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I was asked to do a pin-up set. I'd never done one before so I was a bit skeptical on the outcome of the pictures. Surprisingly, they turned out much better than I had originally intended.
Assistant: Brittany
This is my beautiful friend Gesine who just became medical doctor!To properly apply for proper jobs,she needed proper application photos. This is one of the rather inofficial pictures taken at the end of the shooting..more to come. The setting was quite improvised with a plain white backround, one light directed to it and one light pointing at her face from the right side,plus a reflector to the left.
TAXONOMY
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Echinodermata
Class: Asteroidea
Order: Valvatida
Family: Oreasteridae
Genus: Protoreaster
Genus/species: Protoreaster nodosus
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS: The backround body color is highly variable; may be beige, brown, orange, red or other hues, such as green or blue. Horn-shaped tall dark nodules are conical and arranged in a single row, radially on the dorsal (top) side. Most horned sea stars found are a roughly rigid five-pointed star-shape (occasionally 4 or 6) with tapering arms to the end.
Diameter up to 30 cm (12 in).
DISTRIBUTION/HABITAT: Red Sea, Indian and western Pacific oceans. Found in shallow sheltered sand and seagrass beds.. Depth range Depth range 1 - 582 m (3.3 - 1900 feet).
DIET IN THE WILD: The mouth is located ventrally (bottom). The star covers its food, then pushes out its stomach from inside its body of prey. Sea stars have a unique adaptation for consuming bi-valve mollusks (oysters, clams, mussels, etc.). Stars insert a portion of their stomach into the small “gape” between the valves of a mollusk. Stomach enzymes are released and digest the fleshy part of the mollusk inside its own shell. The digested contents are moved back into the sea star leaving an empty bi-valve shell. P. nodosus prefers sponges, corals, clams and snails, other invertebrates; also opportunistic carrion feeders.
REPRODUCTION: P. nodosus is a broadcast spawner. As in other sea stars, fertilization is external. Eggs and sperm are stored in the rays and released simultaneously. Larvae look nothing like the adults. The form that first hatches from the eggs is bilaterally symmetrical and planktonic. Larvae eventually settle and transform into tiny sea stars.
PREDATORS: Triggerfish, pufferfish, boxfish and parrotfish.
CONSERVATION: IUCN Not Evaluated
REMARKS: The Chocolate Chip Seastars are also called “knobbly sea star” and the “horned sea star.”
The chocolate chip sea star can regenerate lost limbs, as long as the central disk of the body is intact.
References
California Academy of Sciences Steinhart Aquarium Mangrove Pop-Up, Main floor (level one) 2018
Ron's Wordpress shortlink wp.me/p1DZ4b-1ml
Atlantic City Aquarium: www.acaquarium.com/animals/chocolate-chip-sea-star/
Encyclopedia of Life eol.org/pages/4704956/details
Georgia Aquarium www.georgiaaquarium.org/animal-guide/georgia-aquarium/hom...
Woods Hole www.whoi.edu/science/B/people/kamaral/SeaStar.html
Bishop Museum hbs.bishopmuseum.org/pubs-online/pdf/op11-8.pdf
Georgia Aquarium www.georgiaaquarium.org/animal-guide/georgia-aquarium/hom...
Reef Creature Identification, Humann and Deloach 2010, page 426
Marine Biology link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00227-008-1064-2
Ron's flickr www.flickr.com/photos/cas_docents/15010829781/in/set-7215...
1-23-13, 9-26-14, 1-9-17, 2-3--18
First off. sorry about the backround, I usually photograph with a white backround, but this was too wide ;). Anyways do you like it? View from the jeep gunner. So yeah pretty much the NVA set up an ambush for this frequently used US army route. Full set here
Shot on Poznan's Old Market; the big tower in the backround is the Town Hall.
Poznań ([ˈpɔznaɲ]) full official name: The Capital City of Poznań, German: Posen) is a city in west-central Poland with over 578,900 inhabitants (2002). Located by the Warta River, it is one of the oldest cities in Poland, making it an important historical center. Poznań's impressive cathedral is the earliest church in the country, containing the tombs of the first Polish rulers: duke Mieszko I, king Boleslaus the Brave, king Mieszko II, duke Casimir I the Restorer, duke Przemysł I and king Przemysł II.
Today the city is a vibrant center for trade, industry, and education. Poznań is Poland's 5th largest city and 4th biggest industrial center. It is also the administrative capital of the Greater Poland Voivodeship.
for CFA
Backround is distressed with green chalk
I used HA letters to spell hey li'l man
cl141 given by Kathy
and robot is HA F5083
This picture = Winter Backround + Ice Thron + Kasia Face + Kasia Hairs + Half Body of Ren Nude Shoot + Half Body of Alexandra Nude Shoot + Snow + Shirt
O.O 2 h of making :D
The backround is made from small broken pieces of tiles
When viewed as a thumbnail, this looks like a QR code!
BMW i8 White Style Hight Resolution Backround - wallpaperscene, 1920 x 1080, 158 KB
BMW i8 White Style Hight Resolution Backround
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Video taken of an active Osprey nest up the Jackson River, a distributary branch of the Apalachicola/Chattahoochee/Flint River System, in Franklin Co., Florida. The Osprey is a member of the accipiter family, the same family as other birds of prey such as hawks and eagles. It is a fish catching specialist. They often nest on man-made structures, or dead snags near open water. This nest, constructed on a channel marker, was located just North of "Pinhook" and Saul's Creek cutoff by Zach K., and documented for the Apalachicola OSPREY Program during the Deep Horizon Oil Gusher in July of 2010. In the backround, passing the nest, Zach caught a truly rare sight on the river; a large river barge that appeared to be empty, headed downstream in the intracoastal waterway toward the Apalachicola Bay. Back in the days when the Army Corp of Engineers did heavy dredging on this ACF river system, these large barges were a common sight. The large old dredge pile spill sites can still be seen towering like sand mountains, along the banks of the river.
Location is NOT within the NOAA 1990 Environmental Sensitivity Index Mapping for W. FL.