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Aspecto de una tarde algo tormentosa en pleno Parque Nacional de Sierra Nevada, concretamente en la localidad granadina de Capileira, donde parece que las nubes llegan hasta las chimeneas de las viviendas
It's been such a long time since we've had a genuine pea soup fog around here and on Sunday we were blanketed all day. I was finally persuaded to get my camera out of the bag after almost a year and it was the thick fog that did it.
I know many people like cemeteries for different reasons. I like them because they demonstrate an important and inevitable aspect of the life cycle. It's also because reading the inscriptions makes me wonder about what made up the life of the one who has shuffled off this mortal coil.
Graveyards are generally peaceful places and deliberately designed to be so. The fog seemed to emphasize that peace as well as a kind of timelessness, so there, in the quiet, I couldn't help but think while the people buried there may have finished with this life they are certainly busy in their next one--another part of the cycle.
Thus, the great hope: life goes on.
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Ce sont des flamants ROUGES de Cuba.
aspect typique, avec un bec, un cou et des pattes très longs. Plumage à dominante rose très soutenue, quasiment rouge, mis à part les rémiges noires, seulement visibles en vol. C'est à la saison des amours que le plumage prend les couleurs les plus vives. Les deux sexes ont le même plumage, mais le mâle est un peu plus grand que la femelle
El Pórtico es una de las joyas de la Catedral, de estilo gótico-catalán se creó en 1353, sobreponiéndose a otro anterior. Se compone de tres arcos apuntados enmarcados entre dos torres laterales cuyo aspecto nos recuerda los que enmarcan las esquinas de la Catedral.
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Sa Sal Rossa, también conocida como La Xanga, es una playa de piedras, con casetas varadero, que se encuentra situada a los pies de la Torre des Carregador.
Aunque es de rocas, sus aguas son cristalinas y su aspecto pintoresco, gracias al pequeño islote que se encuentra frente a la cala y a las casetas varadero,
Rocas donde suele haber berma de posidonia en la orilla.
La Xanga es una cala curiosa que aún conserva su esencia de rincón marinero.
Many thanks for your visits, faves and comments. Cheers.
On a bend in the Murrumbidge River (narruman).
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Comme sorti tout droit d’un conte de fées, un imposant château, d’aspect médiéval, dresse fièrement ses tours dans le ciel mosellan. La silhouette actuelle du château de Landonvillers, ce rêve héroïque devenu pierre, ne date que du début du XXe siècle! C’est Thomas du Chat seigneur de Landonvillers, qui fit bâtir à la fin du XVIe siècle le premier et sobre châtelet de style Renaissance, souvent vendu ou transmis par héritage, qui abrita au cours des siècles et jusqu’à la Révolution de nobles familles. Au XVIIIe siècle, François Louis de Saint Blaise, donna au village son blason "d’azur et d’argent". Au XIXe siècle, succédant au baron Charles de Montigny, le député Charles Joseph de Bouteiller membre de l’Académie de Metz, reconstruit la maison seigneuriale, aménagea un parc magnifique, enrichi d’un gigantesque séquoiadendron, arbre d’une extrême rareté en Europe. Le riche industriel allemand John von Haniel, l'acheta en 1891 pour y prendre sa retraite. Il désirait devenir le "voisin" de Guillaume II, qui venait de s’installer à Urville un an auparavant, une certaine amitié liait les deux hommes. On peut s’étonner que l’empereur ne soit jamais venu à Landonvillers. Le docteur Haniel, se sentant à l’étroit dans l’ancien château, fit ajouter en 1903 une importante aile de style Renaissance, richement décorée. Vers 1900 avait démarré en Alsace la reconstruction du Haut Koenigsbourg, sous la direction du célèbre architecte Bodo Ebhardt considéré comme le Viollet-le-Duc d’outre Rhin. Probablement après une visite de ce chantier, von Haniel, pris de "fièvre médiévale", demanda à Ebhardt de construire un grandiose donjon d’habitation carré dans l’esprit du Moyen Age et un beffroi élancé culminant à 50 mètres. La pierre alimentant le chantier n’était pas du grès rose des Vosges, comme on le pense. Les massifs blocs furent livrés à grands frais d’Allemagne par le train, extraits des carrières de Kyllburg et de Büren, terre natale du châtelain. Une unique encyclopédie de styles vit le jour, où éléments romans, gothiques, Renaissance, voir Art Nouveau, se mêlent en un riche symbolisme, souvent marqué par les aspirations ésotériques et maçonniques du propriétaire. John von Haniel, décéda subitement en 1912.
Il ne vit pas la mise sous séquestre de son château en 1918. François de Marmier, héros de l’aviation française, prit sa succession et tenta, avec un succès mitigé, de le transformer en une exploitation agricole. Sa santé déclinant, il vendit son train de culture et, en 1932, le château devint la propriété des Hospices Civils de la ville de Metz. Ayant d’autres priorités que celles de soigner les vieilles pierres, l’hôpital en décida la vente au début des années 1990. Blessé par deux guerres, mal aimé, abandonné pendant de nombreuses décennies, le château semblait endormi à jamais... Mais depuis 1993, les lumières se rallument, le parc refleurit et l’art et la musique réaniment cet endroit mythique, Norbert Vogel, psychothérapeute, passionné d’histoire, a relevé le défi de faire revivre ce joyau de notre patrimoine, maintenant inscrit à ISMH. Grâce à son initiative, des concerts classiques ravissent les mélomanes et les expositions de peinture sacrée ont connu un retentissement international.
Aujourd'hui le château abrite le premier musée d'icônes anciennes de France.
Source : Châteaux de France
Photo prise le 9 février 2023
El Puente de Soria sobre el río Duero se encuentra a unos 2 kilómetros del casco urbano de Covaleda, en una zona de gran valor paisajístico. Fue construido en el siglo XVII, con sillares de buena factura, y consta de una sola bóveda, en forma de arco apuntado, presentando un aspecto general de gran esbeltez
.https://guiadesoria.es/patrimonio/monumentos-de-soria/819-puentes-romanos-y-medievales.html
Ejemplar de Tucán Pico negro (Ramphastos ambiuus)
Con algunas curiosidades:
El tucán de pico negro o tucán guarumero (Ramphastos ambiguus) es una especie de ave de la familia Ramphastidae, que se encuentra en, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, Perú y Venezuela.
Su dieta es mixta, proporción principalmente frutas. También se alimenta de insectos y de algunos vertebrados como serpientes, lagartijas, pequeñas aves o mamíferos y roba huevos. Se alimenta generalmente en el dosel, aunque a veces desciende.
Por su aspecto externo se consideraba cercanamente relacionado con el tucán del Chocó (Ramphastos brevis, pero el estudio genético demostró que su pariente más cercano es el tucán de pico castaño (Ramphastos swainsonii), que algunos ahora consideran una subespecie R. brevis swainsonii.
Realizada en los alrededores del Volcán Arenal, el 3 de diciembre del 2018.
Fuente: Wikipedia.
Many thanks for your visits, faves and comments. Cheers.
On a bend in the Murrumbidge River (narruman).
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One of the aspects of fall and winter in the mountains that can be absolutely unforgettable are the brilliant sunsets over the misty mountains. Burnt orange, vibrant reds, nearly neon pinks roaring to life in a sky that was dull and grey only a few minutes before, then almost as fast as it began, the sunset is over, and you’re standing in the dark with a memory. Of course, if you’re a photographer you captured that memory, and brought it back to life to share with the rest of the world, doing your best to keep an even exposure, and perhaps toning down some of those vibrant colors of the sky just to give it a lifelike feel.
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"A common and increasingly abundant duck, the American Wigeon breeds in northwestern North America and is found throughout the rest of the continent in migration and in winter. Its small bill and the male's white forehead, as well as certain aspects of nesting and feeding behavior, distinguish this species from other dabbling ducks." Source: allaboutbirds.org
Cyanotrichite, detail (832)
21.5x16.5x15cm
Qinglong Mine, Qinglong, Qianxi'nan Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou, Southwest Region, China.
Cyanotrichite is a secondary mineral of the oxidation zone of copper deposits. Its genesis seems facilitated by an acid environment and a clayey surrounding. It owes its name to the Greek kuanos (blue) and thrix (hair) in connection with its color and its habitus in tufts of acicular crystals. It comes in orthorhombic fibers assembled in radiate rosettes, urchins with velvety aspect and silky luster. Its sky blue to azure blue color and its pale blue streak are characteristic as well as its association with other arsenates and sulphates of copper (chalcophyllite, spangolite, brochandite, adamite, etc...). It is a mineral little known to collectors who has no particular use.
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* One of the most extraordinary aspects of the city of Bologna is its amazing range of porticos. Today the historic centre of Bologna, that is to say the area included into the city walls of the thirteenth century, contains some 38 kilometres (23 miles) of porticos build during a long historic period from the eleventh to the twentieth century. It was very hot while we there but you could walk almost everywhere in the shade of these porticos. No doubt in bad weather you would be equally protected from rain and snow. Many Italian cities had extensive systems of porticos but most got rid of many of them to allow the roads to be widened. Bologna has chosen to put people before cars, which is a change. They are very pleasing to walk through, light and shadows constantly change under them. I took quite a few shots of these architectural features some of them will no doubt appear later in my stream.
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One REALLY complicated aspect of Second Life is “looking like yourself as SL Technology evolves.”
Long-story-short; the evolution of mesh heads and BOM appliers plus the closure of a critical Maker had me in a pickle. I *could* change heads/skins/animations (and tried several) - but the end result was not “me”.
So, I ended up not posting to flickr until I worked this out......
Happily, my head-maker put out an updated version of my original head and trial-and-error led me to a BOM skin that captured the essence of how I wanted to look (again).
I’ll never be in competition for “prettiest avatar in Second Life”, but I’m used to looking like this...... my comfort zone involves big eyes, a pointy chin, squirrel cheeks and a nose that...well; its MY nose (small/upturned & unlikely) :-)
I’m back in my comfort zone - so I’m back on Flickr :-)
Love y’all !
El puerto de Sancti Petri presenta este aspecto con la marea baja. Un día nublado que sporta a la imagen una luz especial.
Muchas gracias por vuestras visitas y comentarios!!
The speckled bush-cricket (Leptophyes punctatissima) is a flightless species of bush-cricket belonging to the family Tettigoniidae. The species was originally described as Locusta punctatissima in 1792.
This species mainly occurs in dry shrubby environments, in open woodland, in scrub, hedgerows and in gardens, with birch, bramble and gorse.
The “sport” aspect of my photography has to do trying to catch the moment when my subject makes its catch. Failures swamp successes, but that only makes the successes that much sweeter. Vermilion Flycatchers are beautiful little flycatchers that will take off, without warning: up, down sideways to grab a flying insect that they spy. Catching that moment is a thrill. The one pictured here was taken at some distance and I wasn’t sure I captured the bug until I looked at the image in the camera. A treat for both me and my feathered friend. (Pyrocephalus rubinus) (Sony a9M3, 200-600mm lens @ 600mm, 1/4000 second, f/6.3, ISO 1600)
Thank you very much for the visit and comments. Cheers.
Erosion of the paperbark forest at Red Beach, Bribie Island, Queensland, Australia is a GREAT place to take a walk (when the tide is out) and take photographs. Very interesting beach landscape and forest to the foreshore, as well as birdlife.
Chris Burns 2013
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La Scala dei Turchi est une paroi rocheuse (falaise) sur la côte près de Realmonte, dans la province d'Agrigente.
Elle est devenue avec le temps une attraction touristique, à la fois à cause de l'aspect singulier des écueils aux couches inclinées et de couleur blanche, et de la mention dans les romans du commissaire Montalbano d'Andrea Camilleri.
La Scala dei Turchi présente une forme ondulée et irrégulière, aux lignes arrondies et adoucies.
Elle est constituée de marne, une roche sédimentaire calcaire, de couleur caractéristique blanc pur. Elle s'érige entre deux plages de sable fin.
Le nom (« escalier des Turcs ») vient des incursions de pirates sarrasins, donc arabes, mais appelés « turcs » par la population locale. Ils y trouvaient un abri contre les bourrasques de vent et un abordage plus sûr.
La Scala dei Turchi is a rock face (cliff) on the coast near Realmonte, in the province of Agrigento.
It has become over time a tourist attraction, both because of the singular aspect of the pitches with inclined layers and white in color, and the mention in novels of Commissioner Montalbano by Andrea Camilleri.
The Scala dei Turchi has an undulating and irregular shape, with rounded and softened lines.
It consists of marl, a limestone sedimentary rock, of characteristic pure white color. It stands between two sandy beaches.
The name (“staircase of the Turks”) comes from the incursions of Saracen pirates, therefore Arab, but called “Turkish” by the local population. They found shelter there from the gusts of wind and a more secure collision.
Many thanks for your visits, faves and comments. Cheers.
This part of the paperbark wetland/forest/swamp is in the Bongaree wetlands on Bribie Island.
Melaleuca quinquenervia, commonly known as broad-leaved paperbark, the paper bark tea tree or niaouli, is a small- to medium-sized tree of the allspice family, Myrtaceae. The plant is native to New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea and coastal eastern Australia, from Botany Bay in New South Wales northwards, into Queensland and the Northern Territory. It has become naturalised in the Everglades in Florida, where it is considered a serious weed by the USDA. The broad-leaved paperbark grows as a spreading tree up to 20 m high, with the trunk covered by a white, beige and grey thick papery bark. The grey-green leaves are ovate and the cream or white bottlebrush-like flowers appear from late spring to autumn. (Source: Wikipedia)
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Adults of Plagiognathus arbustorum can reach a length of 3.6–4.5 millimetres (0.14–0.18 in). These small mirids show a rather variable color, ranging from almost black to pale olive-green. Usually the head and the pronotum, the 1st and 2nd antennal segments and the margins of the hind femora are wholly dark. Forewings and pronotum are covered in dark hairs. The nymphs are green, with a black drawing on the legs.
Adults of these mirids can be found from July to October. They are polyphagous, usually feeding on many different herbaceous plants, but especially on Urticaceae, Asteraceae, Lamiaceae, Fabaceae, Rosaceae and Apiaceae species.
Both adults and the nymphs prefer to suck on the buds, on flowers and immature fruits of their host plants. They feed occasionally on aphids and honeydew.
The aspect of photography I both love and hate the most... getting up freakishly early in the morning...
Today I woke up at 4:30 am in order to get out to the coast. After walking down the road to this spot I soon found myself knee deep in Pacific Ocean wave action.
After getting home I looked over the images, then took a hot bath, then slept a while... in the bath... finally, I woke up and processed the image a little, and now here it is.... so... what's next?
Canastera (Glareola pratincola) Curiosa ave, aspecto de golondrina enorme, las caudales muy horquilladas, se alimenta en el aire como las golondrinas , la boca grande adaptada para capturar los insectos al vuelo ..... pero es limicola. Solo está en algunas zonas del Mediterráneo (humedales salitrosos) en verano para anidar, el invierno lo pasa en el subSahara. Es un ave migratoria de largo recorrido.
This morning was starting to put me asleep with its mostly cloudy aspect, until I saw this view. They say a photographer should always look behind the camera; the same thing applies to glancing to either side. Shot looking south toward the Benjamin Franklin Bridge in Philadelphia.
One aspect of birding that I love is getting to know these birds individually - especially when you frequent a site - week after week and year after year - you sometime can very predictably guess what you'll meet and where - one old friend of ours
Aspects of York on 5 & 6 October 2022.
Looking downstream under the Ouse Bridge, the middle one of the three road bridges across the River Ouse in York centre, which was completed in its present form in 1821. It is on the site of, or very close to, earlier structures that date back to the Vikings, a wooden bridge having been reported as collapsing in 1154. The earliest bridge in York was built by the Romans on a site a few hundred metres upstream from here, not far below the 1863 completed Lendal Bridge. Further downstream is Skeldergate Bridge of 1881.
Ce débat m'obligea à élaborer ma propre conception de ces aspects de la philosophie. Je décidai de concevoir une discipline qui engloberait comme objet d'étude les problèmes de logique, de gnoséologie, d'ontologie, de méthodologie, et de dialectique ainsi que d'autres matière qui touchent aux problèmes généraux du langage et de la connaissance. je considérais comme secondaire l'appellation de ladite discipline. "Philosophie" ne convenait pas. [...]. Avec le temps, je me mis à utiliser l'expression "logique complexe" pour distinguer ce que je faisais de ce que faisaient les autres.
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Las primeras piedras datan del siglo XIII, aunque propiamente el monumento comenzó a construirse en el siglo XIV. La catedral, en realidad, emerge sobre un altozano, al borde del agua. Después se fue rellenando la zona, ganándose tierra al mar, por lo que aparece ahora tierra adentro.
Situada sobre el cerro de Somorrostro, en el que con anterioridad al enclave religioso se ubicaron estructuras de época romana (algunas de las cuales pueden verse durante la visita al edificio), alberga la sede del Obispado de Santander. La Catedral presenta abundantes añadidos y reconstrucciones, aunque el aspecto actual no difiere demasiado del que tuvo originariamente. Presenta tres naves, la central más ancha y alta que las laterales. Las naves y tramos se separan mediante pilares con ocho columnas. La puerta principal se abre en el muro sur. Toda la cabecera actual es moderna, por lo que carece de mayor interés (ha sido realizada durante la última reconstrucción del templo tras el incendio de la ciudad de Santander, en 1941).
Qatar Airways Company operating as Qatar Airways, is the state-owned flag carrier of Qatar. Headquartered in the Qatar Airways Tower in Doha, the airline operates a hub-and-spoke network, linking over 150 international destinations across Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas, and Oceania from its base at Hamad International Airport, using a fleet of more than 200 aircraft. Qatar Airways Group employs more than 43,000 people. The carrier has been a member of the Oneworld alliance since October 2013, the first Gulf carrier to sign with one of the three airline alliances.
The 777-300ER (ER for Extended Range) is the B-market version of the -300. Its higher MTOW and increased fuel capacity permits a maximum range of 7,370 nautical miles (13,650 km) with 396 passengers in a two-class seating arrangement. The 777-300ER features raked and extended wingtips, a strengthened fuselage and wings and a modified main landing gear. Its wings have an aspect ratio of 9.0. It is powered by the GE90-115B turbofan, the world's most powerful jet engine with a maximum thrust of 115,300 lbf (513 kN). 54491