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It was "originally sited on the upper-story portion of the east wall of the palace at Knossos in Crete". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull-Leaping_Fresco
Now in the Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Heraklion, Crete
Year: 1450 BC
Dimensions: 78.2 cm × 104.5 cm (30.8 in × 41.1 in)
(Wikipedia)
The palace of Knossos was "the ceremonial and political centre of the Minoan civilization and culture." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knossos
"Bull-leaping is thought to have been a key ritual in the religion of the Minoan civilization in Bronze Age Crete. As in the case of other Mediterranean civilizations, the bull was the subject of veneration and worship. Representation of the Bull at the palace of Knossos is a widespread symbol in the art and decoration of this archaeological site." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull-leaping
The Minoan civilization is named after the mythological first king of Crete Minos, who is said to be the son of Zeus and Europa, a Phoenician woman, who had been abducted by Zeus in form of a bull.
It is that time of year again of heavy rain. It was nice to capture the Salmon upstream migration agan this year and the enevitable leaing over the falls.
It was an opporunity fo test the Sigma 100-400mm F5-6.3 DG that Sigma has loaned to me as well as the 16-28 f2.8, 24mm f2 and 35mm f2.
Lucky enough to get this picture of a model at The Bund in Shanghai looking towards the financial district with a sunrise through the haze
Atlantic Salmon on the River South Tyne this morning leaping up a waterfall/weir near the small town of Haltwhistle in Northumbria, UK
I spent many chilly wet hours last week trying to capture our local Salmon leaping. Such a great spectacle of nature.
I got back to playing in the water. This is a three drop water droplet. I used blue food coloring, a thickener in the water, three flashes with one with a reddish filter. The two blue drops you see are from a dirty Pluto Trigger.
With today being 'Leap Day' this photo seemed appropriate...
A Coquerel's Sifaka mother and her young baby bounce across a path to reach a tree.
On my walk this morning three young hares started to play in front of me. Initially they were the usual 20 metres away. time passed and two of them got closer and closer. After a few more minutes one of them decided to come right up to me. For about a minute or so this particular youngster decide he would come right up to my legs, had a sniff and even sat up putting his front legs up! He was so close at this point it was too close to actually focus! In total I enjoyed the encounter for 12 minutes - checking the timings of the first and last frames I took. It really was a wonderful 12 minutes, never have I experienced anything similar and I doubt whether it will ever happen again. Simply a joyous and wonderful time!
Leap year 2020. A humpback whale breaches out of the water on my birthday in June a few years back :-)!
I think most of us that are into landscapes at the moment are posting archive shots.
Still on a lighter note it would be the last day of February today if it wasn't for this damn leap year. I mean what is the point? Its cheated me out of a Saturday birthday this year. And what about those that were born on this day? Do they not have birthdays?
Anyway this song I heard on the radio just now cheered me up, made me think of driving along the road in the sun. Although in my case more likely to be the A38 rather then Route 66! Have a great weekend everyone x
Sometimes you just have to take a chance and make a big leap - I found this zippy Chipmunk on the same scree slope where I saw several Pika.
66m high Panther Falls, Northern Banff National Park, Alberta. Self- portrait.
Land: 30 seconds, f/2.8, ISO 5000- 1 hour after sunset
Sky: 63x5 minutes (5 hr 20 mins total), f/2.8, ISO 1250
Leaping menhaden present varying angled surfaces to the light of the nascent sunrise as they flee the deadly pincers of a Tri-colored Heron feeding on Armand Bayou.
Two bottle-nosed dolphins soar through the air in Fiordlands National Park, New Zealand. These two were part of a pod of at least 25 individuals that cavorted together for several minutes. They were maybe working in unison to corral a school of fish for their consumption. To their right you can see trails in the water left by other dolphins as they skim along on the surface. They would pick up speed, sudden disappear below the surface and then explode from the water; so maybe it's all just for fun.
I had a week away, part of which I spent back in the Blue Mountains, around 100 km west of Sydney.
A place of staggering beauty and wonder. Such peace, solace and joy when there. The silence, the quiet. The deep love, appreciation and immersion in nature.
This is part of the view of the Grose Wilderness as seen from a bush track near Govetts Leap lookout.
Grose Wilderness is named for Lieutenant Governor Major Francis Grose. In 1793 he sent William Paterson on an expedition to see if the river provided a navigable route through the Blue Mountains.
The Blue Mountains Area is a UNESCO World Heritage site, consisting of 1 million hectares of national park and wilderness dominated by temperate eucalypt forest. The area supports an incredible range of biodiversity.
There are six First Nation groups that have connection to the Country of the Area, for thousands of years tied as it is with Dreaming and ancestry. These are the Darug, Gundungurra, Wiradjuri, Wanaruah, Darkinjung and Tharawal peoples.
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Der F355 bot gegenüber seinem Vorgänger 348 nicht nur einen spürbaren Technologiesprung in Form von beispielsweise Fünfventiltechnik, elektronisch verstellbarem Fahrwerk und später dem wahlweise lieferbaren F1-Getriebe, sondern auch die hohen Fahrleistungen und ein ausgeglichenes Leistungsniveau machten den Mittelmotor-Zweisitzer vom „Einsteiger-Ferrari“ zum attraktiven Sportwagen.
Compared to its predecessor 348, the F355 not only offered a noticeable leap in technology in the form of, for example, five-valve technology, electronically adjustable chassis and later the optionally available F1 transmission, but also the high performance and a balanced level of performance made the mid-engine two-seater from the "entry-level Ferrari" an attractive sports car.
Squirrel visits to the garden have been few and far between for the last few weeks, mainly due to the availability of hazelnuts in the local area. However, this week has seen the return of two individuals one of which has worked out how to use the new feeder and the 'requirement' to leap from a strategically placed old branch. I imagine I will have some fun trying to capture the perfect 'in-flight' images once I have worked out which camera settings work best.
This 'pre-launch' shot will do for now as the camera (or more likely, the user) didn't manage to keep the focus in the right place once the squirrel was airborne.