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Birna Rørslett

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Re: July 2024
« Reply #75 on: July 10, 2024, 06:42:39 »
This is bizarre!  It looks as if someone threw blue paint into the lake...

It smells worse ... like some out-of-date old and wet paint, but many orders of magnitude worse.

The algae, or technically speaking, cyanobacteria, had of course been there all the time, but the tiny organisms were evenly distributed in the water column and thus not directly visible. Days of extreme heat (to us Nordic people, at least), in conjunction with persistent strong winds and waves brought on a mass bloom and concentrated the cyanobacteria along the shoreline. I've seen algal blooms many times in my days as an aquatic scientist, but never amassed like this. It was spectacular. The "painted" zone stretched up to 50 m wide.

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Re: July 2024
« Reply #76 on: July 10, 2024, 07:31:13 »
It smells worse ... like some out-of-date old and wet paint, but many orders of magnitude worse.

The algae, or technically speaking, cyanobacteria, had of course been there all the time, but the tiny organisms were evenly distributed in the water column and thus not directly visible. Days of extreme heat (to us Nordic people, at least), in conjunction with persistent strong winds and waves brought on a mass bloom and concentrated the cyanobacteria along the shoreline. I've seen algal blooms many times in my days as an aquatic scientist, but never amassed like this. It was spectacular. The "painted" zone stretched up to 50 m wide.

Thank you for the details, Birna.  From the city whose temperature is approaching 40 degree (Celsius) sounds as cool as the color shown by the cyanobacteria...
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Re: July 2024
« Reply #77 on: July 10, 2024, 12:04:10 »
July 10

Cardoon, artichoke thistle, ready to flower.

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Re: July 2024
« Reply #78 on: July 10, 2024, 17:29:16 »
My daughter has been learning American Sign Language for fun. It seemed appropriate that "bug" was a recent word.

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Re: July 2024
« Reply #79 on: July 10, 2024, 21:28:42 »
My wife at a public library in downtown Guadalajara Mexico

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Re: July 2024
« Reply #80 on: July 11, 2024, 07:36:21 »
Great lights Armando!

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Re: July 2024
« Reply #81 on: July 11, 2024, 09:30:22 »
Yes, indeed a nice portrait -- with character.

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Re: July 2024
« Reply #82 on: July 11, 2024, 09:31:20 »
Nature is the ultimate bottom line.

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Re: July 2024
« Reply #83 on: July 11, 2024, 14:49:13 »
July 11

boy caught a carp

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Re: July 2024
« Reply #84 on: July 11, 2024, 15:54:00 »
My wife at a public library in downtown Guadalajara Mexico

I love the mood.

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Re: July 2024
« Reply #85 on: July 11, 2024, 15:55:05 »
The flowers of a peanut plant.

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Re: July 2024
« Reply #86 on: July 11, 2024, 16:22:23 »
Yes, indeed a nice portrait -- with character.
I love the mood.
Great lights Armando!
Thank you Fons, Birna, Ian
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Re: July 2024
« Reply #87 on: July 12, 2024, 09:02:52 »
My wife at a public library in downtown Guadalajara Mexico


Lovely color...many browns without being too orange!
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Re: July 2024
« Reply #88 on: July 12, 2024, 09:27:12 »
Little Grebe takes its morning "shower".
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Re: July 2024
« Reply #89 on: July 12, 2024, 18:10:57 »
Lovely color...many browns without being too orange!
Thanks, I used the fuji classic chrome profile the more muted saturation seem to fit this image better
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