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a rare, quiet and calm moment captured of caesar just a few moments ago..usually during the day he's so full of energy and just wants to play fetch with his soccer ball and while i got a bunch of shots of him trying to catch a ball in the backyard, those looked boring and plain to me. they show off his physical abilities but i wanted to show his softer, more gentle side.
it took a few minutes to get him to lay like this..the treat i had in my one hand initially made him even more excited but i waited it out and it paid off...if there's one thing this dog teaches me, it's patience. i do love him for that as well as the incredible companionship he provides us all.
technically, someone had asked me about my indoor shots and while i'm not really great at using my (external) flash..i have figured out that bouncing it over and behind my head works best..i shoot with the camera on manual as well as the flash, that way i can take a few test shots then adjust +/- a few stops if need be.
Rizal Park is situated in the heart of the city of Manila, Philippines. It is at the northern end of Roxas Boulevard, overlooking Manila Bay.
Rizal Park's history began in the early 1700s during the Spanish rule. While Manila's social and business activities were confined within Intramuros, a small area just south of the walls was cleared to prevent sneak attacks from the patriotic natives. The area was shaped like a small moon (lunette) and thus was named Luneta. The Park was also called Bagumbayan (English: New Town) in Spanish colonial era, and later known as Luneta.
Luneta has been the site of some of the most significant moments in Philippine history . Among them are the execution of Dr. José Rizal on December 30, 1896, whose martyred death made him a hero of the Philippine Revolution. (It was officially renamed Rizal Park in tribute to him.); the Declaration of Philippine Independence from American rule on June 4, 1946; and the political rallies of Ferdinand Marcos and Corazon Aquino in 1986.
The monument also serves as the point of origin or Kilometre Zero to all other cities in the Philippines
The Struggle
by Begary
Have you ever traveled down a road to find there was no end
For every corner that you turned there was another bend
The faster that you walked, the longer that it seemed
And you were all alone, in this crazy dream
Crazy dreams that you dream alone
When the lights go out and no one's home
You see the day for what it's been
And you wish to God you could stay clean
The morning brings you to the road you didn't want to travel
and every step you take again makes your life unravel
You keep on walking down the path, wondering what you'll find,
and pray that when you find it you wont have lost your mind
It's halfway through another day and you're looking for those dreams
knowing they can make your life better than it seems
If only to forget your pain for a little while
you can travel down the road just another mile
The night is now upon you, the miles are on your face,
But you keep going forward to your final place.
You know the end is coming soon, you see it straight ahead
And if they don't forget you, you never will be dead
Copyright© 2008 Kamoteus/RonMiguel RN
This image is protected under the United States and International Copyright laws and may not be downloaded, reproduced, copied, transmitted or manipulated without written permission.
Filastrocca di Craco
Quattro bambini sul basamento,
Dietro, colline
arse dal vento
Dietro, colline
arse dal sole,
quattro bambini con tante parole:
Domande acute, perplessità...
che ci facciamo, seduti qua???
Niente fantasmi, solo salite
e tante case, abbandonate...
Buono il panino dice Diletta,
nella postura da "sciura" perfetta.
Carla dov'è? Cerca formiche,
intrappolate tra briciole e ortiche,
solo Giovanni e Leda Maria,
sembrano in vena di compagnia...
Quattro bambini sul basamento,
davanti, un gruppo in movimento
Davanti, il sole in pieno giorno
quattro bambini che sono ritorno.
Ritorno in terra, cuore, che brace!
Quattro bambini per fare la pace,
Fare la pace, in un secondo,
Claudia che scatta, ha visto un mondo.
- Guendalina Armenti -
Hilo de la Fotohistoria en Pullip .es: MUSE CONCERT AT BARCELONA: PALAU SANT JORDI (3 of 9): After the test... /
CONCIERTO DE MUSE EN BARCELONA: PALAU SANT JORDI (3 de 9): Después del Ensayo.
(Read in order, this is: SHOT/FOTO 38 of 115) PAG: Entrada, 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115.
FOTOSTORY: In English / En Español
Sheryl: Group photooo!
/
Sheryl: Foto de Grupooo!
LINKS:
- Las FOTOHISTORIAS de Sheryl en el Foro de Pullips: Pullip .es
Architect: József Vágó www.art-nouveau.hu/art.php?menuid=2&id=107
Cooperating artists were the greatest Hungarian painters and sculptors of the period:
József Rippl-Rónai
www.hung-art.hu/frames-e.html?/english/r/rippl-ro/index.html
commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&...
Béla Iványi-Grünwald
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9la_Iv%C3%A1nyi-Gr%C3%BCnwald
hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iv%C3%A1nyi-Gr%C3%BCnwald_B%C3%A9la
Vilmos Fémes Beck
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A9mes_Beck_Vilmos
hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A9mes_Beck_Vilmos
Zsolnay:
About the building, architect and owner:
www.sziabudapest.com/text/2011april_en.php
www.sziabudapest.com/text/vago_jozsef_en.php
Magyarul:
hg.hu/cikk/epiteszet/12623-a-szecesszio-elfelejtett-meste...
artportal.hu/kislexikon/vago_jozsef
Magyarul:
vam.gov.hu/muzeum/pages/schiffer_villa.html
There was a fountain in front of the window, work of Vilmos Fémes Beck, it was destroyed during WW2.
Stained glass windows by Károly Kernstok (Budapest, 1873 - 1940)
www.google.hu/search?q=kernstok+k%C3%A1roly&hl=hu&...
One of Hungary's most influential early twentieth century artists, Karoly Kernstok first studied painting techniques at the Budapest School of Design. He then went to Munich in 1892 to study under Simon Hollosy. Karoly Kernstok concluded his formal education at the Academie Julian, Paris, from 1893 to 1895 and at Benczur's School, Budapest, from 1896 to 1899. Kernstok's first major exhibitions took place in Budapest in 1897. Three years later one of his paintings was awarded a bronze medal at the Universal Exposition in the United States.
Karoly Kernstok's initial works were figure studies and genre depictions, largely in the vein of Hungarian turn-of-the-century early social realist painting. By 1906, however, his art began exploring stylized elements and postimpressionist techniques, and thus he became a leading exponent of modernism. In 1910, Karoly Kernstok was a founding member of the Nyolcak (Group of Eight) painters. Briefly this important movement advocated expressionism and an emphasis upon the body within space. It drew upon such divergent forms as Art Nouveau, Fauvism and native Hungarian art forms. The Nyolcak was also somewhat political and, through the art of its participants, attempted to move Habsburg Hungary toward a democratic republic. Karoly Kernstok's 1910 painting, Riders on the Shore, became a major catalyst for the art of Nyolcak (Group of Eight). During this period, Karoly Kernstok designed and painted major frescoes and glass windows for the Schiffer-villa (1911) and the County Hall, Debrecen.
Karoly Kernstok moved to Berlin in 1919. He both lived and exhibited in that city until his 1926 return to Hungary. For the following fourteen years the artist continued to paint and etch major works of art, often exploring and incorporating elements of ancient Etruscan art. As well, Karoly Kernstok established an art school in the Nyergesújfalu region of Hungary.
Today the art of Karoly Kernstok is found in most major Hungarian collections, including the Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
Kernstok Károlyról (Ady csodálatos versével):
Chedabucto Bay is a large bay on the eastern coast of mainland Nova Scotia between the Atlantic Ocean and the Strait of Canso next to Guysborough County. At the entrance to Chedabucto Bay is the town of Canso at the head is the community of Guysborough and on the other end is the town of Mulgrave.
[edit] History
Chedabucto Bay was formed by the drowning of part of an ancient river system and owes its origin and shape to position of the Chedabucto Fault, which runs across central Nova Scotia from the Bay of Fundy to the Canso peninsula. On Wednesday, February 4, 1970 the Liberian tanker Arrow ran aground on Cerberus Rock with a cargo of 108,000 barrels of Bunker C fuel. The oil spilled into the bay .Out of the 375 statute miles of shoreline 190 miles had been contaminated with oil.
(Wikipedia)
Man how I loathe doing HDR work. My eyes and brain know it's not natural, and my tendency is to edit them into oblivion and make them look non HDR. I had to force myself away from it this time.
This image would be impossible to expose without HDR. I didn't actually meter the difference between outside light and what it was inside the cave, but I'm betting it was about 7 - 9 stops difference at the brightest to darkest.
I hate trying to get colors balanced and what not.
Anyway. This is a stitch of 13 HDR images (from a total of 39 RAWs), shot in 3 rows of 4 (plus one straggler somewhere).
I can't wait to get a panoramic head for my tripod. That'll make these things so much better. Autopano was having a heck of a time trying to figure out how to stitch it. It still has some defects. Oh well. It just gives me an excuse to go back :)
Currently this is one of my favorite shot, for the (her) beauty, for the use of light, for the treatment and post-production.
It reminds me a lot of the album "Adore" by The Smashing Pumpkins (...yeah, i'm a bit obsessed by this band...).
angel. you know it's not the end
we'll always be good friends
but the letters have been sent on
so please. you always were so free
you'll see, i promise we'll be perfect
perfect
perfect
strangers when we meet
strangers on the street
lovers while we sleep
perfect
you know this has to be
we always were so free
we promised that we'd be
(Perfect - The Smashing Pumpkins)
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It's not just the bears that get big in Alaska! This red squirrel weighs between 400-800 - grams that is. :-)
Thought that I would have a little fun with this one...
On our recent trip, we decided to take a jet boat ride out to the Knik Glacier. The Knik is one of the largest glaciers in SC AK, 28 mi long and 5 mi across. We had never visited there yet, so thought we would see it this year.
While we were there at the glacial camp, we could see a bear WAY up on a distance mountain, foraging on the vegetation. Other than that, we didn't really see too much, as we sat around and shared stories with our fellow tour passengers. They gave us hot chocolate and trail mix, which was really nice since it really was a cold and dreary afternoon.
At one point, as we sat at the camp, we heard a thunder, which could only mean one thing.... calving of the glacier. We all ran to see it. An iceberg split in half and revealed itself to us - the most beautiful color of blue ever (will share that photo on a later post). As we retreated to the camp area, we noticed that a thief had been in our area. It was our little red squirrel, who was none too shy and would allow me to get as close as I wanted to him.
I have to admit, when I looked at those beady eyes and his quick movements, I was a bit scared being all in it's face. LOL
Sometimes when visiting a state known for it's wildlife, you learn to take what you get, and so, I share this one with you all. But honestly, on our way to the tour headquarters cabin, we did see several moose crossing the road and numerous birds soaring overhead.
Thanks so much for your views and your comments!
Happy Hump Day!
used here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
home-roasted harar horse lot 14659 ethiopian coffee from sweet marias. this is the third ethiopian coffee i've roasted, looking for something resembling Peet's ethiopian super natural. the absolute best we've had so far is Organic Yirgacheffe beans from Burman Coffee. The green coffee beans cost ~1/3 to 1/2 the price of roasted coffee, and they taste much better than store-bought roasted beans during the first week or two (nothing has lasted two weeks yet).
tahoe soap features this photo in their tutorial on soap ingredients.
copyright © 2007 sean dreilinger
view home-roasted coffee beans - ethiopian harar horse lot 14659 - _MG_4097 on a black background.
Explore: 11.02.08
First try Infrared Photography: the Photoshop way
Sometimes you'll hear someone called a "Renaissance man." That means he's a man of many interests, gifts and pursuits - skilled in many areas. If there is such a thing as a "Renaissance boy," I think our five-year-old grandson might be one. He's interested in so many things - and actually, he's good in a lot of them. To round out the other areas of his life, he recently got involved in a soccer league for kids his age. Which makes his mother a "soccer mom," I guess. Which means everybody wants her vote. Right? Well, our grandson didn't have the benefit of having an older sibling to learn from as some other members of his little team did. The soccer learning curve for him was a little steep, but he's been doing well. But something really special happened in one of the last games of the season. The team's two little stars came late - players who the others tend to lean on. But they weren't there to lean on. Now it was clearly up to kids who were usually in the shadow of those stars. Well, our favorite soccer player really stepped up. Suddenly, he was more focused, more aggressive than he'd been all season - and right away he scored two goals for his team, and they won that night.
guess our grandson looked around and said, "Well, if it is to be, it's up to me!" And suddenly he stepped up to make a difference like he'd never made before. It may be that time in the game for you right now - time to step up and really make a difference.
You've got a great example to follow in our word for today from the Word of God in 1 Samuel 17, beginning with verse 23. The Israelis and Philistines are lined up facing one another on opposite sides of a valley. Every day the Philistine giant comes out and he challenges the Israelites to send out a man to fight him, with the people of the loser serving the people of the winner from that day on. Young David, the youngest brother in his family, arrives to bring food to his warrior brothers just as Goliath is coming out to issue his challenge for the fortieth day in a row.
The Bible says, "Goliath ... shouted his usual defiance, and David heard it. When the Israelites saw the man, they all ran from him in great fear ... David said to Saul, 'Let no one lose heart on account of this Philistine; your servant will go and fight him.'" None of the big varsity players in their nice uniforms will get in the game - so the kid does, with just a slingshot. He doesn't have the training the others do, he doesn't have the experience, he doesn't have the weapons, but he's willing to step up because he believes, as he tells Goliath, "The battle is the Lord's." And Goliath went down because an unlikely, seemingly unqualified, hero stepped up.
This is a time when the Goliaths of hell are holding the field all around us. Not because the darkness is so strong, but because no one will step up and fight the battles. Right now God is summoning you, as unlikely and unqualified as you may feel, to get out of the shadows and onto the front lines. Someone has to take that assignment no one else is rising to. Someone needs to step up and change the atmosphere in your church, or in your school, or in your home, or where you work. Someone has to fight for your marriage. Someone has to be the one to confront what's wrong, to bring people together, to lead a prayer effort, to talk about Jesus.
In Isaiah's day when God asked, "Who will go for us?" Isaiah answered, "Here am I, send me" (Isaiah 6:8). Maybe you've been holding back saying, "Here am I, send him." But God is summoning you to step up for this one - like our grandson on that soccer field, making a greater difference than he'd ever made before because he knew it was up to him this time! And this assignment from God is up to you - even if there are defiant giants standing in the way. It's your time to shine, and you will, because the battle is the Lord's!
-Ron Hutchcraft
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The Badshahi Mosque in Lahore at dusk. The telltale Mughal architecture and the magnificent domes that accompany it makes this the most beautiful mosque I've had the pleasure of visiting. The mood was very relaxed and as we wandered around waiting for a well-timed dusk photo session we were treated to a well-sung call to prayer (not always the case), the evening prayer itself presenting photo ops.
I'm going to Damascus in January and one of the photo projects is the Umayyad Mosque, a worthy contender to runner-up.
EF16-35mm f/2.8L USM | 20.0 sec | 16 mm | f/13 | ISO 100 | Aperture priority mode | 0 EV
This is for my dearest friend ITALA, a most special person, full of "Joie de Vivre" who gives joy and all .. a special person with a huge heart, an artist and so much more... so on occasion of her birthday I dedicate this photo and these roses (which she knows have a special meaning - sao "suas" rosas)) . HAPPY BIRTHDAY - PARABENS amiga querida tudo de bom para voce sempre !! Amor, Harmonia, Saude e Felicidade. You give all near you so much JOY!! ...its true )) - Obrigada pela sua amizade.
"A alegria de ver e entender é o mais perfeito dom da natureza." (Albert Einstein)
"The joy of "being" and being understood is the most perfect gift of Nature "
“There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.” Kahlil Gibran
Listen to a bit of Bossa Nova (nice and soft) :
www.goear.com/listen/a7a3208/walzer-bossa-nova-ennio-morr...
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I am sorry but I am a mostly OFF - so I cannot comment on all of you but will catch up as soon as I can,I am so behind and busy -
www.stellerphoto.com/08seniors.php
Looking for sick senior photos? Check it out now!
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Awesome collections all include generous print credit, friend cards, a CD of pics for Facebook and more!
(sidenote: "Sick" is a popular term with high schoolers in this area. Means something along the lines of cool, awesome, wicked, rad, really swell.)
Large On Black...especially nice this time of year!
The lift engine house on top of one of the buildings left at the Swift Meat Packing ruins in Fort Worth, Texas.
This shot was made during an expedition to the site with the supremely talented Rob Fuel, who, as I was showing him around the facility, chose this spot for the first photo op of the night. Rob shot the building from the left of this camera position, in a similar place to where I shot this image a few months ago.
The advantage of shooting this place with another photographer is evident when one compares this shot with my previous effort on this rootop. These shots are, as night photographs go, relatively short exposures, somewhere in the 20-30 second range. When I shot this rooftop alone several months ago, there was really only enough time for me to open the shutter, sneak back into the lift house and fire off the strobe before the shutter closed, leaving the foreground in shadow. But with Rob shooting too, Rob was able to paint the foreground while I ran into the building and fired off the red strobe hits you see inside. I can't wait to see his shot of this spot!
Night, full moon, ambient sodium & mercury vapor light, natural flashlight & red-gelled strobe.
Some local landmarks taken on a night meet with the fine folks of the CCC. Me and Scott stopped off at the sculpture Temenos to see what we could get from that view point. I like it, it was tough going but the results please me.
I honestly suggest large on black. View On Black
I sang this to the boys when they were babies:
All the things you said to me today,
Change my perspective in every way.
These things count to mean so much to me,
Into my faith, you and your baby.
It's out there. It's out there.
It's out there. If you want me I'll be here.
I'll be dreaming my dreams with you.
I'll be dreaming my dreams with you.
And there's no other place,
That I'd lay down my face.
I'll be dreaming my dreams with you.
It's out there. It's out there.
It's out there. If you want me I'll be here...
I'll be dreaming my dreams with you.
I'll be dreaming my dreams with you.
And there's no other place,
That I'd lay down my face.
I'll be dreaming my dreams with you.
Dreaming my dreams with you.
I'll be dreaming my dreams with you.
And there's no other place,
That I'd lay down my face.
I'll be dreaming my dreams with you.
...night night!
(the title of this pic came from this song by Camera Can't Lie)
=)
I was tagged...more than once i think, so here goes!
1) I love acustic guitars. they are amazing
2) I love harmony. it give me chillbumps.
3) I want to start a band, but feel like i don't know enough musically to yet.
4) I'm playing guitar in church tomorrow =)
5) I get to dress up like a pirate all week long! :D
6) Kids are the best!
7) I'm reading the alex rider series right now. awesome stuff!
8) Sometimes i wish i was as cool as other people (like you!), but then i would't be myself, so then i am happy with the way i am. No one can be me as awesome as I can :D
9) I can't wait to get Toy Story 3 on dvd so i can laugh and cry my heart out while watching it!
10) I'm working realllly hard to get a DSLR by the end of the summer!!! :D
woohoo! =)
El pasado día 15 de febrero nos fuimos al Hotel Fuente de la Aceña para hacerle una sesión que también incluye lencería.
Contamos con la ayuda de Esther Vega y Luisa Rodríguez para peluquería y maquillaje.
Localización: Hotel Fuente de la Aceña, Quintanilla de Onésimo, Valladolid.
(Muchas gracias a Azucena Casas)
this is a bengali ritual during marriage ceremony when the bride looks towards the groom for the first time & this practice is called " subho dristi" auspicious sight . this pic is of my sister- in- law (bhabi). this pic was shot during my brother's marriage july 09
Hilo de la Fotohistoria en Pullip .es: DATING AT CINEMA (5 of 5): The cliff lookout /
CITA EN EL CINE (5 de 5): El Mirador
(Read in this order) PAG: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210, 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 226, 227, 228, 229, 230, 231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 236, 237, 238, 239, 240, 241, 242, 243, 244, 245, 246, 247, 248, 249, 250, 251, 252, 253, 254, 255, 256, 257, 258, 259, 260, 261, 262, 263, 264, 265, 266, 267, 268, 269, 270, 271, 272, 273, 274, 275, 276, 277, 278, 279, 280, 281, 282, 283, 284, 285, 286.
PHOTOSTORY: In English / En Español
Dom: Hahaha, is that okay? Are you happy now? (well, it worth to spend an embarrassing moment if she gets happy)
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Dom: Jajaja, ya? Ya estás contenta? (bueno, merece la pena pasar vergüenza si es para que ella esté contenta)
COLLABORATION:
- Dom y Akari en el Foro de Pullips: Pullip .es
- Cinema's diorama by Minao. Sweets shop's diorama by Sheryl and Minao Collaboration.
- Little interpretation of Mad_Pullip's Emily as a MUSE fan.
SHERYL LINKS:
- Pullip .es: Las Fotohistorias de Sheryl
- Sheryl's Flickr: Photostories 2011 - Sketches 2011 / Photostories 2012 - Sketches 2012
★ ☆
-->> That's what it was all about, Man .. growin' up in the '90s, Man - - it was alla'bout "BREAKIN' ALL THE RULES" randomly, Man. Not conformin' to society's standards, Man .. and provin' to the world you were a real stinker, Man .. and you enjoyed every single fuggin' minute of it, Man !!
Dive' bomin' a RANDOM ..steamin' hot slice'a pizza,Man - WITH YOUR EYES CLOSED. Vibrant Neon ball-caps tilted to the side let society KNOW ..YOU WERE A NON-CONFORMIST,MAN .. YOU WEREN'T PLAYIN' BY THEM B8TCHES RULES !!
"No, Siree BOB'AROO-SKIE" .. as we used ta say in the '90s, Man. We rode our skateboards down random, obscure suburban streets - causing all sortsa of'a rukus and shenanigans just like out hero Bart Simpson, Man.
Yeah, Man .. we wore our sneakers with the laces untied IN SPITE OF THE LAW, MAN !! !! !! And about a 1/4 of us usually fell off the skateboards, tripped over the laces & slammed our skulls on the pavement rippin' up our fancy Turtle fleeces, and gettin' our blocks knocked off ( as well as our neon ball-caps ) by the big bully that usually had less than flattering things to say about out freakish '90s decorum. Yeh, there's pizza on ya face, Kid !!
Awe' - these fuggin' ol' ad clippings are pretty awesome, Man.
Oi !!
~ t
The monastery, dedicated to Saints James and Benedict, was founded in around 739/740 as a Benedictine abbey by members of the Huosi, a Bavarian noble clan, who also provided the three brothers who served one after the other as the first three abbots, traditionally named as Lanfrid, Waldram (or Wulfram), and Eliland, for nearly a century. It seems certain that Saint Boniface had an involvement in the foundation. There was here a school of writing, whose work survives in the form of numerous codices of the 8th and 9th centuries.
In 955 however the monastery was destroyed by the Hungarians [1]. It was restored in 969 by Wolfold, a priest, as a house of canons.
Under the influence of Emperor Henry III it was rebuilt by Saint Ulrich, Bishop of Augsburg, and in 1031 returned to the Benedictine rule and re-settled by monks from Tegernsee Abbey under the first abbot of the new foundation, Ellinger. Under the second abbot, Gothelm (1032–1062), and the monks Gotschalk and Adalbert the school and scriptorium were re-established. Gotschalk, later third abbot, was responsible for the translation of the relics of Saint Anastasia here in 1053, which by making the abbey a place of pilgrimage added substantially to its fame and prosperity; he was also its first historian [2].
Benediktbeuern suffered four serious fires, in 1248, 1377, 1378, and 1490, but was prosperous enough to re-build each time.
The abbey enjoyed for centuries an extremely high reputation as a place of learning and research. Botanical research and the establishment of a medicinal herb garden in about 1200 are also evidenced. In about 1250 the library [3] covered the whole range of higher education as it then existed. The abbey also excelled at theological, philosophical and scientific studies. In the 1530s Dom Antonius Funda made considerable advances in the systematic writing of monastic history.
During the secularisation of Bavaria in 1803 the abbey, then comprising thirty-four monks, was dissolved. Some of the former monks took posts as university professors: for example, Ägidius Jais went to Salzburg as a pastoral theologian; Sebastian Mall to Landshut as an orientalist; and Florian Meilinger to Munich as a mathematician.
In the course of the disposal of the library and archives, there came to light the manuscript of the Carmina Burana, a 13th century collection of songs by wandering scholars. The manuscript, also known as the Codex Buranus, is also now in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.
The abbey premises were acquired by Josef von Utzschneider, who in 1805 set up an experimental glassworks here, known as the Optical Institute. He was joined by Joseph von Fraunhofer, who was able here among other things to develop flawless or "waveless" flint glass and discover the Fraunhofer lines which have become of importance in the development of spectroscopic analysis.
Since 1930 the buildings have been used by the Salesians, of whom about 45 now live and work here.
The abbey church was declared a "basilica minor" in 1972.
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This is perhaps my favourite photo of all the ones I took while I was away.
Not technically brilliant or anything like that, but it captured a 'feeling'. A day of sunshine and white fluffy cloud, walking for miles along a coastline without meeting a soul - a feeling of peace. A beautiful sandy beach, waves rolling in, the mountains rising up in the distance ...
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But it was also the scene of a sad tale of the times we live in ...
At the end of the day I decided to visit somewhere I hadn't been before - the beach at Achnahaird Bay. A short track led down to a carpark which was full ... there must have been at least 6 other cars there! I found somewhere to park and then headed out along the path towards the beach. On the way I met someone else with a camera. He stopped to chat and compare cameras, and I discovered that he was in his mid 70s and had just lost his wife. He seemed rather frail and was obviously upset about her death. He had always had a love of photography and his son had bought him a Nikon D90 which he was loving using. He looked at the photos I had taken, I looked at his, then we both decided that we needed to wait for the clouds to clear from the mountains before taking the shot we wanted. I left him sitting on a rock on the headland while I scrambled down to the shore to take this photo.
A few minutes later I could hear shouting coming from the headland - "Pervert! Taking photos of the kiddies ..." in a strong Yorkshire accent.
I went back up and saw a guy in his 30s trying to grab the camera from the guy I had been talking to. I went over and asked what was going on. The old guy was clearly upset and the younger guy was continuing to shout that he was a pervert who had been "taking photos of the kiddies". Now he was obviously as thick as pig-shit [and twice as ugly] and was clearly unable to understand when I explained that there was no way on earth a man with a 16-85 lens was going to be able to take photos of 'kiddies' who were at least 250 metres away.
He then turned to me and said "So you're a pervert as well then. Have you got pictures of the kiddies?"
To say I saw red would be an understatement. Years of pent-up anger and frustration came bursting out, remembering how I had felt when a few years ago someone had said the same sort of things to me.
I rather impolitely pointed out his shortcomings, his filthy mind for seeing children in the way he was accusing others, his stupidity at not understanding the nature of cameras and that if he wanted to bully someone I was ready and waiting.
He looked more and more shame-faced as I ranted, and after a couple of minutes mumbled "I'm sorry, Can I go now?" I told him that he could.
As he walked back down to the beach several people who had been walking by stood and laughed at him, then came over to say how much they had enjoyed the show. The old guy was by now in tears, sitting holding his camera to his chest and saying that he just wanted to smash it and go home. A few of us sat with him, telling him not to worry about other people's ignorance, and eventually he dried his eyes and began to look better.
I stayed with him for about half an hour as we both took [and mainly deleted!] photos of the sea and the waves breaking on the rocks, the distant hills and beauty of the place. He chatted more and more and I told him about some other places he should visit in the area. He got out his map and we worked out a good route for him to take to find photo opps.
He was a lovely old guy.
I hope he never has to go through that again.
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HDRI (3 exposures by three different HDRs)in Photomatix, Panorama in Photostitch, Polaroid-Filter (Alien Skin Exposure 2, Plug-In for PS), Unsharp Mask (overall 9 separate shots)
Info:
Exposures: 1/6 Sec.; 1/25 Sec.; 0.6 Sec.;
0.3 Sec.; 1/13 Sec.; 1.3 Sec.;
0.5 Sec.; 1/8 Sec.; 2 Sec.;
Aperture: f/3.5
ISO-Speed: 100
Focal Length: 18mm
Best Large | Primates | Edinburgh Zoo
About the shot
The squirrel monkey is housed in Edinburgh Zoo's Living Links Centre, a dimly-lit building which is ideal for the monkeys but challenging for any photographer. As with all monkeys, these would not stay still long enough most of the time for a decent shot. This is what makes them so endearing; the jumping and the swinging and the coming up to the glass to look at the strange humans. A lot of my shots were a blur of frenzied activity as they played around, the young ones in particular. Occasionally, there were some lovely obliging models like this mum and baby.
About the Squirrel Monkey
The squirrel monkeys are the New World monkeys of the genus Saimiri. They are the only genus in the subfamily Saimirinae. Squirrel monkey fur is short and close, colored olive at the shoulders and yellowish orange on its back and extremities. Their throat and the ears are white and their mouths are black. The upper part of their head is hairy. This black and white face gives them their German name, "skull monkeys".
Squirrel monkeys grow to 25 to 35 cm, plus a 35 to 42 cm tail. They weigh 750 to 1100g. Remarkably, the brain mass to body mass ratio for squirrel monkeys is 1:17, which gives them the largest brain, proportionately, of all the primates. Monkeys are the closest animals to humans.Humans have a 1:35 ratio.
Female squirrel monkeys have a pseudo-penis that they use to display dominance over smaller monkeys, much like the way the male squirrel monkeys display their dominance.
They live together in multi-male/multi-female groups with up to 500 members. These large groups can, however, occasionally break into smaller troops. They have a number of vocal calls, including warning sounds to protect themselves from large falcons, which are a natural threat to them. Their small body size also makes them susceptible to predators such as snakes and felids. For marking territory, squirrel monkeys rub their tail and their skin with their own urine. Squirrel monkeys are omnivores, eating primarily fruits and insects. Occasionally they also eat nuts, buds, eggs and small vertebrates.
The Common Squirrel Monkey S. sciureus is captured for the pet trade and for medical research but it is not endangered. Three squirrel monkey species are in danger of extinction. S. o. oerstedti is listed as endangered, S. o. citrinellus is listed as critically endangered and S. vanzolinii is listed as Vulnerable.
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Castello di San Michele.
Il Castello di San Michele sorge su uno dei colli più alti di Cagliari (120 s.l.m.). Il primo impianto, presumibilmente ad una sola torre, risale al periodo bizantino o primo giudicale ( X secolo ) ed aveva la funzione di difendere Santa Igia, la capitale del Giudicato di Cagliari. Nel 1327, poco dopo la conquista catalana di Cagliari, il castello fu concesso a Berengario Carroz.
Successivamente alla caduta del Giudicato d’Arborea, la funzione difensiva diventò secondaria. Fu allora – nel periodo in cui era feudatario il conte Giacomo Carroz – che il castello diventò una delle più lussuose residenze della Sardegna. L’ultima esponente della famiglia Carroz, che visse come castellana a San Michele, fu la sfortunata contessa Violante, la quale morì nel 1511 e il castello fu quindi incamerato tra i beni della Corona spagnola.
Nel 1652 fu utilizzato come lazzaretto durante l’epidemia di peste. Nel corso del 1700, prima con gli austriaci e poi con i Savoia, il castello iniziò una nuova fase di decadenza. Dal 1820 al 1848 diventò caserma degli invalidi; nel 1895 fu acquistato da un privato, Roberto di San Tommaso, che lo fece restaurare dall’architetto Dionigi Scano ed impiantò sul colle la pineta tuttora esistente. Nel 1930 il colle ed il castello diventarono di pertinenza militare.
Nel 1966 iniziarono i lavori di scavo del castello diretti dall’architetto Renato Salinas, che tra l’altro portarono alla luce marmi e fregi provenienti dalla Basilica di San Saturno di Cagliari, utilizzati dai Carroz per ripristinare le murature. Nel 1990 si avviarono nuovi lavori di restauro del castello e di riassetto del colle. Oggi, a lavori ultimati, l’interno del castello offre uno spazio per mostre, conferenze ed altre iniziative culturali.
Chiedo scusa se vi starò annoiando con le foto della mia città, ma la mia è una sfacciata propaganda in vista del Raduno Nazionale Flickr che si terrà a Cagliari il 14/15/16 maggio 2010.
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From: www.oldtimersmine.com/index.php?option=com_content&vi...
The Old Timers Mine and Museum opens a window on the fascinating history of opal mining in Coober Pedy, revealing not only the hard physical grind and the occasional bonanza that was mining in the early days, but also an intriguing mystery at the heart of the mine.
oldtimerThe original mine dates back to 1916, but the old miners, whoever they were, concealed its existence by back-filling the shafts. The mystery is why they never returned to dig out the opal that remained. Perhaps they went to the First World War and never came home again. It was not until 1968 that the hidden mine was discovered by Ron Gough when he was digging an extension to his underground home and broke through, exposing three large seams of good quality opal, as well as opalised seashells. These have been retained and can be seen by visitors today.
The museum shows how miners, usually working alone, would dig the shafts and blast holes and winch the dug soil up to the surface, all by hand, with only candles and carbine lamps for illumination. Ron Gough was one of these miners, and it was he who realized the potential for opening the mine as a tourist attraction, his dugout (his family’s underground home) was added, being set up as a display home to show what life was like living underground from the 1920s to the 1990s.
There were many setbacks, including, in the 70s, another miner pegging a claim and blasting away, reaching the bedroom before he was stopped by court order. However, delays were eventually windlass2overcome and, with the fortuitous discovery of opal worth $50,000 just when finances were desperate, the Old Timers Mine and Museum began operating on 7th July 1987. Since then it has never looked back. Now it is one of the premier tourist attractions in Coober Pedy, having won many tourist awards for its ingenious self-guided mine tours through this historical mine (with guides written in many languages), the demonstrations of opal mining machinery and the chance for visitors to find their own piece of opal by noodling through the left over mullock heaps. Polished opal and rock specimens and opal jewellery and souvenirs are, of course, on show in the gift shop. What makes this visit to the Old Timers Mine and Museum unique for many people is seeing how miners and their families lived and worked underground.
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Swayambhunath (Devnagari: स्वयम्भूनाथ स्तुप; sometimes romanized Swoyambhunath) is an ancient religious complex atop a hill in the Kathmandu Valley, west of Kathmandu city. It is also known as the Monkey Temple as there are holy monkeys living in parts of the temple in the north-west. The Tibetan name for the site means 'Sublime Trees' (Wylie:Phags.pa Shing.kun), for the many varieties of trees found on the hill. However, Shing.kun may be a corruption of the local Newari name for the complex, Singgu, meaning 'self-sprung'.
For the Buddhist Newars in whose mythological history and origin myth as well as day-to-day religious practice, Swayambhunath occupies a central position, it is probably the most sacred among Buddhist pilgrimage sites. For Tibetans and followers of Tibetan Buddhism, it second only to Boudhanath.
costruito tra il 114 e il 117 d.C. è un arco trionfale dedicato all'imperatore Traiano in occasione dell'apertura della via Traiana, una variante della via Appia che accorciava il cammino tra Benevento e Brindisi.
Si tratta di un arco a un solo fornice, alto 15,60 m e largo 8,60 m. Su ogni facciata quattro semicolonne, disposte agli angoli dei piloni, sorreggono una trabeazione, che sporge al di sopra del fornice. Oltre le architravi si trova un attico, anch'esso più sporgente nella parte centrale, sopra il fornice, che presenta all'interno un vano coperto da una volta a botte.
È costruito in blocchi di pietra calcarea, rivestiti da opera quadrata in blocchi di marmo pario.
L'arco presenta una ricca decorazione scultorea sulle due facciate principali, con scene che si riferiscono alla pace e alle provvidenze verso i cittadini sul lato interno, rivolto verso la città, e alla guerra e alle provvidenze dell'imperatore verso le province sul lato esterno.
I lati interni del fornice presentano altri due ampi pannelli scolpiti, raffiguranti scene delle attività di Traiano nella città di Benevento.
Sono visibili rapporti abbastanza evidenti tra questi ultimi e il fregio traianeo dell'Arco di Costantino, per cui è stata avanzata l'ipotesi di un'attribuzione, almeno per questi due pannelli, all'officina romana del "Maestro delle Imprese di Traiano", autore della Colonna Traiana.
Lumbier, Navarra (Spain).
ENGLISH
The Foz de Lumbier is carved out of the limestone rock by the river Irati at the western end of the Leyre range of mountains, at the foot of the Navarrese Pyrenees. It is one of the most spectacular gorges in Navarre, a landscape created over millions of years by the waters of the river Irati, which have left their mark on this sanctuary of nature day by day. The gorge was declared a Nature Reserve in 1987.
Lumbier is a narrow and small gorge, just 1,300 metres long, but of spectacular beauty. Its vertical walls reach a maximum height of 150 metres and large birds of prey live in the cracks and ledges, with species such as griffon vultures whose flights will accompany you in your visit to the gorge. It is also a refuge for foxes, boar, badgers and owls, and is strewn with gall and kermes oaks and bushes such as thyme, lavender and gorse that hang from the cracks, vegetation that is transformed into woods of poplars, willows and ash trees at the entry and exit of the gorge.
In contrast to many other canyons, you can walk through Lumbier along an easy track that runs along the bottom of the cliffs for 2.6 kilometres. The route was created for the old Irati train (the first electric train in Spain) that linked Pamplona with Sangüesa between 1911 and 1955.
The signposted path runs along the river and crosses the rock through two tunnels (206 and 160 metres long) that do not have artificial light. Towards the end of the path the route goes around the rock and reaches the remains of the Puente del Diablo (Devil's Bridge), which was built in the 16th century with a raised arch 15 metres above the river. It was destroyed by the French in 1812 during the War of Independence, and owes its name to a legend that says that its builder asked the devil for help to finish it.
More info: www.visitnavarra.es/eng/organice-viaje/recurso/relacionad...
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La foz de Lumbier es un desfiladero excavado por el río Irati sobre la roca caliza en el extremo occidental de la sierra de Leire, al pie del Pirineo navarro. Es una de las gargantas más espectaculares de Navarra, un paisaje labrado a lo largo de millones de años por la acción del río Irati que, día a día, sigue marcando su huella en este santuario de la naturaleza, reserva natural desde 1987.
La de Lumbier es una hoz estrecha y pequeña, de 1.300 metros de longitud, y de una belleza espectacular. Sus paredes verticales alcanzan en su cota máxima 150 metros de altura, y en sus grietas, roturas y repisas viven grandes rapaces, entre los que abundan los buitres leonados, cuyo vuelo le acompañará en su visita al desfiladero. La foz, que también sirve de refugio para zorros, jabalíes, tejones y alimoches, está poblada de quejigos y coscojas, además de arbustos como tomillo, espliego y ollaga que se cuelan por las grietas, vegetación que se transforma en bosques de álamos, sauces y fresnos a la entrada y salida de la foz.
A diferencia de otras gargantas, la de Lumbier puede ser recorrida a través de un sencillo camino que discurre al pie de los acantilados, a lo largo de 2,6 kilómetros. El trazado fue realizado para el tren Irati, el primer tren eléctrico de España, que comunicó Pamplona con Sangüesa entre 1911 y 1955.
El camino está señalizado, discurre junto al río y atraviesa la roca a través de dos túneles, de 206 y 160 metros de longitud, que no poseen luz artificial. En la parte final del sendero, el camino bordea la roca y llega hasta los restos del Puente del Diablo, construido en el siglo XVI, con un arco elevado 15 metros sobre el río. Destruido por los franceses en 1812, durante la Guerra de la Independencia, debe su nombre a una leyenda según la cual su constructor pidió ayuda al diablo para levantar el puente.
Más info: www.visitnavarra.es/esp/organice-viaje/recurso.aspx?o=303...
San Lorenzo 2008 - Huesca (Spain).
They really enjoy it? / ¿Realmente lo pasan bien?
ENGLISH
In 1940, the night before their first mass jump, the 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment of U.S. paratroopers at Fort Benning watched the film Geronimo (1939 film), in which the actor playing Geronimo yells his name as he leaps from a high cliff into a river, depicting a real-life escape Geronimo successfully attempted in which with his Cadillac horse, he jumped off Medicine Bluff at Fort Sill, Oklahoma into the Medicine Creek. Private Aubrey Eberhardt announced he would shout the name when he jumped from the airplane to prove he was not scared. The trend has since caught on elsewhere, becoming widely associated with any sort of high jump in popular culture. This unit was the first parachute battalion of the U.S. Army.
More info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geronimo
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Allá por 1940, un grupo de soldados del regimiento 501 de paracaidismo de los Estados Unidos se preparaba para realizar su primer salto con paracaídas y el día de antes se juntaron todos y decidieron ver una película y echar unas cervecitas para calmar los nervios. La película que vieron era Gerónimo, filmada en 1939, y trataba sobre la vida de un ilustre jefe indio apache en Norteamérica del mismo nombre.
En una escena de la película sobre Gerónimo, salía su protagonista huyendo y para escapar se tiraba a un río desde una gran roca. Y efectivamente, mientras se tiraba gritaba su nombre a todo pulmón: “Gerónimoooooooooooooo“.
A los paracaidistas americanos les pareció una buena idea gritar igual que el apache cuando realizaran su primer salto, como una forma de quitarse los miedos, y así lo hicieron. A partir de entonces el regimiento adopta el nombre de Gerónimo bajo su insignia.
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Hoy una gota de agua se ha puesto el traje de fiesta transparente e invisible como el aire, y sobre su cuello ha dejado de señal su collarcito de Anabaena, allí, ingrávido, sus perlas verdes se mueven silenciosas y ondean lentamente unidas por el hilo de la vida al soplo de las corrientes del agua.
Anabaena es una cianobacteria, una alga verdeazulada. Ancestral, tan antigua como los primeros seres vivos que florecieron de la nada en las aguas de la Tierra cuando la vida era excepción, también futurista como los últimos que desaparecerán con ella. Ha acompañado a nuestra nave azul en épocas de calma y de también de convulsión y es capaz de soportar ambientes extremos, aguantando heladas intensas y soportando temperaturas superiores a los 70ºC.
Anabaena va añadiendo cuentas al collar que adorna esta gota de agua,como mago sin chistera y de cada una va haciendo poco a poco dos, como si nada, así se teje su vida entre las manos de la corriente que la lleva en volandas por el infinito del Lago de Sanabria.
Todas las cuentas de los collarcitos de Anabaena, dejan espacio, a intervalos regulares, para que otras gemas, los “heterocistes”, células perfectamente esféricas y algo mayores que las demás, se destaquen, y lo hagan tanto por su forma y tamaño, como por su función. Los heterocistes se encargan de fijar el nitrógeno, que procedente de la atmósfera, se ha disuelto en el agua y de esta forma constituyen uno de los primeros eslabones para la formación de proteínas.
Anabaena es verdeazulada, como una turquesa teñida de cielo, de su luz toma la energía para realizar la fotosíntesis y del aire y el agua el nitrógeno que recorrerá las vidas de otros seres. La vida en el Planeta se ha hecho posible gracias a cianobacterias como ellas que transformaron una atmósfera irrespirable en la que tenemos desde hace millones de años.
Anabaena es un mucho más que un collarcito que va creciendo cuenta a cuenta mientras se da un paseo por la vida y adorna el cuello de fiesta de las gotas de agua.
La especie de hoy Anabaena planctonica flota enfundada en su traje transparente de mucílago, casi invisible, pero eficaz y protector, evitará que sus cuentas se desgranen y se caigan despistadas hacia el fondo.
Al igual que otras cianobacterias Anabaena se defiende fabricando potentes sustancias neurotóxicas -anatoxina, saxitoxina y microcystina- que provocan graves daños en el sistema nervioso, lesiones hepáticas irreversibles o incluso la muerte a los animales que se alimentan de las plantas con las que puede llegar a establecer simbiosis. Anabaena ha establecido estos estrechos vínculos de amistad, una amistad con la que defiende su vida y la de sus amigos .
Anabaena planctonica vive en aguas estancadas en las que puede formar parte del plancton y crecer de forma explosiva si las condiciones para ella son favorables y se cita por vez primera para el Lago de Sanabria desde esta galería
La fotografía de hoy, realizada a 400 aumentos empleando la técnica de contraste de interferencia, se ha tomado sobre
una muestra recolectada a cinco metros de profundidad, el 30 de agosto de 2015, por Laura, Mª José y Tomás en las
inmediaciones de la Isla de Moras en el Lago de Sanabria (Zamora), desde el catamarán Helios Sanabria el primer
catamarán construido en el Planeta propulsado por energía eólica y solar.
presentación ponencia congreso internacional de Limnología
informes de contaminación en el Lago de Sanabria
la contaminación en el Lago de Sanabria
Thor is the red-haired and bearded god of thunder.
the son of Odin, and Giantess Jord (the Earth).
Thor owns a short-handled hammer, Mjöllnir, which, when thrown at a target, returns magically to its owner. His Mjöllnir also has the power to throw lightning bolts. To wield Mjöllnir, Thor wears the belt Megingjord, which boosts the wearer's strength and a pair of special iron gloves,to lift the hammer. Mjöllnir is also his main weapon when fighting giants.
Thor gave his name to the Old English day Þunresdæg, meaning the day of Þunor, known in Modern English as Thursday. Þunor is also the source of the modern word "thunder".
last images for thE vEnTs "messy" and TOTW "mythology"
BRAGS :
Ate some amazing food with good friends
Ordered some exercise Stuff
Ordered some badass props
wow, this looks awful small. okay, you must view large. seriously. it's plain embarrassing small.
also, i'm terribly sorry that i haven't had time to look through everyone's new uploads in a couple days :( i promise i will catch up on that this weekend, if not before.
this is old, super old, sorry you are probably tired of all these canal pictures.
anyway, i uploaded it since i had no new photos and i was tagged by audrey hutchinson (: so here goes, ten things about me...
1. i go through phases of music...i will pick two or three songs and literally ONLY listen to them for the next month. right now...it's two songs from the coraline soundtrack. don't make fun of me :'( haha.
2. i LOVE root beer dumdums (as in the lollipops)
3. i was obsessed with neopets for like 5 years...and i still go on every once in awhile. heh
4. i have a cat named ember, who is actually a vampire and i have ten million scars on my arms to prove it.
5. i haven't worn a pair of flaired jeans in practically a year, i live for skinny jeans. especially colored skinny jeans, i have a ridiculous amount of them.
6. i studied college-level ancient Greek for three weeks this summer (yessir, i'm a nerd. i went to CTY camp) and the best thing i learned from it was the ability to write secret notes to myself in transliterated greek (SO HELPFUL).
7. i loveeee snow and the sound it makes when it falls.
8. once i ate nothing but eggo waffles for two days straight.
9. i have three brothers, whom i frequently want to toss out the window.
10. i love band geeks.
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Best Days by Matt White
Every time I look at you
You always look so beautiful
Driving on the road again
The chevys packed up
and its dusk
And I would take some photographs
So I can dream of you
Can't say I've felt such a twisting in my heart this
way
We pitch a tent and i wont sleep i just stay awake .
Fires burning , softly singing songs .
So close to you .
Do you believe
In love at first sight
I think you do
We're lying naked under the covers
Those are the best days of my life.
Can't take away those times
We stayed up and we talked all night
Chain smoking cigarettes and
Three bottles of red wine
Falling asleep together
Holding your body close to mine .
Oh and in the morning
Your eyes opened so innocent
The sun is blazing , we are sweaty
You look lovely
Nothing else matters anymore 'cause you're
In my arms again
Do you believe
In love at first sight
I think you do .
We're lying naked under the covers
Those are the best days of my
Those are the best days of my
Those are the best days of my life
Oh Ill never want to be without you
So just stay with me
I will love you endlessly .
Oh darling, darling
Those are the best days of my
Those are the best days of my .. life
Do you believe
In love at first sight
I think you do
We're lying naked under the covers
Those are the best days of my life
Those are the best days of my
Those are the best days of my
Those are the best days of my life
xeno-canto.org/asia/species.php?species_nr2=9480.00
A male bird of paradise
The Raggiana Bird of Paradise, Paradisaea raggiana also known as Count Raggi's Bird of Paradise is a large bird in the bird of paradise family Paradisaeidae.
It is distributed widely in southern and north eastern New Guinea, where its name is kumul.
It is 34cm-long, maroon-brown with greyish-blue bill, yellow iris and greyish-brown feet. The male has a yellow crown, dark emerald-green throat and yellow collar between the throat and its blackish upper breast feathers. It is adorned with a pair of long black tail wires and large flank plumes. The female is a comparatively drab maroonish-brown-colored bird. The ornamental flank plumes vary from red to orange in color, depending on subspecies. The nominate subspecies, P. r. raggiana has the deepest red plumes, while subspecies P. r. augustavictoriae also known as the Empress of Germany's Bird of Paradise of northeast New Guinea has apricot-orange plumes.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raggiana_Bird_of_Paradise
De paradijsvogel heeft vele kunstenaars geïnspireerd. Het is een zeer bijzondere vogel door zijn opvallend kleurrijk verenkleed. Hier lees je veel interessante feiten over deze prachtige verschijning in het oerwoud van Nieuw Guinea.
De paradijsvogel behoort zonder meer tot de mooiste vogels ter wereld. Van de 43 soorten komen er 38 voor in Nieuw Guinea. De paradijsvogel is de nationale vogel van Papua Nieuw-Guinea(PNG). Paradijsvogels hebben een uitzonderlijk lange staart. Ook groeien er lange gekleurde draden uit hun verenkleed. Sommige paradijsvogels hebben een eigenaardige verenkroon op hun hoofd.
uit:
dier-en-natuur.infonu.nl/vogels/5776-paradijsvogel-de-moo...
174.129.90.252/groups/paradisaeidae/pool/interesting/
belasaves.3vd.com.br/index.php/component/content/article/...