous snail.
I tap your shell, encouragingly,
not that you will ever know about it.
And I want nothing to do with you, either, sulking toad.
Imagine, at least four times my size and yet so vulnerable.
I could open your belly with my claw.
You glare and bulge, a
watchdog near my pool; you make a loud and hollow noise.
I do not care for such stupidity.
I admire compression, lightness,
and agility, all rare in this loose world.
A jumble of personal and cultural thoughts through photoshop.
A combination of 41 Images and around 84 hours of work.
Done as part of a series of combined images for my graduate exhibition.
I shot this the day before the big quake and the resulting tsunami hit Japan. I'm not sure if I will ever look at the ocean the same way again. In some ways this shot reminds me of the world as I remember it on September 10th, 2001. Everything suddenly shifted from the comfort of the mundane to the horror of the unimaginable. I think the world changed on 3/11/2011 just as it did on 9/11/2001.
The Great Curassow is a large, pheasant-like bird from the Neotropical rainforests, its range extending from eastern Mexico, through Central America to western Colombia and northwestern Ecuador. Male birds are black with curly crests and yellow beaks; females come in three colour morphs, barred, rufous and black.
This species is threatened by loss of habitat and hunting, and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has rated its conservation status as "vulnerable". As this is a difficult bird to find in the wild, I went to see this captive female at Hamerton Zoo which specialises in rare and endangered animals.
I rarely photograph eagles sitting on the ground. One big advantage of perching high up in a tree is that it gives them a position of strength to view possible prey as well as keep an eye open for enemies.
This one appears a bit vulnerable as he surveys the terrain around him and is hoping it is safe to walk over a few yards to some roadside kill by a busy road.
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"To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength." Criss Jami