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Mucking around in a water taxi. About to disembark at the jetty on the left, having come from Darling Harbour to the west.
A lone tulip against an open window. Aspect ratio: 9:16.
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Brisbane from 1 William Street tower.
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At the time when I acquired the exposures for this image, my idea was to produce a panorama. I did that and posted it to this photo-stream, but somehow I never really liked it. Too busy I think.
Recently, I reassembled the images into a panorama, and fiddled with that idea, and still did not like it, so I decided to crop the field and generate an image which emphasizes the reflection aspect of the scene.
The water in the reservoir is near it's lowest annual level and it is very clear, having had a winter to allow fine particles to settle to the bottom. I like the contrast between the color of the water and that of the sky. It's real. And the jet aircraft exhaust trail - what more could you ask for?
This was rebuilt around 1338 to help defend the abbey from French raids during the Hundred Years War. It is considered to be one of the finest examples of its kind in an English monastery.
F100 Ultrafine Extreme 400 @800 HC-110 7:30@68 Nikon AF Nikkor 28-105mm 1:3.5-4.5D Yellow Filter 04/18/2020
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Canyon
The Grand Canyon is a steep-sided canyon carved by the Colorado River in Arizona, United States. The Grand Canyon is 277 miles (446 km) long, up to 18 miles (29 km) wide and attains a depth of over a mile (6,093 feet or 1,857 meters).
The canyon and adjacent rim are contained within Grand Canyon National Park, the Kaibab National Forest, Grand Canyon–Parashant National Monument, the Hualapai Indian Reservation, the Havasupai Indian Reservation and the Navajo Nation. The surrounding area is contained within the Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument. President Theodore Roosevelt was a major proponent of the preservation of the Grand Canyon area and visited it on numerous occasions to hunt and enjoy the scenery.
Nearly two billion years of Earth's geological history have been exposed as the Colorado River and its tributaries cut their channels through layer after layer of rock while the Colorado Plateau was uplifted. While some aspects about the history of incision of the canyon are debated by geologists, several recent studies support the hypothesis that the Colorado River established its course through the area about 5 to 6 million years ago. Since that time, the Colorado River has driven the down-cutting of the tributaries and retreat of the cliffs, simultaneously deepening and widening the canyon.
For thousands of years, the area has been continuously inhabited by Native Americans, who built settlements within the canyon and its many caves. The Pueblo people considered the Grand Canyon a holy site, and made pilgrimages to it. The first European known to have viewed the Grand Canyon was García López de Cárdenas from Spain, who arrived in 1540.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Canyon_National_Park
Grand Canyon National Park is a national park of the United States located in northwestern Arizona, the 15th site to have been named as a national park. The park's central feature is the Grand Canyon, a gorge of the Colorado River, which is often considered one of the Wonders of the World. The park, which covers 1,217,262 acres (1,901.972 sq mi; 4,926.08 km2) of unincorporated area in Coconino and Mohave counties, received more than 4.7 million recreational visitors in 2023. The Grand Canyon was designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1979. The park celebrated its 100th anniversary on February 26, 2019.
Source: www.nps.gov/grca/index.htm
Entirely within the state of Arizona, the park encompasses 278 miles (447 km) of the Colorado River and adjacent uplands. Located on the ancestral homelands of 11 present day Tribal Communities, Grand Canyon is one of the most spectacular examples of erosion anywhere in the world—a mile deep canyon unmatched in the incomparable vistas it offers visitors from both north and south rims.
Additional Foreign Language Tags:
(United States) "الولايات المتحدة" "Vereinigte Staaten" "アメリカ" "米国" "美国" "미국" "Estados Unidos" "États-Unis" "ארצות הברית" "संयुक्त राज्य" "США"
(Arizona) "أريزونا" "亚利桑那州" "אריזונה" "एरिजोना" "アリゾナ州" "애리조나" "Аризона"
(Grand Canyon) "جراند كانيون" "大峡谷" "גרנד קניון" "ग्रांड कैन्यन" "グランドキャニオン" "그랜드 캐니언" "Гранд-Каньон" "Gran Cañón"
One of the interesting aspects of spending time chasing the ore pool motors on the former DMIR is the limited roster. Unlike many other locations, these 6 axle units rarely stray far from Proctor. Last night's post was one example, the second time I had shot the 2006 leading in August. Here is another example, this time, the 408 leads the same power set it was leading when I shot it in the same location 10 days earlier. I posted that shot a couple days ago. There was a different set of cars on the hook the second time, but the power set was the same. Funny how things can happen.
On both occasions I caught the train a second time at Spirit Mountain, and those are in the backlog waiting to be posted.
"She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes..."
— George Gordon Byron
There are many aspects of our sense of self and many fragments that lead up to a whole. When you drop a delicate glass and it shatters, you see all of the pieces that make up that simple structure that holds liquid. Just imagine how many pieces are inside of each of us, just as fragile and susceptible to damage.
Each year, I make some changes to my life. I wouldn't call them New Year's Resolutions (though I do try to make a couple of those) because they don't always happen on the new year. I yearn to be a flawless person and I've always realized how finite our time spans on Earth are...and so, I don't like to waste any time that I'm given, either when trying to make the world a better place or in terms of trying to make myself into a better person, someone I can respect and love when I Iook in the mirror. 2015 was a year filled with changes for me and, instead of doing a top 10 or 20 or 25 live shows, I thought maybe I would do something different this year instead.
1. Photography:
I have many identities, if you must know. Some call these roles but when your roles in life define you, it seems to become a little more than that. In other words, if you lose one role, like your role as an artist, you will probably have something along the lines of a nervous breakdown, where you question who you are and want to jump out of the window. That's how strongly I identify with myself as a photographer. I've been doing this for 20 years now and I started in the dark room with film and a ton of time and creative youthful energy.
I really haven't changed yet in terms of my yearning to be a part of the collective consciousness that defines us as human beings and wanting to redeem it. There are so many harmful things that bring us all down...we have allowed the rich to get stronger and the poor to become many. We have turned our backs on our sisters and brothers. We no longer recognize them in the street.
More importantly, photography is a sort of art therapy for me. I've been going to a very helpful Sleep Therapist recently to help with my insomnia. He has me rate the stress in my life on a 0-5 scale. 5 is the highest and 0 is literally no stress. After about 5 visits, on our last visit in December, my sleep therapist pointed out to me how he thought it was interesting that I never rated my stress level for each day a 5 even though I often reported that my job was the cause of much dismay. I explained, "That's because, no matter how stressed I am, I realize I have to keep perspective. 5 is genocide. 5 is I am raped and nearly murdered and my family is murdered in front of me. 5 is someone opens their door on me while bicycling and I'm in the hospital and am told I will never walk again or breathe without a machine. If 5 is the worst thing that can happen to a person, I hope I never see it." Did I mention I'm intense?
Anyway, I digress...photography helps me cope with all of the sadness I feel when I think that we're all doomed and uniquely flawed in a way that doesn't allow us to change our mistakes, to make ourselves better, to find redemption. I don't mean religious redemption, either. I just mean that we realize we were each given a unique potential and the failure to live up to this is a black mark upon all of us.
I've made some changes regarding photography and my identity this year. When I started photographing with digital over film in 2006, it opened up some previously unexplored possibilities for me. I've always loved music and concerts and so, increasingly more, I started photographing my favorite bands. I still do so and continue to love it but I feel a sadness in the thought that I'll be be pigeonholed as merely a "concert photographer" when the day is done. More than anything, I have always yearned to capture life at the end of the day. I'm a searcher and I'm searching for the qualities that show us as overcoming all of our past atrocities, as better than all that. There is something in a gesture that Milan Kundera understood...a gesture can be linked to identity and can be it's own greatest art form. I'm a huge fan of animals but the gestures that humans make can actually take my breath away.
I see more views, favorites, comments, etc. when I post a concert photo and I appreciate those but, at the end of the day, I am part of Flickr because I want to grow as a photographer and I don't want to die with people thinking all I ever did was stand alongside 15 other people taking photos of the same musicians at the exact same time. I think that's why I haven't really missed scaling back on shows and festivals overall this year. I still love Levitation/Austin Psych Fest the very best (it's my type of music!) and I still enjoy live shows...but if I am photographing bands, I want to be doing so to promote their creativity and their presence in the world so not necessarily the bands everyone has already heard of in other words.
I realize I'm not the best street or portrait photographer in the world but it takes time to develop and, just like it took time for me to develop as a concert photographer, I have made more of a commitment to devoting time and energy to this endeavor. It's painful to me when I try to be part of a community of street photographers and I feel rejected or condescended to. I have music within me and I sing in my own way. Right now, this is where my heart is leading me.
2. Vegan
When I was 13, it finally occurred to me that it was perhaps more than a little hypocritical to identify myself as an animal lover and then eat them. Back then, I pretty much lived on vegetarian vegetable cans of Progresso soup and it was a challenge to live as a vegetarian in upstate NY not because I enjoyed the taste of meat but because I had a lack of options for my own nutrition. I also had to learn the hard way about taking B vitamin and iron supplements or I'd be feeling weak and/or faint all day long. Pretty soon, though, being a vegetarian became a part of the very fabric of my being and was one of the first things I mentioned. It definitely made me more healthy but it also made me feel like I was a person with integrity.
Of course, not as much was known in 1992 about the environmental implications of being vegetarian and, even more so, vegan. When you're facing food scarcities, using all fertile land in the most optimal way to feed the approaching 7 billion people on this planet seems less like radical ideology and more just like plain common sense.
At least in America, vegan cheeses, yogurts, sorbets, milks, butters, and even egg substitutes have seen remarkable growth. Not so long ago, vegan cheese tasted like play-doh and was absolutely disgusting. We've come a long way, especially in the last three years. I've never been a fan of Daiya, though I appreciate their history in the market, but I am a fan of Heidi-Ho vegan cheese made from chia seeds. Kite Hill, Punk Rawk cheese, Treeline cheese and Mykononos cheese are all fantastic vegan options. In addition, each city (even my own small home town city of Rochester, NY with the amazing vegan restaurant Vive) seems to be developing it's own artisan vegan cheeses. To be clear, these are "cheeses" I wouldn't even realize were vegan. In Chicago, we have Feed Your Head, Teese, Chicago Raw, and Soul Veg. which are amazing-as well as several restaurant options.
When I think about the process in America of separating the young calves from their mothers and killing male chickens, I think about the stress hormones that get transferred from animal to your food. I also think about the rise in quite a few life threatening allergies...some of this may be related to pollution but maybe some of it is related to animals. I became a vegetarian way before epidemics like "Mad Cow Disease" but this disease isn't exactly a compelling argument to continue to eat any animal products for me.
There is going to come a time when we can no longer be dependent on animals for any food source. I don't know when that exact year is...if I had to guess, it will probably be well before I reach old age (if I do reach it). Let's say 2040. Animal products will be unreliable and even toxic. If you'd like for some reasonable substitutes and would, in the meantime, like to become a healthier and more productive human, I would recommend becoming vegan sooner than later. Again, I'm not a radical. I'm not a trend setter. However, I am a person who likes to think I can see trends and has some common sense. Many thanks to my friend and photographer Lindsey Best for opening my eyes and giving me a needed push in the right direction. I hope my words here find you well and you are open minded enough to consider them for yourself and for the future of the world.
Check out her work:
3. Sleep
Being an insomniac started to usurp my identity or components of it for a couple of decades. Ever since I became addicted to Nyquil in high school after a cold, I have struggled on and off with insomnia. My most recent dependency as an adult was 3 Ibuprofen PM AND 3 Melatonin. I have a great deal of anxiety and stress related to work and I found I couldn't sleep without this combination. But then, I had an even more of a problem which was that even this combination wasn't doing the trick. Your body habituates over time and you feel extremely abnormal. You start to really worry about the damage you might be doing to your kidneys, for instance, and start to feel helpless. There are only so many times I can have a panic attack in the middle of the night before I realize I probably need to gather some gumption and actually see a medical professional about it.
This summer/August, I started to see a sleep therapist in Chicago. It was a big change for me because it finally spoke to the idea that I wanted to truly change my life. I've gone through phases of extreme struggle because, like my mother, I feel more creative in the wee hours of the night. I've also gone through phases where I truly viewed being an insomniac as "cool." But, at 3am, when you're sweating profusely, wondering how you're going to get through the next day at work, and wondering if you're racing heart signifies that you'll soon be having a heart attack, you realize this is anything but "cool." While it's true it's helpful to have deep experiences to become a better artist and feel connected to all aspects of the world, it's also very true that you're not helpful to anyone on Earth as a creative entity or otherwise if you're dead.
Fast forward 6 months later. I now sleep at least 6 hours most nights without any sleep aids...this is a big deal for me! When I say a "big deal" what I mean specifically is that if you had told me in August that I would be here in January, I would have thought you were suggesting the impossible. And yet, this is my new reality and, instead of identifying myself based on the sleep I did or didn't get the night before, I have begun to identify myself as the person who can do more with a little more sleep and feeling proud of myself for the progress I have made. Again, I am nowhere near the perfect and flawless human being I would like to be but this is a huge part of becoming better and doing more in the world each day I'm alive.
4. Neuroscience
I've always liked nonfiction in moderation but 2015 especially saw me struggling with some new cases at work where I felt I needed to learn more to become better and, what this inevitably boiled down to is learning more about the human brain and the capacity for change. Even when I was going to university for my degree back in NY in 2001, it was a widespread belief that the human brain was plastic only to a certain point following an injury like a stroke and that if progress didn't occur within the first 6months or so afterwards, the idea that the patient could grow was probably just a little too optimistic.
What neuroscientists have found most recently is that this is actually really false and, even more so, could be obviously damaging to the patient's progress when the doctors and therapists embrace this line of thinking. Neuroscientists have also learned so much more about mental illness, physical disabilities, Autism and other sensory disorders. This is one of the most exciting adventures you can have-realizing even how much potential we have to change and being inspired to change because of it. I've tried to make myself more trilingual, more of an optimist, and more filled with the kindness and empathy related to the struggles people have.
I would highly recommend checking out the following authors/works:
The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human
by V.S. Ramachandran
www.goodreads.com/book/show/8574712-the-tell-tale-brain
Rainy Brain, Sunny Brain: How to Retrain Your Brain to Overcome Pessimism and Achieve a More Positive Outlook
by Elaine Fox
(It sounds kind of hokey and middle of the road but very interesting neuroscience behind optimism):
www.goodreads.com/book/show/13237701-rainy-brain-sunny-br...
The Brain's Way of Healing: Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity
by Norman Doidge
www.goodreads.com/book/show/22522293-the-brain-s-way-of-h...
Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism
by Temple Grandin
www.goodreads.com/book/show/103408.Thinking_in_Pictures?f...
And recently my mom has encouraged me to watch youtube clips from this neuroscientist and read his work:
David Eagleman:
Thanks for reading, all. Good luck on your own journeys.
The easternmost edge of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot and surrounding south tropical disturbance are captured in this image from NASA’s Juno spacecraft. At left, wispy tendrils from the Red Spot give the atmosphere a layered appearance as they partially obscure cloud features below.
Jupiter's appearance is a tapestry of vivid colors and swirling atmospheric vortices. Many aspects of the planet’s atmosphere are still a mystery. For example, the origin of individual storms or churning cloud features is unknown. By studying Jupiter’s weather up close for the first time, Juno is helping researchers better understand how atmospheres work in general – including our own. What we learn about Jupiter’s atmosphere will also help scientists understand how gas-giant planets work in general, including those now being discovered beyond our solar system.
This color-enhanced image was taken at 3:01 a.m. PDT on April 1, 2018 (6:01 a.m. EDT), as the spacecraft performed its 12th close flyby of Jupiter. At the time, Juno was about 7,900 miles (12,750 kilometers) from the planet's cloud tops, above a southern latitude of approximately 26 degrees.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Brian Swift/Kevin M. Gill
This photograph combines in a single image two very different aspects of Maya civilization: their brilliant achievements as astronomers and the savagery of their practice of human sacrifice.
In the foreground is a small temple platform which may have been a place of sacrifice of captives and others (losing ball game competitors?) and which certainly was a place where there skulls were preserved on posts, as indicated by the carvings on its base. Each stone block has a carved end that depicts a skull mounted on a post. Grim.
In the background is the Temple/Pyramid of Kukulcan, a stunning architectural achievement whose plan and decoration expresses all of the key aspects of the Mayan calendar in stone.
Ich weiss nicht, was mehr für den Titel steht: Das Bild oder wie (und mit was) es entstand: Auf dem ersten Spaziergang mit einer neuen Kamera. Nun ist das Wetter im Dezember nicht prädestiniert, schöne Farben und knallige Kontraste zu präsentieren, aber das muss es auch nicht. Die Kamera kaufte ich aus einer Laune heraus, aber nicht ganz losgelöst: Es ist meine zweite Leica, meine erste - eine 3g von 1956 - bekam ich mit 14, es ist ein wenig zurück zu den Wurzeln. Das vergangene Jahr war generell von der Konfrontation mit den eigenen Wurzeln geprägt. Angefangen hatte die Reise mit dem Auswerten des Nachlasses meines Vaters und der Kontaktaufnahme mit der Ernst-Leitz-Stiftung. So eröffnete sich mir ein unbekannter Aspekt meiner Herkunft. Bisher war diese Verwandtschaft immer nur eine Kuriosität, nun sind es Gesichter und Charaktäre, all die Großcousinen und -Cousins, die wir alle denselben Urgroßvater haben. //
I don’t know what stands more for the title: the image or how (and with what) it came about: on a first walk with a new camera. December weather is not known for beautiful colors and bold contrasts, but it doesn’t have to be. This camera I bought on a whim, but not completely detached: it’s my second Leica; my first — a 3g from 1956 — I got when I was 14, so its a bit back to the roots. The past year has generally been shaped by confronting one’s own roots. The journey began with sorting through my father’s estate and contacting the Ernst Leitz Foundation. Thus an unknown aspect of my heritage opened up to me. Until now this kinship had only been a curiosity; now they became faces and characters, all sharing the same great-grandfather.
James Ensor – A special Belgian artist
These two photographs are a visit and tribute to the Belgian painter James Ensor (1860-1949), in his house in Oostende. These pictures were made in 2017 before the renovation of his house that was completed in 2020. In his days, Ensor was a typical example of the misunderstood artist and he was in many ways far ahead of his time. Especially his many masks refer to a complex story behind his paintings; this implied a layer of understanding the general public simply was not yet ready for. In my own eyes, his work always has some surrealistic element in it, while it is also quite critical for his fellow human beings, that hardly saw him standing as a serious artist. For this reason, his masks seem to reveal an unpleasant underlying reality that not many people in his own days were able to see, referring to the carnavalesque and grotesque travesty of life, a destructive mentality that, Ensor thought, also resulted into his lack of recognition as an artist.
His most famous painting was the ‘Entry of Christ into Brussels’ made in 1889, a huge painting which is still in the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. But a life size copy of the same painting was displayed in his house around the harmonium, imaged by my photo from 2017 (how the situation is today I do not know, haven’t yet been able to visit the renovated house/museum). He was no longer interested to show the painting after its completion and kept it in his living around his harmonium, just as my photo shows. As he was also an amateur musician, he wrote music for this painting and played it on his harmonium, so in the picture only Ensor himself is lacking for his musical support of the mass scene around him; quite surrealistic indeed. Decades later the painting was revealed to the general public. It is hardly a religious work, but again rather a humanistic critical work, referring to a critical aspect of human reality that destroys precious objects/subjects of adoration in paradoxal accidents of a nightmare that could as well happen today, albeit shaped by a different context but with the known unfortunate endings already visibly under construction.
However, for Ensor, his curriculum vitae actually ended rather well, because he became notoriously famous internationally and this in turn, led to his national recognition starting in 1929. So, the last 20 years of his life were -while artistically less productive- a blessing for the old man with all his unseen efforts, qualities and isolation during the earlier decades. In those days, Albert Einstein came by to see him and shake hands, that kind of stuff.
James Ensor was not the only artist that tried to link the painting to music. Having seen Ensor’s painting in the Getty in LA, Bob Dylan actually understood that his song “Desolation Row” in the album Highway 61 revisited, was about James Ensor’s painting (see further the link).
Anybody that visits the Belgian costal region and is interested in art should also visit the Ensor museum in Oostende.
Situada muy cerca del tunel de La Engaña,
nunca llego a ser utilizada.En la actualidad
representa un aspecto ruinoso
Nikon 14-24 f 2.8
Smart Vibes represents the positive aspects of life through the use of colour, positive words and icons. In an uncertain world we need to celebrate life. Let’s spread the LOVE and remind people that if we say YES we can change things for the better. Designed by Pinky.
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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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Aspects of Sydney Opera House.
Some iphonography taken at 6am to avoid tourists and to catch early morning light. Got lucky with the light quality on here too.
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...from a visit to Bribie Island. Practising some b&w masking techniques. Last year, it looked like this: www.flickr.com/photos/67627528@N04/14245516908 and www.flickr.com/photos/67627528@N04/14446347002 and www.flickr.com/photos/67627528@N04/12115356973
Erosion of the paperbark forest at Red Beach, Bribie Island, Queensland, Australia. Red beach is a GREAT place to take a walk (when the tide is out) and take photographs. There have been great changes since I last visited, particularly after the heavy rain and big tides during the recent cyclone (hurricane). Very interesting beach landscape and forest to the foreshore, as well as birdlife.
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There has been some work going on around Seaburn Sunderland along the beach area's I like.
Its a shame about the many Dog walkers who take there dogs there and allow them to crap all over the place or worse pick it up in a poo bag only to toss it along route some where else's.
Well done sunderland.gov.co.uk
Avalokiteshvara sous son aspect Simhanada « au rugissement du lion »
Chine,
fin 18e-début 19e siècle
Détrempe sur toile
H. 179 cm ; L. 85,5 cm
don Joseph Hackin (1938),
Paris, Musée national des arts asiatiques – Guimet,
Oeuvre présentée dans l'exposition : "Médecines d’Asie, l’art de l’équilibre". Musée national des arts asiatiques - Guimet, Paris
Conçue comme une expérience originale, un voyage introspectif entre corps et surnaturel, Médecines d’Asie est la première exposition majeure consacrée en France aux trois grandes traditions médicales asiatiques : indienne, chinoise et tibétaine. À travers un parcours scénographique par-delà les frontières et le temps, l’exposition transporte le visiteur dans un univers où se rencontrent pratiques médicales millénaires et œuvres d’art exceptionnelles, évoquant la méditation et le chamanisme, l’équilibre des énergies et la pharmacopée, le massage et l’acupuncture, l’astrologie et l’exorcisme...
ScotRail HST I7C Class 43s 43139 & 43132 approach Greenloaning with 1H17, the 13:30 Edinburgh – Inverness service on 18th April 2023.
Miyatoko Dam 宮床ダム
I visited some Dams in February.
I introduce some aspects of the dams , dam lakes and the surrounging sceneries.
2月にいくつかのダムに行きました。
ダム、ダム湖、そしてその周辺の景色を紹介します。
Location : www.ipc.tohoku-gakuin.ac.jp/nken/labo2016/location_pc.htm...
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...from a visit to Bribie Island.
Erosion of the paperbark forest at Red Beach, Bribie Island, Queensland, Australia. Red beach is a GREAT place to take a walk (when the tide is out) and take photographs. There have been great changes since I last visited, particularly after the heavy rain and big tides during the recent cyclone (hurricane). Very interesting beach landscape and forest to the foreshore, as well as birdlife.
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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Hip Hop is an acquired taste. It's loud, it's abrasive and plenty times vulgar. Growing up in NYC surrounded by the ethnic working-class there was always new lingo to learn. When you're a 90's kid okay, you learn to deal with what the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air teaches you: phat, dope, wack... check, check and check! Fast forward to my late twenties and I'm a front end supervisor for that well known Arts & Crafts big-box store and most of my team are fluent in ebonics while I'm utterly left behind. They are dropping new words like 'lit' and 'fire' and 'ratchet' which for a long time I thought was wretched. So I would, in good faith, say things like "Oh, that is wretched!" -- One time I was in a convenience store with some friends and this short Latino with gold teeth, face tattoos and a heavy swag was bantering with his co-workers. He glanced at us once and sighed then saying, "Aight I'mma go make downstairs Gucci." And dear me, I didn't think to ask any of my friends what he meant but I dwelled on it for the rest of the day before the meaning finally dawned on me! GUCCI; like the opulent luxury brand. Downstairs was a mess and he was going to make it fancy and clean like the Gucci brand.
So back to Hip Hop. I started easy. I really liked Macklemore and Black Eyed Peas and eventually, Justin Bieber joined the genre. More Pop than Hip Hop but hey whatever, I got my foot through the door. Not bad for someone who once nervously handed a cashier my soon-to-be copy of Backstreet Boys Millenium; she easily sensed my fear as she smacked her lips then saying, "Not you too" as she rang me up. Yes, me too. I was a teen and a sucker for Pop music. I would have worn a ski mask to buy this album if I could, lady. My music taste is broad as I love everything! Mostly. Or at least I try to. My playlist goes from Post Malone to Bach. Music is very personal. I've met Rock & Rollers who would lynch you if you mentioned Nickelback. It's just the way the world works. Music is a part of our identities and sometimes one of the most relatable aspects of our humanity. And if we share that on a common level, it opens up an instantaneous connection paving the path to a meaningful relationship. That is until you fight over whether or not pineapples deserve to be on pizza's (They don't. Fight me.) It's 2020 and I find myself craving Hip Hop. It reminds me of NYC where part of me will forever be no matter where in the world I am. This year the word is WAP. If you don't know what it means by now, don't worry, someone will let you know but it won't be me!
Find the WAP Hot Girl Fountain at this month's Kinky Event starting July 28th, 7 PM SLT. Or window browse early. You do you.
Fountain Preview GIF: gyazo.com/f8286fd024378ae80e03d3edc1da5e98
The Fountain is sold without flora. If you would like the Lillies used here are the credits:
LOTUS by Tia Biscuit L$80 ([Tia] Madison - Pond Lillies)
• Inworld: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Tia/113/78/1501
• Marketplace: NOT AVAILABLE
LILYPADS by Cube Republic L$399 (Frogbit Aquatic Pond Plant)
• Inworld: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Gloria/227/227/3512
• Marketplace: marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Frogbit-Aquatic-Pond-Plant-MESH-MATERIALS/6815506
[ Landmarks and Marketplace Listings are accurate as of August 2020 ]