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A knight carries spears used in a joust at this year's Michigan Renaissance Festival, near Holly, Michigan. And he's walking beside a high wooden fence for Fence Friday too. :-)
HFF!
Male anhinga Everglades, Florida, USA.
No post-processing done to photo, only cropped. Nikon NEF (RAW) files available. NPP Straight Photography at noPhotoShopping.com
Male anhinga Everglades, Florida, USA.
No post-processing done to photo, only cropped. Nikon NEF (RAW) files available. NPP Straight Photography at noPhotoShopping.com
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
― Albert Camus
41:52 Found and foraged – You can go out looking for something to photograph, or it can be something you have already found. Use your imagination…
I always feel like it's a gift from nature when I find a leaf like this, and especially when two leaves are attached together like these two:)
HFF!
The Great Egret spears a tasty morsel with it's sharp beak, while hunting in the shallows.
Canatara Park, Sarnia, ON
This is the B&W version of an Anhinga with good sized fish in Shark Valley in the Everglades. The sharp beak of this species is used as a spear for catching fish. This bird swims like a much like a fish under water and has no problem feeding.
Some may be grossed out by the fish speared on the beak, but that is nature.
A tribute by the BBC on the 2,500th anniversary of the battle when 300 Spartans took on the mighty Persian army at Thermopylae.
I was humbled when my photo was selected to be on the front cover on such an occasion.
Perched on a rugged cliff at our continent's most easterly point lies Cape Spear Lighthouse – the oldest surviving lighthouse in Newfoundland.
Cape Spear is a headland located on the Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland near St. John's in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. At a longitude of 52°37' W, it is the easternmost point in Canada and North America, excluding Greenland.
I liked the way this spearing branch formed a triangle with the top of the slope. Taken at The Hangings, Whiteleaf, Buckinghamshire.
Canon EOS 6D - f/4 - 1/160 sec - 100 mm - ISO 100
- for challenge Flickr group: Macro Mondays, theme: Gold or Silver
- a vintage (ca. 1930) silver plated cake fork, showing a crane bird in the ajour part.
- this type of fork was used to ''spear" a slice of cake and bring it to your own dish.
- blog.zilver.nl/zilveren-cakeprikker-ontrafeld/
De cakeprikker is nou niet een voorwerp dat we allemaal kennen. Toch is het ontwerp heel karakteristiek : het is een slanke, lange vork met 3 tanden. Denk aan de drietand van Neptunus, en dan met een lange middentand. De twee iets kortere zijtanden wijken wat naar buiten. Deze cakeprikkers zijn in grote getale gemaakt: je komt er iedere brocante en antiek markt weer een aantal tegen. Maar hoe gebruik je ze eigenlijk?
In het begin van de 20e eeuw werd het mode om voor bijna ieder gerecht een ander stuk diengereedschap – ofwel schep – te hebben. De bestekcassettes werden steeds uitgebreider, want al die bijzondere scheppen moesten er een plaats in krijgen. Zo ook de cakeprikker.
De naam zegt het al : voor het serveren van cake. Maar die rare puntvork was ook handig bij het serveren van andere onhandelbare dingen, zoals soesjes en oliebollen. Een flinke prik, en je kon de buit op je bordje laden.
Om te zien hoe (en eigenlijk ook : of) die cakeprikker werkt, heb ik een cake gebakken. Een gewone rechttoe-rechtaan cake. En toen ben ik gaan proberen : prikker onder het plakje schuiven, punt omhoog en naar je bordje. Geen succes kan ik melden – je komt niet lekker tussen die gestapelde plakjes. In de zijrand dan? Ook geen succes, de rand is te hard. Je schuift als je niet uitkijkt alle cakeplakjes van de presenteerschaal op het tafelkleed. Dan maar midden in het plakje. Vooraf dacht ik dat dit een rampenscenario was : spies de prikker erin en het wordt een brokkenboel. Maar niks ervan : wanneer je met een vinnig prikje die cakeprikker midden in het plakje jast – de 2 buitenste punten moeten ook net in het plakje zitten – dan kan je wonderwel het plakje cake zonder gedoe oppakken en op je bordje laten glijden.
Eet smakelijk.
Australasian Darter
Anhinga novaehollandiae
Anhingidae
Darters forage by diving to depths of about 60 centimetres, and impaling fish with its sharp, spear-like beak. Small fish are swallowed underwater, but larger ones are brought to the surface, where they are flicked off the bill (sometimes into the air) and then swallowed head-first.
I was observing this big GB Heron fish at low tide. He/she was very successful at catching these large fish. It ate at least two of them in a 30 minute period and continued to fish. It caught a smaller fish too. I have to get a fish book to learn my fish.
I got a new(second hand) lens the other day -it is an f 2.8 -f22 28mm wide/macro and I have been having fun playing with it at its widest aperture. It is an older lens so no auto-focus but I quite like having to focus manually again.
„The Bishop’s Gate” and „ The New Gate” are the names under which the 4th gate of the Alba Iulia Citadel was known in the past. The monument has the shape of a vaulted corridor that pierces the wall between two of the citadel’s bastions: the Trinitarians and Saint Michael, and it is placed on the western end of the main road that crosses the citadel. It is the only richly decorated gate from the three on the western side of the fortification.
The opening of the gate is limited by two statues technically named „atlants”, representing two mature bearded men, wrapped in cloaks that partially cover their nakedness. The median quoin of the gate’s arch presents a mask symbolizing Wrath. The triangular spaces with a curved long side, placed above the access way, are decorated with masks, quivers, shields, swords, spears, halberds, musical instruments.
A flag displays the monogram of the Vienna emperor under whose rule the citadel was built, Charles 6th, that is to say two opposite „C” letters, the initials of „ Carolus Caesar” and the Roman number „VI”. On the left part by the gate opening, above a helmet, a fantastic animal can be seen, some sort of a gryphon, with the body of a lion, snake tail and eagle wings. In the central part of the monument we can see the symbol of Austria – the double-headed eagle. The raptor bird has imperial crowns on its heads. In the past, the Gate had a practical role: it ensured the exit of the soldier towards the training field. The gate, a valuable monument of baroque art in Transylvania, was given back to the touristic circuit in 2007.