Dinosaur art
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When I was a young child, I was obsessed with dinosaurs. Every couple of weeks my parents would take me to the public library, and I would always check out at least one dinosaur book. Here in southern Arizona, we have a creature that I always thought was the closest thing on earth to a modern-day dinosaur, the Horned Lizard. I was, and am, always delighted to find one. I took this photo of a Horned Lizard in southeast Arizona USA.
These interesting petroglyphs are in Dinosaur National Monument. Some have hypothesized that these are of aliens, but they look like humans wearing headdresses to me. Enjoy.
The striking badlands topography is seen everywhere at the Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta, Canada. The park is a UNESCO World Heritage Site well known for being one of the richest dinosaur fossil locales in the world.
I can't see this creature without thinking of dinosaurs. This photo was taken in the Merritt Is. NWR, near Titusville, FL
Those pesky cloned dinosaurs are once again out in the Utah landscape. Seeing the life size dinos out in the landscape is pretty cool and fun.
Moab Giants :)
These Tasmanian Dolerite rocks are said by geologists to be 180 million years old. It was also a time when dinosaurs roamed the earth. This is not a fossil, but it can look very much like the close up of a dinosaur's eye.
Common names: Brazilian Giant-rhubarb, Giant rhubard, Dinosaur Food.
Botanical name: Gunnera manicata.
Family: Gunneraceae.
Taken at Wildekrans Country House, Houw Hoek, Western Cape, South Africa during Elgin Open Gardens 2016.
Scavenge challenge - unreal animals . One has to be a dinosaur. Well I'm not driving for three hours to get to the Natural History Museum in Stockholm where I know there are several dinosaurs so I made one. Hope this is ok.
At British Ironworks.
"Climate change caused by volcanic eruptions played a role in massive die-offs for the dinosaurs - long before a comet or asteroid impact sealed their fate"
The dinosaur that lives outside the grocery store in Glasgow disappeared for a while. Then it returned as a Christmas decoration.
Diptych, Zeiss Ikonta 35
Where dinosaurs walked, as the 150 full dinosaur skeletons found here have proved. But instead of the badlands with cactuses there were tropical forests with palm trees when dinosaurs roamed here.
Huge boulders tumble down a fork of the Wallace River like displaced dinosaur eggs.
Happy Saturated Saturday!
This is a closeup of a rhinoceros iguana found in the Dominican Republic. This particular iguana was found at the Scape Park's iguana enclosure in Punta Cana.
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Camera: Canon Eos 6D
Lens: EF17-40mmF/4L-USM
Aperture: f/22
Focal Length: 17 mm
Shutter Speed: 1/80
ISO: 100
Well, its been too long without a #MuricaMonday post, so lets go way back in the archives.
Long long time ago, in a galaxy far away these prehistoric diesel beasts roamed the rails of middle Georgia. On this day five such beasts were put together for a rare coal train for the paper mill in Dublin, GA. The old GEs are putting on a good show climbing the grade out of Tarrytown, GA.
Out in the wilderness west of the Dragoon Mountains in Arizona is Rattlesnake Ranch which contains an impressive collection of metal Dinosaurs.
Taking this life size dinosaurs and placing them out in the Utah desert is pretty cool to see ... and fun to walk around and shoot for compositions too :)
Who doesn't think dinosaurs are cool. Prehistorica is a great place to visit for photographers. You can temporarily rez things long enough to take a picture usually.
It's really for people changing into dinosaurs but I rezzed a campfire for a scene in my video. It's trickier if you're videoing because autoreturn is 5 min -- seems a little longer though because I was able to move my campfire across the doorway to a better spot and get my shot before it disappeared.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQueYnQIezs
Prehistorica Dawn Kingdoms
Location: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Fort%20Nowhere/128/249/1103
The Landing Point is in their crossroads: choose Experiences, Avatars or Hangout.
To get to the land of the Dinosaurs:
* head for the door that says "Experiences"
* hang a left to "Dawn Kingdoms: Time Travel Experience"
* go through the portal
You will land on a beach.
There's a dinosaur you can ride; just click on the Gallimimus or the Pteranodon.
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I am experimenting with 2 different pictures/thumbnails for my youtube video. This is my 2nd thumbnail. I usually don't like that much "empty" space but it works well for text.
Or more accurately, rocks that look a lot like dinosaur bones. Although carnivorous dinosaurs thrived on the Australian mainland up to about 100 million years ago, there was a large rift valley (now covered by the sea) between it and Tasmania. This prevented the dinosaurs from migrating south. However, there are fossilised bones of a large reptilian crocodile-like creature (about 250 million years old) that have been found on the island. This goes back to a period before the dinosaurs as we know it evolved.
Looking back at a time when Tasmania's ancient reptiles and dinosaurs packed a bite
www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-10/ancient-tasmanian-reptiles...
You can have all the money in the world,
but there is one thing you will never have...
... a dinosaur.
(Homer Simpson)
Smile on Saturday! :-) - Money Box
(photo by Freya)
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60+ dinosaurs on display at the Bronx Zoo - they move, roar and rumble much to the terror of a lot of kids and the delight of adults like me.
I saw this rainbow yesterday as I looked up from working and shot it through the window glass.
The church spire in the distance is known locally as St Dinosaurs (St Dionysius) and is in the heart of Market Harborough, about one mile from where I live on the southern edge of the town.
You can have all the money in the world, but
there's one thing you will never have... a dinosaur.
(Homer Simpson)
(photo and dino made by Freya)
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A giant pigeon sculpture called "Dinosaur" by artist Ivan Argote installed on the plinth at the High Line.
From the website:
Reflecting on the work’s title, Argote notes, “The name Dinosaur makes reference to the sculpture’s scale and to the pigeon’s ancestors who millions of years ago dominated the globe, as we humans do today… the name also serves as a reference to the dinosaur’s extinction. Like them, one day we won’t be around anymore, but perhaps a remnant of humanity will live on—as pigeons do—in the dark corners and gaps of future worlds. I feel this sculpture could generate an uncanny feeling of attraction, seduction, and fear among the inhabitants of New York.”
Dinosaur, like the pigeons that inspired it, bears witness to the city’s evolution and confronts us with our ever-changing relationship with the natural world and its inhabitants. The oft-overlooked and derided creatures that seem to over-populate the city first arrived in the US via Europe, likely in the 1800s. They were kept as domesticated animals and were most notably used as reliable message carriers. Pigeons have an internal GPS, known as “homing,” that allows them to always find their way back home. This skill once made the bird indispensable in war—they served as military messengers in both World War I and World War II, saving hundreds of soldiers’ lives by transporting messages quickly to both the trenches and front lines. Many of these pigeons received gallantry awards and were celebrated as war heroes, before technology eventually rendered them obsolete.
Dinosaur recognizes this seemingly prosaic figure and celebrates its anonymity amongst the urban landscape, while also taking aim at classic monuments erected in honor of great men, who all too often are neither honorable nor great. Argote humorously suggests that, in fact, the not-wild—but no longer domesticated—birds are likely more deserving of being placed on a pedestal and celebrated for their contributions to society than most. Further, by highlighting their origins, Argote reminds viewers that, to some degree, everyone is an immigrant. Even the pigeon, a New York fixture, initially migrated here and made the city their home, like millions of other “native” New Yorkers.
Porth Nanven, is a secluded spot on the west coast of Cornwall’s south-western tip. It lies at the mouth of the Cot Valley, about a mile’s walk from the town of St Just, which is characterised by its granite miner’s cottages.
In the spring and early summer the hedgerows of the narrow lanes of the valley are abundant with masses of wildflowers, such as three-cornered leek, cow parsley and lady’s mantle. There are also old disused mine shafts to the left and right which are not safe for exploring, as many of them are not sealed off. Dogs need to be kept on a lead.
The defining feature of this beach is the covering of round granite boulders that give it the nickname Dinosaur Egg Beach. Some of these smooth boulders can be seen embedded in the soft cliffs surrounding the beach, dating back to a time when sea levels were much higher. However, there are no fossils to be found here. A thin strip of soft, golden sand is exposed for around an hour each side of low tide.
Looking out towards the sea, the rocky twin peaks of the Brison islets, named after the Cornish word for ‘prison’ – ‘brissen’ – as they were once used as basic jails. However, in Cornish, they are known as ‘Enys Vordardh’, or ‘breaker island’, as they have caused many historic shipwrecks.
Today, they are a busy nesting spot for gannets, gulls, storm petrels, puffins and red-billed choughs. The islets’ 25m-high peaks slowly turn frosty white with guano throughout the breeding season. They are also thought to resemble a man on his back, leading to the nickname, ‘Charles de Gaulle in his bath’.
What a lovely spot this was with the lush greens there in the slot canyon ... a pretty spot there in Utah. The CPL really brought out the colors of the sky, rocks, and greenery there in this scene.
Just visited the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Drumheller, AB, to view very impressive, beautiful and extraordinary displays of dinos created by human hands. Undeniably, they look very realistic to the point, that one can think they are alive. Shooting dinosaurs in the dark, moody room was quite challenging, especially that one can only use a tripod as mono pod, so I decided to shoot straight from my hand and cranking up the ISO. Enjoy it!
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