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Restaurant in Reykjavík. It was nighttime, in November, so not even smokers were sitting outside. Some interesting items on the menu, if you zoom in. Traditional Plokkari, anyone?
qualche volta c'è luce persino nel tunnel
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molto, molto, molto impegnato con attività edili “minori”, che mi rubano tutto il tempo per flickr...
very very busy in minor building activities, and I have no time for flickr, sorry…
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Lo splendore di Firenze, unito ad una luce speciale, mi fanno sentire molto ottimista. Sempre e comunque.
Grazie per tutti i gentili commenti alle mie ultime foto!
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Florence’s charme, combined with a special light, makes me feel very optimistic. Always and anyway.
Thanks for all your kind comments to my last photos
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Over optimistic lights, Vines Winebar isn’t going to open anytime soon unless the world spins a little faster on its axis and COVID-19 evaporates.
This is one of many strategies tried by a cormorant to eat an eel. It was nearly a fatal mistake as just out of shot was a diving gull intent on stealing the eel but the cormorant was too quick for it.
Photographed in Olhão.
I'm optimistic that this will clean up nicely, very nicely in fact! It looks good underneath and I cannot wait to clean it.
Yellow Branch Falls as she appeared on this bright, optimistic, sunny morning Feb 3, 2024. Even though her flow was low, I didn't mind. As for me, she never disappoints. Today I hiked down from above and completely understand why the former trail was decommissioned. It's far too dangerous of a descent for children, the elderly and people lacking hiking experience with careless tendencies. Compared with the existing trail, I found the former trail to be more of a "cut to the chase" excursion. (accepting for today's overgrown and "lack of" trail and the number of downed trees to maneuver over, through and around).The existing "new" trail today offers a beautiful array of mountain ridgeline views as the trail rises and falls along the way. Yellow Branch will always be uniquely special to me because it was one of the first waterfalls, I hiked to and photographed years ago. I have made many captures here and some with the waterfall full to overflowing. This morning, I had her all to myself for about 45 minutes. I hiked back out on the existing trail and met many people hiking in. No doubt, I'll be back many more times. It was such a great beginning for my new 2024 year of adventure hiking to waterfalls🍷🍷💙
A tour guide told us that Acadia was once all evergreens, but a great and devastating fire cut through the area in 1947. On the bare and scorched patches of land, colorful trees began to grow in, creating the park's now famous Fall foliage.
Eagle Lake, Acadia National Park, Maine
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Wandering around the desert southwest we came upon an abandoned set of buildings covered in graffiti. This is the only one i found providing some hope.
But then, there is always the fine print!
(Look at LARGE size for the fine print)
Let's be optimistic, that we are going to jump into a better, more peaceful, fairer, healthier, more colourful happy New Year!
Sphingonotus spec.
Sand Grasshopper
Sandschrecke
Steppegræshoppe
Saltamonte jaspeado
Exposure time (= flash duration): 50 µs = 1/20.000 s
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If you like my pictures of insects in flight, you should visit my special website on insect flight:
Wenn Ihnen meine Bilder fliegender Insekten gefallen, besuchen Sie bitte meine Homepage speziell zu diesem Thema:
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PLEASE, NO AWARDS, no Copy and Paste Comments and no group icons like "your wonderful photo was seen in group xyz". They will be deleted as soon as I see them.
BITTE KEINE AWARDS, kopierte Kommentare oder diese Gruppen-Icons wie "Ich habe Dein wunderbares Bild in Gruppe xyz gesehen". Die lösche ich sobald ich sie sehe.
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Optimistically waiting for a glimmer of sunshine on an overcast morning in woodland in Uppland in Central Sweden back in mid-June (1165)
The night before was beset with storms and so I wasn't at all optimistic I would get any decent sunrise shots at Cape Bruny. But I set the alarm clock anyway.
When I woke the rain had stopped, but I couldn't see the night sky, so assumed the worst. Still I was prepared to take the 30 kilometre drive through the South Bruny National Park to the lighthouse and take my chances.
When I arrived it was very dark and the only light I had was a small flashlight as I made my way up the steep path to the lighthouse over 100 metres above sea level. Then as the winds blew I noticed the moon appearing behind the cloud cover. So I set up my tripod and took this 30 second exposure by moonlight.
My title comes from the book about a secret British commando landing in Crete during WW2. This book by Stanley Moss was made into a 1957 film starring Dirk Bogarde. Ill Met by Moonlight [Dirk Bogarde] (1957) www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ahvCt9r4R4
The Nazis had turned Crete into an impenetrable fortress and had virtually enslaved the local population. The aim of this daring night raid was to capture the General Heinrich Kreipe. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Kreipe
Perhaps the coldest point on my journey and the most optimistic I've been with previously unknown circumstances, Koyasan was astounding. This sacred mountain sits in the heart of Wakayama (and I do mean it, it is VERY deep in the mountains) and is considered holy under the order of Shingon Buddhism, which was invented here as well.
The town itself is beautiful and rural, exactly what you'd expect from a mountain village. But people, myself included, normally come here for the massive Okunoin Cemetery. Sheltered by a massive canopy of trees, this place can look dark and dim at any time of year.
Snow is often not a nice thing to deal with when you're not prepared. Especially with the tight turns on the road up to Koyasan, not to mention roads are more narrow in Japan, and there's tour buses around nearly every turn, not a very peaceful journey.
But I instantly tried to make good of this. I've seen photos of this place in rain, sun, and best of all, fog, but I've never seen a shot in the snow. I didn't have any predetermined photo spots as I wanted to be surprised anyways. So all these factors combined made me open to many suggestions. I mean, I said it myself in my "about" page, "I see somethin I shoot somethin".
When it came time to edit this, I knew EXACTLY what I wanted to do with it. I wanted to make the photo darker and more mystical to match it's atmosphere. I gave the lanterns more light and brought a dark brush to most of the image except the path itself. Added a vignette afterwards, the sun was truly shinin' down on the path. And it's position only got better as time went on, you'll see.
As an American who's been to considerably more "gothic" cemeteries, this one didn't quite tick as hard as I thought but I still had a great time. It's still a place that teams with a similar type of essence. Of course, the Japanese have a very different relation with the deceased then we do in the west (hence my editing choices). But one thing is for sure, we both know how to house the departed well.
I love cemeteries so much.
Photo captured via Minolta Maxxum AF 50mm F/1.7 Lens. Washington's Central Cascades Range. Wenatchee/Chelan Highlands section within the North Cascades Region. Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest. Chelan County, Washington. Late October 2021.
Exposure Time: 1/25 sec. * ISO Speed: ISO-100 * Aperture: F/11 * Bracketing: None * Color Temperature: 4350 K * Plug-In: Vibrant Fall Bright - Lou & Marks * Elevation: 2,211 feet above sea-level
I am not optimistic that it will make it to produce a pumpkin as it is proving to be such a cool summer and pumpkins need a lot of warmth but I carry on hoping.
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I wen t optimistically looking for the first spring beauty but had to accept the silhouettes of transitioning pieces of forest through the final snow
Here's to the optimistic hope that the world will see more peace in 2025.
Taken @ Bella's 'Between Clouds'