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At this time last year, fires ravaged forests in the Shuswap area. These trees are dead and stand blackened from the intense heat. However, the forest floor begins to show strong and colorful signs of life. The cycle begins once again and the death of the forest makes way for the new life in this same place.
We also see the light from the setting sun on the edge of the distant mountain. The shot is composed this way so that the light serves a dual purpose. It is both the end of the day, and the beginning of that night. The same way the burned trees are the end of something, while the green forest floor is the beginning of something else. I attempt to tell stories in my images, and this one is about Mother Nature and her cycle of life.
"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet."
Plato
...antherium art!
....have way too much fun this weekend, my fine flickr friends!!! ....I will!! as I practise the art of creating goosebumps with Solo!! :~) see you on the flip side of the weekend!!! :~)
There comes a time
When there's nothing left to say
All words are useless
Send them from a thousand miles away
(Lui Hill w-b-u lyrics)
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“The Man who Bears the Cross" (2015) has officially become part of the Cathedral of Our Lady in Antwerp.
There are two sea stacks that together form Drangarnir. These impressive natural formations have become a symbol of the Faroe Islands’ unspoiled landscapes and untamed wilderness. To me, they conjure visions of a dragon's back, rising up from the icy waters swirling along its base. It is a haven for birdlife and a bucket list item for photographer's fortunate enough to find themselves in this Viking wonderland.
For me, it was an experience of a lifetime and the fulfillment of a bucket list dream that all began with a tiny image I saw on Instagram of a grass roofed cottage. What an incredible privilege to photograph the immense Drangarnir sea stacks (the smaller one rises out of the ocean to a height of over 200 '), probably one of the most iconic formations of the Faroe Islands.
Unfortunately, it is also one of the more harrowing places to get to. If I wasn’t grey already, that day would have done it in spades. Thank God for great travel partners, and our gifted leader, Thomas Vikre, who guided us through the gauntlet of eel-slippery rocks, steep slopes ending abruptly into the North Atlantic, and high tides bouncing our Zodiac around like a ping pong ball. Honestly, I would have turned back each time if given a choice. I have no desire to “prove” myself, or conquer fears at this point in my life, but it was a one way street, so no way to turn back. And in the end, I am glad for that. The beauty and majesty of the place is really indescribable, and to stand in the midst of it was truly an “epic” 😉 experience for us all.
“You must do the thing that you think you cannot do.”
—Eleanor Roosevelt
MKG2006-10-14_PA107 We were remodeling our bathroom and needed a piece of art. We combed our collection of photos from gardens all over the world. I created several demonstration pieces. This one did not make the cut -- not the right color for the room. I believe it is still a wonderful rendition and brings back wonderful travel memories.
Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless. Jamie Paolinetti
~happy fence friday~
Smithfield Meat Market, City of London. The historic market has been on this site since 1327, but its days are numbered. This and Billingsgate Fish Market, currently based in Poplar, were originally proposed to move to Dagenham but it may be that they will close altogether. This site, which sits between Farringdon and Barbican in The City of London, is to largely become the new City of London Museum.
There are multiple definitions for when a boat becomes a ship, including size, purpose, and other characteristics:
Size: Some say a ship is a vessel that's at least 197 feet (60 meters) long. Others say a ship is a large, ocean-faring vessel.
Purpose: A ship is a versatile vessel that can be used for commercial, military, or scientific purposes. A boat is often used for leisure activities.
Masts: A sailing ship may be defined as having at least three masts.
Deck: A ship may have a through-fitted deck, while a boat may have an open cockpit.
Weight: A ship may weigh at least 500 tonnes.
Crew: A ship may have a commander and a crew, while a boat may just have whomever is on it at the time.
Personal use: A vessel may be considered a yacht if it was constructed solely for personal use and has a combined occupancy of less than 100, including crew.
Submarines are technically ships, but they are traditionally referred to as boats. The original submarines were small and manned only when in use, so “boat” was appropriate.
WWT Slimbridge.
The Glossy Ibis has become more familiar to birdwatchers following a series of mass arrivals in the 2000s. Increasing numbers of reports since then mirror an increase in the breeding population located in the south-west of Europe. There have been a number of breeding attempts here in the UK. It is likely that more regular breeding will be a feature in the future.
Climate change is thought to have supported the growth in visiting Glossy Ibis to Britain, with milder winters aiding their survival and enabling individuals to attempt breeding attempts the following year. (BTO).
Not as large as I thought it might be. About the size of a Curlew (which surprised me). This Glossy Ibis was in a field north of the entrance road into WWT Slimbridge. Not actually in the main reserve. I believe this is a juvenile bird, it didn’t seem to mind people at all.
By the time I got to it, the sun was already much higher in the sky than I would normally like and there was already a small crowd of people, birders and others watching it. It has been hanging around WWT Slimbridge for a few days now.
This shot is a little bit over-exposed where there’s some water on the beak and a little on the right leg, but I’m ok with that considering! For me this is a first, I’ve never seen one before!
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Soon to become a youth oriented music and entertainment centre. Judging from what I’ve read when I tried to find out just what this building was / is / will be, opinions are divided, some locals are complaining about the cost, others think a better use could be found. One thing I think we can all agree on, it’s an amazing piece of modern architecture and needs to be maintained and used.
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Wisely, Step 10 does not emphasize a moral inventory, which becomes too self-absorbed and self-critical, but speaks instead of a “personal inventory.” In other words, just watch yourself objectively, calmly, and compassionately. You will be able to do this from your new viewing platform and perspective as a grounded child of God. “The Spirit will help us in our weakness” (Romans 8:26). From this most positive and dignified position, we can let go of, and even easily admit, our wrongs. We are being held so strongly and so deeply that we can stop holding onto, or defending, ourselves. God forever sees and loves Christ in us; it is only we who doubt our divine identity as children of God.
We now have an implanted position and power whereby we can see ourselves calmly and compassionately, without endless digging, labeling, judging, or the rancor that we usually have toward our own imperfection. Don’t judge, just look can be our motto— and now, with the very eyes of God. That will awaken consciousness, and then things will usually take care of themselves, with even the least bit of honesty and courage. A wonderful Indian Jesuit, Anthony de Mello (1931–1987), used to say, “Awareness, awareness, awareness!”…
… To be fully conscious would be to love everything, on some level and in some way—even our mistakes. To love is to fall into full consciousness, which is contemplative, non-dualistic, and includes everything—even “the last enemy to be destroyed, which is death itself” (1 Corinthians 15:26). That is why we must, absolutely must, love!
-BREATHING UNDER WATER SPIRITUALITY AND THE TWELVE STEPS, RICHARD ROHR
***Become an advocate for land and habitat protection***
“People have forgotten this truth,” the fox said. “But you mustn’t forget it. You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed.”
"Οι άνθρωποι έχουν ξεχάσει αυτή την αλήθεια" είπε η Αλεπού.
"Αλλά εσύ δεν πρέπει να την ξεχνάς. Είσαι για πάντα υπεύθυνος για αυτό που εξημέρωσες."
Hot Creek flows down from Mammoth Lakes and becomes geothermally heated as it mixes with another source. These steam effusions are the result of the ambient temp being below freezing in this case(23 F) and the flowing creek water being much warmer or even hot. There are periodic geysers as well that shoot 6ft straight up. People are no longer permitted to swim here as there have been 14 deaths in recent years.
This is a vertical pano with the DFA 90mm 2.8 Macro lens on the 645Z, composite image. The sky incorporates about 12 8-sec exposures, fed into Sequator and Star XTerminator for processing. Foreground uses 6 high ISO frames, median blended for noise reduction with some spot edits here and there.
Hope you like it!
Best viewed from afar/a little smaller.
Photo 3/4 from the Dörnberg lith series.
This print exhibits stronger signs of developer exhaustion (seasoning?) which become very obvious when comparing it to my first upload of the series.
Lith print onto Fomaspeed Variant 313 with Moersch Easy Lith 1+10
Holga 120FN (with 6x4.5 mask) + Kodak T-MAX 100 (expired 2004) in Rodinal 1+50
Print scanned on a Heidelberg/Linotype-Hell Saphir Ultra II using Vuescan.
"I've hurt myself today
To see if I still feel.
I focus on the pain,
The only thing thats real.
The needle tears a hole;
The old familiar sting,
Try to kill it all away,
But I remember everything.
What have I become,
My sweetest friend?
Everyone I know,
Goes away in the end"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FywSzjRq0e4
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.... lie in the will to become the best that you can become. (Harold Taylor)
I was recently reading the Fall issue of Silvershotz and was introduced to the work of three brilliant and creative photographers; Tim Rudman (www.timrudman.com), Alan Thompson (www.miragephotogroup.co.uk), and Paul Foley (www.paulfoleyphotography.com). Each is a landscape photographer with distinctly different approaches to this craft we call photograhy. But what each artist has in common is that they know their subject throughly; in wind, in rain, in sun, in fog, in the morning light, in the afternoon light, in color and in black and white. I'm inspired.
The time has come to take my photographic endeavors to the next level. This will mean less time spent on Flickr and more time learning, learning, learning and planning. And although I will not be uploading photos as often I will visit all my Flickr friends daily. I truly appreciate all the support you've provided over my years on Flickr.
Keep on clicking!
A picture taken last April of 2010. The time where I don't even know what aperture, shutter, and iso mean :) Since this picture is that old, I gave it an old feeling by adding texture and changing to sepia tone ;)
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Have a great day my friends! :)
I have become quite fond of The Rock since living in Castle Rock this past year. I confess I am terrible with directions and have the worst time learning new places. It takes me forever to learn new routes and memorize a new city. We live very close to The Rock, within walking distance and whenever I would get lost or misplaced while driving I could look up and see it and at least always know my way home. I'm pretty familiar with the town now but still enjoy seeing The Rock from pretty much any vantage point! I love going down to these train tracks on warm days. I've recently gained some inspiration from a great train photographer here on Flickr - Curt at Trains & Trails. He has an awesome variety of trains and it's made me interested in getting closer to the ones around me. His page is definitely worth looking through. If you look in the far distance the train is coming 'round the bend. I get nervous when a train is coming at me so I moved pretty quick after this shot :-D Hope you are all having an amazing week so far!!
Taking time to preen in the sun....
Glossy ibis
This glossy wading bird is a scarce visitor to the UK, though records have become more common in recent decades.
Scientific name
Plegadis falcinellus
The glossy ibis is a heron-like bird with a long, curving beak. They breed in parts of southern and southeast Europe and are occasional visitors to the UK. However, in recent decades sightings here have become more common, mirroring an increase in their breeding population in southwest Europe. Glossy ibises made a couple of breeding attempts in England in 2014 and 2016, with the first confirmed successful nest in 2022. It's predicted that breeding may become more common as climate change results in drier summers in southwest Europe and milder winters in the UK.
Most glossy ibises arrive in autumn, occasionally staying through the winter, though they could be seen in any month. It's often young birds that turn up here, sometimes just months after leaving the nest. Bird ringing projects have allowed us to see where some of these visiting ibises have travelled from, as they're fitted with a ring on their leg that allows birdwatchers to identify individual birds and trace their origins. Most of the ringed birds that have been spotted here were given their identifying rings as nestlings in Doñana in southwest Spain, though a few have been young birds from the Petite Camargue in the south of France.
Glossy ibises are usually found in wetlands or damp fields, using their long bill to probe the mud for food. They have a varied diet, mostly feeding on invertebrates like water beetles and dragonfly larvae, but occasionally eating newts, frogs, lizards, and other vertebrates. Their bills have special sensory organs in the tip that can detect pressure and vibrations, allowing them to find food buried in the mud.
A couple of us went to Bridport last night to photograph the Milky Way. The intention was to to use the light from the setting half moon to illuminate the old jetty pilings which were nicely exposed by the low tide. This image was created by blending four wide angle shots into a vertical panorama.
Artwork ©jackiecrossley
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The Moyka River is a small river in Russia that encircles the central portion of Saint Petersburg, effectively making it an island. The river, originally known as Mya, derives its name from the Ingrian word for "slush" or "mire". It is 5 kilometres (3 mi) long and 40 metres (130 ft) wide.
The river flows from the Fontanka River near the Summer Garden past the Field of Mars, crosses Nevsky Avenue and the Kryukov Canal before entering the Neva River delta. It is also connected with the Neva by the Swan Canal and the Winter Canal.
In 1711 Peter the Great ordered the consolidation of the banks of the river. After the Kryukov Canal linked it with the Fontanka River four years later, the Moyka became so much clearer that its name was changed from Mya to Moyka, associated with the Russian verb "to wash".
Magnificent 18th-century edifices lining the Moyka quay include the Stroganov Palace, Razumovsky Palace, Yusupov Palace, New Holland Arch, Circular Market, St. Michael's Castle, and the last accommodation and museum of Alexander Pushkin.
By Megan Cope, 2022.
At 80 Ann Street, Brisbane.
"What becomes of the clouds
Megan Cope’s work draws on the archives and historical maps to create important public documents of Indigenous knowledge, memory and experiences.
Cope’s work echoes the landscape and history and in this work remembers the creek which used to run through the 80 Anne St site.
The waterway outline underfoot in the marble terrazzo directs the public's movement through the laneway while the glass and light sculpture in the ceiling follows the undulation and waterflow from the river to the reservoir simultaneously corresponding to the brass inlay, connecting land to sky and the relationship water plays within that space.
The creek was a life-source for everyone directing Indigenous then later European settler movements through the landscape. The banks of the creek and its water’s movement has been interrupted many times throughout history
—a reservoir was placed upstream during early European settlement and the creek disappeared from maps by the late 1870s and was eventually built into a drain. The brass outline of the creek is based on a lithograph map of Brisbane from 1863 which is visible on the glass gate at the entrance at night.
Location: 80 Ann Street, Brisbane CBD
Photo credit: Carl Grey
Lighting designer: @GrayLightAu "
The imprisonment is not irksome anymore. it has become a part of me. My soul is enervated, tired of hitting itself to the rigid walls of this scarce cell. there is no way out, it is understood. No sun, no moon, no dark, no light, no dim, no bright... senses have been immured in a dilemma of nothingness, and hollowness. The wetness of eye, the thirst for water, the aridness of throat, the sluggishness of intellect, the race of breaths, the flow of blood, and the beat of heart, all signs of this journey seem to fade away... It's this sole existence and this ceased universe, where there is no variation either day or night. No sound, no motion: static. A wait: my existence is an eternal wait.
Last year when I came up to Chicago for the first time, the SD70MACHs had just entered revenue service and were being broken in on a handful of trains. A year later and they have now become a dominant force on the Milwaukee District lines north out of Chicago Union Station, leading almost all of their trains. I still am a huge fan of these units, and it was still such an odd but cool choice as their next generation of motive power. In this shot, MD-W Train #2711 blasts out of downtown Chicago with SD70MACH #505 leading (3/8/25).
Justy Christmas ... !!*
*created with Photoshop
- Season's Greetings and a happy and healthy New Year ... !!
"When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence." - Ansel Adams
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I have to start today's blurb off with some exciting news; one of Scott's photos won Top Shot for the National Geographic Your Shot, if you'd like to check one of the prettiest photos you'll see in a long time, just click here. Seriously; it's gorgeous. Check it out!
Otherwise a fairly uneventful day; I was supposed to head out this evening with Gord but that didn't work out so I decided to get a head start on the housework for the weekend instead. I know it's supposed to rain all weekend, but maybe Mother Nature will change her mind and bring some sunshine... maybe!
Hope everyone has had a good day.
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