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Rhizophora mangle (Red mangrove)
Habit along stream at Waiohuli Keokea, Maui, Hawaii.
September 02, 2005
Supersampler + Fuji Superia 400.
We were going to see Massive Attack at the Royal Festival Hall on the same day (it transpired) as the London flickr meet up, organised by squirrelmonkey and George on behalf of flickr. There had already been talk of a Bristol:London meet-up by sjnewton and it seemed practical to 'kill two birds with one stone' as it were.
We followed the trail of pink and blue balloons and met up for the Tate Modern Street Art Walking Tour around Southwark, along with a vast number of other flickr'rs. There was time for pictures along the Embankment at the end of the walk, before the inevitable pub meet up. It was so well organised that we even had a free drink (mine's a large Pinot Grigio please!) and a vast array of sandwiches for lunch. We met loads of people - swapped film and photography stories and generally had a good time.
Thanks flickr and thanks Fiona! :)
Taken with my lovely, if somewhat idiosyncratic Supersampler - 4 lenses take 4 shots onto 1 negative over 2 seconds. Completely plastic, no control whatsoever and no viewfinder - you just wave it about and hope for the best - these days, I've even learned to point it at things and keep it still! ;)
Giancarlo Pucci
Costa Rica
Mangle solitario
(Costa Rica) Este solitario árbol de mangle, fue perdonado (al menos temporalmente) por los arroceros en el PacÃfico Sur de Costa Rica, cada año van extendiendo ilegalmente la frontera agrÃcola, comiéndose poco a poco uno de los ecosistemas más frágiles y vitales que existen. Primero queman, luego pasan tractor y finalmente siembra arroz. Solo en los últimos 4 años los manglares en en este paÃs Centroamericano se han reducido un 30%.
#47 - A Childhood memory
I always remember when I was little going to visit my grannie. Monday was always washing day and all along the street you could hear the boshing of the washtubs, smell the steam of the boiler, and then hear the grinding of the mangle. How lucky we are today with all our modern gadgets.
After seeing the response from the Reflection theme from yesterday, I decided to continue on the subject to see how else reflections can be utilized to create rather moving images.
Sometimes, the element in the reflection itself can be used as a subject. By completely removing everything else but the reflection from the frame, a very abstracted version of the object can be obtained, leaving the viewer to ponder over on whether it is a reflection or whether it is real.
So much so that sometimes it may be hard to decide what the real one is.
This naturally requires being at the right place at the right time. For example, for this shot of the reflections along the calm Merced river, one needs to be at a location where the river is broad to allow for gentle movement of water without perturbation and one needs to be at that location around the time of the lowest flow, which typically is winter, so that the surface is unruffled.
I was ambling along the snowed-in shores of the Merced river on a beautiful winter day in Yosemite Valley when I chanced upon the skeleton of an old maple (I think) perfectly silhouetted by the glowing granite walls of the mighty El Capitan with the calm surface of the Merced river reflecting it; a few thin sheets of ice gently drifted by seeking an unknown destination. A perfect opportunity.
Shot at ISO 400, F11 at 1/125s
CA USA
Rhizophora mangle Linnaeus, 1753 - red mangroves in the Bahamas.
Plants are multicellular, photosynthesizing eucaryotes. Most species occupy terrestrial environments, but they also occur in freshwater and saltwater aquatic environments. The oldest known land plants in the fossil record are Ordovician to Silurian. Land plant body fossils are known in Silurian sedimentary rocks - they are small and simple plants (e.g., Cooksonia). Fossil root traces in paleosol horizons are known in the Ordovician. During the Devonian, the first trees and forests appeared. Earth's initial forestation event occurred during the Middle to Late Paleozoic. Earth's continents have been partly to mostly covered with forests ever since the Late Devonian. Occasional mass extinction events temporarily removed much of Earth's plant ecosystems - this occurred at the Permian-Triassic boundary (251 million years ago) and the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary (65 million years ago).
The most conspicuous group of living plants is the angiosperms, the flowering plants. They first unambiguously appeared in the fossil record during the Cretaceous. They quickly dominated Earth's terrestrial ecosystems, and have dominated ever since. This domination was due to the evolutionary success of flowers, which are structures that greatly aid angiosperm reproduction.
The red mangrove principally lives in sheltered estuaries with its roots in and often submerged by marine water. Most angiosperms cannot tolerate such saline conditions. The plant’s vascular tissues transport nutrients and water throughout the plant, as do all vascular plants. The transported water is, of course, quite salty. This salt is not needed by the organism. The red mangrove concentrates the salt into a few leaves, which turn yellow. Eventually, the yellow, salt-rich leaf detaches and falls into the water. These leaves essentially act as kidneys for the whole plant.
Classification: Plantae, Angiospermophyta, Rhizophorales, Rhizophoraceae
Locality: southern shore of the eastern part of South Pigeon Creek Estuary, southeastern San Salvador Island, eastern Bahamas
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When I put this up yesterday, *angelamarie* said it looked like one of those number squares that you have to re-arrange..... I though "I wish I'd thought of that!", so here is a re-cut of yesterdays shot.
Think I prefer this one....
Also this should count for todays FGR theme of "Play with yourself", even if it was originally yesterdays photo
For the household, when mangling was required ;-)
"This mangle has steel ball bearings," as the flat board indicates.
Seen at the Ferndale Museum:
Built in 1849
Mangles Ranch Adobe
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buildings of interest
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Fairfield, California
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for those who are not familiar with them, a mangle was a large ironing apparatus used for ironing large flat things like sheets and shirts. let me see if i can find a link to one.
here's a link to an old advertisement and a couple of pics
www.cassandrapages.com/the_cassandra_pages/2006/11/a_what...
ANSH scavenger16 ancient/archaic (maybe not egyptian ancient ~grin~)
this looks VERY cool on black
I found some more old photos (slides, thank goodness) in an attic room that had been invaded by squirrels.
Thankfully squirrels don't actually like film, so most of them were actually scannable (there are a few more that apparently disintegrated when I cleaned them, because the scans ended up looking like they were in a rainstorm :-( )
These must have been taken in the summer of '71 and just starting out as a trainspotter, because the photo quality is about what you'd expect when you give a cheap plastic kodak to an 11 year old and let them wander off to North La Crosse to look at trains.
Alas, no pictures of the Milwaukee Road's rsc-2ms were in the batch. Probably because they were _always there_ and not interesting and new like the S1, SDP40F, and trains in southern Illinois. Ah well, my memories are a little more durable than these slides (at least until I have a power failure, at which point it all will go *poof*)
Rhizophora mangle (Red mangrove)
Habit by Kilauea stream at Rock Quarry Beach Mokolea Pt Kilauea Pt NWR, Kauai, Hawaii.
March 19, 2013
The Mangler is alway searching for the secret to mans emotion, buried somewhere deep in the flesh! Sometimes the workload gets a little heavy and he is happy to have some able assitants
NETHERWORLD Haunted House
Volunteer review Joshua Manning in Honduras La Ceiba PreMed Program at local hospital
1.-How was the local ABV Coordinator and the support provided in-country?
Our ABV coordinator, was a trooper. He dealt with our constant nonsense, our heartless mangling of his language, and our odd hours with no complaints. Without him our efforts would have collapsed into a haphazard mess. John Nurse, our contact at the clinic and hospital, was a stronger character. The nurses and doctors almost universally enjoy helping us gringos, and the ABV office keeps a presence with occasional emails. I always felt as if there was a safety net.
2- What was the most surprising thing you experienced?
At the program: Don’t expect the same standard of sterility and urgency which is commonplace in the States. As frustrating as it will likely become, the laid back central american nature encapsulated by the word ‘siesta’ permeates into even the emergency rooms. At the same time, their ‘sterile field’ is usually nothing more than the paper they took their gloves out of.
At the accommodation: I did not stay with the coordinator, and I was surprised to find that my host family was changing their daily lives to accommodate our program schedule, to an extent. Señora Argentina was wonderful, and the food at the house was great. Bear in mind that if you live with a different family, they need to be kept in the loop. Don’t stroll up at 9pm for dinner when they eat at 5:30 unless you told them beforehand, follow the local time for meals.
About the country: La Ceiba doesn’t reflect the reputation Honduras has garnered in recent years. Expect relative poverty, expect a language barrier if your Spanish is no bueno, but don’t expect to fear for your life. Don’t be too stupid, don’t wander the streets at midnight, don’t challenge people on the streets, and you’ll be A-OK.
3- What was most difficult to experience?
At the program: Pain is a constant presence in Honduran medicine. I understand that it exists everywhere, and sometimes medicine requires it. However, I feel for our patients here. It broke my heart nearly every morning to see an old woman cry in the clinic while simply having an ulcer on her foot cleaned. It’s necessary here, but was almost alien to me.
At the accommodation: Our showers are cold, and my water shut off at 10. It’s a petty complaint, don’t let it deter you. The trip is well worth it.
The country: Honduras is beautiful, often in a mind-bending sort of way. The most difficult, and fun, experience here was navigating the city while still coming to terms with Spanish.
4- Any tips for future volunteers…
Clothing: Definitely a must. There are options for washing clothes, but they will cost you money, so prepare for a small expense, something in the realm of $5-10. Pack for a week, wash your clothes on the weekends. Also, watching surgeries requires changing into a clean pair of scrubs, so always have one with you. At least 10 or a week.
Donations: Everything on the emailed list is important. They need medicine like ibuprofen, desperately need antibiotic creams and medicines, and treat medical tools and supplies like gold. For things like sterile gloves, BP cuffs, Pulse Oxes, and tape, I would suggest keeping it in case you need it and donating it at the end. Also, anything you leave out or set on a table and lose sight of will likely become a donation as well.
Weather: It’s so hot here. The only time I don’t feel like I am or might start sweating is when I’m in the shower. Don’t worry about it though, it builds character.
4.1-Other things volunteers should know:
a.- If you speak high school Spanish, and you’re comfortable looking like a bit of an idiot sometimes, just go for it. If you don’t speak any, be clear on wanting the translator, else you’ll be relying on your new volunteer friends a lot if they know spanish.
b.- Decide beforehand what you’ll be comfortable doing. The possibilities are nearly limitless. You won’t be performing an appendectomy, but you’ll be able to learn procedures here that would be more off-limits back home. Also, definitely have sterile gloves, along with normal gloves, if you can find them.
c.- Figure out spending money beforehand as well. The exchange rate is L22 lempiras to a dollar, taxi rides to the volunteer sites are L25 limps, you’ll be taking between two and four on a normal day, if the coordinator can he will give transportation (its not included) so be flexible, and weekend excursions could be as little as US$50 or as much as US$250, depending on what you want to do and spend.
d.- Be vocal. Learn the word for ‘can’ (poder) and ‘try’ (tratar), and use them. ‘I want to learn’ (Quiero aprender) is a great sentence to have and use. If you ask, they’ll usually let you, and if you don’t know how, they almost invariably will show you.
5- Personal Paragraph (ABV Program Testimonial), don’t leave blank:
A Broader View offers an extremely fascinating and largely unique opportunity with this type of trip. I figured out early on that as a pre-med student, my donations were invaluable, and my help was tolerated, though tolerated happily as near as I could tell. In the clinic, we took blood pressure, cleaned wounds, and removed stitches. At the hospital, we were able to watch some surgeries and live births. In the emergency room, we set casts, helped with suturing, and witnessed real life for a group of impoverished people. Sometimes, tragically, people didn’t make it. This trip was real, and most certainly not a vacation. On top of everything else, one of the most valuable things I gained was perspective.
6- How would you describe your accommodation, meals and security:
The accommodations were better than I honestly expected, despite the lack of AC. My fan was usually perfectly fine. I never really felt unsafe, and didn’t take any undue risks. The meals were mostly tremendous, with a couple of exceptions involving white bread, beans and rice. I was never hungry, frequently tired, and always hot. I’m also strongly considering coming back.
7- What was your favorite memory of this trip?
Program: Picking out a single memory is difficult. My first really good memory with the program helping with casts in my first couple of days. I got along well with the doctor, I could understand a lot of what he told me, we got a good picture with the girl, and she asked us to sign her cast. The medical interns here are used to crazy volunteers making a near-spectacle in the ER, and it’s cool so long as there isn’t an emergency at the time.
Country: I only had one weekend excursion, and it was amazing. Utila is a beautiful island similar to Roatan, but infinitely cheaper. I went with some new friends I met here, we visited bars and the beach, went shopping, and played cards incessantly. I wish I could’ve had more weekends like it, but I’m thankful for the one I had.
8.- How was the ABV USA support prior traveling?
Communication (Phone/emails/Online chat): While I was setting up my trip here, I relied heavily on phone calls to the office with random questions. Their hours are somewhat short, and you may not always have someone pick up on the first ring, but they always get back. Email communication is more frequent and consistent. Read the emails thoroughly, there could always be important information in them. They also sent me a ‘Happy Birthday’ email, which was pretty nice.
Website Information: From what I recall, the website info is generally correct, but almost slightly misleading. A lot of things done here are free form. If you pay for classes, but would rather go to the hospital one afternoon, you certainly can. Just make sure your teacher finds out. If you don’t want to go to the clinic that morning, or you want to work a night shift in the ER, it can usually be worked out. Be ready and willing to change tracks quickly.
9 – Are you willing to speak to other potential ABV volunteers?
Sure, we can be pen pals. Emails would probably be your best bet. I’m more than happy to answer questions.
10 – Can you tell us how did you find or know about A Broader View?
A group of my friends found the trip, we planned it together, and then they decided to go later. As a result, I’m here by myself, and I couldn’t be happier with the way things worked out. However you found this trip, don’t be afraid to leave your comfort zone.
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