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“for there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Well I do like a tea in the morning. But come the end of the week a couple of brews are more my style.
Maybe I should use a tea cup.
Happy Teddy Bear Tuesday
"I think people should maybe just go out into the garden and watch a ladybug crawl across a flower and relax their mind. That's about all you need to know about life, I think"
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Harland Williams
... dear Friends,
perhaps everyone believes that this is Venice...
yes, of course, this is Venice in the postcards, Venice in dreams, the magic, romantic, poetic Venice which everyone has in mind and in heart; Venice described by the memories of tourists coming back from a magic romantic vacation... Venice in many photos tourists have in their libraries but...
yesterday this magic, poetic, romantic, artistic town, the most beautiful town in the world has given all her fragility...
187 cm high water caused all this...
for everyone who wish to know what is Venice, the Venice which is in serious danger,
please, follow the following links:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXkoAQ0Wd4g
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OD72juU7ql8
www.veneziatoday.it/cronaca/acqua-alta-record-venezia-12-...
www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2019/11/12/news/maltempo_meteo_...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh-76Gfq_4w
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxxNhPy3Hlw
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKTm53YdamQ
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-rlNzsNE4A
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_bBPYCrlPY
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_bBPYCrlPY
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9yR36NbLgs
THIS IS VENICE, MY FRIENDS...
I LIVE THERE AND BELIEVE ME THAT IT IS TERRIBLE EVEN IF I HAD NOT AN EXPERIENCE LIKE THIS... :-((
In the history of Venice it is only the second time in this way; the other was in 1960...
THIS IS MY TRIBUTE TO THIS MAGIC TOWN WHICH I LOVE AND WHEREIN I LIVED... MY HEART IS THERE NOW...
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they are made with the eye, heart and head.”
[Henry Cartier Bresson]
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Perhaps not one for the squeamish to look closely at... caterpillar on the move (Evandale,SA)
As children we were used to pick these up and take them home, always disappointing when they magically disappeared...
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Model: Vice Cale, Perhaps Twine
Background: DeviantArt, freaky665
Hands & feet: DAZ
Various brushes used.
The picture is a birthday present for Vice. Thank you so much for all you do for me!
France; Brenne, Lignac 24/5/20. Nice looking beast, but all attempts at identification have failed! Not even sure what family it's in... perhaps Miridae?
Big thanks to BERNARD RUELLE for solving the conundrum.
Perhaps these wagons were sidelined after trucks came on the scene. During the height of it's gold and silver production in 1880, the population of Bodie was estimated at 10,000. In the early days, everything to support the growth of the town was brought in via wagons like this.
Happy Bench Monday!
Perhaps the pink dogwood blossom would have been more content to remain on the tree. However, it found its way into my freezer. This was the result.
Perhaps there's something humbling about being in the midst of a wood or forest. All those tall trees can make us feel quite small.
I promised myself last Autumn I would return to Hurstwood, just to see the sunlight through the trees. And I wasn't disappointed. The textures were so strong and the colours illuminating, even in the shaded areas.
The petrol station is on the outskirts of Helmsley. Perhaps this was a quiet evening
Helmsley is a market town in Ryedale, North Yorkshire
Glen Dho .. the remnants of a caledonian pinewood just about hanging on .. the future is perhaps brighter in this neck of the woods as this area is encompassed within the Affric Highlands rewilding area .. there's already some large deer enclosures up the the glen (you can see one on the far slope behind) which are reclothing the glen sides from their barren state .. nice to see. It'd be wonderful to see a landscape whereby the numbers of deer are such that regeneration can actually thrive .. there's a balance to be had somewhere, again perhaps in the future
Here's an adaption to another photo I took on my iPhone whilst snorkelling off the east coast of Zanzibar. The subject is an enquiring Sergeant Major fish. They were probably the most common place of all fishes I came across during my snorkel session. If you are wondering how it gained its name, well, it is its stripes that are responsible.
The blue colouring of the fish is simply the reflection from the sky whilst the background is my doing as I have blacked it out to emphasise the fish.
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Like their diminutive Least cousins, American Bitterns believe (or perhaps hope) that sticking their beaks skyward makes them disappear into the surrounding reeds. I suspect it works as often as not, at Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge near Surfside, Texas.
Thazhambur, a small village 24 km to the south of Chennai, belonging to the Kanchipuram district, is home to a lake of the same name. Perhaps this village derives its appellation from the fragrant flower ‘thazhampoo’ or the screw pine (as it is called in English)-once used by the women of Madras to adorn their hair or in their wardrobes to make their clothes smell better.
Perhaps love is like a resting place
A shelter from the storm
It exists to give you comfort
It is there to keep you warm
And in those times of trouble
When you are most alone
The memory of love will bring you home
~John Denver
Wood pigeon (Columba palumbus). Lindevej in Svaneke, a town on the eastern coast of the Baltic island of Bornholm, February 24, 2024.
Perhaps the most delicate and beautiful of our tit family.
I keep saying it but please do stay safe and keep well.
Long tailed tit - Aegithalos caudatus
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Many thanks as always to everyone who passes by to view my photos and particularly to those who take the time to comment on or fave them. It is very much appreciated and welcome.
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These guys were happily grazing until something (perhaps the photographer) caught their attention and they all raised their heads at once. These big goslings look almost like ostriches at this point! All seven are growing like weeds. Canada geese in Siskiyou County, California
Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me. ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
This is actually a color photo, not black and white .... the buildings are gray and white, so combined with the fog and snow, it appears to be b/w. Not a whole lot of color going on this time of year. I'm going to suggest that they paint their barn red for next winter lol ....
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Stonehenge is perhaps the world’s most famous prehistoric monument. Shut for much of the last year as part of the Covid pandemic lockdown(s), it recently re-opened to the public.
I was lucky enough to get one of a limited number of tickets on sale each day to access the monument early in the morning before the usual coachloads of tourists descend on it. The benefit of these limited slots is you get to visit without the crowd, but also are able to cross the fences and walk in the stone circle itself.
You are in the circle by 0645, unfortunately 30 minutes after sunrise, but still able to capture the early morning sun as it hits the stones.
The light is very direct at that time of day which presented some tricky, high contrast lighting conditions but I was pleased with 3 or 4 of the shots I captured.
Stonehenge was built in several stages: the first monument was an early henge monument, built about 5,000 years ago, and the unique stone circle was erected in the late Neolithic period about 2500 BC in the early Bronze Age
It sits on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, two miles west of Amesbury. It consists of an outer ring of vertical Sarsen standing stones, each around 13 feet (4.0 m) high, seven feet (2.1 m) wide, and weighing around 25 tons, topped by connecting horizontal lintel stones.
Inside is a ring of smaller bluestones. Inside these are free-standing trilithons, two bulkier vertical Sarsens joined by one lintel. The whole monument, now in ruins, is oriented towards the sunrise on the summer solstice. The stones are set within earthworks in the middle of the most dense complex of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in England, including several hundred tumuli (burial mounds).
Perhaps one day this White-breasted Nuthatch will be recaptured and his band information may contribute to our knowledge of the movements of members of his species.
Perhaps a planet suitable for advocates of a "flat earth" where they could live on triangular continents.
My bent reflecting cards worked in my favour in this image, the ring light making interesting effects on the background.
On the roadside gravel, this solitary plant has been blossoming for a few days even after several nights below freezing. It is inspiring, giving a glorious message to all who see it - keep going, no matter what.
(I think it is an aster, perhaps a very out-of-place Mexican Fleabane.)
Perhaps one of Germanys most famous statues stands on guard at the convergence of the mighty Mosel and Rhein rivers the Deutsches Eck (German Corner).
The Statue is a typical Prussian martial style equestrian statue of William I, the first German Emperor it was created in 1897 in gratitude after his death for being the Father of the modern Empire and the unification of Germany.
During WWII it was mistakenly destroyed by artillery when they mistook it for enemy troops and it remained just a plinth until 2 September 1993 when sculptor Raymond Kittl finished producing an improved replica created from bronze plates this time around instead of copper.
I took this with my D750 and Tamron SP 24-70mm 2.8 G2 Lens processed in LR, PS luminosity masks and DXO Nik
Disclaimer: Not trying to be realistic in my editing there is enough realism in the world, my style is a mix of painterly and romanticism as well as a work in progress.
Perhaps it was the awe of a majestic sunrise that bought this couple to their feet.
As they admired the sunrise surfers at the nearby Killick Beach were also admiring the sunrise from water level as they either paddled or straddled their boards on the calm waters.
Crescent Head, New South Wales, Australia.
Perhaps you thought the life of a bubble of oil was an easy one. Just floating along in a container of water, one doesn't expect monsters.