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The tornado at it's peak: F-3 strength. It demolished a house and wrecked a car near the Arkansas River.
Later we saw big fishes lying in the streets of Lamar. They were sucked up and dumped by the tornado....
Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark II + M.Zuiko17mm f/1.8
Hay momentos de arrebatadora ternura que solo un beso o un abrazo logran a la vez colmar y saciar. Son instantes hechos carne, hechos tacto, en que el beso o el abrazo son el resultado de la violentísima ternura con que los labios surcan o las yemas de los dedos hienden la piel del ser amado.
Recklinghausen II Schacht 4 (Konrad Ende) Recklinghausen 23.10.1989.
Von der Anlage steht nur noch das Fördergerüst Schacht 4 (ohne Schachthalle) und einige Verwaltungs- und Nebengebäude.
Germany, ruhrarea
Donald II, or rather Domnall mac Causantín (in Modern Gaelic: Dòmhnall mac Chòiseim), was a king of the Picts who reigned between 889 and 900. He was the son of Constantine I (Constantín mac Cináeda), and succeeded Giric and Eochaid following their expulsion or death. The Prophecy of Berchán, which is not a prophecy at all but a poem written in the 12th century or later, gives him the epithet Dásachtach, "the Madman".
The Chronicle of the Kings of Alba records that during his reign “The Northmen wasted Pictland…” and that “…a battle occurred between Danes and Scots at Innisibsolian where the Scots had victory”
According to the Chronicle, he was killed sometime in 900 by Vikings at Dunnottar in Aberdeenshire. It has been suggested that this event was part of King Harald Fairhair of Norway’s ravaging of Scotland as described in the Heimskringla. There is some disagreement about the nature of his death, with the Prophecy of Berchán attributing it to Gaels, not Vikings, and other sources reporting that he died at Forres.
Donald was succeeded by his cousin Constantine II, while his son Malcom, would become king in 943.
Als Zarewitsch und Zar besuchte Alexander II von Rußland, ein Neffe von Kaiser Wilhelm I, zwischen 1836 und 1876 immer wieder Bad Ems.
As both Tsarevich and Tsar, Alexander II of Russia—a nephew of Emperor Wilhelm I—visited Bad Ems repeatedly between 1836 and 1876.
Wilhelmshaven
Niedersachsen
Glen Hansard - Time will be the healer
"...Well, time will be the healer once again..."
Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde National Park
To me, Mesa Verde was the true center piece of a feast, the jewel of the invaluable necklace that was the pre-colonial heritage of this land. The views at dusk added to its deep charm, and the beauty of solitude was probably the most pleasant surprise.
Uno de mis viaductos más queridos de la fantasmal línea Baeza-Utiel, con 160 metros de curva, sus arcos a dos alturas con 9 ojos arriba y 3 abajo. 1932, el año de su construcción, orgullosamente esculpido en sus pilares junto al escudo de los ingenieros.
Entre 1992 y 1993, cuando después de seis décadas finalmente le arrancaron los raíles a la vía, además de toda esperanza tiraron también por la borda las traviesas bibloque de hormigón.
One of my most beloved viaducts of the Baeza-Utiel ghost line, with 160 meters long in curve and its arches at two heights, 9 eyes above and 3 below. 1932, the year of construction, proudly sculpted on its pillars. When the rails were pulled from the track in the 90's, the concrete sleepers were threw overboard, and with them several decades of agony of a train that would never pass through there.
Auschwitz II-Birkenau gatehouse; the train track, in operation May–October 1944, led directly to the gas chambers.
Birkenau was the largest of the more than 40 camps and sub-camps that made up the Auschwitz complex. During its three years of operation, it had a range of functions. When construction began in October 1941, it was supposed to be a camp for 125 thousand prisoners of war. It opened as a branch of Auschwitz in March 1942, and served at the same time as a center for the extermination of the Jews. In its final phase, from 1944, it also became a place where prisoners were concentrated before being transferred to labor in German industry in the depths of the Third Reich.
The majority—probably about 90%—of the victims of Auschwitz Concentration Camp died in Birkenau. This means approximately a million people. The majority, more than nine out of every ten, were Jews. A large proportion of the more than 70 thousand Poles who died or were killed in the Auschwitz complex perished in Birkenau. So did approximately 20 thousand Roma and Sinti, in addition to Soviet POWs and prisoners of other nationalities.
The back view of the Bibio marci fly from the previous post.
17 natural light exposures at f6.3, ISO 100 made with Sony A6000, Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM lens, Metabones Canon EF to E Mount Smart Adapter (Mark IV)
I baited this honeybee to get her to slow down and let me get close. Shot at almost 3x with a Canon MPE-65mm macro lens.
Selected by National Geographic Magazine as one of their Daily Dozen shots for the fourth week of August 2009.
Awarded Macro Photographer of the Year for 2009 by Digital Photography Magazine.
I haven't been out shooting in a while, so I've been digging through my own archives to give some images a second look. I came across this image from my Prairie trip that I'd never processed. This is St. Ascension Ukrainian church, now sadly unused. If you'd like, you can take a look at more images from my Prairie adventure.