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Wie bereits beim Kauf des Tickets angekündigt, erwarten die Besucher*innen an mancher Stelle lauschige Plätzchen, wo es nicht nur erlaubt, sondern sogar erwünscht ist, die Schreibgeräte zu testen.
Ein besonderer Service: Eine Postkarte mit einem klassischen Werbe-Motiv, die man beschriften und gratis an einen lieben Menschen versenden kann :-)
An diesem Konferenztisch aber geht es anders zur Sache...
Montblanc goes future.
Hier wird die Verbindung zwischen dem auf Papier Geschriebenen und gleichzeitig elektronisch Gesicherten geknüpft...
"Nature is a temple whose living colonnades
Breathe forth a mystic speech in fitful sighs;
Man wanders among the symbols in those glades
Where all things watch him with familiar eyes..."
...by Charles Baudelaire
You will need my magical glasses to read these letters and a translator if you don't read french… Good luck!
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50mm f/1.2 Nikkor
Processed with Midjourney, Photoshop, and Topaz.
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It's raining alot (well it is a bank holiday weekend!) so I thought I would pull some shots out of the archive and have a play :)
The Story of " She Lies" with the Shape of an Iceberg due to the Global Warming ... Archimedes' Principle won't help Rising Seas ...
Monica Bonvicini - "She Lies" ,a symbol of Power & Magnificence in the North.A monumental sculpture,in the fjord in front of the new Opera House in Oslo,built out of stainless steel and glass panels that measure approximately 12 x 17 x 16 m. It is a permanent installation,floating on the water in the fjord on a concrete platform which is 12 metres above the water surface.By turning around its own axis in correspondence to the tides and the wind it offers changing views through the reflections on the mirrored and semitransparent surfaces.
"She Lies" was commissioned by Public Art Norway – KORO,
Norwegian National Opera & Ballet and it represents in a visual striking way the shape of an iceberg,as if one would have, by circumstances due to the Global Warming,ended up in the fjord in front of the Opera House.She Lies is meant to be a monument about change,longing and hope.
* Bonvicini’s sculpture is a three dimensional interpretation of Caspar David Friedrich’s painting "Das Eismeer" 1823-24 (The Sea of Ice )
♥ For the Earth's Future & the Struggles of Nature to reject any Man's Intrusion in the Sea of Ice and in any Other Corner of our Planet ... ♥ ♥
This week I managed to photograph both Chiffchaff and Willow Warbler at close quarters. This one is a Chiffchaff and I'll post the similar Willow Warbler later. Most years the Chiffchaff (Phylloscopus collybita) is the first spring migrant that I see and this year was no exception as I saw a couple of singing birds on 28 February. This coincided with some unusually warm, fine weather. Chiffchaffs do overwinter in Britain but they tend to occur at lower altitudes, so living in the Pennines I rarely see them in winter, and assume that singing birds in my area are genuine migrants. The early migrants like Chiffchaff mainly winter around the Mediterranean, so do not have as far to travel as sub-Saharan migrants. They can also make use of good migrating weather systems in Europe whereas the weather in sub-Saharan Africa has little relevance to the weather in Europe.
Chiffchaffs are very closely related to Willow Warblers and it was Gilbert White (author of the Natural History of Selborne) who first realised they were separate species by listening to their distinctive songs. He also separated Wood Warbler at the same time. This was in 1768 in correspondence with Thomas Pennant, twenty one years before he published the Natural History of Selborne. It isn't just the song that distinguishes them, Chiffchaffs are duller than Willow Warblers, with shorter wings and distinctive dark legs, all visible here. They also have a more ptominent white crescent below the eye and have a habit of down-pumping their tails. Willow Warblers are similar, except Willow Warbler is a little brighter with longer wings, and paler legs. That eye crescent is less obvious, and they don't habitually pump their tail. But if spring the song is the best way to distinguish them. Here is Chiffchaff song on Xeno Canto: www.xeno-canto.org/466006 (By Andrew Harrop at Rutland Water). For comparison here's a Willow Warbler www.xeno-canto.org/621080
The scientific name Phylloscopus means leaf-gleaner from its habit of searching leaves for insects. Collybita means money-counter which refers to the song; chiff-chaff, chiff-chaff, chiff-chiff-chiff-chaff. This really does sound like someone counting coins from a table top. And for me that coin-counting repetitive song will always herald the arrival of spring.
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