Despite their name, bark scorpions do not actually bark.
That’d be dogs.
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Desert
Just the desert in infrared
According to Encyclopedia of Life, “Alvarado-Castro and Jiménez (2011) provide a detailed account of the reproductive behavior of H. selenopoides, including the intriguing behavior in which the male wraps silk around part of the female.”
So that’s another cross-species behavior, for those of you keeping track.
Heron
Heron realizing the common multi-factor authentication are easily guessed or forged:
Something you know – password, etc
Something you have – authentication token, etc
Something you are – fingerprint, etc
and that is proposing the following additional options, which are harder for attackers to guess:
Some place you’ve been
Some problematic belief you hold
Something you said that you immediately regretted
Some of your failed hopes and dreams, cast aside in the journey to adulthood
Some other time, login later
Sum total of your assets
Summa summarum, more factors are needed
Gator
Alligator hoping for a light snack
San Diego Safari Park
The San Diego Safari Park has a tethered balloon ride you can take to see the park from on high. After several visits, I decided to give it a try.
Cactus
It gets really contrasty in the desert at night.
Cactus
It was really windy that year.
Cactus
The most dramatic part of the cactus show is when the music reaches a crescendo, the fan dancers move aside, and the lead singer prances out – owning the stage in prickly glory.
Cactus
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Even though it knows all the answers, no one ever calls on the cactus.
Cactus Flower
When you produce a flower larger as you are tall, you might be compensating for something …
In this case, they’re compensating for the fact that an arid climate has fewer pollinators to attract.
Heater
In Arizona, as in Minnesota, they turn on the heaters when they expect people to be outside when it’s cold.
We just differ a bit about on what constitutes “cold” … by about 50 degrees F.
Japanese Snow Monkey
Monkey pondering whether it’s worth the effort correcting the fundamental misunderstandings in a political meme posting.
Crater
Turns out the planet’s been hit by space rocks.
Who knew?
Canyon
Turns out the planet’s been hit with lots and lots of little water molecules over an extremely long period of time.
Mountains
In infrared, the contamination from UV, violet, and blue light goes away and you can see a whole lot further.
This technique works a lot better when the sun is up, of course.
Landscape
Not really sure what’s going on here. The pattern looks like rivers, but the shading looks like mountains.
Sure looks interesting, though.
City
I just like the composition of this one.
Factory
Vignetting, or the tendency of light to be more concentrated in the center of an image, falling off at the edges exists on most lenses but in most modern contexts, isn’t very noticeable.
In the air, though, there’s seems to be fall-off when you pull the UV contamination out of the image.
Sometimes that’s okay.
I 35 W
There have many times I’ve been driving on 35W, when I’ve wanted to pull over and get a nice shot of the skyline.
Should have thought about just pulling up instead.