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The Roman Bridge at Saint-Thibéry (French: Pont romain de Saint-Thibéry) was a Roman segmental arch bridge on the Via Domitia in southern France. The partly surviving structure crossed the river Hérault in Saint-Thibéry, 17 km east of Béziers.
The ancient bridge had nine arches with spans of 10–12 m. The roadway rested on wide piers, which were protected on both sides by arched floodways and large cutwaters. The original length of the structure is estimated as 150 m, its road width as 4 m. The missing spans are known to have been destroyed by flood some time before 1536.
The remaining arches, with a span to rise ratio of 3.3:1 (115°) or more, show a visibly flatter profile than the semi-circular arches usually preferred by Roman engineers (180°). The rib thickness varies between one-tenth to one-twentieth of the span, corresponding to a common ratio also observed at a number of other Roman stone bridges. The structure is dated to the reign of emperor Augustus (30 BC–14 AD). Immediately upstream an old water mill and its millrace is located.
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Pontocho Alley - Kyoto, Japan.
This area in the Hanamachi district of Kyoto looks magical at night when it is most vibrant and atmospheric, and the lights are on at the bars and teahouses.
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Osprey at John Chesnut Senior Park, Palm Harbor, FL
On a technical note, I did crop off the left end of the wing during photo editing because otherwise it made the osprey's face smaller and harder to see. I generally don't do that but, for this image, I felt it provided a better image.
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Otherwise known as Little Banded Goshawk, this is a medium sized ferocious raptor that attacks birds in their nests and deep inside canopy. The birds are patient and will wait for the right moment to strike. Often they attack the chicks in the nests, or even the parents. The birds are common in the countryside and seen a lot, but hard to get a decent shot.
On this day, I sighted this bird waiting on this acacia bush late evening. It was on top of it and on the side were several Baya Weaver nests hanging on the branches. The Shikra waited for about 5 mins and then dived to catch a Baya Weaver that was making a nest or was near the nest. Luckily, the weaver saw the bird and made a run for it. I couldn't see if the Shikra was successful, but I saw it 3-4 minutes later flying away to a distance without a catch. The area had several bushes and I suppose the weaver darted off inside - it would have been tough for the Shikra to chase it into a bush.
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Random view from the dark back alleys of Venice - a backlit slipper shot in an otherwise unlit walkway
Neotropic cormorant
it's nearly all-black waterbird with a snaky neck, It is smaller and longer-tailed than other cormorants, but otherwise looks very similar to the Double-crested Cormorant, and the two species often flock together. Unlike its larger cousin, it sometimes plunge-dives for fish from a few feet above the water, almost like a booby, though it dives mostly as it paddles along the water’s surface, catching fish as it darts through the water.
I need to include another photo from Ayutthaya in Thailand. Otherwise, I'll never get to all of them.
Technically, I'm standing in one of the temple buildings of Wat Mahathat, even though the outer walls are unfortunately missing.
At the end of this former hall, where the altar would be in our churches, there's a Buddha sitting.
By the way, to my left behind me is the tree with the head in its roots, which I also have a photo of.
Well, I'll show you all of them eventually. It just takes a while.
Ich muss mal wieder ein Foto von Ayutthaya in Thailand mit unterbringen. Sonst werden die nie alle.
Hier befinde ich mich technisch gesehen in einem der Tempelgebäude von Wat Mahathat, auch wenn leider die Außenwände abhanden gekommen sind.
Am Ende dieser ehemaligen Halle, wo in unseren Kirchen der Altar steht, sitzt hier ein Buddha.
Links hinter mir befindet sich übrigens der Baum mit dem Kopf in seinen Wurzeln, von dem ich auch noch eine Foto habe.
Naja, irgenwann werd ich euch die alle gezeigt haben. Es dauert eben nur etwas.
All life is inherently broken from the start, Percival. Take solace in that. There is no perfection in life. Otherwise, what would be the purpose of death? It's to try to find ways to better yourself before the end that gives us purpose. You are all broken, but also understand - mortals can achieve great things.
Bryce Canyon National Park.
Single photo taken from near Sunrise Point looking Northeast just after sunrise. This shot is from a slightly different angle than No. 3 which changed the foreground a bit, although it is very similar to No. 3 otherwise.
.... otherwise this beautiful orange reflection will disappear !
Non aprite quella porta ... altrimenti questo bel riflesso arancione sparirà!
The strange looking Myopa flies are generally early spring species. This is when I hope to meet them and in 2024 only this couple obliged. They were great models though, otherwise engaged.
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Catching the light - Looking across from the Quiraing to the unique and remarkable landscape of the Trotternish Ridge, with the summer greens on Cnòc a Mhèrlich, Cleat and Bioda Buidhe catching the light on an otherwise gloomy scene.
Isle of Skye, Scottish Inner Hebrides
This beautiful little creature is a Banded Demoiselle - Calopteryx splendens - which is a species of Damselfly to be seen flitting around the vegetation near slow running water like streams, rivers and canals and lakes where there is plenty of mud. It is interesting that they are very sensitive to pollution so are a good indication of water quality. This is a male, determined by the black patch on the wing whereas the female has a pale green translucent wing with a small white patch near the tip. They feed on insects which are caught on the wing. This one was seen resting in a reed bed, on the outskirts of Martin Mere Wetlands, Burscough, Lancashire. The out of focus patch of yellow you see is the flower of a yellow Iris which loves to grow in damp and wet soil on the edges of waterways etc.
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The Dutch have a long, unwavering history with water. Otherwise known as the Lowlands, 26% of the Netherlands’ land area is actually below sea level, while a huge 50% is only 1 meter above! These numbers mean that learning to manage water is a huge part of Dutch life – now, and throughout history. From the middle ages, the Dutch have been defending and reclaiming land from the sea. The Zuiderzee Works, IJsselmeer and the Afsluitdijk are just a few examples.
on the "Rheinsteig", receiving peace and power from mother nature, at least some hours.
but switch off your smartphone, off for such hours, otherwise Mr Putin and his war against Ukraine comes back into your brain and soul...
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than they would otherwise attain on their own.
Brassai
Katrina Sánchez Standfield is an interdisciplinary Panamanian-American artist. Through fibers and mixed materials she makes vibrant and tactile objects and installations that examine the social and environmental networks in which we function. The intersection in which we relate to ourselves, each other, and our environments is at the center of what inspires her work.
"I began exploring the labor-intensive and meditative process of darning in the interest of mending my partners' tattered and well loved jeans. Since then I've continued mended clothing for others. My hands move through the fabric, weaving thread over and under to rebuild. The wonderful textures created through mending are what influenced me to create giant magnified versions."
Located in what was the original branch of the United States Mint, Mint Museum Randolph opened in 1936 in Charlotte’s Eastover neighborhood as North Carolina’s first art museum
The beach at Rhossili (Llangennith Sands) is about 4.5 km long and lies at the foot of Rhossili Down which, at 193 meters, is the highest point on the otherwise flat Gower Peninsula. This view is from Rhossili village looking north towards Spaniard Rocks.
The Common Carder Bee - Bombus pascuorum - is a species of Bumble Bee found widespread throughout most of Europe and can be found in many habitats, feeding on a variety of wildflowers.
This Sedum plant - Sedum spectabile, now classified as Hylotelephium spectabile - is a plant in the stonecrop family Crassulaceae and is native to China and Korea. It is also known as Butterfly Stonecrop, Showy Stonecrop or Ice Plant.
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More wabi-sabi, and yet another tulip; there appears to be no end to these tulips, as I've got another dozed or so in this batch, and two more batches coming up right behind them!
What I like here is the way the petals seem to almost swirl around the curving stem, as if it were doing the twist, pointing to the two top corners, and those blue "eyes" in the pistils.
The result of a multi-image focus stack, this image should reward pretty close examination. Maximum viewing size on your computer can be found by opening the image in a separate window, making that window maximum size, typing the letter "L" on the keyboard, and then clicking the cursor as long as a '+' appears in it, typically twice.
If you find this image to your liking, you can find more wabi-sabi - and an account of my understanding of the meaning of that term - in my wabi-sabi album, more tulips in my Tulips album, and more dancing flowers in my Tiny Dancers album.
BTW, I've taken to putting a white rim around these images on black because, on my iPhone flickr app, it is otherwise difficult to discern the image's edges. I made it tiny because, while large mats look lovely on my desktop monitor, they make it hard for my tired old eyes to view an image on my iPhone's small screen.
Mynydd Pen y Fal, otherwise known as Sugarloaf mountain, as seen from the ridge between Pen Allt-Mawr and Pen Cerrig-calch in the Black Mountains of south Wales. This is the southern end of the Black Mountains, above the small town of Crickhowell. These hills form the eastern end of the Bannau Brycheiniog, the Brecon Beacons National Park. It was a lovely day with hazy sun lighting up the Llanbedr valley and picking out the trees.
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This shot on my property
The primary difference between a male and female osprey is that the female is significantly larger than the male, with a more pronounced "necklace" of dark markings on her chest, while the male has lighter chest markings, making it the most reliable visual clue to identify their sex; both otherwise share similar plumage coloration
Otherwise known as the Resplendent Quetzal.
Adult male. Worth standing all day in the rain for.
Taken in the Parque Nacional Los Quetzales cloud forest, Costa Rica.
As we know, we photographers are quite fond of opposites and contrasts.
Be it special spots of color in an otherwise rather homogeneous landscape, the play of light and shadow or, as here, very elementary things like life and death.
Here, not far from my house, right next to a dead tree, I found a wild chamomile that is still in full bloom despite the fact that autumn is already advanced.
I'm very glad I managed to take this photo last week. Because when I drove past here yesterday morning I noticed that the farmer had just plowed the field where I was standing (along with the chamomile). This beautiful foreground would no longer be available to me today.
In addition, I don't have any fog available today that would give the tree the desired effect. Once again everything was a matter of enormous luck in terms of timing.
Wir Fotografen stehen ja bekanntlich ziemlich auf Gegensätze und Kontraste.
Sei es bei besonderen Farbtupfen in einer ansonsten eher homogenen Landschaft, dem Spiel von Licht und Schatten oder aber, so wie hier, ganz elementaren Dingen wie Leben und Tod.
So habe ich hier, unweit meines Hauses, direkt neben einem toten Baum eine wilde Kamille gefunden, die trotz des bereits fortgeschrittenen Herbstes, noch in voller Blüte steht.
Ich bin sehr froh, dass es mir letzte Woche gelungen ist dieses Foto zu machen. Denn als ich gestern früh hier vorbei gefahren bin musste ich feststellen, dass der Bauer das Feld gerade umgepflügt hatte, auf dem ich gerade stehe (zusammen mit der Kamille). Dieser schöne Vordergrund würde mir heute somit nicht mehr zur Verfügung stehen.
Außerdem stände mir heute auch kein Nebel zur Verfügung, der dem Baum die gewünschte Wirkung verleiht. Enormes Glück beim Timing war hier also wieder einmal alles.
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Show a little sweetness, show a little kindness. Lord knows, there ain't enough going around these days. There's nothing wrong with empathy even though some would have us believe otherwise.
Armeria maritima; otherwise known as thrift or sea pink.
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In the Rifted Rock I'm resting,
Sure and safe from all alarm;
Storms and billows have united,
All in vain, to do me harm.
In the Rifted Rock I'm resting,
Surf is dashing at my feet,
Storm-clouds dark are o'er me hovering,
Yet my rest is all complete.
Many a stormy sea I've traversed,
Many a tempest-shock have known;
Have been driven, without anchor,
On the barren shore and lone.
Yet I now have found a haven,
Never moved by tempest shock,
Where my soul is safe for ever,
In the blessed Rifted Rock.
(Lewis T. Hartsough, 1828-1919)
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Drove past this scene yesterday in bright sunshine with a blue sky and the big Horse Chestnut stood out so well , however , got back there with a camera and no car to grab a shot and today is right grimsel & grey with everything looking well flat . Idea ! I have the little TZ60 with me so take a shot with that and it will let me do a colour pop on all of the brown/copper coloured leaves leaving an otherwise B&W shot behind .
Niagara Yard's afternoon industry road runner L035 spots one loaded TBOX at 84 Lumber's Tonawanda, NY location at last light following heavy rainfalls which left behind a small gift in the gauge.
Prior to 2022, daylight shots here were hard to come by, with steel coil customer DKP almost always being the first stop for this job on the southbound journey. DKP was located about a mile south of 84 Lumber, however on track two rather than off of track one like all the other customers L035 caters to. With the closure of Kenmore Yard's office in late 2020, this job's former iteration Y234 was moved to Niagara Falls as its base, merging with a job already based out of Niagara at the time Y203. DKP was one of the most consistently worked customers on the Branch, almost always on the three days a week it was allotted. With 84 Lumber more of as-needed stop, DKP took precedence since the remainder of the evening's work is otherwise off of track one. On days when the crew had both to work, they would do DKP first thing, spin the train at Blackrock and head back north on track one (barring a necessary shove move into the Kam Siding at CP 8), complete their northbound track one work, lock in on the Lockport Industrial Runner north of 84, run around at the end of the industrial, open back up onto track one at QDN 14.1, then work 84 Lumber as their last customer stop on the second trip south to spin again, before returning north to Niagara. In this order of operations, 84 was virtually always left in the dark. In March of 2022 CSX made sweeping symbol changes across its system, converting Y203 to L035. In summer of that year, DKP succumbed to supply chain shortages and took a pause on rail service for a brief time, returning for a few months before finally giving it up for good. Ever since, 84 Lumber is now always the first customer L035 can work going south, with no work off of track two required any longer. The only things left to work on track two are the myriad of customers jutting off of Kenmore Yard (or what's left of it), covered by first shift Niagara job Y136 these days. Both that job and L035 share the same PTC power five days a week, unless Y136 is late to return after L035 goes on duty. But that condition is only fulfilled if there are two PTC units at Niagara, which up until this year has not been a regular thing since the symbol changes in 2022. A brief history of operations for ya.
Only once in April 2021 did I ever hear of DKP skipping a day of rail service, which allowed for my first opportunity to shoot 84 Lumber, and ultimately failed as I didn't find the right path back to the tracks in time. The closest access points to the spur are either walking south straight down the right of way from the nearest road crossing, or my preferred and much more discreet method, climbing down a small embankment behind the storage unit lot directly next to 84, emerging right onto the switchback siding into the customer. On that particular occasion I instead elected to drive right into 84's lot and walk the tracks next to the building, which was met with a disgruntled employee informing me they were locking up at that moment. I was not afforded another chance for over a year till May 9th, 2022 as part of a full sunrise to sunset unforgettable day of railfanning. This was a special circumstance which saw both 84 and DKP worked back to back. Due to repaving projects for the major road crossings on the Lockport Industrial in North Tonawanda, the customers on the industrial would not be getting served that day, leaving L035 with only three customer stops all within three miles. Being up at Niagara at the time of departure, I spotted the loaded centerbeam they had with them from afar and my face lit right up when they told dispatch their first stop would be 84. Following their stop there, they would go down to CP 9 and use the handthrow crossover switches to switch to track two, then shove back north a mile to DKP. Their last stop that day was Aurubis on the Kam Siding at CP 8 after turning the train. With all three customers switched well before sunset, it was an early trip back to Niagara for the quit. That was 2022 though. The shot above is 2025. The only other thing to note is that box cars have separate designated placement spots than centerbeams for unloading. The engine doesn't normally get this deep into the spur, as half the time they work here with other cars on the head end, sticking out a bit on the curve. It certainly made for a unique angle, and one I haven't seen again this year, nor ever before that evening. The puddle reflection perfectly still between the rails was just a little bonus. I swear I never start off these posts thinking I have that much to say, but the details naturally flow forth.
"APRIL this year, not otherwise
Than April of a year ago
Is full of whispers, full of sighs,
Dazzling mud and dingy snow.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Otherwise known as Edinburgh Old Town, here it is seen from the Calton Hill in the dying light of a chilly October evening. Edinburgh probably has the most unique and spectacular skyline of any city in the UK...and it gets better still at night.
"Auld Reekie!
Wale o’ilka toun
That Scotland kens beneath the moon..."
Auld Reekie, Robert Ferguson, 1772
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