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Explore #4, May 10 2012
When I visited my daughter on March 20 2011, my grandson, Aidan, was telling me about this bird with babies. I was excited and asked him to show me. He took me outside his home and pointed up - "there they are".
Wow - I saw how cute they were and grab my cam from the car.
Thank you Aidan!
Update: May10 2012
This pic is sold to Nat Geo for their coming book. Proceeds is going to charity.
The lady who bought the pic had a hard time tracking me down becos the person who downloaded this pic from my Flickr account without my knowledge, plastered this all over the internet and change my name from Ric Seet to Rik Seet. So no one can track the originator down. Now others are profiteering from this scam and here is the link to one such websites. You pay them to download my stolen pic:
pixdaus.com/under-her-wings-by-rik-seet-birds-aves-fauna-...
When I did a Rik Seet goggle search there are about 4 full pages of links to such websites !
www.google.com.sg/search?q=Rik Seet&ie=utf-8&oe=u...
This is one of the downside of the internet. To prevent such future mishaps, I have since disabled the download feature under Privacy & Settings. Base on the feedback this is not even safe. Additional advises is to add Watermarks and reduce file size to 800X800. From what I am hearing nothing is save on the net.
Thank you friends for your kind advise. .
Update: May13 2012
I managed to write to a few websites/blogs via email and FB.
1. A friend responded on FB and apologize for posting the pic on FB for Mother Day.
2. An Australian cyclist by the name of Craig plaster the pic for 2012 Mother Day. I wrote to inform him that the pic is my and he blocked me off immi'ly. Isn't that just great, steals your pic and ignores you!
3. What's even more interesting is Pixdaus.com has an option for you to complain if your are the owner of the intellectual property. Isn't this a laugh. I presume they believe they excuse themselves of any legal obligation in the eyes of the law by having this feature on their website! I have written to them and waiting for their reply.
Update June 1 2012
Today a caring Flickr friend brought to my attention that the above pic was stolen again and this pic was posted on Flickr. Wrote to the person to delete my picture which was done. Not a word of apology.
These people have no shame - steal other pictures and post it like theirs. Even took part in invites and participated at the various levels of award to claim credit for themselves.
here is the link if this shameful person and I have seen another couple of stolen pics as well becos they are too skillful for him. Even wrote to advise that these be remove. I am contacting the legal department of Yahoo in Singapore and making a few suggesting to them to apprehend such people.
by Pasckal2011
www.flickr.com/photos/69511790@N07/7293622534/
Since then more Flickr friends have alerted me. I am now no more angry becos I have learnt to share and come to realized this picture brings great memories & joy to others. One guy wrote to request for a print becos he wanted to place it next to his Bible.
He said that it is "God's Gift To Nature"
Update June 4 2012
Great to see that couple of my Flickr friends have added water mark to their pic. Very creative as they take the trouble to strategically position the watermark . I will borrow this idea. Thanks guys!
Update Dec 17 2012
Nat Geo is now printing double the number of copies and has agreed to denote US$300/ to charity of my grandson choice - SPCA. Thank you Nat Geo.
Update Dec 25 2012
Today I received a very touching letter from a mother who requested this print. I am glad that a picture is worth a thousand words and holds special meaning and brings great joy.
So if you need a print please drop me a Flickr mail and your mailing address. Thank you.
My heart goes out to this special lady and this picture is my gift to her. Some of you are aware that my daughter was critically ill. In her own works she told me she nearly died in Oct. Now I rejoice becos she is making slow recovery ----. A small step at a time!
Hi Ric,
I have been searching for the photographer who took the absolutely beautiful photo of the colorful momma bird with it's babies under its wings. I've actually been praying I would find the original photographer. I won't get into the details, but for the last almost 2 years, I've been going through a really hard time with my health due to a horrible medical mistake that I suffered at the hands of a doctor. I will not let anyone tell me I am not going to get better. My husband and my son need me back. This picture holds such meaning for me...I've found it on other websites, which I am so sorry that people are stealing your work, and I have gone back to look at it a lot over the last several months. It brings me great comfort and the colors are just so beautiful and bright. I was wondering if it would be possible to buy a large print of it from you so that I can frame it and have it matted with a verse so I can look at it every day in my house. Would you mind letting me know if it's possible to buy a print from you? If so, what are the size proportions that you could print out for me? The place I want to hang it could handle an overall size of 24"x24" or 24"x28", which would be framed and matted with an inscription matted under it. Hopefully that description makes sense. Would you mind contacting back?
Update April 11 2016
Today i received a very comforting email from this lady and I thank her for helping mereach out to others who may need this pic becos of the sentimental/special meaning this pic means to them. For me this pic means a world to me bcos I am a dad to two precious daughters that I love dearly. No matter what -- I will always be there for them as long as I am on this good earth.
Hi Ric,
I must confess I posted your beautiful picture of the bird shielding her babies under her wings on a tweet and my FB page. I didn't take it from Flickr, I (wrongly) assumed it was in the public domain. Would you like me to remove it or would it be mutually agreeable to post a link to you for your credit and publicity? I am a solicitor working from home writing wills and trusts, hence the family theme, I have not tried to profit directly from the photo, just thought it was a nice image of caring. Sorry.
Kind regards,
Elizabeth
Thank you Elizabeth. There are lots of caring people on this good earth.
13/1/10
I apologise to anyone who looks at my pictures, because it's been bloody boring the last few weeks. I'm still fairly immobile, knackered and house bound. It doesn't make for a very varied photo stream I can tell you.
So I thought I'd give you lucky people a real treat today..... tadah! Rubbish isn't it? This is my first attempt at light painting and it took me hours. Making a room pitch black, setting up the tripod, stealing two torches from my sons without their knowledge, eating half a kilo of Quality Street to use the sellophane wrappers over said torches. Never let it be said that I don't suffer for my art, people. And that was just setting up.
I've lost my remote shutter button which did not help proceedings. So I am manually pressing the shutter, crawling to the wall in the pitch black, trying to memorise where on the wall I have to start drawing to be in shot, trying to memorise where I started, and therefore where I need to finish, then crawling back to the camera to see if I've done anything resembling a picture. And this is with questionably functioning stomach muscles. I must be mad.
And THEN when I'm sat at the computer loading them up, I explained to Simon what I was doing, thinking he'd be impressed and he said "mmmm, you could make that image in about 5 minute in Photoshop." Git.
Rowan University Acquires Knowledge Is Power sculpture
Zenos Frudakis’ monumental bronze sculpture Knowledge is Power will be installed at Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersey in Autumn, 2014. A dedication will be held in November.
The bronze sculpture is 8 feet high x 12 feet long, with two free-standing over life-size figures on either end. The figures represent educators holding an open book that presents individuals from intellectual history. One page presents Darwin as the central figure; the partnering page, shows Einstein stepping out of the book. Some of the 31 portraits of individuals and their quotes, mathematical formulae, musical notations and other elements are listed on a separate page.
The sculpture was commissioned by Dr. Francesca Cottone Shaughnessy in honor of her brother, Villanova educator Charles Sebastian Cottone, now deceased. Dr. Shaughnessy
worked for the School District of Philadelphia for 30 years as a psychologist. She asked Zenos Frudakis to create a sculpture that would "encourage students to enjoy the pleasures of learning" and site it where students and teachers could enjoy it. Inspired by Henry Rowan’s $100M gift to Glassboro University (renamed Rowan University) twenty-one years ago, Dr. Shaughnessy decided to offer the gift of this sculpture to Rowan University.
Images with quotes
Alan Turing: 0110000101101001 (binary symbol for AI)
Albert Einstein: Imagination is more important than knowledge. E=MC2
Anne Frank: In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Beethoven: Fifth Symphony
Churchill: Never never never give up.
Charles Darwin: In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.
Descartes: I think therefore I am.
Di Vinci: drawing of the Vetruvian man
Emerson: Insist on yourself, never imitate..
Francis Bacon: Knowledge is Power
FD Roosevelt: The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Galileo: The sun with all the planets revolving around it.
Gandhi: Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.
Harriet Beecher Stowe: Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
Harriet Tubman: I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.
Henry David Thoreau: If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Isadora Duncan: figures of her dancing
John Muir: In every walk with nature one receives for more than he seeks.
Lincoln: A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Machiavelli: The end justifies the means.
Margaret Sanger: No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body.
Martin Luther King: I have a dream
Niels Bohr: (image on Einstein’s right shoulder made in points representing packets of quantum.)
Quote: A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself. Joining Bohr’ head and Einstein’s head is a diagram of an atom.
Neitzsche: There are no facts, only interpretations. / Balloon quote: “God is Dead” in German /
Newton: If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
Protagoras: Man is the measure of all things.
Sigmund Freud: The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk underwater.
Shakespeare: To be or not to be
Socrates: The unexamined life is not worth living.
Susan B. Anthony: Suffrage is the pivotal right.
Rachel Carson: Can anyone believe it is possible to lay down such a barrage of poisons on the earth without it making it unfit for all life?
Thomas Jefferson: All men are created equal.
Thomas Paine: I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense.
Images by Themselves
Copernicus’ sun-centered universe and his name above it
Part of the "Fundamental Theorem of Calculus". There is another equation that completes the whole theorem. Now it is a standard topic in freshman calculus. It goes back to Newton, or maybe further, to his instructor Isaac Barrow.
Michelangelo’s Slave
Pi
Symbols of evolution around Darwin: At base, Galapagos Tortoise, lizard, bird, seal, cast of an actual pre-historic child’s skull; on his shoulder is a finch.
Diagrams: architectural images. Alberti (Renaissance) and Parthenon.
Pythagorus Theorum
Golden Section
Near Rachel Carson: Eagle (representing her research with DDT)
Quotes by themselves
Emmanuel Kant: Always treat people as ends never as means.
Lines of poetry by themselves
Dylan Thomas: Do not go gentle into that good night. (placed by King)
TS Eliot: At the still point of the turning world, there the dance is. (placed by Isadora Duncan’s figures)
John Keats: Beauty is truth, truth beauty. (placed near Harriet Tubman)
Emily Dickenson poem line: I died for beauty
Yeats poem next to FDR: Things fall apart, the center does not hold.
Sculptor Zenos Frudakis appears as a gargoyle on the Darwin side of the relief in the lower left corner, signing his name by the Vetruvian man. Business partner Rosalie Frudakis appears as a gargoyle on the Einstein side, in the lower right corner by Isadora Duncan and Anne Frank.
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Mystery solved! I've been trying to get to know my new home area, and on one of my numerous recce trips had passed this farmyard out at Newton of Ardtoe, and wondered why there was an ex RAF SEAKING search and rescue helicopter residing next to a cattle shed. In the absence of anyone around I was left wondering until today when a local, liberally spattered in cow sh!t came out of a nearby house with his wife, and I was able to ask him. Well Gordon told me it had been bought by a local fisherman who had a vision to convert it into a snack shack or an AirBnB. Ah yes, what a good idea....and then it transpired this was not just any local fisherman but one who lives 20 yards over my garden fence. Thankfully, I know there is no room near us to move a redundant ex RAF SEAKING search and rescue helicopter to, but said neighbour does not have the best reputation in these parts for maintaining the peace. Quite how it landed in the back o'beyond remains a mystery. These things are BIG!. But I'm discovering there are many colourful locals in these parts and strange things do happen.
You should never underestimate farmers and fishermen in these parts. Next to the helicopter the farmer is building his own SpaceX Mars rocket rival
“Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions. Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men's actions.”― Sigmund Freud
The cover has been removed from the right wall where a bugged phone was relocated after its removal and its bugging facility completed. The whiteboard has been removed from the facing wall. All documents and data destruction logs on above are *lost* according to the Home Office/MoJ.
The Union phone at work was cut off.
Instructions were given to Frances, the telephonist, not to allow calls through.
A victimization meeting was held instructing staff to victimise re use of their phones to enable Prettypetal to do job and they followed those instructions.
All above authorized and carried out with the full knowledge and intent of the Governor. *
Home Secretaries:
▶️Mr. Jack Straw
▶️Ken Clarke KC 📮Lord Clarke of Nottingham - House of Lords 2026
▶️Ken Baker 📮Baron Baker of Dorking - House of Lords 2026 London U.K.
🔴Ms. Jac [Jacqui/Jackie/Jacqueline] Harvey - [Prison Lead for Libraries, Families and I.T.] and former Head of Education at Holloway jail sent Pp a handwritten memo re above removal of phone at the end of which she wrote "Richard [Mr. Richard Brown] agreed to this". She later bravely admitted the contents of her Memo was a complete fabrication.
Governors
Ex-Governor ▶️Mr. Tim Michael O'Sullivan
Ex-Assistant Governor: ▶️Mr. David M Lancaster
"Knowledge is power" ~ Sir Frances Bacon ... but
“A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.” ~Albert Einstein
At least, that is the motto seen here over a side entrance to the old main building of Hamburg University. It is not that old, only dating from 1911. And it did not start as a university (that happened in 1919, in the Weimar Republic) but a "Kolonialinstitut". Germany before 1918 did have colonies. Knowledge as an instrument of power gets a totally new meaning then. But even later, when being a university, this academic institution was rather particular where its knowledge ought to be invested. For the Jews they did not cry when thousands were assembled next door virtually, at the Moorweide, and deported to their death. Knowledge? Yes. But whose knowledge, whose power? Fuji X-Pro1.
Wisdom calls aloud in the street,
she raises her voice in the public squares;
at the head of the noisy streets she cries out,
in the gateways of the city she makes her speech:
"How long will you simple ones love your simple ways?
How long will mockers delight in mockery
and fools hate knowledge?
Proverbs 1:20-22
Whether a snowflake is delicate and ornate, or dense and pellet-like heavily depends on how "rimed" it is. Riming happens when water vapor fills small cavities within the ice crystals, and then overflows, allowing water to pool into droplets.
Credit: NASA/JPL/Jussi Leinonen
More info: NASA has produced the first three-dimensional numerical model of melting snowflakes in the atmosphere. Developed by scientist Jussi Leinonen of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, the model provides a better understanding of how snow melts can help scientists recognize the signature in radar signals of heavier, wetter snow -- the kind that breaks power lines and tree limbs -- and could be a step toward improving predictions of this hazard.
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NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission.
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[...] Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star [...]
-- Quote by Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
Rome, Italy (March, 2008)
If you've a head for hedge mazes, you will be rewarded at the end by entrance to a vast and breath-taking library. Who knows what knowledge might lay between those pages!
While scouring this years pics to put together a calendar for my dad I ran across this fellow. I can't imagine anyone who's ever been to the Western Washington University campus missing this beauty. I was going to the top of the hill to look out at the city and it drew me like a magnet. No evil here, just good. :-)
the map marker is approximate but close, I've only been there once.
1 The kind of people that hang out here whom I adore meeting
2 The wife I have (can't believe how much I over her)
3 The quality of my camera
4 My knowledge of image processing (to humbly retouch each image)
5 The clothes I find to wear
6 My relatively passable feminine appearance
7 That gray cardigan my wife had
8 The good photographer my wife can be (under my direction, of course...)
9 The fact that there is a Flickr (to publish my images)
10 The fact I'm still relatively heathy (to be able to publish my photos)
11 The fact I found this wig, one day,m in a weird kind of market, and that I had to money to pay for it
12 And a whole lot more reasons :-)
Up to week three in RogueOlympics and this time the prompt was “Volume”. I went with the literary definition, “a book forming part of a work or series,” building this old library scene. 101 parts used.
Parts overview available on Brickbuilt.
st michael's hospital; pedestrian bridge between the new research and education building (north) and the old patient care building (south)
Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute; International Centre for Healthcare Education & Research;
Doors Open Toronto 2011
Fort Myers or Ft. Myers, is the county seat and commercial center of Lee County, Florida, United States. It has grown rapidly in recent years. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 62,298 and in 2017 was estimated at 79,943.
Fort Myers is a gateway to the Southwest Florida region and a major tourist destination within Florida. The winter estates of Thomas Edison ("Seminole Lodge") and Henry Ford ("The Mangoes") are major attractions. The city is named after Colonel Abraham Myers.
Spain originally had colonial influence in Florida, succeeded by Great Britain and, lastly, the United States. During the American Indian Wars of the 1830s, the United States built Fort Myers as one of the first forts along the Caloosahatchee River; it was used as a base of operations against the Seminole. During the Seminole Wars and Indian Removal period, Fort Myers was a strategic location, with access to Atlantic waterways. While many Seminole were forced to remove to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River, others used their knowledge of the Everglades and Florida wilderness to resist the Americans. They were never defeated and two federally recognized Seminole tribes still control some of their historic territory.
During the American Civil War, Confederate blockade runners and cattle ranchers were based in Fort Myers. These settlers prospered through trading with the Seminole and Union soldiers.
The Fort Myers community was founded after the American Civil War by Captain Manuel A. Gonzalez on February 21, 1866. Captain Gonzalez was familiar with the area as a result of his years of service delivering mail and supplies to the Union Army at the Fort during the Seminole Indian Wars and Civil War.[ When the U.S. Government abandoned the fort following the Civil War, Gonzalez sailed from Key West, Florida to found the community. Three weeks later, Joseph Vivas and his wife, Christianna Stirrup Vivas, arrived with Gonzalez's wife, Evalina, and daughter Mary.
Gonzalez settled his family near the abandoned Fort Myers, where he began the area's first trading post. Gonzalez traded tobacco, beads, and gunpowder, and sold otter, bobcat, and gator hide, to the neighboring Seminole. A small community began to form around the trading post.
In the late 19th century, northerners began to travel to Florida in the winter. Some saw development opportunities. In 1881, the wealthy industrialist Hamilton Disston of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania came to the Caloosahatchee Valley. He planned to dredge and drain the Everglades for development. Diston connected Lake Okeechobee with the Caloosahatchee River; this allowed steamboats to run from the Gulf of Mexico to Lake Okeechobee and up the Kissimmee River.
On August 12, 1885, the small town of Fort Myers—all 349 residents—was incorporated. By that time, it was the second-largest town on Florida's Gulf Coast south of Cedar Key.
In 1885, inventor Thomas Alva Edison was cruising Florida's west coast and stopped to visit Fort Myers. He soon bought 13 acres along the Caloosahatchee River in town. There he built his home "Seminole Lodge", as a winter retreat. It included a laboratory for his continuing work. After the Lodge was completed in 1886, Edison and his wife, Mina, spent many winters in Fort Myers. Edison also enjoyed local recreational fishing, for which Fort Myers had gained a national reputation.
In 1898, the Royal Palm Hotel was constructed. This luxury hotel attracted many tourists and established Fort Myers nationally as a winter resort destination.
Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
When photographing the Paul Sabatier University library (Toulouse, France), I wanted to capture the geometric essence of this modernist architecture. I deliberately chose a diagonal framing to create strong visual tension and transform this familiar building into an almost abstract composition. The black and white treatment allowed me to emphasize the contrast between dark and light surfaces, while highlighting the repetitive patterns of windows and panels. I was seeking a clean image where lines and shapes become the main subject, moving beyond mere architectural representation to reach a more graphic and contemplative dimension. This photo tells the story of my fascination with how modern architecture can be reinterpreted through a minimalist lens.