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An upwards view between the 3 supertalls in Lujiazui.
Left to right:
Jin Mao Tower 金茂大厦,
SWFC 上海环球金融中心,
Shanghai Center 上海中心大厦 (aka Shanghai Tower).
The world's only group of three supertalls.
😁 I must have a gazillion of these shots, but the view is fascinating...
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Hello my amazing Flickr friends !
Today is a red day at Color my World Daily and the theme at Macro Mondays is motion blur.
I had a very busy weekend so my picture is a very last minute, emergency picture. Of course I went with a book (a red one) and the motion blurred pages. Isn’t that the easiest motion blur to capture ? But of course I had to take a gazillion pictures to get one « not that bad » …
I hope you like it my friend !!
I wish you all an amazing Monday ! See you later and happy CMWD and HMM to all participants !!
Thank you so much for all your lovely comments / favs/ general support / happy thoughts!! Stay safe and well!! And see you soon on Flickr !!
This posting should surprise no one!! giggling
The Macro Mondays theme for 5/8 is broken and I’m so glad I keep resisting the urge to cast this aside- to refuse to throw this away!! It’s a bottle that I have photographed a gazillion times. Will post a size verification a bit later.
……💙 HMM 💙
……💙💔 HMM 💔💙
This is probably my favorite of the gazillion pictures I shot for the Macro Mondays theme of medium for 3/28. It’s a portion of a small watercolor painting of a windmill in a field of tulips that my dear SIL created, along with a miniature set of brushes, although I have no clue if they’re even appropriate for water colors. (the size verification shots are in the first comment box :) In rereading the topic, methinks that these are tools to transport the media and might be disallowed??? I might give it a whirl and see what the admins think.
……. 💙💛HMM🎨💙
Ok, this will be my last pic for the year~ Thank you to everyone who has given my SL Flickr pics those fun SLAPs, 'faves' and other Group Awards during the year, and thanks a gazillion for all the kind-hearted comments that you've posted to my pics too! The encouragement and support has been greatly appreciated.
~ Make your festive season awesome, safe travels! ~
See you in the New Year! 😘
Hello my amazing Flickr friends !
Today is a blue day at Color my World Daily and at the fabulous Looking close on Friday the theme is Wise Words.
I dont know for you, but being very clumsy during my childhood, wearing glasses and being a lefty (it appears that left handed people running freely while holding sharp objects make other people nervous lol) I heard a gazillion times the words of wisdom : don’t run with scissors !
I know, I was clumsy but I always loved arts and crafts so I had scissors in my hands pretty often. I still can hear those words coming from my Mom’s mouth , except that today I’m the Mom… and between you and me; my oldest son is as clumsy as his mom ;-). Seeing him, browsing around with scissors in his hand makes my nervous….
Have a beautiful day and see you later my friends !! And remember, whatever you do: DO NOT RUN WITH SCISSORS !!!
Thank you so much for all your lovely comments / favs/ general support / happy thoughts!! Stay safe and well!! And see you soon on Flickr !!
Taken at Campbell Valley Park, Langley, British, Columbia, Canada.
Somehow I missed this one in the gazillions of shots I've taken over the years.
A little bit of summery solace from the archives.
Red-Eyed Vireo
Had to wait for a lull in the wind and rain to try and smooth the water out. Waves were breaking and I was huddled behind a large boulder muttering expletives attempting to keep the filter clean. Just to the left was a super bouncy labrador who'd been sat patiently in the back of the van for 4 hrs and was now delighting in snapping at a gazillion midges.
Landscape photography:)
Hello my amazing Flickr friends !
Today is a red day at Color my World Daily and we celebrate forks at Macro Mondays. Happy red fork day !
I had lots of concepts and ideas for my fork picture so I took a gazillion pictures…I have to warn you: you might see several forks pictures on this Photostream in the future… I must admit I like this theme very much. But since I’m back on my diet / personal challenge, there is no food on my fork today. I was afraid I would end up eating my props and then sabotaging my personal goal of loosing some pandemic fat…But luckily for me, no props were harmed or eaten during this photo session…
Mucho, mucho amor for you all !! See you later my friends and have an amazing day , I have another morning meeting !!
Thank you so much for all your lovely comments / favs/ general support / happy thoughts!! Stay safe and well!! And see you soon on Flickr !
Context for the spoon smiles picture for the SOS theme. But, I may end up using this one for the actual posting!!
Hmmm, I learned: that if you want to do spoon reflection pictures, you need to have a shiny unused spoon, with no scratches! And you need to take a gazillion before you find one that kind of works. And you can inadvertently capture yourself depending upon the angle.
A ladle is a specialized spoon, and this one, a gravy ladle, can pour from both sides.
…. 💙💛😁HSoS💛💙
French pocket knife. A genuine French "Laguiole". Different price class than the famous Opinel brand though, but still my EDC knife.
Genuine "Laguiole":
(or: why your product should not be named after a place):
There's probably a gazillion different makers/distributors/sellers of "Laguiole" knives (in France alone there's allegedly over 130 of them), but most of the knives - the cheap stuff - are most likely from somewhere in Asia...
The problem here is that "Laguiole" as a single word is neither a brand nor a single knifemaker, it is just the name of a 1,200-people village in France, and therefore cannot be protected as a brand or quality mark.
As a rule of thumb, only "Laguioles" with the "Laguiole Origine Garantie" as issued by the "Association de Défense du Laguiole Origine Garantie" in the town hall of the village Laguiole are genuine, hand-made knives from the region.
On a genuine Laguiole, you may find the wording "Laguiole Origine Garantie" written somewhere on the blade and/or the respective logo "L within O" is applied to the knife - and both of this are a protected logo resp. wording.
Lauguiole en Aubrac also has the bull head as protected logo.
Some "genuine Laguiole" makers:
Coutellerie du Barry
Fontenille Pataud
Forge de Laguiole
Honoré Durand
Laguiole en Aubrac
Laguiole Village
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It didn’t matter that we’d seen it on YouTube a gazillion times already. That we’d pored over Flickr for images from here had no effect whatsoever. When we pulled up in the car park and saw it for ourselves for the very first time, two pairs of eyes popped out of their sockets as if on cartoon springs and boinged about in front of us as we gasped in amazement. Boinged? Is that even a word? West Brom fans say it is, so we’ll go with it. Jokulsarlon was bonkers, and so were we at first sight. It was as if we’d arrived at a seaport, yet instead of mighty ships waiting to carry us off on a cruise, a chaos of white and blue forms. Every one of them uniquely shaped and ever changing, littering the lagoon, silent, yet moving away from the glacier towards the ocean at a speed that was barely detectable.
We’d arrived late in the evening, and though it was still quite busy, there was space to roam quietly alone, and I edged away from what crowds there were along the shoreline towards the glacier, until the only sound I could hear was that of large chunks of ice cracking and buckling mournfully out on the water. From the glacier they would break free, floating around like the world’s slowest rubber ducks in a bathtub, nodding to each other silently under the endless Icelandic daylight. Each of them knowing that after two hundred years or more of being trapped in an enormous blue wall of ice, they’d soon be swept away along the shortest river in Iceland, beneath that handsome white suspension bridge and onto Diamond Beach for the final act. If you’d bought a bottle of gin with you, here was the place to grab a chunk or two to bring it to the proper temperature. Sadly, I didn’t have gin. Happily I had a camera. And a spare one just in case.
The hinterland glacier creaked and heaved under a glowing envelope of late sunlight, that poked through dark clouds and ignited the scene before me, blazing a golden path across the lagoon. Up until now our visit to Iceland had delivered the sort of conditions we’d grimly acknowledged we would simply have to “work with,” but now we had some light to get excited about at last. Quite why I was shooting at f22, I really can’t say four years later. Perhaps I was in too much of a hurry to attach a filter in the days before I bought the magnetic ones that I can attach in no time at all. And here was the trade off between wanting to smooth out the water whilst not blurring the icebergs. At a second I seemed to be just about getting away with it. Three seconds and the blurring started to drop hints. But for many of those images taken here, I’d thoughtlessly aimed at thirty seconds. This, and the fact that we only passed here at midday three years later means I need to return to the glacier lagoon another time, this time at the right time, and opening the shutter for the right amount of time. Hopefully finding cleaner, simpler compositions amongst the icy debris. That’s a lot of things to get right. Seriously – f22? Still, it didn’t put me off having a go at reworking the image.
It seems strange that with so many images from last year’s visit to work on, I’ve found myself returning to the earlier 2019 trip a few times recently. A trip where we raced around in a hurry, seeing everything but seeing so little, barely able to get to grips with a location before moving onto the next one, which might have been a hundred miles or more away. Getting nowhere whatsoever when the clouds descended and hid everything from sight at two of the locations we’d been most excited about. I never felt I’d told the full story of that first visit to Iceland either. And I’m forever learning, trying to improve on the previous edit, hopefully getting somewhere even with such a cluttered scene as this. Will I still be unearthing images from the 2022 adventure in another four years’ time? Probably. Especially as I haven’t even started on so many of them yet. It’s like having a treasure chest that you can keep dipping into, finding images to shake out memories that need to written down, remembered and shared.
So I’ll carry on dusting off those older images, revisiting the raw files and seeing whether I’ve got any further forward in the editing process. After all, if there’s a golden glow over a lagoon full of icebergs to be worked on, it seems the obvious thing to do.
There are a gazillion depictions of a man holding a skull, either as a symbol for an austere and unworldly lifestyle or as a means to contemplate over evanescence and mortality. No matter the reason, I find a man who is holding a skull even more ... interesting. :-)
While there are a gazillion photos of the Water Castle Mespelbrunn, there are only a few of the beautiful forester's house next to it. Considering that it is a building of historic importance, I'm surprised that it is most often overlooked. It was constructed in 1726 and is located next to the water castle, property of the Counts of Ingelheim, German: Grafen von Ingelheim genannt Echter von und zu Mespelbrunn.
Since I'm not big on tourist photography, I left the castle aside and captured the forester's house instead.
Thank you to everyone who has given my SL Flickr pics 'faves' and Group Awards during the year, and thanks a gazillion for all the kind-hearted comments too! The encouragement and support has been greatly appreciated.
See you in the New Year! 😘
In the distance... - seen from the New Schleißheim Palace.
And in front of Schloss Lustheim a gazillion of people are ice skating on the Mittelkanal in the Schlosspark.
Like there is no Corononavirus still spreading...
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Hello amazing Flickr People !!
Today is a green day at Color my World daily Group and at that is all. And since we had some serious rain yesterday, I took a gazillion pictures of droplets on plants.
And, if you dont remember: I have a droplet obsession, which started a few years ago…So here you go: a droplet on a green clover. It is not a 4 leafs clover but I have a feeling it will bring us some luck for today !! Lucky day to all Flickr users !!
See you later my friends !
Thank you so much for all your lovely comments / favs/ general support / happy thoughts!! Stay safe and healthy!! And see you soon on Flickr!!
"Thoughts are like drops of water: with our thoughts we can drown in a sea of negativity, or we can float on the ocean of life."
Louise Hay
Having a macro lens means that one might attempt what seems like an impossible task. The challenge...catch the reflection of colorful paper placed in one's kitchen sink. Then set the faucet to a light spray of water and see what happens.
It only took a gazillion attempts to capture this one image...but I love it! Here's to perseverance!
The Crazy Tuesday theme for 1/17 is measuring and/or measuring instruments. A gazillion years ago I used to videotape memorable events and I designed a business card with this teddy logo. Found a place online that would turn designs into watches- cool huh?
ANSH scavenger19 older technology
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Sometimes your photo props refuse to cooperate- this candle just fell over in the midst of a gazillion shots photo shoot for the macro mondays theme of tradition !!
…..BUT it will work for Crazy Tuesday, right??
This picture was Long due...and I crashed like gazillion times.... Sometime ago she did a pic of us which you can see here:
www.flickr.com/photos/165808098@N08/48460604027
She is really the cute one...Hope you like this Picture Trix >3
In many ways, this typifies San Francisco for me...
I think everyone in New York City is in favor of recycling (except, perhaps, the rats who steal our pizza and terrorize our babies). But we don't have any illusions about saving the entire planet by picking up a few scraps of recyclable junk.
And we don't have trucks like this one. We do have graffiti, but most of it is on our subways and building walls ...
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In early November 2015, I flew from New York to San Francisco to take a weekend street-photography workshop under the tutelage of Eric Kim. As you might expect, I took gazillions of photos; but not all of them were specifically associated with the workshop itself. On the way out to San Francisco, I took a bunch of pictures with my iPhone; and during the weekend, I took a number of photos that had little or nothing to do with street-photography per se.
I’ll upload the photos in dribs and drabs during the next several days, and let you decide which ones are sufficiently interesting to warrant a second look…
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In 2018, the butterfly pavilion re-opened after a two year hiatus. Renovation had started in 2016. Then changes in administrations and budget difficulties delayed the renovation. The renovation was much less in scope than originally envisioned, but it was nice to have the pavilion back.
I miss the more exotic butterflies like the glasswings the pavilion used to host. But procuring them and others had become expensive. So the species it hosts now are more native to the region, or not so expensive to procure.
With the re-opening, I of course have a gazillion shots from that year.
In the background here, you can just make out the mesh that makes up the enclosure, corralling the critters. The foliage inside the enclosure hadn't grown back to what it had been before the long renovation began and we had nothing to occlude the view all the way across.
© Dan McCabe
Winner, Merit Award, 2019 Whidbey Island Fair
Winner, Blue Ribbon, 2019 Whidbey Island Fair
Another photo from my recent Palouse road trip.
There is an area just north of Dodge, WA that has a gazillion wind turbines. I first encountered them after dark, when thousands of red lights appeared on the side of the road. The next day's travel confirmed that those lights belonged to wind turbines.
I count 18 separate turbines in this photo, including two that are just over the horizon on the very left of the image.
In the foreground, you can see the start of a service road that snakes beside each of the wind turbines.
This photo was taken against a backdrop of mean looking storm clouds. Their dark nature is what I actually saw. With that backdrop, the white wind turbines really stand out.
This is another one of my photos that I'm presenting slightly larger than I usually do, since there are a lot of interesting details in this photo.
This is a panorama shot, taken with my iPhone6s+ camera, on the corner of Larkin St. and Alice B. Toklas Place - about a block off of Geary Street where I was staying ...
It was the first such exhibit of "street art" or "building graffiti" that I had seen on this visit, and I was quite taken with it. But over the next few days, I saw dozens more like this -- not only in the Tenderloin District where I was staying, but also in the Mission District where I spent most of Saturday photographing. Some of those paintings, murals, and graffiti will show up in the days to come ...
Note: I chose this as my "photo of the day" for Nov 24, 2015.
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In early November 2015, I flew from New York to San Francisco to take a weekend street-photography workshop under the tutelage of Eric Kim. As you might expect, I took gazillions of photos; but not all of them were specifically associated with the workshop itself. On the way out to San Francisco, I took a bunch of pictures with my iPhone; and during the weekend, I took a number of photos that had little or nothing to do with street-photography per se.
I’ll upload the photos in dribs and drabs during the next several days, and let you decide which ones are sufficiently interesting to warrant a second look…
☼My works are often BEST VIEWED LARGE ☼
Many years ago my neighbors band of goats ate most of the bark on my Bloodgood Maple. I didn't think it would recover. With extra water for a few years, it grew new branches and refilled the area with pretty reds. The grey in the rear are mountains across the Skagit River. The treatment made them dark grey.
Just beyond the tree {Judy, a tribute to my fallen cousin} the land falls toward a lower meadow. My home is on a plateau carved when they set the house on. The large tree to the right is a young large leaf Maple, one of a gazillion throughout my almost 13 acres.
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A repost for Happy Caturday’s theme “favourites”. I never tire of this image of Spyder... it always brings a smile to my face every time even though I think I've seen it a gazillion times.
Happy Caturday!
Another French pocket knife. A genuine French "Laguiole". Different price class than the famous Opinel brand though, but still my EDC knife.
Genuine "Laguiole":
(or: why your product should not be named after a place):
There's probably a gazillion different makers/distributors/sellers of "Laguiole" knives (in France alone there's allegedly over 130 of them), but most of the knives - the cheap stuff - are most likely from somewhere in Asia...
The problem here is that "Laguiole" as a single word is neither a brand nor a single knifemaker, it is just the name of a 1,200-people village in France, and therefore cannot be protected as a brand or quality mark.
As a rule of thumb, only "Laguioles" with the "Laguiole Origine Garantie" as issued by the "Association de Défense du Laguiole Origine Garantie" in the town hall of the village Laguiole are genuine, hand-made knives from the region.
On a genuine Laguiole, you may find the wording "Laguiole Origine Garantie" written somewhere on the blade and/or the respective logo "L within O" is applied to the knife - and both of this are a protected logo resp. wording.
Lauguiole en Aubrac also has the bull head as protected logo.
Some "genuine Laguiole" makers:
Coutellerie du Barry
Fontenille Pataud
Forge de Laguiole
Honoré Durand
Laguiole en Aubrac
Laguiole Village
© All Rights Reserved - you may not use this image in any form without my prior permission.
sending Light and Love to our good friend JLS Photography, who is recovering from a nightmare. gazillions of pics to choose from and none seem good enuff for this situation. know you are loved, dear jeanne.
Another French pocket knife. And a genuine French "Laguiole". Different price class than Opinel, though, but still my EDC knife.
Genuine "Laguiole":
(or: why your product should not be named after a place):
There's probably a gazillion different makers/distributors/sellers of "Laguiole" knives (in France alone there's allegedly over 130 of them), but most of the knives - the cheap stuff - are most likely from somewhere in Asia...
The problem here is that "Laguiole" as a single word is neither a brand nor a single knifemaker, it is just the name of a 1,200-people village in France, and therefore cannot be protected as a quality mark.
As a rule of thumb, only "Laguioles" with the "Laguiole Origine Garantie" as issued by the "Association de Défense du Laguiole Origine Garantie" in the town hall of the village Laguiole are genuine, hand-made knives from the region.
You may find the wording "Laguiole Origine Garantie" written somewhere on the blade and/or the respective logo "L within O" is applied to the knife - and that is a protected logo / wording.
Lauguiole en Aubrac also has the bull head as protected logo.
Some "genuine Laguiole" makers:
Coutellerie du Barry
Fontenille Pataud
Forge de Laguiole
Honoré Durand
Laguiole en Aubrac
Laguiole Village
© All Rights Reserved - you may not use this image in any form without my prior permission.
naked bulb requested i allow the glassy ladies to meet at my place. since the darkness fell, there have been fears as to their right to meet. they ain't taking any chances! we figured meeting in plain sight (surrounded by gazillions of glass creatures) would be the least obvious..
-dedicated to carrie fisher, a warrior to the end.
Summer morning on Jackson Lake. It was just me and a gazillion mosquitoes. We all enjoyed this calm sunrise =)
Another French pocket knife. A genuine French "Laguiole en Aubrac" with polished blade and hardware, ebony wood handle.
Genuine "Laguiole":
(or: why your product should not be named after a place):
There's probably a gazillion different makers/distributors/sellers of "Laguiole" knives (in France alone there's allegedly over 130 of them), but most of the knives - the cheap stuff - are most likely from somewhere in Asia...
The problem here is that "Laguiole" as a single word is neither a brand nor a single knifemaker, it is just the name of a 1,200-people village in France, and therefore cannot be protected as a quality mark.
As a rule of thumb, only "Laguioles" with the "Laguiole Origine Garantie" as issued by the "Association de Défense du Laguiole Origine Garantie" in the town hall of the village Laguiole are genuine, hand-made knives from the region.
You may find the wording "Laguiole Origine Garantie" written somewhere on the blade and/or the respective logo "L within O" is applied to the knife - and that is a protected logo / wording.
Lauguiole en Aubrac also has the bull head as protected logo.
Some "genuine Laguiole" makers:
Coutellerie du Barry
Fontenille Pataud
Forge de Laguiole
Honoré Durand
Laguiole en Aubrac
Laguiole Village
© All Rights Reserved - you may not use this image in any form without my prior permission.
I know there are a gazillion or more images taken of this amazing place, but here is my version of it.
This is Horseshoe Bend, just a few miles from Page Arizona.
This is where the mighty Colorado River takes a wide bend around the beautiful red rock formation that you see in the middle of the image.
This is the same river that flows through the mighty Grand Canyon.
I was going to post a wider view and show the complete bend, but the sun was reflecting off of the river to the left of the image. So instead, I decided to capture the bright reflection off part of the Colorado river and make a sun star effect instead. :-)
If you look closely at the bottom left of the photograph, you will see some people camped along the river. I assume they got there by boat, or perhaps they are just great cliff climbers? :-)
I hope you enjoy the view, and take care my friends.
No use of this image in any form without my permission. Thank you kindly.
It took a gazillion shots but I got one that was golden…. grin…. Finding things for the SoS theme of “shades of gold”
I'm really glad I took a gazillion photos during that sunrise, because I haven't been able to get out for another since then!
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Thanks a gazillion to my great flickr friends for your wonderful support and absolutely kind words and wishes, especially during the last weeks...!! I'm deeply touched and sooo grateful - and am trying to catch up ;-)! Happy and healthy new week ahead!
Now THAT looks like a fun activity... Paraglider over the Palouse, from Steptoe Butte, I took a gazillion photos of these (he had a friend doing antics much higher up), most of them were blurry, about a dozen photos came out passable.
Another Abstract on a portion of the rear of a spectacular 1937 Mercedes 540 K Special Roadster with the 'wet red' paint job, waiting to be auctioned for a gazillion $.
The Predator wants another shot at Vector (seems there's a score to settle).
Some archived pics from last year (a sort of loose-fitting Part II, I suppose). There are a gazillion Predator pics out there (most of which are far better than mine), but I do love the movie and the figure, so many, many thanks for viewing!
F-16C Fighting Falcon
Melbourne, Florida, USA.
Two USAF Air Demonstration Squadron F-16Cs (Thunderbirds 5 and 6) perform the calypso pass at the 2017 Melbourne Air and Space show. Thunderbird 5 always performs the inverted part of the calypso pass and generally spends so much time upside down during the show that the number "5" is also inverted so it appears normal in photographs.
I had trouble taming the noise monster on this one as I compensated for very unfavorable light. I should have shot in RAW but wasn't sure the buffer on the D7200 would hold up. Realistically, however, it doesn't take a gazillion shots - just a handful at the exact right time. Still learning as always!