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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.
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.
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
A car show in Globe, Arizona displayed an array of vehicles including this Stingray.
Color My World Daily - Red
Middle Island and Merri Island, Warrnambool.
Middle Island is a breeding colony for Australian Little Penguins, Short tailed Shearwaters and Black Cormorants.
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.
The first photo today showed the world above the water's surface. For this one, we've dived back into the magical world of the coral reef.
We're at a depth of somewhere between 30 and 40 meters. And here I managed to photograph an animal that populated the oceans even in the time of the dinosaurs and, due to its perfection, has barely changed since then: a stingray.
This family evolved parallel to sharks around 250 million years ago and is therefore closely related to them. Since then, over 100 different species have evolved, adapted to their respective habitats. Unfortunately, I can't name which species this specimen belongs to.
Even though stingrays don't attack humans, accidents do occur from time to time in which someone gets too close to the animals, and they then use their tails, equipped with poisonous spines, like a whip in self-defense.
The famous Australian documentary filmmaker Steve Irwine (the Crocodile Hunter) was killed in such an incident because the stinger pierced his heart through his ribcage.
Das erste Foto von heute zeigte die Welt oberhab der Wasseroberfläche. Für dieses hier sind wir wieder in die magische Welt des Korallenriffs hinabgetaucht.
Wir befinden uns in einer Tiefe irgendwo zwischen 30 und 40 Metern. Und hier ist es mir gelungen ein Tier zu fotografieren, was auch schon zu Zeiten der Dinosaurier die Meere bevölkerte und sich auf Grund seiner Perfektion seit dem kaum verändern musste, einen Rochen.
Diese Familie entwickelte sich von ca. 250 millionen Jahren parallel zu den Haien und ist darum auch nah mit ihnen verwandt. Seit dem haben sich, angepasst an Ihren jeweiligen Lebensraum, über 100 verschiedene Arten herausgebildet. Zu welcher Art dieses Exemplar gehört, kann ich leider nicht benennen.
Auch wenn Stachelrochen keine Menschen angreifen, so kommt es doch immer wieder zu Unfällen bei denen jemand den Tieren zu nahe kommt und diese dann zur Verteidigung Ihren mit giftigen Stacheln ausgestatteten Schwanz wie eine Peitsche einsetzen.
Der berühmte australische Dokumentarfilmer Steve Irwine (the Crocodile Hunter) wurde bei so einem Zwischenfall getötet, da der Stachel ihn durch den Brustkorb hindurch ins Herz traf.
Image measures 2 7/8" across
Nikon D5500 with 18-55mm @35mm and 12mm extension tube.
For Macro Mondays
Theme: Wallet
It was 32c at the lake yesterday .. I ended up just walking in up to my knees to cool off .. after a snapped this frame I turned to walk back to the shore and got nearly as big a shock as the stingray that I'd almost stood on.. fun times at the lake ☺️
Olympus OM-1 w M.Zuiko 7-14/2.8 Pro
ISO640 f/11 7mm -2.7 and -1.3ev
Two frames raw developed in DxO PhotoLab 9.2, stacked and blended in Affinituy Photo 2.6.3, colour graded in Nik 8 Color Efex and finished off back in PhotoLab.
Lake Illawarra, Shellharbour, NSW