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Schon von weitem sichtbar erhebt sich Schloss Marienburg am Südwesthang des Marienbergs, rund 20 Kilometer südlich von Hannover und 15 Kilometer nordwestlich von Hildesheim. Die authentisch erhaltene Sommerresidenz der Welfen, dem ältesten Fürstenhaus Europas, zählt zu den bedeutendsten neugotischen Baudenkmälern Deutschlands.
Already visible from afar, Marienburg Castle rises on the southwest slope of the Marienberg, about 20 kilometres south of Hanover and 15 kilometres northwest of Hildesheim. The authentically preserved summer residence of the Guelphs, the oldest princely house in Europe, is one of the most important neo-Gothic architectural monuments in Germany.
You've already seen the sunflowers a few times from afar. Now it's time to move a little closer to take a closer look at these magnificent flowers.
This variant here is my favourite. The setting sun hides behind her little friends and peeks through a gap between them.
By the way, I didn't have to get on my knees to capture this perspective. The flowers are so big that I almost stand upright while taking pictures.
Aus der Distanz habt Ihr die Sonnenblumen ja jetzt schon ein paar mal gesehen. Nun wird es Zeit mal ein wenig näher zu rücken um diese prachvollen Blüten einmal genauer anzuschauen.
Diese Variante hier ist dabei meine liebste. Die untergehende Sonne versteckt sich hinter ihren kleinen Freunden und blinzelt aus einer Lücke zwischen ihnen hindurch.
Um diese Perspektive einzufangen musste ich übrigens nicht auf die Knie gehen. Die Blumen sind so groß, dass ich hier nahezu aufrecht stehe während ich fotografiere.
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Already dead and you don’t know it
You are fucked up since the day you were born
I’ll pull the trigger man, I’ll help you
Make sure the bullet has your name on it
Nijo Castle's legendary Ninomaru Garden and it's koi pond, which is lined with decorative boulders gathered throughout all corners of Japan, were designed in 1626 on the castle grounds for Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu, the founder of the Tokugawa (Edo) shogunate (1603–1867). If you have read James Clavell's novel "Shogun" or watched the Shogun TV series, you're already familiar with Tokugawa Ieyasu because Clavell based the warlord 'Lord Toranaga' on him.)
Lord Tokugawa unified Japan in 1600, following twenty six years of civil war at the end of the 16th century. In 1601 he directed Japan's daimyos (feudal lords) to construct Nijo Castle as his Kyoto residence in a location very close to the Imperial Palace.
The castle grounds, completed in 1603 (amazingly after only two years!), are spectacular, covering 68 acres (27.5 hectares) which include 86,000 sq ft (8,000 sq m) of buildings including two palaces, ponds, rock gardens, and inner- and outer moats. It is now a World Heritage Site.
Upon completion, Tokugawa moved in and hosted a ceremony wherein Japan's Emperor announced to the gathered feudal lords his appointment of Tokugawa as Shogun. Tokugawa's main residence and his new seat of government was in Edo (now called Toyko), so this huge Nijo Castle was akin to his 'country home' used primarily whenever he visited the emperor in the Imperial Capital.
In 1614 the shogun led his samurai army from Nijo Castle on his victorious Siege of Osaka Castle which ended the line of the Toyotomi family, his last political opposition, and established himself as the absolute polical ruler of Japan. His shogunate lasted two hundred sixty four years. In 1857 the 15th Shogun of his line, Tokugawa Yoshinobu, ended shogunate rule and returned political control to the Emperor as Japan opened to the world.
ENG: Awesome, the spring is already kissing us in Berlin. The first cherry blossoms are already sprouting. I saw this crazy natural spectacle on the Greifswalder Street in the Prenzlauer Berg district of Berlin.
GER: Wahnsinn, der Frühling küsst uns schon in Berlin. Die ersten Kirschblüten sprießen schon. Das verrückte Naturschauspiel hab ich auf der Greifswalder Straße im Prenzlauer Berg gesehen.
By 1935 Art Deco designs already in it's 25th year were starting to be on the downside of the curve, although it still was a major design influence in the United States. Although still quite popular the looming war in Europe was about to bring that trend to an end by 1939.
The style became popular in Paris, around 1910, and over the following 10 years it had crossed the shores to America where it became a popular design style in architecture, furnishings, visual arts, and many other things, including automobiles. And to this day, the style still appeals to many, and to me included. However, Art Deco, albeit popular in it's day, surely was not the case for Chrysler Corporation with it's new, sleek, streamlined Airflow models, which were heavily influenced with Art Deco design elements, but that quickly became the Edsel of that period! In spite of it's new and modern wind tunnel designed body with headlights molded into the body, and probably a first for that period when most others were still standalones mounted above the fenders, it just never grabbed the attention of the buying public. Yes, at first there was a lot of enthusiastic bluster and hoopla, but it died as quickly as it started. Arguably, some would say "ahead of it's time," but Art Deco designs were quite solidly entrenched and accepted at the time. Or, was it the shape of the car with it's headlights now integrated into the body that the buying public was just not ready for? We can all agree that the buying public is a fickle lot, and it doesn't take long for them to spread the news on a product, whether good, or bad. I suppose it looks like "An Olds sucking a lemon" became the catchphrase and possible death knell for Edsel?
When most of the US auto manufacturers were still pumping out six figure, or near six figure production numbers with their cars Chrysler's Airflow designs was quite the antithesis of those figures. In 1935, the Chrysler Airflow sold a paltry and abysmal number at under 7800 units, and the above survivor was one of them. And, when it comes to the appeal, or lack of on this car, I don't believe it's changed much since "it's day!" People still either love them, or hate them, regardless of the reason! But, I suppose you could say kudo's to Chrysler for trying to jump ahead of the pack. But, kudo's do not help to pay the bills.
Vince
I’d noticed the striking white building with its handsome blue roof as we’d passed this way a day earlier, mustering our spirits as best we could under a grey, leaky sky that gave no hint of the beautiful evening we’d later enjoy by the side of the lake at Kirkjufell. I’d also spotted the rough pull in where the road snaked gently upwards through a patch of rocky scrub. “That might make for a shot,” was only the vaguest of thoughts as we passed through this remote area, heading for Arnarstapi and Dritvik Beach beyond. At this stage, the only thing we were certain of was that we’d passed the road that led to the Black Church of Budir and not taken it. And as we were following a circuit on the lonely road of West Snaefellsnes, we knew we’d need to be back this way the following day. That black church screams for attention you see. One of the most impossible to ignore hotspots on a peninsula that offers all sorts of possibilities.
So now we were here again, this time travelling anticlockwise on the most fantastic of coastal roads. Coming from a densely populated country where the sound of the internal combustion engine dominates almost every waking moment, driving here is an unrelenting joy. The Útnesvegur takes you through a brutal and dramatic landscape, where the story of Iceland’s violent volcanic birth is forever on show. In the far western reaches, we drove for miles, flanked by moss filled lava fields, roughly hewn and worn by the rages of a thousand winter storms, barely seeing any other vehicles at all. At times only the bulk of the ice clad Snaefellsjokull, rising mightily above everything else here seemed to anchor us to the land as if by some gravitational pull. A harsh elemental landscape in a time and place that has crept in under my skin and stayed there to settle into a contented glow that burns slowly within, forever calling me back. Having more time to explore on this, our second Icelandic adventure, was enabling us to see gems we’d had no time for on that dash around the ring road three summers earlier. You could easily fill an entire visit to Iceland with Snaefellsnes alone.
By now I was in a particularly fine mood. We’d already bagged compositions at half a dozen spots on this amazingly productive day as we made our way around the circuit. To add to the internal satisfaction levels, I’d also visited the fish and chip van at Arnarstapi. Let’s face it, if your stomach’s rumbling it’s game over on the photography front. Hunger is a big distraction when you’re trying to take epic photos. And now, a few minutes later after a spell in gastronomy heaven, here we were, pulled in at that patch of scrub and gazing at another epic vista, filled with more of those moss covered lava flows. And a handsome blue roofed building. And some other interesting stuff, I hope you’ll agree.
It was another Super Saturday moment, grabbed in a five minute roadside stop in the grand space between Arnarstapi and Budir. Well maybe a ten minute stop for a second layer to complete the twelve exposures for this handheld panoramic view that filled the space, tailing off into a hinterland of mountains rising from the red sands of the Snaefellsnes south coast under a huge gathering of heavy clouds that promised so much, and later delivered even more. It seems that wherever you stop - when you can stop - the chances are there will be something to fill the viewfinder with. Something that you perhaps didn’t see in a million other images when you planned your own adventures. Just like so many others, I love visiting the hotspots and trying to grab those memorable moments and record them forever. That’s what we were doing for most of our two weeks here, but I also find satisfaction in those impromptu moments when I see something else. And this is definitely an image I’d urge you to look at on the big screen if you can. “Best viewed large,” I sometimes read as I enjoy your stories. And you’re always right of course.
While most of the northern states, and Canadian Provinces have already had their first snowfall of the year, the coastal region of BC has been blessed with positive temperatures and near constant rainfall instead. In spite of this, I set off this past weekend to shoot the Fraser Canyon. Train activity was quite slow for a Saturday morning, so I was forced to pivot from my plan to stay on the 'CP' side of the canyon, and instead go wherever the traffic was moving.
After hearing that I would have an extended drought of eastbounds running up the Cascade Sub, I headed over to the Yale Sub to wait for the next westbound departing Boston Bar. A new location that was on my list, was on the east side of the Chapman's Bar Tunnel. Credit for figuring out this location goes to Ryan A, who shot a great scene here a week prior. (Thanks Ryan!)
Above CN M311 winds its way through the curves between Komo and Chapmans, held to restricted speed on account of a slide fence under repair.
A bare tree of Cerasus leveilleana (‘Kasumi-zakura’ in Japanese) silhouetted against the sunset glow.
Having already caught the train heading south along the Port Lead a few hours prior, I would be joined by James Anthony at Dodge Island in hopes of catching FEC PM1-23 [Job 23] returning to Hialeah Yard in afternoon light. The relatively uncommon move is ideal for the Port Train as it’ll receive sunlight from the west as it pulls from the intermodal ramp at PortMiami. At 18:00, PM1-23 would call FEC dispatch to receive a lining out of the Port back onto the Port Lead, followed shortly after by a call to Port Security to lower the Dodge Island Bridge span for their departure.
The Job 23 crew would slowly ease their 25 car train off of the ramp at the controls of #FEC418 [GP40-2], it’s front end fittingly facing to the west for a clean, well lit shot, the line of palm trees between the tracks and Port Blvd giving the angle a bit of that Miami feel. Photographing said locomotive in this circumstance allows for one to get a good look at what makes the unit so unique on the roster: it’s oscitrol headlight notch.
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Miami, FL
FEC Port Lead
Date: 09/23/2022 | 18:02
ID: FEC PM1-23 [Job 23]
Type: Yard Job
Direction: Northbound
Car Count: 25
1. FEC GP40-2 #418
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© Vicente Alonso 2022
I have already shown you this wild teasel covered with an ice crust, which I found near Děčín in the Bohemian Elbe Sandstone Mountains.
In the earlier photo it was standing some distance away on the side of the path. As I already explained back then, it was very difficult for me to integrate the many inflorescences into a harmonious close-up.
Of course, I tried it anyway and did a few laps around the plant before I decided on this angle.
Finally I wanted to show you this delicate flower covered in ice crystals up close.
Diese, mit einer Eiskruste überzogene Wilde Karde, die ich in der Nähe von Děčín in im böhmischen Elbsandsteingebirge gefunden habe, habe ich Euch schon einmal gezeigt.
In dem früheren Foto stand sie in einiger Entfernung am Rand des Weges. Wie ich damals bereits ausgeführt hatte ist es mir sehr schwer gefallen die vielen Blütenstände in eine harmonische Nahaufnahme zu integrieren.
Versucht habe ich es natürlich trotzdem und habe dazu einige Runden um die Pflanze gedreht, bevor ich mich für diesen Blickwinkel entschieden habe.
Denn diese filigrane mit Eiskristallen überwucherte Blume wollte ich Euch schon auch einmal aus der Nähe zeigen.
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Just a couple of murals today as time is short for us. We were only at the Stem and Vine Plant Nursery (Nurso) at Chandler a couple of weeks ago and already things have changed. You will notice that Drapl, one of the most famous of the street/mural artist has done the mural on the left and the blank space on the right is "Reserved for Sofles". Well, you don't want to tarry because Drapl has just been back and filled in the blank space with a fabulous work called the Mood Lifting Project. The project was about Drapl doing a free mural in a public space with no limitations or boundaries just bright colours, a face and a nice message.
" It makes me happy to paint in these bright bold colours and to put some smiles on some faces and try to uplift." Isn't that what we all need now!
Isn't that wonderful. So now you will have to wait until we go back and get another shot of the whole wall.
Half the picture.
Thank you Lya Seerose for letting me bring to life this picture ! If you don't already know her, run check out her amazing work :)
Here is the story she wrote for this :
Three days. The hunt lasted three entire days. It was a personal matter for her, he would not escape this time. When she started to look for him, she first heard rumors spreading about « this charming nobleman with a damned smile » that just rented the biggest mansion in the smallest village the farthest away from his last home. She knew immediately it was HIM. Finding him was easier than she thought, she just had to follow the words on the streets, the tittle-tattle of Ladies swooning and blushing and the praise of Gentlemans vowing about his good reputation and his manners after only a few hours with this man. He was a master of disguise, his sweet talk could make you do anything that he chose to and his stare alone could force any last bit of resistance out of you. No one unprepared stood a chance against him, he had that power, a dark one and he was using it to play with people, making them puppets in his private theatre
But she would not be fooled like them, not again, she knew too good now who she was after and that the next time that they would meet eachother, one of them would not see the light of the day again. When she finally caught up with him he was sweet-talking a blond-haired girl in the streets, drawing the contours of her face with his satin gloved finger and the Lady was having a hard time keeping her composure. He had that effect on you, making you a weak creature between his hands. The day was about to end but it was still too early, and, for the lucky innoncent girl, people were still roaming the streets. He was well aware of that so he decided to return home and just wait for the night to fall completely, to help cover his steps as well as his sins before coming back for her, later. He took a last look at her appetizing throat and left. At the end of the street, he turned around the corner, proceeding to walk back to the mansion with no idea he was being followed by a retributive shadow this time. When he entered the deep and dark woods in front of the propriety, the pitter-patter of the civilized word vanished completely and all was calm around him. That's when she decided to stop the hunt. No more prey and predator, no more hiding and lurking.... only Him and Her, reunited once again. She stepped out in front of him in the pale moonlight, revealing herself to his gaze, and simply said to that smirking bastard « - Darling, smile for me one last time ! » while aiming at him
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Esquelbecq Castle
The castle was already mentioned in 1299, when the daughter of Thierry d'Esquelbecq, Beatrix, married Gauthier Ghistelles. Their descendants owned the Esquelbecq castle until 1584, when the French lords were forced to sell their possessions in Flanders by the Spanish rulers.
The castle was besieged several times. In 1586, part of the castle was destroyed by Spanish malcontents. From 1606-1610 the castle was rebuilt.
The purchaser and new lord and earl of Esquelbecq was Valentin de Pardieu, governor of Gravelines, who led campaigns with the armies of Charles V. When he died without heirs in 1595, the castle of Esquelbecq was left to his nephew Philippe Levasseur de Guernonval. His descendants owned the castle for the next 225 years. In 1793, the Esquelbecq castle also suffered the wrath of the Patriots. Everything that reminded them of the Ancien Régime was looted, destroyed or removed. At the beginning of the 19th century, the castle was ruined by battles and 15 days of enemy occupation. The Guernonval family abandoned it and finally sold it in 1821 to Louis Colombier, a merchant from Lille.
In 1984, the keep collapsed. From 2000 to 2016, restoration work was carried out.
The castle, outbuildings and garden and landscape park are protected and listed on 17-08-1987.
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In 1299 was er al sprake van het kasteel toen de dochter van Thierry d'Esquelbecq; Beatrix, trouwde met Gauthier Ghistelles. Hun nakomelingen bezaten het kasteel van Esquelbecq tot in 1584, toen de Franse heren door de Spaanse overheersers gedwongen werden hun bezittingen in Vlaanderen te verkopen.
Het kasteel werd diverse malen belegerd. In 1586 werd een deel van het kasteel vernield door spaansgezinde malcontenten.
Van 1606-1610 werd het kasteel herbouwd.
De koper en nieuwe heer en graaf van Esquelbecq was Valentin de Pardieu, gouverneur van Gravelines, die veldtochten voerde met de legers van Karel V. Toen hij in 1595 stierf zonder erfgenamen werd het kasteel van Esquelbecq nagelaten aan zijn neef Philippe Levasseur de Guernonval. Zijn nakomelingen bezaten het kasteel gedurende de volgende 225 jaar. In 1793 onderging ook het kasteel van Esquelbecq de woede van de patriotten. Alles wat herinnerde aan het Ancien Régime werd geplunderd, vernield of verwijderd. In het begin van de 19de eeuw werd het kasteel geruïneerd door veldslagen en 15 dagen vijandelijke bezetting. De familie Guernonval liet het in de steek en verkocht het uiteindelijk in 1821 aan Louis Colombier, een handelaar uit Lille.
In 1984 stortte de donjon in. Van 2000 tot 2016 werden restauratiewerkzaamheden uitgevoerd.
Zowel het kasteel, bijgebouwen alsmede de tuin en het landschapspark zijn beschermd en geklasseerd op 17-08-1987.
Happy Sliders Sunday :)
I haven't been around on Flickr much recently because of a nasty feverish infection that still keeps me confined to bed most of the time. But I wanted to send a little sign of life, even if it's from the archives. I wanted to upload something lighter / brighter after the many dark images I've shown recently, and I also wanted it to be a LX100 image which helped to reduce the images to chose from :). This one shows a detail of the Berlin Congress Hall (which, as some of you already know, has been nicknamed "pregnant oyster" by the Berliners). We (= Sabine.R and I) had been there fairly late, because we wanted to take blue hour captures of the Congress Hall, but we still had to wait until 11 p.m. before the sky finally assumed that magical blue (please check the image in the first comment if you like).
We'd had a cloudless blue sky back then, and in LR I'd played around with the HSL sliders to remove the fading evening blue - and quite liked the result. Actually this image had already been developed and edited for a long time, but since I'm checking out Topaz DeNoise (30 day trial) right now, I thought I'd give it another noise (which can be quite strong on the LX100 with its 13 MP sensor) reducing treatment. Topaz DeNoise did a really good job here, I think, and - so far - I'm really impressed with the results it yields. More on Topaz DeNoise later :)
I'll try to catch up with you, but at the moment I'm still feeling somewhat under the weather. Have a great new week ahead, dear Flickr friends!
Kleines Lebenszeichen aus dem Archiv, da ich ja schon eine Weile nichts mehr hochgeladen habe, woran eine fiese Fieber-Husten-Geschichte Schuld ist, die mich schon seit Längerem plagt. Nach all den doch recht dunklen Fotos der letzten Zeit wollte ich endlich wieder ein helleres Bild zeigen, außerdem sollte es auch mal wieder ein LX100-Foto sein, was dann die Auswahl angenehm eingeschränkt hat :) Hier seht Ihr ein Detail der Berliner Kongresshalle (auch bekannt als "schwangere Auster"). Als wir (= Sabine.R und ich) an einem Mai-Abend vor knapp zwei Jahren dort waren, wollten wir Blaue-Stunde-Fotos der Kongresshalle machen, mussten dann aber noch bis 23 Uhr warten, bis sich das magische Blau endlich zeigte. Der Tag an sich war wolkenlos gewesen, und beim Entwickeln / der Bearbeitung kam mir die Idee, die zarten, verblassenden Blautöne des Abendhimmels per HSL-Regler zu entfernen, was mir letzten Endes auch recht gut gefiel. An sich war das Foto schon lange fertig bearbeitet, aber da ich gerade Topaz DeNoise ausprobiere, habe ich dem Bild spaßenshalber mit sanfter (erneuter) Entrauschung noch den letzten Schliff verpasst. Bislang bin ich von den Topaz-DeNoise-Ergebnissen ziemlich beeindruckt, gut möglich, dass ich das Programm nach der Testphase kaufen werde.
Ich wünsche Euch eine schöne neue Woche, liebe Flickr-Freunde! Und bitte nicht böse sein, wenn ich im Moment mehr Sternchen verteile als dazu auch Kommentare schreibe, ich bin noch nicht wieder ganz auf dem Damm.
This image was taken in late April but the days were already starting to last longer. As people or as photographers, we often believe it is too late or that we have missed our chance to get a great image, and that the day is over. But oftentimes, our day could have only just started. This was a special day in that I thought I had already seen all I could for the day, however, even though I was very tired, I walked to another location and I was then pleasantly surprised with this beautiful misty view. All days can be special but certain days are rare and very unique and we can only hope to be open minded enough when that day comes to enjoy it and take every opportunity to make the most of it.
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I already posted a summer version of Maria Eich (see comments) and I'll just insert the same text here:
The pilgrimage church Maria Eich has quite a history of miracles:
In 1710 the blacksmith sons Franz and Kaspar Thallmayr from Planegg placed a Loreto image of Mary in a hollow oak. Twenty two years later a day laborer made a pilgrimage to the Virgin Mary in the oak tree and recovered from an injury. As early as 1734, the influx of those in need was so great that a hut was built that surrounded the tree with the miraculous image. In 1742 a brick church building was built around the oak, which was consecrated on May 18, 1768. A hermitage was built in 1745, which also served as a school from 1790 to 1804.
Maria Eich gained supraregional importance in 1775 when the Bavarian Elector Max III. Joseph held a par force hunt in the forest. A hunted deer sought refuge by the chapel. The elector saw the miraculous image and spared the animal. To commemorate this event, a memorial plaque was attached to the chapel after the elector's death.
Maria Eich is still a popular pilgrimage destination, no pilgrims today though.
January.
January gets a bad rap. Yeah.... the holidays that most people look forward to are over... the next paid holiday (at least in my world) is Memorial Day! Most of us have eaten our way through the holidays and have now made ridiculous resolutions about losing weight, exercising and getting healthy... along with numerous other resolutions that rarely survive the first month of the year. It's cold. It's dark.... it's dark when we get up and dark when we get out of work. It's like an endless Monday.... (well, for most people... I, personally love Mondays, so that's not really how I feel!) ... 31 days straight of
Mondays for everyone else. And speaking of Mondays... and survival... here's another fun fact (almost as fun as the one about owls eating the heads off of pheasants).... The third Monday of January is regarded as the most depressing day of the year. It actually has the highest suicide rate of any other day of the year. Yup.... did you know that? And it's coming.... I'm going to survive Monday... because, hey! it's my favorite day of the week... now, Tuesday... that's another story altogether.
Anyway.... there are good things about January. It's a "catch up" month. We get to do things that we didn't have time to do because we were prepping for the holidays. It's dark... so we get to come home from work and put pajamas on at 7:00 (some of us are even asleep by 7:30!!) So, we get to catch up on sleep. It's cold... so we get to use wool.... wool blankets, wool scarves, wool sweaters, wool fingerless gloves. I love wool. Oh...and we get to wear many layers... which hide the extra pounds that have been added due to all of the chocolate covered goodies that appeared in the kitchen at work during all of December. It's cold and dark... so it gives us an excuse to curl up under blankets, with a good book, and go to sleep early. And if there's something you are supposed to do, that you don't want to.... you can pray for snow to get out of it... or just use the excuse... it's too cold. And if you do go out, like when I go to Waterloo Village every day...you have the place all to yourself (because it's cold... and it's dark!!) ... but having the place all to myself... PERFECT!! Just the way I like it! There... don't you feel better already? Yeah, I have no problem with January, and it's almost over anyway (although I have several other things to whine and complain about that aren't even close to being over... ugh)
The climbing hydrangea is wrapping around the giant beech tree. They bloom with lots of white flowers at the middle of June during the rainy season. If you take a closer look, you can see that there are already many buds. I'd like to visit again when they are in bloom (^^)
ブナの巨木に絡み付いてるのはツルアジサイです。梅雨の最中の6月中旬に白い花をいっぱい咲かせます。拡大して見ると既に蕾が多数付いてるのが分かります。咲く頃に再訪問したいと思慮してます(^^) 👍
(Continuation. See the texts of the earliest images of this series. The whole images from these series are already on my insta and behance www.behance.net/gallery/140662555/Give-Peace-a-Chance-%28..., but without these texts)
It’s like living in the nightmare, which have all the signs of nightmare but one or two. You’re pinch your elbow. You could feel it. You couldn’t wake up. So, it’s not the nightmare. But it definitely is. You know the feeling. And now all of us, trapped in this nightmare, are desperately need to stop it from within.
In Russia it’s worse because of living in it more than 20 years. And our lives turned into a nightmare little by little so as not to be noticed. Teeny-weeny little nightmarish element in the more or less normal life. More nightmare but partly acceptable one. Even more but we get used to it. Just a little bit more but we got Stockholm syndrome and our sensitivity dropped and severely damaged. After all we had the good old Europe to skip in emergency and every time when we needed just one more breath of fresh air, please. As well as all the beautiful world. We had our blessed inner emigration, we have the cosmopolitan circle of our own. We and the nightmare system barely noticed each other. That’s the very point. The system had nothing to do with our true real lives. Like the street crime, TNCs and sects. We had the biggest thing after our loves – our arts. Our tops of our semi-private worlds. And than – February 24th, the full-scale nightmare and not any comfortably numbness and Stockholm tricks and all other mean psychological manipulation which is those bread and high don't work anymore. Even the last vestige of all the system, the instinct for self-preservation, sometimes is ready to give up and now telling from its depths: “It depends”.
To be continued…
-No, we have Balaton Retro Weekend at home.
Already since its founding, Przewozy Regionalne, later Polregio, has been running loco-hauled services on the connections (Chojnice)-Gdynia-Hel. And although it's no Tapolca-Balatonfüred train, it also:
-is hauled by a diesel
-runs along a coastline (here along the gulf of Puck and Gdańsk)
-is very much retro!
Since last summer, the loco-hauled services run on a working timetable designed for 3 days of work and each day there are 5 pairs of Gdynia-Hel trains and one pair Chojnice-Hel. This way, each locomotive leaves Chojnice on the early morning of the first day, the 2nd day is entirely designated to Gdynia-Hel trains, and then it returns on the third day with a Hel-Chojnice train.
Currently SU42-518 is the only historically painted locomotive belonging to the Chojnice depot, though, as you will see in a bit, this situation is due to change very shortly. With a little luck, I managed to catch this locomotive upon departure from Czersk with the regio train 55254 from Chojnice to Hel. A very brief appearance of sunlight allowed for this interesting shot.
Photo by Piotrek/Toprus
El verano ya se fue, el otoño ya esta entre nosotros dias de nostalgia se avecinan.
Summer is gone, autumn is already among us, days of nostalgia are coming
Succubus WIP.. already switched these smooth maps for more toned as I would see her kind as being in top notch shape, absolute fantasy form and completely unrealistic, proportionally speaking.
Still searching for a Devilish Tail.. if anyone knows of such a mod...all of the HDT tails available seem a bit too wide and not really fitting to her. Would like a more curving pointed ended tail... shot in the dark.. no harm asking. ; )
She definitely has a dark side ( tho, she does not entertain bats, Mr. M, haha...) She does not hesitate to satisfy her primal needs but is not altogether in alliance with her natural instincts and will not usually kill human beings. More to sort out on that.. if I do not get bored.. lol
Thanks for viewing
When I begun to process this exposure bracketing, I thought that I knew what I wanted to attain. I was perfectly wrong. Indeed, these RAW files kept a few secret bits of beauty which I was not aware of when I selected them for processing – and they changed the course of the journey I had foreordained.
I was in a gloomy mood, for both personal and general concerns, and the RAWs looked rather duller than the average – taken: they appeared to accurately mirror the state of my soul. At worst, I would have wasted some hours of pointless procesing work before deciding to look for something better. Nobody would have known. However things were to contradict my expectations. I got some good news (a rarity in those tough days) about the health conditions of my brother and my “adopted brother-in-law” (i.e. my brother’s brother-in-law); on the other hand, Darktable – that wonderful software – gifted me with a few unanticipated treasures. My thoughts were growing more and more positive and the processing of this bracketing were proceeding accordingly: a hidden beauty was unfolding before me, my own persisting unawareness of it notwithstanding. At last I found myself with a picture that had apparently self-processed itself*, while I was busy exploring uncharted thoughts that kept emerging along the way
* Admittedly a bizarre phenomenon, which Maurits Cornelius Escher would have loved – think of his Drawing hands.
I would avoid to nag you about this incredibly wonderful location: you can take a look at my album Silent banks, the complete collection of the photos I have taken there; the attached narratives are rich in information about the place, if you are curious enough.
This location is especially renowned for its legendary morning mists, but only a thin layer of milky mist floated above the water that morning. On top of the hill in the distance, beyond the river, lays the sanctuary of the Madonna della Rocca ( = Madonna of the Rock), already brushed by the first light pouring from the Eastern horizon.
I have obtained this picture by blending an exposure bracketing [-1.7/0/+1.7 EV] by luminosity masks in the Gimp (EXIF data, as usual, refer to the "normal exposure" shot), then, as usual, I added some final touches with Nik Color Efex Pro 4.
I tried the inverted RGB blue channel technique described by Boris Hajdukovic as a possible final contribution to the processing. While this technique (which, its imposing name notwithstanding, is pretty simple to implement) often holds interesting results in full daylight landscapes, its effects on a low-light capture (e.g. a sunrise) are utterly unpredictable, so at the end of my workflow I often give it a try to ascertain its possibilities. In this picture I have exploited this technique in a very frugal, yet effective, way – just some touches where needed.
RAW files has been processed with Darktable. Denoising with DFine 2 and the Gimp (denoised and original images blended by lightness).
"Maen Castle", #43156; slows on the approach to St. Erth station leading Great Western's (GWR) quarter past one departure from Penzance to Plymouth on Saturday the 29th of November 2025.
Already far above the treetops, the Barn Swallow was about to exit the top of the frame when this photo was snapped.
Smile On Saturday: "Going Up" theme
HSoS
The color red symbolizes intense situations and emotions but at the same time it indicates warning and danger.
My red sky is a sky which reflects strong human emotions, covering them like a blanket and thus giving a sense of safety and hope.
Danger, longing, visualization, power, love, pain, balance, joy:
eight human moments under the red sky.
This is my new work and I m very proud to exhibit it
@ Nitroglobus Roof Gallery ( Dido's part)
Thank you so much, my dear Dido, for this honor
and for creating the poster as well!
THE EXHIBITION IS ALREADY OPEN AND YOU CAN VISIT IT.
(No opening party because of holidays🌞 )
“To win any battle, you must fight as if you are already dead.” — Miyamoto Musashi
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☠ ☠ ☠ ☠ ☠ Gabriel☠ ☠ ☠ ☠ ☠
Outfit - ::GB:: Synchronicity set @ Cyber Fair Event
⛧ Comes With Jacket, Pants, Boots and Belt
⛧ For Legacy, Belleza & Gianni
⛧ White, Silver & Black in Fatpack
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I already uploaded the photos of Zao district in October and the next I introduce the photos which were taken in November.
You can see the sceneries decorated in autumn colors.
I hope you enjoy them.
10月の蔵王地区の写真をアップロードしましたが、今度は11月に撮影した写真をアップします。
秋色の景色を見ることができます。
お楽しみください。
Location : goo.gl/1UWmZk