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Photographed at Christchurch Botanic Gardens, in Christchurch, New Zealand, lying on the ground, no cover
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This is one of the 9 ducklings which were being watched over by their very attentive mother. Prior to taking to the water they were all resting next to mom but headed for the water shortly afterwards. After 10 minutes in the water, they all got back out on the grass and, as a group, walked along looking for tasty treats(bugs) in the lawn.
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From Wikipedia: The paradise shelduck (Tadorna variegata), also known as the paradise duck, or pūtangitangi in Māori, is a species of shelduck, a group of goose-like ducks, which is endemic to New Zealand. Johann Friedrich Gmelin placed it in the genus Anas with the ducks, geese and swans. Both the male and female have striking plumage: the male has a black head and barred black body, the female a white head with a chestnut body.
Paradise shelducks mate for life and usually live as pairs, and moult their feathers from December to February. They are primarily herbivorous, and mostly graze on pasture grasses and clover, but have been observed eating a wide range of invertebrates. They are seasonally hunted as a game bird throughout New Zealand, and today the IUCN Red List classifies them as a species of least concern.
Description:
The paradise shelduck is a colourful, large bodied species of duck that differs in features depending on the sex. Both females and males have chestnut-colour undertails, primarily black wing feathers with green secondary wing feathers, and upper wing surface feathers that are white. They have black legs and webbed feet for swimming.
The adult male has blue-black head and neck, with a black rump and tail; back and flank are lightly flecked with a pale yellow colour. The wing of males have contrasting white upper-coverts and black remiges, metallic green speculum feathers, and rusty brown tertials feathers. The male also has a dark grey flecked with pale-yellow breast and abdomen, chestnut undertail and underwing, and black iris, bill, legs, and feet. The female, unlike the male, has an entirely white hand head and neck with a dark grey back heavily flecked with pale yellow. The rest is very similar to the male with the female's body being dark or light chestnut depending on age and stage of molting.
The downy young are white with a brown crown and brown stripes from crown to tail. Juvenile males look much like the adult males, but the females are smaller with a white patch at the base of the bill. The females assume their white head during the first molt and 1–2 months after fledging their breast and abdomen turn dark chestnut.
Behaviour and ecology:
The male adopts a threat posture by dropping its head low with bill horizontal to the ground. If a female notices a threat on the water she responds by stretching out the neck and body while swimming towards the threat swinging her body back and forth, and making a high pitched call. On land she will lower her head and charge. Males will respond to the females by charging with her or taking on "high and erect" posture. In this posture the male will stretch its neck and head upwards and forwards, raise its feathers on the lower neck, call rapidly, and pivot between facing the threat and the female. When a predator threatens an adult pair with young, the parents will adopt the "broken wing display". The pair will run away from the young in a crouched position, raising and lowering its half-opened wings to distract the predator. Once the predator follows the pair away from the young, one of the adults will return to them.
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The small Mayra, 3-month old female jaguar cub, lying against her mother Laima.
Tender moment captured at the Bratislava zoo in Slovakia.
Made it in Explore, #335, May 27th, 2011.
Excerpt from Wikipedia:
Mono Cliffs Provincial Park lies within the rural town of Mono, in southern-Ontario, Canada, along the Bruce Trail. It is part of the Niagara Escarpment Parks System, and the escarpment Biosphere Reserve.
The main entrance to the park is located along the 3rd Line E.H.S. at a pay parking lot with washrooms.
Natural features
Rock faces: As the name suggests, the park has a number of cliff faces along the Niagara Escarpment itself. Along the Cliff Top Trail is a sturdy set of stairs which descend about 30 metres (98 ft) down the rock face to a wooden path that runs between the cliff face and a small outlier, providing excellent views of the rock, ferns, and cedars. Caving, rock climbing, bouldering, and scrambling are not permitted anywhere in the park.
Also along the Cliff Top Trail is a viewing platform that extends out over the cliff edge, with a great view to the north east across the park to the farms beyond.
Large Outliers: There are two large 'outliers' that have been separated from the main escarpment edge.
Water features: In the north west corner of the park is McCarston's Lake. There are also a number of streams and smaller ponds throughout the park, the largest just below the viewing platform.
Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Lens: Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM
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Aperture: f/22.0
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possibly Lichtenstein, although it's only 160 km2
photographed while flying with Transavia from Amsterdam to Venice from a relatively low altitude with an 18-55mm lens
The Alps are the highest and most extensive mountain range system that lies entirely in Europe, stretching approximately 1,200 kilometres across eight Alpine countries: Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Slovenia, and Switzerland
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Story in English and Dutch:
The attentive viewer sees a beautiful silhouette of a stately queen who is almost hidden in nature due to her chameleon-like camouflage colors. The queen of life spreads her mighty wings and takes off. She begins to fly and her flying style can best be described as a combination of Superman and the Dragon Queen. She flies over the beautiful city park with a wonderful arch bridge. She inhales the scent of nature and continues her journey towards the amazing artwork of the shepherd with his flock of sheep. She flies past the fascinating Zimmer Tower and reads the time on the mysterious clock. Everywhere she sees people sitting on terraces at bars and restaurants. From above she flies over the city gate. After that she is impressed by the breathtakingly beautiful historic city hall and the big market square with the historic houses. Her eyes start to shine as she elegantly maneuvers through the large courtyard. She flies as never before but for a moment she is descending like a swallow to cool off in the water of the river Nete. Satisfied, she takes off again like a fighter jet on a peacekeeping mission to return to the park where she can briefly enjoy the pink leaves that lie on the ground like a painting.
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De oplettende kijker ziet een prachtig silhouet van een statige koningin die door haar kameleonachtige camouflage bijna verscholen tussen de takken zit. De koningin van het leven spreidt haar machtige vleugels en stijgt op. Ze begint te vliegen en haar vliegstijl kan het beste worden omschreven als een combinatie van Superman en de Drakenkoningin. Ze vliegt over het prachtige stadspark met de romantische boogbrug. Ze ademt de geur van de natuur in en vervolgt haar reis naar het verbazingwekkende kunstwerk van de herder met zijn kudde schapen. Ze vliegt daarna langs de fascinerende Zimmertoren en leest de tijd op de mysterieuze klok. Overal ziet ze mensen op terrassen zitten bij bars en restaurants. Van bovenaf vliegt ze over de stadspoort. Vervolgens is ze diep onder de indruk van het adembenemend mooie historische stadhuis en het grote marktplein met de historische huizen. Haar ogen beginnen te glinsteren terwijl ze zich elegant door de grote binnenplaats van het hof manoeuvreert. Ze vliegt als nooit tevoren, maar even daalt ze af naar beneden als een soort zwaluw om af te koelen in het water van de rivier de Nete. Tevreden stijgt ze weer op om als een straaljager op vredesmissie terug te keren naar haar park waar ze nog even kan genieten van de roze bladeren die als decor in een schilderij op de grond liggen.
My boss let me go home early today, and what did I do? Got the camera out and went looking for dragonflies. Can you say addicted?
Pollard Willows lit by a hazy winter sun.
Oud Alblas lies in the Alblasserwaard, a polder in the province South Holland in the Netherlands. It is mainly known for the windmills of Kinderdijk, a village in the northwest of the Alblasserwaard. In some areas of the polder there is an abundance of Pollard Willows. These are very characteristic for the Dutch polder landscape.
The Alblasserwaard is bordered by rivers on all sides. To the north is the Lek, which also forms the boundary between the province South Holland and Utrecht. To the west runs the Noord. At the joining of the Noord and the Lek, Kinderdijk is located. To the south runs the river Merwede, and to the east the Merwede-Kanaal, the Linge and the Zederik together form the boundary with Vijfheerenlanden.
Extensive parts of the Netherlands are below sea level, and the Alblasserwaard is no different. Most of it has been won from the water through land reclamation, using the windmills on the Kinderdijk (Unesco World Heritage site). This process led to the area being full of dikes alongside the rivers. Most of the Alblasserwaard is grassland, where in the spring and summer one will find herds of cows, sheep and goats. The ground consists of clay.
Enjoy it better large and on black.
Made it #267 on Explore (see the history)
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Photoshoot I did to the beautiful ballerina Rommy Aspe in "La Fábrica de Medios". I loved how it turned out!
"Sweet little lies..." - 06/31
This time I won't tell you the exact meaning of this picture, only the title gives you a hint.
Let me know your interpretation in the comments. :)
It's also a very unusual picture of me, since I don't like to show my face in my photos. But this time it was different for me and I hope you'll still like it!
btw. it's so freezing cold outside...I hope I'll be able to finish my challenge without getting sick. :/
photo & model: Cornelia Gillmann
What Lies Ahead
You lay your head to rest at night,
Like all, you think of tomorrow, next week.
You wonder what life holds in store,
You look out the window and down the street.
All seems still for the moment,
Until your nind once again decide to roam.
You think of the children, your life,
It took a lifetime for you to own.
For what is here today, could soon be gone,
We can’t predict what tomorrow will`bring our way,
For all the love and luxuries we now have,
Could all too easily before our eyes go astray.
Our jobs we`ve all worked at through life,
Our family, our homes we have had for so long
All too easily destroyed and gone in a moment,
We ponder in thought again, what has gone wrong.
The sky appears to be dark and grey,
Yet a glimer of light still radiates through,
For we can survive if planned ahead,
Making right preparations, both me & you.
-Poem by Rose Marie Rideout
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Scenery of getting off.
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Day of departure from Japan, August 16, 2017.
The day I came back to Japan, 21 August
(4 nights 6 days.)
(Today's picture. That's unannounced.)
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John Legend - Each Day Gets Better
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My Novel >> Unforgettable'
(This book is Dedicated to the future artist.)
Mitsushiro Nakagawa
All Translated by Yumi Ikeda .
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There are two reasons why a person faces the sea.
One, to enjoy a slice of shine in the sea like children bubbling over in the beach.
The other, to brush the dust of memory like an old man who misses old days, staring at the shine
quietly.
Those lead to only one meaning though they do not seem to overlap. It’s a rebirth.
I face myself to change tomorrow, a vague day into something certain.
That is the meaning of a rebirth.
I had a very sweet girlfriend when I was 18.
After she left, I knew the meaning of gentleness for the first time and also a true pain of loss. After
she left, how many times did I depend too much on her, doubt her, envy her and keep on telling lies
until I realized it is love?
I wonder whether a nobody like me could have given something to her who was struggling in the
daily life in those days. Giving something is arrogant conceit. It is nothing but self-satisfaction.
I had been thinking about such a thing.
However, I guess what she saw in me was because I had nothing. That‘s why she tried to see
something in me. Perhaps she found a slight possibility in me, a guy filled with ambiguous, unstable
tomorrow. But I wasted days depending too much on her gentleness.
Now I finally can convey how I felt in those days when we met.
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Title of my book > unforgettable'
Author : Mitsushiro Nakagawa
Out Now.
ISBN978-4-86264-866-2
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Schedule of the next novel.
Still would stand all time.(unforgettable'2)
2018. Spring. It's expected to open it. That's Japanese.
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An exhibition in 2019.
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Silence Is the Way. (Tentative title)
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Sponsoring. Design festa.
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Date unknown.
DIC Kawamura Memorial Art Museum attached gallery.
place. Sakura City, Chiba Prefecture.
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From that day, forever ...
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Thanks Mila for modeling for me :) She's so pretty, even without the completely fake editing :)
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The town lies in a small canyon carved out by the river Gravina. Known as "the underground city", its historical centre "Sassi" contains ancient cave dwellings from the Paleolithic period.
Matera is such a maze of steps, alleys and similar looking structures it's impossible to accurately identify where pictures were taken.