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Newts tend to mate during early spring. Capturing them in the act requires enormous patience, good peripheral vision and luck. If the 20 second introductory ritual proves satisfactory to both parties, the male forcibly grabs the female from behind, as seen in this photo. Within several seconds they entwine into a ball and rapidly swirl to the bottom.
In order to photograph this phenomenon, one must remain completely still, overlooking the water for an extended period. Newts aren’t frightened by large shapes but rather by motion.
A person who resists the urge to reposition might as well be tree. But scratching an itch could send the eager partners fleeting in different directions. The trick is to watch for one newt approaching another, then focus and wait to see what happens.
Once at the water’s bottom, the male deposited his sperm package on a leaf for his partner to uptake through an opening called a cloaca, leading to her sex organ.
Though not a very romantic union, the birthing process is surprisingly tender. The female lays 2 or 3 eggs per day, gently nestling them in floating plant roots for protection. Hatchlings remain there until ready to venture forth.
The fertile valley of the Nyang chu River, which is the principal tributary of the Yarlung Tsangpo ཡར་ཀླུངས་གཙང་པོ་ or Brahmaputra in Tsang, The valley is divided into upper and lower reaches; Upper Nyang, corresponding to present-day Gyantse county, and Lower Nyang to Panam county. Upper Nyang therefore extends from the watershed of the Khari La pass as far as the town of Gyantse, and includes the peripheral valleys formed by the tributaries Nyeru Tsangpo, Lu chu, and Narong Dung chu.
The county capital is at Gyantse, a strategic intersection of great historic importance.
Area: 3.595 sq km.
I broke my cardinal rule here about not allowing dappled sunlight to fall across a model's face. But Katie's unrelenting gaze and the absurdity of the wolf head mask brought about a strong Diane Arbus vibe. Nothing mattered except the scene before me, and I wasn't about to start tweaking it. I shot the photo before even a single thing changed. The effect is an ambiguous feeling of more questions than answers.
Zamosc. Eastern Poland.
Picture No: 2021-09-16-1459_P_FS
Edited in Canon DPP 4:
peripheral illumination: incresed to 80
white balance adjusted
brightness: +1.33
contrast: +1
shadow: +1
Not cropped. No photomontage.
Framed in Photoshop 6
This second photograph (taken a considerable distance away) shows the Wildcat in typical habitat moving stealthily along the edge of a natural clearing but in the peripheral zone of a large forest. It also shows the diagnostic ginger markings on its legs, banded round, black tipped tail and the three lines over the back of its head. Wildcats only have stripes on the body, no blotchy markings. They are largely crepuscular and nocturnal. This male was seen patrolling his range in the last light of day. Wildcats have good vision in poor light as well as sensitive hearing. Early March is a good time to see them because it is the end of the breeding season and grass (sometimes covered in snow) is short. However, they are rarely seen.
Classic Cars in the Park 2023
Car Show at Hutton-in-the-Forest
Cumbria, northern England
Picture No: 2023-06-04-7963_P5_FM
Edited in Canon DPP 4:
Digital lens optimizer: Yes (50)
Diffraction correction: Yes
Chromatic aberration: Yes (100)
Color blur: Yes
Peripheral illumination: Yes (66)
Distortion: Yes (100)
Brightness: -0.17
White balance: Auto (White priority)
Fine tune: Not changed (0.0 / 0.0)
Picture style: Neutral
Gamma: Auto (Not changed)
Contrast: 0
Shadow: +4
Highlight: -2
Color tone: 0
Color saturation: 0
Sharpness: Yes (Unsharp mask)
Strength: 5
Fineness: 3
Thresholt: 5
Cropping: Yes, cropped (a lot)
Angle: -11
No photomontage
Colors not changed
Framed in Photoshop 6
Parque nacional de Ordesa y Monte Perdido, Sobrarbe, Huesca, Aragón, España.
El parque nacional de Ordesa y Monte Perdido (en aragonés Parque nacional d'Ordesa y d'as Tres Serols) está ubicado en el Pirineo oscense, íntegramente en la comarca del Sobrarbe, Aragón (España). Se reparte entre los términos municipales de Broto, Bielsa, Fanlo, Puértolas, Tella-Sin y Torla-Ordesa. Recibe una media de más de 600 000 visitantes al año.
Su superficie ocupa 15 608 ha y la zona de protección periférica cuenta con 19 679 ha. Su altitud oscila entre los 700 m s. n. m. en el río Bellós y los 3348 m s. n. m. del Monte Perdido.5
Es el segundo parque nacional más antiguo de España tras ser declarado el 16 de agosto de 1918 mediante el Real Decreto 16-08-1918 con el nombre de «Valle de Ordesa». Con 598 950 visitantes anualmente (2015), el parque nacional de Ordesa y Monte Perdido es el séptimo parque nacional de España en número de visitantes. El 13 de julio de 1982 se amplió y se reclasificó bajo el nombre actual.
Actualmente goza de diferentes figuras de protección aparte de la de parque nacional, en 1977 se declaró Reserva de la Biosfera, en 1988 Zona de Especial Protección para las Aves y en 1997 Patrimonio de la Humanidad por la Unesco. Es también Lugar de Importancia Comunitaria.
The Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park (in Aragonese Ordesa National Park and d'as Tres Serols) is located in the Pyrenees of Huesca, entirely in the Sobrarbe region, Aragon (Spain). It is distributed among the municipalities of Broto, Bielsa, Fanlo, Puértolas, Tella-Sin and Torla-Ordesa. It receives an average of more than 600,000 visitors a year.
Its surface occupies 15 608 ha and the peripheral protection zone has 19 679 ha. Its altitude ranges between 700 m s. n. m. in the Bellós river and the 3348 m s. n. m. of Monte Perdido. 5
It is the second oldest national park in Spain after being declared on August 16, 1918 by Royal Decree 16-08-1918 with the name of "Valle de Ordesa." With 598,950 visitors annually (2015), the national park Ordesa y Monte Perdido is the seventh national park in Spain in number of visitors. On July 13, 1982 it was expanded and reclassified under the current name.
It currently enjoys different protection figures apart from the national park, in 1977 it was declared a Biosphere Reserve, in 1988 a Special Protection Area for Birds and in 1997 a World Heritage Site by Unesco. It is also a Site of Community Importance. .
El río ácido Tintillo (no confundir con el río Tinto) es un ejemplo excepcional del impacto ambiental de la minería metálica históricamente intensiva sobre la calidad del agua de una cuenca hidrológica.
Este río está formado exclusivamente por lixiviados de aguas ácidas (pH 2,4-4,0) procedentes de escombreras, balsas de lodos y galerías mineras de los alrededores de Corta Atalaya (minas de Río Tinto, Huelva, España). La enorme acumulación de estos residuos mineros que tuvo lugar durante los siglos XIX y XX se llevó a cabo sin ningún tipo de perspectiva medioambiental. Los montones de escombros y las pilas de desechos no tienen sistemas de cobertura o revestimiento, canales de drenaje periféricos o sitios revegetados. Además, todos estos desechos se ubicaron originalmente en la cabecera de los valles adyacentes a las operaciones de la mina, por lo que en realidad constituyen las áreas de nacimiento de varios manantiales que forman el río Tintillo.
Así, las aguas de este río presentan, desde los mismos puntos de descarga, condiciones físicas y químicas extremas que impiden la presencia de la mayoría de las formas de vida acuática. Sin embargo, este río ofrece una oportunidad única para estudiar las características geoquímicas, mineralógicas y microbiológicas de los típicos sistemas acuosos de sulfato ácido relacionados con el drenaje de minas, incluida la adaptación de los microorganismos extremófilos (eucariotas y procariotas) a estas condiciones ambientales extremas. La comunidad de algas y bacterias existente muestra una gran capacidad no solo para determinar la evolución geoquímica aguas abajo de las aguas ácidas (p. ej., oxidando el hierro disuelto, reduciendo las cargas de sulfato y metal mediante la precipitación de ocre), sino también para formar bioconstrucciones únicas (estromatolitos) que sólo se puede observar en estos ambientes ácidos.
Luego de emerger en la zona minera, el río Tintillo desciende durante 10 km y finalmente desemboca en el río Odiel. En esta confluencia tienen lugar varios procesos tras los cuales el río Odiel se vuelve severamente contaminado con grandes cantidades de acidez y metales disueltos transferidos por el río Tintillo. El pH de las aguas del Odiel cae bruscamente desde circumneutral hasta alrededor de 3.
The Tintillo acid river represents an exceptional example of environmental impact of historically intensive metal mining on the water quality of an hydrological basin. This river is exclusively formed by leachates of acidic water (pH 2.4-4.0) emerging from the base of huge waste-rock piles and tailings ponds situated in the surroundings of the Corta Atalaya open pit (Rio Tinto mines, Huelva, Spain). The enormous accumulation of these pyrite-bearing mine wastes which took place during the 19th and 20th centuries was conducted without any kind of environmental perspective. The spoil heaps and waste piles do not have any cover or liner systems, peripheral drainage channels or revegetated sites. Moreover, all these wastes were originally situated at the head of the valleys adjacent to the mine operations, so that they actually constitute the source areas of several springs which form the Tintillo river. Thus, the waters of this river present, from the same discharge points, extreme physical and chemical conditions which preclude the presence of most forms of aquatic life. However, this river offers a unique opportunity to study the geochemical, mineralogical and microbiological features of typical acid-sulphate aqueous systems related to mine drainage, including the adaptation of extremophile microorganisms (eukaryotic and prokaryotic) to these extreme environmental conditions. The existing algal and bacterial community shows a strong capacity not only to determine the downstream geochemical evolution of the acidic waters (e.g., oxidizing the dissolved iron, reducing the sulphate and metal loads by ochre precipitation), but also to form unique bioconstructions (Festromatolites) which can only be observed in these acidic environments. After emerging in the mining area, the Tintillo river flows downstream during 10 km and is finally discharged into the Odiel river. At this confluence, several geochemical and mineralogical processes typical of acid mine watercircumneutral water interaction take place. After this interaction, the Odiel river becomes severely polluted with large amounts of acidity and dissolved metals transfered by the Tintillo river. The pH of the Odiel waters drops sharply from circumneutral to around 3.
Información de: www.researchgate.net/publication/235355068_The_Tintillo_a...
www.flickr.com/photos/banco_imagenes_geologicas/477338286...
Aunque ya tenía situado en el mapa el curso del río gracias a la información del geólogo Nacho Benbenuty Cabral, la dificultad de acceder a él por caminos adecuados se ha convertido en una larga espera para visitarlo. Agradezco la amabilidad de los compañeros fotógrafos de la zona: José Mari D. Barba y José Manuel Fernández PiPo que nos mostraron el camino.
Ha merecido la pena, solo decir que no hay ningún exceso en la coloración y formas fotográficas de algas, sedimentos y aguas de este río.
Bees gathering pollen from the center. Grasshoppers chewing on the musk thistle leaves (plates) peripherally. Macro, Summer Morning Light, Colorado.
Zamosc, eastern Poland.
Picture No: 2022-01-15-5476_P4_Scr_05_FS
Screenshot while computer working on editing.
Edited in Canon DPP 4:
Digital lens optimizer: No (0)
Diffraction correction: Yes
Chromatic aberration: Yes (100)
Color blur: No
Peripheral illumination: Yes (increased to 120)
Distortion: Yes (100)
Brightness: 0
White balance: Auto (White priority)
Fine tune: Not changed (0.0 / 0.0)
Picture style: Neutral
Gamma: Auto (Not changed)
Contrast: -4
Shadow: +5
Highlight: -5
Color tone: 0
Color saturation: -5
Sharpness: Yes (Unsharp mask)
Strength: 3
Fineness: 1
Thresholt: 3
Cropping: A few pixels cropped
Angle: -0.70.
No photomontage.
Colors not changed
Framed in Photoshop 6
Credits:
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DOUX - Peach hairstyle
(Yummy) Layered Rose Necklace
kotte - frappuccino
Addams // Braava Denim Jacket // N*36
Addams // Braava Jogger Pants // N*30
Addams // Bunny Golden Star Sneakers // N*30
Addams // Braava Crop Top // N*30
*AvaWay* CARRIE Earrings
Focus. Slflix & Chill Backdrop /
Bee designs Giovanna Bedroom gacha 7
Little Bee The Music of the night gacha 5
Le Poppycock *Altered State* Peripherals (Cat)
Le Poppycock *Spring Fever* From Blossom to Blossom (Cat)
hive // my heart pillow
Scarlet Creative Brooklyn Plant
-BigBear- Autumn Corner - Basket 02
Kraftwork Shabby Console Desk . Laptop
[SHIFUKU]peach tin with flowers (gift)
♫♬♪♩Saturday Night Fever • Night Fever • Bee Gees
P!nk - Get The Party Started (Official Video)
Rihanna - Don't Stop The Music
MADONNA – MUSIC (Official Music Video)
Alcazar - Crying At The Discoteque (Official Video)
Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Murder On The Dancefloor
Usher - DJ Got Us Fallin' In Love (Official Music Video) ft. Pitbull
A White-tailed buck has his attention drawn to something in the distance while keeping his peripheral vision and ears focused on me.
Zamosc, eastern Poland.
Picture No: 2022-01-13-5444_P3_FS
Edited in Canon DPP 4:
Digital lens optimizer: Yes (17.2)
Diffraction correction: Yes
Chromatic aberration: Yes (100)
Color blur: Yes
Peripheral illumination: Yes (increased to 100)
Distortion: Yes (100)
Brightness: +0.17
White balance: Auto (White priority)
Fine tune: Not changed (0.0 / 0.0)
Picture style: Neutral
Gamma: Auto (Not changed)
Contrast: +1
Shadow: +1
Highlight: -1
Color saturation: 0
Sharpness: Yes (Unsharp mask)
Strength: 3
Fineness: 1
Thresholt: 3
Cropping: A few pixels cropped
Angle: -0.50.
No photomontage.
Colors not changed
Framed in Photoshop 6
Silesians. Czernica. South Poland.
Picture No: 2021-10-09-2796_P_FS
Edited in Canon DPP 4:
white balance adjusted
brightness: +2.17
contrast: +1
shadow: 0
highlight: +1
peripheral illumination: 20
Not cropped.
No photomontage.
Framed in Photoshop 6
Bus and Tag is an "IBM standard for a computer peripheral interface", [IBM Corporation. "IBM Terminology 'O'" IBM Globalization.] and was commonly used to connect mainframe computers to peripheral devices such as line printers, disk storage, magnetic tape drives and IBM 3270 display controllers.
My husband collects such things, along with instruction books and manuals. He optimistically gave me a related old manual to read, and I looked for a verb to understand a sentence.
But basically, these are #pins that connect to whatchamacallits. Back in the day.
About 2 inches /5 cm (see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_and_Tag#/media/File:IBM_360_Bus... ) for size.
First climbed by Henry Russell in 1865. Not a great shot - and I wonder if the manual lens setting was wrong, as the peripheral quality of the image is really poor - but, the clouds had a specific quality over the Marboré, which in turn was delivering waterfalls of fresh water from melt and rain...
An interesting Wiki text:
"Le fait qu'il soit le plus haut massif calcaire d'Europe possède également une flore très unique. Sur les quelque 3500 espèces de plantes vasculaires que l'on trouve dans les Pyrénées , seules 150 sont capables de dépasser 3000 m d'altitude, et parmi celles-ci, 95 ont été localisées dans les 34 "intrusions" du massif du Monte Perdido et à proximité. Seuls les trois points des Gabietos en rassemblent une demi-centaine."
The Gabietos of the text are after the Brèche de Roland, so a little way from the Cylindre, and closer to the Tailllon, but they are from the same sedimentary massif, and the data remains stunning. Even quite late in the season - June, July - snow is melting at high altitude, and blooms of flowers can be seen on the wet mats of new green. By August the landscape on the Spanish side can seem dry, brown and, but for the occasional spring, very mineral.
AJ
The view from the kitchen window of a long abandoned farmhouse near Shabbona,IL.Historical satellite views of this farm from 1999 show it in pretty much the same condition-the fine old barn has collapsed now however-so this view has been pretty much the same for awhile now.One exception:the farm across the road has been obliterated,leaving this decaying hulk alone in its misery...
I did not put the "tilt" in this picture,the kitchen appeared to be an addition at some point and it had decided to "separate from the rest of the house"....
impressions @ riverside
Every war is the senseless destruction of lives
in the interests of the arms industry and a few deranged fanatics!
This man was in a rather chaotic scene, and seemed detached from it. Captured during Slutwalk - Jerusalem June 2021
(pn:st/urbflash)
Ospreys have four types of colour receptors in the eye allowing them to perceive ultraviolet light as well as the “visible light' we see. They have a high density of receptors in their eyes giving them clearer and sharper vision then human eyes. Like us they have binocular eyesight but with better peripheral vision than us. They account for the “refractive index” of water, making fish appear at a slightly different location when viewed from above the water surface, in estimating the exact location and depth of fish they prey on by executing steep dives. More interesting, recent studies are suggesting that ospreys, like most migrating birds, have cryptochromes proteins in their eyes that may allow them to perceive the earth’s magnetic fields; a magnetoreception sense that is thought to give birds directional information during migrations. However, cracking a smile is not in this bird's genes. Kingston, Ontario, Canada