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Turnstone - Arinaria Interpres
Ruddy turnstones can survive in a wide range of habitats and climatic conditions from Arctic to tropical. The typical breeding habitat is open tundra with water nearby. Outside the breeding season, it is found along coasts, particularly on rocky or stony shores. It is often found on man-made structures such as breakwaters and jetties. It may venture onto open grassy areas near the coast. Small numbers sometimes turn up on inland wetlands, especially during the spring and autumn migrations.
In terms of wintering sites, ruddy turnstones are particularly faithful to specific locations. A study published in 2009 examined turnstones wintering along a stretch of coastline in the Firth of Clyde. It found that 95% of birds resident to the area at the end of winter returned the following autumn. The same study also confirmed ruddy turnstones as one of the longest lived wader species, with annual adult mortality rates of under 15%. Their average lifespan is 9 years with 19 years and 2 months being the longest recorded.
Population:
UK wintering:
48,000 birds
Allium ursinum
The Latin specific name ursinum translates to 'bear' and refers to the supposed brown bear's taste for the bulbs; folk tales describe the bears consuming them after awakening from hibernation.
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The photo was created with a historical manual lens from the 1970s. 50mm and aperture F1.8
...there are enough flowers here for you to nibble on and frolic through without eyeing up the ones in my hair! I had the best time scampering about this beautiful sim today...I mean, truly, what is not to love?! There are horses and flowers and trees, all of the things that make my heart pittery pattery happy! I made an adorable new friend as I traipsed through this cheery meadow, and he is perfect in every way, except for his penchant for the specific type of flowers I was attempting my to wear in my hair!
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I hope everyone is having a beautiful week! Thank you all for letting me jump back into the Flickr fabulousness with you again after my little two month break!💕🐴
If I was to show you a book on a specific topic, and it had details and photos to contribute to its distinct message to get across its topic clearly, and then I said that no one wrote this book, it just appeared out of nowhere, would that not be ridiculous, because you can tell by its structure etc that there was a mind behind its creation. Like wise but in a much more profound way the things we see in nature with its complexity and order, shows beyond any doubt the existence of a mind that's way beyond our finite understanding, yet clearly discernible by what's made.
Dandelion seeds 1 second exposure using natural light
(We have a new granddaughter..!!! 'Hope' born last night)
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Die Wasseramsel ist wegen ihrer guten Tarnung nicht leicht zu finden, aber sie ist ortsgebunden und deshalb immer wieder an den selben Stellen zu sehen.
The dipper is not easy to find because of its good camouflage, but it is tied to a specific location and can therefore be seen over and over again in the same places.
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Santa Fe Island
Galapagos
Ecuador
This mockingbird is found only on the island of Santa Fe in the Galapagos and nowhere else.
There are four species of mockingbirds endemic to the Galapagos. There are six subspecies restricted to specific islands. This bird is found on Santa Fe Island and is named "barringtoni". The oldest male holds the responsibility for feeding and taking care of the young ones, and it does not matter if he is the parent. He is considered the alpha male. The family stays together as a unit way after the breeding season is over. The juveniles also take turns providing food for the young. – Wikipedia
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I think this 'two-in-one animal'-mural is made by Cee Pil, but I'm not sure.
Here you can see another of his mural, using this specific style.
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Street Art, Ghent, Belgium
The specific name "pendulum" comes from the Latin adjective pendŭlus, a, um (= pendant, dangling) in relation to the pendulous branches and stems that characterize this species.
It loves acidic and humus-rich soils, from 600 to 2400 meters.
Primate DNA is only five percent different from ours. Like us, they feel jealousy, envy, love, shame, grief, depression... They are very social beings, they are sensitive and each one has a different personality, according to the experts, as happens in humans. They develop tools for specific purposes, which involves reasoning, anticipating the future and acting with the tool. They adopt orphans, which demonstrates social bonds, empathy and altruism. They have self-awareness, cooperative problem-solving and learning by example and experience, so they have symbolic capacity and a culture of their own, which they pass on from one generation to the next. Chimpanzees even surpass humans in certain memory tasks. An ape at the age of two is able to do small sums and use tools, while a two year old does not even know how to do sums or reason the why of the tool. They give pets to their children and they even learn words in sign language, being able to establish a conversation with their caregiver. They are able to teach their offspring sign language so that they can communicate with their caregivers. And so on. And they share a very important trait with humans, a trait not found in any other animal... laughter.
This image is dedicated to Bobby. Bobby was a chimpanzee used for decades as a laboratory animal at the Coulston Foundation in Alamogordo, New Mexico. He was born in captivity and at a very young age participated in biomedical experiments. By the age of 19, he had been anaesthetised more than 250 times and biopsied as many times. His life was spent in solitude inside a tiny metal cage. His body was bruised and scarred. In a deeply depressed state, he was incessantly self-harming, a clear sign that he intended to end his life. In 2002 he was transferred to Save the Chimps, a chimpanzee sanctuary in Louisiana, USA. Dedicated to Jeannie. Jeannie was in the service of science for nine years. At the age of six, she began her career in the pharmaceutical laboratories of Merck, Sharpe and Dohme. Shortly afterwards she was donated to the Buckshire Corporation and ended up at LEMSIP, Laboratory for Experimental Medicine and Surgery in Primates in New York at the age of 22. During that time she participated in several invasive experimental protocols including repeated vaginal douching, multiple cervical, liver and lymph node biopsies. She was infected with HIV and hepatitis C, and participated in rhinovirus vaccination protocols. She was anaesthetised more than 200 times. She died at the age of 31 at the Fauna Foundation, Canada's only primate sanctuary. Dedicated to Newt. Newt was born in 1979 at LEMSIP. At the age of four months he was sold to the Southwest National Primate Research Center in San Antonio, Texas. Newt was HIV-positive and was widely exposed to hepatitis B virus. Before he was four years old, he began intermittently self-harming. In 2003 he had his canines removed. Newt's clinical reports indicated that he had bites and lacerations on his hands, fingers, thighs, arms, legs, wrists and scrotum. A psychiatric report determined that Newt was in a profound state of insanity and derangement. He was attempting to commit suicide and end his life. This image is dedicated to all primates who have suffered psychological and physical torture, deprivation of liberty, abominable experiments and death in scientific laboratories, pharmaceutical, automobile, cosmetic, aeronautical, aerospace multinationals... and dedicated especially to Bobby, Jeannie and Newt.
The chimpanzee Mama, hours before she died and the reunion with her caretaker.
Silvio Rodríguez - Al final de este viaje / Al final de este viaje (1978)
We are the prehistory that will have the future. We are the remote annals of man. These years are the past of the sky. These years are a certain agility with which the sun draws you into the future. They are the truth or the end, they are god. We are left, those who can smile in the midst of death, in full light.
Supergrass - Tales of Endurance, Pt. 4, 5 & 6 / Road to Rouen (2005)
Making sense of what I've heard and what is on my mind.
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PS: When I look into the eyes of an ape, all I see in them is sadness and eyes that ask me, why, why? And I can only lower my gaze to the ground, while I shed some tears and feel a deep shame... shame of being human... a "Homo stupidus".
Aphex Twin - Stone In Focus / Selected Ambient Works II (1994)
Thank you Andy & Emily for thinking of me while on your trip to Florida, I love my seashells that you found on the beach...hope you like this photograph!
This species grows to be 1 3/4 inches across, and has a rounded, triangular shell with both strong concentric ridges and strong radial ribbing, which together form a raised crisscross pattern of ridges, hence the specific name, cancellata or cancellate. The species commonly lives on sandy bottoms of sounds and shallow offshore waters, and the shells are commonly found washed ashore on sound and ocean beaches.
1931 Opel Typ 1.8 Liter (1931-193) Modell 1.8B (1931-1932) 4-türige Limousine
Unfortunately, I will have less time to spend on FLICKR in the coming period due to my study 'Drone Pilot Advanced EASA Specific-Category STS-01/PDRA-S01' 🚁
I keep trying to post 2 automotives a day on my stream and not in groups except by request
The little penguin (Eudyptula minor) is the smallest species of penguin. It grows to an average of 33 cm (13 in) in height and 43 cm (17 in) in length, though specific measurements vary by subspecies. It is found on the coastlines of southern Australia and New Zealand, with possible records from Chile.
When the male is ready to mate, the sperm is transferred from the opening of the primary genital on the 9th segment close to the end part of the abdomen to the subsidiary genitalia situated on the segment 3 and 2, which is close to the base of its abdomen. In the beginning of the process, the male holds the female with his claspers on the back of the female’s head, while the female twists her abdomen forwards and downwards to collect the sperm from the secondary genitalia of the male Damselfly. This specific position is referred as “wheel” or “heart”, and the termed used when they indulge in this process is “to be in cop”.
The female Damselflies, when ready to deposit eggs, hover around the water body to find suitable habitat for egg laying. Some also lay eggs inside the tissue of plants. For laying eggs in the water, the female Damselflies may submerge under the water for at least 30 minutes, and at intervals, climb on the aquatic plant’s stem. During this period, the male guards the female and the eggs from other rival male Damselflies.
There's a better picture there with the buildings glowing, but I missed it by about a minute or so. The light is only right for this kind of thing under specific circumstances as far as I can see: storm w/ openings in clouds and dusk. Easy enough to catch, I think. We'll see.
A lone horse pretty much ignores an eastbound Union Pacific stack train as it speeds through Pixley, Wyoming, on the railroad’s Pocatello Subdivision on the morning of September 28, 2020. General freight no longer travels in 40-foot boxcars like the one now being used for ranch storage, but a lot of it does get shipped in containers like those passing by on the intermodal in the background.
Tateyama is a large volcano. The name does not refer to a specific peak but to the group of peaks associated with the volcano.
Murodou (室堂) as well as Midagahara (弥陀ケ原) and Bijo-daira (美女平) to the west are a sequence of lava plateau.
Murodou (室堂) is located at an altitude of 2,450 m. There is a transfer station between Tateyama Tunnel Trollybus and the bus service to/from Bijo-daira (美女平) near Tateyama town proper. There is a network of trails marked by poles to explore the volcanic terrain in Murodou including hotsprings, ponds, religious buildings etc.
Tateyama is directly hit by the northwestern monsoon in winter. There is no weather station in Murodo as it is completely closed down from December to early April due to heavy snowfall. Unazuki weather station, not far from Murodou in the the Kurobe-gawa gorge, records an average annual precipitation of 3,587 mm. Murodou is supposed to have more precipitation. Wettest months are December and January.
This photo was taken at the end of April.
You can ski in Tateyama until June. There is no lift but instead you can take bus to climb back to Murodou.
When you just "drop into" a specific year's archive, you never know what your claws will surface with. (Like a penny arcade, remember?) Well, I didn't remember that my Dragonfly years went back to 2009-2010, but yes, and they coincided with my first wildflower foray.
What did surprise me was that ... I was good! The cameras were the SX10 and the SX20. I do remember that the lenses were excellent for closeup work. (It would be another year or two before I had a camera - the SX40 - with sufficient focal length for birding.) Composition was a real problem when I started with dragonflies and damselflies. Backgrounds could be just water but with the sun bouncing off. At other times, the backgrounds could be duck weed and all manner of acquatic fauna that made for messy shots and poor depth of field.
It was the SX40 that got me away from insects and flowers. After all, anyone with a digital camera could capture decent images of birds, but birds are far ranging (they fly) and, therefore, more time consuming than dragonflies or snapdragons.
Anyway, this was one of my first "pond-based" dragonflies, a Blue Darner near Heather Farm's larger pond. (After seven plus years of birding, I would return to odonates in 2017-2019.) My first dragonfly was, by the way, a female Variegated Meadowhawk found in tall grasses on the south side of Mt. Diablo, fairly distant from any water. But I got hooked. With the SX40, if it moved, I'd shoot so my photography was "all over the map," literally and figuratively.
La Fresque des Québécois est un trompe-l'œil colossal de 420 mètres de superficie au coin de la rue Notre-Dame dans le Quartier Petit Champlain du Vieux-Québec. La réalisation de la fresque, inaugurée le 17 octobre 1999, fut supervisée par des experts tant historiens, géographes, et autres. Elle restitue à elle seule plus de 400 ans d'histoire. La Fresque est une réalisation de CitéCréation.
Cette fresque de la ville de Québec raconte l'histoire de Québec et intègre de nombreux caractères spécifiques à la capitale. Elle permet de reconnaître l'architecture, la géographie, les fortifications et les escaliers, tout en rappelant le rythme des saisons avec leurs couleurs changeantes. La Fresque des Québécois rend aussi hommage à une quinzaine de personnages historiques et honore des dizaines d'auteurs et d'artistes dans ses vitrines évocatrices.
** j'ai fait cette photo en angle pour éviter d'avoir des touristes sur ma photo. Ce lieu n'est jamais désert !
La Fresque des Québécois is a colossal trompe-l'oeil of 420 meters in area at the corner of Notre-Dame Street in the Petit Champlain Quarter of Old Quebec. The realization of the fresco, inaugurated on October 17, 1999, was supervised by experts such as historians, geographers, and others. It alone recreates more than 400 years of history. La Fresque was created by CitéCréation.
This fresco of Quebec City tells the story of Quebec and incorporates many characters specific to the capital. It allows to recognize the architecture, the geography, the fortifications and the staircases, while recalling the rhythm of the seasons with their changing colors. La Fresque des Québécois also pays tribute to some fifteen historical figures and honors dozens of authors and artists in its evocative display cases.
** In order to avoid to have people on my photo I took this photo in an angle. This area is always very busy with tourists.
Macro Monday. Single Use
Part of my morning ritual is to make tea, iced tea to be specific.
I always feel bad about using the teabag once and then into the trash it goes. Occasionally I do try to use the teabag twice but I don't get the caffeine fix nearly as quick.
Yorkshire - map location not meant to be specific
NB Best viewed small - I've always liked the photo, but the scan is terrible and I've lost the negatives... I do hate solid blacked out shadows, so I apologise for that, but they got 'locked in' when the scan was done. [Nice work, Norfolk Camera Centre. I'm not sorry you're gone... I am sorry you stole my £200 flash though. Of course I wouldn't have a problem with that.] Moving on...
By now people may wonder why I uploaded it. Simple - because I like this stretch of road. :-)
(Warning: this is a long one, so grab some popcorn and settle in.)
Photographing landscapes has provided me with countless opportunities to have my mind blown over the past few years. From summits in the Canadian Rockies, to countless sunrises in the Sierras to spectacular night skies in remote corners of Utah to beautiful coastlines in Oregon....so many incredible moments. Of all of these experiences, the one I endured last Friday was truly special. It was a personal triumph and one that I have literally been working toward for the past two years.
Tom Bricker was the first one to mention the Diving Board to me. I had seen the shot by Ansel Adams, of course, and had always wondered where he took that shot from, but I figured you would just...you know. Get closer. I was sure that the location must be just beyond Curry Village. What was the big deal?
The big deal is that the diving board is a location in Yosemite that cannot be reached by taking one of the major, well maintained trails. Back in Ansel's day you just took some ropes and charged up the Leconte Gully. But the gully has long been deemed unstable due to frequent rockfalls. The standard route nowadays begins on the mist trail and winds around behind Lost Lake before heading steeply straight up the side of base of Half Dome. From what we were able to gather from scouting online, this would be a 16 mile round trip hike and the word "strenuous" was being thrown around by some very hard core hikers and climbers. My heart sank as I first heard these reports. After all, the hike up the Upper Falls trail had nearly finished me off a few years before. How in the world could I expect to haul my camera gear up the Mist Trail let alone the nearly vertical sections of this crazy trail to the foot of Half Dome?
But I really wanted that shot. I hit the treadmill and began building up my endurance. (Of course the first night was only 10 minutes, but hey. It was a start.) I also began challenging myself with some more difficult hikes, the most recent of which was up to the Fern Ledge in Yosemite. As the Summer drew to a close, we finally had a chance of thunderstorms and the promise of a possible sunset, and I sent Tom an urgent message: Can we go for it on Friday?
So last Friday, Tom and I took off at 4 AM for Yosemite. By 10:30 AM we were taking off from the Mist Trail parking area. Man I was feeling good! No stops at all on the way up to the first bridge. I was blowing past old people and asian tourists like they were standing still. Then the REAL climbing began. By the time we made it to the top of Nevada Fall, I was wiped. But we hadn't started the tough section yet. Tom and I had found a short cut up from Emerald Pool and we had a GPS map with us on Gaia. We were all set. What could go wrong?
So up we went.
The trip from Emerald Pool to the regular bush trail junction was easily the hardest climbing I've ever done. The nearly 30 pounds on my back turned out to be a huge mistake as I nearly gave up several times. Between the steep terrain and the bushwhacking, I was toast. When we hit the junction, things only got worse. I was having to stop almost every 100 feet and poor Tom just sat there waiting for me. After clawing my way up another 700 feet or so, I finally collapsed, unable to continue. I told Tom to head up without me, but he refused. After a long break, it finally hit me: I could dump whatever I wasn't going to use at the top and grab it on the way down! So out came my 24-70 lens (way too hazy for a valley shot), the tripod, almost all of my food, two jackets and over a liter of water. I dropped by stuff in a neat little pile behind a tree reminding myself that it would be a bad idea to forget those items on the way down.
Suddenly the backpack was WAY lighter and even though it hurt, I continued to force my way up. For the final 500 feet, I hung back and sent Tom up ahead. After another 1/2 hour break, I lurched back onto my feet and with the soundtrack of Rocky playing in my head, I charged up the last 500 feet to the Diving Board...some EIGHT hours after leaving the parking lot.
The view was absolutely spectacular as Half Dome rose far more majestically than I could have ever imagined. Although we didn't get quite the epic sunset we were hoping for, we did get some color during the last few minutes, just enough to give some atmosphere. A goal I had set two years prior had just been achieved. I had made it all the way to the diving board!
Our smiles began to fade as it dawned on us that it was getting dark in a real hurry and my car was still 8 miles away. There would be no "short cut" on the way down as we were pretty sure we would not survive a hike back down the sketchy ravine we had just clambered up. So down we went on the long, normal route around past Lost Lake. About 45 minutes later, I said something like "Hey Tom....where's my stuff?" Both of us were convinced that it must still be below us, so we plowed on. After we had gone another 1/2 hour or so, it dawned on us that we must have passed it. We were both beyond exhausted and nearly out of water. But Tom, being the hero that he is, charged back up to look for it. But didn't find it. He had a quarter of a liter of water left and I had maybe a half. I wasn't even sure if I could make the hike out, so I took a deep breath and told Tom we just needed to leave my lens...and all of my other stuff up there, which would have been roughly $2500 to replace.
Ouch.
Okay...this is taking way to long. I'll skip to the end.
After we passed Lost Lake on the way down, we found water in a creek and used my filter to keep from dying on the way back. Tom made it back to the car around 2:30 AM and very kindly drove the car around to the trailhead as I had some severe blisters. I didn't make it back to the trailhead until 3:30 AM.
Fast forward to last Monday when I drove back to Yosemite to find my stuff. I stayed overnight in El Portal and set off the next morning, this time without the 30 pounds taking only water and food. I left at 4 AM and by 8 AM I found my stuff exactly where I had left it! I made it up there in HALF the time! My lens and gear were undamaged and I breathed a huge sigh of relief before heading back down.
For those of you who might be interested taking this hike, I'll have much more details for you including maps, etc on my blog in the very near future. Sorry for the ridiculously long story and THANK YOU for reading the whole thing if you are still with me! The Diving Board was truly a once in a lifetime trip for me....at least for now. I MIGHT try it again, but if I do, it will be with MUCH less gear and more water!
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The one was taken in a Seattle park with the Slow Shutter app, adjusted in Snapseed, and textured in Distressed Effects. I felt that eliminating he specific details of the tree would allow me to get to its essence.
Crocoite
4x3 inch
Adelaide Mine, Dundas, Dundas District, Tasmania
Australia
Crocoite is a mineral consisting of lead chromate, PbCrO4, and crystallizing in the monoclinic crystal system. It is identical in composition with the artificial product chrome yellow used as a paint pigment.
Crocoite is commonly found as large, well-developed prismatic adamantine crystals, although in many cases are poorly terminated. Crystals are of a bright hyacinth-red color, translucent, and have an adamantine to vitreous luster. On exposure to UV light some of the translucency and brilliancy is lost. The streak is orange-yellow; Mohs hardness is 2.5–3; and the specific gravity is 6.0.
Created by artist, designer and nightclub pioneer Niall Sweeney, Club Chroma Chlorologia is a newly commissioned series of site-specific works installed in the gardens and grounds of the 17th-century Royal Hospital Kilmainham, which combine to create unlikely interventions that you can encounter, discover and take part in over the Summer.
Over the Summer months, Club Chroma Chlorologia expands beyond its dazzle-patterned gateway — located at the north-facing aspects of the RHK, where the giant Club Chroma manifesto calls visitors to action — and down into the historic gardens at IMMA.
Yet another shot of Happisburgh taken during the summer when the oil seed rape was in full bloom. I liked this one because of the cool clouds.
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As photography enthusiasts we are each drawn to a specific genre. Granted we admire all sorts of pictures, but there is a certain class of images we particularly are drawn to. Some like portraiture, some still-life, others formal landscape photography, and some street...
It was a while before I found myself admiring New Topographics photos. I found my admiration was in their honesty and utilization of space. I found that I related to their aesthetic because I was immersed in that type of scenario all around me. Intentionally regular and bland and not necessarily "pretty" I found them quite worthy of my attention.
I found myself being a more honest photographer when I adapted the New Topographics style and followed their tenets. Then one day I went back through my SD cards and found that I had been taking such pictures on many occasions without knowing it.
There is quite some overlap between New Topographics and Uncommon Places picture making, but at their cores they are very distinct.
With this particular scene I tried to push the envelope and present a landscape far beyond the aesthetics of 'calendar' pictures.
Family of ducks on a branch
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
I like to observe birds and photograph them.
I usually post a series of photos of a specific bird with the identification of the species and create an album.
But I like to manipulate some photos, edit them, make an illustration, an 'art', to exercise creativity, to be in touch with the current world using new tools.
I know that a good photo does not need editing, I also know that I am not an artist (I wish I was), but I have fun with it...
Gosto de observar pássaros e fotografá-los.
Costumo postar uma série de fotos de um pássaro determinado com identificação da espécie e formar um álbum
Mas gosto de manipular algumas fotos, editar, fazer uma ilustração, uma 'arte', para exercitar a criatividade, estar em contato com o mundo atual uzando novas ferramentas.
Sei que uma boa foto não precisa de edições, sei também que não sou artista (bem que gostaria), mas me divirto com isso...
Illustration/Art
Double Exposure
Software: Windows Paint 3D; Pixlr
Lagoa da Anta
Parque Nacional de Brasília
Água Mineral
Brasília, Brasil
Cyprus Street, Bethnal Green. Much of this terraced street (albeit not these specific houses) is listed Grade II by Historic England
Excerpt from The Toronto Star, September 10, 2022:
Landscaped Infrastructure 2018 by Dan Bergeron with Gabriel Specter: “I painted that mural with my friend Gabriel Specter. We like to paint murals that are site-specific, meaning we want to think about the location where the mural is going to exist, the history of the site and its possible future uses. We looked at the site, but we realized there wasn’t necessarily a lot there. It’s an overpass train bridge. There are a lot of businesses, some more industrial-type businesses with warehouses.
So, we did some research and we found this house, the Senator Frank O’Connor, who was born in 1885 and died in 1939. His house is still there.
We’re really interested in painting things that are not necessarily obvious right off the bat. We want the viewer to have to look at it to figure out what’s going on. So we used these geometric shapes to break the image up. It’s kind of two different puzzles that we put together."
I had a specific hope from this sunrise shoot of the Buttercross in Brigg, North Lincolnshire, and that was to capture the sun rising at the end of the street on the left (Wrawby Street). But unfortunately there was an annoying slither of cloud on the horizon and by the time it cleared, the sun had moved too far to the right. Maybe I’ll be luckier another time.
Shot as a 5 shot panorama (each bracketed) with my Tilt Shift, and stitched in Lightroom. The highlights on the front of the building are due to spotlights above the upper windows.
The Buttercross, historically was the Brigg Town Hall, but is now used as a tourist information centre and as an events venue.
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The regular set includes only the top of a specific color and the HUD with buttons to change:
- 12 colors of the buttons.
Fat Pack for corset includes corset and HUD with buttons to change:
- 12 colors of corset base.
Regular set includes only corset of a specific color. HUD only for Fat Pack.
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Malayan tiger, from a specific population of the Panthera tigris tigris subspecies, that is native to Peninsular Malaysia. Classified as critically endangered on the IUCN Red List since 2015.
Le massif de l'Esterel est un massif montagneux volcanique de faible altitude de 32 000 hectares, situé sur le bord de la mer Méditerranée. Il couvre le sud-est du Var, une petite partie se trouvant dans les Alpes-Maritimes, en France.
Situé dans le Sud-Est de la France, c'est un massif cristallin d'origine volcanique qui se jette dans la mer Méditerranée entre Saint-Raphaël (Var) et Mandelieu (Alpes-Maritimes).
Séparé des Maures par la vallée de l'Argens. Le relief est déchiqueté et profondément raviné (Grenouillet, Malinfernet…).
Le massif s'étend sur 320 km2 dont 130 km2 classés et protégés. 60 km2 de forêt domaniale sont entretenus par l'Office national des forêts.
C'est un massif constitué de roches volcaniques qui se sont formées à la fin de l'ère Paléozoïque, il y a 250 millions d'années (au Permien). À cette époque, une intense activité volcanique règne durant 30 millions d'années avec formation de basaltes puis de rhyolites rouges (volcan de Maure-Vieille). Depuis, le massif a subi une très forte érosion ce qui ne permet plus de voir la forme de l'édifice volcanique initial.
Le massif est majoritairement composé de roches porphyriques (volcaniques), notamment de rhyolite qui lui donnent sa coloration rougeâtre (avec des veines ponctuelles d'esterellite bleue).
Par l'autoroute française A8, sortie no 38 à Fréjus - Saint-Raphaël. Prendre la direction de Fréjus/Tour de Mare.
Pour visiter l'intérieur suivre la route nationale 7 qui chemine à l'intérieur du massif en passant par l'auberge des Adrets, près de son point culminant le mont Vinaigre.
Pour découvrir les calanques continuer en direction de Saint-Raphaël centre, puis Agay par Valescure. De nombreuses routes forestières sont accessibles, balisées par les panneaux d'information de l'Office national des forêts. À partir de la baie d'Agay, la route de la corniche d'Or, créée à l'initiative du Touring club de France, inaugurée officiellement le 11 avril 1903, longe la mer jusqu'à Cannes. L'opposition entre le rouge flamboyant des rochers et le bleu de la mer offre un paysage contrasté particulièrement émouvant au lever de soleil. Parmi les passages remarquables : le rocher Saint Bartélémy, la calanque d'Aurèle et la pointe de l'Esquillon. La route, extrêmement sinueuse, perd son rang de route nationale 7 dès l'entre-deux-guerres (1935) pour devenir route nationale 98.
The Esterel massif is a low-lying volcanic mountain range of 32,000 hectares, located on the edge of the Mediterranean Sea. It covers the south-east of the Var, a small part being in the Alpes-Maritimes, in France.
Located in the South-East of France, it is a crystalline massif of volcanic origin which flows into the Mediterranean Sea between Saint-Raphaël (Var) and Mandelieu (Alpes-Maritimes).
Separated from the Moors by the Argens valley. The relief is jagged and deeply gullied (Grenouillet, Malinfernet…).
The massif covers 320 km2 of which 130 km2 are classified and protected. 60 km2 of national forest are maintained by the National Forest Office.
It is a massif made up of volcanic rocks that formed at the end of the Paleozoic era, 250 million years ago (in the Permian). At that time, intense volcanic activity reigned for 30 million years with the formation of basalts and then red rhyolites (Maure-Vieille volcano). Since then, the massif has undergone very strong erosion which no longer allows us to see the shape of the initial volcanic edifice.
The massif is mainly composed of porphyritic (volcanic) rocks, in particular of rhyolite which give it its reddish coloration (with specific veins of blue esterellite).
By the French highway A8, exit no 38 at Fréjus - Saint-Raphaël. Take the direction of Fréjus / Tour de Mare.
To visit the interior, follow the national road 7 which goes inside the massif, passing by the Auberge des Adrets, near its highest point, Mount Vinaigre.
To discover the creeks continue towards Saint-Raphaël center, then Agay via Valescure. Many forest roads are accessible, signposted by the information boards of the National Forest Office. From the Agay bay, the Corniche d'Or route, created on the initiative of the Touring club of France, officially inaugurated on April 11, 1903, runs along the sea to Cannes. The opposition between the blazing red of the rocks and the blue of the sea offers a contrasting landscape which is particularly moving at sunrise. Among the remarkable passages: the Saint Bartélémy rock, the Aurèle cove and the Pointe de l'Esquillon. The extremely winding road lost its status as national road 7 from the interwar period (1935) to become national road 98.
Common redpolls (Acanthis flammea) are somewhat rare winter guests in Germany, where there are sightings in several places every year, but some years see an invasion of a larger number of these birds, most likely due to lack of food (at least in comparison to population size of the specific year) in the usual habitats of Scandidavia and northern Russia. This winter we see some of that activity, and as a result there are several smaller groups (5-25 birds) in and around my home town, with larger flocks of up to 800 birds also in northern Germany.
Taigabirkenzeisige (Acanthis flammea) sind etwas seltenere Gäste in Deutschland. Es gibt jedes Jahr Beobachtungen, aber in einigen Jahren kommt es zu größeren Invasionen, höchstwahrscheinlich aufgrund von fehlender Nahrung (jedenfalls im Vergleich zur aktuellen Populationsgröße) in den klassischen Habitaten in Skandinavien und Nordrussland. Dieser Winter scheint ein solcher Winter zu sein, denn mehrere kleine Gruppen (4-25 Vögel) wurden in und um meine Heimatstadt beobachtet und größere Schwärme von bis zu 800 Vögeln in Norddeutschland.
This Yellow-headed Blackbird fledgling just recently left the her nest.
She is waiting for one of her parents to return with food. When any Yellow-headed black bird parent with food flew near this little one she would open her mouth and scream. This went on until her own parents returned with bugs and worms to feed her.
Typically these birds eave the nest very early, between 9-12 days after hatching, but before they can fly.
Parents find their fledglings through a combination of vocalizations and visual cues. Fledglings, once they leave the nest, will beg loudly for food with distinctive calls, and the parents recognize these calls.
Additionally, the fledglings often perch on marshy vegetation and can be seen by the parents as they approach the nest area.
Over time, the parents learn to recognize the specific begging calls and visual cues of their own fledglings, making it easier to locate them.
This photo was taken in Alberta, Canada
- Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus
I woke up to heavy fog and felt the pull to get out and drive, not chasing a specific image so much as a feeling. It was the last morning of the year, and Tacoma felt hushed, wrapped in itself. I had pictures in mind before I even grabbed my camera. I drove to the Rialto, past the Murray Morgan Bridge, up Tacoma Avenue, hoping to find the city falling away into fog from above.
But the fog was thick, relentless. The views I imagined simply weren’t there. Hills vanished. Landmarks softened and disappeared. Each stop asked me to let go of the image I had planned and stay open to what was actually present.
On East 34th Street, the bridge finally revealed itself, not boldly, but quietly. Its lights hovered in the mist, the structure dissolving as it stretched forward. Cars moved through like brief thoughts, leaving behind faint traces before slipping back into the fog. The city felt suspended, as if it was holding its breath.
Standing there, I found myself reflecting on the year that had just passed. The plans that didn’t materialize. The moments that only made sense in hindsight. The unexpected pauses. The fog felt honest, offering no clarity, no grand reveal, just the invitation to be present with what remained visible. Sometimes that’s how a year ends, not with answers, but with stillness.
Oudemansiella mucida, the Porcelain Fungus, is specific to beech wood. It appears in autumn on dead trunks and on fallen branches, and occasionally it also grows on dead branches high up in living trees. Common and widespread in Britain and Ireland, Oudemansiella mucida occurs throughout northern Europe, but in southern Europe where Beech is not found the Porcelain Fungus is also absent.
Provided that the skin is thoroughly washed (or peeled from the caps) to remove the mucus, these mushrooms are edible, although their slimy covering is probably enough to put most people off. Only larger caps are worth collecting, because the flesh is thin and insubstantial.
There is a section of road north of us called the Ferndale "flats". It is notorious for having white outs at that specific site when the rest of the way is clear up the Peninsula. Snow drifts accumulate pretty quickly on the highway in the right conditions and even the snowplough can't keep up until the winds die down.
South Ponte Vedra Beach
The ruddy turnstone is a small wading bird, one of two species of turnstone in the genus Arenaria. The scientific name is from Latin. The genus name arenaria derives from arenarius, "inhabiting sand, from arena, "sand". The specific interpres means "messenger"; when visiting Gotland in 1741, Linnaeus thought that the Swedish word Tolk "interpreter" applied to this species, but in the local dialect the word means "legs" and is used for the redshank.
It is now classified in the sandpiper family Scolopacidae but was formerly sometimes placed in the plover family Charadriidae. It is a highly migratory bird, breeding in northern parts of Eurasia and North America and flying south to winter on coastlines almost worldwide. It is the only species of turnstone in much of its range and is often known simply as turnstone.
The Safety match was invented to stop spontaneous combustion when matches were rubbing against each other. For that you need a specific surface to strike them against as opposed to the selfstriking ones. Of course before High Viz gear, red and for that matter white were the original colours of warning alerts.. I'm not sure if 'pants on fire' has anything to do with dangerous matches:)
I composed this photograph while hiking in Alberta's Kananaskis Country. It is an image of a Columbian Ground Squirrel. These animals live in Western Canada and Northwestern United States. "They can dig and continue to live in their same burrow for several years and may never live elsewhere. They'll often even have certain chambers for specific purposes like a toilet chamber and a hibernation chamber. Year after year, they will work to make their burrows more comfortable and safer." (Travelhope.ca.) (This image will also be found in my Albums: "Favorite Wildlife Photographs Series," and "Favorite Photographs From 2022.")