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1. Rays and skates are flattened fish closely related to sharks. All belong to a group of fish called Elasmobranchs.
2. These guys are pretty unique as they have no bones in their body – their skeleton is made up of flexible cartilage (the bendy stuff that your ears and nose are made from!).
3. Although they look near identical, rays and skates are actually different. Stingrays are ovoviviparous, meaning the young are hatched from eggs that are held within the body, whereas skates are oviparous, meaning they lay eggs – these eggs are protected by a hard, rectangular case often called a “mermaid”s purse“!
4. There are many different types of ray including stingrays, electric rays, butterfly rays, round rays, manta rays, guitarfish and sawfish.
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Macro Mondays
Theme: Flexible
Date: June 20, 2022
Note: My first, more colorful, submission was deleted from the Macro Mondays group per rule # 6. I am not sure this is the exact photo from which my submission was done but it was same time, place, with same straws and cropped appropriately. The first one was not layered, not a composite image, and not one using HDR or Multiple Exposure. Exposure settings might have given the impression it was layered, etc. Hopefully, this will meet the guidelines for today's theme. I used the Painting In-camera setting on my Nikon D5600 for my first entry.. Plastic Flexible Straws.
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This guy seemed curious about us, but not particularly alarmed.
Loggerhead Shrike, Lanius ludovicianus
Submitted for Macro Mondays Group
Theme: Flexible
Date: Monday, June 20, 2022 (UTC)
Image was cropped to fit guidelines. Flexible plastic straws with some in-camera processing and slight photoshop.
Der "Garden of Vulcan" ist ein vom britischen Landschaftsarchitekten Tom Stuart-Smith geschaffenes Gartenkabinett, in dem sich die Vegetation nach dem Ausbringen von Sämereien selbst organisieren sollte. Im Lauf der Jahre wurde der Pflanzenteppich immer üppiger. "Zuerst wachsen Pflanzen, die flexibel und anpassungsfähig sind. Später kommen die Bäume, in deren Schatten sich Tiere ansiedeln können. Die Tiere erschaffen ein Netz aus Schneisen in die neue, üppige Vegetation. Erst dann entstehen die Hütten.
So beschreibt der englische Landschaftsarchitekt Tom Stuart-Smith den Vegetations- und Besiedelungsprozess der Erde. Doch natürlich konnte der Mensch sich der Landschaft nicht ohne fremde Hilfe bemächtigen: Ihm half der römische Gott Vulcanus, dessen Geschichte der Gestaltung des Gartens zugrunde liegt." Diese, von mir allerdings stark gekürzte, Beschreibung findet sich auf der Homepage der Gärten der Welt.
www.gaertenderwelt.de/gaerten-architektur/internationale-...
"The Garden of Vulcan" is a garden cabinet created by the British landscape architect Tom Stuart-Smith, in which the vegetation was supposed to organise itself after sowing seeds. Over the years, the plant carpet became increasingly lush. "First, plants grow that are flexible and adaptable. Later, trees grow and animals can live in their shade. The animals create a network of trails in the new, lush vegetation. Only then do huts appear.
English landscape architect Tom Stuart-Smith describes the vegetation and colonisation process of the earth. Of course, man could not take over the landscape without outside help: He was helped by the Roman god Vulcan, whose history provides the design concept of the garden. Immerse yourself in the world of mythical fire and experience an extraordinary abundance of flowers of all colours." This description, though greatly abridged by me, comes from the homepage of the Gardens of the World.
www.gaertenderwelt.de/en/gardens-architecture/internation...
This is a giraffe at the Virginia Zoo. I was fascinated with it sitting down. It is amazing how flexible they are and how much their knee joints can bend.
Tern's turning are difficult to capture. It really is a matter of luck as it happens so quickly. Once they have dived for a fish, they shake the water off. It takes about 3 seconds before the shake.
Notice how his head is turned 180° and his tail is turned 90°.
This shot is special to me because the Tern is faced toward me and the background is vegetation and the beach, not just sky or water. Today was a good day for photographing birds.
Forster's Tern
Sterna forsteri
Member of the Nature’s Spirit
Good Stewards of Nature
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"Aging gracefully means being flexible, being open, allowing change, enjoying change and loving yourself." - Wendy Whelan
"Take my picture,” she said. “I’m going to do something.”
And this - quite unexpectedly - is what she did.
Passengers scramble on and off flex unit, 769002 as it stands at Llanishen Station. 2D54 15:33 Penarth to Bargoed
It amazes me to see the dexterity exhibited by some birds in flight. Kites, like this Swallow-tailed Kite, seem to be particularly skilled.
At Sebastian request, here's one of his jumps.
He loves jumping from any suitable surface and I have to recognize he's good, but my nerves suffer.
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twists and turns
ups and downs
life throws
curve balls at times
it is easy to feel
dehydrated
so often we
get focused
on how we want
things to go
so when the
plan changes
or the outcome
is not what
we expect
we can lose focus
and become bent
the thing we must
remember is how
we overcome
these bumps
and move on
how flexible are you?