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New Year's Eve is getting closer. Invite your beloved ones and take a walk through your neighborhood. Enjoy all the lights spread over the streets and share them with us.
Submit your photo in the #FlickrFriday group. We'll showcase our favorites in Flickr Blog next Friday.
Photo CC By Aimee White flic.kr/p/4bXD2p
Although our planet is called Earth, most of it it's actually water. So you have a lot of "ground" to cover in our brand new theme. Show us our beautiful interpretation of the theme Our Ocean!
Take your shot today or in the coming days add the tags #FlickrFriday and #HighNoon to it and submit it to the group for a chance to be featured on Flickr Blog next Friday:
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If you like this CC-BY photo, head over to Xerxes2K's photostream and let him know by faving or commenting on his photo: flic.kr/p/fZJQFf
September 04th 2005 ,
Dear FlickrFriday,
I am lost in a wild island.
I have no wifi, no TV, no pokemon... Really great !!!!
Say hello to my friends Markus, Adrien, Andrei, Apionid... I wish i could stay here forever,
See u soon, or not....
Cat
The Morning Commutes can be seen as something normal and part of daily habits. But... what happens when you turn your head around and look at other places? You might find things that you never noticed ever before by having just a little look.
Get a new spot for us in your daily commute! Take a shot and share it with us in the Flickr Friday group adding the tags #FlickrFriday and #MorningCommute. Some of our favorites will be featured next week.
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If you like this CC-BY photo, head over to Anne Worner's photostream and let her know by faving or commenting on her photo: flic.kr/p/ohNDvx
This week's FlickrFriday theme is: #Candid
Le thème de ce FlickrFriday est: #Spontané
O tema desta FlickrFriday é: #Espontâneo
本次 FlickrFriday 主題: #自发的
FlickrFriday-Thema der Woche: #Spontan
El tema de FlickrFriday es: #Espontáneo
The Battle of Chioggia was a naval battle between the Venetian and the Genoese fleets, which culminated on June 24, 1380 in the Venetian lagoon near Chioggia, Italy, . The Genoese, commanded by Admiral Pietro Doria, had captured the little fishing port in August the preceding year, so to find out where the Venetian fleet was, they send a boy to the top of the Campanile Pinacoteca with instructions to blow a horn and “point” to the position of the enemy fleet, unfortunately he fell to his death and the battle was lost.
The bus driver became a remote figure on the Routemaster as he was sealed off in his cab from the rest of the vehicle.
The AEC RM1 Routemaster was set into service in 1956 in Crystal Palace, London.
These eyes can see through everything!
Not to get super meta, but I purposefully framed this so you could see the camera in my eye. I did this because I always find it interesting how people look at a picture and think "whoa! great picture!" but never really think too much about the person behind the camera. Well, in this image, you can "See Through" this invisible barrier and see who's actually taking the picture -- Me!!
My office mate is Belarusian, and she gave me a package of Kommunarka chocolates a long time ago.
#flickrfriday
The #FlickrFriday #Fall challenge
The Fall, as our American friends call it, is the main fungi season in the UK. Fungi are what they are, a distinct family in the kingdom of life, full of contradictions. They exist from the microscopic scale to one which is about 9 square km in area, thousands of tonnes in mass and has its age disputed in millennia. They sustain plants and may destroy them. They create our bread and make it go mouldy. They provide medicines which have saved millions, but they may be a serious health hazard. They may be delicacies or lethal, and the L-plate forager may well find it difficult to tell the difference. Be warned! Specimens I've found openly growing in my local woods would be lethal (and very unpleasantly so) if consumed. Fungi are are the least studied, least understood and most misunderstood of organisms. It's thought that 90% of them remain unknown to science.
These specimens appeared on a log in our garden. They seem to be Oak Bonnets, pretty much the commonest fungal species of ancient broad leafed woodland. Ooops. I've slipped into using the plural form and thereby into error. We may see several fruiting bodies but they are almost certainly the visible part of a single much larger organism, most of which is concealed within the log. It's like being able to see the blackberries but not the bush; the acorns, but not the tree; the roses but not the stem. The fruiting bodies disperse spores from which the fungi of the future will emerge. The fruiting bodies may wither away, but the organism itself has not died. It continues to grow unseen throughout the year before generating fruiting bodies once more.
The concealed part is an extensive threadlike structure called mycelium, itself built of bundles of even tinier threads called hyphae (hi - fee) which, among other things, act as plant roots do, but far more efficiently. Hyphae may be one fiftieth the thickness of a plant root and a hundred times longer. This photo depicts a scene of unseen hyphae deploying enzymes and acids to break down cellulose and lignin which are the main constituents of wood, obtaining the nutrients the fungus needs to grow. Fungi are among the very few organisms with this capability. Eventually they will reduce this log to nutritious soil. Without fungi dead wood in our forests would accumulate, inhibiting regrowth and depriving the forest soil of nutrients.
Beyond decay, mycelium from other species penetrates plant and tree roots to allow a symbiotic exchange of sugars from the plant to the fungi, and minerals and nutrients from the fungi to the plants. Recent more controversial research suggests that the mycelium forms a network between trees to allow them to share resources and even information. For example it may allow trees on the forest edge to signal those in the forest interior, warning them of pathogens attacking them, allowing the interior trees to prepare toxins within their leaves in anticipation of and to defend against an attack or infection. That remains an active area of research but all scientists agree that no fungi simply means no forests. That in turn means that a cleared forest simply cannot be replaced quickly by planting one somewhere else. The mycelium network, The Wood Wide Web, needs many decades to establish itself and grow.
HDR was used to create this image in order to capture the stems which otherwise would have been in deep shadow.
Happy Halloween my Friends
This week's FlickrFriday theme is: #Broom
Le thème de ce FlickrFriday est: #Balais
O tema desta FlickrFriday é: #Vassoura
本次 FlickrFriday 主題: #扫帚
FlickrFriday-Thema der Woche: #Besen
El tema de FlickrFriday es: #Escoba
Flickr x LEGO® Build
The world needs more love and more kindness. We’d like to see your take on the theme ‘Share’ for this week’s Flickr Friday challenge. Add the tag #Share and #FlickrFriday to your photo and submit it to the group by Thursday afternoon. We’ll publish a gallery of our favorites and put them on the Flickr Blog.
Original image by Mario Donati.
After many years of searching, I finally caught Peter Rabbit in my garden, with the annual sorting of Easter eggs, starting with pink & blue.
The #FlickrFriday #Arches challenge
Although apparently part obscured by a bank formed by a bend in its river, this bridge is actually redundant. It appears that the path of the river it used to cross was altered to create a mill race, a fast flowing artificial stream, fed by an existing river, which would turn a mill wheel. There is a bricked up arch beneath the path out of shot to the right and a trench behind it which appears to be the old mill race bed. The bridge now crosses nothing, its arch almost filled in.
The photo was taken using a 10 stop neutral density filter and a polariser to accentuate the blue sky and to smooth out reflections in the river, allowing a 30 second exposure during daylight. A second out of focus shot was taken because I used this week's homework as an excuse to experiment with The Orton Effect, a concept created by Michael Orton. The idea is to create a dreamlike atmosphere, achieved by combining a sharp photo with an unfocused one of the same scene.
In the 1980s Orton had to combine and mask slides and transparencies. These days Photoshop's layers lend themselves to this effect when applied with an elliptical marquee tool with a 450px feather in this case, and layer mask used together to select the required area of sharp focus, the feathering used to avoid an abrupt change from focus to blur. The unfocused layer was also separately substantially dehazed to accentuate the effect.
When nothing worries you and happiness lifts you up high above the clouds. That is the right feeling to say that we are light as a feather.
Take your shot today or in the coming days and submit it to the group for a chance to be featured on FlickrBlog next Friday.
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If you like this CC-BY photo, head over to Jim Champion and let him know by faving or commenting on his photo: flic.kr/p/bJMjEp
This week for Flickr Friday we're on the look out for #Imperfection. Take a photo of something imperfect and showcase that little flaw, quirk, or difference that gives something character. Be sure to tag your photo #Imperfection and submit it to the Flickr Friday group pool. We're looking forward to seeing your interesting shots and unique perspective!
Original photo by Juan Ramírez.