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#macromondays
#Candy
#Lensbaby
The Trekkies among you might remember the episode where Cpt. James Tiberius Kirk and his crew involuntarily swap places with their counterparts from an evil parallel universe where chaos, insanity and illogic rule ("Mirror, Mirror", first broadcasted in 1967). So it might not come as a real surprise to you that there are many more "Mirror Universes". Like the one you can see in my image, into which I was sucked after an unusally high intake of sugar during my quest of finding a nice idea for the "Candy" theme. It's the always colourful, cheery Candyverse, a world fuelled by pure sugar. Depicted in my photo is the UCC's (UCC: United Candy Federation) flagship, the majestic UCC Nonpareille, as it takes up full SOL speed (SOL 22), heading to another mission. Candyverse, of course, has its very own counterpart / parallel universe, the slightly bland Healthyverse.
Actually, the UCC Nonpareille's appearance was pure chance. I had bought three packs of different candies for the theme (strawberry/pepper, passion fruit/chili, and "pebble candies", sugar-coated sweet liquorice candies that look like pebbles).
But while (too) delicious, neither the strawberry nor the passion fruit candies were very photogenic, and the "Candyhenge" stone circle I had made with the pebble candies looked a little boring. I then remembered the bottle of nonpareils which I'd once bought for another MM theme. Nonpareils are certainly the tiniest type of candy that exists, so I thought they'd be well suited for MMs. I thought about forming a classical Cretan circular maze with them. To make things a little easier, I wanted to use a bronze pendant (diameter: 3 cm / 1,18 inches) which is made after one of those classical mazes as template. But when I looked at it I knew it would take ages to put the seemingly simple, but actually not so simple maze shape free-handed. And since it was late, and I needed a photo, I decided to make things even more simple by simply arranging the nonpareils right on the pendant by following the debossed lines on it. And although I had actually focused on the maze shape, all of a sudden the USS Enterprise, or rather its Candyverse counterpart was there, as if it had just emerged from a Warp tunnel – bang!
A funny thing with the MM photos is that in most cases it's either the very first or one of the last images I take for a theme that makes it. This is the second to last image, taken last night, handheld and with the Lensbaby SOL 22 which I'd equipped with the 10 mm extension tube. The red light reflections were created by using a translucent, red raspberry lollipop as colour filter (after all, we are in Candyverse). Since the Lensbaby created a kind of motion blur, I thought I'd highlight that effect by adding a texture to it that would look like star trails right in the moment the starship reaches its maximum speed. The "Drizzle left" weather texture in ON1 did the trick :) Other than that I've only done minimal processing steps in DXO (mainly sharpening and denoising) and in Analog Efex.
HMM, Everyone, have a nice week ahead!
P.S. I'm trying to catch up with you tonight!
There are a few English words that have been adopted in Turkish, mainly mechanical words. Exhaust is one of them, but Turkish being a phonetic language the original "illogical" spelling had to be altered. The official spelling is actually egzos, but who cares?
In America now, we are very lucky indeed. We've had three different vaccinations (Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson) available to all people 12 and over for enough time for everyone to be fully vaccinated and yet we're still hovering around 50% for our vaccination rate and now the Delta variant is really causing some breakthrough infections of those already vaccinated and, of course, killing many people who are not vaccinated. In the midst of this, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) decided to apply some sort of bizarre honor system where only people who were unvaccinated would have to be masked indoors, which absolutely doesn't work because the same people who are anti-mask are the same people who are anti-vax. And, for the spaces and places that would enforce the vaccination, there's a whole industry now of fake vaccination cards people can show so they can continue to risk their lives and others.
At the end of the day, the people in my country just don't realize how good they have it and fall prey to spoiled entitlement and/or conspiracy theories. The cognitive dissonance required to still believe Coronavirus is a hoax even after our previous president, (demon Trump) actually contracted it is baffling and completely illogical.
Meanwhile, our leaders continue to fail us, ignoring the new Delta strain's capabilities to be spread easier outdoors easier, to be spread even within a vaccinated population because of a viral load 1000x that of the original strain, and because it only takes a couple of minutes or less vs. 15 minutes of exposure. So while our hospitals are getting filled up here in this country yet again, we're still having stadiums filled to capacity and large music festivals.
The gravestone of America will read.....
Here Lies America
So much potential and talent but squandered and wasted due to greed, hatred, selfishness, ignorance, and arrogance.
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...What Professor Huxley didn't tell his wife when they witnessed the birth of the Quetzalcoatlus Hemerocallis...
#MacroMondays
#Green
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Susan had been a little worried about her husband lately. David had always been a loving, kind person. True, he was a little scatterbrained (he kept saying that about her, do you believe it?), living in his ivory tower, but that's how palaeontologists and professors with a faible for dinosaur skeleton reconstructions probably are. But recently, he had become increasingly secretive, always locking his lab, ensuring neither she nor foxterrier George would enter it, let alone catch a glimpse of his current work.
But Susan wouldn't be Susan ("scatterbrained, ha!") if she let herself be easily fobbed off by David's illogical and half-baked "explanations" of why she and George weren't allowed in his lab anymore: "A ground-breaking discovery, no one can know about it, yet", "too dangerous for you and George" – as if the birth of the Quetzalcoatlus Hemerocallis hadn't been groundbreaking enough. And dangerous? Was she a whimp? Hadn't it been her who had tamed "Quetzicallie" as they lovingly called the creature that now purred like a kitten and demanded pets all the time? No! It was time to find out the true reason for his strange behaviour. Now. She grabbed her picklock, called for George, and set to work.
15 minutes and a few swearings later ("he had the cheek to change the lock! Boy, you'll have to explain a lot!"), Susan and George inspected the lab. They found themselves particularly interested in a vibrantly green, unusually shaped crystal that emanated a pulsating glow and a low, somewhat creepy humming. While they took a closer look, George sniffing at the green stone excitedly, they were startled by a loud crash behind them. It was David, standing in the lab door, his tea cup shattered on the floor, splashes of tea everywhere, staring at them. "How could you? I told you, it's dangerous!" "What? That green rock? What is that anyway? Honey, you owe me an explanation. Pronto!" "Susan, darling, I... It's m... my preciou... It's... I believe it's Kryptonite. Susan! I found a Kryptonite crystal, the most dangerous mineral in the universe!" There was a moment of deep silence before Susan burst into uncontrollable laughter, giggling as she said: "Oh darling, my crazy, adorable sweetheart! We should take a break from watching those fantasy movies. They give you weird ideas." Editor's note: Susan, David, and George had only recently watched the entire "Superman" and "Lord of the Rings" franchises.
"But Susan, it's true, this is Kryp... Hey, George, what are you up to? No, stop that! George, Noooooooo!!!!" Too late, George had grabbed the green "rock", racing off to the garden, where they heard a distant barking that, strange enough, got louder and louder the farther George ran. And off they were on yet another "catch George mission", preferably catching him before he could scarf up that strange green crystal.
Size info: The "crystal" is 4 cm/1,57 inches at its widest. I did in-camera focus stacking (with a maximum of 15 images) and combined the images in Helicon Focus (method B, R8, S4). Hints at what you see are in the tags ;)
HMM, Everyone!
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
H. L. Mencken
B09 and their two SD40s scream their guts out, trying their best to drag 60 loaded coil sleds for New Carlisle up Otis Hill. Those who follow my uploads will know that, ever since I first started shooting this train four months ago, I've talked about wanting to shoot them at Otis. Finally made it! The photo speaks for itself as to how amazing this runby was. The way life moves rarely leads to me smiling anymore, but I will say that I felt like a complete dork with an ear to ear smile as these guys blew by.
All taken in under another soundless, oppressive and lonely winter sunset, which somehow, as illogical as it may sound, is the best part of it all for me.
On the ground floor of the house, sparkling trees laden with baubles illuminate whimsical and nonsensical displays inspired by ‘Looking-Glass’ such as a quirky ‘illogical’ room where glittering upside-down Christmas trees point disconcertingly to the floor. In the Stone Gallery, you’ll see a giant chess board where, in the story, Alice must play boldly to become a queen.
With a pure and empty heart; God is the room I rest in: “My great obligation is to obey God, and to seek His will carefully with a pure and empty heart. Not to try to impose my own order on my life but let God impose His. To serve His will and His order by realizing them in my own life. This means certainly a deep consent to all that is actually and manifestly His will for me.” January 17, 1960
“God’s love takes care of everything I do. He guides me in all my work and in my reading…It is really illogical that I should get temptations to run off to another monastery and to another Order of monks. God has put me in this place where I can spend hour after hour, each day, in occupations that are always on the borderline of prayer. There is always a chance to step over the line and enter into simple and contemplative union with God. I get plenty of time alone before the Blessed Sacrament. I have gotten into the habit of walking up and and down under the trees, or along the way of the cemetery, in the presence of God…God is my order and my cell. He is my religious life and my rule. He has disposed of everything in my life in order to draw me inward where I can see Him and rest in Him. He has put me in this place because He wants me in this place, and if He ever wants to put me anywhere else, He will do so in a way that will leave no doubt to who is doing it.” -
-January 14, 1947 from A Year with Thomas Merton: Daily Meditations from His Journals
“The Paradoxical Commandments
People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.
If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.
The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.
The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.
People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.
People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.
Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.”
― Kent M. Keith
This is a wasp who unfortunately strayed into my hose spray and temporarily was grounded. I helped it onto a sunny leaf where it washed, groomed and dried before flying off to resume its activities. Wasps are such beautiful and much maligned creatures and it's illogical that we love bees so much, whose stings are much more dangerous. Wasps do a wonderful job in the garden and we should enthuse and celebrate their presence. This year, we are lucky enough to have a wasps' nest under some patio paving slabs and I love to see them coming and going all day long. It's sad to think they will all be gone after the first frosts.
excuse my language but I hate those bitches that are so rude -_-
Tommy's jacket ( cousin ) thế nên mới bự thế đó
Quần xắn lên vì bị ướt
Ha! The alternative entry to Sydney's Luna Park.
This photo, taken in May 2023 with my Canon 5D Mk IV, was inspired by the metaphysical-style art of Giorgio de Chirico, with his use of shadows and illogical, mysterious, perspectives.
Check his work at 'Art News':
www.artnews.com/feature/giorgio-de-chirico-why-is-he-famo...
And speaking of 'Crazy Blue' here is my current favourite artist on Spotify, Soundcloud and Youtubemusic - it's IMY2.
I LOVE the lead singer's cool blue hair and her absolutely sensational voice. Her name is Annalise Mahanes, and here she is with Gnarls Barkley's song 'Crazy'. And she even says 'Ha Ha Ha' in the lyrics, lol. Very gorgeous!!!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp5RBIPtwP0
My Canon EOS 5D Mk IV with the Canon EF 16-35mm f/4L lens.
Processed in Adobe Lightroom and PhotoPad Pro by NCH software.
Thanks for following along with my South Dakota series. Loved my visit here. Much I missed....would be nice to return.
Closing out with a closer view of these 4 iconic American presidents, who also left a major positive impact on our world.
But today I apologize for the crisis and damage our present leadership is causing us, our allies, and the world. America used to strive to stand for our foundational principles and be a positive influence in the world. Seems those lofty goals are now being replaced by favoritism, greed, retribution and imperialism.
A mere 0.15 percent of voters nationwide was the difference between Trump’s second term and Harris’s first. That is not a mandate as he claims.
Approximately 90 million eligible voters did not vote in the 2024 presidential election, which is about 36% of the eligible voting age population. This number is greater than the total votes cast for either candidate, Donald Trump or Kamala Harris.
Not looking for a fight. We are free to differ and disagree openly and safely in America. To each their own choice. Trump was elected.
Other than a close group of oligarchs, favor seekers and power brokers few knew, or believed he would do this, and so quickly. A constitutional crisis is fast approaching. Until the next election in 2026 only the "rule of law" and the courts can stop or slow him down as he is the Master of his party in Congress, who are so far afraid to challenge him. This is their legacy as well.
There is hope ahead as his dictates, decisions and illogic aren't going over well. A backlash is growing. I suspect those who didn't vote will be more involved now after what has happened. Including those who voted for him. Many have told me so.
This is the first time I've ever shared my personal political thoughts here. Was a hard decision. However, these are not normal times.
I have many dear friends on flickr from nearby Canada and around the world. Many have reached out to me, amazed and concerned. Sorry. Please forgive U.S.
And for those who disagree, that is your American right. I still value you as flickr friends and impressive photographers. In a democracy we do make our own decisions. May that continue.
Edited with HDR Efex Pro2 conversion.
"Buitenmolen"te Zevenaar The Netherlands
Tot 1866 bleef de molen in beheer als domeingoed (bezit van de landsheer). In dat jaar werd de molen verkocht aan de toenmalige pachter Jac. van Grinten. Diens erven verkochten het in 1879 aan de molenaarsknecht Johannes Gerritsen.
Toen Gerritsen eind 1928 overging op elektrisch malen, leek het met de Buitenmolen gedaan: op 21 november dat jaar zette hij beide roeden te koop. Omstreeks 1930 werden roeden en staart afgenomen en de romp leeggehaald: zo werd de molen een motormaalderij.
Nadat deze in 1955 was stilgelegd, bleef de romp, met daarop een - lege- kap, gespaard. In 1958 werd de molen verkocht aan F.Th. Korthaus, die op zijn beurt de molen in 1966 verkocht aan de gemeente Zevenaar.
In 1969 en 1970 werd de molen gereconstrueerd. Gekozen werd toen voor een echte houten as, evenwel met ijzeren roeden. Beide roeden kregen Oud-Hollandse ophekking met zeilen.
Na ruim 30 jaar, 2002, heeft men bovenas, roeden en voorkeuvelens vervangen.
In de praktijk draait deze molen vrijwel dagelijks.
Technische bijzonderheden:
Het kruiwerk van deze molen is opvallend: het wordt via tandkransen en gaffelwielen bediend. Met de hand betekent één meter touw inpalmen dat de kap één centimeter verschuift. Niet onlogisch heeft men daarom op een zeker moment een elektromotor gemonteerd! Kettingkruien (vanaf de belt, d.m.v. een rondgaande ketting) is evenwel ook mogelijk.
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Until 1866 the mill remained managed as a domaine (owned by the lord). In that year the mill was sold to the then tenant Jac. van Grinten. His heirs sold it in 1879 to the miller's servant Johannes Gerritsen.
When Gerritsen switched to electric milling at the end of 1928, the Buitenmolen seemed to be over: on November 21 that year he put both rods up for sale. Around 1930, the rods and tail were removed and the hull was emptied: the mill became a motor mill.
After it was shut down in 1955, the hull, with an empty hood on top, was spared. In 1958 the mill was sold to F.Th. Korthaus, who in turn sold the mill to the municipality of Zevenaar in 1966.
The mill was reconstructed in 1969 and 1970. A real wooden axle was then chosen, but with iron rods. Both rods were fitted with old Dutch fencing with sails.
After more than 30 years, in 2002, the top axle, rods and front gate lens were replaced.
In practice, this mill runs almost every day.
Technical details:
The wheel gear of this mill is striking: it is operated via gear rings and clevis wheels. By hand, using one meter of rope means that the hood shifts one centimeter. It is therefore not illogical that an electric motor was installed at a certain point! Chain crossing (from the belt, by means of a rotating chain) is also possible.
Union Pacific’s Los Angeles and Salt Lake route was built along the drainage of the dry Mojave River to avoid mountains in the western Mojave Desert. In a business deal convenient in 1905 that seems illogical today, Union Pacific obtained trackage rights along competitor Santa Fe’s route via Cajon Pass to allow the LA&SL to enter the Los Angeles Basin and avoid building their own route through the same mountains. The logical intersection of the proposed LA&SL and the existing Santa Fe occurred along the Mojave River near a young, rough, desert outpost named after the then Lieutenant Governor of California, John Daggett. West of the new junction at Daggett, the Santa Fe continued to follow the path of the Mojave River west to a final approach to the Cajon Pass.
Today, intermodal traffic to and from Southern California makes the BNSF former Santa Fe mainline one of the most dense freight routes in the country. Although BNSF trains approaching the junction far outnumber UP, BNSF has increased track capacity here to efficiently combine the two. Two UP and two BNSF main tracks now merge at Daggett to form three main tracks west to Barstow.
At West Daggett, a westbound BNSF intermodal glides by a waiting westbound manifest under the rising morning sun. A mix of dust, haze, and thin cloud turn the first light into a fiery reflection. Just minutes later, a new crew will take the train west from Barstow.
The town where Kafkaesque dystopia meets Orwellian dystopia.
"Orwellian" describes a society characterized by authoritarian control, surveillance, and manipulation of information, while "Kafkaesque" refers to a situation or experience that is nightmarishly complex, bizarre, and illogical, often involving bureaucratic absurdity.
The USA of today . . .
Max Waters:
"I spent my life trying to reduce the brain to a series of electrical impulses. I failed. Human emotion... It can contain illogical conflict.
Can love someone and yet hate the things that they've done. Machine can't reconcile that."
in transcendence
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QheoYw1BKJ4
a Wally Pfister film
They are coming in my country just right around the corner. It's pretty bad when you start hoping that the drones in NJ are actually signs of intelligent life (not to be found on Earth!) and that maybe they'll take me with them.
Increasingly more, I find myself believing in UAP and black holes-alternate timelines from quantum mechanics and I don't know if it's just a coping mechanism or what. But whatever it is, it still seems easier than coming to terms with the fact that the majority of Americans voted for a criminal because they were too racist and sexist to vote for an intelligent, reasonable human instead. I still find it all so unconscionable.
Or even more illogical-that a bunch of billionaires are going to lower their grocery bills. This is the worst joke ever told to a mass population.
Yeah, the UAP are again our only hope for actual intelligent life at this point.
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While driving the back roads of Minnesota in the middle of the night, you've yet to see another car on the road . . . your gas tank gauge is hovering near empty . . . fortunately you spot an island of light in the dark . . . YES! A place to fill up . . . but you notice someone wandering about, just outside of the range of light from the island . . . the person is carrying something . . . sticks, a bat, a tripod??? . . . the last item is illogical . . . why would someone be taking a photograph of a gas pump in the middle of the night . . . common sense tells you to keep driving . . . better to be safe than sorry.
My inspiration for photographing gas stations at night were the images taken by Frank Loose which can be seen here www.flickr.com/photos/frankloose/albums/72157720238061513
Looking forward to more nights out looking for other gas stations to photograph.
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Lockport, like every town in the United States, is half full of racists from the conservative right. Somebody from the community posted an image from Colin. Colin, if you are not aware, is protesting systemic racism in this country.
Of course, conservatives find a protest against systemic racism very upsetting. Two of them posted images of Tillman - an army veteran who lost his life in battle as a response to a protest about systemic racism in this country. How is that a response to systemic racism? I'm not sure, but both proceeded to argue with me that I am uninformed, ignorant and illogical. There are obvious observations to be had there, but what I found curious is that more than one took the identical approach.
Terrific Saturday to you my friend.
Despite the hundreds of shiny new screws in unopened packages, I’ve still got my ‘special’ jar, overflowing with rust and illogical retention.
[Macro Mondays] – Theme [Junk]
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Hamburg Tour, die Nächste. Nur ein paar hundert Meter von der Speicherstadt, meiner letzten Tour, sieht die Gegend (gewollt) wieder ganz anders aus. Dort wo eben noch geschichtsträchtige Fassaden, Fleete und Häuser standen, stehen jetzt Häuser, Parks, Anlagen, die Hamburgs anderes Gesicht zeigen und irgendwann für ähnlich viel Gesprächsstoff sorgen werden. In meinem naiven Vorsatz, dachte ich, ich könnte gleich weiter fotografieren. Aber ich hab mich da vertan. Allein an dieser Fassade hab ich lange gesucht, den für mich richtigen Blickpunkt zu finden. Auch funktioniert dort nicht alles in s/w, wie auf meiner letzten Tour. Dieses hier allerdings schon.
Arizona.
Lungo il confine di stato verso il Colorado, si incontrano curiose formazioni geologiche a fianco della strada, come in questo caso...
Due colonne gemelle, alte una quindicina di metri, e nulla tutt'attorno...
Strano e bello, il nostro pianeta :)
Foto dal mio archivio
#geology #pillars #arizona #colorado #blue #sky #pillars #colors #colori #deserto #yellow #dust #sand #sabbia #polvere #usa
Spock: Logic and practical information do not seem to apply here.
Dr. McCoy: You admit that?
Spock: To deny the facts would be illogical, Doctor.
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I did a little bit of colour work on this in post to try and emulate that of the original TV series but that aside, this guy made a really great Spock!.
Believe the Entire Bible, or Just the Parts That Make Sense?
“According to the Christian revelation, God’s own great love propitiated his own holy wrath through the gift of his own dear Son, who took our place, bore our sin and died our death. Thus God himself gave himself to save us from himself.”
—John Stott, The Message of Romans, 115
This quote by John Stott (British Anglican clergyman and leader in the worldwide evangelical movement) sums up Christianity very well. God requires blood and death as a payment for sin. To appease God’s need for blood and death, he decided to sacrifice himself to himself instead.
It became clear to God that Jews could not live up to his wise laws. They continually used his name in vain, worked on the Sabbath and sometimes didn’t kill disobedient children and homosexuals. Ritualistically slaughtering goats and lambs didn’t seem to be working, so he had to come up with a new way to deal with sin.
Solution:
To impregnate a woman with himself, live as a human for thirty years in sinless anonymity, and eventually be slaughtered as a blood sacrifice to himself at age 33. Brilliant.
All sarcasm aside, how does this story make any sense? Why does this god require blood when he teaches Christians to love their enemies and turn the other cheek? Do as I say, but not as I do?
“For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
–Mark 10:44-46
I’ve heard the analogy that the act of Jesus’ sacrifice is the same as me taking a bullet to save my family. This sounds like a very noble analogy, but it only works if you’re also the one holding the gun. A better analogy is you have your family held at gunpoint, but instead kill yourself to save them from yourself. I guess that is a loving act in some sort of demented way.
The fact is the story of Jesus is not only based in highly unreliable testimony from unknown authors, but also completely illogical. You can’t say “I love you” and follow it up with a fiery eternal threat. You also can’t claim to be just and require blood to pay for every petty mistake. But you certainly can’t look at the story of a bloody human sacrifice as anything more than a primitive and barbaric relic from an ancient religion that should have become extinct many years ago.
More views from my balcony at my new house
August 05, 2015
"There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more." - Lord Byron
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It was one of those crazy busy days, which was a little illogical because half the staff is away on vacation and it felt busier than an average day.
Strange how the quiet times turn out to be busiest.
Oh well; it does make the days go quickly.
Grabbed this shot as the city was waking up this morning, and couldn't figure out a way to edit it. Not that I think it's perfect, but to me, this is a shot to leave SOOC.
Anyway, hope everyone has had a good day.
Click "L" for a larger view.
Right: northern needle (Tête de Chat) 3574 m
Central Needle - 3513 m
Left:Aiguille Méridionnale - 3574 m
en ligne droite env 9 km
The enormous rocky slab that constitutes the Agulhas stands out for its resistance to erosion with its base made up of the predominantly marl layers of the Upper and Middle Jurassic, on which it therefore rests transgressively. (illogically)
L' énorme dalle rocheuse qui constitue les Aiguilles , tranche par sa résistance à l'érosion avec son soubassement constitué par les couches en prédominance marneuses du Jurassique supérieur et moyen , sur lequel elle repose donc transgressivement.(de manière peu logique)
This tunnel in Canary Wharf is full of colour but also looks cool in black and white (Voigtlander Helier 15mm)
SOOC...NO PP...CROPPED, RESIZED ONLY. FROM MY ARCHIVE. HOPE U READ ALL THE WAY DOWN.
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If People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered.
Love them anyway.
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.
If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.
The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.
The biggest person with the biggest ideas can be
shot down by the smallest person with the smallest mind.
Think big anyway.
What you spend years building may
be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.
People really need help but may attack if you help them.
Help people anyway.
Give the world the best you have
and you might get kicked in the teeth.
GIVE THE WORLD THE BEST YOU'VE GOT ANYWAY!!!.
( Author unknown }
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You are all SO COOL!
Thanks for your comments/favorites.
Very much appreciated.
HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND EVERYONE.
We have dozens of Sakura trees in High Park in Toronto. They are flowering now and are under heavy police protection. Every access to the park is barricaded and minimum 2 policemen are present to prevent people to visit the park. This is the city solution to prevent people to create a crowd during Covid19. They set up a camera so people can watch flowers blooming from the comfort of they home. So brilliant. I bet millions are watching their computer screens ;-), must be so exciting. My solution would be much more elegant and beneficial, but no official sources wanted to hear it. The trees bloom every year, so I am not really missing anything, but to close completely one of the biggest parks in the city? Ridiculous and idiotic. The whole world does illogical and idiotic things these days. Everybody is an expert on Corona virus and everybody has their own solutions. Our Mayor John Tory is a smart guy, but this idea was probably one of his worst. The photo is taken not far from High Park, mainly because I liked the fence.
142. Toronto 2020- May-04, P1390381; (2020 May) Uploaded 6. May 2020, Lmx -ZS100)
Or Pie Graph if you went to school where I did....just a 'shroom earlier in the year.
What % of the chart has been eaten already?
** I have been somewhat critical of the Explore process over the years but it has improved out of sight more recently. But illogically I get one every 19 days thereabouts whether I like it or not. This got one, I don't think it deserves it frankly. There are millions of better shots out there every day.