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Except that the weather didn't play ball...however I did what I could to convey my experience here at Calanais known commonly as the Callanish standing stones. I had expected there would be plenty of people even on this dreary day so went prepared. I used my Nikon d850 on a tripod and with an ND filter not a big stopper but big enough to remove the people wandering around. I have to say there was a very happy atmosphere with people taking photos of each other sitting as the base of the stones and taking the p*** but gave me happy smiles if I trained my camera on them. The mood was light hearted yet with an undefinable spiritual feeling too. I went along with this and did take photos that effectively cleared everyone from the scene but some a little faster to hopefully get a little movement hoping to convey the ‘spiritual ‘ feel of the place which actually the few people I actually spoke to were completely in awe of these amazing stone which are said to be 5000 years earlier than those at Stonehenge…..
Also my OCD meant b/w to follow the previous shot :)
Long before the pyramids of Egypt were built, the northern and western isles of Scotland were a centre of sophisticated monumental building which radiated out and south to influence later monuments such as Stonehenge. These stones of 300 million year old Lewisian gneiss - some of the oldest rock on the planet - were chosen, hauled, and precisely placed by our Neolithic ancestors using only stone tools, strength and great skill.
Copied from a site encouraging people to visit and with good reason I believe !
sooc...except for a little horizon fixing...I must have crooked eyes....and it was good again last night, though we saw only a glimpse...as it was our choir spring concert....this has been such a busy week ! I am looking forward to a quieter weekend.
Except that it was only the afternoon...beginning to understand the randomness of this camera:).
This film also snapped when I loaded it ( old fuji film, 400 iso, from the back of my friend's drawer), so I had to reopen the back, rip it the negative and rethread it...leading to some of the funky vignetting...I think...I really don't know!
Highest position: #3 and seen on the Front Page.
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Straight from the camera, except a crop to square it up...
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Grey Teal
Scientific Name: Anas gracilis
Anatidae
Description: The Grey Teal is almost all grey-brown. Each feather of the body is edged with buff, except on the rump. The chin and throat are white, the bill is dark green and the eye is red. The secondary wing feathers have glossy blue-black patch, broadly bordered and tipped with white. In flight, a large white wedge is visible on the underwing. The Grey Teal is one of the smaller Australian ducks (males are larger than females). Both sexes are similar in plumage.
Similar Species: The Grey Teal is sometimes confused with the female Chestnut Teal,A. castanea. The Chestnut Teal has the chin and throat pale brown, instead of white. The male Chestnut Teal is quite different in plumage, being mostly chestnut below, dark brown above and with a glossed green head and neck. The two species overlap in range and often mix together where they meet.
Distribution: Grey Teals are found throughout Australia
Habitat: Grey Teals are common in all sheltered watered areas. These include fresh, brackish and salt water, and the birds can be found on the smallest area of water in the driest of areas. The most favoured habitat type is timbered pools and river systems of the inland areas, where these birds can be found in quite large numbers.
Feeding: Grey Teals feed in small to large flocks. Food consists of a variety of types and includes dry land plants, aquatic plants, seeds, crustaceans, and insects and their larvae. Feeding methods are also varied. Birds may dabble (filter surface water or mud through the bill), upend and feed from the bottom, or graze from the surface of the water on plant material.
Breeding: Grey Teals may breed when there is available food and waterways are suitable. Taking advantage of this opportunistic breeding style, birds lay soon after suitable conditions arrive and may raise several broods while the conditions remain favourable. If conditions are not suitable, birds may not breed at all in a year. Most breeding takes place around inland waterways, and nests may be placed on the ground, in rabbit burrows or in tree hollows. The birds normally lay their eggs on the bare floor of the nest site, which are then covered with down (feathers). When it comes to spectacular movements, the Grey Teal is unsurpassed by any other Australian waterfowl. Responding to rainfall, or lack of it, they cover vast distances in search of suitable water, and occur on every type of wetland. When the water dries up, they disperse to look for more, turning up almost anywhere, including at waterholes in the desert. These extensive travels have also taken some Grey Teal beyond Australia's shores to Indonesia, New Guinea and New Zealand, and even to subantarctic Macquarie Island.
(Source: birdlife.org.au/bird-profile/Grey-Teal)
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Except as my mother says "Sometimes they don't come home. You have to go get them!" She grew up on a dairy farm, so she should know! Check out her stunning photostream here: Beesgarden68
Except, it's not a cake but grass. And it's ice, not icing. But in the context of walking along the river Hamble on a frosty morning under a clear blue sky (that was last week!) these details were indeed the icing on the cake!
"Except, of course, that they haven't made one yet..."
My entry to the Colossal Battle Contest's Epic Siege category, and my largest build and castle yet! The build took about two months, and the castle both has a full interior behind the doors, and a full interior in the house and palace behind that!
A peaceful version for GoH (actually the version I was initially planning on having - it took the awesome CBC's prize stash to finally convince me to bring war and havoc into the MOC, haha!) and pictures of the interior(s) to come soon!
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Except for a handful of notable exceptions the SOO GP30 fleet took on a rusty appearance as the 80's progressed. 709 was one of the worst for rust/dirt and faded paint. I caught it in all its glory in the hole at Gilchrist on February 10, 1984 leading a better looking 704 on 910 as they await the arrival of 909 before continuing on to Sault Ste. Marie. The white cab door occurred on a couple GP30's and U-boats in the late 70's as someone at Shoreham decided it was easier/cheaper to swap the door from the back of cab(where apparently the weather strip was in better shape) to the front to try to keep out drafts rather than replace the weather stripping.
One can never have too much color in the garden. Four beautiful bluebirds are visiting daily. Three boys and one girl. It's far from nesting season but one of the boys and the beautiful girl have been checking out the nest box upon their visits.
I have not pointed the camera at this set of bluebirds while outside yet. Except, perhaps when they were fledglings :) They are still getting used to me and the camera. However, judging from their activities yesterday it won't be long before I can raise the camera in their direction. They all seemed much more comfortable coming to the feeding stations and perching areas withing 20 feet from me. I feel rather privileged that they don't take flight just because I adjust my position anymore. It's funny how each year that process must begin again.
Aquaman: That Trench Creature is around here somewhere.
Mera: We'll find him! He scared the poor theater audience and everyone left.
Aquaman: Except the first row.
Mera: This is kind of a romantic adventure with that flickering torch. Why don't we do this more often.
Aquaman: Because we live underwater.
hiissssss...
Aquaman: It's behind us.
Mera: I know. I'm just enjoying the moment.
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A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.
Funko
Hero World
Arthur Curry
Mera
Trench Creature
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Tropical dress,
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Lorimarsha earrings (remixed),
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Except when your shingles booster makes you feel like you’ve ingested a naughty pill or two. Shivers, nausea, dizziness … at least my bowel screening came back clear…just waiting on blood test results (well man’s yearly check up, no need to select me a burial plot just yet). Taken at the Canalside nr the Dragon pub, Willington…and, no I did not slake my thirst there.
Except the tail wasn't really bobbed, thankfully.
(Horses have nerve endings in their tales, so when they are cut off it's quite painful.)
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Another square!
In these last weeks I very often brought up with me the fisheye, except for this day. This was shot with a wideangle (Sigma 8-16 mm).
I tilted the camera and converted the shot in B/W to enhance the lines and geometries of the stairs
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LOCATION AND DATE - DATA e LUOGO DI SCATTO
VIa Balbi, Genova (Liguria, Italy),291th March 2013
CAMERA
Nikon D5000
LENS - OBIETTIVO
Grandangolo, wideangle Sigma 8-16mm f/4.5-5.6 DC (8 mm)
SHOT DATA - DATI DI SCATTO
ISO 400; f/11
HDR from 3 exposures (-2; 0; +2), handheld
Other EXIF on flickr / Altri EXIF su flickr
WORKFLOW - FLUSSO DI LAVORO
° Rename: XnView
° RAW and lens distortion conversion: DxO Optics Pro
° HDR Processing: Photomatix Pro
° Noise reduction / Riduzione rumore: Noiseware Professional
° Cropping: GIMP
° B/W conversion / Conversione B/N: GIMP
° Curve correction / Correzione curve: GIMP
° Resizing, watermark: Fastone viewer
White Peacock Butterfly (Anaritia jatrophae) is in the Brushfoot family. Can be found in Florida in moist or swampy areas. It's host plants are Water Hysop and Rullia. It is found in all of Florid except the Keys.
Our starling population fell through the floor a decade ago. I seldom see one except Billy. Billy turned up two years ago at this time of year and took residence in the starling box that adjoins our bedroom window, singing remorselessly for a mate. That year and along with last year, all his efforts over a three week period were in vain. This year Billy has once more returned and gone for it big time. He arrived six weeks ago, crazily early and has sang from the box for usually about a hour, both early morning and late afternoon besides smaller sessions in between. I watched him last week while in full flow notice another starling flying high above him. He immediately flew to the chimney pot, sat arrow shaped, head tilted upwards, singing his head off with his wings aquiver. I'm not sure who's heart sank the more with the ensuing result. So, this year I hope to fare well with the foxes, snakes, voles etc in the garden but I would trade them all for this starling to find a mate. I love the little fella. He comes crashing into the box every morning without fail and starts serenading all and sundry and myself as I lie in bed. He did briefly have a visitor today around the box and set about collecting nesting material. Talk about scaring them off. This could well be his very last chance of finding happiness. Fingers crossed, Billy. Fingers crossed.
The dome of St. Peter's rises to a total height of 136.57 metres from the floor of the basilica to the top of the external cross. It is the tallest dome in the world. Its internal diameter is 41.47 metres, slightly smaller than two of the three other huge domes that preceded it, those of the Pantheon of Ancient Rome, 43.3 metres, and Florence Cathedral of the Early Renaissance, 44 metres. It has a greater diameter by approximately 30 feet than Constantinople's Hagia Sophia church, completed in 537. It was to the domes of the Pantheon and Florence duomo that the architects of St. Peter's looked for solutions as to how to go about building what was conceived, from the outset, as the greatest dome of Christendom.
An engraved picture showing an immensely complex design for the façade, with two ornate towers and a multitude of windows, pilasters and pediments, above which the dome rises looking like a three-tiered wedding cake.
Sangallo's design
The dome of the Pantheon stands on a circular wall with no entrances or windows except a single door. The whole building is as high as it is wide. Its dome is constructed in a single shell of concrete, made light by the inclusion of a large amount of the volcanic stones tuff and pumice. The inner surface of the dome is deeply coffered which has the effect of creating both vertical and horizontal ribs while lightening the overall load. At the summit is an ocular opening 8 metres across which provides light to the interior.
Bramante's plan for the dome of St. Peter's (1506) follows that of the Pantheon very closely, and like that of the Pantheon, was designed to be constructed in Tufa Concrete for which he had rediscovered a formula. With the exception of the lantern that surmounts it, the profile is very similar, except that in this case, the supporting wall becomes a drum raised high above ground level on four massive piers. The solid wall, as used at the Pantheon, is lightened at St. Peter's by Bramante piercing it with windows and encircling it with a peristyle.
In the case of Florence Cathedral, the desired visual appearance of the pointed dome existed for many years before Brunelleschi made its construction feasible. Its double-shell construction of bricks locked together in a herringbone pattern (re-introduced from Byzantine architecture), and the gentle upward slope of its eight stone ribs made it possible for the construction to take place without the massive wooden formwork necessary to construct hemispherical arches. While its appearance, with the exception of the details of the lantern, is entirely Gothic, its engineering was highly innovative, and the product of a mind that had studied the huge vaults and remaining dome of Ancient Rome.
Sangallo's plan (1513), of which a large wooden model still exists, looks to both these predecessors. He realized the value of both the coffering at the Pantheon and the outer stone ribs at Florence Cathedral. He strengthened and extended the peristyle of Bramante into a series of arched and ordered openings around the base, with a second such arcade set back in a tier above the first. In his hands, the rather delicate form of the lantern, based closely on that in Florence, became a massive structure, surrounded by a projecting base, a peristyle and surmounted by a spire of conic form. According to James Lees-Milne the design was "too eclectic, too pernickety and too tasteless to have been a success". The façade is wide and has a row of huge columns rising from the basement to support the cornice. The ribbed, ovoid dome is surmounted by a lantern topped with ball and cross. Its drum is framed by two very much smaller domes.
St. Peter's Basilica from Castel Sant'Angelo showing the dome rising behind Maderno's façade.
Michelangelo redesigned the dome in 1547, taking into account all that had gone before. His dome, like that of Florence, is constructed of two shells of brick, the outer one having 16 stone ribs, twice the number at Florence but far fewer than in Sangallo's design. As with the designs of Bramante and Sangallo, the dome is raised from the piers on a drum. The encircling peristyle of Bramante and the arcade of Sangallo are reduced to 16 pairs of Corinthian columns, each of 15 metres high which stand proud of the building, connected by an arch. Visually they appear to buttress each of the ribs, but structurally they are probably quite redundant. The reason for this is that the dome is ovoid in shape, rising steeply as does the dome of Florence Cathedral, and therefore exerting less outward thrust than does a hemispherical dome, such as that of the Pantheon, which, although it is not buttressed, is countered by the downward thrust of heavy masonry which extends above the circling wall.
The ovoid profile of the dome has been the subject of much speculation and scholarship over the past century. Michelangelo died in 1564, leaving the drum of the dome complete, and Bramante's piers much bulkier than originally designed, each 18 metres across. Following his death, the work continued under his assistant Jacopo Barozzi da Vignola with Giorgio Vasari appointed by Pope Pius V as a watchdog to make sure that Michelangelo's plans were carried out exactly. Despite Vignola's knowledge of Michelangelo's intentions, little happened in this period. In 1585 the energetic Pope Sixtus V appointed Giacomo della Porta who was to be assisted by Domenico Fontana. The five-year reign of Sixtus was to see the building advance at a great rate.
Michelangelo left a few drawings, including an early drawing of the dome, and some details. There were also detailed engravings published in 1569 by Stefan du Pérac who claimed that they were the master's final solution. Michelangelo, like Sangallo before him, also left a large wooden model. Giacomo della Porta subsequently altered this model in several ways. The major change restored an earlier design, in which the outer dome appears to rise above, rather than rest directly on the base. Most of the other changes were of a cosmetic nature, such as the adding of lion's masks over the swags on the drum in honour of Pope Sixtus and adding a circlet of finials around the spire at the top of the lantern, as proposed by Sangallo.
A drawing by Michelangelo indicates that his early intentions were towards an ovoid dome, rather than a hemispherical one. In an engraving in Galasso Alghisi' treatise (1563), the dome may be represented as ovoid, but the perspective is ambiguous. Stefan du Pérac's engraving (1569) shows a hemispherical dome, but this was perhaps an inaccuracy of the engraver. The profile of the wooden model is more ovoid than that of the engravings, but less so than the finished product. It has been suggested that Michelangelo on his death bed reverted to the more pointed shape. However, Lees-Milne cites Giacomo della Porta as taking full responsibility for the change and as indicating to Pope Sixtus that Michelangelo was lacking in the scientific understanding of which he himself was capable.
This engraving shows the chancel end of the building much as it was built, except that the dome in this picture is completely semi-circular, not ovoid
Helen Gardner suggests that Michelangelo made the change to the hemispherical dome of lower profile in order to establish a balance between the dynamic vertical elements of the encircling giant order of pilasters and a more static and reposeful dome. Gardner also comments, "The sculpturing of architecture [by Michelangelo] ... here extends itself up from the ground through the attic stories and moves on into the drum and dome, the whole building being pulled together into a unity from base to summit."
It is this sense of the building being sculptured, unified and "pulled together" by the encircling band of the deep cornice that led Eneide Mignacca to conclude that the ovoid profile, seen now in the end product, was an essential part of Michelangelo's first (and last) concept. The sculptor/architect has, figuratively speaking, taken all the previous designs in hand and compressed their contours as if the building were a lump of clay. The dome must appear to thrust upwards because of the apparent pressure created by flattening the building's angles and restraining its projections. If this explanation is the correct one, then the profile of the dome is not merely a structural solution, as perceived by Giacomo della Porta; it is part of the integrated design solution that is about visual tension and compression. In one sense, Michelangelo's dome may appear to look backward to the Gothic profile of Florence Cathedral and ignore the Classicism of the Renaissance, but on the other hand, perhaps more than any other building of the 16th century, it prefigures the architecture of the Baroque.
Photo looking up at the dome's interior from below. The dome is decorated at the top with a band of script. Around its base are windows through which the light streams. The decoration is divided by many vertical ribs which are ornamented with golden stars.
Giacomo della Porta and Domenico Fontana brought the dome to completion in 1590, the last year of the reign of Sixtus V. His successor, Gregory XIV, saw Fontana complete the lantern and had an inscription to the honour of Sixtus V placed around its inner opening. The next pope, Clement VIII, had the cross raised into place, an event which took all day, and was accompanied by the ringing of the bells of all the city's churches. In the arms of the cross are set two lead caskets, one containing a fragment of the True Cross and a relic of St. Andrew and the other containing medallions of the Holy Lamb.
In the mid-18th century, cracks appeared in the dome, so four iron chains were installed between the two shells to bind it, like the rings that keep a barrel from bursting. As many as ten chains have been installed at various times, the earliest possibly planned by Michelangelo himself as a precaution, as Brunelleschi did at Florence Cathedral.
On 7 December 2007, a fragment of a red chalk drawing of a section of the dome of the basilica, almost certainly by the hand of Michelangelo, was discovered in the Vatican archives. The drawing shows a small precisely drafted section of the plan of the entablature above two of the radial columns of the cupola drum. Michelangelo is known to have destroyed thousands of his drawings before his death. The rare survival of this example is probably due to its fragmentary state and the fact that detailed mathematical calculations had been made over the top of the drawing.
I'm not an early riser. Except when I'm on vacation. My favorite spots are by the sea. I spent my days scouting locations where I have a nice view of the coast. And then I get up at 4 AM in the morning to catch the sunrise.
I like this on her...it looks like little cap sleeves :)
Dress by BlythesOCDCloset ...Diane, sent this pic up for you to see. In answer to your question, yes, Dal can wear most all Blythe clothes except hats :) "Some" hats will work...but not all.
sooc except for a simple crop :D
cody and i went fishing and i was embarassed and almost fell while trying to run on the wet wet wood, it's pouring out now
I am getting sick
OH MY GOD PLZ
sorry i just did two running pictures in a row!
Excepto cuando me encabrono , porque entonces me convierto en una bruja del demonio, salida de las entrañas del infierno, que te hará desear no haber nacido. Pero cuando soy feliz horneo pastelitos, beso a los niños , cruzo la calle a los ancianitos,y eso...