The weather has been absolutely shocking on the island over recent weeks with near constant and relentless rainfall. One small silver lining to all this depressing rain is that the islands many rivers have been running much higher than normal and have looked particularly dramatic for us photographers. This image was taken at Ballaglass and shows the gorge flooded with crashing water with the wonderful autumnal hues in the canopy above 🍂

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52 weeks of 2022

Week #11 ~ Portraits of Emotion

The fall colours in the Pacific Northwest this year have been the most varied and vivid that I have ever seen. It's been a fall filled with overwhelming sights.

Grated sharp cheder cheese for the Looking Close on Friday challenge: Cheese.

Totay, Overwhelm the World with LOVE #No Hate Sign hanging from the window as people marched on the State House a few blocks away.

The Overwhelm by Meilo Minotaur at Ribong gallery

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Late summer overwhelms us with an unparalleled splendor of colors. Colors that are very familiar to us and warm our hearts. These are so ingrained in us that I couldn't resist the experiment of consciously omitting these colors. I would greatly appreciate constructive comments on the composition of the image. I wish all Flickr users an exciting photography autumn!

midjourney creation

inspired by Caspar David Friedrich

Canon FD 50mm f1.4 SSC

Psalm 143:4: “Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.”

Bilbao, 2016

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A shot of storm waves at Porthcawl as they overtop the harbour wall and lighthouse. A different composition to most of the images from this location, but I though that it tells more of a story about the lighthouse and the effect these waves have. This is a view from the RNLI station - I wouldn't fancy launching in this.....but they do!! . I dug this out of my archive from last year, but thought it still relevant given the recent storms. I enjoyed editing this today in Lr for the first time since it was taken. Canon EOS 5D MkIII, Canon 70mm-200mm f2.8 L II IS USM - ISO400/f11/1/400sec

I'm stuck self-torturing

My meds are failing me

Internal clock in smithereens

Can't fix this

I'm hopeless

My eyes are stapled open wide

As I lay down on my side

I am bouncing off these walls

Notice my hands begin to twitch

Unprovoked assaulting of my conscious wit

Me and the TV are enemies

Sickening static surrounds my mind

I'm losing time

And realizing that after days of thought that

I'm stuck self-torturing

My meds are failing me

Internal clock in smithereens

Can't fix this

I'm hopeless

My eyes are stapled open wide

As I lay down on my side

I am bouncing off these walls

As I focus on the clock

Time stands still, but I cannot

I should strap myself in bed

I guess I'll sleep when I am dead

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Somewhat overwhelmed by the leaves, this marigold flower still asserts itself, At Broom's Bloom restaurant, Harford County, Maryland, USA.

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After getting home from work, overwhelmed, stressed and ready to flop on my bed... the phone rings... its ...HIM....i answer..."hello?"... on the other end..his deep, commanding voice responds...."hey baby... ill be by in 10 min... pack a bag for the weekend"....images of entangled nights and blissful mornings..race thru my mind... he hangs up abruptly...snapping me out of my daze....I gasp...as excitement rushes thru my body.. a little skip and hop in my step.. hurriedly smashing clothes in my weekend bag..... wide grin curling at the corners of my mouth...several minutes later, I hear his key unlock the front door ...his voice booming...."Where is baby? Lets go! Flight leaves in 3 hrs..."..i respond.. "almost done Daddy!".. he moves to collect my things... after our flight and arrival at Hotel Plaza Athenee.. he leads me to a balcony in our penthouse suite...overlooking the city... now held in his arms... safe..free.. happy... longing in Paris....

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BENNY:

She likes me

It is true!

Daisy Maude likes me

I can't believe it

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The girls are really really messy, and Penny is just getting a little too overwhelmed...it's not easy being an OCD person living with a bunch of sloppy sisters!

I am overwhelmed: more than 40000 hits and more than 1000 favorites. Many thanks to all of you!!!

My third image that has made it in "explore"....Thanks a lot!

Had some luck, as the bridge by car and rail traffic has wavered.

Single image, no bracketing or HDR.

Postprocessing with LR CC.

You will be overwhelmed by the thick forest of overgrown trees after entering the precinct of Meiji Jinguu (神宮内苑) through the Torii gate. The trees do not look like those in gardens but like those in nature protected areas.

The area currently occupied by the shrine used to be a field. The forest was created when the shrine was constructed in 1920. It was an experiment to create an "artificial" natural forest initiated by a biologist.

It is a tradition to plant and care conifer trees such as cedar, pine and cypress at least along the approach road. Instead in Meiji Jinguu, various trees including conifer trees were planted at the beginning, but they have been kept untouched without human intervention to provoke a process of ecological succession.

This photo is the result after 100 years.

Shade intolerant trees like pine are all gone, and the forest is now dominated by evergreen broadleaf trees such as oak, camphor and chinquapin.

The vegetation is roughly the same as those found in nature protected areas in the vicinity of Tokyo. Hence, the forest is regarded to have reached the climax (final) stage of ecological succession.

I'm overwhelmed with the kind response to this shot with 100 people adding it as a fav. Thank you all~!

This shot was a couple of hundred yards from where I was born and raised. Behind this scene is a wood which in a couple of weeks will be ablaze with bluebells. I will make time to go back.

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And so all of your suffering

And all of your pain

All of your pleasures

And all of your gain

All of your losses

All of your pastures

All of your plains

All of your fields

All of your bodies

All of your joys

All of your countries

All of your flags

And all of your waters

All of your tunnels

All of your worlds

All of your seahorses

All of your breasts

All of your beasts

All of your dustmotes

All of your colours

All of your troubles

All of your rains

All of your comets

All of your moons

All of your birds

All of your rents

All of your marvels

All of your winds

And all of your nothings

All of your everythings

All of your gods

All of your angels

All of your masters

All of your slaves

All of your islands

All of your waves

All of your machines

All of your dreams

All of your laws

All of your loves

And all of the dead

Have pity for the dead

And sleep has his house

Sleep has his house

Overwhelm me

Overwhelm me

Forever

Forever

Sleep has his house

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This bush grows near the stream at the bottom of the garden. It has large dark green leaves and tiny white flowers with a powerful sweet perfume.

For us it evokes memories of a French holiday when we returned to our car left in a parking place surrounded by this plant and were overwhelmed by the scent.

Home, we bought an eleagnus. It has grown and grown and now needs severe pruning from time to time. I think scent can bring forth the strongest memories.

PRISMA de COLORES: miércoles: verde

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The Papal Basilica of Saint Peter in the Vatican, or simply Saint Peter's Basilica, is a church built in the Renaissance style located in Vatican City, the papal enclave that is within the city of Rome, Italy. It was initially planned by Pope Nicholas V and then Pope Julius II to replace the aging Old St. Peter's Basilica, which was built in the fourth century by Roman emperor Constantine the Great. Construction of the present basilica began on 18 April 1506 and was completed on 18 November 1626.

Designed principally by Donato Bramante, Michelangelo, Carlo Maderno and Gian Lorenzo Bernini, St. Peter's is the most renowned work of Renaissance architecture and the largest church in the world by interior measure. While it is neither the mother church of the Catholic Church nor the cathedral of the Diocese of Rome (these equivalent titles being held by the Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran in Rome), St. Peter's is regarded as one of the holiest Catholic shrines. It has been described as "holding a unique position in the Christian world" and as "the greatest of all churches of Christendom."

Catholic tradition holds that the basilica is the burial site of Saint Peter, chief among Jesus's apostles and also the first Bishop of Rome (Pope). Saint Peter's tomb is supposedly directly below the high altar of the basilica, also known as the Altar of the Confession. For this reason, many popes have been interred at St. Peter's since the Early Christian period.

St. Peter's is famous as a place of pilgrimage and for its liturgical functions. The pope presides at a number of liturgies throughout the year both within the basilica or the adjoining St. Peter's Square; these liturgies draw audiences numbering from 15,000 to over 80,000 people. St. Peter's has many historical associations, with the Early Christian Church, the Papacy, the Protestant Reformation and Catholic Counter-reformation and numerous artists, especially Michelangelo. As a work of architecture, it is regarded as the greatest building of its age. St. Peter's is one of the four churches in the world that hold the rank of Major papal basilica, all four of which are in Rome, and is also one of the Seven Pilgrim Churches of Rome. Contrary to popular misconception, it is not a cathedral because it is not the seat of a bishop; the cathedra of the pope as bishop of Rome is at Saint John Lateran.

St. Peter's is a church built in the Renaissance style located in the Vatican City west of the River Tiber and near the Janiculum Hill and Hadrian's Mausoleum. Its central dome dominates the skyline of Rome. The basilica is approached via St. Peter's Square, a forecourt in two sections, both surrounded by tall colonnades. The first space is oval and the second trapezoidal. The façade of the basilica, with a giant order of columns, stretches across the end of the square and is approached by steps on which stand two 5.55 metres statues of the first-century apostles to Rome, Saints Peter and Paul.

The basilica is cruciform in shape, with an elongated nave in the Latin cross form but the early designs were for a centrally planned structure and this is still in evidence in the architecture. The central space is dominated both externally and internally by one of the largest domes in the world. The entrance is through a narthex, or entrance hall, which stretches across the building. One of the decorated bronze doors leading from the narthex is the Holy Door, only opened during jubilees.

The interior dimensions are vast when compared to other churches. One author wrote: "Only gradually does it dawn upon us – as we watch people draw near to this or that monument, strangely they appear to shrink; they are, of course, dwarfed by the scale of everything in the building. This in its turn overwhelms us."

The nave which leads to the central dome is in three bays, with piers supporting a barrel vault, the highest of any church. The nave is framed by wide aisles which have a number of chapels off them. There are also chapels surrounding the dome. Moving around the basilica in a clockwise direction they are: The Baptistery, the Chapel of the Presentation of the Virgin, the larger Choir Chapel, the altar of the Transfiguration, the Clementine Chapel with the altar of Saint Gregory, the Sacristy Entrance, the Altar of the Lie, the left transept with altars to the Crucifixion of Saint Peter, Saint Joseph and Saint Thomas, the altar of the Sacred Heart, the Chapel of the Madonna of Column, the altar of Saint Peter and the Paralytic, the apse with the Chair of Saint Peter, the altar of Saint Peter raising Tabitha, the altar of St. Petronilla, the altar of the Archangel Michael, the altar of the Navicella, the right transept with altars of Saint Erasmus, Saints Processo and Martiniano, and Saint Wenceslas, the altar of St. Jerome, the altar of Saint Basil, the Gregorian Chapel with the altar of the Madonna of Succour, the larger Chapel of the Holy Sacrament, the Chapel of Saint Sebastian and the Chapel of the Pietà. The Monuments, in a clockwise direction, are to: Maria Clementina Sobieski, The Stuarts, Benedict XV, John XXIII, St. Pius X, Innocent VIII, Leo XI, Innocent XI, Pius VII, Pius VIII, Alexander VII, Alexander VIII, Paul III, Urban VIII, Clement X, Clement XIII, Benedict XIV, St Peter (Bronze Statue), Gregory XVI, Gregory XIV, Gregory XIII, Matilda of Canossa, Innocent XII, Pius XII, Pius XI, Christina of Sweden, Leo XII. At the heart of the basilica, beneath the high altar, is the Confessio or Chapel of the Confession, in reference to the confession of faith by St. Peter, which led to his martyrdom. Two curving marble staircases lead to this underground chapel at the level of the Constantinian church and immediately above the purported burial place of Saint Peter.

The entire interior of St. Peter's is lavishly decorated with marble, reliefs, architectural sculpture and gilding. The basilica contains a large number of tombs of popes and other notable people, many of which are considered outstanding artworks. There are also a number of sculptures in niches and chapels, including Michelangelo's Pietà. The central feature is a baldachin, or canopy over the Papal Altar, designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. The apse culminates in a sculptural ensemble, also by Bernini, and containing the symbolic Chair of Saint Peter.

One observer wrote: "St Peter's Basilica is the reason why Rome is still the centre of the civilized world. For religious, historical, and architectural reasons it by itself justifies a journey to Rome, and its interior offers a palimpsest of artistic styles at their best ..."

The American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson described St. Peter's as "an ornament of the earth ... the sublime of the beautiful.

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Overwhelming artwork.

Don de l, artiste de ville a le 22 april 1991. inv. AC1991000Also, this is a work of art and a passage from the living room. A great emotional tension. Stopped astern and had a good oppervlak.

Overzicht kunstwerk.

Alsof elk afzonderlijk kunstwerk een passage uit zijn leven verbeeldt. Een grote emotionele spanning. Weggestopt achter een jeugdig oppervlak.