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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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Intento nuevamente levantar el vuelo,
junto a mi fiel compañera la esperanza.
Mi equipaje es ligero, solo llevo confianza,
paz, risas, sueños e ilusiones bajo el cielo.
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I'm trying to get airborne again
with my faithful companion the hope.
My luggage is light, I only carry confidence,
peace, laughter, dreams and illusions under heaven.
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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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Love this line up of men, boys, donkeys and dog outside Ballydehob in Co. Cork!
The dog owner is absolutely ensuring that his dog is recorded for posterity by holding the dog immobile. Amazingly Donkey #1 is also holding his pose perfectly face on to the camera, while Donkey #2 is adamant that his best side is captured.
And what's going on with the boy at extreme right - singing? reciting? yawning?
Date: Circa 1899-1910 (thanks derangedlemur and Tin of beans)
NLI Ref.: OCO 347
Lomography Fisheye 2. Fujicolour Superia 200 35mm. Graffiti by Kid Acne.
If you have a minute please have a look at the photos flagged up with notes - where you can see other views of this area I've taken over time.
Or should I say good morning Washington, DC! Actually, The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is only about 1,000 feet from where I photographed this so I wasn’t too far from a “Vietnam” theme.
The ugly looking obelisk with the scaffolding is the Washington Monument which has been under construction since the August 2011 earthquake. If you are planning a trip to the Nation’s capitol soon, be warned that construction will not be completed until sometime in 2014. That’s really a bummer because everywhere you take a photograph in Washington, DC it seems the Washington Monument is always in the background.
I got up early this particular morning because in the spring and summer the sunrise runs parallel to the Lincoln Memorial (rising near the Washington Monument) and bathes the statue of Mr. Lincoln in warm, soft light. As you can see from my photograph that didn’t happen, so I had to settle for this lonely jogger running along the Reflecting Pool.
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Welcome to the Brickell Financial District immediately south of downtown Miami. This entire district -- according to the locals and Wikipedia -- contains the highest concentration of international banks of any American city. Brickell is part of the greater downtown Miami area and actually has more people who work in this district than in downtown Miami itself. One could say the central business district of Miami is now Brickell.
This photo would not have been achieved without the help of Roberto, whose classy photography is already very familiar to many of you. When we met, the rain was pouring heavily, and we thought for a while that the blue hour and night would be spoiled. It seemed to start that way, but when the storm passed. . .WOW! As many of you know, the sky and atmosphere is cleansed after a heavy storm passes, so it really makes for some magnificent photography, especially after sunset in a densely populated area. Our patience paid off and time was on our side.
Roberto was a fantastic guide and showed me many vantages along the Miami River. We walked around downtown and Brickell. With the help of the free, public light rail system, the Metromover (which you see towards the right), we were able to get around downtown with very little effort -- and avoid getting drenched when the rain made a few more cameos!
Muchas Gracias, Roberto!
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Taken in Odaiba, Tokyo.
We've had some nice weather these past few days in Tokyo. This was the scene on Saturday evening overlooking Tokyo Bay. Thanks for viewing.
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Malcesine is a small town on the eastern shore of Lake Garda in northern Italy. Malcesine is located between the mount Baldo and lake Garda. It's a picturesque tourist resort with cobbled lanes and a castle, crammed between the blue lake waters and the massive mountain ridge behind, Monte Baldo. In the summer months Malcesine is a hive of innocent hedonism, packed with pottering holidaymakers gorging on ice cream and sunseekers draped along the lake shore. It's not all laziness, however, as the town's ferry connections to other lakeside resorts make it a good base for sightseeing and the cable-car running up to Monte Baldo is a magnet for cyclists, walkers and paragliders. Lake Garda is the largest lake in Italy, and Malcesine lies towards the narrow and mountainous northern end, often compared to a fjord. The town is situated at the edge of the Veneto region, in the province of Verona. Malcesine is a good exercise in Italian pronunciation: the name is pronounced approximately MalCHESinay.
The historic centre of the town Malcesine is a surprisingly intricate with a labyrinth of small shopping streets. In the antique town center, full of shops and typical local bars and cafes, you can visit almost intact antique monuments. There is a market every Saturday morning in the market square, but markets aside there is a great range of interesting shops. It seems the salesman of the antique shop is having a bad day.
Malcesine is een klein dorpje aan de oostelijke oevers van het Gardameer. Malcesine is één van de meest schilderachtige plaatsen aan het Gardameer. Het heeft niet voor niets de bijnaam Parel van het Gardameer. Romantische doorkijkjes en prachtige oude panden wisselen elkaar af. In de nauwe kronkelige straatjes van de oude binnenstad is zo veel te zien dat men ogen te kort komt. Het dorp ligt als het ware ingeklemd tussen het blauwe water van het meer aan de ene kant en de massieve rotswanden van de Monte Baldo aan de andere kant. Malcesine is door haar ligging en milde klimaat een geliefde bestemming voor toeristen. Er zijn eigenlijk vier belangrijke activiteiten, die je als bezoeker van Malcesine gedaan moet hebben: slenteren door de smalle straatjes in het centrum, een veerboot nemen naar een andere plaats aan het meer, met de kabelbaan de Monte Baldo op en een heerlijk Italiaans ijsje eten. Het is aangenaam wandelen door de middeleeuwse steegjes in het centrum met kleine pleintjes, terrassen, restaurants en winkels met een groot aanbod van onder andere lederwaren en lokale lekkernijen. Malcesine heeft ook een kleine haven en een korte boulevard, omgeven door gezellige terrassen.
Been on a search for a beach fence like this.
I'm sure they are here ... somewhere ... on the West Coast.
Finding one is a challenge I gladly accept!
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Happy Fence Friday & TGIF!
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p.s. of course if any of you know where one is, please do share!
A volte sentiamo bisogno di un faro che ci illumini e ci indichi la riva di approdo, soprattutto quando ci sentiamo in balia delle onde della vita.... e ci è difficile scorgere un porto sicuro; mi piace pensare che ci sia sempre qualcosa o qualcuno capace di illuminare il mio cammino..
Walk in the Schlossgarten park Stuttgart, Germany
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هي ذات الكلمات .. وذات البنت وذات الصبي ..
فقط تختلف اسماء المدن ..
انتظارا لأمل الفجر البني ..ولو كان جني ..
I've been in this beautiful library several times before. It was always so crowded, that I even didn't think about taking the camera out. Guess I was lucky this time...
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Adjoining the cathedral of Siena is the Piccolomini Library, housing precious illuminated choir books and frescoes based on designs by Raphael.
The visual impact of these very colourful frescoes is stunning. The frescoes tell the story of the life of Siena's favourite son, cardinal Enea Silvio Piccolomini, who eventually became Pope Pius II.
In the middle of the library is the famous statue Three Graces, a Roman copy of a Greek original.
Just before the baton moved
Kaneland String Ensemble
Kaneland Community Fine Arts Festival
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Afternoon walk in the autumnal forest near Strümpfelbach, Germany
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Deliblato Sands (Serbian: Делиблатска Пешчара, Deliblatska Peščara) is a large sand area situated in the Vojvodina province, Serbia. It is located in southern Banat (mostly in the South Banat District, with a smaller part in the Central Banat District). The sand is named after the village of Deliblato, which is situated in the municipality of Kovin.
Deliblatska Peščara is the largest sandy terrain in Europe, once part of a vast prehistoric desert. It originated from the withdrawal of the Pannonian Sea. Due to its forest and surroundings, it was proclaimed to be the Special Nature Reserve.
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The Pannonian Plain is a large plain in Central Europe that remained when the Pliocene Pannonian Sea dried out. It is a geomorphological subsystem of the Alps-Himalaya system.
The river Danube divides the plain roughly in half.
The plain is divided among Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine.
The plain is roughly bounded by the Carpathian mountains, the Alps, the Dinaric Alps and the Balkan mountains.
Although rain is not plentiful, it usually falls when necessary and the plain is a major agricultural area; it is sometimes said that these fields of rich loamy loess soil could feed the whole of Europe. For its early settlers, the plain offered few sources of metals or stone. Thus when archaeologists come upon objects of obsidian or chert, copper or gold, they have almost unparalleled opportunities to interpret ancient pathways of trade.
The precursor to the present plain was a shallow sea that reached its greatest extent during the Pliocene, when three to four kilometres of sediments were deposited.
The plain was named after the Pannonians, a northern Illyrian tribe. Various different peoples inhabited the plain during its history. In the first century BC, the eastern parts of the plain belonged to the Dacian state, and in the first century AD its western parts were subsumed into the Roman Empire. The Roman province named Pannonia was established in the area, and the city of Sirmium, today Sremska Mitrovica, Serbia, became one of the four capital cities of the Roman Empire in the 3rd century.
The light from a thousand stars, some of it travelling for more than 10,000 years, finally ends its journey in my camera.
This photo was taken from my favourite star location, Porteau Cove Provincial Park, on a brightly moonlit night, and is a rework of a series of images I shot in January.
This is made up from 191 stacked photographs, taken at 16mm, f/3.5, ISO 2500, and with a little creativity applied in Photoshop.
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Non esiste altro posto al mondo dove vorrei passare la mia vita; amo profondamente la Sardegna e con le mie immagini cerco di trasmettere le emozioni che provo tutte le volte che faccio uno scatto!
Anche il cantautore Fabrizio de Andrè la pensava come me, mi piace molto una sua frase:
« La vita in Sardegna
è forse la migliore
che un uomo possa augurarsi:
ventiquattro mila chilometri di foreste,
di campagne,
di coste immerse in un mare miracoloso dovrebbero coincidere
con quello che io consiglierei al buon Dio
di regalarci come Paradiso »
Le immagini che vi propongo sono della baia chiamata "Torre del Porticciolo", un posto incantevole che si trova a pochi chilometri da Alghero!
Billowing Bromo Volcano
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Taken with my new Zeiss Distagon 21mm f/2.8 ZE Lens. I love it ! It is crisp and sharp from corner to corner.
Alf listless in his tub. He had fever but he is a bit better right now; although still sneezing!
His appetite is still not very good but thank God he is slowly recovering!
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Sending you friendship and love,
Addy
Here is my group dedicated to my sweet friend : ♥ A Cat Everyday...... Keeps the Loneliness Away ♥
(and it is so true) !
Oh my Gosh sweet Alf, you are at Explore! Highest position: 280 on Monday, April 15, 2013. Thank you so much everyone, I really appreciate this and Alf does too!
Oh and rising again. Today 276 June 28th 2017!!
Alfie has passed away ♱ on August 5th 2021
No trucaré un cielo en mi vida, respeto el recuerdo de cada momento vivido......la memoria fiel que supone la fotografía.
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Wild water is splashing on the rocks as the sun is slowly setting behind the Øresund Bridge.
Na foto acima, vemos o rio Tibre em Roma, com a ponte que conduz ao castelo de Sant´Angelo. Ao longo dessa ponte monumental, construída para resistir aos séculos, encontram-se imagens de anjos, os fiéis que transpõem lentamente a ponte, rezando diante dessas imagens certas orações prescritas pela Igreja, ganham indulgência plenária, desde que depois visitem o castelo. Os antigos imperadores romanos pagãos tinham o hábito de construir para si monumentos nos quais se faziam sepultar. E este, inserido na cidade de Roma, que serviu de base para o futuro castelo de Sant'Angelo, foi mandado construir pelo Imperador Adriano (78 – 138), a partir do ano de 135. Na época dos romanos, chamava-se Mole Adriana (Mole significa algo com grande massa). Apresenta um diâmetro colossal e é uma afirmação do poder romano. Na Idade Média, devido às contínuas guerras, este monumento passou a ter diversas finalidades.
Quem olha de fora o palácio do Vaticano percebe que, em determinada altura, parte um corredor construído sobre arcadas, que atravessa o Tibre e atinge o castelo. Qual a finalidade desse corredor? Quando havia perigo iminente de um Papa ser aprisionado, ele utilizava-o para atingir o castelo. Era a suprema defesa do Pontífice. Não era simpático um Papa morar numa fortaleza, mas era muito cômodo ele ter uma à sua disposição para escapar de seus inimigos.
Com o seu contorno inconfundível cilíndrico e posição particularmente cênica ao longo da costa do Rio Tibre, o Castelo Sant'Angelo é um dos mais famosos marcos da cidade de Roma. A sua aparência atual é o resultado de uma longa série de transformações que, na realidade, não deixaram vestígios da gloriosa Roma "Hadrianeum", o mausoléu que o imperador Adriano construiu para si e os seus sucessores. No centro, na cúpula da torre central, houve provavelmente uma estátua de bronze do imperador sob o disfarce do Sol, a comandar uma quadriga. Mas, nos tempos medievais, o mausoléu mudou a sua função de túmulo imperial. Torres e muralhas foram erguidas durante o reinado do imperador Aureliano e um bastião defensivo foi aqui construído durante as invasões bárbaras.
Na Idade Média, o Castelo Sant'Angelo tinha-se transformado numa fortaleza praticamente inexpugnável numa posição particularmente estratégica que defendeu a entrada norte da cidade. O Vaticano encomendou a construção de um corredor coberto e fortificado que ligava ao Palácio do Vaticano, com a finalidade de ser usado em caso de perigo, como uma rota de fuga extrema. O Castelo Sant'Angelo também serviu para guardar a riqueza dos papas: a sala do tesouro no centro do forte foi uma espécie de seguro para Roma durante o Renascimento. O castelo também foi usado para armazenar enormes reservas de alimentos, que eram para ser utilizados em caso de um ataque ou cerco prolongado. Havia conjuntos de odres nas paredes, caixas d'água enormes, celeiros e até um moinho.
No entanto, no passado, Sant'Angelo foi tristemente usado para funções de natureza muito mais graves, os seus pátios foram palco de execuções por decapitação e os chefes dos condenados foram então tristemente pendurados um por dia ao longo da ponte como uma terrível advertência. Nas pequenas, celas húmidas e escuras, os prisioneiros morreram de fome e sede ou devido a terríveis torturas. Foi aqui que Benvenuto Cellini, Cagliostro e Giordano Bruno foram presos antes de serem queimados na fogueira na praça Campo dei Fiori. Mais tarde, após o estabelecimento do Estado italiano, a estrutura foi transformada num quartel militar.
Hoje é visitado por turistas de todo o mundo e é o lar do Museu Nacional de Castelo Sant'Angelo. Um marco muito querido da cidade é a estátua do Arcanjo São Miguel, erguida no enorme terraço, da qual o castelo tem o seu nome. Foi criado em memória de uma antiga lenda que fala da terrível praga que atingiu Roma em 590 a.C. e que terminou graças à aparição de um anjo por cima do castelo concedendo este, a graça à cidade quando embainhou a sua espada. Terá sido uma lenda?
A lendo do Castelo de Sant'Angelo …Ou não será lenda?
No início da Idade Média disseminou-se uma epidemia muito grave em Roma. O Papa São Gregório Magno (590 – 604) ordenou missas e procissões na cidade em louvor a São Miguel Arcanjo, para afugentar a peste. Pouco depois, no ano de 590 o Arcanjo São Miguel apareceu ao Papa anunciando o fim da epidemia. E viu-se também o Arcanjo em cima da Mole Adriana, transformando assim a suprema glória de um Papa. É por isso que foi colocada no alto do edifício a imagem de São Miguel. Na história da Igreja são mencionadas duas aparições de S. Miguel: Uma ao Papa Gelásio I no monte Gargano embora a mais conhecida seja esta, de que foi dignado o Papa S. Gregório, o Grande. S. Miguel apareceu ao Papa no Castelo de Sant'Angelo e em sinal do fim da epidemia, meteu a espada na bainha. Realmente a epidemia sessou imediatamente de fazer vítimas.
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An unplanned and different take on the Flickr-popular 'The Potholes' in La Jolla, California. Truly one of the joys of photography for me is coming away with an image that was completely unexpected from what was pre-visualized. With my tripod set up for landscapes, a surfer popped into the scene and immediately became my mid ground and main subjects.
While in La Jolla and hanging out on this shelf, I also had the unexpected pleasure of meeting the very talented Wil Shieh (Lightvision). If you have the chance, check out his excellent work on his photostream. www.flickr.com/photos/stinky_tofu/
Canon EOS 5D Mark III | EF 17-40 L @ 17mm | 0.3 sec | ISO 1250 | f/4
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Valley of Fire , Nevada
Sometimes nature is full of magic and Valley of Fire state park is no exception with all these wonderful colors.
Nikon D800
Nikon 24-70mm 2.8G
* HAPPY EASTER * FROHE OSTERN * JOYEUSES PÂQUES * FELICES PASCUAS *
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Feel free to take the egg you like best ;-))
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