860-290376 - France. Hunting. The European commission has adopted in january 2021 a ban on using lead 100m around any wetland in Europe. So far in France, the ban is only 30m. In the future, the lead will be totally banned as 6000 tons of lead is put into nature by hunters every year causing death of thousands of birds (here a mallard) eating lead balls.
860-289978 - Bryde's whale (Balaenoptera edeni) is a baleen whale, more specifically a rorqual belonging to the same group as blue whales and humpback whales. Trincomalee, Eastern Province, Sri Lanka, Bay of Bengal, Indian Ocean
860-290422 - Snorkeler with Loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta), one of the three species found in Mediterranean Sea. Pelagos Sanctuary for Mediterranean Marine Mammals, Mediterranean Sea
860-289856 - Dusky grouper (Epinephelus marginatus), Formigas Islet dive site, 27 miles northeast of Santa Maria Island, Azores, Portugal, Atlantic Ocean
860-290088 - Scuba diver under ice in a halocline cloud, a subtype of chemocline caused by a strong, vertical salinity gradient within a body of water. Arctic circle Dive Center, White Sea, Karelia, northern Russia
860-290263 - Atlantic stargazer(Uranoscopus scaber). He lives buried in the sand, with only his two eyes and his mouth sticking out of the bottom. Fish of the Canary Islands, Tenerife.
860-289868 - Loggerhead turtle (caretta caretta) accompanied by pilotfish (Naucrates ductor) swimming near the surface. Vulnerable. Santa Maria Island, Azores, Portugal, Atlantic Ocean
860-289979 - Bryde's whale (Balaenoptera edeni) is a baleen whale, more specifically a rorqual belonging to the same group as blue whales and humpback whales. Trincomalee, Eastern Province, Sri Lanka, Bay of Bengal, Indian Ocean
1350-96 - The partial eclipse of the Sun, October 23, 2014, as seen from Jasper, Alberta, in this case shot through thin cloud but that makes for a more interesting photo than one in a clear sky. This is still shot through a mylar filter, on the front of a 66mm f/6 apo refractor using the Canon 60Da for 1/25 sec exposure at ISO 100. The colours are natural, with the mylar filter providing a neutral 'white light' image. With the Sun dimmed a lot by cloud, the longer exposure allowed picking up light and colours in the surrounding clouds.
1350-97 - The partial eclipse of the Sun, October 23, 2014, as seen from Jasper, Alberta, shot under clear skies through a mylar filter, on the front of a 66mm f/6 apo refractor using the Canon 60Da for 1/8000 (!) sec exposure at ISO 100. The colours are natural, with the mylar filter providing a neutral 'white light' image. The big sunspot on the Sun that day is just disappearing behind the Moon's limb. The mylar filter gave a white Sun, its natural colour, but I have tinted the Sun's disk yellow for a more pleasing view that is not just white Sun/black sky.
860-289037 - Mongolian horsemen lead a troop of horses running in a meadow covered by snow, Bashang Grassland, Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province, Inner Mongolia, China