4th July 2019 - Lead singer and guitarist from the band "Nulla"at the Happy Accidents 1st anniversary gig at Jacaranda's Phase 1 in Liverpool.The body of talent this city carries continually amazes and astounds me and its an absolute privelidge to continue to record these guys for posterity. Much like the guys that photographed the shenanigans at the Cavern in the sixties..

Monday we went to Black River Marsh to spend time in nature. When we came back to the parking lot we saw this car with a cardboard cutout in the rear passenger side window. How could I not capture the moment for posterity?

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Tanjung Piai, Malaysia. Found sprawled across the mudflats at Tanjung Piai, these mudskippers are known for their "dances" when they square up against each other in territorial disputes. The dancers typically puff up their bodies and mouths, and extend their fins to appear as big they can, and leap up into the air to show off their prowess. These jumps happen in a split second so I am glad to capture for posterity, this instance of two individuals trying to intimidate each other.

Not sure how long the agreement for territory extends for since the whole place will be covered with water once the tide comes in. The mudskippers will retreat to their dens and presumably do it all again once the tide goes back out again.

A broken seam of rock lies supine like a column of fossilized vertebrae and points the way toward the distant La Sal Mountains, Arches National Park, Utah. The mountains appear to be the source of many clouds flung outward across the landscape.

The major tourist attractions within the Park were extremely popular on this particular day (as they are many days, I am sure), so we elected to explore a more distant corner. There is still an arch and stunning surroundings, just not quite billboard worthy, it seems. As hoped, the relative lack of notoriety meant that we only crossed paths with a handful of other souls the entire afternoon, and we were able to appreciate the arch and its surroundings all on our own.

The boys amused themselves jumping from fins of rock over gaps and onto various landing spots of dubious quality. As a responsible parent, I made sure to photograph them mid-air for posterity. This visit was the first time I'd seen my mother and her husband for over year, and it is quite fortunate to still be able to head out into the desert for a hike with her.

It was a colony in the South that first abolished slavery, not the North. From 1735 to 1750, the brand new colony of Georgia abolished black slavery. It was the only British colony to do so by decades, preceding Vermont's ban of 1777. But South Carolina's planter class to Georgia's north showed new Georgians a tried and proven method not only of how to tame Southern land but also how to get rich, despite such lofty aspirations of equality for all in the new colony of Georgia.

Wormsloe Historic Site (its entrance road pictured above), with its large plantation-sized plot of land, went against Georgia's colonial charter and its vision for its citizens. Nonetheless, the Wormsloe plot was granted permission to be this big as it was zoned not to be a family farm but as a military fort in Britain's efforts against Spanish Florida. The owner of the fort plot, former British carpenter Noble Jones, became a military and community leader in the new colony of Georgia. When Georgia's ban against slavery was repealed, Jones and his posterity developed the land to become a plantation with slaves.

Honestly, it made my blood boil when I saw that someone had scrawled 'Dan30 - Urbex' on the wall of this beautiful church ruin in North Burlingham. Did the person think it added something to the ruin which is slowly being taken over by nature and is a real gem? We can do without those who find this kind of ruin gives them the chance to scrawl for - for what - Posterity? Who knows. I really would like groups to publish this to try to stop this needless and disrespectful defacing of ancient buildings.

This is an art installation in a park in Lisbon ... the title comes from something E. P. Thompson said ... it came to mind as I contemplated this large 'sculpture.'

- Queluz, Lisbon, Portugal -

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I offer all of you, no matter what country you live in, what the colour of your skin or what faith you believe in, a toast. We are all the same in so many ways that we should not let small things prevent us from showing love to all. Happy New Year, love to everyone, everywhere, and above all, peace to all mankind.

The liquid is juice so for those that do not approve of alcohol, drink up.

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I worry this year - 2026 (I really want to be wrong) that a racist and Putin Lover (King Donald Trump with the help of a corrupt Supreme Court) will lead the world into a third world war. He has abandoned the alias and friends all over the world. My hope is that this year the Democrats take over the house and senate and they control him and bring stability back to the world. DO NOT COUNT ON THE USA AS A LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD ANY MORE.

I say this as a Canadian who loves the USA our Neighbour but also loves the FREE world - once our freedoms are lost we may never get them back.

The USA Constitution says: WE THE PEOPLE (my opinion- If they are white and rich) of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

La commune de Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue abrite un patrimoine exceptionnel représenté par ses deux tours Vauban, à la Hougue et sur Tatihou, inscrites à l’Unesco en 2008 dans le cadre du Réseau des Sites majeurs de Vauban, avec 11 autres sites français, représentant chacun une facette de l’œuvre du célèbre poliorcète. Conjuguant l’observation et le tir à la mer, les tours de Saint-Vaast constituent l’archétype des tours tronconiques de défense côtière, à batteries hautes.

La frontière de mer du Cotentin prend toute son importance sous le règne de Louis XIV, avec la volonté de Vauban de mettre ce littoral en sécurité, car les coups de main ennemis contre notre côte s’intensifient au cours de la guerre de la Ligue d’Augsbourg (1688-1697) qui oppose la France à la majeure partie de l’Europe. Ainsi, en 1692, après une bataille de ligne tout à son honneur au large de Barfleur, le vice-amiral Tourville perd, les 2 et 3 juin, pratiquement sans coup férir, douze de ses vaisseaux incendiés par les brûlots anglais et hollandais, alors qu’ils étaient venus se réfugier sous l’île Tatihou et à la pointe de la Hougue, insuffisamment protégées.

Cet épisode, passé à la postérité sous l’appellation « Bataille de la Hougue », décide le roi à accorder à Vauban les subsides nécessaires pour renforcer la défense de Saint-Vaast. Le principe est arrêté dès 1693, et c’est à Benjamin Decombes que Vauban confie la tâche de faire bâtir deux tours dans le but de protéger la baie en rendant impossible tout débarquement grâce, notamment, au tir croisé des batteries.

Distantes l’une de l’autre, de 2,750 kms à vol d’oiseau, les tours s’élèvent à 20 mètres au-dessus de leurs fondations, mais elles se distinguent par leur silhouette : plus massive pour Tatihou qui a les pieds dans l’eau à marée haute et comporte 10 embrasures sur sa plate-forme de tir, plus élégante pour la Hougue qui s’élève sur son promontoire de granit si bien que la terrasse de tir à 6 embrasures culmine à 40 mètres au-dessus du niveau de la mer.

La construction des deux tours est achevée en 1699, lorsque Vauban effectue sa dernière visite en Cotentin. Elles s’intègrent alors totalement dans le système défensif côtier du Ponant. L’épreuve du feu a lieu en août 1708, lors d’une tentative de descente anglaise sous la Hougue, déjouée grâce au fameux tri croisé. Cet épisode prouve l’intérêt de la construction des deux tours, car les Anglais ne tenteront plus aucune descente sur le rivage saint-vaastais.

The commune of Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue is home to an exceptional heritage represented by its two Vauban towers, at La Hougue and on Tatihou, listed by UNESCO in 2008 as part of the Network of Major Vauban Sites, with 11 other sites French, each representing a facet of the work of the famous poliorcete. Combining observation and sea shooting, the towers of Saint-Vaast constitute the archetype of truncated conical coastal defense towers, with high batteries.

The Cotentin sea border took on its full importance under the reign of Louis Augsburg (1688-1697) which pitted France against most of Europe. Thus, in 1692, after a line battle to his credit off the coast of Barfleur, Vice-Admiral Tourville lost, on June 2 and 3, practically without firing a shot, twelve of his vessels set on fire by English and Dutch fireships, then that they had come to take refuge under Tatihou Island and at the Pointe de la Hougue, which were insufficiently protected.

This episode, passed down to posterity under the name "Battle of La Hougue", decided the king to grant Vauban the necessary subsidies to strengthen the defense of Saint-Vaast. The principle was decided in 1693, and it was to Benjamin Decombes that Vauban entrusted the task of building two towers with the aim of protecting the bay by making any landing impossible thanks, in particular, to the crossfire of the batteries.

Distant from each other, 2,750 km as the crow flies, the towers rise 20 meters above their foundations, but they are distinguished by their silhouette: more massive for Tatihou who has his feet in water at high tide and has 10 embrasures on its shooting platform, more elegant for La Hougue which rises on its granite promontory so that the shooting terrace with 6 embrasures culminates 40 meters above the sea ​​level.

The construction of the two towers was completed in 1699, when Vauban made his last visit to Cotentin. They are then fully integrated into the coastal defensive system of Ponant. The trial by fire took place in August 1708, during an attempted English descent under La Hougue, foiled thanks to the famous cross sorting. This episode proves the interest in the construction of the two towers, because the English will no longer attempt any descent on the Saint-Vaast shore.

Please let me know which of these two you prefer.

It always saddens me to see an old dilapidated farm house like this. Someone's dreams of country living played out here and somewhere along the line their posterities ideas of what was important must have changed. Perhaps the state of disrepair and neglect was slow but sadly it sits here behind a no trespassing sign and a fence. It seemed to have a lot going for it with plenty of water from a running spring, fruit trees and great views of the Great Basin and surrounding mountains. If the former inhabitats can look down and view this place in its current state then I imagine they would be saddened by the sight.

Ok, I know its not December. Heck, I should have called it Christmas OUT of Steam. But I thought today was the last day I could post a Christmas image, so I wanted to squeeze this one in on New Years Day. Happy 2017!

The Portland Zoo holds an event for Christmas, like many zoo's, where they put up lights almost in-lieu of animals. The Portland Zoo also has a train where lights are set up along the train route. They have two trains, one modern Zepher-style train and another old time steamer (mini that is). At the station they steam up while it is sitting still. Perfect. I set up the tripod while the kids were on the train with their aunt and uncle. The color in the steam was impressive. Naturally I had to compete with hordes of kids that liked to claim the same spot I wanted. So I pushed all the kids down the icy hill, yelling something about the need to photograph the train for posterity while I laughed manically. That was the highlight of the night for sure. Honestly I though the steam would turn to shooting icicles because it was so cold.

Some images taken in October 2016 which I didn't include in the original collection so posting for posterities sake.

Diary note: After spending 5 days in the remote mountains of the Ben Alder Estate, we broke camp early on Friday morning. The Highland ponies watched us as we moved on out and one of them crossed the river to see me. I guess she was after seeing what food I had left, but we'd eaten the lot - otherwise we'd probably still be staying in there! These Highland ponies are free roaming on the estate and are used for carrying red deer off the hills when they are culled during the hunting season. They're tough, strong ponies and I couldn't help but be stirred by a pang of sadness as I said goodbye to them and their homeland on that Friday morning. I think it was knowing that I will probably never pass this way again - so many other wild places left to explore in the Highlands.

To round off a good day in the Derbyshire Peak District we headed to Buxworth curve for the returning Collyhurst Street … only one problem, on arrival I realised I had run out of film!

Off I sped to Chinley village and the one chemist in town was open with one roll of 24 exposure Kodachrome 64 gathering dust on the shelf, "I will take that thanks" and back to my mate Ian Fisher who said that he had heard it adding to the tension!

Well, one of my quickest film changes ever ensued and yes he had heard it as the unmistakable roar of 2x37's built to a crescendo. One shot on my trusty Canon F1 and we had recorded it for posterity … Happy Days.

So, if Michael and I packed up some stuff and moved in overnight, do we get to keep one of the flats? Hmm. I'm not sure Michael would have wanted to regardless as he referenced that his legs were unusually wobbly.

Up at the top of this block, we looked out towards the site entrance and what we assume was the security hut. Certainly there was no sign of anyone else the whole time we were there though. I'm not sure we would have been noticed anyway - the neighbouring area is full of student halls - really loud even in the middle of the night.

As I said before, we didn't really do too much actual exploring - the blocks are much the same as each other and it was getting darker the longer we stayed (thanks clouds!). On our way out, now confident that we were getting away scot-free, I suddenly noticed a small red light right by where we had got in.

Ah. It was an infra-red camera. Not only had we been seen now, our whole little adventure had been caught for posterity. Oops. We escaped, hoping that the security people would think we were just a couple of pissed-up students.

"Rivers and roads

Rivers and roads

Rivers 'til I reach you"

-Rivers and Roads by The Head and The Heart

As I said in my last post I want to dedicate my next couple of posts to my family. This image is dedicated to my daughter Avery. Rivers and Roads is the title of a song by the band The Head and The Heart that my daughter happens to be learning to play on the guitar. I am very proud of her for her many talents and spirit, and am very glad that she is sticking to her guitar lessons. The song is beautiful and perfectly captures the heartache associated with constantly traveling away from my family. I was very excited when I found this spot, as it had this perfect intersection of a glacier-fed river, a mountain road and the stunning Swiss alps, and the song title immediately popped in my head. So my dearest Avery, this is for you, I miss you terribly and think about you always when I am away.

As to the image itself, this is the unmistakable Matterhorn as reflected in the river Findelbach that flows off the Findelgleischer (glacier). I had a weekend stay over in Switzerland during a business trip in September so I took the train from Zurich to Zermatt, with the intention of hiking up to the Stellisee lake to get a photo of the reflection of the Matterhorn in the lake. If you search Matterhorn on flickr, this is the classic shot you will find most often. In a nutshell, I underestimated the intensity of the hike and I didn't quite make it there. This shot of the Matterhorn peak bathed in the alpenglow and reflected in the Findelbach is unique as far as I can find. Judge for yourself whether that makes it interesting. It is clearly not the shot I really wanted, and the original composition had several issues. It's one of those images that doesn't quite work at first and you have to step away from it for a while and then patiently work with it to improve. After removing some unsightly gondola wires and cropping it I was more satisfied.

Of course, the intended shot had to be a sunrise or sunset shot. Unfortunately the gondola and funicular train that both go up from Zermatt (at 4,000ft) to the 5 lakes (at 6,000ft) start running after sunrise and stop before sunset. So if one wants a sunrise/sunset shot one has two choices: overnight on the mountain-side, or hike up/down from Zermatt. I chose the hike option because I wasn’t prepared to camp out. To skip straight to today’s lesson: it was the wrong choice. Or rather, I didn’t have the time to properly prepare and half-assing my way up there at 3am cost me my chance at a reflection shot in the lake. Now, that may not be such a disaster because without some decent cloud lighting I don’t think the lake reflection would be any more satisfying to me than this shot. But that hike!! Very nearly did me in. It's about 12km walking at a fairly good incline from Zermatt. But the main reason is actually right in the middle of the frame of this shot. The bridge in the center is the connection between the path up from Zermatt to this particular spot and the road that continues up to the Stellisee. And I was so busy trying to find a composition during the few minutes of pre-sunrise Alpenglow that I missed the sign where the road up to Stellisee forks from the path that follows the river.

I continued to follow that path along the river as it started to slope upward and got increasingly difficult, until I was almost at the foot of the glacier. I was now hemmed in by steep slopes of loose rock on either side and decided I'd clearly misread the map or missed a fork, and it was just too stupid to go any further.

I turned back down and eventually discovered the sign to Stelligsee. The funicular was also up this path just beyond Stelligsee. I summoned my last bit of drive to follow the path (back uphill) until I reached the Grindjisee lake, a few hundred meters before Stelligsee, just to stubbornly say I'd made it (mostly). I took my reflection shot in the Grindjisee for posterity, even though it was well past sunrise and the light quality was bad by that point, so I'll never post it.

At this point my legs were so tired that I just didn’t have it in me to keep climbing, even though it was a 2 hour descent back down to Zermatt instead of a 30 minute hike further uphill. At least I could claim some form of masochistic victory; I had made it to the 5 lakes and had the route scoped out for a future visit. Hiked 20 miles (32km) that day at 4,000-6,000 feet (2000 meters). Climbed and then descended the equivalent of 200 flights of stairs. And lived to write the tale for my wonderful daughter Avery :-)

An American Kestrel sitting quietly in a tree?!? Go figure. Usually they are almost as bad as Belted Kingfishers in the cooperation department. Got to take over a dozen shots, but all handheld so this weeble old lady didn't do so wonderfully. Wanted to save it for posterity though, so lots of editing and textures ... fun though. Love these little raptors...

“May you have warm words on a cold evening, a full moon on a dark night and a smooth road all the way to your door.”

Irish Blessing

I know that I have been shooting extensively from this location lately, but I had to post this picture. The position of the full moon over the Empress Hotel is extremely difficult to capture. You have to keep those magical moments for posterity.

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U17 ist ein U-Boot der Klasse 206A, hat eine Länge von etwa 48 Meter, einen Tiefgang von 4,6 Meter und verdrängt getaucht etwa 500 Tonnen.

Das Einsatzgebiet des U-Boots war hauptsächlich in der Nord- und Ostsee, später nach der Umrüstung zur Klasse 206 Alpha dann auch im Mittelmeer.

U17 hat einen ganz besonderen Einsatz gefahren und war, gemeinsam mit U26, das erste deutsche U-Boot in amerikanischen Gewässern nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg und das erste U-Boot, das im Hafen von Baltimore einlief, nachdem dort das letzte U-Boot im Jahr 1916 (U-Deutschland) ankerte.

Die Boote vom Typ 206 haben - so lange wie kein anderes U-Boot zuvor - fast 40 Dienstjahre in der deutschen Marine gedient, und nach so langer Zeit hätte es den Generationen an Besatzungsmitgliedern in der Seele wehgetan, wenn man diese nicht erhalten und der Nachwelt zugänglich gemacht hätte. Die aus ehemaligen Besatzungsmitgliedern bestehende "U-Boot-Kameradschaft U17" wird sich später um den Erhalt des U-Boots als Exponat kümmern.

Im Moment ist es auf dem Weg ins Technik Museum nach Sinsheim. Dazu wird es hier durch die kleine Stadt Ittlingen transportiert.

U17 is a class 206A submarine, has a length of about 48 meters, a draft of 4.6 meters and displaces about 500 tons when submerged.

The submarine's area of ​​operation was mainly in the North and Baltic Seas, and later also in the Mediterranean after it was converted to the 206 Alpha class.

U17 went on a very special mission and, together with U26, was the first German submarine in American waters after the Second World War and the first submarine to enter the port of Baltimore after the last submarine there in the year 1916 (U-Germany) anchored.

The Type 206 boats have served in the German Navy for almost 40 years - longer than any other submarine before - and after such a long time it would have hurt the souls of the generations of crew members if they were not preserved and for posterity would have made accessible. The “U-Boat Comradeship U17”, consisting of former crew members, will later take care of preserving the submarine as an exhibit.

At the moment it is on the way to the Technology Museum in Sinsheim. For this purpose it is transported through the small town of Ittlingen.

Juvenile Red-Tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis)

I really had to work for this shot, and it was all due to my own silliness. We come back from shooting the shore, walking back to the car when this hawk lands on top of the building in front of the car to get a break from a bird that had been harassing it.

I am so excited that it’s this close to us that I hurriedly take my 24-120mm lens off and hand it to one of the guys then quickly but carefully as I can get out the 200-500mm without spooking him off the roof.

Let the fun begin!

Lens is on, pull it up to take a shot, SH@#! The lens hood is still on! Bird still sitting.

Lens hood off, CR#&! Focusing is on the wrong mode! Fix that, bird still sitting.

Ok we are set now, bring the lens up, focus, snap to get a first shot, FU#$! Beep, Beep, Beep. Stupid timer still on. Bird still sitting but now he looks antsy, tail lifting for a poop!

Finally, all set, bring it up and he is ready to get out of there. I actually got several shots all in focus, good shutter speed.

Used these two to create this composite. After he was off, I asked if either of the other two guys got all that on video

for blackmail material. To my surprise, they were too busy cracking up to capture it for posterity.

I do not like posting bird images that include "Man Made" objects. However in this case I decided to. When wandering around with my camera I suddenly noticed this bird land on one of our solar arrays. After identifying it I decided that I needed to take some images for posterity (and my own satisfaction.)

The only thrasher in most of eastern North America. Fairly large and very long-tailed, with bright rufous upper-parts and heavily streaked underparts. Also note white wingbars, staring yellow eyes, and slightly decurved bill. Usually skulky and difficult to see in shrubby habitats, especially second-growth woodland, thickets, and forest edge. Listen for its loud song, a long series of paired phrases, often containing mimicry of other species. Most similar to Long-billed Thrasher, but almost no range overlap. Brown Thrasher is brighter rufous above and lacks the contrasting grey face of Long-billed.

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This is the second of the two Night Herons that recently arrived on the banks of the River Calder in West Yorkshire. The only difference I could spot between them was that this individual has a narrower white forehead. They both had those bizarre white plumes on their heads (looks like a white knitting needle here) but this wasn't visible in my earlier photograph of the other bird: www.flickr.com/photos/timmelling/52801898716/in/dateposted/

I was hesitant about uploading another Night Heron but seeing two adults together in West Yorkshire is so unusual that I wanted to record both birds for posterity. Incidentally the scientific name Nycticorax translates as night raven. Night, because they are most active at night, and Raven because of their croaking raven-like call. In America they call this species Black-crowned Night Heron to differentiate it from Yellow-crowned Night Heron: www.flickr.com/photos/timmelling/8602782592/in/photolist

Sadly Wednesday afternoon's Workington sun window did not extend further up the coast.

No matter, by any stretch of the imagination a bonnet-first Chopper is a rarity out on the network regardless of the weather so worth firing off a shot or two for posterity.

20308 heads the fuel-starved 20305 and the con-flats on approach to Flimby station.

Some images taken in October 2016 which I didn't include in the original collection so posting for posterities sake.

Diary note: After spending 5 days in the remote mountains of the Ben Alder Estate, we broke camp early on Friday morning. The Highland ponies watched us as we moved on out and one of them crossed the river to see me. I guess she was after seeing what food I had left, but we'd eaten the lot - otherwise we'd probably still be staying in there! These Highland ponies are free roaming on the estate and are used for carrying red deer off the hills when they are culled during the hunting season. They're tough, strong ponies and I couldn't help but be stirred by a pang of sadness as I said goodbye to them and their homeland on that Friday morning. I think it was knowing that I will probably never pass this way again - so many other wild places left to explore in the Highlands.

In my home province, Scania (Skåne), there are about 60 rune stones. Most of them are carved between the years 980 and 1050, ie during the Viking Age.

The rune stones provide invaluable information about the language that was spoken and you also find out which names were popular then.

This special rune stone is among the most beautiful and the message reads:

”Fader had these runes carved after Asser, his brother, who died in the north during viking.”

( Meaning: He died during a conquest journey to the north.)

So, if you have a message for posterity, the best way is to carve it in stone.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runestone

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Taken in situ and with 100% natural lighting, albeit very poor :-(

I've often noticed that these very tiny flowers seem to glow, like lanterns, in the dark. So I decided to try and capture this phenomenon for posterity's sake by taking a photo of one in the dark. - Don't say it!!!

Well, it wasn't exactly pitch-dark but as the original photo (new tab) shows, my little camera couldn't quite cope with the vibrant-colour challenge imposed on it by the poor lighting conditions; the use of a flash being out of the question, of course :-(

So I had to muster up all my talent, charm and cunning to restore the little flower to its former glory while, at the same time, making the background as nocturnal-looking as possible, without using Photoshop. I then cropped it and, using Gimp, added my first ever homemade smoky texture to enhance the glowing effect¹, I hope!

I also hope that my little Christmassy gift will brighten your day. It was, of course, meant for Christmas but, alas, it was not to be² :-(

Don't hesitate to come back for a boost whenever your day is a little on the dull side!

I hope you had a lovely Christmas and that your New Year will be full of little surprises; nice ones, of course, like mine! ;-)

Please select full screen (F11) and view my little gift in lightbox. Then, while still on full screen, check out the following photos; but mind the prickles, you’ll be very close indeed! ;-)

Life in ‘the bush’ (new tab)

Life in ‘the bush’ up very close indeed (new tab)

And try this for size! (new tab) They are rather tiny, aren't they?

Tools of the trade! (new tab) Shh!!! Mum's the word!

Take care and thanks for coming,

Colin … ;-)

¹ The glow of a lighted candle will only illuminate its immediate

  surroundings leaving everything else in total darkness. It was this

  effect that I was seeking!

² it was not to be = la vie en a décidé autrement

References :

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulex_europaeus (new tab)

www.wildlifetrusts.org/species/gorse (new tab)

WARNING :

With your brightness too high, you could remain dazzled for life! ;-)

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The best way to view my photostream is to select lightbox, while on full screen, and flip through it by clicking on the arrow to the right of each picture in turn. You can also zoom in on some of the pictures, (about half); this one, for example. This is how I view your pictures!

"The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualification and thus adds his contribution to the creative act. (...) The artist may shout from all the rooftops that he is a genius: he will have to wait for the verdict of the spectator in order that his declarations take a social value and that, finally, posterity includes him in the primers of Artist History." Marcel Duchamp, (edit from The creative act)

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The Hagen Open-air Museum (LWL-Freilichtmuseum Hagen – Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Handwerk und Technik; English: "LWL Open-air Museum Hagen – Westphalian State Museum for Craft and Technics") is a museum at Hagen in the southeastern Ruhr area, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded, together with the Detmold Open-air Museum, in 1960, and was first opened to the public in the early 1970s. The museum is run by the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (LWL, regional authority for Westphalia and Lippe within North Rhine-Westphalia). It lies in the Hagen neighbourhood of Selbecke south of Eilpe in the Mäckingerbach valley.

The open-air museum brings a bit of skilled-trade history into the present, and it takes a hands-on approach. On its grounds stretching for about 42 ha, not only are urban and rural trades simply "displayed" along with their workshops and tools, but in more than twenty of the nearly sixty rebuilt workshops, they are still practised, and interested visitors can, sometimes by themselves, take part in the production.

As early as the 1920s, there were efforts by a group of engineers and historical preservationists to preserve technological monuments for posterity. The initiator, Wilhelm Claas, even suggested the Mäckingerbach valley as a good place for a museum to that end. The narrow valley was chosen, as wind, water and wood were the three most important location factors for industry in the 18th and 19th centuries.

In 1960, the Westphalian Open-Air Museum was founded, and thirteen years later, the gates opened to the public. Unlike most open-air museums, which show everyday life on the farm or in the country as it was in days gone by, the Hagen Open-Air Museum puts the history of these activities in Westphalia in the fore. From the late 18th century through the early years of the Industrial Revolution to the highly industrialized society emerging in the early 20th century, the visitor can experience the development of these trades and the industry in the region.

Crafts and trades demonstrated at the Westphalian Open-Air Museum include ropemaking, smithing, brewing, baking, tanning, printing, milling, papermaking, and much more. A favourite attraction is the triphammer workshop shown in the image above. Once the hammer is engaged, a craftsman goes to work noisily forging a scythe, passing it between the hammer and the anvil underneath in a process called peening.

The Hagen Westphalian Open-Air Museum is open from March or April until October.

Green Cargo's RC4 loco No 1150 winds its way towards Alvsjö station heading a mixed train of wagons that has originated from the nearby Stockholm Årsta Kombiterminal, destination presumed as Hallsbergs. We'd been here the previous Friday and got bowled in glorious conditions by a Stockholm City service so, with the clock ticking on our flight back to Blighty, we returned to see if the freight would make a slightly later (or earlier) appearance and satisfy the desire to capture freight workings. With just 5 minutes to spare the target appeared, was recorded for posterity and we were on the next train to Stockholm to partake in some lunch and purchase a Mr Tickle mug......

For all posterity

It's not every day that I get the chance to capture a view for posterity, but I did just that here. These are two of the four giant red cooling towers at Ironbridge Power Station, and they are destined for demolition in the very near future. By way of complete contrast the railway line I am standing on is going to to be reopened as part of the Ironbridge Power Station redevelopment.

So, if I did try to take this same shot in a couple of year's time the towers would be gone and there is a chance I would get run over by a train.

Although this is such a great place for B&W, I just had to retain the red colour of the cooling towers as they are such a landmark.

...and today at 11am 6th December 2019, they were blown up, and have disappeared into a big red pile of rubble.

The fisherman's wharf of Ibiza. It will soon be moved to another local, so this is a photo for posterity

This little guy has decided to make the occasional visit to our Japanese Maple. He's been pretty patient, waiting for me to get the camera and snap a few pictures for posterity.

I hope that everyone is well and healthy.

Mike

I have never seen so many bystanders witnessing the passing of a one-coach train, so for posterity here's a glimpse of part of the scene at the Tees bridge as 60163 'Tornado' speeds above the rooftops of the historic market town of Yarm, returning to York from Shildon on Sunday 27th September 2020, having fulfilled its duty of conveying dignitaries early in the day to the sites earmarked for the bicentenary celebrations of the Stockton & Darlington Railway in 2025.

© Gordon Edgar - All rights reserved. Please do not use my images without my explicit permission

The Milneburg Lighthouse remains on the UNO campus, preserved for posterity within the university’s Research and Technology Park, nearly two centuries later. Guards told us we could photograph the Lighthouse, but had to stay in our car.

the lighting was awful, backlit, sidelit ... but what a beauty. Edited my heart out to save for posterity. Glossy Ibis in the wetlands.

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

Copyright © by John Russell – All Rights Reserved

So many people here - it was probably the busiest place that we saw in all of Thailand. A stark contrast to empty beaches and hotels elsewhere

oddfellows cafe, capitol hill, seattle

my seventh graders and i have embarked on a unit on constitutional law, which has proven to be very enlightening. as a tribute, my lovelies serenaded me with this classic at today's upper school morning meeting. i laughed. i cried (seriously. i did. i was really touched). it was better than Cats.

{62/365} a year of living positively

I often wonder how the early settlers and indians made their way through the jungle-like forests of Louisiana.

I'm posting two versions of this scene for posterity, and I'm pretty sure that I've taken this same shot before... LOL, I can be so redundant...

Who always comes up with these silly ideas haha

We had so much fun with Sandi when we danced dirty in the Freebie Galaxy :)

This is just a snapshot for posterity :D

Sorry if we shocked anyone haha

“Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country; and never to tolerate their violation by others." #AbrahamLincoln

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Enjoy and share well this HOLY WEEK, for He died so EACH of us may live.

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"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from u s in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains set lightly upon you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." -Sam Adams

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Blushing at this end from the joy of reading your latest epistle. Twas cool. Improving toward Perfection is a life time goal of many. Never achieved but trying, right? Some need so much help. If we each do our part, maybe Hades will be a little less full during that long eternal party without air conditioning.

Though at any party on this planet, I do not hang with every body. I stay in the corner, spy a few prior acquaintances or friends, and talk the night away. I am not too much on meeting and making great new friends from a large crowd. In fact, few parties do I attend. Who needs that or them? I am busy partying on Flickr.

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Scripture Needs to Be Read Spiritually, Says Preacher

Delivers Final Lenten Meditation for Pope and Curia

ROME, MARCH 14, 2008 (Zenit.org).- Scripture is not only inspired by God, but also "breathes forth God," that is, the Holy Spirit inhabits Scripture and animates it, says the preacher of the Pontifical Household.

Capuchin Father Raniero Cantalamessa said this today in the Lenten meditation he delivered to Benedict XVI and the Roman Curia in the Redemptoris Mater Chapel of the Apostolic Palace.

The sermon was the last in a series of meditations the preacher gave this Lent.

The series, titled "The Word of God Is Living and Effective," reflects the theme of the next Synod of Bishops on the word of God, to be held in October.

Father Cantalamessa spoke about the two meanings implied by 2 Timothy 3:16 "all Scripture is inspired by God."

He explained that the more common meaning is the "passive" one, referring to the way that God directed the writers of the holy texts.

The second meaning, the preacher explained, is "active": Scripture, is not only "inspired by God" but also "spirates God." "After having dictated the Scripture, the Holy Spirit is in a way contained within it; he ceaselessly inhabits it and animates it with his divine breath."

Setting him free

Father Cantalamessa then asked, "How do we approach the Scriptures in a way that they truly 'free' the Spirit that they contain?"

He said that "in Scripture, the Spirit cannot be discovered if not by passing through the letter, that is, through the concrete human vesture that the word of God assumed in the different books and inspired authors. In them the divine meaning cannot be discovered, if not by beginning from the human meaning, the one intended by the human author, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Luke, Paul, etc. It is in this that we find the complete justification of the immense effort in study and research that surrounds the book of Scripture."

But, Father Cantalamessa affirmed, there is a "tendency to stop at the letter, considering the Bible an excellent book, the most excellent of human books, if you will, but only a human book. Unfortunately we run the risk of reducing Scripture to a single dimension."

The Pontifical Household preacher pointed to a sign of hope: "That the demand for a spiritual reading of Scripture and one guided by faith is now beginning to be felt by some eminent exegetes."

The Capuchin urged a furthering of this "spiritual reading."

He explained: "To speak of the 'spiritual' reading of the Bible is not to speak of an edifying, mystical, subjective, or worse still, imaginative, reading, in opposition to the scientific reading, which would be objective. On the contrary, it is the most objective reading that there is because it is based on the Spirit of God, not on the spirit of man.

"Spiritual reading is therefore something that is quite precise and objective; it is the reading that is done under the guidance of, or in the light of, the Holy Spirit that inspired Scripture. It is based on a historical event, namely, the redemptive act of Christ which, with his death and resurrection, accomplishes the plan of salvation and realizes all of the figures and the prophecies, it reveals all of the hidden mysteries and offers the true key for reading the Bible."

Toward all truth

Father Cantalamessa said that this "spiritual reading" of Scripture applies to both the Old and New Testaments.

"Reading the New Testament spiritually means reading it in the light of the Holy Spirit given to the Church at Pentecost to lead the Church to all truth, that is, to the complete understanding and actualization of the Gospel," he said.

The preacher affirmed that spiritual reading both integrates and surpassed scientific reading: "Scientific reading knows only one direction, which is that of history; it explains, in fact, that which comes after in light of that which comes before; it explains the New Testament in the light of the Old which precedes it, and it explains the Church in the light of the New Testament.

"Spiritual reading fully recognizes the validity of this direction of research, but it adds an inverse direction to it. This consists in explaining that which comes before in the light of that which comes after, prophecy in the light of its realization, the Old Testament in the light of the New and the New in the light of the tradition of the Church."

Father Cantalamessa contended, then, that "that which is necessary is not therefore a spiritual reading that would take the place of current scientific exegesis, with a mechanical return to the exegesis of the Fathers; it is rather a new spiritual reading corresponding to the enormous progress recorded by the study of 'letter.' It is a reading, in sum, that has the breath and faith of the Fathers and, at the same time, the consistency and seriousness of current biblical science.

The Pontifical Household preacher ended his reflection with a word of hope regarding a return to a spiritual reading like that of the Church fathers.

The Capuchin said "from the four winds the Spirit has begun unexpectedly to blow again" and we "witness the reappearance of the spiritual reading of the Bible and this too is a fruit -- one of the more exquisite -- of the Spirit."

"Participating in Bible and prayer groups, I am stupefied in hearing, at times, reflections on God's word that are analogous to those offered by Origen, Augustine or Gregory the Great in their time, even if it is in a more simple language," he said. "Let us conclude with a prayer that I once heard a woman pray after she was read the episode in which Elijah, ascending up to heaven, leaves Elisha two-thirds of his spirit.

"It is an example of spiritual reading in the sense I have just explained: 'Thank you, Jesus, that ascending to heaven, you do not only leave us two-thirds of your Spirit, but all of your Spirit! Thank you that you did not give your Spirit to just one disciple, but to all men!'"

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EXPLORE # 298, 381, 432 on 3-17-2008, after being on initial list on Sunday, March 16, 2008.

The owl decided on its own to make this pic for me -- or for posterity😄. I had tried to line it up with the moon when it was perched, but the moon was too high.

Thoothukudi (formerly Tuticorin) Thoni boat Maria Alexshantha photographed in Mumbai (formerly Bombay) in 1973. My restoration and colorization of Cliff Hawkins´ image in the New Zealand Maritime Museum archive.

"A Thoni is a large wooden, three masted sailing vessel. Thonis are found all along the western and eastern coasts of India with variations and modifications to suit local marine conditions and trade requirements. Along the western coast and in the Persian Gulf the Thoni is called ‘dhow’; within Tamilnadu it is called ‘dingy’ in Cuddalore: In Thoothukudi it is called ‘Thoni’."

"Thoothukudi was declared a Minor Port in 1868. On 11 July 1974 it was declared a Major Port. The Thoni and its sailors played an important role in this upgradation and development. However this traditional industry and indigenous navigational skill have been neglected. The Thoni is an integral part of the history and culture of Thoothukudi. It was once the pride and backbone of the Pearl Fishery Coast . Therefore it needs to be nurtured and supported for posterity."

(Global Paravar)