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Cunninghamia lanceolata (China Fir)...conifer, evergreen tree, 50-80 ft (15-25 m) tall in landscapes, may reach 150 ft (50 m) tall in native range, conical or pyramidal in shape. Often multitrunked, bark color ranges from dark gray to reddish brown, longitudinal fissures, cracking into irregular flakes revealing an aromatic, yellowish or reddish inner bark.
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Ecran fissuré d'un smartphone
Cracked screen of a smartphone
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Barn Owl - Tyto Alba
Like most owls, the barn owl is nocturnal, relying on its acute sense of hearing when hunting in complete darkness. It often becomes active shortly before dusk and can sometimes be seen during the day when relocating from one roosting site to another. In Britain, on various Pacific Islands and perhaps elsewhere, it sometimes hunts by day. This practice may depend on whether the owl is mobbed by other birds if it emerges in daylight. However, in Britain, some birds continue to hunt by day even when mobbed by such birds as magpies, rooks and black-headed gulls, such diurnal activity possibly occurring when the previous night has been wet making hunting difficult. By contrast, in southern Europe and the tropics, the birds seem to be almost exclusively nocturnal, with the few birds that hunt by day being severely mobbed.
Barn owls are not particularly territorial but have a home range inside which they forage. For males in Scotland this has a radius of about 1 km (0.6 mi) from the nest site and an average size of about 300 hectares. Female home ranges largely coincide with that of their mates. Outside the breeding season, males and females usually roost separately, each one having about three favoured sites in which to conceal themselves by day, and which are also visited for short periods during the night. Roosting sites include holes in trees, fissures in cliffs, disused buildings, chimneys and haysheds and are often small in comparison to nesting sites. As the breeding season approaches, the birds move back to the vicinity of the chosen nest to roost.
Once a pair-bond has been formed, the male will make short flights at dusk around the nesting and roosting sites and then longer circuits to establish a home range. When he is later joined by the female, there is much chasing, turning and twisting in flight, and frequent screeches, the male's being high-pitched and tremulous and the female's lower and harsher. At later stages of courtship, the male emerges at dusk, climbs high into the sky and then swoops back to the vicinity of the female at speed. He then sets off to forage. The female meanwhile sits in an eminent position and preens, returning to the nest a minute or two before the male arrives with food for her. Such feeding behaviour of the female by the male is common, helps build the pair-bond and increases the female's fitness before egg-laying commences.
Barn owls are cavity nesters. They choose holes in trees, fissures in cliff faces, the large nests of other birds such as the hamerkop (Scopus umbretta) and, particularly in Europe and North America, old buildings such as farm sheds and church towers. Buildings are preferred to trees in wetter climates in the British Isles and provide better protection for fledglings from inclement weather. Trees tend to be in open habitats rather than in the middle of woodland and nest holes tend to be higher in North America than in Europe because of possible predation.
This bird has suffered declines through the 20th century and is thought to have been adversely affected by organochlorine pesticides such as DDT in the 1950s and '60s.
Nocturnal birds like the barn owl are poorly monitored by the Breeding Bird Survey and, subject to this caveat, numbers may have increased between 1995-2008.
Barn owls are a Schedule 1 and 9 species.
Population:
UK breeding:
4,000 pairs
Europe:
110-220,000 pairs
An Owl's daily activity begins with preening, stretching, yawning and combing its head with its claws. The plumage is often ruffled up, and claws and toes are cleaned by nibbling with the beak. The Owl will then leave its roost, sometimes giving a call (especially in breeding season)
Like most owls, the barn owl is nocturnal, relying on its acute sense of hearing when hunting in complete darkness. It often becomes active shortly before dusk and can sometimes be seen during the day when relocating from one roosting site to another. In Britain, on various Pacific Islands and perhaps elsewhere, it sometimes hunts by day. This practice may depend on whether the owl is mobbed by other birds if it emerges in daylight. However, in Britain, some birds continue to hunt by day even when mobbed by such birds as magpies, rooks and black-headed gulls, such diurnal activity possibly occurring when the previous night has been wet making hunting difficult. By contrast, in southern Europe and the tropics, the birds seem to be almost exclusively nocturnal, with the few birds that hunt by day being severely mobbed.
Barn owls are not particularly territorial but have a home range inside which they forage. For males in Scotland this has a radius of about 1 km (0.6 mi) from the nest site and an average size of about 300 hectares. Female home ranges largely coincide with that of their mates. Outside the breeding season, males and females usually roost separately, each one having about three favored sites in which to conceal themselves by day, and which are also visited for short periods during the night. Roosting sites include holes in trees, fissures in cliffs, disused buildings, chimneys and haysheds and are often small in comparison to nesting sites. As the breeding season approaches, the birds move back to the vicinity of the chosen nest to roost.
the fissure in the sunset bokeh ball reminds me of the fissure in humanity. strangely, in a time of global pandemic, compassion is lacking. interdependence is ignored. we humans are complex!
yet this image also reminds me of what’s good in the world: connection, light, beauty, vulnerability, strength, and kindness. it’s in these bursting flowers. it’s in us, too.
Only a glimpse of the blossoms of "Ipê Branco" (Tabebuia roseoalba) a Brazilian tree, first described in 1890 as Bignonia roseo-alba.
Scientific name: Tabebuia roseo-alba
Popular names: "Ipê-branco-do-cerrado", "Ipê-do-cerrado", "Pau-d’arco", Honey's plant
Family: Bignoniaceae
Category: Trees, Ornamental Trees
Climate: Subtropical, Tropical
Origin: South America
Height: 6.0 to 9.0 meters, 9.0 to 12 meters, above 12 meters
Luminosity: Full sun
The "Ipê-branco" is a deciduous tree, with exuberant flowering, native to the Brazilian "cerrado" and swamps. It has a straight trunk, about 40 to 50 centimeters in diameter and fissured bark. It is small to medium in size, reaching 7 to 16 meters in height when fully grown.
Flowering usually occurs at the end of winter or spring, between the months of August and October, while the tree is completely stripped of its leaves. The flowers are trumpet-shaped and white or slightly pink.
The fruits are pod-like and contain numerous membranous, small, whitish, winged seeds.
The "Ipê-branco" is a tree of great ornamental value, which values landscaping projects both for its showy flowering and for its elegant shape and bluish crown.
In addition to its ornamental qualities, this "ipê" features wood of excellent durability, moderately heavy, with a smooth and glossy surface, good for internal finishes in civil construction.
* It seems that this particular tree stepped forward and decided to flower in the fall. But it is not uncommon that it ends up flowering twice a year.
So let's hope that between September and October new flowers will be available for appreciation.
* I put the name "Ipê" between hash marks because I couldn't find a translation into English, since it is a genuinely Brazilian tree. "Cerrado" is the second larger biome of Brazil covering about 25% of the national territory.
Taken in early October, leaves littering the rock face of the lower section of Toms Branch Falls in Deep Creek. This is perhaps one of the easiest waterfalls to access in Western North Carolina, and in parts one of the more scenic. The face beneath the running water over grown with moss, cracks in the rock face from centuries, perhaps even millennia of water freezing in the deep winter, creating fissures, creating intrigue. The added light, and high contrast scene painting a picture of time standing still, you can almost hear the water rolling, smell the fall leaves not yet washed away, feel the spray over your face and hands even as the temperatures begin to drop. This is why we really love fall, and yet yearn for spring.
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ISO: 160
SS: 1/30th
Focal: 50mm
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Pressure,Time, and Hydrodynamics caused this incredible fissure in Granite.
Sacred spot for a people's long gone, by the atrocities of man. Refuse of Sassacus Pequot Chief fleeing with his remaining tribe. Aroud here they had their last holdout.
in Snaefellsns penisula, Rauðfeldsgjá Gorge is a natural formation, narrow fissure several hundreds of meters into the mountain, with a little river at the bottom After about 70 meters you meet a little waterfall and have to do some climbing to get farther into the mountain. That is as far as I have gone. Still it is incredible with the narrow walls several tens of meters high around you.
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Salted cracks in asphalt
Road salt solution in asphalt cracks drying out periodically.
Fissures salées dans l'asphalte
Solution de sel de voirie dans des fentes d'asphalte qui dessèche périodiquement.
Fissure in the rock. Hydrodynamics flow, temperature and time. Stone Church Brook, Dover NY. Jun 2020
Quand la fissure de la banquise rejoint le ciel pour faire qu'un.
(C'est le moment de l'année qu'il faut être prudent sur le bord du fleuve. Je savais que la marée était montante donc je n'avais pas d'inquiétude à ce que la banquise cède sous moi.)
An overview of the Meradalir eruption in SW-Iceland, taken just before midnight on the first day, 3 August 2022. In the back are lava fountains on a fissure, about 200 m long, which is a vent for magma streaming up at the rate of about 20 cubic metres per second. In front of the fissure is a lake of lava. The edges of the lava "freeze" and build up solid "walls" that contain the molten rock within, until fresh streams of lava overflow them or breach through. The view over the Meradalir valley in the brief August night is quite surreal and spectacular.
It is said "context is everything". So without context, what do you see? A vertical rock face with deep fissures? Or perhaps, a close-up section of an old tree trunk?
It is, in fact, the latter.
The base of a Western Red Cedar tree (Thuja plicata), with its characteristic vertical fissures.
Olympus EM1 + Olympus 12-50mm.
Explosion crater in the Eldgjá volkano fissure.
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I was going to call this "in the groove", but the more I looked at it and the numerous fissures in this limestone pavement, I thought "points failure" was more apt!
This is actually the "lone tree" at Malham which appears to be sadly dying of "ash dieback" like many other trees up here in the Dales.
I was hoping for a decent sunset, but it didn't really happen. The light at this point about 30 minutes before sunset was pretty good though and brought out some nice detail and textures.
Corol.la: 0.8–1.4 cm.
CATALÀ
La budleia (Buddleja davidii) és una planta de creixement arbustiu. A Europa és l'espècie més coneguda del gènere exòtic d'arbustos i arbres Buddleja. De vegades es fa servir el nom «arbust de les papallones», ja que les seves flors, perfumades i plenes de nèctar, atreuen aquests insectes.
L'espècie és originària de la Xina central. L'Enciclopèdia Catalana i el Termcat van acceptar l'ortografia catalanitzada budleia com a nom comú per a aquesta espècie del gènere Buddleja.
Arbust caducifoli o semiperennifoli que pot arribar a fer entre dos i tres metres d'alçada. Les fulles, allargades i amb marge dentat, són de color verd fosc a l'anvers i grisenc al revers. Inflorescència en espigues a l'extrem de les branques, amb flors de color lila, blau, porpra, rosa, vermell o blanc. Entre l'estiu i la tardor, les seves branques arquejades porten als extrems cons llargs i estrets de flors densament disposades. Les flors atreuen les papallones i els borinots.
ENGLISH
Buddleja davidii is a vigorous shrub with an arching habit, growing to 5 m (16 ft) in height. The pale brown bark becomes deeply fissured with age. The branches are quadrangular in section, the younger shoots covered in a dense indumentum. The opposite lanceolate leaves are 7–13 cm (3–5 inches) long, tomentose beneath when young. The honey-scented lilac to purple inflorescences are terminal panicles, < 20 cm (8 inches) long. Flowers are perfect (having both male and female parts), hence are hermaphrodite rather than monoecious (separate male and female flowers on the same plant) as is often incorrectly stated. Ploidy 2n = 76 (tetraploid).
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Tilbury Cove, at the southern end of Culburra Beach. A huge rock ledge which exposes some large fissures at lower tides.
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A damaged 35mm house reel. Though fairly sturdy, these reels were not totally abuse-proof and would bend if dropped or handled roughly. When things go especially bad, well, the picture could tell a story.
I originally did not have this reel in mind for the theme at its original time, and I was stuck in another creativity rut. By time I thought of it, it was too late to get the photoshoot going.