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This is how the slopes of trek to Khaliya top looked, snowy and grassy near the top and perfect 45° inclination.
A golden view of Manhattan from Rockefeller Center during twilight. This is always been my favorite spot to take skyline photos of Manhattan but crowds give me shivers. Today was no different, had to wait patiently to get to the spot where i could rest my camera as tripods are not allowed on Top of The Rock.
I took a similar photo almost 8 years ago, but this one is definitely better.
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The Alcázar of Segovia (literally, "Segovia Fortress") is a medieval alcázar located in the city of Segovia (Castile and León, Spain), a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Rising out on a rocky crag above the confluence of two rivers near the Guadarrama mountains, it is one of the most distinctive castle-palaces in Spain by virtue of its shape – like the bow of a ship. The Alcázar was originally built as a fortress but has served as a royal palace, a state prison, a Royal Artillery College and a military academy since then. It is currently used as a museum and a military archives building. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alc%C3%A1zar_of_Segovia
Mass Of Trees.
Gränslösa gröna söta gula nedåtgående nyanser glittrande röda kolonner överflödiga rikedomar,
émeraude surprend des vents murmurés éclaircissant des rayons dorés charmantes feuilles ravissantes belle lumière,
đá quý cao mạnh mẽ mê hoặc bầu trời mơ mộng rực sáng kỳ diệu phước lành lớn xa hoa quan điểm lộng lẫy,
blendende swift fornøyelser rikelig lyder nektarøse sfærer dype skiltene hemmelig revelry s disentangling vill tid,
palavras abundantes folhagem fresca charming pensamentos sublimes adorando pássaros sorrindo pombas flores capacious,
einfache bläuliche köstliche blätter flatternde nester geduld mönch flüstern natur gefiederte freude,
キラキラと輝く花にキスをするキラキラと輝く喜びの上に静かな甘さの堅実な美天の隠された星笑顔の孤独な孤独の舌.
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Exterior of Sabo Yanagi-an tea house in the Higashi Chaya district of Kanazawa, Japan.
The city of Kanazawa has three well-preserved historic chaya ("teahouse") districts, and Higashi Chayagai, or the Eastern Chaya district, is the largest. The district has been designated as a Japanese cultural asset.
Sony FE 24-105mm F4 G OSS
93mm; 0.4 sec; f/11; ISO 100
{2/70}
inspired by Glenda and her multi-media photos. :)
it's been raining the past couple of days, which has kinda made it hard for me to get excited about starting this project, but i decided to roll with it and create this! i'm by no means a painter (i can barely paint raindrops i mean come on), but i really like the way in turned out, despite the low-quality scan. i love experimenting, especially when it ends up looking like it did in my head! <3 today wasn't the best, although i did finish writing my final research paper for the year, which i'm really excited about. so ready to get this carried over schoolwork finished ugh.
hope you all had a lovely day!
The Guard of the 4.00pm to Sikar Junction looks thoughtful as the train negotiates the pointwork going out of Jaipur. The couple of European snappers active around the metre gauge lines possibly serve as a reminder that the route will be closing in a matter of months for gauge conversion work, and the quaint MG rolling stock, which makes an easy step down to the ground, will soon be gone.
14th March 2016
They're ready to use their catapult, but first they've wanted to just listen and feel the breath of the forest moon of Endor within their rather large noses. Those big redwood trees around them offers them a very good place to live as they believed themselves to be descendants of the Great Tree, a sacred tree in the forests.
Well, I'm gonna leave them enjoy their moment!
This is an another addition to my LEGO on Endor series featuring two Ewoks, that are probably already familiar to a frequent follower of my stream.
Free people of a free country!
The 19th day of our resistance is over. Historical war. Another difficult day, which is still approaching our victory. Approaching peace for Ukraine.
As before, the enemy is confused. They did not expect such resistance. They believed in their propaganda, which has been lying about us for decades.They still can't recollect themselves. But they have already begun to understand that they will not achieve anything by war.
Their soldiers know this. Their officers are aware of this. They flee the battlefield. They abandon equipment.
We take trophies and use them to protect Ukraine. Today, Russian troops are, in fact, one of the suppliers of equipment to our army. They could not imagine such a thing in a nightmare.
And I want to tell the Russian soldiers. Those who have already entered our land. And who are just about to be sent to fight against us.
Russian conscripts! Listen to me very carefully. Russian officers! You’ve already understood everything. You will not take anything from Ukraine. You will take lives. There are a lot of you. But your life will also be taken.
But why should you die? What for? I know that you want to survive. We hear your conversations in the intercepts, we hear what you really think about this senseless war, about this disgrace and about your state. Your conversations with each other. Your calls home to your family. We hear it all. We draw conclusions. We know who you are.
Therefore, I offer you a choice. On behalf of the Ukrainian people, I give you a chance. Chance to survive. If you surrender to our forces, we will treat you the way people are supposed to be treated. As people, decently. In a way you were not treated in your army. And in a way your army does not treat ours. Choose!
Our brave defenders continue to inflict devastating losses on Russian troops.
Soon the number of downed helicopters of Russia will reach hundreds of units. They have already lost 80 warplanes. Hundreds of tanks and thousands of other units of equipment.
In 19 days, the Russian army has lost more in Ukraine than in two bloody and years-long wars in Chechnya. For what?
I am grateful to those Russians who do not stop trying to convey the truth. To those who fight disinformation and tell the truth, real facts to their friends and loved ones. And personally to the woman who entered the studio of Channel One with a poster against the war. To those who are not afraid to protest. As long as your country has not completely closed itself off from the whole world, turning into a very large North Korea, you must fight. You must not lose your chance.
The European Union has approved the fourth package of sanctions against Russia. The fourth - and I'm sure not the last.
We are working with partners on new restrictions that will be applied against the Russian state. Everyone who is responsible for the war. Everyone who is responsible for the destruction of democracy. Everyone who is responsible for repression against people. Everyone will get an answer. The answer of the world. And this is just the beginning.
Responsibility for war crimes of the Russian military is inevitable. Responsibility for a deliberate humanitarian catastrophe in Ukrainian cities is inevitable. The whole world sees what is happening in Mariupol. Kharkiv. Chernihiv. Sumy. Okhtyrka. Hostomel. Irpin. In all our cities.
All our partners are informed of the crimes of the invaders against civilians and local self-government in the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions. In the temporarily occupied areas. There will be an answer for that. Necessarily. For the disrupted humanitarian corridors. Necessarily.
During the day of March 14, 3,806 Ukrainians were evacuated from the cities and towns of the Kyiv and Luhansk regions.
Our convoy with one hundred tons of what is most necessary for Mariupol is still kept in Berdyansk. For three days already. But we will try. We will do everything to ensure that Mariupol residents receive food, water and medicine.
I provided full information about the actions of the invaders on the Ukrainian land in conversations with friends and partners of our state. Every aggressive action of the invaders only pushes the world to new sanctions.
I spoke with President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen. With President of Poland Andrzej Duda. Prime Minister of Luxembourg Xavier Bettel. We have 100% mutual understanding.
The conversation with Prime Minister of Israel Bennett was also important. As part of a negotiation effort to end this war as soon as possible. With a fair peace.
Our delegation also worked on this in negotiations with the Russian party. Pretty good, as I was told. But let's see. They will continue tomorrow.
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has agreed on a package of decisions to support our economy.
So that business works. So that people have jobs. Where security allows. Where people are ready for it.
First, we are starting tax reform. Instead of VAT and income tax we give a rate of 2 percent of turnover and simplified accounting. For small businesses - this is the first and second group of sole proprietors - we set a voluntary payment of a single tax. That is, if you can - pay. You can't - no questions asked.
The second is maximum business deregulation. We cancel all inspections for all businesses. So that everyone works normally. So that the cities come to life. So that life continues wherever there is no hostilities.
The only condition is that you ensure the normal operation of your business in the framework of Ukrainian law.
These are just the first two steps of our tax reform. To be continued.
And finally.
I have just signed a decree on awarding state awards of Ukraine to 234 servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine who showed personal courage and heroism in the fight for our land. For our independence. 59 of them posthumously.
May the memory of everyone who gave life for our state live forever!
Eternal gratitude to all our heroes!
Glory to Ukraine!
Quiraing, Isle of Skye, Scotland.
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An array of crepuscular rays over the Derwent Valley on a day of ever-changing light. Happy Christmas to anyone who views this image. Many thanks to everyone who's shown an interest in my images over the past year; it's always appreciated. And thanks to all those I follow for posting some amazing images over the past year. So much to be inspired by. Pete.
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Episode 5 of Moments in Time is now available as we travel from Kuala Lumpur to Tokyo to visit some incredible people and explore some of the unique architecture including the International Forum Building. Kenji Yamamura shows me a cool reflection spot but none of my tripods are adequate, so we invent “the money shot,” which is literally a stack of coins to level and secure the camera to get the shot.
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A tight formation of these two old beauties kept everyone's eyes to the skies over Hampton, Virginia. These immaculately restored warbirds, a P-51D Mustang and an F-4U Corsair, looked much the way they did back when they came off the assembly line in 1945.
The Mustang saw service in the European Theater of WWII, while the Corsair flew off the aircraft carrier USS Boxer in the Japanese Theater. While many here were quite thrilled to see them in such close proximity, it was likely more so for the Allied bomber pilots and ground forces that they covered for back in the day.
Our modern Air Force is such that only fools would provoke... but these old veterans led the way. Good to see them still airworthy.
The hamlet and area of Mayo was first settled in the mid-1820's by an influx of Irish emigrants, who named it for the county of Mayo in their homeland.
Some fifty years later, the village of Knoc(k) in that county became famous when over a dozen people there saw a vision of the Virgin Mary on the church wall. It quickly became a major draw for Irish and other pilgrims (and has remained so ever since - both Pope John Paul II and Pope Francis have visited).
Fr. Clement Braceland, who took over as parish priest of St. Malachy in 1949, was among those to visit that shrine in Ireland. Upon his return to Quebec, he determined to establish a local version of it, which he saw completed in 1955. It's since become a destination itself, with an annual pilgrimage organized each August that draws many hundreds of the faithful.
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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The Abu Simbel temples are two massive rock temples at Abu Simbel, near the border with Sudan. The twin temples were originally carved out of the mountainside in the 13th century BC, during the 19th dynasty reign of the Pharaoh Ramesses II. They serve as a lasting monument to the king and his queen Nefertari, and commemorate his victory at the Battle of Kadesh. Their huge external rock relief figures have become iconic.
Hathor-Tempel zur Erinnerung an Nefertari, die königliche Gemahlin von Ramses II.
Die Felsentempel von Abu Simbel, befindet sich im ägyptischen Teil Nubiens und wurde im 13. Jahrhundert v. Chr. unter Pharao Ramses II. errichtet.
Located about 50m from "That Tree" at Wanaka, is this twisted and tormented set of trees. As the lake water level was down, it exposed the twisted roots and with the weather on the day, it just gave me the feeling of how nature can sometimes be brutal in such an otherwise beautiful location.
4:19 AM
Description later.
*falls off chair*
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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!
Stairs or steps however you call them , subject for SSC this week but this shot is nearly eleven years old so not to be used .
This is the way down to the beach at Alum Bay on the Isle of Wight - and I should add only a fraction of the steps to get from top to bottom !!!
One can also go down by cable car in open seats and that is what I wanted to do . BUT !! Due to high winds it was not operating for safety reasons - I have never got back there to have a ride on the cable cars , the view from them looking out on the Needles is supposed to be very spectacular !!
shadows of Łódź
We will move away from street photography for a moment.
Today, the location from the previous photo, but from a different angle and in a different perspective.
Old tenement houses are surrounded by decaying wooden fuel cellars.
Nothing fancy in general, but for me, the light and shadows add a magical charm to this place.
It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot
and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light,
and winter in the shade.
-Charles Dickens
went for a walk in the Pearl, reflected selfie with friend :)
happy weekend to all
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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.
The exhuberant spirit of spring was evident to me in these branches on a late March day when Mother Nature gives her wake-up call to the Earth. There is a special smell in the air and a new light of awakening - time for spring fever!! Happy Easter - Happy Spring to all :)
"And the Spring arose on the garden fair,
Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere;
And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breast
Rose from the dreams of its
wintry rest."
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
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? : )
Ceiling of the Jane Russell Hot Shop at the Tacoma Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA Feel the HEAT. i6s+03159e2 - Happy Sliders Sunday!
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)
💪💪💪💪💨💨🎼🎶
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 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 a slightly stormy ascent of Beinn Achaladair and Beinn a’ Chreachain, we descended via Coire an Lochain then through the wonderful Crannach Wood, forded the Water of Tulla and returned to the car. We started the day in good weather, ran into rain on our ascent, then hail and snow higher up on the two summits. Although we were in rain or snow on the tops we never actually lost visibility as the clouds were above us. The hills all around us appeared to be having lovely weather - sun and righteousness come to mind - but at least we finished the day as we started, in sunshine.
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
Excerpt from uwaterloo.ca:
Description of the District
The MacNab-Charles Heritage Conservation District is a one
block area bounded by MacNab Street South, Hurst Place,
Charles Street and Bold Street in the City of Hamilton. The
district consists of seven properties. These properties include
two multi-unit residences, a church and manse, two residential
properties and offices.
Cultural Heritage Value of the District
According to a plaque, the cultural heritage value of the district lies in the fact that:
The downtown block of MacNab Street South, Hurst Place, Charles Street and Bold Street contains a unique collection of stone buildings primarily dating from the 1850s.
While stone architecture was relatively rare in Ontario, Hamilton’s Mountain offered a ready supply of limestone. The local resource was used to great advantage in the hands of the newly-arrived Scottish stonemasons, establishing pre-Confederation Hamilton as a city renowned for its wealth of handsome stone
architecture.
With the MacNab Street Presbyterian Church as the focal point, the Victorian stone and brick streetscape of MacNab-Charles evoke a genuine sense of history in the heart of this city.
Designation of the District
The designation of the MacNab Charles Heritage Conservation District was initiated by the City Hamilton.
The Study and Plan were conducted and written between 1986 and 1988 by the Local Planning Branch, Planning and Development Department and the Hamilton-Wentworth Region. It was carried out in consultation with a local District Steering Committee made up of owners from the area.
The MacNab-Charles Heritage Conservation District is protected by By-law 90-144 which was passed on May 9, 1990 by the City of Hamilton.
A lone warlock treks to the an ancient power: a tree planted by the Primordial Greeble Gods of Yore.
From it, a darkness emits ... ready to joust the summer souls of light.
Build for InnovaLUG's Summer Joust - 12x12 Vingette category
A welcome change saw the diversion of main line traffic between Bridgend and Cardiff along the Vale of Glamorgan line on 13th May. 60091, “Barry Needham” in charge of empty oil tanks, makes its way across Porthkerry Viaduct near Barry, working the 6B33 Theale – Margam.
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