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Here is a photo of my favorite snake species the Regal Ringneck Snake (Diaophis punctatis regalis). They have a very secretive natural history which makes them difficult to purposely find on the surface. That makes finding them that much more special.
This particular animal was the result of me specifically targeting them under environmental conditions when I thought they should be on the surface in Central Utah back in 2013. My timing was the result of much study of historical specimens, including my own personal finds as well as the finds of other people. I was very happy my theory was correct and that I was able to find and photograph this animal. These snakes have a widespread distribution in Utah and are probably common in the areas they exist but they live underground most of the time. Unlike the ringneck snakes in the central and eastern United states these snakes apparently don't eat worms and slugs and in most of their habitat they don't have amphibians to consume either. Not only that they can be found in very desolate areas which is again very different than their sister subspecies to the east. In some of these desert mountain and foothill habitats they have small toad and frog larvae to consume in spring and early summer but in most areas there primary food source is lizards and other snakes. Instead of constricting their prey, ringneck snakes have a saliva which is toxic to other reptiles and amphibians. Unlike a cobras or coral snakes that also feed primarily on snakes, the ringneck lacks fangs for delivery of this venom like saliva. The ringneck instead bites and holds onto its prey chewing its saliva into the prey item. Snakes and lizards can succumb to this venom within minutes. However there are no cases of ringneck snake saliva having any adverse affect on humans or other mammals. I have never even heard of anyone being bitten by these snakes. They are very shy. So if you see one in the wild, congratulate yourself on your luck, admire it and let it on its way.
"There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted."
quote by Henri Matisse
I think it goes for photographers too?
Yet some discard this and will just try to imitate?
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Feeling philosophical.
So Mr. Obama, you have some work to do. Please be humble. There are a lot of things that have to change around here. We all hope you can make a difference! Good luck! You'll need it...
Quote by Robert H. Goddard.
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This one was really difficult to catch this way, he was all over the place, then suddenly, he was playing in the water, and there...he looked at me....:))
That's it for now, on my zoo visit, (I couldn't stop myself to show off the pics I took...lol)...now I'll try to catch up to all of you, for being so wonderful to visit my stream, and for your lovely comments.
I wish you all a wonderful weekend, and I'll be seeing you soon:)
So difficult to achieve peace
Cabarita Beach, Northern NSW
Again, a shot I would never get without a big lens.
My love affair with my new (old, broken VC) Tammie continues.
I suppose with a working VC I would have shot this @ 1/320th and ISO 100 - but at full stretch without VC it's hard to get away with anything under 1/1000th. The girls in this shot were about 700 metres away.
Really difficult to capture these tiny flowers clearly and sharply. I took many photos to get one that was satisfactory.
It is difficult to catch a freight in good light in Healy Canyon. As the freights generally run at night only on the longest days of summer does one get the opportunity. And of course then you need cooperation from the weather Gods. Well it all came together on the morning of 6.22 around 545 Am the sun had cleared the mountains and brightened the canyon floor. The series of shots I am posting today where all taken from the same location. The train has just passed the Garner section house and is on the new section of railroad built to bypass the tunnel below me. Healy Canyon is an extreme maintenance issue for the railroad with the exception of this section of fairly newly rebuilt rail.
Icelandic turf houses (Icelandic: torfbæir) were the product of a difficult climate, offering superior insulation compared to buildings solely made of wood or stone, and the relative difficulty in obtaining other construction materials in sufficient quantities.
30% of Iceland was forested when it was settled, mostly with birch. Oak was the preferred timber for building Norse halls in Scandinavia, but native birch had to serve as the primary framing material on the remote island. However, Iceland did have a large amount of turf that was suitable for construction. Some structures in Norway had turf roofs, so the notion of using this as a building material was not alien to many settlers.
The common Icelandic turf house would have a large foundation made of flat stones; upon this was built a wooden frame which would hold the load of the turf. The turf would then be fitted around the frame in blocks often with a second layer, or in the more fashionable herringbone style. The only external wood would be the doorway which would often be decorative; the doorway would lead in to the hall which would commonly have a great fire. Another interesting aspect of the Icelandic turf house was the introduction of attached toilets, which were communal, and the act of going to the attached toilet was often done in large groups. The floor of a turf house could be covered with wood, stone or earth depending on the purpose of the building. They also contain grass on their roofs.
Icelandic architecture changed in many ways in the more than 1,000 years the turf houses were being constructed. The first evolutionary step happened in the 14th century, when the Viking style longhouses were gradually abandoned and replaced with many small and specialized interconnected buildings. Then in the late 18th century a new style started to gain momentum, the burstabær, with its wooden ends or gaflar.[2] This is the most commonly depicted version of the Icelandic turf houses and many such survived well into the 20th century. This style was then slowly replaced with the urban building style of wooden house clothed in corrugated iron, which in turn was replaced with the earthquake resistant reinforced concrete building.
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X Every road trip as its highs and lows, sadly visiting Houston was a low. Getting into the city by car was difficult working out what toll road I was or wasn’t meant to be in. Getting out the city was frankly a nightmare the I 10 closed both ways and I had to do a detour through what felt like half of Texas.
The reason I had gone to Houston was to visit the Marc Rothko Chapel that contains ten huge mostly black canvases. I am sorry to say they left me completely cold, which is a pity as I admire his work a great deal.
However the Houston museum of Fine Arts was a pleasure to visit they have a vast collection of art. I was particularly interested in the Art Deco section. These two Beau Brownie cameras were part of a group of six, they are beautiful to look at I hope they were good to use as well. They were designed by Walter Dorwin Teague in 1931 and manufactured by Eastman Kodak in 1933.
The shot was taken through glass so the quality is not perfect
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This is Engineer Pass Road. The first 8 miles on the Ouray side is very difficult. This was not the worst area I went over.
Full disclosure, I shot this through the windshield. There are not really good places to pull over on this road and shoot photos. It looks wide in this area, but there is usually only one way you can get through these areas.
This road should not be done by inexperienced drivers. You can bypass this area by driving to Silverton, than to Animas Forks Ghost Town, than do the North cutoff road to Engineer Pass Road. A lot easier, if you can handle a ledge road.
It's difficult to get a sense of scale in this picture but to give some idea of size, this dragline excavator at St. Aidens in Leeds weighs in at 1200 tons, it is one of the largest machines of it's type in Europe. Unlike similar, smaller machines which run on caterpillar type tracks, this machine "walked" at a staggering 0.2 miles an hour. St Aidens was once a huge opencast mine operated by The British Coal Board then British Coal, the mine has now closed as we British prefer to import our coal from South America and Europe. However, some good has come of the closure and the former mine is now a flourishing bird reserve.
Lots of history and background here. www.atlasobscura.com/places/st-aidans-be1150-dragline
Difficult wildflower # 2 (and one more to come) - may as well post them all today and then move on to something else!
This is a more subtle paintbrush than the brilliant reds, pinks, and yellows I've photographed for years in the mountains. I hiked the prairie here in Saskatchewan for years before even noticing it. And I've only found occasional plants, never dense colonies taking over a hillside. Add to this its generally ragged appearance and the fact that it often grows amid dense clusters of prairie grasses, sage, and other flowers, and simply does not look good when the sun is blasting down and casting harsh shadows, and you see the challenge!
Fortunately, I found this sample on a rainy day, with soft light. I tried close ups, but they didn't really work. Finally I backed off, framed it as part of a plant community, and came away with a shot I feel is acceptable.
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This tiny bird calls boldly but we found it difficult to find and difficult to photograph. "The scientific name of the Pacific-slope Flycatcher, difficilis, is appropriate. It means "difficult," and this species is extremely difficult to distinguish from the similar Cordilleran Flycatcher." allaboutboids
is giving me trouble ! Trying a new discipline, and Chinese brushes handle in a totally different way from Western brushes - it's going to be a long job if I'm ever going to be proficient !
Meganeiwa is an arch-shaped rock in Katsuura City, Chiba Prefecture. Megane means glasses, but does it look like grasses?
One of my fave Winter birds. Teeny and frenetic, difficult to photo. But rewarding when you catch that brilliant crest visible. Our beautiful world, pass it on.
A very difficult shoot. Only once climbing onto the reeds and never returning after been pushed off the road once again after only 10 min by North Linc CC van.
On westbound Westjet plane; unfortunately due to lack of map function in the plane, location difficult to determine
Ichneumonidae – a complicated and difficult group of wasps!
**Edit: Subfamily: Banchinae, tribe: Atrophini (ID-cred: P. Magnusson)
Size (without ovipositor): 9 mm
Early morning stack from August 2015. The worn wings of this specimen indicates that the season is coming to an end. Hopefully the experts will help me narrow down the ID but I'd be surprised if it's possible to get closer than genus-level from this image. Most likely I'll have to settle for subfamily. **Edit: Thanks to P. Magnusson I got one step further (tribe)!
Stacked from 19 natural light exposures in Zerene Stacker.
Sony NEX-7, Sigma 180/3.5 + Kenko PRO300 2X converter @ 1/5s, f/16 (nominal: f/8), ISO100
Subject Description: It;s difficult to image any scenario whereby the non-standard Class 23 ‘Baby Deltics’ could have survived into the large logo era, but they would have looked good alongside the 37s on the West Highland line. This fictional rendition carries the same one-off livery as 37166, and this livery is perhaps better suited to the shorter body of the 23 than the standard large logo version. With hindsight, I should have probably added an ETH jumper cable and renumbered it as a Class 23/4.
AI Notes: This image is based on a loose representation of a Class 23 prepared in Photoshop in pre-AI days and before the real-life Class 23 project got off the ground. Like the latter, it is a ‘cut and shut’ Class 37 but without the same level of refinement. Whilst I was quite happy with result, I felt it would look better in a Scottish setting. My first prompt to Gemini AI produced rolling hills in a style that looked more like a model railway backscene. This snow scene in a generic Scottish station (which AI has labelled as Inverness or something like it) was a better result. I asked AI to add the photographers. As is often the case, AI has fallen down on the detail, making a mess of the double-arrow logo, running number and depot emblem, all of which I’ve copied from the original. These issues aside, the finished issue is pleasing and quite different to the original (13-Mar-26).
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Between the final neolithic and the chalcolithic
5 300 – 4 200 ypb.
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Philadelphia Mormon Temple
A very difficult shot due to the clouds and a challenging edit also.
The image is a combination of 5 photographs:
A. 3 shots for the eclipse to be exposed properly (Hoya Solar ND)
B. 1 shot for the proper sky exposure
C. 1 shot for the Temple
Very difficult to focus on both of them,
I like the movement of the wing on the Hummingbird Moth,
the female Monarch is on the backdrop with couple bees,
Have a great weekend!
I never really planned on building Umbara, because building and photographing a MOC that uses almost entirely black pieces is very difficult, but when I saw the release of the new 501st battlepack I knew I had to do it. So here we are.
It took me about 2-3 weeks to finish it, I tried to use lot's of trans red, purple and green elements. I didn't have the black elephant pieces that almost everyone uses on Umbara so I had to improvise and build the plants differently as you can see with the inverted tires. I also put quite a lot of work into the terrain, but that's pretty hard to see because it's all black.
The MOC represents no recognisable scene from the Clone Wars, it rather draws motives from the different episodes, like the trench, battle, vixus plant/beast etc.
I also used a light up lightsaber for Anakin, you can get one yourself here and if you use my code FOL15 you get 15% off and free world-wide shipping, so go get some at @gameofbricks.eu . Give me some feedback on the MOC down below and share it around. Thanks! ;)
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Difficult for me to differentiate the members of this genus. Based on response to calls and the bird calling back, I'm leaning toward Alder Flycatcher. Our beautiful world, pass it on.
This little guy is always difficult to photograph since he is usually running around or hiding up in a tree. When I was finally able to get a decent composition in the right light...he stuck his tongue out at me! LOL! Asian Passage - San Diego Zoo. Taken 5/6/2021.
Excerpt from the San Diego Zoo website, "Although red pandas like to eat bamboo and live in China’s bamboo forests with giant pandas, don’t let their name fool you. Formerly known as lesser pandas, DNA studies show that red pandas represent a unique family that diverged from the rest of the carnivore order, so they are now placed in their own unique family: Ailuridae. The Chinese name for the red panda is hun-ho, meaning fire fox. The red panda’s reddish coat and white face mask offer camouflage among the red moss and white lichen that cover the trees of its bamboo forest home."
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Taken @ Kidwelly Quay on a dull overcast day.....Notoriously difficult to photograph but at least this one emerged from hiding just long enough to get a shot or two but still insisted on remaining in the shadows, hence the high ISO
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It is a little difficult to see -- but that is the idea, after all. A doe left her new little fawn to hide in the tall grass near our yard. He/she was very obedient and didn't move a muscle even as we got close enough for a shot.
It's difficult to tell where Kingsand finishes and the neighbouring village of Cawsand begins, and many of the buildings on the far left are actually in Cawsand. The local council has given up trying, and now the sign at the side of the road simply says Kingsand-Cawsand. But until the middle of the 19th century Kingsand was in Devon and Cawsand was in Cornwall. The pretty former fishing villages are on the Rame Peninsula in the far south-east of Cornwall where they overlook Plymouth Sound. In the distance is part of Mount Edgcumbe Country Park, jointly owned by Plymouth City Council and Cornwall County Council.
In the centre of the picture the long dark grey building behind the village is the former Cawsand Fort. This was part of the 19th century naval defences of Plymouth and Devonport and was built on the site of a late 18th century battery. Like several other forts around Plymouth Sound, it has been converted into housing.
The requirement for defences in and around Cawsand Bay first became clear in 1779 when a 66 strong Franco-Spanish fleet anchored there intending to land 30,000 soldiers ashore. The invaders had planned to seize the high ground and bombard Plymouth and the Devonport dockyard. As with the earlier Spanish Armada, storms - plus the arrival of an English squadron - forced the ships to weigh anchor and depart. A battery was then constructed at Cawsand but following the end of the Napoleonic wars the threat subsided.
In the late 1850s a new threat was perceived when the French built the first heavily armoured ocean-going ironclad, "La Gloire". This immediately rendered the Royal Navy's wooden ships obsolete and prompted the British to build a ring of forts around their various dockyards, including the fort at Cawsand, which was on the site of the earlier battery. The British also responded by building their own ironclads, with HMS Warrior and its sister ship, both of which entered service in the early 1860s.
How difficult is it to climb Mount Mytikas in Olympus Mountains, Greece is a question we are asked quite often, both from people who plan to take a guided ascent or a self-guided trip. With its 2917 meters above the sea, Mytikas is the second highest mountain on the Balkan Peninsula, but for many undoubtedly it is the most spectacular to climb in the area. This is due to the unique nature of the mountain landscapes of the range, the proximity to the sea, the background of legends and myths, connected to this mountain, and not least – because of the nature of the ascent, which is far from a trivial walk.