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Figures from Pixabay ,background room is in Bodie Ghost Town which is my image.All texture and tints done in Nik Efex and Perfect Effects.Thank you.
Ruddy Turnstones need to fly fast to cover the enormous distances between their breeding and nonbreeding grounds. Flight speeds of turnstones average between 27 and 47 miles per hour. ~ The Cornell Lab
While sat on the bank of a small fishing pooL, trying to photograph dragons, I noticed this reed bunting regularly landing on the path to collect grubs.
A somewhat rare bee, I saw one last year. Notice its pollen sacs are full and its legs and body are covered with pollen. Pollen means food for the brood, so winter bees are being reproduced. The winter bees will be fatter than the spring bees. Queen honey bees live on average 1–2 years whereas workers live on average 15–38 days in the summer and 150–200 days in the winter.
In the background from left to right are South Sister, Broken Top and hidden behind the trees is Mt Bachelor.
Lava Lake lies in the Cascade Range about 25 miles (40 km) west-southwest of Bend in Oregon. It is a close neighbor of Little Lava Lake, from which it is separated by solidified lava. Lava Lake is at an elevation of 4,740 feet (1,440 m) in the Deschutes National Forest. The lake covers 368 acres (149 ha) to an average depth of 20 feet (6.1 m).
Lava Lake, Little Lava Lake, and other nearby lakes were formed after lava flows from Mount Bachelor altered drainage patterns in the area. Solidified lava flows are visible along the shorelines of both lakes, and the volcanic peaks Broken Top and South Sister can be seen to the north.
This is the first photo I took in Fort Kochi (Cochin) in the Kerala state of India, which is a historical city on the Malabar Coast.
Christmas celebration was continuing here on New Year's Day when I arrived. The monkey pod tree or rain tree (Samanea saman) is located near Santa Cruz Cathedral decorated as a Christmas tree. A few were dancing under the tree.
Tree worship is an element of Hinduism, which may or may not be reflected in the treatment of trees in the Christmas celebration in Fort Kochi
Kochi has been an important port city and an administration base to control Malabar Coast first for the Portuguese starting in the early 16th century, then for the Dutch in 1683 and onwards, and finally for the British in 1795 and onwards until India's independence in 1947.
As a result of the European presence in the area, the percentage of Christian population in Kochi municipality is 38% as compared to the national average of 2.3% according to the 2011 government statistics.
It is noted that Christianity has a long history in Kochi. Descendants of Nestorian christians who migrated from Syria in the 4th century AD have been living in Malabar Coast.
Deep in the caverns of the DC Metro, a set of Kawasaki built 7000 series cars makes a stop at the Metro Center on the red line. Metro Center station is the central hub station of the Washington Metro. The station is located in downtown, centered on the intersection of 12th Street NW and G Street NW and is the busiest station in the system, with an average of 7,600 passengers per weekday as of 2022.
The average porcupine has about 30,000 quills and as I watched it forage my parent’s yard I remembered that dogs and porcupines don’t mix well. Lucky for me, they don’t have any dogs now so the presence of a porcupine no longer requires an expensive painful trip to the vet, and I enjoyed watching this fella for a few minutes one early morning.
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I've got the pen
You cannot find the vape in your hand
It's offensive you want to be friends
Do not mention me ever again
You're disposable I'm undeniable
Let's not pretend
I am a legend already
Right now I am being mentioned
In therapy sessions
Across the state of Connecticut
They talk about me incessantly
Whispering "cunt"
They are 150 metres (490 ft) wide and 23 metres (75 ft) high. In the winter months, the average water flow is 250 m3/s (8,800 cu ft/s), while in the summer, the average water flow is 600 m3/s (21,000 cu ft/s). The highest flow ever measured was more than 1,250 cubic metres per second (44,000 cu ft/s) in 1999, and the lowest, 95 cubic metres per second (3,400 cu ft/s) in 1921.
The falls cannot be climbed by fish, except by eels that are able to worm their way up over the rocks.
The Rhine Falls were formed in the last ice age, approximately 14,000 to 17,000 years ago,
by erosion-resistant rocks narrowing the riverbed.
The first glacial advances created today's landforms approximately 500,000 years ago.
Up to the end of the Wolstonian Stage approximately 132,000 years ago, the Rhine flowed westwards
from Schaffhausen past Klettgau. This earlier riverbed later filled up with gravel.
About 132,000 years ago the course of the river changed southwards at Schaffhausen and formed a new channel,
which also filled up with gravel. Part of the Rhine today includes this ancient riverbed.
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(Manorina melanocephala)
Trin Warren Tam-Boore Bellbird Waterhole - Melbourne
Austrália
Forty hours after waking up in our bed, we landed in Melbourne. As soon as we got our car, we drove to this place in the middle of Melbourne because we were very anxious to start photographing lifers.
The first great surprise was that we didn’t have to pay for parking. Amazing, something very unusual for us in our cities.
We immediately spotted 7 or 8 lifers.
This is a common species, and we already knew that. The problem with common species, when we’re short on time, is that we don’t spend enough time with them, and then, when we return, we regret it.
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THE STORY BEHIND THE PHOTO:
So far there's only been one photo in my gallery that hasn't been taken in my garden ('The Flame Rider', captured in the Maggia Valley: www.flickr.com/photos/191055893@N07/53563448847/in/datepo... ) - which makes the image above the second time I've "strayed from the path" (although not very far, since the photo was taken only approximately 500 meters from my house).
Overall, I'll stick to my "only-garden rule", but every once in a while I'll show you a little bit of the landscape around my village, because I think it will give you a better sense of just how fascinating this region is, and also of its history.
The title I chose for the photo may seem cheesy, and it's certainly not very original, but I couldn't think of another one, because it's an honest reflection of what I felt when I took it: a profound sense of peace - although if you make it to the end of this text you'll realize my relationship with that word is a bit more complicated.
I got up early that day; it was a beautiful spring morning, and there was still a bit of mist in the valley below my village which I hoped would make for a few nice mood shots, so I quickly grabbed my camera and went down there before the rising sun could dissolve the magical layer on the scenery.
Most human activity hadn't started yet, and I was engulfed in the sounds of the forest as I was walking the narrow trail along the horse pasture; it seemed every little creature around me wanted to make its presence known to potential mates (or rivals) in a myriad of sounds and voices and noises (in case you're interested, here's a taste of what I usually wake up to in spring, but you best use headphones: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfoCTqdAVCE )
Strolling through such an idyllic landscape next to grazing horses and surrounded by birdsong and beautiful trees, I guess it's kind of obvious one would feel the way I described above and choose the title I did, but as I looked at the old stone buildings - the cattle shelter you can see in the foreground and the stable further up ahead on the right - I also realized how fortunate I was.
It's hard to imagine now, because Switzerland is one of the wealthiest countries in the world today, but the men and women who had carried these stones and constructed the walls of these buildings were among the poorest in Europe. The hardships the people in some of the remote and little developed valleys in Ticino endured only a few generations ago are unimaginable to most folks living in my country today.
It wasn't uncommon that people had to sell their own kids as child slaves - the girls had to work in factories or in rice fields, the boys as "living chimney brushes" in northern Italy - just because there wasn't enough food to support the whole family through the harsh Ticino winters.
If you wonder why contemporary Swiss historians speak of "slaves" as opposed to child laborers, it's because that's what many of them actually were: auctioned off for a negotiable prize at the local market, once sold, these kids were not payed and in many cases not even fed by their masters (they had to beg for food in the streets or steal it).
Translated from German Wikipedia: ...The Piazza grande in Locarno, where the Locarno Film Festival is held today, was one of the places where orphans, foundlings and children from poor families were auctioned off. The boys were sold as chimney sweeps, the girls ended up in the textile industry, in tobacco processing in Brissago or in the rice fields of Novara, which was also extremely hard work: the girls had to stand bent over in the water for twelve to fourteen hours in all weathers. The last verse of the Italian folk song 'Amore mio non piangere' reads: “Mamma, papà, non piangere, se sono consumata, è stata la risaia che mi ha rovinata” (Mom, dad, don't cry when I'm used up, it was the rice field that destroyed me.)... de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaminfegerkinder
The conditions for the chimney sweeps - usually boys between the age of 8 and 12 (or younger, because they had to be small enough to be able to crawl into the chimneys) - were so catastrophic that many of them didn't survive; they died of starvation, cold or soot in their lungs - as well as of work-related accidents like breaking their necks when they fell, or suffocatig if they got stuck in inside a chimney. This practice of "child slavery" went on as late as the 1950s (there's a very short article in English on the topic here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spazzacamini and a more in depth account for German speakers in this brief clip: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gda8vZp_zsc ).
Now I don't know if the people who built the old stone houses along my path had to sell any of their kids, but looking at the remnants of their (not so distant) era I felt an immense sense of gratitude that I was born at a time of prosperity - and peace - in my region, my country and my home. Because none of it was my doing: it was simple luck that decided when and where I came into this world.
It also made me think of my own family. Both of my grandparents on my father's side grew up in Ticino (they were both born in 1900), but while they eventually left Switzerland's poorest region to live in its richest, the Kanton of Zurich, my grandfather's parents relocated to northern Italy in the 1920s and unfortunately were still there when WWII broke out.
They lost everything during the war, and it was their youngest daughter - whom I only knew as "Zia" which means "aunt" in Italian - who earned a little money to support herself and my great-grandparents by giving piano lessons to high-ranking Nazi officers and their kids (this was towards the end of the war when German forces had occupied Italy).
I never knew that about her; Zia only very rarely spoke of the war, but one time when I visited her when she was already over a 100 years old (she died at close to 104), I asked her how they had managed to survive, and she told me that she went to the local prefecture nearly every day to teach piano. "And on the way there would be the dangling ones" she said, with a shudder.
I didn't get what she meant, so she explained. Visiting the city center where the high ranking military resided meant she had to walk underneath the executed men and women who were hanging from the lantern posts along the road (these executions - often of civilians - were the Germans' retaliations for attacks by the Italian partisans).
I never forgot her words - nor could I shake the look on her face as she re-lived this memory. And I still can't grasp it; my house in Ticino is only 60 meters from the Italian border, and the idea that there was a brutal war going on three houses down the road from where I live now in Zia's lifetime strikes me as completely surreal.
So, back to my title for the photo above. "Peace". It's such a simple, short word, isn't it? And we use it - or its cousin "peaceful" - quite often when we mean nice and quiet or stress-free. But if I'm honest I don't think I know what it means. My grandaunt Zia did, but I can't know. And I honestly hope I never will.
I'm sorry I led you down such a dark road; I usually intend to make people smile with the anecdotes that go with my photos, but this one demanded a different approach (I guess with this latest image I've strayed from the path in more than one sense, and I hope you'll forgive me).
Ticino today is the region with the second highest average life expectancy in Europe (85.2 years), and "The Human Development Index" of 0.961 in 2021 was one of the highest found anywhere in the world, and northern Italy isn't far behind. But my neighbors, many of whom are now in their 90s, remember well it wasn't always so.
That a region so poor it must have felt like purgatory to many of its inhabitants could turn into something as close to paradise on Earth as I can imagine in a person's lifetime should make us all very hopeful. But, and this is the sad part, it also works the other way 'round. And I believe we'd do well to remember that, too.
To all of you - with my usual tardiness but from the bottom of my heart - a happy, healthy, hopeful 2025 and beyond.
Yesterday was magnificent...when I arrived from the hour long run up to Splinter Hill, it was 63 degrees at 6:30 AM (10 degrees below average) and it felt fantastic! I hiked for 7 hours without breaking a sweat! Very low humidity, paired with a light breeze under clear skies...it was the little bit of Heaven I'd been waiting on since mid-May! Of course, the dramatic change in temperature came with heavy dew...and all insects, like this Gulf Fritillary that spent the night out in the open were glittering like jewels from dew drops until the rising sun dried them off!
The average winter temperature over the past 30 years has increased by 1.4-1.5 degrees compared to previous decades. The greatest warming is observed in January, where the temperature increased by 2.0-2.5 degrees.
Зима згадала, що вона Зима.
26 січня в Києві зафіксували одразу два температурні рекорди 2025 року. Середньодобова температура повітря виявилась найвищою за час проведення спостережень для цього дня і склала 4,7°С. Це перевищило попередній рекордний показник 1902 та 1999 років на 1,4°С, а кліматичну норму — на 9,7°С.
«Середня температура зимового періоду за 30 років зросла на 1,4-1,5 градусів порівняно з попередніми десятиліттями. Найбільше потепління спостерігається у січні, де температура збільшилась на 2,0-2,5 градуса.
Крім того, за останні 60 років середня температура в Україні зростала швидше, ніж у світі загалом. Швидкість зростання середньої річної температури становила 0,41 градуса протягом десяти років, тоді як у Європі цей показник дорівнює 0,34 градуса. Основне потепління відзначається насамперед взимку.
Не лише на півдні України, а й у Києві три роки поспіль не було кліматичної зими, що свідчить про тенденцію до потепління, що триває.»
/РБК-Україна, віцепрезидентка Національної аграрної академії наук Ануш Балян/.
My internet service was down for F-unit Friday so instead I'll post this as Super-Size Saturday, with bigger E-units in bulk! The 29 September 2001 CNYNRHS/NYSW/CSX passenger special from Syracuse to Massena is seen taking a brief mainline run on the Chicago Line at CP 291, preparing to head up the wye on the Montreal Secondary. The NRHS's two DL&W painted units 807 and 808 team with NYSW's E9 pair 2402 and 2400 to handle the 11 car excursion.
(Cacatua galerita)
Jells Park - Melbourne - VIC
Asutrália
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I got up early to hike Marcus Landslide Trail and catch a sunrise. But caught this moon set at sunrise by looking behind me at this interesting rock formation.
www.alltrails.com/trail/us/arizona/marcus-landslide-trail
Get to know this 3.9-mile out-and-back trail near Scottsdale, Arizona. Generally considered a moderately challenging route, it takes an average of 1 h 39 min to complete. This is a very popular area for hiking, mountain biking, and running, so you'll likely encounter other people while exploring. The best times to visit this trail are October through April. Dogs are welcome, but must be on a leash.
Marcus Landslide Trail is an interpretive trail with signs along the way describing the geological forces that led to a landslide about 500,000 years ago. This trail is fairly easy for the most part except for the final loop section which climbs up. There are many boulders and interesting rock formations along the way. The interpretive signs give information about the landslide, how it was believed to be caused, and the resulting landscape. The trail also gives nice views of the surrounding area, including Four Peaks, Mount McDowell, Weaver's Needle. The trail is well-maintained.
The "McDowell Sonoran Preserve" is a joint effort of the McDowell Sonoran Conservancy and the City of Scottsdale to preserve the McDowell Mountains as undeveloped.
www.mcdowellsonoran.org/mission-vision
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Seven Sisters, Birling Gap UK, The Seven Sisters are a series of chalk cliffs by the English Channel. They form part of the South Downs in East Sussex, between the towns of Seaford and Eastbourne in southern England. They are within the South Downs National Park. The tallest is 253 feet high. They are an iconic landmark, but sadly are eroding at a rate of 60cm per year on average and every year there are large falls.
For a few brief minutes the sun actually shone earlier this week. Not sure I have seen the sun since November. It timed its visit well to coincide with this male stonechat posing at rushey meadow, it stopped and stared at me then just carried on searching for tasty insects.
Our average temperature for the whole month of January in this part of Northeast Ohio has been 21.6° (–5.5°C). Winter's not been here for a month yet, and it can already be called the coldest in about the last 5 years. These two northern cardinals don't seem to mind the frigid conditions. Male in foreground and female in back.
Continuing the chase of my 8th successful Batten Kill day that brought my 'batting average' up to .500
Very much on home rails, G&J 4116, a veteran ex D&H Alco RS3 (blt. Sep. 1952) has just crossed Main Street at MP A136.9 on the old Delaware and Hudson Washington Branch as measured from Albany the long way around via Catleton, Whitehall, and Mechanicville.
At right is the historic old Agway warehouse that was recently restored as the recipient of a 2019 New York Main Street Grant. While now residential apartments it has retained its classic exterior appearance and looked better than ever Surely D&H switch crews of yore spotted many a 40 ft boxcar at the warehouse doors on the siding here over the years. Check out this photo from last year before the remodel:
Cambridge, New York
Monday October 17, 2022
(Ptilotula keartlandi)
Simpsons Gap - NT
Austrália
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A habit? An escape? An addiction?
According to the statistics in the UK and US people are watching TV an average of 3-4 hours per day, every day.
If I only count up to 80 years, that's 10 years without sleeping, 87.600 hours in blue light from birth to death.
Adverts, news, weather, sport, shows, movies, episodes, repeat...
Is this how we are supposed to spend our time on Earth in our evenings till the end?
We all need escapes, no question about that. But it matters where we escape into and for how long for.
I stopped broadcast TV 15 years ago and stopped streaming from devices 5 years ago. I'm off the Blue Wheels now.
What can I report?
I've spent around 2000 evening hours on learning to play the guitar, then 2000 evening hours on creating, thinking, reading, learning and writing thanks to learning photography.
The next thousands of blue light free evenings will contain learning meditation, drawing a portrait, sculpting a bust, clarinet, trumpet, the list will go on as long my mind and body will go on.
I was born into TV culture and only by being away from it I've gained perspective and insight for myself that I wasn't just consuming TV - TV was consuming me and my time.
I feel extremely grateful that I have this pocket of time available to me just now, and for living in an era where most lessons/knowledge is free and available at my fingertips to grow and be more balanced in my life.
My evenings are containing silence, palpable joy and meaning personal to me now. TV is not designed to give me those, it's not in it's nature.
TV is designed only to give me the blues.
Dettifoss 20210720
Dettifoss is very impressive to see with a width of 100 m and a height of 44 meters. The name Dettifoss means something like “the collapsing waterfall”. When standing in front of the waterfall you know why it is named Detifoss.
It is said that Dettifoss is the most powerful waterfall in Europe with possible volumes up to 500 m3/sec, extremely powerful. The average flow rate is 193 m3/sec.
Dettifoss is located in Iceland’s second largest river Jökulsá Fjollum (206 kilometers) and is fed by the glacier Vatnajökull. The muddy water squeezes itself through a narrow canyon with an average volume of 193 m3 per second and ends in the Arctic Ocean. The area is part of the Jökulsárgljúfur (glacier river gorge) since 1945 and is one of the four National Parks of Iceland.
Dettifoss was recently featured in the opening scene of the science fiction film Prometheus (2012).
Source European Waterfalls.
Semipalmated Sandpiper has a Conservation Status under the IUCN of Near Threatened www.iucnredlist.org/species/22693373/93400702
Even among the smallest birds, there can be territorial interactions between members of a species. In this instance, it was Semipalmated Sandpiper — average weight 25 grams (less than an ounce). These two individuals were feeding on a small mudflat at Tyrell Lake in southern Alberta, Canada, en route to breeding much further north. Such a long migration requires sufficient fuel, over which there can be competition.
The great blue heron is a large wading bird in the heron family Ardeidae, common near the shores of open water and in wetlands over most of North America and Central America, as well as the Caribbean and the Galápagos Islands.
It is the largest North American heron. It has head-to-tail length of 91–137 cm (36–54 in), a wingspan of 167–201 cm (66–79 in), a height of 115–138 cm (45–54 in), and a weight of 1.82–3.6 kg (4.0–7.9 lb).
In British Columbia, adult males averaged 2.48 kg (5.5 lb) and adult females 2.11 kg (4.7 lb).
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This afternoon we explored this (almost) coastal woodland for the first time. The bluebells and wild garlic had been somewhat storm damaged, but the ferns were fabulous. This is an in-camera multiple exposure, trying to give the impression of what ferns in a forest feel like, but less green.
03-November-2023
It happens on average every 15 years, now around 20, that the south-westerly wind blows strong and prolonged into the Gulf of Trieste coming from northern Romagna.
The gulf is very windy, but there are also long periods of calm, but no wind, even the strongest one, Bora, can create high waves, given that within this stretch of sea the maximum distances between the coasts are around 30km.
The only exception is provided by the wind that comes from the south-west in the wind rose and enters the only opening towards the rest of the Adriatic between the Grado peninsula (FVG, Italia) and tip/rt Savudrija (Istra, Hrvatska).
Through this passage the wind fishes on approximately 250km of sea surface and manages to generate waves of up to 3/4m (sea force 4/5 on the Douglas scale) which are decidedly important values for the area.
This is what happened on Friday 3 November 2023, due to a strong Atlantic front generated by the extratropical storm called "Ciaran" to which a strong high tide was added, flooding the adjacent State Road 14 (viale Miramare) in the Barcola section and where wood, branches, porphyry cubes, concrete blocks dragged for meters and metres, algae, sea stones'n'gravel and seafood were found.
The road surface is approximately 6m above the sea level.
The photos were taken in reportage style, so point and shoot without paying too much attention to the composition and limiting the image quality to have a quick shot with very short times.
The purpose is not that of likes, obviously, but to document an event which for those who know these little waves areas was very significant.
The precedents of the last 70 years are very few (1957, 1969, 1984 and 2003) and each time the seafront and the popular bathing establishments have been strengthened so, from the significant damage that occurred, it can be argued that it could have been the strongest storm ever or, at least, among the strongest for this area.
What is one thing the average driver can't stand? Well of course one answer could be a slow driver in the fast lane, Highway Patrol posted up in the most annoying spot possible, or maybe even that damn check engine light. However, the answer I was looking for was waiting for a train, and during this trip for the crew of a southbound, they would see three cars try to beat the train. One was a truck just south of Maxwell, which a buddy and I saw, another in Arbuckle, and then another here just outside Williams. However, this driver was particularly stupid.
Although my friend and I didn't see this happen as we were taking photos at the time, another friend who was one of the crew members explained to me what happened. As the train was approaching the crossing, a white SUV went around the gates in an attempt to beat the train, but then suddenly stopped. Although there was nobody in front of this car, whoever was driving then proceeded to backup almost into the gate, and due to the angle of the crossing got within only a few feet at most of being hit, narrowly avoiding an expensive and embarrassing trip to the auto shop. The crew obviously was pissed, and the conductor got out to yell at the driver as they passed by. It was only after the power had passed that my friend and I on the ground noticed the SUV, and we laughed knowing well that driver probably needed a new pair after that.
Our daily average temperature has been dropping since July and hit rock-bottom a few days ago. Today the tide turned and we inched up a degree if this were a "normal" year. To celebrate, here's a look back at those balmy summer days. The orange sulphur is sometimes called the alfalfa butterfly because its caterpillars like to eat alfalfa leaves. However, the caterpillars also eat the leaves from a variety of other legume plants. Females have light-colored spots that break up the solid black bands that form a border on their dorsal wing surface, visible in this backlit view. Male orange sulphurs would be all black along that wing border.
(Anthochaera paradoxa)
Adventure Bay - Bruny Island - TAS
Austrália
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Landscape of Tibet
Tibet is the highest country on earth with an average elevation of over 4000m. The lowest regions of Tibet are still over 2000m above sea level with Jomo Langma (Everest,Sagarmatha) ཇོ་མོ་གླང་མ being the highest point at 8848m. Tibet is covered in grasslands, mountains and valleys.
Many of Asia’s largest rivers have their headwaters in Tibet such as the Ma chu རྨ་ཆུ་ ( Yellow River), Dri chu འབྲི་ཆུ་ (Yangtze), Nag chu ནག་ཆུ་ - རྒྱ་མོ་རྔུལ་ཆུ (Salween), Yarlung Tsangpo ཡར་ཀླུངས་གཙང་པོ་ (Brahmaputra) and Dza chu རྫ་ཆུ་ (Mekong). Western Tibet (Ngari) is a high, arid region with few people, while southeast Tibet (Kham) is forested and suitable for farming. Northern Tibet (Amdo) is covered in vast grasslands filled with yaks and sheep and central Tibet (U-Tsang) is the most densely populated area of Tibet lying along the fertile Yarlung Valley.
The above slope is steeper than average for the lower regions of these mountains. By contrast, higher up it would seem to be quite mellow. If circumstances permit, I'd like to visit the upper regions of Lone Peak again. I have past photos of that region to be viewed until then. I feel like I would have more to bring to that kind of work, though, now.
Shot on a Nikon Z7ii.
The photo was taken in Brooklyn Heights,one of Brooklyn's oldest districts.Besides it's low rise buildings Brooklyn Heights is known for its brownstone rowhouses,most of which were built prior to the American Civil War.By 1860 the neighborhood had 600 rowhouses.A typical rowhouse had three to four stories with the first floor above street level and reached by stairs or "stoops",a word derived from the Dutch.The brownstone material was quarried in Passaic County,New Jersey.
Brooklyn Heights is also one of New York City's affluent neighborhoods,even more expensive than some parts of Manhattan!In 2010 the average median household income was $119,999 dollars.Many notables,past and present,have lived in Brooklyn Heights.They include:Mary Tyler Moore (who btw was born in Brooklyn),Tyra Banks,Javier Bardem, Norman Mailer,Marilyn Monroe,Matthew Broderick,Harriet Beecher Stowe,Paul Giamatti,Amy Ryan,Amy Lee,and Sarah Jessica Parker to name a few.
The wheatear makes one of the longest journeys of any small bird, crossing oceans, ice and deserts.
Miniature tracking devices have shown that its migratory flight averages 30,000 km (18,640 miles).
An estimated 230,000 pairs breed in the UK each year.
Woodland Trust
Minnis Bay Kent in a shady spot!
How about some more WATCO? This time in the flat lands of Central Illinois. I came down here last year hoping for one of their new GP59s or WSOR geeps leading. Close, but no cigar. That said, I wasn't going to waste good light. So I gave chase to Tuscola and went looking for other things. All told this was a pretty average day down here last year.
I love messing up average shots to try and create something of interest. If I had a darkroom and a film camera, this is what I'd try
(Ammoperdix heyi)
Ezuz - Negev Desert
Israel
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All my photos are now organized into sets by the country where they were taken, by taxonomic order, by family, by species (often with just one photo for the rarer ones), and by the date they were taken.
So, you may find:
- All the photos for this trip Israel (2023) (54)
- All the photos for this order GALLIFORMES (136)
- All the photos for this family Phasianidae (Fasianídeos) (99)
- All the photos for this species Ammoperdix heyi (11)
- All the photos taken this day 2023/07/17 (17)
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Posting a series of 2018 photos taken during a flickr meetup with Rod.
I can't remember what this is about. Let me ask Rod again.
Getwrapped.ca
391 Marwood Drive, Unit 2
Oshawa
A Green Anole peeks over the edge of a leaf, looking for insects to eat. I spent about two hours with these little lizards in my sister's back yard in Jacksonville, Florida when visiting last year (2019). Very happy with some of my captures :)
Green Anoles average about 4 inches in body size, with their tails extending another 4 inches. While the lizard above appears quite large, it is due to the perspective of my macro lens magnification, and the close proximity of the lens to the animal.
In order to get this close without spooking it and having it scurry away, it required a very patient stalking technique involving slow movement, quiet presence, and muscles in my arms and hands that often quivered uncontrollably due to holding my heavy gear for such extended handheld sessions! Actually surprising that ANY of my images were sharp, lol.
Trumpeter Swans are impressively large—males average over 26 pounds, making them North America’s heaviest flying bird. To get that much mass aloft the swans need at least a 100 meter-long “runway” of open water: running hard across the surface, they almost sound like galloping horses as they generate speed for take off.
Starting in the 1600s, market hunters and feather collectors had decimated Trumpeter Swans populations by the late 1800s. Swan feathers adorned fashionable hats, women used swan skins as powder puffs, and the birds’ long flight feathers were coveted for writing quills. Aggressive conservation helped the species recover by the early 2000s.
from allaboutbirds.org