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I thought that full was something better
Detestable is how it feels
Why must this be？
The honey used to taste delightful
Was it a poison actually
There to trap me？
Island Of Madagascar
Off The East Coast of Africa
Palmarium Reserve
Endangered lemur photographed at night aided by a guide holding a spotlight.
The aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis) is a lemur, a strepsirrhine primate native to Madagascar that combines rodent-like teeth that perpetually grow and a special thin middle finger.
It is the world's largest nocturnal primate, and is characterized by its unusual method of finding food; it taps on trees to find grubs, then gnaws holes in the wood using its forward slanting incisors to create a small hole in which it inserts its narrow middle finger to pull the grubs out.
From an ecological point of view the aye-aye fills the niche of a woodpecker, as it is capable of penetrating wood to extract the invertebrates within.
The aye-aye is the only extant member of the genus Daubentonia and family Daubentoniidae. It is currently classified as Endangered by the IUCN.
The aye-aye is an arboreal animal meaning that it spends most of its life high in the trees. Aye-ayes sleep, eat, travel and mate in the trees and are most commonly found close to the canopy where there is plenty of cover from the dense foliage. - Wikipedia
This was the most intense aurora I’ve ever seen. With a jaw-dropping corona above, dancing curtains, rotating vortices and lightning-like events extending all the way to each horizon, nearly every square inch of the sky – for a full 360 degrees – was filled with color. This was taken about 150 miles north of the arctic circle, during a geomagnetic storm that registered a Kp=6. Moments like this quickly make up for weeks in the unbearable cold.
For those interested, I've written an article on photographing the aurora HERE
I've walked this path many times, but normally in the opposite direction, and so I'd never appreciated the nice swoop the guided busway makes here.
I had to recrop this one after the fact because I was rushed to get this one shot: I'd sped up to get ahead of a pedestrian so I could take this shot, and I only had this instance before he would overtake me again getting in the frame. Thank goodness for enough pixels to let me re-compose after.
Macro Mondays theme: Father
This is a section of the leatherette cover of one of the four volumes of Audel's Carpenters and Builders Guide that my father gave me before he died. It is packed with useful information that he used for many things, including designing and building the two story extension to my family home. Each time I look at these books on my shelf I think of my father who was born 100 years ago. Sadly he died at the age of 91. I don't use it for anything practical (the internet is much easier) but it is a treasured memorial to the old man.
This is a quote from the frontispiece:
When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for; and let us think, as we lay stone on stone, that a time is to come when those stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say, as they look upon the labor and wrought substance of them, "See! This our father did for us!"
~John Ruskin
HMM
The Plough and Lighthouses have both guided men to their safe destinations although one has done so for thousands of years rather than hundreds.
A composite of several shots with the beams captured with continuous fired shots at high ISO with a 2.5 sec exposure time.
Portland Bill Lighthouse, Dorset looking North.
This delightful young lady was our guide when we were spending one day in Croatia ,on a Danube cruise. We moored at Vukovar & were driven to the beautiful old town of Osijek . We were amusingly entertained by a comical fisherman & then had a lunch with a local family. Our guide kept us well informed in a most pleasant manner , throughout..
Journey again in another view. The old guide alway walked ahead. When the we left behind far away. He stopped and looked at us in silence. He was wordless and never laugh not like any other guide I have ever met. Maybe he wasn't a guide but a local peasant paid to show us the way.
However, he was cool not only in character but also in pose.
Helga von Hinten: where have you been boy ?
James Keziah Delaney: I've been in the world.
in "taboo"
season 1 _ episode one
This lovely little lighthouse is a short drive up the coast at Blyth. I usually see it as I drive further afield as heading further afield is something I enjoy. I often stop here on the way back from somewhere and either the light isn't great or I've had my fill of shooting for the day. Anyhow I've finally got round to it...
my second time at this wonderful manor with the five Alive crew something quite colonial about this place!
This is the Guia Lighthouse as seen from a place called "Boca do Inferno", which translates into "Hell's Mouth".
O Farol de Nossa Senhora da Guia, aqui visto a partir da Boca do Inferno.
Cascais - Portugal
Cape Foulwind Lighthouse.
Looking back to this night, I wish I got some shots with my 24mm ƒ1.4 lens, I was too excited to have the 14mm ƒ2.8 lens and with limited time, had to leave before I wanted to. We will be back, Mr Foulwind.
PLEASE DON"T INVITE THIS PHOTO TO ANY AWARD (C1/P1) GROUPS, THE AWARDS ARE TACKY AND DON"T GIVE ANY VALUE.
One of the many Lighthouse Sculptures situated in NE Scotland, Moray, Orkney and Shetland in the "Light The North" sculpture trail in aid of Clan Cancer Charity. Each one stands at 2.5m tall.
They will later be auctioned off to raise funds for the charity.
In May 2012, I was guiding a group of, mostly, Taiwanese students along the Bassins à flot of Bordeaux. We were heading to the U-Boot-Bunker which was opened at night for the European museums night. As back in this time, the submarine pens were used as a cultural place where you could enjoy, for free, Art exhibitions. My friend Mr Jim who is now back in Taipei took that moment on his fancy camera. Najwa was passing over a fence and I was looking at my group wondering if I wasn't walking too fast or giving too many details about this area History.
Maybe, I recalled that in May 1943 this tidal basin was heavily bombed by the US Air Force. This bombing raid caused the destruction of a sluice-gate which conducted to the emptying of the 1st tidal basin.
This basin was used by the Italians as a base for their "sommergibili" called Betasom, while the tidal basin number 2 was controlled by the Germans whom were making built up a U-Bunker. On this port you had 2 submarine bases until September 1943 when Italy surrendered (at least a part of Italy). More infos: search my articles on your favourite browser.
As the water went down to the river really fast, it resulted the destruction of a dock. This dock (called a "quai" in French) was the one we were walking on; as it was rebuilt in 1947. Nonetheless, all the hangars that can be sighted on the archive picture's aren't nowadays all up. The old area of the tidal basins was in 2012 still free of big buildings... Edifices in concrete have arisen in these past years, replacing free space left by some of the disappeared hangars.
Now, I know why we weren't walking as fast as we wanted.
when comfort and warmth can't be found
i still reach for you
but i'm lost, crushed, cold and confused
with no guiding light left inside
♥ Muse - Guiding Light
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Como cada 24 de Dic aparezco por este enclave local
As usual every year come to see the sunrise on the 24th
Better on L
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Kalbarri National Park is home to many awe inspiring vistas. The seasoned traveler would be able to name a handful of the iconic landmarks in the area.
For me, however, Pot Alley is the location around Kalbarri that provides the best photographic opportunities.
The winding alleys flanked by sand stone rock formations, jagged red cliffs and native flora gives the sense of being much further away from the civilization than you really are. In reality, however, Pot Alley is located 10 mins away from the town of Kalbarri and is one of the most accessible sight seeing locations in the National Park.
This is a 77 frame panorama captured with a Nikon Z6 and 35mm 1.8 S lens. I shot this image with a wide open aperture and a low percentage of overlap between frames (40% instead of my usual 50-60%) because I've heard good reviews of 35mm S lens that I wanted to push it to is limits.
The 35mm is truly an amazing performer with ultra low distortion and incredibly sharp corners when shot wide-open. It also out performed the Nikon 58mm f/1.4G for coma performance in the corners, something very few Nikon lenses do well.
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Nikon Z6
Nikon 35mm f/1.8 S lens
Gigapan Epic Pro
13 seconds x 77
ISO3200
f/1.8