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In the last years I’ve become very obsessed by sunsets. These 15 minutes remind me how the world can be beautiful and take me away from negative thoughts every day.
Remind me that we can be free, that life is so short, the intense moments are so evanescent nevertheless they can give meaning to a whole existence.
Here I was with Clarissa and this is the Daguerreotype Achromat Art lens by Lomography
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For ages and ages, our existence is connected with use of fire.
No wonder fire put a spell on us: it attracts us; it frightens us; it helps us; it can destroy us.
I believe that in any religion fire plays some role.
When I was a little child, the threat: 'if you would play with fire before you go to sleep, you would bed wet' was still well known. I think that since then, it disappeared. I even remember that Freud said something about the threat; unfortunately, I don't remember what his interpretation was.
Behind a blood-stained curtain,
Love has spread its gardens.
Remove the thorn of existence
from the foot of the heart;
so that you may see the gardens within.
~Rumi
A lone tree is perched on a precarious rock ledge in the Canyon of the Yellowstone as seen from Lookout Point.
Camera Nikon D800
Exposure 0.001 sec (1/1600)
Aperture f/6.3
Focal Length 500 mm
ISO Speed 1600
Exposure Bias -1/3 EV
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~Romain Rolland
India's southern most pieces of land, very well revered.
Photomatix Pro 3.0, 9 exposure HDR.
June 30, 2009. Kanyakumari, Tamilnadu, India. land's end.
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
-Nvidia DSR
-SnapDragonPrime 5.0 ENB
-Resampled with lanczos 3
-Console Commands (Time Stop, FOV, No Clip)
Jan 9 009/366
"the concept of continuous existence." This is one of the definitions for Time. Time is an interesting concept and as I grow older it becomes more and more an enigma.
In regards to this photo. Does it read as my artistic interpretation of Time? or does it look like a photo for a timepiece in a catalog? Oh well. (:-)
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10 shots stitched panorama
Canon EF 50 1:1,8 STM
1/200s / f/11 / ISO 100
Lightroom 6 / Photoshop Elements 14
Near Jižna, Czechia 4.4
The existence of an original fortress on the site of today's château is assumed from sometime around the middle of the 14th century. It was built on a rocky granite outcrop, which, after the damming of a stream and the filling up of a fishpond, became an island. The first written source is an entry into the land records from 1465, mentioning the division of the property of the deceased Ctibor of Zásmuk between his two sons, Petr and Václav. The fortress might then have been sold into the ownership of Diviš Boubínský of Újezd, who in turn sold it to the knightly family of Káb of Rybňan sometime around 1530. The family had the original Gothic castle rebuilt and the basic Renaissance remodelling carried out between 1542 and 1555,[2] and the château acquired the name Nová Lhota. In 1597, it was sold to Vilém Růt of Dírná, who had the building rendered with red plaster, from which it got its name Červená Lhota. The last of the Ruts, Bohuslav, had to leave the Bohemian lands as an Utraquist after the 1620 Battle of White Mountain.
In 1621, Červená Lhota was inhabited by Antonio Bruccio, who died in 1639 without an heir. With his death, Lhota lost its function as a residence, and it was used by his successors as occasional cottage. In 1641, it was acquired by the aristocrat Vilém Slavat of Chlum and Košumberk, and later it passed into the hands of the Windisch-Graetz family. Bedřich Arnošt Windisch-Graetz and his son Leopold dragged the dominion into great debts due to their outdated style of economics, so the custodian of his under-aged successor Joseph Nicholas recommended the sale of the dominion. In 1755 the château then was obtained by the Barons of Gudenus. Franz de Paul, Baron of Gudenus, shortly afterwards initiated several constructions, which were brought to an abrupt halt in 1774 by a great fire, which destroyed most of the agricultural buildings.
In 1776, Červená Lhota welcomed a new owner, Baron Ignác Stillfried, a progressive aristocrat of Prussian Silesia, who from 1796 accommodated the composer Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf at the castle. His son sold the dominion to Jakub Veith in 1820. His daughter Terezie sold the château again in 1835, this time into the princely hands of Heinrich Eduard von Schönburg-Hartenstein, who gave the castle to his son Josef Alexander von Schönburg-Hartenstein. He died in 1937 and was buried in the newly built tomb, and thus spared the destructive events of the new war, which ended the château's aristocratic history.
After the Czechoslovak state confiscated the building in 1946, a children's clinic was established there. A year later, the château was granted to a National Culture Commission, and in 1949 it was opened to the public.
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Holgas have had a bit of a topsy-turvy existence these past two years. First they were discontinued. Then they were resurrected. The new ones fell victim to what seemed to be massive light leaks but suspect is actually internal flaring. Then most recently they started arriving with shutters that would stick open. These little plastic cameras cannot quite catch a break of late. Thankfully I have something like three or four Holgas (and most still work) so I have been relatively well set and haven't had to throw my fortunes on the whims of the newer Holgas.
Personally, I wouldn't let any of this dissuade you. I love these cameras and when you use them right, they are more capable than many give them credit for being. But these recent two issues could give new Holga photographers the wrong first impression. The sticky shutters seems to have just popped up in the past 3-4 months. It also seems to be caused by whatever Chinese factory that is producing these cameras applying some type of thick oil to the shutter mechanism. I don't remember seeing this on Holgas before but now if you open them up you can see a shiny patch of oil on the shutter mechanism. I have experimented with oiling the mechanism of my Holga shutter before and discovered it is usually more trouble than it is worth. Sure, it often frees up the shutter disc for a little bit, but that mechanism is so exposed it quickly attracts dust and debris and gums up again. Furthermore, if you use the wrong oil, as seems to be the case with current new Holgas, it makes the whole mechanism sluggish. We got a batch of 12 new Holgas in not long ago and about 9 of them all had such shutters. The good news is that we were able to flush the shutters out. You can take the film mask out, unscrew two screws inside the camera and the whole lens/shutter assembly comes right off the front of the camera. Apply some lighter fluid or denatured alcohol (not WD-40) and the shutter will be better-than-new.
Anyway, I meant for this post to be a bit of a PSA. I love these cameras and if the ones coming out of Freestyle to us at Blue Moon are sticky, then that likely means all the ones coming out of Freestyle are sticky. So if you picked up a Holga for Christmas, check that shutter. Get it cleaned out if necessary. They are finicky little cameras in the best of circumstances, no need to stack that deck even higher.
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Ps: from the picture above even this “Tinny things” in existence which make dissimilarity …..
Like all flowering plants, agricultural crops require pollination. Crops derived from grasses, such as corn, wheat, oats and rice, are usually pollinated by the wind, while most other crops are pollinated by animals.
Animals that pollinate crops include bees, wasps, butterflies, flies, birds, bats and other mammals. However, bees are generally the most important, pollinating 95% of all food crop species worldwide that have been studied.
The most important bee pollinators are the many different genera of wild bees. These bees pollinate more than 80% of all food crop species worldwide that have been studied. In contrast, managed honeybees (Apis) pollinate only one-sixth the number of food crop species that wild bees do.
Another negative aspect of depending on honeybees for pollination is that the number of their colonies, and their pollination efficiency, is currently declining in the USA because of epidemics and interbreeding with Africanized bees. The latter process has led many honeybee keepers to destroy their colonies and retire because of the dangers of working with aggressive Africanized bees, and the fear of having to pay lawsuits arising from attacks by these bees on people. If the use of honeybees continues to decline, farmers will probably have to rely even more on wild bees for pollination services in the future.
To maintain healthy populations of wild bees for pollinating crops, farmers need to preserve or create natural habitats next to their fields, such as unplowed prairies and woodlands with a diversity of flowering plants. These habitats provide places for wild bees to build their nests and wild plants for food. The latter are important because they bloom and produce nectar for bees when crops are not in flower.
Farmers also need to be aware that applying too many pesticides can inhibit pollination. Insecticides kill bees as well as insect pests. Herbicides kill plants that bloom and provide nectar for bees when crops are not in flower.
Nectar is a sugar solution produced by flowers. It is the main food of individual bees and the main source of energy for bee hives. Pollen are fine, dustlike grains found on the male parts of flowers. When bees visit many flowers to feed upon or collect nectar, they move pollen from one flower to the stigma of another, leading to fertilization of the female ovule and the start of seed production. This process is called pollination.
Flow: The creative moment when a person is completely involved in an activity for it's own sake.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
About flow: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_%28psychology%29
My pre-Flickr photo.
Shot I took in 2008 with my very first DSLR, Canon Xti (also known as EOS 400D).
Moments ago, this particular shot almost made it to my trash bin.
I dont know much about post processing, anyhow Im grateful there's Picnik.com.
Dedicated to a person who recently inspires me , Kuya Jobarracuda.
Before I became part of Flickr world, and know nothing about photography then, Ive heard of him a few months ago, when I saw a portraiture shot of his in one of my Facebook contact's wall. The shot was a simple black and white, but Kuya Jobbar's shot has something in it ... a "drama", which I cant find the right word to describe.
He shoots with his heart is all I can say...
Kuya Jobbar, your invitation to photoshoot with you someday left a smile on my face.
Thank you very much!