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Lions / Löwen (Panthera leo)
in Tarangire N.P., Tanzania, Africa
March is always a winter month for us. But there's something different in the air. We feel it, we smell it and finally we can watch it. Frost and fogs don't leave us. But the light of sunrise is quite different. I can feel and see the warmth despite of -19 Celsius outside.....
Thank you for all your comments and favs, my friends.
Taken on the descent from Aran Fawddwy. It had been overcast all day, then while descending Hengwm a bright shaft of light suddenly and very briefly pierced the clouds illuminating one area of the cwm.
Apologies to all concerned for sudden absence, but ill-health has stopped me in my tracks again. Hope to be back on form as soon as possible but doing what I can when I can. Enjoy the weekend.
Terlingua is a small town outside the western edge of Big Bend National Park in Far West Texas, not far from the border with Mexico. I spent a couple of hours in Terlingua at the auto shop getting my tire patched from the u-shaped hook I had picked up in Big Bend. I knew this since the guy at the tire shop showed it to me. I had already spent a couple of days limping through the vast park.
Far West Texas is vast and remote. This is somewhere near Terlingua on the road north, beginning the long portion of my trip back home, or at least in that direction. I still had a few more days to go before driving home. All is well with a repaired tire and a cooler of drinks and food to carry me through.
Explore #449 - July 28, 2016
Floating Garden Observatory is situated at the top floor of Umeda Sky Building in Osaka, Japan. The building is one of the leading landmarks of Osaka Prefecture. The place is probably one of the most rare places around the world. This is because there is no glass in front and so that the images of night landscape can be perfectly well taken!! The visitors stand outside at the top floor and can see a 360 degree magnificent cityscape. This is a place I would love to recommend any Osaka visitors to go! A Winter season would be better to visit due to a clear air and less people. It would be cold but I will visit again. Join me! Please do not disturb loving couples. It is a highly romantic place too. :D
Here we go it's time to say goodbye and I've reached the other side, I did things I never dreamed of, explored the world of wonder in Patagonia where the magic never ends.
Time to go out and make your moment, make a few memories on the way, life is unfolding, it's happening right before my eyes, on the road to paradise
Inside we feel the fire blazing, take me outside and I feel so amazing, rain or shine, I won't give up the fight, the light is just another step away
You will capture things you never dreamed of, get to explore the world of wonder, where the magic never ends
Here we go it's time to say goodbye and I've reached the other side, life is unfolding, it's happening right before my eyes, on the road to paradise.
Chet Faker – I’m into you
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuX2MkflGYs
I’m back visiting family in my hometown of Forster for my grandmothers 90th birthday and took the opportunity of a rainless morning to get outside for a shoot before this weekends forecasted big wet.
I grasped the artistry of photography many years ago by committing to countless mornings standing on rocks with rushing water around me and it's been with me since.
Today, with many more shots behind me, I still regard seascapes as one of the most challenging yet rewarding breeds of photographic expression. With so many variables at play at any one time seascapes demand careful attention and are immensely enjoyable.
It’s been a while since I’ve been out for a seascape so climbing around the rocks on Burgess Beach at Forster in the dark this morning was a good change and brought back some nice memories of times I've spent here before. A lot has changed since then and I think I'm slowly accepting that.
Shot with the new Nikon D810 and a Carl Zeiss 15mm Distagon T* with a B+W circular polariser.
View large and, as always, thanks for looking!
Dear Diary,
do you remember the last time-lost-in-time when I used to write things in-on you? Lifetime(s) ago, yet just a rain of drops-days on my aged back...
I don't know exactly what to tell you, but a silent friend made of virgin paper was a recurrent idea til today. You're true, it's no paper (I still use, though: don't point your finger!), and ticking on a keyboard is not exactly what it should be; but times change, just as hearts and people, faster than ever, and an electronic sheet is suitable as well for this intent. Will it work? I don't know. Will I know more about me? I don't know. Will I remain here, staring at you just as I did with white walls for poetry, for a long while. I just-don't-know. So listen.
All of a sudden the world becomes a huge spectacular ball to my eyes. Rethoric, maybe generated by the curiosity for astronomical things of my seven year old daughter Sara.
We were in the car, on sunday. The sun already fallen, a few stars shimmering above the luminous polluted horizon. "It's not a star", I said, when she pointed at the biggest white dot. "It's Jupiter, a big planet".
She started asking many questions. Once we get home I grabbed for her the encyclopedia, solar system volume. Both emotioned, we looked for Jupiter. "What is this black dot, daddy?" "It's the shadow of one of the four main satellites, love" "And the big red thing bigger that the Earth?" "Here, look. It's a rotating tempest that will never end..."
Weeks ago (before my own personal storm) we spent a beautiful day in a mountain wood, looking for some chestnut to roast after dinner. All the girls were happy, half legs covered with humid leaves. When we had enough, while we rested and ate some bread and Nutella on a concrete's bench and table in the shady yellow atmosphere, I placed a chestnut in a nicely lit spot, for a macro shot. When focusing and framing were ok, a little happy green bug appeared, walking thoughtless on the sheer brown surface. It seemed like a stubborn astronaut, proudly exploring what must have seemed a little planet's surface ...
We all are so little, not so silently standing on this runaway train called life.
We want anything, yet we cannot.
We constantly vacillate on the edge of our dreams just like fragile dwellers, trying to look/taste/hear far more than we can.
Knowing (life on Earth is one).
Knowing not (what really lies after/outside).
Endlessly rotating around this dichotomy; endlessly, just like the big red thing on Jupiter.
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Norðurland eystra, Ísland
An Icelandic morning dawns, as seen from the banks of the Laxá í Aðaldal (English "Salmon River") which flows out of Mývatn (English "Midge Lake") in northeastern Iceland.
Another image from the lily pond of the Old Harbour Hotel in Kochi. This time I wanted to make certain that I also included the lily pad which I think is so pretty as well.
This is an early morning shot. 20sec exposure give this special look. The graveyard dates back to 1791 and lies very close to the sea. The old church was torn by the Germans during WWII. The chapel was build in 1951.
We decided to visit the church we like a lot on the day before Christmas. It was pretty cold and sunny outside. Some minutes of photography and that's it, we want a cup of hot tea and warm our hands up. We were kindly invited to the church, where had an interesting conversation to a good key keeper. The church, that is lost in the woods, has not many visitors as we know. So every Christian is welcomed here...
An another panorama of 12 shots without tripod. Approximately 11000x5000 pixels.
Thank you for all the comments and favs, my friends.
During the autumn the deer "rut" (breeding season) takes place. The Red stags and Fallow bucks compete for females.
The males roar, bark and clash antlers to fight off rivals and attract as many females as possible.
Do not touch, feed or photograph the deer at close range.
The above was extracted from the Richmond Park website.
I shot this deer before the morning mist had cleared and the deer's breath formed clouds around it.
Please View Large On Black, and any comments or consturctive criticism are welcome
Made Explore. Highest position: 8 on Monday, July 20, 2009. Thanks to you all.
The poppies and corn marigolds in flower on West Pentire Headland, Crantock, Cornwall.
For me a big surprise, but later i heard, that the headland of West Pentire was described as one of the most colourful places in the world, due to the striking wildflowers during June.
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About twenty feet wide.....the type where you'd see water sprites hanging out...maybe in the spot of sun on the mossy rock...
It was my little corner of the world for awhile.
Thanks for your visit, enjoy your weekend!!!....Pat...xo
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Snow on the ground and cold temps, about 20+ degrees during the day.....but I'm enjoying an almost daily walk outside..
El Palacio de Congresos y Auditorio Kursaal es un complejo arquitectónico constituido de un gran auditorio, una gran sala de cámara, salas polivalentes y salas de exposiciones proyectado por Rafael Moneo y situado en San Sebastián (País Vasco, España). Se inauguró en 1999, y es, desde entonces, la sede principal del Festival de Cine de San Sebastián.
El término Kursaal proviene de las palabras alemanas Kur ('cura') y Saal ('sala, salón') y significa por tanto etimológicamente 'sala de curas'. Un Kursaal o Kurhaus era un elemento arquitectónico típico de los balnearios decimonónicos centroeuropeos. Por su función se trataba de un edificio multiusos. El edificio incluía generalmente un suntuoso hall de entrada, salón de baile, sala de teatros, salas de conciertos, salas de juegos y restaurantes. En los balnearios el Kursaal se convertía en el edificio más importante y representativo del mismo y en el centro de su vida social. El nombre Kursaal pasó a utilizarse para edificios con funciones similares en los lugares de veraneo de toda la costa europea, yendo usualmente unidos a los casinos de juegos. El nombre Kursaal se utilizó principalmente en Alemania, Bélgica y los Países Bajos, mientras que en Francia este tipo de edificios se denominaban Casino.
El Gran Kursaal Marítimo de San Sebastián o Gran Kursaal a secas fue un suntuoso palacio inaugurado en 1921, en la tradición de los kursaales o casinos europeos. El palacio se situó frente a la playa de Gros y junto a la desembocadura del río Urumea en terrenos ganados al mar. Los promotores de la construcción tuvieron que construir entre otras obras un puente para unir el Kursaal con el centro de la ciudad. Este nuevo puente, oficialmente puente de la Zurriola, pero conocido popularmenente como puente del Kursaal, se convirtió en una de las estampas más típicas de la ciudad por sus farolas con cuerpo cónico y una enorme linterna superior con forma esférica.
El Gran Kursaal incorporaba un casino de juego, un restaurante, salas de cine y diversas salas complementarias, así como un teatro con capacidad para 859 espectadores. El edificio sufrió numerosas vicisitudes durante sus 50 años de historia, especialmente debido a la prohibición del juego durante muchos años, por lo que se tuvo que dedicar a actividades menos lucrativas que las que se habían previsto inicialmente como el teatro, cine, etc.
Al ser un edificio de titularidad privada, sus propietarios trataron de rentabilizar el privilegiado solar donde se ubicaba y en la década de los años 60 se iniciaron proyectos para derribar el edificio y construir otro edificio dedicado a otros fines; a pesar de que para entonces el Gran Kursaal era ya uno de los edificios más emblemáticos de la ciudad.
Se convocó un concurso público de proyectos y se aprobó un primer proyecto en 1965, pero debido a la dificultad de construcción del mismo, se optó por desecharlo. Un nuevo proyecto fue presentado en 1972 y entonces sí se llevó a cabo el cierre y derribo del edificio. Era el año 1973.
Oyceros birostris
a common hornbill on the Indian subcontinent. It is mostly arboreal and is commonly sighted in pairs. They have grey feathers all over the body with a light grey or dull white belly. The horn is black or dark grey with a casque extending up to the point of curvature in the horn.
Indian Grey Hornbills usually form their nest in tree holes. A peculiar characteristic of this bird is that the female stays inside the nest and the male seals the nest hole leaving only a small hole for feeding the female. In this way they safeguard the eggs and hatchlings. While inside the nest, the female will pluck out all her feathers and throw them outside the nest so that it can maintain the required space along with the growing chicks. The regrowth of the feathers in the female coincides with the maturity of the chicks at which point the nest is broken open.
These birds usually feeds on fruits including a variety of figs (Ficus spp.) and occasionally on small insects, lizards, small snakes etc.
She calls you in doesn't she? Its so inviting to continue, but the treacherous water has other plans.
This image is a panorama in hopes of keeping a high level of detail for printing large, and to simply capture the depth of the Gorge. The tripod was on logs that were moving (just a little, but that's all it takes), and in the rain. Still, I hope this one will print well.
One last funny tidbit. While out there we spotted something moving in the foliage on the side of the cliff. It was a spotted skunk! How the heck did he get there? Even more interesting he scrambled his way to the water and with a little hesitation he jumped in! I had no idea skunks could swim. We started quickly forming a plan to help him but he needed no help, he was confidently navigating the waters to the other side. Meanwhile I was trying had to unpack my gear, put on the big zoom and get a shot. I did mange to get a decent one of him on the other side, soaked and looking more like a ferret than a skunk at that point. He actually posed for me. He was scrambling and then stopped, turned his head to look at us, waited is if he was giving me the one shot I wanted, and then under some plants and gone. I loved the moment and was glad to get a shot, but I paid the price. My bag and gear did not fare so well, in the scramble the inside of my bag got wet and so did all the equipment. Some of my lenses are not weather sealed. So we had a dry out party at the house that night. All was fine.
I know people say this all the time, but you should view this on black. :)
FP Explore#3
LARGE is better for the scale and uncompressed view
After the whiskey bar, right outside was this beautiful view.
DRI- Simple processing. The buildings and bridge from a single RAW tuned for 2 different exposures and blended. Water /reflection from a single long exposure - f22