Platinums of National Express West Midlands
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This is why I prefer shooting the details instead of the whole car, though I bet there are some out there who can tell me what car this is (yes, I do know).
Sometimes, it's all about the lines.
taken from a bird hide in Kafue National Park, Zambia
Geophagia or geophagy is the practice of intentionally eating soil or clay. It occurs in different animal species and is best known from images of large numbers of parrots at clay licks in the Amazon.
The common explanation has been that clay is a natural detox treatment i.e. the intake of clay helps in protecting the birds from toxins when the ideal food sources are not readily available.
Recent publications based on years of studying clay licks in Peru show that protection from toxins is not a key driver. Instead the study shows that higher needs of sodium in the breeding season are a key reason for this behavior.
Also called Brown Parrot, this medium-sized parrot is a resident and nomad in savanna and broad-leafed woodland. Most of the time they move in flocks.
poicephalus meyeri
Meyers papegaai
perroquet brun ou perroquet de Meyer
Goldbugpapegei
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Where the utilities hang on the outside in the alley as a series of afterthoughts to the original building.
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Street photography from Glasgow, Scotland, captured in January 2025.
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Stay safe and keep the shutters clicking!
15 Miles West of Bishop on Highway 168, Bishop, California
Intake II (Intake No. 2), a lake along Bishop Creek, located in Eastern Sierra,Inyo County.
Walking back through the fields after a day in the woods looking ( unsuccessfully ) for fungi late evening November 2018. There is two farm buildings in this image ,the one in silhouette is Middle Intake Farm, I cant find the name of the one in the foreground with all the trees but both are in a state of ruin...
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Candid eye contact street photography from Glasgow, Scotland.
Colour re-edit of one of my favourite candid portraits from Glasgow, captured in June 2019. I hope that you are all having a great weekend of photography - stay safe!
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Technician Thomas Hardy had been ankles deep in his third tube of the day, his jump suit completely soaked through from being baked in this metal hell hole when the inevitable happened. A bead of sweat stung his eye and he dropped the cover plate that he had been trying to attach. He heard it fall, and fall, and fall, bouncing off the sides of the tube, through the many fans that hadn't been turned on yet and finally coming to rest some four stories below. Tech Tom pondered the piece of plastic for a moment, it was just decorative, something to cover up a minor relay and it's tiny wires. No one could see it, and the wires couldn't get wet in here...
The Bunker had been built 27 years ago to protect government officials, surgeons, people who had the means to line the right pockets, etc. from a nuclear attack. It was hoped that it would never be used of course, but it had been empty and maintained ever since. As a maintenance employee, Tech Tom had a golden ticket, he and his family were inside within minutes of the detection of warheads being launched. There were no sirens, nothing on television or radio, just a message on the selected fews' phones. No need to tell the general populace, they'd just clog the roads and then no one would live.
The long dining hall sat 1,000, or one third of the people inside so they were divided into groups of three and ate in shifts and it was time for group three.
It was surreal to hear laughter at a grim time like this, but laugh they did, Tech Tom figured they laughed for the same reason people have sex after a funeral, a reaffirmation of life, thankful to still be here instead of being among the millions dead and dying on the outside. Then Tom coughed, a little cough really, but then he noticed many quiet stifled coughs around him almost drowned out by the sounds of laughter and forks on plates. Tech Tom looked up at the shiny ventilation system...
Years ago a spider had made her home inside of Intake 22E7b, more specifically the open relay box, a nice quiet place to lay her eggs in their cocoon. This eventually caused a break in the two dollar circuit that was responsible for closing the vents on Intake 22E7b....
The entrance to the intake pipe is marked by the pole and floating white marker. Water is fed from this pipe via the penstock down to the power station in the Rakaia Valley.
The Heliconius butterfly can live up to 9 months while neotropical butterflies normally live a couple weeks! They are able to do this because they increase their protein intake by digesting pollen on their proboscis.
Heliconius butterflies have two unique traits: pollen feeding and pupal-mating. Adult butterflies systematically collect pollen from flowers which they masticate on the proboscis to dissolve out amino acids. Since they do not need to store nutrients for egg and sperm production, caterpillars are able to develop rapidly allowing adults to have a greatly extended lifespan in the wild.
Pupal mating is a second unusual trait found in some Heliconius species. Males search for female pupae on larval food plants and sit on them. The next morning mating occurs before the female has completely emerged. Pupal-mating may enhance the possibility of intrageneric mimicry. Second, it may influence host-plant specialization, as pupal-mating species may displace other heliconiines from their hosts by interference competition.
About the name... Helicon is a mountain in southern Greece, in Boeotia, regarded in ancient Greece, as the source of poetry and inspiration. From it flowed the fountains of Aganippe and Hippocrene associated with Muses. The nine Muses are daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne, the goddess of memory. The Muses sat near the throne of Zeus, king of the gods, and sang of his greatness and the origin of the world.
Heliconius melpomene
Wings of the Tropics, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Miami FL
Nice thunderstorm ambiance here in my hood.
Photoshopped picture. 3 layers - same location.
Hope you enjoy as i do! :)
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Candid street photography from Glasgow, Scotland.
Colour re-edit of an old shot from July 2015. I have been playing around with colour grading a bit in these re-edits and opted for a slightly matte look in the blacks on this shot.
I now have over 5000 photographs in my 'Glasgow' album on Flickr. Enjoy!