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Monday in Nature Weekly Photo Oct. 12, 2015


Laura Weishaupt

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<p>Thanks Laura, with that photo I was lucky to have been in the right place at the right time - the barque Europa, built in 1909, was just off Cuverville Is. when I was there; a B&W version could easily be from a turn of the century expedition.<br>

One of Hurley's photographer friends was the amazing Australian explorer Hubert Wilkins. They met through their interest in photography and adventure. Together in 1917 they documented in photographs the horrors of WW1 in France - they wandered the battlefield and by all accounts it is quite incredible that they both survived. I recommend you add "The Last Explorer" by Simon Nasht to your reading list - there is a chapter entitled "The Mad Photographers" detailing their adventures together.</p>

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<p>Edwin, your post is just a response to an earlier post and not counted towards an official image entry, and it is not really a nature image either. So please feel free to post your actual entry for this week, but that one must be a nature image.</p>

<p>Come to thing of it, if you know how big a white pelican's bill is, that must be a huge deer tick that spans the thickness of the bill. Hopefully it won't pass any Lyme disease to the pelican. :-)</p>

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<p>Edwin,<br>

Thanks. It it distinctive because of the maroon tints, but mainly because the stem stains skin a dark blood red color, hence the name. They are frequently seen in clusters and grow on wood. Size, small. That one was between 1/4 - 1/2 inch, or about 1cm. Many tropical members of the genus are biolumenescent. I only have a working familiarity with a few around here. BTW, the screen capture is really funny.</p>

<p>Randy,<br>

What you have there looks more like crab apple. The fruit on choke cherry have shorter stems and grow more like a pendant cluster, similar to grapes, just not as tight. Do a quick google search on both and look at images to see the difference.</p>

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<p>Another book recommendation on the Antarctica theme: <em>The Worst Journey in the World</em> by Apsley Cherry-Garrard. Apsley Cherry-Garrard—the youngest member of Scott’s team and one of three men to make and survive the notorious Winter Journey—draws on his firsthand experiences as well as the diaries of his compatriots to create a stirring and detailed account of Scott’s legendary expedition. During a later expedition, Cherry-Garrard, among others, discovered the remains of Scott's team. (cribbed from Amazon blurb)</p>

 

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<p>Lots of nice photos this week. I especially enjoyed Douglas' birds and Edwin's shell.</p>

<p>As for the Shackleton, et al. story, I remember reading about it as a lad many years ago. However, I had not heard about Hurley's story or photographs until today. I guess that now I need to track down a book or two!</p>

<p>Here is my, admittedly late, contribution:</p>

<p><img src="http://gorga.org/blog/wp-content/gallery/13-oct-2015_3_1/dsc1410.jpg" alt="" width="480" height="600" /><br>

Wetland in Autumn #3 (Bradford, NH)</p>

<p>Foliage season is well underway here in New England. I made this photograph in the middle of last week on a back road in an off-the-beaten-path corner of NH. </p>

 

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