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Launchpad: Climate Resilience through Sweet Potatoes (CReSP) To secure nutrition when droughts and floods threaten lives and livelihoods, the International Potato Center is launching the Climate Resilience through Sweet Potatoes (CReSP) initiative, which builds upon pioneering research on orange-fleshed sweet potato breeding and delivery to vulnerable populations in Africa. Global Landscapes Forum, Marrakech, Morocco.
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Here we see 3642 storming through Blackheath on its way to Bell through the freezing rain, wind and fog!
The former mining town of Oruro has a major railroad line that goes through the city. Train travel is run by a company from Chile called Empresa Ferroviaria Andina S.A.
If heading south, such as to Salar de Uyuni, the train is a more comfortable alternative to travel compared to taking a bus along bumpy roads.
There are two types of trains: the more comfortable and faster Expreso del Sur and the cheaper but slower Wara Wara del Sur. Expresso del Sur offers first-class cabins, bar, waiters and food.
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Traveling by train in Bolivia was a must on our to-do list and also a necessity in terms of transporation - it's quite a pleasant although slow ride through Altiplano towards to the towns of Uyuni and Tupiza, usual starting points for tours heading out across the salt plain of Salar de Uyuni.
The ants moved into this log and created a series of tunnels.
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Photographed running through an African Tuliptree, Spathodea campanulata, at Romney Manor. This species is a generalist, and a colonizer, doing poorly in species-rich habitats, but attaining spectacular densities in disturbed or species-poor areas (which is what most small Caribbean islands are).
Thus, the pearly-eye is confined to about 80 generally small, often disturbed, species-poor islands and habitats throughout the Caribbean archipelago over a north-south geographical range of almost 3,000 km. With the exception of the island of Puerto Rico (895,000 km2), on which it is common only in species-poor habitats, the pearly-eye is noticeably absent from the larger islands, such as Cuba, Hispaniola, and Jamaica, inhabiting only their species-poor satellite islands (from neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/)
only through struggle have i found rest
with a piece of me taken away
i begin to understand
hollow out this machine like chest
with it's gears that turn to make me feel
and assembled thoughts that fade away
only through struggle have i found rest
with a piece of me taken away
i begin to understand
“Squeezing Through”
This is an unplanned hand held shot taken at Belihuloya. Shots with slow shutter speeds are tricky doing without a tripod but guess this one came out pretty ok. The mid day light was handled using a low f point and low iso values.
“රිංගා යමි”
බෙලිහුල්ඔයේදී ත්රිපාදයක් රහිතව ගත්තු පින්තුරයක්. අඩු ද්වාර වේගයක් සහිත මෙවැනි පින්තුර රිපාදයක් නොමැතිව ගැනීම තරමක් අපහසුය්. දහවල නිසා ආලෝකය හැසිරවීම සිදු කලේ අඩු f අගයක් සහ අඩු iso අගයක් යොදාගනිමින්.
Shutter 1.6 sec, iso 100, f/29, Canon 70-300mm lens
Southbound Fort Worth & Western’s Cresson Turn climbs the slight grade at the north switch of Primrose siding on the far southwest side of Fort Worth, Texas on Thursday February 26, 2026.
Looking out the back window of Western Maryland caboose 1813, we see the tracks curving through the snow.
This one made me giggle.
Part of an exercise involving cartooning where students picture a world where a different balance of power exists.
Their work hangs from a bulletin board I was able to get through a Donor's Choose grant last year.
5029 'Nunney Castle' powers towards Baglan with 1Z39, Bristol Temple Meads - Pembroke Dock steam special. 15/9/13.
DAY SEVENTY-EIGHT
It was so hard to take this pic. I still couldn’t get it the way I actually wanted it. I gave up. LOL.
I couldn’t figure out how to show my face and it always covered at least one eye.
Whatever.
Turriabla is home the University CATIE and is host to wealth of forestry projects. As one drives through the area it is not common to find many shade coffee plantations, polyculture plantations or biodiversity corridors. It is a beautiful part of Costa Rica that is under intensive land use.
Photo by Nathan Dappen
Upstairs there was a small office...
Jim showed me what he believed was the general office when this building produced denim in the early 1900's.
HDR
Aperture: f/13
Shutter: 1" to 30"
ISO 200
Relative exposure: -2 EV to +3 EV in 1-stop intervals
Absolute exposure: 3 to 7
Estimated DR: 1:9703
Tone mapped in Photomatix and color processing in Color Efex with control points.
A side street off Main St in Annapolis, MD. My first attempt at blending select areas from original RAW files into the tone mapped image. This is this widest DR I've shot yet, and the ceiling light blew out cuz I didn't cover it enough. Also having fun with Color Efex B&W with control points in select areas.
Thanks to redskyguy for some great technique tips.
She had searched so long when her little gold boots were suddenly near a snow hole and creeping closer she could see the skin of the snow leopard the depth of these holes shone with flashes of blues and greens seen through the snow
Had the found the Snow leopard was the little Princess nearby
Romance Of Rome gives you another chance to visit the legendary Roman Empire. Love and treachery, adventure and jeopardy await you in this amazing hidden object game. Collect skillfully hidden items, earn money, give presents and through parties to earn love and worship of the people of Rome.
Learn more about Romance of Rome game at the developer's site
Straight out of the camera.
Home a lot recently, but this time with a borrowed old Russian film camera, kindly released by knautia - bastion of all things film and film related....
It was a great opportunity to practice with aperture size and shutter speed, figure out how to 'catch' the manual light meter out, frame an image with a prime lens (no zoom) and generally do some of the things that a digital camera hadn't yet taught me.
It has been an education. Thankyou SO much knautia for your constant patience, explanations and enthusiasm. :D