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Layers Of Light
Some glorious light on our trip along Glen Cannich last week. This is one using the 70-200mm lens shooting into the light to capture this beautiful scene with different layers, colours and trees in this image.
Glen Cannich, Scotland
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Explore #93
Oct. 9, 2009
This image is another from my Puyallup Fair captures and it features a moderate moving Ferris Wheel captured at about a 30 second exposure. I was interested in this image to not only capture the motion and vivid colors, but also, a lot of the black detail in between. The crazy thing about this fair (referencing my earlier write-ups) is the fact that by the time you have entered the gate, ate some food, rode a couple of the rides, you will have no doubt spent about as much as you would at Disneyland, if not, a little more. And this is definitely not a Disneyland experience. But for capturing these images it is definitely worth it. This image was captured in September 2009 with my Nikon D90. Enjoy!
Island Of Madagascar
Off The East Coast of Africa
Palmarium Reserve
Endangered lemur photographed at night aided by a guide holding a spotlight.
The aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis) is a lemur, a strepsirrhine primate native to Madagascar that combines rodent-like teeth that perpetually grow and a special thin middle finger.
It is the world's largest nocturnal primate, and is characterized by its unusual method of finding food; it taps on trees to find grubs, then gnaws holes in the wood using its forward slanting incisors to create a small hole in which it inserts its narrow middle finger to pull the grubs out.
From an ecological point of view the aye-aye fills the niche of a woodpecker, as it is capable of penetrating wood to extract the invertebrates within.
The aye-aye is the only extant member of the genus Daubentonia and family Daubentoniidae. It is currently classified as Endangered by the IUCN.
The aye-aye is an arboreal animal meaning that it spends most of its life high in the trees. Aye-ayes sleep, eat, travel and mate in the trees and are most commonly found close to the canopy where there is plenty of cover from the dense foliage. - Wikipedia
Iceland was fantastic! With practically no visible signs of the recent volcano eruption, the country is as beautiful as ever. We (Michel Geven and I) had the best of times. I think he must be getting on a bit because this time, he didn't even knock my room door down at 4AM èvery night! :-)
The 9 day trip led us from Reykjavik, via Vik, to the Jokulsarlon Glaciers; back North to Borgarnes; with the ferry to the West Fjords, with an unforeseen but very welcome night at the wonderful island of Flatey, due to missing the last ferry - I was súre I read somewhere that it would go at 8PM! :-) - west to Latrabjarg to the Puffin cliffs, and back again to Reykjavik.
Gained 2 kilos from the countless bags of M&M's, winegums and kokosböller :-) and nòt because of the regular evening dinners, which Michel manages to make us miss every time because of òne more shot of some Skua or another. Only on the Ferry I could corner him into eating something that had at least more than one vitamin in it :-)
But Michel, you're the best travel companion one could wish for on a photo-trip!! Already looking forward to next year!! :-)
Thanks to the valuable directions we got from one of Iceland's most skilled bird photographers, Sigurjón Einarsson we found this lupin field where two pairs of Short-Eared Owls had their hunting grounds. An incredibly beautiful sight! Unfortunately, in the limited time we had, they didn't come really close to our cameras, so this is quite a heavy crop, but seeing those magnificent hunters with their piercing eyes, flying completely silent over that vast sea of blue, was a sight I won't easily forget. Thanks so much, Sigurjón!
I promise to update the diary on my website with the Iceland trip asap!
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.
Steve.D.Hammond.
This was taken at the Valley of Fire in Overton, Nevada. I used the Sigma Fisheye lens. Haven't time to be on Flickr and photograph for some time due to working a lot of my days off.
This is how the slopes of trek to Khaliya top looked, snowy and grassy near the top and perfect 45° inclination.
These filled the frame a wonderful sight,a single in front and these two behind got a single shot of the one in front as well.
Grove of Big-leaf Maple in the Hoh Rainforest of Olympic National Park.
Now (June 23, 2023), cover for group "Enchanted Forests of the World"
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
"l’Uomo ama i deserti perchè non può fare a meno dei miraggi." Mieczysław Kozłowski
Nella foto di archivio, Aprile 2016:
una bellissima immagine di Zabriskie point all'alba: le particolari corrugazioni della terra ci ricordano che siamo soltanto l'ultima riga nel grande libro del tempo.
Buona giornata... che possa scorrere bene :)
Quiraing, Isle of Skye, Scotland.
Version retravaillée plus qualitative que la précédente.
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Had a 1/2 off sale....Yayyy more shopping! ^_~
Rubix Cube chair by Mudhoney Design
Also wearing a cool outfit from the sale. Loves. ^^
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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!
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!
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Corrieshalloch is one of the most spectacular gorges of its type in Britain and provides striking evidence of how glacial meltwater can create deep gorges.
A short steep walk will bring you to a Victorian suspension bridge, where you can gaze down over a series of crashing waterfalls.
Corrieshalloch Gorge is designated a National Nature Reserve in recognition of the gorge and the surrounding woodland. It’s also home to a nationally rare species of cranefly, which benefits from the wet dead wood in the shaded areas of the property.
This mile-long canyon, through which the River Droma rushes, takes its name from the Gaelic for ‘ugly hollow’. But that’s as far from the truth as can be.
From High Desert of the Southwest: The high desert of the Southwest USA is a fascinating location with virtually endless interesting photo compositions. The “high desert” is an arid region that lies on the Colorado Plateau. The Colorado Plateau is an extensive elevated area that comprises large portions of Southern Utah, Northern Arizona, Western Colorado, and NE New Mexico. It averages 5,000 - 6,000 feet, or 1,500 - 1,800 meters above sea level, with mountains extending upwards and canyons cutting downwards. The most famous canyon cutting deep into the plateau is, of course, the Grand Canyons. It is an ancient sea bed eroded over the millennia into endless fantastical forms.
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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i've just gone pro.....all my pics are back!! still working on the computer, hopefully i'll be back soon!! i left my flash drive at the library last week and thank God they had it.....it has hundreds of new photos on it! very silly me!!
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Home to many of the premier watchmakers in Germany , specially the 2 most important ones , Glashutte Original and A. Lange & Sohne , among many others.
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.
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🍺🍺🍺🍷🍷🍷💃🐎🐷😎😂😂😂
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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? : )
A labor of love with my sister who built Marriage!
We decided to go for a well-known story since... really, how is anyone supposed to develop an entire love story in two MOCs? Have you seen how many preludes W. Navarre has been doing?? XD
What a neat but challenging scale to try out! Credit to my sis for the basic head design and then we both took it in slightly different directions. I built complete figures so those'll are in the extra pictures on my Insta.
And more angles of Toothless of course. Speaking of Toothless... so, I do like building dragons, but I don't like building them in black. XD However, many groans and a trip to a Bricks & Minfigures store later, it came together... It's about twice as big as my last attempt!
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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
“MS Pride of America is a cruise ship operated by NCL America, a division of Norwegian Cruise Lines, to sail itineraries in the Hawaiian Islands. Construction of the ship began in 2000 in the United States as part of a plan for a U.S.-built and U.S.-flagged cruise ship under Project America, but the project failed and she was eventually purchased by Norwegian Cruise Lines and completed in Germany. She was inaugurated in 2005, and was the first new U.S. flagged, U.S.-built (aside from the outfitting) deep water passenger ship in nearly fifty years since the SS Argentina of 1958.”
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