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Literately shot from my back door, although technically the front door. Cottages are different from the city in that the door you use when you arrive is considered the back door. The door you use to view the lake is the front door...hence Lake front!
Whatever, I saw this from my kitchen window and the light was amazing. The wind/rain storms we had on Wednesday and Thursday have taken this scene away, so glad I caught it when I did.
"One day they will come to tell you
how they believe in you, they love you
and how they want you.
Keep your mind on the child,
lock the door,
they are lying..
Someday gnostics will come,
educated and literate,
to convince you.
Keep your mind on the child,
lock the door,
they will sell you...
And when the times come
that the candle will be extinguished
in the storm,
defend the child.
Because if the child survives,
there's hope. "
Taken @ Quoted Memories
Walker Evans, photographer, June 1935
Walker Evans (November 3, 1903 – April 10, 1975) was an American photographer and photojournalist best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) documenting the effects of the Great Depression. Much of Evans' work from the FSA period uses the large-format, 8×10-inch (200×250 mm) view camera. He said that his goal as a photographer was to make pictures that are "literate, authoritative, transcendent".
Many of his works are in the permanent collections of museums and have been the subject of retrospectives at such institutions as the Metropolitan Museum of Art or the George Eastman Museum.
Original picture:
www.loc.gov/resource/fsa.8c52038/
Library of Congress, USA
© Walker Evans, 1936
© Alain Girard, Restored & Colorized, 2023
The latter refers to reconstructing the photograph by exploring the deep structure of the image--which involves the application of practical knowledge and creative insights and relies on the cultural or historical consciousness of the reader. Looking is the visual routine of readers, seeing is the visual practice of the literate. The professional or artistic disposition of photographers reflects a commitment to the image as an expression of ideas or feelings that are beyond words.
Hanno Hardt
HGGT!
japanese camellia, 'Spring's Promise', sarah p duke gardens, duke university, durham, north carolina
Look into
Loftholdingswood
The sesame store
Bluebells shine
Through the dark
I'm living again
I’m looking at me
I died on a cross …. and now I'm the boss
Cathal Coughlan died just a few days ago on May 18th 2022, at the age of 61 following a long illness.
He was among the foremost singers and songwriters of his generation, his formidable body of work stretching over more than 40 years from Microdisney and the Fatima Mansions to the series of solo albums and collaborations that followed.
Known principally for his involvement in rock, he saw himself as belonging to the wider tradition of chanson: lyric-driven songs. His commercial success was modest, partly due to his ambivalence about the music business and partly because of his uncompromising approach; but his sonorous baritone and his songs – intelligent, literate, emotionally complex and seldom other than searing – made him a figure not just influential and respected but also, by many, revered, with the 1985 release The Clock Comes Down the Stairs, Microdisney’s artistic peak, widely regarded as among the greatest albums ever released.
Criminally underrated by the mainstream media …. but hugely appreciated and loved by those willing to listen.
Listen ….
Loftholdingswood - Microdisney - PLAY
Walker Evans (November 3, 1903 – April 10, 1975) was an American photographer and photojournalist best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) documenting the effects of the Great Depression. Much of Evans' work from the FSA period uses the large-format, 8×10-inch (200×250 mm) view camera. He said that his goal as a photographer was to make pictures that are "literate, authoritative, transcendent".
Many of his works are in the permanent collections of museums and have been the subject of retrospectives at such institutions as the Metropolitan Museum of Art or the George Eastman Museum.
Photographer, Walker Evans, 1936
Original picture:
hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8c52450
Library of Congress, USA
© Walker Evans, 1936
© Alain Girard, Restored & Colorized, 2023
when Herons build their nest....I noticed an unusual smile on their face, they seem more jolly anyway :) It is truly fascinating to watch them... I initially thought that they were just picking dead branches suspended in the trees for their nest but they literately break branches from the trees. They are real acrobats as they have to stay balanced on a relatively small branch using their long skinny legs while pulling and cracking the branch they want to take to the nest. Some herons are amazingly skilled, they are in and out of the tree in no times with a branch while others fly in, and have to hop from one branch to another and then another until they finally get something they are happy with... some herons leave with nothing... I wonder what their partner think of that performance when they return to the nest beak empty.
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The photo literate of you will recognise Lyme Regis iconic breakwater/harbour wall. But when you are stood there waiting for a sunrise, with no other photographers in sight, it gets you thinking. Why is it called the Cobb. The answer is still a mystery to me. The word cob can mean a building material and as this structure was first mentioned in writing in the 13th century, it might be linked. Cobb often refers to round things, think cob loaves, crusty cob rolls, think corn on the cob or cob nuts. People named cob may have a forebear who was rotund or corpulent. Was the structure named after a patron or an architect? Lyme had royal patronage and thus attracts the Regis to its name.
The photo was taken in the blue hour and has been colour corrected. We are looking east but the cloud covered any sunrise colour.
Oh and those not sure of the title to have a "cob on" is to be moody or petulant!
Fontana del Tritone, Rome
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La Fuente del Tritón se erige en el Quirinal (Roma, Italia), cerca de la Fontana de Trevi (41°54′13″N 12°29′18″E). Fue realizada por el genial maestro del Barroco italiano, Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Esta espectacular fuente está ubicada en el centro de la Plaza Barberini, cerca de la entrada al Palacio Barberini (que hoy alberga la Galería de Arte Antigua), que Bernini ayudó a rediseñar para su patrón, Maffeo Barberini, que se había convertido en papa con el nombre de Urbano VIII.
Queda a sólo unas manzanas de la obra de Borromini San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane. En la fuente, que Bernini ejecutó en travertino en 1642–43, el dios marino Tritón aparece lanzando un chorro de agua a través de una caracola, sentado sobre una enorme concha sostenida por cuatro delfines que entrelazan la tiara papal con llaves cruzadas y las abejas heráldicas de los Barberini en sus colas escamosas. El Tritón, la primera de las fuentes de Bernini, se erigió para proporcionar agua del acueducto de Acqua Felice, que Urbano había restaurado, en una celebración dramática. Fue el último gran encargo de su gran mecenas.
El triunfal pasaje de Ovidio en Las metamorfosis Libro I, evocando un control similar al dios sobre las aguas y describiendo el secado tras el diluvio universal, que Urbano le dio a Bernini para ilustrarlo, era bien conocido para todos los contemporáneos romanos ilustrados:
Ya Tritón, a su llamada, aparece
Por encima de las olas; luce ropa tiria;
Y en su mano una trompeta retorcida lleva.
El soberano le pide que inspire pacíficos sones,
Y dé a las olas la señal para retirarse.
Su retorcida concha coge; cuya estrecha abertura
Crece poco a poco hasta hacerse grande,
Entonces sopla; el toque con sonido redoblado,
Recorre el amplio circuito del mundo entero:
El sol lo oyó el primero, en su temprano este,
Y encontró los ecos vibrantes en el oeste.
Las aguas, escuchando el rugir de la trompeta,
Obedece el mandato, y abandona la orilla.
La Fuente del Tritón es una de las evocadas en la obra de Ottorino Respighi Fontane di Roma. La leyenda aplicada a la Fontana de Trevi se ha extendido también a esta: que cualquier visitante que lanza una moneda al agua tiene garantizado su regreso a Roma.
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Fontana del Tritone, Rome
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The fountain was executed in travertine in 1642–43. At its centre rises a larger than lifesize muscular Triton, a minor sea god of ancient Greco-Roman legend, depicted as a merman kneeling on the sum of four dolphin tailfins. His head is thrown back and his arms raise a conch to his lips; from it a jet of water spurts, formerly rising dramatically higher than it does today. The fountain has a base of four dolphins that entwine the papal tiara with crossed keys and the heraldic Barberini bees in their scaly tails.
The Tritone, the first of Bernini's free-standing urban fountains, was erected to provide water from the Acqua Felice aqueduct which Urban had restored, in a dramatic celebration. It was Bernini's last major commission from his great patron who died in 1644. At the Triton Fountain, Urban and Bernini brought the idea of a sculptural fountain, familiar from villa gardens, decisively to a public urban setting for the first time; previous public fountains in the city of Rome had been passive basins for the reception of public water.
Bernini has represented the triton to illustrate the triumphant passage from Ovid's Metamorphoses book I, evoking godlike control over the waters and describing the draining away of the Universal Deluge. The passage that Urban set Bernini to illustrate, was well known to all literate Roman contemporaries:
Already Triton, at his call, appears
Above the waves; a Tyrian robe he wears;
And in his hand a crooked trumpet bears.
The sovereign bids him peaceful sounds inspire,
And give the waves the signal to retire.
His writhen shell he takes; whose narrow vent
Grows by degrees into a large extent,
Then gives it breath; the blast with doubling sound,
Runs the wide circuit of the world around:
The sun first heard it, in his early east,
And met the rattling echoes in the west.
The waters, list'ning to the trumpet's roar,
Obey the summons, and forsake the shore.
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I totally fell in love with the new male only event, Monsieur Chic. It’s just amazing and riiight up my alley in terms of male fashion. It’s classy , dandy, so posh! I always have a lot of fun trying to create a story around the character gives it personality through scenery or accessories. This fancy Sir is a writer, someone skilled with words and highly literate. Perhaps a Nobel? Anyway, if you fancy and you know it, grab your purse and run to Monsieur Chic!
.... Pooh Pooh the idea that bears can't read ;o)
For the Smile on Saturday challenge: "bonnie bears"
The daily bedtime gathering - sometimes it is a story from "Winnie the Pooh" or "The house at Pooh Corner", even sometimes "The Wind in the Willows" (they aren't Bearist about subject matter!) But here they are getting serious, and addressing deep issues of philosophy, as expressed by Pooh bear ;o)
Cliche and Smile on Saturday: Here
Still Life Compositions: Here
南鯤鯓代天府正門對聯
「代天府，理陰陽，但願善遷惡改，一道修真消末劫」
「巡狩間，分黑白，非因紙獻錢燒，百般貢媚免災殃」
典故出處: wwww.nkstemple.org.tw/sites/2010/2012_web/2012_web_C_1.htm
When the Five Lords arrived to make their first inspection tour of Jiayi in 1820, the County Magistrate sent men to block the procession’s path. Both sides incensed, neither was willing to give way to the other. It was at this point that Lord Lifu, through the mouth of an illiterate farmer, informed the official that he was obstructing heavenly righteousness and that persistence would only magnify his arrogance. The farmer then proceeded to write in the dirt with a hoe: ‘Heaven’s Terrestrial Inspectors manage the Yin and the Yang. We look to move the good and change the wicked; to augment the true and extinguish ill-fortune.’ The peasant, then demanded the magistrate provide an appropriately literate response – which he, stunned, proved unable to do. The farmer then continued:
’Our inspection tour discerns black from white. Disasters are averted by neither paper offerings nor burning money; not either by ritual sacrifice.’
The magistrate, thus humbled, stepped down from his palanquin and begged forgiveness.
Much later, Lord Lifu’s reprimand to the magistrate was redrafted by Tainan scholar Luo Hsiu-hui as a couplet. The couplet was rendered on stone pillars in characters rendered personally by Yao Pin of Hubei Province. The pillars are now displayed prominently near the temple’s main doors.
In Olinda, one of the first Brazilian cities, manifestations of popular art of European and African cultural heritage.
The man sells "Cordel literature" a popular and inexpensively printed booklets or pamphlets containing folk novels, poems and songs. They are produced and sold in street markets and by street vendors in Brazil, mainly in the Northeast.
In Europe, in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the troubadours sang poems to the population, which, for the most part, was not literate. With the creation of printing methods, cordel was born, becoming popular through the exhibition of papers hanging on ropes — or "cordéis", as they are called in Portugal.
Alternative shot of Shinjuku Big Girder or Oo-gaado (新宿大ガード). It is part of the serial uploads of Summer in Tokyo.
Please note the difference of Japanese trans-literation between the signage in the upper-left and the title of the photo. I believe the latter represents better the actual pronunciation.
Small green signage in the right is the entrance to Omoide Yokochou (思い出横丁) where small restaurants and drinking places are squeezed into a narrow alley.
Shinjuku Oo-gaado is where the Oume-kaidou (青梅街道) road goes under the girder of Yamanote (山手), Chuou (中央) and Saikyou (埼京) railway lines. Beyond the girder is famous or notorious Kabuki-chou (歌舞伎町).
Trains come every few minutes. I should have waited for one to come on the girder to shoot a better photo.
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August 8, 2014 - Northwest of Kearney Nebraska
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Late evening on hot and humid August evening in Nebraska. Warnings popped up about an hour before this storm was even visible to the eye over the horizon at sunset.
Spectacular Colors emitting from this stacked supercell. Cloud to Cloud Lightning shooting off every few seconds made this a storm chasers dreamscape.
Gear in hand that evening I traveled north out of Odessa Nebraska. Sat about 7 miles to the southwest of Amherst Nebraska. This storm was moving almost due south, southeast, meaning it was coming right at my location.
It would be a Historic Event to capture! Now remastered to the original color with no enhancements. Enjoy!
*** Personal Note ***
January 2020
It has been awhile since I have come back to this set of images.
Original Set of Images can be found here on Flickr
This set of images is and still has been the most stolen set of images I have on the web on several platforms. Literately millions of views with no link back to my work or my photostream. Probably why I haven't revisited this set til now.
Just to let you know, those images were WAY over processed, over saturated etc. Yes I'm guilty. But it was the way I did things back then. I don't anymore.
Every year I go back and edit a few sets of images that deserve to be re-edited or reprocess from raw. I'm also adding several images from this set I didn't share last time around.
Beautiful storm photography from my best of 2014 Collection!
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August 8, 2014 - Northwest of Kearney Nebraska
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Late evening on hot and humid August evening in Nebraska. Warnings popped up about an hour before this storm was even visible to the eye over the horizon at sunset.
Spectacular Colors emitting from this stacked supercell. Cloud to Cloud Lightning shooting off every few seconds made this a storm chasers dreamscape.
Gear in hand that evening I traveled north out of Odessa Nebraska. Sat about 7 miles to the southwest of Amherst Nebraska. This storm was moving almost due south, southeast, meaning it was coming right at my location.
It would be a Historic Event to capture! Now remastered to the original color with no enhancements. Enjoy!
*** Personal Note ***
January 2020
It has been awhile since I have come back to this set of images.
Original Set of Images can be found here on Flickr
This set of images is and still has been the most stolen set of images I have on the web on several platforms. Literately millions of views with no link back to my work or my photostream. Probably why I haven't revisited this set til now.
Just to let you know, those images were WAY over processed, over saturated etc. Yes I'm guilty. But it was the way I did things back then. I don't anymore.
Every year I go back and edit a few sets of images that deserve to be re-edited or reprocess from raw. I'm also adding several images from this set I didn't share last time around.
Beautiful storm photography from my best of 2014 Collection!
*** Please NOTE and RESPECT the Copyright ***
Copyright 2014
Dale Kaminski @ NebraskaSC Photography
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This image may not be copied, reproduced, published or distributed in any medium without the expressed written permission of the copyright holder.
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August 8, 2014 - Northwest of Kearney Nebraska
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All Images are also available for...
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Late evening on hot and humid August evening in Nebraska. Warnings popped up about an hour before this storm was even visible to the eye over the horizon at sunset.
Spectacular Colors emitting from this stacked supercell. Cloud to Cloud Lightning shooting off every few seconds made this a storm chasers dreamscape.
Gear in hand that evening I traveled north out of Odessa Nebraska. Now about 2 miles to the east of Amherst Nebraska. This storm was strengthening and moving almost due south, southeast, meaning it was coming right at my location.
It would be a Historic Event to capture! Now remastered to the original color with no enhancements. Enjoy!
*** Personal Note ***
January 2020
It has been awhile since I have come back to this set of images.
Original Set of Images can be found here on Flickr
This set of images is and still has been the most stolen set of images I have on the web on several platforms. Literately millions of views with no link back to my work or my photostream. Probably why I haven't revisited this set til now.
Just to let you know, those images were WAY over processed, over saturated etc. Yes I'm guilty. But it was the way I did things back then. I don't anymore.
Every year I go back and edit a few sets of images that deserve to be re-edited or reprocess from raw. I'm also adding several images from this set I didn't share last time around.
Beautiful storm photography from my best of 2014 Collection!
*** Please NOTE and RESPECT the Copyright ***
Copyright 2014
Dale Kaminski @ NebraskaSC Photography
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This image may not be copied, reproduced, published or distributed in any medium without the expressed written permission of the copyright holder.
#ForeverChasing
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estranged bedfellows ;-)
Goodman Ace (1899 – 1982), born Goodman Aiskowitz, an American humorist, radio writer and comedian, television writer, and magazine columnist
His low-key, literate drollery and softly tart way of tweaking trends and pretenses made him one of the most sought-after writers in radio and television from the 1930s through the 1960s
HPPT! HBW!! Truth Matters! Lies have Consequences! Resist the Liar in Chief and his Cabinet of Buffoons!!
saucer magnolia, 'Sundew', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
August 8, 2014 - Northwest of Kearney Nebraska
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Late evening on hot and humid August evening in Nebraska. Warnings popped up about an hour before this storm was even visible to the eye over the horizon at sunset.
Spectacular Colors emitting from this stacked supercell. Cloud to Cloud Lightning shooting off every few seconds made this a storm chasers dreamscape.
Gear in hand that evening I traveled north out of Odessa Nebraska. Sat about 7 miles to the southwest of Amherst Nebraska. This storm was moving almost due south, southeast, meaning it was coming right at my location.
It would be a Historic Event to capture! Now remastered to the original color with no enhancements. Enjoy!
*** Personal Note ***
January 2020
It has been awhile since I have come back to this set of images.
Original Set of Images can be found here on Flickr
This set of images is and still has been the most stolen set of images I have on the web on several platforms. Literately millions of views with no link back to my work or my photostream. Probably why I haven't revisited this set til now.
Just to let you know, those images were WAY over processed, over saturated etc. Yes I'm guilty. But it was the way I did things back then. I don't anymore.
Every year I go back and edit a few sets of images that deserve to be re-edited or reprocess from raw. I'm also adding several images from this set I didn't share last time around.
Beautiful storm photography from my best of 2014 Collection!
*** Please NOTE and RESPECT the Copyright ***
Copyright 2014
Dale Kaminski @ NebraskaSC Photography
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This image may not be copied, reproduced, published or distributed in any medium without the expressed written permission of the copyright holder.
#ForeverChasing
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One of the many ways to blow time while at port in Cozumel. I have an image with one of those $50 stickers on my forehead but decided I should be worth a little more than that.
The real reason I'm posting this image is because two of my grand children saw it and made me promise I would put it on Flickr. They are a 7 year old girl and a 5.5 year old boy. They both can read very well and are quite computer literate. The have their own Mac and look at Grandpa's pictures on Flickr, so I now have no choice but to put it up. Please be tolerant! -:))
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This buck decided to cross the street...so fun to watch the buck literately flow through the vegetation. Second of two consecutive frames
August 8, 2014 - Northwest of Kearney Nebraska
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Late evening on hot and humid August evening in Nebraska. Warnings popped up about an hour before this storm was even visible to the eye over the horizon at sunset.
Spectacular Colors emitting from this stacked supercell. Cloud to Cloud Lightning shooting off every few seconds made this a storm chasers dreamscape.
Gear in hand that evening I traveled north out of Odessa Nebraska. Now about 2 miles to the east of Amherst Nebraska. This storm was strengthening and moving almost due south, southeast, meaning it was coming right at my location.
It would be a Historic Event to capture! Now remastered to the original color with no enhancements. Enjoy!
*** Personal Note ***
January 2020
It has been awhile since I have come back to this set of images.
Original Set of Images can be found here on Flickr
This set of images is and still has been the most stolen set of images I have on the web on several platforms. Literately millions of views with no link back to my work or my photostream. Probably why I haven't revisited this set til now.
Just to let you know, those images were WAY over processed, over saturated etc. Yes I'm guilty. But it was the way I did things back then. I don't anymore.
Every year I go back and edit a few sets of images that deserve to be re-edited or reprocess from raw. I'm also adding several images from this set I didn't share last time around.
Beautiful storm photography from my best of 2014 Collection!
*** Please NOTE and RESPECT the Copyright ***
Copyright 2014
Dale Kaminski @ NebraskaSC Photography
All Rights Reserved
This image may not be copied, reproduced, published or distributed in any medium without the expressed written permission of the copyright holder.
#ForeverChasing
#NebraskaSC
August 8, 2014 - Northwest of Kearney Nebraska
Prints Available...Click Here
All Images are also available for...
stock photography & non exclusive licensing...
Late evening on hot and humid August evening in Nebraska. Warnings popped up about an hour before this storm was even visible to the eye over the horizon at sunset.
Spectacular Colors emitting from this stacked supercell. Cloud to Cloud Lightning shooting off every few seconds made this a storm chasers dreamscape.
Gear in hand that evening I traveled north out of Odessa Nebraska. Now about 2 miles to the east of Amherst Nebraska. This storm was strengthening and moving almost due south, southeast, meaning it was coming right at my location.
It would be a Historic Event to capture! Now remastered to the original color with no enhancements. Enjoy!
*** Personal Note ***
January 2020
It has been awhile since I have come back to this set of images.
Original Set of Images can be found here on Flickr
This set of images is and still has been the most stolen set of images I have on the web on several platforms. Literately millions of views with no link back to my work or my photostream. Probably why I haven't revisited this set til now.
Just to let you know, those images were WAY over processed, over saturated etc. Yes I'm guilty. But it was the way I did things back then. I don't anymore.
Every year I go back and edit a few sets of images that deserve to be re-edited or reprocess from raw. I'm also adding several images from this set I didn't share last time around.
Beautiful storm photography from my best of 2014 Collection!
*** Please NOTE and RESPECT the Copyright ***
Copyright 2014
Dale Kaminski @ NebraskaSC Photography
All Rights Reserved
This image may not be copied, reproduced, published or distributed in any medium without the expressed written permission of the copyright holder.
#ForeverChasing
#NebraskaSC
Morning in the Great Sand Hills, and the story of last night's activity is written in sand - soon to be erased by wind. Unfortunately I am only semi-literate in this language. I think the long track was made by an insect, perhaps some beetle. The little paw prints are rodent-like, and I wish they were from the rare Ord's Kangaroo Rat, which lives in the sand hills... but they are not. Tiny, they could also be weasel tracks, but I am puzzled by the placement and lack of differentiation between hind prints and fore prints. Perhaps some small mammal was walking on its hands to fool me. Although I was mainly interested in visual design here, I'd like to know what was going on!
Reality check: what would life be if we knew everything? Maybe it's the mystery that keeps us engaged. The known: my gear and technique. Macro lens, tripod, parallel plane focusing, shooting straight down, morning light, lots of fun!
Photographed in the Great Sand Hills Ecological Reserve, near Sceptre, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission © 2018 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
Took this last weekend, when I took a trip up to Glencoe, which is roughly an hour and a half away from my home. I left my house about 10 o'clock. When we got there it was pitch black, and the weather was TERRIBLE! It was freezing temperatures and if that wasn't bad enough the winds must have been hitting around 50mph so I literately spent 5mins setting this up and fired off 2 shots hoping for the best and got back in the car! My fingers were stinging like mad thought it was a waist of time until I got home and turns out I really like the way it turned out!
Taken on the same night as:
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how visually literate are you??? LOL
These are the tops and bottoms of colour felt pens/ colour markers!
Sometimes I just have some fun in the studio and play with some props...
A bit more info here:
Lee Newman patented a felt-tipped marking pen in 1910.
A marker pen, fineliner, marking pen, felt-tip marker, felt-tip pen, flow marker, texta (in Australia), sketch pen (in India) or koki (in South Africa), feutre (in FRANCE),is a pen which has its own ink-source and a tip made of porous, pressed fibers such as felt.
I wish you all a very good day and thanks for all your kind words, time, comments and likes. Very much appreciated. Magda, (*_*)
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Colourful, backs, tops, "Felt Pens", triangle, design, graphic, minimalism, "conceptual art", square, colour, black-background, "Magda indigo"
Yesterday I had a very ruff day at work. When I came in one of my workers informed me that one of our Patients went into a seizure so I rushed to his side. As per his chart the Family didn't wish to have him recuscitated or sent to the hospital so I kept monitoring him since the Doctors said there is nothing more they can do because he wouldn't survive the operation that would be needed to help him. But after the seizure still didn't end after a full hour I knew something is not right and so I called the Family to inform them about his condition. The wife was very distressed and started crying and arrived an hour later at our facility. It just broke my heart seeing her rush with her walker into the facility literately running to his bedside, grabbing his hand and kissing him from top to bottom. Then she pulled out a little bottle looked at me and asked me if I know what holy water is and she started dripping it over his head and just pleading to Jesus:"Jesus please safe him, Jesus please safe him, Jesus please safe him"!! It just broke my heart!! I have already assisted with a lot of deaths and have seen it all but this really got to me. She stayed by his side all night long and was holding his hand tightly, he knew she was there. You could just feel the love in the room. Unfortunately he didn't make it and passed the following morning at 7:15am. But it just made me think about how pointless sometimes fights with your loved once are and that you should never go to bed if you are still angry at each other. What would she give just to be held one more time by his arms, or to be kissed or to have talked to him one last time!!! Is it really that bad that he didn't do something or she did something? Does it really matter, would it really matter if you would know that this is your last day with that Person!?
I hope he is in a better place now and is looking down on his wife in peace!!!
Please go tell all your loved once how much you love them!!!!!
August 8, 2014 - Northwest of Kearney Nebraska
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Late evening on hot and humid August evening in Nebraska. Warnings popped up about an hour before this storm was even visible to the eye over the horizon at sunset.
Spectacular Colors emitting from this stacked supercell. Cloud to Cloud Lightning shooting off every few seconds made this a storm chasers dreamscape.
Gear in hand that evening I traveled north out of Odessa Nebraska. Sat about 7 miles to the southwest of Amherst Nebraska. This storm was moving almost due south, southeast, meaning it was coming right at my location.
It would be a Historic Event to capture! Now remastered to the original color with no enhancements. Enjoy!
*** Personal Note ***
January 2020
It has been awhile since I have come back to this set of images.
Original Set of Images can be found here on Flickr
This set of images is and still has been the most stolen set of images I have on the web on several platforms. Literately millions of views with no link back to my work or my photostream. Probably why I haven't revisited this set til now.
Just to let you know, those images were WAY over processed, over saturated etc. Yes I'm guilty. But it was the way I did things back then. I don't anymore.
Every year I go back and edit a few sets of images that deserve to be re-edited or reprocess from raw. I'm also adding several images from this set I didn't share last time around.
Beautiful storm photography from my best of 2014 Collection!
*** Please NOTE and RESPECT the Copyright ***
Copyright 2014
Dale Kaminski @ NebraskaSC Photography
All Rights Reserved
This image may not be copied, reproduced, published or distributed in any medium without the expressed written permission of the copyright holder.
#ForeverChasing
#NebraskaSC
August 8, 2014 - Kearney Nebraska
Prints Available...Click Here
All Images are also available for...
stock photography & non exclusive licensing...
Late evening on hot and humid August evening in Nebraska. Warnings popped up about an hour before this storm was even visible to the eye over the horizon at sunset.
Spectacular Colors emitting from this stacked supercell. Cloud to Cloud Lightning shooting off every few seconds made this a storm chasers dreamscape.
Gear in hand that evening I traveled north out of Odessa Nebraska. Now about 2 miles to the east of Amherst Nebraska. This storm was strengthening and moving almost due south, southeast, meaning it was coming right at my location.
It would be a Historic Event to capture! Now remastered to the original color with no enhancements. Enjoy!
*** Personal Note ***
January 2020
It has been awhile since I have come back to this set of images.
Original Set of Images can be found here on Flickr
This set of images is and still has been the most stolen set of images I have on the web on several platforms. Literately millions of views with no link back to my work or my photostream. Probably why I haven't revisited this set til now.
Just to let you know, those images were WAY over processed, over saturated etc. Yes I'm guilty. But it was the way I did things back then. I don't anymore.
Every year I go back and edit a few sets of images that deserve to be re-edited or reprocess from raw. I'm also adding several images from this set I didn't share last time around.
Beautiful storm photography from my best of 2014 Collection!
*** Please NOTE and RESPECT the Copyright ***
Copyright 2014
Dale Kaminski @ NebraskaSC Photography
All Rights Reserved
This image may not be copied, reproduced, published or distributed in any medium without the expressed written permission of the copyright holder.
#ForeverChasing
#NebraskaSC
Ladli — which in Indian languages (Hindi and Urdu) means ‘beloved daughter.’
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Photo: Firoz Ahmad Firoz (Doosra Dashak's Adolescent Girls literacy camp, Rajasthan)
"Worst of all, violence against women and girls continues unabated in every continent, country and culture. It takes a devastating toll on women’s lives, on their families and on society as a whole. Most societies prohibit such violence -- yet the reality is that, too often, it is covered up or tacitly condoned." (UN SECRETARY-GENERAL in International Women’s Day 2007 Message.)
“Almost every country in the world still has laws that discriminate against women, and promises to remedy this have not been kept.” (UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on the eve of International Women's Day 2008)
According to one United Nations estimate, 113 to 200 million women are “demographically missing” from the world today. That is to say, there should be 113 to 200 million more women walking the earth, who aren’t. By that same estimate, 1.5 to 3 million women and girls lose their lives every year because of gender-based neglect or gender-based violence and Sexual Violence in Conflict.
In addition to torture, sexual violence and rape by occupation forces, a great number of women and girls are kept locked up in their homes by a very real fear of abduction and criminal abuse. In war and conflicts, girls and women have been denied their human right, including the right to health, education and employment. “Sexual violence in conflict zones is indeed a security concern. We affirm that sexual violence profoundly affects not only the health and safety of women, but the economic and social stability of their nations” –US Secretary of State, Condoleeza Rice, 19 June 2008 (Read more about UN Action against Sexual Violence in Conflict www.stoprapenow.org/ ).
Millions of young women disappear in their native land every year. Many of them are found later being held against their will in other places and forced into prostitution. According to the UNICEF ( www.unicef.org/gender/index_factsandfigures.html ),Girls between 13 and 18 years of age constitute the largest group in the sex industry. It is estimated that around 500,000 girls below 18 are victims of trafficking each year. The victims of trafficking and female migrants are sometimes unfairly blamed for spreading HIV when the reality is that they are often the victims.
According to the UNAIDS around 17.3 million, women (almost half of the total number of HIV-positive) living with HIV ( www.unaids.org ). While HIV is often driven by poverty, it is also associated with inequality, gender-based abuses and economic transition. The relationship between abuses of women's rights and their vulnerability to AIDS is alarming. Violence and discrimination prevents women from freely accessing HIV/AIDS information, from negotiating condom use, and from resisting unprotected sex with an HIV-positive partner, yet most of the governments have failed to take any meaningful steps to prevent and punish such abuse.
United Nations agencies estimated that every year 3 million girls are at risk of undergoing the procedure – which involves the partial or total removal of external female genital organs – that some 140 million women, mostly in Asia, the Middle East and in Africa, have already endured.
We can point a finger at poverty. But poverty alone does not result in these girls and women’s deaths and suffering; the blame also falls on the social system and attitudes of the societies.
India alone accounts for more than 50 million of the women who are “missing” due to female foeticide - the sex-selective abortion of girls, dowry death, gender-based neglect and all forms of violence against women.
Since the late 1970s when the technology for sex determination first came into being, sex selective abortion has unleashed a saga of horror in India and other Asian countries. Experts are calling it "sanitized barbarism”. Worryingly, the trend is far stronger in urban rather than rural areas, and among literate rather than illiterate women, exploding the myth that growing affluence and spread of basic education alone will result in the erosion of gender bias. The United Nations has expressed serious concern about the situation.
The decline in the sex ratio and the millions of Missing Women are indicators of the feudal patriarchal resurgence. Violence against women has gone public – whether it is dowry murders, the practice of female genital mutilation, honour killings, sex selective abortions or death sentences awarded to young lovers from different communities by caste councils, rapes and killings in communal and caste violence, it is only women’s and human rights groups who are protesting – the public and institutional response to these trends is very minimal.
Millions of women suffer from discrimination in the world of work. This not only violates a most basic human right, but has wider social and economic consequences. Most of the governments turn a blind eye to illegal practices and enact and enforce discriminatory laws. Corporations and private individuals engage in abusive and sexist practices without fear of legal system.
More women are working now than ever before, but they are also more likely than men to get low-productivity, low-paid and vulnerable jobs, with no social protection, basic rights nor voice at work according to a new report by the International Labour Organization (ILO) issued for International Women’s Day 2008. Are we even half way to meeting the eight Millennium Development Goals?
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Unite To End Violence Against Women!
Say No To Sex Selection and Female Foeticide!!
Say No To Female Genital Mutilation!!!
Say No To Dowry and Discrimination Against Women!!!!
Say Yes To Women’s Resistance !!!!!
Educate & Empowered Women for a Happy Future !!!!!!
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August 8, 2014 - Northwest of Kearney Nebraska
Prints Available...Click Here
All Images are also available for...
stock photography & non exclusive licensing...
Late evening on hot and humid August evening in Nebraska. Warnings popped up about an hour before this storm was even visible to the eye over the horizon at sunset.
Spectacular Colors emitting from this stacked supercell. Cloud to Cloud Lightning shooting off every few seconds made this a storm chasers dreamscape.
Gear in hand that evening I traveled north out of Odessa Nebraska. Now about 2 miles to the east of Amherst Nebraska. This storm was strengthening and moving almost due south, southeast, meaning it was coming right at my location.
It would be a Historic Event to capture! Now remastered to the original color with no enhancements. Enjoy!
*** Personal Note ***
January 2020
It has been awhile since I have come back to this set of images.
Original Set of Images can be found here on Flickr
This set of images is and still has been the most stolen set of images I have on the web on several platforms. Literately millions of views with no link back to my work or my photostream. Probably why I haven't revisited this set til now.
Just to let you know, those images were WAY over processed, over saturated etc. Yes I'm guilty. But it was the way I did things back then. I don't anymore.
Every year I go back and edit a few sets of images that deserve to be re-edited or reprocess from raw. I'm also adding several images from this set I didn't share last time around.
Beautiful storm photography from my best of 2014 Collection!
*** Please NOTE and RESPECT the Copyright ***
Copyright 2014
Dale Kaminski @ NebraskaSC Photography
All Rights Reserved
This image may not be copied, reproduced, published or distributed in any medium without the expressed written permission of the copyright holder.
#ForeverChasing
#NebraskaSC
4 year old Andreas (he of "watching the birds' pic) is computer literate. He's not into games. He expores the galaxy, the atlas, music & more. He introduced me to the fabulous Brit performer Beth Gibbons by directing me to Portishead's "roseland NYC live" video on YouTube. He was leaving Friday evening for Brazil for 6 months so I went to see him intending to take a few last pics. He was playing Hooverphonic on CD & had the visualizer going on the computer screen. When I pulled out my camera he said "Take a picture of that" pointing to the screen. These are some of the results. I thought it an inspired suggestion. I will miss him greatly. I may have to go to Brazil :-)
explore 118.......Thank you all who have visited these pics.
This dog answered to very many things, most often scraggs or scragzie, he was also called Juff. He was the best dog I ever had and reached the grand old age of 19. He was totally literate and understood every relevant word, gesture, movement and even spelling. He was my sweetheart!
Although gone for some years now he's not forgotten!
Haremhab as the scribe of the King,Reign of Tutankhamen,ca.1336-1323 BC,Dynasty 18,granodiorite (medium)
Haremhab was a royal scribe and general of the army under Tutankhamen.He continued to serve during the reign of Aya and eventually succeeded Aya as king.This statue was made before Haremhab ascended the throne.By having himself depicted as a scribe,Haremhab declares himself to be among the elite group of literate individuals,thus following a tradition more than a thousand years of depicting great officials as men of wisdom and learning.
He sits erect,but relaxed,his gaze slightly down.Across his knees he unrolls a papyrus scroll on which he has composed a hymn of the god Thoth,patron of scribes.A shell containing ink lies on his left knee.Over his left shoulder is a strap with a miniature scribe kit attached to each end.A figure of the god Amun is incised on his forearm,perhaps indicating a tattoo.
In this statue the unlined youthful face is belied by the potbelly and the folds of flesh beneath the breasts.These artistic conventions indicates that the subject had reached the age of wisdom.Although the scribal pose exhibits the frontal orientation common to all formal Egyptian statue,it may be appreciated more fully as a piece of sculpture in the round since it has no back pillar.The youthful face reflects the features seen on many statues depicting Tutankhamen and the style of this magnificent life-size sculpture retains some of the softness and naturalism of the earlier Amarna period while looking forward to later Ramesside art.
Traditional Korean folk dance mask, wood carving, showing the duplicitous face of the bureaucratic (literate, land-owning) elite. Fuji X-E2 plus Helios 44M-7 wide-open (backlit).
Composite image
Over lockdown i have taught myself how to blend images , it been a right struggle as im very not computer literate at all
the miklyway was a stacked image from my beloved Snowdonia
ive tried to be as close to actual alignment as i possibly can
We are most grateful to Richard ( www.flickr.com/people/68137880@N00/ ) for his warm testimonial.
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Ladli — which in Indian languages (Hindi and Urdu) means ‘beloved daughter.’
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LADLI - The loved one! campaign by SOCIAL GEOGRAPHIC
Photo: Firoz Ahmad Firoz
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"Worst of all, violence against women and girls continues unabated in every continent, country and culture. It takes a devastating toll on women’s lives, on their families and on society as a whole. Most societies prohibit such violence -- yet the reality is that, too often, it is covered up or tacitly condoned." (UN SECRETARY-GENERAL in International Women’s Day 2007 Message.)
“Almost every country in the world still has laws that discriminate against women, and promises to remedy this have not been kept.” (UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on the eve of International Women's Day 2008)
According to one United Nations estimate, 113 to 200 million women are “demographically missing” from the world today. That is to say, there should be 113 to 200 million more women walking the earth, who aren’t. By that same estimate, 1.5 to 3 million women and girls lose their lives every year because of gender-based neglect or gender-based violence and Sexual Violence in Conflict.
In addition to torture, sexual violence and rape by occupation forces, a great number of women and girls are kept locked up in their homes by a very real fear of abduction and criminal abuse. In war and conflicts, girls and women have been denied their human right, including the right to health, education and employment. “Sexual violence in conflict zones is indeed a security concern. We affirm that sexual violence profoundly affects not only the health and safety of women, but the economic and social stability of their nations” –US Secretary of State, Condoleeza Rice, 19 June 2008 (Read more about UN Action against Sexual Violence in Conflict www.stoprapenow.org/ ).
Millions of young women disappear in their native land every year. Many of them are found later being held against their will in other places and forced into prostitution. According to the UNICEF ( www.unicef.org/gender/index_factsandfigures.html ),Girls between 13 and 18 years of age constitute the largest group in the sex industry. It is estimated that around 500,000 girls below 18 are victims of trafficking each year. The victims of trafficking and female migrants are sometimes unfairly blamed for spreading HIV when the reality is that they are often the victims.
According to the UNAIDS around 17.3 million, women (almost half of the total number of HIV-positive) living with HIV ( www.unaids.org ). While HIV is often driven by poverty, it is also associated with inequality, gender-based abuses and economic transition. The relationship between abuses of women's rights and their vulnerability to AIDS is alarming. Violence and discrimination prevents women from freely accessing HIV/AIDS information, from negotiating condom use, and from resisting unprotected sex with an HIV-positive partner, yet most of the governments have failed to take any meaningful steps to prevent and punish such abuse.
United Nations agencies estimated that every year 3 million girls are at risk of undergoing the procedure – which involves the partial or total removal of external female genital organs – that some 140 million women, mostly in Asia, the Middle East and in Africa, have already endured.
We can point a finger at poverty. But poverty alone does not result in these girls and women’s deaths and suffering; the blame also falls on the social system and attitudes of the societies.
India alone accounts for more than 50 million of the women who are “missing” due to female foeticide - the sex-selective abortion of girls, dowry death, gender-based neglect and all forms of violence against women.
Since the late 1970s when the technology for sex determination first came into being, sex selective abortion has unleashed a saga of horror in India. Experts are calling it "sanitized barbarism”. The 2001 Census conducted by Government of India, showed a sharp decline in the child sex ratio in 80% districts of India. In some parts of the country, the sex ratio of girls to boys has dropped to less than 800:1,000.
It's alarming that even liberal states like those in the northeast have taken to disposing of girls. Worryingly, the trend is far stronger in urban rather than rural areas, and among literate rather than illiterate women, exploding the myth that growing affluence and spread of basic education alone will result in the erosion of gender bias. The United Nations has expressed serious concern about the situation.
Over the years, laws have been made stricter and the punishment too is more stringent now. But since many people manage to evade punishment, others too feel inclined to take the risk. Just look at the way sex-determination tests go on despite a stiff ban on them. Only if the message goes out loud and clear that nobody who dares to snuff out the life of a female foetus would escape effective legal system would the practice end. It is only by a combination of monitoring, education, socio-cultural campaigns, and effective legal implementation that the deep-seated attitudes and practices against women and girls can be eroded.
The decline in the sex ratio and the millions of Missing Women are indicators of the feudal patriarchal resurgence. Violence against women has gone public – whether it is dowry murders, the practice of female genital mutilation, honour killings, sex selective abortions or death sentences awarded to young lovers from different communities by caste councils, rapes and killings in communal and caste violence, it is only women’s and human rights groups who are protesting – the public and institutional response to these trends is very minimal.
Millions of women suffer from discrimination in the world of work. This not only violates a most basic human right, but has wider social and economic consequences. Most of the governments turn a blind eye to illegal practices and enact and enforce discriminatory laws. Corporations and private individuals engage in abusive and sexist practices without fear of legal system.
More women are working now than ever before, but they are also more likely than men to get low-productivity, low-paid and vulnerable jobs, with no social protection, basic rights nor voice at work according to a new report by the International Labour Organization (ILO) issued for International Women’s Day 2008. Are we even half way to meeting the eight Millennium Development Goals?
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Unite To End Violence Against Women!
Say No To Sex Selection and Female Foeticide!!
Say No To Female Genital Mutilation!!!
Say No To Dowry and Discrimination Against Women!!!!
Say Yes To Women’s Resistance !!!!!
Educate & Empowered Women for a Happy Future !!!!!!
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