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In a time when dinosaurs walked the earth
When the land was swamp and caves were home
In an age when prize possession was fire
To search for landscapes men would roam...
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Metal artist Ricardo Breceda has amassed over 130 life sized metal sculptures and placed them along several roads in the Anza-Borrego Desert State park…
Special thanks to the plane that produced the jetstream...
When I first looked through my bridge shots from San Francisco I decided that I was going to trash them all. It was pouring rain that night and my camera was so wet I didn't think it was going to work anymore. Even though the conditions weren't perfect it was really a fun memory with friends. Sometimes my daughter wisely reminds me that there are times in life it's not about the perfect shot but "it's for the memory Dad." I will, however, be going back here soon to try to get a perfect shot.
B and I stopped for some wine tasting near Columbia, CA and when I saw this sign, I knew it would be a perfect photo dedicated to all my happily married friends here on flickr.
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I loved this winery's Petite Syrah. Tood bad I couldn't afford it. LOL
ODC-Where I Live Is Known For...
This area of Upstate, NY is known for its beautiful waterfalls and gorges. In fact there's a saying here "ithaca Is Gorges!" It really is!!!
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Lake Clark National Park
Southeastern Alaska
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The bears come down to the shore on the edge of Cook's Inlet to find dead fish washed up on the shore to eat. They are followed around by seagulls trying to snatch bits of fish for their own meal. These are fairly large birds when you compare their size to the big bear in the image.
Sagres, Praia de Tonel, Elmarit 28mm.
Praia do Tonel is popular with surfers as it offers a brisk-westerly wind that often produces large Atlantic breakers. Also nice for sunbathing etc. because of the sheltered spots back towards the cliffs.
Thanks for all your visits, comments and invites on my previous photos and for all the support and friendship in the past "Flickr year", much appreciated!
Daybreak over the Swansea Valley - my banker shot for my Photo a Day. Caption is the title of a song from the Beatles.
Don't Give Up - Peter Gabriel et Kate Bush
in this proud land we grew up strong
we were wanted all along
I was taught to fight, taught to win
I never thought I could fail
no fight left or so it seems
I am a man whose dreams have all deserted
I've changed my face, I've changed my name
but no one wants you when you lose
don't give up
'cos you have friends
don't give up
you're not beaten yet
don't give up
I know you can make it good
though I saw it all around
never thought I could be affected
thought that we'd be the last to go
it is so strange the way things turn
drove the night toward my home
the place that I was born, on the lakeside
as daylight broke, I saw the earth
the trees had burned down to the ground
don't give up
you still have us
don't give up
we don't need much of anything
don't give up
'cause somewhere there's a place
where we belong
rest your head
you worry too much
it's going to be alright
when times get rough
you can fall back on us
don't give up
please don't give up
'got to walk out of here
I can't take anymore
going to stand on that bridge
keep my eyes down below
whatever may come
and whatever may go
that river's flowing
that river's flowing
moved on to another town
tried hard to settle down
for every job, so many men
so many men no-one needs
don't give up
'cause you have friends
don't give up
you're not the only one
don't give up
no reason to be ashamed
don't give up
you still have us
don't give up now
we're proud of who you are
don't give up
you know it's never been easy
don't give up
'cause I believe there's the a place
there's a place where we belong
For those who appreciate Satie's music:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H99QJYeqC_E
Simon and Garfunkle "The Sound of silence":
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hUy9ePyo6Q
I read music!
A location I've wanted to visit for some time is 'Sculpture by the Lakes' near Dorchester in Dorset. It's a sculpture park featuring many wonderful works by renowned sculptor Simon Gudgeon. The art is thoughtfully placed in the beautifully landscaped grounds, and it's well worth a visit, both for photographers and art lovers alike.
Smile on Saturday theme: Blue for you - ME 2023.
Thanks to everyone who took the time to view, comment, and fave my photo. It’s really appreciated. 😊
I displayed miniatures with Licca and took some photos of them for a change... It's so fun! ^_^
Finally I decided the color of the sewing boxes and finished painting them. But the work to sand their surface is still left... that's a little troublesome. sigh~^^;
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Last night we got a fresh wave of snow, I prefer it to the dark wetness and blackness of the last days, the previous snow not quite melted away, yet looking dirty...
Winter is here to stay for awhile!
I love patterns and minimalism, I have many images taken over the years.
Some are more abstract than others.
Snow and frost is the main theme, they are great at setting off details we otherwise pass without seeing.
May your day be filled with joy and thanx for viewing, Magda (*_*)
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Heaven For Everyone - the genial song performed by Freddie Mercury (Queen) is exactly the perfect title for the region where I live.
Here the road can be seen where I walked some days ago through my beloved Mühlviertel in the Northern part of Upper Austria ...
Don´t forget to listen to the song :-))
Photography is all about memories for me. One of my favourite shots of all time is a photograph I took of my children walking ahead of me around a local reservoir, with a seven year old Nicky looking back towards me, a protective arm around her little brother. I'd not long purchased my first SLR camera, a second hand Praktica, at a time when there were still some years of film ahead of most of us before digital cameras became what they are today. Now the two subjects of that family jewel are aged 30 and 28, yet all these years later that memory; that sense of simple pleasure at being where we were shines right through the photo as if it were frozen in time.
Photography, always something I've enjoyed, became a more urgent obsession around six years ago when Lee and Dave suggested I join their newly formed gang. Before I knew it I'd bought a Canon 70D and a couple of reasonably priced lenses, and my initiation into the world of landscape photography was complete. What I hadn't realised at that time was how many fantastic memories the adventure ahead of me would bring. What I'd never considered was that the new hobby would take me to places I'd barely dreamed of before. Places like Iceland. I was aware that Iceland was sparsely populated and dramatic, but I'd also heard that the beer in Reykjavik cost twelve pounds a pint and that it was cold all year round. It seemed unlikely that I'd ever really consider going there until Nigel Danson, Tom Heaton and a veritable flood of other YouTube influencers began to demonstrate to me exactly why I should stop worrying about the price of the beer and get on the plane.
Lee and I hired a VW camper in the summer of 2019 and spent a week touring the Snaefellsnes peninsula and then the ring road, a journey which brought us here to Skogafoss on the final evening. It was one of the locations we'd looked most forward to seeing. What's not to love about about a 60 metre high, 25 metre wide single drop waterfall? What makes it really compelling is that you can stand right in front of it - and by that I mean at just a few metres distance where you can listen in wonder to the thundering sound of thousands of gallons of water hitting the shallow basin at your feet each second. You'll get wet - possibly soaked in fact, but it will be worth it. It's like no other experience I've ever hand. Iceland has some huge and epic waterfalls, but you can't stand in front of them all like this.
Our plan to photograph Skogafoss involved the use of plastic sandwich bags to protect the cameras from the spray, despite us having stationed them at a judicious distance from the waterfall. This initially drew some bemused expressions from those around us, although later we caught some of them racing for their tents and vehicles before returning to the scene, armed with sandwich bags of their own. Once the last few strays had left the scene, I ran across the space between the cameras and the waterfall in my welly boots like an excited seven year old, over and over again until we'd got the shots we wanted.
See that little speck standing in front of the almighty drop? Yes, that's me, taking an overdue shower after a week in a VW campervan, enjoying a moment that will last forever. Who'd have guessed before they started out that a love of photography could bring memories as good as this?
Here are three empty Jelly or Jam jars, except for the one I filled with Jelly Beans.
The jars are strangely crooked, to my eye. When I examined them, after the photoshoot, I discovered that they really ARE crooked... although the Jelly bean jam jar is ok; I just put the lid on crooked!
Anyway, that's J!
Things around here are getting more busy. I haven't taken a K photo yet. We'll see.
This was taken from my holiday in France last month, No words can describe how sad the news is from last night.
This needs to end!
This was from Ile De Re, France.
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Parkamoor Jetty, Coniston Water, Lake District National Park
I'd like to ask those that follow me and anyone else who has the time/inclination to let me know which of the 3 compositions I took they prefer, and why? I'm intrigued to know your views to compare with mine. All 3 shots were taken within about 10-15 mins of each other. All are a focus stacked long exposure images for the water & jetty blended with a normal sky exposure.
I was looking for something to shoot that was not too far away as the sky was looking promising. Had not really looked at the Coniston Water area before and saw in one of the photo books a couple of jetties on the east shore so picked one and went for it. Fantastic light.
Many thanks for any input made. many thanks in advance.
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Hooray! A new orchid for me! This beauty was sighted growing in tall grass along a weedy section of bush track. I know it is a Sun Orchid of some type (Thelymitra sp.) and my best guess was the Trim Sun Orchid (Thelymitra peniculata) but someone whose knowledge about orchids I trust told me it was not that species. Unfortunately, I was remiss and did not measure the orchid itself, so a definitive I.D. cannot be determined. Regardless, I am happy to have seen it and will try and take all the proper measurements if I am fortunate enough to see it pop up next year. [Lower Blue Mountains, NSW]
After waiting for a bit at the former pig ramp until "Run 33" finishes switching at West Wye, CPKC train YKK24-27 eases up the lead alongside the Hansen-Mueller elevator with a gray KCS GP38-2 and several flat cars with a few strings of welded rail. They'll make a brief stop at West Wye Tower for some paperwork before leaving Knoche for Grandview. It's a pretty underwhelming train, but it's cool to see some KCS "battleship gray" again.
This engine started life on the Toledo, Peoria & Western in May of 1977 as the TPW No. 2001. After the "Tip-Up" merged with the Santa Fe, it became ATSF No. 3561, later renumbered to 2370 and even being repainted into the "Kodachrome" paint scheme in the midst of the ill-fated "SPSF" merger. It was repainted again into the "Yellowbonnet" scheme, and eventually sold as the GMTX No. 2370 before KCS picked it up. It was the KCS No. 4029 before being renumbered as the 1921 as a newly delivered SD70ACe took its number. 9/27/25.
A female roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) stands, after a very cold night, in a frozen meadow, waiting for the sun to rise
AAW May 15 - 22: Black and White Shadows
WIT: I was at a restaurant during a rain storm, but the sun shone through the window and curtain for about 5 seconds before disappearing behind the clouds again, so I only had a chance at one shot when I saw the shadows thrown across the floor.
BW conversion was in-camera, and in post just cropped and slightly upped the contrast.
Made Explore.
Created for Kreative People Treat This 317 ~June 01 - June 07.
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Created in DDG Text 2 Dream as a source for two works.
The prompt is the title.
I used xandra m's orchid photo below as the source.
www.flickr.com/photos/xandram/52932097143/in/dateposted/
Filters: PS Beta 23, Topaz Gigapixel Ai, Topaz Studio.
Thanks for your visit, faves, and kind comments.
For my offering for Super Saturated Sunday today I thought I would take an innocuous, unprepossessing photograph (of which I have a vast collection) and quickly turn it into some lurid faux Modern Art that might vaguely emulate the kind you see for sale in galleries for tens of thousands of pounds.
This is a picture of bubbles in the frozen water in a broken mug in my garden taken at the end of December. (For a more normal version of another image taken at the same time see flic.kr/p/2kpGhPy ).
It was developed and processed in Affinity Photo, but the fancy stuff done using Nik Color Efex. The bulk of the effect was due to solarisation combined with a bi-colour filter to create more of a colour gradient across the image, a technique I have used often for this sort of overcooked colour from nothing approach.
A total stack of eight or nine filters was used (it was playtime after all) with some contribution from things like glows and soft focus, selective contrast and graduated ND filter effects. (If you’d like the preset I made from this do ask :) ).
So that was the first twenty minutes dealt with so what should I do with the rest?
Well, I decided to extend the gallery metaphor and make the work look a bit as if it had been hung on a wall. I combined broad frame with directional drop shadow and embossing and then used the Lighting filter to add three spotlights pointing downward as if had been lit from above. I also used the same filter to add a textured, impasto element to the painting and give it some relief.
So there we are. You know where to send those five-figure cheques, don’t you?
I’ll add a link to the in-camera original so you can see where we came from.
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you are wearing your sunglasses. Happy Sliders Sunday!! :)
I've managed a photo of these stairs before, but found a better angle for them at the beginning of the month.
Better viewed large and thank you for your favourites. :O)
For my friend and Brother in Law.
Who is being buried today. He loved flowers and always kept a beautiful garden. May he Rest in Peace.
Please forgive me for not responing today I will try and catch up over the weekend.
Amboseli’s sunsets are a primordial mixture of dust and mire, serenity and struggle, consummation and genesis. Its skies are infused with the sanguine luster of lives exchanged. Immensely infrequent are those unaffected by its power and allure. Moral turpitude and greed plague those worthless and debased souls who slaughter for perverse amusement. #Elephants #Amboseli
Our prize for Enchantment, a tattoo layer that gives your avatar a sort of dead look (comes in 3 different colors and has light and dark options), and a tattoo layer/LM applier that adds a tint of red to your lips~
Opens August 1st
Actually, for our cat, this enforced lock-in has not been very relaxing. She likes her space, and having all four of us around all the time has resulted in just too much attention.
Snapped with a Pentacon 135/2.8 zebra.
R is for Riddles - Our Daily Challenge
35/365 pictures in 2019
59 - Isolated object, for 119 pictures in 2019
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Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
e. e. cummings
Hi everybody... This is for all of you my flickr friends...
Those who i talk to everyday, or almost everyday, or when you sign in :)
I appreciate all your comments and you taking the time to stop by my stream!
I would sit with anyone of you on this bench and snap away! :)
Happy Thursday, its almost the weekend!!
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