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This golden hour shot was taken at Cape Espichel (“Cabo Espichel”), Portugal. This windswept, rocky headland, about 40 kilometres south of Lisbon, is a wild, desolate place, where giant waves crash against sheer, towering cliffs. It is a place to appreciate the raw beauty of nature and is often a great spot for sunsets.
From the 13th century onwards this spot has been a place of pilgrimage. Legend tells that Virgin Mary was seen there, riding a giant mule. The church – “Nossa Senhora do Cabo Church” (Our Lady of the Cape, protectress of fishermen) – was built in 1701 and is worth a visit, to admire the ornately finished interior, beautifully painted ceiling and experience the tranquillity of the place.
Outside of the church are two symmetrical accommodation wings, which housed the sanctuary’s pilgrims and that are now abandoned, starting to show signs of ruin.
In this photo, taken at sunset and with the sea at my back, I focused on the architectural ensemble formed by the church and the now abandoned sanctuary’s side buildings.
NB: This is the color version of a monochromatic image that I've posted here a few months ago and that can be seen here: www.flickr.com/photos/rbaptista/51424217495/in/dateposted/
Other photos I've taken at this spot can be found here:
www.flickr.com/photos/rbaptista/albums/72157719782471977
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Cabo Espichel, Portugal
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Arundel Castle is a restored and remodelled medieval castle in Arundel, West Sussex, England. It was established during the reign of Edward the Confessor and completed by Roger de Montgomery. The castle was damaged in the English Civil War and then restored in the 18th and 19th centuries by Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk.
Since the 11th century, the castle has been the seat of the Earls of Arundel and the Dukes of Norfolk. It is a Grade I listed building.
The original structure was a motte-and-bailey castle. Roger de Montgomery was declared the first Earl of Arundel as the King granted him the property as part of a much larger package of hundreds of manors. Roger, who was a cousin of William the Conqueror, had stayed in Normandy to keep the peace there while William was away from England. He was rewarded for his loyalty with extensive lands in the Welsh Marches and across the country, together with one fifth of Sussex (Arundel Rape). He began work on Arundel Castle in around 1067.
The castle then passed to Adeliza of Louvain (who had previously been married to Henry I) and her husband William d'Aubigny. Empress Matilda stayed in the castle, in 1139. It then passed down the d'Aubigny line until the death of Hugh d'Aubigny, 5th Earl of Arundel in 1243. John Fitzalan then inherited jure matris the castle and honour of Arundel, by which, according to Henry VI's "admission" of 1433, he was later retrospectively held to have become de jure Earl of Arundel.
The FitzAlan male line ceased on the death of Henry Fitzalan, 12th Earl of Arundel, whose daughter and heiress Mary FitzAlan married Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, to whose descendants the castle and earldom passed.
In 1643, during the First English Civil War, the castle was besieged. The 800 royalists inside surrendered after 18 days. Afterwards in 1653 Parliament ordered the slighting of the castle; however "weather probably destroyed more".
Although the castle remained in the hands of the Howard family over the succeeding centuries, it was not their favourite residence, and the various Dukes of Norfolk invested their time and energy into improving other ducal estates, including Norfolk House in London. Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk, was known for his restoration work and improvements to the castle beginning in 1787. The folly that still stands on the hill above Swanbourne Lake was commissioned by and built for the Duke by Francis Hiorne at this time.
In 1846, Queen Victoria and her husband, Prince Albert, visited Arundel Castle for three days. Henry Howard, 13th Duke of Norfolk, remodelled the castle in time for her visit to a design by an architectural firm, Morant: a suite of six rooms were built on the second floor of the south-east range at this time.
The 19th-century embellishments had not been completed when this picture was published in 1880. Soon after the 1846 Royal visit the 14th Duke began re-structuring the castle again. The work, which was done to the designs of Charles Alban Buckler and undertaken by Rattee and Kett of Cambridge, was completed in the late 19th century. The 16th Duke had planned to give the castle to the National Trust but following his death in 1975 the 17th Duke cancelled the plan. He created an independent charitable trust to guarantee the castle's future, and oversaw restorative works.
The extensive gardens had received significant improvements by early 2020 through the efforts of head gardener Martin Duncan and his crew. A horticulturalist and landscape designer, Duncan has been working at the Castle since 2009; in 2018, he received the Kew Guild Medal. The gardeners and volunteers "have worked wonders with their bold and innovative plantings", according to an April 2020 report by Country Life. Their most recent efforts led to a wild water garden around the ponds.
For further information please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arundel_Castle, www.arundelcastle.org/gardens/ and www.arundelcastle.org/
2018 10 01
We can not guarantee the destination of this hall.
This leads to an unknown world.
Well, it's up to you.
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10 years old this summer, but Daisy still plays like a kitten. This shows her balanced precariously between the top of a door & the door frame - guaranteed to make me notice her!
Happy Caturday.
Berliner Hinterhofromantik
Die Wohnhöfe werden abends geschlossen und garantieren auf diese Weise nächtliche Ruhe. Ausgedehnte Büroflächen wurden in den früheren Fabriketagen geschaffen. Genutzt werden diese Räume überwiegend von Angehörigen kreativer Berufe wie Architekten, Internetdesignern, PR-Agenturen. Die kleinen Ladengeschäfte entsprechen ihrem speziellen Angebot von Designprodukten, die in den Höfen gestaltet, hergestellt oder weiterverarbeitet werden.
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Berlin backyard romance
The residential courtyards are closed in the evenings, thus guaranteeing peace at night. Extensive office space was created in the former factory floors. These rooms are mainly used by members of creative professions such as architects, internet designers and PR agencies. The small shops correspond to their special range of design products that are designed, manufactured or processed in the courtyards.
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Wind in my hair, I feel part of everywhere
Underneath my being is a road that disappeared
Late at night I hear the trees
They're singing with the dead
Overhead...
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#Puzzle
...there's a secure vaccine against Covid-19? I wish it would happen so soon. What definitely is guaranteed, though, is that from today it's 45 days until Christmas Eve :) And whether you celebrate or not, I'm sure that on everybody's wishlist is also a vaccine.
I had little – or rather no – other choice for "Puzzle" but this Ravensburger Christmas bauble jigsaw puzzle ball, because I don't own any other puzzles. I love to play Adventure games, and puzzles are a part of the gaming routine, but real life puzzles? Nil. So back to the bauble: It depicts a cosy forest Christmas scene with lots of snow, a starry blue hour sky, a Christmas tree (of course) and the forest animals – such as deer, squirrels, rabbits, birds – gathering around various feeders; in short it depicts almost everything that makes you go "Aaawwwww!" when you think of Christmas (please see the fourth comment to see the whole bauble) :) At first I really didn't know how to photograph this pretty puzzle ball in an interesting way. But then I thought "I puzzled it together, so I can also take it apart again, let's take a look inside." What looked like a fragile construction consisting of 60 parts (diameter of the ball: 7 cm / 2,7 inches, the small round parts which you can see here each have a diameter of 4 mm / 0,15 inches) proved to be very sturdy and definitely "take-apart-resistant", but in the end I succeeded to pull out one piece from the starry blue hour sky.
On the inside, the pieces are white, of course, but they are also numbered, and at first I thought I'd pick piece No 1, but then I remembered that I'd already shot numbers on a toy piece for "one Color", so I looked for a nice puzzle piece pattern instead and found this star. I secured the backlit puzzle ball between two large pieces of modeling clay to prevent it from rolling away (it had happened a few times in the beginning), and photographed directly through the hole where piece No. 60 had been; the shape of the vignette is the negatice space of missing piece No. 60.
The photo is a single 40 MP High-Res mode shot, and I had to do a lot of dusting and fuzz removal. Those dark spots, however, are part of the plastic pieces, so I didn't remove them all. Processed in Topaz DeNoise AI ("Low Light" mode at N: 7, S: 67, R: 3, CN 14), Luminar 4 (Detail enhancement – small at 79, medium at 41, large at 3), Viveza and Analog Efex.
Happy Macro Monday, Everyone, stay safe and take care!
Noch 45 Tage bis... zu einem sicheren Covid-19-Impfstoff für alle? Schön wär's. Was wir aber alle ganz sicher in 45 Tagen feiern werden: richtig, Heiligabend :) Und ein sicherer Impfstoff dürfte auch auf jedermanns und jederfraus Wunschzettel stehen. Warum aber dieser Schlenker zu Weihnachten, wenn das Thema doch "Puzzle" ist? Weil das einzige "richtige" Puzzle, das ich im Haus habe, ein Ravensburger "Christmas Puzzle Ball" ist. Bestehend aus 60 erstaunlich fest zusammenhaltenden Puzzleteilen.
Zuerst wusste ich nicht recht, wie ich ihn ansprechend fotografieren sollte; von außen ist er nett anzuschauen, zeigt eine Weihnachtswaldszene mit viel Schnee, einem Sternenhimmel, natürlich einer geschmückten Tanne und vielen Tieren, darunter Rotwild, Eichhörnchen, Hasen und vielen Vögeln, die sich an diversen Futterkrippen zum Weihnachtsschmaus eingefunden haben. So weit, so hübsch. Aber ob das ein spannendes Foto ergeben würde? Also dachte ich mir, ich entferne mal eines der Puzzleteile und schaue hinein. Die Rückseite der Puzzleteile ist weiß und jedes trägt eine Nummer. Zunächst habe ich auch auf die Nummern fokussiert, genauer auf Teil Nr. 1, aber dann fiel mir wieder ein, dass ich bereits für "one Colour" vor zwei Wochen die winzigen Nummern auf einem Spielzeugteil fotografiert hatte. Deshalb habe ich dann nach einem interessanten Puzzlemuster Ausschau gehalten – und fand diesen Stern.
Von hinten beleuchtet (und die Kugel mit zwei Stücken Bastelknete fixiert, weil sie anfangs immer wegrollte) und direkt durch das Loch, das Puzzleteil Nr. 60 hinterlassen hat, hindurchfotografiert. Die Ränder der Vignette sind also der negative Raum des fehlenden Puzzleteilchens. Ich musste ganz schön viele Fussel in PS entfernen; die dunklen Pünktchen sind aber in den Plastikteilchen drin, also habe ich nicht alle von ihnen weggestempelt. Entwickelt in Topaz DeNoise AI ("Low Light" Modus, N: 7, S: 67, R: 3, CN 14), Luminar 4 (Detailverbesserung, klein: 79, mittel: 41, groß 3), Viveza und Analog Efex.
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I can guarantee you'll never see this image at the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce. No glossy parks or well tended buildings here--only the grime and grit, courtesy of decades of everyday use and abuse.
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Well it looks like Kaiser's guarantee has expired - lol. And no this was not a Christmas present - I found the photo in my archives. It has been too dark lately to take any new photos.
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JANUARY CAPTURE: At my local sewage works, I am guaranteed to find flying insects all year round, and the birds know this, too. The image is not very sharp, but I find it amusing. I hope you do as well.
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I've stated this before, but I am always amazed that at a sunset beachgoers walk away as soon as the sun hits the horizon line. There is no guarantee, but the possibility is always there that you will be able to see some of the most incredibly amazing colors nature can produce if you just wait another 5 to 10 minutes. The sky can appear to be on fire. It will only last for a minute or so, but will be well worth your wait if you do.
Saturday night, there were so many places I could have been. My choice was out on the Great Salt Lake, hoping to bag a sunset photo. Nothing is ever guaranteed. Too much wind and my reflections are lost, no clouds and no photos. Saturday night was good.
The Great Salt Lake - GPS is not the exact spot of the shot.
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"Don't come closer or I'll have to go
Owning me like gravity are places that pull
If ever there was someone to keep me at home
It would be you" -Eddie Vedder
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Mystery surrounds me, and I wonder where I'm going
There's a cloud above me and it seems to hide the way
I'm going straight ahead, 'cause it's the only way I know
I want to leave the past, and leave just for today
Now then tell me baby, do you need my love?
Tell me baby, are you thinking of me?
Tell me baby, what it is you need?
What kind of satisfaction guaranteed?
"Satisfaction Guaranteed"~The Firm
Guaranteed headache from any of them, personally I steer clear of the flavoured gins. Give me a good old Seagrams gin, slice of lime or cucumber, heaps of ice and a decent tonic…and don’t add any of those fashionable ‘botanical’ extras TVM.
Sheet lead, lead pipes. Fuji X-Pro1 plus Helios 44M-7 at F8. It probably means to state the obvious, but let me say it nevertheless: social inequality in my country, the UK, is not just 'happening', it is not 'an accident'. It is actually organised and systemic and institutional. It has been introduced by man. It is not a product of nature.
After having worked the NS interchange in Anderson, SC, the Pickens Railway Belton Job departs downtown with five gons for CMC and a hopper for Tri County Fertilizer. The crew worked together with the Anderson Job to sort cars and is seen taking the bottom six cars from the Anderson crew's train, which is ready to head back South to Homeland Park. The Anderson Job was using a pair of former CSX Dash 8s this day, so I'm glad I opted for the Belton Job which is always guaranteed a classic U-boat.
don't come closer or I'll have to go
holding me like gravity are places that pull
if ever there was someone to keep me at home
everyone I come across, in cages they bought
they think of me and my wandering, but I'm never what they thought
i've got my indignation, but I'm pure in all my thoughts
Choices, choices. With guaranteed sun today it offered a wealth of possibilities - and that was just on the Yarmouth branch itself for this LSL charter replaying the summer Saturdays of old when 40s worked the Newcastle - Yarmouth and the Manchester - Skegness. The Inter-City liveried air-conditioned Mark 3 stock mated to the old warrior was definitely not a match of yore though. The glorious weather made the 6 mile round hike to get here worthwhile and only two other photographers were here, one who had arrived in his canoe!
Ben Harvey accordion and his band Ornamentals are not entertaining very often. You could probably count their yearly performances on one hand. I for one, look forward to hear this band, as accordion is rarely used in jazz. Ben always dresses up and his bandmates have to keep up. Benson Lee on jazz banjo, Great Bob Scott on drums and Gram Whitty -bass upright bass. Gene Harvey played sax, but is not always available as he performs all over the world. Ben and Gene are also very capable singers, so good entertainment is guaranteed.
256. Distillery. P1690621; Taken 2023-Aug 20. Upload 2023 Oct 12.
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Last in the current bird set - an American Avocet takes flight against the reflected sunset afterglow. Too bad its wing overlaps the sand bar in the background; I thought of removing it digitally, but in the end decided against it. Unlucky overlap happens. With a stationary subject like a landscape, one can make the slight adjustment needed; when shooting action, I'm happy just to acquire focus and get something acceptable. If the shot turns out great, it's almost guaranteed that luck was involved.
I don't think this shot is great, but I like the feel, the moment captured.
Photographed at Reed Lake, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2024 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
(Cacatua leadbeateri)
Larapinta Dr // Namatjira Dr - Northern Teritory
Austrália
We had missed this species in Ouyen, when it had been almost guaranteed to us (but I don’t want to talk too much about that disappointment).
We saw them for the first time, a bit far away, on the return from a frustrating visit to Kings Canyon, at a parking lot where we stopped to rest.
This time, we were incredibly lucky, due to a previous bad luck!
On our last day in Alice Springs, we decided to give the Spinifex Pigeons a second chance at Ormiston Gorge.
The directions there are pretty simple: we left Alice Springs heading west on Larapinta Road, and 50 km later, at the only intersection, we had to turn right. Near this intersection, there’s even a monument pointing towards Red Center Way, and on the first day, we stopped there to take some photos.
It’s really well marked, but I don’t know what happened, neither my wife nor I noticed the turn, and it was a few kilometers later that we realized we weren’t on the correct road. I think even Google Maps "forgot" to warn us.
We turned back, and as soon as we turned left onto the correct road, I saw two cockatoos land right next to the road on a bush. The first thing I did was stop and position the car so my wife could photograph from the window while I got out on the opposite side and used the car as a partial hide.
Then, since we saw they were feeding and calm, we gradually got closer and took all the photos we wanted. We just couldn’t find a better background.
But the moral of the story is, if I hadn’t made that mistake, we wouldn’t have seen them!
One last note for those who might not know: This species is not easy to find, and it was one of the ones we most wanted to see. We didn’t see it with its crest raised, but that would have been asking too much!
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All my photos are now organized into sets by the country where they were taken, by taxonomic order, by family, by species (often with just one photo for the rarer ones), and by the date they were taken.
So, you may find:
- All the photos for this trip Austrália (2024) (309)
- All the photos for this order PSITTACIFORMES (110)
- All the photos for this family Cacatuidae (Cacatuídeos) (9)
- All the photos for this species Cacatua leadbeateri (1)
- All the photos taken this day 2024/11/13 (11)
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