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Mama Mia was on TV tonight. That's why I couldn't avoid choosing this title for the picture.
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RAPTURE-Dress Giuliana-Silver
Juna Aritistic Tattoo - Anto
Our area has been avoiding the snow all these weeks. Thinking about all that missed snow, here is a snowy owl. There are two snowy owls on exhibit at ZooAmerica. This is the male, Nash, arrived at ZooAmerica in March of 2019 from the Nashville Zoo. He hatched in June of 2010. The female, Rinna, hatched in captivity at Tallinn Zoo in Estonia. Her hatch date is 2007 and she arrived at ZooAmerica in 2009.Rinna is the larger owl with distinctive black barring while Nash is almost completely white in color with few black markings. Here is a video of them. youtu.be/YdWSMVluUvI
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Beauty is not only found in fairy tales and mythical worlds. It can be found in the most unexpected places, the least expected of times. But that's art's way of doing things. To quote Paul Klee, a German artist, "Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see".
Same can be said for photography as an art! And to take it a little further, I'm borrowing another of his quotes that suits this exact occasion...
"The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not after all tied to the subject, but to the pictorial representation. In this way and in no other, does art overcome the ugly without avoiding it."
If you have a fear of crossing bridges, you'll want to avoid this one, over ten MILES long, (I had to double check that!) and the speed limit is 75 miles per hour. It's the Vasco da Gama bridge in Lisbon, Portugal, and this is a reproduction hanging in my living room. Even the painting is 5 feet wide......
#9/52, Infinite, 52 Weeks in 2021
While the barley field is avoiding the wind and deeply bowing down before it, a group of poppies is standing upright and resisting.
That's how it is everywhere, that's how it always has been and that's how it will be forever, no matter if the farmer doesn't like it, or the neighbours or the barley.
The true nature will always find a way and it never was the unquestioning conformity.
Während das Gerstenfeld dem Wind ausweicht und sich tief vor ihm verneigt, stehen ein paar Mohnblumen aufrecht und halten dagegen.
So ist es überall, so war es immer und so wird es immer sein, auch wenn das dem Bauern nicht gefallen sollte, oder dem Nachbarn oder der Gerste.
Die wahre Natur, findet immer einen Weg und dieser war nie die bedingungslose Konformität.
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Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!
-- Isaiah 5:8, The Bible, King James Version
[So endeth the Lesson for the day (and beyond)...]
"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."
- Victor Hugo
Musical Inspiration: Don't Put Dirt On My Grave Just Yet - Hayden Panettiere.
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This is somewhere between Gillette and Rawlins Wyoming, windy as I traversed from I-90 to I-80, I believe this was south of Casper on WY 220. I've never driven this route before, so a bit of a new adventure that I'll avoid in winter. The load I was hauling was pretty heavy, GVW (gross vehicle weight) just under 80, 000 lbs so the wind wasn't too much of a problem. The strange thing is the disorientating effect the snow had as it moved across the road, it visually felt like I wasn't moving, an optical illusion, I had to look into the distance to avoid the uncomfortable feeling it created. I've run across this at night and it's even worse.
American Oystercatchers
Stone Harbor, NJ
It was a cold morning in June and I walked to the end of the island in a sandstorm and found the family closer to the ocean to avoid the blowing sand. My camera survived!
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The site is located on the banks of River Jordan at 380 Meters Below Sea Level, just 5 miles North of the Dead Sea, the final destination of the river.
River Jordan gives the pilgrims and tourists alike the feeling of authenticity.
This site is considered a holy place as it is where Jesus Christ was baptized by John the Baptist an event that changed human history and marked the dawn of Christianity.
Also, there is a number of Churches in the area.
Worth visiting. better during cooler months to avoid the Jordan Valley high temperatures.
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This has lingered in my 'Flickr possibles' folder since it was taken in Dec 2016, I've toyed with uploading it a number of times but never did so. It's high time it either saw the light of day or be rejected re Flickr once and for all, so I went for the former (obviously!).
The road up to Sywell Grange - a 19th century period farmhouse which you can hire as a wedding venue or rent cottages according to their website. I've never been up there but I drive past it on my "avoid all conurbations" route to & from the M1/Coventry.
I mentioned yesterday that these Infra Red shots are really about the key concepts of composition and light and shade. The surreal effect of IR, especially on living things is dream-like. But the fundamentals of composition become even more important when the image is taken in a point and shoot low resolution sensor camera. As it was in the early days of photography, you need to get the composition right in-camera, and avoid being overawed by the IR effects.
You'll never see a photograph like this blown up to poster size (small post card might be the best size at this resolution), but that doesn't mean it can't still be an interesting shot. One day I'll try this same angle with my pinhole camera. It'll look like something out of the 1840s. I'll have to set up my dark room first.
This is a shot from the beach near Cow Gap, of the superb cliffs of Beachy Head from below. It's such an atmospheric place, but it was very cold on this day, but had a stark beauty. I tried to avoid the obvious titles, and opted for Louie louie, as the best gig of the year was probably Toots and the Maytals. I can't wait to revisit this beach, and also to go to more great gigs.
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Η τέταρτη Κυριακή του Τριωδίου είναι αφιερωμένη στην εκδίωξη των πρωτοπλάστων από τον παράδεισο της τρυφής.
Δεν μπορούσα να αποφύγω τον συνειρμό για έναν επίγειο παράδεισο ο οποίος πρίν από λίγες ημέρες έπαψε να υπάρχει.
Το Θεογέφυρο,δυστυχώς,κατέρρευσε!
The fourth Sunday of the Triodion is devoted to the expulsion of the protoplasts from the paradise of the feast.I could not avoid the connection for
This Song Sparrow typically posed perched on blackberry vines. Amazing how they choose this perch regularly yet don't come to harm!
The Calliope Hummingbird is the smallest bird in North America. It’s one of five hummingbird species that stop in my yard during migration, where it spends its time sipping nectar, avoiding rivals, and being way too cute.
To avoid any chance of the Woodland Pulp, LLC pulp and tissue paper mill shutting down as a result of the longer than normal period without rail service, Eastern Maine Railway rounded up enough manpower, including three supervisors, to operate the Jordan Spreader from Milltown to Woodland on Sunday to break the line open and spread the mill yard. The former Maine Central Woodland Branch is now owned by the mill with Irving's EMR subsidiary contracted to operate the line. Up until 2012 the branch was owned and operated by Pan Am Railways, isolated from the rest of their system when the Calais Branch was abandoned in 1985. The extra is about to pass under the Neilds Avenue overpass with the road to the new international border crossing in the background.
Calais, Maine
February 19, 2017
as you grow older, it starts avoiding you ;-)
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cercis, variegated eastern redbud, 'Floating Clouds', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, Raleigh, north carolina
The Burrowing Owl (Athene cunicularia) is a tiny but long-legged owl found throughout open landscapes of North and South America. Burrowing Owls can be found in grasslands, rangelands, agricultural areas, deserts, or any other open dry area with low vegetation. They nest and roost in burrows, such as those excavated by prairie dogs (Cynomys spp.). Unlike most owls, Burrowing Owls are often active during the day, although they tend to avoid the midday heat. But like many other kinds of owls, Burrowing Owls do most of their hunting from dusk until dawn, when they can use their night vision and hearing to their advantage. Source: #Wikipedia
Avoid the annoyance, maintain social distancing. This Canada Goose wasn't too happy when the Osprey ventured too close after catching a fish from the pond. This is the sort of muttering others may make if you happen to come too close during your outdoor walk.
Sunset in Sa Rapita
I had read about this camera (Canon PowerShot SX70 HS) and its great superzoom, 1360mm equivalent in 35mm.
I thought it would be a good choice for shooting birds into the distance and to avoid to carry on my heavyweight Tamron 150-600mm lens.
It was a great error. Please, DON'T BUY THIS CAMERA !!!!
The camera has not a good aperture and the maximun speed is only 1/2000s. Anyway I bought it.
After to try it, the results have been horrible.
Its sensor is very small and the noise in every photo is too big, EVEN SHOOTING at ISO 200.
Moreover, the sharpness in photos is not good, and is worse after edition to trying to correct the noise.
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The Maryland Rinehart was one of a group of successful American sculptors who worked in Rome during the mid- nineteenth century.One of his finest works in his depiction of Latona.the Roman goddess of night,seated with Apollo and Diana,the twin she had by Jupiter,asleep at her side.She looks with tranquil affection at her sleeping infants who resemble classical putti.Further classical illusions are made by Latona's simplified hair patterns and archaeologically precise costume and sandals.Rinehart masterfully handled both the theme and the composition of this ambitious undertaking,avoiding sentimental "prettiness,"which he found "unworthy of sculpture."
Pied-billed Grebes are not very plentiful during winter in southern Ontario, since most suitable foraging locations are frozen.
Kita Alps seen from Matsumoto Castle.
Matsumoto city had been the administrative centre of Matsumoto Han (domain) that included Azumino and Hakuba valleys during the Edo Period.
The castle is nicknamed Crow Castle due to its black painting of wooden walls as cynically contrasted with White Heron Castle in Himeji. The two are the best conserved of the Japanese castles.
The pyramid-shaped mountain near the centre is Jounen-dake (常念岳 2,857m). The small tip of Mt. Yarigatake (槍ヶ岳 3,180m) is seen just to the left of Jounen. It is the 5th highest in Japan but very popular among mountaineers thanks to its rocky spear-like peak. The Takase-gawa rises in Yarigatake's northern slope.
Yarigatake means "spear peak."
There are several peaks called Yarigatake but they are attached with a toponym like Shirouma Yarigatake and Kashima Yarigatake in Kita Alps to avoid confusion except for that peak.
This is the last photo in the series "Azumino Valley in Autumn."
It will be followed by the gleaning of 2025, which includes a dozen of images that supplement the themes I took on in 2025. More specifically, they are images that did not make selection but reevaluated to be worthwhile for upload.