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I applaud anyone's need to move on from their past and the things they've done. I heartily congratulate anyone who has found genuine self-forgiveness and happiness.
I would only hope that as part of their journey, they pause to reflect on the actual harm they caused others. I know I do.
Real forgiveness requires acknowledgement that a wrong has been done. The words "I'm sorry" are overused, tired, but always welcomed.
Until then, you can never truly let it go.
Happy Macro Mondays~ Damaged and Melted in the Oven. Probably overused oven during the pandemic. :-). HMM!!
“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Feels like summer! Love to wear again my handmade necklaces for the summer because the sun makes the metal burn my skin, so I don't use gold/silver chains. These are easy to make, inexpensive, and are beautiful to pair with my anklets. A little overused this one! 😉
When visiting a flowery perch many warblers will forage for small insects amongst the flowers. When a bird is comfortable enough to visit your perch and stays long enough to forage and/or sing then you not only get a better photography opportunity but that means the bird is relatively comfortable despite your efforts. Overuse of playback in the Spring season rarely leads to such good opportunities.
Photo snapped with my phone on my early morning walk on January 1st (smoke contributed to the mist from the previous night's "overuse" of fireworks). "Celebratory" 😠 gun shots had kept me awake until 4:00 a.m.
'Be yourself!' is, in my opinion, a cliche and overused saying that is thrown around far too easily and carelessly. [read more...]
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Georgia. This week this species has been arriving and its song has been added to the growing chorus of new arrivals! P1ne Warbler and Ch1pping Sparr0w have similar songs and every year I get better at telling their songs apart but they still can confuse one at times especially when awaiting the season's first WEWA!. All three of those species can be found breeding in the same general area here.
This was a fun set-up with the flowers growing on top of a small knoll. Not all WEWA are so cooperative but this guy was relatively easy to place where I wanted so I did a couple completely different set-ups. Still there was a time to walk away and leave the bird. He was still singing the same place 2 days later when I drove by. For this one I simply placed the perch on the knoll, cleaned up the background and positioned the speaker where I felt best. The other important intangible is how and when you use calls to place the bird. That is where many go wrong and overuse them or improperly use them. The use of calls is both science and art and poorly understood by many. I didn't know what I was doing when I first started years ago. It is much more complex than simply playing a song especially when endeavoring to do photography with set-ups. Every species requires a different strategy based on the bird's tendencies and habits. Just having the right camera gear and knowing how to use that gear is not enough when using set-ups for warblers in the field.
I read a news story recently about the depth of the decline in Monarch butterfly populations, due to overuse of insecticides, loss of milkweed (which is essential to their lifecycle) and declining habitat, among other reasons.
The numbers are quite alarming. According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the eastern population in North America, which supports about 90% of the population globally, declined from about 384 million in 1996 to 60 million in 2019. The smaller western North American population declined from about 1.2 million in 1997 to fewer than 30,000 last year. And according to a preliminary count, there may be only about 2,000 Monarchs overwintering along California's coast this year!
When I read those numbers, it reminded me of a visit that my wife and I made to Pacific Grove, California, in 2012. It's one of the places on California's central coast where thousands of Monarch butterflies could traditionally be seen clustering together on pines, cypress and eucalyptus trees to spend the winter months.
Here's a shot from that visit. Efforts are underway by conservation groups to preserve the Monarch species. I hope that they are successful, and that scenes like this are not of the kind that will soon be disappearing entirely.
On the 3rd day of my journey south I pulled over to let those in a hurry pass by and to take a moment to feel where I was.
Dimly lit forests make such good subjects for my Slow Shutter app ... and this one was particularly dark and creepy.
There was only one, much overused (by me), but somehow completely appropriate tune to put to it.
The girl was never there, it's always the same ...
Hikers walk towards a bend in the Paria River that has carved out a massive alcove over the millennia. Note the top of the alcove is not the top of the canyon, which reaches up above in the upper left of the photo. Note also the small green patch 2/3rds of the way up on the left side where a spring emerges from the Navajo Sandstone.
The narrowness of the canyon coupled with periodic floods makes human habitation impractical. There are some pictographs and petroglyphs in a couple of places but there's no indication Puebloan cultures farmed in the canyon or built dwellings. One of the first recorded trips through the canyon was given by John D. Lee in 1870. Lee was banished to the lower reaches of the Paria River (Lonely Dell) by the Mormon Church because of his role in the Mountain Meadows massacre in 1857. Lee drove his cattle through the canyon for 3 days straight without stopping as he felt there was no place safe to camp. Today travel is regulated to help sustain the character and environment of the canyon in the face of potential overuse.
Agriculture - Vintage Disc Cultivator.
Before invention of the modern tractor, disc harrows typically consisted of two sections, which were horse-drawn and had no hydraulic power. These harrows were often adjustable so that the discs could be changed from their offset position. Straightening the discs allowed for transport without ripping up the ground; also, they were not as difficult to pull. Overuse of disc harrows (called "disc plows") in the High Plains of the United States in the early 20th century may have contributed to the "Dust Bowl".
One of any number of ornamental St John's wort which are chronically overused in PNW gardens, it does provide great colors in fall
There is a title that could be easily overused. With tides in and out each day, the ever changing landscape of what is left, becomes a veritable treasure trove of possibilities. This shot comes from the Vancouver mainland and White Rock to be more specific. The ocean side pier and low tide drew me in like a magnet.
After an hour or more and multiple compositions, this one best represented the time spent at low tide. The combination of sand treasures strewn about contrasted with the precision of the pier. As well, the dark, rich brown color of the sand also contrasted nicely with the white clouds. The point of view even delivered some subtle reflections in the puddles under the boardwalk. Of course, all this would change tomorrow which is what made this moment special.
In a "bird-rich" state like Florida, does the commonplace northern mockingbird deserve to reign as the official state bird?
According to the Florida Department of State Division of Historical Resources, the Mockingbird "is a superb songbird and mimic. Its own song has a pleasant lilting sound and is, at times, both varied and repetitive." The bird was put in place in 1927 under Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 3. The bird won over the Legislature in part because "the melody of its music has delighted the heart of residents and visitors to Florida from the days of the rugged pioneer to the present comer."
Someone else once wrote. "I am finishing this post the next day because I had to go buy a new computer after I threw my last one out the window when I read that Florida's state bird was the northern mockingbird. I cannot think of a more pathetic choice for one of the most bird-rich states in the nation. What's their state beverage, a half-glass of warm tap water?"
"The fact stands that four other states have the same official bird; Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee and Texas. It's as overused as the northern cardinal (five states) and the western meadowlark (six states), and some make the convincing argument that every state should have its own bird."
Who would have ever "thunk" the Mockingbird could stir up so much controversy. The debate still "rages"!
I found this controversial little one along Joe Overstreet Road in Osceola County, Florida preparing to share its pleasant lifting sound to the world.
I swore I would never use this title (which I feel is overused to render it trite), but this bull elk's physique and pose struck me as nothing else but majestic. He had just sent his harem over the hill to help secure them away from a couple of other bulls, one of whom had acquired the harem for a few minutes while this guy was keeping a nimnod photographer (not me) in check.
I was surprised to see a harem at treeline (11,500'/ 3500m) in mid-September, but the weather this year has been warm and the senescence of many of the wetland plants has been slow, providing good forage.
east side of Rocky Mountain National Park
A Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) resting in a cottonwood tree after its own Thanksgiving celebration of prairie dog sushi. Bald Eagle numbers in our area have climbed substantially in the past 40 years following their near extinction from overuse of DDT in the mid 20th century. It's hard to believe that they only started nesting in Colorado in 2000 - there are now around 200 nest sites and numbers of Bald Eagles have quadrupled in Colorado since 2009.
An expression, idea, or element of an artistic work that has become overused to the point of losing its original meaning or effect, even to the point of being trite or irritating, especially when at some earlier time it was considered meaningful or novel. Wikipedia.
So what!
Wouldn't it be great to share your name with one of natures beautiful creatures, well luckily, I do. Although my beautiful creature is a fly!
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So called because it usually emerges on St Marks day, 25th April. The ones I saw today obviously forgot it's a Leap year.
See I also share my name with a Saint! That's about as close as it is likely to get though!
Final rambling for today, and this is awful!
What do you call an overcooked fried egg that's overjoyed it's no longer runny?
Answers on a postcard and the lucky winner will receive a virtual reality!
From last Thursday on the way up Loftus quarries.
Wanted to title it, hashtag no filter, but then it's a bit overused these days...
Anyway, 'it is what it is' as the say in the trade...
Shot on a recent 2nd hand, 50 quid, 10 year old Lumix, no filter.
Yours truly, under the influence of Topaz Studio 2, a great, but sadly now discontinued, utility with a storehouse of effects just begging to be overused.
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Durch Zufall entdeckte ich diesen Hirschkäfer und habe ihn dann lange Zeit beobachtet. Der Hirschkäfer versuchte den Baum hoch zu klettern, scheiterte aber immer wieder. Als ich ca. zwei Std später wieder auf dem Rückweg vorbei kam versuchte er immer noch sein Glück. Kurz darauf hat er aufgegeben und krabbelte in Richtung Fußweg. Da mußte ich dann eingreifen und ihn tiefer in den Wald bringen, denn der Fußweg wird zu stark von Radfahrern benutzt und ist einfach zu gefährlich.
I discovered this stag beetle by accident and then observed it for a long time. The stag beetle tried to climb the tree but kept failing. When I stopped by on the way back about two hours later, he was still trying his luck. After a moment he gave up and crawled to the footpath. So I had to step in and take it deeper into the forest as the footpath is overused by cyclists and just too dangerous.
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The Common Nighthawk (Chordeiles minor) used to be a common find within most Canadian communities, but now it’s a threatened species. Annual breeding bird surveys show a population decline with numbers decreasing every year. Causes may include changes in land use and overuse of pesticides. Copyright © Kim Toews/All Rights Reserved.
If you would like to try this effect, check out the YouTube video “The Van Gogh Effect with Photoshop Elements”. It is not called the Van Gogh effect, and you need to go through a few steps.
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this curled paper filter was overused on flickr several years back, so i hesitated to add it, but the original image does nothing for me without it.
BNSF 289 leads H-GFDNTW9-23A into Big Lake on a pleasant January afternoon.
Might need some weed control and a change of billboards at some point.
I know, this spot gets a bit overused, but hey, it's really convenient.
H-GFDNTW9-23A
BNSF 289 - SD75M
BNSF 295 - SD75M
BNSF 2681 - GP39-3
I posted these two images side by side in an attempt to convey the strangeness of this reconstructed landscape.
Surreal is an overused term, but in this case it may be the best word to describe this vast area of human created bronze Elk, trimmed trees, meadows, and murky pipe filled "lake" (retention pond).
Here my Minolta SRT 201 is working fine without the shutter problem seen in the previous shot, because this picture was shot at a lower speed.
I'm not terribly serious with this frame thing just awfully bored this evening. Besides, I have yet to do justice to this particular image, the light is quite subtle and with every previous attempt so far I've managed to destroy it. In fact it's taken me a while to realise that overuse of the clarity feature on LR is probably the single fastest route to ruin an image. It's like eating a bag of jelly babies right before you go to bed, you decide to eat one and before you come to your senses you've scoffed the lot! So here we are with a glass of mint tea instead.
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Hanauma is a marine embayment formed within a tuff ring and located along the southeast coast of the Island of Oʻahu in the Hawaii Kai neighborhood of East Honolulu, in the Hawaiian Islands. Hanauma is one of the most popular tourist destinations on the Island and has suffered somewhat from overuse. Wikipedia
The bee's knees
Gardens are vital for urban and suburban bees, with the right planting they can give a boost to early emerging bees and be hotspots for these insects throughout the year
Over 250 species
We have around 267 species of bee in the UK! These include 1 species of honey bee and 25 bumblebee species, the rest (around 90%) are solitary bees.
Bees provide an important service, they pollinate our crops allowing us to grow plants such as tomatoes, blueberries, strawberries and green beans.
Bees and other pollinators have seen dramatic declines over the past 80 years as a result of habitat loss, disease and the overuse of pesticides. Gardens have therefore become even more important for bees.
If you look at a flower up close, a completely different world suddenly opens up. Suddenly shapes appear that at first glance hardly look like flowers.
That's what happened to me here too, with this Gaillardia. I immediately had the image of a blazing fire in my mind. Or maybe the inside of a volcano. To be precise, the term hellfire immediately came to mind. But as an atheist, I didn't want to overuse this term here. I've probably watched too many horror movies.
They are very special journeys of discovery for which we don't even have to leave our homes.
And so I wish you an exciting week with new and interesting discoveries. And when it gets cold outside, take another look at this flower. Maybe this imaginary fire can at least warm you up a little from the inside.
Betrachtet man eine Blume aus der Nähe, eröffnet sich plötzlich eine ganz andere Welt. Plötzlich tauchen Formen auf, die auf den ersten Blick kaum wie Blumen aussehen.
Das ist mir hier auch passiert, mit dieser Malerblume. Ich hatte sofort das Bild eines lodernden Feuers vor Augen. Oder vielleicht das Innere eines Vulkans. Um genau zu sein, fiel mir sofort der Begriff Höllenfeuer ein. Doch als Atheist wollte ich diesen Begriff hier nicht überstrapazieren. Ich habe wahrscheinlich zu viele Horrorfilme gesehen.
Es sind ganz besondere Entdeckungsreisen, für die wir nicht einmal unser Zuhause verlassen müssen.
Und so wünsche ich Euch eine spannende Woche mit neuen und interessanten Entdeckungen. Und wenn es draußen kalt wird, schauen Euch doch diese Blume nochmal an. Vielleicht kann dieses imaginäre Feuer Euch ja zumindest von innen etwas aufwärmen.
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oh well really this is just red paint and my sheer insanity at its best..or worst?
this is what happens when it's midnight and i'm not tired and i feel like procrastinating on my summer assignments.
and i know red paint is (once again) terribly overused, but what else can you expect from me? i'm on this creativity drought. so sorry if this is copying anyone's idea, because it's certainly not meant to.
Captured from the top deck of The Belle of Cincinnati at dusk. The double track bridge is the heaviest railroad bridge in America. The overused Brent Spence Bridge is in the background.
I was glad to see a healthy population of these spiders at Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge. I even have one at my house this year. I used to have lots at my house, but none for the past several years. I think the decline is due to the overuse of pesticides in general. I was glad to have one back by my garage. People also refer to these spiders as zipper spiders due the the Zipper in the web.
“There is no such thing as magic. It is a word. A silly, foolish, overused word. There is only your aura...or the Chinese have a better word for it: qi. A life force. An energy. This is the energy that flows within you. It can be shaped, molded, directed.”
― Michael Scott
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I'm not entirely sure what I was trying to do with this picture - most of the batch were terrible but but I quite like the way this one turned out.
I'm aware how much I use shallow depth of field, but I don't want to overuse it, so this month I'm going to try taking more pictures with a greater depth of field or a more even focus.
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This particular spot, at Ruakura in Hamilton, in the closest railway line to where I live. Naturally, that means it is also the most visited, and thus the most overused. In the never ending search for something other than a plain wedge shot, I have found myself trying some strange things...
As I have shown in some of my previous photos, I quite like the depth of field style, a bit like this. So, I have tried nearly every sign, rock or flower around here to find something, anything nice. The best I've gotten so far is the image above, which has a nice low perspective that is different to many of my other attempts.
A shame about the boring (but not surprising) DL, but otherwise a decent shot, I think.
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Durch Zufall entdeckte ich diesen Hirschkäfer und habe ihn dann lange Zeit beobachtet. Der Hirschkäfer versuchte den Baum hoch zu klettern, scheiterte aber immer wieder. Als ich ca. zwei Std später wieder auf dem Rückweg vorbei kam versuchte er immer noch sein Glück. Kurz darauf hat er aufgegeben und krabbelte in Richtung Fußweg. Da mußte ich dann eingreifen und ihn tiefer in den Wald bringen, denn der Fußweg wird zu stark von Radfahrern benutzt und ist einfach zu gefährlich.
I discovered this stag beetle by accident and then observed it for a long time. The stag beetle tried to climb the tree but kept failing. When I stopped by on the way back about two hours later, he was still trying his luck. After a moment he gave up and crawled to the footpath. So I had to step in and take it deeper into the forest as the footpath is overused by cyclists and just too dangerous.
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The 1909 Terra cotta Alwyn Court Apartments on 58th St and 7th Avenue.I had totally forgotten about this building which was one of the ones I wanted to check out.I knew however that there was something on 58th St,but didn't know what,so I kept it in the back of my big head just in case.Good thing I did.When I arrived at the street I looked up...and the stunning edifice was directly over my head.I was wowed,to say the least!The 12-story building is another Harde & Short designs (scroll four photos down to see the other).Talk about the overuse (or overdose,if you will) of terra cotta ornamentation!The developers Alwyn Ball Jr and Walter Russell held nothing back on this one.In fact,one of them (Russell) fell into bankruptcy and was unable to finish the building.Again,the well-to-do back then were targeted to live in this apartment building.The French Renaissance style building had two apartments per floor,most with fourteen rooms and five baths.One apartment boasted thirty-two rooms and went for $22,000 a year (that's right) at the time!The wealthy tenants who lived in the building could customize their apartments also if they wanted.One tenant had paneling from a French chateau installed and others had billiard rooms or "music conservatories" in theirs. daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2010/07/extravagant-terra-...
And she mixed the old with the new, the grays with the colors and the dust with shine...
After all, steel looks plain without a little rust. :)
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I don't know why I haven't posted this one here yet. It's long overdue, having been shared on RP long ago when I used to use that site.
10 units - count 'em - curl north with 113 empty coal hoppers about to cross pony truss bridge over Bird Creek at MP 86.5 on the Alaska Division Mainline. Adjacent traffic on the Seward Highway seems totally unaware of the historic nature of the train beside them, which is by far the largest unit train ever run by the ARR. It is, in fact, 1 ½ normal trains!
Two days prior day high winds had shut down dumping operations in Seward with one train only half empty. The road crew turned out with 4 units and half the train. Meanwhile, the following day the other consist (ARR had two 75 car unit coal trains cycling around the clock at that time) showed up. It was dumped successfully and doubled up with the other half still in Seward and came north to Anchorage as a monster train stretching 7000 ft in length!
I was the Superintendent of Transportation for the whole railroad at the time and in conjunction with my chief dispatcher (an ex Espee man who wasn't scared of big trains) and with approval of our Director of Operating Practices (a legendary ex BN General Roadforeman out of Alliance in Powder River coal train country) we did the unprecedented.
My boss...the VP and COO (who had never worked anywhere else) was not amused however (despite the flawless run) and a train of this size was not ever repeated. Fast forward to today and export coal trains are but a memory, the hoppers have almost all been sold off, and the entire Seward unloading shed, stacker reclaimed, conveyor and ship loader have been slated for demolition and removal this year forever ending any hope of a return.
While the phrase is often overused in this case it is apt as this was truly a once in a lifetime occurence...never to happen again!
Bird Creek
Municipality of Anchorage, Alaska
Sunday December 12, 2010
I don't think there are any spots on the railway line 213 Reda-Hel which would me more overused than this one. No wonder - a nice vantage point is provided by a small hill, showing the train in evening light, as it runs along the Bay of Puck (read as: Putsk). Further back, the skyline of Puck is also visible, dominated by the church of Saint Peter and Paul, constructed in the 14th century.
Due to its reputation as an overphotographed place, I had avoided this place like fire since my last visit around 2014. Since then, a bit has changed here - more bushes have grown on the trackside and there's a billboard preventing us from photographing at a wider angle.
We decided to visit this place with Michał, as I was showing him around the area and we were right near it anyways. This way the picture of the retro-painted 'Polsat' SU42-518 with the afternoon 90525 Gdynia Gł. - Hel regional train could be made, as it was leaving Puck and heading towards Swarzewo.
Photo by Piotrek/Toprus