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Another one using textures and such like the previous upload.
Happy hump day!
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Elizabeth Hartwell Mason Neck National Wildlife Refuge, VA
It was a relatively cold day with a bright sun warming the ground, so all of my longer shots were plagued by heat haze. I liked this shot of a mockingbird and there's no exposure or color editing, but I did crop and remove some branches.
Our Floriculture class stages a "mock' wedding every other year to give students the chance to see what all is involved in planning a major event.
"Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment."
Ellis Peters
Mock oranges have it rough here. Not enough moisture in spring to keep the flowers from drying out in spots, they will be frost bitten by the snow we expect on Friday. Their sweet scent, for a week or so, makes their suffering meaningful.
A "practice" bridal shoot, where no Bridezillas are possible, with 2/3 professional models. After mostly bad weather, we were gifted with a double rainbow & an amazing sunset.
Looks like a giant Coronavirus but the red fruit is mock or false strawberry. It is in the same family as true strawberry but is not good eating but won't kill you...as far as I know. The plant looks a lot like wild strawberry but the flowers are yellow rather than white as are strawberry.
Tree-mendous Tuesday
We have oodles of these trees blooming everywhere in the city right now. Some are pink, some are white, but all are so pretty!
ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer practices Space Station repairs in the Neutral Buoyancy Lab at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, USA.
The giant pool is over 12 metres deep and features a full-scale mock-up of the International Space Station. It is used to train astronauts in the very precise and difficult task of making repairs or installing new equipment in the vacuum of space.
To simulate microgravity underwater, astronauts are weighted down to minimise the buoyant force that would otherwise have them bopping back up to the surface. They must also work very slowly to compensate for the drag caused by water.
It’s about as fun as falling in water fully dressed and pulling out your laptop to start working. But someone has got to do it.
Extravehicular activity or EVA training is standard across the astronaut experience, beginning at the candidate level and continuing before and after a spaceflight.
Additionally, astronauts take on a slew of other hands on activities and simulations. Matthias is in Bordeaux, France, today for the latest parabolic flight campaign. From medical training to orbital mechanics and computer engineering, astronauts have a busy schedule.
Becoming an astronaut involves a cutthroat selection process for an exciting job. But it’s not without its risks. Human spaceflight today has evolved into a standard and safe job, thanks to the sacrifice of courageous individuals over the years. Without their contributions, humans would not be the space faring species we have become today.
In celebration the beginning of the space era, the UN has designated 12 April as International Day of Human Spaceflight, more popularly known as Yuri’s Night. Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was the first human to fly to space on 12 April 1961, a historic event in human history.
Events are held across the globe in celebration of Yuri’s Night. Find one near you and join the world’s largest space party celebrating human achievement beyond Earth’s atmosphere.
And if you happen to meet an astronaut, show them some love. They don’t always have it easy.
Credit: NASA
Stay in the same place long enough in the woods, you may get a visitor, and using a cumbersome camera that you can barely remember how to operate will helpfully slow you down. "Where's your fast autofocus telephoto now?" he seemed to be saying.
Didn't nail focus, but he hung around for three frames.
See you next time, Rob.
These images of the same Mocking Bird were taken just outside the Bird Sanctuary in Maitland, Florida. I guess he was smart enough to stay close to the food but far enough away from the predators to be safe.
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You know it's summer when....okay, I'll admit- Much as I am a spring and autumn person, and winter can also be quite pretty- Mock Orange Blossoms are lovely to see (and smell) in summer!
This bird follows me all over the property. It will sit on a patio chair looking inside until I come back out. Attempts to dissuade it from getting too close have been uneventful. Loud sounds, abrupt motions and the threat of cats and dog have yet to keep it from returning each day.
Nikon F801s
AF Nikkor 24-120mm f3.5-5.6
Kodak ColorPlus 200
Cinestil Cs41
Ion Slides2PC 35mm scanner
Affinity Photo 2
A "practice" bridal shoot, where no Bridezillas are possible, with 2/3 professional models. After mostly bad weather, we were gifted with a double rainbow & an amazing sunset.
This swallowtail is a male which only come in one form, but the females of this species appear in at least fourteen diferent colour forms, mimicking different unpalatable species as a form of protection against predation.
That's why it is quite fitting that the species has several diffent English names. Say hello to the mocker swallowtail (Papilio dardanus), also known as the African swallowtail, mocker swallowtail and flying hankerchief.
The last name makes more sense when you see one of the white forms the female can have - though I haven't gotten a shot of one of those (yet).