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Treasure Hunt #34 ~ Hexagonal

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I felt it apt in the light of severe flooding across S. Wales to come up with this kind of shot. It's water droplets placed on an old DVD and spherised in Photoshop .

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When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator. Mahatma Gandhi

Barred Owl

The Barred Owl (Strix varia), also known as the Northern Barred Owl, Striped Owl or, more informally, Hoot Owl, is a North American large species of owl. A member of the true owl family, Strigidae, they belong to the genus Strix, which is also the origin of the family's name under Linnaean taxonomy. Barred owls are largely native to eastern North America but have expanded their range to the west coast of North America where they are considered invasive. Mature forests are their preferred habitat, but they can also acclimate to various gradients of open woodlands. Their diet consists mainly of small mammals, but this species is an opportunistic predator and is known to prey upon other small vertebrates such as birds, reptiles, and amphibians, as well as a variety of invertebrates.

For more info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barred_owl

The Cornell Lab: www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Barred_Owl/id

Some mono images using Norwich Cathedral and varying lighting conditions.

This photograph taken inside the Wisconsin Central’s diesel shop at North Fond du Lac shows two recent arrivals getting a mechanical check-over before being added to their then rapidly expanding fleet of SD45s.

The WC had already purchased 21 of these big EMDs from the Santa Fe in 1993, but due to increasing traffic levels they found it necessary to add more power in late 1994 into early 1995.

The ATSF 5327 would become the WC 6599 and the ATSF 5400 the WC 6629. – The additional road units that came to the WC from the ATSF this time around included 33 SD45s, 6 F45s and the one FP45. - September 6th, 1994 ~~ A Jeff Hampton Photograph ©

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As regular contacts will have seen, my son bought me a gift of an afternoon Tea for Two do be delivered yesterday because all slots for today had been sold out. There was far too much for both of us so we ate the two remaining pieces today . Original shots in comments.

I've been acutely aware that throughout Lockdown that whilst I've been getting my daily exercise using a stroller that the pace I go at doesn't count as 'breaking sweat' exercise for Huw. Today , under the rules imposed by the Welsh Govt. we went for a 'scootercise' all within a mile radius from home. I felt it apt that today with Wales hoping to beat England in rugby to earn a Triple Crown to photo these Rugby Posts before heading home. ..

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More from my garden today.

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Lemon and Passion Fruit Cake.

We have to eat this quickly as it's full of fresh cream...oh dear!

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70/365 (03-11-2021) 365: The 2021 Edition

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factory for expanded clay products - 1965-2012

now the days are gray,

the nights long,

and spring is far away.

(explored)

The light reflecting from condensation on the door caught my attention :-)) I obviously have a bokeh obsession, can this be cured ???

Canon FD 35mm f2

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More from the garden.

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DHL International GmbH (DHL) is a German international courier, package delivery and express mail service, which is a division of the German logistics firm . The company delivers over 1.5 billion parcels per year. The company was founded in the United States in 1969 and expanded its service throughout the world by the late 1970s. In 1979, under the name of DHL Air Cargo, the company entered the Hawaiian islands with an inter-island cargo service using two DC-3 and four DC-6 aircraft. Dalsey and Hillblom personally oversaw the daily operations until its eventual bankruptcy closed the doors in 1983. At its peak, DHL Air Cargo employed just over 100 workers, management and pilots. The company was primarily interested in offshore and intercontinental deliveries, but the success of FedEx prompted their own intra-US expansion starting in 1983. In 1998, Deutsche Post began to acquire shares in DHL. It reached controlling interest in 2001, and acquired all outstanding shares by December 2002. The company then absorbed DHL into its Express division, while expanding the use of the DHL brand to other Deutsche Post divisions, business units, and subsidiaries. Today, DHL Express shares its DHL brand with business units such as DHL Global Forwarding and DHL Supply Chain. It gained a foothold in the United States when it acquired Airborne Express. The DHL Express financial results are published in the Deutsche Post AG annual report. In 2016, this division's revenue increased by 2.7% to €14 billion. The earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) increased by 11.3% over 2015 to €1.5 billion.

The Boeing 777, commonly referred to as the Triple Seven, is an American wide-body airliner developed and manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. It is the world's largest twinjet. The 777 was designed to bridge the gap between Boeing's 767 and 747, and to replace older DC-10s and L-1011s. Developed in consultation with eight major airlines, with a first meeting in January 1990, the program was launched on October 14, 1990, with an order from United Airlines. The prototype was rolled out on April 9, 1994, and first flew on June 12, 1994. The 777 entered service with the launch customer, United Airlines, on June 7, 1995. Longer range variants were launched on February 29, 2000, and were first delivered on April 29, 2004. 65685

These are a pair of festive earring that my OH bought for me in Cardiff yesterday. Useful as photo props but useless as earrings because I haven't worn dangly earrings since we started to wear masks . I might though wear them at home for MS Cymru's Festive Zoom Quiz this coming Friday.

I was sorting out some things at home this morning and came across this. which we bough for our son many moons ago because he used to and still does love Mr. Bean (played by Rowan Atkinson) Mr. Bean calls it Teddy Bear and it's his best friend.

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After a grey day full of cloud and drizzle there were just a few minutes of this lovely sunset and it was gone! For once I was in the right place at the right time to capture it.

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Had to go down today to the boat as she’s coming out the water on Tuesday and we needed to fill her up with fuel and drain the water down and spotted the cormorant as we had a walk round

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Flickr Lounge ~ Edge

I often use crafting paper as backgrounds for my photography. This is a macro of the corner of two of the packs.

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Yes ok so I Iost the plot a long time ago but what happened here is that I spent my morning in my upstairs room retrieving old photos from a very old laptop before stripping it down completely . Mr. Bean's teddy was laying around since I photo'd it the other day, and lovely husband picked it up and propped it up against the laptop screen which has an old photo of Caswell Bay as a background. It made me laugh so much that I almost fell off my perching stool.

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Capturing the first of the Spring bulbs whilst they still look good. I have particularly enjoyed my Iris Histrioides (Katharine Hodgkin)

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Blessings of the season to all during these difficult times

Just for fun, I used Photoshop's Generative Expand to enlarge this image for a header. Nothing else was changed.

Taken from 1-Chome 15-1 Hanakawado apartment rooftop. A 25 seconds exposure captured both colors of the Skytree. The weather was cooperative at that moment, had to wait for the rain to stop though. Somewhat lucky! I hope it will be of interest to some of you. Once again, thanks for looking!

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Excerpt from www.teamlab.art/ew/transformingspace_planets/planets/:

Expanding Three-dimensional Existence in Transforming Space - Flattening 3 Colors and 9 Blurred Colors

The space is filled with spheres of light. People move through the spheres and enter the space. When the spheres change color, the space itself shifts between a collection of spheres forming a three-dimensional space and a flat color wall.

When people move through or push them, the spheres change color, and emit a tone specific to that color. The surrounding spheres respond one after another, resonating and emitting the same tone and light color.

Wherever the sphere is, the behavior of light is maintained across the whole of the space (a three-dimensional image in which one sphere is regarded as one dot). Therefore, the light behaves as a group and can be thought of as one three-dimensional existing space. At this time, the light spreads spherically around the impacted sphere.

Since the spheres are freely positioned within the collection of sphere elements that make up the three-dimensional space, people recognize it as existing three-dimensionally and part the spheres entering into the three-dimensional existing space.

The shape of the space is determined by the collection of spheres and changes according to people’s actions (pushing or colliding).

Before the modern era in Japan, complex colors born from the characteristics of silk were given names evocative of the four seasons. Such colors were called Kasane no Irome (nuances of layered colors), and were created by the combination of the lining and exterior fabric (silk was thin at the time so the color of the lining showed through the exterior fabric), gradations from overlapping colors, and blending of warp and weft. Since the sphere colors are produced by light, it is possible to create nine blurred colors, (light in water, sunlight on water plants, morning glow, morning sky, sky at twilight, peach, plum, iris, spring maple), as well as three colors that flatten the space (blue, red, and green), producing a total of 12 colors.

“When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.”

Mohandas Gandhi

Sorry I haven’t posted or visited much this week; dad duties are filling the day and then some. I look forward to catching up on both this weekend! Have a great Friday everyone!

abandoned factory for expanded clay products - 1965-2012

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Arriving home from holiday to find that my Japanese Anemone has flowered was especially pleasing.

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Being aware is being alive, remember that you aren't your mind and your thoughts, you are the one observing it the "I" that is consciousness.

Dura // Lelutka // RZ // Archive // DAE // Swallow // Avarosa // Contraption // SB // BadWolf // Lilithe

Reflections, Light and Water

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Lovely down at Greenan Castle and always a great walk but there is always something fascinating about walking below the ruin ... you keep looking upwards just in case!! Well, it is, oh so close to the edge of the cliff face!!

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Parkland around Hardwick Hall still has some great autumnal colour in places.

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Must be great to sit in this wonderful house looking across the gorse on Royal Troon Golf course and then across the sea!

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Local school playing fields.

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NemO’s is an Italian street artist, known for his thought-provoking, dark comedy murals inhabited by characteristic human figures.

NemO’s large public pieces are almost always thought-provoking, displaying his critique towards our society’s modern values, selfish aspects of our society, with banal and thoughtless actions, or towards shallow and shock-addicted press and media.

NemO's es un "street artist" italiano, conocido por sus murales de comedia oscura y provocadores de la reflexión, habitados por figuras humanas características.

Las grandes obras públicas de NemO's son casi siempre estimulantes, mostrando su crítica hacia los valores modernos de nuestra sociedad, los aspectos egoístas de nuestra sociedad, con acciones banales e irreflexivas, o hacia medios y prensa poco profundos y adictos al sensacionalismo.

Fanzara (Castellón/ Spain)