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I'd come over with a camera because there was a juvenile male king parrot about. The handful of seeds was to encourage him to come into the open where there was more light and he wouldn't be backlit.
That's when an adult male flew into him and spoiled everything. Now there was no chance of him coming out of cover.
None of that meant a thing to these opportunists. This pair of crested pigeons pounced on the unattended goodies. Personally, I think of them as pointy pigeons — it makes more sense, and rolls off the tongue more easily. The female is on the left. The big lump, his head a blurred pecking machine, is the male. I know this for certain because he'd done his silly tail up jig. She was having none of it. What she wanted was lunch.
There's other different things in the frame: a horseshoe, complete with still clinched nails and in the background, a very rusted, very, very large bit. I have no notion how that shoe with clinched nails could have made it off a hoof, but it conveniently stops bird seed flying everywhere. There was a horse's skull in the paddock for a time so I do wonder if the two things were related. Stuff like this keeps turning up: broken china, odd spoons, bottles of all sorts, even a Victorian Era Army belt buckle, pre-Federation, with the British Royal motto. Yep, that's different!
Femme de l'ethnie Rendille avec son bébé curieux
Village Rendille à proximité de Ngurunit, Kenya
Les Rendille sont une population d'Afrique de l'Est vivant au nord du Kenya, entre le lac Turkana et le mont Marsabit. Ce sont principalement des nomades, éleveurs de chèvres, de moutons mais surtout de chameaux, particulièrement adaptés aux conditions désertiques du nord du Kenya . Ils dépendent fortement de ces animaux pour une grande partie de leurs besoins quotidiens : nourriture, lait, vêtements, commerce et transport.
Le lieu d'origine du peuple Rendille était l'Éthiopie. Ils ont été forcés de migrer vers le sud, au Kenya, à cause de leurs conflits fréquents avec la tribu des Oromo pour le pâturage et l’eau pour leurs animaux.
Vivant dans une région particulièrement hostile de ce fait délaissée par le colonisateur anglais, les Rendilles n'ont pas été affecté par sa présence.
Leur langue est le rendille, une langue couchitique,parlée par quelques dizaines de milliers de locuteurs seulement
Comme les Masaï pour les vaches, les chameaux sont saignés pour boire leur sang. Les Rendille sont étroitement liés aux Samburu, par des liens économiques et familiaux. Ils ont parfois adopté leur langue, le Samburu.
Comme dans la plupart des tribus, le mariage n'est pas autorisé au sein de son propre clan et est arrangé par les parents . Chaque femme vit dans sa propre maison avec ses enfants et les mères jouissent d'un statut élevé. La société est fortement liée aux liens familiaux.
You may notice that this green iguana is not in fact green! She came to The Living Rainforest after being a pet for a number of years. It is common in the pet trade to selectively breed individuals with more desirable traits, and artificially create different colour morphs. This can cause issues within the captive population of the species, as it often involves in-breeding.
The green iguana (Iguana iguana), also known as the American iguana or the common green iguana, is a large, arboreal, mostly herbivorous species of lizard of the genus Iguana. Usually, this animal is simply called the iguana. The green iguana ranges over a large geographic area; it is native from southern Brazil and Paraguay as far north as Mexico, and has been introduced from South America to Puerto Rico and is very common throughout the island, where it is colloquially known as gallina de palo ("bamboo chicken" or "chicken of the tree") and considered an invasive species; in the United States, feral populations also exist in South Florida (including the Florida Keys), Hawaii, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. Green iguanas have also successfully colonised the island of Anguilla, arriving on the island in 1995 after rafting across the Caribbean from Guadeloupe, where they were introduced.
A herbivore, it has adapted significantly with regard to locomotion and osmoregulation (the maintenance of constant osmotic pressure in the fluids of an organism by the control of water and salt concentrations) as a result of its diet. It grows to 1.5 m in length from head to tail, although a few specimens have grown more than 2 m with bodyweights upward of 9.1 kg.
This animal is a resident of The Living Rainforest which is an indoor greenhouse tropical rainforest that is located in Hampstead Norreys in Berkshire, England. It is an ecological centre, educational centre and visitor attraction consisting of three glasshouses, operated and run by the Trust for Sustainable Living. The glasshouses are named Amazonica, Lowlands and Small Islands respectively.
The Living Rainforest has been accredited by the Council for Learning Outside of the Classroom and awarded the LOtC Quality Badge. Each year around 25,000 children visit the Living Rainforest as part of their school's curriculum. It is open 7-days a week from 09:30 to 16:00.
"All people are equal, but some people are more equal than others."--adapted from George Orwell, Animal Farm
This is the closeup of a sculpture entitled "Hunger March" by artist Jens Galschiotdisplayed and it was being displayed in the park along with 2 other as a series. The whole piece was actually 20 copper sculptures of starved children, and it appeared as a mobile manifestation in the protests during the WTO summit.
I think the facial expressions of starved children showed a lot of pride despite the injustice they're going through and all, so i zoomed in and took a few shots. This is the one i liked more. Hope y'all like it too. I'll submit a photo of the sculptures as a whole piece later.
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The Canon FD 70-210mm f/4 Macro is a great manual vintage lens for macro photography! Adapt it to your mirrorless camera with Fotodiox Canon FD lens adapters.
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An adapted emergency boat reused ad an house along the Regents Canal, London, September 2016
Original shots taken with an Asus Padphone Mobile with 8 Mp camera, various post processing
Adaptive from "Giaour, The" by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Below, the rivers flows a creek,
Where herons whet their thirsty beaks,
The black rhinoceros, prehensile or hook-lipped rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) is a species of rhinoceros. The upper lip of the black rhino is adapted for feeding from trees and shrubs.
Black rhinos are not black. The species probably derives its name as a distinction from the white rhino and/or from the dark-colored local soil that covers its skin after wallowing in mud.
They have two horns, and occasionally a third, small posterior horn.
Populations of black rhino declined dramatically in the 20th century at the hands of European hunters and settlers. Between 1960 and 1995, black rhino numbers dropped by a sobering 98%, to less than 2,500. Since then, the species has made a tremendous comeback from the brink of extinction. Thanks to persistent conservation efforts across Africa, black rhino numbers have doubled from their historic low 20 years ago to around 5,600 today. However, the black rhino is still considered critically endangered, and a lot of work remains to bring the numbers up to even a fraction of what it once was - and to ensure that it stays there. Wildlife crime - in this case, poaching and black-market trafficking of rhino horn - continues to plague the species and threaten its recovery.
This magnificent black rhinoceros was grazing peacefully but on hearing our approaching vehicle, picked it's tail and ran off quickly, photographed on an early morning game drive in the wild savannah plains of Africa.
The lens units slides back and forth inside a cylinder in the camera with a slide lever for focus. No helicoid to speak of, had to mount the lens in the lens barrel of a salvaged Olympus 35 EC.
Full infinity focus but no aperture control - all shots taken wide open. Guess I can come up with an aperture cap for the back of the lens. The camera actually had a front aperture/shutter since the rear sits so close to the film plane.
I shoot this lens with a ND filter when its too bright outside (everyday here in Dallas). If you are fortunate enough to have one of the latest spec m4/3 cameras with 1/16000 sec electronic shutter you can shoot all day without carrying a filter with you.
The Macquarie River at Warren in Western NSW.
Voigtlander COLOR-SKOPAR 50mm f3.5 adapted for digital.
Summer is a great time for adapting vintage lenses, like this Minolta MD Rokkor-X 45mm f/2 lens adapted to a Sony E-mount camera with our MD to E lens adapter.
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" the wiser mind
mourns less for what Age takes away,
Than what it leaves behind. "
..........William Wordsworth... ( 1770 - 1850 ).
.....English Romantic poet.
.........." The Fountain. "
Damaraland, Namibia
The desert-adapted black rhinoceros has poor eyesight -- relying more on hearing and smell. This rhino's horn has been cropped to protect it from poachers.
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Christmas tree assembly day.
Pattern adapted from here: Crochet Appliques - Christmas Trees
Hope everyone is doing well.
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This semi-adapted projector lens is f/1 so it has a tiny DoF resulting in lots of blur with its (currently limited) close focus. I have plans to machine off some of the tail of the lens to improve its focusing ability for more distant subjects.
Meopta Meostigmat 50mm f/1, fixed aperture, wide open
Adapting my Canon fd 50mm f/1.8 to Olympus Pen-F for fun. Actually impressed how sharp this come out. Just shadows/highlights altered and straight out of camera.
Have to love focus peaking :)
Captured with Light Lens Lab Elcan adapted to Nikon Z7II- This a rather special lens, the original Leica version was made for the US military in 1972 with about 500 produced. Those originals are rare and expensive. Light Lens Lab reproduced that lens including the original Lanthanum glass elements. The lens was designed, not surprisingly to be useful in cold and hot conditions and had a simple 4 element design that made it more robust. It is very tiny, among the smallest 50 mm lenses produced, small and light also being a useful trait for the military and for currently aging photographers. It is rather unique. I took the replica Elcan to Greenland to see how would do in the cold, and my own assessment is I am impressed with it. With so many great comments quite a few viewers agree with me.
Part of an eroded iceberg in the near shore Atlantic after a snow storm prior night. I really like the "unworldly" colors of the eroded ice.
Taken with adapted 35mm f3.5 lens from Canon AF35J camera. 3D printed cone which I used to attach the lens to a canon FD helicoid was little too deep and vignettes on full frame, but works on a cropped sensor.
Round Texture ARK - RT001 - 2020
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