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To get this shot, good, bad or indifferent, I laid down flat in the road, without thought or consideration, across a narrow bridge, no railings. It's official. I'm addicted. There is no hope left for me now...
The official State bird of California, the California Quail. This bird was at the very top of a tree and screeching his lungs out. He was acting as lookout for a flock of Quail that were crossing the road in front of us. His warnings were loud and clear after a couple of dashes to the blackberry bushes we saw nary another Quail.
"A partner is someone who makes you more than you are, simply by being by your side."
--Albert Kim
Christmas, 2018
According to Venetian official statistics approximately 16 million people visited the province of Venice in 2011, with increases projected for 2012-13. Most if not all visitors, come to visit the central island Venezia in order to see and be in the heart of the city. Geographically the city center which includes St. Mark’s Basilica, St Mark’s Square, the Doge’s Palace, the Rialto Bridge, as well as the homes and businesses of Venetians exists on a land mass that is roughly six square miles. These six square miles are criss-crossed by the Grand and the not-so-grand canals which invite tourists to explore the nooks and crannies of a medieval powerhouse that still displays its heritage.
However, as a frame of reference, visitors should do the math. Public access to the six square miles of the central part of Venice is reduced by the areas occupied by private housing, businesses and by canals. Effectively the 80,000 to 100,000 daily visitors and the 40,000 to 60,000 local residents or business employers and employees are competing for approximately one to two square miles of open space. Regardless of the crowds it should be noted that while tourists may travel stem to stern in seemingly endless lines of gondolas, on Venice’s solid ground no car, bus or motor scooter challenges a visitor’s right to live long and prosper. In Venice the trucks, cars, and buses come with keels and rudders. All vie for space on and in the canals. Gondoliers weave their boats and passengers through the Grand Canal water traffic much like carriage driver guide their clip-clopping horse drawn carriages through any busy city’s tourist center. To paraphrase Shakespeare, in Venice all the water’s a stage,
I was heading toward Tegel Airport to try and capture some skylight trails, when I happened upon this abandoned office chair next to the wall of this walk way. So I positioned the chair in the middle and took an LE shot as quite frankly, it reminded me of those modern Asian Ghost movies, those ones that are actually scary and well acted, unlike the Western crap we get today.
I had to reduce the contrast light considerably to take out the background, which hopefully I've done and haven't compromised the image too far, so let me know what you think. Unfortunately, directly behind the chair and up a bit, there was this big, bright red side panel of a balcony that really screwed up my composition; hopefully that is now hidden. I guess this is a bit of unexpected fun, but certainly another for the Dark City Deutschland collection!
The weekend is here my dear friend, enjoy and have a good one, so as always, thank you! :)
... está foi a nossa escolhida como foto oficial do passeio de ontem, o vidro estava imundo mas achamos legal e era a única forma de sairem todos, porque eramos muuuuuuuuitos!!!!
jtravassos, sininhoc, paula_marina e eu!!!
Ah, o mega evento foi no Centro de Sampa, Anhangabaú, Pça Patriarca, Viaduto Santa Efigênia, etc... Nunca sei o nome dos lugares :(
Bem lembrado pela Paula, depois disso rolou um almoço super light na Família Manccini :))) Cuja sobremesa, que SÓ ela comeu, mereceu uma foto!!!
Boa quinta pra vocês...
Beijos...
It is now official that 2019 has been a bonanza Painted Lady butterfly season in Britain. Butterfly Conservation uses a wide variety of recording techniques to get as broad a picture as possible of how our butterfly (and moth) species are doing. One of these is the annual Big Butterfly Count aimed very much at people who may have at least a general interest in wildlife and the environment.
Results from the Big Butterfly Count have now been collated. Top of the chart was, you guessed it, Painted Lady with a stunning 420,841 counted. This was almost 30 times greater than the PL count in the equivalent 2018 survey!
With a major change downhill in the weather forecast for this weekend, let's celebrate this rare good news wildlife story with one last 2019 look at the much loved Painted Lady butterfly.
#MacroMondays
#Equinox
This is the first official photo of King Autumnus "Pepo" Cucurbita. It has always been the tradition that the first official image of the new king or queen of autumn is a painting but "Pepo" I. wants to be a modern king so he asked for a photograph, and who am I to refuse a king's request? For the photo, Pepo I. proudly wore his super comfortable, velvety-soft coronation mantle that was exclusively designed for him by Kale Lagerfeld.
Since Pepo is such a modern ornamental gourd, pardon, king, he also spends much of his free time searching the internet. Most recently, he developed a keen interest in body enhancements. As a first step, he requested a second eye. Born a cyclops (he's always been fine with it and it has never impaired him whatsoever), he for once wanted to have the "stereo view" experience "just like everybody else." So I made him a second eye from modeling clay, not expecting much of a "stereo view" experience for Pepo but he's delighted about it and keeps assuring me that he "sees like I have never seen before. By the way, Silke, when was the last time you dusted that corner, if I may ask?"
Originally, I wanted to use a tiny chestnut that I had picked up in front of my house (it's a tradition to pick one up and keep it as a good luck charm) but then I saw these small ornamental gourds at the supermarket the other day and took a closer look. One of the colourful little gourds had a tiny head with one "eye" and a huge pug nose and I kind of fell in love with it. Since there also was the first kale at the Whole Foods Market, an idea formed and I decided to stick to it and try to make it work: the birth and coronation of King Pepo I.
So the autumn traditions here are quite obvious: collecting leaves, and cooking with pumpkin and kale (the latter I didn't like too much as a child because back then it was the fashion to almost cook it to oblivion). Even the modeling clay eye represents a typical at-home autumn activity: crafting.
In-camera focus stacking yielded the best results, and combining the 15 ORF files in Helicon Focus yielded a better result than the in-camera stacked final JPG which had some artifacts. Illumination: natural light from above, yellowish light from the right, and indirect, reflected light from the left.
Size info: The width of the frame is a little less than 7 cm/2, 75 inches. I went as close as possible and measured the scene before taking the photo to make sure it didn't exceed our size limit. And you've seen the tiny crown before, it is 2 cm/0,78 inches "tall".
HMM, Everyone! (I will catch up with you a little later.)
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babyboo. cora bento set
[Black Lotus] Ivy Drop Earrings @ Dubai Event
LEROY - Polly Set
Nuve. Blake Eyebrows v2
RAWR! Archfiend Necklace
LeLUTKA Avalon Head 4.0
Moccino. x LeL EvoX Visage - Marisa Skin
PROMAGIC Dhairya Lel Evo X Tattoos
~Gorgeous Dolls~ Girl Doll (Latto) - eBODY Reborn Bento Hands
The official roll out of the first two Honor Locos happened on June 1, 2019, the B&O museum in Baltimore, MD. Here the 911 and 1776 are freshly washed (by hand, by me) waiting for the event to start.
© Eric T. Hendrickson 2019 All Rights Reserved
BDZ PP 80 035 with first official train 8651 from Sofia to Varna via Plovdiv. Khan Asparuh is ready for depart
A London Transport Official's plate. This is an early example, issued to senior inspectors and other officials for central area (red) buses, trams and trolleybuses. They were around into the early 1990s, although nearly all with four figure numbers. It's unusual to see a three figure number on a plate, much less two.
Their is a clip on the back and could be worn in a buttonhole, but was usually kept in a wallet and used to identify the individual to staff or those in charge at incidents, especially as the holder of this plate may always be in plain clothes.
Long phased out there are some London Buses plates still in use which look similar apart from the wording - and are in red lettering.
I gave this photo a colour boost to highlight the wording and number.
The Winter Palace was the official residence of the Russian Emperors from 1732 to 1917. Today, the palace and its precincts form the Hermitage Museum. Situated between Palace Embankment and Palace Square, in Saint Petersburg, adjacent to the site of Peter the Great's original Winter Palace, the present and fourth Winter Palace was built and altered almost continuously between the late 1730s and 1837, when it was severely damaged by fire and immediately rebuilt. The storming of the palace in 1917, as depicted in Soviet propaganda art and Sergei Eisenstein's 1927 film October, became an iconic symbol of the Russian Revolution.
As completed, the overriding exterior form of the Winter Palace's architecture, with its decoration in the form of statuary and opulent stucco work on the pediments above façades and windows, is Baroque. The exterior has remained as finished during the reign of Empress Elizabeth. The principal façades, those facing the Palace Square and the Neva river, have always been accessible and visible to the public. Only the lateral façades are hidden behind granite walls, concealing a garden created during the reign of Nicholas II. The building was conceived as a town palace, rather than a private palace within a park, such as that of the French kings at Versailles.
The palace was constructed on a monumental scale that was intended to reflect the might and power of Imperial Russia. From the palace, the Tsar ruled over 22,400,000 square kilometers (8,600,000 sq mi) (almost 1/6 of the Earth's landmass) and over 125 million subjects by the end of the 19th century. It was designed by many architects, most notably Bartolomeo Rastrelli, in what came to be known as the Elizabethan Baroque style. The green-and-white palace has the shape of an elongated rectangle, and its principal façade is 215 metres (705 ft) long and 30 m (98 ft) high. The Winter Palace has been calculated to contain 1,886 doors, 1,945 windows, 1,500 rooms and 117 staircases. Following a serious fire, the palace's rebuilding of 1837 left the exterior unchanged, but large parts of the interior were redesigned in a variety of tastes and styles, leading the palace to be described as a "19th-century palace inspired by a model in Rococo style".
Norfolk Southern 955 OCS train heads around the curve just before Alliance, Ohio. This train is heading to Chicago, Illinois.
...creatively manipulated by a Scrabbler friend
7 Days of Shooting/Week #21/Layers/Shoot Anything Saturday
It's 4 days before the official end of the DMIR and life finds me at Iron Junction for the first time.
This was long before I put any effort into railroad photography. I was an armchair railfan at this point, but I had acquired a $300 digital camera (a princely sum at the time, I might add) and was living on the Canadian border. I think it was a job interview that brought me to Eveleth, and with some time to kill I decided to go find this mythical place called Iron Junction. I had read about it and seen photos taken there on the interwebs and perhaps, even in a magazine.
As you can see my hunt was successful, as far as finding the location. The photography, not so much. But it did mean I shot maroon paint prior to the commencement of the assimilation.
If it matters, I think this was a Minntac load bound for Two Harbors with a tunnel motor and a pair of SD-M's for power. With the exception of the cars, which seem to be ageless, it is pretty much all gone now. There is still a maroon tunnel motor around but with no straight air it will never get this work again, and the M's have all moved on.
It's a photo that I am extremely thankful to have had the opportunity to shoot, even if it's not much from a technical standpoint. It makes me think of how excited I was at the time. It reminds me of why I put effort into railroad photography.
Vanessa Hudgens holds onto her Gibson Flying V guitar as she stands front and center on the official poster for her upcoming flick, Bandslam.
In the flick, a high school outcast (Gaelan Connell) bonds with a popular girl (Alyson Michalka) over their shared love of music and results in them assembling a rock group that looks to win their school’s upcoming battle of the bands competition.
Bandslam hits theaters on Friday, August 14th.
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can't wait to see this.xD
Access: Chibi Wings by Afterparty www.flickr.com/photos/afterpartysl
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Hair: Ebb hair by Olive *This item was part of the Access event!* www.flickr.com/photos/nami-naeko
Pose: Madam Bento pose by Foxcity www.flickr.com/photos/itsfoxy/
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Sunrise over North Curl Curl pool on the northern beaches of Sydney.
Nikon D810 & Nikkor 14-24mm, NiSi 6 stop filter. PP in PS CC using Nik Software and luminosity masks.
According to officials from both Arches & Canyonlands National Parks, this is the last year we'll be able to use low level lighting during our workshop events. For some time, park officials allowed permitted workshop leaders to use low level lighting while they prohibited artificial lighting (other than for safety) for the public at large. Now, they've announced plans to prohibit artificial lighting for both the public at large and for workshops beginning in 2020.
With permits in national parks plus the blm and dead horse state park, we welcome this news. It gives us an opportunity to make the most of our ability to use Low Level Lighting in the national parks this year and it gives us an opportunity to make the most of all the incredible locations we've scouted and been taking people to outside of the national parks. We didn't know it at the time but we've been preparing for this transition for years and we welcome it. We hope you'll join us - either this year in our last opportunities to use Low Level Lighting or next year as we expand our reach even further.