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Today is Pretty Pink Tuesday: a hint of pink , and I know how much Tony loves flowers in the group,
so this one's for you Tony!
Happy PPT and St. Paddy's Day!
Explore Mar.17 2009 #6
Pinned gatos em casa: ideias geniais de como apartamentos e casas foram adaptados para garantir o máximo de espaço e atividade aos bichanos, com prateleiras, nichos e outros recursos adaptados para melhorar a qualidade de vida dos bichanos e também, na seção debaixo, o máximo de segurança garantida pela instalação de grades e telas de proteção. Desfrute das boas ideias! #gatos #cats #pets #lovecats #lovecatsforever #lovecats #catoftheday #cat #cats_of_instagram #catlovers #catsofinstagram #felinos #universodegatos ift.tt/2c7fgKS
Today I read the news that Madeline, one of the cats of my friend Jenn, passed away. She had her for almost twenty years. Such a tragic loss.
Please take a look of her gallery to check for some fantastic photos of her and Madeline and Conor www.flickr.com/photos/kittyslave/
"I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul"
Quote by Jean Cocteau
Requiem for a friend: youtu.be/NlOr86WTl0E
Created for 76th MMM Challenge
Cottage with thanks to Rubyblossom
Texture with thanks to Rubyblossom
Thanks to Julie Falk for this image:
www.flickr.com/photos/piper/2155537657
Thanks to SkeletalMess for this texture:
Waiting with Emily Silkstone for the start of the moonless Masquerade.
Which will take place here
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Aquaterra%20SS%20Archimede...
The line-up is great
1pm: Semina
This was one of the most beautiful red roses in my collection, so here it is for all of my Flick Friends - Happy Valentines Day!
For my video; youtu.be/dkspGQ7TZdc,
Historic Stewart Farm,
Elgin Heritage Park,
Elgin, Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
IPad and watercolour from photo.
Recent Portraits by Martin Beek from Blurb.com
A beautifully designed and illustrated book with a foreword by Julia Kay, introduction, sections covering different media, working studies and sketches, previously unseen drawings, photographs and an index of subjects.
Copyright © 2012 Martin Beek
Foreword copyright © 2012 Julia Kay
ISBN 978-0-9571417-0-4 hardback
ISBN 978-0-9571417-1-1 paperback
‘Each individual fills the page with their unique presence, and seems to glow from within.’
Julia Kay
Preparing for migration
Huge flocks of red winged blackbirds gathered at Bombay Hook NWR in preparation for migrating
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This image is a 5-photo pano at 24mm, I downsized it for posting. Real sky at the time, I did hold a CPF in front of the lens. The property has been on it's own for at least 25 yrs now, the entire knoll has been taken over by Blackberries. My County in Oregon has tough zoning laws to preserve agricultural land. Once homes are built then chances are it will never see farming again. No house on this section of land, very expensive start-up property when you consider equipment and a home building. This section was originally a Land Grant and looks like a cattle operation. Oh, yes it's a Cherry tree to the right.
Just read your profile and couldn’t resist setting this up for you at a brilliant customer’s house I’m estimating a Handyman job for. Thank you Justin: schwartz.justinr
Another flowers I can't recall the name of.. but it is so pretty..
Thanks for all your visits over the last week.. have a wonderful weekend.. No group invites.. Please..
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Bucks don't get much rest during the Fall rut. They eat and sleep little, always on the move to find and breed receptive does with a few fights thrown in. They are physically exhausted by the end of the rut. Our beautiful world, pass it on.
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The 1965 British Overseas Airways Corporation (better known as BOAC) bar tariff leaflet cover - anyone for a Martini Cocktail at 3s 6d? In the top corner can be seen the BOAC "Speedbird" symbol, designed for the airline's predecessor Imperial Aiways in 1932 by Theyre Lee-Elliott and that continued in use for British Airways, the sucessor company to BOAC until 1984.
Pictured together for the first time are these four fine NCME Palatine-bodied Volvo Olympians. From the left, former Liverbus of Huyton 211 ‘Andy’ L211SBG, former MTL North ‘Millenium Fleet’ 0317 (R317WVR). Also from the Millenium Fleet, but in the guise of Arriva Merseyside 3312 (R312WVR). Finally, and most recently completed is former MTL/Wirral Peninsula Buses 0277 (N277CKB), a coach-seated long wheelbase example, new for the cross-river services between Liverpool and the Wirral. All four buses are part of the excellent collection at the North West Vehicle Restoration Trust, based in Kirkby, near Liverpool. Their annual running day event is pencilled in for Sunday 6th June 2021.
Cause a little sister will visit soon!
Hatty is wearing a helmet and scarf from Kassandra's Box, thanks again dear Kass and Maria!
This is Scala dei Turchi. Italian for "Stair of the Turks". It’s a rocky cliff on the coast of Realmonte, near Porto Empedocle in southern Sicily, Italy. It has become a tourist attraction, partly due to its mention in Andrea Camilleri's series of detective stories about Commissario Montalbano. Fact toy: Andrea Camilleri is originally from Porto Empedocle.
The Scala is coastal formation formed by marl. A sedimentary rock consisting of calcium carbonate or lime-rich mud or mudstone with, a characteristic white color. It lies between two sandy beaches, and is accessed through a limestone rock formation in the shape of a staircase, hence the name. The latter part of the name derives from the frequent raids carried on by Moors.
In August 2007, the municipality of Realmonte applied for the inclusion of the Scala dei Turchi in the UNESCO Heritage List.
In February 2020, following years of complaints about the poor environmental protection of the site from erosion and tourist vandalism, Italian prosecutors seized control of the site. They ordered its temporary closure for monitoring, and announced that they were investigating a man who claimed ownership of the site in a dispute with the Realmonte local authority. One part is owned by the local authorities in Realmonte. Another part is subject of heated controversy, between the local administration and a man who claims to be the owner of a large area of the site, the one most visited by tourists. The prosecutor of Agrigento has announced that the man has been placed under investigation for occupation of public land.
Technical stuff
This panorama consists of 8 shots and spans roughly 188,93 degrees. The limited number of shot is due to the rather busy cliff and therefore not wanting to double up on people on the cliff. The shot have a range of 320ISO, f8.0, 1/2000-1/3200, -2/3 and 16 mils.
The initial pano was created with PS and post-production was done with LR. This included balancing the lighting condition between the white rocks and the surrounding areas. I also pushed the shadows al little so a lot of people on the formation are a bit more in tune. The original file was 17320x6816 pixels and 705MB (as I worked with only one layer). I resized it for Flickr to 3000x1181 (excluding the frame).
Finally, I added some copyright signs (in PS). The latter is, alas, there to stay due to the fact that my photos were frequently copied. So, don't bother commenting on that.
For this work I have been inspired by a 60s or 50s modeling photoshoot. I think it was a little porny for that age, but for now days standards it's preatty innocent, so... Here we are.
Enjoy. I meshed up about four different pictures of the model to have this pose, but I'm pretty proud of the result.
Known for its agility and strength, the northern goshawk is one of the most effective and versatile hunters in the raptor world. Northern goshawks are found in forests across the Northern Hemisphere, preferring dense woodlands for nesting and hunting. They inhabit coniferous, mixed, and deciduous forests, often in remote areas away from human activity.
The northern goshawk is a versatile predator with a diet that includes:
Birds: pigeons, crows, grouse, and songbirds.
Mammals: squirrels, rabbits, hares, and other small mammals.
Occasionally: reptiles and insects.
They use their powerful talons and keen eyesight to ambush prey, often hunting through fast, maneuverable flights in dense forests.
For CHIARA, an amazing 9-year-old young lady that I was lucky enough to spend time with on Sunday. She loves owls, so yesterday, I went down to Fish Creek Park to see if I could find an owl, big or small, to photograph for her. Saw this beautiful Great Horned Owl. You can see that one eye is just open a tiny bit, to keep an eye on us.
Overslept by an hour and a half, so gotta post and run and see if there is any way to find the group of people I'm supposed to meet up with this morning!
Later: I had been invited to visit friends on Sunday, east of the city. Spent a few most enjoyable hours, catching up on the last few years. One very cute little three-year old girl was very shy, as she hadn't met me before : ) Hopefully, next time, I will get the chance to get to know her much better. Chiara, about 6 years older, is a grown-up, very smart girl (just like her Mom!), with an interest in photography. Her camera, much better than mine (lol), is very heavy compared to mine, yet she carries it around with no complaints. She showed me some of her photos, including ones taken when she did a photography course this summer - wow!!! Had to smile when she showed her mother that she had found the Flickr app on her iPad mini and asked if she could download it, as it was free! How different kids are today, but even so, I was taken aback at how grown-up this child is! She likes owls and was wearing a beautiful owl T-shirt. Even the placemats on the kitchen table were covered in owls. I can only imagine the photography skills Chiara will have if she continues to have an interest in taking photos. Such a joy to talk to.
Thanks so much, Jenn, for encouraging me to drive out to see you all. That was so kind of you and so very much appreciated! Kevin, it was so good to see you after all this time - we had so much to catch up on. Thank you both for lunch, too - including the banana bread you made specially, Jenn. Thank you both for being so very welcoming! Definitely a day to remember.
Uploaded for dayhinako;)
camera: CONTAX Aria
Ginkakuji (one of the World Heritages), Kyoto
october, 2003
For what it is worth, this was taken at mid-afternoon with a ring flash on my camera. It was a slightly overcast day - but nice bright light. The bee is a replacement that I appropriated from one of about 100 other shots that I took (within two hours). The original honeybee's wing speed didn't match my camera's shutter speed - so she looked like a dark drug capsule in flight. Well, I made a couple of notable errors, but I like the result - lucky again.
Taken way back when we lived in Étampes. We had hills there too, but not quite as many as there are here - and I'm sure they weren't as steep!
These houses were halfway up to the plateau and all built upwards, as you can tell from the front steps.
Not sure I'd want to take the shopping up those every week. Plus we'd get ice and snow there too!!
Better viewed large and thank you for your favourites. :)
There’s landscape – and then there’s architecture.
When the two come together as strikingly as they do in the chapel by Staab Architekten in Kesselostheim (Bavarian Swabia!), I can’t help but feel the urge to capture it in an image.
Clouds. Vastness. Contrast.
A perfect setting for a black and white interpretation – minimal, crisp, atmospheric. And the best part: despite it being a late Sunday afternoon, I had the whole site to myself. A rare luxury. It gave me the chance to explore the chapel at my own pace and find my personal composition.
It reminded me once again just how much joy black and white photography brings me these days – especially because it doesn’t require shooting in the middle of the night during blue hour. Sometimes, it's enough to just head out in the afternoon, observe, feel, and create.
Oh, and by the way – this was my third chapel out of seven so far. Let’s see what’s still to come...
anto... in these days he needs a little bit of silence...
Quanto à memória, é terrivel. Umas vezes vai buscar imagens distantes de acontecimentos que, em geral, ainda virão suceder. Outras, pura e simplesmente não há memória de nada. Um pouco como se eu começasse a ser a cada fracção de segundo, e levo um tempo infinito, desumano, para erguer de novo, peça a peça o que sou.
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In respect of memory, it is terrible. Sometimes it searches for distant images of events that, in general, still will come. Others, pure and simply there is not memory of something. As if I had started being in each fraction of second, and I take an infinite, inhuman time, to rise again, piece by piece what I am.
Al Berto ressaca para uma autobiografia in O anjo mudo, p. 68.
Thank You...
...for being there for me
through good and bad.
...for giving me
what i never had.
...for caring for me
like no ones done before.
..for calming me down
after a long day was spent.
...for making me smile
when i didnt think i could.
...for hugging me and holding my hand
reassuring me you love me even more.
but most of all thank you..
for loving me and letting me love you in return.
and showing me the brighter side of life.
Credits: Red flower made in one of the gardens in London, textures from my old stock :)
Thank you for all your invites, comments and fav's
For comparison I am sharing this shot of The Prairie Line GP59 2301 built as NS # 4635. Seen shortly after repainting by Metro East Industries. This unit is now assigned to our Primient former Tate &Lyle contract in Decatur IL. Photo at St Louis MO Dec 2022
Aspen leaves on the pines. I love fall in the mountains. So ready for cooler weather and fall colors.
Creede Colorado
Someone said, "Sharing is the most beautiful thing in flickr! "
Actually it is!
Happy St.Valentine's day 2007!!!
All your mocs will walk the talk, traveling in a staggering herd..........cuz you shall be blogged on Bricknerd.
Such tragic news this morning about the passing of Etva101, one of the most prolific and talented of our flickr friends. To lose two founding members of the Blind Pig Speakeasy group within a month must be truly devastating for Karen and all our members. Etva was an inspiration to everyone who was lucky enough to have her as a contact. Words cannot express our sorrow.....