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One of those mornings that reminds you as a landscape photographer why you get up at ridiculous hours in the hope of capturing stunning light and conditions. Yesterdays dawn shoot with great friend Mark turned into the best morning I have ever spent there and I have visited on around 20 occassions...kids in a sweetshop time with superb dawn colours and fairly decent inversion in hope valley
🎅✨In this magical season, where hearts are warmed, I want to share a message of hope. Christmas is so much more than gifts—it’s a spark of joy and a time to remember what truly matters.
To my dear followers, you are so much more than a virtual community—you are my source of inspiration. May this holiday be a moment of renewal for you, where dreams come alive and the magic of Christmas guides you toward new horizons.🎅✨
Merry Christmas to all, with all my heart ❤️.
The "plugholes" at Ladybower Reservoir are actually two large, bell-shaped shaft spillways that act as overflows to regulate the reservoir's water level during prolonged wet spells. When the reservoir is full, excess water flows into these drains, which carry it through tunnels in the dam to the River Derwent downstream.
Water level was low when I visited so I didn't get to see it in action.
Tinkering and turning the PS-knobs a bit . . . ;-))
Background: A shot I made in Italy 2015 - Dolomiti
Model: Jessica Truscott - faestock.deviantart.com/
I have been wanting to use that title for a long time. On our way from the Shuswap to Vancouver we made a stop in the town of Hope. Movie goers may know that the Stallone movie, "Rambo - First Blood" was filmed (yes filmed) there in 1982. When I told my wife she was most unimpressed.
We stopped at a rest area where only one other vehicle was parked. We used the washroom after our multi hour drive and then peared at the outdoor map of the area. It was on the wall of a roofed open walled hut the size of a garage. From there I could see the mountains beyond. I raced for my camera and took a few shots only to discover each was underexposed. So, I started working on my exposure and composition while leaning on a pillar for support. 20 minutes later I was still enjoying the cloud that was draping itself over the mountain creating a different image every other second.
A photographer could hunt for such an opportunity and not find anything. So when my wife said we should go, although I knew she was right, it was with both hesitation and elation that we drove off.
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2020 was a year to forget, let's hope that 2021 will be a year of recovery.
Wishing everyone a wonderful, peaceful and healthy New Year!
Thank you for your friendship and support through the past years.
Kind regards, Tom.
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Hope is sweet.
Hope is illumining.
Hope is fulfilling.
Hope can be everlasting.
Therefore, do not give up hope
Even in the sunset of your life.
Sri Chinmoy
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La Esperanza
La esperanza es dulce.
La esperanza es iluminadora.
La esperanza es satisfactoria.
La esperanza puede ser eterna.
Por lo tanto, no pierdas la esperanza
Incluso en el ocaso de tu vida.
Decided to do a scene today. Just a quick pic with my phone.
You don't even know half the trouble I had with getting the Scotsman to stand up straight lol.
Hope you guys like it!
"I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe."
-Dalai Lama
Hope everyone enjoyed a good Easter full of Joy. It was unorthodox but a beautiful evening to enjoy a socially distant walk with the parents!
"The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope."
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Photo By: Cate Infinity
Shot in Second Life Official Viewer in Ultra. No edit.
Location: Drone Haven
Drone Haven stands as a somber monument to humanity’s fleeting reign, a forsaken city overtaken by the relentless march of nature. Towering, rusted skyscrapers—once symbols of progress—now crumble into the earth, their skeletal frames bound in a suffocating embrace of vines and moss. Faded posters and the echoes of forgotten graffiti serve as grim premonitions: “The End is Near!” On the fringes, a last-ditch survivalist camp briefly defied extinction. Dreamers, with fragile hope, planted gardens and built shelters in a futile act of defiance. But disease, depletion, and discord swiftly snatched away their fleeting defiance, leaving only silence and creeping green. At the city's heart, the butcher shop—a relic of human industry—stands decayed and broken. Its walls, softened by moss and pierced by vines, speak of a once-vibrant world now swallowed by time. The eerie message lingers: “The End is Near!” A grim echo of human ambition, now lost in nature’s quiet dominion. Among the ruins, drones—mechanical phantoms—still wander, remnants of their creators' ambition. They dutifully plant life during the Echocycle, maintaining the city as both a testament to human legacy and nature's quiet triumph. But even these tireless machines, bound by the limits of their energy, will one day cease. The paradox is clear: humanity’s imprint, though indelible, is as ephemeral as the machines it birthed. Drone Haven whispers a haunting truth: humankind, for all its perceived significance, is but a fleeting echo against the eternal backdrop of nature’s vast, unyielding cycles. In the city’s rust and bloom, it mourns the inevitable collapse, the fragility of life, and the inescapable reality that all things—natural or artificial—are bound to fade into silence.
I hope you all enjoy the longest day in the northern hemisphere !
And for my friends in the southern hemisphere ...
Cheer up ! The days are getting longer again :-))
Dahlia 'Bishop of Llandaff'
last year in our garden - Frankfurt-Nordend
If you love these "symbols of summer" too, have a look at my Dahlia Collection.
Hope, the Blue Whale Skeleton at the Natural History Museum, named as a symbol of humanity's power to shape a sustainable future. Blue whales were hunted to the brink of extinction in the twentieth century, but were also one of the first species that humans decided to save on a global scale. In the 1800s there were an estimated 250,000 blue whales across the world's oceans. Decades of commercial hunting drove the species to the brink of extinction, with only around 400 thought to be left in 1966. That year, in London, the world took a remarkable decision to legally protect blue whales from commercial hunting. Since then the population of blue whales has steadily grown to its current level of around 20,000.
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the clouds were amazing over our three days at Hope Bay, Ontario. I'm not sure I've ever taken so many photos of them. This is one of my favourites. Taken last night as we sat on the bay eating our supper.
Theme 'HOPE'.
Pictures by Deloreen Resident
Quando alguém descobre estar com câncer, para de sonhar e não faz mais planos para o futuro, na sua dor só pensa em morte, fica como a terra seca, não floresce mais.
Mas há esperança, a terra pode florescer de novo, o melhor remédio na luta contra o câncer é "não desistir da vida."
"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning."
--Albert Einstein
Mt. Hope
San Isabel National Forest
Colorado
The 25.2m long blue whale skeleton, named Hope, hanging in the Hintze Hall in the Natural History museum.
Always find it amazing that this museum is free to enter :)
Merry Christmas to all!
Lockdown in England has forced me to explore my local woodland where I take my dog, Monty, for his daily walk. Last friday there was a promise of thick fog, but alas, thick fog did not materialise, it rarely does here, sadly. Instead a hint of light mist was all we had but that allowed the glorious warm rays of the morning sun to penetrate the landscape.
I've always quite liked this area of the woodland, but I could never quite make this tree work in previous conditions. Friday morning was different, a thin veil of mist created just enough atmosphere and I guess timing is everything.
I take a great interest in politics, but I try not to mix politics with my photography, with art, but it felt like this morning was promising something better ahead. Let's hope so.
The little birds and other wildlife don't seem to mind it at all...makes you stop to think how much you really do have to be thankful for! My Friday today :)...hope you all are having a nice weekend...thanks so much for your visits!!
A soft pastel sunset on a deserted Burghead beach…
Covid 19 has made 2020 a year we would rather forget. The prospect of the vaccine from Oxford labs brings real hope for 2021; and a return to normality. Lets hope so…
Wishing all my Flickr friends a Happy and a healthy New year ahead. Thanks for your kind comments and favs over the past year…very much appreciated.
Stay safe and well everyone…
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"Behold, the eye of the LORD is on those who fear Him, on those who hope for His lovingkindness." Psalm 33:18
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Venice, Italy
Thank you very much all my dear friends for your visits, comments and faves!
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Sometimes it is just about textures and shapes, the form and architecture, the purity... that is when I go for black and white...
Schlumbergera is a genus of 6 known tree-dwelling cacti from Brazil.
These are the tropical rain forest epiphytes, growing on tree branches where, despite the high rainfall, water drains off quickly so that "dry" conditions prevail much of the time.
They are named after the Frenchman, Frédéric Schlumberger, who was the owner of a famous plant collection.
This genus contains the popular Schlumbergera truncata, also known as Thanksgiving Cactus, frequently mislabeled Christmas Cactus, which may flower in white, pink, red or purple. There is also an Easter Cactus or Whitsun cactus (Hatiora gaertneri) which produces vivid scarlet flowers.
The stems of Schlumbergera resemble leaf-like pads joined one to the other and the flowers appear from areoles at the tips.
The flowers close up at night.
I bought this when we'd just moved into our new house years ago, it loves it here, this is the third 'flowering' in 9 months!
So many buds, so full of promise... again I played with lights, the petals are shiny and silky with light.
Thank you, M, (*_*)
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Please bear with me, this is part two of a series of shots showing how the sunset developed at Godrevy.
At this point I had moved on from anticipation into hope. The horizon had stayed clear and the sunset was fast approaching. It was also at this point that I was rather happy that I had passed up the opportunity to watch Poldark whilst in Poldark country.
Knowing the light was going to fail me before the two lone westbounds would reach me here at Staples, I managed a consolation in the form of a west-facing DPU on a 1 x 1 in the still-perfect light. For the detail-oriented, one will note---looking down at the depot---that this was mostly an S train with a random cut of manifest on the end, something I have not seen much on the BNSF.