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Yes, another mushroom picture but hey, I loved the greens and the lighting in this one and there's no saying that there won't be one more to come. Thanks for bearing with me. haha
Believe it or not I do have a rust pot of rusted items especially for challenges like this! I used the oxidised under side of the glass jar in the background to create the orange hue.
About 40 meters to the left of the ahu Te Pito Kura is a large completely polished oval rock surrounded by a stone wall and four other stones that serve as chairs. Legend has it that the Ariki Hotu Matua’a, the first king of the island, came to Easter Island carrying this huge stone bearing mana (spiritual power granted by the gods).
HSS! Hope you all have a wonderful and blessed Sunday. Thank you for stopping by!
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I'm sorry, I forgot what tree I took this from ...
GROUP: SMILE ON SATURDAY
THEME: WHITE FLOWER ON WHITE BACKGROUND
SUBJECT: FRUIT-BEARING TREE
Last week, I skipped the theme SMILING SPOONS! I just couldn't get any of the spoons at home to smile!
My dear mother always regarded this as the dreariest month of the year but let's hope for better!
A friend called, bearing these golden yellow roses.
270° towards that puddle ahead. Let's go!
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Bringing some water home for preparing the evening meal. Carabane island. Casamance river estuary. Senegal.
Showing the intricate pattern, texture, complex yet subtle colouration and engaging personality of a diminutive adult female Eastern Sign-bearing Froglet (18mm in length) from the margins of a rural dam on the volcanic plains to the north of Melbourne, Australia.
C-GGMM, a Quest Kodiak 100 Series II, landing on runway 33 at Toronto Buttonville Municipal Airport in Markham, Ontario.
It was arriving exactly 30 minutes before sunset.
Created for the 48th Contest on Man Ray: Bearing Puller
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I'll be mostly offline for a month or so while I visit with family in California - see y'all in September
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My rather old prism compass.
The inner degree inscribed compass ring rotates on sapphire pivots inside a liquid filled cavity that damps its motion. Sight across the compass towards the prism (part visible at bottom centre) to read off an accurate bearing.
Use as a conventional compass by rotating the outer ring to the desired direction and line up the red and metal arrows.
The modern compass equivalent appears to be the Silva 55. For less fun or dependability, use your smart watch!
For Macro Mondays “Arrow”. 10-layer focus stack. FOV 2-inches.
A spectacular and unusual plant. The UC Botanical Garden has a number of them, most in propagation, not display. I learned that the red seeds, born by the female, are toxic. So don’t mess around with them, if you have a close encounter.
There is a hard seed inside the pithy red material.
“Cycads all over the world are in decline, with four species on the brink of extinction and seven species having fewer than 100 plants left in the wild. The plant has a very long fossil history, with evidence that they existed in greater abundance and in greater diversity before the Jurassic and late Triassic mass extinction events.” —Wikipedia.
Gleitlager im Getriebe einer alten Knochenmühle an der Emme
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Plain bearings in the gearbox of an old bone mill on the Emme river
The roots on some of these trees are enormous. Bearing in mind that I am enormous this shows the scale well
Giving the illusion of a pyrotechnic display, sunlight reflects from the fruiting bodies (called sporangiophores) of Spinellus fusiger, a parasitic fungus that infects mycenoid mushrooms such as Mycena haematopus (also known as Burgundydrop bonnet, or bleeding Mycena).
Spinellus fusiger grows in the cap of the hapless mushroom host and eventually breaks through to produce the sporangiophores bearing tiny pin head structures (sporangia) containing spores. This parasitic fungus is widely distributed and is found throughout Europe, Asia and North America.
For more information see: www.first-nature.com/fungi/spinellus-fusiger.php
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Camera: Olympus EM5 Mk II
Lens: Dallmeyer 1 inch (25mm) f1.5 Speed Anastigmat (cine lens, C mount)
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Antwerp, Estación Central.
(...) Towards the end of the nineteenth century, Austerlitz began, in reply to my questions about the history of the building of Antwerp station, when Belgium, a little patch of yellowish gray barely visible on the map of the world, spread its sphere of influence to the African continent with its colonial enterprises, when deals of huge proportions were done on the capital markets and raw-materials exchanges of Brussels, and the citizens of Belgium, full of boundless optimism, believed that their country, which had been subject so long to foreign rule and was divided and disunited in itself, was about to become a great new economic power—at that time, now so long ago although it determines our lives to this day, it was the personal wish of King Leopold, under whose auspices such apparently inexorable progress was being made, that the money suddenly and abundantly available should be used to erect public buildings which would bring international renown to his aspiring state. One of the projects thus initiated by the highest authority in the land was the central station of the Flemish metropolis, where we were sitting now, said Austerlitz; designed by Louis Delacenserie, it was inaugurated in the summer of 1905, after ten years of planning and building, in the presence of the King himself.
Delacenserie's eclecticism, uniting past and future in the Centraal Station with its marble stairway in the foyer and the steel and glass roof spanning the platforms, was in fact a logical stylistic approach to the new epoch, said Austerlitz, and it was also appropriate, he continued, that in Antwerp Station the elevated level from which the gods looked down on visitors to the Roman Pantheon should display, in hierarchical order, the deities of the nineteenth century—mining, industry, transport, trade, and capital. For halfway up the walls of the entrance hall, as I must have noticed, there were stone escutcheons bearing symbolic sheaves of corn, crossed hammers, winged wheels, and so on, with the heraldic motif of the beehive standing not, as one might at first think, for nature made serviceable to mankind, or even industrious labor as a social good, but symbolizing the principle of capital accumulation.
And Time, said Austerlitz, represented by the hands and dial of the clock, reigns supreme among these emblems. The clock is placed above the only baroque element in the entire ensemble, the cruciform stairway which leads from the foyer to the platforms, just where the image of the emperor stood in the Pantheon in a line directly prolonged from the portal; as governor of a new omnipotence it was set even above the royal coat of arms and the motto Endracht maakt macht. The movements of all travelers could be surveyed from the central position occupied by the clock in Antwerp Station, and conversely all travelers had to look up at the clock and were obliged to adjust their (...)
W. G. Sebald, Austerlitz, 2001.
I caught this bee leaving the "Butterfly love" lotus' bloom. Unlike most water lilies whose blossoms lie on or just above the water garden's surface, the lotus blossoms rise 3-4' ( 1-1.3 m) above the water level.
"The accidents of life separate us from our dearest friends, but let us not despair. God is like a looking glass in which souls see each other. The more we are united to Him by love, the nearer we are to those who belong to Him."
— St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
We all encounter moments of self-doubt
We will hold loneliness by its hand and dance on its toes.
We will stare at the ceiling unnecessarily for hours
before finally falling asleep.
If sleeping at all...
We will clothe ourselves in sadness, and we will feel its weight bearing down upon our shoulders.
We may spend days, weeks, years even, yearning for a breakthrough...
But one day, we will release the loneliness from between our fingertips, and we will slip off the heaviness as gracefully as the trees shed their foliage on a colorful autumn day.
And instead of mourning what we've lost, we will rejoice for all of the space we've created to allow something more beautiful to take its place.
And that isn't to say we won't still feel the harshness of a brisk winter. We were never promised a life without suffering.
But one day, a bud will spring forth to remind us what it feels like to flourish and even the sun herself will envy our light.
- Ellen Everett
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Truth Elixir hair
TETRA Neva Bomber jacket
Erratic Layered necklace
Nylon Outfitters Thermal bodysuit
Blueberry Spotlight jeans
This could be the end of an era. Whilst shooting for this weeks theme my beloved, but slightly elderly Alpha A99 threw up a “steadyshot malfunction” error that won’t clear. It will still shoot, just have to cancel the warnings and obviously don’t get the steadyshot functionality, guess I’ll just have to wait till Black Friday to see what offers pop up!
We’ve been together since 2012, it’s going to be hard to let go.
#InARow
HMM