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Description on previous image. Thanks for the inspiration to "frame" this from the gorgeous works of Katherine (www.flickr.com/photos/blue-spirit/25059213732/in/faves-86...) and Holly (www.flickr.com/photos/hollycawfield/25138398171/in/datepo...)
On a previous post of Cape Espichel - “Gateway To Heaven” (www.flickr.com/photos/142581467@N05/49885571788/in/datepo...) I’ve presented a view of the Nossa Senhora do Cabo Church, namely of its façade and the lateral accommodation wings.
This view here is taken from the other side (after crossing the “magic gate” mentioned in that post), on the area immediately preceding the sea (on my back as I was taking this shot) that was also the subject of a previous post here covering the nearby lighthouse (www.flickr.com/photos/142581467@N05/49912818718/in/datepo...).
The buildings here are simple but beautiful and blend harmoniously with the raw and wild, desolate place, where giant waves crash against sheer, towering cliffs. Whom could ask for a more inspiring view?
From the 13th century onwards this spot has been a place of pilgrimage. Legend tells that Virgin Mary was seen there, riding a giant mule. The church – “Nossa Senhora do Cabo Church” (Our Lady of the Cape, protectress of fishermen) – was built in 1701 and is worth a visit, to admire the ornately finished interior, beautifully painted ceiling and experience the tranquillity of the place.
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Cabo Espichel, Portugal
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These Red Avadavats (Previously were also known as Strawberry finches) are in their peak breeding season. The males look superb - bright red with white spots on the body and are hard to miss.
They nest in small dry bushes dotting the countryside and once the bush is selected, they start collecting nesting materials for the build. Here the male is picking up a roadside shrub for some materials. He was quite fussy, picked up several of these long strands before tossing them away. He moved up and down the branch checking out various strands and seemed unhappy. I am not sure of specific criteria since they all looked the same to me. He did select one finally and flew away with that to a nearby perch first. The bird took a minute and scanned the surroundings for predators before flying to his nesting bush.
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The previous picture was suddenly gone. That is why I posted it again. Sorry for all the people who had already responded and liked
Taken two hours and ten minutes before the previous shot. Further back in my photo stream there are some LE shots taken on the same afternoon once the tide was in and on the turn. There is only one thing you do when faced with an ocean like this and that is stick your camera on a tripod and use a remote release and hang on tight to the tripod then just stand and stare. Even now I remember it vividly because not being primarily a landscape photographer and only getting shots when away on holiday I can truthfully say that I personally have never witnessed anything like this before or since........
Truly unforgettable, even if for many it is not particularly remarkable...
Thank you so much everyone for all your thoughtful, wonderful and kind comments. I cannot convey really how much your support means to me - but please believe it is possibly and most probably more than you will ever know…Sue x
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And some black : -) Same spot as the previous recent uploads, but a very different atmosphere again.
Happy Monochrome Monday!
After I captured the previous photo and was about to leave, I heard a magic word. Next to me stood two photographers, speaking in Hindi except for the words "Milky Way".
I asked "What about the Milky Way?" and was told it would be rising over the lake starting about 9pm.
Ahhhhh, we should stay, but yike, we were not dressed for the cold nor we ate dinner yet!
No matter, Milky Way rules!
Good thing I still have the note for Night Sky Photography on my phone (no cell signal) so I knew what settings to use.
PS: The photogs were brother and sister, their parents were sitting on the bench patiently waiting for them to finish their Milky Way photoshoot. They were visiting Canada from Australia for two weeks.
Our free-styling road trip is still going strong, we left Jasper/Banff and are heading west.
Wishing everyone a great day ahead, thanks for your visit!
This is from my archives. It is a previously unposted image. A long exposure sunset shot at Iluka Beach. One of my favourite little coves along the coast here in Perth. Every sunset is different. Aways changing. I did a bit of light painting on the rocks in the foreground to give some detail.
In my previous post I showed the Greater spotted woodpecker seeing off Starlings at breakfast time.
Today it came as I was starting my breakfast and the woodpecker became breakfast for the Sparrowhawk!
Tried hard not to burn my toast under the grill as I dashed upstairs to get the camera and change the lens.
Taken through the patio door.
As I already explained in my previous image of similar title, this is what is going on in this Northern Paradise. We passed by watching in horror and pushing the accelerator to the very bottom to get away from this madness as fast as possible. ... Call me selfish, call me a friggin individualist, but I will NEVER stand in a line experiencing such places in a melee ;)
Needless probably to add that their two minibuses were almost blocking a very narrow road while about 500 metres further there was a parking lot! Gosh I hate this new photographic vandalism!
The previous image would not be complete without a picture of the actual crab traps to go with the lines.
This image was taken a little later in the evening ... the setting sun was closer to the horizon and shedding a warm, orangey glow.
To keep it authentic, I've included the mast of the fish boat moored directly behind the nets.
Steveston, Richmond
BC
Canada
I previously have shown this as a vertical image. I received suggestions that it may be better as a horizontal. After cropping, I used Photoshop's Enhance to increase resolution, followed by Topaz De-noise AI and Topaz Sharpen AI.
This photograph was taken on October 1, 2022, shortly after 7:00 a.m. on a rail siding in Edon, Ohio. The engine crew told me that they brought the engine onto this siding around midnight. They stayed with the engine all night to tend the fire box and keep the steam up in order to be ready for the all-day trip. On this particular day, the train carried over 380 passengers, running from Edon, Ohio to Hillsdale, Michigan.
Ricoh GXR with lens unit A12, 12.3 mega pixel, 28mm, 23.6 x 15.7mm CMOS senor, and tripod.
In the previous post of a Wilson's Phalarope (Phalaropus tricolor), I indicated a role reversal in the male - female duties in regards to incubating the eggs and rearing the young. The male is rather drab in colour while the female, a shown here, sports all the rich and colourful plumage in order to attract a mate.
These birds were observed on a prairie wetland east of Tofield, Alberta, Canada.
17 May, 2022.
Slide # GWB_20220517_0734.CR2
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After finish the previous photo another wasp was flying around the stem and perch in front of the first. After 30 minutes where they dont stop to move his antennas and his abdomens they relax a little and try to do a decent stack.
Late afternoon natural light fieldstack . 12 photos taken with a 1000d + Tamron90mm at v=2seg ; f 6.3 and iso 200.
Pd: Unfortunelly this was the last pictures that i did with the 1000D . Internal problems in the mirror not make it usable.
My three previous posts have shown views of the south side of Virginia's Courthouse Square as seen from the southwest corner of the block. This photograph shows the first four buildings on the block's southeast corner. Although I took this photo in 2015, the buildings are basically unchanged today.
The most interesting of these structures is the old drugstore, which cleverly had been repurposed as a cafe and live entertainment venue known as Dr. Ugs. Sadly, Dr. Ugs closed earlier this year (2021).
The "drugstore" building was constructed in 1897, replacing an earlier structure consumed in the same fire on the south side of the square that destroyed the Farmers National Bank Building, which preceded the Robertson "Tower" Building shown in my three previous posts. The new "drugstore" building was constructed for a furniture store that expanded into selling caskets, along with providing undertaking services for local funeral homes. While this may sound a bit odd today, it was not unusual for furniture stores in the late 19th and early 20th century to sell caskets, and even provide undertaking services.
In 1939, the furniture store was repurposed as the first of three drug stores to occupy these premises. Later on, the building became the home of two bars and the now shuttered Dr. Ugs. The building is currently (September 2021) up for sale.
Virginia, the seat of Cass County, is located in West Central Illinois. The estimated population of Virginia in 2019 was 1,435.
In previous years I often spent the Christmas holidays in Egypt on the Sinai Peninsula. In the meantime, this area is no longer safe enough for me, actually a shame, because it was always very relaxed there.
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After the previous post, this one came some time later. Now colored in pink, Mt. Baker was still visible from our beach side perch. This was as colorful as both the sky and mountain appeared, soon disappearing behind a vail of clouds.
In a few weeks, this beach will fill with tourists, those much needed for the local economy. However, according to those living in the area, it is unlikely any will witness this same sight.
How did people of the previous generations lived ? Yeah, we can learn more by digging up history, from reading literature works, from old photos, videos or even relevant paintings etc. Suffice it to say, no clear picture will emerge without seeing their settings for ourselves. This is the setting for a well known scholar/high ranking official ( Viceroy of Guangdong and Guangxi ) who was "granted" a white silk scarf -- something similar to what the Japanese economy got from Plaza Accord -- by Empress Dowager, to hang himself with for having favoured the revolutionaries. One of his sons was a painter, and a well known connoisseur who helped a lot to bring Qi Baishi -- the equivalent of Van Gogh or else Monet in China -- into public eyes. His youngest son was a great historian hailed by many as the greatest ever who also carried the nickname of "the professor of the professors" in the then Beijing University, for so many professors flocked into his classes there. This was also home of a great novelist who wrote some well known short stories which had been filmed by many producers and he also authored a book on Chinese costumes of the earlier Dynasties. This also happened to be the home of a well known modern artist/painter, who won a fortune by his works probably also through a little bit of luck, as once proclaimed by himself ... and I'll endeavour to post one or two of his works in Flickr, even though I understand that few Flickr enthusiasts really care much about paintings....
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli
Galuppi Sonata
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDVEihRst1c
Concert in Lugano,1981
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf3xHZrcjPg
Cherkassky plays Tchaikovsky-Pabst Lullaby
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vtjo1Qb2vrQ
Raina Kabaivanska - AVE MARIA by VERDI
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVavz1Kn__M
'95 Recital
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSd__jTbTwg
Daniele Barioni : Best of 1958-1983
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nwhj8dlFxk
CESARE SIEPI Ernani 1958
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgP6PJ8wLRw
阿炳 (Chinese Lutist) : 昭君出塞
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vFF84nmNF8
《大浪淘沙》
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCTxjq5zxc0
Euridice (Gluck-Sgambati) Sergey Rachmaninov
I've previously posted a static shot of this 1954 Ferrari 375 MM Spyder with its bright blue and yellow Argentina Racing Colours livery, so I thought I'd upload a panning shot that goes some way to showing off the cars lovely Pinin Farina designed curves.
Originally S/N 0374AM and then renumbered as S/N 0362AM when the car was rebuilt following a crash on its debut race, before being fitted with the engine from S/N 0376AM.
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Our previous Vas'ka (1992-2008) was a coward, he never could jump on the table (as the present cat does) and no one except me could pat him... That was a rare case he tried to move the cheese
closer to understand what it is like.
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The previous image was taken by the parking lot strip. After a few shots I changed lens and walked down to the shore to take some wide angle images.
During our stay in Banff, we went by this lake several times however, only once we were able to see the breathtaking reflection of the mountains, because we came at the right time, when the water was still and clear.
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My Previous post was a male Red Crossbill. This is a male White-winged Crossbill taken at the same location three days later.
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The previous image was of this little Vervet Monkey running to his mother. Right after I captured this tender moment, the mom swatted the little one across the face and they both took off. I wonder if mom was upset that the little one was posing for me. I've got a lot of cute shots of him looking right at me. Stay tuned, there's lots more images to come!
No! Not taken this Autumn, but a previously unposted shot from January this year. I don't normally go back in the archives too much but in tribute to the forthcoming Short Eared Owl season (and the fact it has rained or been miserable weather for at least 2 weeks) I have included a shot of my closest encounter to date with a perched bird.
I had spent a few hours at the site when one of the group decided they needed to go home. As this owl was perched on a post which they would have to walk past I decided to go along too and see how far we got before it flew off. Foolishly didn't take my tripod so had to struggle hand holding the 600mm - but I think the fact he/she didn't fly until we were quite close gave me extra strength.
Taken during the golden hour.
Although we do have a year round population, with some breeding in the North, numbers are swelled in the winter with migrants from Scandanavia, Russia and Iceland. I think this is one of them.
Mapungubwe National Park, previously known as Vhembe-Dongola, was declared a World Heritage Site in July 2003. Mapungubwe protects a corridor of mopane veld adjacent to the Limpopo River bordering Botswana and Zimbabwe. With its outstanding botanical, ecological, geological and geomorphological merit, it is envisaged that the park will eventually form part of the proposed Limpopo/Shashe Transfrontier Conservation Area, which will incorporate the Tuli Circle in Zimbabwe and the Mashatu Reserve in Botswana.
The terrain south of the Limpopo River is flat with sandstone and conglomerate ridges and koppies. Closer to the Limpopo River, the flat landscape changes into rugged mountainous terrain.
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The previous picture I posted was the mother deer. She kept them completely hidden for about a month. Then, one day I looked out the kitchen window and mama doe ran across the field followed by these two little beauties. Afterwards, I started to see them regularly. However, once winter started they have made their range bigger and I do not see them as much but they are around. A trail camera on back of my shed gets a lot of night images.
In our previous neighbourhood, Smaro' had been feeding all the cats, that is how we first met! Among them Mavroula and her children- I had named them the 3 "masks"! In this photo she has one of her 3 children Kampili.
More specifically, the names Oksia, Amvlia and Kampili came out of the shape and the kind of the angle on their head! Thus, acute angle, obtuse angle and Curve!
Hummingbird Silhouette a reedit on a previous upload nice soft colors of nature, in this North Carolina scene.
Getting you a bit of the perspective on the scale of the landscape from my previous photo, so here is Aiko on his way up to the rock.
We are still up in the mountains of mid Norway, Haukelifjellet.
This is the close-up shot for my previous photo.
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As previously posted: I keep going back to this quaint area of town because it is full of bright colours and oceans views. Every time I go, this little guy or one of his friends, meets me at the end of the road and joins me on my journey.
Today, no one greeted me. Seems they were all off duty and having little naps which I rudely interrupted. As you can see, he may not have been happy to see me but I was quite delighted to find him safe and sound and enjoying a sun shiny snooze.