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One of the highlights of Seward is visiting the Alaska SeaLife Center. It is a great place to visit on a rainy day. We saw lots of marine life in aquariums and viewing areas. I love the Puffins the best! They are so cute! I could stand there all day watching them. I was mesmerized by the Jelly Fish floating and morphing to new shapes as it moved about in the tank. At the lower level there were chairs where you could sit and enjoy the underwater activity. You can really get a perspective how large the fish are when they swim up to the glass.
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This a photograph of my beautiful girlfriend who volunteered for me to be photographed in a studio setting, so I could try out a few Idea's I had recently. One of them being the example you see here. I wanted to show a person using mainly highlights.
The Rainy Day Bandit strikes again!
I think it has been 3 or 4 years since I have had a chance to shoot a rainy day during the evening rush hour and boy was it a treat! I'd have to check my files, but I might never have had the opportunity before to shoot the rain and rush hour on a Friday with both a mix of weekend tourists and downtown worker bees.
Metroline TE951 (LK58KHU) in South Harrow on a 114 service to Ruislip Station.
Station has been added to these new blinds as a way of improving the accuracy of the destination display, as the bus does not actually serve the central area of Ruislip.
I like this pic more than anything I've photographed for ages. It's very *me*.
I saw, I shot, I chimped, I punched the air, I walked on smiling.
View over Donawitz and Gai towards Reiting (Eisenerzer Alpen). We had a bit of rain today but it was great for hiking and orchid hunting.
The morning light softly unveils the autumn forest near Trout Lake, Washington, enveloping the scene in tranquility. Luminous foliage, contrasted against the shadowed hillside, highlights the fleeting beauty of the season and evokes a sense of peace and reflection.
I decided to process one of my Palouse images a bit differently than my usual. I really wanted to show the highlights of the first light skimming the hills, so I went pretty dark on this. Not sure if it works or not, but it's different!
Definitely view on black: View On Black
On the 17th August 2024 Class 43 no.43186 passes Bishopsteignton with the Saturday only 2C22 1221 Exeter St.Davids to Penzance.
Highlighting group gifts from Cubura. Also included are briefs in silver and gold. maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Pure%20Love/124/89/23
The best Supercar Combo I've seen in 2013.
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Probably the highlight of my week on the East Coast of Yorkshire was this juvenile bird on the cliffs at Flamborough. Its been around the headland area for a couple of weeks now but 2 previous visits had failed to find it. This time was different as it was perched on the clifftop as I arrived. It did several flights around the grasslands, harassing the resident finch flock, but always returned to the edge of the cliff adjacent to the fog station.
The passage way at the South Western Cairn at Balnuaran of Clava is focused on the sky. Many chambered cairns are aligned either with the position of the Sun, Moon, or the planet Venus. The Sun and Moon alignments bring about a living calendar to any aligned chambered cairn. Such alignments are more easily recorded without the cairns. The Sun and Moon alignment seems set into the stone structures for the use of the cairns beyond clocks and calendars to generate the identity of the structure in the design. These impressive monumental communal structures were open and visited by their constructors for several hundreds of years. Later they were filled in possibly when a new way of worship and reverence was found and so the old sacred sites were closed. The cairns in their large size seem set to hold great importance for many people and yet their small passages and chambers are only available for either small groups, or individuals. The light from the Solstice Sun gives a direct beam along the passage and into the chamber at the day chosen with the Summer longest day and Winter shortest day having positions on the horizon at dawn and at sunset available for the builders to set their structure around. Those that took part in interior ceremony could be experiencing a rite of passage and from their inner seclusion they could be greeted by the Sun entering in at a significant moment and then by all that were gathered around the large monuments as the adorants came back to the community after their isolation.
I remember from a few decades ago the stones at the rear of the chamber being brought to life by the Sun when it shone straight along the passage. This light dancing on a stone with either quartz, or granite in could be the first light for the adorant to see after days of fasting, maybe of eating ceremonial food and of intense meditation so that the light in the stone shone to show life in the bone of the land the stone that would be the collection place for the cleaned bones of the dead as markers of belonging and signs of knowing all returning to the glowering Sun, to the finding of the murmuring of the Moon and to the awakening to the stellar shimmering the stars.
The highlighted section of the chamber could be the projection screen of the tomb. After a period of darkness in the chamber the light returning through projection focused along the passage would dance on the projection screen stones and with a tone from the human voice the dust in the passage could be seen to move in and out of waves and lozenge shapes forming transient structures in the moving dust and light. The light held such delicate structures possible only for a short while along the alignment at either dawn, or sunset and the shapes would slow and cease as the light source moved away from the direct alignment in matter of minutes. These waves and lozenge shapes are were carved into the stones of some chambered cairns leaving a record in the stone on the bone of the land a presentation hammered into the stone that was home to the ancestors and the shaping of the returning regenerating medium that as it wore down gave vital nutrients to the next new growth that through roots and shoots, seeds and flowers would break down the stones into sparkling sands and grits echoing the steady progressions and predictable processions of the lights of the camp fires shining out with hope and potential in the sky above.
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Clava Cairns Near Inverness, IV2 5EU
www.historicenvironment.scot/visit-a-place/places/clava-c...
A Visitors’ Guide to Balnuaran of Clava a prehistoric cemetery
www.archhighland.org.uk/userfiles/file/Sites/Historic%20S...
Balnuaran Of Clava, South-west
canmore.org.uk/site/14279/balnuaran-of-clava-south-west
Highland Historic Environment Record
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Exactly a year ago today we were traveling in Scotland admiring the countryside, a castle or two and whatever village we were passing, enjoying - if not the weather - it was rather cloudy and threatened to rain every few minutes - the spring greens and colors of growing things around us.. Here is a few shots from that outing.. Happy Friday, guys!!
I'm glad we went out on this overcast day. I had my first ever sighting of a Gadwall. This male was with another male and a female Gadwall, as well as a few Mallard Ducks
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