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Day before 14
Aubrey turns 14 tomorrow. Friends and family and even a few of you who follow me on social media know that I’ve been making a portrait of my boys on the day before their birthday since Aubrey turned 2; it’s my longest running and most important personal art project. The portraits are always imbued with elements of what is going on their lives. This year Tracy and I have really noticed Aubrey’s transition into adolescence. The bright innocent and boyish energy of years past is being replaced by a moodier personality. He has finished his first year of high school. His voice is changing, his hair is getting oilier and blemishes are appearing on his face. He's messier than ever. Sports are out and art is in. His artistic endeavours have levelled up with a big push into Warhammer miniature painting, airbrush skills and a two-week summer intensive which he is currently wrapping up. His bedroom door stays closed most of the time and the late night snacking has started… but he’s still our little boy. Happy birthday Aubrey!
I like the intimacy provided by getting close-in with a 35mm lens and how he guards against that with his arms and hands.
Fujifilm X-T3 and XF 35mm f/2 wide open. Natural light through the south facing windows with a white fill card out of frame camera left. Processed in Capture One Pro.
Capable of Mach 2, it conducted the majority of strike bombing missions during the early years of the Vietnam War; the only American aircraft to have been removed from combat due to high loss rates.
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It's Good To Be Alive
By Don Iannone
Last night's star-filled sky sang me fast to sleep
This morning's warm sun graced my windowpane
Awakening me with its hypnotic laughter
Looking in the bathroom mirror this morning I thought---
It's good to be alive
Things don't always go our way
At times they totally run amok
Defying our sense of justice
Showing us how vulnerable we really are
It's good to be alive
At times, we delude ourselves---
A good life is about getting our way
Having things as we want them
Stirring my morning coffee, I thought---
It's good to be alive
Have you noticed how spring sunlight
Completely transforms the needles on a white pine
And how the sky and clouds peeking through the forest
Appear like blurry blue and white diamonds
It's good to be alive
Sometimes we gravitate too much
In the direction of our dreams
Failing to appreciate the beauty, magic of life
Just as it presents itself
Truly, it's good to be alive
The town of Les Andelys lies in a tight bend of the Seine. The valley has been shaped by the river, forming white cliffs. A walk on the riverside offers beautiful views on the ruined castle Chateau-Gaillard, the old houses of Petit-Andely and the Seine valley.
Seine River: The Seine is a 777-kilometre-long (483 mi) river and an important commercial waterway within the Paris Basin in the north of France. It rises at Source-Seine, 30 kilometres (19 mi) northwest of Dijon in northeastern France in the Langres plateau, flowing through Paris and into the English Channel at Le Havre (and Honfleur on the left bank).[2] It is navigable by ocean-going vessels as far as Rouen, 120 kilometres (75 mi) from the sea. Over 60 percent of its length, as far as Burgundy, is negotiable by commercial riverboats, and nearly its whole length is available for recreational boating; excursion boats offer sightseeing tours of the river banks in Paris, lined with top monuments including Notre-Dame, the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre Museum and Musée d'Orsay. Wikipedia
Epsom Common is a 177.4-hectare (438-acre) Local Nature Reserve in Epsom in Surrey. It is owned and managed by Epsom and Ewell Borough Council.[1][2] It is part of Epsom and Ashtead Commons, a Site of Special Scientific Interest.[3]
This is a nationally important wildlife location because it is a breeding site for birds. Moreover, insects endemic to the area depend on the dead wood on location. Other fauna include roe deer, herons and purple emperor butterflies. Additionally, there are flora such as common spotted orchids and southern marsh orchids.wikipedia
Amtrak 161 leads Amtrak 8 through Elk River running on Main 1 to pass MOW working between Big Lake and Ramsey Main 2. It was a lot of speed up and slow down along the Staples Sub on this day with lot of freight traffic and the temperature hovering around zero degrees. Fortunately train passed by 30 minutes before clouds rolled in.
Namdaemun (Korean: 남대문; lit. South Great Door), officially known as the Sungnyemun (숭례문; lit. Honoring Propriety Gate),[1] is one of the Eight Gates in the Fortress Wall of Seoul, South Korea. The gate formed the original southern boundary of the city during the Joseon period, although the city has since significantly outgrown this boundary. It is located in Jung-gu between Seoul Station and Seoul Plaza, with the historic 24-hour Namdaemun Market next to the gate.
The gate, dating back to the 14th century, is a historic pagoda-style gateway, and is designated as the first National Treasure of South Korea.[2] It was once one of the three major gateways through Seoul's city walls which had a stone circuit of 18.2 kilometres (11.3 mi) and stood up to 6.1 metres (20 ft) high. It was first built in the last year of King Taejo of Joseon's reign in 1398, and rebuilt in 1447.
This is a SOOC film picture from my LOMO fisheye no.2
It is an old picture.. I took it of my aunts house last winter.
I scanned it with an Epson workforce.
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Today was not a good day...
Long story short, I was taking a long exposure shot of the moon over a lake.. a gust of unexpected wind blew by and of course took my tripod and nikon d40 and threw it into the lake. My nikon is now in a billion pieces on the dining room table, I hope it survives....... if not, looks like im buying a new DSLR this weekend
i bought a new nikonnnn in like january
Due to a lack of road power at Norfolk Soutehrn's Moorman Yard in Bellevue, train 10Q was dispatched on the day after Christmas with a pair of SD40Es leading an SD40-2 and a high-hood GP38-2. It was like a flashback to the 1980's.
This is the A-10 Thunderbolt 2. It is one of the fighter aircraft at Luke Air Force base in Arizona.
Newly Delivered MARC EMD GP40WH-2 51 was sitting at the Riverside shops in Baltimore awaiting assignment. The 51 was rebuilt by MK in Boise from a Baltimore and Ohio GP40. After MARC was finished with the GP40WH-2 it was sent to Boston's MBTA for a bit.
I have no idea what happened to it from there.
Château Gaillard ("Strong Castle") is a ruined medieval castle, located 90 metres above the commune of Les Andelys overlooking the River Seine, in the Eure département of Normandy, France. It is located some 95 kilometres north-west of Paris and 40 kilometres from Rouen. Construction began in 1196 under the auspices of Richard the Lionheart, who was simultaneously King of England and feudal Duke of Normandy. The castle was expensive to build, but the majority of the work was done in an unusually short period of time. It took just two years and, at the same time, the town of Petit Andely was constructed. Château Gaillard has a complex and advanced design, and uses early principles of concentric fortification; it was also one of the earliest European castles to use machicolations. The castle consists of three enclosures separated by dry moats, with a keep in the inner enclosure.
Château Gaillard was captured in 1204 by the king of France, Philip II, after a lengthy siege. In the mid-14th century, the castle was the residence of the exiled David II of Scotland. The castle changed hands several times in the Hundred Years' War, but in 1449 the French king captured Château Gaillard from the English king definitively, and from then on it remained in French ownership. Henry IV of France ordered the demolition of Château Gaillard in 1599; although it was in ruins at the time, it was felt to be a threat to the security of the local population. The castle ruins are listed as a monument historique by the French Ministry of Culture. (Wikipedia)
The town of Les Andelys lies in a tight bend of the Seine. The valley has been shaped by the river, forming white cliffs. A walk on the riverside offers beautiful views on the ruined castle Chateau-Gaillard, the old houses of Petit-Andely and the Seine valley.
Seine River: The Seine is a 777-kilometre-long (483 mi) river and an important commercial waterway within the Paris Basin in the north of France. It rises at Source-Seine, 30 kilometres (19 mi) northwest of Dijon in northeastern France in the Langres plateau, flowing through Paris and into the English Channel at Le Havre (and Honfleur on the left bank).[2] It is navigable by ocean-going vessels as far as Rouen, 120 kilometres (75 mi) from the sea. Over 60 percent of its length, as far as Burgundy, is negotiable by commercial riverboats, and nearly its whole length is available for recreational boating; excursion boats offer sightseeing tours of the river banks in Paris, lined with top monuments including Notre-Dame, the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre Museum and Musée d'Orsay. Wikipedia
Week 2. It was foggy on the ground at LAX on an early morning flight. Once above the fog it was a horse of another color. A very color horse indeed. Lately the sunrises and sunsets in Southern California have been epic.
The Theatre of Marcellus (Latin: Theatrum Marcelli, Italian: Teatro di Marcello) is an ancient open-air theatre in Rome, Italy, built in the closing years of the Roman Republic. At the theatre, locals and visitors alike were able to watch performances of drama and song. Today its ancient edifice in the rione of Sant'Angelo, Rome, once again provides one of the city's many popular spectacles or tourist sites. Space for the theatre was cleared by Julius Caesar, who was murdered before its construction could begin; the theatre was so far advanced by 17 BC that part of the celebration of the ludi saeculares took place within the theatre; it was completed in 13 BC and formally inaugurated in 12 BC by Augustus.
The theatre was 111 m in diameter and was the largest and most important theatre in Ancient Rome;[2] it could originally hold between 11,000 and 20,000 spectators. It was an impressive example of what was to become one of the most pervasive urban architectural forms of the Roman world. The theatre was built mainly of tuff, and concrete faced with stones in the pattern known as opus reticulatum, completely sheathed in white travertine. However, it is also the earliest dateable building in Rome to make use of fired Roman brick, then a new introduction from the Greek world.
Source: Wikipedia.org
Kecskemet, 3 August 2013.
This golden oldie is a MiG-15UTI license built by PZL-Mielec and thus a SBLim-2. It's civil registration is SP-YNZ.
This beautiful adult male appeared on the 27th of April and was present for a 2nd day. It is the 2nd record for Lancashire after a fly through at Brockholes Nature Reserve near Preston in May 2016. Very few people saw that but now people can finally add this to the Lancashire lists.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pallid_harrier
The pale or pallid harrier (Circus macrourus) is a migratory bird of prey of the harrier family. The scientific name is derived from the Ancient Greek. Circus is from kirkos, referring to a bird of prey named for its circling flight (kirkos, "circle"), probably the hen harrier and macrourus is "long-tailed", from makros, "long" and -ouros "-tailed".[2]
It breeds in southern parts of eastern Europe and central Asia (such as Iran) and winters mainly in India and southeast Asia. It is a very rare vagrant to Great Britain and western Europe, although remarkably a juvenile wintered in Norfolk in the winter of 2002/2003.
This medium-sized raptor breeds on open plains, bogs and heathland. In winter it is a bird of open country.
Description
This is a typical harrier, with long wings held in a shallow V in its low flight. It also resembles other harriers in having distinct male and female plumages. Adults measure 40–48 cm (16–19 in) long with a wingspan of 95–120 cm (37–47 in). Males weigh 315 g (11.1 oz) while the slightly larger females weigh 445 g (15.7 oz). The male is whitish grey above and white below, with narrow black wingtips. It differs from the hen harrier in its smaller size, narrower wings, paler colour, and different wing tip pattern. The female is brown above with white upper tail coverts, hence females and the similar juveniles are often called "ringtails". Her underparts are buff streaked with brown. It is best distinguished from the female hen harrier on structure. It is very similar to the female Montagu's harrier, but has darker and more uniform secondaries from below.[citation needed]
Diet
Pallid harriers hunt small mammals, lizards and birds, surprising them as they drift low over fields and moors.
The nest of this species is on the ground. Four to six whitish eggs are laid.
Best viewed large - on the wall! Second best: Large On Black
It's raining down in Bosnia...
View from Mt. Tara, on lake Perucac, river Drina
Serbia (Srbija) Europe
Finally storm is not over my head. I'm full of refreshing energy of the clouds, I'm feeling wind with every inch of my skin... town, streets and all bad rememberings are so far away from me. I'm free. I'm alive.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_gull
The common gull (Larus canus) is a medium-sized gull which breeds in northern Asia, northern Europe and northwestern North America. The North American subspecies is commonly referred to as the mew gull, although that name is also used by some authorities for the whole species.[2] It migrates further south in winter.[3] There are differing accounts as to how the species acquired its vernacular name (see Etymology section below).
Description
Adult common gulls are 40–46 cm (16–18 in) long, noticeably smaller than the herring gull and slightly smaller than the ring-billed gull. It is further distinguished from the ring-billed gull by its shorter, more tapered bill, which is a more greenish shade of yellow and is unmarked during the breeding season. The body is grey above and white below. The legs are greenish-yellow. In winter, the head is streaked grey and the bill often has a poorly defined blackish band near the tip, which is sometimes sufficiently obvious to cause confusion with ring-billed gull. They have black wingtips with large white "mirrors". Young birds have scaly black-brown upperparts and a neat wing pattern, and grey legs. They take two to three years to reach maturity. The call is a high-pitched "laughing" cry.[3][4]
Taxonomy
There are four subspecies, two of which are considered distinct species by some authorities:[3][5]
L. c. canus – Linnaeus, 1758 – common gull. nominate, found in Europe and western Asia. Small; mantle medium grey (palest subspecies); wingtips with extensive black; iris dark. Wingspan 110–125 cm (43–49 in); mass 290–480 g (10–17 oz).
L. c. heinei – Homeyer, 1853 – Russian common gull. Found in central northern Asia. Medium size; mantle dark grey (darkest subspecies); wingtips with extensive black; iris dark. Mass 315–550 g (11.1–19.4 oz).
L. c. kamtschatschensis – Bonaparte, 1857; syn. L. kamtschatschensis – Kamchatka gull. Found in northeastern Asia. Large; mantle medium-dark grey; wingtips with extensive black; iris pale. Mass 394–586 g (13.9–20.7 oz).
L. c. brachyrhynchus – Richardson, 1831; syn. L. brachyrhynchus – mew gull or short-billed gull. Found in Alaska and western Canada. Small; mantle medium-dark grey; wingtips with little black and much white; iris pale. Wingspan 96–102 cm (38–40 in); mass 320–550 g (11–19 oz).
Ecology
Both common and mew gulls breed colonially near water or in marshes, making a lined nest on the ground or in a small tree; colony size varies from 2 to 320 or even more pairs. Usually three eggs are laid (sometimes just one or two); they hatch after 24–26 days, with the chicks fledging after a further 30–35 days. Like most gulls, they are omnivores and will scavenge as well as hunt small prey. The global population is estimated to be about one million pairs; they are most numerous in Europe, with over half (possibly as much as 80-90%) of the world population.[6] By contrast, the Alaskan population is only about 10,000 pairs.[
Vagrancy
The common gull occurs as a scarce winter visitor to coastal eastern Canada and as a vagrant to the northeastern USA.[7] There is one recent record of a mew gull in Europe, on the Azores in 2003.[8]
Etymology
The scientific name is from Latin. Larus appears to have referred to a gull or other large seabird, and canus is "grey".[9] The name "common gull" was coined by Thomas Pennant in 1768 because he considered it the most numerous of its genus.[10] Others assert that the name does not indicate its abundance, but that during the winter it feeds on common land, short pasture used for grazing.[11] John Ray earlier used the name common sea-mall.[10] It is said that uncommon gull is a more accurate description. There are many old British regional names for this species, typically variations on maa, mar and mew.
Son et Lumiere on a Saturday night at Wolsztyn. Sound courtesy of Ol49-59 on the turntable from which the photo was taken, light courtesy of the many coloured lights set up around the yard.
Left to right are Ok1-359, Tr5-65, Ok22-31, Ok1-322 & Pm36-2
It was an open museum night and the shed was full of local people enjoying both the steam engines and the BBQ at the back of the shed by the water tower. The sausages wrapped in foil and cooked scattered around the Ol's backhead were delicious.
nrhp # 84000276- Court Street Bridge is a historic stone arch bridge located at Rochester in Monroe County, New York. It was designed by city engineer J. Y. McClintock, constructed in 1893, and spans the Genesee River. It has six shallow arches over the river and two arches over the Johnson and Seymour Raceway and Erie Canal. Shallow arch spans are 52 feet and rises vary from 13 to 20 feet.[2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
from Wikipedia
Orion races through our sky and in so doing leaves traces of brilliant starlight that seems engraved into our minds if we start to watch the stars and to revel in their wondrous beauty. Orion features in the annual procession of the constellations that rise above the limits of our horizon and also fall below our view each Solar sojourn.
For any failings please do not blame the Helios-44 2 it needs an adjustment to be made and to be secured. This is a picture from a Helios 44 ƒ2 one of the much vaunted Soviet copies of the Carl Zeiss Biotar 58mm ƒ/2. The Soviet manufactured lenses are much sought after for wonderful bokeh both from factory standard output and also now with a growing multitude of modern fanciful adjustments many making dream like pictures. The necessary adjustment to reach precise Star Focus is possibly going to feature in later uploads.
© PHH Sykes 2024 also edited © PHH Sykes 2025
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“Helios-44 is a Soviet copy of the Carl Zeiss Biotar 58mm ƒ/2 lens produced under the Helios lens brand.[1] The lens was made in the Soviet Union and Russia, primarily for the M42 lens mount.”
The village of Oradour-sur-Glane, France, was massacred in World War 2. It is maintained in its ruined state as a memorial. (3)
The European herring gull (Larus argentatus) is a large gull (up to 26 in (66 cm) long). One of the best known of all gulls along the shores of western Europe, it was once abundant.[2] It breeds across Northern Europe, Western Europe, Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Scandinavia and the Baltic states. Some European herring gulls, especially those resident in colder areas, migrate further south in winter, but many are permanent residents, e.g. in the British Isles, Iceland, or on the North Sea shores. European herring gulls have a varied diet, including fish, crustaceans and dead animals as well as some plants.
While herring gull numbers appear to have been harmed in recent years, possibly by fish population declines and competition, they have proved able to survive in human-adapted areas, and can often be seen in towns acting as a scavenger.
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for WAH who are visiting Joie de Vivre
1. it's Friday
2. It's the Friday before a weeks holiday for half term
3. it was still light when i got home
4. I ran this morning so have decided i don't have to go the gym this evening
18/117 - happiness is...
Holding on Track 79 on KCT North-South Corridor at Old Union Depot Interlocking is a transfer from BNSF's Argentine Yard to UP's Neff Yard led by an Ex-BN SD60M and an Ex-ATSF GP39-2. It's pretty cool that a consist like this is still possible two decades after the merger. 4/16/16.
Isn't that against nature?? :P
Day 2:
It's a day which started well and ended very nicely :)
We spent the night before in Kanda. Headed out early to go to a 100yen shop at Akihabara before catching our reserved bullet train, embarking on our "quest for sakura" journey.
We found the 100yen shop alright and saw tonnes of goodies there but decided to do the shopping spree when we returned to Tokyo on Day 7 (where I encountered the middle-aged Cosplay phenomenon
Since 8vee never tried "standing soba", so we grabbed our breakfast at one right in front of akihabara JR station and had an amazing Squid tempura soba *slurp*
And then we bumped into some funky pet and its friendly owner :)
Then went back to the hotel, grabbed our bags and headed north to Kasumigajou Kouen, Nihonmatsu and then to Sendai to check into our hotel before grabbing dinner
So during the past two days combined I've taken roughly 300 photos just to get 2...it's times like this that I'm very grateful I've been born in the digital age!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lulworth_Cove
Lulworth Cove is a cove near the village of West Lulworth, on the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site in Dorset, southern England. The cove is one of the world's finest examples of such a landform, and is a tourist location with approximately 500,000 visitors a year, of whom about 30% visit in July and August.[1][2] It is close to the rock arch of Durdle Door and other Jurassic Coast sites.
Lulworth Cove featured on the TV programme Seven Natural Wonders as one of the wonders of Southern England.
Lulworth Cove
The cove has formed because there are bands of rock of alternating resistance running parallel to the shore (a concordant coastline). The seaward side the clays and sands have been eroded away. A narrow (less than 30 metre) band of Portland limestone rocks forms the shoreline. Behind this is a narrow (less than 50 metre) band of slightly less resistant Purbeck limestone. Behind this are 300–350 metres of much less resistant clays and greensands (Wealden clays, Gault and Upper Greensand).
Forming the back of the cove is a 250 metre wide band of chalk, which is considerably more resistant than the clays and sands, but less resistant than the limestones. The entrance to the cove is a narrow gap in the limestone bands. This was formed by a combination of erosional processes by wave action and the processes of weathering. The wide part of the cove is where the weak clays and greensands have been eroded. The back of the cove is the chalk, which the sea has been unable to erode as fast as it does not dissolve in the sea acids.
The unique shape of the cove is a result of wave diffraction. The narrow entrance to the cove ensures that as waves enter they bend into an arced shape this is shown clearly on the photograph.
Stair Hole
Stair Hole, less than half a mile away, is an infant cove which suggests what Lulworth Cove would have looked like a few hundred thousand years ago. The sea has made a gap in the Portland and Purbeck limestone here, as well as a small arch. The sea has made its way through to the Wealdon clays and begun eroding them. The clay shows obvious signs of slumping, and is eroding very rapidly. Stair Hole shows one of the best examples of limestone folding (the Lulworth crumple) in the world, caused by movements in the Earth's crust (tectonics) millions of years ago. Folding can also be seen at nearby Durdle Door and at Lulworth cove itself.
Conservation, tourism, education and management
Lulworth acts as a gateway to this part of the Jurassic Coast. As well as the cove, across Hambury Tout (the large chalk hill to the west) is Durdle Door, a natural arch. To the east there is a fossilised forest. Lulworth is also close to Kimmeridge, famous for its rocky shore and fossils. The sea floor in and around the cove yields fossils, and oil sands beneath the sea bed form the largest British oil field outside the North Sea area, and contain the highest quality oil in Europe. Geologists and geographers have been interested in the area since the beginning of the 19th century, and in the 1830s the first serious study of the area took place. Since then the area has drawn Geology students from all over the world.
Purbeck suffers from trampling because of its many visitors and erosion from the sea. Management has been put in place to stop the coastline from being ruined, such as wooden steps and fences. These will keep people to a certain path and steps will reinforce the ground.
In 2001 the coast was granted World Heritage Site status by UNESCO. Experts at UNESCO have been working on preserving the shape of Lulworth Cove. Lulworth was one of a number of gateway villages on the coast with a Heritage Centre—part visitor centre, tourist information and natural history museum—which in 2002 received 418,595 visitors. Most of the area is privately owned by the Lulworth Estate, an estate held by the wealthy landowning family; The Welds.
Land to the east is owned by the Ministry of Defence and used for tank training, only open on weekends and holidays. The coast and land to the north and around the village is owned and managed by the Lulworth Estate (see Lulworth Castle). Each year, over 250,000 people walk across the hill linking the cove to Durdle Door.
In popular culture
Lulworth Cove featured on the TV programme Seven Natural Wonders (2005) as one of the wonders of Southern England. It also appeared in the Mike Leigh TV film Nuts in May (1976), and was used for the location filming in the Doctor Who serial The Curse of Fenric (1989) and in the film adaptation of the book World War Z (2013). Thomas Hardy also wrote a poem mentioning the location titled "At Lulworth Cove a Century Back."[
お散歩5️⃣1️⃣8️⃣野鳥公園の野良と初内面-2 寅吉にするかな??? Gyotoku Bird Observatory in Ichikawa City, Chiba prefecture, Japan.
The Pont Valentré (Occitan: Pont de Balandras; English: Valentré Bridge) is a 14th-century six-span fortified stone arch bridge crossing the Lot River to the west of Cahors, in France. It has become a symbol of the city.
After the decision was made to build it on 30 April 1306, construction began on 17 June 1308.[1] It was built between 1308 and 1378 with six Gothic arches and three square bridge towers.[2] It opened for use in 1350.[1] It was originally fortified at both ends, but the western tower has not survived.[3]
A major restoration was performed from 1867 to 1879 by Paul Gout. [Wikipedia]
Something starting with Y.... ; Yashica!
I got this old camera from an Op Shop, for $2. It doesn't actually work. but it makes for a great prop, and i have worked out how to put my lens up to the part you look through, and it takes a really interesting photos, there are some examples in my stream. :)
nrhp # 82002384- The Old Berrien County Jail is a historic site in Nashville, Berrien County, Georgia. It was built in 1903.[2] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 26, 1982. It is located at North Jefferson Street.
The Old Berrien County Jail was the site of the last hanging in Berrien County. A modern jail replaced the historic prison in 1965.
from Wikipedia
nrhp # 74001786- Martin's Mill Covered Bridge is a historic wooden covered bridge located at Antrim Township in Franklin County, Pennsylvania. It is a 205-foot-long (62 m), Town lattice truss bridge, constructed in 1849. It crosses Conococheague Creek.[2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
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Locomotive 4023, built in 1944, was one of 25 "Big Boy" articulated locomotives. Designed in Omaha by Otto Jabelmann and his engineering team to support the nation's entry into World War 2.
It weighs 1.25 million pounds and has a pulling power of 7,000 horsepower at 70 m.p.h..
The last run of 4023 was July 20, 1959. Eleven days later, it was placed in storage in Cheyenne, WY. It was officially retired in 1962 after logging 829,295 miles. It has been on display in Omaha since 1975.
It was common to see dogs and their owners on the street, but this scene was actually fairly unique: a muzzled dog, who seemed to be patiently enduring the contraption that had been stuck on his face.
I have no idea what kind of dog this is, or whether he was prone to bite anyone within reach; it might have been something as simple as preventing the mutt from barking too loudly. In any case, both dog and owner seemed to be strolling along without any great drama.
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As I’ve mentioned in a couple of recent Tumblr blog postings, I’m working on an exercise for a new class that I’ve started taking at the International Center of Photography (ICP) in the fall of 2015.( You can see the earlier Tumblr postings here and here.)
In addition to taking a bunch of photos (see the other Tumblr postings for details and descriptions of what the photos are supposed to illustrate), we also have the task of editing our images down to a maximum of 10 “presentation images” that we will share with the ICP class next week. When our instructor, Joanne Dugan, asked me last week if I anticipated having any problems with this aspect of the assignment, I shrugged and said, “No, I do this all the time …”
Well, yes and no: I do do a lot of editing/winnowing of my photos before deciding which ones should be shared with anyone else. But I had forgotten that I also do a lot of cropping, color-adjustment, tweaking, and general post-processing before I upload my photos to Flickr, Facebook, or even Instagram. For this particular ICP exercise, we were also told not to crop the photos, and not to do any post-processing. That makes things a lot more difficult …
On the other hand, part of the exercise is to assemble and share a maximum of ten photos that collectively tell a “story” of some kind – and to “tell” that story with anywhere from a word, to a sentence, to a paragraph for each of the photos. That makes things a lot easier … after all, if a photo has to be presented in isolation, then it truly stands alone. And it is intended to be viewed without any accompanying text, then it really stands alone. There’s nothing wrong with that; indeed, one might argue that that’s the whole point of photography: a picture should “tell” a story all by itself, without any extraneous verbiage to “explain” what might not be obvious to the viewer.
But not very many things exist in complete isolation of the rest of the universe, especially in today’s interconnected world. I suppose some people would debate that point quite vigorously; and some people might argue that a photograph of a person, place, or thing should be able to “stand alone” without anything else. I certainly have seen photos that fall into this category, and I suppose I’ve taken a few like that, too. Or, maybe if I never intended my photos to be considered in complete isolation from one another, perhaps that’s how some people prefer to look at them …
But for me, that’s a pretty rare phenomenon. Almost always, I find myself telling a story. The photographs obviously present one “dimension” of the story, in a visual form; and I’ve been trying to remind myself lately that videos can present can present one, and sometimes two, additional dimensions (motion and sound) that can add enormously to the viewer’s understanding and appreciation of the underlying story.
But even if one uses only traditional photos, I find that it’s almost impossible for me to crate (or make, or take) one photo by itself; invariably, I take dozens, if not hundreds or even thousands, which collectively tell a story. It may be a story about someplace I’ve been, or some event in which I’ve participated, or some individual (or group of individuals) that I want the viewer to know and appreciate in more detail than would be possible to communicate in a single photo.
And then there are the words … maybe it’s because I spend part of my time as a writer and teacher that I find it almost impossible not to augment my photos with words. Lots of words. Indeed, sometimes far too many words; and sometimes clumsy words, or the wrong words. And I do realize that there are times when the situation would be improved if I would just shut up, and let the photograph do all of the communication. But for better or worse, I guess I’m a photojournalist.
With that in mind, I began the process of editing the photos for my recent ICP assignment. Here’s what I found:
1. It’s not as easy as one might think, when you start with a large number. I began winnowing the original images when I had 2,700 (after 9 days of shooting), and I still had 5 days of shooting left).
2. It’s much more difficult than I had imagined, given the constraints of my ICP class: no cropping, no post-processing, and a maximum of only 10 images. I’ve worked within those constraints for the final images that I’m submitting to the ICP class; but for these Flickr uploads, I’ve ended up with 40-45 images – and they have been heavily cropped, tilted, color-corrected, noise-dusted, and tweaked in various other ways. C’est la vie…
3. Using the collection of photos to “tell a story” is both easier and harder than I thought it would be. I’m including these background notes in all of the photos that get uploaded to Flickr … because I’ve learned (form past experience) that some visitor will zoom in on just one particular photo, without necessarily looking at all of them, and/or without seeing the overall notes for the entire album. And I don’t think I’ll find it difficult to write a few sentences to provide the background details for each photo … but whether they “flow” and create one overall, coherent “story” remains to be seen.
4. Aside from a narrative “story,” there are some “themes” that I noticed throughout this entire two-week exercise. The most significant one was exactly what I had anticipated: patterns. If you are lucky enough to sit in the same spot at the same time, day after day, you see the same rhythms, the same people, the same repetitions of life’s little actions and emotions. Many people have the opportunity to see these patterns, because they do follow the same schedule, day after day, on their way to their job or their school. But some of us have irregular routines, and any, most of us don’t pay any attention. If you slow down, and pay attention, you’ll see the patterns.
But sometimes the pattern involves uniqueness – i.e. strange and unusual people or events that seem to happen only once. But I have to keep reminding myself that my visits have lasted only two weeks; if I was here for a month, or a full season, or perhaps an entire year – then perhaps I would see these strange incidents repeating themselves
5. Another theme – which I did not anticipate, but was delighted to see – was the pervasive sense of affection and caring between and among everyone on the street. Mostly it was apparent in the interactions between parents and children; but sometimes it was between dog-owners and the dogs they were walking; sometimes it was between friends who happened to be walking along together; and sometimes it was between complete strangers and me, as the strangers would smile and nod and say “hello” if they noticed I was watching them. It was a great experience.
Part 2
In the morning we awoke to mist and low hanging storm clouds. All morning and into early afternoon we were blessed with rain shower after rain shower, some soft, some hard. It was the perfect little lake to be at for the beautiful weather and rain, and the best part was we had it all to ourselves. The soft sound of rain falling on the grass of the marsh and the pine needles of the forest was very peaceful and relaxing.
Finally it seemed that the last shower had passed so we packed up camp and began hiking away from the lake. Not long after we started a rumble of thunder echoed in the distance followed by more light rain, thankfully we already had our jackets and pack covers on, just in case. Then, all of a sudden, a bright flash illuminated the daytime. I counted 1- 1000, 2- 1000, 3…. Then the loudest thunder I have ever heard reverberated across the woods causing us to duck and flinch. We quickened our pace and made for an outcropping of rocks, hoping for some shelter that was not tall trees. Now heavy rain and hail began to pelt down. More thunder rumbled, but none as close or as loud as the one that startled us. After a while, the storm moved off, but a light mist lingered and we continued on our route, off trail, towards Cottonwood basin. Along the way we came across a deer carcass, head, spine and rib cage minus the legs and soft tissues, lying in the shadow of gnarled twisted trunk of a dead tree. Thankfully, this was not an omen of things to come.
The route we now took, took us along steep mountain side overlooking meadows and streams, glistening in the sunshine below. The peaks on the far side shown white from the hail that fallen in the last storm. Soon we reached the edge of the basin and the stream that tumbled down from it. We followed that against the current and along the edge of another meadow. There was one more hill between us and our next camp site. As we climbed up and over, somewhere in the distance, a flute song was playing, reminding me of a songbird singing.
On the other side of the hill was a lake, the first lake of this basin we would encounter, Cottonwood Lake # 2. It is here that we stopped and set up our tents. That evening was one of the most vibrant sunsets I have ever seen up in the Sierras. Dark, ominous storm clouds had been gathering and slowly moving in from the southeast and I recommended that we prepare for a long wet night of wind and rain. It was in the middle of the preparations that the sunset suddenly came upon the mountains. It happened so quickly I did not have time to find a good composition for photos of it. The dark clouds burst into flame, igniting the whole sky in a vibrant pink and orange. Even the earth beneath our feet shown in a pink hue reflected in the damp, rocky soil. When the light and color faded from the sky and earth, the clouds dropped lower, Like a wave crashing against the jagged peaks of the Sierra crest, and as the dim twilight faded we prepared for more rain.
Despite the ominous clouds yesterday evening, no major rain showers fell last night. Just some light scattered showers. In the early Dawn hours I got out of our tent to look for a good spot to photograph the sunrise. A patchwork of storm clouds covered the earth like a blanket. Light rain fell on and off and rippled the surface of the still, mirror like lake.
As the Alpine glow crept down from the top the peaks a rainbow formed in the sky over the crest. Slowly the light crept down from the top of the mountains, but once it reached their foot, it was near instant that it reached me, illuminating the marshy meadows where I was. I decided I got what I could here so I moved over to the Lakeshore to see what was there. Soon the light changed from warm, pink to it's usual white, and now the shadows of clouds draped themselves across the granite faces of the high mountains, flowing like ribbons in the wind.
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My new Native American flute Album on BandCamp
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Debbie is working on her first album too, I will update when she has finished it.
hermoso wow! un rojo muy intenso tiene alado derecho halas grandes al izquierdo halas pequeñas.
This dragonfly has something special it has 2 wings than are longer that the other 2. .it colors are real amazing ,a dark red and black . I put it here for you ,so emjoy it.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risley_Moss
Risley Moss is an area of peat bog situated near Birchwood in Warrington, England. It covers an area of 210.5 acres (85.2 ha) and is one of the last remaining fragments of the raised bogs that once covered large areas of South Lancashire and North Cheshire. Natural depressions in the glacial drift left by the ice sheets which covered the Cheshire–Shropshire plain during the last ice age, 10,000–15,000 years ago, filled with water, forming the meres and mosses characteristic of the area today. In some cases, like Risley Moss, peat accumulation filled the depression, allowing colonisation by bog mosses such as the Sphagnum varieties, thus giving rise to the name "moss".
Risley Moss is one of only two mosses in Cheshire where the water level has been deliberately raised in an attempt to encourage the regeneration of an active bog surface.[1] The long-term restoration project to re-wet the moss began in 1978 and was completed in 2002. This scheme was undertaken to create a series of scrapes and bunds to retain water and recreate the perfect conditions for bog flora such as cotton grass and sphagnum mosses to re-colonise the bogs.[2]
It was the former site of a large Royal Ordnance Factory. Today, it is managed by Cheshire County Council as a country park and an educational nature reserve. It was designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest in 1986.[1] Risley Moss, together with Astley and Bedford Mosses and Holcroft Moss, is also a European Union designated Special Area of Conservation, known as Manchester Mosses.[3]
Features
The main feature of Risley Moss is the large peat bog flats, overlooked by two observation points: a large watchtower, ideal for bird watching, and a smaller lookout. These points have additional information inside relating to bird species and landscape layouts. The Moss also has several smaller huts located inside the forested area for bird watching and nature enthusiasts.
Tours across the flats and nature reserve are available from the main information centre and are undertaken by local rangers.
In addition to the natural features and landscape, there are several sculptures around the site, usually with a natural theme.
[MB] SNACK -Japanese BAR- Gacha
2 RARE & 16 commons
Sorry this gacha is 2 RARE & 16 commons I missed ad lol
* Building 12 LI
Touch to open doors
Including 4 extra bar sign texture and 4 color blank texture,
UV map to make your own design building.
Sign Board LI 2
It's also include extra & blank texture to make your own sign
* Bar stool
2 sit animation & 4 drink animation for man & woman
* Sofa set LI 2 each
Sofa A&B
7 sit animations for woman, 6 sit animations for man
7 animations for couple and 4 drink animations
Sofa C (corner) No animation
* Toilet
4 animations for drank lol
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Chip jar script included
* Whiskey Server LI 2
Touch to get whiskey glass
* SAKE Server LI 1
Touch to get SAKE cup
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Toilet shelf
Whiskey bottle display LI 1
SAKE bottle display LI 1
It make great scene of dranker's life lol
NEOJAPAN ( will start SEP 26th )
This dark, tangled web is an object named SNR 0454-67.2. It formed in a very violent fashion — it is a supernova remnant, created after a massive star ended its life in a cataclysmic explosion and threw its constituent material out into surrounding space. This created the messy formation we see in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, with threads of red snaking amidst dark, turbulent clouds.
SNR 0454-67.2 is situated in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf spiral galaxy that lies close to the Milky Way. The remnant is likely the result of a Type Ia supernova explosion; this category of supernovae is formed from the death of a white dwarf star, which grows and grows by siphoning material from a stellar companion until it reaches a critical mass and then explodes.
As they always form via a specific mechanism — when the white dwarf hits a particular mass — these explosions always have a well-known luminosity, and are thus used as markers (standard candles) for scientists to obtain and measure distances throughout the Universe.
Credits: ESA/Hubble, NASA; CC BY 4.0
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Tote Täler
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tote_T%C3%A4ler
Die Toten-Täler sind ein Naturschutzgebiet in Sachsen-Anhalt im westlichen Teil des Burgenlandkreises und gelten als eines der orchideenträchtigsten Gebiete in den neuen Bundesländern.
Orchideengebiet
Neben 25 nachgewiesenen heimischen Orchideen wie Braunrote Stendelwurz, Purpur-Knabenkraut, Helm-Knabenkraut, Blasses Knabenkraut, Stattliches Knabenkraut, Bienen-Ragwurz, Spinnen-Ragwurz, Fliegen-Ragwurz, Grünliche Waldhyazinthe, Weiße Waldhyazinthe, Große Händelwurz und Bleiches Waldvöglein finden sich weitere seltene Pflanzenarten wie das Große Windröschen, Hain-Wachtelweizen, Bunte Kronwicke, Wiesen-Salbei, Bergziest, Blutroter Storchschnabel, Kleiner Klappertopf, Kuhschelle, Wundklee und Golddistel.
Dreizähniges Knabenkraut
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreiz%C3%A4hniges_Knabenkraut
Systematik
Familie:Orchideen (Orchidaceae)
Unterfamilie:Orchidoideae
Tribus:Orchideae
Untertribus:Orchidinae
Gattung:Neotinea
Art:Dreizähniges Knabenkraut
Wissenschaftlicher Name
Neotinea tridentata
(Scop.) R.M. Bateman, Pridgeon & M.W. Chase
Das Dreizähnige Knabenkraut (Neotinea tridentata) gehört zur Gattung Neotinea in der Familie der Orchideengewächse (Orchideaceae). Es ist eine Art mit mediterraner Hauptverbreitung, die in Mittel- und Ostdeutschland zwei isolierte Teilareale besiedelt.Früher zählte man es zur Gattung der Knabenkräuter (Orchis). Nach neueren molekulargenetischen Forschungen wird die Art zur Gattung Neotinea gerechnet.
Das Dreizähnige Knabenkraut wurde 1772 vom Botaniker Giovanni Antonio Scopoli als Orchis tridentata beschrieben und somit in die Gattung Orchis eingeordnet. Der Name leitet sich von griechisch όρχις orchis = Hoden und tridentata, von lateinisch tri- = drei und dentatus = gezähnt ab. Entsprechend lautet der deutsche Name Dreizähniges Knabenkraut. Der Name nimmt Bezug auf die gezähnten Ränder der Blütenlippe.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neotinea_tridentata
Neotinea tridentata (three-toothed orchid) is a species of orchid found in southern Europe from Spain to Turkey and Lebanon; northwards to the Crimea, Poland and Germany. This orchid favors grassy places, woodland, scrub and maquis.[1][2] It was formerly placed in the genus Orchis as O. tridentata.
Commentator #1: Well Bob, it looks like a good race today!
Commentator #2: It does indeed, Richard. These new races that have been "government certified" aren't as exciting as they used to be, 40 years ago, but they're a little safer, to be sure.
Commentator #1: You got that right! We haven't had a wreck in 4 months!
Commentator #2: There was a movie series that came out many years ago, it's ancient now, but it was all the rage back then. I believe it was called Star Wars Episode 1. There was a character who had to build a certain type of race car and compete against other competitors in a test of skill, reflexes and ability. I say ability because mainly what the race came down to was what you did with your racer. Tinkering in between races was absolutely necessary, and this is what is going on here. All cars are "government certified", meaning they're all exactly alike at first, but the driver has to play around with the engine and such to make it faster. That is why I call it a test of ability.
Commentator #1: That's an excellent way to put it, Bob.
Commentator #2: Thank you, Richard.
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A little dio inspired by Pasukaru's dios/ vigs to display his mechs.
Comments? Criticism?
Nisi gloriam Deo!
-IronBricks
nrhp # 02000142- First Presbyterian Church Complex, also known as United Presbyterian Church, is a historic Presbyterian church located at Cortland in Cortland County, New York. It was built in 1889-1890 and is a solid massed masonry building consisting of a central hip-roofed main block fronted by steeply pitched gable projections. Major additions to the original church were completed in 1922 and 1958. The church features a stout, multi stage bell tower with a tall steeple and prominent cross on the spire. Also on the property is a Queen Anne style manse completed in 1903.[2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.
from Wikipedia
Nikon D7000
Tamron 10-24 2.8
Gitzo tripod w/ kirk bh-1 head
4:45 am ....along route 60 (i think) 30 miles north of wickenberg, az. A bit of help from Viveza 2
It's been over 110 degrees for over 30 straight days
One of the ones that got away. Utah Railway originally got 10 GP38-2. It was decided that two of them were not needed in Utah anymore. Utah Railway 2009 was shipped off to Genesee & Wyoming sister railway, Louisiana & Delta Railroad in 2005. I have very few pictures of the 2009.
October 2, 2013 - Kearney Nebraska US
Storm were close and towers were forming on a warm and humid October 2. It was the last opportunity to capture any cool cloud or stormscapes that afternoon/evening.
Nice Thunderset Thunderheads in this set as the sun was setting and giving us that fantastic evening light.
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