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My interpretation of the most significant interaction between groups in the LEGO wargame Decisive Action 4 if condensed to just one word each. Granted, this simplification omits many other aspects of the game.
Annihilation + Alliance = Annihilliance
I made this up. In this game the combination seems like a single fluid activity.
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The wonderful Fatoumata Diawara from her gig in Vincennes, a suburb of Paris, in May 2014.
I've loved Fatoumata since I first saw her at WOMAD 2009 as a backing singer to Oumou Sangare. She just shows such great joy when she's performing...and I love her music.
I'd arranged a photo pass via her assistant, Sophie. When I turned up at the gig, security said (en français, naturellement!) that I could only shoot the first three songs.
However, before the gig, Sophie came out to introduce herself. When I checked about the three songs, she replied: "Three songs? Who told you that? She's barely getting warmed up after three songs. Shoot the whole gig, I'll square it!"
Music to my ears. :-)
You can see a video of Fatoumata singing 'Bissa' here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=E82BifytoYY
You can see more of my shots of her, here: Fatoumata Diawara
My profound thanks are due to Sophie Cragg, for arranging my photo pass and particularly for allowing me to shoot the full show.
She was taking a break, on her thoughts I guess she would never expect someone was about to approach her asking for a photo... but she agreed and approved the result, so here it is for you!
One piece of bread, twenty swan-shaped debates—feeding time on the waterfront is always a spectacle. While swans typically find enough food in the wild, extra treats can be helpful in freezing weather. Bread is fine in moderation (as long as it’s not mouldy), but it's worth remembering that feeding too much can lead to dietary issues. A little kindness goes a long way in cold weather.
My dentist lets me bring Molly to the office, and while my teeth are getting cleaned, Molly is on my lap and pays close attention to what's going on in my mouth. Today, when the cleaning was done, she turned around and looked out the window into the woods it looks out on, where I've seen birds and deer and wild turkeys and others have seen a fox. This morning a squirrel approached and Molly got very attentive. It turned out to be a most curious squirrel, which came up to the window and kept staring at Molly, who was staring at it. This went on for several minutes. The whole staff saw the interaction and said that they'd never, in all the years of wildlife watching from the window, seen a squirrel come up to the window like that. It was a special moment.
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The large fly is different than the usual blowflies in the garden. She is larger and more colourful with a different shaped body.
While photographing the large fly when the little one landed in front of her (I presume) and proceeded to get into her face. She ignored him and continued to clean until he poked her in the face. He eventually flew away.
Both have white faces. Unfortunately I didn't get a front view of the small fly.
Photos: Jean
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An ID of Chrysomya varipes has been placed on the male of the two here but further study would be needed to confirm the ID of the female but without specimens, this is difficult.
The photos and video show "Assuming this is the case, then this behaviour appear to be the final stage of courtship, before mounting, or not, as the case may be..."
James Lumbers email 2019
As described in Exploring the influence of individual courtship behaviors
on male mating success in a blow fly
Stephanie D. Jonesv & Phillip G. Byrne &
James F. Wallman
To encourage interaction, the interior of Frank Gehry's building makes prominent use of stairways to move people around the building. This polished stainless steel staircase lends a sculptural focal point to the main lobby, reflecting the movement of people (and ideas).
Chau Chak Wing Building, UTS, Sydney, Australia (Monday 16 November 2015)
...taken at the Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki - CACCT, in front of "Two Friends" by Adriana Molder...
Thessaloniki, Greece...
Diving with California sealions is just a wonderful experience. They interact with you so much, they are curious and sometimes playful with you. They also make you feel ridiculous..you realize how poor your swimming abilities are compare to theirs.. taken near La Paz, Baja California. MX
We've had a pretty good winter, with lots of snow and cold winter weather that started early in the season and kept going at regular intervals. (I know I'm in the minority when I define that kind of winter as "good," but I think it's far better than the interminable mud seasons we've had for the last several years.) We had enough cold stretches that I'd have expected more lake ice along the shore than this, but things at Illinois Beach seemed a little muted. There were some nice formations, but they only barely reached into the water. With the long stretches of sub-arctic cold we've had, I'd have expected ice several hundred feet out into the water.
But then, I don't come up to Illinois Beach often -- Robin and I have only come up here in the winter twice before -- so maybe the currents are too strong here for a lot of ice to form. Maybe it all gets pushed south toward Chicago. I haven't been to Indiana Dunes this season, so I don't know what the ice has been like down there.
Side Note: If you've been following this page for more than 12 years, you might remember a trip we took way back in 2014 to see the ice caves of the Apostle Islands up on Wisconsin's Lake Superior shore. This is a rare situation when the National Park Service actually allows and encourages people to walk out onto lake ice ... but only in certain conditions. Lake Superior has to have had an especially cold winter, and the ice around the caves had to be firmly locked in between the many offshore islands in the area. Until this year, conditions have only been right for the caves one more time since out 2014 trip, two years later in 2016. We thought maybe things might work out this year, and were ready to rejigger our schedules to head up on short notice, but the notice turned out to be too short. The National Park Service did open the ice caves on February 16th, and from what I've heard, the crowds were wild. But then a winter storm came through the very next day, which churned up the lake and broke all the ice, and that was it for the Apostle Island ice caves. The first access to the ice caves in a decade lasted a total of 16 hours, and it might be another decade before it happens again. Or these 16 hours might have been the last time anybody will see the ice caves for the rest of human civilization.
But Robin and I are happy. We saw the ice caves in 2014, and they were spectacular. So the lesson we take to heart from this is that if something special happens, take advantage of it now. Don't wait for the situation to reach some tenuous form of ideal. Do it while you can.
A candid shot taken at the Bicton Baths last autumn. I cropped in to remove the distractions around this core group of figures. The guy on the right was there for water polo practice. Those marks on his lower back look like scars. I wonder what'd happened.
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Thanks to a contact of mine Aaron for giving the heads up to all the activity at Emery Point in Emeryville. I've never seen so many Surfbirds, approx. 50 or more, in one place mixed with a couple hundred Sanderlings, Turnstones, a couple of Dunlins and various grebes and waterfowl swimming by. I was sitting on the rip rap above them and was totally entertained by the 'interaction' with one another.
Conowingo Interactions
While there are far fewer eagles at Conowingo Dam than are present at the height of the season, many interesting interactions still occur between the bald eagles, black vultures and great blue heron
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Clark photographs a father and son with the John Hancock building in the background near Lincoln Park.