STINGRAYS - MANTA RAYS - ANY RAYS - ROCHEN
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This is a teapot by artist Jiri Duchek and the crackling glaze is referred to as 'stingray skin glaze', although it is different from kairagi glaze, which, to my current information, ist the 'real' stingray skin glaze and crackles in a way so that the original clay underneath breaks through. This is not the case here, and also this particular teapot is somewhat hesitant to crackle, as I have seen other examples also made by Jiri that are much more prone to crackle. The tea that was brewed was a puerh from Jingmai mountain in Yunnan.
A rare catch even for the fishermen of Cox's Bazar. The ray got picked up separately directly from the boat.
So yesterday I had to take my car to the local General Motors dealership at Castle Hill (Victoria Road) for its 40,000km service, and whilst waiting I wandered into the adjoining GMSV (General Motors Special Vehicles) dealership - and look what I discovered.
It's a silver-grey 3LT GMSV Chevrolet Corvette Stingray. It is, surprisingly, a normally aspirated motor (no turbo) and yet gets to 100km per hour in 2.9 seconds. It has an amazing power-to-weight ratio.
Yet, in saying all that, I think any Tesla electric vehicle will beat it down the street. Hence, I note, the first electric Stingray arrives in 2025.
Here it is. It is called the 'E-ray'. Due soon:
www.chevrolet.com/performance/corvette/e-ray
Here's Prince, of-course, with Little Red Corvette:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0KpfrJE4zw
My Canon EOS 5D Mk IV with the Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 II USM lens
Processed in Adobe Lightroom and PhotoPad Pro by NCH software.
Cathedral Cove, New Zealand
Stingray Bay is South of Mare's Leg Cove, which is South of Cathedral Cove, all within easy swimming distance of each other. This is not actually Stingray Bay. It is a small bay at the North End of Cathedral Cove where four rays were seen easily in the clear water and against the white sand, which is why Stingray Bay was so named. Also, it is not a Stingray. The rays in this area are the non-aggressive Eagle Rays
Smila on Saturday: Fish
Stingrays are a flat, disk-shaped fish with a venomous barbed tail. They can typically be found gliding along the floor of shallow, coastal waters in temperate and tropical seas. Despite being fish, stingrays give birth to live young. They keep their eggs inside their bodies until they hatch, then give birth to fully formed baby stingrays.
Stingrays received a notorious reputation in Australia, when in 2006 Steve Irwin, the iconic face of Australia Zoo, was stung by a ray when diving and subsequently died.
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Photographed at Hamelin Bay in Western Australia, where stingrays are often spotted gliding in the shallow waters.
A car show in Globe, Arizona displayed an array of vehicles including this Stingray.
Color My World Daily - Red
There were dozens of these beautiful White-blotched river stingrays on display at Océanopolis in Brittany. Their forest/river habitat was at the end of the tour around & I did feel a little more attention could have been paid to hiding the butyl liner edges & making their "river" look more natural but it was really cool standing on a little bridge watching them swim about in the shallow water. They feed on crustaceans & small fish so I guess the ones here are on borrowed time. For Smile on Saturday theme "two-same" HSoS 😃
From Wikipedia :
The Xingu River ray, white-blotched river stingray, or polka-dot stingray is a species of freshwater fish in the family Potamotrygonidae. It is endemic to the Xingu River basin in Brazil and prefers rocky bottoms. It is sometimes kept in aquaria. The Xingu river ray is a venomous stingray that contains venom localized at its dentine spine in its tail.
A Caribbean stingray, Himantura schmardae, feeds by stirring stirring up sandy bottoms with its wings and working through the sand with its plate-like teeth. Here, a hogfish, Lachnolaimus maximus (the one with three long dorsal spines), hovers behind, looking for prey trying to escape from the stingray.
Blackbird Caye, Belize.
Image measures 2 7/8" across
Nikon D5500 with 18-55mm @35mm and 12mm extension tube.
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