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When I was sure George was indeed leaving I picked the camera up. Thank goodness for image stabilization as my adrenaline had kicked in and I was shaking. Taken at 200mm, and talk about missed opportunities I could have zoomed right in on his face...missed it, didn't even think about doing it at the time :( I uploaded this the original size so feel free to zoom in.
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Highest Position on Explore #212
A shot I took on a storm chase last summer and finally got around to processing it...
This is Lake George, an ancient lake, believed to be more than a million years old.
Originally, small streams drained its catchment into the Yass River, but then the Lake George Escarpment rose due to major crustal movement along a strong fault line, blocking this drainage and forming the lake. Lake George has in previous Ice Ages been much larger and deeper.
Currently, the lake is dry and has been for many years... I cant imagine what it would look like full of water and life...
Lake George, nicknamed the Queen of American Lakes, is a long, narrow oligotrophic lake located at the southeast base of the Adirondack Mountains, in the northeastern portion of the U.S. state of New York. It lies within the upper region of the Great Appalachian Valley and drains northward into Lake Champlain and the St. Lawrence River drainage basin. The lake is situated along the historical natural (Amerindian) path between the valley of the Hudson River and that of the St. Lawrence, so lies on the direct land route between Albany, New York and Montreal, Canada. The lake extends about 32.2 mi (51.8 km) on a north-south axis, is quite deep, and varies from 1 to 3 miles (1.7 to 5 km) in width, presenting a significant barrier to east-west travel. Although the year-round population of the Lake George region is relatively small, the summertime population can swell to over 50,000 residents, many in the Village of Lake George region at the southern end of the lake.
Lake George drains into Lake Champlain to its north through a short stream, the La Chute River, with many falls and rapids, dropping about 230 feet (70 m) in its 3½-mile (6 km) course—virtually all of which is within the lands of Ticonderoga, New York and near the site of the famous Fort Ticonderoga. Ultimately the waters flowing via the 106-mile-long (171 km) Richelieu River empty into the St. Lawrence River downstream and northeast of Montreal and then into the North Atlantic Ocean above Nova Scotia.
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Minibuses to all corners of Grenada, Eastern Caribbean, depart from a bus station by the waterfront in St. George.
in the Indiana Statehouse
This is a copy of an original bust by French sculptor Jean Antoine Houdon in 1785. The original was created in George Washington’s home.
The colored rectangles on our national hero, our Republic's Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus, our number one founding father, are my two cents of comment.
Longest 1931 until 1937
16th Longest Suspension Bridge in the world.
Historical Park, Fort Lee, New Jersey
A five minute water taxi from Kastellorizo is well worth it. Church of St. George is adjacent to St. George Beach. It appears as though many thought quite highly of the man, naming everything in sight after him. There is a bar that adds an old world charm to it as well. I imagine it’s named St. George Bar.
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Georges Island (named after George II of Great Britain) is a glacial drumlin and the largest island entirely within the harbour limits of Halifax Harbour located in Nova Scotia's Halifax Regional Municipality. The Island is the location of Fort Charlotte - named after King George's wife Charlotte. Fort Charlotte was built during Father Le Loutre's War, a year after Citadel Hill (Fort George). The island is now a National Historic Site of Canada. - Wikipedia
One of my favourite places from my trip this year to Malaysia. Looking out over George town, Malaysia, from Penang Hill
One of the icons of British steam… The 4-6-0 King Class locomotives, the most powerful built by the Great Western Railway company, handled the principal GWR express trains on the main line from London to the West of England and on the GWR main line to Birmingham and Wolverhampton, including No. 6000 King George V, until 1962 when the class was withdrawn.
I love shooting abandoned shacks. Salty sea air has a different way of eating away at the structures. Off the beautiful beaches of Exuma, near George Town, I was provided the opportunity.
The George Mason Memorial is a memorial to Founding Father George Mason, the author of the Virginia Declaration of Rights that inspired the United States Bill of Rights. The Memorial is located in West Potomac Park within Washington, D.C. at 24 E Basin Drive SW, which is a part of the Tidal Basin. Authorized in 1990, with a groundbreaking in 2000 and dedication in 2002, the memorial includes a sculpture of Mason, a pool, trellis, circular hedges, and numerous inscriptions. It was the first memorial in the Tidal Basin area to be dedicated to someone who was not a former President of the United States .
Big George lives with his family in Lion Park, Johannesburg, S.A.. Lion Park is a vast savannah land with many African animals living almost in the wild . Meaning, their enclosures are huge, and appropriate to their needs.
The lions of the Lion Park are taken care by vets and fed by the Lion Park programme. The fact that they do not hunt does not mean that they do not have a normal life. Their very big enclosures are part of the natural African savannah. Each lion family/pride lives in separate enclosure, because each dominant male lion is the head of his pride and he protects it even against other lions.The lions are the only big cats that form a family/pride. Each pride consists of one or more males, but the one of them is the dominant.
The Lion Park has about 85 lions!! That are NEVER bred or moved elsewhere for “canned hunting” www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/jun/03/canned-huntin... !! Canned hunting is a fast-growing business in South Africa, where thousands of lions are being bred on farms to be shot by wealthy foreign trophy-hunters!! According to me , ALL these persons involved in canned hunting are sick!! ”
“Sport Hunting” is a sickness, a perversion and a danger, and should be recognized as such!!
People who get their 'amusement' from hunting and killing defenseless animals, can only be suffering from a mental disorder.
In a world with boundless opportunities for amusement, it's detestable that anyone would choose to get thrills from killing others, who ask for nothing from life but the chance to remain alive. ” Sir Roger Moore
( All these photos are taken from a protected , "caged" Savannah jeep, where I had to place my camera to shoot through the iron protection holes. Wherever the photo shows a foggy area , these are the iron protection bars of the jeep. In this splendid case, I was the caged one and not the adorable lions!)
C501 - GEORGE BROWNSHUTDOWN OUTSIDE THE JUNEE ROUNDHOUSE.C501 IS ON SHORT TERM HIRE BY QUBE LOGISTICS FOR USE ON THIER GRAIN TRAINS
Tony Benn's Funeral.
For all those outside the UK, this man courts controversy like no one else.
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