View allAll Photos Tagged Increased
A yellow summer sunlight illuminated the grass and this lonely pink wildflower.
Ultra short depth of field to increase a dreamy blurred environment.
On 500px 500px.com/photo/165094185
------------------------------------
Instagram - Twitter - Ello - Facebook - Google Plus
------------------------------------
Cinnamon Teals are such beautiful ducks, and I've taken many shots of them, usually from such a great distance that I haven't posted any of them.
Some ducks were sleeping nearby the pond where I was shooting today, and I was pleasantly surprised to see one was a Cinnamon Teal. I wanted to get some nice shots of him swimming so I decreased my shutter speed to 1/1250 to bring out more detail in the darker colors.
But then he decided to fly. They are so fast that I didn't have time to increase my shutter speed. I just got lucky that this was in focus. He's one pretty duck!
Cinnamon Teal
Anas cyanoptera
Member of the Nature’s Spirit
Good Stewards of Nature
© All Rights Reserved
Ein Gradierwerk (auch Leckwerk) ist eine Anlage zur Salzgewinnung. Sie besteht aus einem Holzgerüst, das mit Reisigbündeln (vorwiegend Schwarzdorn) verfüllt ist. Das Verb gradieren bedeutet „einen Stoff in einem Medium konzentrieren“. Im Falle eines Gradierwerks wird der Salzgehalt im Wasser erhöht, indem Sole durch das Reisig hindurchgeleitet wird, wobei auf natürliche Weise Wasser verdunstet. Außerdem lagern sich Verunreinigungen der Sole an den Dornen ab; dadurch wird die Qualität des erzeugten Salzes erhöht.
Textquelle de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradierwerk
A graduation tower (occasionally referred to as a thorn house is a structure used in the production of salt which removes water from a saline solution by evaporation, increasing its concentration of mineral salts. The tower consists of a wooden wall-like frame stuffed with bundles of brushwood (typically blackthorn) which have to be changed about every 5 to 10 years as they become encrusted with mineral deposits over time. The salt water runs down the tower and partly evaporates; at the same time some minerals from the solution are left behind on the brushwood twigs.
Driving down from col de Vars, above Guillestre, the setting sun was breaking through the clouds and shining on a few spots in the valley.
I had to post-process a bit the image to increase the contrast. I chose to make it a bit darker and to keep desaturated colors but to make part of the cloud higlights a bit more yellow and the distant mountains a bit more blue.
Technically, I used the darktable software. I made the top and bottom of the image darker with an exposure filter as well as tone curves. I used a set of contrast equalizers on the mountains and the patches of light to increase the contrast, using a combination of "clarity", "sharpen", and "sharpen and denoise" presets. On the top of the image I also used a contrast equalizer, but this time in "bloom" preset, to decrease the contrast, as well as a "soften" filter. For the colors, I give a slight yellow-green push to the image with a "color correction" filter, I desaturated the top of the image and I pushed the distant mountains and the top of the clouds to the blue. I applied a color correction selecting on pixel intensity to shift only the highlights of the left part of the clouds to the yellow. I used "color zones" to make the blue of the top of the part of the sky darker. And finally, I added some grain, making it more intense in the shadows, to compensate for the varying amount of smoothness created by the different contrast equalizers.
Description 📄:
The concept of ‘Retica 30’ aims to increase train connections between Landquart and Davos Platz to every half hour. To make this possible, it was decided to combine the two lines RE1 (Landquart-Filisur) and RE3 (Lanquart-St. Moritz) up to Kloster Platz, where they separate and continue individually. In addition, the existing RE4 (Landquart-Scuol Tarasp) line was taken and joined up to Kloster Platz with a new RE2 line running to Davos Platz. By combining these lines, it was possible to achieve half-hourly connections between Lanquart and Davos Platz by creating just one new line.
However, it was now necessary to have vehicles capable of putting this project into practice. The Rhaetian Railway needed trains that were up to date and in step with the times. They had to be able to couple and uncouple automatically and quickly, which was not possible with the old ‘Allegra’ trains, which still have a traditional coupling system with a hook and tensioner. So the first 27 trains were ordered from Stadler, which six months later became 36. Later on, the Canton of Graubünden gave the go-ahead to order another 20 units, bringing the total to 56. In 2024, the last six trains were ordered, bringing the current total of the ABe 4/16 fleet to 62.
The trains, named “Capricorn”, consist of four carriages and 16 axles, including four powered axles. The innovation of these trains for the Rhaetian Railway is the “Schwaab” automatic coupling, which allows up to four trains to be coupled together during periods of high demand.
This type of train, in service since 2019, has already broken two world records. The first record was set by the Capricorn 3113, which reached a maximum speed of 163.02 km/h during tests in July 2022. This became the world record for speed on narrow-gauge railways. Just three months later, another record was broken, namely that of “the world's longest narrow-gauge passenger train”. Twenty-five Capricorn units were coupled together and travelled 25 km, reaching a total length of 1,906 metres.
Information ℹ️:
Date 📅: 18.10.2025, 11:35
Place 📍: La Punt-Chamues-ch, Switzerland
Train 🚄: ABe 4/16 3138 "Muttler"
Train Company 🏢: RhB
Line 🔢: R15 1929
Start 🚩: Scuol-Tarasp
Destination 🏁: Pontresina
©️The photo was taken and edited by Nathan Urriani. Use of the image by others is only allowed with my permission.
Svínafellsjökull is a glacier outlet of the Vatnajökull ice cap, located in the Öræfi region of South Iceland within Vatnajökull National Park. The glacier flows down from Iceland's largest ice cap and is characterized by deep crevasses, ice ridges, and layers of volcanic ash embedded in the ice. It has been widely studied by glaciologists because of its accessibility and visible glacial features. Due to increased icefall risk associated with glacier retreat, access to the glacier front has been restricted in recent years.
Just me and my shadow.........
The little ringed plover first nested in the UK in 1938, but has since moved in happily! It has taken advantage of an increase in man-made flooded gravel pits, reservoirs and quarries that provide perfect habitats.
Although I was still some distance from this Caspian Tern, it didn't hang about. Taking to the air, it carried out a leisurely 180 degree turn, and then increased speed as it headed out to sea...!!!
Thanks so much for the very kind and encouraging comments beneath this photo...! Your support is always greatly appreciated.
1 Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth.
2 The fear and dread of you will fall on all the beasts of the earth, and on all the birds in the sky, on every creature that moves along the ground, and on all the fish in the sea; they are given into your hands.
2 Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.
Genesis 9 1:3
Visit The Carbone Gallery
Art gallery & café
The work by sculptor Carlos Correia, is on a real life scale and made of washers and steel.
the initiative aims to “increase the sense of place, imagination and interest of the population”.
Best seen large by clicking on the photo.
HAPPY SLIDERS SUNDAY !!
I always try to upload something unusual for Sliders Sunday.
IMO October light is special, and it gave me this image in my living room.
To me the light pattern looks like a watering can.
It reminded me that my houseplants needed their weekly watering.
Post processing included cropping to square and substantially increasing
saturation, contrast and sharpness. The result is what my brain remembered.
As usual, IMO, the camera needed my help to do the subject justice.
Location: Home, Riehen BS Switzerland
In my album: Dan's Patterns: Nature-Made
Lake Batur, Bali, Indonesia.
This is not an HDR. I took 5 exposures, but HDR was not an option here because the boat was slightly moving between the shots. Therefore I blended 3 exposures manually using Photoshop. Please check my Digital Blending Set.
The whole Bali Photoset can be viewed here.
SOOC!! only increased saturation to compensate for color suppression by camera software...not even cropped...
I'm disappointed as the frame is too tight in the left side...
for those who don't know hindi..."Latke Matke" translates to 'hanging pots"...hindi one kinda rhymes :)
Despite the increasing adversities encountered getting to White Pocket at Vermillion Cliffs Wilderness I keep going back to this magical place.
Increasing adversities were two cars, which never should attempted getting there and obviously got stuck in the deep sand. An overwhelming amount of people and tents brought in by local guide companies and their guides behaving like this is THEIR place. One of these guides had the nerve to harass me as I was there with two friends of mine, new to White Pocket, and I was showing them around. She thought she could scare me that BLM rangers will penalize me for taking friends to the White Pocket and ‘guiding’ them around. Last but not least, a helicopter showed up in the late afternoon to rescue one of the many people roaming around and who injured herself to the point that she was not able to get back to the car and drive to the closest health care center.
The secret is trying to blend all this out, knowing exactly what you want to shoot and just wait until everybody is gone and use the low light.
Nikon D810
Nikon T&S 19mm f/4.0
10s at f/8.0
RAW ISO 100
05/18/2018
Interested in a photo tour through the American Southwest, Brazil, Bolivia, Namibia or Tuscany? I can help you with it and make you come back with unique shots.
_______________________________
Image is under Copyright by Peter Boehringer.
Contact me by email if you want to buy or use my photographs.
_______________________________
And sharp as a knife...
Macro Monday: #Danger
Width of the frame: 3 cm / 1,18 inches
Oh, how much I hate to accidentally cut myself on paper. And how much more often has that happenend compared to a knive accident in the kitchen. We are surrounded by potentially dangerous things, aren't we? And one of those things is the inconspicious paper, evil in the guise of the daily newspaper, a book, a white, empty sheet of paper, the information leaflet... Admittedly, I've slightely exaggerated the consequences here, because a "paper cut" is never that bloody, but it bloody well hurts anyway ;-)
Simple ingredients used: strip of paper (of course), placed on my semi-glossy white tile and fixated with a small piece of modelling clay (which I forgot to remove with the healing [healing!] brush, *sigh*), because the droplet of "blood" always made it fall over. The "blood" consists of water and glycerol, tinted with red watercolour. Glycerol increases the water's surface tension and helps to stabilise the droplets (thank you very much for the advice, Bine&Minka2007!). A 50-50 mixture is recommended, but you should experiment with the mixing ratio, I used a 40 (water) to 60 (glycerol) mixing ratio for this. You can also use glycerol only. Since it is a fairly greasy substance, I'd recommend to have a bottle of make-up remover at hand which works really well to clean the surfaces you've used the glycerol on.
Other uses for glycerol? On the bottle I got from my local chemist it says that fir branches and Christmas trees last longer when you add a little glycerol to the water (4 tablespoons of glycerol in 1 l of water), and it is also recommended as a frost protection agent for rubber seals of, for instance, fridge or car doors. Speaking of frost protection agent... I vaguely remember the 1985 diethylene glycol wine scandal, where Austrian wineries adulterated their wines with diethylene glycerol... but that's an altogether different matter... ;-)
A Happy Macro Monday, Everyone!
Nicht von Pappe...
...sondern scharf wie ein Messer kann Papier sein. Papier war sogar das erste, das mir einfiel, als ich das neue MM-Thema erfuhr. Denn wie oft habe ich mich schon versehentlich an Papier geschnitten. Sicherlich öfter als am Küchenmesser, das man ja auch mit entsprechender Sorgfalt handhabt. Papier hingegen, das harmlose Zettelchen, Blatt, der Beipackzettel... ein unachtsamer Moment und... Autsch! Natürlich habe ich hier etwas übertrieben, denn so "blutig" ist ein Papier-Schnitt selten, aber er tut schon ziemlich gemein weh... ;-)
Den schmalen Streifen aus etwas dickerem Papier habe ich mit einem kleinen Kügelchen Knete (das ich auch noch wegzustempeln vergessen habe...) auf der matt-glänzenden Fliese befestigt, weil der "Blutstropfen" das Röllchen immer zum Überkippen brachte. Das "Blut" ist eine Mischung aus Wasser und Glycerin, gefärbt mit roter Wasserfarbe aus dem Tuschkasten. Vielen Dank übrigens an Bine&Minka2007 für den Tipp mit dem Glycerin. Christa macht ja immer die schönsten Tropfenfotos und ich hatte vor einiger Zeit mal nachgefragt, wie sie ihre Tröpfchen stabilisiert. Das recht ölige Glycerin erhöht die Oberflächenspannung des Wassers, sodass die Tropfen fester werden und länger halten. Ich habe gelesen, dass allgemein ein 50-50-Mischverhältnis empfohlen wird, aber man sollte ruhig damit experimentieren, ich hatte z.B. eine 40(Wasser)-zu-60(Glycerin)-Mischung angerührt. Man kann auch das reine Glycerin nehmen. Make-up-Entferner eignet sich übrigens vorzüglich, um das Zeug auch wieder rückstandslos zu entfernen.
Und wofür kann man Glycerin noch verwenden? Auf meinem Fläschchen aus der Apotheke las ich mit Interesse, dass Tannenzweige und der Weihnachtsbaum länger halten, wenn man 4 Esslöffel davon auf einen Liter ihres "Trink"wassers gibt. Außerdem soll es ein hervorragendes Frostschutzmittel für Gummidichtungen z.B. an Kühlschrank- oder Autotüren sein. Apropos Frostschutzmittel... Da gab es doch vor ewiger Zeit (1985, ich musste gleich mal nachschauen) diesen Weinpanscher-Skandal... aber das ist ein anderes Thema ;-)
Ich wünsche Euch eine angenehme Woche, liebe Flickr-Freunde!
Metroline TE737 stands on Acton Street at King's Cross working W934 on the Northern Line rail replacement Service B, proudly showing off its TfL Roundel blind for use on Rail Replacement jobs.
Sadly I have found that drivers have often displayed the National Rail double arrow on TfL rail jobs instead, and this is of increasing frustration to myself.
Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) was imaged in the early morning hours of October 2, 2025. The image was made of 71 twenty second exposures taken with a Canon R6 mark II and a Canon 200 mm f/2.8L II lens (ISO 800, f/4). Since last imaging the comet in the middle of September, it is great to see the brightness and tail increase so much! This morning, the comet was easily spotted in binoculars at magnitude +6.5.
It's been 63 days since I started the Insanity workout program by Beach Body. It's been one helluva ride!
Normally I wouldn't post pictures of me without a shirt, but this is anything but normal for me. It took a lot for me to share these with you. I'm very self conscience and have always been embarassed by my body. But no mas! ;o)
I busted my ass for the past two months. Worked out every morning at 5am. Watched my daily caloric intake like my life depended on it. Quit drinking alcohol. Cut out all sorts of sweets. In the end, the results were stellar.
I lost a total of 16 lbs. I started at 181.2 and weighed in at 165.2. I've increased my cardiovascular condition to the point where I can actually participate in a 5k run. I've toned up and look better than I have in several years. Overall, I'm just a whole lot healthier.
I'm very proud of how far I've come in a relatively short period of time. It takes patience, persistence, and a true desire to commit to a lifestyle change. But it is worth all of the effort put forth.
So here I am, before my transformation and after training my mind and body to accept the challenges necessary to achieve my personal goals.
Want to know what the secret is?
There isn't any.
Maintain a healthy diet; exercise at a moderate pace to increase your heart rate, 3-4 times per week for a minimum of 30 minutes; be sure to drink 8-10 glasses of water per day; and be sure to get your full night's rest.
Most importantly, you will lose weight if you burn more calories than you take in. This is probably the closest thing to what the "secret" to losing weight is.
It doesn't take a gym membership or fancy workout equipment or expensive DVDs. You just have to want it bad enough.
;o)
Oh no no oh no
Not broken
In two not you
Like the seed you grow
Under it all
You're roots take hold
Smooth out the creases
Then you'll see
And when you fall
Down in between them all
Here you are whole
Not broken
On and on hold on
Not broken
Just loose at the seams
Oh no no don't let go
Just listen
Goodness increases
You will see
And when you fall
Down in between them all
Here you are whole
Not broken
Leave it behind
All of the pain inside
Here you will be
Not broken
Through the crowd, patchwork souls
Move closer
Closer
And when you fall
Down in between them all
Here you are whole
Not broken
Leave it behind
All of the pain inside
Here you will be
Not broken
You will see
You will see
The highly educated Prince-Archbishop Albert I of Käfernburg, having had traveled in Italy and France, decided to construct the new cathedral modelled upon the Gothic architecture that had intrigued him in France. The French style was completely unknown in Germany, and the hired craftsmen only gradually mastered it.
The construction of the choir started in 1209, only two years after the fire that destroyed the previous church, but this choir is still in a very Romanesque style, initially still using romanesque groin vaults, combined with a gothic center stone, which however is not needed for Romanesque groin vaults.
The Gothic influence increased especially between 1235 and 1260 under Archbishop Wilbrand. As the construction was supervised by different people in the span of 300 years, many changes were made to the original plan, and the cathedral size expanded greatly. The people of Magdeburg were not always happy with this, since they had to pay for the construction. In some cases already constructed walls and pillars were torn down to suit the wishes of the current supervisor.
Construction stopped after 1274. In 1325, Archbishop Burchard III. von Schraplau was killed by the people of Magdeburg because of extreme taxes. Folklore says that especially the beer tax increase caused much anger. Afterwards Magdeburg was under a ban, and only after the donation of five atonement altars did the construction of the cathedral continue under Archbishop Otto von Hessen. Otto was also able to complete the interior construction, and formally opened the dome in 1363 in a week-long festival. At this time the cathedral was dedicated not only to St Maurice as before, but also to Saint Catherine.
In 1360 the construction stopped again after the uncompleted parts have been covered provisionally. Only in 1477 did the construction start again under Archbishop Ernst von Sachsen, including the two towers. The towers were constructed by master builder Bastian Binder, the only master builder of the cathedral known by name. The construction of the cathedral was completed in 1520 with the placement of the ornamental cross on the north tower.
In recent times the incidents reported on ivory poaching in various games parks through out Africa have increased alot and this has put the gentle giants,the Elephants,coming very close to be classified as an endangered species.Although poaching of elephants is a very serious menace to the survival of the species, lets hope that the new Wildlife Act which has just been enacted by the Kenyan Parliament acts as a deterrent to the poachers. .
Lets pray and hope that our future generations get to see and enjoy the lovely sights we get to see in our National Parks.
This head shot was captured during my recent visit to Masai Mara,Sept 2017, driving away from Keekorok Lodge saw this young elephant peacefully grazing.....what a pleasing sight to see the beautiful tusks on the animal instead of some shops in the Far East......
Please left click with your mouse to appreciate the photograph at full resolution.
Please click here to view this large!
This picture was shot on a tripod with five exposures (-4..-2..0..+2..+4EV). I used Photomatix to create the HDR with tone mapping and detail enhanced. I increased the overall saturation with Hue/Saturation in Photoshop. Curve adjustment to increase the overall contrast. Used Nik Sharpener Pro to sharpen image.
This is another shot to the right of Mount Hood (see below) to capture the rising sun. If you view large, you can see quite a few people fishing by the lake. Presented in full HDR!
You can view more Trillium Lake images on my Facebook Page.
To view my other HDR images, click here.
The number of oriental white storks has increased recently. One of them happened to fly all the way from Hyo - go to our town UEDA, NAGANO prefecture about three years ago .
In addition to that, it was the first time in my life that l came across the stork around my neighborhood.
Since then , she has visited and stayed here in UEDA many times .
By the way, it's said that there are more than 100ponds called TAMEIKE in UEDA , especially around the district of SHIODA DAIRA. TAMEIKE means the ponds built for agricultural uses, especially for rice farming . As we've had little precipitation since olden times, most of them had been built by the order of an local FUDAL Lord during the Edo Period about 400years ago .
Each pond has a variety kinds of surroundings with so many different kinds of living things .
Thus she seems to like our town very much , I think.
2015年の上田商工会議所のｶﾚﾝﾀﾞｰ1*2月の写真に、私のｺｳﾉﾄﾘ写真をと、お話しいただき実現した事も、ほんとに光栄な事でした。ありがとうございます。また県内の新聞のコンテストニュース部門で1席になったことも今となってはいい思い出です。そしてモンチッチドレスデザインコンテスト最優秀賞頂き、北原さんの箱根、河口湖おもちゃの博物館等に飾られたのも素敵な思い出です。誰も知らない土地でよくここまでやって来たなー。たまには、自分を自分で誉めてあげないといけませんね。40代半ばの中年お母さんですが、パワフルに毎日楽しく暮らしています。
The brothers are racing to the sea, just like any self respecting ninja turtles do in their coming of age :)
I like GWGUs for some reason. It was fun being able to increase contrast a lot too; the bird is just that pale!
.
While at Echo Amphitheater in Abiquiú, I shot some infrared.
I've tended to process my infrareds to black and white as I never felt satisfied with my attempts at false color processing with channel swapping.
I've been learning more this past year about working with color prior to converting to black and white.
In the first comment box below is the unedited shot, pretty much all brown. Shot through the Hoya R72, 720 nm filter. The custom white balance that I had set keeps it from being totally magenta.
As has been my common result, using the Channel Mixer adjustment layer and swapping values for the red and blue channels wasn't great.
I've been learning what the Selective Color adjustment layer does, so opened that under the Channel Mixer layer.
It allowed me to play with how much red, yellow, green, blue, cyan and magenta are within colors and thereby fine tune what the Channel Mixer does.
Things were better.
Then I opened a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer above Channel Mixer and found that playing with the Master and moving the Hue slider helped too.
After working on tonal ranges, using midtone luminosity masks on curves layers and dodging and burning, I still didn't like how much purple was in the sky.
I tried the Select Color command to isolate the sky and that created a mask when I opened the Color Balance adjustment layer. Mostly working on shadows and midtones to reduce red, increase blue and increase green got the deep blue color.
I've been learning about the Hard Mix blend mode, and after using the color picker to grab the color of the trees, I opened a Color Fill adjustment layer, set it to Hard Mix and then reduced the Fill opacity to 7%. This enhanced the tree color.
Finally, I got a false color infrared that actually had definite color.
Why did I do all this?
This extreme edit became the underlying base to a black and white version of the shot. All the color stuff I've been learning was part of tutorials on processing for BW.
Barring unforeseen circumstances, I hope to post that on Thursday for Donnerstagsmonochrom.
Happy Sliders Sunday!
How wonderfully civil; fruit mince pies waiting to be eaten 'neath the Christmas tree.
I make fruit mince pies each year for family and friends for Christmas as a gift. What started as a small offering has now become almost too much for me as word spread, and requests came in. Now that I work part-time, it makes it a little easier. I have to set aside a whole weekend at least which I devote just to the baking of Christmas fare in my little kitchen. So as my oven temperature increases, so does the volume on my stereo as I play a selection of my Christmas albums whilst I bake.
This year is a record with 172 individual mince pies, each made by hand using a sweet shortcrust pastry recipe more than a century old, to which I add a spoonful of love for everyone who receives them.
Merry Christmas and bon appétit!
In January 2015, the City of Broken Hill was included on the National Heritage Register. This register lists 106 other iconic landmarks such as the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Kakadu National Park, and the Australian Alps. Broken Hill is the first city to be listed. Extensive research and consultation with the Broken Hill community was a key part of the listing.
The National Heritage List is Australia’s pre-eminent heritage list recognising and protecting the nation’s most valued natural, indigenous, and historic heritage sites. Listing is the highest heritage honour in Australia and listed placed receive national attention and benefits from increased domestic and international tourism. Broken Hil has been assessed against the nine National Heritage Criteria, which include historic, aesthetic, and social values, creative and technical achievements, associations with significant peoples, and others.
The following is the Statement of Significance for the City of Broken Hill which was prepared as part of the listing process:
“The City of Broken Hill has outstanding significance to the nation for its role in creating enormous wealth, for its long, enduring and continuing mining operations, and the community’s deep and shared connection with Broken Hill as the isolated city in the desert, its outback landscape, the planned design and landscaping of the town, the regeneration areas and particularly the physical reminders of its mining origins such as the Line of Lode, the barren mullock heaps, tailings, skimps and slagheap escarpment and relict structures. It exhibits historic qualities in its ongoing mining operations since 1883, the current and relict mining infrastructure and its landscape setting. It is significant for its industrial past ….. together with its role as a pioneer in setting occupational health and safety standards.”
“It demonstrates the principal characteristics of a mining town in a remote location with extensive transport infrastructure and administrative connections to three state capitals and as a rare example of a place subject to Australia’s complex Federal system where differing administrative, social and economic influences are expressed in both tangible and intangible forms. It has social significance for its residents as a place of community pride, endurance, and as a remote mining community resilient to major social and economic change, Broken Hill has strong social significance for all Australians as a place where great wealth was created, as well as strong group associations with the Barrier Industrial Council. It exhibits outstanding aesthetic characteristics as a city in an arid desert setting, as the subject of interest for Australian artists, poets, film makers, TV producers and photographers.”
“It has significance as a place where outstanding technical achievement has occurred in refining ore for its minerals including the froth flotation process and the computer controlled on-stream analysis of slurries. Broken Hill is also important as a place of research potential to reveal further information on mineral deposits with its range of complex minerals. It is associated with person of great importance to Australia’s history, including Albert Morris (arid land regeneration), Charls Rasp (discoverer), Herbert Hoover (mining engineer), WL Baillieu, WA Robinson and MAE Mawby (industrialists), GD Delprat (metallurgist), Percy Brookfield and Eugene O’Neill (unionists). Broken Hill’s association with the Barrier Industrial Council as a group is also important.”
“The Broken Hill zinc-lead-silver ore deposit is one of the world’s largest ore bodies and contains an extraordinary array of minerals. It is geologically complex and has national scientific significance. The Broken Hill operation is significant for its immense size and unrecorded mineral species continue to be found. It contributes to an understanding of the formation of the Australian continent and more than 2, 300 million years of the earth’s history.”
The City of Broken Hill is delighted that the special heritage values of the city are recognised and celebrated nationally and internationally by this listing.
Wilyakali Country:
Wilyakali lies in the east of the state of South Australia, crossing into New South Wales, including the town of Broken Hill. The Wilyakali people traditionally visited the Paakantji people on the Menindee Lakes in the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion each year.
The three Major language groups for the Broken Hill Region are the Paakantji, Mayyankapa, and Nyiimpaa.
Wilyakali and Danggali both lie east of the Ngadjuri language and north of the upper River Murray languages.
Wilyakali and Danggali are part of the Darling River Language Group or Paakantyi / Paakantji language group. This is a group of closely related languages in South Australia and New South Wales, which can be subdivided into two groups: the “Northern Dialects” and the “Southern Dialects.” Wilyakali and Danggali are both part of the “Southern Dialects.”
Other “Southern Dialects” include Pulaali, Southern Pankantyi, Pantyikali, Wanyuparlku and Marrawarra. Some of these languages have been recorded more than others. Although each language has its own distinguishing features, they are so similar they can be understood by speakers of other languages in this group. Therefore, the following reference list will include Southern Paakantyi references that may be helpful. The language name is noted in square brackets after each reference, when known.
Today the Wilyakali people are still the main Aboriginal group in Broken Hill, though there are a number of Aboriginal people that come from other language groups.
The Aboriginal people of Broken Hill have established working parties to pursue their vision of a better future. They continue to look after their traditional lands and are joint managers of the Mutawintji National Park which is the first national park handed back to the traditional owners in New South Wales. There are many strong elders who continue to maintain and pass on their traditional knowledge to their young people and, today, share their stories with the wider community.
Source: Broken Hill: A Guide to the Silver City by Elizabeth Vines, Mobile Language Team, & Aboriginal Housing Office.
Red Fox
The Red Fox, Vulpes vulpes, is the largest of the true foxes and the most abundant wild member of the Carnivora, being present across the entire Northern Hemisphere from the Arctic Circle to North Africa, North America and Eurasia. It is listed as least concern by the IUCN. Its range has increased alongside human expansion, having been introduced to Australia, where it is considered harmful to native mammals and bird populations. Due to its presence in Australia, it is included among the list of the "world's 100 worst invasive species".
For more info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_fox
Gare do Oriente or alternately, the Lisbon Oriente Station is one of the main Portuguese intermodal transport hubs, and is situated in the civil parish of Parque das Nações, municipality of Lisbon.
In 1994, the station was proposed as part of the modernization of the Linha do Norte, a modification to the rail line to facilitate the future development of an Oriente station. Located along Avenida D. João II, over Avenida de Berlim and Rua Conselheiro Mariano de Carvalho, the station was planned to occupy the lands once occupied by Apeadeiro dos Olivais, which was demolished in the 1990s in order to make way for the new station.
Equipment=Canon 6D
Lens Used=Tokina 17-35mm Lens
Exposures=7
Location=Lisbon, Portugal
Workflow=Luminosity Masks
Adobe Lightroom 5,
ON1 Photo 10=Dynamic Contrast, Angel Glow and Increase Color
Nik Color Efex=Glamor Glow
From ancient times to the present, philosophers have repeatedly emphasized the importance of living a frugal or minimalist life. The ancient Greek philosopher Diogenes said, “True wealth is not in increasing possessions, but in reducing one’s needs.” Mahatma Gandhi pointed to the destructive side of human greed, stating, “The Earth has enough for everyone’s needs, but not enough for everyone’s greed.” From the Buddha to Karl Marx, across the passage of time, many have expressed similar ideas. This minimalist concept in philosophy has greatly influenced the photographer, and its mark is clearly visible in his vision and framing.
The absence of color or the use of minimal composition in framing reflects the photographer’s inclination toward a minimalist approach. The fog, wrapped like a thick winter blanket, creates a serene atmosphere. In this calm and pure dramatic setting, human presence becomes secondary. Before nature, even humanity’s vast achievements become insignificant. That is why the photographer has kept humans and their architectural achievements in the background, framing the scene in a minimalist style. Here, nature is the primary subject—not humans or their constructions.
According to nihilism, or the philosophy of pessimism, human life does not has inherent purpose. Evolutionary theory has shown that humans are an unintended outcome of nature’s evolutionary process. Yet human beings, regarded as the finest of creations, continue to exploit all their knowledge and effort into seeking meaning in life. They establish ever-greater architectural structures upon the heart of nature. In proving their superiority, they seem to challenge nature itself. Viewing nature as an adversary, humanity gradually distances itself further and further from it.
The fireman of JS 8190 thins a can of oil by warming it on a few coals from the firebox. The ambient temperature would be in the region of -20 which reduces the ability of the oil to flow freely. Heating it will increase the viscosity and allow the oil wells of the JS to be topped up during the early morning crew change at Dongbolizhan depot in NW China.
With increasing age, the number of 'Lifers' per year decreases significantly, travel restrictions due to Covid have an additional influence.
My first lifer in 2022:
Branta ruficollis / Branta leucopsis
Red-breasted Goose (+ Barnacle Goose)
Rothalsgans (+ Weißwangengans (Nonnengans))
Rødhalset Gås (+ Bramgås)
Roodhalsgans (+ Brandgans)
A little light in a dark time:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lNaajK3Scc
******************************************************************************
Это 60-й день страшной путинской войны. Прекратите это немедленно, это лучше для обеих сторон!
Всем моим русским друзьям, что бы вам ни говорило ваше правительство, против Украины идет неспровоцированная кровавая война, в которой погибло много людей с обеих сторон. Сделайте все возможное, чтобы остановить убийства!
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
If you like my pictures please have a look at:
Wenn Ihnen meine Bilder gefallen, besuchen Sie bitte meine Homepage
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
PLEASE, NO AWARDS, no Copy and Paste Comments and no group icons like "your wonderful photo was seen in group xyz". They will all be deleted as soon as I see them.
BITTE KEINE AWARDS, kopierte Kommentare oder diese Gruppen-Icons wie "Ich habe Dein wunderbares Bild in Gruppe xyz gesehen". Die lösche ich sobald ich sie sehe.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Winslow Homer was among the first artists to paint the modern American woman enjoying the physical liberation and social independence of leisure life.Here,Homer depicts four unaccompanied female hikers on a steep slope in the Adirondacks.This work demonstrates his interest in both dynamic asymmetrical compositions influenced by Japanese woodblock prints,which were becoming increasing popular in the West,and the color effects of bright outdoor light.
Time to practice with some "dragonflies in flight". There were a few at the Albuquerque Botanic Gardens but will only increase in numbers as it starts to warm up.
These are healthy pelicans, from the same general family as the Brown Pelicans that live in the Gulf of Mexico.
It's time to end the deep water drilling. We don't need it and don't need to kill anything else on our relentless search to find oil to drive our ever-increasing consumer needs.
Fortunately, these beauties live off Northern California.
I like the three stages of the wings in flight.
Winning the Pike's Peak race, and placing 6th at Indy, this car went to auction with $6-700,000 estimates, and actually sold for $1.1 Million! Gorgeously restored, this image is from Laguna Seca, and the owner/driver let us sit in it with the Imposing steering wheel dominating your vision.
'As early as 1929, Ab Jenkins set his sights on Indy, but it wasn't until 1931 that he took his best shot. He'd already known George Hunt, Studebaker's testing chief, from his time racing Studebakers in endurance runs in the late Twenties, and according to Gordon Eliot White's "Ab & Marvin Jenkins: The Studebaker Connection and the Mormon Meteors," Studebaker owed Jenkins for his expenses, so he cashed in that IOU in the form of off-the-shelf Studebaker Commander axles, hardware, and a Commander 337-cu.in. straight-eight engine.
He and Hunt then took the lot over to Indianapolis-based Herman Rigling, who built one of his Indy chassis around the components and slid it under a Pop Dreyer-built aluminum body. Somebody - most likely Hunt - spent the time massaging the nine-main-bearing straight-eight with a 6.5:1 compression ratio aluminum cylinder head, four Studebaker truck carburetors, a Scintilla magneto, and a reground camshaft to bump the stock engine's output from 110 to 175 horsepower.
They built the car according to the so-called "junk formula" template that Eddie Rickenbacker initiated for the 1930 Indy 500. Over the prior 20 years, the race entries had grown ever more exotic, expensive, and removed from the vehicles that carmakers offered. In an attempt to lure those carmakers back to supporting Indy, Rickenbacker increased allowable engine displacement from 91.5 cubic inches to 366 cubic inches for heavier, naturally aspirated four-stroke engine-vehicle combinations and re-instituted the riding mechanic.
Jenkins's illness forced him and Hunt to find another driver, Indy veteran Tony Gulotta, who qualified in the No. 37 car at 111 MPH. Along with riding mechanic Carl Riscigno, Gulotta turned in a spectacular performance. While they started in the middle of the pack, according to The Old Motor, Guletta was given the signal to run flat our with 80 laps to go then "passed 18 cars in the next 46 laps and was running in first place when he hit a patch of oil left over from a crash, and went into the wall ending its run." The two men walked away unscathed and Gulotta was credited with 18th place.
Hunt took the car straight back to South Bend to repair it before entering it - still wearing No. 37 - in that year's Pikes Peak hillclimb. While White makes mention of Jenkins's involvement in the car throughout this period, Pikes Peak records list the car as the Hunt Special and another driver, Chuck Myers, drove the car in the event. Myers did well too, beating out Jerry Unser and Glen Shultz with a time of 17 minutes, 10.3 seconds, good enough for an overall win and a course record.'
thanks to Hemming's Motor News.
Double click on the image to enlarge for details
Situated on the Beagle Strait, Ushuaia is the largest city in Argentine Tierra del Fuego, and arguably the southernmost city in the world. In the past, the town has been a missionary base, penal colony and naval base for the Argentine navy. Ushuaia is now a major tourist town, complete with casinos and nice restaurants, and commonly used as a base for hiking, winter sports and cruises to Antarctica. Today the town is growing fast as a result of increased tourism since the 2002 economic crash. The government has encouraged this growth by designating Tierra del Fuego a virtually tax-free zone to encourage people to settle (many of the inhabitants of today's Ushuaia come from Chaco, in the north of Argentina). The cost of living however, is relatively high as all goods have to be transported long distances, usually by container ship.
"It's a BIG world out there..."
Red Fox
The Red Fox, Vulpes vulpes, is the largest of the true foxes and the most abundant wild member of the Carnivora, being present across the entire Northern Hemisphere from the Arctic Circle to North Africa, North America and Eurasia. It is listed as least concern by the IUCN. Its range has increased alongside human expansion, having been introduced to Australia, where it is considered harmful to native mammals and bird populations. Due to its presence in Australia, it is included among the list of the "world's 100 worst invasive species".
For more info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_fox
-------------------------------------- Story --------------------------------------
October is knew for Halloween but it's also a month of awareness against the Breast Cancer. This is an annual international health campaign organized by major breast cancer charities every October, to increase awareness of the disease and raise funds for research into its cause, prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and cure. So we decided to go for a ride, all tacked in pink, to support people who need it. A little way to give them all the courage.
----------------------------------- Blog Post -----------------------------------
On the Left Horse
➵ Horse : [Teegle] Andalusian Horse Avatar (available at Teegle Main Store)
➵ Coat : Tutto e Vanita - Damascus
➵ Shape deformer : Tutto E Vanita - BellaLupine Mod Kit [Andalusian]
➵ Bridle : Tutto E Vanita - Battiste Caballeria Bridle Andalusian
➵ Saddle : Tutto E Vanita - Battiste Caballeria Saddle Andalusian
➵ Legs Wraps : Tutto E Vanita - Battiste Caballeria Wraps ANDALUSIAN
➵ Legs Fluffs : Tutto e Vanita - [ZAD] Draft Legs BellaLupine LegFluffs [ANDALUSIAN]
➵ Lashes : Tutto e Vanita - BellaLupine Solo Lashes [Andalusian]
Can be found at Tutto e Vanita @ Teegletown Mall
➵ Add-On Neck : [W3R3W01F] Neck Add-on (Andalusian)
Can be found at W3R3W01F @ Teegletown Mall
➵ Draft Legs : [ZAD] Teegle Horse Draft Legs: Andalusian
Can be found at at ZAD @ Teegle Mall
➵ Animation : [W3R3W01F] Calm Gaits
Can be found at W3R3W01F @ Teegletown Mall
On the Right Horse
➵ Horse : [Teegle] "Clover" the Irish Cob Horse (available at Teegle Main Store)
➵ Coat : Tutto e Vanita - FENRIR grullo dun
➵ Bridle : Tutto E Vanita - Battiste Caballeria Bridle Irish Cob
➵ Saddle : Tutto E Vanita - Battiste Caballeria Saddle Irish Cob
➵ Legs Wraps : Tutto E Vanita - Battiste Caballeria Wraps Irish Cob
Can be found at Tutto e Vanita @ Teegletown Mall
➵ Add-On Neck : [W3R3W01F] Neck Add-on (Irish Cob)
➵ Animation : [W3R3W01F] Cavaletti Gaits
Can be found at W3R3W01F @ Teegletown Mall
This is Ray and Kaiser sitting directly in front of the TV to get attention . They increase the pressure by not making eye contact. Sometimes Kaiser turns the tele off by sitting on the tv buttons! So talented
A supermoon is a full moon or a new moon that nearly coincides with perigee—the closest that the Moon comes to the Earth in its elliptic orbit—resulting in a slightly larger-than-usual apparent size of the Moon as viewed from Earth.[1] The technical name is a perigee syzygy (of the Earth–Moon–Sun system) or a full (or new) Moon around perigee.[a] Because the term supermoon is astrological in origin, it has no precise astronomical definition.[2]
The real association of the Moon with both oceanic and crustal tides has led to claims that the supermoon phenomenon may be associated with increased risk of events like earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, but no such link has been found.[3]
The opposite phenomenon, an apogee syzygy or a full (or new) Moon around apogee, has been called a micromoon.
A blue moon is an additional full moon that appears in a subdivision of a year: the third of four full moons in a season.
The phrase in modern usage has nothing to do with the actual color of the Moon, although a visually blue Moon (the Moon appearing with a bluish tinge) may occur under certain atmospheric conditions—for instance, if volcanic eruptions or fires release particles in the atmosphere of just the right size to preferentially scatter red light.
Wikipedia
69003 The Railway Observer rounds Ely West Curve, working 6E85 08.15 Middleton Towers - Barnby Dun loaded sand.
It hadn't occurred to me there was a shot here of this train until another local photographer showed me their picture of the Saturday DCR-operated sand a week or two earlier - with the front of the 60 being partly lit. The GBRf weekday sand trains run an hour earlier, so I knew the front of a 69 would be fully lit. I'd also assumed that the ever-increasing lineside bushes would be a problem, which it isn't really... But distant tree growth is making it harder to see the cathedral.
Until the remodelling of Ely North Jn. in 1992 in preparation for electrification of the King's Lynn line, the Ely West Curve was double track - and the course of the second track is clearly visible in this picture. It had a regular passenger service (essentially at least two-hourly each way) until "SuperSprinter" DMUs took over from loco-hauled trains (class 31s and mark 2s) on the Birmingham - Norwich route in May 1988, these trains avoiding Ely as that meant the loco didn't need to run round; the new hourly DMU service did, however, go into Ely and reverse. The curve continued to see use by summer Saturday loco-hauled trains to Great Yarmouth for a few more years, most of these running non-stop between Peterborough and Norwich.
Prior to the 1992 remodelling, Ely North Jn. was a traditional junction. The main line ran from Ely station to Norwich (in fact, this had been the original route from Liverpool Street to Norwich), with a double track line branching off towards King's Lynn and another double track line heading off towards March and Peterborough. The West Curve was a double track line branching off heading south. The remodelling saw the March line become the main route, and it remained double track. However, both the King's Lynn and Norwich lines were "single lead" junctions, with single lines diverging from the "Up" line (the line from March) and then becoming double track soon afterwards. The West Curve was also a "single lead" junction, but it diverged off the "Up" line rather than the "Down" (which it then crossed on the flat). So any train coming off the West Curve would immediately be running "wrong line" - although any train taking the King's Lynn or Norwich lines would also be doing the same.
There had been some fatal head-on crashes involving a train passing a red signal at a "single lead" junction, and therefore approval was not given for trains to come off the West Curve heading east. The layout had been designed before the most recent of the crashes, so the signals were installed for running both ways but those for eastbound trains were never commissioned and ended up being covered over. Trains coming from the March direction and heading for either the King's Lynn line or the Norwich line had to go to Ely station and reverse. It was the introduction of TPWS that finally allowed eastbound trains to use the curve.
The current layout allows trains from the March line to run via the West Curve and onto either the King's Lynn or Norwich lines, but in the opposite direction trains can also come off the March line at Ely North Jn. and go onto the West Curve to head back towards March - and this is used regularly, either when wagons need to be moved from the Up Yard at March to the Down Yard, or when an engineers' train needs to be turned.
Visit Brian Carter's Non-Transport Pics to see my photos of landscapes, buildings, bridges, sunsets, rainbows and more.
Recent surveys reckon there are 508 pairs of golden eagles in Scotland, an increase of 15% since the last survey in 2004, with the highest concentrations in the Western Highlands. Always exciting to see these magnificent birds and one of the reasons we love Scottish mountaineering.
Afro-Colombian girls, dressed in the traditional ‘palenquera’ costume, pose for a picture in front of a colonial house in walled city of Cartagena, Colombia. With the peace agreement, ending a 52-year civil conflict and promising political stability, together with rapid economic growth and unexploited tourism potential, Colombia has truly become a holiday destination. Cartagena, a UNESCO World Heritage site on the tropical Caribbean coast, plays the primary role in Colombia’s tourism renaissance. The historic sites from the Spanish colonial times are being restored, private investments are visible throughout the city and an increased number of local people benefit from the boom of the travel related services. © Jan Sochor Photography
České dráhy, a.s. (ČD): the electric locomotive 362 114 (EVN: CZ-ČD 91 54 7 362 114-1) shunting.
The locomotives of Class 362 come from the transformation of the Class 363, realized between 1993 and 2015, with the incorporation of bogies of the Class 162 to increase its maximum speed of 120 to 140 km / h.