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Crazy Tuesday - Theme of June 22, 2021: Knots
gift ribbon on a little curved glass bottle ... no fancy knot, but it's a knot at least ... : ))
Background: sidelit texture wrapping paper with tiny metallic dots to create some bokeh bubbles ... I partly added a layer of Topaz "Starlight Glitter" with reduced opacity (I like its dreamy / glittery effect on images and it's Crazy Tuesday, after all ; ))
Happy Tuesday to you all !
I will be browsing later in the evening (crazy day at work)
The clear answer to this question is given in my next photograph. But I would not have been surprised when taking this shot to see one of those Galapagos reptiles come crawling over the orange lichen covered rocks. As long as it's not that island that has all the snakes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3OjfK0t1XM
It's Winter here anyway, so that was not going to happen.
No private group or multiple group invites please!
Ningún grupo privado o grupo múltiple invita por favor
Aucun groupe privé ou groupe multiple ne vous invite
Geen privégroep of meerdere groepsuitnodigingen alstublieft
Keine private Gruppe oder mehrere Gruppen laden bitte ein
Nenhum grupo privado ou grupo múltiplo convida por favor
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Amsterdam - Piri Reïsplein - Baarsjesweg
Amsterdam - Photo shoot with Me Inge
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The Temple of Aphaia (Greek: Ναός Αφαίας) or Afaea is located within a sanctuary complex dedicated to the goddess Aphaia. Formerly known as the Temple of Jupiter Panhellenius, the great Doric temple is now recognized as dedicated to the mother-goddess Aphaia. It was a favourite of the Neoclassical and Romantic artists such as J. M. W. Turner.
It stands on a c. 160 m peak on the eastern side of the island approximately 13 km east by road from the main port of Aegina island, which lies in the Saronic Gulf, Greece.
Aphaea (Greek: Ἀφαία, Aphaía) was a Greek goddess who was worshipped almost exclusively here. She originated as early as the 14th century BCE as a local deity associated with fertility and the agricultural cycle. Under the later Athenian hegemony she came to be identified with the goddesses Athena and Artemis and with the nymph Britomartis as well, by the 2nd century CE, the time of Pausanias:
On Aigina as one goes toward the mountain of Zeus, god of all the Hellenes, the sanctuary of Aphaia comes up, for whom Pindar composed an ode at the behest of the Aeginetans. The Cretans say (the myths about her are native to Crete) that Euboulos was the son of Kharmanor, who purified Apollo of the killing of the Python, and they say that Britomartis was the daughter of Zeus and Kharme (the daughter of this Euboulos). She enjoyed races and hunts and was particularly dear to Artemis. While fleeing from Minos, who lusted after her, she cast herself into nets cast for a catch of fish. Artemis made her a goddess, and not only the Cretans but also the Aeginetans revere her. The Aeginetans say that Britomartis showed herself to them on their island. Her epithet among the Aeginetans is Aphaia, and it is Diktynna of the Nets on Crete. Description of Greece 2.30.3
The Beachcomber or ‘Stone Me’ and Others
I have over the years come across a few of these stone characters, and not only confined to the East Coast of England where I found the majority. They have been discovered in The States, France and Kent. A bit of a random order I know. Some have come home with me but in the main I have left them in situ. No stones were harmed in the making of these images and the ones who did come home did it willingly.
There has been a development, I have noticed faces looking at me embedded in other materials. I know, a bit left field. But I thought they needed to be identified. I haven’t yet seen any walls with ears but you never know. Is ‘Big Brother’ still watching?
Where it all started, or where you can find out how it started.
There are stories that should not be forgotten... Well, perhaps we should never forget. From memories, from the past and from our history we learn. Today I begin to record the result of my investigations. A task that has taken me a year, a long year of wandering between the shelves of the Carnelian Archive, where all the Fairlands chronicles are kept. The dust, the smell of leather, paper and history have been my faithful companions in this search, which is now over. It was something personal, yes. It has already been lost in time and in the silence of my relatives over the years, but I needed to know the truth. And the truth, like a polished diamond with countless faces, is not as simple as they imagined. There is no good or bad, but a mixture of the two whose balance maintains the Universe. Anyway, this is not the time to ramble. I think I should pick up the scattered fragments, hinted at in these flickr posts, and tell the whole story, though maybe not the whole truth, who knows....
Dating, fishing or just relaxing and enjoying a beautiful day and magnificent views over the river. All of these activities, apparently incompatible, can be found here, at Jardim do Ginjal, a small but charming park already extensively described on my two previous shots in this series.
Enjoy summertime, dear friends!
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Jardim do Ginjal, Almada, Portugal
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First time I have seen, or photographed one of these, UKs most threatened butterfly. The male is on the left.
I decided to take a drive down to south Devon to camp for several nights, with the specific intention of spending a day on Aish Tor to see HBFs. So I spent 8 hours on Sunday on Aish Tor. It was exceedingly hard work, once I got up onto the hillside, having parked in my ignorance of the location, at Newbridge car park down on the River Dart; it was sultry and very hot and the butterflies had twin turbo boost full on: they simply never seemed to stop moving. Added to that, there were ticks everywhere in the sea of metre high bracken that covered the hillside, so long sleeves and trousers tucked into socks was de rigeur and made it even less comfortable!
Having spent much of the the morning, tagging along with a lady who had been before and seemed to know the best location, I branched off alone to search higher up the slopes where fritillaries seemed more frequent. It was 3 hours altogether before I had one settled on bramble flower in a less than ideal location, low down in a corner of a small area cleared of bracken. In mid afternoon another one showed up to investigate dog poo on the path where I was resting. Not long after that I had another male nectaring on bramble, but it was tight to photograph in a narrow path trodden through the bracken. Late in the afternoon I was shown these two mating specimens by a couple I spoke to, which probably saved the day!
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Wooden Shoe Tulip Festival also featured two tethered hot air balloons which allowed riders a bird’s eye view of the Willamette Valley and the colorful tulip beds.
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-Couleurs du Maroc-
Images from my last trip to Morocco, the country I grew up in.
"True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed.”
~Tom Robbins~
"The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom - they are the pillars of society."
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All the other birds were in their breeding plumage so this beauty stood out from the crowd.
black guillemot or tystie (Cepphus grylle)
Oban- Argyll Scotland
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A Virgin High Speed Train is snapped passing Rugeley Trent Valley station at speed.
A tripod-mounted time exposure on Fujichrome Velvia, processed using Flickr's own software. I like the graphic result - but it's not for everyone.
Nikon F70
18th June 2000
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Ball or Sphere
A marble is a small spherical object often made from glass, clay, steel, plastic, or agate. They vary in size, and most commonly are about 13 mm in diameter.
or wants him around if they can help it :-)
C.A. Morse, "President's Address," Twentieth Annual Convention of the American Railway Engineering Association, 1919 March 18th
HFF! Character Matters!
rose, 'Dream Come True', little theater rose garden, raleigh, north carolina
Two pictures uploaded today...
1) A (rare) Rosy Starling perched on some iron work (i,e. you can't miss)
2) A Common Tern in a fast action freeze
The Tern was x1000 more tricky to take
The Rosy 1,000,000/1 chance to find in your back garden
So 'the rare' or 'the spectacular'?
Photographically of course it's the spectacular., but in a year's time it'll be the rare you'll remember
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Landscape photographers I admire have a definitely style and are usually consistent to that presentation. I can usually spot a Littlejohn, Baxter or Talibart a mile off. Because I admire these photographers, much of my post processing strives for a certain look which I feel is not uniquely mine. A soft ethereal woodland, a dream like mountainscape or drama at sea, a look I’ve seen before but I’m sure wasn’t in my minds eye when I took the photo. A good example of this is to compare my photos from yesterday to today. Yesterdays has the lighter touch more akin to watercolour, than todays bolder vision which feels more like an oil painting, I leave you to guess which photographer influenced which. In the end of the day I enjoy trying to emulate even if I never get there, and it’s my love of these places in the first place which got me standing there pressing the shutter button.