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Goats are one of the oldest domesticated animals, having been used for centuries for their milk, meat, hair and skin. In the twentieth century they also gained in popularity as pets. It is believed that the native peoples living in mountains of Iran were the first to domesticate these animals.
The domestic goat (Capra aegagrus hircus) is a subspecies of goat domesticated from the wild goat of southwest Asia and Eastern Europe. The goat is a member of the Bovidae family and is closely related to the sheep as both are in the goat-antelope subfamily Caprinae. There are over 300 distinct breeds of goat.
This picture was taken in Wildpark Frankenhof in Reken, Münsterland, Germany.
De geit (Capra aegagrus hircus)is al vele millennia gedomesticeerd en speelt al lang een belangrijke rol binnen de veeteelt. Behalve de gedomesticeerde geit, is er ook de wilde geit, waar de gedomesticeerde geit een nakomeling van is. Als stamvorm van de huisgeit werd de bezoargeit (Capra aegagrus) vermoedelijk reeds rond 7000 v.Chr. in Voor-Azië gedomesticeerd. Wereldwijd zouden er ongeveer 450 miljoen geiten zijn, verdeeld over een driehonderdtal verschillende rassen. In Nederland zijn circa 250.000 geiten.
Als huisdier is de geit door de mens in alle werelddelen ingevoerd. In hun oorspronkelijke, droge leefgebieden werden ze hoofdzakelijk gehouden voor het vlees en de huiden. Later ontdekte men in Europa dat de geit in staat is om grote hoeveelheden melk te produceren. Voor mensen die allergisch zijn voor koeienmelk is geitenmelk meestal een goede vervanger. De melk bevat ongeveer hetzelfde vet- en eiwitgehalte als koeienmelk. Geitenmelk is lichter verteerbaar. Een geit geeft gemiddeld drie liter melk per dag. Slechts een beperkt aantal rassen wordt voor de wol gehouden, de bekendste is de Angorageit.
In de twintigste eeuw zijn geiten ook populair geworden als huisdier. Geiten zijn sociale dieren en ideaal om kinderen te leren met dieren om te gaan. Ze zijn lief, aaibaar en erg nieuwsgierig. Ze ontbreken daarom nooit op kinderboerderijen.
Deze foto is genomen in Wildpark Frankenhof, in Reken, Münsterland, Duitsland.
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Believe it or not I hadn’t set out to make a photograph from this famous location. Along with my wife and children I had just been for a wander up to the Quiraing*, (Scots Gaelic: Cuith-raing) and the path passes very close to this spot. We were on our way back to the car after a morning and early afternoon of bright sunshine and squally showers, but by now it looked like heavier rain was setting in. I thought that it might just be dull enough overhead for it to be worth trying something, and this image is the result. I was hoping that the sky at the top left of the frame might darken a bit, but it didn't happen. Within 5 minutes the rain was torrential and it was time to pack up.
*You’ll often see this view referred to as ‘The Quiraing’, but this is in fact looking away from that feature towards the summits of Cleat and Bioda Buidhe, part of the Trotternish Ridge (Druim Thròndairnais).
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I was reading a Photography book, last night and there was a quote; "If taking an epic shot, why not make it double epic with a reflection." I can't agree more.
A perfect reflection of Maligne Lake Boathouse in Jasper National Park and a collection of images in the different seasons, through my trips to the Canadian Rockies.
This is an enchanted place, no to be missed if you're in the area.
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"Adventure in the Land of the Ancient Gods"
LADAKH : Day 6
Scenic view with a small mountain stream that flows into the lake of Tsomoriri,
Korzok Village ~ Southeast Ladakh
Around 240 kms to the south east of Leh lies a region that is still less frequented by tourists.
Tucked away in a remote area of this region at an altitude of 4,595m (15,075 ft) is one of nature’s wonders - the lake of Tso Moriri, the centrepiece of the Rupshu valley which cradles the lake in mountains 6 km (20,000 ft) high. The lake is fed by many streams and it has no shortage of water which flows abundantly from Himalayan snowmelt through the summer.
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This is a railway crossing on the way to Meherabad in Maharashtra.
A thin straight line of the railway track runs through the vast open landscape. The narrow road runs alongside. It is a place which has a distinct character. It is the topography of the land or how the road loops to the crossing, it is hard to say. Or perhaps it has to do with the whole ambience of the nearby ashrama of Meher Baba which lends it an air of silent expectation.
There is no shuffling madness here that Ian Anderson wrote about nor are there any losers running headlong to their death but there is a Locomotive Breath..ing down alright. Organized religion has its pace and time and I hope it is on the decline.
LIsten to Jethro Tull singing that song
In the shuffling madness of the locomotive breath
runs the alltime loser headlong to his death.
Oh
he feels the piston scraping
steam breaking on his brow.
Old Charlie stole the handle
and the train
it won't stop going no way to slow down. Oh
Oh.
He sees his children jumping off at stations one by one.
His woman and his best friend in bed and having fun.
Oh
he's crawling down the corridor on his hands and his knees.
Old Charlie stole the handle
and the train
it won't stop going no way to slow down. Oh
Oh.
He hears the silence howling
catches angels as they fall
And the alltime winner has got him by the balls.
Oh
he picks up Gidean's Bible; open at page one.
I thank God he stole the handle
and the train
it won't stop going no way to slow down.
No way to slow down.
No way to slow down.
No way to slow down.
I have three flickr friends who are train spotters and lovers of the railways. This is also for them
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Taken on February 16, 2011 at 3.54pm IST (edit)
Posted to Flickr October 18, 2011 at 10.07PM IST (edit)
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Música: Ein Prosit
Inspirada na Oktoberfest de Munique, a versão blumenauense nasceu da vontade do povo em expressar seu amor pela vida e pelas tradições germânicas. Sua primeira edição foi realizada em 1984. Consagrada como a segunda maior festa alemã do mundo, a Oktoberfest é a confraternização de gente de todas as partes.
Ela nasceu inspirada na maior festa da cerveja do mundo, a Oktoberfest de Munique, na Alemanha, que deu seus primeiros passos em 1810, no casamento do Rei Luis I da Baviera com a
Princesa Tereza da Saxônia.
Em Blumenau, a Oktoberfest está na alma do povo, faz parte da história de cada um.
Por isso outubro é um mês especial. São 18 dias de festa, em que os blumenauenses se integram com visitantes de todo o Brasil e do exterior.
E não há quem não se encante com os desfiles, com a participação dos clubes de caça e tiro ou com a apresentação dos grupos folclóricos.
Fonte:www.oktoberfestblumenau.com.br/oktoberfest/historia
Inspired by the Munich Oktoberfest, the version blumenauense born of the will of the people to express their love for life and Germanic traditions. Its first edition was held in 1984. Consecrated as the second largest German party in the world, the Oktoberfest is a fellowship of people from all over.
She was born inspired by the largest beer festival in the world, the Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany, which took its first steps in 1810, the marriage of King Louis I of Bavaria with the
Princess Theresa of Saxony.
In Blumenau, the Oktoberfest is in the soul of the people, part of the history of each one.
So October is a special month. There are 18 days of celebration, in which blumenauenses integrate with visitors from all over Brazil and abroad.
And there is not enchanted with the shows, with the participation of hunting and shooting clubs or with the presentation of folk groups.
The stunning clarity you get at night from very high altitude is an astronomers dream. Here you can clearly see the constellation Orion rising over Lake Tioga at an altitude of 6,636 feet above sea level. At this altitude, the air is thin and crisp and makes for some stunning night photography. We were assisted by a nearly full moon that elegantly illuminated the peaks and forest of the High Sierra. A walk down to the lake can be breathtaking, literally as the air is much thinner. Lake Tioga lies just outside the Eastern entrance of Yosemite National Park. It's distance from the valley makes it somewhat less traveled and even more of a thrill for tourist who make the extra effort. It's truly one of the gems of the Sierra Nevada Mountain range.
You can clearly see the star Betelgeuse, bright yellow star on the left which is a Red Supergiant star and one of the most luminous stars in the sky. It outshines the second brightest star in the constellation Rigel, the star on the opposite corner that makes up the constellation. The clouds were so thin, wispy and moving at a good clip that the long exposure allowed the constellations to show though. I found this effect to be quite exciting as it allows you to see both the constellations and the brightly moonlit clouds at the same time.
I made the late night trip with fell Flickr photographers Matt Granz and Miguel (aka Amigo). As we drove past it was clear we would have to stop. We spent over an hour photographing the lake before moving on to Mono Lake and more stellar shots from the High Desert. The trip was mainly to photograph some of the Fall Color that dots the Eastern Sierra and we would not be disappointed. So stay tuned as there will be many more equally great shots to come.
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Darv
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Just an old reworked shot.
I'm staring to get the itch to take some new photos, sure do miss you all, have a great week ahead!
Por motivos laborales (afortunadamente) voy a tener un poquito abandonado el vicio flickero...pero seguro que no tanto como esto...
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ubermummy asked me to do a picture that conceptually means "fuck cancer". So this is what I came up with.
5 fedoradollars for anyone who can spot where I displaced my eye. It's very hard to find yet I placed an entire fucking eye ball from guy on the right in a different part of the picture.
More "hat chronicles" stuff tomorrow. I think minipimp might have a little something up her sleeve. Or will the cowboy get one over on her? It is rumored there will be another character possibly returning from the pimps past. Oh my!
I am celebrating pimp week by getting people to hold pimp signs on the street. I'll post them all sunday.
Bye!
It's rainy now and it seems that rain is washing out our Indian summer... oh well we shouldn't be complaining as we had these fantastic sunny days lately :-)
So my fave spot of Toronto's Mixed Forest is loving this mist at early blue hour settings...
More autumnal impressions (rain or shine) will come soon - Stay tuned! / Bientot a l'ecran! :-)
The series Toronto's Mixed Forest
You are most welcome to look through the set or you may like to see it as a slide show.
Summer into autumn
When summer gathers up her robes of glory,
And, like a dream, glides away.
~ Sarah Helen Whitman
Webster Ponds Park
Il 16° parossismo dell'Etna visto dalla schiena dell'asino nel pomeriggio dell'8 ottobre 2011
16th paroxysm of Mt.Etna. Taken from schiena dell'asino on the border of Valle del bove on october 8, 2011
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I always feel a bit sad when I find these Red Deer Stags all alone during rutting season, this one looked totally fed up, you should have seen the look on his face when he rested his head down, fully aware that his counterpart has all the ladies :)
There is an insect visible in shot if you can find it LOL :)
Don't forget BBC2 8:30pm AUTUMNWATCH tonight :) No Kate Humble this year :(
Can anybody find me somebody to love?
Each morning I get up I die a little
Can barely stand on my feet
Take a look in the mirror and cry
Lord what you're doing to me
I have spent all my years in believing you
But I just can't get no relief, Lord!
Somebody, somebody
Can anybody find me somebody to love?
Una Orquidea para Quinta flower
Realmente es una de las flores que menos me gusta, me parecen extrañas, carnosas, artificiosas, complicadas......pero sé que son manias......
Estas crecen al aire libre en la finca de mi madre, en Quitapesares (O Rosal).
Ninguna familia de plantas tiene una gama de flores tan variada, como ésta de las Orchidaceae, que posee nada menos que 20.000 especies.
Asi que dada la enorme información que existe sobre ellas, dejo un enlace
A crescent moon illuminates some thin clouds in the night sky over New Mexico. The glow over the mountain at lower left is light pollution from Truth or Consequences, NM. Taken from Fort Craig National Historic Site. I've added notes for the prominent objects in the night sky.
Canon 5D Mark II, Sigma 50mm: ISO 6400, 4s @ f/1.4. Two vertical shots stitched together.
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From Torö in the southern part of Stockholm archipelago, Denes took me there !
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# Highest position: 242 on Sunday, October 9, 2011
# New Highest position: 222 on Thursday, October 13, 2011
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It's funny how things come together at times. It was the last morning of my vacation. I get my 4 a.m. wake up call from the roosters. I get up look out the window and it's pouring rain. I'm thinking to myself what a way to enjoy my last day on vacation. I get back into bed, and lie there for the next hour listening to the roosters just hoping and wishing for the rain to stop. 5 a.m. comes around and it's still raining. What should I do? Should I get up and go? Should I just stay in bed and go back to sleep? All these thoughts are going through my head. I'm making myself mental!
I decide to get up and go. I make my 15min drive to the location. It's still raining with no signs of any breaks. I get to the parking lot, look to the east. Rain......a lot of rain. I get back into the truck and sit for the next half an hour watching the rain contemplating if I should stay or leave. Wait.......I see a break on the horizon. The sky has a real faint glow, but it's at least a 15 min hike down to the beach. The trail down to the beach here is very steep. If it has been raining, forget about it. The trail is slick and muddy. There wouldn't be enough time to get down to the beach, so I decide to go with my plan B; shoot from the cliffs. I make my way slowly down the trail. I'm slipping and sliding all over the place. I get to the spot where I want to be at, I set up, and start shooting. The scene at this point is dark and moody with subtle light on the horizon. After a few frames the rain starts really coming down. I tried to stick it out in the rain for as long as I could but it was just too much. I pack my gear up in defeat. The conditions weren't in my favor this time around, but it's ok.......I've got great light at this location 4 days in row! ;-)
I make my way back up the trail, I take one last look at this killer view and all of a sudden I see this glow on the sea cliffs. The glow starts to get more intense, I can't say the curses that came out of my mouth, but I was swearing up a storm as I ran back down the trail slipping and sliding all over the place. The heart pounding heavy breathing intensity that was going through my body was crazy. The light started illuminating the shore line as if someone had slowly open the blinds in a room that was dark. When I was focusing in live view at x10 I could see the sunlight piercing through the rain! It was one of the most incredible scenes that I have seen. I would say this was a great way to start the morning.
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This picture was shot on a tripod with three exposures (-2..0..+2 EV). I used Photomatix to create the HDR with tone mapping and detail enhanced. I increased the overall saturation with Hue/Saturation in Photoshop. 1 layer mask in soft light mode at 50% gray, using brush tool to lighten and darken some areas of the image, to bring out details. Used Nik Sharpener Pro to sharpen image.
Sunrise view from our room during our stay in Vancouver BC. Please see below for the night scene views. Accommodation provided by our friends Bonnie and Ken.
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"We don't bleed when we don't fight
Go ahead, go ahead lose your shirts in the fire tonight
What makes you think I'm enjoyin' being led to the flood?
We got another thing comin' undone"
"If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work." - Ogden Nash
"The money you make will only serve you as well as you serve others". - Duane Alan Hahn
La historia de este Convento se remonta a su fundacion por el Gran Príncipe Basilio III en 1524, para conmemorar la toma de Smolensk. Cabe destacar que la catedral es la parte más antigua del convento y contiene objetos de arte maravillosos.
Es el segundo conjunto arquitectónico de importancia en Moscú después del Kremlin. Rodeado por murallas de 11 metros de altura en su interior se levantan varias iglesias entre las que se destacan Nuestra Señora de Smolensk con el iconostacio más hermoso de Moscú y la Iglesia de la Transfiguración. También se puede observar algunos palacios y un hermoso cementerio en el que están enterrados artistas y científicos muy conocidos como Chejov, Mayakovsky, Esenin.
A diferencia de otros monasterios moscovitas, ha permanecido virtualmente intacto desde el siglo XVII. En 2004, fue proclamado Patrimonio de la Humanidad.
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Misty morning (at last).
Three exposure HDR. First time I've used photomatix for a couple of years, it's improved !
Twenty supercars for your viewing pleasure. These are not toy cars :)
Aston Martin DBS
Aston Martin V8 Vantage
Maserati GranTurismo
Lamborghini Gallardo
Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera
Lamborghini Gallardo LP 570-4 Superleggera
Mansory Panamera Turbo
Ferrari 360 Challenge Stradale
Ferrari F430 (x8)
Ferrari F430 Spider (x2)
Ferrari 458 Italia
Porsche 996 Turbo
What are all those aircraft doing to all my lovely star trails. Those vandals! And who made the sky a muddy brown?!
There was no moon on this night so all the light is supplied by light leakage from the 7 million inhabitants of the San Francisco Bay Area - yes, even the light on the face of the mountain is from light pollution.
The brown resulted because the exposures were started later in the evening - long after twilight. Without the moon to "blue up" the sky the stray light of low pressure sodium vapor lamps and tungsten lights works its muddy deed. When I get a few months I may try to REMOVE all of those aircraft trails from the SFO and OAK airport it seems, however, that it's like trying to paint out graffiti on a Los Angeles Freeway...
If you want to know more about Mission Peak I wrote a lovely article on my blog.
If you're wondering "Steven, how do you get these long exposures late at night - the park closes at 10 pm" the answer is: I'm already home asleep! I make my camera do the work by itself. If you do happen to see a camera all by itself in Mission Peak Preserve... please leave it alone - it doesn't take well to strangers ;-)
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