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You're as cold as ice
You're willing to sacrifice our love
You never take advice
Someday you'll pay the price, I know
I've seen it before
It happens all the time
Closing the door
You leave the world behind
You're digging for gold
Yet throwing away
A fortune in feelings
But someday you'll pay
You're as cold as ice
You're willing to sacrifice our love
You want paradise
But someday you'll pay the price, I know
I've seen it before
It happens all the time
Closing the door
You leave the world behind
You're digging for gold
Yet throwing away
A fortune in feelings
But someday you'll pay
You know that you are
(Cold as ice)
As cold as ice to me
(Cold as ice)
You're as cold as ice
Cold as ice I know
Yes, I know
You're as cold as ice
Cold as ice I know
Oh, yes I know
You're as cold as ice
Cold as ice I know
Oh, yes I know
Song: [ youtu.be/mjwV5w0IrcA ]
Devils Tower (also known as Bear Lodge Butte) is a laccolithic butte composed of igneous rock in the Bear Lodge Mountains (part of the Black Hills) near Hulett and Sundance in Crook County, northeastern Wyoming, above the Belle Fourche River. It rises 1,267 feet above the Belle Fourche River, standing 867 feet from summit to base. The summit is 5,112 feet above sea level. Devils Tower was the first United States National Monument, established on September 24, 1906, by President Theodore Roosevelt. The monument's boundary encloses an area of 1,347 acres. In recent years, about 1% of the monument's 400,000 annual visitors climbed Devils Tower, mostly using traditional climbing techniques. The name Devil's Tower originated in 1875 during an expedition led by Colonel Richard Irving Dodge, when his interpreter reportedly misinterpreted a native name to mean "Bad God's Tower". All information signs in that area use the name "Devils Tower", following a geographic naming standard whereby the apostrophe is omitted. Native American names for the monolith include: "Bear's House" or "Bear's Lodge" (or "Bear's Tipi", "Home of the Bear", "Bear's Lair"; Cheyenne, Lakota Matȟó Thípila, Crow Daxpitcheeaasáao "Home of Bears"), "Aloft on a Rock" (Kiowa), "Tree Rock", "Great Gray Horn", and "Brown Buffalo Horn" (Lakota Ptehé Ǧí). In 2005, a proposal to recognize several Native American ties through the additional designation of the monolith as Bear Lodge National Historic Landmark met with opposition from United States Representative Barbara Cubin, arguing that a "name change will harm the tourist trade and bring economic hardship to area communities". In November 2014, one Arvol Looking Horse again proposed renaming the geographical feature "Bear Lodge", and submitted the request to the United States Board on Geographic Names. A second proposal was submitted to request that the U.S. acknowledge what it described as the "offensive" mistake in keeping the current name and to rename the monument and sacred site Bear Lodge National Historic Landmark. The formal public comment period ended in fall 2015. Local state senator Ogden Driskill opposed the change. The name was not changed. The landscape surrounding Devils Tower is composed mostly of sedimentary rocks. The oldest rocks visible in Devils Tower National Monument were laid down in a shallow sea during the mid- to late-Triassic period, 225 to 195 million years ago. This dark red sandstone and maroon siltstone, interbedded with shale, can be seen along the Belle Fourche River. Oxidation of iron minerals causes the redness of the rocks. This rock layer is known as the Spearfish Formation. Above the Spearfish Formation is a thin band of white gypsum, called the Gypsum Springs Formation. This layer of gypsum was deposited during the Jurassic period, 195 to 136 million years ago. Created as sea levels and climates repeatedly changed, gray-green shales (deposited in low-oxygen environments such as marshes) were interbedded with fine-grained sandstones, limestones, and sometimes thin beds of red mudstone. This composition, called the Stockade Beaver member, is part of the Sundance Formation. The Hulett Sandstone member, also part of the Sundance Formation, is composed of yellow fine-grained sandstone. Resistant to weathering, it forms the nearly vertical cliffs that encircle the Tower. During the Paleocene Epoch, 56 to 66 million years ago, the Rocky Mountains and the Black Hills were uplifted. Magma rose through the crust, intruding into the existing sedimentary rock layers.
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As I crossed a foot bridge at Aviemore this little fellow was busy overhead feeding on the pine cones.
Pants: Yasum*Lara*Akiko-Pants*
Shirt: erratic / luisa - crop top / pretty
Head: lel EvoX KAYA 3.1
Body: Maitreya Mesh Body - Lara V5.3
Nails: MICHAN - Flora Nails
Rings: (Yummy) Heirloom Ring Set
Hair: Stealthic - Lavish Full Set
Skin: Not Found Kaya Toffee
As the last snow of the season melted off the dogwood tree buds and dropped into the pond below it created these lovely ripple patterns interrupting the perfect reflection of the house..... The best of Fall, Winter and Spring!
As pessoas viajam para admirar a altura das montanhas, as imensas ondas dos mares, o longo percurso dos rios, o vasto domínio do oceano, o movimento circular das estrelas, e no entanto elas passam por si mesmas sem se admirarem.
Obrigada pelas visitas =)
As my GPS unit is prone to do, it gave me directions that were a little off. But what can you expect, when GPS stands for Gwendolyn, Phillip and Stuart. (the voice is set to the English accent). It turned out well though because it added an extra mile to the hike with some nice scenery like this little stream in the woods. Anchorage, Alaska, USA, November 2021
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As I was posting this I was thinking that I should go up there to see what they have today.. Every time I go there seems to be another flower in bloom...
The Human Family
As we left the car at Southsea today, I thought I saw a lady feeding swans at one end of the Canoe Lake. As we approached on our walk, it was obvious that she was feeding a group of seven swans by hand.
We said hello and I asked if I could take photos. This was no problem for the 'swan lady' and I took a few shots, then of course wondering if she would participate in my strangers' project. Mary was quite happy with this too.
On the Lake the swans eat weed, including very tiny prawns, and grass. Mary feeds them special swan pellets which have a fishy smell and contain molluscs. Her visits are now restricted to every 3 or 4 days rather than every day because of the increased cost of the pellets.
The swan peering over the back of the seat is named 'Youhoo', a bit of a character. Mary names each one and amazingly can tell one from another. She told us that this is her 'happy place' which began with a swan she called Charlie but who was unfortunately attacked by a dog.
I wondered if Mary has ever had any problems with the swans. She said 'never' and went on to say that she prefers swans to people. It's obvious that she knows how to treat them: an alpha male was once domineering but Mary stood up to him, however also affording him respect in the feeding queue.
Swans congregate at different ends of the Lake depending on the wind direction, peferring to fly into the wind rather than have it at their backs.
They spend good amounts of time preening and at this time of the year, will remove large feathers from their plumage, and in addition use their beaks to access a gland in their bodies which produces a substance to waterproof all their feathers.
Such an unexpected encounter as we had changed our minds about visiting a National Trust property and taken a late decision to go to the sea and have our breakfast.
We said our goodbyes; I've sent Mary some photos and cannot help reflecting on the variety of passions we humans embrace.
I did comment to Mary that I liked the purple shade in her hair; she told me it should really be pink but that she bought the wrong dye............
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Once known as King’s Cove, the little inlet is now named for its most famous resident. John Carter was given the moniker the ‘King of Prussia’ for his resemblance to Frederick the Great, who ruled those lands and whom he much admired.
But Carter himself was not royalty – he and his brothers Harry and Charles were notorious Cornish smugglers in the 1700s.
Instead of a life working down the tin mines they took to making a tidy profit by smuggling spirits and other contraband in to England, using the remote cove as their operation centre. John Carter was known as the brains behind the racket, living above the cove and even building a secret tunnel into the house on the rocks to help vanish away his precious bounty when it came in by boat.
The brothers were so prolific that in the 1780s, half of all the brandy drunk in Britain was said to be smuggled through Prussia Cove. By the time the King mysteriously disappeared in 1807 they were legendary, known locally as ‘honest’, even gentlemanly pirates, despite the occasional skirmish with a revenue boat in the waters between Cornwall and France. They once even broke into the Customs house in Penzance to steal back the contraband goods they’d had confiscated.
Today it has a small harbour and slipway and is still used by local fishermen.
As a couple of ice fisherman try their luck at the inlet where Trout Creek enters the upper region of the Noxon Reservoir (Clark Fork), an eastbound BNSF grain train (XTACHWM) crosses the bridge at milepost 55 at Trout Creek, Montana, on January 26, 2013. Ice fishing takes patience, and as they wait, a portable stove cooks a lunch of bear stew (that’s right, bear meat stew!) as they watch their lines for some activity. It’s another beautiful winter day in the mountains of western Montana!
As anyone who has been to Strasbourg can tell you, this is one of the main squares in town, Kléber Square or Place Kléber, and it is really done up at Christmas with beautiful lights and a huge decorated tree. This place gets packed with people everyday during the holiday season as do other parts of town with the one of the oldest Christmas markets in Europe happening throughout central Strasbourg. We were fortunate to spend Christmas in Strasbourg last year, but I never posted any of the photos I took while there, so I am doing that this year.
As the days turn gray and gloomy as we approach winter, I am already looking forward to seeing these kind of skies as I did last May when I was out in the country photographing an old corn crib just a few miles from home. This pano stitched 7 photos together to give a full view of the amazing skies and clouds overhead and the pop-up shower a few miles away.
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I was originally enrolled into the GETTY IMAGES collection as a contributor on April 9th 2012, and when links with FLICKR were terminated in March 2014, I was retained and fortunate enough to be signed up via a second contract, both of which have proved to be successful with sales of my photographs all over the world now handled exclusively by them.
On November 12th 2015 GETTY IMAGES unveiled plans for a new stills upload platform called ESP (Enterprise Submission Platform), to replace the existing 'Moment portal', and on November 13th I was invited to Beta test the new system prior to it being officially rolled out in December. ESP went live on Tuesday December 15th 2015 and has smoothed out the upload process considerably.
These days I take a far more leisurely approach to my photographic exploits, and having moved from professional Nikon equipment to consumer bodies and lenses, I travel light less constraints and more emphasis on the pure capture of the beauty that I see, more akin to my original persuits and goals some five decades previously when starting out. I would like to say a huge and heartfelt 'THANK YOU' to GETTY IMAGES, and the 22.893+ Million visitors to my FLICKR site.
***** Selected for sale in the GETTY IMAGES COLLECTION on March 7th 2018
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This photograph became my 3,019th frame to be selected for sale in the Getty Images collection and I am very grateful to them for this wonderful opportunity.
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**** This frame was chosen on August 7th 2018 to appear on FLICKR EXPLORE (Highest Ranking: #80. This is my 103rd photograph to be selected, which for me is both amazing and exciting, as I never view my images as worthy compared to some of the awesome photography out there. EXPLORE is Flickr's way of showcasing the most interesting photos within a given point in time -- usually over a 24 hour period.
Flickr receives about 6,000 uploads every minute -- That's about 8.6 million photos a day! From this huge group of images, the Flickr Interestingness algorithm chooses only 500 images to showcase for each 24-hour period. That's only one image in every 17,000!..... so I am really thrilled to have a frame picked and most grateful to every one of the 17.950 Million people who have visited, favourite and commented on this and all of my other photographs here on my FLICKR site. *****
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Photograph taken at an altitude of Fifty seven metres at 10:29am on Wednesday February 28th 2018 off Woolwich Road and Treetops Close in the grounds of Abbey Wood open space in Bexleyheath, Kent, England.
'The beast from the East', a Siberian cold front and weather phenomenon, has swept across the United Kingdom duringh the past few days, and last night was Kent's turn to brace herself for the deluge of snow.
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Nikon D7200 10mm 1/40s f/11.0 iso100 Exposure Compensation +1.3EV RAW (14 bit Lossless compressed) Image size 6000 x 4000). Colour space RGB. Handheld. AF-C focus 51 point with 3-D tracking. Manual exposure. Matrix metering. Auto white balance. Auto Active D-lighting. Nikon Distortion control on. Vignette control on.
Nikkor AF-S DX 10-24mm f/3.5-4.5G ED DX. Phot-R ultra slim 77mm UV filter. Nikon EN-EL battery. Hoodman H-EYEN22S soft rubber eyecup. Matin quick release neckstrap. My Memory 32GB Class 10 SDHC. Lowepro Flipside 400 AW camera bag. Nikon GP-1 GPS module.
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As this song by Joseph Arthur is playing while I upload this, Mercedes is fine, especially as they fly so quickly. So far it's been a. good year for my beloved High Brown Fritillaries. they emerged in the last week of May, unheard of. Despite the strong winds and rain I've managed to find a few freshly emerged ones most days. This very fresh male posed nicely, despite the fact the bracken was moving in the strong wind.
As the name suggests,Little bee-eaters predominantly eat flying insects, especially bees and wasps, which are caught in the air by sallies from an open perch. While they pursue any type of flying insect, honey bees predominate in their diet. This particular bird was more than happy to pose for shots. #Bee-eaters #Africa #Safari #Birding #Birdsphotography #Wildlife #Ngorongoro #Nikon #Nikkor #Avian #ilovewildlife #Wildlife
As I was taking some shots this friendly horse wandered up to me. This is a small farm allotment that mostly caters for retired race horses.
As the weather is so pants I put together a top ten photo list which can be found here goo.gl/iHDgFW
I hadn't put any Iceland pictures in the list although maybe some of them need to be in there.
Thanks to David Clapp for helping me out on the composition of this one and getting a bit more out of "The Crack" :)
happy birthday to meeeee! i am thirty-six today. and i love it!
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As the sun sets beside Mount Tam in the distance, it casts its reflections across the waters of the San Pablo Bay towards the CSU campus of Cal Maritime. In the foreground, the University's Training Ship Golden Bear lies berthed at Morrow Cove on the Carquinez Strait.
This is another from the series of archived shots. I had not previously processed this one, however.
As one would expect there are beautiful trees outside to compliment the beautiful; plants, trees and flowers inside.
During a recent Caribbean cruise, I was treated to the sight of this dramatic sunset as our ship passed through the Bahamas. As for my photo and camera settings, based on my aperture selection, the twirly encounter was a "twist of f/8" :) Thanks for viewing!
Nikon D7500, Nikkor 18-300, ISO 200, f/8.0, 18mm, 1/500s
As viewed from my seat at the Monday Night Football game between the Chiefs and Chargers. The Chiefs went on to win the game 21 - 14 before a very loud crowd.
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And lovely as the king of flies has come
It was a fleeting visit, all too brief
In three short minutes, he had been and gone....
Fleetwood Mac! - 'Dragonfly'
"Dragonfly" is a song written by British rock musician Danny Kirwan with lyrics taken from a poem by Welsh poet W. H. Davies. It was originally recorded by Kirwan's band Fleetwood Mac in 1970, and became the first UK single released by the band after the departure of their frontman Peter Green. It was also their first single with Christine McVie as a full member of the group.
W. H. Davies ~ Poet
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"Peace and Happy Days"...