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Blue's family had a history of being loners. The trait seemed to be passed from generation to generation. Turns out, Blue's family was just Dicks!
Rancheria Road, Kern County, California 2008
When the North Valley's only open space, Anderson Field, was saved (mostly) from development and became Los Poblanos open space--multi-use was the name of the plan. I'd say it has been very effective.
About 500 herons and egrets gathered and hunted fishes at the narrow river.
Located : Minamihama-cho, Nagahama-shi, Shiga pref.
だいたい500羽程いるでしょうか。この川の魚は根こそぎ食べられてしまうかも。
ダイサギの群れ / 姉川河口
滋賀県長浜市南浜町
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From very deep in the achieves, and reprocessed with Photoshop CC 2025
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The Lizard is a peninsula in southern Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The most southerly point of the British mainland is near Lizard Point at grid reference SW 701,115. The Lizard village, is the most southerly on the British mainland, and is in the civil parish of Landewednack; the most southerly parish. The valleys of the River Helford and Loe Pool form the northern boundary, with the rest of the peninsula surrounded by sea. The area measures approximately 14 miles x 14 miles. The Lizard is one of England's natural regions and has been designated as national character area 157 by Natural England. The peninsula is known for its geology and for its rare plants and lies within the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). Almost a third of Cornwall has AONB designation, with the same status and protection as a National Park. The name "Lizard" is most probably a corruption of the Cornish name "Lys Ardh", meaning "high court"; it is purely coincidental that much of the peninsula is composed of a rock called serpentinite. The Lizard peninsula's original name may have been the Celtic name "Predannack" ("British one"); during the Iron Age (Pytheas c. 325 BC) and Roman period, Britain was known as Pretannike (in Greek) and as Albion (and Britons the "Pretani"). The Lizard's coast is particularly hazardous to shipping and the seaways round the peninsula were historically known as the "Graveyard of Ships" (see below). The Lizard Lighthouse was built at Lizard Point in 1752 and the RNLI operates The Lizard lifeboat station. There is evidence of early habitation with several burial mounds and stones. Part of the peninsula is known as the Meneage (land of the monks). Helston, the nearest town to the Lizard peninsula, is said to have once headed the estuary of the River Cober, before it was cut off from the sea by Loe Bar in the 13th century. It is a matter of debate as to whether Helston was once a port, albeit no actual records still exist. Geomorphologists believe the bar was most likely formed by rising sea levels, after the last ice age, blocking the river and creating a barrier beach. The beach is formed mostly of flint and the nearest source is found offshore under the drowned terraces of the former river that flowed between England and France, and now under the English Channel. The medieval port of Helston was at Gweek from 1260 onwards, on the Helford river which exported tin and copper. Helston was believed to be in existence in the sixth century, around the 'Dowr Kohar'. The name comes from the Cornish "hen lis" or "old court" and "ton" added later to denote a Saxon manor; the Domesday Book refers to it as Henliston (which survives as the name of a road in the town). It was granted its charter by King John in 1201. It was here that tin ingots were weighed to determine the duty due to the Duke of Cornwall when a number of stannary towns were authorised by royal decree. The royal manor of Winnianton, which was held by King William I at the time of the Domesday Book (1086), was also the head manor of the hundred of Kerrier and the largest estate in Cornwall. It was assessed as having fifteen hides before 1066. At the time of Domesday there was land for sixty ploughs, but in the lord's land there were two ploughs and in the lands held by villeins twenty-four ploughs. There were twenty-four villeins, forty-one freedmen, thirty-three smallholders and fourteen slaves. There was 6 acres, eight square leagues of pasture and half a square league of woodland. The livestock was fourteen unbroken mares, three cattle and one hundred and twenty-eight sheep (in total 145 beasts); its value was £12 annually. 11 of the hides were held by the Count of Mortain and there is more arable and pasture and 13 more persons are recordedRinsey, Trelowarren, Mawgan-in-Meneage and seventeen other lands are also recorded under Winnianton. Mullion has the 15th century church of St Mellanus, and the Old Inn from the 16th century. The harbour was completed in 1895 and financed by Lord Robartes of Lanhydrock as a recompense to the fishermen for several disastrous pilchard seasons. The small church of St Peter in Coverack, built in 1885 for £500, has a serpentinite pulpit. The Great Western Railway operated a road motor service to The Lizard from Helston railway station. Commencing on 17 August 1903, it was the first successful British railway-run bus service and was initially provided as a cheaper alternative to a proposed light railway. In 1999, the Solar eclipse of 11 August 1999 departed the UK mainland from the Lizard.
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We don’t ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different for ourselves
I love photography. I went through this online program recently and noticed a lot of photographers seem to be having success with it.
I have just joined this program,
Maybe it would help you out the good stuffs at around the hour mark
Daily life in Northern Virginia, March 23, 2020. Lighting: Two Nikon SB-5000 strobes fired via CLS by on-camera SB-910. Both flashes set to +0.7 EV and bounce modified on silver reflectors.
This is quite a historic aircraft. It was the 53rd Boeing 737 built and is one of the oldest examples still in existence. It was the first 737 delivered to Piedmont Airlines, as N737N, on 8 August 1968 and flew with its last operator, Frontier Airlines, until the end of 2002. It is now used for technical instruction in the George T Baker Aviation School, Miami.
Plage de la Possession - Ile de la Réunion
Thanks everyone for your visits, comments and favs
Merci à tous pour vos vistes, commentaires et favs
“It isn't by getting out of the world that we become enlightened, but by getting into the world…by getting so tuned in that we can ride the waves of our existence and never get tossed because we become the waves.”
― Ken Kesey
Also known as "The Spire of Dublin", was designed by Ian Ritchie Architects. It's 120 metres (390 ft) in height, and located on the site of the former Nelson Pillar on O'Connell Street in Dublin.
The monument was commissioned as part of a redesigned street layout in 1999. O'Connell Street was perceived to have gone into decline from the 1970s. Some people blamed the appearance of fast food restaurants and the opening of bargain basement shops-all using cheap plastic shop fronts-visually unattractive and obtrusive, the existence of a number of derelict sites, and the decision in 1966 by former members of the IRA to blow up the Nelson Pillar, as reasons for the decline in a once famous and attractive street.
In the 1990s, plans were launched to improve the streetscape. The excessive number of trees in the central reservation, which had overgrown and obscured the street's views and monuments, was reduced dramatically. Statues were cleaned and in some cases relocated. Shop-owners were required to replace plastic signage and frontage with more visually attractive designs. Private car traffic was re-directed where possible away from the street, with its number of traffic lanes reduced, to allow more 'public ownership' of the street for pedestrians. The centrepiece of this regeneration was to be a replacement monument for Nelson Pillar, the Spire of Dublin, chosen through an international competition by a committee under the then chairmanship of the Lord Mayor of Dublin, Alderman Joe Doyle from a large number of submissions. It is also known as "The Spike".
There isn't much to the small community of Raymond, Georgia these days but the massive concrete coaling tower still testifies its past importance as a junction on the Central of Georgia. In years past this is where the R-Line from Columbus joined with the C-Line running from Griffin to Chattanooga. While the C-Line for most of its existence has just been a very long branchline, it did once play a role in hosting a hotshot streamliner. When the Central inaugurated the Atlanta-Columbus Man O War in 1947, it utilized trackage rights over the Atlanta & West Point from there to Newnan before picking up home rails for a short jaunt on the C-Line to Raymond. There it hung a hard right on the R-Line for the rest of the run to Columbus.
Alas, the days of the Man O War are long gone now and due to abandonments only two isolated segments of the C-Line are still active. Raymond now only sees twice-weekly local G66 trundling through at 10mph on decaying trackage; as is the case on this winter Sunday in 2013 as the 3218 heads for Senoia running long hood forward as the Southern would have preferred.
“From wonder into wonder existence opens.”
Lao Tzu
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As I explained before, for three weeks now I have been, if not bedridden, at least mostly housebound as a result of a crippling knee problem. I can still drive around and run errands when mandatory, but it is hurtful and I am definitely not up to lugging photo equipment and go shooting. Furthermore, when this struck, I didn’t have many photos waiting for upload, what with the Winter season coming to an end, the pandemic still with us that doesn’t really encourage outings (the one day I went out, on March 9, on a photo shoot for the Fondation pour la Sauvegarde de l’Art Français, I became a COVID contact case of someone I had brushed against during the day, luckily without any consequence as I never was infected)... not to mention ridiculous wartime gas prices!
The bottom line is, I simply ran out of stuff to upload...
So, I had the idea to turn to some older photographs of mine to which I had, in 2021, given a “new life” by creating black-and-white versions of them for the purpose of a photographic essay that had been requested from me by the Department of Mediæval Studies of a US university. The essay’s theme was the emulation, with the tools of today, of the gorgeous black-and-white photography found in the books of the Zodiaque collection La Nuit des temps, devoted to religious art and architecture of the Romanesque age in Europe, and in particular in France. I’m sure many of you have heard about those books and/or own some of them.
Anyway, since those black-and-white versions are available, I figured I might as well upload them to offer you, who are kind enough to follow my stream, something to look at while I recover and until I can resume more normal photo activities...
Thank you in advance for your patience, and I hope you will enjoy this “renewed” content à la Zodiaque! I will put in a short description of each photo below.
As I have titled this series in reference to the Zodiaque books, I construe my “Romanesque” as the good monks did, i.e., I include in it some fine and inspiring examples of older architecture, what would indeed be classified as pre-Romanesque.
Among such places is the so-called “Lémenc Rotunda”, in the crypt (not open to the public) under the Saint-Pierre-de-Lémenc church in the town of Chambéry, at the foot of the French Alps. This enigmatic structure has been diversely interpreted by cohorts of self-styled specialists and self-appointed experts, and no definitive conclusion has been reached as to its purpose —which may have varied as centuries rolled by.
It is almost undoubtedly from the Carolingian period at least, therefore around 800–900 CE, possibly even Merovingian, i.e. a couple of centuries older. The structure is harmonious and delicate, and the existence of a drain at the bottom of the small basin reveals that a liquid was regularly poured into it, that subsequently needed to be drained. The idea of a baptismal font springs to mind, and most likely this was one of the place’s uses... but why did it need to be underground, hidden away in a crypt? Maybe because it wasn’t a baptismal font to begin with, and that’s when you step into the realm of conjecture, speculation and worse...
Different take on the B&W version. Anyone out there have a preference?
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As the ships arrive, the little man's heartbeat races and he holds tight to his single piece of luggage. He packed all the essentials: toothbrush, sailboat blanket, change of clothes, wooden sword, a chocolate bar, and his beloved teddy bear. He can't believe that he finally made it, and, as he looks around, he can see the look of anticipation, the light of hope and dreams shining bright, in his fellow explorer's faces. He pushes his way towards the side of the boat, closest to the dock.
The plank walkway drops, and Skippy runs, the first one out...
The little man looks over his shoulder and smiles so happy
and waves for you to join him...
Exploring some new photo locations. This was snapped at Sol Existence; and I'm going to be a frequent visitor :-) Fly birdies!
Along Highway 67 near Neosho, Wisconsin - A pair of rusting automobiles are facing the Sunset years of their very existence. – June 2002 ~~ A Jeff Hampton Photograph ©
Pedro Álvares Cabral is renowned for the "discovery" of the South American Continent, more specifically of Brazil. He commanded the second naval expedition to India, that took place soon after Vasco da Gama's voyage, when -- according to history records -- a storm set the fleet off course, which thus reached the eastern coast of the South American Continent where Brazil is now to be found.
Yet, some historians claim that John II, then king of Portugal, had had previous knowledge of the existence of this continent, keeping this knowledge secret in order to negotiate the Treaty of Tordesilhas with Spain to Portugal's advantage. Pedro Álvares Cabral real mission should have hence been making the previous discovery official. Among other things, the lack of surprise at the discovery in the logbook records is regarded as evidence for their claims.
Belmont has thus very strong ties to Brazil, and this statue was offered to the city by the Brazilian authorities.
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Leica M Monochrom (246), Distagon 1.4/35 ZM, Affinity Photo, EI 320 ISO, 1/750s, f/8
I am fond of the idea that you can be casually strolling along a sandy beach and unknowingly be a part of an artistic moment of creativity/beauty/whathaveyou. In short, every moment we exist is a moment we are participating in something outside of ourselves, or larger than ourselves, whether we are aware of it or not.
Hasselblad Flexbody
Fomapan 200
Inks Lake State Park sits on the northeastern edge of the Llano Uplift, a 1,290-square-mile island of Precambrian igneous and metamorphic rock surrounded by younger Paleozoic and Cretaceous sedimentary rock. It makes for some hard scrabble existence for critters and plants. PA311741