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Swayambhunath Stupa/Nepal (The Tibetan name for the site means 'Sublime Trees', for the many varieties of trees found on the hill. However, it is probably the most sacred among Buddhist pilgrimage sites. For Tibetans and followers of Tibetan Buddhism, it is second only to Boudhanath.
Many rituals with fire have place around the stupa and the temples, where the pilgrims burn wood sticks into the holy fire...)
*After the earthquake in 2015, travelling to Nepal, will never be the same. Je suis désolé!!!
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Lasting a laughably short amount of time in navy 48 livery compared to their Omnidekka predecessors, one of the last remaining navy 14 plate E400s pauses on Arkwright Street on 11.10.21
Paddington has its 'own' brass band, performing here for many years. DIverse repertoire, from beautiful to uplifting classical, opera, jazz and occasionally pop pieces.
First Impressions are Lasting Impressions
Do you dare ask my first impressions about a world famous national park?
I drove the Lyell Highway A10 to see a portion of Tasmania I have not seen. It rained almost non-stop from Queenstown to Cradle Mountain. Do you suppose rain slicked roads would be sufficient cause for other road users to slow down, below the speed limit or to not tailgate? No! Well how about narrow winding roads with hairpin turns with a recommended speed limit of 15 km/h (9 mph), that are slick, plus limited visibility? TasManiacs!
I had planned stops at Montezuma Falls and Zeehan that is supposed to have one of the best rock and mineral collections, but it was bucketing rain. I decided to continue direct to Cradle Mountain.
Very nearly 6 hours later, my wife and I had checked-in to our cabin. I have stayed at 4 and 5 star hotels around the world that were not as nice! They are supposedly rated 2 star, though I would rate them 4 or 5 star accommodation. Cradle Mountain Highlander-
Raining moderately, cold, and overcast sky, upon arrival. I was eager to visit Dove Lake, but it had to wait for a break in the poor weather. The cabin had its own kitchen, so my wife prepared a lovely dinner. I was tired from the drive, so slept early and past sunrise. I was told by a German tourist the weather was too poor for a sunrise photo. We made our way to the Visitor Centre.
BEST ADVICE Buy a two years Parks pass at Service Tasmania and get a car registration sticker for $98.00 and avoid the queue, the poor or deliberately misleading advice and unfriendly attitudes of the Parks and Wildlife Staff at the counter. With that Pass, avoid the time wasted and time lost waiting in a line of tourists all asking the same questions. I firmly believe the Staff are sick of tourists -AND, Tasmania is reliant on tourism $$$, the "Holiday State".
The C132 is very narrow and one lane, mostly. The bus service there have a special rule book for them, that nobody else has read and certainly is nowhere within the pages of the Tasmania Driver Licence Handbook, that they do not have to drive at the speed limit and they have ultimate right-of-way! One tourist, in queue, ahead of me had complained about that park attraction to indifferent, almost contemptuous Staff, to absolutely no avail.
At Dove Lake Car Park, tourists would mostly take photos whilst standing in the car park. One mainland Chinese older female tourist had her photograph taken in the parking lot by another, she was wearing a bright pink jacket, dark Hollywood actress style thick plastic framed sunglasses (probably a copy of some famous brand label), replete with a toothpick in her mouth, and posing with a President Richard Nixon peace hand gesture. Imagine travelling all the way from mainland China, say 10.5 hours flying time from Shanghai to Sydney, fussing at the airport with Customs and Immigration, for another couple hours, transferring to a flight to Hobart, flying another 1.5 hours, plus driving 4.5 to 6 hours, by tour bus to get a once in a lifetime photograph like that!!! No shit! And, then another mainland Chinese female tourist dropped a piece of paper or tissue, in the parking lot, turned to look at it, then walked off, though a trash can was within 25 meters, at most. We can thank Communist China's President Xi, for the buggers rubbishing our state's most pristine environment. That is not the worst, I saw. Some rogue discarded her tampon near a tree at the famous Boat Shed, where millions of photos have been taken.
I met Canadian, English, French, German, Hong Kong and Taiwan tourists, as well as those from interstate. Those are the ones we need to lure to our state. Thinking of one word to describe them -civility.
My wife and I had planned this for easily two months of likely windows of opportunity for travel, with all else that is going on in our lives and around the weather. The weather during our stay was poor and very changeable. For example, I had my taken a photo with my Nikon D3x and though I would duplicate the photo with my Hasselblad 503CWD. The sky changed from postcard blue with fluffy sheep-like clouds to bucketing rain in 8 minutes! No joke. The German tourists, two older brothers and their wives, gave up an hour before I was willing to submit. After a few hours, we drove back to our cabin. Unbelievably, I had rainwater inside the leg extensions of my tripod 2 days later.
I have not gotten to the best part. I was introduced to a "famous Australian photographer" . . . he charges $7,000 for a guided tour of Cradle Mountain. $7,000!!! I went to get my Nikon D3x camera, though I left my wife guarding my Hasselbald mounted on the tripod, all set up for the above photo. He and his mate could not resist the temptation to spy through my Hasselblad's viewfinder. I would guess for a photographer who can lure other photographers to pay him $7,000 by spruiking how wonderful he is, he should not need to look through my viewfinder, but use his own imagination. I knew he was a "famous photographer" because he was carrying a backpack full of gear and had a camera over his shoulder with a HUGE . . . I mean HUGE telephoto lens. Like who can carry all that shit for very long, unless the famous photographer is also a body-builder.
It was a mental chore deciding what camera equipment and lenses I would bring. I made a list of the things I would like to bring or think I might need. I weighed each, the tripod was 3.4 kg, alone! The night before, I decided to change my list, leave my Nikon 20-70mm and 80-200mm f/2.8D lenses home, because they are heavy. I chose Prime lenses. Nikon 28mm f/1.4D, 50mm f/1.4D, 85mm f/1.4D, Micro-Nikkor 105mm f/2.8D, Micro-Nikkor 200mm f/4.0D (did not use) and 300mm f/4.0D (did not use), plus a Nikon 1.4E Tele-converter (did not use) . . . Flash, remote release, spare batteries, 2 CF Cards, a Nikon SC-29 for off-camera flash (didn't use), ExpoDisk, Colour Temperature Meter, and Light Meter. Still, that was heavy and tried carrying it in a backpack. Unrealistic. There are walking tracks of as little as 10 minutes, to half day 6 hours, all day, and further. One does not last very long with heaps of weight strapped to there shoulders.
And, before I leave the topic of photographers, another photographer, came to stand right beside where I scouted and set up, to take the same photo. I asked her, "You must be Chinese?" To which she replied, "Me, Chinese?" My meaning was translated for her, then she walked off. The "mainlanders" will come and stand elbow-to-elbow or walk into my still steaming footprints to try to get the same photo. Nil imagination or just lazy-minded.
Where are these photographers OWN imagination?
By Sunday, I had enough of the gloomy weather, raining and cold 4ËšC (39ËšF), discounting windchill factor. I told the Receptionist, where we stayed, tat I would probably need a week, here. He replied that he has has guests stay a week and never saw the mountain once, due the changeable and often poor weather.
Cradle Mountain would be an awesome place to visit/camp/live, if not for all the tourists. I waited until after school holidays and end of Summer, for a reason. Still the parking lot was full of tourists snapping photos and taking iPhone selfies, when they are not doing that, they are dropping litter, and when not doing that they are walking off the specially constructed track architecture, installed to protect delicate flora.
I had a great time, otherwise.
Cradle Mountain is very beautiful, to be sure, but there are mountains in China more beautiful and significantly higher, there are the Alps, in Europe, where I saw the Matterhorn, the Rockies, the Grand Tetons, the Sierra Nevada, the Andes, most all of south island in New Zealand, mountains covered by glaciers, in Alaska, too.
A gentle reminder about copyright and intellectual property-
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Made a new shirt and Thalia snatched it up. I'm pretty happy with it but there are some things I would change. Anyway I'm happy to be out of school and back to sewing!
i think i have posted this zinnia or one like it on this photo i did some manipulating with the lighting effect tool
EXIF....F11....2 SECONDS....ISO 100....10MM....CANON EOS 7D....SIGMA 10-20 F4/5.6 EX DC HSM.... LEE 0.6H + 0.6S ND GRADS.
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A long-lasting hazy sunset looking out to Weymouth and Portland, taken in February 2013. The pools of water are continually changing here and offer interesting opportunities to photograph.
While kayak fishing my friend ask for a little trip on my vessel..soon afterward he came back with this beautiful Lady..Soon afterward this fish was released to the water ,,Free ..We catch and release those wild fish..pristine fish in Snow caped Scotland..
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Another image from my recent trip to Cornwall and again of Wheal Coates engine house, but this time from a more 'conventional' angle. The sunset was quite nice, but I think the sun needs to be setting further to the south, typically Nov-Feb time for the best sunset images from this viewpoint. That said, I would then not have had the light on the side of the engine house…………… Us photographers are never happy are we ;-)
I have to say though, watching the sun set at this location, across the Atlantic ocean, was rather magical and special.
Tech Specs
Camera: Nikon D90
Lens: Sigma 10-20mm F4-5.6 EX DC HSM at 12mm
ISO 200
Exposure: 180 Sec
Aperture: F11
Filter: B+W ND110 + Lee 0.6 Hard Grad
Edited with:
Apple Aperture 3
Adobe Photoshop CS5.1 with Viveza 2 plugin
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Installation Views
Lasting Images
October 14, 2013–January 10, 2014
5th Ave at 89th St
New York City
Lasting Images brings together a selection of works from the Guggenheim’s collection of global contemporary art, featuring pieces by Simryn Gill, Sheela Gowda, Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, Mona Hatoum, and Doris Salcedo. These works suggest that truly lasting images—those that are most affecting—rarely convey direct messages. Instead, the pieces in this exhibition use ephemeral materials to define spaces for the viewer that invite open-ended contemplation.
Photo: David Heald
To learn more, visit www.guggenheim.org/lastingimages.
Lasting into the evening that cold December day, ice remained on the bushes and twigs at Cooper Mountain Nature Park, Beaverton, Oregon,
Best seen against the night sky.
Description: In a long Chandra exposure lasting over seven days, Centaurus A reveals the effects of the supermassive black hole at its center. Opposing jets of high-energy particles are seen extending to the outer reaches of the galaxy, and numerous smaller black holes in binary star systems are also visible. In this image, low-energy X-rays are colored red, intermediate-energy X-rays are green, and the highest-energy X-rays detected by Chandra are blue. The dark green and blue bands running almost perpendicular to the jet are dust lanes that absorb X-rays, created when Centaurus A merged with another galaxy perhaps 100 million years ago.
Creator/Photographer: Chandra X-ray Observatory
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, which was launched and deployed by Space Shuttle Columbia on July 23, 1999, is the most sophisticated X-ray observatory built to date. The mirrors on Chandra are the largest, most precisely shaped and aligned, and smoothest mirrors ever constructed. Chandra is helping scientists better understand the hot, turbulent regions of space and answer fundamental questions about origin, evolution, and destiny of the Universe. The images Chandra makes are twenty-five times sharper than the best previous X-ray telescope. NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., manages the Chandra program for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory controls Chandra science and flight operations from the Chandra X-ray Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Medium: Chandra telescope x-ray
Date: 2008
Persistent URL: chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2008/cena/
Repository: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Gift line: NASA/CXC/SAO
Accession number: centaurusa
On this cold and bustery day in the Twin Cities, the 1980s Amtrak logo, The Pointless Arrow stands proud still on the old Midway Amtrak station located on Transfer Rd in what some would feel like an industrial park off of University Avenue. The depot also is located next to the Minnesota Commercial's Midway Yard, the only place on any of the Amtrak system where they use a transfer railroad's track for a route, going 10 MPH.
Transfer Rd
Saint Paul, MN
01/12/2016
We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know. - W. H. Auden
Installation Views
Lasting Images
October 14, 2013–January 10, 2014
5th Ave at 89th St
New York City
Lasting Images brings together a selection of works from the Guggenheim’s collection of global contemporary art, featuring pieces by Simryn Gill, Sheela Gowda, Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, Mona Hatoum, and Doris Salcedo. These works suggest that truly lasting images—those that are most affecting—rarely convey direct messages. Instead, the pieces in this exhibition use ephemeral materials to define spaces for the viewer that invite open-ended contemplation.
Photo: David Heald
To learn more, visit www.guggenheim.org/lastingimages.
Whilst a number of airlines have been willing to withdraw passenger Boeing 747's as if they have gone out of fashion... As legacy carriers have been willing to replace their eldest passenger jets with newer and more fuel-efficient examples, the veterans are being sent to the scrap yard for parting out.
British Airways has for years held one of the largest fleet of Boeing 747's, at its height it operated 57 Boeing 747-400's, however that total has reduced to 39 and the number is set to further reduce over the coming years as British Airways takes delivery of more Airbus A350-1000's, Airbus A380's and Boeing 787-10's.
Although British Airways fleet of Boeing 747-400's stood at 57, the company did have an additional order for 4 more Boeing 747-400's prior to 1998, that order was ultimately cancelled for 16 Rolls-Royce powered Boeing 777-200ER's.
Currently, British Airways operates a fleet of 39 Boeing 747-400's, that number is expected to reduce to 36 by the end of 2016.
Bravo Yankee Golf Golf became the last Boeing 747-400 delivered new to British Airways in April 1999 and she is powered by 4 Rolls-Royce RB211-524H engines. Since delivery, she has carried Rendezvous World Tail, featuring Chinese calligraphy representing Hong Kong, before being repainted in October 2003 with BA's corporate Chatham Dockyard Union Jack livery. She has recently been refurbished to Super Hi-J configuration since April 2016, part of a programme to convert 18 from High-J configuration
Boeing 747-436 G-BYGG on final approach into Runway 27L at London Heathrow (LHR) on BA192 from Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW), Texas.