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So....is "more interesting" a good thing? I could say that this has been an interesting week, but not an exceptionally good week. There are not enough hours in a day lately, and not enough fun in the hours, and there have been too many disappointments and a lack of motivation ....
Well, a new week begins tomorrow...and maybe it will be "more interesting." And I can only hope that that will be a good thing!
Happy Sliders Sunday
Whiskey Sam and Jucin' Jane livin' out at the hollar (holler?), right near them railroad tracks....
Actually the other side of the road from the great steaks of the Hitching Post in Casmalia...
Let the World see you “Just The Way You Are.” Stand tall, alone and proud. You were made by the creator to be just as you right now. Others will be happy to have known you just as you were created. You light up your surroundings “Just The Way You Are.” Your “Gratitude and Kindness can define you, so let them, you’re worth it.”
What defines us is how well we rise after we fall.
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Me In The Oculus at World Trade Center Lower Manhattan New York City NY P00508 DSC_0212
The defining feature of Frenchman Coulee (apart from The Feathers) is the waterfall on the northside of the canyon. It can be viewed from the road, and seen from nearly anywhere.
Years and years ago I found myself to the other side, and could only remember a small pull off and a trail that led to the waterfall itself.
This time, I found a little complex of campsites and roads that lead to other campsites. I'm sure these were here long before my first visit, but I just never ventured over.
And I am sure these are full on spring and summer weekends. Even the weekend I last visited was home to several dozen campers - despite beinge below freezing.
But I found the waterfall again, and the fog rolled in.
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'The Tears'
Camera: Mamiya RB67
Lens: Mamiya-Sekor 3.8/90mm
Film: Fomapan 400
Process: FA-1027; 1+14; 9min
Grant County, Washington
November 2021
Boca Tapada, Costa Rica, 2015.
It had been raining 24 hours nonstop. Rain was heavy and just when you think there can't be more, it will really start pouring. Maybe I should have thought about why rain forest is called rain forest.
Japanese Maple (Acer palmatum) Amagi shigure in a pot, on my steps. Rich color here is not pumped....it really is that rich. Dissected leaves with very dark veins, it is slow growing but the drama is worth it. I got this one from Oregon, which has an ideal climate for maples who thrive there! Enlarge for details of the dramatic leaves both in color and patterns. This is to remind you all that I am passionate about subjects in addition to vintage cars. I probably have over 30 different varieties of Japanese Maples.
I know! Christmas is over, but how could I not!?
A new goodie from Eyelure!
Credits: www.lextalks.wordpress.com
This beauty easily defines “A Late November Day” The rich color, contrast and clean breathable air are hinting towards an enjoyable Autumn day in November. Probably my favorite season of the year for all the reasons outlined. I look forward to being outdoors either working, walking or just playing around in the yard. I hope you’re enjoying your Autumn season as well. Thanks for viewing my work. Stay safe and be kind. I hope you’re well enough to cast your Vote soon and surely then you’ll Wash Your Hands🙏’s. :-)
Of all rail locomotives produced on planet earth nothing has ever touched the versatility and the staying power of the EMD SD40-2. The SD40 series was produced by Electro-Motive Diesel beginning in January of 1966, and lasting until the final Canadian Pacific order of SD40-2F's in late 1988. The two-decade long production run undergirded the reputation these engines had as the most reliable on the rails. As rival General Electric comparatively fumbled with their U Series, and Dash 7 series motors, EMD was raking in order after order for their easy to maintain SD40-2.
Even in 2025 it is still possible to find hundreds of examples of EMD SD, and GP series EMD's working daily in class one, and shortline service.
In this image CSX 8830, formerly Conrail 6435, is paced at 1/10th of a second through the woods in south Alabama. The 8830 was on the point of the then-daily Nashville, Tennessee, to Mobile, Alabama, road train Q519. This lazy spring afternoon 519 was rolling off the miles towards the final destination of Mobile. When viewing a moving train through a zoomed in lens you notice every bump in the rail as the flexicoil trucks that defined the way these motors looked do their best to absorb the impacts even after 45 years in continuous service. At every crossing the side mounted bell dings in the same manner it always has. Even though it's nearly 25 years into CSX ownership the long-since technologically outclassed 8830 continues to roll out the miles some 48 years after Conrail 6435 rolled off the shop floor in La Grange, Illinois.
Reliability Defined.
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One window is sufficient for me
One window to the moment of awareness and regard and silence
Now, the walnut sapling
Has grown tall enough to define the wall
For its young leaves
Ask the mirror
The name of your savior
Isn’t the Earth that trembles under your feet
Lonelier than you are?
Poetry of Forough Farrokhzad,
Translated from Persian
Windmills have become part of the Canarian landscape, silent witnesses of a past in which they played an important role in the economy of the islands. In the case of Fuerteventura, they existed profusely because this typology is developed mainly in arid or desert regions, taking the wind as a source of energy, to make up for the lack of water currents. To this contributed the almost permanent presence of air currents in the islands and the orography of the island, characterized by vast plains only "interrupted" by these peculiar constructions.
Their typologies are made up of two very different types, but one of them predominates numerically. The most abundant is defined by an architectural structure of flat circular plant, with truncated cone shape made of masonry, topped by an irregular conical or pyramidal wooden roof of which one of its parts is open to give exit to the axis of the blades. The interior is divided into two floors, with access to the upper floor by an interior staircase, in some cases, or exterior, in others. The other typology, of which there are fewer examples, is defined by a quadrangular building, on which rises a tower made with a framework of wooden railings, which supports the blades. In the center of the tower descends an axis that connects the gearing of the blades with the stones.
La Oliva, Fuerteventura, Islas Canarias
Icelandic Highland 20210719
The Icelandic Highland is a huge uninhabited area of Iceland basically covering the center and sometimes stretching to places near the shore. The whole highland area is loaded with natural wonders, hiking trails, places to visit, fascinating geology, mountains, geothermal pools, waterfalls, and much more. It is characterized and defined by altitude as the term Highland implies. It is mostly above 350 meters and thus usually rather cold and seldom specifically warm. In any sense of the word, it is extremely sensitive. The soil, the lava, the moss, the vegetation, the roads, the hiking trails.
Most of the time the whole area is under snow. Almost nine months of the year. Only in the summer does the Highland reveal itself and start blooming and exposing its vegetation, crystal clear creeks, and beautiful mountains with thousands of colors. In large areas, it consists of vast black sands, dark lava, suspiciously looking rocks, powerful rivers flooding from under glaciers, and long horizons. If there is one message or one thing an Icelander would tell you about the Highland it would be to understand the sensitivity of this harsh landscape.
Source: Hit Iceland
“My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Sachiko Tokifuji (Tengu)
Taken at Sunny's studio. (pose: Spider.)
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Tengu (Japanese: 天狗, lit. "Heavenly Dog" or "Heavenly Sentinel") are a type of legendary creature found in Japanese folk religion. They are considered a type of yōkai (supernatural beings) or Shinto kami (gods). The tengu were originally thought to take the forms of birds of prey and monkey deity, they are traditionally depicted with human, monkey and avian characteristics. Sarutahiko Ōkami is considered to be the original model of Konoha-Tengu (a long-nosed supernatural creature with red face), which today is widely considered the tengu's defining characteristic in the popular imagination. He is the Shinto monkey deity who sheds light on heaven and earth, some experts theorize that Sarutahiko was a sun god worshiped in Ise region prior to the popularization of Amaterasu.
Buddhism long held that the tengu were disruptive demons and harbingers of war. Their image gradually softened, however, into one of protective and even manifestations of buddhist deities, if still dangerous, spirits of the mountains and forests. Tengu are associated with the ascetic practice of Shugendō, and they are usually depicted in the garb of its followers, the yamabushi.
The beauty of things lives in the soul of the one who looks at them.
David Hume
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Dartmoor National Park is a vast moorland in the county of Devon, in southwest England. Dartmoor ponies roam its craggy landscape, defined by forests, rivers, wetlands and tors (rock formations). Trails wind through valleys with Neolithic tombs, Bronze Age stone circles and abandoned medieval farmhouses. The area is dotted with villages, including Princetown, home to Dartmoor Prison used during the Napoleonic Wars. ― Google
Peace and tranquility define this scene that I captured at Meadfoot beach, Torquay. The sun had just set and the light was starting to fade quite fast so I used a long exposure to smooth out the sea to help create this moment of stillness.
Sanctuary
(Christman Preserve, New York)
I prowled up the gorge, crossing and recrossing the stream where water spread out over the bedrock, daring it to top my Vibram soles. The Bozenkill is a captive of the shale, whose ledges alternately channel and pool the flow along the bed. The walk upstream enclosed me between ever-steepening hillsides, and after awhile I entered a chapel of sorts, disturbing it with human sounds. I left my load on the bank, and stood awhile in a shallow nave with no trace of pilgrims, my eyes walking up the steps into a sanctuary towards which all things seemed to bow. Stone and wood often define sacred places, but I suppose we differ on structure. I took some salvation nevertheless, watching troubles glide by like specks of light froth. And then I bailed to higher ground, struggling against the incline, headed for the asylum of the trail above me.
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Basking and Preening:
They are known to preen while perched in direct sunlight.
In the early morning, they are often seen in pairs, actively exploring brush, foliage, and bark crevices for insects (caterpillars, beetles, spiders). Males are highly vocal, often singing from prominent perches at the top of trees or fences to define their territory.
The ancient legend says that in order to enter the Crystal Kingdom, you must say the password: "Look past your thoughts so you may drink the pure nectar of this moment." Then, you will hear a voice saying: "I am EL MelAdRah, welcome to my Crystal Kingdom. You may enter."
Created for KP TT 279, unfortunately, I was a little bit too late for the contest.
Created for Explore Worthy, Challenge 123 - QUOTES. (Winner, 4th PL)
Also, created for MIXMASTER 50 - Chef: seguicollar. (Winner, 1st PL) 4-way Tie.
CHEF seguicollar wants us to glimpse what's on the other side of the exit ... or is it an entrance??
➤ You must create a scene which includes a portal, defined as “a door, gate, or entrance, especially one of imposing appearance".
➤ Include a single living being in the scene.
➤ Arabesque patterns must appear in the composition.
➤ Your image must also include at least one, featured, geometric shape.
➤ NO PLANTS, including trees, flowers, grass, etc.
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Portal source image with thanks, from skagitrenee.
Rosette Arabesque, courtesy of Wiki.
Color Lights, from Pixabay.
Face, courtesy of GbG - PD.
All other elements from my private collection, purchased.
BG, Sphere & Jewel on face, purchased from Renderosity.
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I discovered a new Phenomenon on Monday, January 4, 2021, while taking photo images around the outside of my home in Dubuque, Iowa. I admit I had never heard of Rime Ice/Frost before which is a white ice that forms when the water droplets in fog freeze to the outer surfaces of objects. It is often seen on tree tops atop mountains and ridges in Winter, when low-hanging clouds cause freezing fog. Officially the weather service defines rime ice as "an opaque coating of tiny, white, granular ice particles caused by rapid freezing of supercooled water droplets on impact with an object. These next images were taken on Tuesday, January 5, 2021 when the beautiful sunshine was shimmering off the Rime Ice/Frost before it all melted away. Photo Images credited to Vickie L Klinkhammer of Vickielynne Photography and Designs(VLP & Designs). Images may appear on wearableart and home essentials. view my designs at www.vlpdesigns.com
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Anselm classically defined theology as fides quaerens intellectum—“ faith seeking understanding.” Not faith that already understands and so no longer needs to seek. That would by definition no longer be theology. Theology is not itself the faith but its quest. If we stop seeking, we are no longer on the way. Faith seeking understanding has then turned into “belief that understands.” It then closes down the very root of quaerens, from which come both question and quest. Speaking the divine wisdom in a mystery, theology remains a work of human speech. Theology is not the same as faith or belief, but a disciplined and relational reflection upon them. God calls, but we are responsible for what we call “God.” And God may be calling us to that very responsibility!
-On the Mystery, DISCERNING DIVINITY IN PROCESS, Catherine Keller
My definition of beauty and the quote..
"The beauty of things exists in the spirit of the one who contemplates them" - David Hume
(Drymophila ferruginea) 022A0011 Recanto Do Saua - Mata Atlantica - Brazil
Guide on Mata Atlantica Tour : Marcos Eugênio
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Endemic to Mata Atlantica
The Ferruginous Antbird is found in southeastern Brazil, in an area roughly defined by southeastern Bahia, northeastern Santa Catarina, east-central Minas Gerais, and western São Paulo states
Each of us will experience that earth-shattering, life-changing defining moment, and when it happens we will know. It will be like an explosion that separates the past from the present....and points us to a new, bright future. Learn to embrace your defining moments -- those times when we make the right choices and we know it! It is my hope that TODAY will be a definining moment for you.....a new a wonderful beginning!
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Le sport condense en un seul geste tout l’éventail des émotions humaines !!!
À gauche, l’athlète bondit de joie, portée par la victoire. À droite, la défaite pèse lourd, et les larmes tracent leur chemin.
Entre elles, l’arbitre incarne la neutralité, ce témoin calme où se croisent triomphe et désolation.
En un instant, tout bascule : la gloire d’un côté, le chagrin de l’autre.
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Sport gathers in one frame the whole range of human emotion !!!
On the left, the athlete leaps with joy, lifted by victory.
On the right, defeat weighs heavy, and tears fall like surrender. Between them stands the referee, a neutral witness where triumph meets despair.
In a single heartbeat, everything changes: glory on one side, sorrow on the other.
credit : Vladimir Tadic
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Vancouver, CANADÀ 2024
Beyond the glass towers, Vancouver is a city defined by the sea, and companies like Western Pacific Marine are essential to keeping the region moving across its waters.
Vital Connection: This company operates several ferry services throughout British Columbia (including inland lake and river ferries), serving as a crucial link for transportation and logistics in a region shaped by fjords and islands.
Industrial Landscape: Their presence in the Vancouver harbor adds a gritty, hardworking character to the city, providing a sharp contrast to the sleek skyscrapers and luxury of Downtown.
The Fleet: Their vessels are built to navigate challenging waters and carry everything from daily commuters to heavy vehicles, ensuring that British Columbia’s rugged geography doesn't isolate its coastal communities.
A Different Perspective: Capturing their boats or docking areas provides a glimpse into the functional, maritime soul of Vancouver, far from the polished tourist districts.
In "representational" photography, I feel that two things are very important: that the gray values carry the bulk of the photographs tactile characteristics, and that preserving a sense of the light quality is extremely important. It's not always easy (or obvious) to achieve both of these things in such a way that they deliver a "believable" photograph. I'd like to think that these qualities are generally present in my work.
Case in point is this photograph, made with the Rolleiflex 2.8E (Planar) on Ilford's exceptionally good FP4+ film. I exposed this roll at 50 ASA, so it received more than one stop more exposure than "box speed", and developed it in Barry Thornton's 2-Bath developer, which is a variation on Divided D-23. This developer never fails to give me exceptionally good negatives that contain loads of usable information, and the images have a smoothness that typically exceed my expectations. The grain structure is always pleasing and there's plenty of sharpness where it's wanted. In many ways, this is the perfect developer.
It's funny, I experimented with Divided D-23 back in 1984/5 and found it gave outstanding negatives, and yet I never used it again, until 2 years ago (in the form of the Thornton modification). Now, it's one of the most appreciated tools in my darkroom.
You can read more about the Thornton developer at onlinedarkroom.blogspot.com/p/barry-thornton-articles.html