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This is one of my favorite Kingman District photos. On October 5, 1972, Work Extra 3262 unloads welded rail just east of Harris, Arizona, on the eastward main track. The train is working west against the current of traffic, a rare occurrence at this time. This was a fairly easy location to access in the 1970s, but industry buildup around here has made it more difficult. Now that this territory has CTC signaling, westbounds on this track are more common, but not the rule. Photo by Joe McMillan.
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Painted turtle(Chrysemys picta).
Winter hibernation...
During the winter, the turtle hibernates. In the north, the inactive season may be as long as from October to March, while the southernmost populations may not hibernate at all. While hibernating, the body temperature of the painted turtle averages 6 °C (43 °F). Periods of warm weather bring the turtle out of hibernation, and even in the north, individuals have been seen basking in February.
The painted turtle hibernates by burying itself, either on the bottom of a body of water, near water in the shore-bank or the burrow of a muskrat, or in woods or pastures. When hibernating underwater, the turtle prefers shallow depths, no more than 2 m (7 ft). Within the mud, it may dig down an additional 1 m (3 ft). In this state, the turtle does not breathe, although if surroundings allow, it may get some oxygen through its skin. The species is one of the best-studied vertebrates able to survive long periods without oxygen. Adaptations of its blood chemistry, brain, heart, and particularly its shell allow the turtle to survive extreme lactic acid buildup while oxygen-deprived.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Painted_turtle
Wildwood Nature Preserve, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
I have seen Swainson's Hawks feed feathers to their young and was excited to see this behavior in the Eared Grebe also. More photos of this sequence are in the comment box.
"The purpose(s) of feather eating is unproven but evidence suggests that the behavior has these benefits for the birds.
1. Some of the ingested feathers form a plug in the pylorus, between the stomach and small intestine, which acts as a strainer to keep fish bones in the stomach long enough to be completely digested.
2. Most swallowed feathers end up in the stomach lumen, mixed with food. They eventually (along with any indigestible matter) form pellets that are ejected through the mouth. The continuous passage of these pellets through the upper digestive system minimizes the buildup of a variety of parasites that are very common there and plague grebes."
www.featheredphotography.com/blog/2010/10/29/why-grebes-e...
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We have had a fairly mild winter and as yet there is very little ice buildup on Lake Ontario.
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Out in the woods of Georgia is Sky Valley, a somewhat fancy leisure community and golf course that seems out of place. When you enter Sky Valley, it seems like any waterfalls would have disappeared with the buildup of the community, but off in a corner of Sky Valley is Mud Creek Falls. It’s actually a very pretty waterfall that is easy to access and even has a little picnic area next to it.
Inside Seljalandsfoss on the path looking out. It's a rather interesting process from shooting inside with the all the mist. First you have to figure out your exposure and composition. Then you leave and clean your lens off from the mist buildup. Then you make your photograph. Very over cast conditions that day, but that's good for waterfalls. Seljalandsfoss, Iceland, April 2021
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Wednesday afternoon was sunny, but bitterly cold. As I had been housebound for a couple of days, I decided to bundle up and visit the beach at Kohler-Andrae State Park. The ice shelf buildup after the winds and waves along Lake Michigan was amazing. The peaks of the shelves must have been at least 10 feet high.
Development of storms began 90 minutes later than yesterday (~11AM today (8/13)). First lightning reported was an hour after this image.
Note how green the desert landscape is despite temperatures between 90F to 105F during the past month.
Some light painting at Mono Lake in the Eastern Sierra. the background light is the town of Lee Vining.
Mono Lake is a shallow salt water lake located in the high desert on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, in California in the United States. The lake has no outlet to the ocean causing high levels of salts to accumulate in the waters. As a consequence of its high salinity, no fish live in Mono Lake, but there are plenty of brine shrimp that thrive in its waters. Over two million annual migratory birds use Mono Lake as a stop over and resting place as they fly to South America or the tropical oceans. They feed on the shrimps, lay eggs and hatch their young ones here.
The most unusual feature of Mono Lake are its dramatic tufa towers emerging from the surface. These rock towers form when underwater springs rich in calcium mix with the waters of the lake, which are rich in carbonates. The resulting reaction forms limestone. Over time the buildup of limestone formed towers, and when the water level of the lake dropped the towers became exposed.
Saturday afternoon I wandered the beach behind Blue Harbor resort at the end of South Pier. I was amazed by the extent of the ice shelf buildup.
Laomei's most interesting sight is the Green Algal Reef on the seashore. This reef, which is really only visible at low tide, is the result of a buildup of layer upon layer of algae. When algae die, their limestone skeletons remain in position, and a new generation of algae grows atop them.
The scores of long, humped "fingers" running down the beach, and the varying hues of green, make this an intriguingly unique landscape.
Laomei itself is a small community full of tiny houses and narrow streets. There's no industry here, and few businesses of any kind. Laomei Old Street used to be the main coast road. Nowadays it is much quieter, a newer, wider road having become Taiwan Highway 2.
The Laomei River runs to the east of the community; a smaller streams rushes through it, between people's houses, and between houses and vegetable plots. This means that, for its size, Laomei may have more bridges than Venice.
Laomei is within walking distance of Fuji Fishing Harbor and Fuguei Cape. Consider getting off the bus in Laomei, then walking from the Algal Reef to Fuguei Cape and then onto Fuji Village before catching another bus east or west.
老梅石槽形成的原因，是由於幾萬年前大屯火山爆發後，
遺留海岸邊的火山礁岩在 波浪長期的沖刷下，
質地鬆軟的部份被侵蝕，留下較堅硬的部份而形成溝槽，
每年冬天北部東北季風一起，濤天的浪花滋潤了石槽的岩面，
也開始滋生綠色的石蓴、海髮絲等海藻，
因此形成令人驚嘆不已的「綠石槽」海岸景觀，
尤其是在日出日落時分，景觀更是迷人，
常吸引許多愛好攝影的人士駐足拍攝，也在攝影界留下許多經典的畫面。
Volcanoes Pomarate (r, 20,610 feet/ 6281 m) and Parinacota (l, 20,827 feet/ 6348 m) provide the backdrop for a llama pasture and small group of dwellings in Sajama National Park, Bolivia. The twin "stratovolcanoes" (conical volcanoes composed of multiple layers of hardened lava, ash and tephra) straddle the Bolivian - Chilean border. The volcanoes formed during the Pleistocene (2.5 million- 12,000 years ago), and have experienced multiple eruptions, the latest 200 years ago. While the rainy season was waning, the daily cycle of cloud buildup and periodic rain was still apparent.
The huts are constructed of native materials- adobe (mud and grass bricks)- note the stack drying between the two huts on the right) and thatched puna grass roofs.
Doug Harrop Photography • February 2, 1985
Union Pacific's MIGV (Minntac) iron ore train departs Ogden, Utah for Geneva Works amid a foggy, hazy valley inversion formation.
For the weather nerds: A valley inversion is a phenomenon where a layer of warm air gets trapped above a layer of cold air in a valley, creating a temperature inversion. This can lead to a buildup of pollutants in the valley, as the warm air acts as a cap, preventing the cold air from circulating and dispersing pollutants.
One of the unique things that the tunnel into Langjökull allows visitors to see are the layers within the ice. LED lights placed behind ice walls help bring out the layers. Glacial ice forms from the incremental buildup of layers of snow. Seasonal differences in the snow properties help create these layers. Dark impurities from wind-blown dust or volcanic ash from eruptions of Iceland’s volcanoes are incorporated into some layers. At the point in the tunnel where this wall is visible, the passage is about 80 feet below the surface (25 m) with over 650 feet (200 m) of ice below it. The ice in this wall is 30 to 35 years old. The total length of the tunnel is 1640 feet (500 m).
Laomei's most interesting sight is the Green Algal Reef on the seashore. This reef, which is really only visible at low tide, is the result of a buildup of layer upon layer of algae. When algae die, their limestone skeletons remain in position, and a new generation of algae grows atop them.
The scores of long, humped "fingers" running down the beach, and the varying hues of green, make this an intriguingly unique landscape.
Laomei itself is a small community full of tiny houses and narrow streets. There's no industry here, and few businesses of any kind. Laomei Old Street used to be the main coast road. Nowadays it is much quieter, a newer, wider road having become Taiwan Highway 2.
The Laomei River runs to the east of the community; a smaller streams rushes through it, between people's houses, and between houses and vegetable plots. This means that, for its size, Laomei may have more bridges than Venice.
Laomei is within walking distance of Fuji Fishing Harbor and Fuguei Cape. Consider getting off the bus in Laomei, then walking from the Algal Reef to Fuguei Cape and then onto Fuji Village before catching another bus east or west.
The Pine Rocklands of the Florida Keys is an unusual ecosystem, with a rock layer not far beneath the surface. In the United States, the last 2% of the original forest is found only in the National Key Deer Refuge, primarily on Big Pine Key. They are also found on some isolated locations in the Caribbean.
Slash Pine trees (Pinus ellottii), with sturdy taproots, can remain standing long after the death of a tree. So there is an eerie mix of live and dead trees in the pine rocklands. When they finally fall, decomposition is rapid, with little soil buildup. There are "holes" with ponds of fresh water that support a variety of plants and small animals. In the picture, Saw Palmetto is the primary plant in the understory, but about 250 species of plants are found in the Pine Rocklands.
Cucumber Falls, Ohiopyle State Park
A massive amount of frozen buildup had mostly melted by this point. You can get a sense of how wide the buildup was from looking at the remnants behind the waterfall.
I used Gen Fill in Photoshop to remove many distracting small branches.
dramatic sunset reflecting off a potent looking storm over the Philippines (I like the mountain peeking out)
Cobourg Pier ice buildup , Martin’s Photographs , Cobourg , Ontario , Canada , February 25. 2007
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After almost a wasted trip we had 3 minutes of absolutely stunning light and for once i managed to capture it correctly.
Totally unexpected as the buildup to the sunrise was pretty flat and diffused cloud ,so hopes were pretty much dashed.... then bang , this is why we love photography so much............ TIP.....
" expect the unexpected "
Just over the Highway 17 grade crossing is as far as Cumbres & Toltec’s Rotary OY outfit train is going to plow on March 1, 2020. It began riding on ice-filled flangeways on the east side of the crossing and was quickly stopped, and backed away. A large accumulation of snow was deposited here by highway plows, and all the activity over on this side of the crossing caused a lot of ice buildup too. The crew tries to clean out the ice, but since the crew was getting low on time, it was quickly decided to head back to town and call it a day. Better doing this than possibly derailing a rotary plow on top of a state highway crossing.
Burning off the carbon buildup after idling overnight, the engineer of Job 1 notches up crossing the Susquehanna river over to Wysox where they will cause me great pain and suffering by switching TSS for nearly 5 hours.
Not a sunny day in the Eastern Sierras today!
Mono Lake is a shallow salt water lake located in the high desert on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, in California in the United States. The lake has no outlet to the ocean causing high levels of salts to accumulate in the waters. As a consequence of its high salinity, no fish live in Mono Lake, but there are plenty of brine shrimp that thrive in its waters. Over two million annual migratory birds use Mono Lake as a stop over and resting place as they fly to South America or the tropical oceans. They feed on the shrimps, lay eggs and hatch their young ones here.
The most unusual feature of Mono Lake are its dramatic tufa towers emerging from the surface. These rock towers form when underwater springs rich in calcium mix with the waters of the lake, which are rich in carbonates. The resulting reaction forms limestone. Over time the buildup of limestone formed towers, and when the water level of the lake dropped the towers became exposed.
Being down with the flu is not a whole lot of fun but it does give an opportunity to review images when you don't feel much like doing anything at all. This one was taken in January of 2016. Lake Huron was not frozen over but there was lots of ice buildup along the shoreline and I was interested in trying to capture some of the textures.
Buildup some concentration. FOCUS @ THE CENTER. joking guys, nothing serious here :))
This is a flower called 'Sunahari' locally. It only blooms in summer.
Red Crossbill (Loxia curvirostra) male feeding on spruce cones in a suburban neighbourhood of southwest Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
The spruce trees were stressed due to dry conditions this past summer and produced a large cone crop this year. This resulted in a large number of both species of Crossbills moving into Edmonton this winter to feed on the abundant food supply.
There were nearly 3000 Crossbills (Red and White-winged) observed in Edmonton during the annual Christmas Bird Count.
It was a very cold day with frost buildup on the back of my camera from my breath but the birds were almost at eye level in the spruce trees, which made the cold conditions bearable.
There were very dull light conditions so a fill flash was used to brighten the image.
8 January, 2016.
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1. Sunset over the Aletsch Glacier
July 2023
90 × 60 cm, Alu-Dibond
Italiano
Al tramonto, il ghiacciaio dell’Aletsch, il più lungo delle Alpi, si dispiega in tutta la sua magnificenza.
La prima luce del giorno rivela i flussi sinuosi di ghiaccio e le profonde crepacciature, mentre lo sguardo spazia sul patrimonio mondiale UNESCO Jungfrau Aletsch.
Chi guarda giù dall’Eggishorn vede una striscia scura, simile a una strada che attraversa il ghiaccio. Ma non è opera dell’uomo. È la morena mediana, un accumulo di rocce, detriti e polvere, formatosi nel punto di incontro di diverse lingue glaciali.
Nel ghiacciaio dell’Aletsch confluiscono, tra gli altri, il Jungfraufirn, l’Ewigschneefeld e il Grüneggfirn. Ogni ramo glaciale trascina con sé detriti lungo i bordi, le cosiddette morene laterali. Là dove i flussi glaciali si uniscono, queste morene si spingono una contro l’altra e formano una fascia centrale di detriti sopra il ghiaccio: una morena mediana, che rende visibile la fusione di più ghiacciai.
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Deutsch
Beim Sonnenuntergang entfaltet sich der der längste Gletscher der Alpen, der Aletschgletscher, in seiner ganzen Pracht.
Das erste Licht des Tages legt die geschwungenen Eisströme und tiefen Gletscherspalten frei, während der Blick über das UNESCO Welterbe Jungfrau Aletsch schweift.
Wer vom Eggishorn hinabblickt, sieht einen dunklen Streifen, der wie eine Strasse durchs Eis verläuft. Doch es ist kein Werk von Menschenhand. Es ist die Mittelmoräne, eine Ansammlung von Gestein, Geröll und Staub, entstanden an der Schnittstelle mehrerer Gletscherzungen.
Im Aletschgletscher vereinen sich unter anderem der Jungfraufirn, das Ewigschneefeld und der Grüneggfirn. Jeder Gletscherarm transportiert an seinen Rändern Geröll, die sogenannten Seitenmoränen. Wo die Eisströme zusammenfliessen, schieben sich diese Moränen gegeneinander und bilden einen zentralen Streifen aus Schutt auf dem Eis: eine Mittelmoräne, die das Zusammenwachsen mehrerer Gletscher sichtbar macht.
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English
At sunset, the Aletsch Glacier, the longest in the Alps, reveals itself in all its glory.
The first light of day unveils the graceful ice flows and deep crevasses, while the view stretches across the Jungfrau Aletsch UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Looking down from the Eggishorn, one sees a dark line resembling a road through the ice. But it’s not man made. This is the medial moraine, a buildup of rock, debris, and dust, formed where several glacier tongues converge.
At the Aletsch Glacier, the Jungfraufirn, Ewigschneefeld, and Grüneggfirn, among others, come together. Each glacier arm carries debris along its edges, the so called lateral moraines. Where the ice flows meet, these moraines are pushed together, forming a central strip of debris atop the ice: a medial moraine, visibly marking the merging of several glaciers.
“The silence of nature is very real. It surrounds you, you can feel it.” -Ted Trueblood
We walked along the beach today and the park was very quiet. Even Lake Michigan made not a peep. The silence of nature is like a warm blanket. It’s therapeutic, comforting, and calming.
This photo was taken at the edge of the beach, looking out into the lake. There is quite a bit of ice buildup!
The buildup to the Christmas Holiday is always a hectic one. Whether you celebrate it or not, here's hoping my Flickr friends are able to enjoy some relaxing time off with family and friends. I'm very grateful for all your faves and comments over the past year and wish everyone very Happy Holidays.
This image, with a decorative Santa, made over a plastic pop bottle of all things, was given to us years ago by my mother and always makes an appearance this time of year. He was a good subject for a Christmas greeting so I propped him up on a stool with some foil lined bubble packing material in the background. A flashlight hidden directly behind him, and an external flash on the camera, completed the setup. Cheers, everyone!
Looking west from the parking lot at Mt. Falcon Park. A much greater buildiup and substantial rain is expected later in the day.
There seems to be a huge buildup of containers at Port Adelaide. These were stcked right up to the edge of a road. I'm guessing that COVID and possibly the war is wreaking havoc with shipping logistics everywhere.
Thanks Explore (#140). Position (#274)
Back in Cheyenne, WY after a year’s absence. Expecting severe storms today and tomorrow.
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Same spot, but a very different angle here. As cirrus clouds started to build up (there was a weather warning for severe thunderstorms in place for a few hours later, so this was the buildup to that), two Vectrons in ELL livery - the second one with an extra livery... - are hauling an MSC container shuttle towards Italy for TXL. Mitterweng, 26-06-2025.
Low sunlight hits the cliffs of Dyrhólaey, a peninsula near the village of Vik in southern Iceland. The backdrop is a rare view of the Mýrdalsjökull ice cap, which receives as much as 10 m (33 feet/400 inches) of precipitation annually. Underneath the ice cap lies Katla, a volcano which erupts on average every 40-80 years; it's last eruption was in 1918. The Icelandic government geohazards group is concerned about the potential buildup of magma, particularly after the eruption of nearby Eyjafjallajökull in 2010. Recent increases in seismic activity may be signaling an eruption soon.
Despite the low light, sunset was still two hours away. The whitish streaks on the cliff is guano (bird poop), which has clearly fertilized the vegetation at the base of the cliff. Numerous seabirds nest in the cliffs in May and June, mainly gulls, but also puffins such as the pair seen in a previous post. (#2)
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Answer: roof of hockey rink has tiny "snow shovels" to keep ice from falling en masse. Notice the beating many of the lower ones have taken over the years. Many are misshapened, a few are nearly obliterated by the weight of gravity of holding back ice and snow buildup on the massive roof. HL
Bisti DE-NA-ZIN Wilderness (NM)
Canon 5D Mark II
Canon 24-70mm/F2.8
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The area that includes the Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness was once a riverine delta that lay just to the west of the shore of an ancient sea, the Western Interior Seaway, which covered much of New Mexico 70 million years ago.
The motion of water through and around the ancient river built up layers of sediment. Swamps and the occasional pond bordering the stream left behind large buildups of organic material, in the form of what became beds of lignite. At some point, a volcano deposited a large amount of ash, and the river moved the ash from its original locations. As the water slowly receded, prehistoric animals survived on the lush foliage that grew along the many riverbanks.
When the water disappeared it left behind a 1,400-foot (430 m) layer of jumbled sandstone, mudstone, shale, and coal that lay undisturbed for fifty million years. Sandstone layers were deposited above the ash and remains of the delta.
The ancient sedimentary deposits were uplifted with the rest of the Colorado Plateau, starting about 25 million years ago. Six thousand years ago the last ice age receded, and the waters of the melting glaciers helped expose fossils and petrified wood, and eroded the rock into the hoodoos now visible.