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Perhaps the most extravagant playhouse ever built, Stainborough Castle is a 18th century folly modelled on a medieval castle, situated at Wentworth Castle Gardens, Park Drive, Stainborough, Barnsley, Yorkshire.
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USA ... ... Arizona. Grand Canyon. Hopi Point ... ... and very hot! I think there will be at least 35 ° C.
A crowd of tourists scattered on the trails is taking photos in rocks, plants and everything that moves.
A myriad of almond eyes with their preposterous tools impress frames with friends, relatives,
unleashing smiles to 32 teeth and scarves fluttering in the light breeze ...
Horizon, dark clouds seem to portend a storm, something quite common though not frequently.
The waters of the Colorado in the valley flow lazy, indifferent, as if waiting ...
Now the clouds seem to have started running, perhaps in memory of Appaloosa, which in times of Pinto
far they have galloped on these wild territories.
The first drops of rain begin to fall and people run for cover in their multicolored tins
for fear of wetting their precious smartphone!
I try and find shelter in a rock and the safety net that marks the paths.
The rain falls abundant. water blades hit the river without scratching it, flashes of bright light illuminate
its surface, the dust rises like a veil to hide the rocks made even redder by the rain.
Seedlings, until a moment before, seemed on the verge of dying, flourished again as if by magic.
It presents an incredible landscape and magnificent!
Snap, snap, snap ...
Each image that is revealed on the sensor is completely different
from the previous one, the Grand Canyon
It turns under my eyes.
Then, with the speed with which they arrived, the clouds go away and, as
swarms of bees, the tourists come back, arms
forward, ready to take new pictures, unaware that he had lost the magic moment to turn into
an unforgettable memory the usual postcards ...
The old Musil is slated to be razed some time after Thanks Giving this year. It has become a favorite subject of mine over the past several years, when I am staying in Marshall County, Kansas. On this evening during the 2016 Photo Safari. My wife, a good friend of ours and myself had our portrait taken in front of the barn shortly before I captured this image shortly after sundown. Being that this would be the last sunset photo I would ever get to make of this old beauty. I was thrilled with the sky that mother nature provided. I had the okay on this trip to access the property and took full advantage of it, photographing the barn from every angle. So you will see more of it in the weeks and months to come. Image made with a full frame Pentax K 1.
The leaves don't turn that I've noticed and perhaps because of that I'm all the more inclined to admire them after the berries disappear, knowing they will soon be gone for another year...
Perhaps gravid given the time of year and her rotund abdomen.
A perfect little bed in the curved leaf of a yucca.
Hortophora is a genus of orb weavers found in the South Pacific region.
Around 30 mm body length.
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I like it, although I appreciate opinion is divided. This angle any better?
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P.S. Apologies to the 4 people who were subjected to that awful Lambo shot I momentarily posted.
The ancients in their niches along the walls of the Portico degli Uffizi leading to the River Arno. Their eternal gestures frozen in stone. The moderns....oblivious perhaps.......
Aside from the exquisite light that was streaming in through the colonnades, the view of the facades to the other side of the Arno - beyond the people in the distance - caught my attention. Everywhere one looks in Florence the mind is inspired by the arts. What an amazing city!
You can see my other shots of Florence (with travel tips regarding some of my favorite sites) here: www.flickr.com/photos/44548980@N00/sets/72157624698578316/
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The three visible statues in the niches are, from left to right:
Macchiavelli: e-urope.physics.lsa.umich.edu/tours/florence/uffizi/macch...
Guido Aretino: e-urope.physics.lsa.umich.edu/tours/florence/uffizi/areti...
Amerigo Vespucci: e-urope.physics.lsa.umich.edu/tours/florence/uffizi/vespu...
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Here's more information about this iconic place along the Arno: www.aviewoncities.com/florence/uffizi.htm
And: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uffizi .... here's an excerpt: Building of the palace was begun by Giorgio Vasari in 1560 for Cosimo I de' Medici as the offices for the Florentine magistrates — hence the name "uffizi" ("offices"). Construction was continued to Vasari's design by Alfonso Parigi and Bernardo Buontalenti and ended in 1581. The cortile (internal courtyard) is so long and narrow, and open to the Arno River at its far end through a Doric screen that articulates the space without blocking it, that architectural historians[1] treat it as the first regularized streetscape of Europe. Vasari, a painter as well as architect, emphasized the perspective length by the matching facades' continuous roof cornices, and unbroken cornices between storeys and the three continuous steps on which the palace-fronts stand. The niches in the piers that alternate with columns were filled with sculptures of famous artists in the 19th century.
Kudzu isn't interested in the hay that I'd just dispensed to the goats. She wants pats, as she's the most affectionate of the seven goats at Belmont Audubon Habitat. She's on a climbing structure that was built as an Eagle Scout project. The various levels of hexagons can be rearranged in limitless ways.
Well, perhaps the most surprising building I peeped by accident in London after the Neasden Hindu Temple, which caught me totally by surprise while travelling on a bus.
I can't say how much I love this building, and how difficult it's been for me to get a satisfying shot of it, or some of its details.
Maybe one day I will try again, hoping to catch that elusive point of view or compositive detail good enough to render the marvel this building provokes in me.
Perhaps the busiest street in the Lipscani area is Str. Smardan, home today to any number of bars, pubs, cafes and restaurants. History buffs might like to know that in January 1859 at No. 42 (then the Hotel Concordia), Wallachian deputies elected Alexandru Ioan Cuza as their Prince. As Moldavian deputies had already done likewise a week earlier, the election that took place here created the first unified Romanian state since Mihai Bravu’s short-lived reign of 1600. It is also worth pointing out that until the 1960s trams ran along the street here: somewhat incredible given how narrow it is in places.
Quizás la calle más concurrida en el área de Lipscani es Str. Smardan, hogar hoy de numerosos bares, pubs, cafeterías y restaurantes. A los aficionados a la historia les gustaría saber que en enero de 1859 en el número 42 (entonces el Hotel Concordia), los diputados valacos eligieron a Alexandru Ioan Cuza como su Príncipe. Como los diputados moldavos ya habían hecho lo mismo una semana antes, las elecciones que tuvieron lugar aquí crearon el primer estado rumano unificado desde el breve reinado de Mihai Bravu de 1600. También vale la pena señalar que hasta la década de 1960 los tranvías corrían por la calle aquí: algo increíble dado lo estrecho que es en algunos lugares.
Bucharest. Romania Europe
Perhaps some knowledgeable soul will be able to tell me exactly what type of funghi is in this snap taken recently in the Waggoners Wells National Trust reserve. I fought the urge to take a couple home for my supper!
Perhaps I've had too many gin and tonics, but these marine parts seemed to resemble a mountain range to me … perhaps even with the sun going down on them!!!
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
please view in the light box
Perhaps one of the greatest victories in railfanning is a well-timed hole in an otherwise cloudy sky revealing the sunshine.
Flurries were flying most of the day when an 86-car St Cloud local came out of Northtown.
As you can tell, the sucker hole lined up perfectly with the train's arrival. I wasn't originally going to set up in downtown Big Lake, but when I saw a hole in the clouds, I just had hope and went for it, so glad I did.
Leading the local on this day is BNSF 2240, a GP38-2R. What's fascinating about this unit is when it was repainted in the late 2000s to its current paint, the headlight was moved from the cab to the nose. Yet within the last couple of years, that was reversed when PTC was installed.
High-headlights are a weird fetish of mine when it comes to older BNSF power these days, I like it. In fact, the geep being a cab-mounted headlight is why I went out for it.
Anyway, another victory thanks to the sucker-hole magic I apparently possess. They call me sucker-hole king now, not sure I'd go that far, but I have been really blessed with good luck lately.
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BNSF 2240 - GP38-2R
BNSF 2649 - GP39-3
This little guy was watching me fill the "peanut house". He thought if he smiled, and was charming, he'd score some peanuts. It worked. For Smile on Saturday. Uniflona.
This is perhaps my favorite astro photo to date. There is some much happening here, with really interesting details throughout most of the frame. Not to overpower this very bright object, I used 30 second frames, ultimately stacking 200 of them! I took darks just to be safe, but the raw light frames were reltatively free of noise.
This is a view of the core of the Orion Nebula, or M42. It's a massive star-forming region some 1,344 light years away. Within it, lies newer stars around which the Hubble Space Telescope has spotted the formation of new planets. these are all being formed as gas and dust within the nebula collapses.
There are three different kinds of shocks in the Orion Nebula. Many are featured in Herbig–Haro objects:
- Bow shocks are stationary and are formed when two particle streams collide with each other. They are present near the hottest stars in the nebula where the stellar wind speed is estimated to be thousands of kilometers per second and in the outer parts of the nebula where the speeds are tens of kilometers per second. Bow shocks can also form at the front end of stellar jets when the jet hits interstellar particles.
- Jet-driven shocks are formed from jets of material sprouting off newborn T Tauri stars. These narrow streams are traveling at hundreds of kilometers per second, and become shocks when they encounter relatively stationary gases.
- Warped shocks appear bow-like to an observer. They are produced when a jet-driven shock encounters gas moving in a cross-current.
The interaction of the stellar wind with the surrounding cloud also forms "waves" which are believed to be due to the hydrodynamical Kelvin-Helmholtz instability. (!)
Image Details:
- Imaging Scope: Celestron C8 SCT
- Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI183MC Color with ZWO IR cut filter
- Guider: Celestron Starsense Autoguider
- Mount: Celestron CGEM
- Acquisition Software: Sharpcap
- Guiding Software: Celestron
- Light Frames: 200*30 seconds @ 0 Gain, Temp -20C
- Dark Frames: 200*30 seconds
- Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker
- Processed in PixInsight, Adobe Lightroom, and Topaz Denoise A
Perhaps the most suprising thing i've seen during my last trip in North Korea in may 2010, is this: some sturgeons in a huge restaurant in central Pyongyang. My guides told me that Kim Jong il had decided to offer caviar to the people! After a pizzeria, a fast food, north koreans can now discover the taste of caviar.
It sounds like a joke, but i saw with my own eyes this restaurant!
Kim Jong Il avait decidé l'an dernier l'ouverture d'une pizzeria pour faire decouvrir les cuisines du monde aux nord coreens. Depuis il y a aussi un fast food, et recemment, un restaurant de Pyongyang propose du caviar. A l'entrée un aquarium geant present des esturgeons. Ca pourrait passer pour une blague de mauvais gout, et pourtant je l'ai vu de mes yeux vu!
© Eric Lafforgue
A graveyard is perhaps not the obvious suggestion for a picnic place, but for many Glaswegians and visitors, the Necropolis is another park.
Behind Glasgow Cathedral, close to the City Centre, this beautiful Victorian garden cemetery is the city’s very own version of Père Lachaise in Paris. You won’t find anyone as famous as Jim Morrison or Oscar Wilde buried here, however. The Necropolis is the resting place of the great and the good of Victorian Glasgow, although there are also many thousands of ordinary Glaswegians buried here in unmarked graves.
Look out for gravestones and monuments designed by famous local architects, Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Alexander ‘Greek’ Thomson.
There’s a fantastic view of Glasgow from the summit. It’s marked by a monument to John Knox, leader of the Protestant Reformation in Scotland in the 1500s. He’s not buried here, however, he’s underneath a car park in Edinburgh.
I would strongly suggest booking a tour from The Friends of the Glasgow Necropolis. Check out their website for details. Tours are free (although it would be good to leave a donation which goes towards the upkeep of the Necropolis) and the volunteer tour guides have fantastic stories to tell.
Perhaps a picture perfect book cover, this is an photo of Ardmay House an outdoors learning and activity centre on the shores of Loch Long. What a location!
Ardmay House is located in the heart of Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park, on the shores of Loch Long just outside the village of Arrochar at the foot of the Cobbler mountain.
At only 50 minutes’ drive from Glasgow city-centre, Ardmay is easily accessible to central Scotland but has a very remote and unique feel to it.
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vende conitos de maní.
"En su boca no hay razones aunque la razón le sobre; que son campanas de palo las razones de los pobres".
José Hernández, Martín Fierro
La Habana - Cuba
Perhaps the only juvenile Scrub Jay, I've ever seen. And sitting pretty at the entrance to the Point Lobos trail on the Pacific Coast.
The passerine birds of the genus Aphelocoma include the scrub-jays and their relatives. They are New World jays found in Mexico, western Central America and the western United States, with an outlying population in Florida. This genus belongs to the group of New World (or "blue") jays–possibly a distinct subfamily–which is not closely related to other jays, magpies or treepies.
Aphelocoma jays are slightly larger than the Blue Jay and differ in having a longer tail, slightly shorter, more rounded wings, and no crest on the head. The top of the head, nape, and sides of the head are a rich deep blue. Some species have a white stripe above the eye and dark ear coverts. The breast is also white or grey-white and the back is a grey-brown contrasting with the bright blue tail and wings in most species. One species, the Unicolored Jay, is blue all over, superficially similar to the Pinyon Jay from much further north. The bill, legs, and feet are black. And thanks to Wikipedia for that. I never thought of them as "Bluejays," but perhaps blue jays.
A valiant attempt! I liked this pose even though it wasn’t the one I hoped to get. After this she decided to rush in to the bag & straight out again - so fast that my photo only showed blurred fur. Bella needs to practise her technique for playing with bags & I need to practise taking action shots! Happy Caturday.
Perhaps this eagle is around three years old, spotted at Coralville Lake, Iowa. There were over 20 eagles there in early morning. Before sunset, the number dropped to around 10.
Perhaps an indication of what we were in for the following day weatherwise, dour conditions at Crawford as a DRS intermodal thunders past.
66126 working 4M82, the 16.10 Coatbridge (Drs) to Daventry Int Rft Recep Fl at Crawford, Sunday 1.9.24
....with Coke. Well for some perhaps. I am Not a pop drinker but these cans at my girlfriends house were so darn cute. The were so small incomparison to ones I am use to. Looking Close ..... on Friday
Theme: Cold or Hot Drinks
Long Day......ubber tired. Catch up after some good sleep.
I was on my way to the wildlife refuge to shoot birds when I happened to see an interesting barn. There were barn cats too. This one was extremely affectionate...perhaps starved for love . I spent half an hour with him taking pics and giving [and receiving] love. I never did make it to the refuge. Update: photo switched 4/28/07.