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My favourite, and they were out in force today. I’m so glad to see them again. A Ternarius can repeat sting, but they aren’t aggressive. I have been warned off a few times, and taken the warning seriously. Click for full size.
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Vala and Violette.
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From Giliell, some residents at the Dino park, doing some people watching.
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are out in force. (Part one, I got a lot of photos. I know, these are overexposed, but the bee is adorable.)
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The 2016 National Geographic Travel Photographer of the Year is open, and accepting submissions until May 27, 2016. Those of you with travel photos, get them in! (Looking at you, Saad).
This picture was taken during Mt. Bromo eruption, the horse seems a little agitated due to the sound of the eruption, © Reynold Dewantara / National Geographic Travel Photographer of the Year Contest.
This image was captured very early in the morning after climbing Yellow Mountain at 3 am and waiting for few hours in the cold and wind at -4 degrees. No HDR and no Photoshop was used for the effect of this image, everything is 100% natural. The magic of the nature did its work and I have been lucky, © Thierry Bornier / National Geographic Travel Photographer of the Year Contest.
Photo taken by Giliell. Breathtaking! Click for full size.
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Tulip.
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Robin. Click for full size.
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Thanks to Opus for the heads up on some amazing photos. The 20 best science images of the year?
Wiring the human brain
Alfred Anwander, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Black henna allergy
Nicola Kelley, Cardiff and Vale University Hospital NHS Trust
Swallowtail butterfly
Daniel Saftner, Macroscopic Solutions
Maize leaves
Fernan Federici, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile and University of Cambridge
From Lofty. First up, Kookaburras, and oooh, pretty dinosaurs they are. Thanks, Lofty!
Two pics of the resident Kookaburra clan, getting their morning feed from my wife. On the advice of our local vet they get dog food pellets, soaked in boiling water for 5 minutes and drained. There are never any left after a dozen kookas hoover them up.
A Persimmon tree and fruit.
A couple of pics of one of our few successful fruit harvests this year. The persimmon tree, after spending three months under bird netting, yields three full buckets of fruit. Harvested and pruned back severely, the tree sheds its last few leaves on a damp Autumn morning. A row of persimmons sits on the window sill to ripen a bit longer.
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From Lofty, who says: A couple of pics of the bottom 10ft of the Manna Gum behind the house. The old bark detaches in great crinkly sheets every year and leaves behind a mottled surface with tiny defects.
Gorgeous trees, and that wood! There’s some fabulous insect engraving there. Oh, that would make an extraordinary walking stick. (I have more than enough of those, all hand made, but still…jealous.) Thanks, Lofty! Click for full size.
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