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Heart, naturally engraved in the bark of a tree at the shores of Lake Leman
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Taken for the Two Word Wednesdays group.
To You I Give My Heart
How could you not know I
loved you? For it was always
in my eyes, in every touch and
in every polite embrace we've ever
had. It was in all the hello's and
all the goodbye's I've ever spoken,
Could you not hear the pounding
of my heart and see the soaring
of my spirit? How could you not
know I love you? I have asked
that question a thousand times.
If you are ever to love me, it must
be now, For it is nearly the end
of my time, when the shadow of
the trees grow long and then...
and then appears no more.
© Joe Fazio
Go barking mad by looking at this heart really large. It's well worth it!
Just found it on EXPLORE on 211 - Thank You!
“Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament … There you will find romance, glory, honour, fidelity, and the true way of all your loves upon earth.”
– J. R. R. Tolkien.
Photo taken in the convent chapel of the Dominican Nuns at Summit, NJ.
"On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918, the First World War ended. Civilians wanted to remember the people who had given their lives for peace and freedom. An American War Secretary, Moina Michael, inspired by John McCrae's poem,"In Flanders' Fields", began selling poppies to friends to raise money for the ex-Service community." In 1921 the Royal British Legion adopted the poppy.
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Photo taken somewhere in Cadiz in Andalusia in Spain. One of my shots that went to Flickr Explore
Photo that went to Flickr Explore on the 26th September 2007. Highest position in Flickr Explore: 451 on Friday, September 28, 2007
The first sundown over this rural heaven. Yesterday we saw more stars in the sky than we ever could have imagined, including shooting stars, as we lay drunk on the decking.
Tonight I'll attempt a star trail...After some wine, cheese, crackers and another sunset.
Canon 5D Mk III + 24-105mm
0.6 ND Grad Lee Filter + Lee Coral Filter
i close my eyes,
like a little baby,
lying in your arms,
listening to your lullaby,
& feeling your lips on my forehead......
Ein sonniger Tag in einem Park in Arequipa, Peru. Im Vordergrund befindet sich ein runder Brunnen aus hellem Stein, der mit floralen Mustern verziert ist. Dahinter säumen zahlreiche hohe Kanarische Dattelpalmen (Phoenix canariensis) einen Weg. Der Himmel ist wolkenlos und leuchtend blau.
This vintage early-cycle VHS release of the cult pic "Rififi in Amsterdam" (1966) goes under the Korean title "Vanished (Disappeared) Diamonds." It promises plenty of thrills as the characters go after diamonds needed to fabricate (?) a "laser-beam of terror." Extremely scarce tape from the mid-80s mom-and-pop store era.
There is a little drop of water... must have come from inside the rose... my fave pic that I took of it... has a huge drip on the camera... LOL... that's what I get!
"If you've never been thrilled to the very edges of your soul by a flower in spring bloom, maybe your soul has never been in bloom." ~ Terri Guillemet
Normally i do not like the color green very much, but what is the purpose of Photoshop if you not use it?
This ist the original photo:
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As we pause to commemorate the anniversary of the unimaginable horror that was Passchendaele, I’m reminded of my visit to the Ypres Salient (of which Passchendaele is a part) in 2012. While there, I visited the Essex Farm war cemetery, wherein lie the remains of Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae.
While serving as a military surgeon in Belgium, John McCrae wrote In Flanders Fields, one of the most enduring poems of the First World War. Born in Ontario, he was practising medicine in Montreal when he volunteered, in 1914, to join the Canadian Expeditionary Force which was being sent to fight in Europe.
He wrote his poem near the trenches at Ypres Salient, and his words went on to provide a strong stimulus to the Allied war effort. McCrae died from pneumonia in 1918 while serving at an army hospital in Boulogne.
The Essex Farm war cemetery is named after the Essex Regiment, a line infantry regiment of the British Army from 1881 to 1958. Also interred there is Rifleman Valentine Joe Strudwick from Dorking, one of the youngest boy soldiers in the British Army to be killed in action. He was just 15 years old.
In Flanders Fields
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
History of the World Kite Museum, Long Beach, Washington
The World Kite Museum and Hall of Fame has its roots in the local community. In the mid 1980’s a group of kite enthusiasts began to discuss the idea of forming a museum dedicated to kites and kite flyers.
The group met informally and developed a plan of action. They researched building opportunities, nonprofit status requirements, storage facilities, and other basic details that were needed to establish a museum. The group was eager to create a place where people could go to learn about kite history and see kiting displays.
Several auspicious things happened during this period of development: 1989 was the Washington State’s 100th birthday and with this celebration came an initiative focused on developing museums and history preserving organizations.
There were many workshops offered by the state to encourage upgrading and fostering museums. Our developing museum board picked areas that interested them and attended. We learned about how to run a gift shop, accession artifacts, write a mission statement, goals, and objectives, recommended storage techniques, 501 c 3 status – all these topics of importance to an new museum organization.
Also in 1989 the David Checkley’s widow donated his collection of 700 Japanese, Chinese and Malaysian kites to the World Kite Museum. The 300 Japanese kites in the collection are considered the most complete collection of Japanese kites outside of Japan.
Our first exhibit, “The History of Kites in Washington State”, was a week long affair in the Long Beach City Council rooms during the 1989 Washington State International Kite Festival. This same year a famous Japanese kite maker Eiji Ohashi also brought kite-making materials to Long Beach. With the help of World Kite Museum volunteers every child at Long Beach Elementary made a flyable Japanese kite. The Museum had begun with an exhibit, a unique kite display on the beach, and a school kite making class.
Due to the success of these exhibits and activities the museum believed a freestanding building was necessary to house the collection. Jim Buesing went to the City of Long Beach with a proposal for the use of the Coulter home in the southwest corner of the one half block of beach cottage vacation rental property the city had acquired. Through the assistance of the City of Long Beach this building became the Museum home from 1990-2004.
By August 1990, led by Buesing, the inside of the home plus the two rental rooms attached became a four-room exhibit space. The kitchen morphed into an admission desk and gift shop. The bathroom, tub and sink removed were computer room and print, picture, video and book storage. The laundry room stored kites not on exhibit. One of the exhibit rooms was designated as the Long Beach room. It was a nostalgic place for festival participants. Admission included the ability to make a kite to fly, from materials provided by the museum, a tradition which the current museum still promises.
During the 14 years the World Kite Museum was in this location the museum grew their community partnerships – using the Long Beach Elementary gymnasium for adult workshops and bringing cultural experiences to their students. We also worked closely with Long Beach Peninsula Merchant Associations, providing programs for local clubs and libraries. We developed in house programs and activities like membership drives, quarterly newsletters, demonstrations, and traveling exhibits. Little did we know that running into each other in our crowded building cause us to make so many new and wonderful friends.
As the museum grew we began to search for a larger space to accommodate the needs of the collection and the visitors. A 10,360 square foot, two-story building was available on Sid Snyder Drive in late 2004. By November 2005, the Board of Directors was able to purchase this building that provides over 6,000 square feet of exhibit space, room for storing research artifacts, both photos and printed ephemera, plus workshop and office space. The current World Kite Museum collection now houses over 1500 kites from 26 countries around the world. The American Kite Association combined their archives with ours in the late 1990’s. These materials coupled with our active oral history program makes the World Kite Museum resource for research on kites around the world. Textbook companies and freelance writers have utilized our ephemera to create articles and books about the history of kiting. The History of the World Kite Museum and Hall of Fame now proceeds with educating and entertaining visitors, protecting and increasing our collections plus researching and discovering more about kites past and present.
Metro
Beijing, China
July 2012
Candid shots in and around Public Transport
Ricoh GRD IV
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I wonder, why it's called South, if it's colder than the North :)
I'm back from my trip at last! And I saw my first real snow of this winter (it almost didn't snow in Yerevan this year). Well, I liked the snow this time, mostly because I knew I was going to leave in few hours. This photo is not B&W. Because of the fog and snow, all around was white.
Don't freeze. Warmer photos are coming soon :)
Does look better, when you press L.
Thanks for your visit and have a great day!
I always stop in the conservatory at Filoli since it has such a great perspective on the garden and is always filled with marvelous light. It is also the perfect venue for HDR treatment since there is such a wide range of light. The 5D Mark III allows up to 7 bracketed images, and I decided to shoot with 5 today since I was allowed to use the tripod in the gardens.
Now I'm imagining myself ensconced in one of those lounge chairs with my feet up, sipping a tall frosty drink - it got to 77 degrees today in Redwood City and it's only February!
Failed with isolation but other than that I am quite happy with the capture. One day I will learn my photoshop to blur the BG in post.
For Macro Monday. I should have read the theme description a bit more carefully as the first shots I took didn't comply being on the bottle neck rather than in it :-)
My brother-in-law's dog Amber in the bluebells near us - she is staying with us to lose some weight
There is another picture of Amber here.
The early morning light lights up CSX Q259, a westbound CSX auto train as it passes Marion Union Station in Marion, Ohio.
In the laughing times we know that we are lucky, and in the quiet times we know that we are blessed. And we will not be alone.
~ Dar Williams
To my loved ones & friends in Victoria, my prayers & thoughts are with you!
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Explore #380
Springtime always is a very colorful season in my garden: blooming rhododendron (w/9mm extension tube)
I titled this image "In The Zone" because when I am out in the field capturing images, I zone everything out around me, such at this moment. I was totally unaware that my wife was photographing me.
Well at least now you can put a face and body to my images that you see frequently. LOL.. It is kind of rare that I am photographed.. I am usually the one doing that job.. but my wife just happened to have the P&S with her. I'll get back at her for this soon enough.. LOL..
(homeless man in the sun, sf, 8/31/06)
homeless "bagger" sitting on the sidewalk panhandling and selling oakland athletics discount cards. he has some trouble speaking; but is not shy for it. he lives in berkeley and is in sf to pick up his ssi check.
("news" about shows etc.)
in Africa i feel grounded in an indescribable way
because by choice i had no connection to the outside world or technology. it forces you to be in the moment because you don't know what the next minute will bring. there is constant sense of awe & depth of surprise of wilderness & beauty of nature knocking ur door every steps.
Namibia, Africa
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This old sanatorium was built by St. Jorgen Foundation in Bergen. It was built to serve as a tuberculosis hospital for the West Coast. Most patients came from the Bergen region, but there were patients from all over the country. The sanatorium was in operation until mid 1950's.
The background for building the sanatorium here was said to be it's dry climate, pine forest and the thin mountain air. It was a recipe believed in the old days to cure people with tuberculosis. On this location they found a whole "package" - it was located on a hill and in a climate that one at the time considered "immune zone" against the disease.
In the year 1900, the plans for the sanataorium was ready. The three story hospital would have 96 beds and modern spa and operating room. An extension was made in 1924 and the capacity increased to 120 beds, and by 1950 it had reached 150 beds.
The construction plan in 1900 also included a separate laundry, stable and icehouse - and not least an electrically driven cable car from the steamship pier at the fjord and up to "rock shelf". A 6 km stretch of road with 13 bends up the hill was also made.
The cable car and the power plant to the sanatorium are located in side buildings next to the sanatorium. Calculations showed that the large hospital facility would cost 456,000 norwegian kroner (approx. 76000$ - an enormous sum in those days. Most of the money was acquired in Bergen: Bergen city guaranteed for 200,000 kroner, and wealthy citizens for 175,000 kroner. The final amount turned out to be 777,000 thousand kroner when the plant was inaugurated on 2 in November 1902.
On the opening party there was greeting telegrams from both the Swedish-Norwegian King and Queen, Parliament President Carl Werner and shipowner and later Prime Minister Johan Ludwig Mowinckel. Some years later, it was also built senior housing, two family dwellings for the stoker and the gardener, and "sister house" for nurses. there were also a separate chapel with mortuary.
The first treatment they had to offer - before the vaccine against the disease came after World War II - was partly operations - partly different cures. One of the cures they used here was making sure the patients got enough air daily. Meaning they would lay outside in their beds in both in summer and winter, well-packaged in bags of reindeer skins. They were placed under a huge canopy along the entire south wall and this canopy prevented rain and snow to enter in their air spaces. Around the hospital there was built a large park with roads where patients who were strong enough could exercise.
Another cure they used was known as 'Blowing of the lungs'. This took place inside the 'operation lodge'.
The technique comprised much of the so-called "blowing". When tuberculosis attacked the lungs, it would eat the tissue, consume it so that it formed large cavities in the lung tissue. It was essential to close these cavities. This was done by puncturing the lung where the cavities had formed so that sick lung would collapse and the wounds would be healed exactly where the cavities formed.
Patients here was almost fat on the heavy diet and the hospital had its own pig barn where they made sure that the pigs had an extra thick blubber layer before they were slaughtered. And it was also quite common for relatives to send food and treats in abundant quantities
Every July a rich man in Bergen would send a cargo of oranges to patients and staff.
The distance down to the village, the risk of getting infected abd the fact that most patients were visitors, not locals - turned this place into a rather secrete and closed society. The sanatorium even had its own post office and therefore the people here would establish a separate social life. The whole complex was built in 1902 so that women and men were strictly separated. There were two bed suites, operation and cure rooms and separate dining rooms for each of the sexes. This separation of the sexes was kept strict up to a major rebuild that was done in 1937.
Although there were strict gender segregation indoors, it was allowed for girls and boys to come together on the romantic paths in the park, as well as in the decorated assembly hall when it was organized parties, cinema, concerts or theater.
Most of the patients here was young people, and those who were fit enough, would take part part in simple sports activities and games in the park outdoors. It was founded to concerts, and patients set up plays every New Year's Eve and may 17.(Norways independence day) After rich shipowner and other rich people in Bergen gave the sanatorium a film apparatus in 1937, they had cinema once a week.
The sanatorium is now shut down. In the fight against tuberculosis there was a breakthrough - it happened just after 2 World War II. Then came effective vaccines against the disease, and a large part of the Norwegian population was vaccinated against tuberculosis in a few years. Thus was the foundation for the operation of the sanatorium gone. But others took over the buildings and between 1950 and 1990 it was used as a psychiatric hospital. After that, it was used as a reception center for refugees from the Balkan war. In 1994 the doors were closed and the sanatorium has been left abandoned since.
Exif
Camera: Nikon D700
Lens: Sigma 12.0-24.0 mm f/4.5-5.6
Aperture: f/9,0
Exposure Time: 1/6
Focal Length: 12mm
ISO: 400
Male Chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs) in flight, with the bushes behind being in shade the bird flew in the light.
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I started trying my hand at taking birds in flight last year at my local RSPB reserve at Lochwinnoch.
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This year I have changed my technique and decided to try a full manual set up.
Manual shutter speed, aperture and focus, this is one of my first trying this set up.
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Taken with natural light.
Canon 60D
Bigma - Sigma 50-500mm @ 313mm
1/1600sec
f/6.3
ISO-800
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One of my Birds In Flight
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Best seen Large on black - Press L
I heard the lonely, lonely music once
in my memory, its been haunting me ever since
In the lonely, dead of midnight
in the dimness of the twilight
if you meet me, by the lamplight
I'll be around
~Van Morrison
- I saw you standing in the corner, on the edge of a burning light..I saw you standing in the corner..Come to me again, in the cold, cold night..You make me feel a little older, like a full grown woman might but when youre gone I grow colder, come to me again in the cold, cold night..I see you walking by my front door, I hear the creaking of the kitchen floor..I dont care what other people say, Im going to love you, anyway..Come to me again in the cold, cold night..I cant stand it any longer, I need the fuel to make my fire bright so dont fight it any longer..Come to me again, in the cold, cold night..And I know that you feel it too, when my skin turns into glue, you will know that its warm inside and youll come run to me, In the cold, cold, night
♥