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Taking a group photo on Michigan Avenue.
Explore #112 on February 10, 2011.
Chicagoist "Around Town" February 12, 2012.,
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Vietnam - the hidden charm
Model: Winn Feng
Location : Hue, Vietnam
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Saigon, Vietnam 2012
The lone figure stops in his tracks and is captivated by Scotland's beauty. Kevin Kirk © 2012 All Rights Reserved
Passage Emili Mª Aparicio Olmos. VALENCIA
Capellá i croniste de la Mare de Deu dels Desamparats
El culto a la patrona de Valencia, la Santísima Virgen de los Desamparados, recibió culto inicialmente en una reducida capilla llamada del Capitulet y en el año 1489, por haber crecido grandemente su devoción, se trasladó su imagen a una capilla lateral de la Catedral donde estuvo hasta el año 1667 en que se inauguró la Basílica que tiene su nombre. Y es entonces cuando surge el pasaje que nos ocupa tras haberse intentado en vano el haber unido mediante un arco cubierto la Basílica de la Virgen de los Desamparados con la Catedral de Valencia. Finalmente esto se consiguió en el año 1667. Bajo dicho arco encontramos una de las puertas de la Basílica y una pequeña capilla dedicada al apóstol Santiago que se corresponde con la parte central del ábside de la Catedral y donde la leyenda nos dice que se celebró la primera Misa después de la conquista.
Este pasaje nunca tuvo propiamente una rotulación hasta que en el año 1994 se le dio el nombre de Pasaje Emilio María Aparicio Olmos que fue un sacerdote capellán mayor de la Real Basílica de la Virgen de los Desamparados y fue además abad mitrado de la Abadía de la Santa Cruz del Valle de los Caídos donde falleció en Abril de 1988. Une la "Plaza de la Almoina" con la "Plaza de la Vírgen". [Calles Historicas de Valencia]
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Dimanche était le jour de la fête des mères, mais aussi le jour où ma grand-maman fêtait -de son vivant- son anniversaire.
Peut-être est-ce parce-que j'ai pensé à elle, mais dans la nuit de dimanche à lundi elle est venue me rendre visite, dans le monde des rêves.
Au matin, un épisode de mon enfance m'est alors revenu en mémoire; je lui avais confié mon livre de souvenirs (les gens pouvaient y écrire ou dessiner quelque chose…ça se faisait alors beaucoup) et elle m'avait dessiné de très jolis Myosotis bleus, avec ces mots : "Ne m'oublies pas".
… Dans le langage des fleurs, le Myosotis signifie l'amour profond et sincère. L'offrir à quelqu'un traduit également de la volonté que l'autre ne l'oublie jamais, quels que soient le temps et la distance qui séparent les êtres.
Aujourd'hui, c'est à mon tour de lui offrir ces fleurs, afin de lui dire : "Ne t'en fais pas, je ne t'oublie pas et pense toujours à toi, quels que soient le temps et la distance".
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Highest position: 242 on Friday, June 22, 2012
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After many years of seeing replica Ford GT40s around, I finally found a real one yesterday in a mews in London. Check out the numberplate!
Hafen Regensburg
Regensburg harbour
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06.02.2012: Arrived at flickr's "explore" # 265
I've now posted the photos of my walk around in São Paulo on my blog
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Series: Farmers
From a cycle: The Don steppe
"Сторож в своей лачуге"
серия: Хуторяне
близ хутора Быковский, Верхнедонской район, Ростовская область, Россия
февраль 2012
из цикла: Донская степь
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Gangasagar 2012. .
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The city is named after the Dano-Norwegian King King Christian IV, who founded it on 5 July 1641. The second part of the city's name, sand, refers to the sandy headland the city was built on (see also Lillesand).
The name was often written Christianssand until 1877, although the map of the mapmaker Pontoppidan from 1785 spelled the name Christiansand (with a single 's'). That year, an official spelling reform aimed at making city names "more Norwegian" changed it to Kristianssand. Kristiansund and Kristiania, now Oslo, had their spellings changed under the same reform. Despite that, a number of businesses and associations retain the "Ch" spelling. The name was again changed to its present form, Kristiansand (single "s"), in 1889.
In 2012, the city's mayor, Arvid Grundekjøn, proposed that the city be renamed Christianssand, arguing that "Kristiansand" is grammatically meaningless and that Christianssand stands for tradition.[4] This proposal was not well received by the locals and the mayor has not pushed this further.
mieux avec la touche L !
spéciale dédicace à Jean-Michel qui m'a indiqué ce super spot, je te dois une bière mon ami :)
explore #241 ! explore.marcopix.com/profile/index.php?id=zorky merci à tous ! thanks all !
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and she's doing well! This is No. 66's lovely little filly foal - there will be more shots of her ;o)
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_Aspropyrgos, near Athens_
I still have quite a few photos I want to upload here but still didn't find the time to do it. This is one of them, shot last year and one of my very few seascapes. Yes, I still have work to do on my sea portfolio. I've been doing architecture for so long that I totally neglected other things. Lots of seascapes waiting to be processed and lots more that I have in mind to shoot. The funniest thing is that I live right next to the sea, so I should normally be there shooting every other day, but instead I go shooting in the city. Go figure! :) But I want this year to be a mixed year, I'l try to do more landscape next to my architectural work. They both express me so they should both be present. And I have some other things in mind too. Only if I had a bit more time...
This was shot somewhere near Athens, in Aspropyrgos, and it's one of the few piers like this that you can find in the area. I have at least one more image that I keep wanting to process from the same visit, I guess I should speed things up a bit, soon it's going to be a year from this outing.
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(Corythaixoides concolor)
KNP
South Africa
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All my photos are now organized into sets by the country where they were taken, by taxonomic order, by family, by species (often with just one photo for the rarer ones), and by the date they were taken.
So, you may find:
- All the photos for this trip África do Sul (2012) (145)
- All the photos for this order MUSOPHAGIFORMES (20)
- All the photos for this family Musophagidae (Musofagídeos) (20)
- All the photos for this species Crinifer concolor (3)
- All the photos taken this day 2012/05/06 (17)
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(EXPLORED - No.2 - May 09, 2013)
(catharsis = purification, renewal, reborn of the soul and spirit through art)
Metsovo, Pindus Mountains, Greece
Another lone tree in my winterscape series...
This project started two years ago. I wanted to photograph this place under snow for the last two winters, but as you probably know, I live in Greece and we do have a lot of sun and warm weather, but snow is a rarity. Plus, this place is quite far away from my home (some 450km to be exact) so it's not too easy to get there, meaning that I was relying quite a lot on luck, which I finally had this winter.
Everything I shot in this series has been shot in not more than a couple of hours and I still have a lot of images, even very different than the one in this series that I either processed or I will process because I like them all. I have also done some experiments with ICM (intentional camera movement), some very minimal images but surreal and quite hunting, and they will probably become an independent series and I also have some other shots with larger subjects. What I want to say with this is that sometimes the conditions are so perfect: weather, place, inspiration, moment, luck that almost every click you make can result in a finished image. It's quite rare for all these to come together and create such a perfect moment, but this day was one of those moments. These two or three hours that I was there shooting trees were some of the most intense and rewarding in my photographic life. And I could say that this series reflects somehow the course of my recent life and it helped me to find answers to a lot of questions that I had in a process of “finding myself” artistically and individually. As I have already said I consider art as a very personal issue, as something you do because you deeply need it, as a tool in interpreting life and the world around us and I don't believe in any other message than the personal one as far as real art is concerned.
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Monumento a Visconde de Cairu e Elevador Lacerda - Salvador - BA
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Valle S. Nicolò - Pozza di Fassa (TN) - Dolomiti 2012
esperimento con tempi di esposizione lunghi e ...... questa volta con il cavalletto ^__^
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Egret
The Great Egret (Ardea alba) also known as Common Egret, Large Egret or Great White Heron,[2][3][4] is a large, widely distributed egret. Distributed across most of the tropical and warmer temperate regions of the world, in southern Europe it is rather localized. In North America it is more widely distributed, and it is ubiquitous across the Sun Belt of the United States and in the Neotropics. The Old World population is often referred to as the Great White Egret. This species is sometimes confused with the Great White Heron of the Caribbean, which is a white morph of the closely related Great Blue Heron (A. herodias).
Description
The Great Egret is a large heron with all-white plumage. Standing up to 1 m (3.3 ft) tall, this species can measure 80 to 104 cm (31 to 41 in) in length and have a wingspan of 131 to 170 cm (52 to 67 in).[5][6] Body mass can range from 700 to 1,500 g (1.5 to 3.3 lb), with an average of around 1,000 g (2.2 lb).[7] It is thus only slightly smaller than the Great Blue or Grey Heron (A. cinerea). Apart from size, the Great Egret can be distinguished from other white egrets by its yellow bill and black legs and feet, though the bill may become darker and the lower legs lighter in the breeding season. In breeding plumage, delicate ornamental feathers are borne on the back. Males and females are identical in appearance; juveniles look like non-breeding adults. Differentiated from the Intermediate Egret (Mesophoyx intermedius) by the gape, which extends well beyond the back of the eye in case of the Great Egret, but ends just behind the eye in case of the Intermediate Egret.
It has a slow flight, with its neck retracted. This is characteristic of herons and bitterns, and distinguishes them from storks, cranes, ibises, and spoonbills, which extend their necks in flight.
The Great Egret is not normally a vocal bird; at breeding colonies, however, it often gives a loud croaking cuk cuk cuk.
Systematics and taxonomy
Like all egrets, it is a member of the heron family, Ardeidae. Traditionally classified with the storks in the Ciconiiformes, the Ardeidae are closer relatives of pelicans and belong in the Pelecaniformes instead. The Great Egret—unlike the typical egrets—does not belong to the genus Egretta but together with the great herons is today placed in Ardea. In the past, however, it was sometimes placed in Egretta or separated in a monotypic genus Casmerodius.
Subspecies[edit]
There are four subspecies in various parts of the world, which differ but little. Differences are bare part coloration in the breeding season and size; the largest A. a. modesta from Asia and Australasia some taxonomists consider a full species, the Eastern Great Egret (Ardea modesta).:
Ardea alba alba (Europe)
Ardea alba egretta (Americas)
Ardea alba melanorhynchos (Africa)
Ardea alba modesta (India, Southeast Asia, and Oceania)
Ecology and status
The Great Egret is partially migratory, with northern hemisphere birds moving south from areas with colder winters. It breeds in colonies in trees close to large lakes with reed beds or other extensive wetlands. It builds a bulky stick nest.
The Great Egret is generally a very successful species with a large and expanding range. In North America, large numbers of Great Egrets were killed around the end of the 19th century so that their plumes could be used to decorate hats. Numbers have since recovered as a result of conservation measures. Its range has expanded as far north as southern Canada. However, in some parts of the southern United States, its numbers have declined due to habitat loss. Nevertheless, it adapts well to human habitation and can be readily seen near wetlands and bodies of water in urban and suburban areas. In 1953, the Great Egret in flight was chosen as the symbol of the National Audubon Society, which was formed in part to prevent the killing of birds for their feathers.[8][9]
The Great Egret is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies.
On 22 May 2012, it was announced a pair of Great Egrets were nesting in the UK for the first time at the Shapwick Heath nature reserve in Somerset.[10] The species is a rare visitor to the UK and Ben Aviss of the BBC stated that the news could mean the UK's first Great Egret colony is established.[10][11] The following week, Kevin Anderson of Natural England confirmed a Great Egret chick had hatched, making it a new breeding bird record for the UK.[12] Anderson commented "We've definitely seen one chick stretching a wing just before the adult arrived and also after it left and we continue to monitor for more. The eggs of the Great Egret can hatch over a period of a few days so it may be that if there are other young on the nest they will be less developed and won't be visible yet."[12]
Diet
The Great Egret feeds in shallow water or drier habitats, feeding mainly on fish, frogs, small mammals, and occasionally small reptiles and insects, spearing them with its long, sharp bill most of the time by standing still and allowing the prey to come within its striking distance of its bill which it uses as a spear. It will often wait motionless for prey, or slowly stalk its victim.
In culture
White Egrets is the title of Saint Lucian Poet Derek Walcott's fourteenth collection of poems.
The Great Egret is the symbol of the National Audubon Society.[13]
The name of venerable Shariputra, one of the Buddha's best known followers, signifies the son of the egret (among other possibilities), it is said that his mother had eyes like a great egret.
Almost every year, I'm tempted to buy a Gerbera Daisy plant and put it in the garden. Some years I've bought more than one... but I don't have much luck with them. So we'll have to see if I have better luck this year!
I cannot believe it has been over a month since my last upload. Apologies to all who have taken the time to comment without any return visits from me. I have been on a bit of a creative tear with iPhone photography and haven't decided exactly where I'm going with that... in the meantime, this was taken with my Nikon D7000 and my 105mm Nikon macro lens and slightly edited in Lightroom and Photoshop. I just LOVE the intensity of the color.