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Leaving Tokyo again today. This was from the Hamarikyu Gardens, near my hotel. Like most parks in Tokyo, it's repurposed from a Shogun stronghold.

A big harvest this year, this group of woodpeckers have been harvesting for over 6 weeks, and have created two new granaries to store their acorns, this one on the roofs of several houses, and another on a palm tree. Normally they just use an old oak tree. It's so crazy now that they have to hop from tile to tile trying to find room for just one more acorn.

 

Loved this redhead's shadow too, with its big acorn revealed, and how clearly you can see how they use their tails to steady themselves.

 

Fascinating, innovative, super social creatures.

 

325mm, f/8.0, 1/500, iso250

It turns out that 2016 had one last treasure to offer up, my son James and I spotted a whale just off the coast yesterday. It was a little far away, but a fluke's a fluke! I think it was a humpback, but I'm no expert.

 

This is a closer image I got earlier in 2016 - Link.

creative commons by marfis75

Twitter: @marfis75

 

License: cc-by-sa

you are free to share, adapt - attribution: Credits to "marfis75 on flickr"

 

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Original Digital Painting with Procreate, iPad Pro and Apple Pencil.

A locked gate and a black cat

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Today in San Francisco. I guess it's a throwback Tuesday of sorts, well maybe not in San Francisco.

Weirdly beautiful and fascinating place - at times it feels like a moonscape

 

The Burren refers to an area of Carboniferous limestone uplands in North County Clare famous for its incredible plant biodiversity

 

Shonen Knife - Moon World

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUt-eIpWNy8

 

Spotted these on a visit to the snow covered Denbigh moors in North Wales.

 

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CC- BY - SA - 4.0.

 

Credit - Petersrockypics

 

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Wandering lonely 2. I remember this day. Shannon estuary. Almost totally alone on miles of sand. No footsteps.

it looked miserable on a cold day

 

The Cranberries - So cold in Ireland

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX2TXMJXS4o

Santa Clara University

This is my room key in Tokyo. I think it's awesome that it's a real key and not a plastic card.

The baby elephants of Tarangire are so cute.

Back Story to this photo. I was walking in a recreational park just after sunrise after a long three day weekend. The area is used for BBQ and party events. This apparent "gift" must have been unwanted by the receiver and left abandoned outside the public bathrooms. I'm sure there are tons of whitty titles for this image just waiting to be shared in the comments....please have at it. ;-) Wayne

... well it certainly blends with it's surroundings.

 

Found near La Honda, California, this afternoon.

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A little rain cleans the streets, and heaven knows, they need cleaning. You can probably tell which corner of SF I work by the repeat pictures I take.

Off work today and not too much to do so just taking it easy.

A short walk earlier -this is the little wood just a field away from my house.

A Northern Cardinal on Avery Island, Louisiana, near dusk, hence the very soft focus. They must have been the models for angry birds, right?

Spent the day in a hotel conference room yesterday, this is a picture from the lobby. Mel Brookes filmed High Anxiety here, which in turn was a parody on Hitchcock's Vertigo, Birds and some other films. Hard to capture with my cell phone, but the inside is somewhat like an inverted pyramid with the floors directly above me extending further out as they got higher, each with a clear view directly down over empty space. Definitely vertigo inducing.

 

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A few more Icelandic horses eyeing us up for size. Along the south coast.

OK this was a wierd experience for both of us.

Playing around yesterday evening, using tree ornaments as prisms.

the Week is the spiral galaxy NGC 2566, which sits 76 million light-years away in the constellation Puppis. A prominent bar of stars stretches across the centre of this galaxy, and spiral arms emerge from each end of the bar. Because NGC 2566 appears tilted from our perspective, its disc takes on an almond shape, giving the galaxy the appearance of a cosmic eye.

 

As NGC 2566 gazes at us, astronomers gaze right back, using Hubble to survey the galaxy’s star clusters and star-forming regions. The Hubble data are especially valuable for studying stars that are just a few million years old; these stars are bright at the ultraviolet and visible wavelengths to which Hubble is sensitive. Using these data, researchers will measure the ages of NGC 2566’s stars, helping to piece together the timeline of the galaxy’s star formation and the exchange of gas between star-forming clouds and stars themselves.

 

Several other astronomical observatories have examined NGC 2566, including the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. The Webb data complement this Hubble image, adding a view of NGC 2566’s warm, glowing dust to Hubble’s stellar portrait. At the long-wavelength end of the electromagnetic spectrum, NGC 2566 has also been observed by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). ALMA is a network of 66 radio telescopes that work together as one to capture detailed images of the clouds of gas in which stars form. Together, Hubble, Webb and ALMA provide an overview of the formation, lives and deaths of stars in galaxies across the Universe.

 

[Image Description: An oval-shaped spiral galaxy. Its core is a compact, glowing blue spot. A bright bar of light, lined with dark reddish dust, extends horizontally to the edge of the disc. A spiral arm emerges from each end of the bar and follows the edge of the disc, lined with blue and red glowing patches of stars, to the opposite end and a little off the galaxy. Blue stars are scattered between us and the galaxy.]

 

Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker; CC BY 4.0

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