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This is such a fun thing to watch. I noticed it's active this morning. This one says cloudy skies snow in winter. It's very accurate.
How to Predict the Weather:
Clear liquid: Bright and clear weather.
Cloudy liquid: Cloudy, possible thunderstorms & rain.
Small dots in the liquid: Humid or foggy weather.
Large flaky crystals: Cloudy skies, snow in winter.
Threads of crystals at the top: Windy weather. Crystals at the bottom: Frost may be coming.
Read more: Crystal Ball Weather Station | A magical way to forecast the weather
This large and distinctively-coloured pigeon is a familiar sight to many New Zealanders. This is because the New Zealand pigeon (or kereru) has a widespread distribution through the country .
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Shot 4 from 1st April shoot. This is not Mars...it is actually Acton near Newry. An inversion layer in the early morning light. I am not sure about the overhanging branch. Any comments? The early start was worth it just for this scene alone...breath taking. The valleys in this area seem to be prone to this inversion layer effect. Grass frost slow to lift as the sun rises.
This is the back end of EMD's demonstrator SD45X 4201 showing the flared radiators and 4 fans and the flat car body end and the new HTC trucks that were to become standard on the -2 line of locomotives.
CNW Proviso yard Aug. 1970
Alvéola-cinzenta | Motacilla cinerea | Grey wagtail
O ponto inferior é devido à luz reflexa da água do lago.
The below dot is due to water reflection in the pond.
28/11/2015 - Sobreda (Almada, Portugal)
[Obrigado pela visualização]
[Thanks for your visualization]
Matthew 28:5-6 NIV
5 The angel said to the women, "Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified.
6 He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay.
First Baptist Church
Sparta, TN
Have a Blessed Easter!
Key West is a very relaxed place, perhaps the laziest place in the US. One longstanding tradition is that people, locals and tourists alike, come out to Mallory Pier before sunset to be entertained by fireeaters, jugglers, and the like, and then watch the sunset. There are many sunset cruises so it's very easy to get sailboats into the sunset photos. It was cloudy most of the day, but it cleared just enough for a nice sunset.
autumn is here in Essex. The leaves are shades brown and red and make natures very own carpet for us to walk upon.
I am looking forward to my next outing whenever that might be. I have a few friends to catch up so with luck I will be out again soon.
So I was looking for library books on CS4. Were all ebooks and I don't think the library system is quite up to speed with those yet. Kept giving me the message, "User cannot check this out." Well, duh. It's an online book. So I just went ahead and ordered one to save myself the aggravation of navigating the library's sluggish site every damn day. Before round two with the library's site, I did this edit. Whatever it is. I was flipping back and forth between CS4, GIMP and Picnik. The only books I had access to today were on Elements 6, CS3 and GIMP. Not as helpful as I'd hoped. So I played around and made this thing. All the editing information swirling around my head.
'Afloat' is a huge 250cm diameter circular donut shaped globe cast in bronze. Situated at the seaward end of the Groyne on the seafront, near to Brighton's Palace Pier, its centre at eye level allows a view of our world through the sculpture.
The donut or torus (a shape that has a continuous surface with a hole in it) has been posed as a possible model by scientists of how our universe may look. The sculpture was generated by taking a world globe and pressing the south and north poles together to form a torus. Now placed on its side the lines of longitude radiate from the central hole, linking the sea and sky. Across its surface are the shrunken shapes of the major continents, adrift like dark shadows.
This much photographed sculpture has also become a meeting point and has even been the site of marriage proposals.
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"The exhibition 'To be or not to be' is dedicated to the skull, which has always been used in art history as a reminder of human mortality is now an ephemeral symbol, deprived of its sanctity, used in fashion, design... contemporary art. Orticanoodles reproduce the image of the skull in a series of portraits from well-known media personalities, which are shelled and in fact made into empty skulls. To be or not to be, the Shakespearean dilemma, leads us to reflect on what remains of these men and women after removing the image that creates their status. Through the skillfully applied technique of stencils, Orticanoodles confront us with the question of identity, the image built, to pass a message. The artists offer their works through which the viewers can mirror and ask theirselves about their own appearance. The language of Wally and Alita actually uses the visual parameters of pop culture and advertising to distort the message and make social commentary. Their skulls are asking: What really matters? Appear or act? Live or die? To be or not to be?"
From 26/11 to11/12 2010, dal martedì al sabato
Open 15:00 to 20:00
Lab_Comacina, Viale Cassarate 4, Lugano
Today is a grey day and it's raining. So I thought I go for some pink, as an antidote. And then I thought, I shouldn't, because pink is just a spring colour and we're in November. Silly me, there's a bit of pink in every month!
This is the largest cathedral in Scandinavia, so it's difficult to take good photos of it. You want to include the towers in the composition, yet need a bit of foreground so it doesn't seem forced. That require some distance, and distance tend to introduce a lot of things you don't want in the photo. Anyhoo, here's one that worked out.
This is my first star trails shot ! It is a 125 minutes exposure, which produced 252 images showing the rotation of earth around the sun, it was such an amazing experience !
The stars are real, without any edit..
This rhododendron is in my front yard and is one that I had trouble finding when I planted the Bed... It has been around for at least a hundred years so I guess people want the newer ones and not the old standbys....I also have a Cynthia in the back yard but it isn't blooming yet... I put this one in the little video but wanted it so I could see it all the time :-)
This is the same wagon as the one viewed in the previous picture (91010) . The former OBA - previously pictured with sides removed - is now seen with the half height steel ends also removed. When EWS took over flask trains from B.R. they inherited these wagons but when DRS took over from EWS, EWS took the PFAs with them.
In 1994 the Waste Monitoring and Compaction Plant (WAMAC) at Sellafield entered into active commissioning and began compacting solid Low Level Waste for disposal to the Low Level Waste Repository (LLWR) at Drigg using half height ISO containers designated TC-01 (2910 series). Prior to that, waste had been moved in commercially available industrial waste skips. A more robust type of re-useable container was tried in the 1990s but was short lived because the WAMAC system rendered them redundant.
Containers like this, designated TC-05 remained in use for many years in the nuclear industry but after 1995 saw little use on trains.
RHS Garden Harlow Carr is one of four public gardens run by the Royal Horticultural Society. It is located on the western edge of Harrogate in the English county of North Yorkshire.
Autumn is the faster season in mountain. You may need to be ready to capture his best moments. The first rains take away with them the magical and colorful leaves adorning the alpine landscape.
This shot was made in one of the best mountain villages of switzerland: Soglio, in the Bregaglia Valley. In the background we can admire "Sciore", the famous castle of granitic peaks of the Bondasca, at the border with italian Valmasino.
Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Located on the island of Great Britain, it is bordered by the Irish Sea to the north and west, England to the east, the Bristol Channel to the south, and the Celtic Sea to the south-west. As of 2021, it had a population of 3.2 million. It has a total area of 21,218 square kilometres (8,192 sq mi) and over 2,700 kilometres (1,680 mi) of coastline. It is largely mountainous with its higher peaks in the north and central areas, including Snowdon (Yr Wyddfa), its highest summit. The country lies within the north temperate zone and has a changeable, maritime climate. Its capital and largest city is Cardiff.
A distinct Welsh culture emerged among the Celtic Britons after the Roman withdrawal from Britain in the 5th century, and Wales was briefly united under Gruffudd ap Llywelyn in 1055. After over 200 years of war, the conquest of Wales was completed by King Edward I of England in 1283, though Owain Glyndŵr led the Welsh Revolt against English rule in the early 15th century, and briefly re-established an independent Welsh state with its own national parliament (Welsh: senedd). In the 16th century the whole of Wales was annexed by England and incorporated within the English legal system under the Laws in Wales Acts 1535 and 1542. Distinctive Welsh politics developed in the 19th century. Welsh Liberalism, exemplified in the late 19th and early 20th century by David Lloyd George, was displaced by the growth of socialism and the Labour Party. Welsh national feeling grew over the century: a nationalist party, Plaid Cymru, was formed in 1925, and Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg, the Welsh language society, in 1962. A governing system of Welsh devolution is employed in Wales, of which the most major step was the formation of the Senedd (Welsh Parliament, formerly the National Assembly for Wales) in 1998, responsible for a range of devolved policy matters.
At the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, development of the mining and metallurgical industries transformed the country from an agricultural society into an industrial one; the South Wales Coalfield's exploitation caused a rapid expansion of Wales's population. Two-thirds of the population live in South Wales, including Cardiff, Swansea, Newport, and the nearby valleys. The eastern region of North Wales has about a sixth of the overall population, with Wrexham being the largest northern city. The remaining parts of Wales are sparsely populated. Since the decline of the country's traditional extractive and heavy industries, the public sector, light and service industries, and tourism play major roles in its economy. Agriculture in Wales is largely livestock-based, making Wales a net exporter of animal produce, contributing towards national agricultural self-sufficiency.
Both Welsh and English are official languages. A majority of the population of Wales speaks English. Welsh is the dominant language in parts of the north and west, with a total of 538,300 Welsh speakers across the entire country. Wales has four UNESCO world heritage sites, of which three are in the north.
Tegenwoordig van eind november tot half januari: tussen Black Friday en Driekoningen is één langgerekt feestseizoen. Ook hier in de Leidsestraat is dat duidelijk te zien.
Deze foto maakt deel uit van het compilatie album "Greatest Hits", dat HIER te vinden is :
Lakagigar - Laki - Iceland
Zicht op de top Laki op 818 m
Laki or Lakagígar (Craters of Laki) is a volcanic fissure in the south of Iceland, not far from the canyon of Eldgjá and the small village of Kirkjubæjarklaustur. Lakagígar is the correct name, as Laki mountain itself did not erupt, as fissures opened up on each side of it. Lakagígar is part of a volcanic system centered on the volcano Grímsvötn and including the volcano Þórðarhyrna. It lies between the glaciers of Mýrdalsjökull and Vatnajökull, in an area of fissures that run in a southwest to northeast direction.
The system erupted over an eight-month period between 1783 and 1784 from the Laki fissure and the adjoining volcano Grímsvötn, pouring out an estimated 14 km3 (3.4 cu mi) of basalt lava and clouds of poisonous hydrofluoric acid and sulfur dioxide compounds that killed over 50% of Iceland's livestock population, leading to a famine which then killed approximately 25% of the island's human population.
The Laki eruption and its aftermath caused a drop in global temperatures, as sulfur dioxide was spewed into the Northern Hemisphere. This caused crop failures in Europe and may have caused droughts in India. The eruption has been estimated to have killed over six million people globally, making it the deadliest in historical times.
The Lakagigar craters are named after MT. Laki . They were formed in one of the largest eruptions in recorded human history.
Lakagigar, ofwel Laki's kraters is een fascinerende plek, met allerlei spectaculaire kraters, ongebruikelijke, bergen en meren, waardoor er een kleurrijke samenspel van natuurlijke elementen is ontstaan. Bezoekers kunnen hun geluk niet op bij het ontdekken van dit kratergebied.
Men kan hier wandelen over de kiezelsteenpaden, die omgeven zijn door lavavelden en heuvels, die voor een prachtige omlijsting en achtergrond van het hele gebied zorgen. In juni 1783 barstten de kraters van Lakagigar uit, waardoor er veel schade ontstond in Europa. Veel delen van Europa kregen met rook en vulkanische neerslag te maken. Deze vulkanische wolk bracht allerlei vreemde meteorologische afwijkingen met zich mee. Zo kende 1783 bijvoorbeeld een extreem hete zomer en een extreem strenge winter. Bovendien betekenden de uitbarstingen ook een regelrechte ramp voor de omliggende natuur. Het pittoreske landschap van IJsland werd bedolven onder 30 miljard ton lava. De giftige gassen die tegelijkertijd vrijkwamen door de ‘hongersnood-door-gassen’ doodden duizenden IJslanders. De uitbarsting van 1783 veroorzaakte ook nog een 25 m lange vulkanische spleet en 100 zogenaamde sintelkegels.
Last year I was invited to exhibit at the Imagine Film Festival in Amsterdam. Unfortunately the event could not take place, but I still took the chance to recreate some vehicles from iconic movies. This is one of them: The Spinner from the original Blade Runner from 1982.
The Spinner has been tackled many many times by unbelievably talented LEGO builders and there are some fantastic versions that inspired parts of the model. The front end and the proportions are largely influenced by Calin's version, while the overall colour scheme is inspired by Tyler's model.
One aspect I payed particularly close attention to was designing the back in a way that would allow the yellow and red stripes to be completely brick-built. The "44" and the small yellow warning stripes are achieved via decals, the rest is entirely made with LEGO pieces.
I hope you like this new interpretation!
Carnaval or Carnival is the festive celebrations that occurs prior to the Holy Season of Lent and whereas Lent involves abstinence, fasting and sacrifice Carnaval is the complete opposite. The festival has its origins in pagan celebrations and has been adopted for Christians with Catholics and Orthodox Christians displaying most enthuasism and exuberance.
In Catholic Spain and South America Carnaval is an integral part of society and is celebrated with gusto and abandon that is a pleasure to witness. Cadiz city has one of the largest Carnavals in Spain but just down the road in Conil de la Frontera the Carnaval is every bit as good as elsewhere, just more local and intimate. Colour and exuberance mixed with copious doses of fun are the intoxicating mixture.
2020 will be remember as the Year of Covid, lockdowns , restrictions and all other manner of nastiness and we were fortunate to just barely get Carnaval in before the worst of the year came, even if it was only February.
Life is too short to take it seriously; I refused to make the cover of #vanity, #caitlynjenner did it...but instead I make face )))
It is clearly seen in the entrance gate the deepening of the tower in the ground and the inclination that the tower hung (toppled).
Sloping entrance to the tower and about two meters deeper.
Foundations launched in 1173.
The gravity to go up is crazy.
Elevation of Piazza del Duomo: about 2 meters.
Height: 55,863 meters, 8 levels
Base outer diameter: 15,484 meters
Base inside diameter: 7,368 meters
Tilt angle: 3.97 degrees or 3.9 meters from the vertical.
Weight: 14,700 tons
Base wall thickness: 2.4 meters.
The Supermarine Spitfire is a British single-seat fighter aircraft that was used by the Royal Air Force and many other Allied countries throughout the Second World War.
The Spitfire continued to be used as a front line fighter and in secondary roles into the 1950s. It was produced in greater numbers than any other British aircraft and was the only British fighter in continuous production throughout the war.
The Spitfire was designed as a short-range, high-performance interceptor aircraft by R. J. Mitchell, chief designer at Supermarine Aviation Works (which operated as a subsidiary of Vickers-Armstrong from 1928). Mitchell continued to refine the design until his death from cancer in 1937, whereupon his colleague Joseph Smith became chief designer. Where speed was seen as essential to carrying out the mission of home defence against enemy bombers, the Spitfire's thin cross-section elliptical wing allowed it a higher top speed than several contemporary fighters, including the Hawker Hurricane.
During the Battle of Britain (July–October 1940), the Spitfire was perceived by the public as the RAF fighter, though the more numerous Hawker Hurricane shouldered a greater proportion of the burden against the Luftwaffe. The Spitfire units had a lower attrition rate and a higher victory-to-loss ratio than those flying Hurricanes.
After the Battle of Britain, the Spitfire became the backbone of RAF Fighter Command, and saw action in the European, Mediterranean, Pacific and the South-East Asian theatres. Much loved by its pilots, the Spitfire served in several roles, including interceptor, photo-reconnaissance, fighter-bomber, carrier-based fighter, and trainer. It was built in many variants, using several wing configurations.
Although the original airframe was designed to be powered by a Rolls-Royce Merlin engine producing 768 kW, it was adaptable enough to use increasingly powerful Merlin and later Rolls-Royce Griffon engines producing up to 1,520 kW.
“This is for the birds! Oh wait – I AM a bird!”
The challenge:
A photograph can be technically perfect, and have a great composition – that’s already hard enough to achieve sometimes! But for me, a photograph really stands out if it touches me. If it conveys a feeling, or stirs an emotion within. A really great image is one that evokes a mood and pulls the viewer into the scene. That’s what this week’s challenge is about: capturing emotion and feeling.
My process:
This is not the image I thought I was going to take this week. I started off the week thinking I would need to make a difficult and heartrending decision. The rainy weather forecast looked like it would match my mood and I planned to see what I could capture during a downpour. As it turned out, the sun appeared during a break in the clouds at about the same time I got the news that all my worry was for naught. In an effort to calm my frayed nerves, I turned to my camera and started taking photos of birds in my back yard.
I take a LOT of photos of birds – thousands upon thousands of photos often of the same exact birds. Sometimes I question my sanity, but the reason is because I’m hoping to capture the rare instance when a bird seems to express an emotion that we humans can identify with. I’m pretty sure we anthropomorphize the emotions, but we identify with them nonetheless.
Grackles seem to be particularly expressive – maybe because of their bright yellow eyes. This particular grackle has a bum leg that he never puts weight on, but the wind was making it particularly challenging for him to stay upright while perching on the post. He was using his tail as a rudder and he looks like he’s had just about enough! (We’ve all had those days buddy.)
The lighting helped to further enhance the mood of the photo as well. There was a small shaft of sunlight on the bird, but the background was in shade and was especially dark because of dark clouds overhead. The sun highlighted the iridescent colors in the wings and lightened the overall dark colors of the bird to help differentiate it from the dark background.
Lesson learned:
As you probably know, I strive hard to capture technically perfect images. However I am slowly learning (as Maaike said in her opening paragraph) that even though an image might be technically perfect, if it’s void of emotion the technical perfection doesn’t make up for that. Conversely, an image with emotional impact can make technical imperfections almost irrelevant. Perhaps this is because emotions connect us to the deepest parts of ourselves. Technical perfection is about what the eyes see; emotion is about what the heart feels – and it is entirely possible for our eyes to overlook something that our heart feels strongly about.
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A winter scene on LeGrande Avenue, one of the main streets of Charlotte Court House, Virginia (in Charlotte County). Population is between 500 and 750--it's hard to determine and I can't trust the 2020 census, which was badly tampered with by the federal government. I lived on this street from 2008-2017.
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This is a vantage point over the upper Sûre lake in the Ardennes region of Luxembourg. It is one of my favourite areas of Luxembourg for walking and being close to nature and definately worth a visit if you are nearby.
Este es un mirador sobre el lago del alto Sûre en la región de las Ardenas Luxemburguesas. Es una de mis zonas favoritas para caminar y estar en contacto con la naturaleza. Merece la pena una visita si no estás lejos.
What is joy?
It is a bird that we all want
To catch.
It is the same bird that we all love
To see flying.
Sri Chinmoy
texture by lenabem anna
Is It Safe? mural by Uloang, part of the Hope for Health project, in Downtown Austin Texas during the COVID-19 pandemic and the BLM protests, June 3, 2020. The mural had been removed as Austin’s 6th street reopened and then replaced as the businesses boarded up during the BLM protests.
HOPE for Health is an effort by artists in collaboration with the HOPE Outdoor Gallery to spread hope on the walls of closed, boarded-up bars on 6th street.
In diesem Jahr wünsche ich mir den Osterhasen einmal ganz anders .. 😎👌
This year, I'm hoping for a completely different Easter Bunny... 😎👌
maybe the last one this year?
LESS IS MORE is the topic for Tuesday 11th October 2016 Group Our Daily Challenge
The area is one of the nature reserves along the river Säveån. Broadleaved woodlands grow alongside the river, which provide a good environment for birds, such as lesser spotted woodpecker, grey wagtail, white-throated dipper and kingfisher. The river also contains a genetically unique population of salmon, many other species of fish and a very rich bottom fauna.
sv.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonsereds_strömmar (website in Swedish)
The area is both a Nature reserve and a Natura 2000 site. Sweden has more than 5000 different Nature Reserves and more than 4000 different Natura 2000 sites. Stretching over 18% of the EU’s land area and almost 6% of its marine territory, Natura 2000 is the largest coordinated network of protected areas in the world.
This is a Shelby version of Ford’s popular Mustang series. But it’s not just any ol’ GT350, this is the ready-for-racing ‘R’ version with its carbon fiber 7-spoke wheels and higher rear spoiler. Not shown in this photo, it also has Brembo brake calipers painted red, another feature of th R version. The GT350R's price is about $75k.
The engine in this is a DOHC 5.2 liter, hand-assembled flat-plane crank V8 engine with 4 valves per cylinder producing 526 horsepower, 429 lb.-ft. torque, delivered through a 6-speed manual transmission. The cost of each of the 7-spoke carbon fiber wheels is $4Grand. That $16 Thousand for a set of four! Yikes!
Knole /noʊl/ NT is a country house situated within Knole Park, a 1,000-acre (4.0 km2) park located immediately to the south-east of Sevenoaks in west Kent. The house apparently ranks in the top five of England's largest houses, under any measure used, occupying a total of four acres.[1] Vita Sackville-West, who grew up there, recounts a legend that it is a calendar house: 'its seven courtyards correspond to the days of the week, its fifty-two staircases to the weeks of the year, its three hundred and sixty-five rooms to the days of the year, but 'I do not know that anyone has ever troubled to verify it.'[2] The meticulous planning of a calendar house, certainly does not fit well with the organic growth and reconstruction of the house over more than 500 years.
The current house dates back to the mid-15th century, with major additions in the 16th and, particularly, the early 17th centuries. Its grade I listing reflects its mix of late-medieval to Stuart structures, and particularly its central façade and state rooms. It is currently undergoing an extensive conservation project, to restore and develop the structures of the buildings, and thus help to conserve its important collections.[3] The surrounding deer park has also survived with varying degrees of management in the 400 years since 1600.
“Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle.
It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.”
(Rabindranath Tagore - Indian Poet, Playwright and Essayist, Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913, 1861-1941)
Those Rajsthani villagers came a long way in order to worship in Varanasi (Benaras).
I saw them leaving a small boat on the holy waters of the Ganges nearby Manikarnika Ghat where all earthy lives are ending, it was at dusk.
Suddenly the words of Tagore are giving deeper colours to the souls living in this image...
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This is the macro of a Great Spangled Fritillary butterfly. They love open habitats, moist meadows, deciduous woodlands, moist conifer and oak woods. Just one generation a year. Their color varies according to the area, eastern males are orange-brown, western males more orange, darker towards the base and with black markings and spots. The females are tan instead of orange, and has a greater dark area at the wings base.
My photography is mostly nature. I enjoy macro photography a lot, but it is difficult to decide what a I like the most about this art.
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Sixty three of my photos made it to Explore, one appeared on the front page, and others at 14, 25 and 52. If you’d like to see them, please go to my Explore set.
TO MY FRIENDS:
Flicker has giving me opportunity to meet a group of wonderful people. Thanks for making me feel so proud of what I do and love.
ABOUT GROUPS:
I only submit my photos to groups which pages are not private.
MY THANKS:
I appreciate your visit and your comment. Thank you!
Martha.
My photography is mostly nature. I enjoy macro photography a lot, but it is difficult to decide what a I like the most about this art.
EXPLORE:
Sixty one of my photos made it to Explore, one appeared on the front page, and others at 14, 25 and 52. If you’d like to see them, please go to my Explore set.
TO MY FRIENDS:
Flicker has giving me opportunity to meet a group of wonderful people. Thanks for making me feel so proud of what I do and love.
ABOUT GROUPS:
I only submit my photos to groups which pages are not private.
MY THANKS:
I appreciate your visit and your comment. Thank you!
Martha.