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The Chatteris War Memorial and the Parish Church of St Peter & St Paul, with a cascading poppy display, all ready for Remembrance Day.
For a short time, Amtrak’s California Zephyr saw 161 on rotation. This was Amtrak’s Phase I heritage unit and replaced the previous Phase I, 156, after it hit a truck and got severely damaged. Just like 156, 161 also has been retired as a few weeks ago it caught fire in Washington D.C. and was burnt to a crisp.
Had to kill some time waiting while the car was serviced, so I dashed to the Read Rock Garden to see what on offer for this snowy spring. MANY blossoms! Got off my tush and looked it up, it's a Puschkinia scilloides (Striped Squill).
The weather since I've been down at the shore has not been great.
It's been overcast and cool every morning.
Hasn't made me want to leap out of bed and go for an early morning walk along the beach.......I feel like I'm in a holding pattern, just waiting for the clouds to lift so I can head out with the camera.
We've been getting these small windows of sunshine, here and there though, most afternoons.
Yesterday the sun came out late day, and I took a drive back out to 2 Mile Landing where I'd seen some interesting possibilities the day before.
The lighting was beautiful when I got there, and I spent a very nice 45 minutes snapping away at several different species of birds poking around out in the marsh.
These pretty barn swallows were busy swooping across the mudflats eating flying insects.
I manage to catch this one as it briefly landed on a nearby fence, before taking off again.
Not 5 minutes after I took this shot I felt a noticeable drop in temperture, and when I turned around toward the ocean, there was a very dark fog rolling towards me. Looked like a scene out of that horror flick, "The Mist".
I quickly got in my car and headed for home.
By the time I got there, the fog was so dense you couldn't see to the end of the street.
The weather can change SO quickly on the coast!
Skyrim - La Profeta ENB profile by Wanako, free camera, time stop, time and weather control, custom FOV.
Checking out the Colderan Beta from the Andoran project for Skyrim
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
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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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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.
Kuggen (Swedish for 'the (cogwheel) cog') is a building owned by real estate company Chalmersfastigheter for Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden. Construction started in October 2010 and was finished in March 2011. The building is located on the Lindholmen campus, where it is connected to the neighboring buildings Jupiter and Science Park by two walkways on the first floor.
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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.
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~^^;
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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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.
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.
www.flickr.com/groups/1752359@N21/discuss/72157721918749437/
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.
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I've managed a photo of these stairs before, but found a better angle for them at the beginning of the month.
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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