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Sunset on the Panzerwiese (= "Tank Meadow"), which got it's name from being a former military training area, nowadays it is a nature reserve.
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Little church on the Wallberg mountain.
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Latest Santa-news:
"In the morning glow Santa Claus was detected, while stepping down into a chimney or is he trying to get out? Anyway, the good news is that he arrived safely in our world!!!"
Design origami "Santa Claus" and origami "Chimney-shaped penholder": Katsushi Nosho
Both diagrams in NOA #424.
"Santa Claus" is folded from 2 pieces 15x15cm and a small piece (for the face) kamipaper.
"Chimney-shaped penholder" is folded from 20x20cm and 30x30cm "stone"-paper.
Ingredients:
Olympus 2.8/60 macro lens
Olympus E-M 10 Mark II
sunrise
Manual setup, manual focus, available light, handheld. Hope, you enjoy!
The Shanghai World Financial Center (SWFC) and the Jin Mao Tower. In the background the twin towers of Shanghai IFC, the Pearl Tower and the Bank Of China Tower. To the right the new elevated walkway.
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Nightly street scene on Sichuan Road (四川北路) in Shanghai.
In the center there is a 上海特产超市, "Shanghai Specialty Supermarket". This sells products that you'd get cheaper at other places, as so called "Shanghai specialties". At least this particular shop is cheaper than the similar themed rip-off stores around Yu Garden.
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Nymphenburg Palace seen from the east with a nice reflection in the pond as well as some birds on the water.
Schloss Nymphenburg is a palace located in the west of Munich and one of the main tourist attractions of the city, with yearly over 300,000 visitors,
The palace is the main summer residence of the House of Wittelsbach, former rulers of Bavaria.
Commisioned in 1664, the central building in the style of an Italian Villa was completed in 1675 Gradually the sides were added and the current appearance was reached in 1716.
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Swallowtail - caterpillar on her food plant (burnet) against the setting sun in the haze on a high-altitude meadow.
The light for the caterpillar comes from a reflector and a modest use of LED lamp.
Schwalbenschwanz - Raupe an ihrer Futterpflanze (Bibernelle) gegen die im Dunst untergehende Sonne auf einer hoch gelegenen Wiese.
Das Licht für die Raupe stammt von einem Reflektor und einer dezent eingesetzten LED Lampe.
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... non c'era nulla di così bello come ritrovarti.
ascoltarti raccontare la storia di questo luogo e del trascorrere delle stagioni con i suoi lavori, le sue fatiche, la sua bellezza...
osservare le nuvole sopra di noi che giocavano con la luce e soffermarci, continuamente, a guardare i colori dolci di una primavera in Montana ...
in un mondo sconosciuto che mi ha inghiottita, accolta con la sua incredibile bellezza ho pensato - con un pizzico di amarezza - che "siamo sempre lo straniero di qualcun altro" ma la tua strada percorsa per arrivare fin lì ha fatto la differenza e allora posso dire che hai donato e lottato e non è stato tempo perso provare a convivere, non lo sarà mai. Ricchezza pura e insostituibile!
dedicata a mio figlio e a quella "banda" di ragazze e ragazzi "in viaggio con Riccardo" che hanno condiviso con me questo viaggio iniziato sei mesi fa. Alessandra
grazie a tutti per il vostro tempo. Thank you for your time.
Bellagio is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Como in the Italian region of Lombardy. It is located on Lake Como, also known by its Latin-derived name, the Lake of Lario. The arms of the lake form an inverted Y. The triangular land mass at the base of the inverted Y is the Larian Triangle. The Como arm of the lake lies to its south west, the Lecco arm of the lake to its south east. At the northern point of the triangle sits Bellagio, looking across to the northern arm of the lake and, behind it, the Alps. It has always been famous for its location.
A poppy blossom with a bee inside, spotted in the allotment gardens of Kleingartenverein Friedenau.
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Lion cub posing nicely in beautiful light in the Kwando area, Botswana.
The world is like a book and those, who do not travel, only read the first page.
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Archive shot from 2018 - a water lily in the botanical garden of Munich.
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Dawn arrives at the Valdez marina. I can still smell the ocean/fishing odors and the various sounds of the boats and crews getting ready for another day of world-class fishing. I was very impressed with the beauty and character of Valdez.
An earlier post of this same morning in comments.
Happy Friday!
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Not all Swedish winters are white.
The Fröttmaninger Heide is a former military training area that is now a nature reserve.
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The ceiling frescoes in the Freising cathedral.
The cathedral of Freising was built in Romanesque style from 1159 to 1205. First change to the interior was the replacement of the flat Romanesque wooden ceiling by a Gothic vault ceiling during 1481 to 1483. In a further change during the Baroque period the Gothic vault ribs were removed, the final change was the Rococo decoration created around 1724 by the brothers Cosmas Damian Asam and Egid Quirin Asam.
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The riverbed of the Große Laine mountain stream.
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In campagna il silenzio non è mai silenzioso: c’è sempre un frinire di cicale, un cinguettare d’uccelli, un frullo d’ali, il ronzio di un insetto, un fruscio fulmineo nell’erba, il singhiozzo di una goccia d’acqua. Eppure non c’è silenzio più bello.
(Fabrizio Caramagna)
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In the countryside, silence is never silent: there is always a chirping of cicadas, a chirping of birds, a flutter of wings, the buzz of an insect, a lightning rustle in the grass, the hiccups of a drop of water. Yet there is no more beautiful silence.
(Fabrizio Caramagna)
San Gimignano - Siena - - Tuscany - Italy
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St. Anne's Church (local name Annakirche) in Augsburg was built in 1321 as part of a Carmelite monastery.
After the protestants invented themselves, it became one of the first protestant (Lutheran) churches in 1548.
And no, Augsburg is no longer part of a Roman province, this is just this stupid location database causing a 2000-year time shift.
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I drove past this scene last week and thought the contrasting crop colours would make for an interesting composition. I actually went out to shoot it at sunset on Friday, but the sun was not illuminating the scene as I wanted it. So it was an early rise this morning (5.15 am!!!) to get this with the sun just adding that golden tinge that I wanted.
The Propylaea on the west end of the Königsplatz is a city gate erected in the style of a Greek temple entrance (Προπύλαια), especially the one of the Acropolis in Athens.
The gate was created as a memorial for the accession to the throne of Otto of Greece, a son of the principal King Ludwig I of Bavaria.
Here is the same building as the centerpiece of a 360° panorama.
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The subway station Basler Straße along Munich's U3 line.
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...and liftoff, we have a liftoff! Munich's newest wind turbine is taking off for outer space to generate power from the solar wind... 😁
Sunset behind the new wind turbine on Fröttmaning's other Müllberg, west of the A9 Autobahn.
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