Anne marie bokslag
31 creative works found
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Winner of the It’s all in the Eyes Challenge of the Exotic Mammals group. Featured in the Exotic Mammals group, / in the ImageWriting group and / in the Animal Kingdom group. Sumatran Tiger Like most wild cats, Sumatran tigers are solitary animals that live within marked, carefully guarded territory. Hunting begins at dusk and is by no means easy: tigers may travel more than 20 miles to find suitable prey, and will successfully catch their target only one out of every ten or twenty attempts. STATUS: Critically Endangered. Continued agricultural habitat destruction, poaching, and killing of tigers that come into contact with villagers, all intensify the crises surrounding tiger. HABITAT: Sumatran tigers are found only on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. They require a habitat dense in vegetation in order to hide and ambush their prey, and a reliable source of water. They are often found in forested areas. DIET: These carnivores prefer the small deer that are found in their habitat, as well as wild pigs. They will also dine on monkeys, birds, reptiles and fish. After eating its fill, the tiger may hide the carcass and return for additional feeding over several days. PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS: The Sumatran is the smallest of the remaining subspecies of tigers. The male is slightly larger than the female with a more “bearded” appearance. They range in size from seven to nine feet in length and may weigh from 220 to 380 pounds. The coat is dark reddish-yellow with long black stripes, which provide camouflage in the dense forest. The front legs are muscular with large paws and sharp protractile claws. Their strong rear legs are designed for pouncing on prey, and webbing between the toes make this animal a fine swimmer. They rely on acute eyesight and hearing and a good sense of smell for catching prey. For the most part, these tigers are solitary, with the only basic social unit being the mother and her young. Males rarely associate with a specific female and may claim a territory containing several females. Territories are marked with scents on bushes or other plants; scratches on trees, or scrapes on the ground, which generally help to eliminate possible confrontations. Mating typically occurs in winter or spring, and the mother will give birth to two to four cubs. She raises them alone and they will be totally dependent on her for food until about 18 months. At about two years the cubs will become independent, and will reach full maturity at about three and a half years for females and five years for males. Average life span is 15 years but they may reach up to 26 years in captivity. Picture made in LA Zoo Canon EOS 40D / Canon Zoom lens EF 90-300mm 1:4,5-5,6 USM / Exposure time 1/500s / Aperture value f/5 / ISO 800 / Focal length155 mm
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Featured in the Pelicans group and / in the First Things group. Why the heck have I immigrated to this windy country…. / My hairdo is always getting ruined here!!!! Made in Wissel Animal Park in Epe, The Netherlands.
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Winner of the Q Challenge of the Alphabet Soup group. Featured in / the ImageWriting group; / the California Sound group; / the American Southwest group and / the Alphabet Soup group. Also available as T-Shirt RMS Queen Mary is an ocean liner that sailed the North Atlantic Ocean from 1936 to 1967 for the Cunard Line (then Cunard White Star Line). Built by John Brown and Company, Clydebank, Scotland, she was designed to be the first of Cunard’s planned two-ship weekly express service from Southampton to Cherbourg to New York, in answer to the mainland European superliners of the late 1920s and early 1930s. After their release from World War II troop transport duties, Queen Mary and her running mate RMS Queen Elizabeth commenced this two-ship service and continued it for two decades until Queen Mary’s retirement in 1967. The ship is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and is permanently berthed in Long Beach, California serving as a museum ship and hotel. The Queen Mary celebrated the 70th anniversary of her launch in both Clydebank and in Long Beach during 2004, and the 70th anniversary of her maiden voyage in 2006. There was already a Clyde turbine steamer named Queen Mary, so Cunard White Star reached agreement with the owners that the existing steamer would be renamed TS Queen Mary II, and in 1934 the new liner was launched by Queen Mary as RMS Queen Mary. The first incident in what was to be an eventful career occurred just after the naming ceremony. On her way down the slipway, the Queen Mary began increase her speed towards the water and she almost overshot her projected stopping point in the Clyde racing onwards towards the opposite bank before the drag chains took full effect. After her retirement in 1967, she steamed to Long Beach, California, where she is permanently moored as a tourist attraction. From 1983 to 1993, the Queen Mary was accompanied by Howard Hughes’ Spruce Goose, which was located in a large dome nearby (the dome is now used by Carnival Cruise Lines as a ship terminal, and formerly as a soundstage). Long Beach did not buy the Queen Mary to preserve her as an ocean liner. Since they started drilling for oil in Long Beach Harbor, some of the revenue had been set aside in the “Tidelands Oil Fund.” Some of this money was allocated in 1958 for the future purchase of a maritime museum for Long Beach. The Queen Mary was purchased to be the iconic host for this museum. Ghosts have been reported on board only after she reached California. Many areas are rumored to be haunted. Reports of hearing little children crying in the nursery room, actually used as the third-class playroom, and a mysterious splash noise in the drained first-class swimming pool are cited. In 1966, 18-year-old fireman John Pedder was crushed by a watertight door in the engine room during a drill, and his ghost is said to haunt the ship. The Queen Mary operates daily paranormal themed tours, some of which have theatrics applied for dramatic effect. Guests may also pay for private paranormal investigations, and are encouraged to document their paranormal experiences, if any. The ship also maintains a haunted maze and expands to multiple mazes during Halloween. Canon EOS 40D / Canon Zoom lens EF-S 17-85mm 1:4-5.6 IS USM lens / Exposure time 30 s / Aperture value f/20 / ISO 400 / Focal length 41 mm
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Featured in the First Things group. In a tree in front of our house there was a nest with 2 young Eurasian jays. One day they tried to fly but they were still too young, so they fell on the street. We found a way to put them back, but a few hours later they fell out again. / Imagine two little birds on the street, they can’t fly away, there were cars and cats and other dangerous things. After putting them back a few times, we decided I will take them home and feed them by hand and when they don’t need to be fed anymore we would bring them to a bird protection center (they only wanted to take them when they could eat by themselves). / So here is one of them in my kitchen, fed by hand. The only thing I did was darken all the kitchen stuff.
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Featured in the LMAO ART group Picture made in Artis Zoo in Amsterdam, The Netherlands Doesn’t he look like he need a shave? Grévy-zebra / Zebras are African equids best known for their distinctive white and black stripes. Their stripes come in different patterns unique to each individual. They are generally social animals and can be seen in small harems to large herds. Zebras are generally 2.3 m (8ft) long, stand 1.25-1.5 m (4-5ft) at the shoulder, and weigh around 300 kg (660 lbs), although some can grow to more than 410 kg (900 lbs). In addition to their stripes, zebras have erect, mohawk-like manes. Unlike their closest relatives, horses and donkeys, zebras have never been truly domesticated. There are three species of zebra: the Plains Zebra, Grevy’s Zebra and the Mountain Zebra. The Plains zebra and the Mountain Zebra belong to the subgenus Hippotigris, but Grevy’s zebra is the sole species of subgenus Dolichohippus. The latter resembles an ass while the former two are more horse-like. Nevertheless, DNA and molecular data show that zebras do indeed have monophyletic origins. All three belong to the genus Equus along with other equids. In certain regions of Kenya, Plains zebras and Grevy’s zebras coexist. The unique stripes and behaviors of zebras make these among the most familiar animals to people. They can be found in a variety of habitats, such as grasslands, savannas, woodlands, thorny scrublands, mountains and coastal hills. However, various anthropogenic factors have severely impacted zebra populations, in particular hunting for skins and habitat destruction. Grevy’s zebra and the Mountain zebra are endangered. While Plains zebras are much more plentiful, one subspecies, the quagga, went extinct in the late nineteenth century. The name “zebra” comes from the Old Portuguese word zevra which means “wild ass”. / Source: Wikipedia Canon EOS 350D / Canon Zoom lens EF 90-300mm 1:4,5-5,6 USM / Exposure time 1/250s / Aperture value f/5,6 / ISO 200 / Focal length 300 mm
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Rainbow Lory / These bold and noisy birds are among the most colorful members of the parrot family. They typically leave their roosting areas at sunrise and fly to trees where they consume fruit, pollen, nectar and insects. / Like most birds lorries have high metabolic energy requierements. To satisfy their energy needs, lorries have developed specialized anatomy to maximize the amount of nectar and pollen they consume. The sides and tip of their tongues have brush-like edges to increas the surface area and maximaze food intake. Canon 40D / Canon Zoom lens EF 100-400mm 1: 4.5-5.6 L IS / Exposure time 1/25s / Aperture value f/5 / ISO 200 / Focal lenght 150mm
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Porto (Portuguese pron. IPA: [ˈpoɾtu]), also Oporto in English, is Portugal’s second city and capital of the Norte NUTS II region. The city is located in the estuary of the Douro river in northern Portugal. The largest city in the region, Porto is considered the economic and cultural heart of the entire region. The city, which had an estimated population of about 220,000 (est.2008), lies at the centre of the political Greater Metropolitan Area of Porto, with a population of slightly more than 1.7 million (est. 2008), and is the main agglomeration of northern Portugal. The city of Porto comprises 15 civil parishes. The historic centre of Porto was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1996. In 2001, Porto shared the designation European Culture Capital with Rotterdam. In the scope of these events, the construction of the major concert hall space Casa da Música, designed by the Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, was initiated and finished in 2005. In August 1820, Porto rebelled against the English presence, resulting in a civil war in Portugal. In 1822, a liberal constitution was accepted, partly through the efforts of the liberal assembly of Porto (Junta do Porto). When Miguel of Portugal took the Portuguese throne in 1828, he rejected this constitution and reigned as an absolutist monarch. Porto rebelled again and had to undergo a siege of eighteen months between 1832 and 1833 by the Portuguese army. After the abdication of king Miguel the liberal constitution was re-established. Canon EOS 40D / Canon Zoom lens EF-S 17-85mm 1:4-5.6 IS USM lens
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Featured in the Canon DSLR group. This picture is hanging on one of the walls of the visitors center of Arlington National Cemeteray in Virginia. It’s a picture of the funeral of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. The picture is in B/W, but on this time of the a sunny day you can see reflections from the outside, which make it almost a coloured picture. Canon EOS 40D
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Featured in the PostCard Style group and / in the Neighborhoods group. The golden Lane (looks more like an alley). In house Nr. 22 Franz Kafka lived for a short period (1916/1917) and also wrote parts of his works. Frans Kafka was a Czech-born German-speaking writer who only became famous posthumously with his novels expressing the alienation of 20th century man, more precisely dehumanization, bureaucratic labyrinths, and totalitarian society . Kafkaesque characters are trademarks of his writing. His health issues added other issues like fear of physical and mental collapse in his stories. / Kafka admitted in Letter to His Father (1919) : “My writing was all about you; all I did there, after all, was to bemoan what I could not bemoan upon your breast. It was an intentionally long-drawn-out leave-taking from you.” Prague (pronounced /ˈprɑːɡ/; Czech: Praha (Czech pronunciation: [ˈpraɦa], see also other names) is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Its official name is Hlavní město Praha, meaning Prague, the Capital City. Situated on the River Vltava in central Bohemia, Prague has been the political, cultural, and economic centre of the Czech state for more than 1100 years. The city proper is home to more than 1.2 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 1.9 million. Since 1992, the extensive historic centre of Prague has been included in the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites. Nicknames for Prague have included “the mother of cities” (Praga mater urbium, or “Praha matka měst” in Czech), “city of a hundred spires” and “the golden city”. Composed out of one image which I duplicated 6 times. Each duplicate I under/over exposed 1, 2 or 3 stops. Finally I combined the 7 images in Photomatix Pro to a HDR in order to get more details. Canon EOS 350D
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Driving along the Westcoast of Galicia you can find lots of small harbours with one or more little boats like this. Galicia (occasionally Galiza) is a historical autonomous community in northwest Spain, and was one of the first kingdoms of Europe (Kingdom of Galicia). Its component provinces are A Coruña, Lugo, Ourense and Pontevedra. It borders Portugal to the south, the Spanish regions of Castile and León and Asturias to the east, and the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west. Geographically, a remarkable feature of Galicia is the presence of many fjord-like inlets along the coast, estuaries that were drowned with rising sea levels after the ice age. These are called rías and are divided into the Rías Altas, and the Rías Baixas. The rias are important for fishing, and make the coast an important fishing area. The landscapes and wildness of the coast are spectacular to see. Canon EOS 40D / Canon Zoom lens EF-S 17-85mm 1:4-5.6 IS USM lens
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Lake Kaweah is fed by the Kaweah River, which originates in the Sierra Nevada at Sequoia National Park. Long age, Yokuts, Wukchumne, and Kaweah people lived and hunted along this river. Spaniards were the first Europeans to explore this area two centuries ago. Settlers arrived fifty years later. Cattleman Hale Tharp started a ranch at the confluence of the Kaweah River and Deer Creek in 1856. He lived here until his death in 1912. Several landmarks still bear his name. Lake Kaweah, located in the foothills of the southern Sierra Nevada near Lemon Cove in Tulare County, California, was formed by the construction of Terminus Dam on the Kaweah River. Completed in 1962 for the purpose of flood control and water conservation, the dam stores 143,000 acre-feet of water during the annual run-off season. Energy production was added in 1990 with the construction of the Terminus Power Plant. The new hydroelectric plant produces an average of 40 million kilowatt-hours of electricity annually, which is equivalent to the energy from 67,000 barrels of oil. The Kaweah River is located in the foothills of the southern Sierra Nevada Range of California along Highway 198 at the southern entrance to Sequoia National Park. The River passes through the small town of Three Rivers and ends up in Lake Kaweah (Terminus Reservoir). It’s one of the shortest drainages in the US from its headwaters at 12,000 feet to Lake Kaweah. The Kaweah River, like its neighbors the Kings, Tule and Kern, never sees the Pacific Ocean. Instead, it splits into many channels upon entering the San Joaquin Valley below Lake Kaweah and is mostly consumed by irrigation. What’s left, if any, ends up in Tulare Lake. The lake has a capacity of 185,000 acre•ft (228,000 dam³). A project to raise the lake 21 ft (6.4 m) was completed in 2004. The lake now impounds an additional 42,000 acre•ft (52,000 dam³) and downstream flood protection to downstream communities and agricultural land has been increased. And that’s why at the end of the winter all these trees are in the lake. Canon EOS 40D
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And the winner is:
by Anne-Marie BokslagI’m very honoured that my picture Hummingbird is the winner of the California Wildlife Competition of the California Sound group. / ...
I’m very honoured that my picture Hummingbird is the winner of the California Wildlife Competition of the California Sound group. Many thanks to everybody for making this picture a winner!!!!
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Featured in the United States group. Another shot of a hummingbird flying around between lavender plants. I shot on high exposure time to see the wings. / Place: South Botanical Garden, Palo Verdes in Calofornia Canon EOS 40D
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Porto (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈpoɾtu]), also Oporto in English, is Portugal’s second city and capital of the Norte NUTS II region. The city is located in the estuary of the Douro river in northern Portugal. The largest city in the region, Porto is considered the economic and cultural heart of the entire region. The city, which had an estimated population of about 220,000 (est.2008), lies at the centre of the political Greater Metropolitan Area of Porto, with a population of slightly more than 1.7 million (est. 2008), and is the main agglomeration of northern Portugal. The city of Porto comprises 15 civil parishes. The historic centre of Porto was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1996. / The World Heritage site is defined in two concentric zones; the “Protected area”, and within it the “Classified area”. The Classified area comprises the medieval borough located inside the 14th-century Romanesque wall. One of Portugal’s most internationally famous products, Port wine, is named after the city because it is produced in, and shipped from the area. or, more precisely, from Vila Nova de Gaia, a city just across the river which belongs to the same conurbation. The country was also named after the Latin name of Porto, Portus Cale. Porto district is one of the most industrialised districts in Portugal, and Maia, one of Porto’s satellite cities, has the largest industrial park in Portugal. Canon EOS 40D
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On the first sunny day in Portugal I noticed these four doves taking a bath in a nearby fountain. / They looked like they had a nice day at the pool…lol! Canon EOS 40D / Canon Zoom lens EF-S 17-85mm 1:4-5.6 IS USM lens
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Featured in the ImageWriting group. A site-specific LED Sculpture by artist Leo Villareal at the moving walkway between the East and West Buildings of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. / About 41.000 LEDs were inserted in the vaulted architecture of the walkway. The artist then programmed the electronic circuitry to form kinetic configurations of white light conveying associations ranging from artificial life to organic form. The programming both instructs the lights and allows for an element of change. While it is possible that a pattern will repeat during a viewer’s experience, it is unlikely. / This sculpture will be on view untill November 2009. Thank you Cora for being such a great guide! Canon EOS 40D Piscture is as is, no post processing done.
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This wall, called Field of Stars, is part of the National World War II Memorial in Washington DC. / This Field of 4,000 Gold Stars honors more than 400,000 lives lost during that war. Canon EOS 40 D
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I got up at 4.30am, because we (Cora, Kathy and me) wanted to take pictures of the sunrise from the Lincoln Memorial overlooking the Washington Monument and the Capitol. / Unfortunately it was raining. You couldn’t even see the Capitol anymore! / After a while we went away and waited a few hours. Around 10am the rain went and the sun came. Even without the sun we had a great time that morning waiting for the sun…. Canon EOS 40D
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Walking along Lake Machado in Ken Malloy Harbor Regional Park I met this little squirrel. / The moment he saw me he ran up into a small palm tree and that was a mistake because as long as I was there under that tree taking pictures of him he couldn’t get away. / No surrounding trees, only one way to get out…. going down …. but there was that woman with the camera. / So he was hiding himself behind a branche of that small palm tree…at least he thought he did….lol. / After while … and lots of shots I went away and the poor little guy was free to go…. Canon EOS 40D / Canon Zoom lens EF 80-200mm / Exposure time 1/160s / Aperture value f/5.6 / ISO 400 / Focal length 190mm
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Features and Challenge winner in June 2009
by Anne-Marie BokslagAttacus Atlas was featured in the Just butterflies group: !http://images-1.redbubble.net/img/art/backingcolor:white/product:greeti…
Attacus Atlas was featured in the Just butterflies group: Mother Goose was featured in the Inspired Art group: Only One was featured in the Wildflowers of North America group: Prepare for Landing was featured in the / A Vision Of Flight Photography group: Multiverse was featured in the ImageWriting group: Mausoleum was featured in the Amazing Graves group AND in the Ancient Ruins and Relics group: Angel was featured in the Amazing Graves group: Colurfull Black & White was featured in the Canon DSLR group: Joshua Tree National Park was featured in the / The Scavenger Hunt group: Prague (Upside Down Horse) was the winner of the Animal Statues Challenge of the 12 Great Features group and therefore featured in this group: Thanks to the hosts of the groups and the voters in the Challenges! I’m very honored!
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Featured in the Statues and Such group. This statue of a Sunbathing Big Man I found on the roof of a parking garage at the marina of Sanxenxo on the Westcoast of Spain. Canon EOS 40D
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This is a part of Kemijärvi (järvi is lake). It’s located in Finnish Lapland, a bit north of the Polar Circle. It’s one of the rather more than 180.000 lakes in Finland. Canon EOS Digital Rebel
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Porvoo (pronounced [ˈporʋoː]; Swedish: Borgå), is a city and a municipality situated on the southern coast of Finland approximately 50 kilometres (30 mi) east of Helsinki. The town received its name from a Swedish earth fortress near the river Porvoonjoki which flows through the town (Swedish Borgå, borg meaning castle and å river). Porvoo is one of the six medieval towns in Finland, first mentioned as a city in texts from 14th century. Porvoo is the seat of the Swedish speaking Diocese of Porvoo of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland. Porvoo is the second oldest city in Finland. The current wave of settlement began in the 13th-14th centuries. Porvoo was grated city status in the mid-14th century. Porvoo has fought for its very existence on serveral occasions over the centuries. At the beginning of the 16th century, Danes arrived by sea to destroy the city. The Russians burned Porvoo twice. In 1760, a Porvoo housewife made fish soup, and the fire it caused destroyed the majority of the buildings in the city. The last misfortune was the arson in 2006 that greatly damaged a key landmark of Old Porvoo, the cathedral. At the beginning of the 19th century, Finland was annexed to Russia as an autonomous grand duchy. Tsar Alexander I convened the first diet in Porvoo in March 1809. In Porvoo Cathedral, he gave a sovereign pledge in which he ratified the country’s religion, its constitutional laws and the rights of the estates. Shore houses, cobblestone streets and idyllic gardens make Old Porvoo a uniquely historical urban milieu. Porvoo has been an important centre of trade since the 13th century. The buildings in Old Porvoo today were built according to a medieval town plan and are ofhistorical value in terms of their construction. The Old Porvoo district currently covers an area of 18 hectares, with 250 residential buildings and 300 outbuildings. Roughly 700 people live in this area. / The shore houses are now red, but they got their colour only in the late 18th century. Red ochre paint was used to paint the shore houses in honour of King Gustav III’s arrival from Sweden. All of the houses along his route were painted, in order to make them more beautiful. The red ochre also helped protect the logs from wind and sun damage. Exotic fruits, wines and spices were brought to Porvoo, and the shore houses also served as intermediate storehouses for coffee an tobacco. Today the shore houses are used as private living quarters and storage space. Canon EOS Digital Rebel / Canon Zoom lens EF-S 18-55mm 1:3.5-5.6 II USM
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Found this little hummingbird on her nest. Picture taken in a private garden in Manhattan Beach CA Canon EOS 40D
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