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An American copper butterfly perches on butterfly weed at the Burden Preserve (Armonk, New York)--July 11, 2009
Music: Sigur Rós - Inní Mér Syngur Vitleysingur
Recently I took my camera along. This was the first shot I haven taken on Friday, 10th of July at 6:54 am.
The night was quite cold and it rained. Though when I got up the sun was shining and there were only a couple of clouds around. I left the house and walked passed our neighbour's fence. Between the fence there are some stone posts which have an even surface. The water from the last night was still on it cause the sun didn't have the strength to remove it yet.
I am sorry still to have so less time...
Big sky, a camper van, a kayak and a lazy river...
For a couple of flickr friends in New Jersey who like that kind of thing.
Things to do on the Isle of Wight? sit back and enjoy a 'slide show'
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for sad bokeh friday. so sad there are no capitals. yes. rly. that sad. why? well because i forgotted about them all this time.
This is Julia Lalla-Maharajh on the Fouth Plinth at Trafalgar Square in London participating in Anthony Gormley's art concept One & Other. For one hour every hour for 100 days volounteers selected by ballot will occupy the empty fourth plinth at Trafalgar Square. I have applied but so far have not been selected! You can see a live feed of each plinther here - www.oneandother.co.uk/
July 9th 2009 12.34pm
On Explore: Highest position: 84 on Saturday, July 11, 2009
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This tiny (about 3 mm across) weed flower was photograph July 4th at the NAPWC in company with Pinoy Macro members Lenareh, Black Knight, Honbless, synapz557, fredots09 and wewet. There is a bigger shot of the flower but the details were not good.
The Banteng { Java Banteng: Bos javanicus , Borneo Banteng: B. j. lowi , Burma Banteng: B. j. birmanicus . } This photo was taken at Lok Kawi Wildlife Park.
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The Banteng , also known as Tembadau, is a species of wild cattle found in Southeast Asia. It is a shy animal resembling a domestic cow. It grows to a height of 1.5 to 1.75 m (60 to 69 inches) and weighs 600 - 800 kg (1,300 - 1,800 lb). It has a slight ridge on the back, a white rump, white stockings on the legs, and slender curving horns. The bulls are dark brown or black, and cows and young ones are reddish brown.
The banteng is kept as a domestic animal in some areas. These are called “Bali cattle” and they feed on grasses, bamboo, fruit, leaves and young branches. They have also been introduced to Northern Australia where they live wild.
The Banteng is the second endangered species to be successfully cloned and the first to survive for more than a week. (Advanced Cell Technology in Worcester, MA, U.S., and San Diego Zoo.) Incidentally, it was born on 1st April. 2003. I don’t know if it is still kept at that zoo. It is also arguable whether we should be cloning animals.
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Cerro Paine Grande and Cachitos del Paine (Paine Horns) covered by clouds; shot taken from Lake Pehoe....Torre del Paine National Park, Chilean Patagonia
Last week-end I went to the Eifel in Germany to visit my parents. Among many other things I did one very special thing:
I rode an Audi R8, 4,2 Litre, 420 HP/PS for one hour. DUDE what an amazing incredible car!!!! When you push the pedal to the medal and the 420 horses behind you begin to galopp - hell breaks loose :-)))
It was an amazing experience but you can guess that it was kind of frustrating to get back in my 75PS Golf afterwards... Bummer... :-)
See pics of the car below in the comments (picz are enlargeable).
Tune in David Guetta feat. Kelly Rowland - When love takes over - and crank up that volume!!!
Built in 1847 by Alan Stevenson, Loch Ryan Lighthouse is still active.
Fished there and got 2 dogfish !Its All about fishing really........What a place !Priceless
Shot at my favourite place at Domburg.
Variations on Hiroshi Sugimoto's No line on the horizon... Here's the other one.
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10 stops ND filter
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ISO100
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60s (1mins) exposure
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PS CS3 - Silver Efex Pro - Red filter - Selenium toning
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"Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding".
This gull was perched on a Brighton beach hut this Saturday. The tenuous link to the quote is that it's from Jonathan Livingston Seagull; I think this is therefore a case of artistic licence :)
Have a great week!
I grew up asking many questions about life.
There was a field of uncertainty l would eventually learn to tread.
A sea of frightening events and catastrophy I would learn to cross.
But in between these rainy days - there is that speck of light I also learned to appreciate.
In those rare days of trimuph - I shout a joyous hymn of Victory.
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The immortal remains of the Portuguese Goan civilisation still stuck to the walls of an old heritage house in Campal, Panaji, Goa !
All old houses have the loos and the bathrooms outside the main house, preferably in the backyard.
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There are so many things in life we shoul be happy about - Family, Love, Brotherhood and Friendship, just to name a few...
So come and join me! ~ let us walk through this life with a smile in our hearts :) Let's go people! :) YAHOO!
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About this photo:
I really thought I had already posted this photo, but I couldn't find it in my photostream. So, I guess I didn't *shrug*.
This is a picture from Playa de Muro in 2007.
About the process:
This is a HDR image. I also allowed Photoshop to automatically adjust the highlights and shadows, then I set the adjusted layer to Overlay blending mode to brighten the shadows and emphasize the shapes.
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Jumping spiders are members of the spider family Salticidae, which contains around 5,000 species of spider, roughly 7% of the total number of spider species in the world. This large spider family is incredibly diverse, with representatives found all over the world. As the common name “jumping spider” would suggest, jumping spiders are most notable for their jumping ability. Some spiders are capable of jumping as much as 40 times their body length, relying on a very complex internal structure.
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My youngest of three boys, the easy going one and proof with enough practice you can get it right (even in parenting).
This is probably my favourite shot from my South Island trip. It was taken at Kelland Ponds, just south of Twizel.
Normally when I shoot a location, I run around all over the place trying different compositions and angles while the light is good, but here I found my spot and didn't move an inch.
As the sun was setting, it would break through the clouds every now and again lighting up the trees, showing off their incredible autumn colours, and I would click the shutter. It was kinda refreshing just standing there admiring the scene rather than running around like a headless chicken!
I left this place with a big smile on my face. :)
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This photo is dedicated to my friend Mingo, that appears in the picture with his camera capturing the beautiful sunset.
Esta foto esta dedicada a mi Amigo Mingo, que aparece en la foto captando con su camara ese hermoso atardecer. Para vos Amigo.
This is the dress for our region (Marche-Italy) in winter.
BIG, BIG Thanks for all your comments and notes. :))
Explore #189 - 01.07.2009
Blueberries are flowering plants of the genus Vaccinium with dark-blue, -purple or black berries. Species in the section Cyanococcus are the most common fruits sold as "blueberries" and are mainly native to North America[1]. They are usually erect but sometimes prostrate shrubs varying in size from 10 cm tall to 4 m tall. In commercial blueberry production, smaller species are known as "lowbush blueberries" (synonymous with "wild"), and the larger species as "highbush blueberries". The leaves can be either deciduous or evergreen, ovate to lanceolate, and from 1–8 cm long and 0.5–3.5 cm broad. The flowers are bell-shaped, white, pale pink or red, sometimes tinged greenish.
The fruit is a false berry 5–16 mm diameter with a flared crown at the end; they are pale greenish at first, then reddish-purple, and finally blue on ripening. They have a sweet taste when mature, with variable acidity. Blueberry bushes typically bear fruit from May through June though fruiting times are affected by local conditions such as altitude and latitude.
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O mirtilo, também conhecido como arando ou uva-do-monte, ou até blueberry (Vaccinium myrtillus) é um arbusto que pertence à família Ericaceae (família da azálea). As plantas são arbustos de pequeno porte que crescem em sub-bosques de florestas temperadas na Europa. Vive em regiões nas quais o inverno é bastante rigoroso, daí a dificuldade em cultivá-lo no Brasil.
Em Portugal vive em regiões nas quais o inverno é rigoroso, porque necessita em média de 500 horas anuais de temperatura entre os 10º e os 12º celsius. É na zona do médio Vouga, no vale do Rio Vouga que se encontra o local ideal para a produção deste fruto, nos concelhos de Oliveira de Frades, Sever do Vouga, Águeda e Albergaria-a-Velha, sendo Sever do Vouga o que reúne as melhores condições.
"...El sobrepuesto de carpincho en la actualidad se usa relativamente pequeño (58 x 90 cm) obedeciendo al acortamiento general del recado moderno (en la Provincia de Buenos Aires). Las puntas se usan rectangulares pero redondeando el extremo. Antiguamente era usual utilizarlos en punta estrictamente rectangular.
Este tipo de sobrepuesto combina perfectamente con un recado de sogas (riendas, cabezada, bozal, cabresto y estriberas de cuero crudo), y unos estribos arequeros o de suela. En ocasiones se lo ve en emprendados de plata pero en recados de bastos, ya que en los chapeados antiguos (recado de lomillo) se ven los lujosos de terciopelo o hilo..."
Fragmento de "Dos prendas tradicionales: El estribo arequero y el sobrepuesto de carpincho", de Lucas Morganti
San Antonio de Areco, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Another shot from the little walk I did on Saturday, Liked how the sun made the butterfly wings almost transparent.
Just went for a little walk down the block to test my leg muscle and no pain on the walk, can feel the tightness but if I walk slowly and carefully seems to be OK, so will head back to work tomorrow
Comments appreciated, Constructive critique even more appreciated, best way for me to learn
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I forgot to get a picture cued up today, so here's and old one that was taken at a free concert held at the Ventura Harbor.
I'll be back to visit after work today!
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Diving into Vancouver...in high-contrast. See any landmarks? Leave a note.
"Night and day the river flows. If time is the mind of space, the Colorado is the soul of the desert. Brave boatmen come, they go, they die, and the voyage flows on forever. We are all canyoneers. We are all passengers on this little living mossy ship, this delicate dory sailing round the sun that humans call Earth." Edward Abbey, The Hidden Canyon: A River Journey, 1999
"For the first time, I felt I was getting close to the West of my deepest imaginings, the place where the tangible and the mythical became the same." Edward Abbey
Here Faye Atkinson is rowing. I rafted with Arizona Raft Adventures AZRA.
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Michael you are immortal. With songs, art will continue to live with. Future generations will continue to listen to you. The music will live until the Day of Resurrection. You are immortal. I will continue to live music...
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Music: PeterLicht - Die Geschichte vom Sommer
Today was the first hotter day in quite a while. So a friend and me had a beer in the garden, of course not without a cold beer :-)
We used only one beer bottle. The beer as already open, Thomas just flipped the cap away (with the lighter). It was only the second try!
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EXPLORE # 252
I was really impressed with these clouds over the Albert Bridge, just before the thunderstorm in London...
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A cloud is a visible mass of droplets or frozen crystals suspended in the atmosphere above the surface of the Earth or another planetary body. A cloud is also a visible mass attracted by gravity, such as masses of material in space called interstellar clouds and nebulae. Clouds are studied in the nephology or cloud physics branch of meteorology.
On Earth the condensing substance is typically water vapor, which forms small droplets or ice crystals, typically 0.01 mm in diameter. When surrounded by billions of other droplets or crystals they become visible as clouds. Dense deep clouds exhibit a high reflectance (70% to 95%) throughout the visible range of wavelengths. They thus appear white, at least from the top. Cloud droplets tend to scatter light efficiently, so that the intensity of the solar radiation decreases with depth into the gases, hence the gray or even sometimes dark appearance at the base.
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Albert Bridge is a Grade II* listed road bridge over the River Thames in West London, connecting Chelsea on the north bank to Battersea on the south bank. Designed and built by Rowland Mason Ordish in 1873 as an Ordish–Lefeuvre Principle modified cable-stayed bridge, it proved to be structurally unsound, and so between 1884 and 1887 Sir Joseph Bazalgette incorporated some of the design elements of a suspension bridge. The Greater London Council carried out further strengthening work in 1973 by adding two concrete piers, which transformed the central span into a simple beam bridge. As a result of these modifications the bridge today is an unusual hybrid of three different design styles.
Built as a toll bridge, it was commercially unsuccessful; six years after its opening it was taken into public ownership and the tolls were lifted. The tollbooths remained in place however, and are the only surviving examples of bridge tollbooths in London. Nicknamed "The Trembling Lady" because of its tendency to vibrate when large numbers of people walked over it, signs at the entrances warn troops from the nearby Chelsea Barracks to break step while crossing the bridge.
Incorporating a roadway only 27 feet (8.2 m) wide, and with serious structural weaknesses, the bridge was ill-equipped to cope with the advent of the motor vehicle during the 20th century. Despite the many calls for its demolition or pedestrianisation Albert Bridge has remained open to vehicles throughout its existence, other than for brief spells during repairs, and is one of only two Thames road bridges in central London never to have been replaced. The strengthening work carried out by Bazalgette and the Greater London Council was unable to prevent further deterioration of the bridge's structure. A series of increasingly strict traffic control measures have been introduced to limit its use and thus prolong its life, making it the least busy Thames road bridge in London except for the little-used Southwark Bridge. The bridge's condition is continuing to degrade however, as the result of traffic load and severe rotting of the timber deck structure caused by the urine of the many dogs using it as a route to nearby Battersea Park.
In 1992 Albert Bridge was rewired and painted in an unusual colour scheme designed to make it more conspicuous in poor visibility, and hence avoid being damaged by collisions with shipping. At night it is illuminated by 4,000 bulbs, making it one of West London's most striking landmarks.
In 1990, the tidal flow system was abandoned and Albert Bridge was converted back to two way traffic. A traffic island was installed on the south end of the bridge to prevent larger vehicles from using it. In the early years of the 21st century the Chelsea area experienced a growth in the popularity of large four-wheel drive cars (so-called Chelsea tractors), many of which were over the two-ton weight limit; it was estimated that 1⁄3 of all vehicles using the bridge were over the weight limit.[27] In July 2006 the 27-foot (8.2 m) wide roadway was narrowed to a single lane in each direction to reduce the load.[28] Red and white plastic barriers have been erected along the roadway in an effort to protect the structure from damage caused by cars.[29]
Between 1905 and 1981 Albert Bridge had been painted in a uniform green colour and in 1981 was repainted yellow, but in 1992 it underwent significant redecoration and rewiring.[30] Partially as a result, it is now a major West London landmark. The bridge is painted in a scheme of pink, blue and green, intended to increase visibility in fog and murky light and hence reduce the risks of shipping colliding with the fragile structure during the day.[31] At night, a network of 4,000 low-voltage tungsten-halogen bulbs illuminate the bridge. In 1993 the innovative use of long-life low-energy lighting was commended by Mary Archer, at the time Chairwoman of the National Energy Foundation.[17] Its distinctive and striking current appearance has led to its being used as a backdrop for numerous films set in the Chelsea area, such as Absolute Beginners, Sliding Doors and Maybe Baby.[26]
4,000 bulbs illuminate Albert Bridge at night.Except for Tower Bridge, built in 1894, Albert Bridge is the only Thames road bridge in central London never to have been replaced.[9] Despite being intended as a temporary measure to be removed in 1978, the concrete central piers remain in place,[17] and although in 1974 its lifespan was estimated at a maximum of 30 years, the bridge is still standing and still operational.[25] Albert Bridge was given protection as a Grade II* listed structure in 1975, granting it protection against further significant alteration without consultation.[32] Despite this, it continues to deteriorate. Although proposals have been drawn up by Kensington and Chelsea Council to repair and rescue it,[29] as of March 2008 funds for the repairs were unavailable.[33] As well as structural damage caused by traffic, the timbers underpinning the deck are being seriously rotted by the urine of dogs crossing it to and from nearby Battersea Park.[34][n 4] With multiple measures in place to reduce traffic flow and prolong the life of the bridge, as of 2009 it carries approximately 19,000 vehicles per day, the lowest usage of any Thames road bridge in London other than the little-used Southwark Bridge.[35]
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London ~ Cloud spotter ~
a bird beautiful, elegant and graceful outfielder high level he has a movement of the wings very slender and full of grace
It has always been a magical scene to witness an end of a day. There's something magical about the sun sinking into the deep blue, even the air carries a nice breeze.
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ألتفت .. وتوها .. توها ما اختفت ! .. ماكساها الليل باللون الحزين
ألتفت .. أو تعالت صرخته .. في نظرته !
صاح ! .. لكن بالنظر .. ! وإنكسر شوفه عثر
حسايف ..
حسايف .. تقتل الضحكه وهي بين الشفايف !
وتذبل الفرحة وتضيع .. ويصبح الكون الوسيع ..
ما يكفـّــي خطوتين !!
لا كساه الليل .. باللون الحزين
Explored on Jun 27, 2009 #230
HDR from 3 exposures - f/8 - 1/320s - ISO 200 - 18mm - handheld
Nikon D90 with 18-200 VR
One of the best places to have a great view over Barcelona, and much better if there are some nice clouds!
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EXPLORE #336 June 26, 2009. Shooting thru the car window, due to extreme falling rain. At the Hunter-Leggett U.S. Army Reservation, in Central California.
Explore Highest position # 115 on Saturday, June 27, 2009
The above photo is another squirrel at the Lazienki Park or Łazienki Park in Warsaw, Poland. This little friend just came out of the bush and played with my friend as on the first comment.:)
กระรอกที่ Łazienki Park เมืองวอร์ซอร์ ประเทศโปแลนด์
Exposure: 1/1,000 sec, Aperture: f/5.3, Focal Length: 100 mm, ISO: 1,600
Nikon D700, Tamron SP AF28-300 f/3.5-6.3 XR Di LD Aspherical (IF) Macro
(No multi invitations please.:))
I'd like to wake up every morning with a beautiful day in mind;
Where worries of the day ahead are nothing but fiction;
I'd like to sleep at night with soft, feather-filled pillows;
Where fear of monsters in my closet are nothing but the imagination;
I'd like to travel life with rays of light and flying birds;
Where the darkness of the clouds are eclipsed by the mere idea of hope.
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While waiting at the airport...
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