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An illuminated blue hour view of Marina bay waterfront featuring Marina Bay Sands, Art Science Museum and the shopping center. Boats are cruising with tourists enjoying the scene.
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I don't blame you if you think I have gone off the deep end. Capturing a copy of reality is not compelling to me at this time. As a jumping off point, I adore the beauty of nature, but in terms of inner exploration, I want to delve deeper. I am on a journey.
Thanks to Charlotte for her comment below. Of course, we are all on a journey. I can only speak for myself. :)))
Thanks to all of you who comment and fave these exploratory images. You keep me going. :)))
COMPELLED to show you our local home Robin, the species seem to be off two characters , one very tame, and one very jumpy, and no matter what I try I cannot win the trust of our robin. Blackbirds, thrushes yes, robins no. If greeting cards are anything to go by, they are one of the nations favourites .
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THANK YOU for your visit and kind comments, am looking forward to doing the same on your latest posting.
Enjoy your weekend, very wet in Kent today, what ever you do stay well and safe, God bless you .................................Tomx.
OBSERVED these in November last, and was so thrilled as they are in a very steep decline, a small partie of them, feeding in an open grassed field. They are so very wary because it is heavily persecuted in many parts of the region, and they prefer to run from danger rather than fly. .
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THANK YOU FOR BEING A FRIEND, please leave a comment and I will eagerly look forward to doing the same with your lastest posting.
Keep a smile on your face and love in your heart for everyone!
"Jesus loves you, yes you !"...................................Tomx.
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LOVE NEVER FAILS
Even in the darkest moments, love gives hope.
Love compels us to fight against Coronavirus
Love compels us to stand together in Prayer
Love compels us to give and act as one
As we pray in our individual homes around the world, we are united as one family. In this moment of hope and peace, thank God for all he has done and is doing..............Amen.
GAMBIA TOUR feb 2020
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METALLIC royal blue body, so was compelled to show this beauty, and a hard one to get close too, they are so wary, the light was all wrong, but here it is.
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THANK YOU FOR YOUR FRIENDSHIP, please stay safe and well, the British Government, have placed another three weeks of home isolation on us, Your all in my prayers......
God bless...................................Tomx
When you visit Bryce Canyon, do yourself a favor and take a trip down Cottonwood Canyon Road in Kane County, Utah.
This 47-mile stretch of dirt road connects Cannonville with U.S. Route 89, providing magnificent scenery along the way. Be advised, high clearance vehicles are recommended, because if the road has been wet recently it becomes impassable in parts.
The stunning Cottonwood Narrows and colorful Cockscomb are interesting and accessible in ways that Bryce Canyon simply doesn't offer. To the north, Grosvenor Arch and Kodachrome Basin State Park are compelling stops for hikers, photographers, and adventure travelers.
Recognition:
Accepted for Display - JUN-JUL 2022, International Exhibition of Photography, San Diego County Fair, Del Mar Racetrack and Fairgrounds, CA
I was looking through some old images and this one caught my eye. I love the mysteries of Maine's landscape and felt compelled to post this one:)
can make compelling pictures out of uninteresting moments :-)
Alex Tehrani
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narcissus, daffodil, 'Kassels Gold', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
have some breakfast first :-)
“Rules for the Preservation of Health,” The London Journal, 1864
HGGT!!
dahlia and guest, j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
An evening thunder storm after a very hot day...
The fog is rising and creates a mysterious mood.
Captured near Gusterath / Germany.
I was wandering a field one day and saw a clump of clover flowers....for some lizard brain reason I felt compelled to eat them...they were very sugary. How did my brain know that? Then I thought about all the squirrels that probably peed on them...ugh...my brain can be so mean.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VosvTUxyRZE&list=PL5LvBPqDIE4...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4RPkoURwL8&feature=youtu.be
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give him an immediate reply. Where he compels me to turn over the sheet, he must wait my leisure :-)
Lord Sandwich
HPPT!! apparently Lord Sandwich was an advocate of the "KISS" principle...keep it short and sweet ;-)
echinacea, coneflower, j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
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Another beautiful lighthouse at Frogmore. I don't know what it is about lighthouses, but they compel me to photograph them.
A most lovely and serene place to spend some time....here is your TP ♥
Photo taken @ Elysion
“By my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the sun and the moon, in the morning and the evening, compels me to solitude.”
- Henry David Thoreau
Ennerdale had an impressive grandeur that day. Beneath the brooding clouds there was a compelling magic in the air that delayed my progress....why hurry.
With a hint of texture (flypaper). The sky was so perfectly blue I felt compelled to add some structure to it.
Due to current events, I feel compelled to interrupt my series on Morocco. Because after almost exactly a year, I managed to visit my favorite tree on the small mt. Winter in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains again this morning.
The decision was made relatively spontaneously last night. And since it was already too late to go to bed, I just stayed awake and set off at 1:30 a.m. When I got back at 7:30 a.m. I had to get some sleep. That's why I'm a little late today.
It wasn't until I was there that I really realized how much I missed standing up here alone, watching the changes in the light, listening to the birds (and watching them, because a couple of very curious blackbirds were hopping constantly around me) and watch the day as it was born.
I really hope that it won't be too long before I return to this beautiful place.
Aus aktuellem Anlass fühle ich mich genötigt, meine Serie über Marokko zu unterbrechen. Denn nach so ziemlich genau einem Jahr ist es mir heute früh wieder einmal gelungen meinen Lieblingsbaum auf dem kleinen Winterberg im Elbsandsteingebirge zu besuchen.
Die Entscheidung fiel relativ spontan gestern Abend. Und da es schon zu spät war noch ins Bett zu gehen, bin ich einfach wach geblieben und habe mich 1:30 Uhr auf den Weg gemacht. Als ich dann 7:30 Uhr wieder zurück war musste ich erst einmal etwas schlafen. Darum bin ich heute auch etwas später dran.
Erst als ich vor Ort war wurde mir richtig bewusst, wie sehr es mir gefehlt hat allein hier oben zu stehen, die Veränderungen des Lichts zu beobachten, den Vögeln zu lauschen (und Ihnen zuzusehen, denn ein paar sehr neugierige Amseln sind permanent um mich herum gehopst) und dem Tag bei seiner Geburt zuzusehen.
Ich hoffe sehr, dass nicht wieder so viel Zeit vergehen wird, bis ich an diesem wunderschönen Ort zurück kehre.
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After the fishermen have left little tuna in the Atlantic Ocean over, they stopped their businesses and they placed their anchors in protest as a monument in the dunes of Barill.
Nadat de vissers weinig tonijn in de Atlantische Oceaan over hebben gelaten, stopten zij hun bedrijven en plaatsten zij hun ankers uit protest als monument in de duinen van Barill.
I always feel compelled to rescue on or two of these when the opportunity arises….Bettie than plastic perhaps, but still mad!
This compelling bald eagle has a blood-stained chin but I'm not about to suggest it wear a bib at breakfast, lunch and dinner after getting this steely glare for simply standing there.
rather than to make men happy :-)
Bertrand Russell, "Icarus: or, The Future of Science," 1924
HMM!!
iris tectorum, teresa's garden, cary, north carolina
David Mach, one of Britain’s leading sculptors and a big name in international art, now has his monumental sculpture ‘Golgotha’ installed in Chester Cathedral.
Handheld iso 5000 !
Mach’s compelling depiction of the crucifixion is situated in the 14th century South Transept chester april 2016
A hazy distant mountain range lies behind the peaks skirting the Fjord.
Another compelling view as we sailed southward on Norway's Inside Passage route back to Bergen from Tromso.
Saying it's wrong, saying it's right
Compelled by prescribed standards
Or some ideals we fight
For wrong, wrong and right...
I had no idea the center of a dahlia could be so compelling. Thank you, world, for your gifts of nature.
Im so LOST
So compelled
So confused
My heart is screaming at me
But I cant hear whats its saying
I scream back "WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO DO"
Falling back
Sliding down a wall
I weep
For what reasons I DONT KNOW
The pain I feel deep down inside is unknown to me..
Poem by ~Summer-Skye~
Gorham's Cave was discovered in 1907. Since 1943 up to this date a quantity of pottery,stones,tools from the Neanderthal period and human and animal remains has been unearthed.Recently an engraving was found compelling evidence yet for the Neanderthal art.
This is not an ironic Thanksgiving Turkey, as we celebrate the holiday in Canada today. Rather it is an expression of genuine thanks, for the amazing experiences and surprises that come from getting up early and going out in the woods, or along the River, or to the Lake.
This bird was photographed in a conservation area that is more or less surrounded by human habitation. Not tightly surrounded, and not with high density housing, but it classifies I think as an urban conservation area.
Somehow a Wild Turkey (pictured) took up residence there. It is unclear how, and it doesn’t matter. For over a year it frightened, entertained, and occasionally hustled food from, visitors to the area. It roosted in the trees, and kept moving, and it could go weeks without being seen (it is a largish area). Surviving last winter was not a given, but it managed.
So the bird was already one of those surprises that comes from getting up and going out - I have been going there for years and never imagined I would get this close to a Wild a Turkey.
And then somehow this spring it had twelve young. No one knows how, no one saw a male, and yet there it was, escorting the young birds through the bush and hiding in the remote parts of the conservation area.
There are only seven of the offspring still roaming around. Watching them run down the trails is a pretty compelling argument for the birds-from-dinosaurs hypothesis: one feels like one is in a scene from Jurassic Park.
But this is just a way to give thanks to the amazing richness of the natural world, and to the possibility of something new and different that helps to motivate us getting up in the dark, and the cold, and going out for the sunrise.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Something a bit different for me, a woodland image! It was sort of compelled on me by the weather. I had left home just before 3 am to catch a sunrise with the promise of mist around the Peak District. So, 4.15 am saw me sat on the top of the cliffs at Winnats Pass in what I can only describe as a dense drizzle. I was hoping to give the new Zii and the 14-30 lens a work out but after 4 frames of grey murk, I decided to head back to the car and try Cavedale and Peveril Castle instead. That was similarly dreich although I managed to have a nice chat with a fellow TOG stood in the gloom, hoping! So I cut my losses and headed to Padley Gorge and tried my 24-200 lens in the damp woodland.
I don't have an educated eye for woodland, I confess! (I leave this to fellow Flickr "woodsman", Barry Noon). But this scene seemed to offer some hope. I saw what appeared to be a face in the middle trunk and it looked quite content. So I framed up this shot and the heavens really did open, so I headed to Hope for a bit of breakfast, before chancing my arm on more familiar territory up on Derwent Edge as the weather improved.
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"Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!" — Lord Byron
"Astronomy compels the soul to look upward, and leads us from this world to another" — Plato
"Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole"— William S. Burroughs
"I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets."— John Glenn, Astronaut
“We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us. Even while the earth sleeps we travel. We are the seeds of the tenacious plant, and it is in our ripeness and our fullness of heart that we are given to the wind and are scattered.” ― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
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Extreme awareness combined with unobtrusiveness becomes the contest the photographer must work within :-)
Ken Ruth
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contorted flowering quince, 'Contorta', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
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This is my personal "Best Shot of 2020". Taken during a visit at the Olympiastadion Berlin in September which also had been my only real photowalk in 2020. While the image in the first comment might be a little more compelling, because it shows the historical Olympic cauldron of the Olympic Summer Games of 1936 and also the interesting-looking open part of the roof of the Olympic stadium, this image includes the two things that made an already wonderful day special – and one of them also is a symbol for the changes the Corona pandemic has brought to our lives. The image of the Olympic cauldron was taken from the exact opposite position of this photo; while we were at the Olympic cauldron (here you can't see it, but you can see the marathon gate below the tall, slim bell tower), I noticed that all of a sudden a larger group of teenagers and children appeared at the opposite entrance of the stadium. I wondered what was going on, because I couldn't imagine that in those pandemic times there would be any school field trips. And soon it became clear what this was all about, because once the children had taken their places, they started to warm up by singing scales: This was a choir practice :) Of course I tried to find out which choir it was that got the marvellous opportunity to practice in the empty stadium, with enough, safe distance to each other, so I searched for "choir practice at the Olympiastadion" later and learned that this was the youth and children's choir of the Deutsche Oper Berlin (STRG/CTRL+ www.berlin-buehnen.de/en/theatres/deutsche-oper-berlin/). Here you can read more about this unusual collaboration if you like: STRG/CTRL+ olympiastadion.berlin/en/news/children-choir/.
And so the rest of our photowalk was accompanied by beautiful singing which tremendously added to the elated, relaxed, literally free mood of that day :) What a wonderful, unexpected gift which was made even better by that wonderful sunset we saw when we went back into the stadium for a few last shots: This was my personal "Wow moment" of 2020 :)
Dear Flickr, friends, I wish you a Happy and Healthy 2021! Let's hope that, step by step, the "new normal" will eventually be replaced by our old normal, at least a little bit :)
Für mich mein schönstes Foto des Jahres 2020. Aufgenommen im September im Berliner Olympastadion, das herrlich leer gewesen war an jenem Tag, sodass wir unbeschwert nach Fotomotiven suchen konnten. Das Foto im ersten Kommentar, das die Original-Feuerschale der Sommerspiele von 1936 und den interessanten offenen Teil der Dachkonstruktion zeigt, ist vielleicht das spannendere Bild, aber es zeigt nicht die zwei Dinge, die diesen ohnehin schon tollen Spätsommer-Tag zu etwas ganz Besonderem gemacht haben: Als wir bei der Feuerschale waren, die sich exakt gegenüber von dem Stadion-Eingang befindet, von dem ich später dieses Foto gemacht habe, sah ich auf einmal eine ziemlich große Grupper Kinder und Jugendlicher ins Stadion kommen, was mich doch wunderte, weil ich mir kaum vorstellen konnte, dass in Pandemie-Zeiten größere Schulausflüge möglich sein würden. Des Rätsels Lösung: Sobald die Kinder alle ihre Plätze eingenommen hatten, fingen sie auch schon an, sich einzusingen. Und nicht etwa mit Fußballgesängen ;) Es fand eine Chorprobe im Olympiastadion statt, dem zu normalen Zeiten wohl unwahrscheinlichsten Ort zumindest für klassische Chorgesänge, zu Corona-Zeiten aber wie dafür gemacht: mit recht guter Akustik und genügend freier Fläche, um mit Abstand und dennoch gemeinsam singen zu können. Ich habe dann später recherchiert, welcher Chor das wohl gewesen sein könnte; es handelte sich um den Kinder- und Jugendchor der Deutschen Oper Berlin: STRG/CTRL+ olympiastadion.berlin/de/neuigkeiten/kinderchor/.
Was für eine tolle, fast schon surreale Atmosphäre das war, der dann zum Schluss auch noch der herrliche Sonnenuntergang mit diesem typisch goldenen Septemberlicht die Krone aufsetzte :) Mein persönlicher "Wow-Moment" des daran gewiss nicht reichen Jahres 2020 :)
Ich wünsche Euch allen ein gesundes und, trotz aller Ein- und Beschränkungen, die uns wohl noch eine ganze Weile begleiten werden, schönes Jahr 2021!
. . . is my pleasure
“I with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me innocent or naïve, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.” - Anais Nin
I am always compelled to head to the lake on still nights to watch the reflections and I was not disappointed.
Something about the way these monuments reach far into the sky seems compelling, like they tell a billion year story all by themselves that has a way of reaching to the very core of mans soul. I can't help but play an instantaneous time lapse in my mind of all the events that must have occurred in order to plant this giant rock reaching into the sky. Something big, something that makes me feel small, and part of a timeless world, with a finite amount being my charade.
This is one of the more common hummingbirds in several Western states. In fact this is the only hummingbird that nests as far north as southern Alaska and British Columbia.
I have spent time with this species several times, and whether juvenile or adult, female or male this bird is always aggressive with other hummingbirds and even other birds that are much larger. In fact, the only time I have ever seen a hummingbird nest was when I noticed a female Rufous scare away a nuthatch, which I found compelling. Steel nerve is always inspiring. But as soon as the nuthatch flew away, the hummer perched upon her nest. Tiny, and would otherwise have been entirely invisible to me.
I found this bird in Colorado after a fellow bird photographer invited me to his house one morning to photograph many species.
Oddly, this particular bird was the least aggressive Rufous HB I have ever witnessed.
I have so many recent shots of the coast, macros of Lillies and Sunflowers, but just felt compelled to revisit and share some of magnificent Tasmania. It is such a beautiful natural place, the whole state. This is Dove Lake, north-west inland. It also boasts the most photographed boat shed in Australia, the only manmade construction in the place. (not in this photo though, have included a link to an older pic in the comments if interested)
This path is impossible to resist heading down, even if it's heading counterclockwise around the lake and the walkers generally go clockwise. Cradle Mountain frames the lake and is a world-class walking track of 5-6 days surrounded by untouched landscapes and full of wildlife.
This was a while ago now, with my first Olympus M4/3 camera and had me reflecting. There is probably a pun in there about mirrorless cameras and reflections, but I'll leave that alone, might reflect poorly on me. Actually, now I think about, I wouldn't mind a job cleaning mirrors, it's something I could see myself doing.
Hope everyone is well as we approach the end of another year hurtling around space on this fantastic planet of ours :)
A misty morning compelled me to visit a local wood. Unfortunately, when I got there, the mist had thinned more than I would have liked. Even so, I thought it was worth trying for some half-decent shots as there are some gorgeous trees in this little wood.
With this particular tree, I was intrigued at the twisty formation of the trunk, so I concentrated on that rather than the whole tree.
This was one occasion when a tripod would have been useful, even though I always shoot handheld. I was shooting at 500 ISO and this was at 1/40 sec. I just about got away with it and was quite pleased with the result under the circumstances. Some of my other shots were even slower!
One of the compelling features of wildlife photography is that you never know when you might witness something amazing and whether or not you will be able to capture that amazing moment with a photograph. I know that my photographer friends can all identify with this scenario: You are in the middle of shooting when the action suddenly goes off-the-charts amazing and all you can do is just keep saying out loud "Wow!" "Wow!" "Wow!"(or something to that effect).
The other day I was shooting Ruby-throated Hummingbirds doing their run-of-the-mill routine: a quick fly-in, feed frantically for about 10 seconds, then quickly fly-off. It was during one of these sessions that I witnessed two siblings fly-in, play a little, feed a little and then fly off. The whole time I was shooting I was in amazement at the action and just kept saying "Wow"! I was lucky enough to capture a good number of frames of this encounter and will be posting them over the next several days.