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I actually took this shot 4 years ago. Going through my archives I looked at it again and decided I kind of liked how the tree frames the bridge on one side and the boathouse on the other.
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C&C appreciated.
Actually I went to this spot hoping for noctilucent clouds. Unfortunately they don't appear that night.
Anyway I had a great time at this calm and peaceful place. And of course I will return here ;-)
Actually, this little finch had a feather stuck to one eye and it really seemed to be bothering her. I watched her for quite a while and, while she could eat just fine, she kept trying to get the feather off. I wished I could just reach out and pull it off for her! :D
Actually an impounded vessel as it was used for people smuggling,I believe the boats captain is a guest of the PNG govt behind bars
Actually this is on a table,
Not mine this is done by Hudson River Inlay, they use many fine wood veneers with veneer stones Mother of pearl and many other shells.
Actually Jamaica Beach is a shore of Lake Garda, but the low water level showed bizzare rock formations.
Lake Garda, Italy.
Actually I was waiting for the light to become green - exceptionally for St. Patrick´s day. But the operator didn´t know how to do it and he had to call another guy from outside. When this one got the lights set to green, it was pitch dark already.
I actually put this picture together back in January but I never uploaded it. I think at the time I was having a confidence problem because I looked at it today and I think it is a lovely image.
Credits
Hair: Truth, Fire
Mask and Collar: Astralia, Snow is coming
Dress: Junbug, Naomi
Head: Genesis Lab, Eva
Body: Maitreya, Lara
Enjoyment: Yours <3
Actually it's a Reeve (female name). Ruffs hail from Eurasia. This one's vacationing in sunny Florida.
Actually taken at the Ringling Museum and Bayside Gardens in Sarasota, FL, but thought it went well with the Texas series.
Have a Happy Weekend!
I actually shot this location 10 years ago, so I thought it was worth another visit. Funny thing is, the image looks very similar to that original. This is Saint Johns Bridge in Portland, my favorite place in Portland hands down. This is blue hour with an ND filter and hundreds of images waiting for the perfect light trails. Let me know what you think.
I actually took this photo as a backup one morning, but didn't use it in the end.
Our Cape daisy has a flower. However since then, it has wilted but another one bloomed. We seem to get one flower at a time, whereas the main plant it came from flowers non stop.
Better viewed large and thank you for our favourites.
Actually, this Egret was merely preening when Mike caught a head-on shot. The water reflections on its forehead add to the sense of hot-headedness😊
Looks can be deceiving, what looks to be a trio of former SP SD40T-2s leading a coal train are actually manned rear helpers helping keep their 12,000 ton train in check as they head for Trona.
What looks like a dance here is actually the first in a series of images depicting rivalry between two Yellow-billed Storks. The altercation was not too serious, but the one on the right was driven away and the victor strutted off to its mate. I assume the rivals were two males. Captured at Sunset Dam in the Kruger National Park.
The series (eight images) is presented in the comment boxes and as individual posts.
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Actually if you look closely there are 5, counting the 2 lifeboats by the cruise ship. There is a tour excursion boat in the foreground, a tender lifeboat on the right, and the Royal Princess. If you take a good look at the Royal Princess you will see that a movie is being shown on the big screen on the pool deck.
We actually don’t need to go anywhere else tbh as it is such a beautiful place. The dunes here are called Towans and the names of every couple of miles changes. These are Gwithian Towans but just down the road ( as the hilly Towans undulate ) are my favourite Towans Upton Towans which cliffs along the edge are higher and the climb down to the beach a little more difficult. Horses graze there now too so it means keeping our dogs on a lead ( naturally) but the whole of the area is beautiful and I personally have been coming to the same campsite for about 35 years I believe with my late husband and laterly with Jonathan. The site owner of Churchtown Farms Caravan and Camping site goes above and beyond when greeting us on arrival and our caravan is taken by tractor and sited for us….we don’t have to do a thing on arrival or leaving apart from putting up and taking down our awning. On leaving the tractor driven by the site manager Anthony is pulled to the gate and hitched up to our car for us…We may or may not get here another year but have to wait and see….needless to say our dogs love it here….Sue :)
Btw contrary to what some advertising says dogs ARE allowed on the beach to the left of the steps at the lifeguard station all year round - just not on Gwithiian and Godrevy beaches till after 6pm during the summer months. Many locals own dogs so got the ban overturned and this way it keeps everyone happy 😊
Geschüttelt. Nicht gerührt.
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Actually one should translate the catchphrase in German like this: Erschüttert, nicht gerührt ... which makes a completely different sense ;-)
I found the following a little interesting:
No other drink in book and film history is as famous as Bond's Vodka Martini. The agent licensed to kill has a very precise idea of how to mix this cocktail. The saying "Shaken, not stirred" is one of the most famous movie catchphrases of all time. Bond reaches for the glass on various occasions and in changing company. He drinks his vodka martini ice-cold, but without ice. So ice is put in the shaker, the vodka martini is shaken and finally the ice is filtered off. The name of the drink also causes further confusion: Martini is a very well-known vermouth brand, but Bond drinks his vodka martini entirely without this wine-containing ingredient. And James Bond wouldn't be James Bond if he didn't have an ace up his sleeve: Biochemists from the University of Western Ontario have found that the shaken variant with wormwood is healthier. In addition to the additional oxygen, it also contains more antioxidants that protect the body from free radicals.
- - - Well then ... cheers ;-)
I think my two virtual living room lights are having fun. And the mood goes with a drink, right?
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Eigentlich müsste man das Zitat im Deutschen so übersetzen: Erschüttert, nicht gerührt ... was einen ganz anderen Sinn ergibt ;-)
Ich fand folgendes ganz interessant:
Kein anderer Drink der Buch- und Film-Geschichte ist so bekannt wie Bonds Wodka Martini. Der Agent mit der Lizenz zum Töten hat eine ganz genaue Vorstellung davon, wie dieser Cocktail zu mixen ist. Der Spruch "Geschüttelt, nicht gerührt" ist eines der berühmtesten Filmzitate aller Zeiten. Bond greift zu den verschiedensten Anlässen und in wechselnder Gesellschaft zum Glas. Er trinkt seinen Wodka Martini eisgekühlt, aber ohne Eis. In den Shaker wird also Eis getan, der Wodka Martini wird geschüttelt und schließlich das Eis abgefiltert. Der Name des Getränks sorgt zudem für weitere Verwirrung: Martini ist zwar eine sehr bekannte Wermut-Marke, dennoch trinkt Bond seinen Wodka Martini ganz ohne diese weinhaltige Zutat. Und James Bond wäre nicht James Bond, wenn er nicht noch ein Ass im Ärmel hätte: Biochemiker der Universität Western Ontario haben festgestellt, dass die geschüttelte Variante mit Wermut gesünder ist. Sie enthält neben dem zusätzlichen Sauerstoff auch mehr Antioxidantien, die den Körper vor freien Radikalen schützt.
- - - Na denn ... Prost ;-)
Meine beiden virtuellen Wohnzimmerleuchten haben Spaß, glaube ich. Und die Stimmung passt zu einem Drink, oder?
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maybe the beginning of a series:
...actually this was happy sunset Thursday!
A good weekend to all flickr friends!
Zenza Bronica ETR PE 2.8 75mm on Fujifilm GFX
Actually a great model: Living and working in one house. Both are spatially separated and there is a separate front door for every purpose..
Was actually slightly grey
Darker around the edges
A definite tinge
A flirtatious curve at the bottom
As if daring you to imagine something
Transform it into a different existence
It’s texture was surprising
Smooth and soft like the very top
Of a snowy slope
But hung indoors
It reflected onto the black linoleum floor that was speckled
With unpredictable dashes of white
When you looked down
You imagined
You were floating in a
Modern art galaxy very far away
From everything and everyone
You know
When you looked up you realized
It wasn’t a blank canvas at all.
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In May, I went to a doctor's appointment that was very difficult for me. Most of the time, I try to forget about my biology but my heart will often skip beats and I keep spending more money to get no answers, making me wonder if it's just in my head.
I have been living in Chicago for over 20 years but I had never come across The Arts Club of Chicago even though it is located very central downtown near a couple of doctor's offices. It was a dreary day and I spent some time wandering around and happened upon this gallery featuring the exhibit by Huguette Caland: Bribes de corps. It's amazing how art finds you when you least expect it. I found myself staring at canvases and writing poems to calm my nervous system.
This exhibit is ending very soon but I revisited this weekend. The bottom section is the actual canvas. The top portion is a multiple exposure of the canvas and a photograph of a woman passing by from the window opposite of the painting.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huguette_Caland
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It's actually a bit boring motive. The movement of the clouds during the 230 sec. capture time makes the picture (in my opinion) more interesting.
Camera shy! Noisy! hyper energetic! and a tail that is actually longer than its body! Always fun to watch., and this one finally (for a second at least) posed for a pic!
The so called "Proud Boys" are the white supremacist group Trump is so fond of. They have done nothing in their lives to be actually be proud of and they live through their white privilege and by their oppression of others. And yet, they can't even walk in their own communities without a gun and they can't walk into stores with their mask on because no one better impinge on their freedom to cause harm to whomever they wish.
Pride and humans with pride is about having a sense of who you are and living through grace and kindness...of doing the right thing and not being afraid to do the right thing even though you may have been oppressed for your gender identification or orientation. This is something to truly be proud of. This is who are world needs now not those who live by hate and rule by fear.
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Actually empties en route to Ketton headed by 66 716, passing The Slips at Wellingborough.
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I actually got my real camera out yesterday to take Mack's photo. I took this photo first and saw that it was over exposed and so changed the exposure settings and took several more. Once I uploaded the photos to my desktop computer, I realized I liked Mack's eyes in this photo. In all the other photos, his fur was exposed correctly but his eyes were too dark to see much detail because he was backlit. So over exposed it is.
Happy Caturday: Brand new
...actually appearing to look more like a river than a creek. For the most part, it is easily and practically twice as wide and deeper than Forney Creek in the western Great Smoky Mountains. This is a rare view from a side trail off the Big Snowbird Trail, as most of the length of the trail sits high on the ridgelines above the creek. Today I hiked 9.75 miles out and back in the Snowbird Mountains of the Nantahala Forest in North Carolina, my favorite of all the Appalachian Forests, and it was a great mental reset. The Big Snowbird Trail lies south of Lake Santeetlah and the Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest.
#MacroMondays
#Run
Well, actually, I ran out of time ;) This is my last-minute attempt, photographed last night, no fuss handheld, after numerous attempts of photographing through the peephole of a "magic wand kaleidoscope" that comes with transparent, round plastic sticks that are filled with liquid and floating, glittery stuff that creates the typical patterns when put into the kaleidoscope. Here's a link to the Big River so you can see what it looks like:
STRG/CTRL+ www.amazon.de/Bartl-GmbH-Kaleidoskop-exklusiv-Zauberstab/...
It almost worked, but only almost. So I grabbed the nail enamel I bought for the theme, and made a smiley but it looked a little to diffuse, so in the end, I settled for a colourful heart that I painted onto the underside of a white espresso cup (the heart is still there) and then used a toothpick to mix the colours, kind of in a clumsy "wet in wet icing" style.
Exposure metering was set to "HI". I made minimal adjustments in post to make the colours pop a little more than they already did, and slightly brightened the background in the corners where the concave shape of the cup's underside had created a slight vignetting. That's it.
The heart's size is 2x2 cm / 0,78x0,78 inches.
HMM, Everyone, and have a nice week ahead!
P.S. I'm busy today and will catch up with you tonight.
Actually we went hiking but we took the Jeep to the trailhead. We made a put stop for a case of water.
actually a part of Ilhéu de Vila Franca do Campo, this vulcanic fomation with the perfect circled crater for which you need a drone .
Update: this is actually not a geyser, but a pool at the Black Sand Basin.
From the website: www.yellowstonenationalpark.com/blacksand.htm
Temperature 180°F Dimensions 145x191 feet. Depth 23.5 feet. Sunset Lake is a shallow thermal pool with a soft sinter bottom and yellow and orange bacteria and algae edges. The pool discharges into Iron Creek, and overflows into Rainbow Pool creating a large microbial mat between the two thermal features. The 1959 earthquake triggered an eruption of Sunset Lake and the surge of hot water killed the bacteria and algae in the run-off channels. It has erupted only occasionally since 1959; during eruption it surges three feet high but may reach eight to ten feet. No known underground connection exists between Rainbow Pool or other Black Sand Basin thermal features.
Thank you for taken your time to visit me, comments or faves are always much appreciated!
“Dharma actually means the life you should be living—in other words, an ideal life awaits you if you are aligned with your Dharma. What is the ideal life? It consists of living as your true self.” - Deepak Chopra
Taken at 5:34 PM, while I was on a walk with 3 friends in our Humber Bay Shores neighbourhood in Toronto. I just loved the light hitting the Humber Bay Marina.
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