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A few times per week I send out emails that are based on a series of photos. The idea began as a way of helping people identify different species of animals in Nature as well as learn some interesting facts. They are wallpaper sized which will help you rotate your desktop backgrounds and keep things interesting. The emails provide eye candy as well as a little education, giving you a small dose of fun in your inbox most days =)
The following are examples of previous emails:
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| Bubble Tip Anemone (entacmaea quadricolor) + Clownfish |
I found Nemo while diving in the Red Sea =) Bubble tip anemones are very cool. Unlike normal anemones, these anemones can change the shape of their tips. When bulb anemones are hungry, they straighten and stretch out their tentacles in search of food. When they are at rest, they retract their tentacles and the bulbous tip takes shape again. The clownfish makes his home in the tentacles of the anemone. The clownfish will in turn bring food to the anemone and fight off annoying pests and photographers =) These pics should make for cool backgrounds.
Zaid |
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Halos are optical phenomena very much like rainbows. I saw my first one around the moon two years ago, and earlier today there was one around the sun. They are caused by cirrus clouds in the troposphere (3 - 6 miles up). Cirrus clouds are thin and wispy and formed by ice crystals. Light is refracted through the ice crystals when the clouds pass at just the right point between us and the sun, giving off the halo effect. Because of this, sun halos are also known as icebows (vs rainbows =). The 22° nomenclature comes from the fact that the ice crystals, which are hexagonal, refract or bend the light 22° from it's original direction, forming the halo. As I found out today, really a bad idea to stare at this for too long, even through a viewfinder.... |
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