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Driving along the Westfjords involves lots of fjord circumnavigation and also lots of "table mountain" crossings and I could not tell which of the two is more fun. But I remember clearly the moment when I stood here on top of one of those flat topped mountains gazing down into the next fjord, its mountain range and the beginning of a mellow sunset and I felt like nothing else in the world mattered but the moment .
“Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.”
Quote ― Terry Tempest Williams
Happy Fence Friday everyone ;-))
A photo for today's Macro Mondays' theme "Single use", an Old Mout cider bottle top (highly recommend the kiwi & lime and pineapple & raspberry flavours; yum!).
When I decided to photograph this cap, I imagined a high-key, minimalist feel, but it seemed to fit a more grungy low-key-white feel.
I wonder if anyone photographs this type of shot in the same disorganized manner as I tend to do, with the set-up evolving in the most disorganized and amusing manner, and a huge mess of random 'props' to put away at the end of the shoot! This shot ended up involving a small piece of kitchen roll rolled up behind the bottle cap to balance it inside the white plastic toothbrush holder, which was precariously balanced on top of a random jar, lit by a head torch fastened to a tall bottle of olive oil, and I 'stabilized' my camera on a tin of biscuits!
Glamping: A form of camping involving accommodation and facilities more luxurious than those associated with traditional camping. :)
Mini Airstream catching some evening, summer rays.
Campers on the Fraser River
BC
Canada
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~Christie by the River
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Quote: Be different, be unique .... why be a copy, when you were born an original.
Anyone that knows me well, will know how important this shot is to me and how long I've wanted to achieve this. Maybe its a bit overdone but it is the jewel in the crown for many Dorset photographers (and elsewhere too) if the conditions are like this.
I've had many failed attempts and they all involve a really painful trek up a steep hill in the dark, when you reach the top you need an extra 5 minutes to recover before you can even set up. Translation: three months of daily yoga is not enough preparation!
The mist was stretching out in all directions. I took many shots (I've already posted my favourite) but I thought it was good to try a pano.. I like shots where the castle is a bit further away showing the surrounding mist.
It means so much that my first trip further afield was this!
Plan de la Besurta, La Ribagorza, Huesca, Aragón, España.
Ruta cuyo itinerario discurre en el entorno de las pistas de esquí nórdico de Llanos del Hospital en el Valle de Benasque. La ruta tiene su inicio en el Plan del Hospital atravesando en su recorrido bellos parajes como el Plan de Estan y el Plan de la Besurta para llegar finalmente hasta el espectacular Plan d´Aiguallut con magnificas vistas al pico Aneto. Se trata de recorrer una parte del conocido como Camino dels Aranesos que originalmente unía el Plan del Hospital con el Valle de Arán.
El recorrido se divide en tres tramos, un primer tramo muy corto y sencillo hasta el Plan de l'Estan, un segundo tramo tambien muy sencillo hasta la Besurta y un tramo final algo más exigente aunque accesible a cualquier senderista acostumbrado a la montaña hasta el Forau d´Aiguallut.
Route whose itinerary runs around the Nordic ski slopes of Llanos del Hospital in the Benasque Valley. The route begins in the Pllan del Hospital, passing through beautiful places such as the Plan de Estan and the Plan de la Besurta to finally reach the spectacular Plan d'Aiguallut with magnificent views of the Aneto peak. It involves walking through a part of what is known as the Camino dels Aranesos, which originally linked the Hospital Plan with the Aran Valley.
The route is divided into three sections, a first very short and easy section to Plan de l'Estan, a second section that is also very simple to Besurta and a final section that is somewhat more demanding although accessible to any hiker accustomed to the mountains until the Forau d'Aiguallut.
don't involve my camera :-)
Steve Coleman
prunus persica, flowering peach, 'NCSU Dwarf Double Red', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
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The mating ritual of Magellanic penguins involves a series of braying calls, dance-like moves, and some preening. The larger male will follow behind the female, patting her on both sides with his flippers as they walk. In this case, I don't believe they actually mated. It was quite late in the breeding season, so maybe the behaviour was just reinforcing their bond. Or, perhaps they lost their first batch of eggs/chicks and were trying again.
It is reported that this species is monogamous and sometimes mate for life.
It was quite bright when I took this image, so it is a bit more contrasty and 'crunchy' than I like, but it shows the dancing quite well.
Jaganath Rai Temple is a large Hindu temple in the middle of Udaipur in Rajasthan, just outside the royal palace. It has been in continuous worship since 1651.
It was built by Maharana Jagat Singh in 1651. Jagdish Temple is a splendid example of either Māha Māru or Māru-Gurjara architecture, decorated by beautiful and ornate carvings.
Dahlia has a rich symbolism: the flower stands for wealth and elegance, and also for love and involvement. It's a perfect flower to express your love! For the Aztecs, Dahlia was a religious symbol, besides food the flower was used in different types of ceremonies.
. . . involves preparing three square meals a day, even though I'd rather be behind my camera. As I was preparing BLT sandwiches for lunch today - the Macro Mondays theme "My Daily Routine" popped into my head, so I stopped everything to take a few shots.
HMM everyone.
Nobody knows what involves preparing a wedding until you get down to it.
But the place and the weather promises to create a very special night for the new couple.
Picture taken at at the historic complex "Recreo de Las Cadenas" where the Royal Andalusian School of Equestrian Art is located, in the town of Jerez de la Frontera, Cadiz, Andalucia, Spain.
The "brother" Equestrian School is located near the Imperial Palace in Vienna, Austria.
For more information:
(English) bit.ly/2VY1dtm
(Deutsch) bit.ly/2vbyAgE
(Français) bit.ly/2PjEupn
CASI LISTOS PARA LA BODA, 2008
Nadie sabe lo que implica preparar una boda hasta que te pones manos a la obra.
Pero el lugar y el clima prometen crear una noche muy especial para la nueva pareja.
Foto tomada en el conjunto histórico "Recreo de Las Cadenas" donde se encuentra la Real Escuela Andaluza del Arte Ecuestre, en la localidad de Jerez de la Frontera, Cádiz, Andalucía, España.
La Escuela Ecuestre "hermana" está ubicada cerca del Palacio Imperial en Viena, Austria.
Para más información:
(Inglés) bit.ly/2VY1dtm
(alemán) bit.ly/2vbyAgE
(Francés) bit.ly/2PjEupn
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A village in Menchukha valley in the north-eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh, India.
I have posted this photo earlier but many new friends have joned me since then and I wanted to share this with them.:-)
Menchukha is a very remote and picturesque valley situated at around 6000 feet above sea level in the state of Arunachal Pradesh in north-east India.The Yargyapchu River flows through this serene and beautiful valley.The name Menchukha means "medicinal water of snow" Men - medicine ,chu - water and kha - snow.The valley is home to the Adi and Memba tribes and the population is mainly Buddhist.
We spent a couple of days here sometime in November 2019 and most of the time the sky was overcast.This is a very remote area and involves two days travel over very bad roads from the nearest airport so it is still (thankfully) relatively untouched.
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Those who involve themselves in theological questions seek wisdom only as we relinquish any pretense of innocence. Wisdom has always already outgrown innocence. The biblical prototype—the divine Sophia—precedes all creation, after all (Prov. 8: 22–23). She has seen it all. This mystery does not warrant ignorance of our history and our institutions, of our hugely varying effects on the planetary contexts of theology. Often what is called “mystery” (as in “Don’t ask questions, it is a holy mystery”) is mere mystification, used to camouflage the power drives of those who don’t want to be questioned.
-On the Mystery, DISCERNING DIVINITY IN PROCESS, Catherine Keller
form of visual communication, usually illegal, involving the unauthorized marking of public space by an individual or group. Although the common image of graffiti is a stylistic symbol or phrase spray-painted on a wall by a member of a street gang, some graffiti is not gang-related.
Later on i went back to Bank Quay for the barrier move involving 20205+20189 & 20142+20007 at the back heading for Kirkdale depot on the Merseyrail system.
6Z20 2055 Crewe Down Refuge Siding - Kirkdale Carriage Sidings 20/12/21.
Plains Cupid (Chilades pandava) Subspecies C.p. lanka (මීවනසරා) is a common butterfly found in wet zone upto 1000m. This swift flying species involve in mud puddling. Belongs to Lycaenidae family.
Going to shows involves transport, which many cats don't enjoy much. The Sandy Carrier Bag offers a good solution, as it opens on top, so I can have the cat on my lap during the ride. They can look out while at the same time being securely strapped in a harness.
Bastian (mixed breed), 06.11.2016.
Olympus OMD EM5 Digital Camera
Traditional storytelling involves a narrator transmitting a fixed story to an audience of one or more, employing various verbal tones, physical gestures, and facial expressions to evoke reactions and participation from the audience. This process is anchored in the reality that the story's basic structure never changes.
- - - It was a dark and stormy night - - -
Age old thought experiment in special relativity involving identical twins - one of them makes a journey into space in high speed and returns home to find that the twin who remained on Earth has aged more.
Sydney, Australia (Friday 27 May 2016)
Seeing the northern lights does involve a great deal of luck (clear skies and aurora activity) but I guess you have to make your own luck. Get to a place where it might be good, check the forecasts religiously, and get out there! Was pretty chuffed with this little display, even though it wasn't that bright and didn't last very long - especially given that I was in agony after a fall earlier in the day.
This is a vintage Christmas embossed postcard, copyrighted 1908 by Julius Bien & Co. N.Y.
The postcard features an illustration of Santa Claus with a white beard, wearing a red hat and a holly wreath. Santa is holding a plate with a large, decorated Christmas pudding (or plum pudding).
The text "A MERRY CHRISTMAS" is visible on the plate.
The card number "5004" is printed in the bottom left corner.
Christmas pudding and plum pudding are essentially two names for the same dish: a dense, steamed dessert made from dried fruits, spices, and suet. The name "plum pudding" is an older term. In pre-Victorian English, the word "plum" was used as a general term for all kinds of dried fruits, such as raisins, currants, and sultanas, not the fresh stone fruit we call a plum today. The dish is traditionally prepared weeks or even months in advance to allow the flavors to mature, often involving family members stirring the mixture and making a wish. On Christmas Day, it is usually served warm, doused in brandy, and set alight for a dramatic presentation.
Santa Claus looks excited in the image because, in the context of the Victorian and Edwardian eras, the Christmas pudding was a highly anticipated and significant part of the Christmas feast, symbolizing family unity, abundance, and joy.
Symbolism and Tradition:
A Prized Delicacy: The Christmas pudding was the centerpiece of the festive table and a rich dessert made with expensive, imported ingredients like sugar, spices, and dried fruits that were not everyday fare for most people at the time.
Anticipation and Ritual: The making and serving of the pudding was tied to numerous family rituals and superstitions, such as every family member taking a turn to stir and make a wish, or the excitement of finding a hidden silver coin for good luck.
Culminating Moment: The moment the pudding was ceremoniously brought to the table—often doused in brandy and set alight (flambéed) for a dramatic display—was a moment of great excitement and the celebratory culmination of the meal.
Joyful Imagery: Postcards from this era often depicted a jolly and enthusiastic Santa, as this aligned with the overall joyful and abundant themes promoted by Christmas imagery, a stark contrast to some earlier, more austere depictions of Father Christmas. Santa's expression, therefore, reflects the genuine excitement and shared happiness that the pudding represented to families during the Christmas celebration in the early 20th century.
Twas the Night before Christmas: Even in the iconic 1823 poem that helped shape the modern Santa, the description of his "cheeks... like roses" and "nose like a cherry" has been interpreted by some as suggesting a ruddy complexion from drink, though the modern interpretation is that his jolliness comes from the Christmas spirit, not alcohol.
The tradition of leaving food for Santa Claus has ancient origins in European folklore, though the modern American custom of cookies and milk became popular in the 1930s.
Historical Roots - Ancient Norse Mythology: One of the earliest roots of this practice dates back to ancient Norse mythology. During the midwinter Yule festival, children would leave food, such as hay or carrots, for the god Odin's eight-legged horse, Sleipnir, hoping Odin would stop by and leave gifts in return.
Dutch Tradition: The custom also stems from the Dutch celebration of the Feast of St. Nicholas on December 6. Children would leave their shoes out the night before with treats for St. Nicholas and his attendants, who were believed to be traveling long distances, and wake up to find them filled with gifts.
Modern American Tradition - The specific tradition of leaving out cookies and milk for Santa Claus became widespread in the United States during the Great Depression in the 1930s. At a time of economic hardship, parents encouraged this practice as a way to: Teach children about the importance of gratitude and giving to others, even when they had very little themselves. Reinforce a sense of hope and the spirit of generosity during a difficult period. The dairy industry later used marketing campaigns to promote milk as the ideal accompaniment to Santa's cookies, helping to solidify the tradition in American culture.
I printed this with Gamblin Relief Ink and used my new Iron Frog Baren (frog).
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Berlin, Old Marzahn Harvest Festival: Looking through the tinted acryllic glass of a ferris wheel cabin over the historic village of Marzahn, surrounded by high-rise buildings
Vier Jahre lang hatte es das traditionelle Alt-Marzahner Erntefest nicht mehr gegeben Erst musste es wegen Corona ausfallen, dann sagte die Firma, die bislang das Fest organisiert hatte, ihre weitere Mitarbeit ab. Dieses Jahr gab es einen Neuanfang. Aber hatte das Erntefest früher den Charakter eines großen Bauernmarktes, ergänzt durch einige Fahrgeschäfte vor allem für Kinder, so war es dieses jahr eher ein großer Rummel, der Bauernmarkt fehlte fast zur Gänze. Nur einige soziale Organisationen und Kleingartenvereine sowie Parteien stellten sich vor.
The traditional Old Marzahn Harvest Festival had not been held for four years. First it had to be cancelled due to coronavirus, then the company that had previously organised the festival cancelled its further involvement. This year there was a new start. But while the harvest festival used to have the character of a large farmers‘ market, supplemented by a few rides, especially for children, this year it was more of a large funfair, the farmers’ market was almost completely missing. Only a few social organisations, allotment garden associations and political parties presented themselves.
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William’s Practice involves beading everyday objects. With this work, he explores the ideas around trespassing as he subtly critiques rights of land. These camping chairs – created by many hands and thousands of glass beads – are set on river rocks that acknowledge the waterways and shorelines that run through Turtle Island. He raises the questions: “Who is claiming ownership of these lands?”
The tooro nagashi ceremony involves releasing lanterns bearing family names into rivers or lakes and is a way to honor ancestors and reflect on life and death. Photo taken during the Matsuri festival at Lake Igapó in Londrina (Paraná, Brazil).
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.
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Calcite crystals glint from faceted stalactites and stalagmites in one of the inner chambers of the Crystal Cave, Blue Hole National Park, Belize.
To reach the entrance, one walks approximately 45 minutes through the jungle and up a karst ridge to a steep opening into the earth. Gaining ingress involves a near-vertical down-climb of slippery limestone that requires both hands. Once inside, the enveloping warm, dark air is all surrounding, and the terrain consists of an incredible and confusing jumble of slippery large rocks. The path disappears into holes and crannies, down which I would not have thought to proceed. There were so many possible route choices, suffice to say that should our guide have decided to abandon us, we would have struggled to find our way back to the surface. In addition, the air was hot and humid such that we sweated profusely.
As we wended slowly deeper, occasionally we passed reminders that it was the Maya who first navigated these depths over one thousand years ago, by torchlight. There are numerous broken ceramic pots that the Mayan priests brought down to the depths of Xibalba, the underworld, for important ceremonies. Sometimes the pots were used to collect smoke, and then ritually broken to release the spirit, and other times smaller pots were used to collect blood offerings. Our guide, required by the government for entrance, informed us that caves were sacred spaces for the ancient Maya, similar to how modern cathedrals are perceived, and filled with the spirits of ancestors. We were also told that the Mayan priests and nobles who entered the caves would have ritually used suppositories made from multiple hallucinogenic substances in preparation for the descent (e.g., a mixture of peyote, psilocybin, nightshade, and others). Combined with only having torches for light, I can only imagine that our experience in the cave was far different in tenor from theirs.
Bibliomania is an obsessive–compulsive disorder involving the collecting or hoarding of books to the point where social relations or health are damaged. One of several psychological disorders associated with books, bibliomania is characterized by the collecting of books which have no use to the collector nor any great intrinsic value to a genuine book collector. The purchase of multiple copies of the same book and edition and the accumulation of books beyond possible capacity of use or enjoyment are frequent symptoms of bibliomania.
you can read all the book titles HERE
leave notes on your favorties :)
this is hopefully a little bit of a lighter subject than yesterdays. i dont have a lot of time, but this ones pretty self explanatory...
i guess if you happen to know someone with bibliomania, get help...?
it cant be good.
day 122
IL DIAMANTE HANI
Poco più di una settimana fa è morto il celebre scrittore d'avventura Wilbur Smith, autore di best-sellers di fama mondiale come il celebre cilco dei Courtney e della saga dell'Antico Egitto con protagonista il sacerdote Taita.
Io ho letto quasi tutti i suoi romanzi appassionandomi sopratutto delle vicende di Centaine De Thiry, separata e madre di due figli che s’imbatte casualmente, in Sudafrica, in una miniera che, dicono, contenga un vasto giacimento di diamanti. Finalmente dopo mille disavventure vissute nei deserti africani la giovane donna è baciata dalla fortuna ed entra in possesso dell’immensa fortuna contenuta nel giacimento diamantifero da lei scovato. I diamanti però fanno gola a molti e divengono motivo di una contesa che coinvolge il secondo marito della contessa, Lothar de la Rey.
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HANI's DIAMOND
A little more than a week ago the famous adventure writer Wilbur Smith died, author of world-famous best-sellers such as the famous series of the Courtneys and the saga of Ancient Egypt starring the priest Taita.
I have read almost all of his novels and I am especially passionate about the events of Centaine De Thiry, separated and the mother of two children who accidentally stumbles upon a mine in South Africa that, they say, contains a vast deposit of diamonds. Finally, after a thousand misadventures in the African deserts, the young woman is blessed with luck and comes into possession of the immense fortune contained in the diamond deposit she discovered. However, diamonds are tempting to many and become the cause of a dispute involving the second husband of the countess, Lothar de la Rey.
CANON EOS 6D Mark II con ob. CANON EF 100 mm f./2,8 L Macro IS USM
Bird banding involves fitting bands with unique numbers onto the legs of wild birds. Once banded, the lives of individual birds can be tracked through time.
Salvation involves a change in the relationship between God and a person. Salvation includes God’s adoption of believers into his family, his acceptance of them as righteous and his forgiveness of their sins. It also includes personal renewal and transformation through the work of the Holy Spirit.
19 So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, 20 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, 21 in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. 22 In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), Eph 2:19–22.
Taken for SSC 2nd Anniversary 27/10/2018 -- A shot that involves something that you have taken and learnt from the previous challenges .
First of all Happy 2nd Anniversary SSC and a big thank you to Karen and Val for running the group .
Well , a tough one indeed as I have totally enjoyed being in the group and have taken on board so much over the last couple of years and I am positive that my photography must be better for all the challenges . Out of around a hundred challenges what one has been the most educational - difficult to say . However , the one that made my eyes pop the most was the one set by Sami ( thank you Sami ) which was simply to take a shot of something red and turn it into a black and white image ! Sounds it a bit of an odd thing to do - not so ! They say photography is painting with light and this challenge shows the depths of this . When viewed in black and white the red elements in the shot show up in varying shades of grey and in the case of my shot using a red filter the result is a pure white image !! An eye opener indeed , I have not messed about any further with other colours - could be interesting .
Now the shot here is the the church in Great Bookham and at the moment the lych gate is decorated with knitted red poppies coming up to the 100th anniversary of the end of World War One . On the left is the local war memorial and viewed through the lych gate is a silent soldier silhouette . In the first comment box is a colour shot of the scene so you can see the effect of the conversion .
For sight and sound a song I have never heard before
The operation here involves several movements , after first using the wye at their yard to turn the train, they back all the way down past the diamond at the old station , then go back through the yard to diverge to the interchange tracks of the local CSX, CN yard interchange , and Effingham RR . On this day cars were delivered to all three Railroads .