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EXPLORE Worthy - The Number Games 8,S4 (2018 Art)
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Entered in TMI’s Leaf Study challenge.
Eight little Mute Swan cygnets aged 7 days. For once they were all pointing in roughly the same direction!
Took the aperture to f/22 here with just the CPL filter and was able to get the shutter speed to 8 seconds. Liked the stirring motion this had to the leaves spinning there slowly in the eddy.
Who else used to sing the 'bottles' song as a child?
"Ten green bottles, standing on a wall..."
Only in this case there are eight, and maybe they're not really green?!
Happy Saturday, everyone!
The golden hour at the beach in Barnegat Light on this day in June, according to the Golden Hour Calculator. It was cool and windy as we climbed over the dunes to get our feet wet in the ocean for the first time this summer. Shockingly and deliciously cold salt water on our legs!
#51 - Wet, 52 in 2017 Challenge
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Orb-weaving Spider
Generally, orb-weaving spiders are three-clawed builders of flat webs with sticky spiral capture silk.
The building of a web is an engineering feat, begun when the spider floats a line on the wind to another surface. The spider secures the line and then drops another line from the center, making a "Y". The rest of the scaffolding follows with many radii of nonsticky silk being constructed before a final spiral of sticky capture silk.
The third claw is used to walk on the nonsticky part of the web.
Characteristically, the prey insect that blunders into the sticky lines is stunned by a quick bite, and then wrapped in silk. If the prey is a venomous insect, such as a wasp, wrapping may precede biting and/or stinging.
Many orb-weavers build a new web each day. Most orb-weavers tend to be active during the evening hours; they hide for most of the day. Generally, towards evening, the spider will consume the old web, rest for approximately an hour, then spin a new web in the same general location. Thus, the webs of orb-weavers are generally free of the accumulation of debris common to other species, such as black widow spiders.
Nikon, Sigma 180 2.8, 1/250 @ f8 ISO 800
Eight full years today and I couldn't be any more happy or proud!!! Only one little piece missing... sadly.
Happy Birthday, my darling baby!
I love you unconditionally, unlimited, always!!!
"Such a hand is said to have been held by Old West folk hero, lawman, and gunfighter Wild Bill Hickok when he was murdered. No contemporaneous source records this hand's exact cards, but Frank Wilstach's 1926 book Wild Bill Hickok: The Prince of Pistoleers led to the popular modern conception of the "dead man's hand" as containing pairs of black aces and black eights. In Hickok's case these would have been combined with an unknown hole card."
wenn es nacht wird in ....
und es zu spät, den schönen sonnenuntergang zu geniessen, weil wir das ziel erreichen müssen
I call this the octopus pole. It has eight arms carrying all the different lines. However, that is not what caused me to stop In the road on this wet cloudy day.
What I find unusual is that the lines cross the road to this pole, just so they can immediately cross back to where they started on the other side of the road again.
Does that make any sense?
Happy Telegraph Tuesday!
A group of Mallard Ducks goes for an evening swim on a pond painted by sunset and shadow in Northeast Ohio.
Created for The Award Tree's July 2022 challenge: Wet Work:
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Octopus, Swirls: pngwing.com.
Other photo used is my own image.
Filters: PSE21 and Topaz Studio.
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It took eight hours driving to get home and I'm not known for going slow. But these bends and humps and dips can take you by surprise when you are staring to left and right of the car looking at the sparkling waters that suddenly become visible, or at the group of deer you spot just amongst the trees at your side. And then the road climbs up onto a rugged mountainside, up and over and down to the next sea loch opening up into an amazing vista stretching to the mountainous islands of the Inner Hebrides, Mull, Rum, Eigg and Muck. It's beautiful even amongst the drizzle induced mist. It's wild and uncultivated...signs of civilisation are sparse. Round the corner in the centre of the picture is the way back to where I have been for too long. Behind me, to the left is the way 'home' to my Teuchter roots. And I'm going that way! A861
No not the exposure time but the time taken for the Suns light to reach Earth (in minutes) travelling at 671 million miles an hour!
Whitburn at dawn with some beautiful light between the rolling clouds.
A heat wave has hit California and boom, the dragonflies are out in force! This fellow landed in a nice spot and allowed me 3 shots. Siskiyou County, California
It was still quite early this morning and poor light, when this buck showed up on our front lawn. We have had as many as a dozen deer these mornings and none that still had their antlers, so it was a surprise to see one that did.
I grabbed the camera and ran to the front window and got this shot as he trotted through. The settings were way off and I had to lighten and sharpen the picture, but since I haven't posted any shots for 2023.... ta da!
Note: You can't see the two antler spikes that are coming up *between the set of antlers. They were about three inches high. Two more tiny ones were starting at the base of each and you can just see one in Large view.
* I actually meant that the little spikes were part of each antler but were down close to the bottom and hard to see from a side angle. They weren't the start of this years antlers.