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Roller Derby: The 2015 Masquerade Brawl Invitational, in Kinston, NC
© Louis E. Keiner and Lesley M. Etherson
part of spherical panorama designed for exhibiton at Warsaw / Poland / CSW Ujazdowski Castle / open till 26 december 2010
This is a scan of one of my archive pictures that was taken on 29th April 1989. It is of a 1923 Clayton & Shuttleworth road roller (serial number 48751) that fell off the road near Yeovil.
Rollers get their name from their impressive courtship flight, a fast, shallow dive from considerable elevation with a rolling or fast rocking motion, accompanied by loud raucous calls.
All rollers appear to be monogamous and highly territorial. The Lilac Breasted Roller will perch on a dead tree, surveying the area for prey. One typical aspect of its behavior is that it also preys on animals fleeing from bush fires. It is a swift flier, indulging in acrobatics during the breeding season. They actually breed 'on the wing'. They live in pairs or small groups, but are often seen alone.
Their call is a loud harsh squawk, 'zaaak'. They are partly migratory, but in some areas they are sedentary. To feed they swoop down from an elevated perch next to their prey and eat it on the ground or return to a perch where they batter it before swallowing it whole. They are territorial, also defending temporarily small feeding territories; hence individuals are regularly spaced along roads. They drive off many species from near their nest hole, even after breeding.
The species ranges more or less continuously throughout eastern and southern Africa from the Red Sea coasts of Ethiopia and northwest Somalia to the Angola coast and northern South Africa. Lilac Breasted Rollers inhabit acacia country with well spaced trees, rolling bushy game lands, riverside areas and cultivated land, but they do not associate with human habitation.
Bout four the High Rollers vs the Socket Wenches at the Portland Memorial Coliseum. 04-23-11. Picture available upon request.
Roller in flight..
captured at kanha..(madhya pradesh)
Indian roller has been given the status of state bird for Indian states of Bihar, Karnataka, Orissa and Andhra Pradesh.
Camera : Canon 1000D
Lens : Sigma 70-300mm APO DG
I don't know. Maybe I do like this one better. Same bird, same pose, different shot., with on-camera flash this time. Used Flash white-balance adjustment in Bridge, Auto on the curves adjustment layer and lightened the mid-range a bit in PhotoShop, but that was all the color correction I did. I don't know how true (trully, for all you Roberto fans) the colors are, but at least you can see why they call them Purple Rollers.
Snow rollers, caused by a covering of ice/very cold hard snow on the ground, plus layer of loose, wet snow, plus very strong wind. It's been freakishly cold and windy here, then warmed up a bit and snowed like crazy, then got very extremely cold (0°F) and windy again.
Click here to view video from the roller derby.
For more information on flat track roller derby, visit the official site of the Rat City Rollergirls.