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The airport employs falcons to scare away or kill other birds from around the runways. This helps minimize the chance of one or more of them getting sucked into an engine during take-off or landing. Which, of course, could be quite disastrous. On this falcon's left wing is a large tag with A6 written on it. You can kind of see it here in the photo. I wonder what the bird thinks of the tag. In a few other photos I took of him it clearly showed that the tag is attached to his wing with what looked like a large rivet going right through his wing. It looked awful. He seemed to fly ok though. still, I can't imagine he likes it being there.
An image photographed in my garden on a roasting hot day where the dragonfly raised its body into the the obelisk posture which is a handstand-like position that some dragonflies and damselflies assume to prevent overheating on sunny days. The abdomen is raised until its tip points at the sun, minimizing the surface area exposed to solar radiation.
Central Kalahari Game Reserve
Botswana
Southern Africa
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The South African giraffe or Cape giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis giraffa) is a subspecies of giraffe ranging from South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique. It has rounded or blotched spots, some with star-like extensions on a light tan background, running down to the hooves.
In 2016, the population was estimated at 31,500 individuals in the wild.
The South African giraffe is found in northern South Africa, southern Botswana, southern Zimbabwe, and south-western Mozambique.
After local extinctions in various places, the South African giraffes have been reintroduced in many parts of Southern Africa, including in Swaziland. They are common in both in and outside of protected areas.
South African giraffes usually live in savannahs and woodlands where food plants are available. Giraffes are herbivorous animals. They feed on leaves, flowers, fruits and shoots of woody plants such as Acacia.
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature, the body that administers the world’s official endangered species list, announced in 2016 that it was moving the giraffe from a species of Least Concern to Vulnerable status in its Red List of Threatened Species report. That means the animal faces extinction in the wild in the medium-term future if nothing is done to minimize the threats to its life or habitat. - Source Wikipedia
Comet Wirtanen (aka 46P) at centre here, and to the east of the Type M red giant star Menkar in Cetus. This was the evening of December 10, 2018. The comet was easily visible to the naked eye as a fuzzy spot, though you had to know where to look.
As as side note, the star Menkar is also known as Alpha Ceti, and in the Star Trek movie The Wrath of Khan, Khan was imprisoned on planet V circling Ceti Alpha.
This is a stack of 9 x 1-minute exposures with the Canon 135mm L series lens at f/2.2, and Canon 6D MkII at ISO 1250, all aligned on the stars, plus a stack of 3 exposures taken consecutively aligned for the core and blended in with a luminosity mask to minimize trailing on the core. The camera was on the Star Adventurer Mini tracker, taken from home in southern Alberta.
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Sept 9th - 23rd
Here is a sneak peak!
*Lelutka River Head 2.0
*Tonic Fine Beauty v7.0 + Beauty Bust Minimizer v7.0
*Dolly Daydream - Isobel Set v1.1
This is part of my pandemic project. The project was created to minimize the number of people that I would come into contact with and to help keep my sanity. The location is a local university. From what I can tell the vast majority of classes are being held online leaving the campus empty with the exception of a few nursing students and an occasional group of Frisbee golf players.
The project started when my wife and I used the campus to walk the dog in the evening. I began to notice the architecture and interesting light fixtures. I started to return and photograph and soon had a project.
The project is to examine the lights and architecture of the empty Campus at night.
Canon 6D
Voigtländer APO-Lanthar 90mm 3.5
The area that was to become West Palm Beach was settled in the late 1870s and 1880s by a few hundred settlers who called the vicinity "Lake Worth Country." These settlers were a diverse community from different parts of the United States and the world. They included founding families such at the Potters and the Lainharts, who would go on to become leading members of the business community in the fledgling city. The first white settlers in Palm Beach County lived around Lake Worth, then an enclosed freshwater lake, named for Colonel William Jenkins Worth, who had fought in the Second Seminole War in Florida in 1842. Most settlers engaged in the growing of tropical fruits and vegetables for shipment the north via Lake Worth and the Indian River. By 1890, the U.S. Census counted over 200 people settled along Lake Worth in the vicinity of what would become West Palm Beach. The area at this time also boasted a hotel, the "Cocoanut House", a church, and a post office. The city was platted by Henry Flagler as a community to house the servants working in the two grand hotels on the neighboring island of Palm Beach, across Lake Worth in 1893, coinciding with the arrival of the Florida East Coast railroad. Flagler paid two area settlers, Captain Porter and Louie Hillhouse, a combined sum of $45,000 for the original town site, stretching from Clear Lake to Lake Worth.
On November 5, 1894, 78 people met at the "Calaboose" (the first jail and police station located at Clematis St. and Poinsettia, now Dixie Hwy.) and passed the motion to incorporate the Town of West Palm Beach in what was then Dade County (now Miami-Dade County). This made West Palm Beach the first incorporated municipality in Dade County and in South Florida. The town council quickly addressed the building codes and the tents and shanties were replaced by brick, brick veneer, and stone buildings. The city grew steadily during the 1890s and the first two decades of the 20th century, most residents were engaged in the tourist industry and related services or winter vegetable market and tropical fruit trade. In 1909, Palm Beach County was formed by the Florida State Legislature and West Palm Beach became the county seat. In 1916, a new neo-classical courthouse was opened, which has been painstakingly restored back to its original condition, and is now used as the local history museum.
The city grew rapidly in the 1920s as part of the Florida land boom. The population of West Palm Beach quadrupled from 1920 to 1927, and all kinds of businesses and public services grew along with it. Many of the city's landmark structures and preserved neighborhoods were constructed during this period. Originally, Flagler intended for his Florida East Coast Railway to have its terminus in West Palm, but after the area experienced a deep freeze, he chose to extend the railroad to Miami instead.
The land boom was already faltering when city was devastated by the 1928 Okeechobee hurricane. The Depression years of the 1930s were a quiet time for the area, which saw slight population growth and property values lower than during the 1920s. The city only recovered with the onset of World War II, which saw the construction of Palm Beach Air Force Base, which brought thousands of military personnel to the city. The base was vital to the allied war effort, as it provided an excellent training facility and had unparalleled access to North Africa for a North American city. Also during World War II, German U-Boats sank dozens of merchant ships and oil tankers just off the coast of West Palm Beach. Nearby Palm Beach was under black out conditions to minimize night visibility to German U-boats.
The 1950s saw another boom in population, partly due to the return of many soldiers and airmen who had served in the vicinity during the war. Also, the advent of air conditioning encouraged growth, as year-round living in a tropical climate became more acceptable to northerners. West Palm Beach became the one of the nation's fastest growing metropolitan areas during the 1950s; the city's borders spread west of Military Trail and south to Lake Clarke Shores. However, many of the city's residents still lived within a narrow six-block wide strip from the south to north end. The neighborhoods were strictly segregated between White and African-American populations, a legacy that the city still struggles with today. The primary shopping district remained downtown, centered around Clematis Street.
In the 1960s, Palm Beach County's first enclosed shopping mall, the Palm Beach Mall, and an indoor arena were completed. These projects led to a brief revival for the city, but in the 1970s and 1980s crime continued to be a serious issue and suburban sprawl continued to drain resources and business away from the old downtown area. By the early 1990s there were very high vacancy rates downtown, and serious levels of urban blight.
Since the 1990s, developments such as CityPlace and the preservation and renovation of 1920s architecture in the nightlife hub of Clematis Street have seen a downtown resurgence in the entertainment and shopping district. The city has also placed emphasis on neighborhood development and revitalization, in historic districts such as Northwood, Flamingo Park, and El Cid. Some neighborhoods still struggle with blight and crime, as well as lowered property values caused by the Great Recession, which hit the region particularly hard. Since the recovery, multiple new developments have been completed. The Palm Beach Mall, located at the Interstate 95/Palm Beach Lakes Boulevard interchange became abandoned as downtown revitalized - the very mall that initiated the original abandonment of the downtown. The mall was then redeveloped into the Palm Beach Fashion Outlets in February 2014. A station for All Aboard Florida, a high-speed passenger rail service serving Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, and Orlando, is under construction as of July 2015.
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This tulip was stunning. Square-cropped to isolate it and to minimize what was surrounding it. There were so many double-flowering tulips at the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden's "Dallas Blooms" festival. I thought I was looking at peonies at times. I just love them all!
Includ: Top & Skirt
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Tonic Curvy, Minimizer & Fine, Slink Hourglass &Physique, Belleza Freya Isis, Venus, eBody Curvy & Classic, Star Mesh Body, Signature, Maitreya.
Option colors
06 Solid color Top / 6 pattern Skirt.
This is part of my pandemic project. The project was created to minimize the number of people that I would come into contact with and to help keep my sanity. The location is a local university. From what I can tell the vast majority of classes are being held online leaving the campus empty with the exception of a few nursing students and an occasional group of Frisbee golf players.
The project started when my wife and I used the campus to walk the dog in the evening. I began to notice the architecture and interesting light fixtures. I started to return and photograph and soon had a project.
The project is to examine the lights and architecture of the empty Campus at night.
Canon 6D
Voigtländer APO-Lanthar 90mm 3.5
Charazad "My Latex Flower" Fatpack
Dress (transparent and full version)
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Boots wearable for Maitreya, Belleza (all) and Slink (all)
Outfit with 144 different colors, separate changeable
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Kleid (transparent oder einfarbig)
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Belleza (Venus, Freya, Isis)
Slink (Physique, Hourglass)
Altamura,
Tonic (Curvy, Fine, Minimizer)
eBody (Curvy , Fine)
Signature Alice
StarBody
and Legacy
Stiefel ) tragbar mit Maitreya, Belleza (alle), Slink (alle)
Outfit mit 144 verschiedenen Farben, getrennt zu ändern
Fatpack 199 L$, for group members in mainstore only 180 L$
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Sometimes even the most simple descriptive titles sound like a Dr. Seuss poem.
This shot is from mid-February during the very early part of the “superbloom” that is taking over many of the desert areas out west. Bluebonnets are a type of lupine. Compared to the lupines we have here in Maine and New Hampshire they are quite a bit smaller, but just as beautiful when they cover an otherwise barren desert. This was my first time seeing flowers in the desert, and it was quite a sight.
The Milky Way didn’t really get up above the hill here until just after astronomical twilight started before sunrise, so the sky is very blue from the scattered sunlight (like daytime) since it was not full darkness.
Nikon Z 6 with FTZ adapter and NIKKOR 14-24mm f/2.8 lens @ 14mm. Blend of 12 total images. The sky is from 10 exposures at ISO 3200 @ f/2.8 and 10 seconds each, star stacked with Starry Landscape (Mac only) for pinpoint stars and low noise. On Windows you can use Sequator for star stacking with landscapes. Photoshop can do it but it’s a manual pain in the butt and doesn’t always work. The foreground is from 2 exposures, both at f/11 and 30 seconds, but one was at ISO 800 and the other was at ISO 100. I pulled in focus to get the very close bluebonnets in focus in one of the shots. The scene was getting bright quickly as the sun was approaching the horizon, and in the 6 minutes that passed between the foreground shots that I ended up using (I was taking another foreground shot in between and checking out previous shots, etc) there was enough light that I could do ISO 100 at 30 seconds instead of 800 at 30 seconds. I kept the foreground exposures to 30 seconds to minimize any movement in the flowers from the wind, but I was lucky and it was just about dead calm, which was almost eerie in a very dark place in the middle of nowhere without any noise other than my own movements.
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See the notes above for a parts list. I used a Dremel tool to carve some slots in the side of the junction box to accept the film winding knob and neck strap anchors of the Duaflex. I also carved an opening in the front so the lens is unobstructed. The PVC pipe fits into the junction box with friction and the downspout sleeve is rubber and is fricition fit as well. I painted the whole thing with flat black paint and used varying thicknesses of adhesive furniture sliders inside the junction box so that the Duaflex is snug. There is a large gasket inside the tube, just above the junction box on the inside to prevent light leaks. The hardest bit to get is the PVC pipe because it is sold in 10 foot lengths. I scavenged mine from a construction site dumpster. See the gouges in the pipe? I wasn't crazy enough to want to Bondo it to make it smooth. The other parts I bought for around $15.
* Bald Eagle Trip Report Video / Article! *
Literally seconds before this image was taken, I was changing my camera battery. Just as I was closing the battery hatch, a fellow photographer called out “Eagle overhead!” I looked up to see the eagle swooping down toward the water at a close distance. I frantically searched through the viewfinder, trying to spot the quick-moving eagle, through the narrow field of view, with just a split second to react. Just in time, I obtained a visual, locked on focus, and began burst firing. This reinforces the point that wildlife photography is unpredictable, many of the best moments are fleeting, and if you are not skilled and efficient at what you’re doing, you’re bound to miss a lot of shots.
Always keep a fresh battery (and memory card) in an easily accessible outside pocket of your coat or backpack – don’t be caught off guard while digging through a bunch of internal pockets and other gear. The goal is to minimize the time it takes to find the battery and swap it out, as well as minimize the amount of time you’re looking away from the subject.
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Still not allowing comments or tags. Did go for the follow up today and the doctor even shook my hand and released me early. I've taken proper care and he told me how to minimize scarring. Said he didn't think anyone would ever even notice the scars but if they bothered me (thank goodness they don't) that I would know what to do to help.
Taken with a LDF (low density filter), on a tripod at slow shutter speed and low ISO to minimize noise. Just in case you were wondering, the birds in flight were added in post production.
This is part of my pandemic project. The project was created to minimize the number of people that I would come into contact with and to help keep my sanity. The location is a local university. From what I can tell the vast majority of classes are being held online leaving the campus empty with the exception of a few nursing students and an occasional group of Frisbee golf players.
The project started when my wife and I used the campus to walk the dog in the evening. I began to notice the architecture and interesting light fixtures. I started to return and photograph and soon had a project.
The project is to examine the lights and architecture of the empty Campus at night.
Canon 6D
Voigtländer Color Skopar 20mm f3.5
Griffon vultures have been used as model organisms for the study of soaring and thermoregulation. The energy costs of level flight tend to be high, prompting alternatives to flapping in larger birds. Vultures in particular utilize more efficient flying methods such as soaring. Compared to other birds, which elevate their metabolic rate to upwards of 16 times their basal metabolic rate in flight, soaring griffon vultures expend about 1.43 times their basal metabolic rate in flight. Griffon vultures are also efficient flyers in their ability to return to a resting heart rate after flight within ten minutes.
As large scavengers, griffon vultures have not been observed to seek shelter for thermoregulation. Vultures use their bald heads as a means to thermoregulate in both extreme cold and hot temperatures. Changes in posture can increase bare skin exposure from 7% to 32%. This change allows for the more than doubling of convective heat loss in still air. Griffon vultures have also been found to tolerate increased body temperatures as a response to high ambient temperatures. By allowing their internal body temperature to change independently of their metabolic rate, griffon vultures minimize their loss of water and energy in thermoregulating. One study in particular (Bahat 1995) found that these adaptations have allowed the Griffon vulture to have one of the widest thermal neutral zones of any bird.
It declined markedly throughout the 19th–20th centuries in much of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, mainly due to direct persecution and "bycatch" from the poisoned carcasses set for livestock predators (Snow and Perrins 1998, Ferguson-Lees and Christie 2001, Orta et al. 2015). In some areas a reduction in available food supplies, arising from changes in livestock management practices, also had an impact (Ferguson-Lees and Christie 2001, Orta et al. 2015). It is very highly vulnerable to the effects of potential wind energy development (Strix 2012) and electrocution has been identified as a threat (Global Raptors Information Network 2015). Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) used for veterinary purposes pose a threat to this species. One case of suspected poisoning caused by flunixin, an NSAID, was recorded in this species in 2012 in Spain (Zorrilla et al. 2015). Diclofenac, a similar NSAID, has caused severe declines in Gyps vulture species across Asia.
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How do we figure simplicity?
Is it a minimizing of things, parts, means? Or is it the minimalization of required understanding?
Starting my car is a simplified understanding. The turning of a key. The process, however, is quite complex, involving a multitude of interlocking and interdependent processes. But I do not need to understand those processes. I simply... turn the key.
If I did understand all the inner workings of the vehicle, would that further simplify starting it? No. I would still simply turn the key.
If the car would not start, a comprehensive understanding of how it works still would not simplify the process because, due to the failure to start, the process would now have become complex.
So, simplification seems to apply to the understanding rather than the process or concept.
As an example, how does one combine the themes of 'simplicity' and 'figurine'?
Simply sit a figure on a rock.
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A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.
A Figma figure.
A rock.
A setting looking to the north while taking in views to a nearby Flowering Dogwood. This location is at Swift Run Overlook in Shenandoah National Park. In composing this image, I wanted to minimize what I felt was the negative space of the overcast skies and have the tree to my front fill as much of the image, while still including some backdrop of the distant mountainside and ridges. Because of the nearness of the rock wall, I was forced to include a little bit of that but attempted to figure out a way have it add to the setting of foreground interest.
I did some initial post-processing work making adjustments to contrast, brightness and saturation in DxO PhotoLab 7. I then exported a TIFF image to Nik Color Efex Pro 7 where I added a Polarization, Foliage, and Pro Contrast filter for that last effect on the image captured.
This was a roadside pulloff overlooking Lake Minnewanka. I decided to zoom in and focus on Mount Astley and some nearby peaks of the Palliser Range. I decided to include some nearby evergreen trees but still minimize that later with a vignette filter that came with a Classic Portrait recipe in Silver Efex Pro 2.
A beautiful sunset along the shores of lake simcoe. as the sun dropped low in the sky. The water produced some purple and blue colours which i have never seen before. I used a 6 stop lee filler (known as the little stopper) to get the milky effect in the water and used a 3 stop soft edge Singh Ray Reverse Nd grad filter minimize the sky from burning out.
This is part of my pandemic project. The project was created to minimize the number of people that I would come into contact with and to help keep my sanity. The location is a local university. From what I can tell the vast majority of classes are being held online leaving the campus empty with the exception of a few nursing students and an occasional group of Frisbee golf players.
The project started when my wife and I used the campus to walk the dog in the evening. I began to notice the architecture and interesting light fixtures. I started to return and photograph and soon had a project.
The project is to examine the lights and architecture of the empty Campus at night
Canon 6D
Voigtländer Color Skopar 20mm f3.5
The area that was to become West Palm Beach was settled in the late 1870s and 1880s by a few hundred settlers who called the vicinity "Lake Worth Country." These settlers were a diverse community from different parts of the United States and the world. They included founding families such at the Potters and the Lainharts, who would go on to become leading members of the business community in the fledgling city. The first white settlers in Palm Beach County lived around Lake Worth, then an enclosed freshwater lake, named for Colonel William Jenkins Worth, who had fought in the Second Seminole War in Florida in 1842. Most settlers engaged in the growing of tropical fruits and vegetables for shipment the north via Lake Worth and the Indian River. By 1890, the U.S. Census counted over 200 people settled along Lake Worth in the vicinity of what would become West Palm Beach. The area at this time also boasted a hotel, the "Cocoanut House", a church, and a post office. The city was platted by Henry Flagler as a community to house the servants working in the two grand hotels on the neighboring island of Palm Beach, across Lake Worth in 1893, coinciding with the arrival of the Florida East Coast railroad. Flagler paid two area settlers, Captain Porter and Louie Hillhouse, a combined sum of $45,000 for the original town site, stretching from Clear Lake to Lake Worth.
On November 5, 1894, 78 people met at the "Calaboose" (the first jail and police station located at Clematis St. and Poinsettia, now Dixie Hwy.) and passed the motion to incorporate the Town of West Palm Beach in what was then Dade County (now Miami-Dade County). This made West Palm Beach the first incorporated municipality in Dade County and in South Florida. The town council quickly addressed the building codes and the tents and shanties were replaced by brick, brick veneer, and stone buildings. The city grew steadily during the 1890s and the first two decades of the 20th century, most residents were engaged in the tourist industry and related services or winter vegetable market and tropical fruit trade. In 1909, Palm Beach County was formed by the Florida State Legislature and West Palm Beach became the county seat. In 1916, a new neo-classical courthouse was opened, which has been painstakingly restored back to its original condition, and is now used as the local history museum.
The city grew rapidly in the 1920s as part of the Florida land boom. The population of West Palm Beach quadrupled from 1920 to 1927, and all kinds of businesses and public services grew along with it. Many of the city's landmark structures and preserved neighborhoods were constructed during this period. Originally, Flagler intended for his Florida East Coast Railway to have its terminus in West Palm, but after the area experienced a deep freeze, he chose to extend the railroad to Miami instead.
The land boom was already faltering when city was devastated by the 1928 Okeechobee hurricane. The Depression years of the 1930s were a quiet time for the area, which saw slight population growth and property values lower than during the 1920s. The city only recovered with the onset of World War II, which saw the construction of Palm Beach Air Force Base, which brought thousands of military personnel to the city. The base was vital to the allied war effort, as it provided an excellent training facility and had unparalleled access to North Africa for a North American city. Also during World War II, German U-Boats sank dozens of merchant ships and oil tankers just off the coast of West Palm Beach. Nearby Palm Beach was under black out conditions to minimize night visibility to German U-boats.
The 1950s saw another boom in population, partly due to the return of many soldiers and airmen who had served in the vicinity during the war. Also, the advent of air conditioning encouraged growth, as year-round living in a tropical climate became more acceptable to northerners. West Palm Beach became the one of the nation's fastest growing metropolitan areas during the 1950s; the city's borders spread west of Military Trail and south to Lake Clarke Shores. However, many of the city's residents still lived within a narrow six-block wide strip from the south to north end. The neighborhoods were strictly segregated between White and African-American populations, a legacy that the city still struggles with today. The primary shopping district remained downtown, centered around Clematis Street.
In the 1960s, Palm Beach County's first enclosed shopping mall, the Palm Beach Mall, and an indoor arena were completed. These projects led to a brief revival for the city, but in the 1970s and 1980s crime continued to be a serious issue and suburban sprawl continued to drain resources and business away from the old downtown area. By the early 1990s there were very high vacancy rates downtown, and serious levels of urban blight.
Since the 1990s, developments such as CityPlace and the preservation and renovation of 1920s architecture in the nightlife hub of Clematis Street have seen a downtown resurgence in the entertainment and shopping district. The city has also placed emphasis on neighborhood development and revitalization, in historic districts such as Northwood, Flamingo Park, and El Cid. Some neighborhoods still struggle with blight and crime, as well as lowered property values caused by the Great Recession, which hit the region particularly hard. Since the recovery, multiple new developments have been completed. The Palm Beach Mall, located at the Interstate 95/Palm Beach Lakes Boulevard interchange became abandoned as the downtown was revitalized - the very mall that initiated the original abandonment of the downtown. The mall was then redeveloped into the Palm Beach Fashion Outlets in February 2014. A station for All Aboard Florida, a high-speed passenger rail service serving Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, and Orlando, is under construction as of July 2015.
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A setting looking to the east-northeast while taking in views across the sawgrass prairie to my front. This was from an overlook along a boarded walkway with the Pinelands Trail in Everglades National Park. In composing this image, I chose to angle my Nikon Z8 Mirrorless Camera slightly downward, so that I could raise the horizon. I felt that would bring out a sweeping view looking across the sawgrass prairie and minimize what I felt was the more negative space of the overcast skies.
All motion effects are 'in camera'. I was interested in the contrast, so all of these were shot with a polarizer to minimize glare and reflection as much as possible.
I have seen Swainson's Hawks feed feathers to their young and was excited to see this behavior in the Eared Grebe also.
"The purpose(s) of feather eating is unproven but evidence suggests that the behavior has these benefits for the birds.
1. Some of the ingested feathers form a plug in the pylorus, between the stomach and small intestine, which acts as a strainer to keep fish bones in the stomach long enough to be completely digested.
2. Most swallowed feathers end up in the stomach lumen, mixed with food. They eventually (along with any indigestible matter) form pellets that are ejected through the mouth. The continuous passage of these pellets through the upper digestive system minimizes the buildup of a variety of parasites that are very common there and plague grebes."
www.featheredphotography.com/blog/2010/10/29/why-grebes-e...
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It's been, what...three, four years since my last proper MOC? Well, now that I know I'll be renting the same room for the rest of my time at university, I moved a good chunk of my collection in with me and went on a Bricklink spree.
Then I had a quick conversation with EB member LilMeFromDaFuture, (www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=112692&s...) and he was looking into different combinations of slopes to minimize the stepped effect of SNOT wings. Well, if you really want to get rid of that stepped edge, you flip the entire thing around and put the flat edge on the outside, right? So I did that.
As usual, reference material is Toromodel:
www.flickr.com/photos/toromodel/albums/72157620639122395
And the venerable Starship Modeler:
www.starshipmodeler.com/starwars/smith_sw.htm
And you can still see some of the influence of Larry Lars's speeder, especially in the canopy.
Sugar Maple Leaf - Boothbay Harbor, Maine
A refractive reflection of a blue sky after the morning rain.
Here, the hydrophobic underside of a maple leaf demonstrates its distain for water, while the water uses its super-power (surface tension) to minimize its contact with a hostile surface.
Science!
Phys-chem in this case.
The Royal Griffon improves over its predecessor by minimizing its silhouette while maintaining the same speed and armament of the Griffon.
Griffon vultures have been used as model organisms for the study of soaring and thermoregulation. The energy costs of level flight tend to be high, prompting alternatives to flapping in larger birds. Vultures in particular utilize more efficient flying methods such as soaring. Compared to other birds, which elevate their metabolic rate to upwards of 16 times their basal metabolic rate in flight, soaring griffon vultures expend about 1.43 times their basal metabolic rate in flight. Griffon vultures are also efficient flyers in their ability to return to a resting heart rate after flight within ten minutes.
As large scavengers, griffon vultures have not been observed to seek shelter for thermoregulation. Vultures use their bald heads as a means to thermoregulate in both extreme cold and hot temperatures. Changes in posture can increase bare skin exposure from 7% to 32%. This change allows for the more than doubling of convective heat loss in still air. Griffon vultures have also been found to tolerate increased body temperatures as a response to high ambient temperatures. By allowing their internal body temperature to change independently of their metabolic rate, griffon vultures minimize their loss of water and energy in thermoregulating. One study in particular (Bahat 1995) found that these adaptations have allowed the Griffon vulture to have one of the widest thermal neutral zones of any bird.
It declined markedly throughout the 19th–20th centuries in much of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, mainly due to direct persecution and "bycatch" from the poisoned carcasses set for livestock predators (Snow and Perrins 1998, Ferguson-Lees and Christie 2001, Orta et al. 2015). In some areas a reduction in available food supplies, arising from changes in livestock management practices, also had an impact (Ferguson-Lees and Christie 2001, Orta et al. 2015). It is very highly vulnerable to the effects of potential wind energy development (Strix 2012) and electrocution has been identified as a threat (Global Raptors Information Network 2015). Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) used for veterinary purposes pose a threat to this species. One case of suspected poisoning caused by flunixin, an NSAID, was recorded in this species in 2012 in Spain (Zorrilla et al. 2015). Diclofenac, a similar NSAID, has caused severe declines in Gyps vulture species across Asia.
The view is looking down the road to the southeast. Given the haze from recent wildfires and the late morning sunlight, much of the mountain peaks present could not be easily seen. So I focused on the road ahead with the crossing markers and guard present on each side. The view would then be directly into the image using the road center stripe as a leading line. The rest of the image was metering it to minimize blowing any highlights while composing and lining up the image before any traffic came near :-)
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COVID19 in 2020
pre and post COVID
Leprosy will still be
minimized
overlooked
stigmatized
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deforming
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Ao longo do trilho PR14 – A Aldeia Mágica, que decorre entre Covelo de Paivó e Drave, concelho de Arouca, revela-se um vale agrícola encaixado na Serra da Freita. A paisagem, marcada por modelação fluvial em terrenos xistentos, exibe socalcos que evidenciam a adaptação da atividade agrícola ao declive acentuado, permitindo o cultivo em patamares junto a cursos de água como o rio de Paivô, visível ao fundo. O contraste é notório entre o verde intenso dos socalcos, que minimizam a erosão, e as encostas com vestígios de incêndios florestais, problema recorrente na região. A vegetação autóctone em recuperação demonstra a resiliência do ecossistema. A paisagem integra ainda o património edificado típico das aldeias serranas, testemunho de um povoamento rural que moldou a região.
Along the PR14 - A Aldeia Mágica trail, which runs between Covelo de Paivó and Drave, in the municipality of Arouca, you can see an agricultural valley embedded in the Serra da Freita. The landscape, marked by fluvial modeling in schist soils, displays terraces that show the adaptation of agricultural activity to the steep slope, allowing cultivation on levels next to watercourses such as the Paivô river, visible in the background. The contrast is striking between the intense green of the terraces, which minimize erosion, and the slopes with traces of forest fires, a recurring problem in the region. The recovering native vegetation demonstrates the resilience of the ecosystem. The landscape also includes the typical built heritage of the mountain villages, testimony to a rural settlement that shaped the region.
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No trip to Walt Disney World is complete without Cinderella Castle photos. Unfortunately with construction on the ramps and bridges as well as the Castle Couture this made photographing the Castle in a way that was still appealing a bit of a challenge. Through most of the Cinderella Castle pics I post from this trip there's no doubt you'll still be able to see bits of the construction here and there but I've shot these photos in such a way that I believe it minimizes and in some case completely hides the fact there was construction underway.
Take this shot as an example. I've done this shot before as a wide landscape shot but doing that this time would have really shown off the construction of the ramps and distracted from the compass on the ground as well as Cinderella Castle. Using a vertical composition instead I was able to hide almost all of the construction with only a little bit of the construction walls showing. The way they look in fact you may not even notice they are construction walls if I had not mentioned it. In addition, shooting low to the ground made sure the focus is on the compass up to the castle and that you could not see any of the construction mess behind the relatively low walls they had up around the ramps. Shooting at full height would have no doubt shown off these issues.
Finally as I often do with a shot like this I used focus stacking in addition to bracketing. For those unfamiliar this involves taking a series of shots with different focus points at varying distances from the camera. In this case I took one series of shots with the focus point towards the front of the tip of the compass and then another series focused around mid way up Cinderella castle both at F8.
Why not just shoot at an aperture with a larger depth of field such as F16 or even F22 you may ask? Well typically the sharpest results your lens will produce (and I have confirmed for my lenses) is around F8. Furthermore as you continue to stop down to F16 and beyond you begin to introduce diffraction which actually decreases the sharpness of the resulting image! Therefore in instances where I can take the time the ideal way to create a shot that is tack sharp from front to back is to take the multiple shots with different focus points and then stack and blend them in post. It does take a bit of extra time both in shooting and processing but the end result is well worth it, especially when viewing at higher resolutions. Enjoy.
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The passing thunderstorm was giving some great perspectives to the landscape. I tried to minimize the hills to give importance to the massive clouds.
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