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Continuing my series of sunsets at the Ponce De Leon Park in southern Florida... This lone, defeated tree stump standing out in the water had caught my attention each time for the past couple of years when I visited the mangrove shoreline. I've taken pictures of it before but never quite captured what I was looking for. I guess it simply needed to be enhanced with an interesting sunset. ツ
I didn't realize that there was a flock of birds on the horizon (in the pink area) until I was processing this image. It's one of those things that you don't see when looking through the view finder.
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Smile on Saturday - theme of February 16th, 2019: Shades of Brown
Happy Smile on Saturday everyone :)
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Macro Mondays - theme of April 9th, 2018: Circles
My circular wooden incense stick holder - with a lot of different circles : ))
width of the picture: exactly 7,5 cm (2.95 inches)
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Macro Mondays - Thema: Kreise / Ringe
Smile on Saturday - Brauntöne
The Bridge of Arta is a stone bridge that crosses the Arachthos river in the west of the city of Arta in Greece. It has been rebuilt many times over the centuries, starting with Roman or perhaps older foundations; the current bridge is probably a 17th-century Ottoman construction.
The folk ballad "The Bridge of Arta" tells a story of human sacrifice during its building. From the ballad, a number of Greek proverbs and customary expressions arose, associated with interminable delays, as in the text of the ballad: "All day they were building it, and in the night it would collapse."
For 122 Pictures in 2022 #58 "Language of Flowers". I wasn't sure what language they speak (Petalan? Pollenesian?), so I just took one of a vase full of them just standing there quietly.
After recently unveiling the road map at a Downing Street briefing, Bo Jo said, “outdoor sporting activities could resume from 29 March 2021”. ⚽️🏈⛳️
As a result of this information the following statement has been released by a spokesperson on behalf of the Ladies Village Synchronised Botty Coughing Team.📖💨
The team are pleased to announce that training will recommence with immediate effect in preparation for the forthcoming summer tour.🏃♀️🏃♀️💨
Mrs Trebillcock (SNR) has been appointed team Captain for the 2021 season, this decision was unanimous after she was the inaugural winner of the 2019 South West of England freestyle botty coughing championships held on Salisbury Plain. 👵🏆💨💨💨
This accolade by Mrs Trebillcock received much praise by aficionados in botty coughing circles, a headline in The Telegraph read, “This achievement was not to be sniffed at”.📃👃
Mrs T held a Zoom meeting with the team to outline her plans for the new season. She informed them that they must restart (I said restart not!) training sessions in order to perfect their art, (there is no f in art).
Training will begin with emphasis on diet, which should ideally consist of high octane curries, beans, and mixed spices all washed down with copious amounts of Sharp’s Doom Bar.🎥🌶🌶🍳🍺🍺🍺
After the diet is up and running, so to speak, Mrs Trebillcock was of the opinion that muscle strengthening exercises will be a key factor in achieving tone, clarity and being able to hold a note. (Musical note Darling)
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Mrs Trebillcock did warn members that during the initial training sessions discipline would be the watch word as prior to lock down some of the ladies did get a bit carried away after a few pints and started lighting their botty coughs. On one occasion Polly Polkinghorne experienced a flash over and suffered slight structural damage to her nether regions, fortunately she still has a cheeky smile. 🍺🍺🍺💨💨💨🔥🔥🚒
That concludes this statement, if I get wind of any more developments we will break it to you.
This beach holds happy memories as I have taken both Lynne Berry and Mark Dixon here on different occasions. They may not have had the same experience I should add. 😱🙈😜
Thank you so much for viewing my photos, the comments and banter you leave are much appreciated.
Have a good weekend🍺🍺🍺🍷🍷🍷💃🐎🐷😎😂😂😂
The chapels of St Margaret and St Edmund in the north-east corner of Tewkesbury Abbey. Perfect for maximising the amount of chantry masses that could be said back in the day.
The Abbey Church of St Mary the Virgin, Tewkesbury – commonly known as Tewkesbury Abbey – is located in the English county of Gloucestershire. A former Benedictine monastery, it is now a parish church. Considered one of the finest examples of Norman architecture in Britain, it has the largest Romanesque crossing tower in Europe. Tewkesbury had been a centre for worship since the 7th Century. A priory was established there in the 10th Century. The present building was started in the early 12th Century. It was unsuccessfully used as a sanctuary in the Wars of the Roses. After the Dissolution of the Monasteries, it became the parish church for the town. George Gilbert Scott led the Restoration of the building in the late 19th Century.
The churchmanship of the Abbey is strongly Anglo-Catholic.
This description incorporates text from the English Wikipedia.
4:19 AM
Description later.
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Taken at the 4th of July parade in Fremont. I've been wanting to go for a few years now, and finally made it this year. There's been a Gatka float the past 3 years, I believe, and they won 1st place in the competition in 2006 as well as 2007 - don't know about this year.
This is one of the Pirates of Emerson. They looked so wicked! I've been hearing about the haunted house for years, and hopefully I'll actually be able to go this year =D Especially since I now have a buy one get one free coupon from them =p They were just standing around before the parade started, and whenever someone would walk by them, they'd sort of yell and jump at them - they scared the heck out of quite a few ladies ^_^ Aman made me cross the street so we wouldn't have to go past them haha
Dedicated to my late night partners in crime from this morning - you know who you are!
Leo Villareal. "Multiverse". National Gallery of Art. Washington DC.
Leo Villareal (born 1967 in Albuquerque, New Mexico) is an American artist living and working in New York City. His work combines LED lights and encoded computer programming to create illuminated displays.
Multiverse, the largest and most complex light sculpture created by Leo Villareal, may be experienced by visitors as they pass through the Concourse walkway between the East and West Buildings of the National Gallery of Art. The work features approximately 41,000 computer-programmed LED (light-emitting diode) nodes that run through channels along the 200-foot-long space.Installation took place between September and December 2008.
Sundown on the Lake of Menteith, Trossachs, Scotland. We only have one lake in Scotland, this is it. I have an old book from 1901 which calls this the 'Loch of Menteith'. For the conspiracy theorists, the renaming is probably part of a dastardly plot by An Sassanach (The English) to gradually rename all of Scotland's iconic landmarks. Whatever will be next? : )
The balance of nature is a theory that proposes that ecological systems are usually in a stable equilibrium or homeostasis, which is to say that a small change in some particular parameter (the size of a particular population, for example) will be corrected by some negative feedback that will bring the parameter back to its original "point of balance" with the rest of the system. It may apply where populations depend on each other, for example in predator/prey systems, or relationships between herbivores and their food source. It is also sometimes applied to the relationship between the Earth's ecosystem, the composition of the atmosphere, and the world's weather.
The Gaia hypothesis is a balance of nature-based theory that suggests that the Earth and its ecology may act as co-ordinated systems in order to maintain the balance of nature.
The theory that nature is permanently in balance has been largely discredited, as it has been found that chaotic changes in population levels are common, but nevertheless the idea continues to be popular. During the later half of the twentieth century the theory was superseded by catastrophe theory and chaos theory.
Predator-prey populations tend to show chaotic behavior within limits, where the sizes of populations change in a way that may appear random, but is in fact obeying deterministic laws based only on the relationship between a population and its food source illustrated by the Lotka–Volterra equation. An experimental example of this was shown in an eight-year study on small Baltic Sea creatures such as plankton, which were isolated from the rest of the ocean. Each member of the food web was shown to take turns multiplying and declining, even though the scientists kept the outside conditions constant. An article in Journal Nature stated; "Advanced mathematical techniques proved the indisputable presence of chaos in this food web ... short-term prediction is possible, but long-term prediction is not.
Although some conservationist organizations argue that human activity is incompatible with a balanced ecosystem, there are numerous examples in history showing that several modern day habitats originate from human activity: some of Latin America's rain forests owe their existence to humans planting and transplanting them, while the abundance of grazing animals in the Serengeti plain of Africa is thought by some ecologists to be partly due to human-set fires that created savanna habitats.
Possibly one of the best examples of an ecosystem fundamentally modified by human activity can be observed as a consequence of the Australian Aboriginal practice of "Fire-stick farming". The legacy of this practice over long periods has resulted in forests being converted to grasslands capable of sustaining larger populations of faunal prey, particularly in the northern and western regions of the continent. So thorough has been the effect of these deliberate regular burnings that many plant and tree species from affected regions have now completely adapted to the annual fire regime in that they require the passage of a fire before their seeds will even germinate.
Despite being discredited among ecologists, the theory is widely held to be true by the public. At least in Midwestern America, the "balance of nature" idea was shown to be widely held by both science majors and the general student population. In a study at the University of Patras, educational sciences students were asked to reason about the future of ecosystems which suffered human-driven disturbances. Subjects agreed that is was very likely for the ecosystems to fully recover their initial state, referring to either a ‘recovery process’ which restores the initial ‘balance’, or specific ‘recovery mechanisms’ as an ecosystems’ inherent characteristic
The Valley Of Fire was well named that day. It was 108º F... Of course, I'm not going to get any sympathy from my friends in the Phoenix area, where 108º is a cold spell. I was talking to my friend Wes (BamaWester) yesterday. His specialty is fog, and waterfalls, and foggy waterfalls. He was upset with me that I was posting fog photos, and waterfalls that were better than his. I'm sorry Wes. So... No more fog and waterfalls. I'm just going to post red sandstone, desert crap from now on!
After 10 days of gloomy weather I expected more of the same on the first day of my weekend, Fri 4.24, however it turned out to be a spectacular day. As luck would have it I had chores to do and wouldn’t be able to get out for any pictures until Saturday. Looking at the weather forecasts it appeared I might be in luck as my weather app was showing another day of clear skies. As it turns out that is exactly what happened. After waking up and finishing up my final chores and did some checking and discovered the south freight out of Fairbanks was running very late. The train was re-crewed at Hurricane, MP 281.4, and had departed at 0830. It was currently 0915 and my goal was to catch the train at MP 206.4 as they emerged from the woods with Denali standing tall in the background. I live in South Anchorage, roughly at MP 105, so I needed to go north 101 miles before the freight traveled the 76 miles south to arrive at the same destination. By the time I left my house it was 0920. It was a calculated risk but I was fairly confident I could beat the train here. I also knew the train had to traverse a few slow orders so that was in my favor. Luck was on my side, but just barely, I arrived at my desired location at 1100 and the train rolled past at 1105. Pretty good timing I say. As this was the only train on the system, I headed for home. Of course that was the same direction the train was heading so I was able to capture a few more shots along the way. This shot shows Denali and Hunter with the train. Earlier I posted a shot with just Denali and the train. I think I like this shot a bit better. At 20’308 tall Denali stands tall and dominates the background.in either view.
Dear friends, I wish I had more time for the wonderful world of your photos and sharing my own visual discoveries of the amazing world around us. This was one of the gorgeous sunsets when I was overloaded with work again, and could look at the magic of the evening sky only through my window. But it was so wonderful that I had to grab my camera and try to capture at least a tiny framed area of the magnificent sky seen from my balcony.
I have to sincerely thank all of you who warmly encouraged me to not disappear completely from Flickr and left small friendly reminders here and there. I hope that my current tight multi-project schedule won't last forever, and that I will be able to switch to things and creative projects of my own that allows more time for things that I truly enjoy and love.
The light, beauty, and inspiration from this wonderful scenery I wanted to share with you all.
"Venus of Manhattan" is a work by sculptor Wheeler Williams and it adorns the façade of 980 Madison Avenue
Just a crop of this infrared panorama (due to Flickr's "best display size" which obviously seems to vary between free and pro users):
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Also black & white, 8:5 aspect ratio, 7157 x 4474px (32MP).
It's cool how the ripples on the lake are confined to a certain area, outside of it, the water is flat like a mirror.
Nikon D90 (APS-C, fullspectrum mod)
Tamron 10-24mm f/3.5-4.5 Di ll VC HLD
Hoya R72 (720nm infrared pass-filter)
ISO200, 24mm, f/6.3, 0,8sec
panorama head, tripod, remote
A Zosterops lateralis (Wax-eye, white-eye, silver-eye) feeding on Echium candicans (Pride of Madeira). I have long loved this colour combo - after all it features one of my favourite birds to photograph, as well as my favourite colour - purple. As both my gear and skills have improved in the 2 years since I first observed it, this year I am setting to capturing it with a will, as it conveniently falls in the lull between winter and spring. So hopefully more to follow.
This one was captured at Taylor's Mistake, Banks Peninsula, New Zealand.
In this image, more so than the last, you can really see the coating of bluey-grey pollen all over his head and chest (normally white/orange).
Created out of the magical universal soup ~ We are here to post as many great images on flickr as we can ~ That is our purpose in life ~ And we are not happy with the answer being 42;-)) So we keep experimenting and searching for the most unique images all the time...
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Aguilucho colorado (Argentina)
Hermosa rapaz con una distribución amplia a través de Centro y Sur América
Spanish (Spain): Busardo Sabanero
Guaraní: Taguato-pytâ, Taguato pytâ, Güiraképita
English (IOC): Savanna Hawk
Deutsch: Savannenbussard
Française: Buse roussâtre
Italiano: Poiana di savana
Científico: Buteogallus meridionalis (Latham, 1790)
Estado de conservación
Preocupación menor (LC)
Preocupación menor (UICN)
Taxonomía
Reino:Animalia
Filo:Chordata
Clase:Aves
Orden:Accipitriformes
Familia: Accipitridae
Género:Buteogallus
Especie: B. meridionalis (Latham, 1790)
El gavilán cangrejero colorado o busardo sabanero1 (Buteogallus meridionalis) es una especie de ave accipitriforme de la familia Accipitridae ampliamente distribuida por Sudamérica, donde es posible su observación desde Panamá hasta el centro de Argentina. No se conocen subespecies.
The Savanna Hawk (Buteogallus meridionalis) is a large raptor found in open savanna and swamp edges. It was formerly placed in the genus Heterospizias. It breeds from Panama and Trinidad south to Bolivia, Uruguay and central Argentina. Source: Wikipedia
Geographic range:
Buteogallus meridionalis: Savanna and marshes of w Panama to Brazil and Argentina
One of the most photographed locations in my hometown but anytime I can people to the flavor of the capture it makes me happy. These people are located next to the Scout Statue, which is not identified in this image. This area is South of downtown and obviously overlooks the "Heart of America".
Kansas City, Missouri
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Single White Lightning 1600 in Octabox about 20 feet above. Pocket Wizardry and plenty of compositry!
The Sound Of Seil ferry pulls into Hunters Quay near Dunoon on the Holy Loch. In the distance can be seen the small village of Strone..
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Sunset over The Bay of Fires in Tasmania.... The Colours in the rocks are amazing..
Sony A7r2
Carl Zeiss 50mm F1.4 PlanarT
ISO 100 | 50mm | F11 | 2 sec
8 shot stitched panorama
Lee Filter - Little Stopper
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The ministry of time
Chapter II: The Mystery of the Incubators
The style card and credits here
Sam found himself alone in the laboratory, the dim lights flickering intermittently over the equipment. A bottle of beer was within his reach as he immersed himself in his thoughts. Recently, an unusual event had shaken his scientific world: the disappearance of a body from the incubators. This act not only defied the laws but also raised serious questions about the integrity of the timeline.
As the golden liquid flowed down his throat, Sam pondered the possible devastating consequences that this incident could unleash. What effect would it have on historical evolution? How would it alter temporal continuity? These questions haunted him, filling his mind with unease and concern.
An even more alarming idea seized his thoughts: Who could have orchestrated this act and for what purpose? Time travel technology was heavily regulated, its illegal use a serious offense. Only a few would have access to it, and none of them would have noble motives to carry out such an action.
As Sam delved into his reflections, a determination grew within him: he must uncover the truth behind this enigma. Not only for the sake of the scientific community and temporal stability but also for his insatiable thirst for knowledge. With determination in his gaze, he promised himself that he would not rest until he found answers and ensured that temporal integrity remained intact.
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These fascinating rock formations - some of them in striking, spiky rows - are the result of sandstone being compressed by the weight of the Pacific Ocean, then bent and buckled by colliding tectonic plates. They're usually hidden by the sea, but at low tide you'll see them all the way along the winding gravel road from Whakataki to the settlement of Mataikona.
This example was taken near Sandy Bay near the start of the rock formations.
SONY ILCE-7RM3
SEL1635GM Lens @ 17mm
ISO 64 / f16 / 25 Seconds
Lee Landscape Polariser
Lee IRND 10 Stop
(c) Dominic Scott 2018
Long alley of of Liulichang Street, where there are many antique shops in Beijing, China.
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Race Point Beach in Provincetown on Cape Cod
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life - Monty Python
The Dubliners - Fields Of Athenry
The Fields of Athenry è una celebre canzone popolare irlandese.
Il testo della canzone narra della Grande carestia irlandese, e più precisamente della narrazione di un immaginario prigioniero irlandese che attraverso il muro di una prigione ascolta la conversazione di un giovane uomo con sua moglie.
Il giovane deve essere trasportato dopo sentenza alla colonia penale australiana di Botany Bay per aver rubato del cibo per mantenere la sua famiglia ridotta in povertà dalla carestia.
L'uomo probabilmente viene da Athenry, come suggeriscono il titolo ed il ritornello della canzone, un villaggio della Contea di Galway che in quel periodo soffrì terribilmente la carestia. L'ultimo verso narra la dipartita della nave-prigione, che scompare all'orizzonte sotto gli occhi della donna, proprio mentre l'ultima stella della notte scompare.
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For week 4 of the 52 week challenge, the theme is astrophotography / Night photography.
Limiting the success of my photo this week however is the fact that I've been literally in bed sick for 4 days.... So sadly this is the best that is going to happen. It took me all of 5 minutes of shooting and a few more on lightroom. Not my fav, but my my energy level and motivation are not allowing for much more! And to play to up the 'woe is me' some more (I'm still feeling sick and hence sorry for myself), my tripod broke so this photo was taken balancing my camera on a ledge.
The Citadel of Besançon (French: Citadelle de Besançon) is a 17th-century fortress in Franche-Comté, France. It is one of the finest masterpieces of military architecture designed by Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban. The Citadel occupies 11 hectares (27 acres) on Mount Saint-Etienne, one of the seven hills that protect Besançon, the capital of Franche-Comté. Mount Saint-Etienne occupies the neck of an oxbow formed by the river Doubs, giving the site a strategic importance that Julius Caesar recognised as early as 58 BC. The Citadel overlooks the old quarter of the city, which is located within the oxbow, and offers a magnificent view of the entire city and its surroundings.
The fortification is well preserved. Today it is an important tourist site (over a quarter of a million visitors per year) due both to its own characteristics and because it is the site of several museums. These museums include a museum of the Resistance and deportation, a museum focusing on traditional life in Franche-Comté and the region's archeological history, and a museum of natural history that includes a zoo, an insectarium, an aquarium, vivariums, a noctarium, a climatorium, a pedagogical exhibit on evolution, botanical gardens, and a children's farm. There is also a restaurant and shops.
On 7 July 2008, UNESCO listed the Citadel, together with nearby Fort Griffon, as a World Heritage Site. Since 1942, the French Ministry of Culture has listed the Citadel as a Monument historique.
This is one of the caves in the underground hot springs area called Grjótagjá in northern iceland - it featured in Game of thrones (Jon snow and Ygritte's first shag) - this particular part was too hot to swim in but has enough light shining in from the entrance to take a decent photo. Me and my friend Daria swam in another cave next door to this one that was darker and slightly cooler - although it was still a bloody hot bath!
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The so-called Temple of Concordia is one of the best preserved temples of Greek antiquity and the showpiece of the "valley of the temples" near Agrigento.
This is the 'Bridge of Aspiration' which links the Royal Ballet School in Covent Garden, London with the Royal Opera House.
It was designed in 2003 by architects Wilkinson Eyre and engineers Flint & Neill.
before the bay of palma awakens, the day murmurs its arrival through the whispers of dawn. clouds part like curtains unveiling a stage, rays of light cascade, each a gentle touch on the slumbering sea. the silhouette of the distant mountains stands as the eternal audience, witnessing the slow brightening of the world. it’s a serene symphony where each element plays its part in harmony, the sea reflecting the sky’s moody hues, the land a dark contrast to the awakening sky. in this quiet hour, time pauses, allowing the earth to inhale the promise of a new day, a subtle interlude before life resumes its pace.