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Bachalpsee is a mountain lake close to the First above Grindelwald in the Bernese Oberland in Switzerland. The lake is located at an elevation of 2,265 m above sea.
Poor light but in thirty years the first Brambling to visit the garden. Maybe it'll revisit in better light before migrating back north.
The snow
began here
this morning and all day
continued, its white
rhetoric everywhere
calling us back to why, how,
whence such beauty and what
the meaning; such
an oracular fever!
flowing past windows, an energy it seemed
would never ebb, never settle
less than lovely! and only now,
deep into night,
it has finally ended.
The silence
is immense,
and the heavens still hold
a million candles, nowhere
the familiar things:
stars, the moon,
the darkness we expect
and nightly turn from. Trees
glitter like castles
of ribbons, the broad fields
smolder with light, a passing
creekbed lies
heaped with shining hills;
and though the questions
that have assailed us all day
remain - not a single
answer has been found -
walking out now
into the silence and the light
under the trees,
and through the fields,
feels like one.
~First Snow , Mary Oliver
From our Garden
Nov. 2024
Hasselblad 503 CW, Distagon 3,5/60 mm, Ilford HP5+, Rodinal 1+25
Lithprint SE5 onto Fomatone 132 (2014)
no toning
HCS!
Haven't done a cliche Saturday OR a nature shot in a long time.
Some of my favorite spring trees are starting to bloom and the first wave of bees is buzzing around.
Hope everyone is having a nice weekend so far!
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Don't you love that feeling you get, when you see the first snow hitting the distant mountains?! This was taken in September. My photo travel buddy chris.ph and I were giddy with excitement, imagining the scenes to come.
This is the first time I was able to capture one of these. One of the things I learned from watching them is that the beak is shaped that way to help them drink. It is sort of a reverse laddel thing.
I'll climb the hills you face, I'll do this in your place.
I'd do anything to go through it instead of you..
But even if I fall down when you're not around.
Don't worry about me.., don't worry about me.
Murano
is a series of islands linked by bridges in the Venetian Lagoon, northern Italy.
Murano’s reputation as a center for glassmaking was born when the Venetian Republic, fearing fire and the destruction of the city’s mostly wooden buildings, ordered glassmakers to move their foundries to Murano in 1291.
Murano glass is still associated with Venetian glass
@Wikipedia
Venice/Italy
Febr. 10th 2013
5°C
4pm
My first ever lightning shot, from a relatively weak storm here in Berlin last night.
Thanks to those following me so far, means a lot and thanks for all the comments :)
Hope you all are having a great weekend!
Made for the Award Tree challenge ~ Black & White ~
I was so lucky to see the last two baby birds leaving the nesting box. The rest had already gone.
It happened very fast and it wasn't easy to capture this!
I got some wonderful sunrises whilst staying in Funchal Madeira. Going in late October guaranteed comfortable sunrise times and this was a shot I took just before going for a sumptuous breakfast at the Hotel.
That seems such a long time ago now as I stare out of the window at sleet and snow sweeping across the garden here.
The first of the seven remaining Apostles,that sit along the coast at Port Campbell in south west Victoria.
My first attempt at wedding photography as a favor, probably not to happen again. A long, tough day that showed me how hard these photographers have to work
The first record of a mill at Worsbrough was in the Domesday book of 1086, although the exact location of the mill along the River Dove is unknown. The oldest part of the mill standing today dates from about 1625 and forms the two storey stone building known as the Old Mill, which houses the waterwheel. Before the Mill House was built in the mid 18th century the miller and his family would have lived in the mill itself. There are large fireplaces on both the ground and first floors and the lintel over the fireplace on the first floor is inscribed with several dates and initials of the millers.
The Old Mill was probably modernised in the early 1820’s to improve its output, and in the 1840’s the New Mill was built next door. The machinery in the New Mill was powered by a steam engine and a third floor, where grain could be stored in bulk, was added.
Trade for corn and flour began to drop off towards the end of the 19th century as cheap imported wheat came in from abroad.
NP 7012A leans into an S curve near Mount Rainier Scenic Railroad's Mineral shops on a gloomy December afternoon.
Early morning winter light hitting the Nantle Ridge, Mynydd Mawr and the mountains further down in the Llyn Peninsular.
Just received my first exhibit showing some of my bald eagle photography at the Murchison Performing Arts Center at UNT, sponsored by the Greater Denton Arts Council. It's an honor to be selected. The show will continue through May 2022. There is also an online exhibit at dentonarts.com/lockwood for those of you who are not local to the DFW area. The photographs are 20x30 inches on metal. A portion of all proceeds go to the Greater Denton Arts Council, and I am donating 100% of the show's profits to a scholarship endowment fund to support photography students at UNT.