With its lumbering gait, the fearsome Southeast Asian lizard would at first glance seem unable to catch nimble-footed prey. Don’t be fooled; the Komodo dragon is capable of a surprising burst of speed. The species is also thought to produce venom that makes its bite even more potent. You...
Together, brightness and contrast can improve pictures that are a little too dark or light.Sharpen and soften controls are more straightforward. Sharpen helps refine edges of objects in the image to enhance the details. Soften blurs edges of objects and contrasting regions to make the photo less...
Direct-contact printing of objects placed on photographic plates, double exposures, and composite pictures made by darkroom masking were all popular during the Victorian era. During 1834 and 1835, William Fox Talbot devised a process based on the light sensitivity of silver salts that allowed him ...
Humpback whales are preyed upon by Orcas. The result of these attacks is generally nothing more serious than some scarring of the skin, but it is likely that young calves are sometimes killed. Both male and female humpback whales can produce sounds, however only the males produce the long, ...
The chief of all the archangels is Gabriel (Jibril); Michael comes next; Israfil (Sarafiel) sounds the trumpet of the resurrection; and Azrael is the angel of death... The chief of all the archangels ~ Gabriel (Jibril) InIslam, instead of four, there are eight angels that support the ...
Killer whales have acute hearing and also acute vision both in and out of the water. Echolocation enables them to locate and discriminate objects by projecting high-frequency sound waves and listening for echoes. Killer whales echo-locate by producing clicking sounds and then receiving and interpreti...
The Virginia opossum has a thick body, short legs and a long prehensile tail that it uses to grasp and carry small objects – it can even briefly hang by its tail. Its muzzle is long and pointed, and in its mouth are 50 teeth; more than any other land animal in North America. ...
s dying plea to the young Quinlan does not carry conviction either. And there is a gender problem here as well. We have five leading male characters and three leading female characters. Yet all of the latter are objects of the male characters. Eleanor is the freest of these but even her...
he has remained insistent on a formal way of looking through his lens, more preoccupied with structure and composition than the people or objects he photographs. He calls this ‘photographing democratically’, meaning that every element of his pictures carries equal importance. On the surface, his...
The Rosetta Stone is one of the most important objects in the British Museum as it holds the key to understanding Egyptian hieroglyphs – a script made up of small pictures that was used originally in ancient Egypt for religious texts. Hieroglyphic writing died out in Egypt in the fourth centu...