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Pelicans, Cormorants and a few others on the crowded sand bar in the Fiorenza reservoir, probably shrinking due to the recent rains. Houston, Texas.
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According to the micrometer, the penny is not shrinking, it still measures 750/1000 inches or 3/4 of an inch.
This is a focus stack image created using 11 separate images and then stacked using AFFINITY Photo Software. It did all the work, I just pressed the shutter.
A common animal in the ever shrinking grasslands of the state. These are all females and they were just starting their day. Since it was a protected area, there is no predator that could hunt them - except of course people. In other areas, they are targeted for their meat. I believe something similar could be happening in the grassland once they cross the imaginary boundaries which the animals don't understand.
The place had a pretty large herd of maybe 100 of them. A pattern we saw is that one male would have a large number of females in its protection along with a couple of other younger males too. When the younger males get cocky (literally!!), a quick battle decides the winner.
As we got a bit closer, both the adult females got protective of the young doe which was literally running and hopping all around. I am not sure how old she was, but it was a joy seeing it run and the mom / adults chasing it to make sure that it wasn't close to us.
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Linear and inexorable, the shelf of ice grows from the banks of the Bow River to encroach upon a family of ducks.
Bar-tailed Godwiths hold the world record for the longest land migration non-stop flight over 11,000km.
Bar-tailed Godwits alter themselves physically before migration.
Gain body fat (accounts for 55% of their weight)
To do this they shrink their liver, kidney and gut
Only the organs essential for long-distance flight are maintained.
They use a mental-maps for navigation which almost certainly includes star-charts and beak-compasses.
The birds follow patterns of movement engrained into a culture that evolved with the ecosystem they inhabit today,
Amazing Nature.
Great and Snowy Egrets take advantage of the dead fish at Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge, Delaware, USA. The pond shrunk due to a prolonged drought, so the water loses its oxygen, and the fish suffocate. This is good for the birds, as it gives them a bonanza to feed on.
The shorelines of PEI are eroding faster due to effects of climate change. Weather events like storm surges and rising sea levels are causing many structures to be at risk. These causes hit the island hard because the coastline is made up mainly of sandstone and sand which does not stand up to the increased weathering. There used to be more ice in the winter which would act as a buffer from some of the erosion but there hasn’t been much ice in recent winters. Experts say the province loses about 28 cm of land every year. In some spots the shore breaks off in large chunks. One of the vulnerable structures on the island are the lighthouses. This lighthouse at Seacow Head was already moved back from the bank in 1979. Other structures that are at risk are the wind turbines and of course, many homes.
At the time this image was taken according to the local news, the house itself is under threat from an unusually hot spell and drought. The foundations are on clay and if it dry's and shrinks it could cause damage to the foundations. Although there seems plenty of water in the moat to my unprofessional mind.
Took this photo as the sun's rays were fading quickly into the night skies. Taken from Prout's Island in Lake Sesekinika in Sesekinika Grenfell Township Northeastern Ontario Canada
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After a sprint from the car, we see 43102 The Journey Shrinker leading the 5M17, St Pancras-St Pancras EMT ECS through Childwickbury
This is one of four young Baltimore Orioles, presumably siblings, who spent several weeks this summer visiting my yard daily. I think they must have come from a nest nearby. The four of them stuck together pretty closely throughout that time and didn't take a back seat to anyone, although they kept a close eye on the bees and wasps buzzing around the flowers. Flowers of Cup Plant in the distance provide background colour.
A beautiful sunset among the mountains of southeast Alaska. Yet the trace of glacier is frustrating, from glacier to waterfall to stream. It is unfortunate to see glacier keep shrinking over the years.
CSX Train PORU-17 gets back underway at North Leeds, ME on 9/17/2023.
The railroad serves a feed customer here which ships chicken feed to a local egg farm. At one time this was a busy customer, but after part of the chicken farm was shut down in the 2000's carloads waned.
If my sources are correct, the last cars for this customer were pulled yesterday, pulling even more traffic from the branches ever shrinking business. After the closure the only active customer will be ND Paper in Rumford. Two other customers, ARC Enterprises and Clarks Scrap occasionally get cars but nothing of substantial value.
Its hard to imagine that not too long ago there were three paper mills on this line in addition to the carload customers.
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Train: PORU-17
9/17/2023
North Leeds, ME
CSX District 1 Rumford Branch
Red Eyed Tree Frog (Agalychnis callidryas) Many scientists believe the red-eyed tree frog developed its vivid scarlet peepers to shock predators into at least briefly questioning their meal choice.
These iconic rain-forest amphibians sleep by day stuck to leaf-bottoms with their eyes closed and body markings covered. When disturbed, they flash their bulging red eyes and reveal their huge, webbed orange feet and bright blue-and-yellow flanks. This technique, called startle coloration, may give a bird or snake pause, offering a precious instant for the frog to spring to safety.
Their neon-green bodies may play a similar role in thwarting predators. Many of the animals that eat red-eyed tree frogs are nocturnal hunters that use keen eyesight to find prey. The shocking colors of this frog may over-stimulate a predator's eyes, creating a confusing ghost image that remains behind as the frog jumps away.
Red-eyed tree frogs, despite their conspicuous coloration, are not venomous. They are found in tropical lowlands from southern Mexico, throughout Central America, and in northern South America. Nocturnal carnivores, they hide in the rain forest canopy and ambush crickets, flies, and moths with their long, sticky tongues.
Red-eyed tree frogs are not endangered. But their habitat is shrinking at an alarming rate, and their highly recognizable image is often used to promote the cause of saving the world's rain forests.
We’re still in the first week of Spring so we’re slowly saying good-bye to the snow on our lawn.
Past month this shows massive snow, below…
Similar patterns are to be found in the mud of drying puddles or in cooling basaltic magma (forming polygonal columns)....
For Macromondays' "Crack Theme." This is a small section of a vase I turned out of very green wood just to see what would happen. It shrank and twisted quite a bit. The area shown is about a 1 1/4" square.
The SkyFire sunset forecast in the TPE app on IOS said that the odds of a good sunset were better at Badwater, so we skipped our default plan of shooting Mesquite Flat sand dunes and drove to Badwater. It paid off tremendously: there were no clouds at the dunes at all. This ended up being one of the longest sunsets that I've ever witnessed. On this night the sunset color lasted at least an hour after the sun set. Most people left for dinner, but I was shooting a short time-lapse sequence, so I stayed until the color was gone.
This was taken on December 13, after Badwater Basin flooded shortly after Thanksgiving. With a follow-up storm, the after remained until early January! The water table in Badwater Basin can be very close to the surface. That's how these polygons form: salt-laden water rises up cracks in the salt, until it dries and deposits its minerals at the surface. The polygons re-form after winter rains, when the water table again is shallow enough to send salt to the surface.
My time-lapse video from this sunset was used for the opening of the interview I just had with PhotographyTalk:
Someone proposed on my Instagram account @jeffsullivanphotography that this is too saturated.
So I checked someone else's shots, Olancha Peak was standing nearby:
www.flickr.com/photos/lorihibbett/49243263553/in/dateposted/
(Posted for visual reference in comments below.)
Judging by the position of Venus her shot was taken about 10 minutes earlier, so it's hard to compare the two directly, but it looks like it has essentially the same colors, with less contrast applied in post. I see the same thing with my time-lapse viewed full screen on YouTube: we see the colors develop over the prior 24 minutes. The time-lapse ended right before this shot. The images in the time-lapse were taken at a constant exposure, and the ones at the end were boosted 4 stops in Lightroom and still ended up darker (which is entirely appropriate, as it did get quote a bit darker during that time). So there are going to be differences in this exposure taken much brighter, but the general colors do seem entirely consistent with what we see develop in the video.
By coincidence, I was discussing saturation vs. brightness and contrast with other photographers recently. Since Colors can not only be represented in a 3D color space by RGB (Red, Green, Blue) but also HLS, Hue, Lightness, Saturation, how could changing the contrast, the apparent relative lightness between nearby pixels, possibly change the saturation? Saturation is supposed to be an entirely different axis, unrelated to lightness. They proposed that colors appear more saturated in proximity to dark areas, such as black. The answer may be human perception.
Human color perception is a fascinating topic. To compare the image's display on Instagram on my phone to other instances where no one had proposed it was over-saturated, I determined that this image does look different full screen in Lightroom, at 1024 pixels in Flickr, at 600 pixels on my blog, and at the 480 pixel display resolution here in Instagram, with the resizing making the image look a little more saturated at smaller sizes.
Upon further testing, it turns out that the perceived saturate-with-resize effect is apparently not related to different browsers or Web sites choosing different resizing algorithms. It's repeated when I shrink my Lightroom window to make the image about the same size as in Instagram. So a main factor is resizing, but not different algorithms. It may be how a single resizing algorithm handles sampling multiple pixels and re-representing them in slightly different colors with fewer pixels, but it may also simply be human perception of the same image at different sizes, with the dark and light areas in closer proximity.
There is also often a notable difference with different display technologies between desktops and tablets and phones (as is also seen in the TV market: LCD vs. IPS vs. plasma), but it's interesting to discover the perceived change in saturation with display size on the same screen.
I have more to say on this, but at this point it's looking more like a blog article!
Hills composed of multicolored bentonite clays in Capitol Reef National Park- The rough texture of the surface is due to the shrinking and swelling of the clays from wetting and drying cycles. This and the chemistry of the soils makes them a difficult medium for plant growth, contributing to the barren look. Driving through this area after it rains is difficult due to the slick and sticky nature of the soil. In the distance Factory and Caineville Buttes stick up on the horizon.
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A shot of the Mississippi shore in Sunset Park. Summer like heat and very little rain adds up to low river levels.
We've had a string of temps in the upper 80's and 90's with very little rain and the conditions north of here are even worse.
The river is expected to drop under 5' this week. It normally runs at 8'. The record low is just under 3'. This same month in 2008 it was 21.5'!! Picture it as high as being between the first and second story of the platform!
It's a crazy river. Send rain please.
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