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These birds are difficult to photograph unless you have a long distance lens. I mean they are one of the spookiest birds I've seen out my way. Well I got a pic!!! Sorry I couldn't find a fence shot...we're going to Great Falls this weekend so hopefully I'll have new and different scenes to show you...kind of a break from the norm!!! :) Have a wonderful weekend everyone!!! :) Large view is better.
Batman: Batman to all units. Report in.
Bruce sends out an all points bulletin to us wanting to know the status of all the towers.
Nightwing: East tower reporting.
Red Robin: West tower here.
…..
Batman: South tower, report in.
…….
Batman: What’s going on, Alfred?
Alfred: Difficult to say, sir. I’ll keep trying to connect you.
Batman: Let me know the moment you do.
Red Robin: Is everything alright, Bruce?
Batman: We can’t raise the Outlaws. Hopefully it’s just an equipment fault. East tower, give me a status report.
Batgirl: East tower is offline. Toxin concentration is dropping rapidly. All being well it’ll be harmless within the hour.
Batman: West tower?
Red Robin: There were complications but we managed to get it offline.
Batman: And Ubu?
Talia: ….Neutralised.
That’s certainly one way of putting it. For a brief moment I wonder whether or not it’s enough to fool Bruce, but the answer is no. Of course it isn't.
Batman: Restrained?
Talia: Neutralised.
Batman: Understood.
Nighwing: I take it this means the north tower is offline as well.
Batman: Affirmative. The League is moving to phase two. Having split us up across Gotham they’ve accomplished the goal that the gas was intended to distract us from.
Red Robin: They’ve sprung him?
I always figured that they would, but I never even considered that they’d use this gas attack simply as a distraction whilst their breakout.
Batman: Most likely.
Batgirl: That doesn’t sound like a definitive yes….
It is a yes, Barbra. Bruce wouldn’t have called the towers a distraction so clearly were he not certain. Deep down, I’m oddly impressed. As far as distractions go possibly covering the entire Eastern seaboard in a cloud of toxic gas is up there. I dread to think what it's like when they're not just trying to distract us.
No wonder Bruce always knows how to make a good distraction when he needs to.
Nightwing: They’ll have tripped the cave’s motions sensors, that’s how he knows they’ve freed him.
Talia: If that’s the case, Beloved, they’ll be coming for you.
Batman: That’s what I’m counting on. In the meantime, the League will be moving to cripple the city so it’s unable to stop the Arkham inmates once they’re set free.
Nightwing Arkham? Why do they want to release the inmates at Arkham?
Red Robin: To do their dirty work for them. Why dirty your hands when there’s a bunch of psychos willing to do it for you.
Again, this sounds like something I could easily see Bruce doing were he the one leading the League against us. In some way that’s comforting but it's also terrifying. On the one hand Bruce knows their strategies and should be able to counteract them. Not to mention that Talia should give us an extra advantage by knowing the methods her father chose not to share with Bruce. But on the other hand, Ra’s is no doubt aware that Bruce and Talia will be trying to guess his every move and is probably using strategies they’ve never even heard of to try and remove any advantage they might give us.
If you need any proof about that, just look how surprised they both were with the gas attack. Neither of them saw it coming and Bruce himself even said how unusual a tactic it was for Ra’s. Who’s to say them triggering the cave’s motion sensors isn’t simply part of their plan and that they're not leading us into a trap?
Batgirl: Not to mention it avoids drawing too much attention to themselves. Helps them to remain the shadows where they’re most comfortable.
Nightwing: Then let’s draw them out. How long will it take you guys to make it to Arkham?
Batman: You’re not going to Arkham.
Nightwing: What?
Batgirl: You can’t be serious?
Batman: The Outlaws will deal with Arkham. I need the pair of you to reinforce the GCPD and secure the lockup.
Batgirl: You think they’re going to target the GCPD?
Talia: They’d be foolish not to. With our numbers so small in comparison to theirs, the only way we could hope to contain a breakout at Arkham is with the GCPD’s assistance. If they truly want to break us, they’ll try to take the GCPD out of the picture.
Batgirl: Dad…
Nightwing: We’re on it.
Red Robin: What about me?
Batman: I’m feeding co-ordinates to a cache near your location, there should be equipment there that you’ll both need to reinforce Selina at Gotham General.
Gotham General? He thinks they’d go after a hospital? Oh who am I kidding, of course they would.
Red Robin: What about you?
Batman: …..
Nightwing: You can’t be serious.
Batman: I have to try and talk to him. Maybe, just maybe…
Talia: Bruce, you can’t negotiate with someone when you’re at their mercy. You of all people should understand that……..I’m coming with you
Batgirl: Are you both suicidal?
Alfred: Sir, we both know there’s a good chance that Ra’s set those alarms off intentionally. If you go there alone…
Nice to know that Al has the same suspicions as I do about the cave’s motion sensors.
Talia: He’s not going alone. I’m coming with you, Bruce.
Batman: No, you’re needed at Gotham General, Talia.
Talia: I’m not letting you kill yourself. I’m going with you.
Red Robin: Selina and I can secure Gotham General. If you’re going to face him, you shouldn’t be going alone.
Hopefully Selina’s a lot friendlier than I remember. The last time we crossed paths was on one of my first nights as Robin and to say it didn’t go well would be an understatement.
Batman: I’ll be fine. Our priority has to be stopping them from destroying Gotham.
Nightwing: And how are we going to do that if you’re dead?
Talia: I’m on my way to you now. Don’t you dare move until I’m there.
Batman: ….
Batgirl: Alright, Dick and I are getting ready to head over to GCPD. It’ll take us some time to get there. Tim?
With Bruce not saying a word, Alfred feeds me the location of the supply cache Bruce spoke of. A quick check of its position relative to my tower shows that it's a block and a half away. Should take me a couple of minutes to make it there at most. Getting to Gotham General on the other hand will be a different matter.
Red Robin: The cache’s location has just been uploaded to my cowl, I’m heading there now before rendezvousing with Selina at Gotham General.
Alfred: Ms. Al-Ghul I’ve dispatched the Batwing to your position. It should be with you in a few moments.
Talia: Roger, bunker. Any word from the Outlaws?
Alfred: Nothing yet, I’ll keep trying and relay their orders to them once I make contact.
Nightwing: Let us know if you still can’t get through to them. Nightwing out.
Red Robin: I’ll let you know when I’m at Gotham General, Al. Red Robin out.
Talia and I exchange few words on the tower’s rooftop beyond splitting up to go our separate ways. Hopefully she and Bruce can keep each other safe when they go to confront Ra's. They’ll be walking into the belly of the beast and there’s no telling what will be waiting for them. Hopefully we can at least make their job easier by drawing some of the League’s forces away from the cave.
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It takes just over 10 minutes to make it to Gotham General. Thankfully Alfred decided to lend me a hand and had the Batwing pick me up and deliver me to roof of the hospital once I’d collected the supplies Bruce had asked me to bring. Hopefully the League’s forces aren’t already here. If they are, then I just gave up the element of surprise thanks to the Batwing’s engines. Sooner or later Lucius is really going to have to replace them. The whole silent guardian motif is rather ruined when you have a pair of loud jet engines announcing your arrival.
A quick scan of the hospital patient log shows that Steph is in room 6 on the third floor. That means Selina should be in the third floor waiting room. I make my way down to the third floor and for a brief moment consider quickly looking into Steph’s room before heading into the waiting room. But before I have a chance to properly look through the window in the door, I’m grabbed from behind and dragged into the waiting room by Selina.
Selina: Are you trying to draw attention to her?
Red Robin: No I... just wanted to see how she was doing.
Selina: She’s fine, she’s stable. The doctor’s have done all they can for her. We’re not going to know what state she’s in until the sedatives wear off.
Red Robin: Phew Thank you. For looking after her.
It’s then that I notice the coffee cup she’s holding in her hand.
Red Robin: Where’d you get that?
Selina: Where do you think? What? Am I not allowed to use the coffee machine now?
Red Robin: Where’d you get the money?
Selina: From my last job.
Red Robin: Job?
That’s nowhere near as innocent as it sounds. Selina is a master thief after all so whatever money she has right now is almost certainly not hers.
Selina: Yeah, a girl’s got to eat and drink. What? Is the big bad bird telling me I can’t use the coffee machine now as well? Is that not part of 'being on best behaviour'?
Red Robin: No, I’m just saying………
Selina: Saying what?
Red Robin: That is YOUR money, right?
She smiles all but confirming that it’s not. Great, guess I’m going to have to find out who we’ll have to reimburse once this is all over. But until then, we’ve got bigger fish to fry.
Selina: It is now. Anyways what are you even doing here? Doesn’t tall dark and brooding need your help for something?
Red Robin: That’s why I’m here.
Selina: Oh? He has you checking up on me to make sure I'm staying out of trouble? Now I’m hurt.
Rather than say another word I choose instead to open the bag and empty the contents on to the waiting room table. Without even saying a word, Selina’s eyes begin to burst with joy.
Selina: For me? You shouldn't have.
Red Robin: Consider it payment in advance.
Selina: Surprised he’s trusting me with this stuff after what happened when I stole his belt. Wait. In advance? In advance of what?
Red Robin: The people who have been attacking Gotham are coming here. I need your help to stop them.
Selina: So what ?You think you can bribe me with some shiny new toys? Shiny things are Magpie’s territory, little bird.
Red Robin: Please, I can’t do this on my own.
For a moment it looks like she’s going to turn and walk away, but she hesitates before then stopping herself.
Selina: How serious are we talking?
Red Robin: Serious enough for him to give you all this.
I say pointing to all the equipment Bruce had me bring for her. Vambraces, attachable claws, a utility belt, grapple gun, whip and mask. Given how much trouble she gave Bruce when she stole his belt the first time they met, this really is a sign of both desperation and how much trust he has in her.
Selina: Christ, he must be desperate.
Selina walks up to the table and inspects the mask before putting it on.
Selina: A perfect fit. That’s a bit scary. Especially since I don’t remember ever giving him my measurements. No full suit?
Red Robin: No, that’s all there was at the cache he had me stop by before coming here.
Selina: Then I guess I’ll have to make do with what I’ve got. How much time have we got before they get here?
Before I can answer the whole building shakes as what sounds like an explosion comes from the front entrance.
Red Robin: None.
Among all different types of lenses, I find the wide angle lens to be the one that is most difficult to control. You are taking in a bigger space with wide angle lens and you need to move a lot or larger distance in order to get a different perspective.
Even when I shoot scenic, I tend to avoid wide angle lens simply because I do not find good composition with it easily.
In the tulip fields you are not allowed to get close to some of the flowers. When I need to reach out to the colour or shapes in a distance, I still need the telephoto lens. After two shots in wide angle, I quickly switch to my telephoto zoom.
This is the only wide shot I get when I first step into the fieid.
Have a great Sunday!
Fuji X-Pro2
Fuji 10-24mm F4
Velvia Film Simulation
Weak Grain Effect
One of the 2 connecting viewing decks overlooking Sentosa island and the open sea. It seems no one is keen to watch the beauty of the blue hour. Earlier at this spot it was crowded with photographers and tourists. Shooting was difficult as the foundaton is not too solid. It vibrates especially when people are walking around. I uses my gorilla pod and was lucky that everyone clear before the blue hour.
Best to view on BLACK
Not a HDR. Just 3 bracketed images blending with hue saturation and contrast.
It’s windy
Portraits are difficult in windy conditions. Hair and clothing blow in unflattering directions.
Hace viento! In the original Mary Poppins, a neighbor fires a cannon from the roof every morning and evening, prompting the women of the house to brace vulnerable decor. I do the same thing in my backyard every time hace viento. I refer to the wind-proof arrangement of plants, lanterns, and the hammock chair as “battle positions.”
Jacket, Jessica Simpson (thrifted). Sweater, Gibson (thifted). Tunic, Wet Seal (thrifted). Leggings, J2 Love. Boots, Vionic.
أختلف ذاتك ولا صنته غلاك ،، كيف تجني ع الغرام وتتلفه
كم سقيتك ماي عيني ولا رواك ،، مثل من يزرع و غيرك يقطفه
كل ما يجمعني بجبك نساك ،، خانتك في الحب روح العاطفه
غرتك نفسك ولا ظمّـك وفاك ،، صرت غير اللي عيوني تعرفه
Still finding it difficult to get excited about shooting or editing. I stumbled across this shot I never edited last spring, though, and even though I've posted a similar photo from this set, I've been editing landscapes differently in the past few months and thought I'd post it anyway. The light after such a stormy day was beautiful. Maybe there's a lesson in there for life.
My Dear Friends in this difficult time we need so much Hope, Light, Love, Warmth...
Here is I would love to share " Moving stories of the people from Japan", which I received from my Dearest hearty friend - Bridgy, you can see her photostream, full of light and love here: www.flickr.com/photos/10334788@N02/
Thank you, Bridgy, very much for your support!
°Moving stories of the people from Japan. °
I translated some from @prayforjapan, some are from TV news I am hearing. There is so much love and hope and beautiful stories even in such devastated times.
A high school boy was saved because he climbed up on top of the roof of a department store during the flood. The flood came so suddenly, that he saw people just below him.. trying to climb up the roof … being taken by the flood. But he knew that he had to leave something that showed that he and these others were alive… so he kept filming that situation. He still cant reach his parents but he says, its no body’s fault. There is no one to blame. So I know we have to stay strong and be positive. That is the mission of those who are alive.
I saw a little boy thanking the station staff saying “thank you so much for trying hard to run the train last night” the staff had tears in his eyes, and I was crying…
In the super market where all the things fell, people were picking up things so neatly together, and then quietly stand in line to buy food. I was glad to be a Japanese.
A foreign friend told me, they were shocked to see a looong queu form so neatly behind one public phone. Everyone waited so patiently to use the phone even though everyone must have been eager to call their families.
The traffic was horrible!! Only one car can move forward at green light. But everyone was driving so calmly. During the 10 hour drive (which would only take 30 minutes normally) the only horns I heard was a horn of thank you. It was a fearful time … but then again a time of warmth and it made me love Japan more.
Last night when I was walking home (cause all traffic stopped) an old lady from the bakery shop which was totally passed their closing time was giving out free bread. Even at times like this, people were trying to find what they can do and it made my heart warm.
When I was waiting at the plat form, so tired and exhausted… a homeless person came to us and gave a cardboard to sit on… even though we usually ignored them in our daily life… it was so warm
Suntory (juice company) are giving out free drinks, phone company creating more wi-fi spots, 1000000 noodles given from food company… everyone is helping the best they can. We have to do our best too, to stand up.
When I was walking home for 4 hours… there was a lady holding a sign that said “please use our toilet” they were opening their house for people to go to the restroom. When I saw that, it made me cry feeling the warmth of people
At Disneyland, they were giving out candies. High school girls were taking so many so I was thinking “what???” but then the next minute, they ran to the children in the evacuation place and handed it to them. That was a sweet gesture.
When there is a black out, there are people working to fix it. When the water stops there are people working to fix that too.. and when there is problem with nuclear energy there are people going there to fix that. It doesn’t fix automatically. While we are waiting for things to be fixed saying we are cold.. there are people risking their life to fix it.
An old man at the evacuation shelter was saying “whats going to happen now..” and then a young high school boy sitting next to him said “don’t worry!! When we grow up, we will promise to fix it back !!” and was rubbing the old mans back. And when I was listening to that conversation, I felt hope. There is a bright future
Okay, so we experienced the world biggest… M9.0 Then we got to make the world biggest energy and love too… to build back our life.
See @prayforjapan for more…
I found it difficult coming away with just one image of St Paul's Cathedral. There's so much history there it's difficult to know where to start. So I compromised by trying to convey the overriding impression I got which was one of London's oldest and most celebrated buildings in the heart of a constantly changing and modern city.
Quite bizarre to think at one time St Paul's was London's tallest building (for over 200 years).
Taken from inside the One New Change shopping complex opposite.
Since its difficult to take new pictures during the Corona virus lockdown, here are some old ones from 2005.
Hispaniolan Eyespotted Geckolet, Hispaniolan eyespot sphaero, Difficult Least Geckko (Sphaerodactylus difficilis)
Sphaerodactylus difficilis, also known as the Hispaniolan eyespot sphaero or difficult least gecko, is a species of lizard in the family Sphaerodactylidae . It is endemic to Hispaniola
Dorsal pattern sexually dichromatic and variable; dorsum (males) pinkish gray, gray, tan, brown, usually with scattered dark brown scales giving a coarse "salt-and-pepper" effect; dark scapular patch usually absent, but if present, usually very restricted and diffusely edged; a pair of small, pale ocelli present or absent (by population); head pattern trilineate but obsolescent and usually absent; head, chin, and throat often with small to large, dark brown to black dots; throat ground-color yellow to orange; venter gray to flesh; dorsum (females) colored and patterned like males, although distinctly lineate in some populations; head with prominent, trilineate, brown pattern on buffy to tan ground; head scales dotted; scapular patch variable (by population) from relatively large, brown, black, with an associated pair of white, buffy, gray ocelli, to small with a single, included ocellus, or both patch and ocelli entirely absent; venter as in males; juveniles with more intense female pattern; iris yellow, tan, brown (from Schwartz & Henderson 1991: 487).
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Lugar de Observacion / Taken: Reserva Científica Loma Quita Espuela, República Dominicana.
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Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Sphaerodactylidae
Genus: Sphaerodactylus
Species: S. difficilis
Binomial name
Sphaerodactylus difficilis
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It was quite challenging to get a halfway acceptable shot with this lens (300mm) on a windy day
(Difficult to comprehend? Many other images adjacent to this one in my photostream. Check them out for some different perspectives.....)
The Lobster Moth is in itself an unremarkable fluffy Lepidopteran you might not look twice at. Its larvae however are widely regarded as the most bizarre of all caterpillars, with long thin jointed forelegs which are not only used outstretched in a defensive posture when alarmed but also giving this caterpillar extreme agility and alien-like mobility around its environment, and a grotesquely enlarged tail-end not dissimilar to that of a crustacean which can be elevated to assume numerous “artistic” poses.
Following is Wikipedia’s entry for this caterpillar…..
“In the first instar the caterpillar feeds entirely on its own egg-shell and is unusual in that it mimics an ant or small spider. This is due to the long thoracic legs "and caudal appendages which are ever nervously twisting about". If the larva is disturbed during this period it wriggles about violently in the same manner as an injured ant. "The young caterpillars keep guard over their own egg-shell. They keep nervously moving around and about the egg, and if perchance another caterpillar should approach within touch of it, a vigorous attack is made to drive off the intruder." During the following instars the caterpillar develops even more of an odd appearance with "a large head, long thoracic legs, raised humps on the fourth to seventh segments and a greatly swollen anal segment that has the claspers modified into long thin structures". The general colour is reddish brown and if in its resting position provides perfect cryptic camouflage. The larvae can grow to a length of 70 mm and if disturbed by a potential predator can put on a menacing display with the thoracic legs splayed out and the head arched back over the body. The moth pupates in a strong cocoon, "usually spun up between dead leaves".”
Pu'er, Yunnan, China
In the extremely difficult and stressful time that we are all in now, please do remember to be patient and to be kind and thankful to everyone who still has to work, especially Health Care workers - my daughter is one of them, and she said that she is overly stressed and exhausted, partly because of families and visitors who lose their temper over restrictions that have been put in place in the hospital.
A few days ago, I finally made a trip to a couple of stores, that I really didn't want to do. I knew that if there were a lot of people, I would instead turn around and go home. I needed food and I did buy an extra one of various items - but no hoarding. The cashier at the food store told me that one of the younger cashiers had been in tears because of being yelled at by some customers. At the drug store, the young woman cashier told me that she was so stressed out, again partly because of angry, yelling customers, that she was about to burst into tears. We had a good talk, as there was no one waiting behind me in line, and I made sure to thank her for meticulously sanitizing the work space at the till. A few kind words can make all the difference, people! There were no line-ups at either store, for which I was extremely thankful. I know I do need to be very careful myself - I have 3 of the risk factors; age, high blood pressure, and the most concerning being a chronic cough that I have had for maybe 10 or so years, which sometimes turns into a coughing fit where I can't breath. Went through all sorts of tests but no one could find a cause. So, here I am, still coughing! The last thing I would want is the Coronavirus cough on top of it! Stay safe and well, everyone!!
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CORONAVIRUS UPDATE, 16 March 2020: 74 confirmed cases in Alberta, 342 in Canada. 4 deaths in Canada - so far, all have been in British Columbia.
CORONAVIRUS UPDATE, 17 March 2020: 97 confirmed cases in Alberta, 447 cases in Canada. 70 confirmed cases in the Calgary Zone. 7 deaths in Canada.
CORONAVIRUS UPDATE, 18 March 2020: 119 confirmed cases in Alberta, 83 confirmed cases in Calgary Zone, 591 in Canada. 8 deaths in Canada.
CORONAVIRUS UPDATE, 19 March 2020: 146 confirmed cases in Alberta, 101 confirmed cases in Calgary Zone, 736 in Canada. 9 deaths in Canada, 1 death in Alberta.
CORONAVIRUS UPDATE, 20 March 2020: 195 (up from 146!) confirmed cases in Alberta, 101 confirmed cases in Calgary Zone, 846 in Canada. 10 deaths in Canada, 1 death in Alberta.
CORONAVIRUS UPDATE, 22 March 2020: 259 (up from 226) confirmed cases in Alberta, 1,302 (up from 1,048) in Canada. 19 deaths in Canada, 1 death in Alberta.
CORONAVIRUS UPDATE, 23 March 2020: 301 (up from 259) confirmed cases in Alberta, 1,432 (up from 1,302) in Canada. 20 deaths in Canada, 1 death in Alberta.
www.alberta.ca/coronavirus-info-for-albertans.aspx
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Monday, 23 March 2020: our temperature this evening is -1C (windchill -8C). Sunrise is at 7:28 am, and sunset is at 7:57 pm. Sunny for most of the day, but clouding over later, and now the snow has returned this evening.
The 8 photos posted this evening were all taken on Day 11 of our 13-day birding trip to South Texas, in March 2019. The first place we went to was the Birding and Nature Centre, on South Padre Island. The afternoon before, we had spent two hours there, but our "proper" visit was for three hours in the morning of Day 11. Such a great place!
Someone told us about a different location, and a short drive south from the Centre took us to around W Sheepshead St and Laguna Blvd, where we saw a Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Monarch butterflies, and a Green Anole (lizard).
We had our picnic lunch at the nearby Convention Centre, which is near the Birding and Nature Centre, and then looked for a Yellow-throated Warbler near the Centre. Amazingly, we did see it, along with a Black-and-white Warbler and a Wilson's Warbler. Not easy trying to photograph these fast-moving little birds that get hidden among the branches.
Driving north again, we called in at a beach that was part of the Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge, where we could enjoy seeing the ocean waves and Laughing Gulls. This was our last stop before returning to our hotel, the Holiday Inn Express & Suites, Brownsville.
The next day, 30 March 2019, we had to drive from Brownsville to Houston, where we stayed for one night at La Quinta Inn & Suites Houston. The following day, we flew from Bush Intl Airport back to Calgary. What a fantastic holiday!
Il m’a indiqué le chemin; il a partagé sa musique; lui m’a offert un café; on a attendu le bus ensemble; elle m’a montré ses bijoux; il m’a parlé de la difficulté de son travail; elle n’allait plus à l’école. Quelques instants partagés, quelques portraits.
Photographié au Népal en novembre et décembre 2011.
[Publié via www.mikeisfree.net/blog]
Hispaniolan Eyespotted Geckolet, Hispaniolan eyespot sphaero, Difficult Least Geckko (Sphaerodactylus difficilis)
Sphaerodactylus difficilis, also known as the Hispaniolan eyespot sphaero or difficult least gecko, is a species of lizard in the family Sphaerodactylidae . It is endemic to Hispaniola
Dorsal pattern sexually dichromatic and variable; dorsum (males) pinkish gray, gray, tan, brown, usually with scattered dark brown scales giving a coarse "salt-and-pepper" effect; dark scapular patch usually absent, but if present, usually very restricted and diffusely edged; a pair of small, pale ocelli present or absent (by population); head pattern trilineate but obsolescent and usually absent; head, chin, and throat often with small to large, dark brown to black dots; throat ground-color yellow to orange; venter gray to flesh; dorsum (females) colored and patterned like males, although distinctly lineate in some populations; head with prominent, trilineate, brown pattern on buffy to tan ground; head scales dotted; scapular patch variable (by population) from relatively large, brown, black, with an associated pair of white, buffy, gray ocelli, to small with a single, included ocellus, or both patch and ocelli entirely absent; venter as in males; juveniles with more intense female pattern; iris yellow, tan, brown (from Schwartz & Henderson 1991: 487).
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Lugar de Observacion / Taken: Reserva Científica Loma Quita Espuela, República Dominicana.
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Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Sphaerodactylidae
Genus: Sphaerodactylus
Species: S. difficilis
Binomial name
Sphaerodactylus difficilis
Sphaerodactylus_QtaEspuela_03122021-IMG-0180
What is love? It is one of the most difficult questions for the mankind. Centuries have passed by, relationships have bloomed and so has love. But no one can give the proper definition of love. To some Love is friendship set on fire for others Maybe love is like luck. You have to go all the way to find it. No matter how you define it or feel it, love is the eternal truth in the history of mankind.any how i love my canon
Part of my major .
This image was very tricky to shoot and difficult to manipulate because I did not have any idea on how to make it work.
There's only very slight motion going on because I wanted to make it look almost like a freeze frame.
The final works are actually not in print format, they're projected onto the center of the frame she enters (in the First Phase) coupled with a soundtrack and sound effects. I have the video but didn't do a recording of it being projected onto the frame. It's probably going to go up for exhibition at my school so maybe I'll a recording then.
So glad it's over! Sleeping, getting back to games and online shopping are currently my top priorities.
I'll still be shooting, but I might be trying a new style. (This whole series was quite new to me, having the make the settings etc, it's also aesthetically quite different from my preferred ghostly themed work or vintage inspired photographs) I'm not sure yet but possibilities are endless. One thing though, I really don't like studio lights, it just doesn't seem to fit what I do so I'll still be using natural lighting :D Might want to try incorporating drawing with photography or maybe take up digital painting and see how things go from there.
Fire from : shaedsofgrey
- Difficult is to match, at the same time, in one place and also, also ...., in the same plane .........Difficult, but not impossible .......
- Difícil es coincidir, en el mismo momento, en mismo lugar, y además, además...., en el mismo plano.........Dificil, pero no imposible.......
This is a notoriously difficult church to photograph owing to the over-forestation of the small graveyard. There seems to be more trees than tombstones. Clear views from the south, east and north are virtually impossible.
A pity really, as it is a handsome flint church with stone dressings largely of the 14th and 15th centuries standing on the site of a former Saxon church. It stands in a prominent position near the brow of a hill on the north side of the village, overlooking the village green.
The 15th century west tower has flush flint and stone panelling, set back buttresses and a half octagonal stair turret on the south face. The parapet is castellated and the upper stage of the tower has octagonal buttresses terminated by crocketted pinnacles.
The aisles and chancel have castellated parapets. The south arcade of the nave is 14th century with octagonal piers with concave sides. The north arcade has plain octagonal piers. The font is 13th century with a square bowl on a moulded central shaft and 4 corner pillars. There is a fine 15th century octagonal pulpit with traceried panels.
The chancel was rebuilt in 1855 and has some fascinating windows by the Ward & Hughes workshop. They depict scenes from the life of Christ - the summoning of the Disciples, the raising of Jairus's daughter - but some of the figures in the scenes have 19th century faces, and are wearing 19th century clothes. These are memorial windows to the figures worked into the scenes, and the brass plaques that name them are also by Ward & Hughes. The astonishing one is the consumptive figure of Jairus's daughter, who is represented by Winifred Frances Fisher, a 17 year old girl who died suddenly in 1892. Her plaque notes that she was Perfected in a short time. She lies on her death bed, her silvery curls flowing across the pillow in a perfect moment of late Victorian sentiment. Rather odder is the figure of her father, in full 19th Century formal wear, who peers curiously from behind the backs of St Peter and St Andrew as they are called on the lake shore.
Winter sunset in Kos island ... all tourist has gone at their homes and i, still here to do my life interesting by shooting moments in the nature, away from humanity!
mrs. L was having a difficult time convincing susie that maybe they should try a lighter backpack or put in fewer school supplies.
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Digital ID: 833043. Hirsch, William A. -- Photographer. 1902
Notes: Written on mount: 'LOC duplicate' 'Dec 17, 1902'
Source: Mid-Manhattan Picture Collection / Music -- violin (more info)
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Difficult to see, but an eagle is sitting in the tree. I didn't think he would sign a photo release, so.. we left it alone.
Difficult to re-motivate me for this project.
I lost around thirty my original photos of strangers during the theft of my computer and a large part of my motivation with that. The last two strangers whom I had photographed will never be presented in this project because I had no saving of the images, taken a few days before the theft.
It is an blog post about Street Photography written by Thibaudd, an amateur photographer and Belgian blogger, in whom it presented my project which urged me to return to the street.
And it is Thursday evening, on the way back to the club photo that I found the courage to ask a young man of whom I crossed the road and which was kind enough to play the game.
Augustin is a student in first year of communication at the Catholic University of Lille. He does not know where it is going to lead him yet but he is interrested by the journalism.
By wishing all the best to him!
Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page
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The truth will set you free... We've all heard it, even if you don't read the scriptures. It was always such a difficult concept for a man who always thought he had something to hide. Even when I got busted, I only told enough truth to sound believable. With so many (what should be) wake up calls, I should have figured out a long time ago how far my life was off track. With age comes wisdom along with painful memories that make you feel like your head is about to explode like an atom bomb.
A year ago today, I man knocked on my door in the middle of the night with a driving intent to expose me as liar and a fraud. The man was highly successful in doing so. As I lied on the couch that night, to distraught to sleep, I knew that this was officially the end of my life as I knew it. My wife gave me many second chances in the past and I have broken her #1 commandment and what little trust she had left in me at that point.
The next day, I spilt the beans and dropped a truth bomb bigger than the aforementioned atom bomb with a nothing left to lose mind-frame. After all, I have just lost my wife and kids and I was ready for death. That day changed my life, which obviously wasn't over yet.
I had made poor choices and had to accept the consequences. There was very little glimmer of hope left in my marriage, but hey, I just dumped a huge burden off my back when I came clean. I actually had a good feeling in my core and a sense of rebirth. It was comforting, amongst the chaos around me.
This was a time of praying like I've never prayed before and crying till I was almost dehydrated. I've seen my family in a new light and refused to give up. I showed her and the world that I will never give up on her and she never gave up on me. Every question I received from her was answered in truth no matter the pain it would cause.
On February 14, 2015, we renewed our vows and she finally accepted her rings again. Life has turned around for me in the past year. It certainly hasn't been easy, but we'll worth the trip. I haven't always been 100% up front, but I never let my convictions go unnoticed.
I've lost relationships that I thought mattered, and gained new ones that really do. I've opened up to people I don't even know, and people I don't even trust. I am 27 lbs lighter and at 32, I am in the best shape of my life. I am no longer pre-hypertension. This year I've run a 10k and a half marathon and ran +200 miles and biked +500 miles so far. I've been addiction free and am committed to bettering myself and my relationships, especially with my family.
People can change, as I have. Never count someone out, or more importantly, yourself. People may be out to destroy you, but that will provide the motivation to not only survive but thrive. Love your friends, love and pray for your adversaries, and above all, be true to yourself and to others.
God bless.
This is something I usually wouldnt do at this stage, but I'm torn between choices. This model has beaten me for the last 6 years and I have constantly been going back and forth with ideas for it. It is one of the most difficult loco shapes to capture well in LEGO as far as the windscreen and nose go, but I've been hooked by this soundchip www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtOrR2I6haY&list=UUfRnBPFj6tZ... so much that I have ordered it. So what you see here is the idea that I'm verging towards. Its not the most accurate of windscreen shapes, but I feel its the most elegant with fewest gaps, unblocky thick glass etc and I feel can be enhanced further if I get a bit trick with some sticker work.....so thoughts appreciated.
Ignore the blu-tac holding one of the vents in (its there to stop me pushing it in more whilst messing with building ideas) and the blue vinyl covering all the 1x2 yellow cheese slopes (they will be ordered if this is the colour I choose).
What I'm torn between is if to do a blue version (and if I do, do I go with the white windscreen/cab or blue with grey frames) or do I do a dark green version with lime green lower body?
The dark green version would mean losing the airhorns, replacing the open side corridor windows (built that way to allow the sounds out more) with solid glass bricks to allow 1x1 cheese slopes to attach above them and looking at a way of replacing the 1x3x3 curved slope behind the drivers doors with something in dark green. I'm not exactly happy with that curve at the moment in blue anyway but its nice and smooth (until it transitions to the top!)
I just have a nagging feeling that if I build a blue one, that I will always be thinking I should have gone with dark green, even though I'm liking the blue at the moment!
Proportionally, selective compression has had to be used, even though this is now my longest LEGO loco (being some 8 studs or so longer than my current longest Class 37 to keep them in proportion) but it does just squeeze into my transportation boxes from corner to corner!.....but its still way short of a scale one.
Thoughts / comments welcomed.
Difficult shot as he remained in the shadows, feeding. Note the blue wattles at his throat.
Taken Tiritiri Matangi
Near U.K., Winequarter, Lower Austria.
August 28th, 2018:
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It is often difficult to find green herons, let alone see them fishing. In my observation over several days along the shoreline of a nearby small lake, I found green herons to be highly successful in their attempts than all other herons and egrets.
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Senior Airman Ian Kuhn, a survival, evasion, resistance, and escape (SERE) instructor with the 103rd Rescue Squadron, demonstrates how to build a concealed shelter during a combat and water survival training course at Homestead Air Reserve Base, Fla., Jan. 20, 2016. During this training, aircrew members gained refresher training on using their emergency radios, tactical movements through difficult terrain, how to build shelters, ways to build fires and methods for evading the enemy. (U.S. Air National Guard/Staff Sgt. Christopher S. Muncy)
Besting Damian was the easy part. The more difficult task was convincing Jim to allow me to detain him in the cave, fortunately whilst he may want to even the score with Damian the realization that Damian knows that Bruce Wayne and Batman are one in the same was enough to make him agree. Nice to see he still has faith in what I claim to stand for. It’s seeing people like him believe in me that keeps me going.
Tim was able to successfully rescue his father unharmed much to my relief and it appears as though he’s managed to patch things up with Miss Brown…..or the Spoiler as she seems to be going by these days. At first I chose to withhold who the Crimson Knight claimed to be. I couldn’t be certain without another DNA test to be sure. Sadly the results came back positive. All this time. The man who has been fighting me for control of Gotham has been my son. My own flesh and blood, trying to kill me. Certainly not how I expected this to go. I was certain that it was going to be Ra’s or even the man who led the Pêna Duro prison revolt.
I want to linger on this discovery. Learn what it is that Ra’s did to Damian to make him into this monster. But deep down I know that time is against me. The last thing I can do is stand still. He’ll be coming for me, and I need to be ready.
”I know I hoped for you to one day have a child of your own Master Bruce, but I was rather hoping you wouldn’t do so until you finally chose to hang up your cape and settle down.”
”It’s as much a shock to you as it is to me Alfred.”
”I can only imagine sir.”
”It’s just…..my own flesh and blood…..fighting against me…..trying to kill me…..”
”It’s painful, isn’t it Master Bruce? The sense of betrayal, the feeling of failure that you weren’t able to stop them from making that bad decision.”
”You still think about what happened to Julius?”
At the height of the cold war Alfred and his brother both operated in the Soviet Union, gathering intel for MI6. One night the KGB paid them a visit and abducted Alfred, but left his brother unharmed. It turned out Julius had agreed to sell Alfred out in exchange for being granted asylum with the Union. They executed him two days later for spying. It was only after a prisoner exchange organised through the United States government that Alfred was released. I dread to think what he was put through during his time in captivity, but it was enough to make Alfred consider leaving the service. Were it not for the intervention of the head of MI6, Alfred would have left the service there then. Instead it would be the events of the Santa Prisca revolts that would lead him to retire from the service. It’s after his retirement that Alfred met my Father.
In a way, were it not for the events of Santa Prisca I wouldn’t have Alfred today and that’s something I dread to think of.
”Yes. May he rest in peace.”
Alfred never likes to talk about Julius. He prefers to remember the good times rather than what his final act was.
”I’m sorry that I’m bringing up those memories again Alfred.”
”It’s alright Master Bruce. I just hope you can do for that young man what I couldn’t for Julius.”
”Let’s hope so Alfred. Let’s hope so.”
”How long do you think it will take for him to get here?”
”He’ll be coming with the full force of the League. At best I’d say we have two weeks.”
”You think he’ll come for the boy?”
”I’m certain of it. We need to be ready.”
”Shall I send work to Master Dick?”
”No. The last thing I need is him worrying before it happens. He’ll just get in the way. Have we heard anything from Jason?”
”Nothing. I suspect his comms have been destroyed though. I sent a feedback signal and got nothing back from them.”
”We can only hope.”
”Shall I dispatch the Batwing to Greene’s house sir?”
”No. We need to consolidate our forces. If Jason’s out there, he’ll make it here by himself.”
”Bruce……….”
”It appears your son wants a word with you.”
”So it would seem. Where’s Tim?”
”Last I heard he said he was going to visit his father.”
”Glad to hear. Keep trying to reach Jason on his comms. If he doesn’t respond we’ll have to begin preparing a contingency plan.”
”Brucie……..”
”I’ll deal with our guest.”
”Very good Master Bruce.”
I raise my cowl over my face and walk down to the brig. There in the middle cell stands Damian without his armoured suit and with a smug look across his face. He’s had that look on his face ever since he regained consciousness in the cell much to my annoyance, all because he knows that he holds the advantage. Ra’s will be coming for him and he’ll bring the entire League of Assassins with him. Even with all our allies, we’ll be outnumbered.
But numbers aren’t everything.
”How long do you think it’ll be before he comes then Father? I reckon it will take him ten days to assemble all the League’s forces and bring them to Gotham.”
”Ra’s won’t make a move until his agents are in place throughout Gotham. Fourteen days is the best case scenario.”
”So……you’ve accepted the truth. I take it you ran another DNA test then?”
I nod for a brief moment or two.
”I’ve accepted the truth of where you come from. That doesn’t make you my son.”
”What I being taken in due to pity does?”
”All three of them are more like sons to me than you.”
”I’ll enjoy ramming my sword through you heart when this is all over. Gotham will soon be known as the City of the Demon.”
”Not whilst I still draw breath.”
“That, I intend to remedy once I’m free of this cage. You know this won’t hold me Bruce.”
”No. It won’t. But it will give me extra time. Enough time for me to turn the tide in my favour.”
”You keep telling yourself that Father. It’ll make it all the more glorious when you fall.”
”I’m sorry Damian. If I had known, I would have tried to save you. Instead I seem to have damned you to life of servitude.”
”I serve no-one!”
”I think Ra’s disagrees.”
With that I begin to walk up back to the batcomputer where Alfred’s desperately trying to reach Jason.
”Sound proof the cells Alfred.”
”Are you sure you really want to do that Master Bruce?”
”No. But I have no choice. It’s clear where Damian’s loyalties lie. I can’t have him knowing of our preparations.”
”So this is it?”
”I’ve known that was only a matter of time till he came for me.”
I take a deep breath and close my eyes. For a brief moment I’m at peace with my thoughts. Batman’s fight for survival may be over. But Bruce Wayne’s is about to begin.
”We’d better start making preparations for the Endgame protocol.”
”Yes Master Bruce.”
Two weeks. Two weeks to be ready. I just hope that’s enough time.
Yeah it's true..
Tomorrow It's friday.. Weeeah!!
I want to go out!!!! :)
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Sí, es verdad. es muy difícil mantener tus pies en la tierra..
Mañana es viernes.. Síiii! por fiin!!
Tengo unas ganas de salir y hacer fotos.. que esta semana no he tenido tiempo y encima... la siguente tampoco podré mucho porque ya empiezo los exámenes.. puag..
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