View allAll Photos Tagged In
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!
Bahadur Chitrakar
When Bahadur Chitrakar was a 18 year old boy, a man named Thomas Kaiser from Germany came to Nayagram, a village in West Bengal, for the purpose of collecting old folk paintings from the eastern states of India. Young Bahadur accompanied that gentleman to different corners of the districts of Midnapore, Bankura, Purulia, Nadia, and even the states of Jharkhand and Odissa. He collected substantial old paintings, scriptures, and other articles from India and took them back to Germany.
Bahadur, being a young passionate lover of Indian folk art, suddenly changed his mind. He thought, if our old traditional folk articles were being taken away, our next generations might not see these indigenous folk art, anymore. With this notion, he started his solo venture to revisit all these areas to collect antique folk articles and ‘pattachitras’ to develop his own museum in his own village of Nayagram. “Over the last 17 years I have collected some 2000 old pattachitras, ancient scriptures, different other folk arts, masks, traditional musical instruments, books, currencies, and garments”, He says. “Such priceless collections now need proper care and preservation, and needs spontaneous help from the state government, or any enterprising organisation,” says Bahadur Chitrakar at his age of 48.
[www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHBD_enIN859IN859&source...]
[www.biblio.com/book/painted-songs-continuity-change-india...]
Nayagram is a small village in Pingla, Paschim Midnapur, West Bengal, India, where a number of families having a traditional form of inherited folk art called 'Pattachitra', reside together. They use mostly organic colours and paint a series of paintings, usually depicting stories from Indian Mythology. Pattachitra is a general term for traditional, cloth-based scroll painting, based in the eastern Indian state of Odisha. In the Sanskrit language, "Patta" literally means "cloth" and "Chitra" means "picture". They paint on a variety of articles like sarees, stoles, and many other materials especially for wall hangings.
I was impressed by the fact that almost all the female member of the families are involved in this traditional art and have taken it as the major source of family income.
For the last few years, State Government is promoting a number of handicraft fairs inviting artists from all over the states. Many products are sold directly from the village round the year, and are widely acclaimed in the country and abroad for its ethnic value and simplicity.
There is a resource centre belonging to 'chitrataru' cluster formed by the Pattachitra artists of Pingla, Paschim Medinipur. This was built with the support of the European union, as part of the project 'Ethno-magic Going Global' undertaken by banglanatak dot com.
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.
Wat te doen als het fietsgedeelte van de vakantiedag erop zit, en je in de middle of nowhere zit op een boerderij met nog een volledige avond voor je hebt? Normaal een beetje video's kijken op YouTube, behalve op 18-7-16!
Op nog geen honderd meter van mijn adres lag een spoorlijn waar de ÖBB zijn treinen op exploiteert. Vanwege het enkelspoor tussen de stations was het treinverkeer beperkt, en kon ik maar twee treinen per uur op dit spoor zien. Twee treinen per uur vult je avond niet, maar het kan toch nog wel de moeite waard gaan om een leuke stek uit te zoeken en een plaatje te maken.
Na op de site van de ÖBB gekeken te hebben gekeken wanneer de volgende trein kwam, vertrok ik van de boerderij en zocht een plekje uit in het weiland. Na een paar minuten kwam de trein er al aan, wat een prachtige vertoning werd, met prachtig dieselgeweld.
En dankzij de wonders de fotografie kan ik dit moment delen met de hele wereld! :)
De trein op de foto is een ÖBB CityShuttle 80-73 (rijtuigenstam) met een Hercules (ÖBB 2016) erachter.
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!
Please remember all my pictures are © copyright protected. You may NOT use without my permission.
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
==========================
www.amarphotography.in © All rights reserved.
==========================
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.
--
I started trying my hand at taking birds in flight last year at my local RSPB reserve at Lochwinnoch.
--
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.
--
Taken with natural light.
Canon 60D
Bigma - Sigma 50-500mm @ 313mm
1/1600sec
f/6.3
ISO-800
--
One of my Birds In Flight
--
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
♥
About every two hours or so during a long flight, I do 3-4 "laps" around the plane (walking from the front to back to front), along with about 10min of stretching.
My favourite place is the very back galley as it affords not only ample room to stretch (without being seen by the entire plane ;-) but also a great view down the entire length of the plane (a 787-900 aka "Dreamliner" in this pic).
Picture taken of everyone immersed in their own world of Entertainment while crossing the Pacific from LAX to Tokyo.
Somewhere over the Pacific Ocean...
Amtrak train No. 352 has just departed the Hammond / Whiting station and is seen approaching CP506, in January 1983.
Two Dash 8s sandwich an SD40-2 as they haul taconite pellets toward Two Harbors in a rain shower at Wales, MN. June 9, 2019.
City in Color is a printed book of 27 full color photographic images. It is a 36 page, saddle-stitched book and it measures 5.8" x 8.26".
It is a series of 27 street photography photos taken in a 6 month period between November 2017 and May 2018 in New York City.
It is limited to 100 copies which are signed and numbered. This is the second book in a series titled Seeing With New Eyes. There are more titles to come in the near future. You can order it online. Thanks.
The sunrise in Rogers Park over Lake Michigan from the dune grass that has been allowed to grow the last few years in an effort to prevent erosion. Processed using Aperture and the Nik Software suite.
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
Anne-Sophie Swetchine
#89 on November 1st, 2008
In diesen Augenblicken wird eine nichtige Kreatur, ein Hund, eine Ratte, ein Käfer, ein verkrümmter Apfelbaum, ein sich über den Hügel schlängelnder Karrenweg, ein moosbewachsener Stein mir mehr als die schönste hingebendste Geliebte der glücklichsten Nacht mir je gewesen ist. Diese stummen und manchmal unbelebten Kreaturen heben sich mir mit einer solchen Fülle, einer solchen Gegenwart der Liebe entgegen, daß mein beglücktes Auge auch ringsum auf keinen toten Fleck zu fallen vermag.
Es erscheint mir alles, was es gibt, alles, dessen ich mich entsinne, alles, was meine verworrensten Gedanken berühren, etwas zu sein.
------------------------
In these moments an insignificant creature - a dog, a rat, a beetle, a crippled apple tree, a lane winding over the hill, a moss-covered stone, mean more to me than the most beautiful, abandoned mistress of the happiest night. These mute and, on occasion, inanimate creatures rise toward me with such an abundance, such a presence of love, that my enchanted eye can find nothing in sight void of life.
Everything that exists, everything I can remember, everything touched upon by my confused thoughts, has a meaning.
Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Brief des Lord Chandos an Francis Bacon / The Letter of Lord Chandos
Original poster - 'Blowing in the Mind/ Mister Tambourine Man', colour screen-print from multiple stencils on gold foil paper, designed by Martin Sharp, London, 1968. It is a complex multi-stencil design in red and black inks screen-printed on gold foil paper, the design featuring multiple radiating circular motifs with two portraits of Bob Dylan, the large central frontal profile with reflecting dark glasses and caption 'Blowing in the Mind', the smaller side profile placed in front of an entwined 'Mister Tambourine Man'. Lyrics of the song are written within letters and circles. This was the first "serious" poster I bought.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial, Washington, D.C.
"Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope."
From the "I Have A Dream" speech in Washington, D.C. on August 28, 1963. The quotation serves as the theme of the overall design of the memorial, which realizes the metaphorical mountain and stone.
South Wall
"We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."
Washington National Cathedral, March 31, 1968.
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that."
Strength to Love, 1963.
"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."
Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, Oslo, Norway, 1964.
"Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a better person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in."
March for Integrated Schools, April 18, 1959.
"I oppose the war in Vietnam because I love America. I speak out against it not in anger but with anxiety and sorrow in my heart, and above all with a passionate desire to see our beloved country stand as a moral example of the world."
Anti-War Conference, Los Angeles, California, February 26, 1967.
"If we are to have peace on earth, our loyalties must become ecumenical rather than sectional. Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective."
Christmas sermon, Atlanta, Georgia, 1967.
North Wall
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly."
Letter from Birmingham, Alabama jail, April 16, 1963.
"I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality, and freedom for their spirits."
Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, Oslo, Norway, 1964
"It is not enough to say 'We must not wage war.' It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war, but the positive affirmation of peace."
Anti-War Conference, Los Angeles, California, February 25, 1967.
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of convenience and comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
Strength to Love, 1963.
"Every nation must now develop an overriding loyalty to mankind as a whole in order to preserve the best in their individual societies."
New York City, April 4, 1967.
"We are determined here in Montgomery to work and fight until justice runs 'down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream.'"
Montgomery, Alabama, December 5, 1955. Here, King borrows a verse from the Bible, the Book of Amos, which he frequently reused in speeches.
"We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience."
Montgomery, Alabama, March 25, 1965.
"True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice."
Stride Toward Freedom, 1958
Spring work in a vineyard, there's no better opportunity for a few nice photos. Of course, if there's any time left for such frivolities! Early June 2018.
Taken with Nikon F90x film camera and Tamron SP Adaptall-2 51B 17mm F3.5 ultra-wide-angle lens, on Agfa Vista+ 200 film.
1/2000 exposure, ƒ/3.5, ISO 200 - I took notes. Scanned with Plustek OpticFilm 8100 scanner.
"Limelight is an intense white light which is produced by heating a piece of lime in a flame of burning oxygen and hydrogen. The effect was discovered in the 1820s by Goldsworthy Gurney and the application of the process to create a bright light was developed by Thomas Drummond around 1825. It was widely used in 19th century theatres to illuminate the stage and was first used in a public theatre at Covent Garden in London in 1837. Clearly, actors who were the centre of attention on stage being said to be in the limelight. The figurative use, to people or things that were the centre of attention outside the world of theatre, came into use around the turn of the 20th century..."
www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/201400.html
Follow me on: Facebook Flickeflu Flickriver Twitter
© Copyright Natalie Panga - All rights reserved.
* Lightbox: Best seen in larger size on black (click image above)