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Cape Barren Goose

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The Cape Barren Goose, at Sylvan Heights Bird Park,  is a very large, pale grey goose with a relatively small head. Its stubby triangular bill is almost concealed by a very prominent greenish-yellow cere (skin above the bill). It has rows of large dark spots in lines across the scapulars (shoulders) and wing coverts. The legs are pink to deep red and the feet black.

Cape Barren Goose

Grant’s Zebra at the Ark

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Grant’s zebras, one at Ark Encounter, are the smallest of the six subspecies of plains zebras and the smallest zebra species overall. Are zebras black with white stripes or white with black stripes? It depends on how you look at it! While most zebras appear to have a white base coat with black striping, their skin is solid black.

Grant’s Zebra at the Ark

Double Fences in Lexington Countryside

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Compared to white picket fences, dark fences are now common in the countryside around Lexington. In 2014, the state of Kentucky passed an ordinance called Paint it Black. It required that miles of white plank fencing that had been in place since be painted black to lower maintenance costs. Now, the most common color for horse fencing is black.

Double-fencing between paddocks or fields keeps horses from interacting across a typical fence and allows vehicles and farm machinery to move easily around the property.

Double Fences in Lexington Countryside

Dual Fences in Lexington Countryside

Japanese Black Pine Bonsai

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Japanese black pine bonsai also known as the king of bonsai and the most iconic conifer in bonsai practice. Japanese black pine’s aesthetic speaks to its longevity and durability. This conifer is a very powerful, aggressive, masculine approach to bonsai because of specific features, including thick trunk, thick bark, angular nature, dark green color, and sharp needles.

Japanese Black Pine

Monochrome Images

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Switching our posts for the next two weeks from color to monochrome.

Monochrome photography is an artistic type of photography that uses tones of a single color to colorize a photograph. Instead of having colors from all over the spectrum, a monochrome photo has just one color scale. All black and white images are monochrome images, but not all monochrome images are black and white. 

Here is an image captured from Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park in California, that is converted from color to monochrome making it balanced and visually appealing.

Cloud Formations over Yosemite in Monochrome

Cloud Formations from Glacier Point Yosemite

Pigeon on a Branch Silhouette

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We end our series of unusual images of shooting against the light creating traditional silhouettes or a combination of black foregrounds and colorful backgrounds. Here is a normal black silhouette – an image of a person, animal, bird, object or scene represented as a solid shape of a single color, usually black.

Pigeon on a Branch Silhouette

Black and White Buildings in Chester

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Chester, England is famous for its black and white buildings including the Rows, medieval two-tier buildings above street level with covered walkways which today house many of Chester’s shopping galleries. The Black-and-White Revival was an architectural movement in the mid-19th century that re-used the vernacular elements of the past, such as painted black timber framing with panels in between painted white, referring to Tudor style.

Chester’s Black and White Architecture
Black and White Building