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Beaumont Street, Hamilton, Newcastle.
smc PENTAX (K) 135mm f2.5
Day 26 of Pentax Forum's Daily in September 2018 Challenge.
Negroni is a cocktail made with gin, vermouth rosso, and bitters (Campari); here it's in a glass with two stirring straws
After getting bladdered at a party to celebrate the finish of my course at the Isle of Man College. Some of us stayed up and partied and some of us slept on the sofas however all us gathered in the morning to watch the arising sun.
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Happy 2011 flickr friends!
One of my biggest vices is chocolate and I'm not going to pretend that I made a New Year's resolution to cut down. I don't make resolutions and if I did, my love and high consumption of chocolate would not be on the list.
HCS! Cheers!
I saw a similar shot to this on Flickr (I wish I remembered who and where so I could provide a link) and was inspired to give it a try myself. My typical problem with fire is that it gets too hot (LOL!) and those hotspots ruin it. This time I set up my 'stage' with a black sheet draped over table and tall chairs set at a bit of a distance (as far as the sheet would reach) for the background. I enlisted my son to set the fire (I was scurred!) He floated an orange slice on fizzy water that was past it's fizz point, then poured lighter fluid on the orange. I shot toward a diffused window and used a hot light (cuz I don't have a strobe) and positioned it over my right shoulder and back just a bit as I wanted to get strong highlights from the glass. The fire would flare then die too fast at first so I didn't have time to move around much, then the fire got too big and I got scurred again! But grabbed a few before I choked to death on the fumes. Every experiment teaches me a bit more - this one taught me not to keep pouring lighter fluid on a fire and to have some ventilation!
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YN560-II @ 1/8 24mm into a Delamax softbox 60 cm camera left
Canon 430 EX @ 1/32 24mm into a softbox 20x30 cm camera right
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The label in the image describes this as the Lesser Vampire (Vampyrus auritus). Today this mammal is actually known to be the big-eared woolly bat or (Peter's) woolly false vampire bat (Chrotopterus auritus). The label goes on to say that the specimen was recovered from Brazil and presented to the Natural History Museum in London by Dr C Peters in 1870. It is preserved in alcohol in a glass case. I love that the detail of the wing membranes remain so well defined.
The name Chrotopterus is derived from Greek roots chariots (skin, colour), and pteron (wing). The epithet auritus refers to the large ears. Big-eared woolly bats are very large predatory bats, the second largest bat species in the neotropics. Their body mass typically ranges from 75 to 96 grams. The length of the forearm ranges from 78.7 to 83.1 mm. There are only three New World phyllostomid bats of comparable size. The dorsal hair is about 12mm long, which is longer than most of species in the Phyllostomids. They also possess two lower incisors, a trait typically shared with smaller bats.
This bat species lives in warm sub-tropical forests, usually roosting in caves and hollow logs, where prey is consumed. Geographically, it is found between southern Mexico and Bolivia.
Big-eared woolly bats have diverse feeding habits. They have been shown to feed primarily on small arthropods and small vertebrates, including beetles, moths, small mammals (including opossums and rodents), birds (including passerine birds) and even other bat species. Though primarily carnivorous or insectivorous, it has also been known to eat fruit. It is NOT a vampire!
Pour is a unique Victorian building, located in the heart of Mount Kisco. Its design inspiration was the Speakeasies of the Prohibition era and its design harkens back to the Golden Age of Hollywood. Owner Anthony Colasacco serves beautiful wine and cocktails in vintage glasses and offers an impressive collection of rare whiskeys (one of the many reasons why Pour is a 9 time winner of the "Best of Westchester" distinction!) Legal capacity inside is 50.