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Vivid Sydney - Macquarie Visions
The Vivid Festival ran from May 27 to June 21.
Highlights inclided a light display on Macquarie Street and the return of the fire waters performance at Darling Harbour, a song summit in Sydney and a creative industries X Media Lab.
Last year's festival attracted more than 200,000 people to events at the Rocks and Circular Quay.
Macquarie Visions, a free public event celebrating in immersive light displays, the 200th anniversary and story of two visionary leaders, Governor Lachlan Macquarie and his wife Elizabeth.
Taking approximately one hour, the walk starts with a dazzling light spectacle at St Mary’s Cathedral and moves onto installations at Hyde Park Barracks Museum, The Mint, Parliament House, The State Library of New South Wales, The Royal Botanic Garden’s Palace Garden Gate and Sydney Conservatorium of Music, with special features including the spectacular Downer Macquarie Arch and the stunning illumination of the Opera House sails fulfilling the amazing Vivid Light experience.
The Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts centre in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It was conceived and largely built by Danish architect Jørn Utzon, who, in 2003, received the Pritzker Prize, architecture's highest honour.
The Sydney Opera House was made a UNESCO World Heritage Site on 28 June 2007. Currently, it is the most recently constructed World Heritage Site to be designated as such, sharing this distinction with such ancient landmarks as Stonehenge and the Giza Necropolis. It is one of the 20th century's most distinctive buildings and one of the most famous performing arts centres in the world.
The Sydney Opera House is situated on Bennelong Point in Sydney Harbour, close to the Sydney Harbour Bridge. It sits at the northeastern tip of the Sydney central business district (the CBD), surrounded on three sides by the harbour (Sydney Cove and Farm Cove) and neighboured by the Royal Botanic Gardens.
The Opera House was formally completed in 1973, having cost $102 million.
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Jurong Bird Park, the largest one in the world. Taken with Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8 VRII.
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The Superb Starling (Lamprotornis superbus) is a member of the starling family of birds. It can commonly be found in East Africa, including Ethiopia, Somalia, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania.
This species is 18 to 19 cm (7–7.5 inches) long. Adults have black heads and iridescent blue-to-green back, upper breast, wings, and tail. The belly is red-orange, separated from the blue breast by a white bar. The undertail coverts and the wing linings are white. Juveniles have duller plumage with no more than a suggestion of the white breast band. Their irises are brown, later grayish white, eventually the adult's cream-color.
The Superb Starling has a long and loud song consisting of trills and chatters. At midday it gives a softer song of repeated phrases. There are several harsh calls, the most complex of which is described as "a shrill, screeching skerrrreeee-cherrrroo-tcherreeeeeet."
This species feeds on the ground. (Wikipedia)
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Adena was the 2000-acre estate of Thomas Worthington (1773-1827), sixth governor of Ohio and one of the state's first United States Senators. The mansion house, completed in 1806-1807, has been restored to look much as it did when the Worthington family lived there, including many original Worthington family furnishings.
The house is one of only three houses designed by Benjamin Henry Latrobe still standing in the country. Latrobe is considered the first professional American architect and served as architect of the U.S.capitol under President Thomas Jefferson.
Situated on the 300 remaining acres of the original homeplace are five outbuildings and formal gardens. The gardens have undergone major renovation. Visitors may stroll through three terraces of flowers and vegetables, as well as the shrubs and trees in the grove. Looking east from the north lawn of the mansion, one can see across the Scioto River Valley to the Logan Range. This view was the inspiration for the Great Seal of the State of Ohio.
A new Museum and Education Center features interactive exhibits that use the stories of people connected to Adena to give visitors a picture of life in Ohio in the early 1800s as well as classrooms, meeting and rental space.
'A Step Back in Time' On Black
Took a great roadtrip last weekend, stopped off at the Salton Sea for a few days (of course!) and then spend a great night up in Pioneertown outside of Yucca Valley. Pioneertown is an old movie set that has been saved and turned in to a nice stop on the road with a few bars, restaurant, and motel.
One of the saved buildings is a bar/bowling alley where movie stars and starlets used to unwind after a long day shooting films. The walls contain murals outlining the history of Pioneertown and it's movie past.
From the Pioneertown website
Pioneertown was built in 1946 as a movie set for western movies, including the movies of Gene Autry, The Cisco Kid, with Duncan Renaldo, Annie Oakley with Gail Davis, Judge Roy Bean with Edgar Buchanan, Range Rider with Jock O. Mahoney, and Buffalo Bill Jr. with Dick Jones. The movie set was to provide a place for the actors to live, and have their homes used as part of a movie set. Some of the original investors in the town were Roy Rogers, who also built the Pioneer Bowl, Sons of the Pioneers, which the town was named after, Dick Curtis who was a professional villian in old movies, Bud Abbott, Russell Hayden, who played Lucky on the Hoppalong Cassidy series, Louella Parsons the Hollywood gossip columnist and Philip N. Krasne: The Man Who Saved Pioneertown.
Pioneertown, California
June 2007
Depuis le 3 Octobre, plus de 200 familles dorment dans la rue de la Banque pour protester contre l'absence de logements décents. Français ou immigrés en situation régulière, tous travaillent mais vivent dans des conditions déplorables: le plus souvent à l'hôtel, ou dans des appartements minuscules, parfois menacés d'expulsion.
Malgré la pluie, les mal logés ont l'interdiction d'installer des tentes sur les trottoirs (elles ont de toute façon été confisquées lors des précédentes évacuations par les forces de l'ordre). Les cartons et les bâches sont plus ou moins tolérés, selon les jours, notamment sur le trottoir du Ministère de la Crise du Logement (mais pas en face !), mais peuvent très bien résulter en une intervention policière.
Après les pluies particulièrement violentes des derniers jours début Novembre, accompagnées de forts coups de vent, des bâches ont été accrochées à la façade pour créer une sorte d'auvent, un abri de fortune qui a déjà été démonté samedi 10 novembre par les forces de l'ordre et remonté dimanche par les militants. Depuis le départ des policiers le 13, des bâches sont installées des 2 côtés de la rue de la Banque (contre le Ministère de la Crise du Logement et contre l'AFP en face).
Merci de lire les explications en début d'album / Please read the explanations at the beginning of the set
A visit to the Museo Etrusco on the Via Don Giovanni Minzoni in Volterra. Was a lot of Etruscan and Roman artifacts here. Also a back garden.
The Guarnacci museum is one of oldest public museums of Europe: it began in 1761 when the noble abbot Mario Guarnacci (Volterra 1701-1785) gave its enormous archaeological heritage, collected over years of research and purchases, to the "public of the city of Volterra".
The current disposition and location of materials demonstrate Maffei’s positivistic impact, with items separated by classes and the urns distinguished according to the theme of the bas-relief on the case. While respecting the historic memory of this arrangement, an attempt was made, in recent times, to associate it with another, more didactic, chronological tour inside the exhibition itself, able to conduct the visitor through the long history of the Etruscan Velathri.
The Guarnacci Etruscan Museum is located in via Don Minzoni in Volterra , and contains one of the most beautiful collections of Etruscan art.
In 1776 the canon of the cathedral of Volterra Pietro Franceschini found near the Etruscan necropolis of the Portone a hypogeum of considerable size dating back to the Hellenistic period, containing forty Etruscan urns, which in 1777 donated to the town of Volterra . This donation was the first nucleus of the Civic Museum which soon collected many other works found in the surroundings of Volterra and which until then had been kept in private collections of noblemen from Volterra.
Among the various donations, the most important and most important was that of Monsignor Mario Guarnacci ( 1701 - 1785 ), a wealthy priest who promoted numerous archaeological excavation campaigns, which on 15 September 1761 donated his entire collection to the newborn museum. He was named after the museum that in over two centuries of history has increased its heritage thanks to numerous excavation campaigns promoted by the Superintendency of Antiquities of Etruria.
The first seat of the museum was Palazzo Ruggeri, home of Guarnacci, later it was transferred first to some halls of the town hall and then from 1877 in the Desideri-Tangassi palace, the current headquarters.
The first Prefect and Librarian of the Guarnacci Museum is the Roman abbot Francesco Ballani , well-known librettist of his time, who was succeeded by Giuseppe Cailli in 1805 until his death in 1810 . Francesco Inghirami ( 1772 - 1846 ) occupied this position from 1810 until 1815 .
A look around the garden to the back of the museum. Nice and relaxing out there. Warm in the sunshine, cool sitting down on a bench.
capital of a Roman column
Ecocentro Danaus (<-- video) is located a couple miles east of La Fortuna Costa Rica. It's a fairly small reserve, 600 meters of walking trails, but boy, do they pack a LOT in such a small area. Danaus was created about 13 years ago when some forward thinking people decided it might be better to grow life than cut it down. Danaus is like a mini oasis since it's completely surrounded by pasture and cattle land. Here's what Ecocentro Danaus says about itself: 'Ecocentro Danaus is an ecological reserve that preserves a natural regenerating secondary forest. Many different biological processes take place here and there is a great biodiversity of flora and fauna in its natural state.'Danaus is worth a look if your in the La Fortuna area and you need something to do for a couple hours.
For more helpful travel information on Costa Rica make sure you check out our website and our blog.
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The Ticketing Business Forum at Emirates Old Trafford, Manchester. Picture by Paul Heyes, Thursday December 02, 2021.
The Internet is here seen as the new mirror in which we search our own likeness and identity.
The central figure, at the computer, [a self-portrait] has been toned down following the comment below by dou_ble_you, to whom, as always, my thanks for his critique. It was also, subsequently, removed, and then replaced, on a smaller scale, as here seen.
This work grew out of several earlier ones (see: flickr.com/photos/walford/2695328110/ , and flickr.com/photos/walford/2690757479/ ), with the idea of a juxtaposition with elements from two different works by the English 18th c. painter, Joseph Wright of Derby, inspired by the comments of Lensk / Paolo Avalle [see flickr.com/photos/63587066@N00/ for Lensk / Paolo Avalle], as found below the second of the two earlier versions [see www.flickr.com/photos/walford/2695328110/in/photostream/ ]. I am most grateful to Lensk for pointing me in that direction, as had forgotten Wright's Alchemist, though am most familiar with his work.
This piece was only possible with the initial inspiration from Idea-Listic [Robert Marinkovic] 's diabolical self-portrait on his profile page, and a great deal of help from dou_ble_you, who transformed my original into something far more creative and imaginative, which, I, in turn, have re-appropriated back onto my two original computer display screens.
For the original work by Idea-Listic, that triggered this idea, see: www.flickr.com/people/53959560@N00/
And for dou_ble_you's version, made for me, see: flickr.com/photos/dou_ble_you/2694068334/
And for my original version, see here below: flickr.com/photos/walford/2690757479/
The annual Tickting Business Forum at Emirates Old Trafford, Manchester. Piucture by Paul Heyes, Wednesday April 19, 2023.
Every morning women search the donkeys in the bush and sattle the carts to get to the lake, where they fill their containers, bidons and air chambers, with non-potable water. Each woman is supposed to take enough water to the needs of several other people staying in the village. The whole process might in Ndialbenabe Maka take 3 to 4 hours, between departure and re-entry in the village. The water taken is then used in all the chores, given to animals and humans, used to cook meals. It's not seldomly that the water taken to the village is not enough for the day...
Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.
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VIP 70TH ANNIVERSARY AUCTION
A BENEFIT FOR DIFFA: DESIGN INDUSTRIES FOUNDATION FIGHTING AIDS "
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Vipp is celebrating its 70th anniversary by hosting a charity auction in New York City in collaboration with design retailer Design Within Reach (DWR). The auction will benefit DIFFA: Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS. The auction will feature Vipp pedal bins re-imagined by 35 leading creative personalities.
Public viewing and bidding from October 15 - 28 at DWR: Tools for Living located at 142 Wooster Street, New York City, during regular store hours (11am-7pm). Gala auction to be held October 28.
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VIPP 70TH ANNIVERSARY AUCTION
Vipp is celebrating its 70th anniversary by hosting a charity auction in New York City in collaboration with design retailer Design Within Reach (DWR).
The auction will benefit DIFFA: Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS. Thirty-five leading figures in the worlds of architecture, art, design, fashion and entertainment have put their signature touch on the iconic Vipp bin for the occasion, including Yoko Ono, Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren & David Stark.
From October 15 – 28, the 35 customized Vipp bins will be on display for public viewing and bidding at DWR: Tools for Living located at 142 Wooster Street, New York City, during regular store hours (11am–7pm). Those who place bids on one or more of the customized Vipp bins, will be invited to a special gala auction on Wednesday, October 28, hosted by Veronica Webb, Vipp, DWR and DIFFA.
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For further information, please write to tsp@vipp.com or call DIFFA @ 212-727-3100
Participating designers:
Ami James, Avi Adler, Calvin Klein, Camilla StÊrk, Cole and Garrett, David Rockwell, David Stark, Evette Rios, Helena Christensen, Izhar Patkin, James Charles, Jes Gordon, John Baldessari, Jonas Hecksher/E-types, Lady Bunny, Lady Pink, Magnus Berger, Michael Aram, Mike Perry, Nigel Barker, Olaf Breuning, Oscar de la Renta, Ralph Lauren, Kiril Kirov/Razortooth, Richard Colman, Rikke Korff/The Furies, Robert Geller, Robert Verdi, Shelly Sabel, Sune Rose Wagner/The Raveonettes, Swathi Ghanta/Kidrobot, The Selby, Veronica Webb, Yoko Ono, Yves BÈhar/Fuseproject.
DESIGN WITHIN REACH: TOOLS FOR LIVING
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A nine shot composite of the Big Apple skyline from Liberty State Park, Jersey City, New Jersey
View at Actual Pixel Size (Approximately 2 x 6 Feet on a 19" 1280 pixel width monitor)
It would be very interesting to know the names of the major buildings in this NYC Skyline panorama, so all "you's guys" (i.e. New Yorkers) out there who know, and/or work in these building please lend a hand, and ID the buildings you know by adding notes to the images in the comments section below.
Thanks guys!
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Wetherspoon Pub - An outside view of The Bulls Head, 12 High Street, Walkden, Greater Manchester, M28 3NJ at 18:10 on 16th October 2014. Opened 21 January 2012
See Bulls Head
this afternoon i found this little guy on my patio. he was a little upset but not too stressed now that he's had some food and a dish of cream. he has no tail, is very probably male (but won't let me check to be sure) and is very affectionate. he's met a couple of the neighbourhood cats who dropped by to visit and they all seem to get along decently, so he may have been living with other cats. he wants in my apartment but i've set him up with a comfortable bed and he's found a few nooks in the woodpile and among the plants to hide in.
i've put an ad up on craigslist and attempted to do the same on kijiji (but that site is screwy as hell for me when i want to post - anyone who is a wizard there, please feel free to contact me). hopefully we'll get this guy back home before long. if any of you locals recognise him (or would like to have a very affectionate cat in your home), please get in touch. i've nicknamed him swayback for the moment as he crouches and walks a little oddly - he may have a rear hip or leg problem but it's not bad as he can jump up on my benches easily.
update: i just found out he belongs to a neighbour and he's not an outdoor cat. unfortunately i haven't seen him in a few days, but apparently he was recently spotted so he may get home soon. his name is sailor and he was last seen on salisbury avenue.
final update: sailor's back home after his adventure. a neighbour a block away found him and called his humans, i just found out. good news at last.
You have to check this out large and on a black background by clicking here
Went out shooting with:
Karen... www.flickr.com/photos/kvonk/
Lynn... www.flickr.com/photos/lynn_mcfulton/
Carol... www.flickr.com/photos/callieian/
And we hooked up with Scott... www.flickr.com/photos/39928120@N03/
Our tour took us to Valley Inn, the Hamilton Bay and then off to an abandoned home on Highway 6 near Puslinch...
I thought i would start with my favorite bird shots of the day and then post some of the abandoned shots when i get to them this weekend.
Thanks for the day everyone... and Scott, thanks for taking us to the abandoned house and barn
At the "Kunstsammlung Nortrhine-Westfalia K21", Düsseldorf, NRW, Germany (Google Maps). K21 means "art collection of the 21st century". View to the illuminated GAP 15-building (GAP means Graf-Adolf-Place) (Google Maps).
Please have a look at all of my pics tagged with: Duesseldorf or nightshot.
The period of Angkor is the period from approximately the latter half of the 8th century A.D. to the first half of the 15th century. If precise dates are required, the beginning may be set in 802 A.D., when the Khmer King Jayavarman II pronounced himself universal monarch (chakravartin) and declared independence from Java, and the end may be set in 1431 A.D., when Thai invaders from the kingdom of Ayutthaya sacked Angkor and caused the Khmer elite to migrate to Phnom Penh.
In any study of Angkorian architecture, the emphasis is necessarily on religious architecture, since the only remaining Angkorian buildings are religious in nature. During the period of Angkor, only temples and other religious buildings were constructed of stone. Non-religious buildings such as dwellings were constructed of perishable materials such as wood, and as such have not survived.
The religious architecture of Angkor has characteristic structures, elements, and motifs, which are identified in the glossary below. Since a number of different architectural styles succeeded one another during the Angkorean period, not all of these features were equally in evidence throughout the period. Indeed, scholars have recurred to the presence or absence of such features as one source of evidence for dating the remains.
Check out this Cherry '55 Chevy On Black
He wore black denim trousers and motorcycle boots
And a black leather jacket with an eagle on the back
He had a hopped-up 'cicle that took off like a gun
That fool was the terror of Highway 101
Well, he never washed his face and he never combed his hair
He had axle grease imbedded underneath his fingernails
On the muscle of his arm was a red tattoo
A picture of a heart saying "Mother, I love you"
He had a pretty girlfriend by the name of Mary Lou
But he treated her just like he treated all the rest
And everybody pitied her and everybody knew
He loved that doggone motorcycle best
He wore black denim trousers and motorcycle boots
And a black leather jacket with an eagle on the back
He had a hopped-up 'cicle that took off like a gun
That fool was the terror of Highway 101
Mary Lou, poor girl, she pleaded and she begged him not to leave
She said "I've got a feeling if you ride tonight I'll grieve"
But her tears were shed in vain and her every word was lost
In the rumble of an engine and the smoke from his exhaust
Then he took off like the Devil and there was fire in his eyes!! He
said "I'll go a thousand miles before the sun can rise." But he hit a screamin' diesel
that was California-bound" And when they cleared the wreckage, all
they found
Was his black denim trousers and motorcycle boots
And a black leather jacket with an eagle on the back
But they couldn't find the 'cicle that took off like a gun
And they never found the terror of Highway 101
Look at this large and on black.
Milford Sound is a peculiar place -- it's stunningly beautiful, but when I went it was so packed with tourists that I couldn't appreciate the landscape. There's only one way in and out of town, and once you get there, there isn't any room to spread out (no hiking trails out of town, for example). I drove, which obviously isn't as eco-friendly as the people coming in on buses, but it enabled me to come early and stay late -- once the buses had all left, and the sightseeing planes and helicopters had landed, and all the tour boats were docked, I could really appreciate the beauty of the landscape.
A side note about the people on buses -- many (though certainly I won't condemn them all) of them seemed to be the worst kind of tourist. I spent an hour wandering around a glacial valley on the way in, and I saw bus after bus pull into the parking area and disgorge a mass of people, who then proceeded to take a picture of themselves with the landscape in the back, and then they all got back on the bus and drove away. Few, if any, of them actually experienced the landscape or interacted with it in any way. I realize buses are on schedules and that you don't have time for an extended stroll, but it seemed to me like Photoshop would've done the job just as well. To me, it seems like they miss the point of travel -- heck, by my definition they're NOT traveling. Travel should be interactive, it should be exploration, it should be discovery and experience. It involves all five senses. This just looked like TV in 3-D. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe they get something out of it that I don't see, but it sure looked to me like they wasted a lot of time and money just to say they had been there.
Anyway, I've gotten slightly off topic... This is Milford Sound, in New Zealand, during an uncharacteristic (I'm told) dry spell of nearly two weeks. That meant that the sky was rather boring, so I used some of the local plants to frame Mitre Peak. I quite like the evening light on the peak, though.
So, as alluded to in the last post, I’m one of a decreasingly shrinking (i.e. it’s getting bigger) group of photographers who has never done film before. Ever. Shot it, developed it, paid for it, et cetera. That is, until a couple weeks ago when I bought my Holga 120N. And I’ve got to admit, I thoroughly enjoy it.
Since I am not Thomas Hawk and have no desire to publish a million photographs before I leave this world, going back in time to the [somewhat] long-gone days of film isn’t much of a hindrance on some larger task. Having gotten used to digital where I can take a shot, see if it’s exposed properly, and shoot it again, using film was- let’s face it- absolutely bizarre. What do you mean I have to wait to see what I just shot?! I want to see it now!
What’s more, it’s a Holga! I have no earthly idea how the final photograph’s going to look, focus is dependent on one person, three people, a group of people, or a MOUNTAIN. Aperture is a lie and there is only one shutter speed. The viewfinder doesn’t even frame the shot! The only thing I really control is the film (in this case, Ilford Delta 400).
But regardless, I have to admit- it’s a helluva experience.
I actually developed two rolls of film the other day when I developed this roll. The first, as mentioned, was a roll of Ilford FP4+ 125. And I absolutely botched it. I couldn’t get the damned thing onto the steel reel, and with the exception of half of one shot, nothing came out as more than a milky white blob. Not a big deal as it was the first roll I ran through the Holga and didn’t really have anything spectacular on it anyways.
Anyways, as for the actual developing, I was hoping that the darkroom on campus would have Rodinal (I heard it was forgiving) or Diafine (I like the contrast I’ve seen in shots using Delta 400 and Diafine), and took some numbers with me for both of those, but alas, they only had D-76. Again, no worries- I don’t really have preferences yet. This particular reel was soaked for 10.5 minutes, with 60 seconds of continuous agitation and an additional 3 inversions every 30 seconds. I used water as a stop bath (30s continuous agitation), and some unknown fixer for 6 minutes (same agitation as developer) followed by 8 minutes of washing. I actually skipped the Photoflo altogether, but that was due more to forgetfullness than intent, but there it is.
Now, the local photo store didn’t have any archival sheets for 120, so for the time being, I scanned in the shots and rerolled the film back in between the paper that 120 comes backed with and put that into the box. So much for preservation. It shall continue to live digitally at the least. (*knock on wood*) What can I say? I live in the digital age, and even when doing something analog like film, it’ll end up in the realm of the digital anyways.
So what are my thoughts? I think I love it. Or at least, I could, and will, given that the reeling process gets easier. You can’t see it in these scans, but even this second roll was imperfectly reeled. And I totally manhandled the film in the process. The whole process after reeling is quite enjoyable; I get to talk to other people in the darkroom with me all while shaking a metal can and eyeing a clock- we must seem ridiculous to a casual observer. Also, it’s probably the only bit of chemistry I’ll ever actually enjoy, so there’s that.
Holga 120N
Ilford Delta 400 Pro, D-76 (stock), 10.5min
Epson 4490
เครื่องพ่นหมอกเพิ่มความชื้นโรงเรือนเพาะเห็ด เครื่องพ่นหมอก ทำงานด้วยระบบแรงเหวี่ยงหนีศูนย์กลาง (Centrifugal Humidifier) ไม่ใช้ใบพัด ปลอดภัยในการใช้ ไม่มีปัญหาการอุดตัน ผสมสารละลายได้โดยตรงในถาดน้ำ ช่วยสร้างความชื้น และลดอุณหภูมิได้อย่างดี ในระยะเวลอันสั้น เหมาะสำหรับโรงเรือนเห็ดถั่งเช่า และโรงเรือนเห็ดทั่วไป รวมทั้งบ้านนก
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Als Gast in der Glashütte Eisch arbeitete Mare Saare im Rahmen des „Artist in Residence“-Programms vier Wochen in Frauenau. Während dieser Zeit konnte sie alle Möglichkeiten der Hütte für die Herstellung ihrer Kunstwerke nutzen. Hier entstanden Objekte, die, neben aktuellen Werken aus Ihrem Atelier in Tallinn, vom 19. August bis 7. November 2009 in der Galerie am Museum in Frauenau gezeigt werden.
Als „Tor zwischen Ost und West“ wurde die Estin Mare Saare von ihrer belgischen Kollegin Sandra De Clerck auf der Vernissage zur aktuellen Frauenauer Ausstellung vorgestellt; und tatsächlich ist der Name der vielgereisten und vielseitigen Glasprofessorin von der Kunstakademie in Tallinn fest verknüpft mit dem Ankommen der facettenreichen estländischen und baltischen Glaskunst in der Internationalen Studiobewegung.
Mare Saares Arbeiten öffnen dabei nicht nur den Blick auf eine fern gerückte Glas- und Kunstszene, sondern vor allem auf den flüchtigen Zauber der Ostseelandschaft, und auf eine Persönlichkeit, in der Vitalität und Verwundbarkeit zusammen wirken.
Das Glas, seine Fragilität und seine Herkunft aus körnigem, leicht verwehtem Sand benutzt sie mit genialer Virtuosität: Ein vielfarbiger, schwingender Kelch entspringt einem noch zerbrechlicher wirkenden Grund aus körnig verschmolzenem Glas, er nährt sich von ihm, bis dieser gleichsam bröckelt und schließlich inexistent, zu Sand wird.
Die in Frauenau ausgestellten, blumenartigen Objekte der Serie „Fragile Circuit“, gearbeitet in pâte de verre-Technik, stehen für einen zerbrechlichen Kreislauf, der gleichwohl ewig ist wie Ebbe und Flut. Sand ist bei Mare Saare nicht nur ein künstlerisches Bild für Erneuerung und Wiederkehr, sondern dient – neben gemahlenem und gekröseltem Glas – tatsächlich auch als technisches Ausgangsmaterial und als immer wieder verwendbare Auflage im Formprozess der zarten Objekte.
Ihr individuelles Herstellungsverfahren für diese Objekte verwendet Sand als technische Hilfe, als Form und Auflage im Schmelzprozess. Sand ist unendlich wiederverwendbar und steht auch dadurch für die Idee der Erneuerung und Ewigkeit. Der Boden der Arbeiten wird in Glas gegossen, der Blütenkelch ist aus verschmolzenen Glaskröseln in pâte de verre-Technik hergestellt.
Die Künstlerin selbst beschreibt Ihre Werke so:
„Meine Arbeiten sind oft extrem zerbrechliche, offene Tellerformen. Ich arbeite gerne mit Farben, selten aber mit völliger Transparenz. Ich versuche das Zerbrechliche, Zarte, das Verletzliche und das Flüchtige im Glas zu vereinigen, indem ich farbige Glaspulver in Formen aus Sand fuse.“
Diocese of Manchester Ordination of Deacons service at Manchester Cathedral. Picture by Paul Heyes, Sunday July 02, 2017.
From Wikipedia:
20 (twenty) is the natural number following 19 and preceding 21. A group of twenty units is often referred to as a score.
Twenty is a composite number, its proper divisors being 1, 2, 4, 5 and 10. Skipping 2 and adding the other divisors gives 20, hence 20 is a semiperfect number, and since it is not divisible by any of the smaller semiperfect numbers, it is a primitive semiperfect number. 20 is the smallest abundant number that is not a multiple of 3.
It is also the sum of the first four triangular numbers, making it a tetrahedral number.
20 is the atomic number of calcium.
20 is the total number of digits on the human body, which makes it a convenient number system radix; such number systems are called vigesimal. In the former British currency system, there were twenty shillings in a pound.
A polyhedron with twenty faces is an icosahedron.
20 is the number of proteinogenic amino acids that are encoded by the standard genetic code.
Twenty is a village in Lincolnshire.
20 is the code for international direct dial phone calls to Egypt.
Oh, and 20 is the number of my "Explorized" photos: thanks to all visitors!
Da Wikipedia:
Venti è il numero naturale dopo il 19 e prima del 21.
20 è il numero atomico del calcio (Ca).
20 è il numero di amminoacidi, denominato proteinogenici, che sono messi dal codice genetico normale.
Nella Smorfia il numero 20 è la festa.
Oh, e 20 è il numero delle mie foto "esplorizzate": grazie a tutti i visitatori!
Top row:
4. Turin Roofs - I tetti di Torino
5. Welding mask glass used as ND filter - vetro per maschera da saldatura usato come filtro ND
6. Mediterranean details - Via Zara
8. Love of Summer, Summer of Love
Center row:
9. Imperia Oneglia - vegetables at the Wednesday market
10. Birra Menabrea 150° Anniversario
11. Grey Heron - Airone Cenerino
12. Ghostly effect
13. Ternary trenette
14. Cervo (Imperia)
16. Fusilli “waves and particles”
Bottom row:
17. Boom!
18. Colors of Liguria - terrace of Pirates
19. Dandelion
Film needed to be rewind by hand. There was a rewind room up on the top floor.
Hidden and decaying above an amusement arcade In Batley, West Yorkshire is the former Regent Picture House. Above a suspended ceiling are the remains of the old cinema, built just after the end of the Great War in 1919. Originally it could hold 800+ patrons who would have paid to see the films of the day.
Today, it is derelict; its projectors and spools of film left in the projection room. Although the tiered flooring remains in the circle, many of the seats have long gone. Two rows of original seats are left. The ornate plaster work of the ceiling remains as do wonderful traces of the old cinema.
Plans are in the pipeline to convert the upstairs of the venue, but keeping many of the original features.
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World War I, a.k.a. First World War -
The Great War
"The War to End All Wars"
It was a total war which left millions dead and helped to shape the modern world.
At 11:00am on November 11, 1918 —
eleventh hour
eleventh day
eleventh month —
A ceasefire came into effect and the opposing armies on the Western Front began to withdraw from their positions.
In Flanders Fields
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
— Lt.-Col. John McCrae
The poem "In Flanders Fields" by the Canadian army physician John McCrae remains to this day one of the most memorable war poems ever written. It is a lasting legacy of the terrible battle in the Ypres salient in the spring of 1915.
"This poem was literally born of fire and blood during the hottest phase of the second battle of Ypres. My headquarters were in a trench on the top of the bank of the Ypres Canal, and John had his dressing station in a hole dug in the foot of the bank. During periods in the battle men who were shot actually rolled down the bank into his dressing station.
Along from us a few hundred yards was the headquarters of a regiment, and many times during the sixteen days of battle, he and I watched them burying their dead whenever there was a lull. Thus the crosses, row on row, grew into a good-sized cemetery.
Just as he describes, we often heard in the mornings the larks singing high in the air, between the crash of the shell and the reports of the guns in the battery just beside us.
I have a letter from him in which he mentions having written the poem to pass away the time between the arrival of batches of wounded, and partly as an experiment with several varieties of poetic metre." Lieutenant Colonel Edward Morrison
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Provided by another: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtXO5QDXUbU
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"Get up on your hands and knees
Underneath the poplar trees
Digging through the sticks and stones
Looking for store bought bones
Waiting on the rising sun
Clutching at your holstered gun
Praying on a shooting star
That I can be wherever you are
Looking through a telescope
Maybe there's a sign of hope
Leaving everything behind
Stirring a store bought mind
Sitting at the edge of the seat
Wishing you were here by me
Sifting through the mud and the bricks
Looking for a store bought fix
You can't buy what you can't find."
--"Store Bought Bones" by The Raconteurs
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This is Russell Sweet. Some of you have seen him before in my photos. He's such a good model. I have so many pictures from today. I can't wait to share them.
This is part of a series. = ) Read the description on the set page.
Facebook Event: Pizza Tour NYC
Event Info
Name:Pizza Tour NYC
Tagline: for friends and family
Host:Vladimir Cole (Facebook / LinkedIn / Twitter)
Type:Other - Carnival
Time and Place
Date: Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Time: 10:00am - 10:00pm
Location: NYC
City/Town: New York, NY
Description
Purpose: Tour some of the best Pizza in NYC. Now that I’m on the West Coast, this is a very important “keeping it real” event for me. I mustn’t forget what real pizza tastes like. Seattle’s pie sucks, for the most part.
Timing: Start at 10am and end at 10pm. Feel free to join in at any point by calling me (212.281.1090) for current location and next stop. Also, you can follow along via Twitter (twitter.com/vladcole).
Itinerary (in rough order):
DONE .... Rose & Joe's Bakery (31st St near Ditmars Blvd, Astoria)
DONE .... Rosario's (31st St near Ditmars Blvd, Astoria)
DONE .... Joe’s (7 Carmine Street, West Village) … walk to:
DONE .... Grandaisy Bakery (73 Sullivan St., SoHo) … walk to:
DONE .... Lombardi’s (32 Spring St., SoHo) … walk to:
DONE .... Luzzo's (1st Ave. & 12th St.) …
DONE .... Fornino (187 Bedford Ave., Brooklyn)
DONE .... Franny’s (295 Flatbush Ave., Prospect Heights, Brooklyn)
Google Maps: Brooklyn Section: Pizza Crawl by Brian Carp (Facebook)
Franny's Guests
+ Dr Sam
+ Jane Doe
© 2007 See-ming Lee (Blog / Facebook / Flickr / LinkedIn / Network / Orkut / Twitter / Wiki)
ruralarts.museum.msu.edu/showcase/murinal.php
Garden Detail
The Ingham County Arts Commission and the Ingham County Fair partnered in this project which brought together professional and student artists, and community residents to conceive of the images, design and paint the mural. The "Murinal" remained a landmark at the fairgrounds for over a decade but has now been painted out.
South & West Views
The "Murinal" a 1981 community arts project created a mural around the four sides of a bathroom building at the Ingham County Fairgrounds. Known as "the murinal" this community artwork depicted the Mason County rural countryside of farmland and wetlands, the Mason county courthouse, and the fairgrounds.
Cow Detail
Moo. . .ving to create jobs and training
opportunities with visible results
The Popular Arts Workshop (PAW), a community muralist group provided the artistic direction and promoted the success of the project as an opportunity to employ artists and others in community beautification.
Gary Andrews - PAW Artist
Julie Nicol (Avery) Ingham County Arts Commissioner, project leader.
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FICHA TÉCNICA Orden: Rodentia. Familia: Múridos. Subfamilia: Murinos. Género: Rattus
Especie: Rattus rattus (Linnaeus, 1752). Subespecies presentes: Una única especie en la península ibérica e islas, aún cuando presenta razas o formas geográficas. Longitud de la cabeza y cuerpo, sin incluir la cola: entre 7 y 11 cms. Longitud de la cola: de 9 a 24 cms. Peso: De 125 a 250 gramos. Status de la especie: No amenazada.
Roedor de mediano tamaño, que no suele sobrepasar los 250 gramos de peso y que ocupa medios más rurales y menos humanizados que su congénere la rata de alcantarilla o común, también llamada rata parda (Rattus norvegicus), de la que se diferencia por su menor tamaño y mayores orejas. Otro detalle para diferenciarla es su larga cola, formada por característicos anillos escamosos, de forma redondeada y una longitud que supera notoriamente la de la cabeza más el cuerpo.
La rata campestre es originaria del sureste asiático, habiendo ocupado Europa en tiempos históricos probablemente siguiendo al hombre en sus primeras rutas comerciales, aun cuando se estima que ya pudo venir en períodos posteriores a las últimas glaciaciones. Desde Europa y tras el descubrimiento de América se extendió por resto del mundo sirviéndose de los barcos, donde viajaba como indeseado polizón, pasando a ocupar en tierra –fundamentalmente- las zonas portuarias.
En España la rata de campo ocupa todo el territorio nacional, incluidas las Baleares y Canarias.
De hábitos esencialmente nocturnos, aun cuando no es difícil verla durante el día trepando por árboles o refugiándose entre la maleza. La rata campestre no suele excavar madrigueras subterráneas, sino que suele instalar sus habitáculos en los huecos de los edificios y en las falsas de los tejados, aun cuando también ocupa con sus madrigueras los huecos de las raíces de los grandes árboles y en los lugares húmedos y encharcados para aislarse del suelo y proteger así a su descendencia acondiciona una especie de nidos, parecidos a los de las aves, de forma casi circular y con una abertura lateral, de 30 cms. de diámetro, que suele construir entre la vegetación densa como zarzales, hiedras o cañaverales, aunque también puede construirlos en árboles que cuenten con hojas permanentes y abundantes follaje que los camufle.
La rata de campo es una especie omnívora, que consume cuanto encuentra a su paso, aunque en el campo consume fundamentalmente frutos y granos.
Es un animal sociable, que vive en grupos que suelen estar dominados por un macho, aunque la jerarquía social no está muy marcada. Es frecuente el canibalismo dentro de la especie. Observación de ratas de campo silvestres llevadas a un laboratorio, para el estudio del comportamiento durante la preñez y lactancia, constató que la agresividad de la madre aumentó conforme iba acercándose el parto, el cual se produjo al décimo séptimo día de gestación. Desde que las crías nacieron, la madre se mostró muy celosa y protectora; y nunca rechazó a sus crías a pesar de que estas eran manipuladas diariamente, para evaluar su peso y sus medidas de longitud cabeza-cuerpo. Este mismo estudio destaca que no se presentó canibalismo de las madres a las crías (M. Williams de Castro, A. Castillo y C. Rosas, 2002), por lo que puede estimarse que el canibalismo que se produce en la especie es de otros individuos ajenos a la madre, la que desarrolla la conducta agresiva descrita conforme va aumentando la preñez ante la conciencia del peligro que acecha a su descendencia.
Muy curioso es el fenómeno conocido como rey de las ratas, por el que pueden acabar entrelazándose por la cola varios individuos, normalmente de 3 a 12, aun cuando se ha citado un caso de 32 ejemplares entrelazados (J. Reichholf, 1995), que quedan tan fuertemente entrelazados por alguna desconocida causa que luego no pueden separarse voluntariamente, terminando por morir de hambre y por las heridas que recíprocamente se causan. El origen de este fenómeno, admitido en la literatura científica y constatado incluso en ejemplares cautivos de laboratorio, no es conocido y se ha denominado con el nombre de rey de las ratas por considerarse en la tradición popular que era el rey de las ratas el que las amarraba y colocaba en esta situación como castigo, para controlar la superpoblación de ratas cuando escaseaba el alimento.
Pero si la rata campestre ocupa un lugar en la historia humana, es por estimarse responsable de la llamada peste bubónica o negra, de donde toma su nombre de rata negra, que fue la responsable de la muerte de millones de personas en Europa a mediados del S. XIV. Se calcula entre veinte y veinticinco millones los muertos por esta epidemia, solo en Europa. Se cuenta que uno de los primeros lugares en que se detectó la epidemia fue Sicilia, en el otoño de 1347, donde unos marineros genoveses al regresar de Caffa (Crimea) con pieles de marmota, trajeron la enfermedad que posteriormente fueron extendiendo por los diferentes puertos en que atracaban. Tan solo medio año después, en la primavera de 1348, afectó a las Baleares y poco después a la Península Ibérica y en 1349 afectaba ya a los países del norte de Europa, ocasionando grandes mortandades.
La enfermedad se transmitía a través de las ratas, cuyo agente ere un bacilo originariamente denominado Pasteurella pestis y ahora conocido como Yersinia pestis (aislado en 1894 en Hong-Kong durante una epidemia por el microbiólogo suizo Alejandro Yersin, del que tomó su nombre). El bacilo pasaba al hombre a través de las pulgas que vivían con las ratas y también transportaban la bacteria. Por lo que en realidad se trata de una epizootia de las ratas que se propaga al ser humano por intermedio de los ectoparásitos de estos animales (la pulga de las ratas llamada Xenopsylla cheopis).
Las variedades de ratas afectadas son tanto la rata campestre o negra (Rattus rattus) como la rata parda o de alcantarilla (Rattus norvegicus), aunque fue la primera (la rata campestre) la causante de la epidemia en Europa al no estar en aquélla época (S. XIV) extendida aún por el continente Europa la rata de alcantarilla. En el ser humano, los parásitos propios del hombre como la pulga (Pulex irritans) o el piojo (Pediculus capitis, P. vestimenti) también contribuían a la transmisión y expansión de la enfermedad.
La enfermedad no presentaba una única forma y podía presentarse como una afección pulmonar, que causaba graves insuficiencias respiratorias; como una septicémica (infección generalizada) con hemorragias cutáneas, con placas de color negro azulado, de ahí que se le conozca como peste negra; y, por último había una forma que se conocía como peste bubónica, que era la más frecuente, la que se caracterizaba por la aparición en el cuerpo humano de unos bubones (ganglios linfáticos) en el cuello y la ingle.
El Doctor José Manuel Reverte Coma, de la Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, resume ilustrativamente este dañino mal indicando como “no ha habido epidemia más terrible en el mundo como la MUERTE NEGRA por la elevada mortalidad que produjo y las consecuencias de todo tipo que trajo consigo en aquel infausto s. XIV, en el que a la peste se unieron el hambre y las guerras”.
El retroceso de la peste bubónica o negra, parece deberse a un cambio de la forma del bacilo Yersinia pestis a otra menos virulenta Yersinia pseudotuberculosis, que actuarían como vacuna, dando un alto grado de inmunidad a la peste (Castells y Mayo, 1993)
Aun cuando se ha constatado en los tiempos actuales una regresión de la población de ratas de campo, sigue siendo abundante. No obstante se considera que las ratas desempeñan un significativo papel en el ecosistema, fundamentalmente al servir de alimento a muchos carnívoros y rapaces, particularmente ahora que por la enfermedad del conejo ha disminuido preocupante la población de este lagomorfo, por lo que su papel en la cadena alimenticia ha sido reemplazado en cierto aspecto por la rata
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Longevidad: Su vida media está en torno a los dieciocho meses, en libertad, mientras que en cautividad puede alcanzar varios años de vida.
Celo: La rata de campo está activa todo el año. Suele tener de tres a cinco camadas por año.
Gestación. La gestación dura de 17 a 21 días.
Época de parto: Esta sexualmente activo a lo largo de todo el año.
Parto: La hembra puede parir de 5 a 16 ejemplares, aunque lo normal son 7 u 8, los que deposita la hembra en el interior de la madriguera o nido, donde acondiciona un lecho con restos de materia vegetal y pelo, naciendo desnudos, con los ojos cerrados, sin pelo y sin capacidad auditiva y pesando tan solo 5 ó 6 gramos.
Duración de la lactancia: Entre 15 y 17 días.
Madurez sexual. Son precoces muy pronto: la hembra es activa sexualmente a las cinco o seis semanas. Los machos precisan unos días más para alcanzar la madurez sexual.
Alimentación. Condicionada a las disponibilidades alimenticias que encuentra, aunque siente predilección por los cereales y semillas, aunque no rechaza insectos, caracoles y restos de materia vegetal. También puede predar sobre nidos de huevos.
Hábitats. La rata de campo, hasta hace unos siglos, dominaban las ciudades, pero al llegar las ratas de alcantarilla (Rattus norvegicus), de mayor tamaño, entablaron una lucha a muerte, expulsándola de las aglomeraciones urbanas y obligándola a adquirir costumbres campestres.
Huellas. Por su poco peso no suele quedar marcadas, ni siquiera en los medios óptimos. Cuando lo hace es de forma difusa, enmarañada y poco clara. La huella del pie posterior, es mayor que la del anterior, teniendo la huella del pie posterior una longitud de 1,5 cms. De largo por 0,5 cms. de ancha. Es también muy característico de la especie los rastros aceitosos, producidos por su piel grasienta, que deja marcados sobre el suelo y lugares por los que pasa habitualmente en sus correrías. Aunque estos rastros de grasa también los deja la rata común o de alcantarilla, sabremos que corresponden a una rata campestre si el rastro de grasa se encuentra en vertical o en un lugar elevado, ya que la rata común es mala treparadora. Uno de estos rastros de rata campestre lo vemos con detalle en una de las imágenes laterales que ilustran esta ficha.
Excrementos: Su forma es alargada siendo ligeramente más gruesos por el centro y la punta redondeada de 9-10 mm. de longitud y 2-3 mm. de diámetro en el centro.
Otros rastros. Los daños apreciados en resto de comida es su mejor rastro. Cuando come cereales, su alimento favorito, no come por completo los granos, sino que ataca a las semillas por un extremo, sujetándolas con las manos y si tiene más no termina de consumir la semilla encontrada, sino que pasa a otra para efectuar similar proceso. En las almendras roe la cáscara de forma difusa e irregular, aunque fundamentalmente por una punta. El cadáver de la rata de campo o su presencia en egagrópilas de aves son otros buenos rastros para asegurar su presencia en un territorio concreto.
Dimorfismo sexual: No aparente, si bien el macho es ligeramente mayor que la hembra. La hembra presenta además cinco pares de mamas, ligeramente apreciables en la lactancia.
Enemigos naturales. El turón, gineta y gato montés son sus principales enemigos. El gato doméstico (Felis catus) también se atreve con ellas, particularmente los ejemplares felinos de mayor tamaño. El hombre también las combate con raticidas.
Curiosidades ecológicas. Se cuenta que fueron las ratas y no los hombres, los que expulsaron a los soldados de Napoleón de Egipto. Kemmerich en su obra Cultura Curiosa (1944) cuenta que por las noches las ratas roían los arreos de cuero de los soldados franceses, de tal modo que los jinetes tenían que ir a pie porque las sillas no se sostenían sobre los caballos. Así mismo devoraban las correas de los fusiles, las cartucheras, las botas y todo lo que tenía cuero, cuando los soldados
dormían. Cuando los soldados comían su rancho, las ratas salían de todas partes y se lanzaban hambrientas sobre los platos de los soldados, y aunque mataban a muchas de ellas, las otras seguían comiendo con total descaro, sin inmutarse, lo que quitaba el apetito a los soldados que se negaban a continuar en estos lugares acosados por tan indeseables roedores.
Principales problemáticas. Los daños en alimentos -humanos y de animales de corral- y en los campos de cultivos son las principales problemáticas que se achacan a la rata. La posibilidad de transmitir enfermedades hace también necesario su control.
Driving back through Big Sur, I couldn't help but notice the Point Sur Lightstation.
"The Point Sur Lightstation sits 361 feet above the surf on a large volcanic rock. Point Sur is the only complete turn-of-the century Lightstation open to the public in California, and is on the National Register of Historic Places. First lit on August 1, 1889, the lighthouse has remained in continuous operation. Lighthouse keepers and their families lived at the site from 1889 to 1974 when the lighthouse was automated. Today the Lightstation buildings are being restored through the efforts of park staff, State Park volunteers and the non-profit Central Coast Lighthouse Keepers. The Lightstation is open to the public only through docent-led tours."
I was too lazy and cold to take the CPL off the lens.
My own little disclaimer to myself...I'm working off the laptop screen, so I may have to go back and re-look at a number of the shots I post while on travel.
Thanks for looking!
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Comments and constructive criticism always appreciated.
About the Shot
Usually when I visit the zoo, the baboons are frolicking up the back of their sizeable enclosure, too far away for my 200mm to reach. This time, I arrived at the viewing window to find a huge crowd of people gathered. I waited patiently for a couple of minutes then pushed to the front to be greeted with this lovely sight. Two of the zoo's newest babies right down the front. I'm going to guess that the wee one with the grass in his mouth is Chandu. He was more confident than the other one. Within minutes the youngsters were scooped up and carried away so I got there just at the right time.
1/500 | f5.6 | ISO 400
About the Baboon Babies
Edinburgh Zoo has welcomed the first of its spring arrivals in the form of three baby gelada baboons. The new additions, which are the first gelada babies to be born at the Zoo, have been named Chandu, Chibale and Chiku. Chandu, who was the first to arrive on 10 February, is the only one to be sexed so far and is a boy. Chibale, whose name means kinship, followed on 6 March and Chiku, whose name means chatter, finally arrived on 10 March. The names for the three baboons have been chosen by their keepers to reflect the Ethiopian origin of this species.
Gelada baboons have only been part of the animal collection since 2007 when a group of seven arrived from Rheine Zoo in Germany. In 2008 the Zoo received a male called Malachi from Colchester Zoo who is father to all three babies.
Gelada baboons live in the Ethiopian Highlands. They live in large troops, led by one dominant male, with younger males, females and infants of all ages making up the rest of the group. They are currently in danger of extinction due to the expansion of the local human population. Not only do they have to compete for land but they are also targeted by farmers who suspect them of crop-raiding.
Georgina Cook, one of the Primate Keepers at Edinburgh Zoo, said:
“We’re really happy that our gelada group have bred successfully as it means that they have settled in really well. The youngsters have already started exploring the enclosure on their own and we’re sure they will prove to be very popular with visitors.”
Also of interest: Primates | Edinburgh Zoo | Animal Babies