Model: Becca - a reedit of an oldie

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(10) Diane Powers - How could one not fall in love with Diane's exquisite visual poetry?

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...in the afternoon of day 4 on Terschelling

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After driving a moderately challenging 4x4 trail and then hiking for the better part of an hour down a ravine and up to the top of the neighboring mountain peak, I was surpised to find this stone alter that someone had made in this remote wilderness. The view from this area was surreal! In retrospect, I wish I had stayed to see the sun go down... but I was concerned about cougars and other wildlife so I decided not to hike back in the dark alone.

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Model: Julia McIvor in Appalachia

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(39) A. Walden - Alan is my favorite Walden Pond (seriously, no pun) visual philosopher. He's akin to both Henry David Thoreau and Robert Frost. One can appreciate much of nature and the soul from his beautiful work.

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HEADING DOWN HWY 319 NEAR Medart, Florida, there is a collection of old Ford trucks.

Rusty and overgrown with vines and grass, they are lined up neatly on the right side of the road. Anyone who knows their Fords will notice that they’re even lined up in chronological order, dating from the early 1900’s to the mid-70’s. The trucks are an unusual worse-for-wear site on the scenic byway, but their apocalyptic charm attracts more photographers than any of the natural scenery. Where did they come from?

Placed here by Pat Harvey, they had all been used on the nearby Harvey family farm. They aren’t deserted—Pat loves the old buckets of rust, and has memories to share about each and every one. Originally owned by Pat’s dad and used for parts, the trucks and the land they’re on now belong to Pat, who lined them up by year just to see what they looked like in the correct order.

Torn between junk and art, the trucks are in questionable standing. While Pat enjoys sharing his beloved vehicles, vandals do occasionally have their way with them, and the city has an ordinance regarding too many junked cars in one place—even photogenic, neatly ordered ones. So far these issues haven’t been pressing enough for Pat Harvey to take any sort of action to remove them. The community and photographers enjoy their rugged charm and appreciate the automotive display that’s not quite a collection, and not quite a wreck.

The current building of the National Museum of Qatar in Doha opened to the public on 28 March 2019, replacing the previous building which opened in 1975. The building was designed by French architect Jean Nouvel (born 12 August 1945) who was inspired by the desert rose crystal, which can be found in Qatar.

A tour of the museum takes visitors through a loop of galleries that address three major, interrelated themes. The galleries are loosely arranged in chronological order, beginning with exhibitions on the natural history of the desert and the Persian Gulf, artefacts from Bedouin culture, historical exhibitions on the tribal wars, the establishment of the Qatari state, and finally the discovery of oil to the present. The displays and installations that explore these themes present audiovisual displays with selected treasures from the museum's collections (excerpt from Wikipedia).

A beautiful hazy scene of the Pacific Ocean with enormous sand dunes along Highway 101 in the state of Oregon in the United States.

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late in the afternoon of day 3 on the isle of Terschelling

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44) Ester C - If you are ready to savor an enchantingly delicate universe, then Ester's fascinating work is your destination.

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in the morning of day two on the isle of Terschelling

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Growing up, sailing and racing on a small planing boat on a lake in Missouri shaped my love for moments like this. This shot, taken while zoomed in with a 28.0-300.0 mm Nikor lens from the shoreline in Hope, Idaho, captured a lone sailboat gliding across the wide expanse of Lake Pend Oreille—a scene that brings back memories of my family's days on the lake where we lived. Although the sailboat was far off, the beauty of northern Idaho's largest lake in the background, offering pristine waters and a perfect reminder of peaceful autumn days on the lake’s quiet shores in Missouri.

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(part of a series of Jimmy playing with the velvet pincushions I was photographing)

These are in chronological order.

Shot somewhere along the southeastern border of Utah or the southwestern corner of Colorado... I'm still researching the exact location.

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When mourning has past....

Model: Krystal Smith

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(17) Sara Ghedina - She characterizes herself as a freelance food photographer yet, simply put, whatever Sara aims her camera turns to pure art!

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These hills lie adjacent to the valley where the White Bird Battlefield is situated. On June 17, 1877, Captain David Perry and his troops, along with volunteers, moved into the canyon to attack the native American Indian encampment. They were met by a peace party of six Nez Perce Indians who were riding to meet them. Sadly, one of the civilians fired two shots at the peace party. The battle erupted during which the Indians defeated the U.S. cavalry, which suffered heavy losses. The Nimiipuu then departed the area to seek safety and sanctuary elsewhere.

This shot was taken about 15 miles south of Grangeville, Idaho along US Highway 95. It is half a mile from the town of Whitebird, Idaho (and thus where the battlefield got its name).

Battlefield Physical Address:

3823 Two Moon Trail

Whitebird, ID 83554

GPS: Coordinates 45.779215, -116.276842

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* It time to take a trip round Scotland with me . I visited a lot of places so I have decided to show them chronologically it will help me at least process the trip. it was our first trip to Scotland and we loved it its absurd to think it took us this long to cross our nearest border. About half the trip was on the East Coast then we crossed over to the Western edge. The West was certainly more spectacular

The first stop was the small fishing port of Dunbar on the East coast of Scotland just south of Edinburgh . As you can see, or partly see the Haar was very evident . In Yorkshire we call this misty weather a sea fret or sea roke. The results are the same, poor visibility and feeling rather cold. Across the harbour you can just make out the ruined Tower of Dunbar Castle . The first stone castle was probably constructed by the Earl of Dunbar in the 1070. it was rebuilt many times after being destroyed by English armies

In case your wondering later posts will be a lot brighter than this without the Scotch mist

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Significant accomplishments past, present and future.

"Hero - Mariah Carey and Pavarotti"

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This shot is dedicated to my entire student who made it in the end.

To name few that I could remember: Nazri, Siti Khodijah, Marfis,

Amirul, Noor Faridzatul Ain and others.....strive for more

Never before published image of Krystal Smith

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(27) Zandra Tiitso - Zandra is new to Flickr but when you look at hee images and read her descriptions you will understand why I had to add her to this list.

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100. Clancy, 2yrs 47wks

This is the 100th photo (excluding Throwback Tuesdays) that we have posted in chronological order since January 2015 showing my almost three year rise from puppyhood to today, and there could be no greater way for us to celebrate it than with my cousin Duke!

Some of you who have been with us for a while or who have delved into our photostream will remember him from earlier postings this year taken last summer and the fall before that, but this is his first visit with us this year.

Isn't he a looker? Duke is nearing eleven years old now and has had two surgeries on his back legs, but as you can see he has recovered wonderfully and is still full of life, and still full of love.

The next photo shows Duke at his finest.

Go Duke! We love you!

(You can see more of Duke in photos 100b, 36, 29, 26 and 26b.)

Mer Bleue Conservation Area, Ottawa, ON

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Amsterdam - Cuyperspassage

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Blue hour panoramic versions of the view from Monte Faito and Vesuvio, the panoramic stitch sky is a bit funky but flickr put it on top, so that's the one people will click on. Lately I've been uploading photos from the latest trip chronologically, I still haven't had the time to go through the rest, so not so much diversity for now, I normally tried to mix them up more.

... of about 15-20m down the river, capybara daddy turned round and barked indignantly at the disappointed Jaguar on the sandbank. (seen in first comment)

Part 11 of a series of pictures of the hard job of a Jaguar, trying to get his breakfast ...

If you want to see the previous pictures of that little story in chronological order, have a look at my Jaguar Morning-Album, more will follow!

The whole episode so far lasted about 14 minutes!

This distinctive rock formation in the San Rafael Swell Recreation Area in Utah is called the "Coke Ovens." These pillar-like sandstone towers are a well-known landmark on the eastern flank of the Swell, visible from both hiking routes and scenic drives in the region.

They are named for their resemblance to old-fashioned coke ovens, which were used to convert coal into coke for smelting iron. The Coke Ovens are composed primarily of Wingate Sandstone and are part of the dramatic geological landscape that defines the San Rafael Reef, a steeply inclined section of the Swell formed during the Laramide Orogeny about 40 to 60 million years ago. It is just one of many distinctive rock formations found in the Swell.

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This is a view up in the mountains overlooking Lake Utah in the state of Utah as a storm approaches. Very little rain fell on me... but the wind gusts were brutal!

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This image was taken from Homedale, Idaho looking in a southernly direction at a mountain range..

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With this picture my Mödling carnival parade series ends. In a chronological order this would be the first one: I took it just after our arrival in Mödling, one and a half hours before the start of the parade, when the street began to fill.

This picture is part of my photographic series Garsinde de Mourcairol, which I invite you to consult in the list of my albums.

You will find the script in the album header (french and english), and by consulting the shots in chronological order, you will be able to follow Garsinde's emotional and psychological development, from her dependence on her family to her rise to power.

Model: Léa

Остальные снимки я решил показывать в обратном хронологическом порядке. Историй не будет, самые интересные их них уже были рассказаны.

I decided to show the rest of the pictures in reverse chronological order. There will be no stories, the most interesting ones have already been told.

Our first target species, footing happily by a dirt road, started the collection. I will not post in chronological order (no time to process on the move) but when internet speeds allow, updates will appear...

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While on my most recent 4-month, 4,500 mile (7,242 km) overloading journey and camping in the remote wilderness places I found myself trying to drive out of a smoke-filled region of the mountains. I ended up driving the entire day and well into the evening in much heavier smoke than this.. forcing me to wear a mask in the truck. It seemed as if forest fires were everywhere (spreading smoke across vast areas) in the northwestern part of the US. later in the summer months.

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I know nothing about Yoga positions, but this preening pose by an immature American White Ibis seems "yoga like" to me.

As 2022 winds down, I'm starting a series of shots from each of our six trips taken during the year. I'll post at least a couple of shots from each excursion, in chronological order.

First, we travelled to the gulf coast of Texas and Big Bend National Park. This American White Ibis was photographed during that January trip near Port Aransas, Texas.

... a few minutes after my last upload was taken (in first comment), there happend a tough, nosiy fight under a overhanging tree on the riverbank.

It went on for about 2 minutes with a lot of splashing and roaring, but it was impossible to see anything of this action because of the dense tree.

After that, there was a moment of silence and then we saw the successful hunter dragging a caiman out of the water,

finally disappearing with his hard earned breakfast in the adjoining forest.

Part 30 and last part of a series of pictures of the hard job of a Jaguar, trying to get his breakfast ...

If you want to see the previous pictures of that little story in chronological order, have a look at my Jaguar Morning-Album.

Thanks for your interest and I hope you could feel some of the thrill we experienced while watching this fantastic jaguar for such a long time.

Have a good start to the weekend!

"We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations." ~ Anais Nin

where the Capybara family was sitting a few minutes before. You can see daddy swimming away in the foreground.

Part 9 of a series of pictures of the hard job of a Jaguar, trying to get his breakfast ...

If you want to see the previous pictures of that little story in chronological order, have a look at my Jaguar Morning-Album, more will follow!

Jaguar (Panthera onca) and Pied Plover / Cayennekiebitz (Vanellus cayanus) on a sandbank and Capybara daddyy / Wasserschwein (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) swimming in São Lourenço River, Pantanal, MT, Brazil

Shot somewhere along the southeastern border of Utah or the southwestern corner of Colorado... I'm still researching the exact location.

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The Panhandle Overland Rally was held on September 12-14, 2025 in northern Idaho. It is an annual event sponsored by Selkirk Offroad and it was one of the highlights of my trip this year. I took advantage of some great off-road driving instruction, talked with vendors, and met a lot of great people who love overlanding. It was held in a large field with a trail on the property... nestled in the mountains. This is a view of a sunset there that I took while standing in the field.

I can't wait to go back again next year! I hope that I see you there, too!

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in the morning of day 3 on the isle of Terschelling

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WNYP originally eyed up some of the Cartier 636 fleet over fifteen years ago for moving runthrough NS coal trains, before the northern part of the Buffalo Line was forsaken by NS. Although I'm not sure offhand how it all went down chronologically, it was decided that NS power would be used for the hopper trains, and Walter Rich ended up getting the Bigs for the NYSW. When the NYSW had it with them, WNYP brought what potentially operable units remained to Olean for the purpose of the Driftwood Turns and also the MEHN/398s, all of which were much heavier back then due to bridge traffic. Fast forward and a few months after their presence has significantly diminished, the story came full circle, and a pair of Bigs were taken to Meadville (to perhaps unnecessarily) assist two C430s in moving empty hoppers east for storage. The off color repainted cabs and noses are looking pretty rough on these two, and the shooting conditions were not that spectacular, but having been after the Bigs for ten years now it was a unique experience that I much enjoyed.

Continuing my series of posts in chronological order from our 2022 travels. This young mule deer doe was encountered during the elk rut in Rocky Mountain National Park. Our fifth trip of the year.

Chrissy and I came across this kayak beached on the shoreline as we drove around the northern end of Lake Cascade near Donnelly, idaho. I haven't a clue as to where the person who owned this kayak was. It was threatening to rain and began to sprinkle as I took this shot.

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Der aus dem 16. Jahrhundert stammende Fresenhof (Nienburg/Weser) wurde 2014 umfangreich modernisiert. Seit der Neueröffnung zeigt die Dauerausstellung einen chronologischen Rundgang durch die Archäologie der Region sowie die Stadtgeschichte Nienburgs. Es sind drei Ausstellungsbereiche eingerichtet: Paläolithikum bis Frühmittelalter, Mittelalter bis Gegenwart und das Schaudepot, in dem Exponate aus der Frühzeit der Industrialisierung Nienburgs gezeigt werden. Außerdem finden hier Sonderausstellungen statt.

The 16th century Fresenhof (Nienburg/Weser)was extensively modernized in 2014. Since its reopening, the permanent exhibition has shown a chronological tour through the archeology of the region and the history of Nienburg. Three exhibition areas have been set up: the Paleolithic to the Early Middle Ages, the Middle Ages to the present day, and the display depot, in which exhibits from the early days of Nienburg's industrialization are shown. There are also special exhibitions here.

(Wikipedia)

(This is a continuation of a chronological sampling of my marathon "last" journey in my Sportsmobile, showing a few shots taken along the way.) After leaving the bird refuge in Utah my plan was to drive through Grand Teton and spend a couple of days in Yellowstone. I camped somewhere along the way arriving at the Tetons before the sun came up. I stopped at Oxbow Bend and caught this sunrise before attempting to enter the eastern entrance of Yellowstone. The entrance was open but the road was closed further ahead. I doubled back to Jackson and took Teton Pass, Highway 22 from Wilson. It was a beautiful drive and I caught a young male moose before getting to highway 22. It's such beautiful country out there just driving through it is worthwhile.

(for those who like to see this one week journey in chronological order; maybe you want to take a look at the album Terschelling that is being filled these days :-)

Certains moments de grâce semblent suspendus dans le temps. Pourtant, ils ne nous protègent ni des tempêtes qui changent la mer d'huile en furie déchaînée, ni de nos inéluctables responsabilités.

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Some moments of grace seem suspended in time. Yet they protect us neither from the storms that turn calm sea into raging fury, nor from our inescapable responsibilities.

This picture is part of my photographic series Garsinde de Mourcairol, which I invite you to consult in the list of my albums.

You will find the script in the album header (french and english), and by consulting the shots in chronological order, you will be able to follow Garsinde's emotional and psychological development, from her dependence on her family to her rise to power.

Model: Léa

walking through the magical hilly forest of Hoorn...

(for those who like to see this one week journey in chronological order; maybe you want to take a look at the album Terschelling that is being filled these days :-)

The biodiversity of Olympic National Park in the state of Washington is fascinating and attracts many people. In this image, a couple takes a walk along the windswept shoreline of the Pacific Ocean... and if you look closely (click on the image to enlarge it), you can see another couple sitting on the logs and looking out across the ocean. But that's not all.,. you have to look very close for this one... did you find the couple making their way down the path (look down near the logs)?

The winds and storms blowing from off the sea bends trees and shrubbery into unusual patterns. Storms also amass enormous tree trunk in large jams along these Kalaloch Beaches that have been washed out to sea from the temperate rain forest to the north.

The Kalaloch Beaches in the Olympic National Park are along Highway 101. I found a sign on the beach that states, "Beach logs are the bones of rain forest picked clean by the sea. They begin in river valleys -- giant conifers like sitka spruce. When a day's downpour adds to glacial melt the stream may rise six feet, undermining the bank and toppling trees into the flood, washing them down to river mouth and beach. Some fall from eroding headlands. Numbered trunks are strays from tug-pulled log rafts."

GPS Coordinates: 47.61786, -124.37730

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Woodland Kingfisher, Halcyon senegalensis

After a month in South Africa I now have approx 2500 images to sift through. I'll post them in chronological order. Location is also included.

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Santa Maria Novella is a church in Florence, Italy, situated opposite, and lending its name to, the city's main railway station. Chronologically, it is the first great basilica in Florence, and is the city's principal Dominican church.

The church, the adjoining cloister, and chapter house contain a multiplicity of art treasures and funerary monuments. Especially famous are frescoes by masters of Gothic and early Renaissance. They were financed by the most important Florentine families, who ensured themselves funerary chapels on consecrated ground.

This church was called S. Maria Novella ('New') because it was built on the site of the 9th-century oratory of Santa Maria delle Vigne. When the site was assigned to the Dominican Order in 1221, they decided to build a new church and adjoining cloister. The church was designed by two Dominican friars, Fra Sisto Fiorentino and Fra Ristoro da Campi. Building began in the mid-13th century (about 1276), and lasted 80 years, ending under the supervision of Friar Iacopo Talenti with the completion of the Romanesque-Gothic bell tower and sacristy. In 1360, a series of Gothic arcades were added to the façade; these were intended to contain sarcophagi. The church was consecrated in 1420.

On a commission from the wealthy Florentine wool merchant Giovanni di Paolo Rucellai, Leon Battista Alberti designed the upper part of the inlaid green marble of Prato, also called 'serpentino', and white marble façade of the church (1456–1470). He was already famous as the architect of the Tempio Malatestiano in Rimini, but even more for his seminal treatise on architecture De re aedificatoria. Alberti had also designed the façade for the Rucellai Palace in Florence.

Alberti attempted to bring the ideals of humanist architecture, proportion and classically inspired detailing to bear on the design, while also creating harmony with the already existing medieval part of the façade. The combined façade can be inscribed by a square; many other repetitions of squares can be found in the design. His contribution consists of a broad frieze decorated with squares, and the full upper part, including the four white-green pilasters and a round window, crowned by a pediment with the Dominican solar emblem, and flanked on both sides by enormous S-curved volutes. The four columns with Corinthian capitals on the lower part of the façade were also added. The pediment and the frieze are clearly inspired by antiquity, but the S-curved scrolls in the upper part are new and without precedent in antiquity. Solving a longstanding architectural problem of how to transfer from wide to narrow storeys, the scrolls (or variations of them), found in churches all over Italy, all draw their origins from the design of this church.

The frieze below the pediment carries the name of the patron : IOHAN(N)ES ORICELLARIUS PAU(LI) F(ILIUS) AN(NO) SAL(UTIS) MCCCCLXX (Giovanni Rucellai son of Paolo in the year of salvation 1470)

late in the afternoon of day 3 on the isle of Terschelling

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