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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.
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.
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.
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.
4th February 2018 - Its amazing what you find lying around the docks.. Here's 1 of 188 1971 Chevrolet Corvette Coupes ever built... £35,000 pounds worth, Amazing!!
We took a trip out to Stingray City, a sandbar shallow enough to stand on, and had an amazing experience with the stingrays as they swarmed around us.
A huge shout out to Laura who didn't think she could get off the boat when we first dropped anchor but who conquered her fears so completely that she ended up being one of the last ones to get out of the water! She even held one like I am here. Very proud of her.
Red Sail Sports did a great job and Alice, the crew photographer who took this picture, was wonderful as well.
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This Photo made it as Photo of the Day (17 Oct 2015) here: www.emphoka.net/