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Found another Pic while fishing in my bloated 2014 Archives.
This Reddish Egret is doing the Hop, Skip, and Jump style of fishing. Haven't tried that myself, but he was having pretty good luck : )
Reddish Egrets are conspicuously long-legged, long-necked waders of coastal regions; more tied to salt water than any of our other herons or egrets.
Reddish Egrets have an unusual feeding behavior… running through shallows with long strides, staggering sideways, leaping in air, raising one or both wings, and abruptly stabbing at fish.
Reddish Egrets are either dark or white for life, beginning with the downy stage in the nest. Mated pairs may be of the same or different color morphs, and broods of young may include either or both morphs. Over most of range, dark birds are far more numerous.
(Nikon D7100, 80-400/5.6, 1/1000 @ f/8.0, ISO 800)
My favorite style of windows. Riding back from grcoery store I swung by to see if anything was happening. SWEET! is what I found. Me and My WONKY lines.
No processing, what you see is what I shot.
These two potions should do the trick, his belly will swell like a bloated tick. Grab this candle under the rat, it will ensure you wont want him back. Curse the day he messed with you, with Madame Lecora's magic brews.............
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I’ll tell you what I’d fight for. Not for Country, not her allies, not for any bloated politician's patriotic cause...I'd fight to live quietly next to you forever
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e2X7Kw-ho0&list=PLjfKJHtHv8U...
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that's the day i was born and hence, i had a birthday on april 9th, 2009! AHHHH!
it was a fun day. though it ended with bloatedness after drinking a soy chai at a restaurant. it was the powder mix chai, which, from experience, tends to be laden with dairy... Oh NOES! . . .
in any case, it was still fun. a guy gave me a HUGE purple cellophane wrapped basket of homemade peanut butter cookies he made himself, pretty white roses, funny balloons, and a card about BOOTYBUTTS (the card i received at work was about a toilet and poo... ironic much?)! his mom got me a to-die-for gift card to starbuck's (i whole-heartedly support the local coffee and tea shops, but sometimes, they just aren't around when you need 'em the most!)
then he and i went out to breakfast/lunch/brunch/whatever you wanna call it at T.C. Eggington's. they have great vegetarian choices... "portobellini"... yum! on the way to breakfast, we saw a mother and her tiny baby ducks by the freeway in the puddle-y canal/gutter/whatever you wanna call that. it was cool because it was my birthday and they were cute, yet odd because it was by a freeway and not in a park, or in my school's irrigation or something. them duckies must be suffering economically too, eh?
so after that, i contemplated going back home to work on a commedia dell'arte mask for theatre class, but decided to just veg and hang with this guy at his apartment (i find vegging out, doing nothing a bit difficult to do sometimes).
later on, we met up with my parents to eat dinner at the Euro Cafe in Gilbert, AZ. a great foodsie greeky place. and that's where, you know, *ahem*... the soy-chai-laden-with-dairy-omg-why-did-i-order-this fiasco happened. so after dinner, with all of us feeling like cows (even though i hardly ate anything and they ate like contestants in a hotdog eating contest), we went to Wal-Mart of all places. i'm particularly NOT a Wal-Mart fan, but since i was at Wal-Mart and it might be cheaper than at other places, i bought vanilla soy ice cream because i was magnetized/hankering for some.
we finally headed home around 11pm, after which i quickly shoved this guy out the door and kissed him goodbye, so i could heat up some of those peanut butter cookies and WHAM BAM!... inhale hot cookies n' ice cream. mmmmmmmmmm... no cake this year. and i wanted it that way. no one even sang to me either i noticed, but that's perfectly ok. it's not a crime. wait wait...i take that back: he played the weird al birthday song... so essentially, i was sung to in mp3 format. :)
oh yeah, and at work today for my 'employee birthday'... i made up fruit, granola, & yogurt parfaits for everyone. someone bought all the ingredients (i requested it instead of birthday cake), and i went right to work -- whipping up those babies during my lunch break. i was so amazed some people didn't know what a parfait was or how to make them.
well, now they know :)
suffice to say, i'm on a parfait kick now. i hadn't had one in a year before that day. soy yogurt though. yes, please. :)
p.s. thanks dude for taking these kickity arse photos!
Twop like a TwitterBunny
We spotted this juvenile lion with a bloated stomach walking very slowly one evening. Looks like a case of overeating !
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These are Prairie Coneflowers, delightful wildflowers that bees and butterflies adore. To create this image, I liquefied, bloated and twisted things about to get a sense of motion. Processing and effects all done in Adobe Photoshop Elements 15.
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...It Drives People Crazy
(One from my 2017 Archives. While cleaning up my bloated hard-drive, I almost threw this Baby out with the Bath-water)
The Lesser Scaup is a medium-sized diving duck with a small peak at the back of the head. From the small peak, the back of the head and neck is flat, not rounded as it is on Greater Scaup.
At a distance, breeding male Lesser Scaup are black and white, but closer views reveal an iridescent purple to green sheen on the head, a finely barred black-and-white back, a bluish bill, and a yellow eye. Females are brown overall with a darker brown head and a white patch next to the bill, but not all females have a white patch. Nonbreeding males look like a cross between a female and a breeding male: a mottled brown-and-gray body and a blackish head.
During migration and winter, Lesser Scaup form large flocks on lakes, bays, rivers, and larger wetlands. They tend to form tight groups and mix with other diving ducks such as Canvasbacks, Redheads, Greater Scaup, and Ring-necked Ducks.
(Nikon D500, Nikkor 200-500/5.6 @ 450 mm, 1/1000 @ f/6.3, ISO 320, edited to taste)
Another Pic found while sloshing around in my 2015 archives. Guess that's why my computer's hard-drives are constantly smoking... they're bloated with images that I want to get to... someday. Well todays the day for this one : )
Black-crowned Night-Herons are small herons with rather squat, thick proportions. They have thick necks, large, flat heads, and heavy, pointed bills. The legs are short and, in flight, barely reach the end of the tail. The wings are broad and rounded.
They are common in wetlands across North America, including saltmarshes, freshwater marshes, swamps, streams, rivers, lakes, ponds, lagoons, tidal mudflats, canals, reservoirs, and wet agricultural fields. They require aquatic habitat for foraging and terrestrial vegetation for cover. They spend the winter in southern and coastal portions of their breeding range as well as across Mexico and Central America.
Black-crowned Night-Herons are opportunists feeders that eat many kinds of terrestrial, freshwater, and marine animals. Their diet includes leeches, earthworms, insects, crayfish, clams, mussels, fish, amphibians, lizards, snakes, turtles, rodents, birds, and eggs. Black-crowned Night-Herons normally feed between evening and early morning, avoiding competition with other heron species that use the same habitat during the day.
Black-crowned Night-Herons nest colonially and behave socially all year long. Both males and females vigorously defend feeding and nesting territories, sometimes striking with their bills and grabbing each other’s bills or wings. Night-herons are monogamous. The male advertises for a mate with displays that involve bowing and raising the long plume on his head. Both the male and the female incubate the eggs and brood the chicks, greeting each other with calls and raised feathers when switching over duties. The young leave the nest at the age of one month and move through the vegetation on foot, forming nocturnal flocks in feeding areas. They learn to fly when they are six weeks old, and then disperse widely.
(Nikon, 200-500/5.6, 1/1600 @ f/8, ISO 1600)
- Quote by Aristotle
Began the day trying to remove old photos from my bloated hard-drive. Didn’t get very far into the task before coming upon this shot from a 2009 trip to Greece. Figuring out which images to keep or delete shouldn’t be as difficult as figuring out the meaning of life… but I’m stumped 😊
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The Parthenon:
The Parthenon is a temple on the Athenian Acropolis, dedicated to the goddess Athena. Its decorative sculptures are considered some of the high points of classical Greek art, and is considered an enduring symbol of Ancient Greece, democracy, and Western civilization.
The Parthenon dominates the hill of the Acropolis at Athens. It was built in the mid-5th century. The temple is generally considered to be the culmination of the development of the Doric order, the simplest of the three Classical Greek architectural orders.
(Canon PowerShot SD950, 1/1000 @ f/8, ISO 200, edited to taste)
This bloated blue jay looks and feels the same way as I do after four days of feasting on fantastic rich food over the long Thanksgiving holiday. We'll both be hitting the gym early tomorrow morning in hopes of slimming down a bit before Christmas comes!
Unusual for me to take a photo, process it and post it within 24 hours but I did with this! (do I hear rapturous applause? - no, thought not! hehe)
It's a scene from Stanton Moor in the north of the peak district, a lovely serene place with a real feel feel for ancient history, stone circle, standing stones, burial mounds, etc - and lots of Birch woodland.
This is two side by side shots stitched together and Andyfied - various blurring techniques then I made two copies, slightly bloated one and then merged the two slightly to give it a nice hallucinogenic feel. Finally, two copies again, one colour and and one B&W with a top to bottom merge at reduced transparency just to make sure you see the LSD goblins chasing around!
"But still, she was there, who was there before Sauron, and before the first stone of Barad-dûr; and she served none but herself, drinking the blood of Elves and Men, bloated and grown fat with endless brooding on her feasts, weaving webs of shadow; for all living things were her food, and her vomit darkness."
The Two Towers
J. R. R. Tolkien
„Carried away by the wind
Settled in the small puddle along the way
A bloated sail
Upright, defying every breath of wind
Illuminated by the sun
Proud, represented the golden autumn..."
„Vom Winde hinfortgetragen
In der kleinen Pfütze am Wegesrand niedergelassen
Ein geblähtes Segel
Aufrecht, jedem Windhauch trotzend
Von der Sonne durchleuchtet
Stolz, den goldenen Herbst repräsentiert…“
„I would like to take this opportunity to thank all followers, all new followers, and all those who just stop by. I say thank you for all previous and for all the new fav's and comments. 🙏“
„Ich danke an dieser Stelle allen Followern, allen neuen Followern, und all jenen die einfach so mal vorbeischauen. Ich sage Danke für alle bisherigen und für Sie all die neu hinzukommenden Fav‘s und Kommentare. 🙏“
My personal challenge for 2022 - I'll try - and do my very best...
Meine persönliche Herausforderung für 2022 - ich werd's versuchen - und mein Bestes geben…
The Weekday daily Coal Train to Railton can be seen crossing the bloated Meander River at Deloraine behind TR units TR01 and TR13.
31st May, 2016
250th @ f10 200iso
Focal length 35mm using Canon EF 35-350 F3.5-5.6
L USM..
Photo By Steve Bromley.
2017.01.15 Felsőtárkány,Hungary
At the village border of Felsőtárkány , at the door of the Bükk mountains.
The water of the Rock-spring has been bloated into a lake in the 18th century. The gorgeous surroundings of the lake are a beloved resting place. On the open-air stage cultural programmes take place during summer.
Found at Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo, the penguins were diving and swimming under the water. I liked this one version with the King penguin coming at me appearing bloated with air.
They do zip fast through the water thus the bubbles and aeration through the water.
The blue hue was mainly from the aquarium lighting.
Sabi Sabi Game Reserve
South Africa
The red-billed oxpecker (Buphagus erythrorhynchus) is a passerine bird in the starling and myna family, Sturnidae; some ornithologists regard the oxpeckers to be in a family by themselves, the Buphagidae. It is native to the savannah of sub-Saharan Africa, from the Central African Republic east to South Sudan and south to northern and eastern South Africa. Its range overlaps that of the less widespread, yellow-billed oxpecker.
The red-billed oxpecker nests in tree holes lined with hair plucked from livestock. It lays 2–5 eggs, with three being the average. Outside the breeding season it forms large, chattering flocks.
The preferred habitat is open country, and the red-billed oxpecker eats insects. An adult will take nearly 100 engorged female Boophilus decoloratus ticks, or more than 12,000 larvae in a day. The red-billed oxpecker feeds on ticks found on other animals.
However, their preferred food is blood, and while they may take ticks bloated with blood, they also feed on it directly, pecking at the mammal's wounds to keep them open to more parasites.
This is a medium-sized passerine, 20 cm long with strong feet. The red-billed oxpecker has plain brown upperparts and head, buff underparts and a pale rump. The bill is red, and adults have a yellow eye ring. Its flight is strong and direct, and the call is a hissy crackling trik-quisss. – Wikipedia
To a Haggis
All hail your honest rounded face,
Great chieftain of the pudding race;
Above them all you take your place,
Beef, tripe, or lamb:
You're worthy of a grace
As long as my arm.
The groaning trencher there you fill,
Your sides are like a distant hill
Your pin would help to mend a mill,
In time of need,
While through your pores the dews distil,
Like amber bead.
His knife the rustic goodman wipes,
To cut you through with all his might,
Revealing your gushing entrails bright,
Like any ditch;
And then, what a glorious sight,
Warm, welcome, rich.
Then plate for plate they stretch and strive,
Devil take the hindmost, on they drive,
Till all the bloated stomachs by and by,
Are tight as drums.
The rustic goodman with a sigh,
His thanks he hums.
Let them that o'er his French ragout,
Or hotchpotch fit only for a sow,
Or fricassee that'll make you spew,
And with no wonder;
Look down with sneering scornful view,
On such a dinner.
Poor devil, see him eat his trash,
As feckless as a withered rush,
His spindly legs and good whip-lash,
His little feet
Through floods or over fields to dash,
O how unfit.
But, mark the rustic, haggis-fed;
The trembling earth resounds his tread,
Grasp in his ample hands a flail
He'll make it whistle,
Stout legs and arms that never fail,
Proud as the thistle.
You powers that make mankind your care,
And dish them out their bill of fare.
Old Scotland wants no stinking ware,
That slops in dishes;
But if you grant her grateful prayer,
Give her a haggis.
Years later he'd stood in the charred ruins of a library where blackened books lay in pools of water. Shelves tipped over. Some rage at the lies arranged in their thousands row on row. He picked up one of the books and thumbed through the heavy bloated pages. He'd not have thought the value of the smallest thing predicated on a world to come. It surprised him. That the space which these things occupied was itself an expectation.
― Cormac McCarthy
"The Road"
Yey another stay at home Carina edit. Using the 12nm Ha data I shot recently from Adelaide metro area combined with colour broad band data from Hawker late last year again, this time using the Ha data as the luminance layer in Lab colour mode in photoshop. The Ha stars are so much smaller, so I did a few tricks to minimise the artifacts around the stars that come from the more bloated broad band stars. Not 100% successful but I think much better than my previous attempt.
A seemingly deserted shop whose Christmas decorations still were hung up even in the mid summer in central Zürich. Poor Santa looked even more bloated than usual and as if he was suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning, There is an art to the shop display, though, even when it's a sad scene.
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Interacting galaxies, some noise in this picture, but the feint streamers being gravitationally stripped from the small galaxy can be seen. The small galaxy is being disrupted by the larger galaxy in passing. Image details,-
Canon 760D plus 1.4 converter.(stock camera)
SW MN190 Telescope
SW NEQ6 mount unguided
133 subs @ ISO 3200/ 6400, 2h 13M exposure time.
Stacked in DSS, post processing in Lightroom and Canon DDP.
The latest version of Deep Sky Stacker has done an excellent job of this image.
I have to say the telescope (MN190) does not perform well at high power, with my 1.4x converter. Took me a while to realise the moisture in the atmosphere effects its performance at high power. I check the stars in each image at 100x ,(ok that`s pushing it ), (but they do say its like a 8 inch APO!! yeah!.) On damp nights the stars become more bloated and fuzzy, and sometimes a shadow over the star, I found this hard to correct with fine focusing. No such problem with converter removed. I guess slight misting of the glass is causing the problem, hair drier to the rescue. Any way after lots of labour I managed to get this fairly clean image, but I had to be very selective of the stars in the subs, if they started to bloat, they were thrown out, after viewing at 25x 50x and 100x. The resulting picture the stars don`t look to bad and made a nice pic of the galaxy. Any good advice is welcome, thanks for viewing.
This is my best photo from 2020, it involved a lot of work to acquire the final image, using stock camera and processing software, no photoshop or narrowband techniques were used and no broadband or narrowband filters were used and the images were unguided.
An interesting technique of viewing feint detail can be used on the image. The feint streamers emanating from the smaller galaxy can be seen better with slightly averted vision, that is look slightly left or right of the feint gas and you will see it better than looking directly at it, see if it works for you.
This is a southward view from Sarangkot. I imagined before I came to Pokhara that it would be a resort town, but realised later that it was a metropolis.
Pokhara is the second populous city in Nepal and the capital of Kaski district and Gandaki Pradesh (Province). It became bloated by absorbing population from Himalayan villages. It is also called the tourism capital of Nepal.
Few people take photos in this direction since Sarangkot is a viewpoint of Himalayas to the north.
The term 'Bloat' is given to a group of Hippopotamus and given their stature I don't think it takes much to work out how the name was derived.
For me our visit to Lake Naivasha was one of the real highlights of our 2023 trip to Kenya.
After an hour waiting for a humming bird to land on the feeder without success I decided to shoot this nectar bloated ant. I didn't get the prize that I was looking for so took this as a consolation prize.
Hark Triton, hark! Bellow, bid our father the Sea King rise from the depths full foul in his fury! Black waves teeming with salt foam to smother this young mouth with pungent slime, to choke ye, engorging your organs til' ye turn blue and bloated with bilge and brine and can scream no more - only when he, crowned in cockle shells with slitherin' tentacle tail and steaming beard take up his fell be-finned arm, his coral-tine trident screeches banshee-like in the tempest and plunges right through yer gullet, bursting ye - a bulging bladder no more, but a blasted bloody film now and nothing for the harpies and the souls of dead sailors to peck and claw and feed upon only to be lapped up and swallowed by the infinite waters of the Dread Emperor himself - forgotten to any man, to any time, forgotten to any god or devil, forgotten even to the sea, for any stuff for part of Winslow, even any scantling of your soul is Winslow no more, but is now itself the sea!
Large Black Bear boar getting a refreshing drink of water after gorging himself on a Bison carcass for half the day.
It seems that then me 'bloat' has been given to a group of hippos. It is quite funny really as they are often seen wallowing and relaxing just as they might be if they had had too much to eat. In this case I count twenty five but I did use a zoom and there must have been a number that didn't feature in this view. Online resources state that they gather normally in these groups of between 10 and 30. This must have been a large bloat.
I must admit I do like how they are so comfortable around one and other and often relax whilst leaning on each other.
This is a view taken from the banks of the Masai River.
Had a work errand this morning and was passing by this Park (actually made a detour, LOL), gloomy and rainy day, when I saw this little guy sitting, not moving and daring me somehow and trying to tell me something :) Took few shots, s/he didn't move, approached and clicked, didn't move till I was couple feet from him and suddenly s/he faced the camera and didn't move!!! After I put my camera down that s/he jumped from the bench and climbed a nearby tree!! On his way I guess the mumbling "squirrely" noise he made can be translated as: "I'm from Toronto and I'm Bloated and I snapped a mugshot of you too, ya know!!" (see first comment box, LOL)!!
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No, I did not fall off the Earth. After arriving in my hometown Schuders in the Swiss Alps I was offline for a few days without computer. This is because the battery bloated and went bad. It's all fixed now, and I am back online. Today we put to rest the partner of my mom in the little village chapel.
I processed a paintery, and a realistic HDR photo from three RAW exposures, blended them selectively, and carefully adjusted the color balance and curves. I welcome and appreciate constructive comments.
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-- ƒ/6.3, 28 mm, 1/100, 1/400, 1/1600 sec, ISO 100, Sony A6000, SEL-P1650, HDR, 3 RAW exposures, _DSC1332_3_4_hdr3pai5rea1e.jpg
-- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, © Peter Thoeny, Quality HDR Photography
A fat, bloated moon appeared from behind Mt. Baker in Washington State this evening. Photo is taken from Abbotsford, B.C., Canada.
Hildegard is in a favorite grazing spot, out by the farm's large solar array. She'll eat and eat, long after the other goats have gotten full. I usually need to herd her back into the paddock, so she doesn't get bloated. I then massage her rumen (the first of four stomachs), to help her digest. It also makes her burp.
All systems go for Christmas here 🎄
The Christmas LEGO is all done ... and then half undone by my very helpful grandson. The pool is crystal clear and ready for post-Christmas lunch dips & floating about like a bloated whale. The outside lights are up - most of which work. Well, being honest, some of which work. You don't need a lot of light anyway, attracts the mozzies is my excuse. The fridge is stocked with beer, wine, bubbly - and I believe there’s some food in there too somewhere. The Christmas playlist is sorted, with carols being THE essential ingredient at Christmas. Anytime from the first weekend in December actually. I'm a tragic Christmas music nerd. Sadly, the dark chocolate–covered almonds have mysteriously disappeared, so it looks like I’ll be forced to buy more. Another tragedy. 😉 Probably not quite the white Christmas our Northern Hemisphere friends are used to.
Anyway, onto the photo. This is The Entrance Waterside Park on the Central Coast — and yes, this is very much our version of Christmas festive.
It’s a holiday favourite, and it’s easy to see why. Two beaches perfect for swimming and boating, the ocean on one side, the lake on the other, and a wonderfully family-friendly park complete with a splash pool. Add dozens of cafés, restaurants and ice-cream stops (purely essential, of course), plus festivals, concerts and the occasional carnival ride, and you’ve got a place that’s vibrant, colourful and full of life this time of the year.
Wishing all my Flickr friends, and your friends and families, a very merry, happy and safe Christmas whether yours comes with snow boots or sand between your toes.
frogs and frogspawn in the Kent Downs.
You imagine that all is dead. You fish out a few bloated bodies of frogs that had been caught in the ice and you think there is no life in the pond. And then, suddenly, there's all this croaking and splashing and nature proves you wrong. And there is nothing but blatant on-the-surface sex with frogs attached, velcro-like, to the slippery bodies of their mates... and churning out a mass of spawn.
Economic cycles work like that too but the regeneration can take rather longer and be less predictable, especially the current one! And the bloated bodies can cause more fear and contamination for longer.
Despite this being the most bloated American ponycar ever photographed in Chehalis, Washington, this image strikes me as looking like it's in Britain. As if a pasty shop and a fish and chip shop could be right around the corner.
This is my 2" bunny which I used in MM 3 years ago already. I always said I'd give the scooter an artificial light one day. Which I have done now but of course the rules changed so I can't submit it to the group. Please look in comments for the completed version.
A Flickr friend (Hi Ant!) reminded me of the film Quadrophenia and I remembered that two scenes were filmed right next to the building I lived in at the time. I wasn't there (I think) during the actual filming but I remember a later crew talking about the set up of the rain machine for this scene. They always filmed something or other in the area and nobody took much notice. It was a gritty, grimy neighbourhood, perfect for atmospheric films. Sad when they cleared it all up and made it look nice.
There are two scenes which have Jimmy on his scooter (this is where my bunny on HIS scooter came in) on the towpath by the Grand Union Canal, one in the rain and another one where he is harassing a smooching couple. I sort of pulled the two scenes together in the image I couldn't post in MM. It was a lot of fun I must say!. Headlight thanks to a tutorial by Phlearn! I also gave my little rabbit rear view mirrors ! The lights opposite were from a Chinese Take Away so I thought I'd put them in to keep it real and a bit friendlier. The canal was full of shopping trolleys and bikes and sometimes bloated dead animals, so I am surprised to see a barge racing by in the dark.
For the simple image for MM I had to put my rabbit on Blu Tack on a black baking tray in the sink and then I turned the water on. Took a few tries to stop the rabbit from being swept away. Amazingly, the real headlight, which comes on when you press his little tail, is still working! Which makes me happy!!
So, HMM to you! Hope you are having equally much fun today!
The red-billed oxpecker (Buphagus erythrorhynchus) nests in tree holes lined with hair plucked from livestock and wild animals.
The preferred habitat is open country, and the red-billed oxpecker eats insects. An adult will take nearly 100 ticks, or more than 12,000 larvae in a day. However, their preferred food is blood, and while they may take ticks bloated with blood, they also feed on it directly, pecking at the mammal's wounds to keep them open.
The red-billed oxpecker was photographed riding on a buffalo in Lake Nakuru National Park, Kenya.
So says this review of the Tokyo International Forum from 12 years ago, which goes on to criticise much of what was achieved by US-based Uruguayan architect Rafael Viñoly. What a lot of rubbish! It's a gorgeous building! This shot was also taken there.
Part of the ministract and buildings sets.
Nikon d5500
50mm
ISO 3200
f/2.5
Foreground: 40 x 6 seconds
Sky: 82 x 30 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
Hoya Red Intensifier filter
This is a 122 shot panorama of the Milky Way rising over Lake Clifton and its thrombolites, about an hour south of Perth in Western Australia. Thrombolites are formed by calcium carbonate excretions from colonies of bacteria and are among the oldest lifeforms on earth. These particular ones though are 'only' a couple of thousand years old.
Also prominent in this image are the Magellanic Clouds just above the light pollution in the centre of the image and above the LMC is the pink coloured Carina Nebula, another staple of Southern Hemisphere night skies.
The moist air played havoc with my lens, fogging it up
every 15 minutes so some of the stars appear bloated because of this.
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I am Juggalo Deadmore, a relative of the Grimaldi Deadmores of 1778.
I come from a long line of performers, some sane and some not.
My earlier ancestors regularly performed in Drury Lane and Sadler's Wells, and Charles Dickens described my great great grandfather Joseph or 'Joey' Grimaldi, in his novel The Pickwick Papers in 1836:
"His bloated body and shrunken legs-their deformity enhanced a hundredfold by the fantastic dress-
the glassy eyes, contrasting with the thick white paint with which the face was besmeared;
the grotesquely-ornamented head, trembling with paralysis,
and the long skinny hands, rubbed with white chalk- all gave him a hideous and unnatural appearance."
'Here we are again, Joey!'
Inworld name: Tigre Milena
Thank you DRD.