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This home uses Buechel Ston'e Gray Cobble Creek with Indiana Limestone for the arches and capping. They also uses Fond du Lac Outcroppings in the landscaping. Ref: Gray Cobble Creek. Visit www.buechelstone.com/shoppingcart/products/Gray-Cobble-Cr... for more information.
on the way to the mailbox. a shot I could only have gotten because I carry my camera... EVERYWHERE.....
handheld point + shoot Cannon Powershot SX100 IS
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Brooksville, Florida
Igneous rocks form by the cooling & crystallization of hot, molten rock (magma & lava). If this happens at or near the land surface, or on the seafloor, they are extrusive igneous rocks. If this happens deep underground, they are intrusive igneous rocks. Most igneous rocks have a crystalline texture, but some are clastic, vesicular, frothy, or glassy.
Obsidian is readily identifiable. It is a glassy-textured, extrusive igneous rock. Obsidian is natural glass - it lacks crystals, and therefore lacks minerals. Obsidian is typically black in color, but most obsidians have a felsic to intermediate chemistry. Felsic igneous rocks are generally light-colored, so a felsic obsidian seems a paradox. Mafic obsidians are scarce, but they are also black and glassy.
Obsidian is an uncommon rock, but can be examined at several famous localities in America, such as Obsidian Cliff at the Yellowstone Hotspot (northwestern Wyoming, USA) and Big Obsidian Flow at the Newberry Volcano (central Oregon, USA).
Obsidian is moderately hard and has a conchoidal fracture (smooth and curved fracture surface), with sharp broken edges. Freshly-broken obsidian has the sharpest edges of any material known, natural or man-made (as seen under a scanning electron microscope).
Obsidian forms two ways: 1) very rapid cooling of lava, which prevents the formation of crystals; 2) cooling of high-viscosity lava, which prevents easy movement of atoms to form crystals. An example of obsidian that formed the first way is along the margins of basaltic lava flows at Kilaeua Volcano (Hawaii Hotspot, central Pacific Ocean). Most obsidian formed the second way.
Seen here is a flow-banded gray obsidian - an unusual color. The flow bands are the subtle lines extending from the upper left.
Locality: unrecorded
Newport NH - I was a respectable distance from the Owl as he sat on a fence. He took off and flew straight at me, As he approached, he landed on a tree branch right above my head. I took a few shots and then moved away to give him space.
Rushes have assisted titles designer Matt Curtis of AP Design to create feature titles for the much-anticipated movie Dorian Gray.
Using a combination of post production, polystyrene sheets, cellulose paint thinning solvents and a lot of patience, the titles for Ealing Studios and Fragile Films' Dorian Gray were born.
Titles Designer Matt Curtis of AP Design wanted a fluid and decaying feel to the titles and it was determined early on through numerous tests that we couldn’t get the random feel digitally in the time we had available. Matt Lawrence, Rushes Head of MGFX Studio spent a week experimenting with various techniques to get the decaying look which ranged from burning painted letters using an electric paint stripper to heating baking powder in a frying pan.
Finally, through trial and error, a technique was honed that gave the right look. This involved spraying cellulose paint thinner directly onto polystyrene sheet and shooting it with an HD Camera. Matt Lawrence spent the next week cutting out hundreds of letters from the polystyrene sheet in preparation for the shoot that was undertaken in a day at Rushes.
After a many layered After Effects build, the titles were determined and then passed onto Rushes Shake compositors lead by Hayden Jones to refine, grade and layer revealing Ben Barnes’ (who plays Dorian Gray) image through the letters with extra textural splats shot by Matt Lawrence.
Matt Lawrence comments: “I think this was one of the most enjoyable projects I’ve ever worked on. It was great to get back to my roots and get my hands dirty doing model-making again. It has also made me think in a different way about achieving effects; just because we use computers every day to create our work, doesn’t mean it’s the best way of achieving the effect you are after.”
Title: Dorian Gray (Feature Film Titles)
Director: Oliver Parker
Producer: Barnaby Thompson
Production Company: Fragile Films
Titles Designer: Matt Curtis AP
Post Facility: Rushes
Titles Producer: Louise Hussey
Titles Coordinator: Warwick Hewitt
After Effects: Matt Lawrence
Elements shoot: Matt Lawrence
Shake: Hayden Jones and Joe Dymond
WINGSPAN: 1-1.25 in.
HOST PLANTS: Pea and mallow plants satisfy the larvae. Adults collect nectar from dogbane, milkweed, mint and white sweet closer among other plants.
FUN FACT: The gray hairstreak has one of the widest distributions of any North American butterfly.
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I have been lamenting the fact that I just can’t seem to capture a Catbird even though they are pretty common here. Some of my contacts and I have been discussing Catbirds and those species that always seem to elude us. My nephew and I took his dogs out for a walk in Fish Creek Park in Calgary during a family reunion this weekend. We ran into this Catbird who offered me this shot. I don’t know if the jinx is broken or not.
Fish Creek Park Calgary. August 30, 2009
Another one of the prevalent species found on my recent trip to the Dominican Republic. These birds were often found perched high on the top of the palm trees looking for insects, their staple diet.
OK, this will probably make you laugh, but I'm borderline obsessive about plucking out the few grays I have. And, of course, I always miss these ones in the back.
I swear, I want to start shaving my head again.
happy {bokeh} Wednesday! :)
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Strymon melinus setonia, Lycaenidae
Vaseux Lake, Okanagan-Similkameen, British Columbia, Canada
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June 19, 2016
The Cooper's Hawk is the most widespread of the three North American accipiters. Females are up to one third larger than males, one of the largest sexual dimorphism size differences of any hawk. Adults have solid gray upperparts, barred with reddish-brown. Their long tails are barred gray and black, rounded at the ends, with a white band at the tips. Their eyes are red. Immature birds are brown above with brown streaking on their white underparts; they have yellow eyes.
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