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I see these Mites a lot on my macro forays and I thought that as they don't seem to move much I'd try a stack. I managed a 25 image handheld focus stack with this guy. I thought things don't get much more alien looking than these guys, hence the "War Of The Worlds" reference in the title, I could just imagine these looming menacingly over cities and letting loose their death rays on the populace.
I'm not 100% sure on ID, the closest I have found is Damaeus (Adamaeus) onustus an Oribatid Mite, I see some without the camouflage, but this one has camouflaged itself with sediment and dirt, I'm not sure but it looks like there might be a Collembola shed skin added to the camouflage.
Sorry I've not been on Flickr for the past week, will endeavour to catch up over the next few days, I do have some new stacks to process. Also off to the NEC tomorrow for FOCUS on imaging :o)
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Lily of the Valley,
French: Muguet, lis des vallées
Dutch: Lelietjes van Dalen
Flemish: meiklokjes (Little BELLS OF MAY)
The flower is also known as 'Our Lady's tears' since, according to Christian legend; the lily of the valley came into being from Eve's tears after she was driven with Adam from the Garden of Eden.
According to another legend, Lilies of the Valley also sprang from the blood of Saint Leonard of Noblac during his battles with a dragon.
Other names include May Lily, May Bells, Lily Constancy, Ladder-to-Heaven, Male Lily and Muguet.
Lily of the Valley became the national flower of Finland in 1967.
The Norwegian municipality Lunner has a Lily of the Valley in its coat-of-arms.
It is also the official flowers of many fraternities and sororities.
... an erect low-growing perennial herb of the genus Convallaria (C. majalis) that has two large oblong lanceolate leaves and a raceme of fragrant nodding bell-shaped white flowers.
All parts of the Lily of the Valley are highly poisonous.
The first day of May in France and other European countries is La Fête du Travail (Labour Day). It is a holiday.
May 1 is also La Fête du Muguet, and the tradition is to give the ones you love a sprig of Muguet, for good luck and to celebrate the arrival of Spring.
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There were a couple (maybe more) young coyotes roaming Ridgefield NWR the other day.
They were popping up everywhere, right in the middle of a bright day, hunting rodents near the road.
This one didn't actually catch anything after landing, but it was a fun attempt.
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Sometimes I get so weird
I even freak myself out
I laugh myself to sleep it's my lullaby
Sometimes I drive so fast
Just to feel the danger
I want to scream it makes me feel alive
Is it enough to love?
Is it enough to breathe?
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed
Is it enough to die?
Somebody save my life
I'd rather be anything but ordinary please
To walk within the lines
Would make my life so borin'
I want to know that I have been
To the extreme
So knock me off my feet
Come on now give it to me
Anything to make me feel alive
Nearly everything in Trier is under construction at the moment. So I tried to find at least a small kind of anything to take a picture of =) This cloister was really atmosperic and quiet.
GWR Class 57 No. 57605 'Totnes Castle is seen at Plymouth Station while working ''The Night Riviera' 1A40 2145 Penzance to London Paddington.
Over hearing the station manager the door colour is set to be changed because its not in compliance to the viability act as its not contrasted enough. be interesting to see if anything comes from this whisper?
I had miss H's old mohair scalp lying around, and while adg does not fit kenners so well, it fit her ebl noggin beautifully. I liked it so much on her, she got to keep it.
It's much lighter then her old hair, which was the reason her poor neck broke. Also, since she has no lashes there is no problem with it catching.
The artist Jani Leinonen bought signs from beggars and framed them. From a visit to AROS, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark - April 22, 2016.
@ Leh Monastery. Had hard time taking this photo, the statue was enclosed with a glass pane....
I had to go back to my guest house to bring tripod for this shot.
Hostlers shuffle Union Pacific SW9 No. 1848 and DD35 No. 85B at North Yard in Salt Lake City, Utah on Feb. 27, 1977.
British blues is a form of music derived from American blues that originated in the late 1950s, and reached its height of mainstream popularity in the 1960s. In Britain, it developed a distinctive and influential style dominated by electric guitar and made international stars of several proponents of the genre including The Rolling Stones, The Animals, Eric Clapton, Fleetwood Mac and Led Zeppelin.
(Local Band "Anything But That")
A ground floor apartment was being emptied, all sorts of things were shown as giveaway in front and inside.
Asahi Pentax Spotmatic SP and SMC Takumar 55mm f/1.8, Agfa APX 100 in Rodinal 1+50 for 10 min @ 20°C and digitalized using kit zoom and extension tubes.
Thank you everyone for your visits, faves and comments, they are always appreciated :)
A good Flickr-ite, at least in my opinion, has to mix up the subject matter a touch. And it has been a while since a flower showed up in this photostream. (Soon shots taken with the new lens will appear).
And the comments related to this bald man looking Sexy in a Blonde wig were the best ever. "Mohammad Ali Zoom in Tight"!
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These two common gallinules were foraging at Celery Fields marsh the other evening. The one on top was hilarious. When the one gallinule put its head under the water, the other one would immediately jump on its back to look over its shoulder.
anything to get a little closer
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“The Cross is not a Roman pole, but the wood on which God wrote his gospel”.
“La Croce non è un palo dei romani, ma il legno su cui Dio ha scritto il suo vangelo.
(Alda Merini)
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Good Friday is an anniversary which in Sicily acquires a cathartic meaning for those who are searching, not only photographically, for popular traditions (we find them widespread throughout Sicily), which are nothing other than a social, cultural event, which merge into a single past and present; from the web "popular traditions are a historical memory linked to customs and rituals that have given shape to the values and beliefs of that culture". Easter in Sicily can be a source of research, it can appear not without contradictions, citing the thoughts of that great Sicilian thinker Leonardo Sciascia, for him Sicily cannot be called Christian referring to the Sicilian festivals, at most it is only in appearance, in those properly pagan explosions tolerated by the Church; Sciascia addresses the topic as an introductory essay in the book "Religious celebrations in Sicily", illustrated with photographs of a young and still unknown Ferdinando Scianna, a book that did not fail to raise some controversy due to the Sicilian thinker's introductory note, thus being in open controversy with the sacredness of that popular Sicilian devotion (the book was criticized by the Holy See newspaper, the Osservatore Romano), Sciascia writes: “what is a religious festival in Sicily? It would be easy to answer that it is anything but a religious holiday. It is, first of all, an existential explosion; the explosion of the collective id, where the collectivity exists only at the level of the id. Since it is only during the celebration that the Sicilian emerges from his condition of a single man, which is the condition of his vigilant and painful superego, to find himself part of a class, of a class, of a city". Another Sicilian thinker, writer and poet, Gesualdo Bufalino, provides interesting indications on the meaning that Sicilians give to these traditional popular events, he says "during Easter every Sicilian feels not only a spectator, but an actor, first sorrowful and then exultant , for a Mystery that is its very existence. The time of the event is that of Spring, the season of metamorphosis, just as the very nature of the rite is metamorphic in which, as in a story from the Puppet Opera, the battle of Good against Evil is fought. Deception, Pain and Triumph, Passion, Death and Resurrection of Christ are present."
In short, Easter in Sicily is a deeply felt anniversary throughout the island since ancient times, it has always had as its fulcrum the emotional participation of the people, with representations and processions which have become rites and traditions which unequivocally characterize numerous Sicilian centres, which they recall the most salient moments narrated in the Gospels and which recall the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, with processions formed by the various brotherhoods (sometimes with theatrical re-enactments) which have within them contents and symbols often coming from the Spanish domination, which took place in Sicily between the 16th and 17th centuries. This year, on the occasion of Good Friday I went to the pretty town of Licodia Eubea (in the province of Catania), I'll start by saying that in this procession a unique character comes to life in statue form that cannot be found anywhere else place in Sicily, it is called "Ciurciddu" (translated "Circello"), he pulls Christ with a rope tied around his neck while he carries the Cross, this bad character has a profound symbolic-allegorical meaning, he represents "the Evil that exists in the world, the refusal towards the Truth announced by Christ", causing him suffering by pulling him with the rope tied around his neck. The boys and men "carriers of the floats" gather together, preparing for the moment when, once the procession has begun, the "'a Giunta" will take place around 10:00 a.m., or rather the very painful "encounter" between Christ ( who carries the Cross, linked to Ciurciddu) and His Mother of Sorrows (with her heart pierced by a sword, an iconic image of Spanish origin), during the meeting "the bow or greeting takes place" between the two floats, it is the Greeting that Mother and Son do in one of the most characteristic moments of this procession. While the two vares are brought to an ancient church, another event takes place which strongly characterizes this tradition, the "auction of the Cross" takes place, the ability to carry the Cross, weighing 70 kg, on one's shoulder, up to Churc of Calvary (a long uphill journey to reach the upper part of the town), is put up for auction, the highest bidder wins this possibility, after which an extraordinary event occurs: the devotee who wins the auction is embraced by numerous villagers, with great transport and affection, this is because those who participate in the auction certainly do so out of devotion but also possibly because they have had someone in their family with more or less serious health problems, and this is why people hug them and encourage them by showing their closeness . In the afternoon the procession resumes, now the Christ is dead, he is in the vara with the Urn, and is called "'u Signuri' a cascia" (by which term means "the Lord in the coffin"), the two vare (the dead Christ and His Mother of Sorrows) are carried in procession up to the Church of Calvary, where the heavy and ancient Cross carried on the shoulder by the devotee was hoisted; here, even if Christ is dead, the Crucifixion takes place , the mystical moment is accompanied by ancient songs-lamentations by the singers of the SS association. Crucifix; subsequently Christ is placed from the Cross in the urn, and descends back into the center of the town, where in the church of the Capuchin Fathers the devout people "make peace with the Lord", an act of reconciliation and request for forgiveness before the figure of Christ Died. Subsequently, late in the evening, Christ and his Mother are led into the Mother Church.
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Il Venerdì Santo è una ricorrenza che in Sicilia acquista un significato catartico per chi è alla ricerca, non solo fotografica, delle tradizioni popolari (le troviamo diffuse in tutta la Sicilia), che altro non sono che un evento sociale, culturale, che fondono in un tutt’uno passato e presente; dal web “le tradizioni popolari sono una memoria storica legata ad usanze e ritualità che hanno dato forma ai valori e alle credenze di quella cultura”. La Pasqua in Sicilia può essere fonte di ricerca, essa può apparire non priva di contraddizioni, citando il pensiero di quel grande pensatore Siciliano che fu Leonardo Sciascia, per lui la Sicilia non può dirsi cristiana riferendosi alle feste Siciliane, al massimo lo è solo in apparenza, in quelle esplosioni propriamente pagane, tollerate dalla Chiesa; Sciascia affronta l’argomento come saggio introduttivo nel libro “Feste religiose in Sicilia”, illustrato con fotografie di un giovane ed ancora sconosciuto Ferdinando Scianna, libro che non mancò di sollevare qualche polemica per la nota introduttiva del pensatore Siciliano, essendo così in aperta polemica con la sacralità di quella devozione popolare Siciliana (il libro fu oggetto di una stroncatura da parte del quotidiano della Santa Sede, l’Osservatore Romano), Sciascia scrive: “che cos’ è una festa religiosa in Sicilia? Sarebbe facile rispondere che è tutto, tranne che una festa religiosa. E’, innanzi tutto, un’esplosione esistenziale; l’esplosione dell’es collettivo, dove la collettività esiste soltanto a livello dell’es. Poiché è soltanto nella festa che il siciliano esce dalla sua condizione di uomo solo, che è poi la condizione del suo vigile e doloroso super io, per ritrovarsi parte di un ceto, di una classe, di una città ”. Altro pensatore, scrittore e poeta Siciliano, Gesualdo Bufalino, fornisce indicazioni interessanti sul senso che i Siciliani danno a questi eventi popolari tradizionali, egli dice “durante la Pasqua ogni siciliano si sente non solo uno spettatore, ma un attore, prima dolente e poi esultante, per un Mistero che è la sua stessa esistenza. Il tempo dell’evento è quello della Primavera, la stagione della metamorfosi, così come metamorfica è la natura stessa del rito nel quale, come in un racconto dell’Opera dei Pupi, si combatte la lotta del Bene contro il Male. Sono presenti l’Inganno, il Dolore e il Trionfo, la Passione, la Morte e la Resurrezione di Cristo”.
In breve, la Pasqua in Sicilia è una ricorrenza profondamente sentita in tutta l’isola fin dall’antichità, essa ha sempre avuto come fulcro la commossa partecipazione del popolo, con rappresentazioni e processioni divenuti riti e tradizioni che caratterizzano inequivocabilmente numerosissimi centri Siciliani, che rievocano i momenti più salienti narrati nei Vangeli e che ricordano la Passione, la Morte e la Resurrezione di Gesù Cristo, con cortei formati dalle varie confraternite (a volte con rievocazioni teatrali) che hanno in se contenuti e simbologie spesso provenienti dalla dominazione Spagnola, avvenuta in Sicilia tra il XVI ed il XVII secolo.
Quest’anno, in occasione del Venerdì Santo mi sono recato nel grazioso paese di Licodia Eubea (in provincia di Catania), inizio col dire che in questa processione prende vita, in forma statuaria, un personaggio unico che non si trova in nessun’altro luogo della Sicilia, si chiama “Ciurciddu” (tradotto “Circello”), egli tira con una corda legata al collo il Cristo mentre porta la Croce, questo tristo personaggio ha un profondo significato simbolico-allegorico, egli rappresenta “il Male che c’è nel mondo, il rifuto verso la Verità annunciata dal Cristo”, creandogli sofferenza tirandolo con la corda legata al collo. I ragazzi e gli uomini “portatori delle vare” si riuniscono tra loro, preparandosi al momento in cui, iniziata la processione, si realizzerà attorno alle ore 10:00 “ ‘a Giunta”, ovvero “l’incontro” dolorosissimo tra il Cristo (che porta la Croce, legato a Ciurciddu) e Sua Madre l’Addolorata (col cuore trafitto da una spada, immagine iconica di origine spagnola), durante l’incontro “avviene l’inchino o saluto” tra le due vare, è il Saluto che Madre e Figlio si fanno in uno dei momenti più caratteristici di questa processione. Mentre le due vare vengono portate in una antica chiesa, avviene un altro evento che caratterizza fortemente questa tradizione, ha luogo “l’asta della Croce”, il poter portare in spalla la Croce, del peso di 70 kg, fino alla Chiesa del Calvario (un lungo percorso in salita a raggiungere la parte alta del paese), viene messo all’asta, il maggiore offerente si aggiudica questa possibilità, dopodiché avviene un fatto straordinario: il devoto che si è aggiudicato l’asta viene abbracciato da numerosissimi paesani, con grande trasporto ed affetto, questo perché chi partecipa all’asta lo fa certamente per devozione ma anche possibilmente perché in famiglia ha avuto qualcuno con problemi più o meno gravi di salute, ed è per questo che le persone lo abbracciano e lo incoraggiano mostrandogli la loro vicinanza. Nel pomeriggio riprende la processione, adesso il Cristo è morto, si trova nella vara con l’Urna, ed è chiamato “ ‘ u Signuri ‘ a cascia” (col quale termine si intende “il Signore nella cassa da morto”), le due vare (il Cristo morto e Sua Madre l’Addolorata) vengono portate in processione fin sopra la Chiesa del Calvario, dove la pesante ed antica Croce portata in spalla dal devoto è stata issata, qui, anche se il Cristo è morto, avviene la Crocifissione, il mistico momento è accompagnato da antichi canti-lamentazioni ad opera dei cantori dell’associazione SS. Crocifisso; successivamente il Cristo viene deposto dalla Croce nell’urna, e ridiscende nel centro del paese, ove nella chiesa dei Padri Cappuccini il popolo dei devoti “ fa ‘ a Paci co’ Signuri”, atto di riconciliazione e richiesta di perdono innanzi la figura del Cristo Morto. Successivamente, in tarda serata, il Cristo e Sua Madre vengono condotti nella Chiesa Madre.
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"La crocifissione"-Venerdì Santo 2024 a Licodia Eubea
I riti della Settimana Santa 2024 a Licodia Eubea
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Venerdì Santo 2024 a Licodia Eubea..."A naccata sulle note della Sollevazione di Cristo"
Canti devozionali della settimana santa a Licodia Eubea
Curunedda di Maria Addulurata - Li sette spati
I Canti devozionali della Settimana Santa a Licodia Eubea
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Backstage del Film "Su Re" di Giovanni Columbu
Su Re (2012) • Tornate a splendere!
Incontro con Giovanni Columbu, regista di SU RE (Italia 2013)
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Could do a whole shoot that was simply "sit 'em on the sidewalk and let the sun flare do its thing".
I see from the archives, this was my only shoot with Brittany...worst feeling is looking back and realizing I should've worked with folks more than once. I see all the avenues I missed in the first (and only) shoot, wonder what I was thinking, back then.
I can tell this: I wanted it over as soon as possible. I shot close to my apartment, stayed put in one spot on the street, the metadata says I didn't even make it a full hour, but I don't remember anything so significant that would've made it bad beyond "not my vibe."
The more I look at the shoot, the more I get it. I was bored. Not feeling it, I barely had Brittany move around, barely made her laugh. I didn't take any chances, didn't try anything new.
Oh...looks like I'd been to my favorite Mexican restaurant a few hours earlier...I was probably nursing a mean post-heavy meal hangover. I've made this mistake before, it all becomes clear.
Shoot on an empty stomach, damn you!
"The cure for anything is salt water; sweat, tears or the sea"
- Isak Denisen
It's the beginning of the next chapter and a new era of my blogging- and vlogging journey...
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Read all about it ▸ chloedakota.com/2016/08/10/the-cure-for-anything-is-salt-...
Songspiration ▸ www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOsuWnfqMFA
Location ▸ Baja Sands
This deserves to go up in its own upload. I've heard of these UMMs before, they're quite an obscurity and I never did think I'd be able to spot one. Well, I did yesterday, completely by chance! Spots like this are what I look forward to whenever I go to a new area. The idea that anything, could be lurking anywhere.
This one has been without MOT since 2007, but is apparently in the hands of an enthusiast who has had it 20 years. Let's hope this magnificent Portuguese weapon will live on.
K45 ESE
TWO HUNDRED SIXTY-TWO
“Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over... Death is not anything... death is not... It's the absence of presence, nothing more... the endless time of never coming back... a gap you can't see, and when the wind blows through it, it makes not sound...”
Tom Stoppard
Towards the end it was almost a case of "anything goes" as far as GHA was concerned. Here Volvo Olympian / Northern Counties P604 CAY arrives at Denbigh on route X50 from Wrexham, still carrying the livery of subsidiary company Bryn Melyn which had long been absorbed into the main fleet by the time of this photo.
Saturday Self Challenge
This week in SSC:
Photographing Dishes and Dinnerware
Take a photo of anything from fine china to a set of mixing bowls, cups & saucers, crockery, etc. You can photograph one or many pieces and it's okay to include food or drinks in your image.
Post-process as you like.
I didn’t realise until I took this photo how warped and wonky these plates are, I don’t know whether they were bought that way - cheap, or if the heat of the dishwasher has played a part. I’ve had a rather busy week and haven’t had much time to get creative, so sadly this is the best I can offer, I flipped it upside down just to make it look a bit more interesting. The fancy bowl came free a few years ago with coupons collected from a couple of packets of frozen potato wedges, there is another but it’s chipped, like most of our crockery !!
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