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At just after 6am, Deltic D9009 accelerates up the bank out of Morar on the West Highland extension on a June 2003 morning (25/6/03) with an 0505 Fort William-Mallaig-Oban-Fort Willaim DPS Freedom of Scotland charter. This was a wonderful morning, driving up from the East Midlands overnight, through Glen Coe with hundreds of deer running around (although that was quite scary when they ran across in front of the car) and then dropping on this mega location. On the return, blue 55019 was leading and was photographed at the classic spots of Loch Nan Uamh & Glenfinnan viaducts.
Reprocessed & resized, Sept 21. Since buying a bigger monitor, everything needs reprocessing!
A large lace monitor, Australian lizard sunning itself at the Rockhampton Zoo. Read more from Wikipedia here.
The lace monitor or tree goanna (Varanus varius) is a member of the monitor lizard family native to eastern Australia. A large lizard, it can reach 2 metres (6.6 ft) in total length and 14 kilograms (31 lb) in weight. The lace monitor is considered to be a least-concern species according to the International Union for Conservation.
John White, the surgeon-general of New South Wales, described this species as the variegated lizard (Lacerta varia) in 1790. George Shaw reported that several specimens were taken back to England. French naturalist François Marie Daudin gave it the name Tupinambis variegatus in 1802, and noted two forms. German naturalist Blasius Merrem established the genus Varanus in 1820, with V. varius as the first mentioned member set as its type species by John Edward Gray in 1827.
French zoologists André Marie Constant Duméril and Gabriel Bibron described two specimens in 1836, one in their possession and one from the collection of English zoologist Thomas Bell as Varanus bellii "Le Varan de Bell". This turned out to be a banded colour phase of the lace monitor that coexists with normal-coloured individuals, and is either autosomal dominant or codominant genetically. It is sometimes called the Bell's phase lace monitor.
The lace monitor is monotypic; no subspecies are recognised. However, genetic analysis of its mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) across its range revealed three main clades: a north Queensland clade separated by the Burdekin Gap from a clade spanning from southern Queensland through inland New South Wales across the Murray–Darling basin and into southeastern South Australia. This is divided from a third clade that spans coastal eastern Australia (northern New South Wales to eastern Victoria) by the McPherson Range and Great Dividing Range. This last clade is thought to have diverged from the first two clades around 2.7 million years ago, while these clades separated around 850,000 years ago.
Genetic analysis of mtDNA shows the lace monitor to be the closest relative (sister taxon) of the Komodo dragon, with their common ancestor diverging from a lineage that gave rise to the crocodile monitor (Varanus salvadorii) of New Guinea. The divergence between lace monitor and Komodo dragon lineages has been calculated to have occurred around 13 million years ago, 11 or 11.5 million years ago.
The species is commonly known as lace monitor, tree goanna, or lacy. It was known as wirriga to the Eora and Darug inhabitants of the Sydney basin, and gugaa to the Wiradjuri people of southern New South Wales.
The second-largest monitor in Australia after the perentie, the lace monitor can reach 2 m (7 ft) in total length, or 76.5 cm snout–vent length (SVL). The male reaches sexual maturity when it has a SVL of 41.5 cm. Females are generally smaller than males, with a maximum SVL of 57.5 cm, and becoming sexually mature at a SVL of 38.5 cm.The tail is long and slender and about 1.5 times the length of the head and body. The tail is cylindrical at its base, but becomes laterally compressed towards the tip.
The maximum weight of lace monitor can be 14 kg (30 lb), but most adults are much smaller.
Historically, it has been described as growing as much as 8 ft long. Regardless of the accuracy of these reports, lace monitors of such size likely no longer exist.
Lace monitors are found in two forms. The main form is dark grey to dull bluish-black with numerous, scattered, cream-coloured spots. The head is black and the snout is marked with prominent black and yellow bands extending under the chin and neck. The tail has narrow black and cream bands, which are narrow and get wider towards the end of the tail. Juveniles have more defined and prominent banding, with five narrow black bands on the neck and eight bands on the body.
The other type, known as Bell's form, is typically found in west of the Great Dividing Range from Woodgate, Eidsvold, and Mitchell in Queensland to Bourke, Macksville and Port Macquarie in New South Wales. It has also been reported from Healesville, Rushworth, and Murchison in Victoria and the Flinders Ranges in South Australia.[9] It has a base colour of yellow-brown or yellow with fine black mottling and broad, black or dark brown bands from the shoulders to the tail. The top of the head is black.
These common terrestrial and often arboreal monitors are found in eastern Australia and range from Cape Bedford on Cape York Peninsula to south-eastern South Australia. They frequent both open and closed forests and forage over long distances (up to 3 km (1.9 mi) a day).
The lace monitor is considered to be a least-concern species according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
They are mainly active from September to May, but are inactive in cooler weather and shelter in tree hollows or under fallen trees or large rocks.
Despite its large size and mass, the lace monitor is an adept climber. One was recorded climbing a brick wall to seek shelter in a thunderstorm. Young lace monitors are even more arboreal than adults. They often spend most of their adult lives in the same area; one individual was recorded living in the same tree for years.
In at least the temperate regions, the breeding season takes place in the summer.
Male lace monitors fight each other by grappling while standing on the hind legs in the breeding season, and up to six males may gather around a receptive female to try and court her. Mating takes several hours.
Females lay an average of eight eggs in active termite nests either on the ground or in the trees, although they may lay as many as 12 eggs. When such nests are in short supply, females often fight over them or lay the eggs in burrows and perhaps hollow logs. The eggs overwinter to hatch 6–7 months later. Hatchlings remain around the nest for about a week or more before leaving its vicinity. Females may return to the same termite nest to lay their next clutch of eggs. These monitors can potentially live to reach over 20 years of age.
Their diets typically consist of insects, reptiles, small mammals, birds, and birds' eggs. They are also carrion eaters, feeding on already dead carcasses of other wildlife. Lace monitors search for food on the ground, retreating to a nearby tree if disturbed. They also forage in areas inhabited by people, raiding chicken coops for poultry and eggs, and rummaging through unprotected domestic garbage bags and rubbish bins in picnic and recreational areas.
As they often swallow meat whole, they can be at risk of harm from some meat scraps; one was reported with a t-bone steak bone stuck in its throat and another with a plastic fork in its stomach. Another swallowed six golf balls that a chicken owner had placed in their coop to prompt their chickens to lay eggs.
They are preyed upon by dingoes and birds of prey, and like all Australian goannas, they were a favourite traditional food of Australian Aboriginal peoples, and their fat was particularly valued as a medicine and for use in ceremonies.
They frequently attack the large composting nests of scrub turkeys to steal their eggs, and often show injuries on their tails inflicted by male scrub turkeys pecking at them to drive them away.
Venom
In late 2005, University of Melbourne researchers discovered that all monitors may be somewhat venomous. Previously, bites inflicted by monitors were thought to be prone to infection because of bacteria in their mouths, but the researchers showed that the immediate effects were more likely caused by envenomation. Bites on the hand by lace monitors have been observed to cause swelling within minutes, localised disruption of blood clotting, and shooting pain up to the elbow, which can often last for several hours. In vitro testing showed lace monitor mouth secretion impact on platelet aggregation, drop blood pressure and relax smooth muscle; the last effect mediated by an agent with the same activity as brain natriuretic peptide. Liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry found ample proteins with molecular masses of 2-4 kilodaltons (corresponding with natriuretic peptide), 15 kilodaltons (type III Phospholipase A2), and 23-25 kilodaltons (cysteine-rich secretory proteins and kallikrein) in these secretions. Washington State University biologist Kenneth V. Kardong and toxicologists Scott A. Weinstein and Tamara L. Smith, have cautioned that labelling these species as venomous oversimplifies the diversity of oral secretions in reptiles, and overestimates the medical risk of bite victims.
The lace monitor was eaten by the Wiradjuri people; local wisdom advised eating lace monitors as they came down from trees as those that had eaten on the ground tasted of rotting meat. The Tharawal ate the species' eggs, collecting them in sand on riverbanks in the Nattai and Wollondilly. Goanna remains have been recovered in middens in what is now Sydney. The lace monitor is bred in captivity as an exotic pet
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A deep passion of mine about photography concerns, in addition to traditional Sicilian festivals, the black and white genre and street photography, which often but not always end up coinciding, so, although I am currently working on other photographic projects, I have given up (temporarily) everything and I immersed myself in the creation of this group of photos, they are heterogeneous, there is no common thread, yet I felt the need to reclaim these passions of mine. The photographs were taken in Taormina, Letojanni, Messina (at the Torre Faro pylon), on the hydrofoil that takes you from Milazzo to the Aeolian islands, on the islands of Lipari and Salina. A good number of these photos were taken with a 35mm Lensbaby on full frame (focus is manual). I photographed a lay friar, Giovanni L.P., he spoke to me about his troubled life, namely the rediscovery of a profound faith, now with the help of an old and worn Bible, he goes around the world preaching the Word of the Lord; I photographed a huge cargo ship, it was crossing the Strait of Messina, when I saw it I was speechless, I don't think I've ever seen such a gigantic ship up close, I had to wait for it to move away a little so I could take it again all of it, with the lenses I was wearing at the time, as it passed by me, all of it just didn't fit...; on the island of Salina, in the Pollara district, I photographed the external patio of "Neruda's house" where some scenes of the film "Il Postino" with Massimo Troisi, Philippe Noiret, Maria Grazia Cucinotta were filmed; also on the island of Salina I photographed the little black beach of Rinella; the man who "put the dead hand" on her partner was lovingly reprimanded by her, there was complicity between the two of them, she feared that someone might see them...
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Una mia profonda passione circa la fotografia riguarda, oltre le feste tradizionali siciliane, il genere bianco e nero e la street photography, esse spesso ma non sempre, finiscono per coincidere, così, pur lavorando attualmente ad altri progetti fotografici, ho mollato (temporaneamente) tutto e mi sono immerso nella realizzazione di questo gruppo di foto, sono eterogenee, non c’è un filo conduttore, eppure sentivo la necessità di riappropriarmi di queste mie passioni. Le fotografie sono state realizzate a Taormina, a Letojanni, a Messina (al Pilone di Torre Faro), sull’aliscafo che da Milazzo porta alle isole Eolie, sulle isole di Lipari e di Salina. Un buon numero di queste foto è stato realizzato con una Lensbaby da 35 mm (su full frame, il fuoco è manuale). Ho fotografato un frate laico, Giovanni L.P., mi ha parlato della sua tribolata vita, pèoi la riscoperta di una profonda fede, ora aiutandosi con una vecchia e logora Bibbia, va in giro per il mondo predicando la Parola del Signore; ho fotografato una enorme nave cargo, stava attraversando lo Stretto di Messina, quando l’ho vista sono rimasto a bocca aperta, non credo di aver mai visto da vicino una nave così gigantesca, ho dovuto aspettare che si allontanasse un po’ per poterla riprendere tutta, con le ottiche che montavo in quel momento, mentre mi passava vicino, tutta proprio non ci entrava…; sull’isola di Salina, in contrada Pollara, ho fotografato il patio esterno della “casa di Neruda” ove furono girate alcune scene del film “Il Postino” con Massimo Troisi, Philippe Noiret, Maria Grazia Cucinotta; sempre sull’isola di Salina ho fotografato la spiaggetta nera di Rinella; l’uomo che “faceva la mano morta” sulla sua compagna veniva amorevolmente ripreso da lei, c’era complicità tra loro due, lei temeva che qualcuno potesse vederli ….
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This summer 2021 was hit by a very strong heat wave, it was called Lucifer, an African subtropical anticyclone, with temperatures in southern Italy that reached very high values, in some centers temperatures of 47 ° C were recorded and more (the European record was recorded in Syracuse with + 48.8 ° C): due to the great heat, the African subtropical anticyclone was given the name of "Lucifer", but we are sure that the Great Poet Dante Alighieri, father of Italian language, and today is the 700th year from the date of his death, is it okay to have chosen the name of Lucifer for this incredible heat wave ??! ... Lucifer was the most beautiful and luminous angel of creation, rebelled against God out of pride and envy in league with other rebel angels, he was defeated by the Archangel Michael, fell down from heaven until he reached the center of the earth, transforming himself into a hideous monster and causing the funnel-shaped chasm that will become the seat of Hell; Dante describes Lucifer in Canto XXXIV of Hell of the Divine Comedy, he (and this was what I wanted to arrive at) is stuck from the waist down "in the ice" ..! ... in fact the King of Hell is in a frozen lake fed by the Cocito river, and even the damned who are in that place are immersed in the ice ..! ... Dante and Virgil will use the body of Lucifer as if it were a ladder climbing high clinging to it, Dante and Virgil will thus walk a path hidden and will finally go out into the open air "to see the stars again".
All the photos I present were taken on the beaches of Taormina and its surroundings (Sicily-Italy); I made photos related to "beach photography" (a genre similar to "street photography");
... I photographed young and old people ... with a great desire for the sea and a great desire to dive into the sea to swim (even if the sea water is still a little cold now ...); I made some photo-portraits of people I didn't know, I thank them very much for their sympathy and their availability; I tried to capture the essence of minimal photographic stories, collected walking along the beaches ... in search of fleeting moments ...
I used a particular photographic technique for some photographs at the time of shooting, which in addition to capturing the surrounding space, also "inserted" a temporal dimension, with photos characterized by being moved because the exposure times were deliberately lengthened, they are confused -focused-imprecise-undecided ... the Anglo-Saxon term that encloses this photographic genre with a single word is "blur", these images were thus created during the shooting phase, and not as an effect created subsequently, in retrospect, in the post-production
Questa estate 2021 è stata colta da un'ondata di caldo molto forte, è stata chiamata Lucifero, causa di ciò un anticiclone subtropicale africano, con temperature nel meridione d’Italia che hanno toccato valori molto alti, in alcuni centri si sono registrate temperature di 47°C e più (a Siracusa è stato registrato il record europeo con +48.8°C): per via del grande caldo all’anticiclone subtropicale africano è stato dato il nome di “Lucifero”, ma siamo sicuri che il grandissimo Poeta Dante Alighieri, padre della Lingua Italiana, ed oggi ricorre il 700° anno dalla data della sua morte, sia d'accordo con l’aver scelto il nome di Lucifero per questa incredibile ondata di caldo??!...Lucifero era l’angelo più bello e luminoso del Creato, ribellatosi a Dio per superbia ed invidia in combutta con altri angeli ribelli, fu sconfitto dall’arcangelo Michele, precipitò giù dal cielo fino a raggiungere il centro della terra, trasformandosi in un mostro orrendo e causando la voragine a forma di imbuto che diventerà sede dell’Inferno; Dante descrive Lucifero nel Canto XXXIV dell'Inferno della Divina Commedia, egli (ed era a questo che desideravo arrivare) è conficcato dalla cintola in giù “nel ghiaccio”..!...infatti il Re dell’Inferno si trova in un lago ghiacciato alimentato dal fiume Cocito, ed anche i dannati che si trovano in quel luogo sono immersi nel ghiaccio..!...Dante e Virgilio useranno il corpo di Lucifero come se fosse una scala salendo in alto aggrappati ad esso, Dante e Virgilio percorreranno così un sentiero nascosto ed usciranno all’aria aperta finalmente «a riveder le stelle».
Tutte le foto che presento sono state realizzate sulle spiagge di Taormina e dintorni (Sicilia-Italia); ho realizzato foto riconducibili alla “beach photography” (un genere affine alla “street photography”);
ho fotografato persone giovani e meno giovani…con tanta voglia di mare e tanta voglia di immergersi in mare per fare qualche nuotata (anche se l’acqua del mare adesso è ancora un po’ fredda…); ho realizzato dei foto-ritratti di persone che non conoscevo, le ringrazio veramente tanto per la loro simpatia e la loro disponibilità; ho cercato di cogliere al volo l’essenza di storie fotografiche minime, raccolte camminando per sulle spiagge... alla ricerca di attimi fugaci s-fuggenti ...
Ho utilizzato per alcune fotografie una tecnica fotografica particolare al momento dello scatto, che oltre a catturare lo spazio circostante, ha "inserito" anche una dimensione temporale, con foto caratterizzate dall’essere mosse poiché volutamente sono stati allungati i tempi di esposizione, sono confuse-sfocate-imprecise-indecise...il termine anglosassone che racchiude con una sola parola questo genere fotografico è "blur", queste immagini sono state così realizzate in fase di scatto, e non come un effetto creato successivamente, a posteriori, in fase di post-produzione.
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These Aspen were not completely ravaged by fire, and so are a beacon of autumn color at the base of the pass to the eastern sierra.
In the heart of Bangkok, You will see such signs in parks. Don’t be alarmed, Monitors are shy creatures.
I have always known them as Sand Goannas, but I do now believe Lace Monitor to be correct. Both may be correct. Mt Peel Bushland Reserve.
To see the largest monitor lizard of India alive was thrilling and also a matter of good fortune!
These are not endemic to India and have a distribution across south and south-east Asia. The water monitors can grow up to 2mts and they are the 2nd heaviest monitor lizards after the komodo dragon!!
The lace monitor or lace goanna (Varanus varius) is a member of the monitor lizard family, Australian members of which are commonly known as goannas. It belongs to the subgenus Varanus.
Lace monitors are the second-largest monitor in Australia after the perentie. They can be as long as 2.1 m (over 6.8 ft) with a head-and-body length of up to 76.5 cm (2.5 ft). The tail is long and slender and about 1.5 times the length of the head and body.
The maximum weight of lace monitor can be 20 kg (44 lb), but most adults are much smaller.
These common terrestrial and often arboreal monitors are found in eastern Australia and range from Cape Bedford on Cape York Peninsula to south-eastern South Australia. They frequent both open and closed forests and forage over long distances (up to 3 km a day).
They are mainly active from September to May, but are inactive in cooler weather and shelter in tree hollows or under fallen trees or large rocks.
The females lay four to 14 eggs in spring or summer in termite nests. They frequently attack the large composting nests of scrub turkeys to steal their eggs, and often show injuries on their tails inflicted by male scrub turkeys pecking at them to drive them away.
Their diets typically consist of insects, reptiles, small mammals, birds, and birds' eggs. They are also carrion eaters, feeding on already dead carcasses of other wildlife. Lace monitors will also forage in areas inhabited by people, raiding chicken coops for poultry and eggs, rummaging through unprotected domestic garbage bags, and rubbish bins in picnic and recreational areas.
They are preyed upon by dingoes and birds of prey, and like all Australian goannas, they were a favourite traditional food of Australian Aboriginal peoples, and their fat was particularly valued as a medicine and for use in ceremonies. (From Wikipedia).
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Explored.
Found at St John Brook Conservation Park, W of Nannup. Western Australia, Australia.
ID help appreciated.
Relatively tolerant. Allowed me to get close in with the 100mm.
Single exposure, uncropped, handheld, in situ.
Back to the Dockyard now! This is a shot of HMS Monitor in her dock, with HMS Victory and one of the buildings I worked in in the background.
Info below!
HMS M33 is an M29-class monitor of the Royal Navy built in 1915. She saw active service in the Mediterranean during the First World War and in Russia during the Allied Intervention in 1919. She was used subsequently as a mine-laying training ship, fuelling hulk, boom defence workshop and floating office, being renamed HMS Minerva and Hulk C23 during her long life. She passed to Hampshire County Council in the 1980s and was restored to original condition and is now located at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. She is one of only three surviving Royal Navy warships of the First World War and the only surviving ship from the Gallipoli Campaign.
The river behind the beach in Salang Beach, Pulau Tioman is teeming with giant monitor lizards. Although they coexist well with humans, it's still probably in your best interest to photograph from a distance!
Nile monitor, Varanus niloticus on a tree beside the Nile river near Murchison Falls Uganda. _86A5975
This Lace Monitor (Goanna) has made it's home in a hollowed out log. It is about the size and weight of a man. Photo taken at Ipswich, Queensland, Australia
Monitor Memorial
sculptor: Antonio De Filippo, 1938
dedicated: November 6, 1938
Monsignor McGolrick Park
Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York City, New York
inscription:
ERECTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE / STATE OF NEW YORK / TO COMMEMORATE THE BATTLE OF THE / MONITOR AND MERRIMAC / MARCH 9TH, 1862 / AND IN MEMORY / OF THE MEN OF THE MONITOR / AND ITS DESIGNER - JOHN ERICSSON
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