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"CESAR" : Sculpteur français (1921 - 1998)
- Mouvement : Nouveaux Réalistes et Art Contemporain ...
- Les Compressions / Les Expansions / Les Empreintes Humaines.
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Looking eastward from an inner bench along the South Kaibab Trail, a small portion of the Canyon catches pools of shadow from the slant of winter afternoon light, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona.
So much has burned in the American West since I made this photo not that long ago, and so much land is currently burning. The Front Range of Colorado recently experienced some of the most polluted air in the country as we navigate one more summer with heat and drought that conspire to loft incinerated forests and their previously sequestered carbon pluming into the atmosphere to trap even more heat. At the same time, we have deeply feckless leadership in all branches of government in the United States, and many other countries are also run by grasping charlatans and their brethren. It is hard to watch so much life burn for the benefit of so few.
I suppose one of the Canyon’s teachings is accreted amongst the very layers of its depths. The stone strata speak of Earth’s immense history, soliloquizing with their fossils of the evolutionary experiments that arose, flourished, and then disappeared, with only the minerals entrusted with their tales. Almost every species that has ever existed has found its way into the stone eventually. Some lineages like the Nautilus persist, relatively unchanged after 500 million years. Others flourish spectacularly like the dinosaurs and then meet an untimely cosmic end after 160 million years. Collectively, the fossils, the paleontologists, and the geologists tell us that individual species typically exist for 5-10 million years before going extinct. The hominid lineage, of which our own species is a part, is thought to have existed for approximately 7 million years, and the genus Homo is estimated to be 2.8 million years old, and Homo sapiens, little old us, has stretched out its neck to peer at its surroundings for a mere 300,000 years. Will our story, once it is written into a compressed layer of Canyon time, be one of wisdom or of folly? Perhaps the Nautilus can tell us.
The plumage of most kingfishers is bright, with green and blue being the most common colours. The brightness of the colours is neither the product of iridescence or pigments, but is instead caused by the structure of the feathers, which causes scattering of blue light (the Tyndall effect).
The kingfishers have long, dagger-like bills. The bill is usually longer and more compressed in species that hunt fish, and shorter and more broad in species that hunt prey off the ground. The largest and most atypical bill is that of the shovel-billed kookaburra, which is used to dig through the forest floor in search of prey. They generally have short legs, although species that feed on the ground have longer tarsi. Most species have four toes, three of which are forward-pointing.
The irises of most species are dark brown. The kingfishers have excellent vision; they are capable of binocular vision and are thought in particular to have good colour vision. They have restricted movement of their eyes within the eye sockets, instead using head movements to track prey. In addition, they are capable of compensating for the refraction of water and reflection when hunting prey underwater, and are able to judge depth under water accurately. They also have nictitating membranes that cover the eyes to protect them when they hit the water; the pied kingfisher has a bony plate which slides across the eye when it hits the water.
5 in 1 here. The Kaibab Plateau, House Rock Valley, Vermilion Cliffs, Echo Cliffs, and Marble Canyon
On my last hike I found a comfortable rock for a little rest stop and decided with my unusual getup due to pandemic avoidance I'd try some selfies so I could look back at it from some future time when life is semi normal again. The idea of joining 2 selfies together makes me quite slim which isn't a bad thing, and the two different landscapes compressing me is A-OK with me. I would gladly yield to the desert like this -- it is a favorite place.