I don't know which I prefer. Yesterdays with the slow shutter giving the silky smooth action to the water, or today's stop action showing the turbulence.
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Photo of the Day September 2020
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You know what’s worse than finding a caterpillar on your plants? Finding half of one in the Apple you are eating!
Today’s for me. Yesterday’s needed to be slower (hard without a tripod). This looks much better to my untrained eye.
San Luis Valley Sunrise 3 by Ray Harrison, on Flickr
oh wow, what a compliment! thank you!
i don't currently have it hosted anywhere other than my hard drive.
iCloud and share link.
Seriously that photo is great
Fun shot from yesterdays hike, near the headwaters of the West Castle River in Southern AB. Flattened the background then added a hardlight layer over top of it.
I was messing around from my birding spot in poor light yesterday (very overcast with showers), testing lower camera limits on Mr Squirrel. Nothing terribly impressive, but I was able to go handheld at 1/30s for this shot at 220mm. Ain‘t IBIS amazing?
Lovely. Welcome. Can you post your image somewhat larger (1024px on the long edge)?
Some daub, shown here with a very high content ratio of Barley husks. On a very thorough scour of the site this was found on this was sadly all of the daub that remains! For a place that had over five Wattle and Daub structures on it that was rather disheartening to observe.
Clix, it's simply a thick branch or thin tree stem core structure which has basically mud mixed with whatever aggregate can be found on the site to help give the coating and lining material some integrity. The Wattle is the stick component and the Daub is the mud part.
Unfortunately here in South Australia with our cold and heat variances, most of the Daub has disintegrated back to dust and there are only the stick parts left, if at all. Lots of sites have become nothing more than a pile of sticks which later generations of farmers just cleared to create more growing space.
Among others, I have access to a site that houses no less than six of these buildings and on this site is where I found this one last piece of Daub remaining!
Locally, native pines were used for this building process as the trunks were nice and straight, without being too thick. What the early settlers didn't know was that they were extremely slow growing and they were clearing huge swathes of land in an unhelpful fashion, creating dustbowls and ghost towns as they went!
One bonus for using native pines was that termites are unimpressed by the flavour of them! So the sticks of some huts have been in place for over two hundred years and they were anything up to fifty years old when harvested!
I hope that helps clear any confusion? I have kept it focused on local use of this technique, but it is evident throughout much of the world.
P.S. My laughter at your query was because at the time of posting my first image of a Wattle and Daub place on Saturday I lazily posted a link to the Wiki explanation on it due to time constraints and thought to myself at the time how poor form that was of me! I wasn't laughing at you, dear @Clix Pix .
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