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I would like to thank all the young and old gentlemen at my local railway station for wearing their DMs with pride today. Never had so many sightings at the station before!
Sony's Into Sight is a life size light art installation which was part of the London Design Festival. The lights are transformed by sound and movement of the people inside the box. It was located at the Pavilion Gallery at Cromwell Place, London. From the 17th to 25th September 2022.
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When, you catch sight of a colugo gliding between the trees, you might think you’re witness to something prehistoric - and you wouldn’t be wrong. Colugos are mammals from an ancient lineage, diverging from other mammals more than 80 million years ago. Just two existing species comprise the entire family Cynocephalidae and the order Dermoptera. Recent genetic sequencing revealed that colugos are the closest living relative to primates — the group that includes great apes and humans. Sometimes called 'flying lemurs', colugos are not actually closely related to lemurs, even if they share a slight resemblance.
Colugos can glide remarkably long distances, up to 200 feet from tree to tree, due to the fact that the mammal is basically just a big flap of skin. Its fur-covered membrane, called a patagium, stretches from its face to the tips of its tail and claws. According to scientists, the patagium creates the greatest surface area possible between the colugos’ limbs without the mammal ever having evolved an entire wing like bats did.
Generally they are mottled grey or green-grey in color, but some specimens are reddish to yellowish-orange. During the day they rest high in the trees, clinging to trunks or hiding in tree holes. Their fur blends in with the tree so they they are camouflaged from predators, which include pythons, yellow-throated martens, long-tailed macaques, and owls. At dusk they become active, gliding from trunk to trunk like sheets of paper blown on the wind. They’re so good at gliding, that mothers carry their underdeveloped and fragile-boned young along from tree to tree without any problem keeping them safe and secure.
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Colugos are strict herbivores, predominantly eating young leaves from many tree species, chewing with their uniquely comb-shaped teeth, which are also adept at digging parasites out of their fur.
Their huge, glowing red eyes give them excellent night vision and depth perception, which one can imagine might be useful when gliding between trees in the middle of the night.
Colugos range from Burma, Indochina and Southern Thailand to Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore and the Indonesian islands of Sumatra and Java. They also occur throughout Borneo. A second Colugo species inhabits the southern Philippines. Thankfully, they’re no good at living in captivity, as most facilities couldn’t provide the kind of space they need for gliding. Without that kind of freedom, they can’t keep their patagium dry and well-maintained. Yet, in the wild, the colugo is threatened by the opposite problem: too much space caused by deforestation. With forests thinning out, the colugo falls to the ground when it can’t find a tree near enough to land on, which makes it easy prey. The colugo evolved to thrive high up in dense canopies.
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Hmmm, not happy with this it really should be a reject, but its the best I could do with the blurry set from the day.
Great Sight bus 186 leaving Wanaka bound for Queenstown while on the run from Franz Josef on 1 April 2024
St Mary, Rivenhall, Essex
A remarkable church. At first sight it appears an entirely Georgian confection, but this is not the case at all, for the church was encased in render and castellated in the late 1830s in a gothick style that was already old-fashioned. The tower had fallen in the early 18th Century and the new tower was slimmer, as the surviving foundations of the old one to the west of the tower reveal.
This is the site of a Roman villa, and probably a pagan temple before that. Under the skin of rendering cement is a church of the 11th and 12th Centuries that used surviving Roman brick and tile in its construction, as is revealed by the north side of the chancel, hidden from the road, from which the render has been removed. But this illusion of a Georgian gothick church is maintained as you step inside through Laurence King's 1960s extension, the chancel arch bizarre in its secular geometry. And yet even in the nave there are treasures of earlier ages, including one of Essex's few sets of royal arms for James II, and a series of 16th and 17th Century continental roundels - but are they all? For they were originally in the east window, and some appear as if they are early 19th Century copies.
Dominating the chancel is the remarkable memorial to Ralph and Elizabeth Wyseman, erected in 1598, after her death but before his. He lies on a rolled up rush mat, his sword by his side. The memorial is so good that it was removed to the Victoria and Albert Museum in the early 1990s for the Art of Death exhibition. And then to the great glory of Rivenhall church, the 12th Century French glass in the east window. It was bought by the rector in 1839 while on holiday from a church at Chenu on the Loire. There are four large cathedral-style roundels of about 1170 depicting Christ in Majesty, the entombment of Christ, the Blessed Virgin and Child and the Annunciation. Two contemporary bishops flank them as well as an armoured knight inscribed Robert Lemaire of about 1250. Above them, slightly bizarre in the context, early 16th Century Flemish-style glass of the Adoration of the Magi that looks as if it is on holiday from Kings College Chapel.
Pevsner thought it all the best stained glass in Essex, which it is, but the 12th Century roundels are the best of their kind anywhere in England.
Bahawalpur, Pakistan
Bahawalpur (Punjabi, Urdu: بہاولپور), is a city in Punjab, Pakistan. The city used to be the capital of the Bahawalpur princely state, now the Bahawalpur District. It is the 13th most populous metropolitan area of Pakistan.
The princely state of Bahawalpur was founded in 1802 by Nawab Mohammad Bahawal Khan II after the break-up of the Durrani Empire. The city is over 4.51 kilometres long. Nawab Mohammad Bahawal Khan III signed a treaty with the British on 22 February 1833, guaranteeing the independence of the Nawab. The state acceded to Pakistan on 7 October 1947 when Nawab Sadiq Muhammad Khan Abbasi V Bahadur decided to join Pakistan fifty days after independence.
Very interesting day in Tokyo. The couple we are traveling with headed for a Disney Park and we went to the Senso-ji Temple in the Asakusa District. I think we both picked the most popular attractions in Tokyo since both places were packed. Senso-ji and the surrounding area was just waking up - it was fascinating to see all the closed shops with painted shutters. It was also cool to see many people dressed in kimonos. I should have tried to shoot with more of them. Next time.
I took these photos in Tokyo, Japan in April 2019.
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We flew into Munich on a dreary, very wet day, picked up a rental car and headed for Abensberg. We wanted to visit the art tower at the Brauerei zum Kuchbauer. It was a steady rain but we still went - unfortunately all the tours for that day were booked and the next opening was for the following afternoon. The tour was expensive and it doesn't look like photography was allowed. We ended up walking around the outside, had a nice dinner there and then walked around Abensberg. It's a very small city but still charming. The next morning the weather was slightly better so we made another loop around the city before heading to Kloster Weltenburg, not far away, before heading to Rottenburg. It's always nice to visit Bavaria. I took these photos in early October 2022.