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Una parte de Caracas vista desde El Ávila. (mejor verla en grande)

En el link escucharás la canción Canto a Caracas de Billos Caracas Boys, mientras paseas por una reseña del Caracas F.C.

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpCJ9Mx9WiU

Sütel-Strand, Baltic Sea, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

 

View this picture large on black (must)

 

Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission. © 2006 Dietrich Bojko, All rights reserved.

The dining room of the main house at our summer cottage. HDR shot, no Photoshop. Grundvik, Porvoo. August 2006.

Zion National Park in Southern Utah.

Zhuhai Jida District panorama, taken from the roof of the highrise building I was living in at that time. View in XXL

 

Featured:

- Left foreground: Haiwan Garden

- Just right of center: Jiuzhou Port

- South China Sea

 

Explore #234 on Saturday, August 30, 2008

 

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He would not tell me his name.

 

He would not tell me his dreams.

 

I found him at a pro-Hezbollah rally in Paris. I asked if I could take a photograph of his interesting face. He tapped his ear, looked sideways, and then said I could take his picture even though "you have the blue eyes."

   

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This is Khaju Bridge in Isfahan, which was made about 400 years ago!

Check the Google satellite imagery of this amazing bridge here:

maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=isfahan,+iran&am...

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I've uploaded this photo to inform all my friends of 3rd Iranian flickr gathering in Hamedan.

Please review the invitation here:

www.flickr.com/groups/iranian/discuss/72157594224071390/

 

Added to flickr Explore (interestingness) page of 5 August 2006.

(8th rank in 06/08/16)

The folly of man! In late May this year, an oil drilling project cracked open a natural gas-rich water lode at a depth of around 6,000 feet (1,800 metres) inundating about 200 hectares of highly urban Sidoarjo with at least 10 feet of noxius mud high in fluoride and laced with sulphur. About 8,000 people have to be evacuated as factories, rice paddies, homes and a major toll highway were swallowed by hot flowing earth. Today, culverts that were placed to make the road usable are just about to be flooded again.

 

Read this link and more.

 

by the roadside of the toll road at Sidoarjo, East Java, Indonesia

 

read on the Lapindo tragedy of East Java in colloidfarl.blogspot.com/

Da lassù si gode un panorama stupendo dello Stretto di Messima, si può vedere lo Ionio che si incontra con il Tirreno....

 

Name: Rugrat

Nicknames: Monkey or Moo

Turned: 8 in 2006 (pound kitty)

 

Very distinctive face line, pattern also shows on pads. 2 pink and 2 black.

 

Very sweet, but in need of constant reasurance. She is 90% blind. Sometimes sees movement and blurs. Mainly navigates by smell.

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Zoo de Bordeaux-Pessac - Gironde - Aquitaine - France

 

Je n'ai pas besoin de me marier. J'ai trois animaux à la maison qui remplissent le même rôle qu'un mari. J'ai un chien qui grogne le matin, un perroquet qui jure l'après-midi et un chat qui rentre tard dans la nuit.

Marie Corelli

I don't need to get married. Three animals at home fulfill that husband role. My dog who growls in the morning, my parrot who swears in the afternoon, and my cat who comes back late into the night.

Marie Corelli

With the kind help from Andre in NYC

www.flickr.com/photos/nycandre/

   

Depuis l'invention du phonographe et du gramophone, le perroquet est devenu un volatile dont le besoin ne se fait plus aucunement sentir.

Alphonse Allais

Since the invention of the gramophone, the parrot became a bird which is not needed any more.

Alphonse Allais

  

Ara ararauna (Blue and Gold Macaw, Blue and Yellow Macaw)

 

Longueur totale : 85 cm. Envergure des ailes : 50 cm. Poids adulte : 850 g

Distribution : Amérique centrale et du Sud: du Panama au nord du Paraguay.

Ils sont encore assez commun dans certaines régions : forêts tropicales, savanes, zones découvertes, marais et abords de l'eau. Ils nichent dans des trous de palmiers secs.

Ils vivent toujours en couple ou en bande. Les couples restent formés à l'intérieur des bandes, même en vol. Le mâle est dominant. Il peut se montrer extrêmement protecteur et donc agressif pendant la reproduction. L'Ara Ararauna est un perroquet monogame, très fidèle. Lorsque le couple s'est formé, il demeure très uni jusqu'à ce qu'un des deux disparaisse. Ils passent leur temps à se becqueter comme pour témoigner de leur affection l'un envers l'autre.

Ils sont granivores, herbivores et frugivores. L' Ara n'a pas d'odorat. Il est gaucher ou droitier. Pour manger, il développe une préférence pour l'une ou l'autre de ses pattes.

Ce sont des oiseaux très affectueux et très intelligents qui apprennent extraordinairement bien à imiter et à parler.

L' Ara n'a pas beaucoup de prédateurs mis à part quelques félins et rapaces diurnes (Aigle huppé, Harpie féroce, Spizaète orné) mais son principal ennemi est sans aucun doute l'homme qui détruit la forêt tropicale.

L'exportation du perroquet est illégale. Pour chaque Ara exporté qui arrive vivant, cinq vont mourir.

  

Ara ararauna (Blue and Gold Macaw, Blue and Yellow Macaw)

 

Overall length: 85 cm. Span of the wings: 50 cm. Adult weight: 850 G

Distribution: Central America and South America: from Panama to the north of Paraguay. They are still rather common in certain areas: tropical forests, savannas, discovered zones, marsh and accesses of water. They nest in holes of dry palm trees.

They always live in couple or band. The couples remain formed inside the bands, even in flight. The male is dominating. It can thus be shown extremely protective and aggressive during the reproduction. The Macaw Ararauna is a parrot monogamist, very faithful. When the couple is formed, it remains very plain until one of both disappears. They spend their time caress each other with the beak to testify their affection one towards the other.

They are granivorous, herbivorous and frugivorous. The Macaw does not have sense of smell. It is left-handed or right-handed . To eat, it develops a preference for one or the other of its legs.

They are very affectionate and very intelligent birds wich learn extraordinarily well how to imitate and how to speak.

The Macaw has not many predatory besides some cat-like and diurnal raptors (crested Eagle, wild Harpy, decorated Spizaète) but its principal enemy is without any doubt the man who destroys the tropical forest.

The export of the parrot is illegal. For each exported Macaw which arrives alive, five will die.

  

Velvia100

 

Jul 2003

Biei, Hokkaido

無敵大合照啊!!

If you want to see how I made this (and how you can too!), visit my HDR Tutorial. I hope it gives you some new tricks!

 

This is Hamilton Pool, one of the best kept secrets in Austin. The preserve’s pool and grotto were formed when the dome of an underground river collapsed thousands of years ago. There is a ring of 45-foot waterfalls all around the rim. Flow was light this day, but you can still see a few streams of water coming down.

  

from my daily photo blog at www.stuckincustoms.com

Photo taken in Buenos Aires, Argentina

June 30th 2007 : • 3011 views / 43 people count this as a favorite / 46 comments

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Selected by FLICKR as "Most Interesting" (http://flickr.com/explore/interesting/2006/6/3/page48)

 

Click here to see where this photo was taken. By courtesy of BeeLoop SL (the Mapware & Mobility Solutions Company).

She has reached the summit of the very leafy Chinese Elm Tree. The Mona Lisa of Panda shots.

Haussee, 16356 Seefeld, Brandenburg, Germany

 

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Just the rising sun and a Dandelion seed head.

 

The simple things are good enough.

 

See the pearls On Black or better LARGE On Black with F11.

   

© AMMAR ALOTHMAN

 

Copyright for this photo belongs solely to AMMAR ALOTHMAN.

Images may not be copied, downloaded, or used in any way without the expressed, written permission of the photographer.

This is a long exposure taken on the beach at Ke'ei in South Kona last night.

 

I'm not sure I should even upload this, but hey, if I have to look at it, then so do you! LOL! As you can see the colors are very strange, and unlike some shots, I did not fiddle with the color at all in post -- this is as the camera saw it, other than some levels adjustments. Once again the GND filter somehow has exaggerated what at the time seemed like a very subtle sky color after sunset.

 

When I left the beach, I thought I might have some great shots, but once I looked at them on the computer, I just had to laugh!

... I'm back from rush-hour on 5th Avenue ...

A pix of a cool balancing Rock at Brimham Rocks. Brimham Rocks is located in North Yorkshire, England.

 

See my most popular photos by clicking JuanJ's TOP PHOTOS.

 

Thank you to everyone who takes the time to view, comment and Fave my photos!

 

Digital downloads and prints available at www.jlimages.net/.

 

I first came across this chap when I was taking money out of the Loyds TSB cash point on Saint Goerges road Kemptown and he said "have you got any money for drink and drugs sir?" I told him admired his honesty. "Sid the tramp" is what he calls him self not my words. He currently sleeps on the floor of a friends hall way so is not as homeless as he once was. The kids in the house where he sleeps take photos while he is asleep and have made a web site of the photos, unfortunately I can't find it! But he told me its some thing like sidthetramp.com with a bit of Yahoo in it so I suspect its on Yahoo's web space but i don't know how to find it.

 

Twitter / Instagram / Facebook / Blog

I disgust even myself. Ugh. And no, I don't really look (or act) like this (as far as you know)

  

Maybe I should call these "Lessons in how to be unattractive"

"In my silver ship I sail

a dream that ended to soon

now I know exactly who I am,

and what I am here for

and I will go sailing no more

 

All the things I thought I'd be,

all the brave things I'd done

vanished like a snowflake,

with the rising of the Sun

never more to sail my ship,

where no man has gone before

and I will go sailing no more..."

 

"I will go sailing no more"

Disney- Toy Story

Even as the storm was coming in he continued with his fishing.

 

I was lucky as I broke into a run after taking this shot and managed to prevent my precious camera and equipment from getting drenched. Hope he managed some shelter too.

 

This is the cliff opposite the famous Tanah Lot temple.

 

Bali, Indonesia

2006

 

Arjun Purkayastha • travel & fine art photography •

Sometime ago I wished that I can capture a traditional candlelight procession in an old town, viewing the ocean of illuminated faithful on top of a balcony of a century old house. The building across mine must be as old, spewing out rustic details of days of the past. The spot had be at the corner so that the candles will be a stream of curving flickring lines. Thanks to rox?, the dream became a reality last Good Friday.

 

Ruvee, you're the best!

 

blogged in colloidfarl.blogspot.com/ :

- at the Good Friday procession in Bantayan town, Bantayan island, Cebu, the Philippines: Winning the Canon Smile 7107 Photo Contest 2007, and

 

- on being featured in The Glimpse ( part 1 and 2), a 5-man photo exhibit at the Park Mall, Mandaue City, Cebu, the Philippines

Photo taken in Buenos Aires, Argentina

November 24th 2007 : 1037 views / 24 people count this as a favorite / 52 comments

 

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The first experiment doubling myself! Still a lot to learn how to do it. :)

Freshly caught- that was what they were. Sitangkai is in the basin of the Sulu Sea teeming with marine life. Being Muslim, the people of Tawi-Tawi rely on fish for protein. Beef is practically non-existent as the islands in Sitangkai are small. Goats and chicken are also few. But when you have a bounty of the sea right at your doorstep, you would not really miss terra firma meat.

 

in the public market of the island of Sitangkai, Tawi-Tawi province, the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao, Sulu archipelago, the Philippines

 

more pics and journeys in colloidfarl.blogspot.com/

I was on an open traditional temper boat when I took this shot. My subject of course was the sun-bleached cottonii seaweed being dried on the platform of this traditional house on stilts in Sibutu island. (This is an official business trip after all). The picturesque chance just presented itself: boards of attractive paint of teal over clear still waters at 8 early in the morning. The sun was not yet harsh and high so the reflections were long and lazy.

 

in barangay Ungus Ungus, Sibutu island, municipality of Sitangkai, Tawi-Tawi province, the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao, Sulu archipelago, the Philippines

 

more pics and journeys in colloidfarl.blogspot.com/

The farming of the seaweed cottonii, Eucheuma striatum, began in the Philippines in the 1960s under the auspices of the University of Hawaii, USAID and Marine Colloids, a US carrageenan firm. However, mariculture started seriously only in 1973 when a cultivar was discovered by a Sitangkai farmer called Tambalang. This variety was later recognized as a totally different species (and genus) and renamed Kappaphycus alvarezii var. tambalang in honor of Mr. Vicente Alvarez, a biologist of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources who became the first Manager of Marine Colloids and Mr. Tambalang, the true pioneers of cottonii cultivation.

 

Today, the Philippine still leads in the red seaweed farming and carrageenan manufacturing in the world.

 

at Tandubanak, Sibutu island, Sitangkai municipality, Tawi-Tawi province, the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao, the Philippines

 

more pics and journeys in colloidfarl.blogspot.com/

The Sky / The Earth

11mm lens

larger size

خليفة السويدي

22 - 3 - 2006

Doha - Qatar

Sometimes if you use a polarizing filter optimally it looks to me like you're poking straight through the atmosphere. Definitely best viewed large.

One joins the Sinulog for several reasons: obligation, piety, community volunteerism, remuneration. But when you already are in the thick of it all, you soon realize that you are also there to have fun. These guys are seriously enjoying themselves and I applaud them for it.

 

the Sinirangan contingent of Eastern Samar during the Sinulog mardi gras, Cebu City, the Philippines

 

more pics and journeys in colloidfarl.blogspot.com/

Shizuoka , full moon night.

moonlit Mt.Fuji

Today is Valentine day 2006. Instead of roses, I select the love fishes to celebrate this day with Flickr member. This fish,in Japan, is called "Koi" which means Love. It's quite difficult to take photo of fast moving fishes with sunlight in shade. Photo is taken at Chok Chai farm house, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand.

To take this shot, I inclined more than half body over the pond and my friend just held my hand preventing me falling down to the pond. However, I dropped skylight filter into the water, but got it back later.

 

Which love fish do you like ?

 

... A lasting investment till the tide comes in but please don't tell anyone that.

 

Up for grabs : A vast expanse of real estate gound overlooking the sea at Royan in France. Ideal for building castles on or hotels if you're into Monopoly.

 

Prices : Negotiable at low tide and when the coast is clear.

 

For further details, please contact Sandy & Co., Honest Brokers.

 

Beware of sharks at all times and in all forms!

 

And remember, if your finances do dry up, running water is yours for the taking twice a day to tide you over.

 

And, major tax cuts are on the horizon. Just imagine, you'll be able to see your tax cuts every day!

 

Shot on location near the sea, would you believe.

 

P'tit Glossaire - en cas de besoin! (ツ)

up for grabs = à saisir / à prendre / disponible

when the coast is clear = lorsque la voie est libre

to dry up = s'épuiser

to be yours for the taking = être gratuit

to tide someone over = dépanner quelqu’un

on the horizon = à l'horizon

shark = requin (dans tous les sens du terme)

running water twice a day (the tide) = la marée

to be into something = aimer faire quelque chose

The Pond = l'océan atlantique (Voir note ci-dessous)

 

View in lightbox and back again to see the notes. Sorry but it's just a Flickr quirck.

 

Take great care, my friends, and many, many thanks for calling,

 

Colin ...

 

  

                                                  (。◕‿◕。)

  

 

Photo taken in Argentina / This photo was selected as "Most Interesting" in EXPLORE FLICKR!! (http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/2006/02/01/page2/)

 

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