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Gaztelugatxe, the famous island with an hermitage on top, nowadays it's a touristy mess in high season, 10 years ago no one had heard of it except photographers. Daytime long exposure with the big stopper, I'm not very happy with the result, the waves are too overexposed.
Introducing another of my wild friends, Pancake, the dunnock.
Pancake is one of an enthusiastic and animated troup of dunnocks among the larger flock of different species that hang around our garden. I can't tell the dunnocks apart, except for Charlie (uploaded previously: www.flickr.com/photos/pogspix/52476354419) and Pancake, who both take food from my hand.
Pancake is recognizabe because of her beautiful markings ... and her habit of being right at, and nearly under, my feet in her quest to be at the front of the queue for food---I have to be extremely careful as I walk around the driveway, to ensure she doesn't live up to her name!
Here she is, waiting a bit more patiently, on a snow-glazed log a few weeks ago.
It was late, and cold. No one, except the corn seller, me, and a guy in the shadows. Sometimes one truely gets lonely.
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Ścinawka Dolna (PL) 20-06-1980
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Bento Mesh Head BOM: Genus Baby Face
Bento Mesh Body: Maitreya Lara
Face/Body Applier: Akali by Boataom
Body Tatt: Mystic India Glowing Tattoo by [Kensho]
Hair: Cersei by EMO-tions
Ensemble: Priss Dress (opaque; also comes in sheer & has texture HUD) by Poet's Heart now @ We Love Role-Play @ maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Riverhunt/126/124/1503
Sandals: Leilani by Mosquito's Way
Amira Rings: RealEvil
Circlet: Moon Goddess by Le Forme
Infinity Nose ring: Fallen Gods
Arm Cuffs: Blenda's Binding by Empyrean Forge
Danna Eyebrows: Enfer Sombre
Starlit Shadow: Shiny Stuffs
Dimples: SAGNIS
Sheer Lipgloss (rose): Izzie's
Mishi Eyes Applier: .euphoric
POSE: Belly Dance 5 by Black Cats Creations
Tiger Cub Collection :: Companion: JIAN
Tiger Cub Collection :: Static - Sitting: JIAN
Tiger Cub Collection :: Static - Sitting: JIAN
Tigerz Gacha - Sleeping Peach Tiger: .TMC.
Taj Taj - Dharma - The Bearded Guy
Palm Trees 1: Aeva
woodland dreams . carved wooden screen: dust bunny .
Moroccan Niche - Wood: =Mirage=
Moroccan Urn Planters: =Mirage=
Vagabond - Hang Out Rug: DRD
Aida Decorative Hookah [prop]: Roawenwood
Panum Boursinum II (food & drinks tray): Aisling
Divya Hanging Candles: Madras
DRUM djembe A -1sound possible- (2prim) by AnaLee Balut
White + Rainbow Lights: BOUDOIR
The last Straô except for one of this season
next week the last Straô 2019 of Serooskerke
De laatste straô op één na van dit seizoen
volgende week de laatste Straô 2019 van Serooskerke
For those who have not seen it before yet another explanation
What is Straô
Straô is an annual event on a number of Saturdays in the late winter and spring, where the feet of the horses in the sea 'washed'. The villages on the west side of Schouwen-Duiveland have their own straô celebration.
An annual village festival where the feet of the horses are "washed" in the sea. The villages on the west side of Schouwen-Duiveland all have their own "Straô viering". Eight weeks before Easter.
Between the fifty and one hundred heavy Zealand horses are driven into the sea on a number of consecutive Saturdays. The riders in traditional outfit. The horses are decorated and decorated with wreaths of flowers. The heavy hooves raise the water high, the sand thrusts in all directions as the colossus shake in the direction of water. What is called impressive?
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This shot might have been part of my Scottish photos except it was photographed in Yorkshire . We did see Reds in Scotland but very fleetingly I was never able to get a shot of one . This red squirrel was more cooperative it was taken in the Yorkshire Arboretum at Castle Howard .
In the UK and Ireland , red squirrel populations have decreased enormously in recent years.This decline is associated with the introduction by humans of the eastern grey squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) from North America .
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Bediening van de haven van Delfzijl.
Serving the port of Delfzijl.
Bedienung des Hafens von Delfzijl.
Desservant le port de Delfzijl.
Servando el puerto de Delfzijl.
Servendo il porto di Delfzijl.
Servindo o porto de Delfzijl.
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We stayed at the Loch Marie Hotel, on the shores of Loch Marie, near Gairloch. It was a gorgeous old hotel, built in 1872. Apparently Queen Victoria stayed in the Hotel in 1877. Perhaps she was captivated as I was by this beautiful sunset right behind the hotel.
One of the few times I actually used my tripod.
I am off for two weeks to a deserted Island. Not really, but the first week will be on an a quiet island where i expect to do nothing except read and laze about and hopefully some bird watching. I have never "done" relaxing before, but now I have to do things at a much slower pace or not at all, I am really looking forward to it. Probably wont have alot of reception so I may not catch you all till I get back.
Stay happy and well and hope you all find time to relax in the next couple of weeks.
Owing to my recent back injury, I only had a compact camera with fixed wide-angle lens in Scotland. This worked well enough most of the time, so long as I could get physically close to my subjects. Except when I couldn’t, as here on Rannoch Moor at the edge of Lochan na Stainge. I bravely decided against wading in ‘taters deep. Instead, I elected to channel my inner Colin Prior with a 65:24 panoramic crop.
Leica Q2, Summilux 1.7/28 ASPH. Original photograph copyright © Simon Miles. Not to be used without permission. Thanks for looking.
...except there's not been much rain...
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Temperate rainforests are wet, wonderful places full of life. The trees that grow there include sessile oak, birch, rowan, holly, alder, willow, and hazel. They often have open glades, or rivers cutting through rocky gorges. What really makes a temperate rainforest special is the rich tapestry of life that grows on and around the trees. Ferns, mosses, liverworts, and lichens seem to cover every surface, from the ground to boulders, crags, and even the trunks and branches themselves.
A group of mute swans (Cygnus olor) were battling fast flowing water of River Avon in the attempt to at level with people on the pavement. All were in their immature plumage, except this one. Bath, BANES, England, U.K.
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Don’t know if this Yellow-Crowned Night Heron, Nyctanassa violacea, is male or female—they’re similar except for size—but her crowned nobility reminded me of Mozart’s cackling Queen.
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Except of course we still can't do many of the things we'd do Friday to celebrate a week being over because this surreal reality continues. Sigh.
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This view of San Marco Square never happens except at 5:00 am in March when the lights are still on and the only visitors are a couple of photographers hauling their tripods around. What a sight this is!
Thanks to the direction of our kind friend Maurizio Fecchio who told us how to get this view. The first morning he took us here was heavy fog and while I got a couple of unique moody captures, we came back 2 days later and got this. This was despite severe jet lag and a 4:00am rise.
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Aquí vemos un gran patio, se halla el Anguri Bagh o jardín de las Uvas que debe su nombre a que, al parecer, tuvo viñas en algún tiempo; es un jardín de trazado geométrico, dividido en cuatro partes por dos paseos perpendiculares de mármol blanco, de unos seis metros de anchura; en su centro presenta un estanque, también de mármol. Enfrente se encuentra el Khas Mahal (palacio privado) construido en mármol blanco en 1636; es una terraza con tres pabellones; en medio de ella hay un estanque con reborde lobulado. El pabellón central es una estancia abierta y limitada por arcos lobulados excepto en su parte posterior que presenta amplias celosías de mármol calado a través de las que puede observarse el río; y en sus extremos se elevan dos chattris con cúpula de cobre.
Galapagos Islands.
The large medium and small is not the size of the bird, but the size of their beak.
Like all but one of the other Darwin's finches, the small ground finch is endemic to the Galápagos Islands. Abundant and widespread, it is found on every island in the archipelago except for the Genovesa, Wolf and Darwin islands. It is most common in arid coastal and transition areas, though it moves into the highlands following the breeding season.
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Mikado, also known as pick-up-sticks or jackstraws, is a game of skill of European origin that, at least according to (German) Wikipedia, was already played in ancient Rome. It is named after the highest scoring stick (blue), the "Mikado", which refers to the Japanese emperor.
This is a slightly different, new type of Mikado, and its rules are simple: clear the game board without tossing the burning candle over or lighting the "active" playing candles in the process, and do it before the red candle burns down (which happens quite fast with these thin candles).
Initially, I wanted to build a much larger Mikado pile with more candles, but they kept rolling away, so I focused on creating a nice-looking pile instead.
Size info: Each candle (except the lit red one, which I cut in half) is 6 cm/2,36 inches long, so together with the negative space (I also slightly cropped the image), the width is about 2,75 inches.
HMM, Everyone!
Except a crop and some lens correction, I swear I did not manipulate this photo. The "eye" is as shot. The freakiest thing is, I didn't even notice it until I saw the photo...
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Lisse (NL) 09-04-2017
Keukenhof
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SOOC except for a slight crop.
The name of this tulip says it all! Bombastic Red is a flamboyant double with enormous 8" blooms in a rich scarlet-red hue. Layer upon velvety layer of petals open wide to add a luxuriant look and feel to any area of the landscape. Quite peony-like in appearance, the late-spring tulips certainly make themselves known in seasonal displays, border plantings and freshly cut arrangements.
According to wikipedia:
The European robin (Erithacus rubecula), most commonly known in Anglophone Europe simply as the robin, is a small insectivorous passerine bird, specifically a chat, that was formerly classed as a member of the thrush family (Turdidae), but is now considered to be an Old World flycatcher. Around 12.5–14.0 cm (5.0–5.5 in) in length, the male and female are similar in colouration, with an orange breast and face lined with grey, brown upperparts and a whitish belly. It is found across Europe, east to Western Siberia and south to North Africa; it is sedentary in most of its range except the far north.
The term robin is also applied to some birds in other families with red or orange breasts. These include the American robin (Turdus migratorius), which is a thrush, and the Australian red robins of the genus Petroica, members of a family whose relationships are unclear.
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Ústí nad Labem, Střekov (CZ) 05-09-2014
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Vacanze Romane! Except it was a work trip, as always. A negative scan of a rather poor film. I would freely admit that it's here mostly to put another pin on the map of my images, created by the Map Group. A totally free advertising, I just think they are offering a great service to the Flickr community.
Untouched except a small crop... as it came off the camera!
wow, a humble dandilion... and it jumped right onto Explore within hours of posting! Go figure, Maybe Humble is Always Better!
Explore #81 on April 21st
still in and out of Explore on May 13th!
Nothing special, except for the focus stacking. I do like the clarity.
BUT.... this was one of the last focus stacking images I made, before I figured out an easier way to do it. So this was a labor-intensive image!! (If you are curious as to why it was difficult, see the explanation below. If you aren't curious, ignore it!)
This will serve as a shot in the 100x group, and also for the D-day of February Alphabet Fun month group.
(How was it difficult? My new camera takes Raw images which crash my HDR program and makes my Helicon focus program unable to save the images to my computer. So, for a shot like this, with over 60 shots to combine, So, first, I had to upload them from the camera, which, because these images are so huge, took a while. Then I had to edit the Raw images, which took a while for the same reason, Then, I had to go through, one by one, to convert them to TIFFs, so that my programs would work. THAT took a REALLY long time. Then I put the images together in Helicon focus, and then edited the final result. It would take a couple of hours to produce one shot. Then, I would have to get rid of all 60+ images off my Photos app, off of Helicon focus, off of my Photoshop Elements, and then off of the original download folder and off of the folder which held the converted TIFFs. Whew!
What changed was that I figured out how to covert all the images to TIFFs without having to do it one by one. I still have to do all the other stuff! But I like the results.)
with the handsome young men in the trust department, no sane person ever enjoyed visiting a bank ;-)
Martin Mayer
HGGT! Climate Change Matters! Resist!!
Iceland Viking Cruise land excursion, Northern Iceland's Natural Treasures
except his own mistakes :-)
Author Unknown
HBW!!
opuntia, snow ponytail cactus, sarah p duke gardens, duke university, durham, north carolina
This image is completely Artificial Intelligences except for the model and the sky. The first thing I found out about AI images is that it's difficult to manipulate the image. This one look fairly life like. On my first attempts the images came out looking cartoonish.
So, the rest of the story on the water issue is. I live outside of town so I'm not on city water. A private company supplies the water for me and most of my neighbors. They were only suppose to take a certain amount of water from the aquifer and for years have been taking more then their allotment. No one said anything because there was plenty of water. But now that water isn't so plentiful it's a big deal, which is why we're in stage 4 of water restrictions and not allowed to water outside.
1927 Mercedes-Benz Model K Wins Best in Show at Greenwich Concours
By Jeff Peek / Hagerty.com
Michael and Joannie Rich were looking for just the right car, and in the end, the right car found them. It proved to be a match made in concours heaven. The Pennsylvania couple’s one-off 1927 Mercedes-Benz Model K was chosen Best in Show at Sunday’s 25th Greenwich Concours d’Elegance, which returned to Roger Sherman Baldwin Park after a two-year hiatus.
“It came to us sort of by chance,” Michael says. “I was approached by somebody in the car world who said they had a neat car that I might be interested in. What really interested me was its Fleetwood body. Obviously, there are many coach builders, but it was from a place that’s only a half-hour down the road from us … a place I’d visited. I mean, the factory is still there. There’s a just a tremendous amount of history out of the Fleetwood factory. That’s what really attracted me to it—plus it’s the only one in existence.”
The car’s original owner, William Sloan of Rochester, New York, saw legendary Hollywood actor Rudolph Valentino’s Fleetwood-bodied Isotta Fraschini Roadster at the 1926 New York Auto Salon and fell in love with it. Except he wanted it on a Mercedes-Benz chassis. The car had been repainted in the decades that followed—Michael described it as “a pretty car with an ugly paint job”—and the Riches wanted to restore it back to how it looked when it rolled out of the Fleetwood factory. They entrusted the job to Steve Babinsky and Automotive Restorations in Lebabon, New Jersey.
“It was fun doing the restoration because we could visit it from time to time. I remember when it was down to a frame,” Joannie says. “We discussed the colors, and when we finally found the original color, we looked at each and said, ‘It’s interesting … not one I would pick.’ We sort of toyed back and forth about what we were going to do, and we decided if we were going to do it, we’d do it as it was.”
That proved to be a great decision. The Greenwich Concours d’Elegance is only its fourth public showing.
“The car world has a belief system, and the belief system is that certain cars are just super important, deserving of celebration and recognition,” says McKeel Hagerty, CEO of Hagerty, which owns the event. “The Mercedes-Benz Model K selected as best in show represents that greatness—one that the judges recognized following significant deliberation.”
The short-wheelbase (130 inches) Model K is powered by a 6.2-liter, switchable supercharged (kompressor) six-cylinder engine. From the right side of the bonnet/hood emerged three metal exhaust pipes merging at the lower edge to a single exhaust. This detail later became a hallmark of Mercedes-Benz supercharged cars.
“It’s a special car,” Joannie says. “I get so much enjoyment out of watching people’s reaction to it. They have so many questions. It’s been a lot of fun.”
Michael thanked his father “for getting me into this mess.”
“It’s a hobby,” Joannie jokingly corrected him.
“A mess, a hobby, organized chaos … I just wish he was here to see this.”
Something tells us he would be smiling.