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Còmhdhail Alba (Transport Scotland) is the national transport agency of Scotland. It was established by the Transport (Scotland) Act 2005, and began operating on 1 January 2006 as an executive agency of the Scottish Government.
Transport Scotland, an executive agency of the Scottish government, manages transport projects, ScotRail, and all motorways and major A-class roads in Scotland. The agency is organised into eight directorates, including Aviation, Maritime, Freight and Canals; Bus, Accessibility & Active Travel; and Rail. Transport Scotland also contributes to the Scottish Government's Climate Change plan.
BEAR Scotland is a leading road maintenance and management firm in Scotland.
They develop and build local management and delivery teams in each area where they hold a contract. These teams are supported by both national partners and local SME suppliers to provide an economic, flexible, resilient and sustainable service.
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.
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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Stretching is critical to many with injuries, and to athletes who want to avoid injuries. This is a small part of a flexible exercise band being stretched against the blue of another band. HMM!
Pine tree branches are extremely flexible, which allows them to handle a heavy snowfall without the branches snapping off.
Another view from the opposite side of this Pine Tree to the shoreline and sky, below…
Bubbles are weird things.
They have more colours than a rainbow.
They're not fragile. They're infinitely flexible.
They're not what we think they are.
(Tom Noddy)
Smile on Saturday! :-) - FLOATING
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Super lightweight and doesn't kink. It expands when it fills with water. I love it!
For Crazy Tuesday theme "Flexibles"
This guy seemed curious about us, but not particularly alarmed.
Loggerhead Shrike, Lanius ludovicianus
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...
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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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?
From my set entitled ‘Sumac”
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In my collection entitled “The Garden”
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sumac (also spelled sumach) is any one of approximately 250 species of flowering plants in the genus Rhus and related genera, in the family Anacardiaceae. The dried berries of some species are ground to produce a tangy purple spice often used in juice.
Sumacs grow in subtropical and warm temperate regions throughout the world, especially in North America.
Sumacs are shrubs and small trees that can reach a height of 1-10 meters. The leaves are spirally arranged; they are usually pinnately compound, though some species have trifoliate or simple leaves. The flowers are in dense panicles or spikes 5-30 cm long, each flower very small, greenish, creamy white or red, with five petals. The fruits form dense clusters of reddish drupes called sumac bobs.
Sumacs propagate both by seed (spread by birds and other animals through their droppings), and by new sprouts from rhizomes, forming large clonal colonies.
The drupes of the genus Rhus are ground into a deep-red or purple powder used as a spice in Middle Eastern cuisine to add a lemony taste to salads or meat; in the Turkish cuisine e.g. added to salad-servings of kebabs and lahmacun. In North America, the smooth sumac (Rhus glabra), and the staghorn sumac (Rhus typhina), are sometimes used to make a beverage, termed "sumac-ade" or "Indian lemonade" or "rhus juice". This drink is made by soaking the drupes in cool water, rubbing them to extract the essence, straining the liquid through a cotton cloth and sweetening it. Native Americans also used the leaves and berries of the smooth and staghorn sumacs combined with tobacco in traditional smoking mixtures.
Species including the fragrant sumac (Rhus aromatica), the littleleaf sumac (R. microphylla), the skunkbush sumac (R. trilobata), the smooth sumac and the staghorn sumac are grown for ornament, either as the wild types or as cultivars.
The leaves of certain sumacs yield tannin (mostly pyrogallol), a substance used in vegetable tanning. Leather tanned with sumac is flexible, light in weight, and light in color, even bordering on being white.
Dried sumac wood is fluorescent under long-wave UV light. Mowing of sumac is not a good control measure as the wood is springy resulting in jagged, sharp pointed stumps when mowed. The plant will quickly recover with new growth after mowing. See Nebraska Extension Service publication G97-1319 for suggestions as to control.
At times Rhus has held over 250 species. Recent molecular phylogeny research suggests breaking Rhus sensu lata into Actinocheita, Baronia, Cotinus, Malosma, Searsia, Toxicodendron, and Rhus sensu stricta. If this is done, about 35 species would remain in Rhus. However, the data is not yet clear enough to settle the proper placement of all species into these genera.
"Take my picture,” she said. “I’m going to do something.”
And this - quite unexpectedly - is what she did.
© 2020 Thousand Word Images by Dustin Abbott
This pandemic has been hard on us all. Many of us have lost people that we loved and all of us have mourned the loss of freedom and normalcy that is so key to our peace of mind. And yet many of us have often found an unexpected joy in the midst of a simplified life, family closeness, and a more thorough embracing of spring and early summer. I love this joyful portrait, which also shows off the tiny and yet awesome Samyang AF 75mm F1.8 for Sony FE. It is also an unexpected joy, with nice bokeh, great sharpness, and an unexpectedly flexible focal length...all for an inexpensive price. You can find my thorough coverage the lens here:
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