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Thinking about Afghanistan.
I traveled thru it in 1978.
To be a single woman and be able to do that, is now unfathomable.
In truth, I always traveled thru it with a companion, either another woman or a fellow or two.
But that "we" could do that seems incomprehensible now.
My heart aches for the Afghani people with whom I shared meals, laughter, getting to know you, in the cities and in some more remote countryside.
I am so sorry. So very sorry, it hurts to recall you. Because now the universal normality of people to people is gone, and I fear reforms will be eliminated.
I can only hold you in the fond remembrance of my heart. It cries.
Thank you for the friendship. I will never forget.
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If you come to England expecting canyons you will be disappointed . Cheddar Gorge is about the closest to a canyon we can manage.At almost 450 feet deep and three miles long, this is England’s largest gorge, and with its weathered crags and pinnacles, one of our most spectacular natural sights.
Cheddar is a Limestone gorge lying on the southern edge of the Mendip Hills. The maximum depth of the gorge is 449 ft, with a near-vertical cliff-face to the south, and steep grassy slopes to the north. The B3135 road runs along the bottom of the gorge.
The area is underlain by Black Rock slate, Burrington Oolite and Clifton Down Limestone of the Carboniferous Limestone Series, which contain ooliths and fossil debris, on top of Old Red Sandstone and by dolomitic conglomerate of the Keuper. Evidence for Variscan orogeny is seen in the sheared rock and cleaved shales. In many places weathering of these strata has resulted in the formation of immature calcareous soils.
The gorge was formed by meltwater floods during the cold periglacial periods which have occurred over the last 1.2 million years. During the ice ages, permafrost blocked the caves with ice and frozen mud and made the limestone impermeable. When this melted during the summers, water was forced to flow on the surface, and carved out the gorge. During warmer periods, the water flowed underground through the permeable limestone, creating the caves and leaving the gorge dry, so that today much of the gorge has no river until the underground Cheddar Yeo river emerges in the lower part from Gough's Cave.
The gorge is the site of the Cheddar show caves, where Britain's oldest complete human skeleton, Cheddar Man, estimated to be 9,000 years old, was found in 1903. Older remains from the Upper Late Palaeolithic era (12,000–13,000 years ago) have been found. The caves, produced by the activity of an underground river, contain stalactites and stalagmites. The gorge is part of a Site of Special Scientific Interest called Cheddar Complex.
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Conditions were disappointedly turbulent despite high pressure. However, I managed to get some reasonable filter runs of Mars late in my imaging session. Very happy that I managed to get something!
Now over three weeks past opposition the apparent size of Mars continues to shrink - the planet now being under 20". A definite gibbous phase is also evident.
This image was captured with a Celestron C11 using an Explore Scientific focal reducer and a ZWO 290MM camera/Baader RGB filter combo.
This is an RsGB image with the green component being synthesized from a blend of the red and blue channels.
The image is the result of three separate RGB runs with the images being stacked using Autostakkert 3. The resultant stacks were sharpened with Registax and finally derotated and assembled using Winjupos. The image was than finished using Photoshop 2021.
The iconic "V" Syrtis Major Planum is crossing the Martian globe close to the meridian while Hesperia and the Mare Cimmerium are close to the preceding limb (left).
I also managed to pick up Huygens crater - top right of Syrtis Major - a first for me!
The north polar hood cloud is very obvious with some cloud visible towards both limbs. The South Polar Cap has reduced considerably and appears divided in two.
Thanks for looking!
No sea lions on the docks at Pier 39 to ooh and aah over that day, but at least they got to see a ship chugging by with a tugboat in trail.
San Francisco, California.
I was a little disappointed in the colour quality of this. It was late afternoon and so bright here, that everything had this green tinge to it..... in some ways its ok... but I think I'll be changing it some how when I know how
Really disappointed that the weather hasn't been better over the Christmas period. Yesterday afternoon was nice, however the Shorties weren't close enough to get anything decent. That said, it was nice to see about 4 of them flying around the marsh.
Attended a Lime Rock Show yesterday, and was mostly disappointed with the subject matter. I'll probably have a few shots to post but one car immediately grabbed my attention and literally stopped me in my tracks. I was clueless as to what it was, but it was a real beauty. And it was until I returned home and did some online research when I found out more about this little gem...like it's 1/2 mullion dollar plus price, among other things. It's a limited production, custom bodied car built by an Italian company, Kimera, and it features the same underpinnings as the original Lancia EVO37, a 500hp+, both supercharged and turbocharged inline 2.1L 4 cylinder powerplant. The following will provide the interested reader with more details:
Following the launch of its original Lancia 037 restomod in 2021, Italian outfit Kimera Automobili has revealed a new limited-run take, inspired by Martini Racing’s iconic Group B racer. Developed in collaboration with two-time World Rally Champion Miki Biasion and Martini, just 37 examples will be produced, with prices expected to exceed the £415,000 of its original car.
Kimera’s EVO37 is not built from one of the few, and very special originals, but built from scratch in a similar construction method with modern materials and techniques. The chassis itself is a bespoke monocoque built from tube steel, with subframes directly welded to it on either side. The steel structure is then clothed in bespoke carbonfibre panels, replacing the original kevlar composite units.
While it features the same underpinnings as the original EVO37, the Martini 7 adopts a new carbonfibre aerodynamics package, applying a new front splitter, side skirts, more aggressive in-built canards and NACA ducts aft of the doors and on the rear haunches. The use of more carbonfibre and carbonkevlar in the Martini 7 is said to drop weight to 1100kg.
Continuing the motorsport theme, the rear has received a complete overhaul, with new carbonfibre air vents framing a transparent engine cover to reveal its rally-inspired power plant. The rear bumper is also now equipped with a quick disconnect mechanism, allowing buyers to display the gearbox casing and ceramic coated exhaust system in all its glory, just like the Group B 037.
As in the homologation car, the forged double wishbone suspension has a long-travel design, with dual Ohlins dampers flanking the separated spring at the rear and a more compact coilover design on the front end.
Like the structure, the engine is also referenced by the original, running a new-build 2.1-litre four-cylinder engine that is both turbo and supercharged. Unlike the original, however, the supercharger will be electrically driven, so as not to bleed power away from the engine itself as all purely mechanical units do.
The engine’s development has been overseen by one of Lancia’s original powertrain engineers Claudio Lombardi, and thanks to the advances in engine technology is said to produce 542bhp in Martini 7 trim, up 49bhp on the original EVO37. The engine will power the rear wheels via either a six-speed manual, or six-speed sequential transmission, the latter operable via electro-mechanically actuated paddles behind the steering wheel – in-line with its motorsport connection, ratios are shortened in Martini 7-trim.
The overall design remains similar to the original restomod, reworking the Lancia 037’s iconic design with the aid of modern, high-tech carbonfibre manufacturing techniques. Details, like the front and rear lighting, mesh inserts and wheels are also new, the latter being of a much larger 18- and 19-inch staggered design to clear the modern brake package. The Martini 7 receives new wheels inspired by those originally featured on the Delta Evoluzione, created with weight-saving in mind and incorporating the yellow/black carbon-kevlar of Delta group A cars.
Inside, Kimera has opted for a tasteful dry carbonfibre and blue Alcantara theme, with the dials coming with the same orange backlight as the racer. A unique limited-edition plaque, enamel Miki Biasion/Martini dashboard logo and Martini Racing harnesses also feature, with the main control panel labelled exactly how it was in the race car. Being a modern recreation, Kimera has also incorporated a second control panel in the centre console for fine tuning of the ABS and traction control.
A total of 37 Kimera EVO37 Martini 7s will be produced, joining 37 of the original recreation.
By: Sam Jenkins
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6 cooked breakfasts (very disappointed about the missing one (😆🐖)), 21 cakes (yes, really - probably more), 1 Intro to Winter Skills (2 days) and 1 Winter Mountaineering (5 days) course later and I'm come through unscathed 😁 I did nearly choke on my peanut butter and jam sandwich on Creag Dhubh. That would've been embarrassing. Anyone remember how to do the Heimlich Maneuver?
Anyway! The reason behind wanting to do the courses was that I increasingly wanted to get out into the mountains in snowy conditions, but was acutely aware that I didn't have the skills or knowledge to do it safely. Why mountaineering as well then? Well, just so I have an extra bit in the tank if / when I get into those Em shaped scrapes on steeper ground 😁
I can't tell you how much I enjoyed it from start to finish. The instructors were so incredibly knowledgeable, competent, and patient. Tested thoroughly when I completely messed up assembling my new crampons 😂
Objective achieved, and I'm now much more confident to get out there with my camera and spiky things. Bought an axe too 😊 Now we just need some more snow...
I did ask if I went back next winter which course I should do as a refresher. "Winter climbing" was the answer 😳 Instructor said I move well, know my gear, rope work is good and he was confident I wasn't going to fall off at any point! Fooled him then 😆
Wouldn't hesitate to recommend Glenmore Lodge, an amazing week!
I was disappointed with my efforts for this week's Macro Monday's effort so put these Cherry Bakewells on my online Waitrose order . I'm not too fond of these either so no doubt my OH will eat them. These of course aren't quite the same as the original Bakwell Tart or Bakewell Pudding as I discovered when we holidayed in Derbyshire way back in 2011 and went to the shop there to buy some. Here's the link ...
Roughly about 20 minutes after the prior photo was taken the sky lit up in all directions at once. In my earlier shot, you can see a bit of color beginning to creep into the sky. I had actually made a trip out to the same spot the night before and was disappointed with the light went off directly behind me and then promptly died. And if you have been following me on flickr for any length of time, you have probably seen me bemoan the fact that my batting average for good light is horrendously low. Several times on this trip last December I set off at 4:30 AM and drove over 2 hours just to find that the promise of high clouds had evaporated, or that the gap to the East had disappeared leaving a wall of unbroken gray.
But every so often...you wake up and it's raining, and Skyfire says you only have a 50% shot of a sunrise, and you're thinking it's more like zero because...well...it's raining...but you head out anyway. And you get out of the car and you're freezing, and you're tired and your fingers aren't working and there's too many clouds and you know in your gut that you're going to get skunked again....and despite the odds, a wisp of pink appears... and then another....and then everything explodes. THOSE are the mornings that keep you coming back.
And so I shall. Thursday morning at 5 AM I'll be trying to beat the rush hour traffic up the 5 and out towards the grapevine...and then another 12 hour drive across the Oregon border for another week of shooting along that amazing coastline.
As for this particular shot, I think it has a bit too much sky in it....but I just couldn't bring myself to crop out any more. We just don't get skies like this where I come from. I remember hearing a podcast not too long ago where Alex Noriega announced that he is done with sunsets and sunrises. They hold no interest for him. I remember thinking...that must be nice. To be so inundated with skies that you don't jump up and down anymore when the light goes off. As for me...I live here in Southern California in an unbroken cesspool of brown weeds, power lines, and pavement. We see MAYBE one sky like this a year. We can go months without seeing a cloud. So when the sky lights up along the coast of Oregon and Washington, I have to remind myself to keep shooting because I'm generally standing there with my mouth hanging open. We are STARVED for skies like this in my neighborhood, but I imagine this sort of thing might become rather routine for photographers in the Pacific Northwest.
I doubt if it will ever become routine for me.
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Seit 10 Monaten hab ich nun schon keinen Berg mehr gesehen, der höher als 1000 m ist. Eine Schande 😥. Zeit wird's....
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I haven't seen a mountain higher than 1000 meters in 10 months. What a shame 😥. It's about time...
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He had the look of disappointment when the coconut he was eating has all gone.
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Dory sez:
"OK I has waked up now. Send them all in!
Whadaya mean there's no one to send in? I thot all of these famous stars would turn up and get interviewed by m'self - just like that Oprah Winfreycat does!! Oh well, we'll just have to see what transpires then. I've got no other diary appointments booked in for today,, so I'll just have to wait around and see what turns up Micawber style. YAWWWWNNNNNN!"
My little friends have been rather disappointed for a few days, as I'd run out of treats. Every night they'd turn up without fail and have a little sniff around just in case I'd managed to get to the shops since their last visit. Well their luck was in last night and I made sure they had a bit extra.
Pulteney Bridge
Bath, England, U.K.
03-25-25
A historic bridge built in 1774 in the town of Bath, England. There are shops on both sides of the bridge, which when you're crossing it, just looks as if it's a street with shops on either side.
I'm a bit disappointed in myself that I only photographed this corner of the bridge. When I crossed the River Avon into the heart of old downtown Bath, I concentrated on Bath Abbey and the Roman Baths building and didn't continue along the other side of the bridge for some shots.
I'd spent about 45 minutes walking to the old city from my B&B following a 2-1/2 hour drive from my previous stay at the farm. It was 2:00pm when I took this photo and I spent the next few hours taking lots more around town, then treated myself to a nice dinner in a Bath pub (including a non alcoholic ale selection) so I filled every available minute.
People always ask me if I'll "go back" after I return from visiting someplace. I never can answer in the affirmative, because who knows? I still have lots of places to visit that I've never seen, and it's going to take me years to be able to afford, both in money and time, so see all of them.
Other "corners" of this bridge would have been excellent to photograph, but this photo is pretty good. I should just be less disappointed in what I didn't do and enjoy the satisfaction that I was able to accomplish what I did and get the (hundreds of) photos I did. Sigh.
I'm sad and disappointed that 2020 has no Polar Express trains on the Providence and Worcester Railroad. These stalwarts have been an extremely popular weekend transition for years sponsored by the Blackstone Valley Tourism council and running dozens of trips over five weekends from Woonsocket to the North Pole (Uxbridge, Massachusetts!)
So since we don't have any to enjoy chasing and shooting here is a shot looking back to better times in 2018.
P&W GP38-2 acquired new from EMD in Dec 1980 is on the south end of the train sitting on the Woonsocket viaduct atop Clinton Street. Coupled behind is power car 668, originally an E9B built for the Union Pacific in 1954.
Woonsocket, Rhode Island
Friday November 16, 2018
Disappointed photographer waiting for sunset that was far from spectacular. Evening at Cannon Beach, Oregon. IMG_4004
Auto kaputt. Ist nur ne Kleinigkeit und kostet doch mehr als ein Monatsgehalt 😥. Schön, wenn dann die Werkstatt inmitten einer prächtigen Natur gelegen ist und das Wetter passt. Dann gehe ich nämlich während der Reparatur immer wandern und fotografieren.
Hier sind wir an einem kleinen Weiher im Belschbachtal (kennt kein Mensch, außer mir) in der Nähe von Wilhelmsfeld.
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We were disappointed to discover after our arrival at Crater Lake that most of the park is closed off due to road construction and deep snow. We traveled as far as we could go on a trail closed because of snow until we came to place where we would have to go down to road construction to go further. Reluctantly, we turned around. The trail was interspersed with huge mounds of snow making for challenging travel as well as for finding a good spot for photographing the lake. Notice the people on the rocky point on the left.
After the disappointed loss by the Niners today, I decided to take a long hike for some soul seaching, When rI eached this spot, a mountain biker zipped by. I then composed for this shot of him and the rolling greens.
Lens: Nikkor 105mm F2.5 AIS
Explore #285, January 31st, 2023
I thought I would get my own take on the 5 planet alignment, but with astro twilight, the Moon, the Andromeda galaxy and the Pleiades open star cluster! But my 4 shot vertical pano won't stitch, so here is the bottom panel only! Glow from the nearing sunrise, Venus, Mercury hard to make out in the glow, Andromeda and the Pleiades. Sigma lens, processed in Photoshop.
I'm disappointed to have taken so long (a week is almost an eternity in the world of social media) to make my first post from last Tuesday's total lunar eclipse. A combination of the busyness that comes with being self-employed; some health problems; and a list of around-the-house jobs that needed attending to all kept me from editing and posting any photos until now.
In hindsight, I could have stayed at home in Sydney to photograph the eclipse from my balcony since the clouds where I'd driven to–Seven Mile Beach, Gerroa–thwarted my plan to capture shots of the eclipsed Moon peeking over the horizon. I set my camera's intervalometer to grab sequential shots of the Moon at five-minute intervals. You can see how the eclipse progressed to totality as the Moon climbed the northeastern sky.
I used my Canon EOS R camera fitted with a Canon 50 mm f/1.8 lens to shoot the photos that make up this composite image, employing a range of shutter speed and aperture settings.
Disappointed to see diesel in place of the booked steam locomotive, although not sure whether that's as much as the fare paying passengers, 47245 heads away from the Brightside loop with 57313 on the 1Z96 1518 Buxton to Preston
I'm disappointed in the results of my experiment this morning though I don't regret trying it. I decided to drop some alcohol ink and alcohol in my oil and water mixture. The colors feel muddy and the ink left weird crusty sections in the oil. This is the dried tulip from my earlier images this year. I was able to use it one more time though I still might try to save it. Do you embrace your mistakes as learning experiences? It has taken time for me to accept this idea and I still struggle with it but life is short, so learn and move on.
I'm disappointed in myself that didn't make it out here this past winter for any snowy icy shots so here's one from a few winters ago.
Amtrak train 448 (the Boston section of the eastbound Lake Shore Limited) is popping out of the east end of State Line Tunnel at QV164.8 on modern day CSXT'S Berkshire Sub, the old Boston & Albany Railroad mainline.
The original state tunnel just out of sight to the right was bored about 1840 by the Western Railroad and was joined by another just to the south about 1912 when the line was triple tracked. When Conrail singled tracked the line in late 1988 the original tunnel was left vacant and all traffic now moves through this south bore. This 600 ft long tunnel is not actually located on the MA/NY state line but is here a couple miles to the west.
Canaan, New York
Friday January 25, 2019
... with the turn out for my first performance.
This is the first in a series of images that I will be posting, highlighting this amazing building.
Located on one of the highest hills in southeastern Wisconsin, this neo-Romanesque Roman Catholic church is a wonder to behold.
From Wikipedia:
"The Basilica and National Shrine of Mary, Help of Christians at the Holy Hill is a Roman Catholic Marian shrine in Erin, Wisconsin, United States, dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary under the venerated title Help of Christians.[2] The land and the shrine serves as a religious pilgrimage and attracts approximately 300,000 visitors each year.
Pope Benedict XVI raised the shrine to the status of Minor Basilica via Pontifical Decree on 11 July 2006."
Work was started on the Basilica in 1926 and it was completed in 1931.
It was past prime for the autumn colors, but I decided to make the hour trip to this famous church anyway, hoping that there would still some colors left. I wasn't disappointed.
I photographed in the evening and the nighttime and, while it wasn't a glorious sky, the clouds added a lot of interest.
All my images were from a mile or two away and from several different locations and angles.
I hope you enjoy the series as much as I enjoyed capturing them!
"Be depressed, discouraged and disappointed at failure and the disheartening effects of ignorance, greed, corruption and bad politics — but never give up.”
– Marjory Stoneman Douglas
How’s your week been? I know I know. Yet another incident of mass shooting; two in a week, actually. Yet again, a few more innocent people dead. All quite plaintive, ain’t it? Ah well, it didn’t happen to me or my family. Dang, it didn’t even happen in my city. Do I really have to care, dude? The dictionary says, ‘numb’ means ‘deprived of the power of sensation’, or, ‘ deprive of feeling or responsiveness’. O don’t you get me wrong! I sense a plenty good! I sense, it makes sense to be numb now; actually, it’s pretty dumb not to be numb.
So, while you are willfully deprived of your feelings or sensation (or, not), let me fiddle your senses with the above image. Take a look, ya Sirs and Ma’ams! Such nimble, tiny, transient flowers! They come when spring comes. They bloom as a proxy of life; they’re its celebration, its anthem. It was as if Spring had spilled all its colors in a willful accident. Sadly, I saw folks stepping all over these flowers for their selfies. Snubbed here, ripped there... Aye, these flowers were mangled all over like 'em folks in that Boulder grocery store or that Atlanta massage spa. Beauty ain’t no match for brutality, y’all!
This spring bloom is on top of the steep Table Mountain (can you tell?). They say, this place has some dope geology. I ain’t no geology professor, but in street-speak, I can tell you what happened. Long ago, liquid chocolate fondue-like lava from nearby volcanoes filled up a river valley. Millions of years later, Sierra Nevada mountains uplifted like a well-fed teenager, which eroded softer surroundings from the solidified fondue (latite) and left it looking like an inverted valley. It’s a badass hike up there through brutal switchbacks on a talus slope, but views from the top (including a large manmade reservoir) are cool beans! This volcanic tableland ain’t one of those famous Californian Instagram-spots, but this place knows how to charm instantly.
And jeez, I have to tell y’all about the light. The god-forsaken mid-day light! Not a single cloud up there to save the grace. Everything so bright, boyz, it was painful! I had to pull all freagin’ tricks in the shop to make this foto look little Ms. Pretty. Man, I did so good, didn’t I? Guess, I could be a politician, y’all! Afterall, I can tell tales taller than printed pajamas and turn uglies into tiny winy pretties… ya know? Just as I see them politicians fake it these days on TV about mass shooting and entertain the rest of the world for free. Heh heh!
Before I wrap up, I would like it very much if you paid your finest attention to those little surreptitious mid-day clouds on the top left of the frame. Know what? Few frames later, they were gone! Puff! Evaporated into nothin’, as if their will to exist was as worthless as the thin air they were weaving their dreams on. Potential cut short brutally, man! Aww… That reminds me of those dead people in that spa. And that grocery store.
See-rap, man! I ain’t no good at being numb. You?
お散歩Cwー２８６９(3869) 前掲の写真がトラブって、ここに、再掲しました。😞 Sorry, I've reposted it here!!! 福栄S公園いこいの広場・薔薇園 / バラ- バスシーバ S Austin 2016
Little disappointed with myself. Not having shot a waterfall before I kinda went to town and took a load of shots. And at the time I thought I had a few keepers, but when I got home to look though my shots this was the only one (I think) that I'm even remotely happy with.
Not the end of the world. Taking the positive from it at least Ive learnt a few lessons from the process and I can always shoot something similar again.
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I wanted Mammoth Cave to be a 100-mile dark underground roller coaster ride, one that went 200 mph. Each seat would be equipped with a puke bag. But that's not what I got. Disappointing. What I got was a strangely quiet 400-mile hole in the ground instead. There was not even a cell phone signal. It just had a few strategically placed information plaques that had to be lit up by cell phone lights to read more clearly.😉