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We were driving from Nairobi to the edge of the Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania. The drive seemed to take hours. Everything was so different and interesting. I saw this lone boy sitting on a rock literally miles from anywhere. I thought with the tower in the background it was like the primitive and the modern were merging.
Taken in 2006 with a camera that had only 6.1 megapixels so it's rather a noisy image but brings back memories.
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If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.
quote by Thich Nhat Hanh
WHITE ROSE, SYMBOL of PEACE.
There are plenty of myths and legends behind the white rose. As one myth has it, the first rose on Earth was a white rose, and it miraculously transformed to other hues. The pure white rose was said to have been tainted by blood, making it red; and it was also made to blush from a kiss, making it pink.
Another myth came from the Ancient Greeks. It was said that roses were originally white until one day Aphrodite the Goddess of Love and Beauty pricked herself with the thorns of a rose. The blood that dripped from her finger turned the white roses red.
These myths indicate the loss of innocence, which is the absolute opposite of what the white rose symbolises ñ innocence and purity.
It will come as no surprise to you when I ay: I love flowers, ney, I NEED flowers! So, when I look out of windows the garden lays barren and colourless.
That is when I bring flowers into our home, in colourful flower pots. Here I went for white and white, with ‘stage light’.
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I felt a bit reminded to the former "Palace of the Republic" in Berlin - a monumental socialist building for congresses, theater, concerts - you name it. The Sava Center ist from 1977 - and supposed to be restored currently.
Rolleiflex Automat on Ilford FP4+ in Caffenol CMrs
I had to get out and do something so I went around and shot the flowers. Thank you for your comments and faves.
Burlington Northern Railroad freight train passing a Canadian Pacific Railway freight train in Marshall, Washington, on September 1, 1978. Photograph by John F. Bjorklund, © 2015, Center for Railroad Photography and Art. Bjorklund-10-18-17
Le Mars, Iowa
Le Mars bills itself as "the ice cream capital of the world. The Wells family founded a milk company in 1913, and grew it into the third largest ice cream maker in the U.S. They make Blue Bunny ice cream, and have not only their headquarters, but huge manufacturing plants, in La Mars. It's kind of a company town.
In this center, they not only sell ice cream, but have a theater which tells about the founding and growth of the company. They also have some very clever interactive displays.
I recently visited the Mississauga Chinese Cultural and Shopping Center just down the road from me to practice some 'on location' type photography. This is the main gate that towers over you as you enter. I would like this to be the first entry in a series of shoots I'd like to do centering around travelling the world without leaving Mississauga.
I notice that on flickr the sky looks a bit funky. Not sure why that happened.
Instead of the main road, you can use a ginnel to get to Williamson Park that retraces the route used by the quarry workers in the 19th century. Unexpectedly I saw the back of the Ashton Memorial.
The Ashton Memorial is, by chance, close to the mathematical center of Great Britain, if you exclude the Isle of Man. To paraphrase a favorite actor, "not a lot of people know that."
Large Siemens center (in the background) in Munich, Neuperlach
As a university student I worked here several times (1998-2000) in the department for microelectronic research and developement
Was plaing around with a friends tripod and the time exposure feature of my cam tonight, this is 15 sec. shutter, 100 ISO
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Sometimes I get lucky with my XSi and get a fairly decently sharp shot. This hoverfly was about a half inch long.
EDIT:
Some very nice person on BugGuide identified this as a Toxomerus marginatus, female.
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Wenner-Gren Center is a tower and building complex in Vasastaden, Stockholm, Sweden. The building was constructed 1959–1961, and opened in 1962.
The Center consists of three buildings named Helicon, Pylon and Tetragon. Pylon is a high tower, Helicon is a lower semicircular part surrounding the tower, and Tetragon is a box-shaped building next to the tower. Helicon contains housing for visiting scientists to institutions in the Stockholm area, and this part is owned by one of the Wenner-Gren Foundations
I was in the process of setting up this shot when Reston Town Center (RTC) security came by and informed me I couldn't shoot with a tripod.
Because of all the foot traffic? (the place was empty)
Because of damage to the sidewalk? (rubber tipped tripod)
No, specifically to deter professional photographers...who are welcome to photograph anything hand held during the day. Security told me you needed written permission to photograph these buildings with a tripod, but didn't need any if you weren't using one.
I had a nice chat with the security guard, but it wasn't going anywhere so I asked for some contact information for the management company and am drafting an email to them now.
I get really frustrated with shit like this. I didn't even get the shot centered perfectly before I had to pack up and go.
A male ruddy darter (Sympetrum sanguineum) perched on a twig on a bog in the Svartkällsskogens nature reserve in Botkyrka, south of Stockholm, Sweden.
Normally, I like to frame the subject a bit to either side in the frame, but here, the only logical approach was to go for maximum symmetry, right?
The males battle for territory and chase each other away which is a bit of a hard lilfe - as evidenced by the damaged wings onthis one. Fortunately for him, dragonflies have extraordinary control of their wings so he could compensate effectively for the injury.