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Some more vultures

(Saturday, October 18th, 2008)

Before some big cats, here are some vultures again:

Vulture

Vulture, in flight (Copyright 2008 - Yves Roumazeilles)

Vautour oricou

Lappet-faced vulture (Copyright 2008 - Yves Roumazeilles)

Sun rise

(Friday, October 17th, 2008)

Sun rise in the accacia - Copyright 2008 Yves Roumazeilles

Sun rise in the accacia - Copyright 2008 Yves Roumazeilles

Sun rise on the plains - Copyright 2008 Yves Roumazeilles

Sun rise on the plains - Copyright 2008 Yves Roumazeilles

Giraffes from Kenya

(Thursday, October 16th, 2008)

Giraffes, here is a weird animal. On of the real bizarre things in nature.

Girafes

Giraffes - Copyright 2008 Yves Roumazeilles

You can often see young males fighting:

Combat de girafes - Copyright 2008 Yves Roumazeilles

Giraffes fighting - Copyright 2008 Yves Roumazeilles

Combat de girafes - Copyright 2008 Yves Roumazeilles

Giraffes fighting- Copyright 2008 Yves Roumazeilles

It seems that they are fighting in a very slow motion.
Despite that, it is a very aggressive behaviour and the males use that to decide hierarchies and access rights to the females.

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You can click on the thumbnail images to enlarge them.

All images are Copyright 2008 - Yves Roumazeilles (all rights reserved).

An old Monty Python about a young would-be VP

(Wednesday, October 15th, 2008)


Link to YouTube

Stepper motors, step-by-step

(Wednesday, October 15th, 2008)

Stepper motors are nearly everywhere. this is marvellous for happy hobbyists. Even better, you can find them (and extract them from) a large number of devices that are easy to hack like old floppy disk drives, hard discs. For those of you who would ike to know more and keep an eye on the technology, I suggest that followiung reading:

Source: Jason Striegel.

Southern Eland

(Tuesday, October 14th, 2008)

The Southern Eland is the largest savanah antelope (bulls may weigh 700-800kg). Very shy, it runs away at first sight of a human being or a car. Difficult snapshot, guaranteed.

Elan du Cap

Southern Eland

Southern Eland (Taurotragus oryx, Elan du Cap, antílope eland común). Masai Mara, Kenya, September 2008.

I want to drive on this highway

(Tuesday, October 14th, 2008)

Presented by  Dutch architects NL in the Italian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale.

OpenOffice.org 3.0: Your free replacement for MS-Office 2007

(Monday, October 13th, 2008)

OpenOffice.org 3.0 arrives and this is important. As a matter of fact, the free desktop suite (as interesting as the MS-Office suite) shift in high gear.

OpenOffice.org v3.0

OpenOffice.org v3.0

The new features are quite noticeable:

  • Support of MS-Office 2007 format for documents
  • OOo 3.0 is now compatible with Mac OS X
  • New multi-page mode in Writer
  • Several users can now simultaneously edit and share a single spreadsheet
  • Capacity to use MS Access databases from Writer

To freely download your MS-Word 2007, your MS-Excel 2007, you just have to run to the OpenOffice.org web site. This is free, this is legal!

Be a beta-tester

(Sunday, October 12th, 2008)

If you have the heart of an adventurer, you may be interested to know that Ijust put in beta-test some new websites that I am working on.

Your opinion will be welcome, but -remember- this is beta-test. So, it is full of bugs, problems, issues and don’t come back and complain if your significant other dumps you because of it.

Note: Most (if not all) of the photo-related news here will be applied to YLovePhoto.com as soon as I feel free with this new web site.

Vultures

(Saturday, October 11th, 2008)

Vautours - Copyright 2008 Yves Roumazeilles

Vultures - Copyright 2008 Yves Roumazeilles

Vautour en vol - Copyright 2008 Yves Roumazeilles

Vulture, in flight - Copyright 2008 Yves Roumazeilles

Lion portraits

(Friday, October 10th, 2008)

I published a few shots of lions. Portraits taken in the Masai Mara park (Kenya). My prefered is the following one:

Lionness

Lionness - Copyright 2008, Yves Roumazeilles

If you click on the thumbnail image, you will enlarge it. And you may notice that the photographer (and its car) are appearing in the eye of the lion. ;-)

But there are several other images taken nearly at the same time on the original Big Cats web site. Yes! This is another of my web sites. Actually, YLoveBigCats.com is a separate location to publish information specifically about the big felines of the world (and some of the my photos of them).

Don’t confuse buffalos with landing strips!

(Friday, October 10th, 2008)

You should think that most cattle birds never heard about this injunction. They use African Buffalos as landing strips and these big cows as as source of food while they remove the parasites from their skin.

African Buffalos (nearly) without birds

Buffle - Copyright 2008 Y.Roumazeilles

African Buffalo - Copyright 2008 Y.Roumazeilles

Buffle - Copyright 2008 Y.Roumazeilles

African Buffalo - Copyright 2008 Y.Roumazeilles

Buffalos and birds

Here, we see a fast airplane in final approach, or is it in attack phase?

Buffle et oiseaux - Copyright 2008 Y.Roumazeilles

African Buffal and birds: Tora! Tora! Tora! - Copyright 2008 Y.Roumazeilles

Finally, here the one I prefer (”the airport is not happy“) :

Buffle et oiseaux - Copyright 2008 Y.Roumazeilles

African Buffalo and birds - Copyright 2008 Y.Roumazeilles

African Buffalo (Syncerus caffer, Buffle d’Afrique, Búfalo negro). Kenya, Masai Mara, September 2008.


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