Stipulative meaning

Indispensable inclination

Indefinite range

Another foggy morning on the coast near Victoria.

A little more humid if you click the pic to view in Lightbox...

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Πάμε παρέα,

αδερφέ μου, μη κάνεις κράτη.

Το έχω άχτι να περάσω απ' τον συρμάτινο φράκτη

και τον ήλιο να θαμπώσω για λίγο,

να μη μας πάρουν χαμπάρι όσο θ' ανοίγω και θα πνίγω

στης γης τα ρήγματα, τα πιο όμορφα κρίματα,

ζωής θελήματα, της φτώχειας γεννήματα,

μονάκριβα ποιήματα και δίπλα στα θύματα

η παρέα μου ίχνη αφήνει, και πατήματα

Πάμε...

Υο! Noi non vogliamo Bush, il figlio di papa.

Non vogliamo questa guerra che ι contro l'umanita.

Noi prenderemo il sole, il sole e la liberta,

sulla spiaggia di Guantanamo il vento ci portera.

Τρομάξτε τους ήδη φοβισμένους δεσμώτες

με λόγια και νότες κι οι ατσάλινες πόρτες

ραγίζουν κι οι ταπεινοί τα ουράνια αγγίζουν,

δυο πύρινα μάτια και πύργους γκρεμίζουν.

Πάμε...

A Guantanamo in gabbia c' ι anche gente innocente,

gente presa a caso che non c' entra niente.

Dove sono i processi? Le prove? I diritti?

Noi non stiamo zitti, non stiamo zitti.

Falso, falso, falso, falso grande capo,

sei un capo solo col fucile puntato.

Non ti rispetta piϊ nessuno ormai nel mondo.

Guantanamo e la guerra non nascondono il tramonto.

Noi non vogliamo Bush e faraoni predatori,

petrolieri ricoperti di rubini e ori.

Noi non vogliamo Bush che coltiva il terrore -

ultima spiaggia e speranza per restare al potere.

Schiacciati in fondo al mondo come sardine

eppure ancora vedi che l'umanita combatte e vive.

Questo canto vola, oltre oceani e colline

dove un nuovo mondo sorge e per voi c' ι scritto: "Fine".

Lets wonder, lets fly, lets find us

in Guantanamo and free the fire.

Πάμε σαν διψασμένα πουλιά

μέχρι το Γκουαντανάμο

να πάρουμε τη φωτιά

How can we free the prisoners of war,

from indefinite detention down in Cuba?

I feel sorry for the innocent ones who suffer,

so we dedicate this one to all world leader.

If you live in a glass house, don't throw stones.

What gives you the right to invade people's homes?

Terrorism is something that we can't condone,

but there is more than one reason why the towers came down.

Πάμε σαν διψασμένα πουλιά

μέχρι το Γκουαντανάμο

να πάρουμε τη φωτιά

Vamos aser lo imposible

por una vez mas como embieja saga

con un tripulacion puro la roja armada

que viene de los sinquo orizontes del mundo.

Curagaro deada da aqua

y ensima las barreras enredal istorias

nosostros quon allas de barro y las palabras ammos

libertaremos el fuego en Guantanamo.

Je repense aux images des prisons de Guantanamo

Des hommes dans des cages, traitιs comme des animaux

En dιtention ' loin de Genθve et ses conventions

Certains sont innocents de toutes ces accusations

Faire subir aux autres ce qu'on n'aime pas subir

C'est comme ηa qu'ils poussent les terroristes ΰ agir

Je dis Attention !!! Car je sens monter la tension

Ces provocations auront de graves rιpercussions

Nos dirigeants passent leur temps ΰ semer le vent

Quand vient la tempκte, les tours tombent en miettes

Et qui ramassent les pots cassιs? C'est malheureusement

Nous toujours nous encore nous les innocents

Πάμε, φώναξε σ' όλους πως πάμε,

μιλάμε, αγαπάμε, νοιώθουμε και τα δεσμά τους σπάμε.

Ανταμώνουμε και σ' άλλη γλώσσα μιλάμε,

στου ονείρου την άκρη περνάμε.

Noi non vogliamo Bush, il figlio di papa.

Non vogliamo questa guerra che ι contro l'umanita.

Noi prenderemo il sole, il sole e la liberta,

sulla spiaggia di Guantanamo il vento ci portera.

Non stiamo zitti...

Noi non vogliamo Bush...

Lets wonder, lets fly, lets find us

in Guantanamo and free the fire.

Πάμε σαν διψασμένα πουλιά

μέχρι το Γκουαντανάμο

να πάρουμε τη φωτιά.

Vamos como pajaros del fuego

en Guantanamo,

libertaramos el fuego

Des oiseaux volent vers les terres

De Guantanamo l'ξle de l'enfer

Πάμε σαν διψασμένα πουλιά

μέχρι το Γκουαντανάμο

να πάρουμε τη φωτιά.

Lets wonder, lets fly, lets find us

in Guantanamo and free the fire.

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In quiet times my thoughts fly to the wind

Memory upon memory

Year after year ... into what seems time indefinite

Shadows lurk in these halls

To forever bear presence of a love

one that almost made it to my door

an eternity ago it seems

Night after night

wading into pools of dreams

gazing red moons

and ... wondering

... what two love's futures may have held

And now the chimes roll gently to the wind

and call out softly

As if they knew to hold their peace

... in the presence of a grieving heart

Oh, to know the sound of sad

and yes, to see the colour of loss

in silvery watered tones

that film across ones eyes

It is oft times the lady sits in darkness

rocking ... and pondering by the light of moon

on silent lingering nights

till darkness bids farewell and shows

recompense and compassion

freeing her at last

in twilight sleep

to make way for a new day dawn

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Ladies in Lavender

This is taken in late October, but the weather have been much the same since. It has been reather cold, but wonderful after about 3,5 month of mostly rain.

This is from our field down by the fjord. The stones are stabbesteinar. "stabbestein m (definite singular stabbesteinen, indefinite plural stabbesteinar, definite plural stabbesteinane)

one of several large stones formerly placed at intervals the side of the road to prevent vehicles from driving off the road. Nowadays mostly replaced by guardrails."

I add a few more photos from the same place, mostly from summer, in the first comment. And a few jokes found somewhere on the web.

taken from my kayak (The Streak)

“I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual... O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment.”

― Henry David Thoreau

Thinking of the good times. Happy Canadian Thanksgiving! Thankful for friends like you!

digital 2016

Happy birthday Thea ...all the best to you from down under...have a aussie walkabout on me.......:)

created for and dedicated to~Thea--Tedje51~

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Walkabout-Australian Slang

a walk in the Outback by Aborigines that lasts for an indefinite amount of time; an extended trip or tour, on foot

be lost; can't be found

to go for a long walk, for an aboriginal holiday away in the bush; period of spiritual enlightenment.

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". the grand tour is just the inspired man's way of heading home."

- Paul Theroux

"There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list."

- Susan Sontag

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I am investing a great part of my domestic quarantine in rummaging through my archives to unearth some forgotten, hopefully worthwhile shot to process. When this bracketing resurfaced from a stray nook of my hard disk, it struck some chords deep in my soul (most assuredly my brain was somehow performing an on-the-fly processing of those rather flattish, unassuming untouched RAW files). For a fleeting, precious moment I felt strongly the heartwarming sensation to be free to hug and cuddle again my wife, Laura, albeit at some indefinite time when Covid-19 will allow us to relish such an invaluable moment. Please do not ask me why on Earth this specific scene stirred this specific emotion inside me, so I will not be forced to admit that I have not the faintest idea. Rather, allow yourself the freedom to feel whatever emotion this scene will stir in your soul. I have got my own gift. I hope that this picture will gift you with the emotion you need most.

This picture comes from a sunrise session at the beautiful meanders of the river Adda, just a handful kilometers downstream the Eastern arm of Lake Como, dating from April 2016. That morning I arrived at the location a lot earlier than the earliest hints of dawn, so I took shooting the river by night - admittedly a whole bunch of utterly worthless bracketings, at least until proven otherwise (never say never). And I did a thing I do only in exceedingly rare occasions: I raised my sensor gain to a maddening 640 ISO. Of course, being used to shoot at a constant 100 ISO, I foolishly forgot to restore the usual setting as the light was growing and took my precious exposure bracketings at such high ISO till 8:00 AM. As a result of this sloppy attitude I had to fight a monster amount of chroma noise (I viscerally hate it)*. I found no way to get decently rid of that noise by using the rich armoury of denoising tools offered by Darktable - quite possibly because of my qualified failure to set them properly in such a demanding situation. Luckily, by mere trial and error, I got an almost decent denoising using DFine 2 and blending the denoised images with the original ones by the LCh Lightness mode (hope that my memory is not deceiving me); this, rather suprisingly, allowed me to retain most of the details while taking the greatest possible advantage of the denoising itself.

Incidentally, this picture has a closely related fellow image in my photostream, Awakenings: the same location, the same morning, just taken some 10 minutes after this one, some 20 meters downstream - ah, and one of the handful of bracketings of that session taken at 100 ISO, after I realized my mistake ;-)

* I am afraid I am being a bit unfair here, because the worthy sensor of my Nikon D5100 is quite less noisy than those of many other APS-x sensor cameras (and the in-camera management of thermal noise on long exposures is really good). The problem is, the less light you get from your subject, the more noise you get in the sensor data, the ISO gain magnifying an unfavourable signal-to-noise ratio. Of course an early, partly cloudy morning shooting session neatly falls into that sort of context.

I have obtained this picture by blending an exposure bracketing [-1.7/0/+1.7 EV] by luminosity masks in the Gimp (EXIF data, as usual, refer to the "normal exposure" shot), then I added some final touches with Nik Color Efex Pro 4 and a selective bit of Orton effect as a final garnish to get the desired ambiance. RAW files has been processed with Darktable. Denoising has been a vexing issue; I got the best results by courtesy of good old DFine 2 and the Gimp.

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Beautiful sunset over lac Léman (lake of Geneva), biggest western european drinkable water reserve. Looks like a see inlet. Indefinite splendour. View from Vevey 1800 the castle.

“I am grateful for what I am and have.

My thanksgiving is perpetual.

It is surprising how contented one can be

with nothing definite - only a sense of existence.

Well, anything for variety.

I am ready to try this

for the next ten thousand years, and exhaust it.

How sweet to think of

my extremities well charred,

and my intellectual part too,

so that there is no danger of worm

or rot for a long while.

My breath is sweet to me.

O how I laugh when I think

of my vague indefinite riches.

No run on my bank can drain it,

for my wealth is not possession

but enjoyment.”

- Henry David Thoreau

I hope you are all keeping well. I've been laid off from work since Wednesday for an indefinite period of time so have been busy with the garden whilst the weather is good.

♫♫ Elven Song ♫♫

Dubai (UAE), sunset.

"Undefined memories".

...quei momenti indefiniti in cui l'adrenalina scarica addosso milioni di sensazioni che si fondono con la mancanza di casa. Senti sulla pelle la distanza da quello che è il tuo vero mondo, eppure, anche così lontano riesci a sentire che poi non sei così solo...

... those indefinite moments in which the adrenaline unloads millions of sensations that merge with the lack of home. You feel on your skin the distance from what your real world is, and yet, even so far away you can feel that you are not so alone ...

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The last few years have been exceptionally tough to the United State's tinplate making operations, with increasing pressure from foreign steel dumping into country with numerous tin operations being idled all across. A direct sign of this becoming an increasingly worrisome problem was brought to the forefront to workers of United Steelworkers Local 2911 in May of 2023. WARN notices were filed by Cleveland Cliffs, with 300 layoffs expected the following month in June.

The reasoning being cited as the company could not compete and was being out-priced with the drastically cheaper imports flooding the market. Cliffs response was a trade case filing with the Department of Commerce to declare unfair trade practices on foreign tin and chromium products, to which the Dept of Commerce did so on 4 countries being Canada, China, South Korea, and Germany.

Further review from the International Trade Commission in February of 2024 rejected the tariffs - claiming no material injury to the industry and that products imported are sold at a reasonable price. For those interested to read the entire report, it can be found here.

On February 15th 2024, as a direct response to the ITC ruling, Cleveland Cliff's announced an "indefinite idling" of the tin mill operations located in Weirton, WV. WARN notices were filed for the remaining 900 employees notifying that the last day of operations would be April 15th of 2024.

April 15th would mark the end of more than 115 years of continuous steel making in the city of Weirton, WV and the last piece of the once vast Weirton Steel Corporation's operational facilities. In the photo above, Weirton Steel 306, painted up in current owner Cleveland Cliff's company colors is seen passing by the matching tandem mill buildings distant right of the train.

They are shuttling empty boxcars specifically made for moving tin coils from the mill to be transloaded onto trucks a few miles away. This is the "famous" Weirton Steel shot off of the West Virginia Route 2 bridge, looking down into what is now just a shell of the plant's former self. In the 1980's you could stand up on this bridge and see a nonstop orchestra of steel products being moved in every direction imaginable. The beginning of the end started in 1996, beginning the path down to a long and slow death leading to Weirton Steel Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing in May of 2003.

In the bankruptcy proceedings that followed at auction, most assets were acquired by International Steel Group for $237 Million dollars. ISG would rename Weirton Steel to ISG Weirton Steel in May of 2004.

ISG did not waste time announcing a $30M clean up and modernization plan for the plant, involving the abatement and demolition of obsolete and idled structures. The scrapped steel was used to feed the blast furnaces on location.

Early 2005. The hammer falls one last time. Mittal Steel makes an offer totaling $4.5 billion dollars to buy ISG. The merger was completed in April of 2005, and ISG Weirton Steel became Mittal Weirton Steel. One month later, Mittal announces the idling of the blast furnaces and double strand casters by years end.

November of 2005 saw Mittal make the decision to permanently shut down the blast furnaces and accompanying furnaces due to high operational costs.

Following the Mittal - Arcelor merger in 2006, Arcelor Mittal announces the shut down of the hot mill in 2008. With just the cold sheet and tin operations left open, Arcelor Mittal sold all unused property (1,100 acres in all) to Frontier Steel of Buffalo, NY in 2017, who demolished all remaining structures on site.

S. Shaanxi Rd. & Shaoxing Rd., Shanghai

On 15 March, a man was live streaming the whole process of his live sketching on his smartphone from a street corner, while two old men were standing beside him watching. The three men chatted about the epidemic situation in Shanghai, based on information they had received from the official media.

The two onlookers attributed the situation to slackness in Shanghai's preventive and control measures, which they hoped would be taken more severely, while the sketch artist blamed everything on the Hong Kong travellers who had come to Shanghai, believing that they had brought the virus into the city that caused the unmanageable situation.

Two weeks later, all of Shanghai would be under an indefinite lockdown. The two onlookers would see the 'tougher control measures' they had hoped for, while the sketcher, who blamed Hong Kong travellers, would see the end of the epidemic in Hong Kong.

To understand the fiasco of China's epidemic prevention, please read these reports:

www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0140-6736%2822%2900...; cn.nytimes.com/business/20220525/china-covid-zero/dual/

To know what has happened in Shangai since March, 2022, watch these videos: youtu.be/DGL29gU_I8o , youtu.be/HQxJBhR5ZzU, and read these stories: www.nytimes.com/2022/05/06/business/shanghai-xinjiang-chi..., www.nytimes.com/2022/05/13/business/china-zero-covid-xi.html and www.voanews.com/a/foreign-businesses-consider-leaving-chi...

The details of this hub of a wooden wheel are interesting, I think. The hub is composed internally of a series of wooden cylinders of increasing size. Possible reasons for this:

- Easy replacement of the innermost cylinder in contact with the axle if it wears out.

- Easy adjustment of a given wheel to axles of different diameters.

If you know more about this, please inform us.

Location: In indefinite outdooor storage, Kreiterhof, near the village of Nebenau, District of Lörrach, Baden-Wurttemberg DE.

In my album: Dan's Patterns: Wood.

The Nipigon River Bridge was a bit of an embarrassment for Canadian engineering when it partially failed. The westbound lanes had been carrying traffic, but the eastbound lanes were still under construction when the bridge buckled by 60 cm's. I’ve looked around a bit, and I don’t think it has yet been resolved who’s mistake it was and who should have to pay the enormous costs of the repair. Just to make sure it was indeed safe, we drove over it twice, thrill-seekers that we are.

From Wikipedia: On January 10, 2016, the new bridge was closed to traffic after bolts attaching a main deck girder to the northwest bearing failed during a winter storm, causing the deck to lift by 60 centimetres (24 in), resulting in the indefinite closure of the Trans-Canada Highway at the bridge.As the bridge is a single point of failure in Canada's National Highway System, its closure effectively required vehicles travelling between eastern and western Canada to detour through the United States. The deputy mayor of Greenstone, 125 kilometres (78 mi) northeast of the bridge, declared a state of emergency for the municipality as a result of the closure.

Carpathia Antiquity

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Shadows of Shadows passing...

It is now 1831... and as always, I am absorbed with a delicate thought. It is how poetry has indefinite sensations to which end, music is an essential, since the comprehension of sweet sound is our most indefinite conception.

Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry.

Music without the idea is simply music.

Without music or an intriguing idea,

color becomes pallour,

man becomes carcass,

home becomes catacomb,

and the dead are but for a moment motionless.

Edgar Allen Poe

Common Daisy | Bellis perennis | Asteraceae

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2am

Somewhere in the North Park of my mind

A BSA somethingorother

To my knowledge I have never used the phrase "neither fish nor fowl" before, but for some reason it popped into my head when I was uploading this.

I looked it up on (we used to say "in") a dictionary and lo and behold, the definition is:-

"of indefinite character and difficult to identify or classify"

Perfect

A candidate for my "Seriously. What the **** were they thinking?" Flickr album.

“fragments...the indefinite layers of Time and Space…show themselves to be the bosom which gathers together the separate fragments of a huge Consciousness in process of growth...coils in collectively upon itself above our heads, in the direction of some sort of higher Mankind.”

-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

18/365

After indefinite amount of time and space, I woke up on a field of wind and sky.

I didn't know where I am or where I had been. It's as if I had been dreaming for so long. And then I remembered it all, the reality that once was my world, and the events that lead me here, the middle of nowhere.

They've brought me here for reasons unknown to me. And they've abandoned me.

There must be someone out there, because I remember they called this place their home.

They called their planet Earth.

Kind of funny though......Amethist is a purple stone...my birth stone, but prefer to wear Rubies or Emeralds instead...LOL!!..go figure!!

3 Containerships with no work laid-up in Scapa Flow, Orkney. VEGA HERCULES, VEGA SCORPIO and VEGA OMIKRON have arrived and anchored for an indefinite duration.

At night there is a silence that does not resemble any other silence, because it is not made up only of the silence of men and things. It is a silence that comes from an indefinite distance, from the depths of the world.

Indefinite ID

What was considered no man's land?

the narrow, muddy, treeless stretch of land, characterized by numerous shell holes, that separated German and Allied trenches during the First World War. Being in No Man's Land was considered very dangerous since it offered little or no protection for soldiers.

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From Wikipedia:

No man's land is waste or unowned land or an uninhabited or desolate area that may be under dispute between parties who leave it unoccupied out of fear or uncertainty. The term was originally used to define a contested territory or a dumping ground for refuse between fiefdoms. In modern times, it is commonly associated with World War I to describe the area of land between two enemy trench systems, not controlled by either side. The term is also used metaphorically, to refer to an ambiguous, anomalous, or indefinite area, in regards to an application, situation, or jurisdiction. It has sometimes been used to name a specific place.

Due to a fire on 6th September, 2024 the Miskolctapolca Cave Bath and Aquatherapy is CLOSED for an indefinite period :( 😭

The sunset is getting earlier and earlier out here even though the Fall weather disappeared for a few days this week, reaching a high of 100 on Monday. The 7pm sunset last week at Venice became 6:44 tonight which screwed up my evening plans. I had hoped to arrive a half hour before darkness started to creep in but after taking the dog out and then checking the weather conditions, I realized the earlier time would mean I'd arrive just as the sun was setting and no time to get ready--assuming no traffic or parking difficulties.

A year ago, my obsession with long exposure was just beginning and I took every opportunity to go places where that was an option. In the Maryland countryside, it wasn't always tough to find a decent location for the sunset, usually with a backdrop of the catoctin mountains or thick rows of trees. What I rarely found was a completely unobstructed view of the sunset which is plentiful along the coast of the Pacific Ocean out here. The main difference is where my focus ends up. At home, I seemed to mostly adjust my focus towards the background, on whatever static object was closest to the horizon. In Southern California, I often will focus my attention on the foreground, trying to find an area midway up to the horizon since it's often the only non moving part.

Since being here, I've slowly tried to incorporate panoramas into my collection of shooting styles in addition to capturing the amazing reflections found on some of the flatter shorelines like at Venice Beach. My attempts at panoramas began simply because I'd never given them much thought and each time out shooting, I'd try to get a few more images that could be combined in lightroom CC. The main lens I use is still the 18-135mm kit lens that came with my camera. It's the most versatile lens I have and since I use a crop sensor camera, it gives me the biggest view. I started to realize though that even at 18mm, I was missing far too much of a great sky or landscape. I had zero idea how much photography cost when I began to learn in manual since prior, my camera criteria had been a good point and shoot with a large zoom so I could photograph my active dog. I'm effectively priced out of upgrading to a full frame and often it feels like I'm really limiting myself. I love my camera but it really bugs me that I constantly wonder how much better my images could be with a full frame. I've seen the comparisons online that show a border in a full frame shot representing how much a crop sensor camera cuts out. I know they purposely choose photos for maximum effect and it always works on me.

The only real solution is an eventual upgrade (which also means all new glass as well) but for the time being, I've been trying really hard to at least give more of a full frame feel by committing to 2 shot panoramas. It's obviously not the same, but when I can get the waves to mostly line up and then compare the merged 2 panel panorama to the single frame, the difference is enormous to me. Lately, I'll choose a quicker shutter speed and then fire off about 4 or 5 shots at each pivot in the panorama and then search in lightroom and photo merge for the best combinations and view of the bunch. The goal is to only need a few seconds of blending in photoshop to give a seamless look.

This photo is an example of that process and is a 2 shot horizontal panorama of Venice this past Tuesday. I overlapped these shots by about 30% and had an additional panel on either side just in case but they didn't match up well. Even so, I was pretty pleased with the result of this since I really didn't want to back up and mess with the symmetry but also didn't want to cut out any of the great sky and shore that completed this reflection. I set my tripod nearly flat on these reflective surfaces here because there's really no risk of rising water making it that far, especially any waves that would require me to grab my gear quickly. Not too far to the left would be the tip of Venice Pier and a bit to the right would be the actual sunset facing more towards Santa Monica. While I know there are plenty of differences between full frame and crop, the missing view is what bugs me the most at the moment and until I upgrade, this may be my indefinite solution. Of course I could also practice in portrait and shoot fuller panoramas like that but I'm OK with the 2 frame panoramas in landscape at 18-35mm. The biggest problem is long exposures where I often don't have the time or light to take enough shots to merge well. I'd rather fire off 30 shots in 2 minutes than 6 shots in 5. I'm sure when the cloudy skies become more consistent, I'll have a lot more time to work on panoramas using the 10 stop filter to maximize the view. I just really don't want to waste the limited cloudy days shooting in a way that gives me a low probability of success.

▪️WHEN & WHERE▪️

•Venice Beach

•Venice, California

•September 20th, 2016

▪️SETTINGS▪️

Canon T4i

•EF-S 18-135mm IS STM

•2 frame panorama

•@18mm

•ISO 100

•f/8

•1/4 second

•CPL

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This is another image in what is becoming my "Kreiterhof Kollection." I may decide to put them all in one album. Currently, lots of them are in "Dan's Miscellany."

Kreiterhof (see location below) is an amazing, amusing 200+ year-old rural establishment. Between Easter and late December, you can go there for a casual indoor or outdoor lunch or dinner. Before or after, you can wander around a mind-boggling accumulation of objects, materials and devices that are in "indefinite long-term outdoor-storage." They are waiting to be used...for something, sometime.

Location: Kreiterhof, near Village of Nebenau, District of Lörrach, Baden-Württemberg DE.

In my album: Dan's Miscellany.

PLUFFF.

Dopo vari tentativi ecco il risultato più spettacolare che sono riuscito ad ottenere....dentro un calice, il liquido si è materializzato in scultura, svelando un microcosmico sconosciuto...un tempo più breve di un battito di ciglia, un attimo indefinito dove la goccia dà spettacolo e poi svanisce e si ricompatta nel suo ambiente naturale, l'acqua.

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PLUFFF.

After several attempts, here is the most spectacular result I managed to obtain .... inside a glass, the liquid materialized in sculpture, revealing an unknown microcosmic ... a time shorter than a blink of an eye, an indefinite moment where the drop makes a show and then vanishes and regroups itself in its natural environment, the water.

CANON EOS 6D Mark II con ob. CANON EF 100 mm f./2,8 L Macro IS USM

This one is a year old but dug it out to tidy it up, didn't like it when I took it but despite not being crisp it warrants a view.

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I'm sorry for the wait for this MOC, and if the final MOC is disappointing. It's not the least of my problems right now.

This MOC has been in the works for well over a month. As Ayen was considered one of the best of the original Vihagu, which had generally mixed reception, I had intended to make a truly spectacular version of this MOC - one that looked great, and looked markedly different than the other Vihagu (as the basic design I have for Ayen is meant to be somewhat esoteric.)

However. This past month has been quite busy - busier than usual for me - and over the course of it I lost interest in finishing this MOC. I tried sometimes to work on it but nothing productive came of it. I also ended up becoming disinterested about MOCing in general. New ideas for MOCs don't interest me like they used to, motivation to actually MOC has been harder and harder, and I don't think I've given someone a good constructive critique in weeks.

So this might be the last you see of me for a while. I've more or less gone into the dark ages. I know the term dark ages implies that I'll pick up the hobby at some point in the future, and I have hope that I will continue the progress that I've made so far in future, but for now... it's just not coming to me.

"There lies the world, my darling, full of wonder and wistfulness and strange

Recognition and greetings of half-acquaint things, as I greet the cloud

Of blue palace aloft there, among misty indefinite dreams that range

At the back of my life’s horizon, where the dreamings of past lives crowd."

-- David Herbert Lawrence

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Is your life a SKAM?

It's class warfare. As more political pundits and political manipulation kicks into full gear this year. Will we get the truth this time around?

Or more of the same.... propaganda campaigns? political promises unkempt? Rich becoming Uber Rich?

Would the person in highest political office ask themselves “Is my life a SKAM?” “Am I disconnected from the rest of general mainstream American?” “Will I abuse my political weight to pass unjust laws against Americans?” “Have I already tried to pass off my power to conglomerate corporations to line my pocket book further?”

Today’s president regardless who it becomes is going to be so far disconnected from the everyday you and me American citizen. Why is this form of the political office held so high? How did the symbol of America become so distorted? Has America become the United States of influence? With corporations manipulating the political gain for laws that can and have already harmed the general public when is enough, enough?

Is your life a SKAM?

SUBJECT: Barack Obama

"I don’t take a dime of their [lobbyist] money, and when I am president, they won’t find a job in my White House." -Barack Obama

At least 15 of Mr. Obama’s “bundlers are involved in lobbying for Washington consulting shops or private companies. They have raised more than $5 million so far for the campaign.

itsamoneything.com/money/quotes-barack-obama-quotations/

“Tonight, more Americans are out of work and more are working harder for less. More of you have lost your homes and even more are watching your home values plummet. More of you have cars you can’t afford to drive, credit card bills you can’t afford to pay, and tuition that’s beyond your reach.” -Barack Obama

President Barack Obama’s base salary is $400,000 a year. He also has access to a $150,000 expense account as well as a $100,000 tax free travel account and $20,000 entertainment budget. Obama’s net worth is over 10.5 million. President obama’s reelection campaign may be the first campaign in U.S. history to raise more than one billion dollars.

www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/04/us-usa-election-obama-...

"My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world.

I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it." - Barack Obama

"...just because you have an individual right does not mean that the state or local government can't constrain the exercise of that right..." - Barack Obama

President Obama passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). President Obama the first President to sign a law to introduce indefinite detention in the US. It will keep the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, open potentially forever. The bill does not protect anyone, and creates a double standard between the detention of citizens and non citizens, undermining the fundamental principle of equality before the law.

With the UK heading into an indefinite lockdown I was out last week for a 12 mile wonder around the Northumberland hills in glorious isolation seeing only a handful of people all day.

The reward from an early morning start was a close encounter with a pair of (White-throated) Dippers normally a bird that I've never managed to get remotely close to.

The pair always kept ahead of me as I walked up the path alongside the burn before disappearing round the corner. I assumed that was it but when the path brought me higher up looking down onto the stream they were both on the rocks below me so I finally filled another gap in my photograph collection.

It could be a while before there are any new pictures for 2020, I'll be raiding the archive over the next few weeks for posts - luckily I've got plenty to choose from that have never made it onto my flickr page.