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Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)
Oban Bay - Scotland
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One last shot of my little droplets series shot in the foggy highlands of Fanal. Isn't it crazy how powerful the water surface tension keeps the drop in place ?
Marine life, or sea life or ocean life, is the plants, animals and other organisms that live in the salt water of the sea or ocean, or the brackish water of coastal estuaries. At a fundamental level, marine life affects the nature of the planet. Marine organisms produce oxygen and sequester carbon. Shorelines are in part shaped and protected by marine life, and some marine organisms even help create new land. The term marine comes from the Latin mare, meaning sea or ocean. Most life forms evolved initially in marine habitats. By volume, oceans provide about 90 percent of the living space on the planet. The earliest vertebrates appeared in the form of fish, which live exclusively in water. Some of these evolved into amphibians which spend portions of their lives in water and portions on land. Other fish evolved into land mammals and subsequently returned to the ocean as seals, dolphins or whales. Plant forms such as kelp and algae grow in the water and are the basis for some underwater ecosystems. Plankton forms the general foundation of the ocean food chain, particularly the phytoplankton which are key primary producers. Marine invertebrates exhibit a wide range of modifications to survive in poorly oxygenated waters, including breathing tubes as in mollusc siphons. Fish have gills instead of lungs, although some species of fish, such as the lungfish, have both. Marine mammals, such as dolphins, whales, otters, and seals need to surface periodically to breathe air. There are over 200,000 documented marine species with perhaps two million marine species yet to be documented. Marine species range in size from the microscopic, including phytoplankton which can be as small as 0.02 micrometres, to huge cetaceans (whales, dolphins and porpoises), including the blue whale – the largest known animal reaching 33 metres in length. Marine microorganisms, including protists, bacteria and viruses, constitute about 70% of the total marine biomass. 31227
Photographed on the coast of the Gulf of Finland in the Kallahti nature reserve, Helsinki in mid-March. A warm week (+5 °C) with rains melted the snow from the sea ice and accumulated water in puddles. The freezing weather that followed this made the ice surface really smooth, bringing out the features of the ice flowers well (A7R4078-1e).
Sony ILCE-7RM3A + E28-200mm F2.8-5.6 A071
1/20 sec at f/13, ISO 100, 28 mm
Happy Slider Sunday
Just wanted to take a minute to clear something up about my last image. That is not a Cactus garden. I do not know of any true Texan that would plant Cactus. It's almost impossible to get rid of. If you chop it up it starts new plants from the pieces. If we try to run over it with the tractor the thorns punch holes in the tires and it doesn't freeze during the winter.
"The surface of no image / can beat the depth / below the reality. // The raw nucleus of nature / does not reveal."
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The Great Gorge - Ruth Glacier,
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Rock on the left, rock on the right, rock in front, clouds above and ice below! The Great Gorge cliffs rise 5,000 feet above the glacier surface and the depth of the glacier is 3,800 feet for a total of 8,900 ft (2712 m) which is higher than maximum depth of the Grand Canyon,6,093 ft (1,857 m). (Elevation information from Wikipedia)
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Selective focus, shallow depth of field, soft focus, and colorful, backlit bougainvillea bokeh
By mid-summer, duckweed (Lemna minor) has had time to multiply and spread, thickly covering the surface of the marsh where this American Wigeon has made its home.
I believe the wigeon's plumage is showing a transition between breeding plumage of the past spring and the new breeding plumage. During the eclipse phase, the ducks essentially become flightless for a few weeks.