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A Winter flowering Australian Native Orchid.

Beach dogs. Portstewart Strand. Causeway Coast Route Northern Ireland. United Kingdom

Demoiselle éclatante (caloptéryx splendens)

 

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The banded demoiselle (Calopteryx splendens) is a species of damselfly belonging to the family Calopterygidae. It is often found along slow-flowing streams and rivers. It is a Eurasian species occurring from the Atlantic coast eastwards to Lake Baikal and northwestern China.

Image taken in the Mara North Conservancy, Masai Mara, Kenya.

 

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Tarangire National Park, Tanzania

These are a distinctive feature of the sandstone geology at Garden of the Gods State Park. The dark bands hold concentrations of iron, which make those area harder and less susceptible to erosion.

Gebänderte Prachtlibelle

 

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North Norfolk.

 

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The volume is an arrangement of buildings that runs across the Spreebogen in the northern Berlin government district.

 

The approximately 900-meter-long volume was designed by the Berlin architects Axel Schultes and Charlotte Frank.

 

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Santa Maria del Fiore, la cui costruzione fu progettata da Arnolfo di Cambio, è la terza chiesa del mondo (dopo San Pietro a Roma, San Paolo a Londra) e la più grande in Europa al momento della sua ultimazione nel '400: è lunga 153 metri, larga 90 alla crociera ed alta 90 metri dal pavimento all'apertura della lanterna. Essa, terza e ultima cattedrale fiorentina, fu intitolata nel 1412 a Santa Maria del Fiore con chiara allusione al giglio, simbolo della città.

Sorse sopra la seconda cattedrale, che la Firenze paleocristiana aveva dedicato a Santa Reparata.

Le notevoli diversità di stile rivelate nelle sue parti sono la testimonianza del variare del gusto nel lungo periodo trascorso fra la sua fondazione ed il completamento.

La prima pietra della facciata venne posta l'8 settembre 1296, su progetto di Arnolfo di Cambio. Egli lavorò per il Duomo dal 1296 al 1302. Ideò una basilica dagli spazi classici, con tre ampie navate che confluivano nel vasto coro dove è posto l'altare maggiore, a sua volta circondato dalle tribune su cui poi si innesterà la Cupola.

Il progetto di Arnolfo era notevolmente diverso dalla struttura attuale della chiesa, come è possibile notare dall'esterno. Sui fianchi dell'edificio, infatti, a nord e a sud, notiamo che le prime quattro finestre sono più basse, più strette e più ravvicinate di quelle verso est, le quali corrispondono, invece, all'ampliamento operato da Francesco Talenti, capomastro a partire dalla metà del '300.

Arnolfo arriva a finire due campate e metà della nuova facciata.

La facciata fu smantellata nel 1587 quando il Granduca Francesco I de' Medici decise di costruirne una nuova modena e le statue superstiti che la decoravano sono oggi esposte nel Museo dell'Opera del Duomo.

Alla morte d'Arnolfo, avvenuta intorno al 1310, i lavori subirono un rallentamento, per riprendere certamente nel 1331 quando i magistrati dell'Arte della Lana si assunsero la cura della costruzione. Nel 1334 fu nominato capomastro dell'Opera Giotto che si occupò prevalentemente della costruzione del campanile e morì tre anni dopo. A Giotto subentrò Andrea Pisano fino al 1348, anno della terribile peste che decimò la popolazione cittadina da 90.000 a 45.000 abitanti.

I lavori proseguirono fra interruzioni e riprese fino a quando, in seguito al concorso bandito nel 1367, fu accettato il modello definitivo della chiesa proposto da quattro architetti e quattro pittori, tra i quali Andrea di Bonaiuto, Benci e Andrea di Cione, Taddeo Gaddi e Neri di Fioravante.

Dal 1349 al '59 la direzione tocca a Francesco Talenti, che completa il Campanile e prepara un nuovo progetto coadiuvato (dal 1360 al '69) da Giovanni di Lapo Ghini. Nel 1378 fu ultimata la volta della navata centrale, e nel 1380 furono terminate le navate minori. Tra il 1380 ed il 1421 furono costruite le tribune e forse anche il tamburo della Cupola.

Pava Canosa, Band-tailed Guan, Penelope argyrotis.

 

Especie # 1.592

 

Reserva Natural El Dorado

Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta

Departamento de Magdalena

Colombia

 

Performers' entrance to the House of Blues Chicago. "It is a long way to the top if you want to rock and roll"

Another from a road trip around some of Utah a few years ago. The power of Geology in full flow with these different coloured layers of rock. Some of the most impressive scenery I've been lucky to see during my time on this sometimes crazy sphere.

Die Zebramanguste ist eine Raubtierart. Sie ist in weiten Teilen Afrikas südlich der Sahara verbreitet und durch ihre Rückenstreifen charakterisiert. Sie lebt in Gruppen von meist 10 bis 20 Tieren und hat ein ausgeprägtes Sozialverhalten. Ihre Nahrung sind vorwiegend Insekten und andere Kleintiere.

 

The banded mongoose is a mongoose species native from the Sahel to Southern Africa. It lives in savannas, open forests and grasslands and feeds primarily on beetles and millipede

Canterbury, New Zealand-1974p

There is a fruiting fig tree at Eco Lake and it attracts all the birds from the vicinity to congregate there especially for their morning feed. Others have spotted a pair of Flameback woody.

There are Starlings, Green pigeon, Black Nape Oriel etc.

Was lucky this Banded Woody flew down from way up the tree to eye level around 15 ft away. Pure luck.

 

I love both my Sony & Oly system. Both have their strengths and weakness and have finally decided that I am keeping both. So I have them in the boot of the car.

 

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Great Banded Grayling : Brintesia circe

Another beautiful butterfly at the Wings of Fancy at Brookside Gardens.

 

Taken 4 May 2016 at Brookside Gardens, Maryland.

A male banded demoiselle damselfly seen on the Ham, a meadow beside the River Severn at Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire.

The banded garden spider is a large species, with a generally ovoid form and bright markings. Mature females may be 13-14.5 mm when fully extended and the carapace of the body typically between 5-6.5 mm in length. Males are substantially smaller, with a body length of only about 1/3 that of the female. Adult males also have prominently enlarged pedipalps projecting from the side of the head and these are used in sperm transfer.

 

The back of the spider is covered with silvery setae. Numerous dark lines cross the body and yellow banding is usually present as well. The legs are dark yellowish-brown with darker rings.

Wikipedia: The banded bay cuckoo or bay-banded cuckoo (Cacomantis sonneratii) is a species of small cuckoo found in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. Like others in the genus they have a round nostril. They are usually founded in well wooded areas mainly in the lower hills. Males sing from exposed branches during the breeding season, which can vary with region. They are distinctive both in their calls as well as plumage with a white eyebrowed appearance and the rufous upperparts with regular dark bands and the whitish underside with fine striations.

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banded_bay_cuckoo

 

Conservation status: Least Concern

Beautiful riverside Damselfly

Name: Blue-banded pitta

Scientific: Erythropitta arquata

Malay: Pacat Belang Biru

Family: Pittidae

IUCN Red List (v3.1, 2018): Least Concern

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A male banded demoiselle damselfly beside the River Avon near Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire.

Name: Blue-banded pitta

Scientific: Erythropitta arquata

Malay: Pacat Belang Biru

Family: Pittidae

IUCN Red List (v3.1, 2018): Least Concern

Gear: SONY α1 + SEL200600G

 

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