Dogs? Yes, we can certainly learn a lot from them.
We could start by learning to clean up our own mess better …..
By Chris Snuggs
[Wish our lot would learn this skill? 😉 Ed.]
Is your dog this clever?
Tag: Photography
Unintended consequences – for the albatross!
Using our Planet as a dustbin!
Once again, a piece in Naked Capitalism caught my eye this time courtesy on one of Yves’ readers who came across this:
These photographs of albatross chicks were made just a few weeks ago on Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific. The nesting babies are fed bellies-full of plastic by their parents, who soar out over the vast polluted ocean collecting what looks to them like food to bring back to their young. On this diet of human trash, every year tens of thousands of albatross chicks die on Midway from starvation, toxicity, and choking.
To document this phenomenon as faithfully as possible, not a single piece of plastic in any of these photographs was moved, placed, manipulated, arranged, or altered in any way. These images depict the actual stomach contents of baby birds in one of the world’s most remote marine sanctuaries, more than 2000 miles from the nearest continent.
More pictures of this terrible way to treat a magnificent bird are here.
By Paul Handover
Mach Loop, North Wales, Great Britain
High speed military aircraft at low level – all in a day’s work.
Most private pilots love to watch the professionals at work, whether it’s in the cockpit of an airliner or fast military jets.
Does this not get the blood stirring?
The Jaguar XK120 Motor Car
You’ll never feel this way about a modern car!
A few weeks ago I attended a 70th Birthday celebration for a cousin.
70! Hey this chap has been riding bicycles at competition level, and running marathons for many years, so the surprise party was very upbeat, with two bands keeping everybody dancing. Everything from the Shadows to Roy Orbison.
It was a lovely day so I took my old XK120 Roadster, mainly because another cousin was going along, and he had helped rebuild this car 30 years previously. Actually we arrived together. The XK was running beautifully, but my cousin’s Mercedes had burst a water pipe, and the car park was flooded with coloured radiator water. We laughed that it was the new car that had broken down.
Another breath-taking picture from Patrick Smith
Cannon Beach, Oregon
Patrick says of this picture:
This is a view that includes only one of the needles, so that you can get a closer view of Haystack Rock. The light was too good to resist for about two minutes, so I captured several variations of this scene..
Photograph reproduced with the kind, written permission of Patrick Smith.
By Paul Handover
Barnstorming
As the film says, Friends can really drop out of the sky.
M’mmmm – Let me think about this!
The pluses and minuses of skydiving.
This looks great. Cameraman is Paul Lewis.
And here’s that Paul Lewis again. Having a really, really lucky day!
Funny, there is a saying amongst us (amateur) pilots. Why would anyone want to throw themselves out of a perfectly serviceable aeroplane!
Exactly!
By Paul Handover
Just pause a while
Patrick’s landscapes are breath-taking.
The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes
but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust (1871-1922)
By Paul Handover
Air Sports
World Aerobatic Championships, Silverstone, England
Yesterday was the last of the three days of the WAC, the World Aerobatic Championships, held, this time, in England. Had I known earlier then this Post would have been published before the event had finished.
Anyway, guess what has been found on the web? Airsports TV. So all those that hanker after this sort of thing, here is your very own TV station. Want to know more about Airsports TV? Watch the video below:
Vodpod videos no longer available.
Want more?
Now hang on to your seats!
The sharing spirit
This virtual world has so much to share.
The photography of Patrick Smith is breathtaking. So much so, it seemed important to promote his talents to the widest possible audience.
He has been very generous in giving Learning from Dogs written permission to reproduce his pictures. Thus from time to time, we will do just that.
Thank you, Patrick.
Published with the written permission of Patrick Smith Photography.
Copyright (c) 2009, all rights reserved. Please do not use this picture without permission.
By Paul Handover
Learning from Dogs 