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Small, brightly-colored leaf warbler. Yellowish green above and pale below, with bright yellow brow stripes, a pale crown stripe, and a bicolored bill (dark above, orange below). Has two wingbars, of which upper can be quite pale or absent. Note white undertail and distinct behavior of flicking both wings at the same time (Blyth’s, Claudia’s, and Hartert’s leaf warblers flick their wings alternatingly). More extensively yellow and with a stronger, more contrasting head pattern than Blyth’s and Emei leaf warblers, and lacks the bright rump patch of “Pallas’s-type” leaf warblers. Closely related Kloss’s Leaf Warbler is extremely similar; look for Davison’s brighter and more extensively white undertail coverts. Breeds in deciduous broadleaved and mixed hill and montane forest; descends into forested foothills in the non-breeding season. Song is short and sweet: “wih-chew-chee wih-chew-chee-wih”. Calls are high and liquid-sounding: “chew-wee” or “wit-chew-wee”. (eBird)
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We saw these little warblers quite frequently, flitting rapidly through the trees. This one was chasing insects in the more inaccessible sections of the trees, but came out to give us a quick once-over before resuming the hunt.
Thanks to Daren who alerted me to the fact that I had mis-ID'd this warbler. I used Merlin Photo ID and compared my other photos with those from eBird to realize that this was not a Hume's Warbler, but a Davison's Leaf Warbler.
Here's a link to our Thailand bird trip list: ebird.org/tripreport/328567
Doi Inthanon National Park, Chiang Mai, Thailand. February 2025.
Rockjumper Birding Tours.
So, that’s enough of your macro, close-up, diving flower, bugs life waffle and nonsense, what you need is a damn good shower as all this WARM weather can be a bit of a DRAG. Give me some THUNDER and LIGHTNING!
Actually, I'd prefer some prolonged drizzle to soak the land rather than flash floods and disruption.
Le canal Saint-Félix est un canal, dans lequel coulent les eaux de l'Erdre, avant que celle-ci ne se jette dans la Loire. Situé à Nantes, à l'est du château des Ducs, il a pris la place d'un des anciens bras de la Loire, le bras de la Bourse, lors des Comblements de Nantes. Il constitue aujourd'hui un port de plaisance non loin du centre-ville, avec un parking côté quai Malakoff.
En 1926, les travaux de comblement de nombreux bras de la Loire et de dérivation de l'Erdre commencent. Ainsi, de 1929 à 1933, on creuse le tunnel Saint-Félix, canal souterrain passant sous les cours Saint-Pierre et Saint-André, entre la préfecture et le canal Saint-Félix, destiné à dévier l'affluent, l'Erdre, de son cours naturel.
La construction d'un barrage et d'une écluse à sa sortie, pour maintenir son niveau, protège le canal contre le refoulement des eaux de la Loire avec la cote de + 10 m, soit 1 m au-dessus des inondations de 1910. Ces installations comprenant un sas d'écluse de 50 mètres de long pour 7 mètres de large, fermé par deux portes métalliques de 17 tonnes chacune, fut inaugurée le 5 avril 1934 après 3 ans de travaux
À partir de 1933, des travaux d'élargissement du quai Malakoff commencent. Ils incluent le comblement du canal de la Gare, et ont pour effet de diminuer la largeur du canal Saint-Félix. Ils sont stoppés en 1942 et repris après la guerre.
The Saint-Félix canal is a canal in which the waters of the Erdre flow, before it flows into the Loire. Located in Nantes, east of the castle of the Dukes, he took the place of one of the old arms of the Loire, the arm of the Exchange, during the Fillings of Nantes. It is now a marina not far from the city center, with parking side quay Malakoff.
In 1926, the work of filling many arms of the Loire and derivation of the Erdre began. Thus, from 1929 to 1933, the Saint-Félix tunnel was dug, an underground canal passing under the Saint-Pierre and Saint-André courtyards, between the prefecture and the Saint-Félix canal, intended to divert the tributary, the Erdre, of its natural course.
The construction of a dam and a lock at its exit, to maintain its level, protects the canal against the backflow of the Loire with the rating of + 10 m, 1 m above the floods of 1910. These facilities including a lock chamber 50 meters long and 7 meters wide, closed by two metal doors of 17 tons each, was inaugurated on April 5, 1934 after 3 years of work
From 1933, works to widen the Malakoff wharf begin. They include the filling of the Canal de la Gare, and have the effect of reducing the width of the Saint-Félix Canal. They were stopped in 1942 and resumed after the war.
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Yesterday morning our local Swifts were flying over the garden so I went out with my camera for some target practice. This wasn't my best photo of the session, but a Swift feeding is something I've been trying to photograph for ages. They fly around catching flying insects which they store in their crop to take back to the nest. They can catch up to a thousand insects before returning to feed the chicks. David Lack who studied Swifts nesting in a tower at Oxford University counted 312 different species of insect and spider in these bug balls, and found that typically they contain 3-500 insects. Because winged insect food is so variable and unpredictable the youngsters can go into a kind of torpor, dropping their body temperature and arresting their development, then resuming to normal development when the insects start to reappear. They probably hunt at about 25 mph but even at this speed they can differentiate between insects. One swift was found to have caught several stingless drone honeybees but neatly avoided all of the stinging females. It is thought that each Swift may catch 10,000 insects in a day, which makes it surprising that this is the first time I have managed to photograph one feeding.
Back on the Moray Firth for a couple of days so thought it best to make the most of being by the sea again. Fortunately a brief spell of activity in between the calm meant that I was able to grab a couple of images that I was happy with. Here's the first.
Stagecoach Oxfordshire / 50443 YX70 LVJ / Oxford Tube Oxford - London Victoria / Hillingdon Western Avenue
Após cruzamento com graneleiro vazio da VLI no iniciozinho da manhã, minério carregado reinicia sua viagem já próximo de concluir sua viagem com destino ao TFPM em São Luís.
After meeting with an empty VLI grain train early in the morning, this loaded iron ore train resume its trip, close to finish its journey bound to the TFPM in São Luís.
После встречи с пустым зерновым поездом VLI рано утром этот поезд с железной рудой возобновляет свой путь, приближаясь к финишу до TFPM в Сан-Луисе.
France, Alsace, Strasbourg, the three Gothic portals on the west façade of the “Cathedral de Notre-Dame”.
The Cathedral de Notre-Dame is known as one of the most striking gothic cathedrals in Europe. During 1015, the first version of the church was starting to be built, but fire destroyed most of the original Romanesque building. By the time that cathedral was being renovated, at the end of the 12th century, this time with red stones carried from the nearby mountains of Vosges, the gothic architectural style has reached Alsace & the future cathedral was starting to develop all characteristics of gothic aesthetics.
Within the next four centuries, due to the 142 mtr height of its tower, the Strasbourg Cathedral was considered the tallest building, it was unique because it was one of the few gothic churches equipped with only one tower.
During the following centuries numerous impressive architectural structures & artworks where added, one of the highlights is the 18-mtr astronomical clock, one of the largest in the world, its first forerunner was the so-called “Dreikönigsuhr", three-king clock of 1352-1354, located at the opposite wall from where today's clock is, in 1547 a new clock was built, but the construction was interrupted when the Cathedral was handed over to the Roman Catholic Church, construction was resumed in 1571, that clock functioned into the late 18th Century & can be seen today in the Strasbourg Museum of Decorative Arts. Today’s existing clock originated in 1838-1843, equipped with completely new mechanics.
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"Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.”
(H.G. Wells)
Many people ask me advice about their portfolio and CV and I always tell them to be creative to stand out of the crowd. This doesn't apply to all kind of jobs, but when you're talking about creative jobs, there are simply no rules on how to present yourself.
Don't mention the name of your kindergarden school, don't mention you've been working at McDonalds during summer break. Believe me, nobody cares. And if your future employer does care, then he'll select you on the wrong criteria. You don't want to work for such a company.
So get creative and make something awesome from your portfolio. Take the above portfolio as an example. Michael doesn't show any of its works and still he succeeds in showing off his talent. Not only he can create great graphics, he also proves to be able to turn 'boring' facts and figures into something exciting. Well done Michael!
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She'd been attacked, pecked relentlessly on every side, little bruises covering virtually every inch of her, all hidden under the endless layers of silk, lace and fur. Curiously, there was no blood anywhere. Not a single puncture wound visible. She reeled for a while, not understanding anything, completely dazed as she watched her world change from black and to white again. The ravens had flown away to find something fresh, and left her in lying in the cold snow that numbed the pain and invited her to sleep. And when she agreed and shut her eyes, she no longer saw black and white, simply gray nothingness. Soft gray noise, comforting like a pillow wrapped around her body, buffering her rough edges, pressed even against her mouth. And it was reassuring, all this fuzzy softness, and she relaxed and fell back to sleep. First one day, then the next and then the next after that, waking only to note that she was still sore, then nodding off again, returning to her new world of gray noise.
At some point, she caught herself dreaming, "This is so much better. Perhaps I'll just keep lying here forever. I'll let the snow come and make me a warm, thick, last blanket, and just fade into the gray noise." And again, she shut her eyes.
She was awakened by a tapping but ignored it and soon feel back asleep. A moment later, she felt a little pain in her hand, something she had not experienced in days (weeks?). She tried to ignore it, but there it was again, worse. She tried to rouse herself, but felt like she was under water and could not swim to the surface. The pain in her hand intensified. She forced herself to focus and summoned everything inside her to rise to the surface, grasping to find her voice, puncturing the thick, gray noise that enveloped her. She opened a watery eye and was met with an inky black stare. A raven was looking directly at her. A long moment passed as they studied one another calmly, the victor and the vanquished.
A few flakes of snow glided down, decorating her wrist like charms of bracelet, then landing on the raven's feathers, melting into a darker shade of black. The bird blinked then resumed his task, pecking hard into the soft skin of her palm.
She shut her eyes again.
The Transcendental Metamorphosis of Symbols - The Cyclical Recreation Of The Mystic forms by Daniel Arrhakis (2022)
The transformation of mystical forms and symbolism in time and in human spiritual conception resumed in infinite temporal cycles.
With the music : Stormy Night In a cathedral choir / ASMR Ambience - 3 Hours
The recreation of Symbols and the mystical transcendence of Forms and Geometries in reincarnation cycles.
Although the spirit's reincarnation cannot in most cases remember its past life due to the space-time duality and the different dimensionality between spirit and matter, there are nevertheless lines and geometries, shapes and light that are familiar to us and these can be slightly recognized in the processes of reincarnation.
If we look at different cultures, there are symbols, geometric shapes that are recurrent and that are reflected in architecture, art, in the cult of the dead, or other cultural traditions and expressions.
The innate capacity for abstraction and recreation of these symbolic forms and recognitions, although present in most of us, is more developed in some people than in others and in part is due to past life experiences.
The incessant search for knowledge and study of the physical and spiritual world enriches us culturally, enlightens us about our surroundings and about ourselves.
We could think that it is useless because generations succeed each other and knowledge is lost if it is not recorded, but just as we evolve biologically over time, our spirit also evolves with learning, which influences our relationships with those around us and ultimately also in the various future lives and cycles of rebirth.
Although we don't remember because they are different physical and temporal dimensions, a life of seeking enlightenment and knowledge better prepares us for our own transformative and timeless journeys.
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43043 seen passing Cossington with the 1B16 0711 Nottingham - London St Pancras International. Apart from Sunday services I think this was the first time a HST has done a Nottingham service since Lockdown began 18/5/20.
Ripreso dopo 4 anni, questo scatto è di grande valore sia per il convoglio ormai scomparso in trazione diesel sia per la livrea delle due locomotive.. La D.345.1033 in doppia trazione con la D.443.2019 effettuano il Merci Rapidi Vuoti da Mantova a Ravenna su itinerario Nogara - Legnago - Rovigo, qui in transito nella stazione di Arquà Polesine (RO).
Resumed after four years, this shot is of great value both for the convoy has disappeared in diesel traction both the livery of the two locomotive .. The D.345.1033 in double traction with D.443.2019 make the empty freight fast from Mantova to Ravenna on route Nogara - Legnago - Rovigo, here in the transit station Arquà Polesine (RO).
My wife and I have recently returned from a self-drive tour of some of the north-east states of the US.
This shot of Deno's Wonder wheel at Coney Island in the borough of Brooklyn, New York, was taken as we made our first brief scheduled stop after picking up the hire-car at JFK airport.
Unfortunately, as it was about 10am on a grey and rainy Monday morning when we arrived here, not a lot was open.
The place was kind of like a ghost town with barely anyone around. So we had a bit of a walk around on the boardwalk and enjoyed some of Nathan's famous hotdogs before getting back in the car and resuming our road trip.
Chassis n° 800544
Coachwork by Guilloré
Bonhams
Les Grandes Marques du Monde à Paris
The Grand Palais Éphémère
Place Joffre
Parijs - Paris
Frankrijk - France
February 2023
Estimated : € 700.000 - 900.000
Unsold
Based initially at Tours and from 1906 in Paris, Delahaye built its first automobile in 1894 and soon branched out into commercial vehicle manufacture. Up to the mid-1930s its products tended to be rather lacklustre but then in 1935 came the first of a new generation which would change the marque's image forever: the T135 Coupe Des Alpes. A fine sporting car, the T135 was powered by an engine which, although designed for car use, had first appeared in a Delahaye commercial vehicle. The 3.2-litre, six-cylinder, overhead-valve unit produced 110bhp on triple Solex carburettors, while the chassis featured transverse-leaf independent front suspension, four-speed synchromesh or Cotal gearboxes, centre-lock wire wheels and Bendix brakes.
Delahaye improved on the formula the following year with the 3,557cc, 120/130bhp T135 MS, and the sports version was soon making a name for itself in competitions, taking 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th places in the run-to-sportscar-regulations 1936 French Grand Prix and winning the Monte Carlo Rally and Le Mans 24-Hour Race outright in 1939. In England, Prince Bira contested the 1938 Donington 12-Hour Sports Car Race in Prince Chula's example, winning the event and going on to take victory in Brooklands' 'fastest road car in England' race against some formidable opposition. The model reappeared post-WW2 as the 135 M with the 3.6-litre engine and lasted in production until 1951.
Among the great coachbuilders who bodied the Delahaye 135 chassis, Alphonse Guilloré occupies a prominent place. Based in the Parisian suburb of Courbevoie, Guilloré bodied many convertibles and saloons on this famous chassis, as well as producing cars to special order. From 1937 until 1949, he built limited runs of very elegant sporting roadsters for a select clientele. Very few of these sublime creations survive today, making them highly desirable and coveted by the most discerning collectors.
When the Paris Motor Show resumed in 1946, Guilloré presented on its stand a new convertible with thoroughly modern lines, featuring headlights installed at the forward end of the wings. This convertible was destined to remain unique and has since disappeared. Throughout 1947, Guilloré developed the design of this unique convertible, which would inspire three examples of a new roadster. One of the latter was displayed at the Geneva Motor Show of 1947 on the stand of Albert Goy, the Swiss importer; that car has disappeared but the other two survive, one of which is chassis '800544', the car offered here. A photograph exists of '800544' under construction in Guilloré's workshop, taken during the first half of 1947.
Our Delahaye was registered new on 16th June 1947 to Établissements Levavasseur, a famous cotton spinning mill in Rouen, and then on 17th October 1950 to the Couach naval shipyard in Arcachon in the Gironde. On 19th July 1960 the Delahaye was registered to Jacques Claverie, owner of a department store in Perpignan, Pyrénées Orientales. Around 1975, the car was registered to Jean Reusse in Perpignan, passing to the current vendor, an enthusiastic and renowned Delahaye collector, on 25th July 2017 (see photographs taken in 2017 prior to the car's restoration). Copies of registration documents are on file.
Following the car's acquisition in 2017, the new owner undertook an extensive restoration, which was entrusted to the respected Jean-Luc Bonnefoy's Concept et Restauration workshops in Orval. The car was completely dismantled, the wooden body structure being restored by specialists Marcadier. Everything else was restored down to the smallest detail: electrics, sheet metal, paint, upholstery, chrome, etc to meet the demanding standards required to participate in the most prestigious international concours competitions. '800544' is now in absolutely original specification, unlike the other example. (It should be noted that the original Type 5 S 103 single-carburettor engine [number '800544'] was up-rated around 1975 with triple carburettors, a common modification on these models.)
Today, '800544' is remarkable in its originality and thus will be of intense interest to discerning collectors wishing to own an ultra-rare Delahaye in exceptional condition.