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Three greylag geese in tight formation above the Ismaninger Speichersee, east basin.
The Ismaninger Speichersee is a reservoir in the north of Munich, built in 1929 to regulate the water flow for the run-of-the-river power plants along the Isar Canal.
The reservoir and the adjacent fish ponds are a nature reserve (Europareservat) and an Important Bird Area (IBA).
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With a little green in between. This is on the dam that separates the eastern and western basins of the Ismaninger Speichersee, with the western basin visible to the left.
The Ismaninger Speichersee is a reservoir in the north of Munich, built in 1929 to regulate the water flow for the run-of-the-river power plants along the Isar Canal.
The reservoir and the adjacent fish ponds are a nature reserve (Europareservat) and an Important Bird Area (IBA).
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Barolo, an important wine producing area noted for its Barolo wine of the same name.
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I think we have to believe in things we don't see. That's really important for all of us, whether it's your religion or Santa Claus, or whatever. That's pretty much what it's about. James Caan
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Roses - Santa Gemita - 052722 - Enhanced-9
I am lucky enough to be married to a human who lives to create and creates to live and so it is easy to meet other artists and find out about events like this, Enso at Elastic Arts, featuring our friend Billie Howard playing violin and the dancer (and one of our former neighbors) Ayako Kato. They did a great job with the soundscape, the Ikebana, the origami on set to create a very vivid sensory presence with an interpretive dance that was really special. Ayako Kato has some of her previous dances up on her website here:
Billie has some of her compositions here:
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The Tower of Saint Vincent is another very important fortification in Lisbon Portugal, situated in the banks of the Tagus river. It served as a fortress but also a ceremonial getaway. Built during the Portuguese renascence period, the 16th century, and now another UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Another very crowded place to visit, as you can see in the left of the photo, so the decision was made, we were going to enjoy it from outside, and it was as impressive I imagine. Maybe next time?
Click on the photo, see it a little better.
If you want to know a little or lot about this important place, I found something very interesting:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belém_Tower
Something I like a lot about traveling :)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTafPtJOxaU
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Photography is one of my passions, and nature photography is my favorite.
I have been in Explore for more that a hundred times, and it is an awesome experience to have your photos showcased in such a special way.
I thank your for coming today, for leaving a comment, and make a favorite of yours this photo, (if that is the case) thanks again!
The best part of this forum is the contacts and friends that I have made over the years, that have the same passion for this art that is called photography!
Martha.
The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall have visited Zagreb today; jenitor (a.k.a. Baldrick :-)) adds finishing touches to a gate in the historic Upper Town just before their arrival
Imagination is more important than knowledge because knowledge is limited whereas imagination encompasses the whole world.
I told Gerry that we are not supposed to be going out. Unless of course, it is important.
Maybe you can get me some Beer.
Never mind. I don't think you can carry much on that thing.
Happy Teddy Bear Tuesday
So very sorry to hear of those harmed in Nova Scotia. So very sad.
Concarneau has made its living from the fishing industry for hundreds of years and the town remains an important center: more than 100,000 tonnes of tuna are caught each year by Concarneau-based boats.
Concarneau is the third most important fishing port of France.
The town has two distinct areas: the modern town on the mainland and the medieval Ville Close, a walled town on a long island in the center of the harbour. Historically, the old town was a center of shipbuilding. The Ville Close is now devoted to tourism with many restaurants and shops aimed at tourists. However restraint has been shown in resisting the worst excesses of souvenir shops. Also in the Ville Close is the fishing museum. The Ville Close is connected to the town by a bridge and at the other end a ferry to the village of Lanriec on the other side of the harbor.
Bustling street in the seafood area of the Duong Dong public market. Official name of the street is Đường Trần Phú or Tran Phu street.
Most of the seafoods are supposed to come directly from the fishing boats in the river. There are plenty of seafood restaurants in and around Duong Dong, which could be an important reason to visit Phu Quoc.
Day 31
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Had Fun doing this project with some people here :* and sharing my shoot's in this month , I'm blessed to have a contacts like you ALL , hope you all enjoy my stream in this month :D , there are some important events happened to me in october :") !
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlemoutsi
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ΚΑΣΤΡΟ ΧΛΕΜΟΥΤΣΙ ΗΛΕΙΑΣ,ΠΕΛΟΠΟΝΝΗΣΟΣ
Το Κάστρο Χλεμούτσι είναι χτισμένο στην κορυφή του λόφου Χελωνάτα στο χωριό Κάστρο του Δήμου Ανδραβίδας-Κυλλήνης, στο δυτικότερο ακρωτήρι της Πελοποννήσου. Ιδρύθηκε από τον Γοδεφρείδο Α' Βιλλεαρδουίνο στο πρώτο μισό του 13ου αιώνα και αποτελεί ένα από τα σημαντικότερα και πιο καλοδιατηρημένα κάστρα της Ελλάδασς, εξαιρετικό δείγμα φρουριακής αρχιτεκτονικής της εποχής της Φραγκοκρατίας στην Πελοπόννησο.
CHLEMOUTSI CASTLE ELIS, PELOPONNESE-GREECE
Chlemoutsi Castle is built atop Chelonata Hill, on the westernmost promontory of the Peloponnese. Founded by Geoffrey de Villehardouin in the first half of the 13 century, it is one of the most important and best preserved castles in Greece, an excellemt example of defensive architecture of the Frankish period in the Peloponnese.
I'll have a few final sunset shots from Ross tomorrow, but this one marks the end of our current exploration into the origins of the Ross Bridge and its astounding art. I hope that I have convinced you these carvings are NOT the work of a madman who made bizarre grotesques as mere decoration.
I realise that is the way most people have seen the Ross Bridge art, if they have even bothered to look at the bridge too closely. We all know how often the tourist experience is one viewed through the lens of a few selfies. Very often we are not actually "present" when in tourist mode. That's a tragedy in my view. I dare say quite a few locals still scratch their heads about the meaning of the bridge too.
But this work is far from meaningless. I hope I have shown that. But more than this, it is a call to recognise that no matter how dark our history may have been at times, the chance for redemption and renewal is there.
But, and this is a very important "but" that the Prophet Daniel from Ross wanted us to hear: We cannot renew ourselves as children of the light until we face our deeds as children of the darkness. There is no forgiveness without repentance if I can put it in distinctly Christian terms.
Daniel Herbert did not believe in cheap grace. His freedom was bought with a heavy price, but in the end he died a free man, a man whose conscience was clear.
"Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master's happiness!" - Matthew 25:23.
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Tiny bud and forming flower with drop, macro.
Gerbera jamiesonii
Gerbera is also important commercially. It is the fifth most used cut flower in the world (after rose, carnation, chrysanthemum, and tulip).
Originally from South Africa.
Have a great week
* Fires in the Port Macquarie area are estimated to have killed 350 KOALAS in that area alone.
Museum for international Expressionism in one of Rotterdam’s most beautiful villas. The Chabot Museum has an important collection of works by Dutch expressionist Henk Chabot (1894-1949) and is housed in one of Rotterdam’s most beautiful villas. The peaceful homely atmosphere of this listed monument built in 1938 does perfect justice to Chabot’s paintings and sculptures and to works by his contemporaries and present-day kindred spirits. Expressionism and the inter-war period are central to the museum’s temporary exhibitions. The gardens surrounding the building and the other villas scattered around Museum Park are part of an oasis of green in the very centre of Rotterdam. THE VILLA
The striking white villa was designed in 1938 by architect G.W. Baas, who worked many years for the renowned architects Brinkman & Van der Vlugt (known for the monumental Van Nelle Factories, the Feijenoord Stadium and the Sonneveld House in Rotterdam). Baas left the completion to architect L. Stokla when he was appointed as the building coordinator of the Kröller- Müller Museum at the Hoge Veluwe.
The villa in modernist style was initially built as a private residence for the Kraaijeveld family. Distinguishing features of the house are light and airy spaces, a typical openness to the garden and a unique view of the Museumpark and its surroundings. A visit to the homely, light and elegant Chabot Museum combines modern art, architecture and history.
Source: chabotmuseum.nl
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Site of 2 Forts that were important to early American history :
Fort Bowyer was constructed by the U.S. Army during 1813 to guard against possible British attack. This small log and sand fortification was attack twice by the British during the War of 1812. The first attack made by four British warships and a combine force of British Royal Marines and Creek Indians came on September 15, 1814. The ensuing battle was total American victory. One warship, the H.M.S. Hermes was sunk and the marines and Creek Indians were forced to withdraw. During a second battle which took place during early February 1815, a combine British land and naval force forced the vastly outnumbered American troops to surrender the fort. By the terms of the treaty that ended the War of 1812, the British had to return Fort Bowyer to the United States. Fort Bowyer defended Mobile Point until the early 1820's.
Fort Morgan was seized by troops of the State of Alabama on January 4, 1861. Turned over to the Confederate Army in March of 1861, the fort served as the first line of defense for the city of Mobile and provided protection for blockade runners entering Mobile Bay. On the morning of August 5, 1864, Union naval forces fought their way past the Fort Morgan and defeated a Confederate naval squadron which included the C.S.S. Tennessee, one of the most powerful ironclads constructed in the South during the war. Union land forces commenced siege operations against Fort Morgan on August 9th. On the morning of August 22nd, Union artillery began one of the most intense bombardments of a single fort recorded during the Civil War. The Confederate's losses were 17 men killed. The Confederate garrison's 581 men were forced to surrender the next morning.
Glendalough is home to one of the most important monastic sites in Ireland. This early Christian monastic settlement was founded by St. Kevin in the 6th century and from this developed the ‘Monastic City’.
The ‘City’ consists of a number of monastic remains, and the most impressive being the Round Tower which stands 30m high. The main group of monastic buildings lies downstream near the Round Tower. The grounds were entered through the Gateway, which has two round headed granite arches.
Beyond St. Mary’s Church is the Priest’s House, a 12th Century building in Romanesque style, with an interesting carving of a much earlier date on the lintel of the doorway.
Just beyond the Priest’s House is a large granite cross (sixth or seventh century) and the “Cathedral”, the largest church on the site, with a nave, chancel and sacristy (11th and 12th C), and St Kevin’s Church.
St Kevin’s Church is commonly known as St Kevin’s Kitchen. This is a barrel-vaulted oratory of hard mica schist with a steeply pitched roof and a round tower belfry (12th C).
Approx 200m east of the Church of the Rock is a cavity in the cliff which is known as St Kevin’s Bed or Hermitage.
At the Glendalough site on the road to Laragh, to the right, stands Trinity Church (11th-12th C). Beyond the river about 1.5km to the east of the Cathedral is St. Saviour’s Priory a church with fine Romanesque carvings on the chancel arch and windows.
The remains of an old stone fort and three stone crosses can be found between the Upper and Lower Lake, and beside the Lower Lake another cross; all four are stations on the pilgrimage route at Glendalough. Near a small bridge by St Kevin’s Bed stands Reefert Church (11th C.) with a nave and chancel.
HMBT! Happy monochrome bokeh Thursday!
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My first black and white image of a meadow with flowers :). I needed many images and an important tip of a friend to get the desired dreamy effect. In LR I decided to create a low key image after I converted it into a black and white image to let the buttercup flowers stand out from the background.
Wassenaar / Hertenkamp / The Netherlands
On Christmas for me the gifts aren't important. Christmas for me is to have the family around, the warmth and the lights everywhere.
For Macro Mondays - Celebration
Zimbral Beach located on the west coast of Portugal about 70km north of Lisbon.
I can say that it is a great place to have a good peace of mind, a place I go on weekends.
Here I put a poem by Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen was one of the most important Portuguese poets of the 20th century.
She was the first Portuguese woman to receive the most important literary award in the Portuguese language, the Camões Prize, in 1999.
Her body has been in the National Pantheon since 2014
Sea
From all corners of the world
I love with a stronger and deeper love
That ecstatic and naked beach,
Where I joined the sea, the wind and the moon.
I smell the earth the trees and the wind
That spring fills with perfumes
But in them I just want and I just look for
The wild exhalation of the waves
Rising to the stars like a pure scream.
Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen
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Praia do Zimbral situada na costa Oeste de Portugal a cerca de 70km a norte de Lisboa.
Posso dizer que é um sitio ótimo para termos uma boa paz de espirito, local que eu frequento aos fins de semana.
Coloco aqui um poema da Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen foi uma das mais importantes poetisas portuguesas do século XX.
Foi a primeira mulher portuguesa a receber o mais importante galardão literário da língua portuguesa, o Prémio Camões, em 1999.
O seu corpo está no Panteão Nacional desde 2014
Mar
De todos os cantos do mundo
Amo com um amor mais forte e mais profundo
Aquela praia extasiada e nua,
Onde me uni ao mar, ao vento e à lua.
Cheiro a terra as árvores e o vento
Que a primavera enche de perfumes
Mas neles só quero e só procuro
A selvagem exalação das ondas
Subindo para os astros como um grito puro.
Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen
I am not easy to figure out…
i am a simple yet complicated soul,
balanced but moody…
i can be quiet and retreat into my own abyss or i can be a little chatterbox being silly…
shy but outgoing...
an introverted extrovert perhaps…
I ruminate or don’t think of it, whatever it is, at all…
but i am who i am and i make no excuses for myself…
I can't be with anyone that wants to pick which “me” they care to spend time with
because like a box of cracker jacks, you never know whats inside…
Outwardly my appearance is what it is….
the life i have lived shows my trials and tribulations….
i make mistakes,
i have become jaded and somewhat guarded,
i am on a journey of a lifetime,
i chose independence and a life of free will to finally find out just who i am
without being what was expected of me to be or to do….
and i wouldn’t change my decision for the world….
is it easy, oh hell but hell no….
i have fu*ked up so many times but i have gotten it right so many times as well…
nothing important enough worth having/wanting is ever easy
but it builds confidence, not settling or being complacent ...
its a new lesson every day,
and as i take baby steps along the path i am on,
i do so knowing that life is to be lived,
not waiting on a shelf wondering when will it be my turn to be the butterfly
that finally leaves its cocoon,
the girl with the gypsy soul….
take me as i am for that is all that i know how to be…
nor would i care to be anyone else...
the best things in life are free ...to figure it all out...
source: sleepinsidemysoul.tumblr.com/post/160762228438#notes
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Glendalough, or the Glen of two Lakes, is one of the most important sites of maonastic ruins in Ireland. It is also known as the city of the seven Churches. Fourteen centuries have passed since the death of its founder, St. Kevin, when the valley was part of Ireland's Golden Age.
The two lakes, which gave the valley its name, came into existence thousands of years ago, after the Ice Age, when great deposits of earth and stone were strewn across the valley in the area where the Round Tower now exists. The mountain streams eventually formed a large lake. The Pollanass river spread alluvial deposits across the centre of the lake and created a divide to form the Upper and Lower Lakes. The Glenealo river flows in from the West into the Upper lake which is the larger and deepest of the two lakes.
Before the arrival of St. Kevin this valley (glen) would have been desolate and remote. It must have been ideal for St Kevin as a retreat and area to be 'away from it all'. Kevin died in 617 A.D. at the age of 120 years and his name and life's work is forever entwine with the ruins and the Glendalough Valley
Mameda Town and its surroundings, which developed as a townspeople's land during the Tenryo period, retained a lot of land division at the time of residence, and traditional buildings remain well as a group, so the range of about 10.7 hectares was selected as a national important preservation district for groups of traditional buildings on December 10, 2004.
Santa Fe Island
Galapagos
Ecuador
These beautiful colorful locusts, endemic to the Galapagos Islands, typically grow to around 8 centimeters in length. The large painted locusts are an important part of the food chain on the islands, serving as principal prey for lava lizards and the Galapagos hawk.
The large painted locust is one of two species of painted locust endemic to the Galapagos Islands. First described by Carl Stål in 1861, they can easily be identified by their bright colouration.
They are found on all islands except for Española, where the small painted locust is present. They are abundant in the lowlands, particularly after heavy rainfall, and can often be seen surrounding lights on the inhabited islands.
The large painted locust is not closely related to any mainland species, but it is believed they most likely colonised the Galapagos Islands by flight as they are very strong fliers. They are also very good jumpers, easily able to reach up to 3 metres.
The large painted locust belongs to the genus Schistocerca. Commonly called bird grasshoppers, is a genus of grasshoppers, many of which swarm as locusts. There are around 50 other species in the genus of which the best known is the desert locust.
An important thing for birds who got a late start on their nests is keeping the young chicks cool. Weather has warmed up and we are climbing into the 90s every dayl.
This parent is standing between the sun and the chicks and holding out its wings to further shade them.
The midday light isn't very good for photography either.
Important to know: Iguanas are capable of severely injuring people, other animals and themselves when their body language messages are not recognized. Most iguanas clearly sign that trouble is ahead. They nod their head and wave their dewlap side to side.
The dewlap is a fold of loose skin hanging from the neck or throat of an animal, like a cow. Iguanas use their dewlap to communicate. First, an extended dewlap can simply be a greeting. An extended dewlap is often used to say hello to another creature during mating and most generally as a territorial sign. Second, it can be a form of protection. A threatened iguana may extend its dewlap to intimidate a predator into thinking it is much larger than it is. Third, an extended dewlap may be a sign that the iguana is trying to adjust its temperature. An extended dewlap on an iguana basking in the sun is quite normal. It may be catching sun to warm up or catching a breeze to cool off. So it's important to consider "the big picture" when reading an Iguana's body language.
Parts of an iguana... www.bing.com/images/search?view=detailV2&ccid=Up3IVbC...
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Miami FL
Another in my Shadow series
This image was taken Sunday, May 19.2019, I am not sure why the EXIF thinks it was taken September 26, 2015??? I am not sure why I thought that was important enough to share it here.
Flower and Shadow flower are my creations, background Topaz
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