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Arise And Shine
August tends to have the most amazing sunrises. The spectacle begins early on a summer morning; The first rays break the horizon scattering shards of brilliant yellow and gold across the dew-soaked grass. The warmth gradually spreads, chasing away the lingering coolness of the night. It's a perfect way to start a day, a daily reminder of nature's breathtaking beauty and the promise of a new adventure.
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Sun Arise come every mornin'
Sun Arise come every mornin'
Sun Arise come every mornin'
Bringin' back the warmth to the ground
Sun Arise fillin' up the hollow
Sun Arise fillin' up the hollow
Sun Arise fillin' up the hollow
Bringin' back the warmth to the ground
Sun Arise, she come every mornin'
Sun Arise, each and every day
Sun Arise, she come every mornin'
Sun Arise
ever-y ever-y ever-y ever-y day
She drive away the darkness everyday
She drive away the darkness everyday
She drive away your darkness everyday
Bringin' back the warmth to the ground
Sun Arise
Whoa-oh-oh
Sun Arise
Whoa-oh-oh
Sun Arise
Whoa-oh-oh
ever-y ever-y ever-y ever-y day
Sung by Rolf Harris
(Harris - Butler) EMI Music Publishing Ltd (P) 1963
Acc. Johnnie Spence - Produced by George Martin
~ Up early - leaking overflow pipe ~ electrics cutting off ~ had enough really ~ house a mirror of myself ...
Continuing on with the exploration of complex new software ( "Affinity for Mac" ) that I recently purchased, incorporating two major new elements into my work - Layers and Text.
The inclusion of text for me in Art pieces was for a long time something of an anathema. I hated seeing it done and rejected doing in my own paintings as it shackled the abstract work to the ground, so to speak, to the everyday, mundane world of human talk.
Then came a long a patron who challenged me to give him my abstract painting style ALONG WITH incorporated text. I have a penchant for accepting all challenges and even though it was tough for me at first I soon learned to see the words and letters as just more formal or graphic elements in the total image. It opened up my artistic world by getting me to step out of my comfort zone.
When I presented said Mr. Taylor with the finished canvas, he immediately ordered a second one to hang next to it as a diptych. 3 more text-based pieces followed, all for the same patron.
For this image and the previous one, "Time and Time, Again" I wrote the text in the process of creating the image. I looked at the image, composited of a shot of the rubble of a building demolition and one of amaryllis growing in a greenhouse in January, and let the words come to me.
What came forward seems to say something about our current times when there's a tremendous threat of the demolition of much of what we once felt was safe and secure - things like freedom of thought and expression, freedom of assembly, freedom from hate and systemic persecution, freedom from the forces of ignorance.
Our current world view is dying. It has to. It quite clearly no longer serves us. Yet, out of every death comes some form of life, new life and perhaps a life that surprises us. And as surprising as it may be it will be something we did not expect. That's the beauty of it.
I learned recently, reading Rupert Sheldrake, that when cells die they produce a substance that enables new cells to be born. Without that substance new life can't come forth. If our old "world" is dying then there's some cause for joy - something new and unforeseen will be born out of it. So my message here is one of Hope in Dark Times.
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Music Link: "How Many Worlds" - Brian Eno, from his album, "Another Day on Earth".
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© Richard S Warner ( Visionheart ) - 2017. All Rights Reserved. This image is not for use in any form without explicit, express, written permission.
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I’m not a hardcore birder, I shoot only when both the opportunity and mood arise simultaneously, both of which does not happen very often.
I remember feeling challenged shooting this bird and as such it was a great experience.
1. Tiny bird, smaller even than the common Kingfisher but way more colourful.
2. This being a Forest Kingfisher, it’s always in the thicket, never in the open. Had to shoot at very low shutter speed hoping to catch it in between twitches just to keep ISO low enough to preserve details. Being as dim as it was, had to also boost up the EV to avoid having to do any shadow recovery.
3. 600mm even on APS-C crop was barely sufficient.
4. Trying to squeeze out as much details as possible. Used normal wireless release via OVF; MUP+EFC; Live-view, none made any consistent and significant difference. This was where I got a little mad at Nikon’s useless implementation of EFC on the D500, even more useless than the auto AF fine-tune feature. What’s the point of putting in features that don’t really work!? EFC in Live-view would have helped but infuriatingly, you can activate EFC in Live-view yet you can’t use EFC in Live-view, get your act together Nikon!
5. Getting the right pose with the beak pointing sideways and preferably upwards for the slightly haughty look plus some catch-light in the eye.
An experience to remember. a most beautiful bird, its red feathers extend down the centre back of its head to the collar in a narrowing ridge looking like its beak with the dark blue patches on each side of this ridge giving it the appearance of having eyes and beak at the back of its head! This is likely a defensive marking. Especially interesting when the Micronesia Kingfisher became extinct in the wild due to introduced brown tree snake sneaking up on it from behind while the bird was totally focused ahead and below as kingfishers normally do.
Shooting very small birds is always challenging as conditions constantly change with the subject constantly on the move while you aim for that perfect pose which can disappear in a twitch.
I toyed with the idea of getting the Sony a99ii with A-mount Tamron 150-600mm G2 after this but gave it up eventually. It’s not feasible to shoot with so many different systems.
Shot on tripod at 1/15s!
Uploaded a much better image (albeit cropped) with my latest post processing workflow.
Train momentum arises from the interest of the Clark brothers to achieve a better route for trade between the peoples of the interior of Argentina with the Chilean port of Valparaiso prompted to undertake this project. Besides that, by then, they themselves had tended in 1871 the first telegraphic service through mountain range between Santiago and Mendoza (Argentina).
The Trans-Andean Railroad, metric and gauge steam traction, ran from 1927 rack section between White River (Chile) and Las Cuevas (Argentina). In 1953 the tour reached Los Andes.
The tunnel of this photograph is an Argentine section from Las Cuevas to Mendoza.
In June 1984 it was out of service for freight transportation following avalanches produced in high mountain areas on both sides of the Cordillera. While the Argentine section was rebuilt, it was not the same with the Chilean stretch. Seven years later, in 1991, the last trip with passengers who arrived in the town of dust was performed.
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Very happy that this photograph was in the FLICKR EXPLORE on May 29th.
El impulso del tren surge del interés de los hermanos Clark por lograr una mejor ruta para el intercambio comercial entre los pueblos del interior de Argentina con el puerto chileno de Valparaíso los impulsó a emprender este proyecto. Además que para ese entonces, ellos mismos habían tendido en 1871 el primer servicio telegráfico a través de la cordillera entre Santiago de Chile y Mendoza (Argentina).
El ferrocarril Trasandino, de trocha métrica y con tracción vapor, recorrió desde 1927 la sección de cremallera entre Río Blanco (Chile) y Las Cuevas (Argentina). En 1953 su recorrido llegó hasta Los Andes.
El tunel de esta foto corresponde a un tramo argentino que va desde Las Cuevas hasta Mendoza.
En junio de 1984 quedó de fuera de servicio para el transporte de cargas a raíz de los aludes producidos en zonas de alta montaña de ambos lados de la Cordillera. Si bien el tramo argentino fue reconstruido, no pasó lo mismo con el tramo chileno. Siete años después, en 1991 se realizó el último viaje con pasajeros que llegó a la localidad de polvareda.
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Muy contento de que esta fotografía estuvo en EXPLORE DE FLICKR el 29 de mayo.
New York City's Financial District and Freedom Tower, part of the One World Trade Center complex, rises up from lower Manhattan. Viewed from the shores below Brooklyn Heights, this amazing collection of busy skyscrapers is offset by the calm waters and old jetty posts located just minutes across the river. From the wider collection © www.paulreiffer.com
Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
A trip to Hammarö southip on my christmas holiday. Stormy weather, Vänern had some real surf waves :)
Same day at sunset
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LE after the sunset
...and that from which its loveliness arises.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Texture with thanks to JoesSistah
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Happy St. Patrick's Day !
Two opposite chains of the Pasture ridge north of Kislovodsk: on the right hand there is the Jinal ridge with steppes and bushes while on the left hand you can see the table mountains of Borgustan ridge