I posted a photo a couple months ago of this place, wasn't too happy with it, so I went back and took some better pictures with much better available light.

Portland Osprey 12-05-2018ps-2

Dragon fruit tree

Ben Tre, Vietnam

So I've had this idea buzzing around my head for awhile now but it wasn't until today that I was able to bring it to life. I'm so thrilled with how this turned out! I haven't posted a lot of concept work, let alone worked on a lot of it, lately. Its interesting how life and other things tend to consume and take over and leave you distracted from the things you enjoy doing. But none the less, I will be posting more (hopefully) soon from this series we shot today! So thrilled with how these turned out!!!

You consume me!

Like a burning flame running through my veins,

You consume me, moving through me.

Anytime, anyplace, You invade my space,

You consume me.

Cattle egret-Bubulcus ibis

Cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis) and Little egret (Egretta garzetta)

The cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis) is a cosmopolitan species of heron (family Ardeidae) found in the tropics, subtropics and warm temperate zones. It is the only member of the monotypic genus Bubulcus, although some authorities regard two of its subspecies as full species, the western cattle egret and the eastern cattle egret. Despite the similarities in plumage to the egrets of the genus Egretta, it is more closely related to the herons of Ardea. Originally native to parts of Asia, Africa and Europe, it has undergone a rapid expansion in its distribution and successfully colonised much of the rest of the world in the last century.

It is a white bird adorned with buff plumes in the breeding season. It nests in colonies, usually near bodies of water and often with other wading birds. The nest is a platform of sticks in trees or shrubs. Cattle egrets exploit drier and open habitats more than other heron species. Their feeding habitats include seasonally inundated grasslands, pastures, farmlands, wetlands and rice paddies. They often accompany cattle or other large mammals, catching insect and small vertebrate prey disturbed by these animals. Some populations of the cattle egret are migratory and others show post-breeding dispersal.

The adult cattle egret has few predators, but birds or mammals may raid its nests, and chicks may be lost to starvation, calcium deficiency or disturbance from other large birds. This species maintains a special relationship with cattle, which extends to other large grazing mammals; wider human farming is believed to be a major cause of their suddenly expanded range. The cattle egret removes ticks and flies from cattle and consumes them. This benefits both species, but it has been implicated in the spread of tick-borne animal diseases.

For more information, please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle_egret

2021 is coming to an end and I’ve created a total of two models this year, the a380 and the 777. However, this year was by no means boring or lack luster.

The first build to be completed in 2021 was the Emirates A380-800. This Goliath consumed 10 months of building spanning from September of 2020 to June of 2021. The a380 is by far the largest model that I’ve ever made and most likely ever will make. This build featured many firsts for me such as motorized flaps, and a seven foot wingspan to name a couple. This model also gained the attention of multiple LEGO blogs such as the brothers brick, which in turn led to the Robb Report featuring my model which eventually led to Emirates themselves taking interest. This culminated in Emirates flying me to Dubai on their a380 in business class which was an absolute blast! I’m still working with Emirates on whether we want to officially display this model in Dubai, but regardless this has got to be one of if not my favorite model to date.

The second model to be built in 2021 was a British airways 777-300ER. The 777-300 is one of the largest passenger jets currently in service today of course with the A380 and 747 beating it out. My model featured everything that you would expect such as retractable undercarriage as well as a full interior. I was also able to finish this model in just about 3 months which has to be some sort of speed record for me when it comes to building wide body jets.

I was also able to attend multiple LEGO shows this year. The largest was Brickfair Virginia where I was able to display my Air Force One and meet with fellow LEGO military builders. In addition, I was able to attend a couple of local shows this year and display some of my smaller models there such as the 737.

Even though I only* built 2 models this year I feel satisfied with what I’ve done. This will probably be the last year I build any kind of jumbo jet though. With upcoming school obligations and a shrinking portfolio of large jets that I’d actually WANT to build it’s looking like 2022 may be the year of narrow body jets. Expect less builds next year, especially during the school year, as I just won’t have time to build stuff. I still have models that I’d like to build just not at the same rate as I’ve done before.

I hope you’ve had a good 2021 and I wish everyone a happy new year!

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Modelo: Marián Redondo

Fotografía: Selectormarx

Realización/Edición: Mr.Chapis

Estilismo/Maquillaje: Cherry Lovett

Auxiliar de fotografia: Ángela Nicolau

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Elbmarsch, Germany

Sirens scream around me, uncertainty and self-doubt seeping in my ears. I am tossed in the torment.

Stand by Me.

I am black and blue with life’s bruises. My limbs are weak, each breath a struggle to squeeze from my lungs.

Stand by Me.

Mountains dissolve to the earth, stars shoot fire, and darkness consumes my eyes.

Stand by Me.

I root in the middle of the road, paths sprouting from all directions. None are paved, all overgrown and looming. Not a sign in sight.

Stand by Me.

Life hangs by a silent web, invisible to the public eye. Frail, frantic, lingering on its line.

Stand by Me.

I feel pressure caving around my soul, chiseling hard and stark realization, a hammer to my heart.

Stand by Me.

Numb. Lord, everything is crashing to my shore in urgent calling.

Fear. I stand at the edge of a canyon and listen to my echoes reverberate against the chasm.

Unknown. I am moving through a midnight marsh that threatens to swallow me, skin to spirit. I cannot be alone. I don’t want to feel numb.

Stand by Me.

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Pour pouvoir fermer et ouvrir le monde, comme une pupille ou une paupière : j’ai fait une porte

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Hice una puerta : para poder cerrar y abrir, como pupila o párpado, los mundos.

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Separaré las aguas para

que llegues hasta mí, dijiste : la mano es un gran

pájaro incendiado que vuela hacia el poniente y

se consume como una antorcha de oscura luz.

José Ángel Valente (Ourense, 1929 – Ginebra, 2000)

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Photo : Vallée de l’Avia (Galice, Espagne), le village de Gomariz.

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Foto: Valle del Avia, Gomariz (Ourense)

Photographed in München at the "Pinakothek der Moderne"

It might appear featureless and unexciting at first glance, but NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope observations of this elliptical galaxy — known as Messier 105 — show that the stars near the galaxy’s centre are moving very rapidly. Astronomers have concluded that these stars are zooming around a supermassive black hole with an estimated mass of 200 million Suns! This black hole releases huge amounts of energy as it consumes matter falling into it and causing the centre to shine far brighter than its surroundings. This system is known as an active galactic nucleus.

Hubble also surprised astronomers by revealing a few young stars and clusters in Messer 105, which was thought to be a “dead” galaxy incapable of star formation. Messier 105 is now thought to form roughly one Sun-like star every 10 000 years. Star-forming activity has also been spotted in a vast ring of hydrogen gas encircling both Messier 105 and its closest neighbour, the lenticular galaxy NGC 3384.

Messier 105 was discovered in 1781, lies about 30 million light-years away in the constellation of Leo (The Lion), and is the brightest elliptical galaxy within the Leo I galaxy group.

Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, C. Sarazin et al. ; CC BY 4.0

[DISCLAIMER: The meaning of any artwork is found in the dialogue between the artist and the viewer. The meanings I suggest here are NOT necessarily those held by Josh Foley.]

You really need to enlarge this shot to begin to see all of Josh Foley's elements in this strange and poignant work.

I'll confess right now, this is my title for this work (so largely my reading of the work). Josh has not given it one, because he likes the viewer to make up his or her own mind. I have chosen this photograph as the last in the series from Josh Foley's exhibition, "Calculating Infinity" for a reason.

To be honest, when I first saw this work I immediately thought of the incredible, pregnant and bizarre paintings in Carl Jung's 'The Red Book'. This is fundamentally an archetypal work. It only works specifically on the unconscious, because this is precisely the realm from which it emerged. As such it is, by definition, prophetic.

I am no philologist, so I can't interpret the mish-mash of scripts on the wall behind. Part Hebrew letters (but some clearly aren't), some ancient Greek, but not explicitly so. It reminds me of a scene from the Bible. You know it by the saying that has come down in most languages today: "The writing is on the wall."

Please follow me. This is very important. The scene in the Book of Daniel chapter 5, is a feast in the court of the evil Babylonian king Belshazzar. Suddenly, a hand appears and begins to write upon the wall. The young Hebrew prophet Daniel (yes the same one who was thrown into a lions den and survived), interpreted the words as signaling the downfall of the mighty Global empire of its day, Babylon.

From that day on, Babylon has become synonymous with evil empires. Subtle because they tempt us with so many materialistic goods and pleasures as the tempting serpent did in the Garden of Eden. Now please look at what is hidden behind the red curtain on the altar. (the curtain was closed, but viewers are allowed to open it for interaction).

There is the Serpent, the Leviathan, the Dragon revealed for all to see. Suddenly Belshazzar's feast was turned from celebration to fear in an instant. The writing is on the wall!

The digital revolution has led us to the verge of Artificial Intelligence once and for all replacing the human soul. We humans have become the creators of our own demise. If that sounds too stark and bizarre a prospect, then welcome to Belshazzar's feast. A New World Order is about to reveal itself. But here is our hope Eternal.

The writing is on the wall! It is finished. The work is almost done.

Now is the time to prepare for the triumph of Light over Darkness, when all souls are held in the balance.

In the 4th century AD, under severe persecution, the Gnostics fled to desert caves in Egypt and hid their beloved texts in clay vessels. In 1945 they were discovered at Nag Hammadi, and for the first time in 1500 years their message was revealed to the world. This is the end of one such text, 'On the Origin of the World':

“The heavens of the gods of chaos will collapse upon one another and their powers will be consumed. Their realms will also be overthrown. The chief creator’s heaven will fall and split in half. His stars in their sphere will fall down to the earth, and the earth will not be able to endure them. They will fall down to the abyss, and the abyss will be overthrown.

Light will overcome the darkness and banish it. Then the darkness will be like something that never was, and the source of darkness will be dissolved…”

I did not want to share this, and this may prove to only be the beginning of the end of worldly kingdoms (and you have every right to disagree if you will!). But I say it to warn you. The writing is on the wall! Every human civilisation stands judged.

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Union, Mextures

Hostile burger made with Midjourney/Photoshop Ai

EXPLORE #40 10th Nov 2009

Used telephoto compression to make them look like they are stood on the edge of a volcano

Best viewed large to appreciate the detail

Edale Bonfire in Peak District UK

5DmkII 135L f2 iso3200 1/80th

An apt, and classically French way to advise visitors that the catacomb tour ends here.

Noticed this scene while driving to work this morning, so I stopped and captured. It looked dreary and treacherous with all that thorny ivy consuming everything below.

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Poznan, Poland

Tram #2

"O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught."

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Often, it is the simplest pleasures that bring the most joy. For myself, there will never be any kind of replacement for the feel of holding a book in my hands, sifting through the pages, the spine firm in my grasp and the smell of the pages as I turn them.....

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World of Halo - Halo 3 Marine and Flood Infection Forms

Consuming a large rainbow trout

Me Again Monday: Laundry

Our Daily Challenge: Falling

I have been woefully inactive on Flickr lately due to travel and illness, I really want to get back into the swing of things, but please forgive my lack of comments of everyone's wonderful images,

Thank you so much for your views, comments and favs. I really do appreciate every one!

My images are posted here for your enjoyment only. All rights are reserved. Please contact me through flickr if you are interested in using one of my images for any reason.

Body - Maitreya

Head - Catwa Uma

Shoes - Blueberry

Hair - Wasabi Pills

Week 42

I found a tut for the 3d tunnel and then wanted to take it a little further so I did a partial s2 wrap for my 52 week shot and added some 3d elements to it. Render time was crazy.

Please hit "L" on your keyboard to view large.

Have a great weekend friends!

Better Large-non-hdr...Drayton Harbor, Washington is a great place to shoot the moon! The Shadow visited and appeared in the bottom right...I haven't seen him in about a year. He is very mysterious.

FOR THOSE INTERESTED I HAVE AN EXHIBITION AT THIS LINK www.flickr.com/groups/inspiringcollection/discuss/7215762...

oceans are dreams (jhwatkins)

Oceans are dreams, that rise and fall

beyond the conscious mind.

Vast volumed vaults transitioning-

rolling ridges ranging high.

Joined with all creation dance,

like liquid living beings-

quiet, dark depths of passion fire-

eternally careening.

Held in viscous vision,

caught between the separate worlds-

all heaven and earthy creature-

floating figured forms unfurled.

Ghosts-aglow and gaping-

gathered gremlins, timeless trails-

beyond all thought or reason-

hidden highways, watery veils.

Desperate, driven, hungry hunters-

casual commerce-bloody blades.

Liquid-larcened fathoms fallen,

fevered fits in cavalcade.

Contrasts, calm and constant-

consumation, cold desire-

carefully crushed by eons,

in vile volcanic fire.

Down some corridor they creep-

until in rest revealed-

unto the doubting dreamers-

caustic children, filled with fear.

Decisioned paths of plans performed,

adrift in thoughtless themes.

Gathered golden wisdom,

wrapped in scientific schemes.

Predetermined, parliamentary,

railing posted parts prevail-

racked with frail-formed falsities

in fictional detail.

Loving lost the guide unseen

that rules the changeless world-

and brings us back to view the sea

in vision's vacuumed swirl.

Childlike faith-vast beauty breathed,

an author, bold and bare-

for silence sake, stark stepping stones-

it's wealth unfolding fair.

Troll the tame and turning tide,

that flows in measured ebb.

Rolled rhythmic rows of constancy

in concentrated web.

Held hot the hidden history,

revealing holy fare-

formed fellowships and mysteries-

plain patterns painted there.

To see the unseen signature-

to touch the untouched realm-

to gaze at guardian glory...

graced...

by Starred..

Ascending..

Stair.

James watkins (April 2004)

Hamburg, Diebsteich

Times Square, NYC

I'm getting so low with all the rain and wind we've had recently, I decided to delve into my archives for a bit of light and colour to cheer me up - HBW!

Don't be consumed by the darkness that's to come....waterloo lighthouse, Liverpool

N370FE's condition the morning of 30 January before the last phase of the scrapping began.

I've created an album of the wreck here: www.flickr.com/photos/58327945@N07/albums/72157677635643772