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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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Rain or shine! The newspapers get delivered :)
It's been raining here non stop, but the sun has promised to come out tomorrow. With all this rain, I couldn't resist bringing my little bike to the puddles at the top of the driveway. The paper delivery is a bonus:)
Chasing sunsets are never a guarantee for a spectacular display of light, but you are guaranteed that no two sunsets are ever the same.
But because of your sacrifice and bravery, we are still free
With gratitude to all vets - past, present and future
BRUNELLO DI MONTALCINO
The "Brunello di Montalcino" controlled and guaranteed denomination of origin wine must undergo an aging period of at least four years and aged, for at least three years of this period, in oak containers of any size.
Which is the best vintage of Brunello?
Exceptional: absolutely the best vintages of Brunello di Montalcino. For those who love extreme flavors and investments, the top of Brunello di Montalcino is represented by the vintages of 2016, 2015, 2010, 2007, 2006, 2004, 1997, 1995, 1990, 1988, 1985, 1975, 1970, 1964, 1961 , 1955, 1945.
How long does Brunello di Montalcino keep?
It ranges from a minimum of 10 years up to 30, but it can be stored for even longer. Of course it must be stored in the right way: in a cool cellar, but above all at a constant, dark temperature, without noise or smells; the bottles kept lying down.
How long in advance should you open a bottle of Brunello?
To taste the Brunello di Montalcino wine at its best, it is advisable to open the bottle at least an hour before, indeed, it is advisable to open it up to several hours before in the case of wines that are aged for a long time or that have perhaps spent a long period in a cellar.
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.
Info @ Wikipedia
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.
Info @ Wikipedia
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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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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#MacroMonday
#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.
Ich wünsche Euch eine schöne Woche, liebe Flickr-Freunde, bleibt gesund!
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.
Public Sculpture and Fountains
You can always guarantee when you visit a city for the first time, there will always be plenty of public works. I like to seek them out, where ever possible. I’m amazed at the quantity, the scale, the quality and sometimes, just the sheer irresponsibility of corporate bodies in their quest to spend our money. How did the 10cc put it? “Art for Arts’ sake”. However mostly I like what I see, hope you do too.
As you will see all of the images in this posting come from Rome. What a beautiful City.
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If you pick a fight with a god of death, I can’t guarantee your soul’s safety.
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Style credits at jangsungyoung.com
Collab with Taylor Wassep featuring Zhao Wei as our victim :D
"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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Skin: Not Found - "Reus" in Medium
Hair: Modulus - Clay Hair base
Head: LeLUTKA - Eon
Eyes: Avi Glam - "Prodigy Eyes" in 101
Body: Legacy Classic M
Outfit: Hoorenbeek - NG Outfit "Momoa"
Yes, Chancy is napping on my bed.....which she mistakenly thinks is her bed.....but, oh well.....it's ok. She would love to play with Rufus.....a new , very large, cute Airedale adopted by my Flickr friend, MsPixie......view Rufus and smile at her fotos of Rufus at her site..........,,
www.flickr.com/photos/quietly_me/4466666599/ I guarantee you will LYAO.
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.
This year's Johannifeuer in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. It was a nice evening, which is by no means guaranteed. Many times in previous years it was overcast and rainy which is a shame for the climbers who made those fires on the mountains. A motorbike drove halfway through my long exposure, startling me, i.e. I didn't press the shutter button fast enough.
Sound insurance never comes cheap and with the price you've paid to get your precious package to its destination on time, you expect only the best. Armed and alert, our deceptively baby-faced courier is always watching her back. Anything is possible on the job, and with one hand hovering to the katana behind her, she is more than up for the task.
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>> Taken at Insilico
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Gore Park, downtown Hamilton.
The one place I’m guaranteed to see Pigeons.
...it was a feeding frenzy & I was lucky to get one shot that wasn't a complete blur :))
Both volcanic lakes on the Azores can be seen from the Vista do Rei (King's View) at a height of 565 m above the lakes. A magnificent view over the Caldeira de Setes Cidades is guaranteed..
Lagoa Azul and Lagoa Verde, São Miguel, Azores
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.
- Charles de Lint.
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Today's post is a bit of an old image, one I took during an old trip to the eastern Sierras. At the time, I had just learned about the Owens river and the possibility of using it as a foreground interest to frame the mighty Sierra Nevada Mountains. Unfortunately, there was a slight problem, the Owens River is long, and I could not find many details about any particular spot that would guarantee a decent image.
So I used google maps to scope for a location and honed in on about five sites that I thought would get me the shot I wanted. A couple of them was on private property, but a few others panned out. Of all the spots we visited, this one near Big Pine was my favorite, and I was able to frame up the mountains with the Owens river forming a leading line in the form of a nice s-curve. I was super happy about the photo but struggled to post-process the image. Every year I revisit the pictures from this trip and see if I can get the result to resemble what I saw that morning. My most recent attempt has been the closest by far.
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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I think I have everything for uni sorted out - finance, ID, DBS. I do need to get the textbooks though. And my timetable is not exactly precise because it might not be mine.
My brother turns 16 tomorrow and he is not even going to be home. Which means that in a couple of hours, we are going to attempt to take a photo for his birthday, which might be tomorrow's photo. I am not guaranteeing anything though.
Yes, it is April but that does not mean that we are guaranteed no more snow. I remember one year we had a major storm on April 17. So I am keeping those snow tires on and the shovel in the trunk.
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Chevron Gas Station in Ghost Town of Nelson, Nevada
Located in southern end of Nevada, in El Dorado Canyon in Clark County, Nevada.
The area known as Nelson was originally called Eldorado in 1775, by the original discoveries of gold in the area that is now Eldorado Canyon. The town was the site of one of the first major gold strikes in Nevada and one of the biggest mining booms in state history. Gold and silver were discovered here around 1859. The rush to the canyon began in 1861.
The community called Nelson was named for Charles Nelson, a camp leader.