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I found this little waterfall on the website ctwaterfalls.com. Since where I live in N Indiana is so flat, there really isn't much in the way of waterfalls to photograph, so visiting Connecticut gives me the chance to indulge in one of my favorite subjects to photograph. On this morning, however, I forgot my tripod! So, I used my sweatshirt instead to prop my camera on for this shot. And despite the title, no showers were taken by me at this location.
Definitively completed in the Swabian period, the Cathedral of Cefalù, which became a World Heritage Site in 2015, can now also be visited in its towers.
Built starting in 1131, its Romanesque style is enriched by Arab influences, and its appearance is pure wonder.
It is also possible to climb its Norman towers, which are different from each other: one is the square-plan tower, with battlements in the shape of flames, which would symbolize the papal miter and the power of the Church; the other is the octagonal-plan tower with Ghibelline merlons which would instead pay homage to the royal crown and the temporal power.
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Definitivamente completato in età sveva, il Duomo di Cefalù, divenuto dal 2015 Patrimonio dell’Umanità può essere ora visitato anche nelle sue torri.
Costruito a partire dal 1131, Il suo stile romanico è arricchito da influenze arabe, e il suo aspetto è pura meraviglia.
E’ possibile salire anche sulle sue torri normanne, diverse l’una dall’altra: una è la torre a pianta quadrata, con merli a forma di fiammelle, che simboleggerebbe la mitria papale e il potere della Chiesa; l’altra è la torre a pianta ottagonale con merli ghibellini che omaggerebbe invece la corona reale e il potere temporale.
Happy weekend all fine Flickr friends...
We have relatives visiting Stockholm, but at this moment they have gone to the shopping center, and I did not have to go along .... visiting these places is not my favorite place.
So why not look at all my friends' nice pictures instead .. :))
Photo my own, Texture: Sarah Gardner, Shadowhouse.
Amsterdam - Prinsengracht
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there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night :-)
Rainer Maria Rilke
HMM!! Justice Matters!
many petalled star magnolia, 'Chrysanthemumiflora', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
(what would be appropriate for the current high temperatures)
... this small tortoiseshell / Kleiner Fuchs (Aglais uricae)
enjoys the nectar of the garden heliotrope / Vanilleblume (Heliotropium arborescens) in our garden - Frankfurt-Nordend
* I made my annual pilgrimage to RSPB Bempton on Wednesday evening . It was unusual weather on the cliffs, warm and still instead of the usual chilly East wind . It obviously effected the birds the Gannets in particularly were flying much lower down the cliffs instead of being at eye level. It made flight shots much more difficult . I have to say I was not too concerned about getting too many images . I still have a lot of photos from Bempton in the archives from 2018, 2019 and 2020
This is one of the few I did take as I was using a long lens 500 mm I could not get it wide enough to catch all the Gannets wing . Stepping back to get a wider view would have been difficult Still I am quite happy with the result.
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This along with a few other ducks were quite happily sitting on the pavement at Abberton reservoir ( Layer Breton causeway ). So decided to get down to there level for some close up portraits! Went for sharp teeth instead of eye! More to come!
Instead of waiting for the right moment, BE the right moment. You won't be ready for anything if you aren't ready to be you.
Kaiden Blake
~ Soylent Green instead Shoulder from My Way of Seeing ~
First time I have seen it was a few years ago. It sinked a bit on his right side.I don't know how it comes on my mind a few days ago...
It was there, looking desperate. sinking deeper. I had feeling it doesn't care any more.
It was sunny, but cold. I wasn't so brave to step in water and give him hug as I wish. I am coward, I know.
Than at home safe and warm I decide to create this "Soylent Green" instead my shoulder.
Enjoy an image of the skyline of Seattle, Washington, USA, a few minutes before sunrise in April 2021.
You can review a reverse timelapse that features this image here. It's in reverse because the actual daybreak was less impressive than I had anticipated. However, when seen in reverse (as though it was a sunset instead of a sunrise), it looks much more engaging.
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Spotted at Baron's Haugh nature reserve, Motherwell.
This melodic warbler is widely distributed across Britain & Ireland through the breeding season, and increasingly in winter too.
Blackcap breeding numbers have steadily increased in the UK since the late-1970s, and have also expanded their breeding range throughout northern Scotland and the island of Ireland during this time. They are now absent only on the highest Scottish peaks and farthest flung islands. In autumn, these breeding birds depart for southern Europe and are replaced by Blackcaps from central Europe. BTO research has helped show how garden bird feeding led to the evolution of this new migratory route and wintering strategy. Although widespread in winter, Blackcaps tend to be absent from the uplands at this time of year.
Blackcaps have a greyish overall appearance. The eponymous black cap is only found in the males; females and juveniles have a brown cap instead. The song is very similar to that of the Garden Warbler, but can be distinguished with practice. Blackcaps are found in parks, deciduous woodland and scrub, as well as at garden feeding stations.
Another one from the recent Fotosafari with my friend Christoph to the industrial area near Wesseling, Germany.
I just did a little bit of post-processing on my tablet using Snapseed for Android. I tend to use more jpegs now instead of RAW, as it's much easier to use, especially when you're travelling. In this case I just cropped the picture a little bit and added some contrast. That's it... Hope you like it.
I'm guessing this hawk would rather sink its talons into something soft and furry instead of this steel sign.
"Don't get bitter and twisted and nasty by life. You may have been wronged or cheated on; two wrongs never make a right. Instead learn your mistakes and learn your lessons. Remain strong with your head held high." - Angela Merkel
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that's the day i was born and hence, i had a birthday on april 9th, 2009! AHHHH!
it was a fun day. though it ended with bloatedness after drinking a soy chai at a restaurant. it was the powder mix chai, which, from experience, tends to be laden with dairy... Oh NOES! . . .
in any case, it was still fun. a guy gave me a HUGE purple cellophane wrapped basket of homemade peanut butter cookies he made himself, pretty white roses, funny balloons, and a card about BOOTYBUTTS (the card i received at work was about a toilet and poo... ironic much?)! his mom got me a to-die-for gift card to starbuck's (i whole-heartedly support the local coffee and tea shops, but sometimes, they just aren't around when you need 'em the most!)
then he and i went out to breakfast/lunch/brunch/whatever you wanna call it at T.C. Eggington's. they have great vegetarian choices... "portobellini"... yum! on the way to breakfast, we saw a mother and her tiny baby ducks by the freeway in the puddle-y canal/gutter/whatever you wanna call that. it was cool because it was my birthday and they were cute, yet odd because it was by a freeway and not in a park, or in my school's irrigation or something. them duckies must be suffering economically too, eh?
so after that, i contemplated going back home to work on a commedia dell'arte mask for theatre class, but decided to just veg and hang with this guy at his apartment (i find vegging out, doing nothing a bit difficult to do sometimes).
later on, we met up with my parents to eat dinner at the Euro Cafe in Gilbert, AZ. a great foodsie greeky place. and that's where, you know, *ahem*... the soy-chai-laden-with-dairy-omg-why-did-i-order-this fiasco happened. so after dinner, with all of us feeling like cows (even though i hardly ate anything and they ate like contestants in a hotdog eating contest), we went to Wal-Mart of all places. i'm particularly NOT a Wal-Mart fan, but since i was at Wal-Mart and it might be cheaper than at other places, i bought vanilla soy ice cream because i was magnetized/hankering for some.
we finally headed home around 11pm, after which i quickly shoved this guy out the door and kissed him goodbye, so i could heat up some of those peanut butter cookies and WHAM BAM!... inhale hot cookies n' ice cream. mmmmmmmmmm... no cake this year. and i wanted it that way. no one even sang to me either i noticed, but that's perfectly ok. it's not a crime. wait wait...i take that back: he played the weird al birthday song... so essentially, i was sung to in mp3 format. :)
oh yeah, and at work today for my 'employee birthday'... i made up fruit, granola, & yogurt parfaits for everyone. someone bought all the ingredients (i requested it instead of birthday cake), and i went right to work -- whipping up those babies during my lunch break. i was so amazed some people didn't know what a parfait was or how to make them.
well, now they know :)
suffice to say, i'm on a parfait kick now. i hadn't had one in a year before that day. soy yogurt though. yes, please. :)
p.s. thanks dude for taking these kickity arse photos!
Twop like a TwitterBunny
instead of ChapStick :-)
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HBW!!
hybrid winterberry holly, 'Carolina Cardinal', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, Raleigh, north carolina
Instead of driving directly from Abbeville to Blonville Sur Mer we made a side trip to visit Jumièges Abbey. I am glad we did it's a remarkable ruin that sits in one of the bends of the River Seine west of Rouen . I particularly liked the delicate towers that reminded me of buildings I have seen it Italy . It has quite a history too.
The abbey was founded in 654 on a gift of forested land belonging to the royal family presented by Clovis II and his queen, Balthild. Under the second abbot, Saint Achard, Jumièges prospered and soon numbered nearly a thousand monks.
In the ninth century it was pillaged and burnt to the ground by the Vikings, but was rebuilt on a grander scale by William Longespee, Duke of Normandy. A new church was consecrated in 1067 in the presence of William the Conqueror.
Enjoying the patronage of the dukes of Normandy, the abbey became a great centre of religion and learning, its schools producing, amongst many other scholars, the national historian, William of Jumièges. It reached the zenith of its fame about the eleventh century, and was regarded as a model for all the monasteries of the province.
The church was enlarged in 1256, and again restored in 1573.
The fortunes of the abbey suffered somewhat through the English invasion of the fifteenth century, but it recovered and maintained its prosperity and high position until the whole province was devastated by the Huguenots during the Wars of Religion.
The French Revolution, ended its existence as a monastery, leaving only impressive ruins. These comprise the church, with its beautiful twin towers and western façade, and portions of the cloisters and library, the contents of which were removed to Rouen when the abbey was dissolved. In the middle of the former cloister, there is still a 500-year-old yew tree.
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instead of going in the afternoon, i went to my spot early morning due to bad weather prediction.
I took this one with the 50mm f/1.4 and had a lot of fun with this tiny lens :-)
Most of the mushrooms were lying upside down. I guess playing kids had a lot of fun destroying these beauties...
Thanks everyone for visiting my stream.
Instead of going for a walk with the camera on this extremely hot day I got absorbed in studying these yellow flowers - each of them a tiny character, the group of them tired dancers in the heat.
It really was fun recognizing their differences and what they seemed to 'express'.
#InternationalWomensDay
#March8
Not a ladybird which might have been a slightly more appropriate "supermodel" for International Women's Day because of its name, but an equally pretty Cryptocephalus bipunctatus. The whole supermodel thing is a relic of the past anyway, but unfortunately, we still haven't freed ourselves from questionable beauty "ideals" that often come across as beauty dictates. Social media and "influencers" don't make it any easier, especially not for the younger generation that is exposed (and exposes itself) to what one might call the "daily dose of beauty brainwash", recently taken to the next level with the all-new "beauty filters".
In Berlin (and in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, one of Germany's Northern federal states), March 8 is an official holiday, but not (yet?) in the other 14 of our 16 federal states. So this Wednesday – where all shops, schools, etc. are closed (and the weather is too ghastly to go outside – winter made a snowy-wet, cold reappearance) – feels like a very quiet, lazy Sunday, and I have too much time for writing rants instead of simply letting you enjoy this adorable, brightly orange beetle, a member of the so-called "Fallkäfer" (Cryptocephalinae) subfamily of the leaf beetle family. The name "Fallkäfer" (a beetle that falls or drops) derives from their distinctive habit of dropping abruptly when disturbed. This image also is a true oldie, I've taken it back in June 2017 at the beautiful public park Britzer Garten. The focus is ever so slightly off and more on the plant than on the beetle itself, but I think it's still sharp enough in general.
Wishing all of my female Flickr friends a Happy International Women's Day!
A rainy day with Photoshop instead of camera. For my album "Creativity, Close-up and Macro". Take a look !
Who needs sunny weather when you can get such a sky instead.
Looking over Uxavatn to Skjaldbreiður. Geographically already in the Highlands although still accessible with a 2WD.
instead of making peace with his neighbors :-)
Elbert Hubbard
HBW!! HPPT!
echinacea, coneflower, jc raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
This standoffish blue jay claimed it was showing me its best side but I'm quite sure it was giving me the cold shoulder instead.
#sliderssunday
Spot the two birds :)
For a change, this is a new (outside!) photo, taken just a few days ago at the wonderful Britzer Garten, one of Berlin's biggest and most beautiful public parks (please check my album for more "Britz bliss", if you like).
For better dynamic range, I've used exposure bracketing (three images), pre-processed the images in DXO PhotoLab (sharpness and DeepPrime denoising only), from which I directly went into HDR Efex Pro to combine the images. I'm trying to get away from the annual Adobe subscription, and combining images from an exposure bracketing series in HDR Efex instead of Lightroom is one step into that direction. Unfortunately, whenever I think I can finally leave Adobe behind for good they come up with improvements such as the new "supersize" function (now also available in LR), a ton of new presets for LR, and other interesting stuff (and I'm still used to the LR/PS workflow, and the layers in PS). Well, maybe I'll be ready next year ;)
Extra sliding was done in Color Efex, where I added some "Brilliance and Warmth" and a tiny bit of "Contrast Color Range".
Happy Sliders Sunday, Everyone, stay safe and have a nice week ahead!
Instead of uploading another frost picture I thought that I could upload a more colorful Rudbeckia shot I took in summer. I hope you like it!
Instead of being part of the scene, it almost seemed as though this Great Blue Heron had decided to come up on the boardwalk to check out the view of the marsh as the humans see it.
Wildwing Lake, Kensington Metropark, Milford, Michigan
HFF
We went to see the Bar-Headed Geese and instead a whole range of species in the dry fishery bed. Seen in the background are a large flock of Bar-Headed Geese.
Thanks in advance for your views and feedback.
Hargate Forest, Kent.
The Death Crab Spider does not use a web to catch its prey. Instead it lies in wait on flowers and vegetation to ambush its prey and subdue by a venomous bite.
Size Male length: 3-4 mm
Female length: 9-11 mm
Well, I found this specimen instead, in the middle of nowhere, wondering why I was there
PS this is not a studio shot
Instead of a partridge in a pear tree, I give you a cat in a Crabapple tree with my best wishes for a Happy Holiday Season! I thought that my cat, Mr. Meowzer looked rather festive as I noticed him in an unusual place - balancing on the topmost branches of our Crabapple tree. Yes, he did get down by himself :)
"No animal has more liberty than the cat ...
The cat is the best anarchist."
~ Ernest Hemingway, "For Whom the Bells Toll"
Just because it's Halloween and make you smile !
I change the small photo and instead of my beloved Puffins I put a photo of me and another one of an Arctic Tern. Both apparently have nothing to do with each other. Except that it is ! On my face the blood is real blood, most had been wiped off by the friend who took the photo. This one was taken on the Isle of May in July 2019. You should know that these Terns nest along the footpath that starts at the pier. These birds, to protect their nests, attack with their beaks the top of the visitor's heads who pass in the path.
They first target the tallest people in a group. This is the reason why it is recommended to wear a hat. For my Scottish and English Flickr's friends who know these Isles (not only on the May), I precise that I did wear a hat. It was my third visit to the Isle of May and since the first time I wore a hat !
It was time to join the boat to return to Anstruther but I noticed two or three visitors behind me so I told to myself I had enough time for a few more shots. Being alone in front of this bird I was the tallest and the other Terns had a great time on my head. As the head was busy, one of them attacked me UNDER the hat !! So, if I have an advice : next time go with a full face helmet 😉
For my readers from the U.K. please let me know if I wrote something wrong 😊
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Juste parce que c'est Halloween et pour vous faire sourire !
J'ai changé la photo du médaillon et, a la place de mes Macareux moine bien aimés, j'ai mis une photo de moi et une photo de Sterne Arctique dans mes images. Apparemment, ces deux photos n'ont rien a voir ensemble. Sauf que si ! Sur mon visage, c'est du vrai sang, la plus grande partie qui recouvrait ma joue ayant été essuyée par l'amie qui a pris la photo. Celle-çi a été prise sur l'Ile de May, en juillet 2019. Ces Sternes nichent en bordure du sentier piéton qui part de l'embarcadère. Ces oiseaux, pour protéger leur nids, piquent le sommet des têtes des visiteurs. Ces Sternes visent en premier les personnes les plus grandes du groupe. C'est la raison pour laquelle il est fortement recommandé de porter un couvre-chef. Pour mes amis Flickr Ecossais et Anglais qui connaisent ces iles (pas seulement sur l'Ile de May d'ailleurs), je précise que je portais un chapeau. C'était ma troisième visite sur cette île et depuis la première fois j'ai toujours porté un chapeau !
Le moment était venu de rejoindre le bateau mais comme j'avais remarqué deux ou trois personnes qui traînaient derrière moi, je me suis dit que j'avais suffisamment de temps pour quelques photos supplémentaires. Etant seule devant cet oiseau, je me suis retrouvée être la plus grande et les autres Sternes s'en sont donné à coeur joie sur ma tête ! Comme cette dernière était occupée, l'une d'elles m'a piqué SOUS mon chapeau ! Aussi, si j'ai un conseil : la prochaine fois, y aller avec un casque intégral 😉
A rainy day with Photoshop instead of camera. For my album "Creativity, Close-up and Macro". Take a look !