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Cloud Gate, sculpture by Anish Kapoor.
One of the modern icons of downtown Chicago.
Millenium Park, Chicago, Illinois
Baxter State Park, Maine
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I have no idea what I have here. I was just getting in a little playtime, throwing effects at a pic. You know, stuff I couldn't do with film and paper in a darkroom.
But I like it.
Seen on the Forvie NNR Scotland, growing in the sandy soil in the dunes.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Anthyllis vulneraria, the common kidneyvetch, kidney vetch or woundwort is a medicinal plant native to Europe. The name vulneraria means "wound healer".
Sori are the spore-producing structures of ferns. Typically they are found on the back of fern leaves but in this case they are lining the edge of a kydney fern. The fern is distinctive for its undivided, kidney-shaped fronds, which give the plant its English common name. Hymenophyllum nephrophyllum is a fern species endemic to New Zealand where it occurs on the floor of moist forests. The photo is an in-camera focus stack. f 8, 1/100sec, Olympus 60mm macro lens f 2.8.
Bar-tailed Godwiths hold the world record for the longest land migration non-stop flight over 11,000km.
Bar-tailed Godwits alter themselves physically before migration.
Gain body fat (accounts for 55% of their weight)
To do this they shrink their liver, kidney and gut
Only the organs essential for long-distance flight are maintained.
They use a mental-maps for navigation which almost certainly includes star-charts and beak-compasses.
The birds follow patterns of movement engrained into a culture that evolved with the ecosystem they inhabit today,
Amazing Nature.
Baxter State Park, Maine
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Was really pleased to see this species, as it wasn't until August that I saw any last year! There were dozens of them in a conifer hedge!
Lostford - Shropshire
Porth Kidney sands a while before the weather kicked off with strong winds and heavy rain.
Happy new year to one and all , stay safe out there , peace and love .
Lake "Kidney" is one of the Seven Lakes. Your second deepest after eye. Located at 2282 m. Altitude. The area of the catchment area is 0.54 sq.km. Water surface area of 85 acres. The water volume is 1170 hil.m³. The maximum depth of the lake is 28 meters.
Quite typically, after not seeing any all year, until I saw some at The Bog, I saw more last Sunday!
Merrington Green - Shropshire
Canoeing in Baxter State Park (Maine). Mt Katahdin, Maine's highest peak, can be seen in the distance.
Baxter State Park, Maine. Photographed from a canoe while out for an evening paddle.
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Spotted one on a leaf, then realised they were all up the stems too, munching on scale!
Wellington - Shropshire
The kidney bean with its dark red skin is named for its visual resemblance to a kidney. The kidney bean is also known as the red bean, although this usage can cause confusion with other red beans. Red kidney beans (rājmā in Hindi and Punjabi) are an integral part of the cuisine in northern region of India.
Source: Wikipedia
March 22, 2009. Minneapolis, Minnesota. In the kitchen here.
This photo was taken from the Transplant Tower of Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (S.I.U.T), Karachi.
“The Sindh Institute of Urology & Transplantation (SIUT) is a dialysis and kidney transplant centre located in Pakistan.
SIUT was founded by Adeebul Hasan Rizvi and it is one of the largest kidney disease centre in Pakistan.”
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sindh_Institute_of_Urology_%26_Tran...
Quiet a rarity I believe as this was the only one seen on a weeks worth of hiking on the south of the north Island NZ
A photo taken by Nancy at the Alkmaar medical Center on 19 October 2007, just 12 days before the kidney transplant. (Same clinic as the previous photo but the dialysis equipment is new.)
We're still treating Darla's kidney disease with subcutaneious fluids and a special diet. Although she doesn't look too happy here, she is doing fantastic. The strange thing is that Darla has never been that interested in any kind of food but I don't know if its the fluids or the special diet, but she's the first one running to the bowl lately.