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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
© All rights reserved Rui Baptista. Please do not use this image on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit written permission.
"With life I get involved.
I suffer if it is to suffer,
I celebrate if there's a reason,
love without guarantees,
mistake the path, correct whatever is possible,
I lose with the same dignity with which I gain.
Because the only thing I don't want to take with me is the misfortune of not having enjoyed every second of the adventure of being who I am."(Pe Fabio de Melo)
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LeLUTKA Briannon Head 3.0
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Sometimes you wake up and your world is swallowed up
Sometimes your world changes overnight
Sometimes the ones you love betray you
Sometimes you find yourself all alone
My life has fallen apart so many times I lost count
So many people now they are all lost
One thing is guaranteed you always die alone
Sometimes you want to put a gun to your head
Sometimes you want to pull the trigger, now you're dead
Sometimes we cry ourselves to sleep
Sometimes you find yourself all alone
My life has fallen apart so many times I lost count
So many people now they are all lost
One thing is guaranteed you always die alone
Nightmares become real inside my head, I dream of my death
My life has fallen apart so many times I lost count
So many people now they are all lost
One thing is guaranteed you always die alone
The sound: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR-sMAI740E&list=RDAR-sMAI740...
Guaranteed to fool the fuzz every time....
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NEW @ PECULIAR THINGS .pt. MARY JANE VASE
Ceramic bong decor with adjustable smoke effect. menu for public, private, on, off and a quick puff
.pt. mary jane vase - beat roseate
.pt. mary jane vase - beat violet
.pt. mary jane vase - beat azure
.pt. mary jane vase - beat rust
@ Belle June 20th
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inworld curio shop
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marketplace curio shop
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website
Other Stuff
.pt. tunsil bong mask - standard edition
DRD - Vagabond Two - Trailer
DRD - Vagabond Two - Chair One
DRD - Vagabond Two - Dining Table
DRD - Vagabond Two - Chair Two
DRD - The Joint Delivery Van
DRD - Festival Bracelets
DRD - Lamy Necklace - Tarnished Silver
Candy Hip Chain w/String by NawtieNitey
Grönalund.. Sweden *s greatest amusement park , located by the sea in the beautiful Djurgården , a visit to Grönalund makes a perfect day out with for family and friends visiting Stockholm and you're guaranteed to have a greatest fun on the 31 attractions and ride , suitable for those of all ages
"Now, faith is the guarantee of what is expected, the certainty of what is not seen"
The ingredients of this scene you can get them...
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RUN TO THE Girl power event & DUBAI EVENNT
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Happy start of the month, my friends!
This picture reminds me my time on high school, my hair in rl is like this and i used to wear A LOT of hairbands
“Hydra” is this Planet’s Name
A granted Guarantee for Fame
It completes the Orbit on a regular Basis
And shows on its Surface spectacular Places
It receives enough Energy from the Sun
Which keeps its liquid Waterfalls run
All these alien Hydrangeas are growing happily
To create the Planet’s Floral Personality
(Caren)
[Dedicated to CRA (ILYWAMHASAM)]
😄 HaPpY Sliders Sunday 😄
Hydrangeas taken in a Wild Garden in West Wales, tweaked the colour and added several massive vignettes using the Windows Photo Editor
uploaded for
for Sliders Sunday
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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.
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Voici une galerie que je surnommerai le diable et son enfant. J’ai été impressionné par ces nuages et je les ai pris en photo pour vous. Je vous garantis que ce ne sont pas des photographies truquées. Elles ont été prises au même moment à Ethe (Belgique) le 15 août 2021. J’ai trouvé intéressant de vous les partager le jour d’Halloween. J’espère que cette galerie vous impressionnera autant que moi et quel sera vue par le plus grand nombre. Partagez cette galerie où vous aurez un sort 🎃. Joyeux Halloween à toutes et à tous 👻.
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Here is a gallery that I will nickname the devil and his child. I was impressed by these clouds and took a picture of them for you. I guarantee you that these are not fake photographs. They were taken at the same time in Ethe (Belgium) on August 15, 2021. I found it interesting to share them with you on Halloween. I hope this gallery will impress you as much as I did and that it will be seen by as many people as possible. Share this gallery where you will have a spell 🎃. Happy Halloween to all 👻.
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Black Redstart
I very rarely change the aspect ratio of my images but this one demanded a letter box crop. The process of feeding is very fast and a shutter speed of 1/1600 sec certainly would not guarantee sharpness but lady luck tapped me on the shoulder for this one.
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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Natural ice in the Netherlands is a rare occurrence. In fact, some winters there's no natural ice at all. Maybe that explains why the Dutch love to skate outdoors. They hardly ever get the chance! But when a cold wave hits, and the interconnected maze of canals, rivers and lakes freeze over, it's a spontaneous celebration, a national holiday. Businesses close their doors and everyone goes skating.
The Alblasserwaard tour starts in the town of Kinderdijk, a tourist mecca famous for its windmills. (Molentocht means windmill tour.) The Krimpenerwaard is one of the oldest polders in Holland, dotted with ancient villages, and you can skate through nine of them in a day. (Negendorpentocht means Nine Villages Tour.) You can read about the area's history in this Krimpenerwaard site.
Aside from the scenery, the joys of Dutch skating are the companionship of other skaters, and the delicious food served up along the canals. With so many skaters on the ice, you're guaranteed to find someone who skates at your speed, and gets hungry or thirsty with the same regularity.
Welcome to Municipal harbor Zierikzee, located in the vibrant center of the island. This harbor has a rich history due to its favorable location towards England, making it an important port of call for many ships. Nowadays, Municipal harbor Zierikzee is mainly occupied by yachts of different sizes and functions as a marina for passing boats.
Upon arrival at Municipal harbor Zierikzee, you are guaranteed a warm welcome by the harbor masters who will gladly show you a spot. For an interesting look into the past of Zierikzee, we recommend visiting the nearby Museumhaven. Here you can get up close with the old ships and learn more about the history of this beautiful harbor town.
If you plan to arrive at Municipal harbor Zierikzee with a ship longer than 25 meters, we recommend calling ahead to make sure a berth is available.
Municipal harbor Zierikzee is a unique and historic location that you shouldn't miss during your trip to Zierikzee. With its central location and friendly harbor masters, it's the perfect place to moor for a while and enjoy the atmosphere of this beautiful harbor town.
#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!
04-May-2022: about turism: my perplexities towards a future with more and more bans and more and more over-taxes.
Lake Bohinj and the much more famous Lake Bled are close (less than 20 km) but the second has a mass tourism now rooted, while the first is expanding its tourist reception in recent years, coming out (unfortunately) from the shadow of Bled, that was a lightning rod for peaceful and symbiotic nature lovers.
I am totally against mass tourism because it transforms a relaxing resort into an area where it is difficult even to access it.
Around Lake Bled, even at a certain distance, there are only paid parking lots, which come to cost 6 euros per hour (about the most decentralized and in May...) that, certainly, leave perplexed about the "tourist selection" that "they" would like to implement (high-end tourism) and, in general, certainly drive away the tourist in search of nature and not restaurants, bars, concrete lake-front and crowd baths.
The naturalist tourist should not feel like a tourist in Nature, which is a single great asset of humanity and that only administratively is divided between various Countries, while in Bled, as in Rimini or Cortina d'Ampezzo, they make you feel not only tourist, but also guest, sometimes unwanted if you spend little.
As tourism increases, so do the bans, because unfortunately mass tourism includes many people who don't know anything about Nature and generally only go to very touristy places to make themselves of...people, sowing dirt and ignorance wherever they move.
The imposition of prohibitions/bans to limit the "damage from mass tourism" affects everyone indiscriminately, including locals and naturalists who have always had a symbiotic relationship with these places, thus making them become inhospitable, at least to those seeking pure contact with nature itself.
Of course this happens all over the world, but it should be condemned.
We already pay State taxes for the maintenance of the slice of Nature that falls within our administration, tourist surcharges, exploiting market laws that should be verified and contained, are for the most part unconstitutional, as well as several prohibitions that deprive access and use of public property.
With the money that the tourist municipalities pocket they could very well implement a targeted prevention (controls by foresters, cameras, ad hoc fences for areas subject to micro-pollution...) rather than closing everything and then de-empowering themself on the maintenance of roads and areas (more and more numerous), thus going to save further, starting from the basic taxes that we pay to also have access to given areas.
I can understand that you tax parking at high altitude to maintain the roads, but the amount of the payment should be directly proportional to the expenses that must be incurred to ensure accessibility, not by putting prices at random and with increases of 200% from one year to the next.
I have always appreciated the fact that Slovenia, thanks also that it is not densely inhabited and has a modest tourism (except precisely Bled, Postojna Caves and the Coast), guarantees a wide accessibility and use of its territories and I hope it can continue, limiting the prohibitions and parking lots everywhere.
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/
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.
San Francisco CA
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.
“We aren’t guaranteed the time we think we need to mend fences with those we love.” - Eileen Wilks
This scene made me think of the movie "Steel Magnolias" . It is a movie about family relationships and how they deal with the death of one of their own. In these times, it was a sober reminder to stay connected with some of my family and to make sure that all is well with us. Life is short and if there are things to be said, we should say them.
SPOILT FOR CHOISE !!
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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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Keep safe and well, It's good to see you visit, enjoy your day.
God bless........... Tomx
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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.
No comments today – just enjoy :-)
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.
While at Emerald Lake (see www.flickr.com/photos/115540984@N02/20328054333) and enjoying a beer I spotted a few loons in the distance, that kept my attention for a long time. I wanted to make a picture but everytime when I pointed my camera, they swam further, leaving me with suboptimal results. So I ordered another beer, forgot about them, and left after een hour or so. When crossing the bridge -25 meters further- however they were swimming both under my nose, and I hurriedly took my camera, and just got this only picture that shows the magnificence of this amazing bird. I cursed myself afterwards, missing the opportunities but i am still happy with this result.
From 11 june till the 25th of July, I traveled in Canada. Starting in Brighton Ontario, where my sister lives at the border of an amazing part of lake Ontario, I flew to Vancouver, and Vancouver island where I took the boat at Port Hardy to take part 1 of the Inside passage, to Prince Rupert in BC. Two days later I took part 2 to Skagway in Alaska. When coming from Skagway Alaska, you can take the train to Carcross. it is a very scenic train ride that halts at Bennet lake.
And then to Whitehorse and further on by car to Kluane National park in the Yukon district. Whitehorse is situated at the border of the Yukon. Frow there I flew back to Vancouver, rented a car, and traveled three weeks in the BC- and Alberta Rockies, visiting the famous, and less famous Nature parks like Banff and Jasper. Last few days back to Brighton Ontario to enjoy lake Ontario once more, before going home. A picture of my itinerary can be found on Facebook (www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152940536581759&set...).
4000 pictures later, it is quite a task to show the right stuff, although the stunning scenery guarantees at least a few great shots to share. Objective will be to make a book (for myself mainly), and that might take a while.
I hope you will enjoy the impression of my travel, one that equals earlier journeys to Alaska and south America, this journey was the first in the digital era, and equally intensive because of all the hiking activities every day on and on. I loved every minute of it.
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.
In heaven (‘ in our native land’, as Aquinas always puts it), there will be the entirely satisfactory ‘sense of an object’, there will be light; but meanwhile, the only guarantee that it is God who is present to the self is that nothing else in particular is so present, and that no consistent set of words or ideas (about God or anything else) is at work. It is a darkness in which the only significant human act is the will’s movement of desire–the bare readiness to abide in hope and longing in the darkness, to be content with nothing else because anything else would be less than God.
-The Wound of Knowledge The Wound of Knowledge Christian Spirituality from the New Testament to St John of the Cross, ROWAN WILLIAMS
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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.
Poti lighthouse is located at the estuary of river Rioni and the Black Sea. In В the historic district of the city, in the second half of XIX century, with the Poti seaport construction development, the lighthouse creation was required, which was the guarantee to the boats safe navigation in the port. In 1860, Poti’s government decided to place a lighthouse in Poti. In 1864, English firm – “Ekhton Amos and children”-s engineer-mechanics created the lighthouse turret, which was assembled with cast-iron sheets.
Three fairly nlice bolts decided to show up!
The monsoon season officially started on June 15 and lasts through September but up until yesterday we've had nothing but the hot!
The rest of the week is forecast to be dry with little chance of any rain but that's just a forecast and Mother Nature doesn't pay any attention to forecasts.
I've found myself a new place to shoot from that should give me a better view of the storms as they roll through Tucson. No guarantees since lightning hits where and when it wants but with any luck I'll get a few more good ones!
This was 30 seconds in Manual Mode which worked out Ok. What I'm finding is that I might need to set the F stop a bit tighter to keep the close strikes from overloading the sensor. For some reason the the exposure bias in gone in manual so I can't set it at all. It's a balancing act to be sure!
Iglesia abandonada. (Santa Perpètua de Gaià - Tarragona - Catalunya).
Abandoned church. (Saint. Perpetua de Gaià - Tarragona - Catalunya).
Esta fotografía se la dedico a mi buena amiga María Gaitán, por su constante apoyo fotográfico. Espero te guste María.
Para poder verla con todo su esplendor, os recomiendo ampliarla.
Crónica de la Foto, en español:
La salida fotográfica de hoy estaba programada para realizar fotografias nocturnas, de una iglesia abandonada entre montañas.
El grupo formado por cuatro fotógrafos y que nos hemos reunido en un buen restaurante para comer mientras comentabamos las estrategias a seguir, durante la sesión fotográfica, para poder realizar el máximo de fotografías con el mínimo tiempo (dado que a las 10 de la noche todos teniamos que estar en casa).
Al final... hoy me ha tocado estar fuera de la ruinosa iglesia mientras los tres restantes realizaban fotos dentro. En otra ocasión será, por lo que hoy solo he podido tomar fotos de fuera.
Debido al frio y la humedad, teniamos que limpiar constantemente el agua sobre nuestras cámaras y objetivos con unos paños especiales, y limpiar las lentes por que se empañaban y quedaban mojadas.
Al marchar la hierba ya no era verde, era blanca.... empezaba a helar. Por suerte hoy ningún percance ha destacar, espero que os guste.
Un cordial saludo. Antoni.
Datos técnicos:
Cámara: Nikon D800.
Objetivo: 16 mm.
Diafragma: f/11
(Para ganar profundidad de campo con detalles en el primer plano y en el infinito. Enfoque por hiperfocal).
Velocidad: 4 Minutos.
(Para poder iluminar por zonas con focos de distintas potencias).
Los disparos:
(Realizados con intervalómetros para evitar vibraciones).
Soporte Tripode:
(Para poder realizar panorámicas con garantias y las largas exposiciones para poder pintar con luz).
Chronicle in English:
In order to see it in all its splendor, I recommend that you enlarge it.
Today's photographic outing was scheduled to take night photographs of an abandoned church in the mountains.
The group made up of four photographers and we have met in a good restaurant to eat while we discussed the strategies to follow, during the photographic session, to be able to take the maximum number of photographs with the minimum time (given that at 10 at night everyone we had to be home).
In the end ... today I had to be outside the ruined church while the remaining three took photos inside. On another occasion it will be, so today I have only been able to take photos from outside.
Due to the cold and humidity, we had to constantly clean the water on our cameras and lenses with special cloths, and clean the lenses because they were fogged and wet.
As the grass went, it was no longer green, it was white ... it was beginning to freeze. Luckily today no mishap has to stand out, I hope you like it.
A cordial greeting. Antoni.
Technical data:
Camera: Nikon D800.
Objective: 16 mm.
Aperture: f / 11
(To gain depth of field with details in the foreground and at infinity. Focus by hyperfocal).
Speed: 4 Minutes.
(To be able to illuminate areas with spotlights of different powers).
The shots:
(Made with intervalometers to avoid vibrations).
Tripod support:
(To be able to make panoramas with guarantees and long exposures to be able to paint with light).
Browsing through my pictures I suddenly see this landscape, and think it could be a norwegian fjord, until I see the pines. No it is Canada, but you may call it a Norwegian bias!
From 11 june till the 25th of July 2015, I traveled in Canada. Starting in Brighton Ontario, where my sister lives at the border of an amazing part of lake Ontario, I flew to Vancouver, and Vancouver island where I took the boat at Port Hardy to take part 1 of the Inside passage, to Prince Rupert in BC. Two days later I took part 2 to Skagway in Alaska. When coming from Skagway Alaska, you can take the train to Carcross. it is a very scenic train ride that halts at Bennet lake.
And then to Whitehorse and further on by car to Kluane National park in the Yukon district. Whitehorse is situated at the border of the Yukon. Frow there I flew back to Vancouver, rented a car, and traveled three weeks in the BC- and Alberta Rockies, visiting the famous, and less famous Nature parks like Banff and Jasper. Last few days back to Brighton Ontario to enjoy lake Ontario once more, before going home. A picture of my itinerary can be found on Facebook (www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152940536581759&set...).
4000 pictures later, it is quite a task to show the right stuff, although the stunning scenery guarantees at least a few great shots to share. Objective will be to make a book (for myself mainly), and that might take a while.
I hope you will enjoy the impression of my travel, one that equals earlier journeys to Alaska and south America, this journey was the first in the digital era, and equally intensive because of all the hiking activities every day on and on. I loved every minute of it.
Omoide Yokochou (思い出横丁 Alley of Memories) is a narrow alley developed under the girder of the elevated railway tracks in Shinjuku. The structure in the right is the girder.
It used to be a squatter area and known to be a cheapest drinking place in Tokyo although the food and beverage qualities were not guaranteed.
I passed by the area recently and amazed to find that it was full of tourists. It is photogenic in a sense that the area represents an Asian chaotic ambience. There were many people holding cameras and mobile phones other than those eating and drinking. It would not be a cheapest place anymore.
According to a tourism academic, it is now a place that emulates a traditional shady drinking area with tourists in mind.
Jake argues this product is the best thing to cure any 'malaise; due to low mental health or chronic diseases. Today is his birthday so I have crowned him, 'Bubble Wrap King' for the day. Please feel free to pop a few of your own, guaranteed to make you smile
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!
Every day I love it even more and more this decoration and gradually I intend to show it completely to everyone through photos.
In this pic I demonstrate a small part of the garden that gained even more life with the new creation of the gifted Jorge and his incredible store MINIMAL with the collection Alice (you can find it in the event @Shiny Shabby).
I also want to highlight the objects that are very discreet but that helps to enrich the environment of a great friend Marou and his store / frag.ment's / - You can find the complete set and I guarantee you will not regret it.
I hope you have enjoyed it, I am increasingly discovering myself in photography and I do this for hobbie.