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Even more Fluttershys.
The cosplay photoshoot. I didn't expect someone to organize each picture by various character groupings. I really wish I had an opportunity to do something like this for EVERY show that I watch.
Fluttershy costume, costumes.
cartoon: My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic.
Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore, Maryland.
August 3, 2013.
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BACKSTORY: We went to BronyCon this year! Over 8,000 people showed up. This was the only time we really spent the whole weekend there -- the following year (2014), we only went for a few hours on the way back from an exhausting family vacation, and the year after that (2015), we didn't go at all. Attendance is over 10,000 nowadays. Frickin' crazy.
Okay, I'll admit, I'm not trying to be something I'm clearly not, and that is a portrait photographer.
I have a very hard time shooting people. I'm great at meeting people, talking to people and mingling, but I'm not good at working with people who want their photos taken.
Luckily, this is my wife and the pressure was off....somewhat!
I was hoping to marry my passion for landscape photography, something I know, with taking a photo of a person, something I don't know and get a respectable outcome.
I have to admit I'm pretty happy with these for my experience. I left the pose up to her as she knew what she wanted.
Gee, thanks Tips!
Steeles Avenue on the northern border of Toronto is being resurfaced this summer. A stretch of my commute that normally takes 5 minutes suddenly takes 25 minutes. Fortunately there are alternatives.
I love the addition to the sign "O Snap, What of my dentist" :)
Sunday.
Last day of 12 days off, and a day in which we were expected to have heavy thundery showers all afternoon, so had better do something in the morning.
And after breakfast that something was to go to Sandwich Bay, because of Lizard Orchids and check on the Marsh helleborines.
Jools wanted to go swimming, so I said I'd drop her off at the pool on the way, as Sandwich is a 15 minute blast away, so the plan was set.
It was a cloudy start, so there'd be no butterflies or dragonflies, and Jools had found my pass for the estate which I had to exchange for a sticker, meaning free entry all year as long as I park at the observatory.
There was the Women's Open Gold tournament on, so for a while I thought I might not be able to get across the course, but turned out that was at the other links course.
Yay.
I walked over the meadow and past the ringing area, and into the area of dune slacks at the Helleborines grow in. And at first I saw none, then once I got my orchid eye in, I saw hundreds of rosettes all around, some putting up a spike in the usual helleborine way.
There were dozens of Southern Marsh around to, which I learned this week, along with the Northern Marsh, have had their species status downgraded to sub-species, that of Broad Leaved Marsh Orchid (Dactylorhiza majalis).
Confusing.
Anyway, from there I took the path across the three fairways of the golf course, dodging flying balls and dressed in ridiculous clothes of pastel shades, heading for the safety of the gate onto the Strand.
On the way there were several Lizard spikes, and so more on the dunes beside the road. I snap many, but after a while was happy, so turned back for the car.
On the way back I saw another plant I had been looking for, Grass vetchling, a tall, willowy plant with a single pink pea-shaped flower, and being a windless day, was able to get a good shot of the flower.
Back then to the observatory, and as the sun had come out, a few butterflies were seen: Large Skipper, Small Skipper, Small tortoiseshell, and a single Dainty damsel having ventured far from her pond.
I went inside to get a drink, and met with John who helped arrange our trip to Svalbard, and we swapped news of things I saw on the trip after the one he did. We were very lucky, as we saw seven bears, his cruise saw just the one, and no Beluga.
Time was slipping, so I bid him farewell, and drove back to Whitfield where Jools was having a coffee in Subway.
I found three orchids she said, so we went to look, and three tall CSO spikes were growing in the formal border in front of the self-storage place.
We had to rush home, as Jen was back home, and back with Sylv, and we had been invited for Sunday dinner at one. So, we had to dash home so Jools could change, then drive to Whitfield to be on time.
Once there we admired the new skylight Mike had installed because the old one leaked, and we swapped news of things we have done. We regaled them with tales of the frozen north, of course.
Dinner was roast lamb, which was welcome, even if it was very hot in the house with both ovens going. We ate well, drank wine and made merry.
After eating, we could hear the rain falling, and we had left washing out on the line, so we made our excuses and went home.
The storm radar showed storms over Normandy, slowly drifting north and east, but slowly due to the light winds. We heard rumbles, but no storm arrived, though the rain did fall for hours.
We had butter fried asparagus for supper, before I watched yet more football: Spain v Croatia. Which isn't the last game of last season, as England play on Monday. And for those asking when the new season starts, I believe that to be Saturday when the preliminary rounds of the Champion's League start.
sigh.
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'Once seen never forgotten' is the response of most people to finding their first Lizard Orchid. Its impressive size (up to a metre tall) and the unique structure of the lizard-like flowers, which vary in colour from greyish-green to purple, make it impossible to confuse with any of the other orchid species that occur in Britain. Classified as Near Threatened in Britain, the fluctuations in the Lizard Orchid's range and numbers make it difficult to assess accurately whether this is actually a success story or a potential failure. Although it has disappeared from its few former sites in the north of England, populations in Kent (Sandwich Golf Course is its most famous location) remain strong, and Himantoglossum hircinum plants pop up frequently, but sporadically, on new sites in other counties. Several of the recent 'new' sites have been on golf courses, leading to the suggestion that seed may have been inadvertently carried from one course to another by golfers. Other favoured habitats include field margins, sand dunes, scrub, woodland edges, and roadside verges where it easily competes with tall rank grasses. Sometimes growing on neutral soils, this orchid is more common on calcium-rich substrates. Lizard Orchid flowers from mid-May to the end of July, peaking in mid-June. On mainland Europe Himantoglossum hircinum grows from Holland and Germany in the north to as far south as Spain. In some parts of France this species can only be described as a 'roadside weed' - albeit a most welcome one. The flowers are said to smell strongly of billy goat.
Plant: size variable, usually around 30cm in height but occasionally up to 100cm; stem pale green marked with purple, ridged towards the tip; 2 or 3 scale leaves situated at the base.
Leaves: numerous grey-green (sometimes blotched purple) and with 4 to 10 large oval and rather floppy leaves forming a basal rosette. 3 to 5 narrower pointed leaves clasp the stem up to the base of the inflorescence.
Bracts: pale green-to-white sometimes washed red, narrow and pointed.
Flowers: up to 80 held in a densely-packed cylindrical inflorescence which takes up half the length of the stem; greyish-green but washed purple, especially the lip (the 'tail' of the lizard). The sepals are veined with numerous purple lines and blotches which show through to the outer sides. Petals are narrow and strap-shaped, while the lip is divided into 3 lobes with the centre lobe being much longer once it has uncurled from a tight coil as flowering progresses.
The specific name hircinum means 'of goat' and refers to the smell of the flowers.
There are no known subspecies, hybrids or varieties in Britain.
www.hardyorchidsociety.org.uk/hos%201012/orchidphotos/him...
A field of maize and groundnut near Bossangoa. Harvests are expected to start there from the end of July.
Read more about FAO and the crisis in the Central African Republic.
Photo credit must be given: ©FAO/M. Ngongo. Editorial use only. Copyright FAO
The results you see here are not the ones I was expecting, and I'm not sure if it's the developer, the filter, or a combo of the two. All I know is that Retro 400s is willing to show off it's red sensitivity with only a little help, and D-76 does a fine job souping the film at the same time!
You can read the full review online:
www.alexluyckx.com/blog/index.php/2018/02/28/ccrfrb-revie...
Nikon F5 - AF Nikkor 35mm 1:2D (Yellow-12) - Rollei Retro 400s @ ASA-400
Kodak D-76 (Stock) 10:30 @ 20C
Scanner: Epson V700
Editor: Adobe Photoshop CC (2018)
Expected mother sitting with the counselor at Urban Primary Health Center (UPHC), Ambapua, Berhampur.
Photo Credit: Mubeen Siddiqui/MCSP
The weekend before Christmas... bags a-plenty on the escalators, but not as rammed as you might expect
‘Karen’ downpour threatens to trigger Luzon floods, landslides
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Catherine J. Teves
MANILA, 15Oct2016 — Communities in Metro Manila, Central Luzon, the Calabarzon region and Northern Luzon must brace for possible flash floods and landslides from the expected rainfall of Typhoon Karen (international name ‘Sarika’), which experts don’t expect to weakensoon.
The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) forecast ‘Karen’ to make landfall in Luzon’s Quezon-Aurora area on Sunday morning but not lose steam while crossing landmass, bringing moderate to heavy rainfall to these areas.
“Available information indicate ‘Karen’ will cross Luzon still as a typhoon, so communities in those areas must prepare accordingly,” said PAGASA weather forecaster Dennison Estareja.
‘Karen’ developed into a typhoon late Friday while nearing land and continues to intensify, so it is unlikely for the weather disturbance to weaken soon after making landfall, unlike other tropical cyclones, he explained.
In its severe weather bulletin 11 released at 11 a.m. Saturday, PAGASA said ‘Karen’ has passed north of Catanduanes and was already moving towards the Aurora-Quezon area, packing maximum sustained winds of up to 130 kph near its center and gustiness of up to 180 kph.
Estimated rainfall amount is from moderate to heavy within the 500-km diameter of the typhoon.
Estareja said stormy weather is expected in the northern Bicol region on Saturday and Sunday.
Stormy weather is also likely in Aurora, Polillo Island and northern areas of Quezon, PAGASA warned in its 24-hour forecast released Saturday.
Tropical cyclone warning signal no. 3 is already prevailing over Catanduanes, Camarines Norte and Aurora, as well as Quezon’s northern areas and Polilio Island.
Such areas can expect in 18 hours winds of 121 kph to 170 kph, and storm surges more than 14 meters high are possible in coastal areas there, warned PAGASA.
The bureau forecast ‘Karen’ to move west-northwest at 15 kph, faster than the 13 kph it reported earlier.
‘Karen’ will likely be 110 km northeast of Quezon’s Infanta municipality by Sunday morning and 325 km west-northwest of Zambales’ Iba municipality by Monday morning.
“We expect ‘Karen’ to exit the Philippine Area of Responsibility on Monday morning,” said Estareja.
The government already raised signal no. 2 over the rest of Quezon as well as Camarines Sur, Albay, Rizal, Bulacan, Nueva Ecija and Quirino, expecting there in 24 hours winds reaching 61 kph to 120 kph.
Storm surges of up to 14 meters high are also possible there, said PAGASA.
Signal no. 1 is prevailing over Sorsogon, Masbate including Ticao and Burias Island, Isabela, Romblon, Marinduque, Oriental Mindoro, Batangas, Laguna, Cavite, Pampanga, Bataan, Zambales, Tarlac, Pangasinan, Nueva Vizcaya, La Union, Benguet and Ifugao, all in Luzon, Metro Manila and the Visayas’ Northern Samar.
Such areas can experience in 36 hours 30 kph to 60 kph winds, said PAGASA.
Waves in seas off the areas can reach up to 4 meters high, PAGASA added. (PNA)
County Grand Lodge of Ayrshire Renfrewshire Argyll,
Paisley Ferguslie Gardens Park,
Flute Bands Parade Saturday June 25th 2016,
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David Cameron Paisley Photographer defiantpose@talktalk.net
"All preview images are scaled down & low rez"
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Expected Bands,
Imperial Blues Flute,
Parkinson Accordion,
Prince of Wales Accordion,
Ayrshire Blue Belles Flute,
Saltcoats Protestant Boys Flute,
Ardrossan Winton Flute,
Leeds Crown Defenders Flute,
Govan Protestant Boys Flute,
Sir George White Memorial Flute,
Grenadiers Memorial Flute,
Batts Purple Star Flute,
New Stevenson Loyal Flute,
Pride of the Hill Flute,
Cambuslang Brittania Flute,
Bridgeton Loyalist Flute,
Caldercruix Defenders Flute,
Newtown Defenders Flute,
Crown Accordion,
Sandy Road Flute,
Spirit of Stewarton Flute,
Dykehead Sons of William Flute,
Saltcoats Protestant Girls Flute,
Heirs of Cromwell Flute,
Sons of Ulster Portrush Flute,
Partick Protestant Boys Flute,
Netherton Road Flute,
Ayr Protestant Boys Flute,
Pride of Bargeddie Flute,
Abbey Star Flute,
Lanarkshire Loyalist Flute,
Saracen Truth Defenders Flute,
Drongan Young Conquerors Flute,
Patna Faith Defenders Flute,
Camlachie Loyal Star Flute,
Sons of the Somme Flute,
Prince William Young Defenders Flute,
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The spirit of Scotland remembrance project
the-remembrance-project.blogspot.co.uk/
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13 Nov 1954, Cairo, Egypt --- Wearing the traditional Burnoose, but carrying Western clothes, Sheikh Ezzat Gaafar, Chief of the Cabinet of the Emir of Kuwait, arrives in Cairo from Rome. Gaafar is expected to marry ex-Queen Narriman of Egypt after she obtains a divorce from her present husband, Dr. Adham El Nakeeb. Narriman's first husband was ex-King Farouk. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
And he did not marry her
The most adorable girl mimicking her pregnant mom. Update: when I took the photo I didn't know the tile 'Expecting a brother' would be the right one. The little girl did get the brother she expected. :)
2017 World Championship Group Stage at Wuhan Sports Center Gymnasium in Wuhan, Hubei, China on 5 October 2017.
Much worse than I expected. I'm tempted to use software to fix things. Mostly I like to de-saturate the photos. Maybe I could get a pin up model to work with this summer. The camera seems to work well in bright light. Should we have a group? Are a lot of people using these little cameras?
This picture I made it in the garden of a friend of Böblingen.
Tree is cherry.
The word cherry refers to a fleshy fruit (drupe) that contains a single stony seed. The cherry belongs to the family Rosaceae, genus Prunus, along with almonds, peaches, plums, apricots and bird cherries. The subgenus, Cerasus, is distinguished by having the flowers in small corymbs of several together (not singly, nor in racemes), and by having a smooth fruit with only a weak groove or none along one side. The subgenus is native to the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, with two species in America, three in Europe, and the remainder in Asia. The word "cherry" comes from the French word "cerise", which comes in turn from the Latin words cerasum and Cerasus.
The cherry is generally understood to have been brought to Rome from northeastern Anatolia, historically known as the Pontus region, in 72 BC. The city of Giresun in present-day Turkey was known to the ancient Greeks as Choerades or Pharnacia, and later as Kerasous or Cerasus, < Kerason < Kerasounta < Kerasus "horn" (for peninsula) in Greek + ounta (Greek toponomical suffix). The name later mutated into Kerasunt (sometimes written Kérasounde or Kerassunde).
The English word cherry, French cerise, Spanish cereza, and Southern Italian dialect cerasa (standard Italian ciliegia) all come from the Classical Greek κέρασος "cherry," which has been identified with Cerasus. The cherry was first exported to Europe from Cerasus in Roman times. By the Middle Ages, cherries had disappeared in England. They were reestablished at Tyneham, near Sittingbourne in Kent by order of Henry VIII, who had tasted them in Flanders.
Besides the fruit, cherries also have attractive flowers, and they are commonly planted for their flower display in spring; several of the Asian cherries are particularly noted for their flower displays. The Japanese sakura in particular are a national symbol celebrated in the yearly Hanami festival. Many flowering cherry cultivars (known as 'ornamental cherries') have the stamens and pistils replaced by additional petals ("double" flowers), so are sterile and do not bear fruit. They are grown purely for their flowers and decorative value. The most common of these sterile cherries is the cultivar 'Kanzan'.
These are my personal notes taken during a geology presentation. I give them here because they may be of some interest. Do not expect the notes to always be in complete sentences, etc.
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A Look at Biotic Events at High Southern Latitudes at the End of the Cretaceous
Presented by: William Zinsmeister (Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA) (www.eaps.purdue.edu/people/faculty-pages/zinsmeister.html)
19 November 1998
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The Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) extinction is the smallest of the big 5 extinctions. 11% of all families go extinct at the K-T boundary. But, the K-T extinction is a favourite of many people, mainly because it included the extinction of the dinosaurs. There have been many theories proposed about why the dinosaurs went extinct, including mammals eating their eggs, the evolution of angiosperms interfering with their digestive systems, and other ideas.
But, all these dinosaurs extinction hypotheses are flawed because they only deal with dinosaurs. Many terrestrial and marine groups (plant and animal) went extinct at the same time.
Then, the impact hypothesis came along in the early 1980s, proposed by Alvarez. This idea explained the K-T extinction in both the terrestrial and marine realm - basically, the global food chain collapsed. Also, the impact theory caught people’s imaginations, and was immediately accepted as fact by the media and the general public. There is much debate among scientists, though.
Now, there is much compelling evidence for an impact. Lots of computer modelling has been done to see what an impact would do the the Earth. One idea is that debris would be thrown up high into the atmosphere and would fall back down as an enormous meteor shower, which would heat the atmosphere to 800˚ and everything on the surface was cooked. Other scary ideas: rainshowers of nitric acid and sulfuric acid, nuclear winter scenario, and global forest fires.
Problem: If things were so bad, how did anything survive? Where are the burned/charred dinosaur bones and trees if all this happened?
There are a few diehards who still say an impact didn’t happen.
Other than that, there are 2 hypothese: 1) Bad Day Hypothesis; 2) Impending Doom Hypothesis.
The Impending Doom Hypothesis says that the Earth’s biosphere had been under a long period of stress up to the time of the impact. The impact was the capstone to the extinction. This seems like a logical idea.
Seymour Island - located near the northeastern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. The geology on Seymour Island is mostly a homoclinal succession of rocks - Cretaceous to upper Paleocene. (www.geologicallocations.com/antarctica/seymour-island.htm)
Post-impact scenarios - it has been difficult to assess post-impact scenarios because there are few areas in the world with Danian-age rocks (= earliest Tertiary). Danian rocks occur in northwestern Europe, a few other places, and on Seymour Island. The north part of Seymour Island is Tertiary in age.
There are about 70 square kilometers of outcrop to look at on Seymour Island (upper Cretaceous and lower Tertiary). The island has a desert-like topography similar to southwestern USA. These are good exposures, and they are packed with fossils with a high diversity and good preservation. About 800 species of fossils have been described from Seymour Island. Lots of ammonites are just lying on the surface. The ammonites are aragonitic. There are also good gastropods and bivalves (all fresh looking). There are also fossil echinoids (including 1 form with 5 brood pouches - the juveniles live in the parent up to a certain point). There are also plesiosaurs and mosasaurs. Ammonites are common.
A spectacular specimen of Diplomoceras was found last year - a specimen that was 1.5 meters long (but curved; uncurved, it would be 14 feet long). The animal itself was ~6 feet long (a 6 feet long living chamber). Smaller pieces of this fossil are relatively common, but this specimen was unusually preserved. It is the nicest, most remarkable specimen known. (www.geologicallocations.com/assets/photos/antarctica/Seym...)
Seymour Island is very muddy to work on - it is always above freezing during the field seasons.
An iridium anomaly does occur here on Seymour Island. It occurs in a unit referred to as the K-T glauconite, which is a greenish, glauconitic sandstone that occurs at the boundary. The glauconitic sandstone is easily correlatable across the island. (www.geologicallocations.com/assets/photos/antarctica/Seym...)
There are no stratigraphic or sedimentological signatures at the K-T boundary within the glauconitic sandstone interval. There is no boundary clay, as classically seen at Gubbio, Italy.
Antarctica is ~8000 miles away from the Chicxulub Crater in Yucatan, Mexico, which is a significant point as far as considering the after-effects expected to be seen in Antarctica. (www.theyucatantimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Chicxu...)
Rudist record - there is a gradual increase in the diversity of rudist bivalves in the Cretaceous. (www.paleotax.de/rudists/intro-Dateien/image002.jpg) Most rudists went extinct at 67.5 to 68 million years ago (~early-late Maastrichtian boundary). This pattern mirrors other groups’ diversity patterns as well - all mostly go extinct before the K-T boundary.
Seymour Island ammonites crash at the end of the Campanian. Seymour Island inoceramid bivalves are gone near the end of the Campanian. (www.flickr.com/photos/jsjgeology/19921135882) Seymour Island belemnites virtually disappear at the end of the Campanian. Seymour Island ammonites are quite diverse in the Campanian (35-36 species), but their diversity crashes to 10 species in the Maastrichtian (= latest Cretaceous), and they are gone at the K-T boundary. Several Campanian cosmopolitan ammonite families disappear in the Campanian in the Seymour Island area, but they extend to the K-T boundary in lower latitudes. So, their disappearance in the Seymour Island area indicates a general temperature decline (cooling).
A regression occurred at the mid-Maastrichtian.
Superimposed on the Maastrichtian temperature decline are several rapid warming spikes. 50,000 years before the K-T boundary event was a warming event, documented from some ODP sites.
Note the restricted occurrence to 1 horizon on Seymour Island of the ammonite Zealandites varuna in the Maastrichtian Lopez de Bertodano Formation. Its presence probably represents a warming spike.
The faunal transition across the K-T boundary on Seymour Island - no single extinction event seen - a gradual decline is seen instead. There is no marked extinction horizon.
Then, someone suggested that this pattern is due to the Signor/Lipps Effect, a phenomenon produced by collection/preservation biases. One can get a gradual extinction pattern purely due to collecting and preservation biases. So, Zinsmeister and others recollected the fossils on Seymour Island, and collected fossils spatially, doing detailed mapping.
The K-T glauconite (~5 meters thick) is actually 3 units - a lower glauconite, a middle fish bed/horizon, and an upper glauconite. The fish debris bed could represent a victim bed from the K-T impact.
Renewed fossil collecting has resulted in a new diversity record - the extinction is less gradual now - it is more abrupt, but all groups are dying out just before the iridium anomaly. The K-T extinction is now more abrupt is high southern latitudes than previously thought.
Fish horizon - interpreted to be the effect of extreme ocean disruption; fish kills are not due to ocean poisoning (strangelove ocean), but by pulses of nutrients into the oceans. This is the only fish horizon in 1600 meters of section. It could be an interval of slow deposition, but this is not likely because fish degrade relatively quickly, and one needs special conditions to preserve fish. The fish debris bed represents conditions after the K-T event - lots of fish kills occurred.
The biosphere is far more robust than we give it credit for. Organisms have been able to survive truly catastrophic events in geologic history.
Example: the Millbrig Bentonite (Middle Ordovician, eastern USA and Scandinavia). This large volcanic eruption resulted in no extinctions. Therefore, Earth’s biosphere is very robust. But, if the biosphere is already stressed, then a big event can push the biosphere into a mass extinction.
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The photo I had to laugh. Can not smile without looking at it as a huge dog finds the members of his flock of children. Balian accompanies them everywhere:)
My 2nd maternity shoot. Tried a few without the backdrop this time as the colours looked pretty good. Also, there wasn't loads of room to set up the backdrop due to the shape of the room.
For the shots without the backdrop I used both my Sony F42 flashguns with white shoot-through umbrellas.
For the backdrop shots I had a bare flash behind the backdrop and one camera right with a reflector on the floor aiming back up into Matt & Kiley.