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Freight trains may be the main objective for trainspotters' presence between Divača and the slovenian seaside city Koper. However, there's a insignificant number of passenger services.
Due to reduced availability of Pendolino vehicles, the ICS 35 Maribor - Koper was replaced by 4 standard coaches hauled by a class 363.
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Während man auf der Koperrampe nicht besonders lange auf den nächsten Güterzug warten muss, zeigt sich das Angebot der Reisezüge um einiges spärlicher. Eines der zwei derzeit verkerenden Zugpaare ist der ICS 35/34, der statt eines Pendolinos als Wagengarnitur des Weges kam.
Little glass ends of fairy lights might seem insignificant, but can transform and brighten the atmosphere and ambience to something magical.
Over the moon to finally find my own on Sunday!! Hopefully the first of many!
Cound Bank - Shropshire
The landscape between Las Vegas and Raton can be pretty desolate, which makes the Southwest Chief look pretty insignificant.
Also, there's nothing like hearing a 70mph banging across jointed rails!
© 2024 Peter Mardie, all rights reserved. Protected by Pixsy.
Upstairs in her wardrobes the gowns and dresses purred on their hangers like the drowsing inmates of some exquisite arboreal zoo.
(From: Passport To Eternity, In: The Complete Short Stories, Vol. 1, by JG Ballard, 2001).
We make landfall by first light of dawn. The incessant howling by creature unknown has kept us awake throughout much of the night. The savage shore greets us with swarms of mosquitoes, bats, and a cacophony of growling monkeys with red bottoms. The prehistoric monsters we observed last night, on closer inspection, are strange rock formations covered in passive aggressive oysters.
We enter the jungle. Jack takes the lead with his elephant rifle. We sink into the endless greenery of the jungle. We are insignificant ants on a trail. The jungle teems with frightful noises. We hack away at the greenery with our machetes. We are all on guard. It feels like a thousand eyes are following our every move.
Nearing the top of a small hill we spot motion. We freeze in horror. A ghostly red dress hangs from a tree, swaying in the early morning breeze. Imperial red. Headless imperial red. No feet either. Purring in the tree.
We run down the hill screaming in terror.
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From our series 'Island Story' - the story of a shipwreck. "Alone and stranded on tropical shores that time forgot, a beautiful Lady from Shanghai struggles for survival, with humor, charm and style. Storms, cannibals and witches - she will encounter them all!"
Was pleased to find another (somewhat damp!) Rhyzobius lophanthae yesterday in a neighbouring village!
Withington - Shropshire
Dear Flickr fans,
There are 14 series to share with you today, I paid nearly two weeks and a half to observe, daily 6am ~ 8:30 am. (29-06 ~ 16-07-2013)
Mostly don't have comment box, really want to save everyone's time.
Of course, finally give a some photo by comment box, please continue to support Aberlin. Thanks a lot.
This is my first time so observed, very excited to have this wonderful opportunity,please believe Aber will keep the best safe distance.(Broken shell and day 2)
Wish I going with you together and touch nature and ecological protection,
( I know you should be better than me, but you and I strength is insignificant, we live and we learn.)
Need to tell a key point with all Flickr fans,
Whether for a contact or not, when you have comment to me, absolutely will must reply, but could be and delay.
If you just added to favorites, perhaps I'm ignored, anyway in principle, should be well to give attention to comments friends, am I right?
All best wish,
Aber
Dawn in the middle of nowhere. Places like this always make me feel so small and insignificant. That sounds like a simple concept, but in reality, it's not easy to fully understand until you really see how big a place can be.
Taken with a Canon 5D IV and a 70-200 f/2.8L ii with a LEE landscape polarizer. Processed in Camera Raw and Photoshop.
Sunrise on the shore of Lake Michigan in Racine.
Wisconsin Horizons by Phil Koch, turning landscapes in to natural portraits.
A single house seemingly cowering among trees under a large and busy sky looks small and insignificant. Rain coming and going all day - humbling and perfect.
At the Waimea Inlet near Nelson, South Island, New Zealand.
When things trouble me I head to the mountains were I can get above my problems and realize just how small and insignificant all the politics and immorality of man is less than a speck of dust that can easily be blown away.
Unable to sleep:
Last night I arrived in the mountains at 4am and watched the meteor shower which was absolutely fantastic. I fell asleep and woke just before sunrise and had to take this view.
“The pull of the mountain is like gravity for my soul.”
― Heather Day Gilbert, Miranda Warning
However "insignificant" we might be, we will fight, we will sacrifice and we will find a way. That's what humans do. -Shepard, Mass Effect 2
Me as Miranda Lawson:
Head: Avalon by Lelutka
Body: Lara by Maitreya
Hair: Trinket by Truth
Him as Commander Shepard:
Head: Alain by Lelutka
Body: Jake by Belleza
... in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.
Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.
And so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.
Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.
The first words of:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
HDR
Canon
Sigma 10-20 mm
middle of Germany
After last fall, I've decided that life is too short for insignificant hesitating, and I made few of my biggest dreams come true.
One of them was to visit Paris.
Afternotes 8.8.2007: This picture made it to the 1st place on most interesting pictures on 5.8.2007 (http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/2007/08/05/). A big thanks to every visitor!
(I am grateful for more than 10.000 views and more than 200 favs (Dec 20, 2009).
- more than 15.000 views and more than 300 favs (Dec 2010)
- more than 25.000 views (Apr 2015)
- more than 30.000 views (May 2016) - Thank you all! :)
~ Irish Blessing ~
May the blessing of light be upon you, light on the outside, light on the inside
With God's sunlight shining on you, may your heart glow with
warmth like a turf fire that welcomes friends and strangers alike.
May the light of the Lord shine from your eyes
like a candle in the window welcoming the weary traveller.
May the blessing of God's soft rain be on you,
falling gently on your head refreshing your soul with
the sweetness of little flowers newly blooming.
May the strength of the winds of heaven bless you,
carrying the rain to wash your spirit clean, sparkling after, in the sunlight.
May the blessing of God's earth be on you, and as you walk the roads,
may you always have a kind word for those you meet.
May you understand the strength and power of God in a thunderstorm in winter
and the quiet beauty of creation in the calm of a summer sunset
and may you come to realize that insignificant as you may seem in this great universe,
you are an important part of God's plan.
May He watch over you and keep you safe from harm.
I am often surprised, when I see a small human figure in a landscape photo such as this, how my eye is pulled to the figure, no matter how tiny. Maybe others have the same experience. Longwood Gardens, Kennett Square, PA.
this website is so insignificant compared to everything that is going on in my life.
I will probably be on here sparingly.
A pretty plant with an insignificant <5mm white flowers with a hint of blue on a plant growing in sand.
There's a mighty small mite on the bottom flower.
Note from Jan Botha FaceBooK
"Great photos! The colouring and shape reminds me of one in the Tydeidae family. They might be scavengers and also feeding on pollen. However, one would need to look at it more closely to be sure alchetron.com/Tydeidae";
Photo: Jean
(charcoal, graphite, watercolor- mixed media; 11H x 18W inches)
If you have ever felt different...insignificant...misunderstood...alone...
and all you want is to get away as far away as possible- you are not alone
as "I dedicate this piece to you."
for details=> www.saatchiart.com/art/Drawing-MISUNDERSTOOD/980307/49902...
Best Praise and Worship Music"All Creation Must Come Under God’s Dominion" | How Great Is Our God
Introduction
2019 Praise and Worship Song "All Creation Must Come Under God’s Dominion" | How Great Is Our God | Filipino Song
God created all things,
and so He makes all creation
come under His rule,
and submit to His dominion.
He commands all things,
controlling them in His hands.
Living things, mountains,
rivers and man must all come under His rule.
Things in the skies and on the earth
must all come under His dominion.
All must submit, without any choice.
This is God’s decree and His authority.
God created all things,
and so He makes all creation
come under His rule,
and submit to His dominion.
Everything is commanded by God.
He orders and ranks all things,
each classed according to kind
and by God’s will allotted their positioning.
Things in the skies and on the earth
must all come under His dominion.
All must submit, without any choice.
This is God’s decree and His authority.
No matter how great a thing is,
it will never be able to surpass God.
All things serve God-created mankind,
none dare defy
or make demands of God.
Man, a creature of God,
must also keep his duty.
Whether the master or ruler of all things,
however high his status,
a small human
under God’s rule he still is.
An insignificant human being,
a creature of God, never will he be above God.
from Follow the Lamb and Sing New Songs
A new day 'dawns' after a longer sleep than usual
Dreams of flags and faraway lands play the perceptual
Journey of life, for if I ever wanted to be who I always sought to be
It is there on the horizon, a sunrise for all to see
A Pedunculate Oak silhouette neath which childhood saw
The opening and unveiling of all the world for youth to withdraw
Energetically through mid-morn's beautiful light
A Wensum sheen for the afterglow in flight
Pale insignificant's given a golden blessing
Over still waters the colouring of mind runs deep impressing
Upon the leaf-collecting heart battling for air
As the cold light of day opens up without a single care
Now here I'm sat beside the Hazel's sunlit peeling bark
My shrubby friend will be first in flower when others remain stark
She's smooth to my touch given a place to spread
In readiness for the burst of catkins my heart runs ahead
It's to Spring I enwrap fears with a foreseeable pastiche
Where we'll reunite God-willing, free from a wintry leash
Call it hibernation, escapism, denial or whatever you will
It's today the only way I can see clearly without standing deathly still
My need remains unfulfilled, my time not yet clocked-out
I hope...yes, I still do, like a nut within involucres pout
Yet awaiting the next inflorescence of natural art
The inner voice silently nods affection to our line of heart
It reads kindly, as if all the past had been oblivious
Remember the present is the best time to make survival inventious.
by anglia24
10h30: 19/11/2008
©2008anglia24
From a distance Raggle Rocks looks like an insignificant jumble of rocks but it's quite spectacular from Marloes Beach.
Explored on 17 March, 2015.
According to the RSPB, 2019 was a record year for Hen Harriers in England with 33 young fledged from 9 nests. But it is within my memory that 30 pairs nested in Lancashire's Forest of Bowland alone. Nine nests for the whole of England is perilously low. Quoting from RSPB recently "Hen harriers are on the verge of disappearing as a breeding bird in England owing to ongoing illegal killing associated with driven grouse shooting, and they aren’t doing much better in the rest of the British Isles. Scientific research published in March this year, based on data from Natural England, showed that 72% of satellite-tagged hen harriers were considered or confirmed to have been illegally killed on British grouse moors, and the birds were 10 times more likely to die or disappear over grouse moor than any other type of land use."
It is worth adding that none of the nine successful nests were on intensive (driven) grouse moors.
Chris Packham's petition to ban driven grouse shooting exceeded 80,000 signatures, but needs 100,000 to be considered for a discussion in Parliament. Petitions usually have six months to reach their target, but suspension of Parliament on 12 September is likely to mean all petitions will close, in Chris Packham's case, 5 months prematurely. It would be great if his petition could reach the necessary milestone before 12 September. Please consider signing it if you haven't already done so. Here's the link:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/266770
Ban Driven Grouse Shooting: Wilful blindness is no longer an option
Chris Packham, Ruth Tingay and Mark Avery (Wild Justice) believe that intensive grouse shooting is bad for people, the environment and wildlife. People; grouse shooting is economically insignificant when contrasted with other real and potential uses of the UK’s uplands. Environment; muirburn impacts negatively upon climate change and drainage leads to flooding and erosion. Wildlife; the wholesale culling of all predators and Mountain Hares has a disastrous effect on the ecology of these areas and the industry is underpinned by a criminal tradition of raptor persecution which shows no signs of abating. It’s time to provide an opportunity to implement immediate , legislative and meaningful measures to address this abhorrently destructive practice.
How insignificant humans are when stood up against nature.
Just a section of the 200ft (60m) waterfall of Skogafoss, Iceland.
Watching the rainstorms pass, Mappleton cliffs. Fish and chips in the car, then a walk on the beach between the showers.
the towering trees still seem insignificant to the great cosmos in the sky. You can just make out some of the milky way and this was only about 9pm.
"The universe is wider than our views of it." ~Henry David Thoreau
The Seattle skyline, seen from the top of Mailbox Peak, with the Olympic mountains behind.
With 100 m/h headwind on a bike you know that you are only a insignificant guest in those landscapes.
"Sky Forever"
There are two places in this world that make me feel insignificant and more than I am at the same time. False Kiva is one. Sky Rock is the other.
Cheers to that feeling, and to photography.
-Jared Ropelato
The Cathedral of Immaculate Conception in Harbour Grace, Newfoundland. Construction was finished in 1899.
Unfortunately, this church has required expensive repairs in the last few years, with over 3 million being spent on restoration. Despite this effort, an assessment showed the church would require upwards of an additional 9 million of restoration work. Couple this with a declining congregation and the not insignificant cost to heat the church, the decision was made to close the church for good in 2014. No doubt this was a difficult and painful decision for the diocese as this beautiful church has been a landmark in the community for over 100 years. Here is some more information:
Built in 1899, the Cathedral of Immaculate Conception is a stone cathedral built in the Gothic Revival style in Harbour Grace. With its towering spires, the Cathedral is an important element of the cultural landscape of Harbour Grace. This designation is confined to the footprint of the building.
The Cathedral of Immaculate Conception has been designated a Registered Heritage Structure by the Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador due to its architectural, historical, cultural and environmental values.
The Cathedral of Immaculate Conception is an excellent example of a stone church built in the Gothic Revival style. The Cathedral is the showpiece for the Catholic Church in this region and this is evident through the elaborate architecture and detailing. The Cathedral of Immaculate Conception employs many Gothic features on the exterior and interior including the lancet windows, buttresses and vaulted ceiling in the nave. The cruciform layout of the Cathedral is also typical of the Gothic style but it was not common in rural Newfoundland churches built during this period. This Cathedral also has a number of unusual and somewhat ostentatious features that contribute to its architectural value. In particular, there is an apse at the end of the chancel that is five-sided rather than semi-circular and the three central panels of the apse hold elaborate stained glass windows. On the exterior of the apse, each of the five sides rises to create an individual peak. Furthermore, the two large wooden spires on the towers flanking the west entrance
The elaborate design of this church was not common in Newfoundland during the Victorian Period and thus it is apparent that this church was built to stand out. Furthermore, the stone construction was atypical, as most churches were constructed of wood in rural Newfoundland. The use of locally quarried stone as well as some imported stone once again indicates the importance of the Cathedral to the community. It also speaks to the prosperity enjoyed by Harbour Grace during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Historically, the Cathedral of Immaculate Conception served the Catholic community of Harbour Grace and the surrounding region. It served as the seat of the Diocese from its construction until 1953, an area that encompassed all of Conception Bay, the northeast coast of the island, and Labrador. This Cathedral is also important as a historical symbol of the rise of Roman Catholicism in Newfoundland after the Emancipation Act of 1832.
The Cathedral of Immaculate Conception stands as a physical testament to the importance of the church to the community of Harbour Grace. The fact that this is the second Cathedral built by parishioners in Harbour Grace speaks to the determination of the Catholic community in Conception Bay. The size and scale of the church reflect the importance of the church during this period and the continued growth of the church in the period after the Emancipation Act.
The Cathedral of Immaculate Conception is a defining landmark on the cultural landscape of Harbour Grace, with its towering spires being visible from both land and sea.
Character Defining Elements
All those exterior features that are representative of the Gothic Revival style of architecture including:
-lancet windows;
-stone construction and use of stone buttresses;
-five sided apse with peaked roofs;
-building scale, massing, size, fenestration pattern at time of designation.
All those interior features that are representative of the Gothic Revival style of architecture including;
-vaulted ceiling in nave;
-cruciform layout.
All those features related to the environmental value of the property including;
-open space and mature trees in the lot surrounding the building;
-location of Cathedral in community;
-spires on west façade.
Source: Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador property file “Harbour Grace - Cathedral of Immaculate Conception – FPT 1553”
Confortably sitted in a cable, watch one of the craziest road ever unfold.
Also, take some time to appreciate the coincidential circomstances : the fantastic light from an immaculate sunny day and the one tiny car for scale that could be insignificant but, somehow, to me, enhance the entire picture as it weirdly put you behind the steering wheel from the distance.
Scenes like this, us landscape photographers live for moments when there is a dramatic sky with an interesting foreground. Colors are out of control, sun rays, etc.
But scenes like this last but a vapor, when you think about it in a grander scheme; what is 3 minutes over the course of a year? 20 years? It's insignificant. Easily forgotten. New memories are stacked on top until those old memories fade away or disappear like a vapor of breath on a cold winter day.
I would argue about the importance of photography here, capturing the moments that we might otherwise forget. Like when a childhood photo get shown, you probably don't remember THAT exact moment but you see a photo of yourself and know it happened. Keep taking those billions of photos for your child/dog/cat/etc because you won't remember someday until you see an old photo. I'll probably forget this sunset but in the meantime, I'll savor it as one of those few times when everything came together and I was there to witness it.
Commentary.
The sandstone pillars, chimneys and spires that make up the
“bristly” ridge of Stac Pollaidh, in Assynt, Sutherland, fade to oblivion,
as the sun seems to fall towards the horizon.
At a mere 612 metres or 2,008 feet
this weathered “Inselberg” resembles a volcanic cone,
but is largely a sedimentary sandstone monolith,
with a 3 billion-year-old base of Lewisian Gneiss.
Despite its modest elevation, the views from its summit,
of Assynt, and its “other worldly” landscape, is quite spectacular.
As day sinks to twilight this timeless landscape seems totally unmoved
by the passing of another mere day,
when eons have passed by, since it came to be.
Its eternal beauty and ancient creation made me feel
very temporary, small, insignificant and humble.
Nevertheless, I also felt very privileged to spend this
exquisite, but fleeting moment, at the end of a glorious day.