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I took this photograph on the South Island of New Zealand of two penquins posed in a tender, affectionate manner. Thus, the title, "Penquins in Love."
Tagged by a wonderful photographer and friend, Rhythm:
16 things about myself:
1) Thinks that Vladimir Nabokov is one of the greatest writers which English language has ever produced.
2) Until now, black is his favorite color.
3) Intermittently suffers from a short term memory loss. Has lost his bicycle several times before remembering where he left it.
4) Likes snow but not snowfall.
5) Is amazingly good at forgetting names but remembering faces.
6) Thinks bantering comes to him naturally. Once he gets to know someone (i.e. gather initial required data to start bantering), it could be fun ;-).
7) Has tried several times to start and maintain a blog but has never made it.
8) In some cultures 8 is an auspicious number. But what does this has to do with me?
9) Firmly believes that in a movie/novel, more important than a story is the manner in which it is unrolled to the viewer/reader. Take “Pulp Fiction” as an example. Well, this doesn’t apply to most Bollywood movies, since they lack both.
10) Is trying very hard to learn French. Mais, quel dommage! :-)
11) Loves Italian cuisine, apart from Indian, offcourse!
12) Firmly believes that inventor of the microwave should be laureated with a Nobel Prize. Probably a peace prize for his invention which has quelled several social unrests ;-)
13) Wada Pav and Misal Pav are two of his favorite snacks.
14) Loves to watch Roger Federer play Tennis.
15) Thinks that there’s probably no God.
16) One of his favorite lines is:
"Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. "But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed."
Original Version:
"Les hommes ont oublié cette vérité, dit le renard. Mais tu ne dois pas l’oublier. Tu deviens responsable pour toujours de ce que tu as apprivoisé. "
-- The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Rapallo, Ligurien 2002
Noblex Pro 6/150 UX,
Ilford Delta 400
Scan vom Negativ 5x12 cm mit Braun FS120
A thirsty (and hungry) doe pauses to eye me drifting down the Wisconsin in my kayak. She had been eating water plants a few minutes previously, then after this, began to browse bushes overhead.
Excerpt from www.insauga.com/niagara-on-the-lake-memorial-clock-tower-...:
The structure, which was unveiled on June 3, 1922, almost wasn’t built in the first place.
It was originally proposed to honour the town’s residents who fought in World War I but never made it home. The idea was so highly regarded that a Toronto architect, Charles M. Wilmott, was enlisted to design it.
A 27-person committee dedicated to its construction was quickly formed and included the future town mayor, J.M. Mussen. The committee calculated it could be built for $8,000, not much these days but a king’s ransom at the time.
However, not everyone was onboard with the plan. The mayor at the time, Jame Maphee, said the town would be better off spending $10,000 to build a hospital. Other residents wanted to build a new high school or a new sports park.
In the end, on June 28, 1920, they settled on the matter in the most democratic manner possible. They put it to a town-wide vote.
In the end, 316 people voted for the clock tower, 237 voted for a new hospital, 72 voted for a much smaller, more traditional memorial while just four people voted for the sports park and three voted for the high school.
When the clock tower was unveiled in 1922, Niagara-on-the-Lake quickly earned the distinction of being the only town or city in Canada with a war memorial in the middle of its main street.
Excerpt from www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=10406:
Description of Historic Place
Located on the main street of Niagara-on-the-Lake, the Niagara District Court House National Historic Site of Canada is a handsome stone building in a classical style. Its classicism is expressed through its symmetry and classical details, such as the central pediment, porch with columns, window surrounds, and stringcourses. The surviving interior spaces reflect the multiple uses for which this building was designed.
Heritage Value
The Niagara District Court House was designated a national historic site of Canada in 1980 because:
-designed by the prominent Toronto architect, William Thomas, in the fashionable Neoclassical style, it is an excellent example of a mid-19th century multipurpose civic structure.
The Niagara District Court House marks a step in the transition to large and more sophisticated civic buildings after 1850. Its greater scale resulted from the inclusion of a wide range of functions. In addition to the courtroom, offices and jail, the Niagara District Court House also included a town hall and market. The structure was designed by William Thomas, an architect of national standing, adept at several classical styles.
Character-Defining Elements
Key elements contributing to the heritage value of this site include:
- its Neoclassical design, as expressed by its mass, symmetry, stone façade, and classical details, such as the corner quoins, pediment, stringcourses, and porch with columns;
- its complex of interior spaces, which support its original multifunctionalism;
- its surviving interior finishes;
- its close relationship with the main street of the town and with its neighbouring buildings.
Me at the opening of my new exhibition "homeland" in the bar of one of my best friends last sunday. My long-time colleague Rainer Lehmann took the picture for the local press. He said, I won't get any more beautiful ...
Due to Corona there are no people. But prints are selling well.
This is the original text from the local newspaper;
Freising - When the early morning light casts a golden yellow shimmer over the landscape in the Ampertal, photographer Siegfried Martin is out and about with his camera. In the glittering dew, leaves, bark structure forms of tree bark and old wood or the rippling waves that the wind lays on the surface of the oxbow lakes along the Amperauen are presented. The large-format photos that the artist is currently showing in the Q-Bar in the Upper Old Town appear almost three-dimensional. He has been “on new, exciting paths” in recent years, says Martin. He has not abandoned analog work with his Leica M or the Hasselblad medium format cameras. However, his love for photography has been revived in recent years with the new generation of Nikon cameras. He was inspired by the “focus shift” function, which automatically varies the distance setting on his Nikon Z7 and thus improves the depth of field. He is turning more and more to minimalist motifs “on the doorstep”. On walks or bike rides through moss and Amperauen around Zolling, he can discover the "abundance" of nature. Stopping and listening to the splash of water or the wind rubbing through the grass and leaves - that is what is ultimately just as important to him as pressing the shutter release button. “The motif finds me,” says Martin. “Suddenly I stand in front of something and know that it is.” On numerous photo trips through China and Tibet off the main tourist routes in the last few decades, the photographer recalls. "There were endlessly spectacular landscapes that you had dreamed of for years and suddenly you were standing in front of it". But he also finds the beauty of nature “on a small scale” in the Ampertal, within a radius of just ten kilometers from his home town of Zolling. He calls the exhibition “Homeland” because home has become more and more important in recent years, as Martin muses. “Maybe it also depends on how old you are,” he says and laughs. The love of photography is revived every day. The motifs in the cycle of nature are simply beautiful and harmonious. Regardless of whether in winter the last leaf on the tree above the water of the Amper lights up in the morning light or pussy willows draw a surreal picture like a vortex of dancers: The pictures are touching and fascinating. mam
Die traditionelle Rheinufersäuberung 2022 des Baumberger Allgemeinen Bürgervereins BAB war heute mit über 90 Teilnehmern ein großer Erfolg. Alles war Coronakonform organisiert. Es wurde in kleinen Gruppen der Uferbereich und Rheinauen vom Müll und Unrat befreit.
The traditional Rhine bank clean-up of the Baumberger Allgemeiner Bürgerverein BAB was a great success today with over 70 participants. Everything was organised in a Corona-compliant manner. In small groups, the shore area and the Rhine meadows were cleared of rubbish and litter.
The much photographed lump of palagonite, pillow basalt, rhyolite, tuff, sundry sediments and ejecta widely known as Lómagnúpur (674 m) overlooking the Ring Road at Skeiðarársandur, South Iceland.
This end of the mountain dominates the road from both directions and Lómagnúpur is considered the home of the giant Járngrímur.
The mountain's top is about 1.5 million years old and the formation has seen all manner of terraforming - vulcanimsm, glaciation and raised seabed/sea cliff erosion.
Previously offered up a horrible mono of this scene and while this one is in colour - I've also replaced the mono in the Iceland album :-)
Fuji X-T1, XF18-55/2.8-4, 1/480th sec at f/10, ISO 400.
If you look closely, you will see the somewhat ghostly shape of a deer in the lower right of this photo. And, as always, she is staring right at me. I have never yet come upon a deer in the woodlands that was not fully aware of my presence long before I knew of theirs. And I happen upon quite a few. I am inevitably surprised, they never are...looking upon me in a manner that seems to say, "Could you please get on with your business so that I may get on with mine?" They are great starers, these deer, and I have stood and watched them watch me for extended periods of time before one or the other of us decides it is time to move on. There is something quite special about this experience of being "sized-up" by a wild creature -- of having the opportunity to share a moment in which you realize you are being examined and judged -- and that decisions about you will be made based upon that judgement by them. I am happy to say that no deer, after interchanges of this sort, has bolted in fear, apparently having rightfully determined that I present no threat...particularly gratifying at this time of year when many of my species present a very serious threat indeed.
Männer mit Duschhauben aus Kunststoff auf dem Kopf -
Men with shower caps made of plastic on the head
Yosemite Valley, California
The title is inspired by the concluding paragraph of “The Origin of Species” (1859) by Charles Darwin:
“It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent upon each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us [….] Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.”
This is one of a mated pair of Bald Eagles that have a currently active nest in NW Oregon.
This Eagle had an issue with a 3rd adult Bald Eagle that was showing too much interest in the nesting area. The Eagle "noise" was constant while the 3rd Eagle was present.
I loved the "noise"!
Firstly, because it's such a wonderful series of calls. But, the best part (for me) of having the Eagles expressing their concern in a verbal manner is that they have their mouths open so much, which leads to some really cool head shot opportunities.
I was lucky enough to be able to take pics for several hours, on two separate days, photographing these Bald Eagles and their two chicks.
Horrible lighting conditions on the second day led to the awful solid white backgrounds, but the Eagles didn't seem to mind the poor lighting, hahaha.
What a wonderful experience!
My daughter and I are both hooked on nature but seldom get to spend a full day together enjoying it. An exception was this day at Hatchie Wildlife Refuge where we observed all manner of birds, bugs and flowers. A very memorable day in many respects.
Mallard / anas platyrhynchos. Straw's Bridge, Derbyshire. 27/01/21.
'THE LADY'S NOT FOR TURNING.'
Standing with her feet partially submerged in melting ice water on my local lake in January, 2021.
The female Mallard really enjoyed rays of afternoon winter sunshine on her body, in a very relaxed manner. She remained shut-eyed, despite the comings, goings and raucous interactions of other water birds close by her.
BEST VIEWED LARGE.
90 bis 2 Tongren Rd., Shanghai
In November last year, it was a newly opened sex shop, which soon closed down.
The gradual weakening of the Commonwealth at the end of the 18th century led to the conquest, division, and colonization of the country by three neighboring powers – Russia, Prussia, and Austria. Lacking a strong army, the country was unable to implement reforms and resist the three invaders. For Poland, the 123-year period of partition began, when the country disappeared from maps and existed solely in the hearts and minds of Poles.
A scene symbolically depicts this event. In an elegant, classicist palace, three monarchs, leaning over a map, establish the new borders. This is a reference to period illustrations that depicted the partitions in a similar manner.
The third part of the series will cover the period from the loss to the regaining of independence. During these difficult times, Poles repeatedly took up arms, trying to break the chains imposed by force. This period contributed significantly to building national identity, numerous works of art were created, Poles also achieved a lot in a field of science.
St Maarten and St Martin - Caribbean - Dutch and French
What is the difference between St Maarten and St Martin?
During the 17th Century there was intermittent rivalry between the Dutch and French for control of the island and its salt mines. In 1648 the two countries signed the Treaty of Concordia which divided the island in two and urged its people to live in a cooperative manner.
Saint Martin (French: Saint-Martin; Dutch: Sint Maarten) is an island in the northeast Caribbean Sea, approximately 300 km (190 mi) east of Puerto Rico. The 87-square-kilometre (34 sq mi) island is divided roughly 60:40 between the French Republic (53 km2, 20 sq mi)[1] and the Kingdom of the Netherlands (34 km2, 13 sq mi),[2] but the two parts are roughly equal in population. The division dates to 1648. The southern Dutch part comprises Sint Maarten and is one of four constituent countries that form the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The northern French part comprises the Collectivity of Saint Martin and is an overseas collectivity of the French Republic. As part of France, the French part of the island is also part of the European Union.
I’m having a hard time believing this one is real. Not even five minutes after heading out to photograph my first new snowflakes of the season, I discover this nearly perfect beauty. This is the reason why I head out to photograph new snowflakes even though I have many hundreds from previous years that I haven’t had the time to edit. View large!
Slow, stable growth gives is broad-branched snowflakes, and this one shows some signs of spinning in a fairly stable way. This is the only way I can explain the side-branches always being larger on their right side when looking up at them from the center. If this crystal was rotating in a clockwise manner, then more water vapour would be available to build up the branches like this, but it wouldn’t have an appreciable impact on the order branches where the building blocks were more abundant. Just a theory!
The center ties it all together, and it’s very hard to explain. The large hexagon is sitting above the lower plate (you can see underlying features of the snowflake below it), and the darker dot in the center is usually a symbol of a start as a “capped column” type of snowflake. It’s very rare for this to result in a very large hexagon in the center, but more like the smaller one in the middle, gem-like in appearance… So where did these two hexagons come from? I don’t know.
I suppose the mystery would be easier to solve if I had the opportunity to flip it over and photograph the opposite side, but as soon as the photos were taken it caught a whisper of wind and disappeared.
I’m going to say that this snowflakes makes it into my all-time top 10 list. I contemplated saving it for later in the series, but if this is how the season starts I’m sure I’ll have plenty more gems to share as winter takes hold. :)
If you’d like to know more about the science of snowflakes with an exhaustive and comprehensive tutorial on how to photograph and edit these little gems, check out my book Sky Crystals:
Hardcover: www.skycrystals.ca/book/
eBook: www.skycrystals.ca/ebook/
Other things you might be interested in:
2018 Ice Crystals Coin from the Royal Canadian Mint featuring my snowflakes: www.mint.ca/store/coins/coin-prod3040427
“The Snowflake” print, taking 2500 hours to create: skycrystals.ca/product/poster-proof/
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The Kent block is attached to its companion apartment building on Court St. by walkways with metal railings. Records indicate that this apartment building may have been built several years later than the actual Kent Block, although not later
than 1900. Although the front facade of the apartment block is faced with red brick like that of the Kent Block, the side walls are constructed of cream brick. There is a pressed metal cornice at the top of the building that features brackets, modillions, dentils, and swags. A brick corbelled frieze runs under the cornice. Two sets of two-story oriel bays decorate the upper stories. They are covered by pressed metal in a manner similar to those of the Kent Block. Windows are single light double hung sashes except for those between the bays. There are two round arched windows there that are decorated with segmentally arched lintels and stone sills. A stone belt course runs across the front facade of the building separating the first and upper floors. The first floor features simple entrances and windows.
Both the Kent Block and its companion apartment building housed many flats. The flats of the commercial block were called the LaVista Flats, while those on Court St. were known as the Court Street Flats. The businesses housed in first floor of the Kent Block itself included grocery stores until 1911 and the Janesville Floral Company until 1924 when they presumably moved to their new quarters south of this building. The building currently houses apartments and an office supply store.
Purtroppo certe livree pubblicitarie non riesco a farmele piacere, un conto sono le commemorative, ma questa sponsorizzata dai wafers proprio no.
Unter sich, 1982-08, 57x34 cm - 67x44 cm (22x17 inch)
Öl auf Hartplatte
Eine Familie, BMW-Isetta und andere Oldtimer
A family, BMW Isetta and other classic cars
I like to remember my past time painting.
Then I painted in naturalistic and realistic manner,
very narrative in detail, thoughtful topic, subtly, but also with some humor.
Existing, found places have been changed in the studio and painted to fit the desired statement.
Gern erinnere ich mich an meine Malerei vergangener Zeit.
Ich malte damals in naturalistisch-realistischer Weise,
sehr erzählerisch im Detail, im Thema nachdenklich, hintergründig, aber auch mit etwas Humor.
Existierende, gefundene Stellen wurden im Atelier verändert und passend zur gewünschten Aussage gemalt.
Highest position: 117 on Saturday, December 21, 2013
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Silvestre, Catalan, Vilallonga de Ter, his voice and sympathy fill the space of the Pastoret bar-restaurant and the most popular square in the village.
... I’m not so religious in traditional manner, not serving any of world religious confessions but respect them all. I’m just human been and I believe in God, who created all our world, all around us and, of course, us - humans as well as other live creatures... Unfortunately it’s not so much of justice in our world, that’s why the fate of any person and especially of all population can’t leave us indifferent...
Barrio Santa Crus... It’s the most picturesque and delightful part of the Seville, with narrow winding cobbled streets and whitewashed houses, where you can sit outside a bar, enjoy some tapas and watch the world go by, or wander through centuries-old gardens and relax on beautiful tiled benches. Up to the end of 15th century it was the Jewish quarter; some of the churches were originally synagogues. The covered passageway heading off the Patio de Banderas (part of the Alcázar) called the Judería...
An ancient tradition places Jews in Seville at the time of the destruction of the first Temple (586 BCE). In fact, several influential Jewish families of Seville claim to be descendants of King David. Amazingly, there is even some speculation that Jews settled in this region as far back as the 11th century B.C.E. The source of this belief rests on the identification of Seville with the distant port of Tarshish which is mentioned in the Bible... There is no doubt that a Jewish settlement existed during the period of Visigothic rule in the peninsula. During the Ummayad Caliphate, Seville prospered and the Jews who lived there were engaged in commerce, medicine and the dyeing industry. Under the Almoravides, the Jewish community in Seville was big enough, but as in other parts of Andalusia, the Almohade conquest brought death and destruction. When Seville was reconquered by the Christians (1248), the Jews welcomed them with open arms. They presented Ferdinand III with a key to the city, which has been preserved in the cathedral treasury. For a period of time, the Jewish community was revived. Though they were taxed heavily, they received real estate, and good land for farming. Those who participated in annual fairs and were granted freedom to trade and exemption from taxes. Gradually, as the reconquest succeeded, and the Christians no longer needed money, or help from the Jews, live became increasingly more difficult. An important turning point came with the anti-Jewish activities of archdeacon Martinez, who was the confessor to the child king's mother. Though he was repeatedly ordered to stop his diatribes, Martinez succeeded in arousing passionate hatred among the masses. In 1391, disaster struck in Seville. The entire Jewish community was nearly destroyed and the synagogues were converted to churches. Historians say many Jews converted to Christianity on the spot to save their lives, while women and children were sold as slaves. Once vibrant community never recovered and along with the other Jews of Andalusia, they were exiled in 1483...
Spots of the sunshine, cat on the roof screwing up one’s eyes, bright flowers everywhere - calm, peaceful atmosphere... All is not history in the Juderia. This is a neighborhood which pulses with life. As it was for the Jews for 1000 years, it is still a residential area. The Barrio of Santa Cruz, which encompasses much of the ancient Jewish Quarter, is considered one of the poshest neighborhoods of Seville and only names of the streets and “J” on the walls of houses remind about the people who lived here long time ago...
Much better viewed large View On Black
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Have a super duper holiday season
Remember your tossed out the door Xmas tree can be used as a bird, squirrel and rodent feeder..leave the strung popcorn on it and add all manner of scraps...stale baguettes, bagelahs, pita chips, lumps of beef fat from the rib roast, dried fruit and nuts (the trail mix yah saw the dog lick when no one was looking). Then sometime in July annoy the trashmen by putting it out for pick up....
Dummy says: Everyone ready for the Solstice today? Got the tree up and riddled with dusty ornaments? Cat busy deconstructing the whole thing? The dog farting quietly from eating fruitcake?
Wearing:
Cargo Hipster Glasses
Miamai Reka 'hawk
Lode Head Piece
RO - Antlers
DE Design Corset
Miamai Juenesse Pantaloons
Salute Gloves - Coal
DRD Zombie apocalypse Watch
PFC Pauldrons
Blitz Arm Bands
DRD Nerd Neck Wrap
Blindspot - Memory Cable
DRD - Nerd Mesh Goggles
Vicious Clobberin Stick - Wastelands Mfg.
Training Dummy - Sandusky Kayvon
No idea what sort of game this was...
On Explore on 19th August 2016; #166
Scanned slide, photograph taken in mid-July 1991
A mini filly born about a week before Butters.
BeautifullyScene Images by Karen A. Stannard
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