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Great Places in Canada - Rue du Petit Champlain
Standing high above Rue de Petit-Champlain on Côte de la Montagne, I could almost imagine the way this street must have looked in days gone past.
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Rue du Petit-Champlain, one of the oldest commercial streets in North America, is lined with one-of-a-kind boutiques and restaurants. History suggests that it wasn’t always this way, however...
« Artisans lived in this part of town during the New France period. When Gerry Paris and Jacques de Blois came up with an ambitious project to give rue du Petit-Champlain a new lease on life in the mid-1970s, they kept its artisanal roots in mind. The original concept has changed since then, with the focus shifting more towards business, but the restaurants, performance venue, and many small exclusive boutiques preserve the special charm of this singular street.
HARD TIMES
In the early 19th century, epidemics that arrived from Europe in vessels groaning with immigrants forced the artisans to flee to Upper Town. In their place were poor Irish escaping their beleaguered homeland. Fatal landslides exacerbated the isolation of this forgotten street. Five times between 1841 and 1889, large pieces of the cliff came tumbling down, burying some 15 houses, for a death toll of 86. The authorities managed to solve the problem but “Little Champlain,” as opposed to the new Champlain Boulevard that was wider and hugged the river, was not any better off. The proof: as late as the 1920s the street consisted of wooden planks while most other streets were paved. By the late 1960s, the squalor had spread. The City even considered bulldozing the whole area to make way for a parking lot.
A REVOLUTIONARY RENOVATION PROJECT
Gerry Paris and Jacques de Blois had a dream—revitalize a section of Old Québec in the European manner. Their goal was to create a living community and restore the buildings. They bought a block of derelict houses and began to recruit artists and artisans interested in working and living there. The concept was very different from anything done before in Québec and elsewhere in Canada. They kept the traces of the many changes to the houses over the years, recycled as much material as possible, and spruced them up discretely so as to preserve the historical character of these buildings ranging in age from 200 to 300 years old. Paris and de Blois were very persistent in their bid to convince those involved in the ever-growing project that their approach was the right one. At the time, this way of doing things—which would become standard practice—went against the tide.
A FRUITFUL PARTNERSHIP
The work begun in 1977 wrapped up in 1980, with some 30 artisans living on rue du Petit-Champlain. The government of Québec got involved in a new phase of the project that ended in 1983. When Paris and de Blois withdrew in 1985 and sold to the artisan-residents who made up the Quartier Petit Champlain cooperative, there were twice as many residents and businesses. The government of Québec and Caisses Desjardins provided financial backing for the project from that point on. Subsequently, rue du Petit-Champlain gradually changed to become a popular and much-loved centre for culture, business, and leisure. In 2011 it won the first Great Places in Canada competition in the Neighbourhood category. Its social and economic vitality, urban appeal, and historical and cultural worth earned it that recognition. »
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#Arachtober. Pholcus sp. Holiday spider in the ladies loo at the campsite, Dorset. A great place for spiders and moths - well not this particular moth, to be honest. I have to be very discrete taking shots in the "ladies" of course!
Sony A7 - Carl Zeiss Planar T* 1,4/50
1974
Rare version from the top-of-the-line 1974 Sansui receiver of the 3-digit series, mostly known as Model 881. This silver version with black applications is the model 9010 for the European market. In the sturdy wooden cabinet behind a thick aluminum frontface there is an excellently discrete amplifier with a sensitive stereo tuner. The power is 65 watt pc into 8 ohms. The 9010 classic device sounds the way it should be - Sansui at it's best.
Here's a shot I've been meaning to post for years and for one reason or another I just never do. I really like the various stories and discrete groups here as well as the tension between the police and the two fellas leaning against the wall.
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Outside Zion National Park
Springdale
Utah
USA
An American Robin photographed near the lodge where I stayed just outside of Zion National Park, Utah. The robin had just finished eating a fresh worm out of the ground.
The American robin (Turdus migratorius) is a migratory songbird of the thrush family. It is named after the European robin because of its reddish-orange breast, though the two species are not closely related, with the European robin belonging to the Old World flycatcher family.
The American robin is widely distributed throughout North America, wintering from southern Canada to central Mexico and along the Pacific Coast.
According to some sources, the American robin ranks behind only the red-winged blackbird (and just ahead of the introduced European starling and the not-always-naturally-occurring house finch) as the most abundant extant land bird in North America. It has seven subspecies, but only T. m. confinis of Baja California Sur is particularly distinctive, with pale gray-brown underparts.
The American robin is active mostly during the day and assembles in large flocks at night. Its diet consists of invertebrates (such as beetle grubs, earthworms, and caterpillars), fruits, and berries.
It is one of the earliest bird species to lay eggs, beginning to breed shortly after returning to its summer range from its winter range. Its nest consists of long coarse grass, twigs, paper, and feathers, and is smeared with mud and often cushioned with grass or other soft materials. It is among the first birds to sing at dawn, and its song consists of several discrete units that are repeated.
Palermo, Sicily/Italy.
La sede di Via Roma — discrete signage on the corner of the Bank of Sicily's palermian branch.
For the 2nd night in a row, between 8PM and 9PM, rapidly developing storms hit my area with near continuous lightning. Although the most discrete bolts occurred after the rains (received 0.30" in about 10 minutes), most strikes did not reach the ground.
This anvil crawler is a single bolt that lasted about half a second.
Nikkor 35mm f/1.4 was used.
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My travel in Brazil (Maranhao) (July 2010)
Lençóis Maranhenses National Park, Brazil
"The Lençóis Maranhenses National Park (Parque Nacional dos Lençóis Maranhenses) is located in Maranhão state, in northeastern Brazil.
It is an area of low, flat, occasionally flooded land, overlaid with large, discrete sand dunes.
Composed of large, white, sweeping dunes, at first glance Lençóis Maranhenses looks like an archetypal desert. In fact it isn't actually a desert. Lying just outside the Amazon basin, the region is subject to a regular rain season during the beginning of the year. The rains cause a peculiar phenomenon: fresh water collects in the valleys between sand dunes, spotting the desert with blue and green lagoons that reach their fullest between July and September.
The area is also surprisingly home to a variety of fish which, despite the almost complete disappearance of the lagoons during the dry season, have their eggs brought from the sea by birds."
from Wikipedia
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The new Bloomberg office in the City has tastefully discrete creative style and many 'faces' to explore...
Fun and games observing a wedding shoot
The photographer was really going for it with the bride and groom, but the interesting stuff was going on with the wedding party in the background.. This bridesmaid( very gorgeous) was relaxed enough to dance a bit of a jig and all this was missed by the very active photographer, assistant with HD SLR and a vidiographer
Really, I was just sitting at my favourite spot and along comes this rather large and posh wedding group in their Rolls Royces etc. The photographer then, no doubt politely, asks the fishermen if they would not mind the interruption. No worries! So they move and make way anticipating some interesting entertainment.
Then this rather inflated wedding party were then indulged with not just the photographer but an assistant wielding a 5DmkII on HD movie mode being as creative as possible, AND a videographer recording the whole damn shooting match. I was just sitting there, but with my trusty Pentax, what was one to do? Shoot of course, but ever so discretely.
Here is the very cheeky bridesmaid.
Jealous? Nahhh!! but I could not resist giving the image a little "brindleyimages" treatment, just for practice!
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Cela fait 30 minutes que j'observe cette chevrette qui mange sur le bord du chemin. Petit à petit le soleil commence à inonder la scène. Malheureusement pour moi elle ne daignera pas se mettre au centre, ne m'offrant d'elle que la furtive silhouette de sa tête. Elle a disparue quelques secondes après, emportant avec elle la lumière.
Those birds know how to be discrete. The reflections in the windows on the left hand-side make the building stand out. I also appreciate those little touches of green. No leaves in the trees. Naked trees and their silhouettes reveal a very useful backlight.
The Heath Fritillary is one of our rarest butterflies and was considered to be on the brink of extinction in the late 1970s. Renewed effort to conserve the Heath Fritillary required detailed knowledge of this butterfly's requirements and, as a result of research conducted by Martin Warren, appropriate habitat management plans were put into effect that saved this butterfly from extinction.
This butterfly is confined to a small number of sites in Somerset, Devon and Cornwall in south-west England, and in Kent in south-east England, where it has also been reintroduced into sites in Essex. It is absent from Wales, Scotland, Ireland, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. Although very local in its distribution, this butterfly can be seen in large numbers at some sites in good years. This butterfly is widespread on the continent and can be one of the commonest butterflies seen in some regions. This butterfly forms discrete colonies and rarely strays from the main breeding grounds.
I managed to see three of these beauties but it was only a brief visit and a bit late in the season.
This butterfly has suffered a long-term decline and requires targeted habitat management. This species continues to be a priority species for conservation efforts.
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Steve made a spectacular appearance running east/west right above Ness Lake! While related to the aurora borealis (or Northen Lights) ‘Steve’ is a discrete optical phenomenon that was only formally discovered in 2017 by aurora watchers from Alberta. It was subsequently determined to be caused by a 25 km wide ribbon of hot gasses at an altitude of 300 km, temperature of 3000 °C and flowing at a speed of 6 km/s (compared to 10 m/s outside the ribbon). The name "Steve" was taken from Over the Hedge, an animated comedy movie of 2006, in which its characters chose that name for something unknown. "Strong Thermal Emission Velocity Enhancement" was suggested as a backronym of Steve which has since been adopted by the team at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center studying Steve. Ness Lake, Northern British Columbia, Canada
Love Life, Love Photography
Silver-studded Blue / plebejus argus. Westleton Heath, Suffolk. 29/06/18.
One year ago to the very day … and just as blisteringly hot!
Faced with today’s heat challenges and casting my mind back to then, I really don’t know how I lasted so long on a baking heathland photographing butterflies. The Silver-studded Blues obviously had me under their spell.
When I look at this image I can understand why :-)
Epic Fine Art Laguna Beach Victoria Beach Sunset LAndscape Seascape: The Golden Ratio in Dr. Elliot McGucken's Fine Art Photography: Nikon D810
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Greetings all! I have been busy finishing a few books on photography, while traveling all over--to Zion and the Sierras--shooting fall colors. Please see some here: facebook.com/mcgucken
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Titles include:
The Tao of Epic Landscape Photography: Exalt Fine Art with the Yin-Yang Wisdom of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching!
The Golden Number Ratio Principle: Why the Fibonacci Numbers Exalt Beauty and How to Create PHI Compositions in Art, Design, & Photography
And I am also working on a book on photographing the goddesses! :) More goddesses soon!
Best wishes on your epic hero's odyssey!:)
The Golden Number Ratio Principle: Dr. E’s Golden Ratio Principle: Why the Fibonacci Numbers Exalt Beauty: The golden ratio exalts beauty because the number is a characteristic of the mathematically and physically most efficient manners of growth and distribution, on both evolutionary and purely physical levels. The golden ratio ensures that the proportions and structure of that which came before provide the proportions and structure of that which comes after, thusly providing symmetry over not only space but time, and exalting life’s foundational dynamic symmetry. Robust, ordered, symmetric growth is naturally associated with health and beauty, and thus we evolved to perceive the golden ratio harmonies as inherently beautiful, as we saw and felt their presence in all vital growth and life—in the salient features and proportions of humans and nature alike, from the distribution of our facial features and bones to the arrangements of petals, leaves, and sunflowers seeds. As ratios between Fibonacci Numbers offer the closest whole-number approximations to the golden ratio, and as seeds, cells, leaves, bones, and other physical entities appear in whole numbers, the Fibonacci Numbers oft appear in the arrangement of nature’s discrete elements as “growth’s numbers.” From the dawn of time, humanity sought to salute their gods in art and temples exalting the same proportion by which they and all their vital sustenance, as well as all the flowers and nature’s epic beauty, had been created—the golden ratio.
Anecdotes urbaines :La silhouette était discrète, mais pas assez pour M.W qui l'apostropha. #bnw #bnwphotography #photography #photooftheday #montreal #night #picoftheday
My friend purchased this small wood a few years ago. It was very run down when he got it. He has worked really hard to create habitats. The array of wildflower species was lovely. Not rare things but usually we see a few of these species not all in the same wood. He has taken out the dead wood and stacked it in discrete piles, mostly hidden behind foliage. He has planted lots of saplings of different species. He has made and put up bird boxes and built a hide with a feeding station. There are cameras to capture the wildlife all over the place and it is a private wood. The wood is the tail end of Trentham forest. So it would have been there for a couple of hundred years. The River Trent runs alongside the wood and the bank is full of plants.
Jervis Wood AKA Peter's Wood
Stone Staffordshire UK 26th April 2025
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This HUD was designed for couples or friends who like to be together in public in an intimate but discrete way without having to be kissing and hugging all the time!
There are 5 poses of a couple in a HUD that do not need rez rights to work!
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X rated because of disgusting real life similarities... LOL!
Carnie barkers come to mind...Or a street, trench-coated watch salesman...
Yup, the sun was at my back, and on his belly...!
I don't make this stuff up folks... Put a human face to this guy, add a cigar, setting in a "Archie Bunker" chair and...well how many times have ya seen a big ole fat guy setting with legs spread just watchin the world go by without a care to his name...I swear this guy looks almost as comfortable as cats get when they roll up into that balled up contorted position that looks so dang comfortable.. If I am wrong correct me, but does it not look like he is resting (leaning back) on that branch to gain a bit more comfort and less effort?? Yup, I don't make this stuff up, I'm just the messenger of believe it or not photos!
"Turkey Vulture" (Cathartes aura) is his name, and lounging is his game!!
This rose lived in a pot for years and was small and discrete, with just a couple of blooms. Now it's been in the earth for a couple of years it is spreading and flourishing with a hundred.
Low angle, bright sunshine falls on a discrete tree grove in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, near the baseball ground.
A "spider"-drone built to track fugitives discretely
Built for the BZPower BBCC 76 contest, where the contestants were to build spiders that didn't have 8 legs, which is pretty typical for Bionicle spiders apparently.
Abstract in available natural light using a smart phone.
A tunnel.... of Wind, of Sound and of Light - as seen inside a wooden flute carefully angled, using a mobile phone camera. (Shot in purely available natural light and without any lens attachments or adapters. Processed in phone.)
Really, I was just sitting at my favourite spot and along comes this rather large and posh wedding group in their Rolls Royces etc. The photographer then, no doubt politely, asks the fishermen if they would not mind the interruption. No worries! So they move and make way anticipating some interesting entertainment.
Then this rather inflated wedding party were then indulged with not just the photographer but an assistant wielding a 5DmkII on HD movie mode being as creative as possible, AND a videographer recording the whole damn shooting match. I was just sitting there, but with my trusty Pentax, what was one to do? Shoot of course, but ever so discretely.
Jealous? Nahhh!! but I could not resist giving the image a little "brindleyimages" treatment, just for practice!
Have a look with
Aragon, Spain
(Neophron percnopterus)
This photo was taken near a Griffon vulture feeding area in the Spanish Pyrenees. The Egyptian vulture is a small migratory vulture with a wingspan of around 1.60 m. It slips discreetly into the area, staying away from the much larger griffon vultures (2.60 m wingspan) or coming in after they've left.
This vulture is an endangered protected species. A population restoration plan is underway in France (100 pairs), while the population in Spain is around 1,000 pairs.
Cette photo a été prise près d'une aire de nourrissage de vautours fauves dans les Pyrénées espagnoles. Le percnoptère est un petit vautour migrateur d'environ 1m60 d'envergure qui se glisse discrètement sur l'aire, il reste à l'écart des vautours fauves beaucoup plus grands (2m60 d'envergure) ou vient après leur départ.
Ce vautour est une espèce protégée en danger. Un plan de restauration des populations est en cours en France (100 couples), alors que la population en Espagne est d'environ 1000 couples.
American Oystercatcher
The American Oystercatchers are a group of waders forming the family Haematopodidae, which has a single genus, Haematopus. They are found on coasts worldwide apart from the Polar Regions and some tropical regions of Africa and South East Asia. The exception to this is the Eurasian Oystercatcher and the South Island Oystercatcher, both of which breed inland, far inland in some cases. In the past there has been a great deal of confusion as to the species limits, with discrete populations of all black oystercatchers being afforded specific status but pied oystercatchers being considered one single species.
The name Oystercatcher was coined by Mark Catesby in 1731 as a common name for the North American species H. Palliatus, described as eating oysters. Yarrell in 1843 established this as the preferred term, replacing the older name Sea Pie.
For more info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oystercatcher
Wildpark Eekholt / Germany
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Snowy owl , Schneeeule, harphang des neiges , Sneugle , Neĝostrigo , Nyctea scandiaca , Snie-ûle ,
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雪鴞，學名Bubo scandiacus ,
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My owl in the "TOMORROW" 10 /08 I'm happy.
Wildlife Park Eekholt
24623 Großenaspe
Are you looking for elephants? You will not find any elephants or lions here: Wildlife Park Eekholt is dedicated to the presentation of local animals in their natural habitat.
Spanning about 67 hectares, the park offers a variety of discrete landscapes including bogs, wetlands, coniferous and deciduous wooded forests. The "Osterau", a naturally winding creek with alder-lined banks, flows through grassland and pasture. Each of the various areas presents its typical plants, insects, birds and mammals and, thus, demonstrates a different ecosystem.
Enjoy more than 700 animals representing about one hundred different species: you will meet small animals like ants or bees as well as birds, martens, wolves, deer and many, many others. With few exceptions, all these animals are indigenous to Germany or became domestic long ago. Besides wild boars, bees or moor land sheep, you will meet rare species like white-furred red deer as well as endangered species like the great bustard or otters. You can watch free-flying performances of birds of prey or the feeding of otter, wolves and tree-martens.
photo on Explore ! Aug 26, 2007
The American robin (Turdus migratorius) is a migratory songbird of the thrush family. It is named after the European robin because of its reddish-orange breast, though the two species are not closely related, with the European robin belonging to the Old World flycatcher family. The American robin is widely distributed throughout North America, wintering from southern Canada to central Mexico and along the Pacific Coast. It is the state bird of Connecticut, Michigan, and Wisconsin. According to some sources, the American robin ranks behind only the red winged blackbird (and just ahead of the introduced European starling and the not always naturally occurring house finch) as the most abundant extant land bird in North America. It has seven subspecies, but only T. m. confines of Baja California Sur is particularly distinctive, with pale gray-brown underparts.
The American robin is active mostly during the day and assembles in large flocks at night. Its diet consists of invertebrates (such as beetle grubs, earthworms, and caterpillars), fruits, and berries. It is one of the earliest bird species to lay eggs, beginning to breed shortly after returning to its summer range from its winter range. Its nest consists of long coarse grass, twigs, paper, and feathers, and is smeared with mud and often cushioned with grass or other soft materials. It is among the first birds to sing at dawn, and its song consists of several discrete units that are repeated.
The adult robin is preyed upon by hawks, cats, and snakes, but when feeding in flocks, it can be vigilant and watch other birds for reactions to predators. Brown-headed cowbirds lay eggs in robin nests (see brood parasite), but robins usually reject the cowbird eggs.
"(Well, this type of photography was never my point of interest but it certainly is interesting, when you try to see everything that happens around you.
Here I will leave you in some photos of these experiments, I hope you like it.)" ☺
A rather discrete and dark passage way leads to a small garden and doorway leading home. For me, this ends up being a study in regressive lines and a challenge regarding exposure. I wonder why the flickr icon for my camera is not my 5D MkII?
The Lençóis Maranhenses National Park is located in Maranhão state, in northeastern Brazil. It is an area of low, flat, occasionally flooded land, overlaid with large, discrete sand dunes. It encompasses roughly 1000 square kilometers, and despite abundant rain, supports almost no vegetation.
The National Park is quite extensive and has no access roads. Because of the nature of the park's protected status, most vehicles are not permitted access. Entrance to the park is made exclusively by 4-wheel drive trucks.
Composed of large, white, sweeping dunes, at first glance Lençóis Maranhenses looks like an archetypal desert.
In fact it isn't actually a desert. Lying just outside the amazon basin, the region is subject to a regular rain season during the beginning of the year. The rains cause a peculiar phenomenon: freshwater collects in the valleys between sand dunes, spotting the desert with blue and green lagoons that reach their fullest between July and September.
The area is also surprisingly home to a variety of fish which, despite the almost complete disappearance of the lagoons during the dry season, have their eggs brought from the sea by birds.
Link to machinima/video: vimeo.com/verydiscretenowvisible
Performance by SaveMe Oh, with music by DeceptionsDigital, December 2016