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Went out for a two hour ride to get this shot of the New York City Skyline. This is the first photo I took of a series of photos. Testing three different lenses. This was shot with the A7Riii paired with the Sony SEL35F28Z. Shot at F/2.8 1/1250 ISO 100.

 

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Sean is by far one of the most athletic skiers I've worked with. With a racing background, he can just lay out his turns like they are nothing.

Sony a7rII | Sony 24-240mm F3.5-6.3 OSS

Sony a7rII | Sony FE 12-24 F2.8 GM

 

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The cicadas are a superfamily, the Cicadoidea, of insects in the order Hemiptera (true bugs). They are in the suborder Auchenorrhyncha, along with smaller jumping bugs such as leafhoppers and froghoppers. The superfamily is divided into two families, the Tettigarctidae, with two species in Australia, and the Cicadidae, with more than 3,000 species described from around the world; many species remain undescribed.

 

Cicadas have prominent eyes set wide apart, short antennae, and membranous front wings. They have an exceptionally loud song, produced in most species by the rapid buckling and unbuckling of drumlike tymbals. The earliest known fossil Cicadomorpha appeared in the Upper Permian period; extant species occur all around the world in temperate to tropical climates. They typically live in trees, feeding on watery sap from xylem tissue, and laying their eggs in a slit in the bark. Most cicadas are cryptic. The vast majority of species are active during the day as adults, with some calling at dawn or dusk. Only a rare few species are known to be nocturnal.

 

One exclusively North American genus, Magicicada (the periodical cicadas), which spend most of their lives as underground nymphs, emerge in predictable intervals of 13 or 17 years, depending on the species and the location. The unusual duration and synchronization of their emergence may reduce the number of cicadas lost to predation, both by making them a less reliably available prey (so that any predator that evolved to depend on cicadas for sustenance might starve waiting for their emergence), and by emerging in such huge numbers that they will sate any remaining predators before losing enough of their number to threaten their survival as a species.

 

The annual cicadas are species that emerge every year. Though these cicadas' life cycles can vary from 1–9 or more years as underground larvae, their emergence above ground as adults is not synchronized, so some members of each species appear every year.

 

Cicadas have been featured in literature since the time of Homer's Iliad and as motifs in art from the Chinese Shang dynasty. They have also been used in myth and folklore as symbols of carefree living and immortality. The cicada is also mentioned in Hesiod's Shield (ll.393–394), in which it is said to sing when millet first ripens. Cicadas are eaten by humans in various countries, including China, where the nymphs are served deep-fried in Shandong cuisine.

 

Class: Insecta

 

Kingdom: Animalia

 

Order: Hemiptera

 

Phylum: Arthropoda

 

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Sony a7rII | Tamron 17-28mm F/2.8 Di III RXD

Sony a7rII | Sigma MC-11 | Tamron 15-30mm f2.8 VC USD

A total lunar eclipse occurred on 21 January 2019 UTC. For observers in the Americas, the eclipse took place between the evening of Sunday, 20 January and the early morning hours of Monday, 21 January. For observers in Europe and Africa, the eclipse occurred during the morning of 21 January. The Moon was near its perigee on 21 January and as such can be described as a "supermoon".

 

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The cicadas are a superfamily, the Cicadoidea, of insects in the order Hemiptera (true bugs). They are in the suborder Auchenorrhyncha, along with smaller jumping bugs such as leafhoppers and froghoppers. The superfamily is divided into two families, the Tettigarctidae, with two species in Australia, and the Cicadidae, with more than 3,000 species described from around the world; many species remain undescribed.

 

Cicadas have prominent eyes set wide apart, short antennae, and membranous front wings. They have an exceptionally loud song, produced in most species by the rapid buckling and unbuckling of drumlike tymbals. The earliest known fossil Cicadomorpha appeared in the Upper Permian period; extant species occur all around the world in temperate to tropical climates. They typically live in trees, feeding on watery sap from xylem tissue, and laying their eggs in a slit in the bark. Most cicadas are cryptic. The vast majority of species are active during the day as adults, with some calling at dawn or dusk. Only a rare few species are known to be nocturnal.

 

One exclusively North American genus, Magicicada (the periodical cicadas), which spend most of their lives as underground nymphs, emerge in predictable intervals of 13 or 17 years, depending on the species and the location. The unusual duration and synchronization of their emergence may reduce the number of cicadas lost to predation, both by making them a less reliably available prey (so that any predator that evolved to depend on cicadas for sustenance might starve waiting for their emergence), and by emerging in such huge numbers that they will sate any remaining predators before losing enough of their number to threaten their survival as a species.

 

The annual cicadas are species that emerge every year. Though these cicadas' life cycles can vary from 1–9 or more years as underground larvae, their emergence above ground as adults is not synchronized, so some members of each species appear every year.

 

Cicadas have been featured in literature since the time of Homer's Iliad and as motifs in art from the Chinese Shang dynasty. They have also been used in myth and folklore as symbols of carefree living and immortality. The cicada is also mentioned in Hesiod's Shield (ll.393–394), in which it is said to sing when millet first ripens. Cicadas are eaten by humans in various countries, including China, where the nymphs are served deep-fried in Shandong cuisine.

 

Class: Insecta

 

Kingdom: Animalia

 

Order: Hemiptera

 

Phylum: Arthropoda

 

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Sony Nex-5T | Sony 24-240mm F3.5-6.3 OSS

 

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Hay lugares mágicos que rezuman eternidad. Como este escondido en el corazón de los Valles Pasiegos. Por fin, después de muuucho tiempo investigando, este año pudimos encontrarlo y disfrutarlo @mardonss . Sabe mejor cuando la búsqueda es larga.

 

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Crocodiles (family Crocodylidae) or true crocodiles are large semiaquatic reptiles that live throughout the tropics in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia. The term crocodile is sometimes used even more loosely to include all extant members of the order Crocodilia, which includes the alligators and caimans (family Alligatoridae), the gharial and false gharial (family Gavialidae), and all other living and fossil Crocodylomorpha.

 

Although they appear similar, crocodiles, alligators and the gharial belong to separate biological families. The gharial, with its narrow snout, is easier to distinguish, while morphological differences are more difficult to spot in crocodiles and alligators. The most obvious external differences are visible in the head, with crocodiles having narrower and longer heads, with a more V-shaped than a U-shaped snout compared to alligators and caimans. Another obvious trait is that the upper and lower jaws of the crocodiles are the same width, and the teeth in the lower jaw fall along the edge or outside the upper jaw when the mouth is closed; therefore, all teeth are visible, unlike an alligator, which possesses in the upper jaw small depressions into which the lower teeth fit. Also, when the crocodile's mouth is closed, the large fourth tooth in the lower jaw fits into a constriction in the upper jaw. For hard-to-distinguish specimens, the protruding tooth is the most reliable feature to define the species' family. Crocodiles have more webbing on the toes of the hind feet and can better tolerate saltwater due to specialized salt glands for filtering out salt, which are present, but non-functioning, in alligators. Another trait that separates crocodiles from other crocodilians is their much higher levels of aggression.

 

Crocodile size, morphology, behaviour and ecology differ somewhat among species. However, they have many similarities in these areas as well. All crocodiles are semiaquatic and tend to congregate in freshwater habitats such as rivers, lakes, wetlands and sometimes in brackish water and saltwater. They are carnivorous animals, feeding mostly on vertebrates such as fish, reptiles, birds and mammals, and sometimes on invertebrates such as molluscs and crustaceans, depending on species and age. All crocodiles are tropical species that, unlike alligators, are very sensitive to cold. They separated from other crocodilians during the Eocene epoch, about 55 million years ago. Many species are at the risk of extinction, some being classified as critically endangered.

 

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Sony a77 | Sony 16-50mm 2.8 SSM

Sony a7rII | Sigma 105mm F2.8 DG DN macro

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Sony a7rII | Sigma 105mm F2.8 DG DN macro

Sony a7rII | Sigma 105mm F2.8 DG DN macro

Sony a7rII | LA-EA3 | Sony AF 70-400 F4-5.6 G SSM

Sony a7rII | LA-EA3 | Sony AF 70-400 F4-5.6 G SSM

Sony a7rII | Sigma MC-11 | Tamron 15-30mm f2.8 VC USD

 

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Sony a7rII | Sony FE 12-24 F2.8 GM

Shot with my A7RIII and Carl Zeiss Sonnar T* 135mm F/2.8 AEJ Contax mount.

F/11 1/200 ISO 200

 

Blueberry Hill Conservation Area consists of 134 acres of wooded area in Gibbsboro, NJ. It features both paved and unpaved trails that are suitable for hiking or biking. At 192 feet, Blueberry Hill is one of the highest elevations in Southern New Jersey.

 

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Shot with my A7Riii and 50mm F/1.2 GM wide open

 

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Sony a99 | Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f2,8 XR

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Una auténtica gozada las hasta tres veces que he visitado esta maravilla esta primavera. Cada vez que iba me encontraba con ambientes muy diferentes a la anterior vez. Ha sido mi parque de atracciones durante 3 fines de semana. A esta cascada la tuvimos que dedicar mucho tiempo @mardonss y yo por la cantidad de posibilidades que encontramos y porque las flores no se estaban quietas. La verdad es que fue un reto el intentar dejarlas enfocadas y sin trepidar. Aun me quedan muchas fotos de editar de esos días. Va a ser un verano muy ajanero 😂😂.

 

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