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My chum Bob has just bought a prime lens and although it seemed okay in the shop, it failed to focus later. Over a beer I put it on my camera it worked perfectly, and I took this unposed shot with it. Bob looked troubled and we then returned and exchanged the lens for one twice the cost. I like the shot now, but should have recorded his broad smile later.
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Wood/Carolina Duck on Quarry Lake, Phoenix Park, Dublin
[order] Anseriformes | [family] Anatidae | [latin] Aix sponsa | [UK] Wood Duck | [FR] Canard branchu | [DE] Brautente | [ES] Pato de la Florida | [IT] Anatra sposa | [NL] Carolinaeend
Measurements
spanwidth min.: 70 cm
spanwidth max.: 73 cm
size min.: 47 cm
size max.: 54 cm
Breeding
incubation min.: 31 days
incubation max.: 35 days
fledging min.: 56 days
fledging max.: 70 days
broods 1
eggs min.: 9
eggs max.: 14
Physical characteristics
Wood Ducks are intermediate in size, between the Mallard and Blue-winged Teal; on average, males weigh 680 g and females weigh 460 g. From a distance, the male Wood Duck on the water appears as a dark-bodied, dark-breasted, light-flanked duck with a striped crested head and a light-coloured throat. At close range, its iridescent plumage, red eyes, and black, red, and white bill are conspicuous. A white eye-ring, light-coloured throat, and fine crest distinguish the female from both the male Wood Duck and females of other species. Both sexes usually show a downward pointing crest at the back of the head, and their long broad square tails are distinctive features in flight.
The wings of Wood Ducks are highly characteristic. The primary wing feathers, which are the 10 outermost flight feathers attached to the wing beyond the wrist, are dark in colour. The outer vanes of these feathers look as if they have been sprayed with aluminum paint. The Wood Duck is the only North American duck so marked.
In most cases it is possible to distinguish immature from mature ducks and to tell males from females by their wings alone. In the Wood Duck, as in other ducks, the feathers of that year's young are finer, more pointed and worn, and less colourful than those of adults. Females show a few small feathers on the upper surface of the wing that are purplish and have the same lustre as oil on water. These feathers are absent in males. The white tips on the feathers along the trailing edge of the wing are usually teardrop-shaped in the female, but either straight or V-shaped in the male. By studying the wings of ducks taken by hunters, biologists can determine the ratio of young to adult ducks in the population and thereby measure waterfowl production.
The Wood Duck is a distinctively North American species. Its only close relative is the Mandarin Duck of eastern Asia. Evidently the Wood Duck originated in North America, as fossil remains have been found only in widely scattered locations in the eastern part of the continent.
Habitat
Like other perching ducks, Wood Ducks nest in trees. Preferred nesting sites are holes in hollow trunks or large branches that result from broken limbs, fire scars, lightning and logging damage. They also use cavities created by large woodpeckers such as the Pileated Woodpecker. Nests are situated from 1 to 15 m above ground, in trees more than 40 cm in diameter. They are usually found close to water, although females sometimes select trees some distance from water.
Other details
In Canada, the Wood Duck nests in scattered locations in the southern parts of all provinces; however, there is only one breeding record for Newfoundland and Labrador. The most extensive breeding ranges are in Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, and British Columbia. This duck occurs over a much wider area in late summer and early autumn, as a result of post-breeding dispersal. Although most Wood Ducks migrate to the United States, a few may spend the winter in extreme southern Ontario and southeastern British Columbia.
The Wood Duck is much more widely distributed in the United States, where it nests in areas east of the Mississippi River, along the lower Missouri River into South Dakota, in eastern Texas, along the Pacific coast, and in a few other places. It winters mainly along the Atlantic coast from New York south, along the Gulf coast into central Texas, to the lower Mississippi River valley and western California. A few winter in Mexico south to Distrito Federal. In Europe all sightings are of escaped birds.
Feeding
The Wood Duck is mainly a herbivore, or vegetarian, with plant foods making up about 90 percent of its diet. Foods vary according to their local availability, but duckweeds, cypress seeds, sedges, grasses, pondweeds, and acorns are among the more important foods throughout North America. In recent years corn has assumed a greater importance as small groups of Wood Ducks engage in field feeding behaviour similar to that of dabbling ducks, such as Mallards.
Ducklings require a high protein diet for rapid growth. Invertebrates such as dragonflies, bugs, beetles, and spiders are important foods during the first few weeks of life, so high populations of these small creatures are essential in habitats where the young will hatch and develop.
Conservation
This species has a large range, with an estimated global Extent of Occurrence of 6,200,000 km². It has a large global population estimated to be 3,500,000 individuals (Wetlands International 2002). Global population trends have not been quantified, but the species is not believed to approach the thresholds for the population decline criterion of the IUCN Red List (i.e. declining more than 30% in ten years or three generations). For these reasons, the species is evaluated as Least Concern. [conservation status from birdlife.org]
Breeding
The female Wood Duck breeds when one year old. She lines the nest with down, or fine feathers, taken from her breast, and lays eight to 15 dull-white to cream-coloured eggs. She incubates, or keeps the eggs warm, for 28 to 30 days until they hatch. During unusually cold weather, or if the female is away from the nest for an abnormally long time, incubation may require a few extra days.
Upon hatching, usually in June in eastern Canada, the young use their sharp claws to climb up the inside of the nesting cavity to its entrance, then jump and flutter to the ground, generally landing unharmed. The female guides them to the nearest water, where they will spend the next eight to nine weeks hunting for food together.
Shortly after the female begins incubation the male loses interest in family affairs and spends more time away from the nest. He joins other males, which eventually form large groups. As mid-summer approaches, the males begin the move to remote, undisturbed, sheltered places to moult, or shed old feathers. To reach these areas, they may travel great distances; many thousands migrate to southeastern Canada from breeding grounds in the northern states. On arrival the moult begins, and by August the brilliant spring feathers of the male have been replaced by a plumage similar to that of the female. Then, all at once, the flight feathers are moulted, leaving the male flightless for approximately four weeks while new feathers grow in.
Soon after the ducklings have fledged, or taken their first flight, usually by mid-August in eastern Canada, the females leave their broods, move a short distance, and undergo their moult. Like the males, they too seek out remote, undisturbed swamps and marshes and become flightless for a short period.
In late summer and early autumn, the young with their newly acquired powers of flight and the adults with their recently replaced flight feathers move in a leisurely way about the northern parts of their range. Their principal concern is to store up energy, in the form of fat, in preparation for the soon-to-come fall migration.
Migration
Wood Ducks migrate north to their Canadian breeding grounds, arriving there by April. Pair formation may occur on the wintering grounds before or during spring migration, or on the breeding grounds if one of the pair is lost. Mated pairs seek out secluded swamps or beaver ponds that provide water, nesting sites, brooding habitat, and feeding areas. Females often return to the same general area in which they were hatched.
By the first severe frost, usually in late September or early October in eastern Canada, Wood Ducks begin to head for the southeastern United States. Southern populations of Wood Ducks, particularly females, are less migratory. Populations in the interior of British Columbia migrate to the west coast, whereas Wood Ducks that live on the coast do not migrate at all. Has occurred Bermuda (regular), Azores and Alaska. Many sightings from Europe, presumed escapes.
Bethany Kingsley-Garner as the Dew Drop Fairy in 'Hansel and Gretel' by Scottish Ballet. Choreography is by Christopher Hampson.
The title of this shot is inspired by a Tori Amos lyric: "Do drop in at the Dew Drop Inn."
This is from tonight's dress rehearsal at the Festival Theatre. It opens there tomorrow before touring to: Glasgow; Aberdeen; Inverness; Newcastle; and Belfast.
You can find details about this production (and book tickets) here:
www.scottishballet.co.uk/event/hansel-gretel
My thanks are due to Scottish Ballet's Communications Officer, Carrie McAdam for inviting me.
DO THE NEEDFUL: Proceed. Common in formal correspondence.
Read more about the English of India exhibition.
Tarrafal beach, Santiago, Cape Verde.
The Album: www.flickr.com/photos/9619972@N08/albums/72177720313620063/
Cheetah, Gepard (Acinonyx jubatus)
Tierpark Schönbrunn
Schönbrunn Zoo, Vienna
ORF Fotoclub-Meisterschaft 2015: 1. Platz
ÖVF Staatsmeisterschaft 2016: 22/30 Punkte
Conrail's sign at Altoona's Juniata Shop was quite a work of art. With one number board displaying Conrail's first year (1976), the other was updated with the current year (in this case, 1990).
I am unsure if Norfolk Southern is following this tradition or not. It depresses me to think about this thing being dipped in black paint and a having big NS logo being slapped on.
Too cute to not post.
Strobist: AB1600 f10 through gridded strip box left and right rear of subject. AB800 trough 22" beauty dish f9 on camera axis. All fired with PW+II's
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Galeria do Rock é um centro de compras localizado na cidade de São Paulo. Foi fundada em 1963, com o nome de Shopping Center Grandes Galerias. Localizada entre a Rua 24 de Maio e o Largo do Paysandu, possui 450 estabelecimentos comerciais, com predominância para o comércio de produtos relacionados ao rock e outros estilos musicais. Bruce Dickinson (vocalista do Iron Maiden), Kurt Cobain (ex-vocalista do Nirvana), Tarja Turunen (ex-vocalista do Nightwish) e bandas como Dream Theater, Paradise Lost e Sepultura, já visitaram o local.
A Galeria do Rock possui mais de 400 espaços comerciais, mais de 300 são lojas, sendo dividida em Hip-Hop no Subsolo, Skate e produtos mais populares no térreo, Rock nos Primeiro, Segundo e Terceiro Andares e Silk Screen e estamparias em geral nos terceiro e quarto andares.
Localização
A galeria do Rock fica próxima à estação de metrô República, no número 62 da rua 24 de maio.
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Foto selecionada para o Guia "1001 Maneiras bacanas de conhecer o Brasil", da Editora Abril:
Pg 78
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enxerto ósseo - aspecto após instalação do implante e coroa
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Todas as fotos aqui presentes são de tratamentos dentários reais executados pela equipe ImplArt. As fotos representam exemplos ilustrativos específicos e não representam promessa ou garantia de reprodução em todos os pacientes pois existem individualidades e variações a cada caso.
If you haven't heard, I am writing a book on Polaroid photography with the gorgeous and talented Jen Altman and Susannah Conway.
We would love to involve you Polaroid/Instant shooters!
We are currently looking for submissions from Polaroiders for the references section in our book.
If you don't shoot Polaroid/Instant, but follow someone here on Flickr who does, please let them know!
Check out this post for more information.
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Indo para casa do Rio para SP, me deparei com um belo pôr do sol, tive que parar o carro no acostamento para registrar a imagem.
BELO HORIZONTE/ MINAS GERAIS / BRASIL (12.11.2014) Atlético x Cruzeiro - no estádio Independência - Final da Copa do Brasil 2014 - foto: Bruno Cantini
Plenário da Câmara dos Deputados durante sessão conjunta do Congresso Nacional destinada à apreciação de vetos ao projeto que muda as regras eleitorais, além do PLN 5/2019, que trata da Lei de Diretrizes Orçamentárias (LDO) para 2020 e projetos de abertura de crédito.
Mesa:
vice-presidente da Câmara, deputado Marcos Pereira (Republicanos-SP);
secretário-geral da Mesa, Luiz Fernando Bandeira de Mello Filho.
Foto: Jefferson Rudy/Agência Senado
Palm Desert, CA circa 2005
Mamiya 6, 75/3.5(?)
Fuji Provia 100
Digitized w/ Sony A7R4, 2.8/90 Macro G OSS
A Cruz do Patrão, construída no istmo que ligava o Recife à Olinda, está localizada ao norte do Forte do Brum e ao sul da Fortaleza do Buraco. Trata-se de uma pesada coluna dórica, feita de alvenaria, com seis metros de altura e dois de diâmetro, tendo em cima uma cruz de pedra.
Segundo o historiador Pereira da Costa, o monumento teria sido construído no início do século XIX, possivelmente em 1814, para servir de baliza às embarcações que entravam no porto do Recife.
Segundo a tradição, o local é tido como mal-assombrado, porque era onde se enterravam escravos que morriam ao chegar da África. Por ser um lugar ermo, nas suas proximidades ocorriam, também, vários assassinatos.
As pessoas que iam do Recife à Olinda à noite, evitavam passar por perto da Cruz do Patrão, pois havia uma crença de que ouviriam gemidos angustiantes, veriam almas penadas ou seriam perseguidos por espíritos maléficos.
Maria Graham, uma inglesa que visitou o Recife, conta no livro de viagens que escreveu sobre o Brasil do século XIX, que viu no local cadáveres mal enterrados, com pés e pernas sobre a terra.
Atualmente, a Cruz do Patrão encontra-se esquecida, cercada por armazéns do porto.
The Cross of the Patron, built on the isthmus that joined Recife to Olinda, is located north from the Brum Fort and south from the Buraco Fort. It is a heavy Doric column with a stone croos on the top.
According to the historian Pereira da Costa, this monument might have been built in the early 19th century, possibily in 1814, to serve as direction-indicator to the ships that arrived in the port of Recife.
According to the tradition, this place is considered to be haunted, because it was where they buried the slaves that died when arrived from Africa. Since it is a secluded place, in its surroundings occurred also many murders.
The people that used to go from Recife to Olinda at night, avoided to pass near the Corss, because there was a belief that they would hear tormenting groans, would see ghosts or be persecuted by malefic spirits.
Maria Graham, an English woman who visited Recife, tells on the travel book that she wrote about Brasil in the 19th century, that she saw there cadavers with feet and legs on the ground.
Nowadays, the Cross of the Patron is oblivious, surrounded by hangars of the port.
Recife, Pernambuco, Brasil.
Vale à pena ler:
Shot with my Droid X 8mp in phone camera...I was amazed at the file size for a phone cam......
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