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On my recently concluded trip to Kenya, I spent a few days in the Samburu region. This is a Beisa Oryx, one of the 'Samburu Special Five'. It was my first time seeing and photographing this species.
The area was incredibly arid as a result of essentially not receiving any rain for about three years. If one wants to see direct evidence of the impact of the climate crisis, look no further than this area!
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As autumn is concluding, I still have a few remaining photos to post. This one is from the Rock House Reservation. The sun came out briefly and lit up everything very nicely. What I found fascinating here were the golden pine needles floating in the water on the right.
Enjoy the weekend!
With this I conclude the series of my long walk on the route to the Parininihi (White Cliffs)
Whitecliffs Walkway New Zealand
This walkway uses the Kapuni to Auckland gas pipeline route for 11 km. The laying of the pipeline involved an immense amount of heavy construction work and these operations opened up walking access to the dramatic forest and coastal country of the region. The entire walkway is across private land.
concludes that it will also make better soup :-)
Henry L. Mencken
HGGT!!
leaf, hemlock bluffs nature preserve, cary, north carolina
this one concludes the southwest USA series... finally ;-)
thanks for all your comments on the series and keep up your outstanding photography!
To conclude a week of posting ducks, and the year, what can be better than this special and very rare visitor? These ducks visit the city infrequently and particularly this location, where they can be photographed at eye level. Admired in the company of Steve Hubbard (flickr.com/photos/30264683@N07), please check out his excellent photos. At the Pool, Central Park, New York.
This concludes my series I've been posting for the last 3 months taking place at Quoted Memories. I want to give a huge, giant thank you to Elfi Siemens for creating this beautiful sim and supporting my work, you and I have never conversed but I'd love to get to know you one day and thank you personally for making this beautiful, inspiring place. This will not be the last shot I post from here, I'll post my outtakes later, and will continue to shoot more things here as the ideas come, this is just the end of the set and the mini-story I was telling.
Also thank you to all of you who have supported my work the last few months, I felt really inspired while shooting this set and your favs and especially your comments of encouragement mean the world to me. I feel like doing the last two sets have changed me and elevated my skillset, and I look forward to seeing what I stumble onto next.
Lastly, it's mental health awareness month, and I wanted to put it out there that the last few months of my posts have been related to this and helping people see you can go from a negative space to a positive one with the right mindset and mentality. Take care of yourselves, in the end you'll always be your own strongest support system, and do the things that make you happy in life no matter what other people think about you.
Taken at Quoted Memories.
This concludes the pictures I captured in the Badlands of South Dakota. Our final morning had a nice layer of fog creating some nice drama to the area.
It was nice to actually stop and spend some time in the park after just driving by so many times in the past. If you get a chance, put this one on your list of places to visit. Each season brings such a different look.
This concludes my travel series from SUNNY Florida. Thanks for following along AND allowing me to SHARE :)
Nikon D7500, Sigma 18-300, ISO 280, f/8.0, 120mm, 1/2000s
By Paul Craig Roberts, a Top-tier Officer of the Reagan Administration,who concludes, " More than the empire is dead. The country itself is dead. " And like it or not, it is laced with Obvious Overtones :
thesaker.is/the-empire-has-collapsed/
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Elegy : Feodor Chaliapin
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt3YUreCJl4&list=RDvt3YUreCJl...
Vladimir Shushlin蘇石林- The Islet (小鳥) Rachmaninov
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwlydp439cI
Nadezhda Obukhova : Glinka Romance
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE32wTArmMM
Nadezhda Obukhova : Plaisir d'Amour
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCH0DvFxUgk
Elena Obraztsova :
Tosca - Vissi d'arte
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUzXt6EbDJM
Why Is The Heart Beating So Loud
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPU8TuFRiNA
Joan Brull : 30 Portraits
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Juajk3aNNmA&list=RDCMUCWjLl5T...
Russian and Ukrainian Impressionism
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1psufJxM0t0
Lev Sibiryakov (Leopoldo Spivacchini) (Bass from Ukraine)
forgottenoperasingers.blogspot.com/2012/03/lev-sibiryakov...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhZVn7pxkUY
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xvo8K9qddg
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yL4K1ifkJs&list=PL77374B4E58...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7i8QNikFJYs&list=RD7i8QNikFJY...
Opera Diva, Renata Tebaldi : "Un bel di vedremo"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1woH96ROG-c
Verdi's Requiem: Confutatis by Nikolai Ghiaurov
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xD6H7mYNp4
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHQhY-NjIZ0
A Persian Song by Rubinstein, Boris Shtokolov, 1955
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcgodcP4N_g
Борис Гмиря - Зоре моя вечірняя
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPdER4zWQ-Q
袁晨野 :
《三套车》 / Troika
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDRx1XE1N9U&list=RDlDRx1XE1N9...
BEYOND【海闊天空】
Harvest operations conclude for the day at Wheaton's Danada Farm.
Nikon D5100, Tamron 18-270, ISO 400, f/5.0, 42mm, 1/250s
A few concluding pics. I got a kick out of this Vector figure and - honestly - Predator is the only figure I could match him with at the moment as I will be moving to our new house in about 5 weeks (all toys have been boxed). Predator is actually a larger figure than Vector - hopefully not too obvious here.
I'm concluding my BIF series with this shot of an American Avocet shortly after it took off from the shallow waters of Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Utah.
From the Cornell Lab:
"The American Avocet takes elegance to a new level. This long-legged wader glides through shallow waters swishing its slender, upturned bill from side to side to catch aquatic invertebrates. It dons a sophisticated look for summer with a black-and-white body and a rusty head and neck. During the winter the head and neck turn a grayish white, but the bird loses none of its elegance as it forages along coastal waters or rests while standing on one leg."
Concluding the album on the first leg of the 372 km Marskramerpad ( "Pedlars trail") trail. This long distance hiking trail starts at Scheveningen (The Hague) and ends at Bad Bentheim, Germany.
Wikipedia: Marskramerpad (in Dutch)
The full album can be seen through this link.
Just concluded a family vacation to a beautiful hill station in the lower Himalayan forests. The place has amazing diversity of birds and though I wasn't actively birding - still sighted several new and colorful species.
This is a very common bird in the Himalayan forests. often sighted on the ground in the forest areas and even around villages. These are plump and large birds are sometimes killed for meat. The male is very colorful and easy to id.
This one is a male and the female was a couple of feet behind it. Sighted it on the side of the road foraging while driving to a trekking point. These are popular with photographers due to their rich colors.
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It seems obvious: every building has a builder. Nobody would look at this structure and conclude that it evolved through a series of random events, with no intelligent thought behind it.
Scientists estimate that the human body contains about 70 trillion cells. That's a remarkably big number. But what really amazes me, is that every one of those 70 trillion cells contains detailed coded instructions on how to build the whole body. That just screams "DESIGN"!
In his book, the Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins says of DNA:
This DNA can be regarded as a set of instructions for how to make a body, written in the A, T, C, G, alphabet of the nucleotides. It is as though, in every room of a gigantic building, there was a book-case containing the architect's plans for the entire building.
Dawkins denies that there is a God, yet admits that all living cells contain information (instructions), and even likens it to architect's plans.
If it is self-evident that a building has a builder, how much more obvious is it that all of creation must have a Creator?
For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God. (Hebrews 3:4)
This photo concludes this series........
Kihikihi township is located in the heart of the Waipa District, 5 minutes south of Te Awamutu. Waipa District is recognised as one of the countries dairy farming powerhouses and for its sporting success in cycling, rowing and equestrian, and has a long association with speedway.
Kihikihi Speedway Club was established in 1954 when permission was granted to build a basic race track on the Kihikihi Domain. The club is still at that original location, having upgraded the venue for the benefit of spectators and competitors.
In the early years the club focused on the open wheel and bike classes. Today Kihikihi Speedway contracts Saloons, Production Saloons, Superstocks, Stockcars, Streetstocks, Youth Ministocks, Midgets, Minisprints, Six Shooters (wingless Sprintcars), Sidecars and Adult and Junior Solos.
Unlike most New Zealand speedways, Kihikihi runs predominately on Sunday afternoons. This is one of Kihikihi's greatest strengths, creating a relaxed family friendly atmosphere whilst allowing visitors from around the North Island to compete regularly at Kihikihi as most other tracks run Saturday nights.
Concluding my shots from six years ago today, CN 5425 leads the L593 out of Proctor Yard back on the evening of June 18, 2014. This train was delayed with power problems and finally departed with a single SD60 instead of the pair of IC SD40-3s it was supposed to. That worked out for me as by the time CN 5429 departed Proctor at 20:00, the sun had ducked down under the thick clouds that briefly moved in.
CN no longer runs the L593 MRF out of Proctor. The work at Keenan is currently done by L567/568 which still usually use these 5400-series SD60s between Proctor and I Falls.
Concluding photographs from a familiar walk around the RWY, with a couple of close-ups of the local flora.
Nordkirchen, Germany, 2023.
This photo concludes my series of shots from Nordkirchen Castle... at least those photos I chose to share here. To see more photos from this location, check out the corresponding post on my blog.
There's more on www.chm-photography.com.
Concluding my Alaska mini-series with this image of three horned puffins taken on Duck Island in Tuxedni National Wildlife Refuge, Cook Inlet, Alaska.
Concluding photographs from a familiar walk around the RWY, with a couple of close-ups of the local flora.
We conclude our brief tour of PENNSYLVANIA AVE Tower with this view of another eastbound rolling by. Take note the extra long sign needed to put the full name of the tower on the sign. A general order in late 1978 changed the name of the tower from PENNSYLVANIA AVE to PENN, a name the interlocking close to this location still bears today. Downsizing would hit the towers around Pittsburgh in the early 80s, and PENNSYLVANIA AVE would become just another memory a few years after this September 1976 shot.
PC 6171. Pittsburgh, PA.
September 1976. Photographer unknown.
Adam Klimchock collection.
This photo is the last in my series on Savanna. I conclude with a photograph of Savanna's business district looking south at the west side of the 300 block of Main St. It was an early Sunday afternoon when I visited, and the motorcyclists whose bikes are parked on both sides of Main St. were congregated at the Iron Horse Social Club, shown in a previous photo, on the side of the street where I was standing.
Savanna is a river town located along the banks of The Mississippi River and picturesque bluffs of Carroll County in Northwestern Illinois. Settled in 1828 by explorers from Galena, Savanna is one of the oldest towns in Illinois.
The town began as a Steamboat stop for runs between Galena and St. Louis, and grew as a logging, shipping and, eventually, as a Railroad hub. In 1917, the U.S. Army constructed the Savanna Army Depot just north of town. From WWII thru Vietnam, Savanna Army Depot served as a munitions maintenance and storage facility for traditional, chemical, and nuclear weapons. The Savanna Army Depot closed in 2000.
Located on the Great River Road, the city is trying to become more of a weekend destination, like nearby Galena. The city's business district is full of buildings dating to the late 19th and early 20th centuries. New ornamental lighting, an example of which is shown in this photo, has been installed to complement the century-old buildings.
While the distinction of being the seat of Carroll County belongs to nearby Mount Carroll, Savanna is Carroll County's largest city (2019 population est. 2,717). It also is the only place in all of Carroll County where you will find a stoplight.
Green River Overlook, Canyonlands National Park, Moab, UT
Going to conclude my shots from Moab with this gem. After driving 5 and a half hours through the Rocky Mountains and arriving in Moab, we made it to the Green River Overlook just in time for sunset. The light was spectacular as the sun dipped closer to the horizon. Just after the sun disappeared, the sky began to light up. As we were packing up to head back to the car, I saw this scene, so I framed up this shot, took a bracketed exposure and we were on our way. Once I was able to upload the image to my computer, I realized how magnificent it turned out. Moab is a spectacular place and sometimes it feels like a whole different world. Glad I get to live fairly close to this magical place. I would really like to go back one day to shoot it in the snow. For now, I'm hoping for some big snowfalls to hit the Rockies so we can get out to do some serious skiing and photography! Happy Friday everyone, have a great weekend.
Thanks for stopping!
I conclude this series of pictures at Chinese New Year with these two delightful people. They looked so proud having their picture taken at the New Year celebrations
A large boat in early morning moves slowly toward the shore after its crewmembers (about a dozen in all) finished their yet another fishing trip in the deep sea which might have taken them for several days to complete.
Captured in Subic, Zambales, Philippines.
"I conclude that the relationship between brain and consciousness is like that between two dancers who always move together, but sometimes with one and sometimes the other taking the lead." John Hick, the New Frontier of Religion and Science (2006). Fuji X-Pro3 plus Samyang tele lens at F5.6, contre-jour, reflector.
And, perhaps more importantly, why should you think of me?
Concluding my "all shook up" mini-series with this White Ibis putting on a show.
We observed this preening/bathing ibis in the shallow waters off South Padre Island, Texas.
To conclude this short series of old Sydney photos, we'll take a look at the restaurant world.
Mr Wong's Cantonese Restaurant is a huge place, with dining facilities on multiple levels. It is designed to reflect two eras in a converted inner city warehouse: Shanghai prior of the invasion of the Japanese and the rise of Communists; and Prohibition era USA. You'll see some photos from the Prohibition Bar, accessible from Mr Wong's via a secret doorway (of course), in my uploaded collage today. merivale.com/venues/mrwong/
We were there for lunch and the food was as spectacular as the setting.
All these photographs today were taken with the natural lighting and handheld by the Panasonic DMC-FS7 compact camera. If you get a chance to purchase one of these lovely little 10MP pocket cameras, in good secondhand condition, I can tell you it will serve you well.
A fortress at the site possibly already existed during the time of the Great Moravian Empire in the 9th century. From about 1055, Znojmo Castle served as the residence of a Přemyslid principality within the Bohemian March of Moravia and a strategic important outpost near the border with the Bavarian March of Austria in the south. Few years later (1101), Luitpold of Znojmo, Duke of Moravia, established the Ducal Rotunda of the Virgin Mary and St Catherine in this castle, later depicted by unique scene of genealogy Bohemian and Moravian Dukes of the Přemyslid dynasty and the castle was conquered and devastated by Duke Vladislaus II of Bohemia in 1145.
In 1190, Duke Conrad II of Bohemia founded the Premonstratensian Louka Abbey at Znojmo, which became the settlement area of German-speaking immigrants in the course of the medieval Ostsiedlung movement. The royal city of Znojmo was founded shortly before 1226 by King Ottokar I of Bohemia on the plains in front of the reconstructed castle. The town privileges were confirmed by King Rudolf I of Germany in 1278. On 9 December 1437 the Luxembourg emperor Sigismund died at Znojmo and lay in state for three days at the St. Nicholas Church, before his mortal remains were transferred to Nagyvárad (Oradea) in Hungary.
From the 19th Century, Znojmo is best known as the site for the Armistice of Znaim concluded there on 12 July 1809 during the Battle of Znaim, after the decisive 7 days earlier Battle of Wagram, between Emperor Napoleon and the archduke Charles.
From the 20th Century, it is also the (alleged) birthplace of Leopold Loyka, the driver of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand's car when Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo during 1914, an event which triggered the First World War. After the war, it was part of Czechoslovakia, except during the Nazi German occupation between 1938 and 1945 when it was part of Reichsgau Niederdonau. The German Citizens were expelled in 1945 according to the Beneš decrees.
The birthplace of the sculptor Hugo Lederer and writer Charles Sealsfield, it also has a special co-operation relation with Harderwijk, Netherlands.
Concluding my review of the year is this Grey Phalarope which graced Cuckmere Haven for a week at the end of October.
Wishing all my Flickr friends and contacts a very happy and photo-filled 2020. Happy New Year.
concludes that it will also make better soup ;-)
H. L. Mencken
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acer, japanese maple, 'Nuresagi', sarah p duke gardens, duke university, durham, north carolina
....concludes my recent publication of his PoW diaries with a final sentence:
"In later life my father liked baking and used to make fruit cake, Suffolk rusks and trifle, although thankfully using more suitable ingredients than those available when he was in the PoW camps."
posted for Looking Close...on Friday! mi nombre es....(blanco y negro) /my name is....(black and white)
I wish he could know what heartfelt reviews his diary account of his experiences has engendered:
www.amazon.co.uk/Till-We-Meet-Again-Gunner/dp/154404870X
Thank you for all visits, comments and favs!
This concludes my brief wetlands birds series. From Conservation International:
"The species found in wetlands are some of the most unique in the world because they’ve evolved specifically to survive in these hydrologically changing ecosystems. Alligators, crocodiles, muskrats, nutrias, fish species and hundreds of birds, including mallards, geese and herons are all found in wetlands. More than half of the 800 species of protected migratory birds in the U.S. rely on wetlands. The vegetation found in wetlands is also unique as they have evolved to survive in seasonally flooded and saline conditions. Some examples include the cattail in freshwater wetlands and mangrove species in coastal wetlands."
One of those protected species that relies on wetlands is the endangered Whooping Crane, shown here near the gulf coast of Texas.
Concluding two extremely productive days of chasing the Buffalo & Pittsburgh, we catch SIRI passing the color position lights at CP-Falls Creek. The former Conrail EMDs provide some historical contrast against the B&O signal hardware. In decades past Conrail actually crossed the B&O here at Falls Creek, but the line was cast off before the wide cab era and today the diamond is no more.
My largest bird with an insect concludes this series:
Chlamydotis undulata fuerteventurae + Blepharopsis mendica
Houbara Bustard ... with Praying Mantis
Kragentrappe .......... mit Gottesanbeterin
Kravetrappe ............. med Knæler
Hubara ...................... con Diabillo de las Flores
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This concludes my series on backyard feeder birds. We are heading to Florida for eight weeks and will be unable to participate daily on Flickr.
Concluding photographs from a familiar walk around the RWY, with a couple of close-ups of the local flora.
I conclude this Santa series with this photo of Santa enjoying his deserved rest, after all the hard work.
Also the new sleigh can be charged for the return journey. The battery does not yet have a very long lifespan, but that is being worked on.
Many, many thanks for your friendship, the kind comments and wonderful support throughout the year. I appreciated it a lot !!
Wishing you all a lovely Holidays, enjoy !!
This origami model is folded from one piece of paper (18x18cm red kami paper.) I stuck a piece of silver paper (4,5x18cm) to the spot where the sled is. If you don't do this, the sled will also be white.
Final size: height 7cm, length 10cm.
Model: origami Santa in Sleigh, resting after delivering all presents
Design: Francesco Miglionio
Diagrams in QQM-magazine #63 'Buon Origami' by Francesco Miglionico
To bring this Blue EMD Theme "Week" (more like 2+ weeks) to its conclusion, I pulled out another Alaska image, this time of the Aurora Winter Train leaving Talkeetna. Seeing two SD70MACs on a passenger train (and a short one at that) was pretty wild, and definitely not like anything I'm used to.
Talkeetna itself was also wild and not like anything I'm used to; I highly recommend visiting - both the town and the railroad are quirky and a lot of fun.
Concluding my look back over the last year.
From the end of November, the best birds were in East Sussex, although it took two separate visits to West Rise marsh to capture both the Long-tailed Duck and Slavonian Grebe (present from 9th November and 18th November respectively). But to conclude my review of the year, one more special bird (which in any other year could easily have been the Bird of the Year) and another fabulously confiding bird, this Desert Wheatear at Pevensey Bay from 28th November to 9 December.
What an incredible series of fabulous subjects. I only hope 2017 offers more of the same. So, wherever you are, I would like to wish you all a very happy new year.
Concluding photographs from a familiar walk around the RWY, with a couple of close-ups of the local flora.
Waipapa Power Station
Waipapa Power Station is a hydroelectric power station on the Waikato River, in the North Island of New Zealand.
About 65 km from our home, we past right next to the Waipapa Power Station and took some photos ...
AND THIS UPLOAD CONCLUDES OUR HOLIDAY SERIES.......
25.12.2015 - 01.01.2016
And so our journey and holiday came to an end !!!!
Thanks for everybody's faves, wonderful comments and patients after looking at all of the shots!
We are sincerely grateful for having traveled and ariving home safely! Also for the opportunity to see so many places and take pictures to share with you on Flickr! Thank you once again!!!
Thanks to all who take the time to visit and comment on my photo stream....it's greatly appreciated. Also for all of the invitations to join or post my photos into groups!