23: salinas {sanlucar de barrameda} spain

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crazyrayman October 11, 2009, 07:38 PM

Impressive. I like how the sky is cutted into pieces by the cable.

Gergana Vasileva plus October 12, 2009, 09:29 AM

Salt-pans are really amazing ecosystems with very impressive look. That combination of salt, sky and waters always fascinates me and never get bored to take pictures of them. That particular day we were to collect samples of brine-shrimps in Sanlucar, the sky was absolutely gorgeous after the night rain.
I am very happy you like it, Swetie! :***)

crazyrayman October 12, 2009, 05:55 PM

Oh. Really brine-shrimps? My fish love them and I (not myself - to avoid any comments ;) ) do breed them at home.. from the egg to the shrimp. Artemia franciscana I think.
If they are living there, they must be coloured red, right? Due to the high salinity.

nomoveon October 13, 2009, 07:46 PM

The sky is really faszinating. The cooler and warmer tones work together very well. I understand why you like this area, it's damn cool.

anita plus October 13, 2009, 10:07 PM

Very,very good !
WD :***)

Gergana Vasileva plus October 14, 2009, 08:18 AM

Thank you so much! Some more will be later on... have no time. Mucho trabajo :'(

Gergana Vasileva plus October 14, 2009, 08:58 AM

@Zyray

Our work here is connected with examination of three species of brine-shrimps (Artemia). We study their parasites, since shrimps are intermediate hosts of some tapeworms of birds (as flamingo for example). The red color caused by a few reasons, in fact - could be carotenoids or hemoglobin in their haemolymph . In fact, when they live in very high salinity ponds, they need more hemoglobin, so .. they are more red. Our studies show that the more red artemias have more parasites as well. ;) So, what is exactly the reason for that color still remains not sufficiently clear.

Uhh, what a long comment :D

Oups, one more thing, Zy! Be aware of your Artemia franciscana - do not release any alive specimens in your sink! This is not a native species, it is an invasive one. It is spreading very fast last decades in Palaearctic and the native A. parthenogenetica and A. salina are endangered to extinct from the salt-pans.

arodes October 14, 2009, 07:50 PM

Wow!
This is very special... magnificient light :)

crazyrayman October 16, 2009, 07:34 AM

Hi Gergana, thanks so much for explaining the basics about your work.
I'm always fascinated that species which exist for such a long time are still in focus of the today's science.
My wife did something similiar on fungi.. Zygomycota for instance..