The Lucky One . . .

On Mam Tor looking for the usual reason, but I decided to try and get a different photo to the ones which we normally see. Okay – I did the gate and the great ridge, but on my way back I was looking for something different.

I didn’t get much in the way of an inversion, but there was a little mist in the valley which was producing a lovely haze in the low morning sun, catching the light beautifully. As I came to the earthworks at the lower end of the summit I came across this sheep who was not in the mood for getting up. She very kindly stayed put while I composed my shot giving me something nice for the foreground. As the background was hazy I chose to blur it slightly by using a longer focal length but with a relatively small aperture. It also allowed me to stay a reasonable distance from the sheep so I didn’t spook it.

Canon EOS-6D with 24-105mm lens at 90mm. f/11 at ISO-50 for 1/50th second. Lee 3 stop soft grad ND filter on the upper part of the image to keep the lovely colours in the top of the image.

My co-worker who passed away October 8, 2015. I hope you are at peace, Dear Brenda. You are sadly missed by all of us who had the privilege of knowing you.

I will be very busy these next few days. Thank you so much for your encouragement and support this past year. You are all wonderful friends and I treasure each and every one of you :-)

Created for the TMI In the style of ... Lichtenstein, Pollock or Van Gogh Challenge

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I'm one of a kind.

Elizabethtown - (2005)

I am dedicating this shot to my friend Frecklenose. She is a wonderful friend here on flickr with a great eye for capturing life, feelings, and dreams. She puts quotes with each of her shots that seem to mirror beautifully with the photograph, my quote is more of a tribute to who she is rather than to the image :)

Thanks Frecklenose for sharing the beauty that you see around you and for all your thoughtful and insightful comments.

stop the senseless violence

♥

A white rose from the seafront.. with a little guy taking shelter..

TGIF..!! Thanks for all your visits over the last week.. have a great weekend

Abused beyond imagination

Used without shame

Sold without emotion

Ministered without understanding

of the origin.

Actions that are the foundation

speak so loudly

War in its convuluted meaning

Egotistical flocks

crushing its essence.

The bile that rises in the throat

choking humanity

without a chance to breathe.

The true

and unspoken words

for Love.

The window of the newest village shop. The shop is crammed full of beautiful things.

Thank you for your visit, comment or fave.

Created using my own textures.

YBS23Nature

This Japanese Maple Tree stands in a local botanic garden and I stop to snap it every time I'm there. The delicate leaves, the spreading canopy and the short, gnarled trunk are beautiful and interestingly contrast each other. It's leaves are different colors in different seasons, but when it's "Dress for Autumn" it is at its most beautiful!

all my heart will give

all the glory to your name

i am ready for school to start

i am so thankful for my older brothers

i am inspired

but i am getting so frustrated with my pictures

because they do not come out how i want them to

i so badly need to clean my room

it just proves that procrastination will over ride my neediness to have a clean room

my eye lids are becoming so heavy

to the point where my body is just telling me

rest

..

and yet..

we are consumed with these worldly things

we are consumed with what the world thinks of us

we are consumed with ourselves

we are consumed with the things that are worthless

we are consumed in a heap of selfishness

we are consumed

i want to be consumed

with jesus christ

so that my cup can be filled

only to be emptied and filled again

there is no greater feeling in the world than that of knowing that jesus christ is king

and that he was, and is, and is to come

he has saved me

and i am forgiven.

there is no doubt in my mind,

that IS the best feeling in the world

for i am his

and he is mine

for eternity

I decided to keep this picture for the winter :)

Mamiya M645 1000s

Sekor C 45mm f/2.8

Ilford Delta 100 (expired 2013)

R09 1+25 9:30 min

This is Patricia Lake which is just outside of Jasper. This particular morning was a great one for photography as there was great light, nice clouds, and a little bit of mist rising off the lake. I came away with a few keepers from this morning which I will be posting over the next little while. Thanks for stopping by!

In memory of my dear flickr friend Gwen Dawes who sadly passed away this morning. You will be sorely missed Gwen.

Aquilegia (Columbine) in my garden. I am not putting this photo in any groups.

for animation

my dearest friend . . . . you know why . . . .

lead kindly light

amid th'encircling gloom

lead thou me on

the night is dark

and i am far from home

lead thou me on

keep thou my feet

i do not ask to see

the distant scene

one step enough for me

--John Henry Newman

This Red-whiskered Bulbul seemed to have found itself a two-for-one meal deal !! Seen in the Desert Garden at the Huntington Library & Botanical Gardens, San Marino CA

Have not seen any for a few weeks and today, there was a bunch of them frolicking about. For whatever reason, they just seemed to be enjoying themselves. According to the Merlin app, they gather to in large flocks to roost and eat berries in the fall and winter... which is exactly what they were doing

¯\_ (ツ)_/¯

- Tyler Arboretum

Tried something a little different with my setup on this shoot. Decided to put the camera in One Shot instead of AI Servo mode. Burst rate increased (kept in high-speed shooting) over Servo, and focus seemed to better. Hit rate also appears to be increased as well.

I know Servo mode is a little less reliable than One Shot is. Knowing that I am primarily looking mainly for perched birds, seemed a good decision. I think I'll keep it set that way for any decent winter days I can get outside.

Also maintained shooting with the camera in Crop Mode (1.6) which does allow for it to be zoomed-in in the viewfinder, giving me a larger target to focus on. I’m actually a fan of this feature because it allows me to focus better on composition since it crops the photo at the time of shooting versus doing it in post... which has to be cropped anyway. Subject size is the exact same size if I were to have done it in full frame, but again, benefits of this mode are above.

Effective focal length here is 1280mm if you factor in the 1.6 crop mode and the 800mm. Only a slight finishing crop to a 4:3 ratio and overall reduction in pixels for post.

From November 11, 2017 @ 7:49 pm I knew.

Every moment a huge step forward.

I didn't falter and I believed.

This was always the song, these were always the words.

Long Live The Queen

Aretha Franklin ft. George Michael

Like a warrior that fights

And wins the battle

I know the taste of victory

Though I went through some nights

Consumed by the shadows

I was crippled emotionally

Somehow I made it through the heartache

Yes I did - I escaped

I found my way out of the darkness

I kept my faith (I know you did), kept my faith

When the river was deep I didn't falter

When the mountain was high I still believed

When the valley was low it didn't stop me, no no

I knew you were waiting

I knew you were waiting for me!

This rose is dedicated to all my contacts, who chose to follow my stream during the last 8 years.

After hitting the number of 5.000 followers last weekend, I would like to take this opportunity to thank you all for you support, for your faves, comments and invites and I want to apologize to all of you who I didn't add as a contact in return.

I hope that you'll still like some of my pictures in the future and that one or the other of you gets some inspriation from looking at my work.

Thanks again and take care,

Achim

Rose from a vase, focus-stacked (10 pictures), using CombineZP

Please Donate For Japan Earthquake.

11th March 2011.

一人でも多くの人が救われ、ふたたび温かな夜を過ごせますように。

We need your support.

Please Donate For Japan Earthquake.

And please pray for suffering people in disaster areas.

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Thanks for your support and prayers received from all over the world.

世界中から届く祈りと支援に感謝します。

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Range Rover (Hamann Mystere) in London

I'm away for a while and will not have access to Flickr so cannot upload or comment. So here's a Barn Owl that I took recently close to home.

I Fori di dissoluzione hanno origine grazie dal potere dissolutivo dell'acqua, essa si fa spazio nel calcare seguendo le microfratture che raggiungono il livello sottostante.

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.

Soft cover version

Hardback version

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

The stage was set. It's spring, the trees were in bloom, and there she was. Posing for the cliché-ish, yet, fun portrait; the "Jump" pose.

When I saw her from a distance attempting the first jump I immediately headed that direction. I got down on one knee and waited. She took a running start, leaped, and BAM! After viewing the back of my camera I thought, not bad for a first try. I'll do better on her next jump.

But that would be her final flight. She asked her photographer if he was able to get the shot. Apparently not because then she looked at me and asked the same question. I gazed once more at my camera and said; yes! Would you like to see it?

When I showed her the image she seemed pleased. But, as you know, photos always look good on camera. Reality doesn't strike until they're seen on a computer. She asked if I could send her a copy. I agreed and took her information.

Later, when I got home, I uploaded my pictures from that day. I was especially interested in the jump portrait. Although it was colorful, and cute, I noticed she was infected with slight blur due to camera shake. DRAT!!

But I did promise to send the image to her and (reluctantly) that was what I did. She thanked me and wished me well. Hopefully she liked it. At first I wasn't going to post it on Flickr. I was a little frustrated and felt that a good photo opportunity was wasted. But the image is still adorable. =)

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sasypants.com/2015/03/26/for-ever-more/

Explore seen at position # 422 on Saturday, September 27, 2008

We have a chance to visit this beach and have some seafoods for lunch. Not very crowned since it is too near the Airport far away from those popular beachs lacation. For the above photo you're invited to have your own seat.:)

Nai Yang Beach, Phuket, Thailand. The beach itself is a long curving bay lined with evergreens that provide shade to picnic for which activity this a very popular spot. The large coral reef is home to many different species of fish, and Nai Yang is well known as a site where sea turtles come to lay their eggs during the period from November to February.

หาดในยาง เป็นที่ตั้งที่ทำการอุทยานฯ เป็นหาดที่มีสวนสนร่มรื่นเหมาะแก่การพักผ่อนและเล่นน้ำ นอกจากนี้ยังมีแนวปะการังขนาดใหญ่เป็นที่อาศัยของสัตว์ทะเลนานาชนิด โดยเฉพาะเต่าทะเลซึ่งจะขึ้นมาวางไข่บนหาด ในช่วงเดือนพฤศจิกายนถึงกุมภาพันธ์

Exposure: 1/250, Aperture: f/11, Focal Length: 12 mm, ISO: 100, +1EV

Nikon D80, Nikkor 12-24mm f/4G ED-IF AF-S

"And for the win..."

The racecaller has declared it well before Swoop Dog has crossed the winning post. In fact you can already see that jockey Kyle Maskiell has begun to slow his horse. It's a tricky business finishing a race like this. When it is close (and I'll show you a close one in Race 6 on Saturday) the jockeys and horses are working overtime to get to the line.

But it's not so easy when you're two lengths in front with metres to go. The reason for this is that each race is monitored closely by "The Stewards", race judges that are more than willing to fine or suspend a rider if they feel he or she is not taking the horse to the line in a fully competitive fashion. At the same time the jockey and horse usually understand when they have a race "in the bag" and it is natural to want to slow even before the line.

No dramas here. Swoop Dog wins easily by a length and a half.

York || 91111 is ready for departure with passenger train from Edinburgh to London King's Cross.

Lies Baas 2014 With Chris 1971& Fotogravirus on a joy ride through NL&DE.

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.

I have prepared for this CRISTINE, even I have a lot to finish!!!!!

Angel Whispers - Candles And Prayers For Peace On Ukraine by Daniel Arrhakis (2022)

More than one hundred days into Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Relentless shelling, bombing and airstrikes have reduced large swaths of many cities and towns to rubble.

The U.N. refugee agency UNHCR estimates that about 6.8 million people have been driven out of Ukraine at some point during the conflict.

Nobody really knows how many combatants or civilians have died ... In Mariupol alone, officials have reported over 21,000 civilian dead.

Sievierodonetsk, a city in the eastern region of Luhansk that has become the focus of Russia's offensive, has seen roughly 1,500 casualties ...

More than ever, the futility of a brutal war that should never have happened and that in the end can only be resolved through peace negotiations is in plain sight.

Whatever the outcome, the World will no longer forget the innocent victims, many of them children, the pregnant mothers fleeing bombed hospitals, the bodies in the streets, the martyrs of the Mariupol Theater, the civilians slaughtered by the Russian army in the streets of the cities, in the queues for bread and much less the silence and connivance of the Russian people in the face of the invasion of a people that was considered their brother!

But sadder is to see soldiers who died every day, some because they defend their country and others because they were sent to an immoral war with false pretenses by a regime that does not respect international law or the most basic human values.

This is the time to give peace a chance before it's too late!!

At 100 Days, Russia-Ukraine War by the Numbers www.voanews.com/a/at-100-days-russia-ukraine-war-by-the-n...

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Song For Ireland

Luke Kelly

Walking all the day near tall towers where falcons build their nests

Silver winged they fly, they know the call of freedom in their breasts

Soar Black Head against the sky

Between the rocks that run down to the sea

Living on your western shore, saw summer sunsets, asked for more

I stood by your Atlantic sea and sang a song for Ireland

This beautiful old building is actually part of a movies set left behind after filming was finished. This is the old school house, from a movie shot in Dingle, Ireland in 1970. That movie was called Ryans Daughter, and is a classic. In the distance is an island, known mainly by locals as "The Sleeping Giant"...a close look will tell you why.

This is a two shot blend. approx 4.5 minutes for thsky and water, and 1/100th sec for the fg, as I wanted to get those sheep in.

The song itself isn't written by Luke Kelly, but out of all the versions of it released, his version is still my favourite. Well worth a listen for anyone with an Irish heritage,

Hope you like "Song For Ireland"....cheers, Mike

Time For Dream

Interplanetary Travel

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Camera: Panasonic DMC-LS80 (LUMIX)

Photograph by Yusuf Alioglu

Location: Outer space (space)

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and minds that want to thrive. For all cariocas who oversee the city, streets, corners, squares, beaches, neighborhoods and our sidewalks. Wonderful City, full of beauty and magnificent colors.

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A rally for the people of Nepal.

Jackson Heights, Queens

New York, NY,

Leica M10, Zeiss 2.8/35C

for tito santoni

For all the girls out there :+))

For "Crazy Tuesday" - theme : "Broken" .