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I sang this to the boys when they were babies:
All the things you said to me today,
Change my perspective in every way.
These things count to mean so much to me,
Into my faith, you and your baby.
It's out there. It's out there.
It's out there. If you want me I'll be here.
I'll be dreaming my dreams with you.
I'll be dreaming my dreams with you.
And there's no other place,
That I'd lay down my face.
I'll be dreaming my dreams with you.
It's out there. It's out there.
It's out there. If you want me I'll be here...
I'll be dreaming my dreams with you.
I'll be dreaming my dreams with you.
And there's no other place,
That I'd lay down my face.
I'll be dreaming my dreams with you.
Dreaming my dreams with you.
I'll be dreaming my dreams with you.
And there's no other place,
That I'd lay down my face.
I'll be dreaming my dreams with you.
...night night!
RAMMSTEIN
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SONISPHERE FESTIVAL
25/26/27 JUNE 2010 BJK INONU (İNÖNÜ) STADIUM
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Wasser ist nach wie vor ein schönes Thema an diesem heißen Wochenende. Gestern abend war ich mit Peter auf Fotosafari im Großen Garten von Herrenhausen. Ein wunderschöner und lustiger Abend war's :-) Ich bin mir sicher, daß in Peters Photostream auch noch tolle Bilder von gestern erscheinen werden.
Die große Fontäne im Herrenhäuser Garten hat eine lange technische Geschichte, die mehreren Fontainenmeister den Job kosteten. Erst 1696 kam Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz auf die Idee, die Leine aufzustauen und mit einem das Gefälle nutzenden Pumpwerk die Wasserversorgung der Gartenanlage zu sichern.
Aus England kamen der Mechaniker Andrews sowie der Kunstmeister Joseph Cleeves mit seinem Sohn Johann, die, nachdem andere Mechaniker gescheitert waren, mit der Realisierung betraut wurden. Zur Einweihung 1719 kam der König von England, Georg I., nach Hannover.
Statt der erhofften zwanzig war der Wasserstrahl der Fontäne jedoch nur enttäuschende fünf Meter hoch. Der französische Mechaniker Desagulier erkannte den Fehler: Das Verbindungsrohr vom Bassin war nicht gekrümmt, sondern rechtwinklig gebogen. Im September 1720 waren die Arbeiten endlich beendet. Joseph Cleeves und sein Sohn wurden bei der Stadt als Kunstmeister angestellt, um die Funktionalität auf Dauer zu gewährleisten.
Die Große Fontäne erreicht erstmals 1721 eine Höhe von ungefähr 36 Metern, die Leistung wurde in den Folgejahren bis auf etwa 70 Meter gesteigert; durch Einsatz einer Ringdüse wird ein Hohlstrahl erzeugt. Das als Wasserkunst bezeichnete Pumpwerk liegt außerhalb der Gartenanlage und ist heute ein funktionsfähiges technisches Denkmal.
Quelle: Wikipedia
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Detail from the large fountain into the Herrenhausen Gardens in Hannover. The large fountain which can, with optimal weather conditions, reach a maximum height of 80 meter.
This is one of artist Dale Chihuly's glass art displays at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, Arizona. The exhibition at the Garden is named "Chihuly: The Nature of Glass" and Chihuly's work is displayed from November 22, 2008 to May 31, 2009. The Nature of Glass exhibit features new and unique works of glass artfully located throughout the Garden. Dale Chihuly is known for his innovative glass sculptures, and his work is immediately recognizable for its grand scale and vibrant colors. This is Chihuly's first exhibition in an outdoor desert environment.
“The artist permits and encourages photography of the artwork in this exhibition for educational and non-commercial use only.”
INFORMATION ON ARTIST DALE CHIHULY:
Dale Patrick Chihuly (b. September 20, 1941 in Tacoma, Washington, United States) is an American glass sculptor. Chihuly graduated from high school in Tacoma. Supported by his mother, after his brother George's death in a flight-training accident in Florida and his father's death of a heart attack, he enrolled at the College of the Puget Sound (now University of Puget Sound) in 1959.
In 1967, he received a Master of Science in sculpture from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Chihuly lives and works in his 25,000 square foot (2300 m²) studio, nicknamed "The Boathouse" for its former use, on Lake Union. Since losing the vision in one of his eyes in a car accident in 1976, Chihuly (who wears an eyepatch) no longer has the depth perception necessary to handle the molten glass himself. Instead, he conceptualizes each project with paint and canvas and then employs a team of artists to do the work.
About his work: His fascination with abstract nature forms comes from his mother's garden in Tacoma, Washington. One of his sculptures would be prominently displayed on the sitcom Frasier, which is set in nearby Seattle. His love for the ocean and its creatures is also reflected in his art.
Over the past forty years, Chihuly's glass sculptures have explored color, design, and assemblage. Although his work varies in size and color, he is best known for his multipart blown masterpieces. Also interested in Irish culture, he has produced a sizeable volume of "Irish cylinders," which are more modest in conception than his blown glass works.
Some of Chihuly's works cover whole ceilings of casinos and hotels, while others are hand-sized abstract flowers. Chihuly uses intense colors to bring his work to life. He is also known for using neon and argon.
Chihuly uses nature as a setting for his pieces, and tries to create his pieces as though they are part of nature. He sometimes entwines his pieces around tree branches and trunks. He also suspends them in space and floats them in water. Although it is not widely known, some components of Chihuly's installations (for example, the stacked aqua-colored chunks that decorate the Tacoma "Bridge of Glass") are made of an acrylic-type material rather than glass.
Source: Wikipedia
INFORMATION ABOUT THE DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN:
Nestled amid the red buttes of Papago Park, the Desert Botanical Garden hosts one of the world’s finest collections of desert plants. One of only 44 botanical gardens accredited by the American Association of Museums, this one-of-a-kind museum showcases 50 acres of beautiful outdoor exhibits. Home to 139 rare, threatened and endangered plant species from around the world, the Garden offers interesting and inspiring experiences to more than 300,000 visitors each year.
A charter member of the Museum Association of Arizona and National Center for Plant Conservation, the Garden is fully accredited with the American Association of Museums and American Association of Botanical Gardens and Arboreta. It continues to build on its 63-year legacy of environmental stewardship, and has become nationally and internationally renowned for its plant collections, research and educational programs.
Source: www.dbg.org/index.php/about
La Jara Pringosa es un arbusto de hasta 2,5 m de altura, cuyas hojas, alargadas y estrechas están abundantemente impregnadas de una sustancia pegajosa, el ládano, resina fuertemente olorosa, que les da un aspecto brillante y se adhiere fácilmente a las manos y ropa. Sus flores son muy grandes (10 cm) y con cinco pétalos blancos que, en la variedad maculatus, presentan una mancha púrpura en la base.
Reino: Plantae
Subreino: Tracheobionta
División: Magnoliophyta
Clase: Magnoliopsida
Orden: Malvales
Familia: Cistaceae
Genero: Cistus
Especie: Cistus ladanifer
Propiedades:
El ládano (resina) se tomaba en jarabes para la tos.
Como linimento se usa diluido en alcohol.
Datos de la toma:
1/250 s - f/8 - ISO 100
HDR para los petalos y textura para el fondo.
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Gay & Lesbian Pride March 2010
It’s back in 2010, the event that stops traffic… On Sunday February 7th, the 15th annual Pride March takes over Fitzroy St, St Kilda in a blaze of colour, noise and movement!
Pride March 2010 is an open air celebration culminating in a Pride March down Fitzroy Street St Kilda and finishing with performances on the foreshore. Pride March is to express courage, solidarity, pride, diversity and a strong sense of community.
Gay & Lesbian Pride March
Down Fitzroy Street to Catani Gardens
Sunday 7 February 2010
Fitzroy St, St Kilda Victoria 3182 Australia.
Telephone: 03 9513 3054
Turning 30 in 2010, St Kilda Festival is one of Australia’s best known and Melbourne’s most loved events. It utilises St Kilda’s stunning foreshore and celebrates the cream of Australia’s musical talents.
Saturday 6 February is Yalukit Wilam Ngargee: People, Place Gathering, an outdoor Indigenous festival featuring music, dance, children’s activities and more that welcomes people to St Kilda for the week ahead, O’Donnell Gardens.
From 7-13 February experience Live N Local: St Kilda venues throw open their doors to host a variety of local bands, musicians, performers, artists and comedians in a series of one off and special events - everything you love about St Kilda and more.
Have an Egg for Easter!!
I am almost certain this is a Dogwood bloom!! The tree looked like full of little nests full of eggs!!! A shot from Bronx Botanical Garden that I visited on Thursday!!
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Úbeda, Jaén (Spain).
ENGLISH
The main parish church of Santa María de los Reales Alcázares displays the most significant mixture of architectural styles, to be found in the city. The buildings historic and artistic patronage is complex and its solid external appearance is of a defensive fortification.
Built on an archaeological site where remains of bronze and Roman civilisations have been found, the Church rests of the foundations of the main mosque of Muslim Úbeda. According to tradition the Romans built a temple here dedicated to Diane. After the conquest of the town by Ferdinand II the Saint, in 1223, the Mosque was consecrated in the Catholic faith with the title High Parish Church of the Royal Alcazares and of Our Lady of the Ascension. In 1259 it achieved the rank of High Collegiate Church. In 1852 the Church's collegiate rank was withdrawn, reversing to the rank of High Parish Church. Being the principal temple of the city, it has preserved important archives and a multitude of treasures. The latter being donations and numerous priviledges bestowed by Popes, Kings and bishops.
Its external appearance blends Medieval and Classicist styles. Being built on to the ols walls of the fortress, Santa María church has been the main witness to the great changes and strife of Úbeda. Today it still offers a special attraction to the town which is due to its great historical character and the population's identification with its heritage.
Source: www.ubedainteresa.com/portal/
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CASTELLANO
Asentada sobre un subsuelo arqueológico de la Edad del Bronce, y con mínimas diferencias ocupando el emplazamiento dé la antigua mezquita mayor de la ciudad, la tradición dice que en el mismo sitio los romanos tuvieron un templo dedicado a Diana.
Tras la conquista de la ciudad en 1233 por el rey cristiano Fernando III el Santo, la entonces mezquita fue transformada al culto católico bajo la advocación de Iglesia Mayor Parroquial de los Reales Alcázares y de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción. Desde 1259 fue titulada Iglesia Mayor Colegial y desde 1852 ostenta el título de Iglesia Mayor Parroquial.
Iglesia principal de la ciudad, durante siglos ha conservado un importante archivo y multitud de obras de arte y joyas, fruto de donaciones y de numerosos privilegios concedidos por reyes, papas y obispos.
Con una imagen exterior entre medieval y clasicista, adosada al primitivo muro del alcázar, Santa María ha sido la iglesia que históricamente más movimiento y ajetreo ha tenido de toda la ciudad, y aún hoy sigue ofreciendo para el ciudadano de Úbeda una atracción especial que le viene dada por su fuerte carácter histórico y el grado de identificación conseguido con la ciudad y sus habitantes, al albergar desde los meses de mayo a septiembre a la Stma. Virgen de Guadalupe, patrona de la ciudad.
Fuente: www.ubedainteresa.com/portal/
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Hoy una gota de agua se ha puesto el traje de fiesta transparente e invisible como el aire, y sobre su cuello ha dejado de señal su collarcito de Anabaena, allí, ingrávido, sus perlas verdes se mueven silenciosas y ondean lentamente unidas por el hilo de la vida al soplo de las corrientes del agua.
Anabaena es una cianobacteria, una alga verdeazulada. Ancestral, tan antigua como los primeros seres vivos que florecieron de la nada en las aguas de la Tierra cuando la vida era excepción, también futurista como los últimos que desaparecerán con ella. Ha acompañado a nuestra nave azul en épocas de calma y de también de convulsión y es capaz de soportar ambientes extremos, aguantando heladas intensas y soportando temperaturas superiores a los 70ºC.
Anabaena va añadiendo cuentas al collar que adorna esta gota de agua,como mago sin chistera y de cada una va haciendo poco a poco dos, como si nada, así se teje su vida entre las manos de la corriente que la lleva en volandas por el infinito del Lago de Sanabria.
Todas las cuentas de los collarcitos de Anabaena, dejan espacio, a intervalos regulares, para que otras gemas, los “heterocistes”, células perfectamente esféricas y algo mayores que las demás, se destaquen, y lo hagan tanto por su forma y tamaño, como por su función. Los heterocistes se encargan de fijar el nitrógeno, que procedente de la atmósfera, se ha disuelto en el agua y de esta forma constituyen uno de los primeros eslabones para la formación de proteínas.
Anabaena es verdeazulada, como una turquesa teñida de cielo, de su luz toma la energía para realizar la fotosíntesis y del aire y el agua el nitrógeno que recorrerá las vidas de otros seres. La vida en el Planeta se ha hecho posible gracias a cianobacterias como ellas que transformaron una atmósfera irrespirable en la que tenemos desde hace millones de años.
Anabaena es un mucho más que un collarcito que va creciendo cuenta a cuenta mientras se da un paseo por la vida y adorna el cuello de fiesta de las gotas de agua.
La especie de hoy Anabaena planctonica flota enfundada en su traje transparente de mucílago, casi invisible, pero eficaz y protector, evitará que sus cuentas se desgranen y se caigan despistadas hacia el fondo.
Al igual que otras cianobacterias Anabaena se defiende fabricando potentes sustancias neurotóxicas -anatoxina, saxitoxina y microcystina- que provocan graves daños en el sistema nervioso, lesiones hepáticas irreversibles o incluso la muerte a los animales que se alimentan de las plantas con las que puede llegar a establecer simbiosis. Anabaena ha establecido estos estrechos vínculos de amistad, una amistad con la que defiende su vida y la de sus amigos .
Anabaena planctonica vive en aguas estancadas en las que puede formar parte del plancton y crecer de forma explosiva si las condiciones para ella son favorables y se cita por vez primera para el Lago de Sanabria desde esta galería
La fotografía de hoy, realizada a 400 aumentos empleando la técnica de contraste de interferencia, se ha tomado sobre
una muestra recolectada a cinco metros de profundidad, el 30 de agosto de 2015, por Laura, Mª José y Tomás en las
inmediaciones de la Isla de Moras en el Lago de Sanabria (Zamora), desde el catamarán Helios Sanabria el primer
catamarán construido en el Planeta propulsado por energía eólica y solar.
presentación ponencia congreso internacional de Limnología
informes de contaminación en el Lago de Sanabria
la contaminación en el Lago de Sanabria
Lumbier, Navarra (Spain).
ENGLISH
The Foz de Lumbier is carved out of the limestone rock by the river Irati at the western end of the Leyre range of mountains, at the foot of the Navarrese Pyrenees. It is one of the most spectacular gorges in Navarre, a landscape created over millions of years by the waters of the river Irati, which have left their mark on this sanctuary of nature day by day. The gorge was declared a Nature Reserve in 1987.
Lumbier is a narrow and small gorge, just 1,300 metres long, but of spectacular beauty. Its vertical walls reach a maximum height of 150 metres and large birds of prey live in the cracks and ledges, with species such as griffon vultures whose flights will accompany you in your visit to the gorge. It is also a refuge for foxes, boar, badgers and owls, and is strewn with gall and kermes oaks and bushes such as thyme, lavender and gorse that hang from the cracks, vegetation that is transformed into woods of poplars, willows and ash trees at the entry and exit of the gorge.
In contrast to many other canyons, you can walk through Lumbier along an easy track that runs along the bottom of the cliffs for 2.6 kilometres. The route was created for the old Irati train (the first electric train in Spain) that linked Pamplona with Sangüesa between 1911 and 1955.
The signposted path runs along the river and crosses the rock through two tunnels (206 and 160 metres long) that do not have artificial light. Towards the end of the path the route goes around the rock and reaches the remains of the Puente del Diablo (Devil's Bridge), which was built in the 16th century with a raised arch 15 metres above the river. It was destroyed by the French in 1812 during the War of Independence, and owes its name to a legend that says that its builder asked the devil for help to finish it.
More info: www.visitnavarra.es/eng/organice-viaje/recurso/relacionad...
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CASTELLANO
La foz de Lumbier es un desfiladero excavado por el río Irati sobre la roca caliza en el extremo occidental de la sierra de Leire, al pie del Pirineo navarro. Es una de las gargantas más espectaculares de Navarra, un paisaje labrado a lo largo de millones de años por la acción del río Irati que, día a día, sigue marcando su huella en este santuario de la naturaleza, reserva natural desde 1987.
La de Lumbier es una hoz estrecha y pequeña, de 1.300 metros de longitud, y de una belleza espectacular. Sus paredes verticales alcanzan en su cota máxima 150 metros de altura, y en sus grietas, roturas y repisas viven grandes rapaces, entre los que abundan los buitres leonados, cuyo vuelo le acompañará en su visita al desfiladero. La foz, que también sirve de refugio para zorros, jabalíes, tejones y alimoches, está poblada de quejigos y coscojas, además de arbustos como tomillo, espliego y ollaga que se cuelan por las grietas, vegetación que se transforma en bosques de álamos, sauces y fresnos a la entrada y salida de la foz.
A diferencia de otras gargantas, la de Lumbier puede ser recorrida a través de un sencillo camino que discurre al pie de los acantilados, a lo largo de 2,6 kilómetros. El trazado fue realizado para el tren Irati, el primer tren eléctrico de España, que comunicó Pamplona con Sangüesa entre 1911 y 1955.
El camino está señalizado, discurre junto al río y atraviesa la roca a través de dos túneles, de 206 y 160 metros de longitud, que no poseen luz artificial. En la parte final del sendero, el camino bordea la roca y llega hasta los restos del Puente del Diablo, construido en el siglo XVI, con un arco elevado 15 metros sobre el río. Destruido por los franceses en 1812, durante la Guerra de la Independencia, debe su nombre a una leyenda según la cual su constructor pidió ayuda al diablo para levantar el puente.
Más info: www.visitnavarra.es/esp/organice-viaje/recurso.aspx?o=303...
costruito tra il 114 e il 117 d.C. è un arco trionfale dedicato all'imperatore Traiano in occasione dell'apertura della via Traiana, una variante della via Appia che accorciava il cammino tra Benevento e Brindisi.
Si tratta di un arco a un solo fornice, alto 15,60 m e largo 8,60 m. Su ogni facciata quattro semicolonne, disposte agli angoli dei piloni, sorreggono una trabeazione, che sporge al di sopra del fornice. Oltre le architravi si trova un attico, anch'esso più sporgente nella parte centrale, sopra il fornice, che presenta all'interno un vano coperto da una volta a botte.
È costruito in blocchi di pietra calcarea, rivestiti da opera quadrata in blocchi di marmo pario.
L'arco presenta una ricca decorazione scultorea sulle due facciate principali, con scene che si riferiscono alla pace e alle provvidenze verso i cittadini sul lato interno, rivolto verso la città, e alla guerra e alle provvidenze dell'imperatore verso le province sul lato esterno.
I lati interni del fornice presentano altri due ampi pannelli scolpiti, raffiguranti scene delle attività di Traiano nella città di Benevento.
Sono visibili rapporti abbastanza evidenti tra questi ultimi e il fregio traianeo dell'Arco di Costantino, per cui è stata avanzata l'ipotesi di un'attribuzione, almeno per questi due pannelli, all'officina romana del "Maestro delle Imprese di Traiano", autore della Colonna Traiana.
Esta foto es muy parecida a una que subí anteriormente, y que os la recordaré en el primer comentario, en dicha foto, es más que nada para usarla como fondo de escritorio, y esta que os pongo es un encuadre similar pero esta vez en vertical, y cada vez que hago más fotos verticales sobre el mar, las rocas. Etc., mejor es el resultado, muchas veces le pregunto a mis amigos, que porqué no hacen fotos verticales, y la respuesta es porque no se ve bien en el ordenador, con el tiempo me he dado cuenta que las fotos verticales para sacarlas en papel también quedad muy bien, después de esta reflexión os explicaré el procesado:
Nota: El procesado como siempre, un doble revelado a partir de un mismo RAW, una foto para el cielo y otra para el reflejo, siempre estoy hablando con objetos inteligentes, cuando más o menos he tenido el resultado a mi gusto, he seleccionado la parte del cielo, le he creado una, máscara de capa, he desenfocado las máscara con un desenfoque gaussiano con unos parámetros a gusto del consumidor para unir las dos fotos.
Una vez terminado con el cielo, me he ido al reflejo, aplicando unos ajustes muy similares a los del cielo para que parezca aún más real, después procesado por zonas en la parte del reflejo para obtener más textura aún si cabe, y aplicando sus respectivos desenfoques, cuando más o menos he tenido la foto a mi gusto, he acoplado todo en una foto, luego he duplicado otra vez, le he aplicado un desenfoque gaussiano con un valor de 8 pixeles, y me he ido a capas y le he cambiado el modo de fusión a luz suave, y le he bajado la opacidad a un 20% más o menos, para eliminar un poco la mini aparición de ruido por la parte más oscura.
Cámara: D40
Modo De Exposición: Manual + Trípode
ISO: 200
Velocidad: 0.3
Focal: 19.0 mm
F/ 22.0
Filtro: PL
Objetivo: 18.0-55.0 mm F/ 3.5 -5.6
Procesado: Light room 2
Camera Raw 4.3
Photoshop Cs 3
"Home baked pie" in classical soft focus and blurred vignette background treatment, this is my interpretation of the past; I made it a bit blurry as I may not know how the place may really looked like but in my vision, this is my own rendition.
Feel the melancholy of the past... Image taken at the Heritage Stewart farm house Circa 1894.
The house was beautifully restored by the city council... feel the nostalgia and find out how people lived in the 1800's....
You may say that we are lucky to be born in this modern era, where everything is ready and served and water source is readily available within our reach :o)
Photography © 2010, ™Lisa M., All Rights Reserved
I shot it at the festival of CHHATH.
Chhath Puja is a very joyous and colorful festival. Chhath Puja is the holiest Hindu festival of people in northern India. Mostly the Chhath Puja is being observed in Bihar and Jharkhand(INDIA) and the festival comprises rituals for four days. The Chhath Puja begins a week after Diwali. The word Chat denotes the number six in Hindi. The Chhath Puja begins on the sixth day of the Kartik, a holy month as per Hindu calendar. Some people spell Chath Puja as Chat Puja, Chatt Puja, Chhath festival, etc
Chhath Puja is dedicated to worship the Sun God. The Chhath Puja is known as ‘SuryaShashti’. People observe Chhath Puja to thank the Sun for bestowing the bounties of life on earth, as also for fulfilling particular wishes. People believe that by observing the Chhath Puja they can fulfill their desires. The Chhath Puja has been observed since long time in India. On Chhath Puja day, all the people dress up in their best and new clothes are a must. Folk songs are sung both at home and on the riverbank. Millions of people take dip in the holy water of river Ganges, and other rivers.
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It was Kim's turn to pick the theme this week. She loves bokeh so I was unsurprised when she said "you've got to be out of focus in the background somewhere." I really wondered what to do.
I had two trips to London on business last week. The head office is just next to St. Paul's Cathedral and I love the short walk out to the Millennium Bridge. On the train on the way down I thought of this shot and at an appropriate moment, snuck out of the office and quick took some shots. As I've so often found, it's not until I get the images onto my computer screen that I can really see what is going on and spend a little time reviewing the process and my thoughts. I took some good shots but none that were great. Fortunately I knew I had another opportunity for a reshoot.
On the train on the way down the second time I was worried, the weather was dull, grey and overcast and whilst the forecast predicted it would clear, one of the things I loved about the first shoot were the wonderful fluffy clouds and deep blue skies. When I did manage to get out of the office, the skies had cleared somewhat. What I did achieve though, were much better compositions. In the end it was an easy decision which way to go.
Just for fun, I've included below two situational shots from the first shoot and an outtake from the second shoot.
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Next week, Kim and I are doing our thing. However, I'm really loving the themes and I think we might come back to it again but we need some ideas. Anyone got any?
My self-portrait project involves taking a picture each week that I post the following week on a Thursday. Feel free to critique - I welcome it. Thanks
Ballygluin is now best remembered as the station in the opening scene of John Fordes Irish epic “The Quiet Man”. Ballygluin posed as “Castletown” station as a bemused John Wayne steps from the train, enquiring from curious locals for the way to his ancestorial home of “Innisfree” in the 1952 academy award winning movie.
Ballygluin was opened as part of the Athenry and Tuam Railway in 1860. Ballygluin was also part of the long straggling route of the Waterford, Limerick & Western Railway. The station saw it’s last regular trains in 1975, Part of this 185Km line (Limerick to Athenry) is due to reopen this year after a multi-million euro refurbishment, when it’s the turn of Athenry to Collooney section is now anybody’s guess. For more info visit www.westontrack.com
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Best Days by Matt White
Every time I look at you
You always look so beautiful
Driving on the road again
The chevys packed up
and its dusk
And I would take some photographs
So I can dream of you
Can't say I've felt such a twisting in my heart this
way
We pitch a tent and i wont sleep i just stay awake .
Fires burning , softly singing songs .
So close to you .
Do you believe
In love at first sight
I think you do
We're lying naked under the covers
Those are the best days of my life.
Can't take away those times
We stayed up and we talked all night
Chain smoking cigarettes and
Three bottles of red wine
Falling asleep together
Holding your body close to mine .
Oh and in the morning
Your eyes opened so innocent
The sun is blazing , we are sweaty
You look lovely
Nothing else matters anymore 'cause you're
In my arms again
Do you believe
In love at first sight
I think you do .
We're lying naked under the covers
Those are the best days of my
Those are the best days of my
Those are the best days of my life
Oh Ill never want to be without you
So just stay with me
I will love you endlessly .
Oh darling, darling
Those are the best days of my
Those are the best days of my .. life
Do you believe
In love at first sight
I think you do
We're lying naked under the covers
Those are the best days of my life
Those are the best days of my
Those are the best days of my
Those are the best days of my life
I never used to drink coffee. After I moved to Guelph a few years ago I tried it. Then I tried our local Planet Bean Coffee...... and it was all over. I now buy freshly roasted coffee every week or so.... and grind it in my new burr grinder right before I brew it in my french press. I have somehow become a coffee snob. Never saw it coming.
A bonus of drinking Planet Bean coffee is that it is Fair Trade and Organic!
Camera: Nikon D700 [ISO 200]:[5s] Lens:135mm 2.8 AIS [f4]
Strobist: SB900 @ 17mm 1/8th power, into 28" wescott softbox camera right. Used a whiteboard to attempt to reflect some of the light back to left side of subject.
Triggered by PWII's.
After the flash went off, I used a small pen flashlight and made quick circles in the air during the remainder of the 5 second exposure. I kind of like this one because the "halo" is all messed up. it sure is hard to draw a straight line while reaching over your setup in the dark. single exposure, no photoshop editing.
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The Snowberry Clearwing Moth is a small hummingbird moth which more closely resembles a large bumblebee rather than a hummingbird.
Like other hummingbird moths, this one flies during daylight. A similar, but larger, sphinx moth is the (Hemaris thysbe) Hummingbird Clearwing Moth.
Adults mimic bumblebees and are quite variable, both geographically and seasonally. The wings are basically clear, with dark brown to brownish-orange veins, bases and edges. The thorax is golden-brown to dark greenish-brown. The abdomen tends to be dark (black) with 1-2 yellow segments just before the terminal end. These yellow segments are in much sharper contrast to the rest of the abdomen than in somewhat similar species. Also note the relatively narrow dark outer margin of the hindwing. Most fresh specimens also have some blue "fur" tufts highlighting the first black band on the abdomen.
This moth hovers over flowers in full sunlight, producing a buzzing sound with its wings, similar to that of a hummingbird.
There are usually two broods annually from March-September depending upon latitude. The moth is seen along forest edges, in meadows, gardens and brushy fields. Adults like to nectar at lantana, dwarf bush honeysuckle, snowberry, orange hawkweed, thistles, lilac and Canada violet.
Caterpillars pass through five instars and are pale green on the back and darker green on the sides, with numerous white flecks in the final instar. The anal horn is bright yellow at base and blue-black at the tip. There are longitudinal brown stripes on the underside. The legs are almost white and barred with dark brown. There is a double row of yellow granules on the first segment which projects over head. The spiracles along side of body are very evident, being ringed in pale blue.
Larval host plants include Snowberry (Symphoricarpos), honeysuckle (Lonicera), Coralberry, viburnums, Blue Dogbane (Apocynum) and dwarf bush honeysuckle (Diervilla lonicera).
Pupation is in a very flimsy cocoon at ground surface. The inch long pupa is brown.In the fall, when larvae are ready to pupate, they take on an orange to burgundy hue.
TAXONOMY:
Family: Sphingidae, Latreille, 1802
Subfamily: Macroglossinae, Harris, 1839
Tribe: Dilophonotini, Burmeister, 1878
Genus: Hemaris (Dalman, 1816) ...........
Species: diffinis (Boisduval, 1836)
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New group: Overschie!
I started a new group - couldn't believe it didn't exist yet - about Overschie, Rotterdam!
Overschie is a neighbourhood in the north of Rotterdam, with +15.000 inhabitants. It has a lot of beautiful spots, but also the A13 running through it and the Kleinpolderplein traffic junction (another group I started, btw). Feel free to throw all your Overschie shots in this new group. Ta!
About the picture
Trying to slipstream the Dutch Masters... ;-)
With the sun coming up behind my back I suddenly noticed this atmospheric view of 'vintage' Overschie, a rootsy Rotterdam neighbourhood - all this while I was reporting the demolition of a modern appartment at the other side of this bridge.
This is HDR, but I processed it in a different way, I was trying to make it look like an old Dutch painting, or something. :-)
Hope you enjoy it. Ta!
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First of all, this is not mine. Link: www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=215309
Realizing now that I've been building in the wrong scale for the entire time I've been doing Homeworld style builds. After seeing there were two pilots in the Taiidan Interceptor, I did some research, finding that the craft is 17.4 meters long. Links: forums.relicnews.com/showthread.php?83943-Just-how-big-ar...
homeworld.wikia.com/wiki/Triikor-class_Interceptor
Now, say a LEGO minifig is 1.5 meters tall, and let's say five bricks are close enough to one minifig. That would mean my interceptor, which is around 42 studs, is only 12 meters long. This would mean a Taiidan scout is 45 studs, an interceptor about 60, and a corvette (depending on which one) could range from 120 to 150 studs.
The oldest stone built mosque in China located in Quanzhou city in the Fujian province in 1009 AD. The patch of grass to the right is the edge one of many graveyards in the city housing the thousands of immigrant Arabian Muslims to the city/ region since the time of Prophet Muhammad. These Muslims married and 'integrated' creating a new Chinese Muslim culture.
The mosque is a testament to the local community where interfaith relations have continued to be strong. A few hundred feet down the road behind me is, for example one of the largest Buddhist temples in town, equally elaborate in design.
The colouring on this the outer stone wall which faces a busy road is very different to that of the preceding photo of the inner stone wall, on account of the pollution.
i dont want to live in a gated community, i dont want to bend to society's expectations, i dont want to live my life pretending, im okay, things are okay, we are okay. I want to live, without limitations. I've been spending all my life, pushing to get to college, and now that im actually doing it, i dont want this. i want to go backbacking through europe, and open a fruit stand in mexico, i want to live.
i want to live.
Estábamos en una zona de Osona que conocíamos poco. Los pueblos de los alrededores del pantano de Sau son pequeños y coquetos. Algunos se componen unicamente de una masía grande, una iglesia, su estafeta y el ayuntamiento. Una calle Mayor con casas bajas donde se agrupan la panadería y un bar, pequeño y cuidado, en donde disfrutar de un buen bocadillo de productos del lugar es lo mas apropiado.
Estábamos saboreando del aroma de las piedras centenarias de la iglesia de Vilanova de Sau, y disfrutando del silencio de su cementerio, pequeño y muy cuidado, cuando un estruendo nos trajo de nuevo a este mundo. No supimos discernir si el maremágnum de pitos, bocinas y griterío vario era una manifa de agricultores, o una repentina y no deseada aglomeración de coches con intenciones de aparcar junto a la iglesia, situación que me hubiera sacado de mis casillas, pudiendo ser el inicio de un altercado entre domingueros jubilados y yo mismo, algo siempre muy embarazoso, ya que por la experiencia tenida, esas embestidas siempre dan en fracaso y bochorno, saliendo del lugar con mala leche y sin hacer agua clara.
No fue el caso... la algarabía que se oía en la Calle Mayor era, no una mani de gente en desacuerdo con alguna autoridad, o jubileo, si no una bonita quedada como hoy se dice, de moteros con sus respectivas monturas, todo salido así como de una película de los años 40, tales eran las trazas de las motocicletas y sidecares, así como los cascos y gafas de los dueños de ellas. Ibamos a por piedras añejas y terminamos fotografiando Sanglas y Ducatis de época, algo que no teníamos previsto, pero que nos lleno de gozo.
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Inside the old, abandoned High School in Toyah, Texas.
Story continued from this image...
Alright, so having discovered the existence of another opening on the other side of the building, I quickly folded up my tripod and made for the basement exit. I hustled around to the east end of the old school building, and whadya know...there's a big steel door standing wide open, it's 4 x 8 plywood having been removed and lying down on the concrete steps down to this basement entrance. I made my way down the step and shined my streamlight inside...nothing very impressive here either; just a hallway with a couple doorways off either side. I stepped in, and examined to room to my right.
This room was completely empty except for a non-professionally made wooden table, about 3x6 feet, of about the size and height someone might lay down on. The rest of the room was basically fairly clean of debris...it began to look as though this building had remained sealed for several decades, and had only been breached very recently. There was no tagging to be seen anywhere, which was quite refreshing compared to most places like this that I visit. Whoever forced their way in at least had respect for the place...perhaps an urban explorer type, rather than drunk teenagers looking for a place to party.
One other thing I forgot to mention about this side...the ceiling here is normal height, not 5 feet like on the other half. Not sure how they worked that, but it was a relief to not have to walk around all bent over.
The second door on the right side of this hallway was actually just a second exit door for the room with the table, which was the largest room I'd seen here yet. So I wandered across the hallway to the lone door on that side, which was right next to the outside door through which I entered.
This room turned out to be the bath & shower room you see in the photo above. The blue paint was both rich and in surprisingly good condition, other than a few minor peels here and there. I looked at that shower head arrangement and thought about how cramped together 3 young men would be trying to simultaneously shower there. I didn't like that mental image so I switched it to three young women...there, that's better...
Anyway, I decided to snap this photo of it, and as I stepped back into the hallway to fire off the red strobe, I managed to get my $500 Marchon Airlock glasses hooked on my stretch knit cap, and because they were so cold, the arms snapped right off. Flyin' blind now!
OK, so the other thing in this hallway, at the very end on the left, is the stairway up to...what? I didn't know yet, but it was time to find out. I was as giddy as a schoolgirl in a 3-head shower as I made my way up the creaky, unstable wooden steps, covered with dust and rubble from years of deterioration, all highlighted quite coldly in the flat, bluish light from my LED flashlight.
Hmm...what's that sound coming from above?
To be continued...
"L'invitation au voyage"
Charles Baudelaire
Mon enfant, ma soeur,
Songe à la douceur
D'aller là-bas vivre ensemble !
Aimer à loisir,
Aimer et mourir
Au pays qui te ressemble !
Les soleils mouillés
De ces ciels brouillés
Pour mon esprit ont les charmes
Si mystérieux
De tes traîtres yeux,
Brillant à travers leurs larmes.
Là, tout n'est qu'ordre et beauté,
Luxe, calme et volupté.
Des meubles luisants,
Polis par les ans,
Décoreraient notre chambre ;
Les plus rares fleurs
Mêlant leurs odeurs
Aux vagues senteurs de l'ambre,
Les riches plafonds,
Les miroirs profonds,
La splendeur orientale,
Tout y parlerait
À l'âme en secret
Sa douce langue natale.
Là, tout n'est qu'ordre et beauté,
Luxe, calme et volupté.
Vois sur ces canaux
Dormir ces vaisseaux
Dont l'humeur est vagabonde ;
C'est pour assouvir
Ton moindre désir
Qu'ils viennent du bout du monde.
- Les soleils couchants
Revêtent les champs,
Les canaux, la ville entière,
D'hyacinthe et d'or ;
Le monde s'endort
Dans une chaude lumière.
Là, tout n'est qu'ordre et beauté,
Luxe, calme et volupté.
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Joe Ciardiello
1990s
Directory tear sheet, 8.375" x 11"
I saw Joe's work for the first time Sept. 1974 when he did a caricature for Doug G. and Noë G's fledgling mag. Joe hadn't fully developed his own style yet, and his illustration struck me as a so-so Alan Cober or Jack Unruh knock-off. Boy, was I wrong, or boy, has he developed. This sample comes from about 20 years later, with a very NYC subject for Joe. His style is now instantly recognizable, and he does regular spots for The New York Times Sunday Book Review. He's terrific.
But within weeks, College Monthly folded, Joe's November issue art never ran, and he (and we) didn't get paid. Perhaps this belated appreciation will serve as minor recompense.
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Joe Ciardiello 1990s Directory tear sheet, 8.375" x 11" I saw Joe's work for the first time Sept. 1974 when he did a caricature for Doug G. and Noë G's fledgling mag. Joe hadn't fully developed his own style yet, and his illustration struck me as a so-so Alan Cober or Jack Unruh knock-off. Boy, was I wrong, or boy, has he developed. This sample comes from about 20 years later, with a very NYC subject for Joe. His style is now instantly recognizable, and he does regular spots for The New York Times Sunday Book Review. He's terrific. But within weeks, College Monthly folded, Joe's November issue art never ran, and he (and we) didn't get paid. Perhaps this belated appreciation will serve as minor recompense. === www.joeciardiello.com ===
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Joe Ciardiello Thanks Kenneth. Better late than never.
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Patrick Jb Flynn Whom among us isn’t influenced by our predecessors? It’s a little thing called history, a subject that most Americans fail miserably. I always saw Joe’s art as an amalgam of the best illustrators of that time, Milton Glazer, fused with Cober, Unruh, and the inimitable James Spanfeller.
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Kenneth R Anderson @JC - I'm honored by your attention to my fb gallery.
@PJF - indeed. What I relate to now isn't even a style thing, per se. JC seems to draw naturally from his heart, a soulful quality I always admired in James McMullen's work.
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@PJF, Spanfeller also graced the pages of this magazine due no doubt to the involvement of his AC accolytes. Kudos to you Ken for enshrining this.
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This is a parody ...published by College Monthly October 1974.
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© 1974. All rights reserved under international conventions. No material may be reproduced without written permission of the publisher.
Cover photo by Basil Pao
With retouching by Rainbow Graphics, body by Doug, hand by Noë of New York. T-shirt by Harry Gross; photo by UPI, lighting by Chris Callis, and body English by Tom King.
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"I had closed the door upon my heart
and wouldn't let anyone in
I had trusted and loved only to be hurt
but that would never happen again
I locked the door and
tossed the key as
hard and as far as I could
My heart was closed for good
Then you came into my life and
made me change my mind
just when I thought that
tiny key was impossible to find
that is when you held out your hand
and proved me wrong
inside your palm was the
Key to My Heart
You had it all along"
Nov 1, 2009 #357
Aperture occupies virtually whole of interior face (left hand image).
1: recurved pointed umbo (rostrum) overhanging concave interior.
2: asymmetrical “ears” to either side of rostrum resemble scallop.
3: outer layer (periostracum) forms broad border beyond inner layer.
4: fractured calcareous inner-layer held in place by periostracum.
5: close-set concentric striae and a few indistinct radiating lines.
6: embayment on right side of shell.
Full SPECIES DESCRIPTION BELOW
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Aplysia punctata (Cuvier, 1803) Account revised August 2021
Current taxonomy: World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138758
Synonyms: Aplysia rosea Rathke, 1799; Aplysia hybrida J. Sowerby, 1806.
Meaning of name: Aplysia = that which cannot be washed; punctata = spotted.
Vernacular of just this species: Spotted sea hare (English); Môrwlithen glustiog (Welsh); Aplysie ponctuée (French); gemeiner Seehase (German); Pikasti morski zajček (Slovenian); Liebre de mar manchada (Spanish);
Vernacular of any Aplysia species: Sea hare (English); Lièvre de mer (French); zeehaas (Dutch); søhare (Danish); sjöhare (Swedish); Lepre marina (Italian);
GLOSSARY below.
Shell description
A. punctata has a rudimentary vestigial shell. Its height (longest dimension) is up to 40 mm, occasionally more; about 30% of the animal’s length. It is saucer-shape with a recurved, pointed umbo (rostrum) overhanging the concave interior, and there is an embayment on the right. It somewhat resembles a pectinid with asymmetrical “ears” either side of the rostrum.
The adult shell retains no trace of the spiral coiling of the veliger stage. It consists of two layers of conchiolin. The outer layer is the periostracum. The inner layer is transparent, imperceptibly calcified and limp on young specimens (fig. 1 flic.kr/p/DJpXbt ), and on older specimens is a translucent, thin, fragile, semi-calcareous layer, often fractured into pieces held in place by the periostracum (fig. 2 flic.kr/p/DSES2X ). The periostracum layer extends to form a broad flexible border beyond the inner layer. The exterior is amber-coloured with a sculpture of growth lines, close-set concentric striae and a few indistinct radiating lines. The aperture occupies virtually the whole of the ventral/interior face. On a living animal, the shell is concealed by the mantle (fig. 23 flic.kr/p/2oJVAzt ), except within a round foramen (fig. 3 flic.kr/p/CVh5eX ). There is no operculum.
Body description
The full-grown body length is about 70 mm and the usual maximum is 120 mm, exceptionally 200 mm (fig. 14 flic.kr/p/DQm3GL & fig. 15 flic.kr/p/Dqyc3s ). It has a large head and neck (fig. 4 flic.kr/p/DjbKoD ). The snout has a centrally divided oral veil which is usually loosely rolled into forward-orientated oral tentacles and curled flaps in front of the mouth (fig. 5 flic.kr/p/CVh2bn ). The appearance varies with the degree of rolling; sometimes flaps hang down from the oral tentacles (fig. 6 flic.kr/p/DJpNXK ). The snout is separated ventrally from the foot by a gutter (ffig. 5 flic.kr/p/CVh2bn ). The cephalic tentacles are also enrolled, but the edges are fused on the basal half; they resemble a hare's ears (fig. 5 flic.kr/p/CVh2bn ). Anterolaterally of each cephalic tentacle base there is a blue-black eye on a slightly raised mound of translucent unpigmented epithelium resembling a whitish iris (fig. 5 flic.kr/p/CVh2bn ).
Two large parapodia arise from the approximate mid-point of the body and extend to about 25% body length from the posterior where they unite (fig. 7 flic.kr/p/DJpNgz ). An external seminal groove runs from a common genital aperture, close to the anterior of the right parapodium, along the neck to the opening to the penial sheath near the base of the right oral tentacle (fig. 8 flic.kr/p/DJpM2a ). Raised walls along the sides of the seminal groove meet firmly at their edges, but do not fuse, to form a tube lined with cilia that propel the contents. The penis is spatulate with curled up edges and has an external seminal groove. It is engorged and extended from the everted penial sheath during copulation (fig. 9 flic.kr/p/DSEGJ8 & fig. 10 flic.kr/p/CVacmN ).
The parapodia can be held erect (fig. 11 flic.kr/p/DJpGJc ), semi-prone revealing enclosed anatomical features (fig. 3 flic.kr/p/CVh5eX & fig. 21 flic.kr/p/2nBEfgq ), or folded down to conceal features (fig. 12 flic.kr/p/DSEC4X ).
Colours and patterns on the external surfaces of body vary greatly between individuals www.nudibranch.org/Scottish %20Nudibranchs/aplysia-punctata.html (J. Anderson) , but usually there is a general progression in ground colour during growth from rose-red when small and feeding on red algae such as Delesseria, through brown or blackish-brown when on Laminaria to olive-brown when large and on Fucus (Eales, 1921). Many have fine spots of a darker shade of the ground colour arranged in elongate blotches, varying in prominence, which often form a reticulated pattern. In addition, some have white blotches. The edge of the parapodium often has a thin white rim, sometimes accompanied by black and/or reddish bands (fig. 13 flic.kr/p/DjbzG4 ), and the tips of the tentacles and edges of foot may have similar colours. The dorsal face of the parapodium, usually held concealed against the body, is unpigmented greyish white, apart from its border.
The mantle, enclosed by the parapodia, covers the shell apart from a large round foramen, and, at the posterior-right, forms an erect funnel with the anus near its base (fig. 3 flic.kr/p/CVh5eX ). The shell covers the viscera and the anal funnel fits against the embayment on its right-posterior edge (fig. 1). The anal funnel often protrudes when the parapodia are closed, but it is able to withdraw. The gill (fig. 21 flic.kr/p/2nBEfgq & fig. 22 flic.kr/p/2nBGFnR ) is a thick set, plume-like structure of loose connective tissue and muscle fibre covered by a partly ciliated epithelium (Eales, 1921, plate I). It has thickened lobes in place of the thin filaments of typical ctenidia. It is located in the narrow mantle-cavity on the right of the parapodial enclosure (fig. 3 flic.kr/p/CVh5eX ). It is affixed at its anterior end close to a yellow osphradium. The gill is usually concealed under the shell but may be erected above it if the oxygen level is sensed by the osphradium to be low. An unpigmented opaline gland is in the floor of the mantle cavity near the anterior-right of the parapodial enclosure and just to the posterior of the common genital opening (fig. 4 flic.kr/p/DjbKoD & fig. 21 flic.kr/p/2nBEfgq ). The anterior of the foot is almost rectangular and sometimes expands into a circular outline (fig. 13 flic.kr/p/DjbzG4 ). The posterior of the foot is bluntly pointed. The pale, unpigmented, narrow sole (fig. 5 flic.kr/p/CVh2bn ) is sometimes hidden by the edges curling together (fig. 11 flic.kr/p/DJpGJc ) and it may form into a rounded sucker at the anterior (fig. 13 flic.kr/p/DjbzG4 ), but rarely at the posterior (Thompson, 1976). There is no discernible subdivision of sole into regions (Eales, 1921).
Key identification features
Aplysia punctata
1. Parapodia unite at their posterior, c. 25% body length from posterior of body; see fig.3 in Grigg (1949) (fig. 7 flic.kr/p/DJpNgz ). It swims rarely, if at all, and clumsily if it does.
2. Foramen (fig. 3 flic.kr/p/CVh5eX ), a round hole in the mantle that exposes the shell, is larger, relative to the animal's size, than the foramen on A. depilans or A. fasciata.
3. Full-grown length about 70 mm, usual maximum 120 mm.
4. Foot occasionally expands into rounded sucker (fig. 13 flic.kr/p/DjbzG4 ) at anterior but rarely, if ever, at posterior. The sole is whitish.
5. Occurs all round Britain except parts of southern North Sea and north east Irish Sea.
Similar species
Aplysia depilans Gmelin, 1791
1. Parapodia unite at their posterior close to the posterior of the animal (fig.3 in Grigg, 1949) (fig. 16 flic.kr/p/DSEwU8 ). It is unlikely that it ever swims.
2. Foramen is smaller, relative to animal's size, than foramen on A. punctata
3. Length frequently 120 mm or more, up to 300 mm.
4. Foot frequently expands at posterior into rounded sucker attached to substrate. Sole brown.
5. In Britain (2015), confined to south west England; breeds in Cornwall.
Aplysia fasciata Poiret, 1789
1. Parapodia do not unite at their posterior. See fig. 3, as A. limacina, in Grigg (1949); frequently swims gracefully, see flic.kr/p/da9ojG (R. Fernandez); www.youtube.com/watch?v=x051Lw6LMBw#t=26 (M. Pontes).
2. Tiny foramen, pore-like on raised papilla (Grigg, 1949), is far smaller, relative to animal's size, than foramen on A. punctata; often difficult to discern.
3. Length frequently about 200 mm, with weight nearly 2kg, but up to 400 mm (largest British gastropod).
4. Foot pointed at posterior.
5. Reliably recorded from Dorset, South Devon, Cornwall and Channel Islands; rare.
Aplysia parvula Mörch, 1863
This species was recorded for Britain (Bebbington & Brown, 1975) on the basis of morphological features of small A. punctata specimens. Eales (1921) reported that small red specimens grew and changed colour to typical A. punctata when fed on non-red algae in captivity, so she dismissed their identification as a distinct species. Recent DNA studies (Golestani et al. 2019) found that A. parvula is confined to the tropical western Atlantic, and no DNA evidence for it was found in specimens examined from the north eastern Atlantic or Mediterranean.
Habits and ecology
A. punctata lives in shallow unpolluted water and occasionally on shores at LWS where its algal food grows; including red algae, Ulva (fig. 4 flic.kr/p/DjbKoD ) and Fucus.
Respiration: There is no obvious inhalent siphon; Jeffreys (1869) suggested that inflow was via the foramen, but this seems unlikely. Water is probably taken in between the body and anterior of the parapodia to the narrow mantle cavity on the right containing the gill (fig. 3 flic.kr/p/CVh5eX ). The water passes over the osphradium near the anterior attached-end of the gill. The current is created by cilia on the gill and, probably, on other surfaces. The osphradium tests the water-quality; if it is oxygen deficient, the gill may erect itself clear of the overhanging shell for better access to oxygenated water (Eales, 1921). The exhalent current leaves the animal via the anal funnel, taking faeces with it (fig. 17 flic.kr/p/DJpAiX ).
Defence : A. punctata is usually well camouflaged because its colour is often similar to alga it is feeding on. When irritated, the opaline gland (fig. 4 flic.kr/p/DjbKoD ) can release via the anal funnel (fig. 17 flic.kr/p/DJpAiX ) an acrid, white, viscous secretion, mixed with purple dye from the ink gland, to repel and confuse attackers. There are a few uncertain reports of predation on adults, but crustacea eat the spawn.
Reproduction: Breeding is recorded in February-November in Britain, but is most usual in spring. A. punctata is a simultaneous hermaphrodite, but distant spacing and positioning of the male and female orifices (fig. 9 flic.kr/p/DSEGJ8 ) prevent mutual interchange of gametes between a side-to-side pair in the manner of nudibranchs. One, acting as male, climbs astride another from behind and with the anterior of its foot firmly grips the mantle and shell (through the foramen) of the lower acting female. The penis of the acting male, engorged by blood and extruded by eversion of the internal penis sheath, is inserted into the vaginal part of the other's common genital aperture (fig. 9 flic.kr/p/DSEGJ8 ). Semen from the acting-male passes from its common genital aperture, through the external seminal groove on its neck and head, edge of the penial sheath and penis into the acting-female (fig. 10 flic.kr/p/CVacmN ). Often a chain of mating individuals forms, enabling all, except those at each end of the chain, to act as male and female simultaneously (fig. 9 flic.kr/p/DSEGJ8 ).
A. punctata often extrude spawn during coupling, and it often passes from the common genital opening along the seminal groove, escaping through a wrinkle part-way along it or continuing to emerge (confusingly) at the penial aperture. The spawn is a long string of spherical egg-capsules (fig.18 flic.kr/p/DSEwrV & fig. 20 flic.kr/p/DGfnSL ). There are about 500 capsules in each cm of spawn-string (fig. 19 flic.kr/p/DjbsiX ), and each capsule contains 3 or 4 ova. Copulation/ovipositing lasts several hours or even days, and the string is extruded intermittently in sections, each of which curls and tangles with the others (Eales, 1921). Its colour changes with time, so sections of string issued at different times by a single individual may have different shades from each other with abrupt colour changes corresponding to pauses in laying (fig. 20 flic.kr/p/DGfnSL ). The final colour is brown before veliger larvae emerge into the plankton. A mating/ovipositing chain of individuals results in a tangled mass of spawn strings. A sample mass from the River Yealm, Devon, had an estimated 135 000 ova (Thompson, 1976). Veliger larvae metamorphose after 20-22 days in the plankton at 15ºC into rose-red crawlers, about 5 mm long, feeding on red algae in shallow water (Thompson, 1976).
Distribution and status
A. punctata occurs from northern Norway to the Mediterranean, but is scarce or absent from the continental coast of the southern North Sea and extends into the Baltic no further than the Kattegat, GBIF map www.gbif.org/species/5191252 . It is found in unpolluted water all round Britain and Ireland, except in the north-east Irish Sea. the North Sea from Flamborough Head to Kent and much of the east coast of Scotland where it is absent or scarce. U.K. map NBN species.nbnatlas.org/species/NBNSYS0000173903
Acknowledgements
This account would not have been possible without the assistance of Jim Anderson, Heather Buttivant, Charlotte Cumming, Jonathan Campbell, David Fenwick, Andy Horton, David Kipling, Paula Lightfoot, Penny Martin, Simon Taylor and the photographers whose images have been linked to the account; their names are given next to the links. I gratefully thank them all.
References and links
Bebbington, A. 1992. British Aplysia species. Porcupine Newsletter Vol.5 no 6: 131 – 133. pmnhs.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/046-PNV5N6DEC92.pd...
Bebbington A, & Brown, GH. 1975. Aplysia parvula Guilding in Morch, an opisthobranch new to the British fauna. Journal of Conchology 28: 329–333.
Eales, N.B. 1921. Memoir 24 Aplysia. Proceedings and transactions of the Liverpool biological society. 35: 183 – 280.
archive.org/stream/proceedingstr35192021live#page/182/mod...
Forbes, E. & Hanley S. 1849-53. A history of the British mollusca and their shells. vol. 3 (1853), London, van Voorst. (As Aplysia hybrida); pp. 554-556. archive.org/stream/ahistorybritish05forbgoog#page/n568/mo...
Garstang, W. 1890. A complete list of the opisthobranchiate mollusca found at Plymouth; with further observations on their morphology, colours and natural history. J. mar. biol. Ass. U.K. 1(4): 399-457. plymsea.ac.uk/50/ .
Golestani, H., Crocetta, F., Padula, V., Camacho-garcía, Y., Langeneck, J., Poursanidis, D., Pola, M., Baki yokeş, M., Cervera, J.L., Jung, D., Gosliner, T.M., Araya J.F., Hooker, Y, Schrödl, M. and Valdés, Á. 2019. The little Aplysia coming of age: from one species to a complex of species complexes in Aplysia parvula (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 20, 1–52
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Grigg, U.M. 1949. The occurence of British Aplysia. J. mar. biol. Ass. U.K. 28(3): 795-805. plymsea.ac.uk/id/eprint/1391/ [has A. fasciata as A. limacina]
Høisæter, T. 2009. Distribution of marine, benthic, shell bearing gastropods along the Norwegian coast. Fauna norvegica 28: 5-106. www.ntnu.no/ojs/index.php/fauna_norvegica/article/view/563
Jeffreys, J.G. 1862-69. British conchology. vol. 5 (1869). London, van Voorst. pp.1-8 archive.org/stream/britishconcholog05jeff#page/n9/mode/2up .
McKay, D. & Smith, S.M. 1979. Marine mollusca of East Scotland. Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh.
Thompson, T.E. 1976. Biology of opisthobranch molluscs vol.1. London, Ray Society.
Current taxonomy: World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138758
Glossary
aperture = mouth of gastropod shell; outlet for head and foot.
anterolateral = situated in front and to the side of.
cephalic = (adj.) of or on the head.
cilia = (sing. cilium) microscopic linear extensions of membrane that move in rhythmic waves to create locomotion, or that move particles and liquids e.g. inhalent water currents. (Scanning electron microscope image at flic.kr/p/qQB5zj )
ciliated = (adj.) coated with cilia.
conchiolin = horny flexible protein that forms the periostracum and a matrix for the deposition of calcium carbonate to create other shell-layers.
ctenidium = comb-like molluscan gill; usually an axis with a row of filaments or lamellae on one or two sides.
ELWS = extreme low water spring tide (usually near March and September equinoxes).
epithelium = tissue forming outer layer of body surface and lining the alimentary canal and other hollow structures
everted = turned inside out and, like a sock.
foramen = natural, non-accidental, opening.
lobate = having or resembling lobes.
LWS = low water spring tide.
mantle = sheet of tissue that secretes the shell and forms a cavity for the gill in most marine molluscs. Confined to the shell-interior of most British shelled-gastropods, but also covers exterior on Aplysia.
opaline = acrid, white, viscous secretion used with purple ink by Aplysia to repel attackers.
operculum = plate of horny conchiolin, rarely calcareous, used to close shell aperture. Absent from Aplysia.
osphradium = organ for testing water quality, usually near the gill.
parapodia = (sing, parapodium) flap-like, lateral outgrowths of foot, usually held up against the sides of some sea slugs.
pectinid = member of the family Pectinidae (scallops).
periostracum = thin horny layer of chitinous material often coating shells.
plankton = animals and plants that drift in pelagic zone (main body of water).
plicate = corrugated so ridges and grooves alternate with each other on either side of axis.
rostrum = beak-like process on shell.
semen = fluid containing sperm.
seminal = relating to or containing semen.
striae = (sing. stria) usually parallel, slight, fine or narrow furrows, ridges, stripes, or streaks.
umbo = (pl. umbones) earliest part of the shell of a bivalve and some bivalve-like gastropod shells, such as in Aplysia punctata. It terminates in a beak which is best seen on an interior view.
veliger = shelled larva of marine gastropod or bivalve mollusc which swims by beating cilia of a velum (bilobed flap).
This Julie's Pond or as more well known, The Heart Shaped Pond, please read the brief explanation
From Wikipedia
Prince's Lodge was named for the estate His Royal Highness Prince Edward, Duke of Kent resided in while in Halifax in the 1700s .In 1794, Prince Edward arrived to serve in Halifax.with his French mistress Julie St. Laurent. The Duke was often entertained at the "Friar's Cell" and liked it so much that Wentworth felt obliged to offer it to him during his stay in Halifax. Prince Edward accepted, and renovated the residence and developed the gardens around the estate by landscaper from England. The result was what is today Hemlock Ravine Park , 185 acres (0.75 km2) with a heart shaped pond known as Julie's Pond, and was constructed by the Duke in honor of his mistress.
The Wentworth's resumed living in the lodge When Prince Edward returned to England. Now called the Prince's Lodge, it was here that Sir John established the Rockingham Club. But after Sir John died, the estate was neglected. By 1870, in ruins, it was sold at auction and divided into building lots. All that remains of the original estate is the Rotunda,which the Nova Scotia Government acquired in 1959. It is a small, round music room that stands on a knoll overlooking the Bedford Basin.
View On Black, or View my most interesting stream ON BLACK!
This is actually a reprocessing (using Silver Efex Pro 2 this time) of my old photo back in March. Click here for the old processing in Photoshop CS5, and you will definitely see the difference! I am quite happy to finally get the details right. :)
I think I'll get the Software for my black and white post-processing. What I cannot decide now is just to buy Silver Efex Pro 2 or the Complete Collection? Hmm...
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Lost Lagoon, Stanley Park, Vancouver, Canada
- ISO 100, F16, 2 sec, 16mm
- Canon 5D Mark II with EF 16-35mm f/2.8 L lens
- Sunset @7.19pm (268º) / Shot @ 7.10pm
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54/365 - Carolina Drama - The Raconteurs
Today was another really tough day of hard work.
It started badly with the viewing of our work on the "Tea or Coffee" weekly theme with our studio teacher, and the work we did was not what he was thinking about.
We were too late at noon to grab the equipment we needed for the work of the afternoon so we had to eat something as quickly as possible and get back to the studio to finally take away a Mamiya RB67, a studio flash and a 120 Superia 400 ISO film.
We had less then 3 hours to go to town and shoot the film in order to make portraits on location of people working.
I was with Loic, Hugo and Florent with only 1 medium format camera for all of us... 4 different places to go to, including time to meet the guys, set up, find the good light, the good settings, to shoot, and to pack all things again... And be on time at school for the economic course, the "finish to kill" last course of the day until 7.15PM...
Luckily we met Simon who's already done his job and he lend to Loic and I his own RB67.
Loic had a appointment at Corezone shop but first we went to Hurley shop to shoot my film.
I've been there several times to take some testing portrait for shool, and the guys over there are really too nice and cool ! A huge thanks to them !
So this was a testing shot we did with the 7D to test the light before shooting with the Mamiya. Can't wait to see the analog results, this was a test for our studio course and my teacher will judge me on this work.
Also Loic did some cool shot with the Corezone shop's crew who are awesome !
Today I've chosen to quote lyrics from a Jack White's band The Raconteurs because it's a huge song and it's also on the original soundtrack of an awesome surf movie with Rob Machado.
I'm a huge fan of The Raconteurs and Jack White's music in fact.
Rob Machado is the guy on the picture behind Loic, it's an awesome surfer sponsored by Hurley that you should watch surfing !
Link to the trailer of the movie "The Drifter" with Carolina Drama - The Raconteurs music on the OST.
Light :
- 1 flash Elinchrom D-Lite4 with Portalite softbox at min power on the left of the sofa, fired with PC synch cable
Canon EOS 7D - Sigma 24-70mm f/2.8 DG macro EX
Sébastien Huruguen
I went out scouting for shooting locations with Sandy today for our food bank photos (we are going to have a seriously dark and twisted shot going up in the next month or so). While we were out Sandy taught me a new photography technique. It's called "Through the Viewfinder" (or TTV). You take a high quality dSLR with a macro lens and shoot through the viewfinder of an old camera. It gives a very cool effect. Kind of a soft, noisy, vintage sort of feel.
This is my first attempt at this kind of photography. I think it has potential though. Now I just need to get a good MACRO lens...
Thoughts?
If you've got some time, here is Sandy's stream:
www.flickr.com/photos/sandyphimester/
It's excellent! Sandy's been kind enough to teach me lighting and all sorts of other stuff.
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After visiting the Grand Canyon in May, we spent an afternoon visiting Williams, Arizona and walking down the old town's Route 66 admiring the vintage buildings, cafes and shops. We still didn't see it all and want to return for another visit soon. Above is a photo of what I think is a beautiful 1950 Ford outside Pete's Gas Station Museum on Route 66 in Williams. I enhanced this photo with PhotoShop filter Fractalius.
INFORMATION ON PETE'S GAS STATION MUSEUM:
Pete's Route 66 Gas Station Museum is a homage to old time gas stations, part museum and part gift shop, specializing in a collection of gas station memorabilia, including old gas pumps, vintage oil cans, vintage signs and equipment. It's owned, operated and is being restored by Pete's son. It's been a station for a very long time but the current building was built in 1949. It operated as a gas station till 1989 when it ceased operation and the tanks were removed from the ground. It sat idle for several years but is now whipped back into presentable shape. Half of the garage is a museum and the other half is a gift shop. The late 1940’s classic Ford sedan out front is Pete's.
INFORMATION ON THE 1950 FORD:
Although all Fords looked nearly identical during the 1949-1951 model years the cars themselves were dramatically changed underneath. The reason was that the '49 was a dog of a machine that rode poorly, rattled and shook, and was fraught with defects. During its 17-month production run it caused nothing but trouble for the company, but well over a million of them were sold to a public starved for new cars.
By the 1950 model year's fall of '49 introduction, Ford engineers had solved most of the major problems with the cars. The loosy-goosey '49's frame and body were stiffened and thickened in many areas, body sealer was pumped into weld joints, door weatherstrip was redesigned and the front end was re-engineered. The old one, Ford's first fully independent front suspension, was impossible to align so the '50 model was given the addition of a redesigned torsional stabilizer and a bunch of other tweaks. The rear springs were relocated as well in a response to customer complaints about bouncy ride.
The gas filler neck was removed from the body and put behind a little flap door and the bumpers were strengthened to allow the cars to be jacked up. Many earlier '49 Fords were attempted to be jacked up at the side of the road, only to find the bumpers and brackets bending hopelessly out of place and the wheel still on the ground.
Many other refinements were put into the 1950 models in an attempt to keep customers from going over to Chevrolet and, for the most part, the result was quite acceptable. The base engine was the same flathead inline 6 from earlier years. It was a very good engine that put out 95 horsepower. The venerable flathead V8 was optional. It put out 100 horsepower and didn't suffer the piston-slap and timing gear problems of earlier engines.
Sedans and business coupes were upholstered in striped gray fabric or broadcloth, but customers could opt to get the same thing in tan. Vinyl was used on the sides and tops of seats and the door panels were done in the same material as the seats. Headliners too were done in broadcloth and the stamped-steel instrument panels were done in either gray or tan. These were the days of rubber floor mats, by the way, and only the very top-end models offered carpet. "Magic-Air" heaters were optional too.
The 1950 model lineup included 2-door and four-door sedans, business coupes, convertibles and station wagons. The top of the line was the Crestliner, a gussied-up and heavily trimmed model that very few people bought because Ford didn't advertise it in any noticeable way, and it was about $200 more expensive than the other models. That was a lot of money in 1950.
1950 Fords were basic cars. Transmission offerings were limited to the 3-speed manual (three on the tree!) with an optional overdrive that was touted as "automatic," in the sense that it would cut in at speeds above 27 mph and return to normal below about 20 mph. Tires were 6.00 X 16, which was typical of the day. Whitewalls were a big deal back then, but tire life was pitiful by today's standards. Ten-thousand miles was a long, long life for a tire.
1950 Ford Collectability: 1950 Fords are actually quite popular with collectors. Convertibles and wagons (wagons?) are the most sought-after, with fully restored examples routinely selling in the $30,000+ range. Crestliners are virtually non-existent and very valuable.
1949 Fords, by contrast, are not popular with knowledgeable collectors for all the reasons above. Besides, most of them were junked long, long ago and a good-condition '49 is a rare thing to find.
Canon Eos 450D 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6. IS
ISO 200, F10 , 1/250sec, 18mm
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«La più piccola parola è circondata da acri ed acri di silenzio, e perfino quando riesco a fissare quella parola sulla pagina mi sembra della stessa natura di un miraggio, un granello di dubbio che scintilla nella sabbia.»
Paul Auster
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Sagi Rei
...every day and every night
i always dream that you are by my side
oh, baby,
every day and every night
well i said every
thing's gonna be alright..
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La spiaggia del Principe è una delle spiagge più belle della Costa Smeralda, lungo la costa nord orientale della Sardegna.
Il suo nome è legato ad una presunta preferenza del principe Aga Khan per questo angolo di mare. E' un grande arco di sabbia finissima delimitato da rocce e circondato dalla macchia mediterranea. Il colore e la limpidezza di questo mare si devono al particolare fondale in sabbia e granito. E' divisa in due parti da un gruppo di scogli che emerge sulla battigia.
Come arrivare: da Olbia seguire le indicazioni per la Costa Smeralda. Preso il bivio per Cala di Volpe, subito dopo l'omonimo Hotel, si gira a destro verso la località Romazzino. Dopo circa un km e mezzo si lascia l'auto e si procede a piedi per qualche centinaio di metri.
This link is just in Dutch unfortunately. Here is a brief translation I just cooked up:
In early times only the Steenweg ‘Rock road’, could be found here. An old road paved with cobblestones which connected the ‘Grootbrug’, or ‘Large Bridge’ and the present day Steenweg, part of an important route from Bavay in the North of present day France to Utrecht in the Netherlands. A canal was dug in the 13th century along the Steenweg which connected the river Dijle and the Koolvliet. On the Eastern bank of this canal a Vismarkt (fishmarket) was built.
In 1532 this canal was put underground and the Vismarkt moved to where it nowadays. The last part of the canal on the Ijzeren Leen was filled up in 1675.
The name Ijzeren Leen dates from the 17th century, and stems from the iron railings (ijzeren leuningen), which were put along the canal in the century before. They were probably manufactured between 1531 and 1534 and restored between 1783 and 1927.
(source: Bouwen door de eeuwen heen in Vlaanderen)
Nowadays the Ijzeren Leen called the Champs Elysees of Mechelen. It contains the ‘Schepenhuis’, which is the former town hall. This houses a small museum with 16th and 17th century art.
Artizen HDR Lock06
The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 4.5 million objects. Founded in 1852 as the South Kensington Museum, the V&A has since grown to now cover some 12.5 acres[2] and 145 galleries. Its collection spans 5000 years of art, from ancient times to the present day, in virtually every medium, from the cultures of Europe, North America, Asia and North Africa.
The holdings of ceramics, glass, textiles, costumes, silver, ironwork, jewellery, furniture, medieval objects, sculpture, prints and printmaking, drawings and photographs are among the largest and most comprehensive in the world. The museum possesses the world's largest collection of post-classical sculpture, the holdings of Italian Renaissance items are the largest outside Italy. The departments of Asia include art from South Asia, Japan, China, Korea and the Islamic world. The East Asian collections are among the best in Europe, with particular strengths in ceramics and metalwork, while the Islamic collection, alongside the Musée du Louvre and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, is amongst the largest in the world.
Alongside other neighbouring institutions, including the Natural History Museum and Science Museum, the V&A is located in what is termed London's "Albertopolis", an area of immense cultural, scientific and educational importance. Since 2001, the Museum has embarked on a major £150m renovation program[3] which has seen a major overhaul of the departments including the introduction of newer galleries, gardens, shops and visitor facilities. Following in similar vein to other national UK museums, entrance to the museum has been free since 2001.
from wikipedia
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Where: Sweden, Östergötland, Motala. google maps.
When: 20100602
How and why: The green reflections of a spring forest in evening light, the rush of the water over the stones. Used my 100mm to isolate a detail of this scene, but the whole thing was lovely too.
Editing: Minor adjustments.
Exposure: 8s
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal Length: 100 mm
ISO Speed: 100
With all the great parts on the PaB walls right now I was planning another Small PaB Cup challenge ala Mantiskings's Single Set Challenge like the one I did last January, but after scoping out the wall, making a plan and buying the cupful of parts, I haven't had much time and I lost motivation.
A few days ago I sat down with the cup and started fiddling and this happened. I don't think I'm going to finish the challenge, but at least I got something from the cup. Once finished, it struck me how much it looked like a Poke Ball. HA!
The focal point of the City Center project is the 61-story ARIA Resort & Casino with 4,000-rooms,. The resort was designed by world renowned architect Cesar Pelli. There is plenty of glitz in the form of light shows projected against building facades. A new Cirque du Soleil show, called Elvis, premiered at the Aria Resort on opening day. The Aria is home to 14 upscale restaurants.
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This was a shoot from my first air show put on by the Navy Blue Angels. A fantastic show. These planes (for the show) are flying at speeds ranging from 150-450 mph, so high shutter speed is important to get sharp images and is not really difficult to achieve on sunny days like this one. The Blue Angels have a predetermined spot at which they perform some of their maneuvers like this one in which they pass by one another at a very close distance (remarkable) so here, shutter speed, aperture, steady camera and knowing that sweet spot where they pass is important to get sharp images. Here, I didn't know where that center point was so I panned with the number six plane and shot at 5 frames a second hoping to get the image I got, but because of my panning the number five plane became blurred (traveling the opposite direction of the pan). The show was wonderful and I learned a lot.
This image was shot with a 70-200VR lens at 5.6 and a shutter speed of 1/2500 sec.