International Space Station passing Cassiopea heading for Andromeda Galaxy. Shot from a Plymouth back garden

As derangedlemur solved today's mystery image in about 30 seconds, presenting today's bonus photograph - the paddle steamer Sibyl (libations to all the maritime gods that for once the name is clear!) on the River Blackwater near Cappoquin in Co. Waterford.

Photographer: Probably Robert French of Lawrence Photographic Studios, Dublin

Date: Circa 1900??

NLI Ref.: L_CAB_05845

♫ Every valley, Every valley

Shall be exalted Shall be exalted

Shall be exalted and every mountain and hill made low

Mas um trecho da Opera Pop The New Young Messiah que é

uma roupagem mais pop do Oratório Messiah de Haendel.

Aqui há a versão original como composta por Haendel em 1741.

* As fotos da sequencia estão abertas, pois já foram publicadas anteriormente.

Foto: Crepúsculo no Rio de Janeiro - Cristo Redentor - Corcovado

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Historical city wall walk bathed in sunlight in Waiblingen

Waiblingen is a town in the southwest of Germany, located in the center of the densely populated Stuttgart Region, directly neighboring Stuttgart. It is the capital of the Rems-Murr district.

Waiblingen was first mentioned in Carolingian documents in 885 at the time of Charles the Fat. It received its town charter in 1250.

Waiblingen was property of the Salian kings, from whom the Hohenstaufen dukes and kings inherited it. It is assumed that the Italian name of the Hohenstaufen party, Ghibelline, is derived from "Waiblingen".

The town was almost completely destroyed in 1634 during the Thirty Years' War, and its citizens either killed or deported. It was rebuilt after the war; the existing old central part of the town dates back to the years between 1640 and 1700. Its fortifications are now well restored. (Wikipedia)

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Mountain panorama in the Rofan Mountains - Tyrol, Austria

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Echinacea purpurea is native to the North American prairie and one of my favorite Summer perennials. This wonderful sun lover needs very little care and is enjoyed for months. It's showy purplish-pink and white flowers attract butterflies and bees all Summer long. Followed by the seedpods that little songbirds and goldfinches love in late Summer. Then they reseed freely and become great passalong plants. Joyful Summer Coneflower :)

Taxi driver waiting for a fare (and chatting to another driver leaning on his car?) at the rank in Dublin's O'Connell Street beside the Sacred Heart Shrine.

Photographer: Elinor Wiltshire

Date: Summer 1964

NLI Ref.: WIL 10[6]

PANORAMA DAL PIAZZALE MICHELANGELO.

Il panorama abbraccia il cuore di Firenze, dal Forte Belvedere a Santa Croce passando per i lungarni e i ponti di Firenze in sequenza, soprattutto il Ponte Vecchio; spiccano il Duomo, il Palazzo Vecchio, il Bargello e il campanile ottagonale della Badia Fiorentina, senza dimenticare le colline opposte a nord della città con al centro Fiesole e Settignano.

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Prinsengracht is the third and outermost of the three main canals of Amsterdam. Together, these three canals form the fourth outlay of the city, an expansion project that was started in the year 1612 and took 50 years to build. When it was completed, the city had grown to 4 times its original size. During the 17th century, the population grew from 50.000 to 200 000, which made it the 3rd biggest city in the world in those days, after London and Paris. Since 2009, the three main canals have been placed on the UNESCO World Heritage list. Most of the newcomers at the beginning of the 17th century were merchants, who all wanted a house on the canalside, so they could hoist their merchandise from the boats in the canal straight to the attic of their houses, which they initially used for storage. In the top of every gable, you see a hoisting hook for the block and tackle they used to hoist up the goods. These hooks are still commonly used in Amsterdam. Moving big furniture in or out of these houses, still requires block and tackle. All the houses on the canals were built narrow and deep, with notoriously steep stairways. That peculiar style of architecture was the result of the local tax laws in the 17th century. Property on the canalsides was scarce and valuable, taxes were paid by the width of the canalfront of the houses. The tax was high: it had to finance the big expansion project. Most of the canalhouses are 6m. wide. The only canal that has wider houses is the Herengracht, which was dug to house the richest merchants and regents of the city. They could easily afford excessive taxes. There are some famous narrow houses on the other canals. The narrowest house in the city is on Singelcanal nr 7. That house is only 1m. wide. But the back of that house is 7m wide, so that was a good size house in a good location, and the owner didn’t have to pay too much tax.

Photo of the Prinsengracht one of the three main canals of Amsterdam. On the left there is a row of 7 bell gables with pictures of red deer in the tops of the gables. Beer-brewery The Red Deer was located here. In 1840, this brewery started using waterboats to bring clean water from a nearby river to brew Beer with, so this was the first quality brewery in Amsterdam. They did not live long the brewery went bankrupt in 1868.

De Prinsengracht is de derde en buitenste van de drie hoofdgrachten in Amsterdam. Tezamen vormen deze drie grachten de “Vierde uitleg” van de stad, een uitbreidingsproject dat in 1612 een aanvang nam en 50 jaar later gereed was. Na de voltooiing van het project was de stad vier maal zo groot geworden. Gedurende de 17e eeuw groeide de bevolking van Amsterdam van 50 000 tot 200 000 inwoners, waardoor Amsterdam de op twee na grootste stad ter wereld werd, na Londen en Parijs. In 2009 werd de Amsterdamse grachtengordel op de werelderfgoed lijst geplaatst. De meeste nieuwe inwoners aan het begin van de 17e eeuw waren kooplui en die wilden allemaal een huis aan de gracht, zodat ze hun koopwaar rechtstreeks uit de boten in de gracht naar hun pakzolders konden hijsen. In bijna iedere gevel zit een hijsbalk voor een takel en blok die werd gebruikt voor het ophijsen van goederen. Die hijsbalken worden nog steeds gebruikt in Amsterdam voor verhuizingen. De trappen in oude Amsterdamse huizen zijn steil en smal. Grote meubelen kunnen daar niet doorheen. De meeste grachtenhuizen zijn smal en diep gebouwd. De meeste grachtenhuizen zijn smal en diep gebouwd. In de zeventiende eeuw moest belasting worden betaald voor de breedte van de gevel aan de gracht. Die belasting was hoog, het uitbreidingsproject van de stad moest er mee worden betaald. De meeste grachtenhuizen waren 6 meter breed. De enige gracht met bredere huizen is de Herengracht. Daar woonden de rijke kooplieden en regenten van de stad, die de hoge belastingen met gemak konden opbrengen. Aan de andere grachten zijn een aantal beroemde smalle huizen te vinden. Het smalste huis van Amsterdam is op de Singel nr 7. Dat huis is maar 1 meter breed. Maar de achterkant van dat huis is 7 meter breed, dus dat was een ruim huis op een goede locatie waar niet veel belasting voor betaald hoefde te worden. De bouwer van het smalste huis aan de Prinsengracht had dat voordeel niet, de achterzijde is hier niet veel breder dan de voorkant. Aan de linkerzijde zien we een rij van 7 klokgevels met afbeeldingen van rode herten in de geveltoppen. Brouwerij Het Rode Hert was hier gevestigd. In 1840 begon deze brouwerij met het huren van waterboten die schoon water uit de Vecht naar Amsterdam brachten om het bier mee te brouwen. Daarmee was dit de eerste kwaliteitsbrouwerij, die geen grachtenwater gebruikte voor het brouwen. Maar veel impact had het niet de brouwerij ging failliet in 1868.

… with just the prow of the Rothesay Bay showing.

Date: Between October and December 1889 or between July 1890 and mid-1899

NLI Ref.: L_CAB_06638

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Though I've seen pictures of Crater Lake for many years, I had never seen it in person before today. You cannot believe the deep jewel tone of blue until you see it yourself ! The lake is one of the purest and clearest in the world. It is self-contained - no streams flow in or out of the caldera. It is fed entirely by the annual snowmelt by the 44 feet annual snowfall ! There are still a few patches of snow here and there around the rim.

It would be nice to be here when there are big puffy clouds in the sky, so we'll just have to come back again. The season here is very short - June through September. It is snowed in the rest of the year and they do not snow plow the rim drive.

This is a 7-image panorama covering just under 180 degrees.

I've heard from others that mosquitoes can be vicious here; but we saw only a few. They enjoyed snacking on my tender skin until I slathered it with Deet ! I think the skeeter problem diminishes after most of the snow is melted and there is no standing water.

If you have a moment, look at the largest size to see the astonishing amount of beautiful geological detail created 7,700 years ago by a violent volcano !

In May I traveled to the Big Island of Hawaii for a week long vacation and there were 2 things I was most looking forward to: scuba diving with the Manta Rays and seeing hot scalding lava. The trip delivered everything and more! A lot of back and forth decisions finally led my friends and I to sign up for an evening lava tour with Kalapani Cultural Tours.

The hike out to the lava wasn't too bad -- about 2 miles along mostly flat lava. Our guides LOVED to talk about the lava but unfortunately they couldn't seem to do it while we walked. We spent so much time stopped 'resting' that our arrival time started getting dangerously close to the best light. At first we came upon the surface flow -- where some of the lava had bubbled over and began to creep along the surface. After taking my picture 2 feet away from 2,000 degree lava I decided I wanted to go see the ocean flow.

The lava conditions change every day. A lava bench that was around yesterday may have fallen off and will be completely gone the next morning. When I arrived there was no safe viewing spot close up to the lava. I had to stay far back, high on a cliff, and used the 80-200mm telephoto to get nice and intimate with the lava. On this evening the lava was flowing so fast that there was a TON of steam everywhere. More steam than I would have liked.

As we watched the sun set, 2 new streams of lava broke through the tube and made their way down into the ocean. You can see them on the far right of the photo.

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PANORAMA DAL CAMPANILE DI GIOTTO.

A fianco del Duomo si trova il Campanile di Giotto, uno dei campanili più belli d'Italia. Alto 84 metri e di forma squadrata, risplende di marmi bianchi, rossi e verdi. Raggiungendo la cima del campanile, dopo 414 scalini, si potrà ammirare da vicino la Cupola del Brunelleschi e osservare un bellissimo panorama della città.

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"When the door opens, it must be a troll, which is in the frame. His house seems to fear that threatens from above misfortune. This does not seem far-fetched, because above it rumbles and rattles. ......" (Source Stuttgarter Zeitung).

The only article where I could find more about it, but unfortunately only in German.)

What do you think, what came first ... the houses or the railway bridge?

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"Wenn sich die Tür auftut, muss es ein Troll sein, der im Rahmen steht. Sein Haus scheint zu fürchten, dass von oben Unheil droht. Das scheint nicht abwegig, denn oben rumpelt es und rattert. ...." (Quelle Stuttgarter Zeitung).

Es war der einzige Artikel, wo ich ein wenig mehr darüber finden konnte.

Aber .... was meint ihr, was war zuerst da ... die Häuser oder die Brücke?

Ich denke auch das Viadukt, mich irritierte der Satz „Es scheint, als stünden sie trotzig und wollten nicht weichen, weil schließlich sie sich zuerst hier niedergelassen haben."

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Flame Trooper features Custom helmet and waterslide decals. A modded CAC flamethrower with removable flame.

Thanks to Apples for the NEW dark orange Arealight helmet!

I think I put it to good use.

Quedlinburg is a town located north of the Harz mountains, in the district of Harz in the west of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. In 1994 the medieval court and the old town was set on the UNESCO world heritage list.

In the innermost parts of the town a wide selection of half-timbered buildings from at least five different centuries are to be found (including a 14th-century structure, one of Germany's oldest), while around the outer fringes of the old town there are wonderful examples of Jugendstil buildings, dating from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Quedlinburg is one of the best-preserved medieval and renaissance towns in Europe, having escaped major damage in World War II. (Wikipedia)

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“Your ghost will walk, you lover of trees

(If our loves remain)

In an English lane,

By a cornfield-side a-flutter with poppies.”

happy sliders sunday everyone! ♥

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Nunca temas a las sombras. Sólo constituyen el indicio de que en algún lugar cercano hay una luz resplandeciente. - Ruth Renkel

Do never be afraid to the shades. Only they constitute the indication of which in some nearby place there is a shining light. - Ruth Renkel

Up to 60 meters high cliffs in Algorta (a locality within the municipality of Getxo) and some sandy beaches, shape the image of Getxo a city near Bilbao in the province of Biscay, Basque Country, Spain.

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Prometti a te stesso di parlare di bontà, bellezza, amore a ogni persona che incontri; di far sentire a tutti i tuoi amici che c'è qualcosa di grande in loro; di guardare al lato bello di ogni cosa e di lottare perché il tuo ottimismo diventi realtà.

Madre Teresa di Calcutta

Here is the end of "Anywhere Is" first adventure. Fasten seatbelts, we are preparing to touch down.

The pano was not intended. Anything of what I have captured during those 45 minutes under dark Canary skies 2200 meters above sea level was not planned.

During the processing I have noticed that all three segments of Milky Way have some degree of overlap. So the it was tempting to try and stich them. I'm happy with this attempt. Obviously I need yet another panel to cover the area between Cygnus and Saggitarius.

Aquisition and processing: see here and here.

Pano stiching was made in Photoshop. I have used gradient visibility masks to avoid "magnetic catastrophes" :) in the areas affected by lens distortion.

Aaaargh! Flickr's "next" and "previous" buttons make notes that are close to border of wide picture unreadable and uneditable in Google Chrome...

Fall colours of the beeches in Rotenberg, Stuttgart

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♫ The hills are alive with the sound of music with songs they have sung for a thousand years

The hills fill my heart with the sound of music, my heart wants to sing every song it hears

Desejo a todas as pessoas de boa vontade que visitam essa pagina, um excelente fim de semana repleto de Saúde, Paz e Alegrias.

* Apenas as primeira foto da sequencia esta fechadas, todas as outras estão abertas pois já foram publicadas anteriormente

Foto: Gravação de Clip no Parque da Cidade - Niteroi - Rio de Janeiro

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Tuscany felt more like summer in november, than it does now here in Germany in june ;-) Maybe that's also why I reached a bit deeper into the color palette in this one...

Kilchurn Castle is a ruined 15th and 17th century structure on a rocky peninsula at the northeastern end of Loch Awe, in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. Access to the Castle is sometimes restricted by higher-than-usual levels of water in the Loch, at which times the site effectively becomes a temporary island.

It was the ancestral home of the Campbells of Glen Orchy, who later became the Earls of Breadalbane also known as the Breadalbane family branch, of the Clan Campbell. The earliest construction on the castle was the towerhouse and Laich Hall

With storm clouds approaching from the west I was ready to give up on the nights plans for photographing the super full moon, but fortunately David Wang was already on the road when I called and so I decided to take my chances and meet him down by the river. It was a warm and balmy evening as the thickening clouds repeatedly hid then revealed the moon in interesting ways. In-between moon appearances we were entertained by geese and goslings, a beaver, along with a variety of boats and kayakers making their way along the river. It turned out to be a great night along the river. NB13403,05 - Happy Moonlight Mondays!

...I can open your eyes, Take you wonder by wonder

Over, sideways and under On a magic carpet ride

A whole new world ...

Desejo a todas as pessoas de Boa Vontade uma excelente

Sexta Feira, repleta de Saude, Alegria, Paz e Prosperidade.

Foto: Crepúsculo no Rio de Janeiro - Twillight in Rio - Brasil

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Vineyards in spring on the Neckar next to the Max-Eyth-See, the largest lake in Stuttgart, Germany.

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daily life in a buddhist monastery

Happy fence Friday - seen during a walk in Fellbach - Oeffingen, Germany.

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Palamidi is a fortress to the east of the Acronauplia in the town of Nafplio in the Peloponnese region of southern Greece. Nestled on the crest of a 216-metre high hill, the fortress was built by the Venetians during their second occupation of the area (1686–1715).

In Greek mythology, Palamedes was the son of Nauplius , prince of Nauplia who led the Nauplians in the Trojan War.

He is said to have invented counting, currency, weights and measures, jokes, dice and pessoi, as well as military ranks. Sometimes he is credited with discoveries in the field of wine making and the supplementary letters of the Greek alphabet.

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This photograph was taken during the night that I met Roberto for a photo shoot of some urban landscapes of Miami. I was so convinced that the storms were going to ruin the opportunities to obtain some exciting shots of the city, but Roberto was more optimistic. The skies cleared at the right time, particularly during the blue hour. As the night continued, the storms overhead made several brief cameos. Nevertheless, I have to admit that I like a good challenge, particularly when visiting a city for the first time. When one is a visitor instead of a resident, one has to take what Mother Nature provides. I know I didn’t come to Miami just to sit in my hotel room when the weather was lousy!

Along the Miami Riverwalk, it would rain off and on. During this particular shot, underneath the Metromover overpass bridge, it was drizzling, and some raindrops fell on my lens, but I decided against editing them out of the image, so you will see some blurs here and there. I love the way this came out on account of the lighting and ambiance -- that greenish, murky atmosphere that accentuates the tropical nature of Miami.

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Back from vacation in Spain, or as we call it,

the longest flickr walk ever ( 15 days) LOL

HUGE thanks to Pilar and Angel, our hosts,

I can't remember having this much fun,

los quiero y me quedo corta... ♥

xo♥

We visited the Ladies' Bathing Place at Portrush, Co. Antrim a while ago, but this "Bathing Place" seems to be for all inhabitants and visitors to Portrush.

Looks as if they're waiting for a Punch & Judy Show, or some form of children's entertainment from the chap in tights with the fiddle/violin?

Date: 1900??

NLI Ref: EAS_0692

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This one is for Munich.

For all the fantastic architecture whether the old or the new one.

For all the breweries and the most delicious beer in the world.

For all the rollercoasters at the Oktoberfest which make so many people happy every year.

This is to the people.

To all those people sitting outside in the sun even though it is freezingly cold.

To all those surfers who are surfing no matter the season.

To all those drunken strangers at the Munich beer festival which are friends for one night.

I love you guys, you are my inspiration, you are my life.

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Vineyards on the Kappelberg in Fellbach, Germany.

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This long exposure was captured from my hotel roof near The Bonnington Hotel & Mc Gettigans

The night I left Dubai I had to get some roof top images so I travelled to the 45th roof floor and set up my camera and tripod on the roof railing rails and shot this scene

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The Burj Khalifa is the tallest building in the world! Located in Dubai

I captured this image at the top of The Burj Khalifa tower to show the sense of scale on how large this building really is!

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As Darrell and I walked back across the campus after a session with the WIU Hot Shots photography club in the University's photography studio, we spied a stand of dandelion stalks softly lit by the setting sun. Neither of us could resist pulling our cameras out and taking some shots. This image of one going to seed is probably only the second dandelion picture that I have posted to flicker in the last couple of years. To obtain the shot, I used the articulating LCD (instead of the viewfinder) while holding the camera down near the ground. It was processed in Lightroom 5 using a radial filter.

My attitude towards these prolific and tenacious weeds has radically changed since moving out into the countryside of western Illinois. I used to fruitlessly try to eradicate them from the lawn... but now, because of the sheer overwhelming number of them and the huge size of the lawns out here, I am content to keep them mowed down with the rest of the grass. :D

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