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Today there is a festival in Tokyo call as "AKARI MATSURI" I have been there to enjoy it . I am really surprised how kids are creative, cause all photos and scripts on the light writen or drawn by school kids for today. It is realy interesting.
Crater Lake is located in Southern Oregon on the crest of the Cascade Mountain range, 100 miles east of the Pacific Ocean. It lies inside a caldera, or volcanic basin, created when the 12,000 foot high Mount Mazama collapsed 7,700 years ago following a large eruption.
Generous amounts of winter snow, averaging 533 inches per year, supply the lake with water. There are no inlets or outlets to the lake. Crater Lake, at 1,943 feet deep, is the seventh deepest lake in the world and the deepest in the United States.
I hope you're all staying well. I have been down with a Sinus Infection and Strep Throat for almost 2 weeks. I actually missed 2 days of work last week and 2 days this week . Even on antibiotics, I'm still nowhere near 100%. Very frustrating!! ;~ (
Take care and have a great weekend!
On Explore February 24, 2012
Taivas checks out the 52 weeks for dogs pool. Taivas is clicker trained - I do lots of 'shaping'. This is my photo for week 4 of the project. Made Explore #382
The towns of Cetara and Vietre Sul Mare and are both located by the Tyrrhenian Sea along the Amalfi Coast just west of Salerno.
Timing is everything in diving trials as Nana lands belly first in the water. Ego and skin only slightly bruised. :)
It was a dark and very windy evening when I got this shot, with waves splashing against the rocks at my feet. Fall is definitely in the air.
On Explore, September 14, 2011
To me this image has a whimsical yet welcoming feel to it............... It looks like someone left their outside work to go in and take a break and it makes me want to go inside as well for a cup of coffee and a piece of the pie I smell baking as I walk through the door.................
Taken in Mason, WI on Altamont Rd.
Galata Bridge crossing the Golden Horn in Istanbul.
ThrillTracks even used the photo for one of their music video covers for the group/song Starving Youth - Mind Games. Check it out at:
Really bad idea for flicker to change the old format. We don't mind changes that make it better, but this time your programmers got it WRONG!!!
We all enjoy this site the way the format is without having the square pictures to the left of the info. The info blocks should be left as is without messing with them and the photo format should NOT be changed.
Simply Flickr staff pandering to the advertisers and not to the millions of great photographers that make Flickr what it is. Flickr will go the way of AOL and MySpace if you don't listen to us. We will find a better platform if you make the changes stick!!!!!!! Maybe time to try 500px. What say you? What say flickr staff?
Sunset Thursday evening in Ashland, WI on Chequamegon Bay, Lake Superior.
Have a happy and safe weekend everyone!
Please vew in large..
Heading back out on the road today, Time went by way to fast...
Hope everyone is having a great weekend...
Explorer: Highest position: 79 on Tuesday, July 17, 2007
One meter wide ball of light (orb) along Rambla de Catalunya in Barcelona. Woody Allen would have had fun with this one. :-)
This was taken on a VERY windy day with an awesome threatening sky. My favorite kind of day for "shooting"!
Now that we're finally getting leaves on the trees, there are so many different shades of green! This was taken in Iron River, WI on Lake Ahmeek.
Happy Monday! I hope you're all being good in anticipation of the big day! Remember, Santa knows who's been naughty or nice! LOL Have a great week!
On Explore December 19, 2011
photography or photoshop or both can not live without one. I guess photography is all about Light and shaping the light. Why need a lot of photoshop work to polish it.
Shot taken from on top the Hilton overlooking the Gulf of Izmir and the Aegean coastline to the southwest.
All hail the great and powerful Oz...... er......OK...it's a ........VW Beetle..............
Anyway, for those of us that had one of these wonderful cars during our early years, we remember them fondly as they were almost indestructible and a blast (i.e. FUN) to drive. Found this one in a parking garage downtown Stuttgart in pristine condition. Seeing this one brought back some fond memories.
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Marseillan is a commune in the Hérault department in southern France.
It lies some 50 km (31 mi) west of Montpellier.
Marseillan sits on a large salt-water lake, the Étang de Thau and is the southern Entreport for the legendary 'Canal du Midi'.
The region around the Bassin de Thau is well known for its oyster culture.
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Marseillan (occitan Massilhàn) est une commune française, située dans le département de l'Hérault et la région Languedoc-Roussillon. Depuis le 31 décembre 2002, elle fait partie de la communauté d'agglomération du Bassin de Thau.
Le terroir en Bassin de Thau est bien connu pour sa ostréiculture.
A Marseillan, le Canal du Midi achève paisiblement son périple dans l’Etang de Thau devant la 'pointe des Onglous'.
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Marseillan ist eine französische Gemeinde im Département Hérault in der Region Languedoc-Roussillon..
Der französische Fischerort liegt ca. 50 Kilometer entfernt von Montpellier an der Mittelmeerküste. Weitere anliegende Gewässer sind der Canal du Midi und der Étang de Thau. Dieser ist bekannt für seine Austernzucht.
Bei Marseillan, am 'pointe des Onglus', beendet der legendäre Canal du Midi gemächlich seine
240 km lange Reise und fließt in das Bassin von Thau.
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Wishing you a lovely week ahead, dear friends.
Due to a long weekend (today is a holiday, Day of German Unity ) I haven't been onFlickr.
We had such a fantastic sunny and warm weather which I used for some nice bicycle tours.
Je vous souhaite une bonne semaine, mes amie)s.
Ich wünsche allen FlickrFreunden eine schöne neue Woche.
Sturgeon (from Old English styrġa ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *str̥(Hx)yón-) is the common name for the 28 species of fish belonging to the family Acipenseridae. The earliest sturgeon fossils date to the Late Cretaceous, and are descended from other, earlier acipenseriform fish, which date back to the Early Jurassic period, some 174 to 201 million years ago. They are one of two living families of the Acipenseriformes alongside paddlefish (Polyodontidae). The family is grouped into four genera: Acipenser (which is paraphyletic, containing many distantly related sturgeon species), Huso, Scaphirhynchus, and Pseudoscaphirhynchus. Two species (A. naccarii and A. dabryanus) may be extinct in the wild, and one (P. fedtschenkoi) may be entirely extinct. Sturgeons are native to subtropical, temperate and sub-Arctic rivers, lakes and coastlines of Eurasia and North America. A Maastrichtian-age fossil found in Morocco shows that they also once lived in Africa.
Sturgeons are long-lived, late-maturing fishes with distinctive characteristics, such as a heterocercal caudal fin similar to those of sharks, and an elongated, spindle-like body that is smooth-skinned, scaleless, and armored with five lateral rows of bony plates called scutes. Several species can grow quite large, typically ranging 2–3.5 m (7–12 ft) in length. The largest sturgeon on record was a beluga female captured in the Volga Delta in 1827, measuring 7.2 m (23 ft 7 in) long and weighing 1,571 kg (3,463 lb). Most sturgeons are anadromous bottom-feeders, migrating upstream to spawn but spending most of their lives feeding in river deltas and estuaries. Some species inhabit freshwater environments exclusively, while others primarily inhabit marine environments near coastal areas, and are known to venture into open ocean.
Several species of sturgeon are harvested for their roe, which is processed into the luxury food caviar. This has led to serious overexploitation, which combined with other conservation threats, has brought most of the species to critically endangered status, at the edge of extinction.
Yanosteus longidorsalis, a member of the extinct acipenseriform family Peipiaosteidae from the Early Cretaceous (125–120 Mya) Yixian Formation in Liaoning, China
Acipenseriform fishes appeared in the fossil record some 174 to 201 million years ago, during the Early Jurassic, making them some of the earliest extant actinopterygian fishes.[5] True sturgeons appear in the fossil record during the Upper Cretaceous, with amongst the oldest known remains being a partial skull from the Cenomanian (100–94 million years ago) of Alberta, Canada. In that time, sturgeons have undergone remarkably little morphological change, indicating their evolution has been exceptionally slow and earning them informal status as living fossils. This is explained in part by the long generation interval, tolerance for wide ranges of temperature and salinity, lack of predators due to size and bony plated armor, or scutes, and the abundance of prey items in the benthic environment. They do, however, still share several primitive characteristics, such as heterocercal tail, reduced squamation, more fin rays than supporting bony elements, and unique jaw suspension.
Despite the existence of a fossil record, full classification and phylogeny of the sturgeon species has been difficult to determine, in part due to the high individual and ontogenic variation, including geographical clines in certain features, such as rostrum shape, number of scutes, and body length. A further confounding factor is the peculiar ability of sturgeons to produce reproductively viable hybrids, even between species assigned to different genera. While ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii) have a long evolutionary history culminating in the most familiar fishes, past adaptive evolutionary radiations have left only a few survivors, such as sturgeons and gars.
The wide range of the acipenserids and their endangered status have made collection of systematic materials difficult. The factors have led researchers in the past to identify over 40 additional species that were rejected by later scientists. Whether the species in the Acipenser and Huso genera are monophyletic (descended from one ancestor) or paraphyletic (descended from many ancestors) is still unclear, though the morphologically motivated division between these two genera clearly is not supported by the genetic evidence. An effort is ongoing to resolve the taxonomic confusion using a continuing synthesis of systematic data and molecular techniques.
The phylogeny of Acipenseridae, as in the cladogram, shows that they evolved from the bony fishes. Approximate dates are from Near et al., 2012.
The stone for the project was shipped piece by piece from India, where craftsmen had sculptured it into more than 500 designs including rosettes, leaves, feathers and lacy geometric patterns. The thousands of sections, ranging from five ounces to five tons, each with its own bar code, have been assembled like a giant jigsaw puzzle based on instructions for religious buildings written into scripture thousands of years old.
Although the engineers said they had not counted the number of pieces they used, a mandir in London that served as a model for the Lilburn building required more than 26,000 individual parts.
The price tag for the project, $19 million, has been kept down by the thousands of hours of volunteer labor donated by congregants of the BAPS Swaminarayan temple in Clarkston, Ga., who will move from a converted skating rink when the temple is completed in August. For more than two years homemakers and retirees have been polishing the stonework by hand and cooking for the construction workers. Hundreds of volunteers installed more than 50,000 plants for the landscaping.
From The New York Times