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Jellyfish have been possibly around 700 million years or longer, before dinosaurs lived on the Earth.
Jellyfish bodies are actually made up of as much as ~98 % water.
Jellyfish have no heart, bones, brain, ears, noses or even
eyes(some have eyes).
Jellyfish mouth is found in the centre of its body, they use mouth for both eating and pooping.
Some Jellyfish's may never actually die (Theoretically Immortal!).
Some jellyfish are clear, but others are vibrant colours of pink, yellow, blue and purple.
Jellyfish produce their own light!
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P1360724 - Purple Moorhen - Size - 45 - 50 cm
# 364 - 05 Aug '2019 - 20:03 (14:33 GMT)
Purple Moorhen (Porphyrio poliocephalus) - is a species of swamphen occurring from the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent to southern China and northern Thailand.
Also Know as - Purple Swamphen, Grey-headed Swamphen, ...
WONDERFUL FACTS - The Slow Loris is one of the rarest primates.
Their closest relative is the African bush babies.
Slow Lorises may be slow, but they can travel around 8 kilometers in one night.
They are related to monkeys, apes and humans 🐾
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There are three male African lions at Zoo Atlanta: Azizi, Hondo and Hatari. They are brothers, and you will often find them inseparable. In fact, the lions are usually only separated from each other when they eat and when they are training.
The Monumental complex of Valsanzibio was brought to its contemporary magnificence in the second half of the Seventeenth Century by the Venetian noble Giovani Francesco Barbarigo, assisted by his sons Antonio and Gregorio. In fact, it was this last son, the first-born, Gregorio—Cardinal and Bishop of Padua and future saint—who inspired the symbolic meaning of the plan drawn by Luigi Bernini— the top Vatican architect and fountain expert. The then Cardinal Gregorio Barbarigo, as the result of a solemn ‘vow’ made by his Father to our God in 1631 , desired the garden of Valsanzibio to be a monumental, symbolic pathway to perfection; a journey that brings man from the false to the
truth, from ignorance to revelation.
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reading fingers have left almost invisible traces on the letters. the story is very old.
what is readable, what can we know...just some shades and hints of the forgotten lives.
Did a short hike up to Mt Ettalong Lookout — a cracking spot to take in the sleepy little village of Pearl Beach.
I’ve always loved the way the beach curves away like a brushstroke of gold against the ocean.
Fun Fact: That little island off the headland is Lion Island — a nature reserve named after its shape, though from this angle it looks more like a sleepy seal than a lion to me.
Across the water are Sydney’s northern beaches — only about 3 km away as the seagull flies, but nearly a 100 km (and 90-minute!) drive to get there by car.
Maybe one day, when I win Lotto, I’ll move to Pearl Beach!
Have a great week everyone — and thanks as always for the comments, they’re truly appreciated!
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Amazing Facts About the Seagull
Seagulls are very clever. They learn, remember and even pass on behaviors, such as stamping their feet in a group to imitate rainfall and trick earthworms to come to the surface.
Seagulls’ intelligence is clearly demonstrated by a range of different feeding behaviors, such as dropping hard-shelled mollusks onto rocks so that they break open so they can eat them, and following plows in fields where they know upturned grubs and other food sources will be plentiful.
Seagulls are attentive and caring parents. The male and female pair for life and they take turns incubating the eggs, and feeding and protecting the chicks!.
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Due to the fact that the wind comes almost from West, the waves become the same direction, from W to E, and wash the sand away
To stop/make less this washout effect, to break the stronght of the waves - that's the reason of this pillars. In the northern part of Zeeland there are beaches , many km long, and there are this pillars, always two lines together, repeating so about 500m. Depending from tide/low tide you can see 2,0m or nothing from them.
In fact I went to that lake to watch cranes. While I was waiting for their return that picture draw my attention. The perfect reflection, the soft waves leading through the pictures diagonal and the soft light of the setting sun. Everything matched even without any cranes of the photograph.
Eigentlich war ich hier an dem See um Kraniche zu beobachten. Während ich auf deren Rückkehr wartete fiel mir dieses Bild ins Auge. Eine perfekte Spiegelung und die Ausrichtung der sanften Wellen genau in der Diagonale und dazu noch das sanfte Licht der untergehenden Sonne. Da hat alles gepasst, da musste nichtmal ein Kranich dabei sein.
Sunset. And here's the Zuiderkerk (South Church) from our bedroom window. This church was the first in Amsterdam to have been built for Protestant church services. But more interesting perhaps is the story that Rembrandt - who lived just down the street - painted the Nightwatch here because his studio was too small. Tour guides like to state this as a fact to jaw-dropping visitors. The story is apocryphal, but nice to tell with the necessary winks. Regardless, three of his children were buried here...
Fun fact: In 1810, Alexander Wilson collected a warbler from a magnolia tree in Mississippi, giving it the English name "Black-and-yellow Warbler" and "magnolia" for the scientific species name, which became the common name over time.
La Ceja, Colombia; 2.300 meters above sea level.
The Saltators were up until recently considered part of the Cardinal-Grosbeak family (Cardinalidae) but DNA data shows that they are in fact large billed tanagers.
Streaked Saltators are greenish above, with a noticeable white supercilium that ends right behind the eye. They are not particularly large billed for a saltator, but the bill is still sizable and black in color. Below they are off-white with their distinctive streaks, absent from the throat but dense on the breast, belly and flanks.
Streaked Saltator is found in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guadeloupe, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela.
neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/portal/species/overview?p_p...
The autumn colours were lovely when I visited the zoo last week and the giraffe stood in the perfect spot for a nice autumnal portrait ! The fact that giraffes are tall helped too. :)
First snow of the season fell last night and this may be the first Slate-Colored Junco of the fall/winter in my yard if in fact it is not a Cassiar Junco. I believe that some consider Cassiar Juncos to be Oregon x Slate-colored Junco intergrades. I should probably just simplify the title and call this bird a Dark-eyed Junco. Comments are welcome. IMG_6250
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ursus arctos
length: 1 to 2.8 m
weight: 139 kg (male), 95 kg (female)
lifespan: 20 to 30 years
predators: humans
habitat: boreal forest, mountain alpine, arctic tundra
yukon population estimate: 6,000-7,000
they breed for the first time around their 8th year and reproduce every 3 to 4 years
bears routinely distinguish between threatening and non-threatening human behaviour
bears are not mean or malicious; they are very gentle, curious, and tolerant animals
shih shòh (gwich’in)
shär cho (hän)
dlēze (kaska)
srà cho (northern tutchone)
akłaq (inuvialuit)
atsìá sho (big grandpa) (southern tutchone)
shash chō (tagish)
shüh choh (upper tanana)
xóots or xûts (tlingit)
As winter tightens its grip, much of the natural world takes a well deserved rest. But that doesn’t mean your walks will be devoid of life. In fact, there’s plenty to marvel at during Febuary..
A combination of moments,
light and shadows.
Lines and dots.
All inconspicuous and at the same time quite clear.
-- Dogwood Tree Facts --
‧ The flowering dogwood is the state tree of Virginia and Missouri.
‧ It is also the state flower of North Carolina.
‧ Dogwood was used to treat dogs with mange, which could be a possible origin of the plant’s name.
‧ The white “petals” of dogwood trees are actually not petals at all! They’re leaves called bracts. The actual flowers are the small yellow clusters in the center of the bracts.
‧ Dogwoods flowers come in various colors from white to deep pink. They can even be found in a pale yellow color. However dogwood flowers don’t have as wide of a range of color as other flowers (such as roses and orchids).
‧ Dogwood trees produce red fruit in the fall. This red fruit looks similar to cranberries, but is classified as a drupe. Drupes are fruits with pits in the center; other examples include peaches, plums, cherries, olives, pecans and almonds.
‧ The average lifespan of a dogwood tree is 80 years.
‧ There are two ways branches can grow on trees: opposite branching (when branches grow directly opposite each other) and alternate branching (when the branches alternate). Dogwood trees have opposite branching which is more rare than alternate branching.
‧ The dogwood tree is deciduous, so it drops its leaves during the winter.
‧ Atlanta holds a yearly dogwood festival. The first year of the Atlanta Dogwood Festival was 1936.
This photo was taken in 2013 during my previous Project 365…please visit my album for this “REMASTERED” Project 365 as I revisit each day of 2013 for additional photos to share!!
Technical Information (or Nerdy Stuff):
Camera - Nikon D5200 (handheld)
Lens – Nikkor 18-300mm Zoom
ISO – 250
Aperture – f/5.6
Exposure – 1/200 second
Focal Length – 72mm
The original RAW file was processed with Adobe Camera Raw and final adjustments were made with Photoshop CS6.
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Fast facts on garlic
In many countries, garlic has been used medicinally for centuries.
Garlic may have a range of health benefits, both raw and cooked.
It may have significant antibiotic properties
"The fact that people are born with two eyes but only one mouth,
suggests that they should see twice as much as they should talk".
- Marie Marquise de Svign -
There is something particularly satisfactory in the fact of posting this picture. And it's a satisfaction that, I am sure, people living in this area will understand very well … Every year in the end of Fall, lakeside is covered by a sea of fog that remain unmoved for month. During the last two weeks, people living above it had perfect clear weather and warm sunny days while people living under it were experiencing the despairing boring constancy of gray light. Most of the time, people living by the lakeside (who don't climb the mountains really often) just don't realize that there's only a few dozen of meters between their depressing weather and the heaven above. And it's probably a good thing for them : knowing it would just make it harder …
Now imagine my situation : I live above the sea of fog, but I work under it (and I'd rather say INSIDE it) ! So now that the days are really short, I leave home late enough to be sure that the day is going to be perfect, but too soon to enjoy even the beginning of it. All day long I think about people above who are enjoying it (recently, my mother-in-law called: she was hesitating between spending her afternoon biking or roller skating). And when I come back home the sun is already down, and the last colors of the cloud are just telling me : “yes, you miss some very nice pictures ...”. And this every morning for the last two weeks. Of course, there's terribly worst situations. But I am sure you will agree : how frustrating it is!!
So yesterday, I decided to take half an hour before going to work to enjoy the sunrise just above the sea of fog, and here is the result. I am sure you'll understand that it is a kind of revenge ;) !
What you see is taken from "Les Hauts-Geneveys" : the "massif du Mont-Blanc", the highest peak of the Alps (4808,73m, France) about 135 km away.
A sample of some of the books on my bookshelf. Taken with a vintage Canon AE-1-Program camera with a FD 55mm S.S.C f1.2 lens using a Konica VX400 Monochrome film that expired in October 2005.
experienced at Stink Beach, it came quickly and stayed for a while and then left everything clean and refreshed.
listening to a song I had forgotten sung by John Sebastien at Woodstock - "Darling Be Home Soon"
love the lines -" A quarter of my life is almost past
I think I've come to see myself at last"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBXL7FaPod4
about the song :
www.songfacts.com/facts/the-lovin-spoonful/darling-be-hom...
Violaceous Trogon on either coastal slope of Costa Rica and it ranges from Mexico down through Amazonian Brazil. You can find them in wet lowland forest and also along edges and open areas. They will hover to pluck fruit or insects from the vegetation and are known to eat wasps. In fact, Violaceous Trogons have been known to nest inside wasp nests, termite nests and arboreal nests of Azteca ants.
Steaming Malla fells in the background. In fact, they are in the clouds, The photo was taken from the Saana slope towards Malla National Park in Kilpisjärvi, Lapland (DSC01653-2).
Burlington Northern's great experiment using methane had been over for some time. In fact, the 7149 was the property of Norfolk Southern when it led an empty grain train over the summit of the Bridger Mountains.
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Fun Fact :: part 3
Beagles are known for being very vocal, with barking, baying and howling. According to Paw Nation:
"In fact, it is believed the name 'Beagle' comes the Middle French 'bee gueule,' literally 'wide throat,' but more poetically translated as 'loudmouth.'"
The couple and their dog walk up and down our street every single morning. And every single morning he barks at them. They wave and smile at me as I try to persuade him to stop, no doubt thinking they were smart to get a lab.
It might not be the most upmarket place we’ve stayed in this year, but George (presumably Anglicized for the overwhelmingly British clientele) and his team have given us a very warm welcome. The apartment is comfortable and clean and we don’t ask for more than that. If George is slightly disappointed that we don’t spend quite as much time or money at the hotel bar as most of his guests, he doesn’t show it. Maybe my rapturous approval of the house Village Salad has put a big mark in the credit column for the occupants of room sixty-six. But we prefer to explore a holiday destination rather than lounge about by the pool ordering pints of Mythos all day. Besides which, Ali only drinks water. Hot water or cold water are the only two beverages she needs in life. People don’t believe her at first - they think she’s just being polite. No really - no tea, no coffee, definitely no juice or sugary fizzy pop (you should see her face when I pour a glass of orange juice in the morning), and no alcohol either. I make up for these shortfalls - except for the fizzy pop. I don’t drink that stuff either. I’m quite keen on the Mythos though. Especially the way it’s served in frozen glasses. I’ve taken to putting my own beer glasses in the ice box for an hour before pouring one back at the apartment in the evenings.
Our holiday rep is young, shy and giggly. She’s also Swedish. I was in Sweden less than two weeks ago, and at the bar, as I pay for my Village Salad, I bore the poor girl to sleep about my adventures in her homeland. She agrees that the west coast is a beautiful part of the country. In turn I agree that we’re having a lovely time here in Rhodes. She grins. I think it’s the last time we’ll stay in a place like this though. For years we booked everything independently, but after the pandemic, and just so we could blame everything on the operator when things went wrong, we returned to the traditional package holiday. But it’s not really our thing. Neither of us like mixing with other people, and we really don’t need to be entertained in the evenings. We much prefer the sound of the cicadas at night to what we’re being served with here. So far we’ve been treated to Whitney Houston, Bob Marley, Lionel Richie, Billy Ocean, Rihanna, Wilson Pickett and Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. All of this as we sit out on the balcony each evening, whether we like it or not. Obviously not the actual artists. How much do you think we paid for this holiday? Besides which it wouldn’t be possible as a number of them aren’t with us anymore. What’s interesting is that all of the performers come from South Africa. We think it’s the same people coming back every two or three nights, each time wearing different wigs. The quizmaster isn’t from South Africa though. Essex I reckon. He was still reading out the questions after midnight the other evening. The majority of the other guests are several years older than us. Exactly how many Rihanna songs are they familiar with? I only know two and I’m a mere stripling compared to most of them. The artists are very versatile. They usually lapse into Earth Wind and Fire or Heatwave after they’ve played the only three songs that anyone knows. Two if it’s Rihanna. Nobody seems to notice.
And competing with all of this is the din from the bar just across the way. To my horror, someone in charge of the jukebox has just faded out Mark Knopfler’s legendary guitar break from “The Sultans of Swing,” the only thing that has quite literally been music to my ears as we sit out here on the balcony in the dark. Because apparently it’s karaoke night. And the most important thing about being a karaoke performer is that you need to be tone deaf. Take the hen party that’s shouting the words of Paul Heaton over the microphone. More like an Imperfect Ten really. I sigh and open the Booking.com app. I noticed there were some apartments in a village up in the hills near the Seven Springs that we visited the other day. Next time we’ll do it all independently again, just like we used to.
To escape from all of this we’ve hired a car, just like we always do on these holidays. This time it’s a white Suzuki Celerio with a squeaky clutch pedal and a remote key fob that has a dead battery. Mostly we turn right at the bottom of our road, heading along the strip and out of town towards wherever we’ve decided to retreat to. Each time we do this, our first hazard is a bend in the road that I’ve unaffectionately named Poo Pong corner, a reference to the fact that it evidently sits over the town’s sewage drain, and upon which someone has opened a restaurant called Flames. Oh the irony! Surely it would only take a lit cigarette on an especially noxious day for the Flames to go up in, well, flames? It never seems to be that busy there. I love Greek food, but not when there are competing aromas coming from a river of floating effluent just a few yards away that’s come from the inner workings of a couple of thousand overindulgent tourists.
Occasionally though, we turn left instead of right, and drive a mile or two down the road to the tiny beach at the edge of the next town. This is a little piece of the Greece we love, with quiet water lapping at the shoreline, the flat warm sea such a gentle contrast to the drama we’re used to at home. And one evening as the sun sunk over the hills in the west it delivered the first worthwhile picture. Strangely, taken along the holiday strip rather than in some remote wild area. Later, back on the balcony, as someone from the raucous bar squawked to everyone within a half mile radius that they were simply the best, I had a quick go at it on the little laptop that comes with me on every holiday these days. I decided to award myself a small glass of ouzo. And promptly changed my mind in favour of a slightly bigger one. I needed to do something to drown that karaoke out.
Unguided missile launcher from the 1800's or earlier. Dropped in favor of the larger wooden wheel models. Less hernias, while moving said unit, were endured as a result.
Stars really are my first love in photography and it dawned on me recently that I havent even shot a startrail with my Camera since I upgraded it over a year ago. I used to use an external intervalometer which is no longer needed and I can also switch long term noise reduction off with this model so i wanted to test it out with these new features. It was -2 in the garden with not a breath of wind.... once the camera was setup I went back inside the house and left it to work away. I stay in a registered dark sky area so the stars were bright and plentiful..... so bright in fact that this was shot at ISO 400. I was quite pleased with the results, Now that I know the camera can handle startrailing with even more ease than my old one, who knows what creative foreground compositions I will find.
I stacked this version in "Comet Mode"
299 Frames at 20 Seconds Each
ISO400
F2.8
16mm Prime
Stacked in Starstax 7 & finished in Lightroom CC
My 4 year old daughter says it should be titled "Swirling Storm" :-)
Textures : www.flickr.com/photos/kerstinfrank-design/ ...
...Une nouvelle série. Elle risque d'être longue ... très longue !
Rupture du format carré, pas de titre sinon que "gravé" sur chaque photo les coordonnées GPS "d'un lieu d'un instant revécu". En effet toutes les photos de cette série sont issues de mes 1ères photos faites en 2009 avec un modeste Samsung.
Merci à celui ci que j'ai épuisé, fini avec du Scotch pour son étanchéité ...
et qui m'a offert une "ouverture" au monde !
La série est une série d'une chronologie 2009
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A new series. Out of square format, no title except that "engraved" on each photo GPS coordinates "a place of reliving a moment." In fact all the photos in this series are from my 1st photos made in 2009 with a modest Samsung.
Thank you for this one I've exhausted, finished with Scotch for his seal ...
and offered me a "window" to the world!
Highest Explore Position #432 ~ On June 1st 2008.
Telectroscope - Tower Bridge, London, England - Thursday May 29th 2008.
Telectroscope - London, England - Thursday May 29th 2008.
For all those that want to go see this...you have to get your skates on..it's only there until June 15th..so you have 2 weeks, that's on both sides of the pond...see here... www.tiscali.co.uk/telectroscope/
Telectroscope - Tower Bridge, London, England - Thursday May 29th 2008.
Believe it or not...this has to be the longest EVER shot...I took a picture of the Brooklyn Bridge in New York, from Tower Bridge in London, England...It's Magic..lol...:O)))
See here... news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7415911.stm
As you can see...here in London it's raining cats n dogs...where as in the Big Apple...the sun is out and the sky's are blue....I wish I could actually walk through this Telescope, I'd rather be on the other side at the moment that's for sure..:O)))
Anyhoo....this is a picture of New Yorkers watching us...watching them..I bet they love the fact that we were getting wet lol...........They can see Tower Bridge on their side..and RAIN!!!!!.............:O(((
Of course being England...it costs £1 to view for a few mins here...and FREEEE!!! in the New York......Blinking typical!!!!...:O(((
Of course you could always be a skin flint like me and just stand behind the barrier and use a long lens...lol..:O))
This is the view from the other side.... www.flickr.com/photos/laja/2521136019/?addedcomment=1#com...
[PT] Numa composição pouco vulgar, pelo facto de ser composto por três locomotivas, o Siderúrgico 83130 (vazio) ficou hoje a cargo 5035 "Sara", sendo que trazia consigo também as locomotivas 1904 e 4712 a reboque.
[EN] In an unusual composition, due to the fact that it consists of three locomotives, the Siderúrgico 83130 (empty) was today in charge of 5035 "Sara", and it also carried locomotives 1904 and 4712 in tow.
[ES] En una composición inusual, debido a que consta de tres locomotoras, el Siderúrgico 83130 (vacío) estuvo hoy a cargo de la 5035 "Sara", y también llevó a remolque las locomotoras 1904 y 4712.
It's been a while since I last added a camera to my collection, in fact I'm in the process of trying to downsize it, but I just couldn't pass this reasonably priced little Flexilette, a camera that had caught my eye several times in the past.
It is a rather unique camera in a sense that it's a TLR using 135 film. Only a handful other cameras by other brands used a similar approach, the pre-war Contaflex being the iconic model for this type of camera.
The Flexilette is a fully mechanical, all-manual, meterless camera the taking lens being a 2.8/45 Color-Apotar which according to online sources is a coated triplet. This fact alone puts the Flexilette in consumer / amateur enthusiast territory, although german triplets often produce stunning results, I for one am very pleased with the Triotar on my Rollei 35B.
The camera sports a waist-level finder which is not very big, but it's quite bright, definitely better than the finder of the Praktica VLC or the EXA-1 from behind the Iron Curtain. Focusing is aided by a retractable magnifying glass and a split-image rangefinder on the focusing screen. The finder is not interchangeable with a prism, so if one wants to shoot with the camera at eye level, they have to compose through a sports finder of sorts that is formed when the WLF flaps are deployed. Take care not to loose the small knob that releases the finder shaft, as it can be easily unscrewed during cleaning or carrying the camera in a bag.
Size-wise, the camera stands in a grey zone between a compact 35mm camera and a small SLR and it feels quite hefty with the lens protruding only a couple of centimeters, the shutter speed and aperture rings being quite narrow but easily accessible and moveable without feeling crowded.
The frame counter is manually reset and counts backwards from 36 as the frames are exposed.
My camera came in exceptional cosmetic and functional condition, along with the peculiar dedicated slip-on lens hood (it's the circular contraption visible on the right) and the close-up attachment of similar configuration which brings minimum focus distance from 0,6m to 0,38m, but sadly without a leather case. Build quality is good, but definitely not up there with Voigtlander or even Zeiss-Ikon. While some parts feel very solid, others feel like cutting production cost was a high priority in the minds of Agfa engineers. Overall operation of the camera feels quite smooth though, the leaf shutter (1s - 1/500s) is really quite and the focusing ring still turns very smoothly.
Overall, an interesting concept camera which wasn't a commercial success, although Flexilettes are not that difficult to find on the german auction site.