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Île de Vancouver, Colombie-Britannique, Canada, Esquimalt Lagoon Migratory Bird Sanctuary area.
Merci énormément pour vos commentaires, ils sont toujours très appréciés.
Deuxième matinée sur cette merveilleuse Île et ma première balade à ce merveilleux endroit Esquimalt Lagoon. Rencontre magnifique avec deux superbe Cygnes. Voici le premier le Cygne Tuberculé dans une belle lumière.
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, Esquimalt Lagoon Migratory Bird Sanctuary area.
Thank you very much for your comments, they are always very much appreciated.
Second morning on this wonderful Island and my first walk to this wonderful place Esquimalt Lagoon. Magnificent encounter with two superb Swans. Here is the first Mute Swan in a beautiful light.
As much as I adore the liquid element, I reside at a place where it is is considered a rather scarce commodity and can hardly be located ... Thank God, at a distance of half an hour drive there lies the beautiful river of Nestos, whose flow is surrounded by amazing Green Nature and bridges, lots of bridges !!!
I love using my tripod and my ND (Neutral Density) filters over my lenses ... Their combined use enhances considerably the appropriate shutter speed for a balanced exposure, thus blurring water's flow and creating beautiful sharp images .... Environmental colors remain unaltered ...
I definitely suggest them for extensive use over around blue hours landscape photography ...
NIKON D90 DSLR with Nikon Nikkor 18 - 55 lens, Manual Mode, shutter speed 1 s, ISO 125, f 13, focal length 18mm, use of HOYA ND X 2 filter on top of which a HOYA ND X 8 filter was used, white balance set to cloudy weather , center weighted average metering mode, HDR made by only one original RAW shot, flash didn't go off, use of tripod ...
You can live years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even when it sheds needles all over your flowers or wakes you, dropping big cones onto your deck at still of night.
-Denise Levertov
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Thank you so much for viewing, faving, commenting my images
Thank you so very much for this surprise gift of cover. I'm so happy and extremely honored. Hugs and love 💗
" TIME TO GET OUT AND ABOUT MY FRIENDS !"
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SEE at Stodmarsh, Kent, in the Elder Wood, this Female was acting very brave, it was a pure joy to see on my first trip to a nature reserve with a camera.. Did not see a lot, but the bird song was amazing, and being back with nature, was heavenly , I will never take nature for granted, and this has taught me to appreciate it far more, and to thank God for every new day on this planet.
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THANK YOU FOR BEING A FRIEND, it means so much, in these difficult times. Please stay safe and well, enjoy the new week, Gods blessings go with you..................................Tomx.
I must say, I was shocked when I saw how nighttime changes an owl's face. While they become fearsome predators at night, they also become much more adorable to us humans, who have evolved to perceive large eyes as captivating and innocent.
In an effort to find area barred owls, I set out to a local park before sunrise and came upon this Eastern Screech Owl (Megascops asio) in the dark. This darkness was so inky and thick, in fact, that I could not see if he was in his hole or not, so trained my tripoded camera on the hole, manually focused, and finally saw him in the preview window! Shocked for sure by those massive pupils staring down at me, a frog (which he swallowed greedily prior to this photo and while I watched) in his talons!
Interestingly, owl eyeballs are not balls at all, but so well evolved for night vision that they have elongated into eye cones. For this reason, they cannot move their eyes in their sockets, and have evolved wildly-flexible necks. With their highly acute retinas replete with rods (the light and movement sensing eye bits), there wasn't much room for cones, and so most owls see limited or no color!
Thank (in advance) to you all, very much my friends!
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Grooming to start the day! Wild - at Aquidauana - MS.
Happy Wednesday! HBW!
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Thank you so much to the group♥♫Secondlife Carpe Diem♫ ♥ for selecting my picture as their group cover. Such an honor ♥😊♪🙉
📌This meant a lot to me💎
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so much like stars
filling the dark trees
that one could easily imagine
its reason for being was nothing more
than prettiness.
Mary Oliver
Thanks to Lenabem Anna for texture
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Please, don't fave and run, you will get yourself blocked.
Como sabéis me gusta mucho los flashes y el fondo negro a si que a este me lo he llevado a mi terreno y salio esta imagen
Much of my inspiration to embroider has come from Amanda Blake Soule's blog and her book, The Creative Family.
Wahrscheinlich ist zu viel Weihrauch während eines Gottesdienstes in der Kirche St. Johannes in Hammelburg der Grund, warum die Sonne, welche in die Kirche scheint, so schöne Strahlen entstehen lässt.
Probably too much of incense during a service in the church of St. John in Hammelburg is the reason why the sun, which shines into the church, produces such beautiful rays.
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Bol con fresas y una mandarina - Fruit 25.2.18
=Serie Still Life = Naturalezas muertas .
Composición Naturalezas muertas .Una manzana y dos caquis sobre superficie con papel suave blanco.
Efecto luz - luz natural ventana - interior en fondo claro ..
Muchas gracias por vuestra visita .
Agradezco a todos su seguimiento, atención, favoritas y comentarios…. Espero que os guste esta fotografía.
Moltes gràcies a tots per les vostres visites, atencions, comentaris i favorites. Espere que vos agrade aquesta fotografia.
I thank you all for your kind attention and comments follow….
Thank you very much to all for your visits. I hope you like this photograph.
Thank, Merci , Gracias..........
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“don’t worry so much, just think positive and do it with work and everything will be nice at the end."
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I can not say how much this means to me, thank you this is a great honor for me that you chose my picture as your group cover!
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A colorful medium sized raptor found pretty much across the country - though in varying frequency. In Goa and Karnataka, I sighted 1000's literally. The sky was full of them everywhere within 4-5 kms of a water body - and there were water bodies everywhere.
This is a male based on the colorful plumage and it was sitting atop this coconut tree and preening itself. This was shot in some mudflats and there were 1000's of waders. The bird would dive and scare the birds making the large flock of waders move up and around several times. I suppose it was tiring them out before making a capture.
Interestingly, on the tree behind the bird were two rare White Bellied Sea Eagles - think there was a nest there. That large eagle was a lifer for me, but couldn't manage anything more than a record shot.
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Drosera intermedia (Mittlere Sonnentau) struggling in a dried up bog at Wareham Forest in Dorset. Even the roots are visible as water levels have fallen quite drastically due to much reduced rain fall combined with high temperatures !
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A much darker edit than my previous mono edit... an unposed portrait.
A beggar shot on the streets of Bath. Bath is such a rich city as English cities go and yet still there is this pain and suffering.... this poor man's anguish was evident in his eyes.
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Flower of Scotland
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Park Hyo Shin - Memories resemble Love
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Memories Resemble Love
You are blowing
The wind inside my heart called "you"
As you have always done
you shook up my heart
and left me with
only memories
I lost my way
Because I only ever followed you
without any doubts
So I've come to this point
But you aren't here
on this unfamiliar road
Take them with you
Even our good memories
Without you
They will only be a burden to me
If I keep bringing them back up
My longing will only grow
I take one step back down
that path and stop again
Memories look like love
so I'll keep looking back on them
Because you're still there
I guess that's why it hurts
In case once, just once
you might look at me too
Today I wait again
What am I going to do now?
No matter how much I try to escape you
I can't even go a few feet away
Every day in the same place
Every day, with the same burden
I live each day
No matter where I look, I only see you
The eyes you looked at me with
keep troubling me
So I close my eyes again
and when I try to erase you
my firmly closed lips tremble
and the tears I held back flow
Memories look like love
so I'll keep looking back on them
Because you're still there
I guess that's why it hurts
In case once, just once
you might look at me too
Today I wait again
If I turn around one day
and you're looking at me
what should I do?
I won't be able to say anything
You know me well
Memories go with the wind
and someday they'll be scattered
Even though I cry, even though I try to shout
Even though I try to pretend
That person I can't forget
Today I wait again
You know me well
Not much going on this still warm morning at the "pond" but goofy coots chasing each other. I'm not sure why the trailing splash isn't sharper - shutter speed was certainly fast enough. I guess it's just DOF or lack thereof. The coot was definitely coming my way. With the Winter Olympics coming up, I thought it does somewhat resemble the speed skater.
Apparently there was too much trash on this property for the Junk Yard Dog. He ran off after seeing the squalor he would be forced to live in. This house is abandoned even though it’s condition doesn’t look too bad from the outside. There is the obligatory refrigerator on the porch. It still needs a sofa on the porch before it can be declared a Class A Historic Junk Yard Landmark. You will note that there are several trailers, a tractor, two boats and a camper. More than enough to label it as a Class B Landmark.
This is the last property off this rural road. This dirt driveway is private property, so I’d like to know where the power lines are going. HTT
I needed to create some space on my stream so i made this collective version of the banners. I cannot bear the thought of losing my friends comments so I tried to keep them here as much as possible. Thank you all so much for bearing with me ♥
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Wide Open | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld
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The northern cardinal, known colloquially as the redbird, common cardinal, red cardinal, or just cardinal, is a bird in the genus Cardinalis. Wikipedia
Scientific name: Cardinalis cardinalis
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Large grebe; much larger than Eared or Horned Grebe with a longer neck and bill. Reddish neck, silver cheek, and black cap distinctive in breeding plumage. In winter, look for smudgy brown neck, whitish throat, and long, mostly yellow bill. Juveniles have stripes on face. Breeds on lakes and marshes in northern North America, Europe, and Asia. Builds a floating nest of plant matter. Winters mainly on the ocean, sometimes gathering in large flocks. Dives to feed on fish. (eBird)
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Back in April we had an invasion of Red-necked and Horned Grebes. I managed to sort through the Horned Grebe photos and found one worthy of posting but the sheer number of Red-necked imaged just left me overwhelmed. I finally settled down to find one that I liked.
Shirley's Bay, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. April 2023.
waiting, and thinking and doing things right. So much of all this, so much of all living is patience and thinking.
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Probablemente sea una de las joyas de mayor valor que atesora Madrid, pero muchos españoles desconocen su existencia.
El templo de Debod es un regalo del presidente egipcio Gamal Abdel Nasser, en agradecimiento por la participación española en la campaña de la Unesco de los años 60 del siglo pasado para salvar los santuarios de la región de Nubia. Actualmente, el monumento está situado en la madrileña Montaña del Príncipe Pío, junto al Parque del Oeste.
El templo fue fundado en la Baja Nubia -región atravesada por el río Nilo entre Asuán, en Egipto, y Jartum, en Sudán-, 200 años antes de Cristo. El monumento, que fue ordenado construir por el rey kushita Adijalamani de Meroe, estaba dedicado al dios Amón de Debod, «padre de todos los vientos», y a Isis de Filé, «diosa de la maternidad». Posteriormente fue embellecido y reformado por los faraones de la dinastía ptoloméica.
En el año 30 a. C. Roma conquistó Egipto tras la victoria de Octavio Augusto sobre Marco Antonio y Cleopatra. El emperador Augusto añadió al santuario un «mammisi» o «capilla donde nacen los dioses», y más adelante el Imperio Romano continuó la ampliación y renovación del edificio, hasta que en el 635 d. C. se puso fin al culto pagano en la Baja Nubia. El templo fue clausurado y abandonado, y Occidente se olvidó de Egipto y de Nubia hasta el siglo XIX. Para entonces, nómadas, cristianos y musulmanes ya habrían pasado por el santuario.
Entre los años 1898 y 1902 se construyó la presa baja de Asuán, que sumergía el templo en las aguas del río Nilo durante nueve meses al año. Las inmersiones deterioraron la piedra del santuario, cuyos relieves perdieron sus brillantes colores. Durante medio siglo sólo se pudo visitar el monumento en los meses de verano, cuando emergía de las aguas. Pero el mayor peligro vendría 60 años después, cuando un total de 22 monumentos nubios se vieron amenazados por la construcción de la presa alta de Asuán (1960-1970), iniciativa de Nasser financiada por la Unión Soviética de Nikita Khrushchov.
El recién nacido lago Nasser amenazaba con ahogar bajo sus aguas todas estas joyas arquitectónicas. Por esta razón, el 8 de marzo de 1960 la Unesco llamó a las naciones de todo mundo a salvar los templo nubios. Un total de 50 países aportaron a la campaña 26 millones de dólares, y un gran número de particulares otros siete millones más. España aportó más de medio millón de dólares. En agradecimiento, Egipto donó el templo a España en 1968.
Algunos de los santuarios fueron llevados a las orillas del lago, pero cuatro, entre ellos el de Debod, fueron trasladados a otros tantos países que participaron en el plan de la Unesco. Así, el Templo de Taffa se encuentra en la actualidad en el Museo Nacional de Antigüedades de Leyden (Países Bajos), el de Ellesiya en el Museo Egipcio de Turín y el de Dendur en el Museo Metropolitano de Arte de Nueva York.
El templo de Debod fue el primero en ser rescatado. Como paso previo a su despiece, se realizó una descripción detallada del monumento, del que se tomaron numerosas fotografías y se copiaron sus inscripciones. El Servicio de Antigüedades Egipcias, en colaboración con una misión polaca, desmontó el santuario y trasladó los sillares a la Isla de Elefantina, frente a Asuán. Allí permanecieron una década.
En 1970, el templo bajó el río Nilo desde Elefantina hasta llegar a Alejandría, desde cuyo puerto cruzó el mar Mediterráneo en el barco «Benissa» hasta llegar a Valencia. Un total de 90 camiones trasladaron los 1.356 bloques en que se había dividido el santuario hasta la madrileña Montaña del Príncipe Pío, lugar histórico donde se produjeron los fusilamientos del 3 de mayo de 1808 durantew la Guerra de la Independencia y donde se levantaba el Cuartel de la Montaña, en el que comenzó el alzamiento militar de 1936 en la capital de España.
Una vez reconstruido, el monumento nubio fue inaugurado oficialmente dos años después, en 1972.
Fuente: Hemeroteca de ABC.
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