One of the oldest standing bridges in Scotland crosses the River Nith in Dumfries. Devorgilla Bridge is also sometimes known as Devorgilla's Bridge or the Old Bridge and is named after Devorgilla, Lady of Galloway, the mother of King John Balliol. Quoted from the Undiscovered Scotland website

The River Nith is a river in south-west Scotland. The Nith rises in the Carsphairn hills of East Ayrshire, more precisely between Prickeny Hill and Enoch Hill, 4.4 miles (7.1 km) east of Dalmellington. For the majority of its course it flows in a southerly direction through Dumfries and Galloway and then into the Solway Firth at Airds point. Quoted from Wikipedia

Tanjung Mangsit - Mangsit Point or Bluff - is supported by huge rocks and boulders. You can climb either down to those rocks or up to the Tanjung from there (as I've often described, dear Flickrites, in my photos). Great place...

Today has been rather glum and just not raining; So a good time to look for Moths. Here's a Geometrid Moth - I think, but someone may identify it more precisely, I hope. It might be thought the name 'Geometrid' refers to its markings, but that's wrong. Geometrid come from Greek words that mean something like measuring the earh. That name is used because its caterpillars 'inch' forward, as if it were taking measure of the way to go.

La Iglesia Parroquial de Santa Catalina Mártir de Alejandría es la iglesia matriz del municipio de Tacoronte (Tenerife, Islas Canarias).

El templo consta de tres naves y está presidida por un campanario. El templo actual fue edificado sobre la primitiva ermita que levantaron los primeros vecinos de Tacoronte. La iglesia se considera fundada en 1545, y en 1550 se decide derruir la ermita original para dotarla de cuerpo de iglesia.

En el altar mayor se encuentra la patrona de la ciudad, Santa Catalina Mártir de Alejandría, talla de José Miguel Luján Pérez que sustituyó a una antigua escultura de piedra labrada.

Entre los tesoros de esta iglesia destaca un lienzo realidado en cobre de la Virgen de Guadalupe (Patrona de México y de América Latina) y que es considerado la mejor representación guadalupana de Canarias, la obra es atribuida a José de Páez. Esta obra fue precisamente realizada en México.

The Parish Church of Santa Catalina Mártir de Alejandría is the main church of the municipality of Tacoronte (Tenerife, Canary Islands).

The temple consists of three naves and is presided over by a bell tower. The present temple was built on the primitive hermitage that raised the first neighbors of Tacoronte. The church is considered founded in 1545, and in 1550 it is decided to demolish the original hermitage to endow it with a church body.

On the main altar is the patron saint of the city, St. Catherine Martyr of Alexandria, carving of José Miguel Luján Pérez, who replaced an old carved stone sculpture.

Among the treasures of this church is a copper-lined canvas of the Virgin of Guadalupe (Patroness of Mexico and Latin America) and considered the best guadalupan representation of the Canaries, the work is attributed to José de Páez. This work was precisely carried out in Mexico.

For Smile on Saturday!

Theme : « Dice in B&W.

Les dés tirent probablement leur origine des os des chevilles (spécifiquement l’astragale) d’animaux tels le bœuf. Il n’est pas possible de déterminer précisément l’apparition des dés et leur distinction des osselets, les écrivains antiques semblant confondre les deux jeux. Il est certain en revanche qu’ils datent des temps préhistoriques. Leur présence dans des tombes anciennes de la vallée de l’Indus, des dés cubiques vieux de 4 300 ans y ayant été retrouvés[, semble pointer vers une origine asiatique. À cette époque, la somme de faces opposées ne vaut pas encore systématiquement 7. Le jeu de dé est mentionné dans le Rig-Veda et l’Atharvaveda indiens[source insuffisante].

La connaissance de la numération étrusque, et plus précisément la forme écrite de leurs 6 premiers chiffres, s’est effectuée en découvrant des dés à jouer (ou à divination) dans les objets familiers accompagnant le mort dans sa tombe.

Les jeux de dés furent populaires ensuite à Rome, particulièrement pendant les jours fastes de l’Empire romain, bien qu’ils fussent interdits, sauf pendant les Saturnales. Horace décrivit par exemple ce qu’il présentait comme un jeune homme typique de l’époque, qui perdait son temps aux dés plutôt qu’à dompter son cheval. Jouer de l’argent aux dés était le sujet de plusieurs lois spécifiques ; l’une d’elles statuait qu’aucun procès ne pouvait être demandé par une personne qui autorisait les paris dans sa maison, même s’il avait été attaqué ou si on avait triché contre lui. Les joueurs professionnels étaient cependant courants et certains de leurs dés pipés ont été préservés.

Dice probably originated from the ankle bones (specifically the talus) of animals such as oxen. It is not possible to precisely determine the appearance of dice and their distinction from knucklebones, as ancient writers seemed to confuse the two games. It is certain, however, that they date back to prehistoric times. Their presence in ancient tombs in the Indus Valley, where 4,300-year-old cubic dice were found, seems to point to an Asian origin. At that time, the sum of opposite sides did not yet systematically equal 7. The game of dice is mentioned in the Indian Rig-Veda and Atharva Veda. [insufficient source].

Knowledge of Etruscan numeration, and more specifically the written form of their first six digits, was acquired through the discovery of playing (or divination) dice among the familiar objects accompanying the deceased in their graves. Dice games were popular in Rome afterward, especially during the heyday of the Roman Empire, although they were forbidden except during the Saturnalia. Horace, for example, described what he saw as a typical young man of the time, wasting his time on dice rather than taming his horse. Gambling with dice for money was the subject of several specific laws; one of these stated that no lawsuit could be filed by a person who allowed betting in his house, even if he had been attacked or cheated. Professional gamblers were common, however, and some of their loaded dice have been preserved.

Un grand merci pour vos favoris, commentaires et encouragements toujours très appréciés.

Many thanks for your much appreciated favorites and comments.

Riverside Park,

Kamloops, B.C.

I've taken so many pictures of this park bench in the last few months, though this is the first shot I have uploaded. Every time I go to this park I take at least one shot. It is different from all the other benches, having a kind of old fashioned feel to it, not like the plastic-feeling new ones. It sits on its own rakish angle quite unlike the new ones which are laid out precisely parallel to pathways. It has character.

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Back to Italy, and more precisely Sicily. The people, culture, food, beauty of cities and landscapes, climate ... all this makes Italy one of our favorite destinations !

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Photo was taken from bridge which connect Polish and German side. More precisely Zgorzelec and Görlitz.

This is what I love to do with my photography and really happy with this image , I had to position myself quite low in order to get the seagulls precisely in the suns reflection , it was worth the cold wet knees to get this image

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The Monostor Fortress - the largest modern fortress in Central Europe - was built between 1850 and 1871. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, the neoclassical military monument is a fascinating sight with its huge walls of precisely hewn stone, the 3-4 metre thick earthen ramparts covering the defences and its network of underground passages (kazamata) several kilometres long.

Its monumental dimensions are evidenced by the following figures: The fortress covers 25 hectares, the total area including the firing ranges is 70 hectares, the floor area of the buildings is 25 680 m2 and the number of rooms is 640.

After the fortress was built, it served generations of soldiers of the Hungarian Defence Forces. Its tasks included the defence of the central fortress (North - Komárom) and the control of shipping on the Danube. It was never used in combat and served mainly as a training centre and weapons depot. During the First World War it was used as a conscription and training centre. During the Second World War, the 22nd Infantry Regiment had its headquarters at Fort Monostor, and the soldiers of the 1st and 2nd Infantry Regiments were stationed there. After the Second World War.

Between 1945 and 1990, the Red Army's Army Group South set up the largest ammunition depot in Central Europe in the fort. With their withdrawal, the military function of the fortress ended forever.

Today the fort is a popular destination with a military history exhibition, Cold War vehicles, a bread museum, a boat exhibition and numerous events.

www.iranykomarom.hu/en/fort-monostor-en

This cavern offers a completely ride-through cave experience on propane-powered Jeep-drawn trams.

Fantastic Caverns was discovered in 1862 by an Ozarks farmer -- or more precisely, by his dog, who crawled through a small entrance in a hillside. It wasn't until five years after its discovery that the first exploration of Fantastic Caverns took place: twelve women from Springfield, answering a newspaper ad seeking explorers, ventured into the cave. Fantastic Caverns is one of more than 7,300 documented caves in Missouri, and more are still being discovered. Missouri is called The Cave State.

White birch in late Autumn

This is taken from the top of a fire tower about 30 feet high which stands on a mountaintop or more precisely a kame. (A kame is a conical hill that was formed when streams on top of a glacier deposited sand and gravel into a crevasse). This viewpoint looks down onto treetops.

I guess it is hard to mess up ICM that is intentional camera movement because it is hard to make rules when most is left to chance ;-)

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Just a bee eating my flowers. Well it should be more precisely a flower fly or hover fly.

An insect of the family Syrphidae that imitates the colours of the bee.

(Merops apiaster)

Constância

Portugal

My great friend and excellent photographer, Amaro Carvalho, took some magnificent photos of this species at the beginning of this season and kindly, as always, shared the location with me. Not only did he precisely indicate the location down to the meter, but he also gave me all the tips on where to set up the hide and perches.

With such detailed information, we couldn't go wrong, but, nevertheless, since the location was about 230 km from our home, and in this kind of hide photography, it's crucial to set up the hide very early, we didn't want to take any chances. So, we went there the day before to confirm onsite everything Amaro had told us.

Once we arrived, it was very easy to find the perfect spot for the hide and the perches. The number of birds seemed to be smaller than expected, but still, there were about two dozen of them. After setting up the perch in the right place to have a clean and pleasant natural background, they didn't take long to choose it. However, as the sun, in late afternoon, was obviously on opposite direction, we didn't set up the hide. We just observed them and watched their behavior, which was fantastic. At one point, there were even four in a row on the preferred perch! We could already imagine the fantastic photos we would get the next day with the right and soft morning light.

The following day, around 6:20 AM, with the sun already up, but still early enough for the bee-eaters to be active, we were there setting up the hide. The three of us sat inside and waited, patiently, for two hours. The sunlight was perfect, and the trees in the background provided a beautiful natural colours to create perfect backgrounds. However, the birds seemed reluctant to wake up. It could have been due to the strong gusts of wind that day, but they were there, and they would have to start hunting when the right moment came!

So, it was with no rush that, when this "friend" perched in front of us, I started photographing it. I took a single burst of 9 shots, but perhaps it heard the noise of the cameras, so she/he flew away. But we knew she/he and its friends would come back, so we waited for one more hour. Unfortunately, no more of them perched.

I don't know what we did wrong! It wasn't our first experience photographing bee-eaters and/or using a hide; on the contrary, we had plenty of experience. But without these 9 photos, it would have been a complete failure!

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All my photos are now organized into sets by the country where they were taken, by taxonomic order, by family, by species (often with just one photo for the rarer ones), and by the date they were taken.

So, you may find:

- All the photos for this order CORACIIFORMES (240)

- All the photos for this family Meropidae // Meropídeos (87)

- All the photos for this species Merops apiaster (44)

- All the photos taken this day 2023/05/18 (1)

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icolorama, stackables, snapseed, image blender, repix

It all started with a display window shot. The dummy’s posture was so suggestive and I felt I could do something with it. Rarely I have a precisely drawn up plan on what I want, very often is the piece itself that takes shape on its own, grows with its own life. Certainly I have preferences and tend towards mystery and magic, but most of the time have no idea of what the result will be. Anyway in this case always had the feeling that wanted to transform that dummy into a shaman.

Love experimenting with textures and colors so I began doing so, adding many layers of textures in Stackables, playing with all the blending modes and saving those that felt could be useful; most of the time I start with my own formulas, saved in the app, and then try to enrich them according to the feeling I’m beginning to get about the piece. When I had a considerable number of images, began to blend each other, masking the parts that wanted to discard or keep. Always do a lot of different blends and when everything begins to take shape I focus on one or two of them, finally choosing only one, going on with the blending. Guess this piece has at least between 15 and 20 layers of textures and at least 10 blends.

Masking different versions of the same image is a lot of fun, because just by that fact you can create new shapes without needing a second source image - for instance, the presence behind the shaman or both figures' eyes. To that end I usually work in iColorama S and Image Blender, always both. For precision touches I prefer the second, choosing the soft brush which implicates a lot more work than the hard one, but you get sharper lines (I know it sounds contradictory, but thats what happens in Image Blender, the hard brush produces "dirty", "harsh", broken lines; the deeper the zoom, the harsher the lines). On the other hand, although I find much more difficult to obtain sharper lines in iColorama (in many ways this app is still a mystery to me), it is more versatile due to the fact that you can mask in every tool and brush, not only when blending images. So when it comes to blend/mask, always use both apps.

Finished the piece in Snapseed, for vignette and bright, and Repix, a cool app for retouching and adding tiny details; also love iColorama for details.

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Music:

"Nabombeli Yo" by Zap Mama, in 'Adventures in Afropea' (1993)

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Wheeler Peak rises in the distance, surrounded by Great Basin National Park, Nevada.

We chose going to Great Basin NP precisely because of dark skies. How did that work out? As you can see we could not get to the top of Wheeler Peak because the snow had not been cleared from the roads. The sky refused to cooperate for night photography, the major reason for our visit, but the clouds made spectacular images nonetheless.

We have been to some remote places in our travels but getting here, and leaving, was a bit unnerving. This is remote; in the back of my mind while traveling through the area was the thought of "what if". A breakdown could result in a long wait for rescue. This area is known as the most desolate and loneliest stretch in America for good reason.

26-September-2019: in the notes what you could see.

The northern Adriatic section in this photo is called, precisely, Kvarnerić (little Kvarner/Quarnerolo in Italian) and is part of the Mountain-Coastal Region (Primorsko-Goranska Županija) of Rijeka, that is the main Center of the Croatian North/West.

As many as 4 inhabited islands, among which the largest in the Adriatic (Cres) bathe part of their coasts in this sea-lake, while numerous uninhabited islands, of various dimensions, are visited by a (left) couple of specimens of monk Seal, the only ones of North Adriatic, among the 3-400 that still inhabit the Mediterranean, especially between southern Croatia, Montenegro and the Aegean Sea.

About twenty-five years ago 4 specimens of Eurasian brown Bear, swimming across the narrow northern part of the Novi Vinodolski and Velebit channel (Vinodolski-Velebitski Kanal), reached the island of Krk, probably attracted by the smell of many sheep bred on the island, some become wild, and driven by the overpopulation of brown Bears of the neighboring Gorski Kotar, the mountainous part of the Kvarner Region (Quarnero in Italian).

The Sesto Sundial is an imposing natural monument: it is made up of five peaks which are all located in the municipality of Sesto and ... They tell the hour! It is a real natural clock and the course of the sun gives its name to the mountains on which it falls at the exact time: Top Nine, Top Ten, Top Eleven, Top twelve and Top One.

The Aqueduct of Segovia (or more precisely, the aqueduct bridge) is a Roman aqueduct and one of the most significant and best-preserved ancient monuments left on the Iberian Peninsula. It is located in Spain and is the foremost symbol of Segovia, as evidenced by its presence on the city's coat of arms.

Versteckt, fast vergessen, abseits der bekannten Pfade – und doch niemals wirklich unentdeckt. Dieser kleine Ort am Ammersee, verborgen hinter schlammigen Wegen und unwegsamem Gelände, schien wie geschaffen für eine einsame Auszeit. Und doch waren wir nicht die Ersten, die ihn fanden. Es war während der Pandemie, in der Abstand die neue Nähe war, in der Menschen Orte suchten, an denen sie für einen Moment durchatmen konnten. Wir blieben für ein paar Minuten - der beste Platz war ja schon besetzt - und genossen ebenfalls den Blick über das ruhige Wasser. Vielleicht lag gerade in dieser Gemeinsamkeit die besondere Magie dieses Platzes: Niemand gehörte er allein, und doch fühlte es sich so an.

Hidden, almost forgotten, off the beaten track – and yet never really undiscovered. This small town on Lake Ammersee, hidden behind muddy paths and rough terrain, seemed to be made for a lonely break. And yet we were not the first to find it. It was during the pandemic, when distance was the new closeness, when people were looking for places where they could breathe deeply for a moment. We stayed for a few minutes - the best seat was already occupied - and also enjoyed the view over the calm water. Perhaps it was precisely in this commonality that the special magic of this place lay: it belonged to no one alone, and yet it felt that way.

This building was probably the home of a landless labourer, possibly a craftsman. It was built in the mid-17th century on the edge of Washington Common. It has one heated room, and the fireplace is in a smoke bay, an early form of chimney.

Poplar Cottage was on its original site before dismantling in 1982.

Poplar Cottage cannot be precisely dated but from the style and details of its construction it was probably built in the mid 17th century, or possibly a little earlier. It occupied a small plot of land on the southern edge of the common at Washington, near Steyning.

This mission church can't be dated precisely but is generally considered the oldest non–Native American religious space in Colorado still in use. It was probably built around 1868. Services are still held occasionally.

More precisely, as I see this season staying home

This is for Emma (Emma03184) who used to live here at one time.

The sun setting over Cobh Harbour, Co. Cork, Ireland, May 29th 2008

They say if you touch the water at any given time , someone else is doing precisely the same thing on the other side of the world and so a connection is made.

I touched the water and thought of you Emma.

Nice photo op on female ruby-throated hummingbird @ Longfellow Gardens ~ Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Kovero Crown Tenant Farm

Kovero Crown Tenant Farm is a valuable cultural environment with protected buildings.

The estate consists of old and in parts original structures including the farmhouse, a bakery as well as shelters for horses and grain. Construction of the magnificent main house began in 1881.

Kovero is part of Seitseminen National Park's cultural landscape area and farm has been restored as precisely as possible to resemble those from the era of horse agriculture, meaning 1927-1941. Much of the farm's restoration work and other daily tasks have been realised by volunteers from the community.

Kovero Crown Tenant Farm features everyday life at a farm during the beginning of the 1900s in the Seitseminen backwoods area. At Kovero farm the traditional cultural landscape is maintained through old farming methods.

During the summer, guests are welcome to follow the daily chores of the house and take part in events and work demonstrations. Visiting the farm is free-of-charge.

In winter, the place can be viewed from the garden, through which runs a cross-country skiing trail.

Seitseminen National Park's is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Pirkanmaa Region.

Koveron kruununmetsätorppa

Koveron kruununmetsätorppa on arvokas kulttuuriympäristö suojeltuine rakennuksineen.

Kartano koostuu vanhoista ja osittain alkuperäisistä rakennuksista, mukaan lukien maalaistalon päärakennus, leipomo sekä hevostalli ja vilja-aitta. Upean päärakennuksen rakentaminen aloitettiin vuonna 1881.

Kovero on osa Seitsemisen kansallispuiston kulttuurimaisema-aluetta ja sitä on entisöity mahdollisimman tarkoin vastaamaan perinteisen hevosmaatalouden aikaa eli noin vuosia 1927 - 1941. Entisöinti- ja muita tilan töitä on toteutettu paljon talkootyönä.

Koveron kruununmetsätorppa esittelee viime vuosisadan alun elämänmenoa Seitsemisen saloseudulla. Koverossa vaalitaan perinteistä kulttuurimaisemaa vanhan ajan menetelmin.

Kesäaikaan vieraat ovat tervetulleita seuraamaan talon arkiaskareita sekä osallistumaan tapahtumiin ja työnäytöksiin. Kohteeseen on vapaa pääsy. Talvisin paikkaa voi katsella pihalta, jonka läpi kulkee hiihtoreitti.

Seitsemisen kansallispuisto sijaitsee Ylöjärven ja Ikaalisten kaupunkien alueella Pirkanmaan maakunnassa.

Quote Douglas Adams: "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." it was precisely that quote that sprang to my mind when we past numerous tunnels in great Fittipaldian manner while going from one Lofoten island to the other :D

The Ballarò Market is the oldest market in the city of Palermo and the largest. It is located (of course) in the heart of the old city. Its origins date back to the 10th century, therefore to the Arab domination, precisely for this reason, it strongly recalls the Arab souk. The name is thought to derive from the term Balhara, which means mirror. In fact, it is as a mirror market that it was built in the 10th century.

Almost precisely..

As I described in a previous posting, I was lying down in the weeds by the edge of the Lake hoping to get some images of the Wood Ducks in the back corner. Apparently assuming I was a log, the pair I was photographing walked up right beside me, almost standing on my leg. This image was captured at almost precisely the moment the male realized I was not a log, as I rolled on my side to adjust my camera settings and to try to get a portrait.

Architecte : Koen OLTHUIS

Le premier théâtre construit sur l'eau, précisément sur le Rhône près du pont Galliéni à Lyon. Inauguré le 13 janvier 2023, il est entièrement édifié en CLT (bois lamellé croisé).

The first theater built on water, precisely on the Rhône near the Galliéni bridge in Lyon. Inaugurated on January 13, 2023, it is entirely built in CLT (cross-laminated timber).

I've posted photos of Asparagus flowers - Asparagus officinalis -

and Triangle Hoverfly - Melanostoma mellinum - here before and even of Marmalade Hoverfly - Episyrphus balteatus - feeding on Asparagus pollen. But this time my subject is neither the pretty, petite flower nor the tongueing insect. Olymp expertly focused on that little green globe just under Insect's forewing.

That small, wonderfully green appendage - there's one on either side of Hoverfly - is called a haltere (plural: halteres). Entomologists are today not yet entirely sure of their working except to say that they intricately play an important part in stabilising Fly flight.

The first naturalist to draw attention to these halteres was one William Derham (1657-1735). Derham was an English clergyman, naturalist and scientist, and he sought to combine all of that in an as-it-were cosmological theology, in which the Book of Nature played as important a part as the Book of Revelation in the demonstration of a Creator. He writes about halteres in his Physico-theology: or, a Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God from his Works of Creation, being the Substance of Sixteen Sermons delivered in 1711-1712, p. 316. There he waxes precisely eloquent on his observation of what he calls 'poises' or 'pointells', without which - yes! he experimented insecto-surgically - diptera such as hoverflies can't fly. Obviously for him this, too, demonstrates the God of Nature's precise engineering.

Roadside Guatemala, 2012.

“It was said by Epicurus, and he was probably right, that all philosophy takes its origin from philosophical wonder. The man who has never at any time felt consciously struck by the extreme strangeness and oddity of the situation in which we are involved, we know not how, is a man with no affinity for philosophy - and has, by the way, little cause to worry. The unphilosophical and philosophical attitudes can be very sharply distinguished (with scarcely any intermediate forms) by the fact that the first accepts everything that happens as regards its general form, and finds occasion for surprise only in that special content by which something that happens here today differs from what happened there yesterday; whereas for the second, it is precisely the common features of all experience, such as characterise everything we encounter, which are the primary and most profound occasion for astonishment; indeed, one might almost say that it is the fact that anything is experienced and encounter at all.”

― Erwin Schrödinger, My View of the World

"Ogni strada seguita precisamente fino alla sua fine non porta proprio in nessun luogo. Scala una montagna solo un poco, per verificare che sia una montagna. Dalla cima di una montagna non puoi vedere che si tratta di una montagna."

"Every road followed precisely until its end does not lead anywhere. Climb a mountain just a little, to make sure it's a mountain. From the top of a mountain you cannot see that it is a mountain."

Frank Herbert

In Vienna's main shopping street, Innere Mariahilferstraße

The young woman played a masterpiece of the young Beethoven, the piano sonata No. 8 in C minor op. 13, called Grande Sonate Pathétique, more precisely the first movement (Grave/Allegro di molto e con brio). Beethoven composed this sonata, when he was 27 years old.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=79gzdskOGu4

The piano was provided by the social music school DoReMi. They "place freely accessible pianos in public spaces. Everyone can play." openpianoforrefugees.com/?lang=en

They "offer music classes in pair lessons for refugees and socially disadvantaged people paired up with people being socioeconomically more fortunate and mostly German-speaking. Sustainable integration and appreciation of cultural diversity are promoted through an innovative “Pay as much as you can” concept while enjoying music classes together..." openpianoforrefugees.com/about-us/?lang=en/#concept

He had purchased that rowing boat precisely for this occasion. He knew she'd go right for it and pull him close. He had fantasised this moment so clearly: she would hold him gently, whisper and bare her soul. Never had she'd been more attractive than in those simple slacks and jumper, and never had he more desired to feel her smile. He listened quietly, enjoying the Linden breeze on his face and hearing the pixel waves break on the shore. He wondered about cicadas singing in September and if that long grass might itch her skin. They were there together, unravelling the threads of their fleshless lives, leaning on that boat that does not exist, enjoying the evening light on a late morning. See, it's all there, in this picture! The pure magic of a second life chat.

Il s'était procuré cette barque juste pour cette occasion-là. Il savait qu'elle s'y assiérait immédiatement et qu'elle lui ferait une petite place. Il avait rêvé de ce moment tellement souvent, où elle le frôlerait tendrement et lui dévoilerait son âme en murmurant. Elle n'avait jamais été aussi envoutante et il voulait tant voir son sourire. Il écoutait silencieusement, sentant la brise des Linden sur ses joues, dans le clapotis d'une mer de pixels lapant les rochers. Il se demandait s'il était normal que les cigales chantent en septembre et si ces herbes hautes la piqueraient. Ils étaient là ensemble, démêlant avec précaution les écheveaux de leurs vies sans chair, appuyés contre cette barque qui n'existe pas, baignant dans une étrange lumière lunaire tard le matin. Fantasmée, cette conversation? Voyez, la photo montre tout!

A Studios Claris production. Check album here: flic.kr/s/aHsmVxZ9mw

The confusion of all nonhuman living creatures within the general and common category of the animal is not simply a sin against rigorous thinking, vigilance, lucidity, or empirical authority; it is also a crime. Not against animality precisely, but a crime of the first order against the animals, against animals.

Jacques Derrida

This female caught three voles in a row, it might look a bit discusting if you look closely but i was amazed how precisely it removed the guts while feeding, Bavaria, Germany

it was precisely a raining day when I toke it.

Am Oderhaff, genauer am Neuwarper See, ich musste vom Bett bis zur Aufnahme keine 20 Meter laufen :-))

At the Oderhaff, more precisely at the Neuwarper lake, I didn't have to walk 20 meters from the bed to the photo :-))

This is the nickname of this beautiful mountain in Piedmont, Monviso (mt 3841), from which Italy's longest river rises. I had tried to photograph it twice last July, but the humidity of the hottest alpine summer kept it hidden. After a long chase, the longed-for day arrived.

Years ago, newspapers had a slogan ‘slam the monster on the front page’ putting sad news had a certain effect.

Now that we are asphyxiated by only bad news, the slogan must become this " Put beauty on the front page! "

We use Flickr precisely for this.

Have a good week everyone.

Il Re di Pietra

Questo il soprannome di questa bellissima montagna in Piemonte, il Monviso (mt 3841) da cui sorge il fiume più lungo d'Italia, il Po. Avevo tentato di fotografarlo due volte nelle scorso di mese di luglio, dal bellissimo balcone naturale offerta dalle altura e colli sopra Ostana, ma l'umidità della estate alpina più torrida lo teneva nascosto con nuvole dispettose, una perfino assumendo la forma di montagna.

Eccole !

Dopo una paziente attesa è arrivato il giorno tanto desiderato. Di ritorno dalla VDA, sono salito ad Ostana (CN) per un paio di giorni. Ero rimasto fulminato da una bellissima puntata de "Il Provinciale" di Federico Quaranta, dedicata proprio al Re di Pietra; la trovate ancora su Raiplay. Ne è valsa la pena !

Raccomandazione ovvia, meglio andarci tra lunedì e venerdì, perchè le strade son strette ma i costruttori continuano a sfornare auto gigantesche più simili a furgoni !

Buona settimana a tutti.

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El Rio Tinto recibe su nombre por el color rojo intenso de sus aguas y recorre 100 km atravesando la provincia de Huelva (Andalucía, Sur de España).

El color rojo es debido a la presencia de cationes de metales pesados erosionados por causa de la acidez de las aguas (ph tamponado de 2.4, muy ácido). La abundancia de minerales de Pirita y Calcopirita (sulfuros de hierro y cobre) y la presencia de unas extrañas bacterias acidófilas que oxidan estos minerales, generan el ácido sulfúrico que a la postre re-alimenta el proceso de lixiviado de los metales.

En el agua del rio sobreviven bacterias, microorganismos y vida en condiciones extremas, la NASA lo está estudiando y ha descrito recientemente este microsistema como el más parecido a Marte que podemos encontrar en la Tierra.

Los minerales de cobre, hierro, manganeso, …, se extraen en las explotaciones mineras de Rio Tinto desde hace 5000 años por íberos, fenicios, romanos y musulmanes, y ha sido explotada durante los dos últimos siglos por la compañía británica Rio Tinto Company Limited.

En el pequeño pueblo de Rio Tinto se pueden encontrar casas Victorianas, precisamente en los barrios que habitaron los Ingleses durante ese tiempo.

Para la visita y el recorrido del cauce del rio puedes contar con Fieldwork Riotinto (rio y minas) .

In my por English:

Rio Tinto is named for the deep red color of its waters and travels 100 km through the province of Huelva (Andalucía, southern Spain).

The red color is due to the presence of heavy metal cations eroded because the acidity of the water (pH 2.4 buffered, strongly acidic). The abundance of minerals Pyrite and Chalcopyrite (copper and iron sulfides) and the presence of strange acidophilus bacteria that oxidize these minerals, generate the sulfuric acid media that eventually re-feeds the process of leaching of metals.

In the river water surviving bacteria, microorganisms and life in extreme conditions, NASA is studying this media and has recently described this microsystem as the closest thing to Mars on Earth can find.

Copper, iron, manganese, ..., are extracted in the mines of Rio Tinto for 5000 years by Iberians, Phoenicians, Romans and Muslims, and has been exploited for the last two centuries by the British company Rio Tinto Company Limited .

In the small town of Rio Tinto Victorian houses can be found precisely in neighborhoods inhabited by the English people during that time.

To visit and travel the river bed you can count on Fieldwork Riotinto (rio and mines visits).

I returned to this location last week, and conditions have changed. The ice edge seen here has expanded, pushing out of the shadow of the tall riverbank behind me. Consequently, the cool-warm contrast that I've been playing with is no longer present. There was still some open water, but not much. I think this amazing combination of colours and shapes is gone until next winter.

But that's why we do it, don't you think? Being a nature photographer is to recognize the temporal beauty of all things wild and cyclical, and to feel a compulsion to capture some of the essence even as it fades or makes the transition into something else. And to understand that every moment is unique. The clouds above that peak will never again look precisely like this; the combination of lines, shapes, and textures in front of my lens right now will never be repeated, no matter how long the future stretches out for our species. It's the same with human faces, with fingerprints.

And yet, even as the ice melts away - or in this case, expands until the river fully freezes over - I experience a sort of speechless wonder when I'm out there, especially when I'm alone, as if I have entered a zone of timelessness. This seems to happen most often when I'm shooting macro. Somehow, the viewfinder image becomes the world. After twenty minutes or so of intense concentration, I may look up and feel astonished, because I've lost track of the larger world and where I am in it - in this instance, lying flat on the ice with my tripod, a few inches from the edge of a rushing river. It's almost an out-of-body experience. It's when I feel most alive.

Photographed in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2021 James R. Page - all rights reserved.

ROARING ON OUR WAY home from the airport, bending together with the shore curves along the coast, our trusty 1991 Passat young-timer broke half way – precisely at this spot. It would not be so strange if almost 24 years ago my family life hadn’t stranded too on this very spot (see the roof closest to the bottom). I had still tried to repair it during the next 7 years (the family life, not the roof). All in vain. Some people simply don’t care about other people.

Thinking back, I realize that some early signals and signs people hand you out are strong enough to tell the whole story – if you are discerning enough. I also realized long ago that the natural beauty of a place has nothing to do with the quality of inner life people lead all over the world, and the relationships they live in. In fact, those things often stand in sharp contrast with each other.

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La primera excursió per "caçar" aurores del 2025 (la tercera en total per a mí) fou llarga i gairebé fallida. Però al final la aurora va recompensar l'esforç.

Tot i que entorn la posta de sol (a quarts de dues de la tarda!) el cel semblava parcialment serè, aviat es va anar tapant completament tot al entorn de Tromsø. Per això el nostre guia Vidar ens va recollir a quarts de 6 per a fer molts quilometres en una excursió nocturna i gelada per les carreteres norueges. La primera parada fou més d'una hora després, en una benzinera de Nordkjosbotn.

Allà va recollir informació per al seguent tram de la ruta, en busca d'una zona sense nuvols. Ens dirigirem vers el nord-est, cap al interior, buscant posar muntanyes (els Alps de Lyngen) entre nosaltres i les nuvolades que venien de l'oceà. Després d'una parada a Hatteng per a posar-nos més capes de roba per al fred intens, ens endinsarem a la vall de Skibotn, famosa precisament pels seus cels clars. Varem parar entorn Bulldosarveien i Lulledalen, però res. Teniem estrelles i el cel serè, però encara no es veien aurores. Varem fer un darrer tram (ja a més de 2 hores / 150 km. de distancia de Tromsø), com a darrera oportunitat, fins un punt molt proxim a la frontera amb Finlandia. I allà, per fi, es veia la aurora!

Molt fina al començament, lentament es va anar animant moderadament. L'entorn era ple bosc sub-artic de Laponia, prop del llac Gálggojávri. Allà varem fer una petita foguera per escalfar-nos i menjar sopa calenta.

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The first aurora "hunting" excursion of 2025 (the third in total for me) was long and almost a failure. But in the end the aurora rewarded the effort.

Although around sunset (at 1:30 pm!) the sky seemed partially serene, it soon completely covered all around Tromsø. That's why our guide Vidar picked us up at 5:30 pm to do many kilometers on a night and icy excursion along the Norwegian roads. The first stop was more than an hour later, at a gas station in Nordkjosbotn.

There he collected information for the next section of the route, in search of a cloudless area. We will head northeast, inland, looking for mountains (the Lyngen Alps) between us and the clouds coming from the ocean. After a stop in Hatteng to put on more layers of clothing for the intense cold, we entered the Skibotn valley, famous precisely for its clear skies. We stopped around Bulldosarveien and Lulledalen, but nothing. We had stars and the sky was clear, but still no auroras were visible. We did one last stretch (already more than 2 hours / 150 km. away from Tromsø), as a last chance. When we finally stopped a short distance from the Finland border, we finally saw the Northern Lights!

Modest at first, they slowly gained momentum. We where in the middle of the Lappland forest, by the lake Gálggojávri.There we lit a little campfire to eat some hot soup.

A sine bar consists of a hardened, precision ground body with two precision ground cylinders fixed at the ends. The distance between the centers of the cylinders is precisely controlled, and the top of the bar is parallel to a line through the centers of the two rollers. The dimension between the two rollers is chosen to be a whole number (for ease of later calculations) and forms the hypotenuse of a triangle when in use.

When a sine bar is placed on a level surface the top edge will be parallel to that surface. If one roller is raised by a known distance, usually using gauge blocks, then the top edge of the bar will be tilted by the same amount forming an angle that may be calculated by the application of the sine rule.

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Vista des de el Albaicín.

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https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alhambra

La Alhambra es un complejo monumental sobre una ciudad palatina andalusí situado en Granada, España. Consiste en un conjunto de antiguos palacios, jardines y fortaleza (alcazaba, del árabe: القصبة al-qaṣbah ‘ciudadela’) inicialmente concebido para alojar al emir y la corte del Reino nazarí, más tarde como residencia real castellana y de sus representantes. Su singularidad artística radica en los interiores de los palacios nazaríes, cuya decoración está entre las cumbres del arte andalusí, así como en su localización y adaptación, generando un paisaje nuevo pero totalmente integrado con la naturaleza preexistente. Además, alberga un museo de arte andalusí, la pinacoteca principal de la ciudad así como un antiguo convento convertido en Parador nacional.

El complejo es gestionado por la institución Patronato de la Alhambra y el Generalife. En 2016 esta reportó ser el segundo espacio más visitado de España, tras la Sagrada Familia de Barcelona​, con 2 615 1883​ visitantes.

Etimológicamente, «Alhambra» en árabe es «al-Ḥamrāʼ» (اَلْحَمْرَاء, 'la Roja'), procedente del nombre completo «al-Qal'a al-hamra» ('castillo rojo'). En su evolución, el español intercala entre la m y la r una b, como en «alfombra», que en el árabe clásico tenía el significado de 'rojez', escrito como «al-humra». Existen más teorías para explicar el origen del nombre de la Alhambra, pues hay otros autores que arguyen que en la época andalusí la Alhambra estaba encalada y su color era blanco. El nombre de «roja» le vendría porque cuando se construyó se trabajaba de noche, y vista por la noche, desde lejos, debido a la luz de las antorchas, se veía roja. Otros autores defienden que «Alhambra» es simplemente el nombre en femenino de su fundador, Abu al-Ahmar (Muhammad I, reinado 1238-1273), que en árabe significa 'el Rojo', por ser pelirrojo.

La Alhambra se levantó sobre la colina de la Sabika, uno de los puntos más elevados de la ciudad de Gharnata. Este emplazamiento buscaba una situación estratégica defensiva y a la vez transmitir un claro símbolo, donde la cima del poder es muy perceptible para el resto de la ciudad, una ubicación escogida para ser contemplada.

La colina de la Sabika ya era un espacio ocupado con anterioridad, al menos desde tiempo de los romanos y las primeras referencias escritas de un emplazamiento militar en la zona datan del año 666. Así se tiene constancia de los núcleos de Iliberis (Elvira), en el Albaicín y Alcazaba, Castilia, cerca del actual pueblo de Atarfe, y Garnata en la colina frente a la Alcazaba como un barrio de Iliberis en la comarca y en el 756 los núcleos de El Albaicín y La Alhambra. La extensión de la colina permite albergar el complejo ocupando este unos 740 m de longitud y entre 180 m y 40 m de anchura.6

A partir de la muerte de Alhakén II, tercer califa Omeya, en 976, la historia política del califato Omeya se convirtió en un cúmulo de reveses. La reconquista cristiana pasó a ser el impulso dominante dentro de la península. En este contexto, la transformación de Gharnata de pequeña población en ciudad de cierta importancia ocurrió a principios del siglo XI, cuando la dinastía bereber de los Ziríes formó un principado semiindependiente. Bajo los tres gobernantes Habus, Badis y Abdallah (1025-1090) la ciudad aumentó en población.[cita requerida]

Los edificios estaban concentrados en la colina de la Alcazaba y en su entorno inmediato. Para la formación de la Alhambra el acontecimiento más importante es la construcción por el visir Yusuf ibn Nagrela de una fortaleza-palacio en la colina de la Sabika. Un poema de Ibn Gabirol parece indicar que los leones de la fuente de los Leones se hallaban originariamente en el palacio de este visir judío. Puede que haya habido otras construcciones puramente militares en la colina de la Alhambra durante el período zirí, pero es difícil distinguirlas con precisión.

El año 1238 señaló un segundo momento crucial. Muhammad ibn Nasr tomó la ciudad. La paradoja de la Granada nazarí consiste en el hecho de que un poder político y militar decadente, moribundo en realidad, coincidiera con una cultura original y sorprendentemente rica. La Alhambra se creó en un mundo políticamente inestable y económicamente próspero. Así, Muhammad aceptó una relación de vasallaje con la corona de Castilla, y así entró por la Puerta de Elvira para ocupar el palacio del Gallo del Viento (la antigua Alhambra), Mohamed-Ben-Nazar (o Nasr), llamado Al-Hamar el Rojo por el color de su barba.

Ben-Al-Hamar construyó el primer núcleo del palacio, fortificándolo posteriormente su hijo Mohamed II. Con toda probabilidad las murallas exteriores y el acueducto se completaron al final del siglo XIII. Los jardines y pabellones del Generalife datan al parecer del reinado de Isma'il (1314-1325). Pero los emplazamientos más importantes de la Alhambra (el complejo del patio de los Arrayanes y el de los Leones) pertenecen a la época de Yusuf I (1333-1354) y Muhammed V, este estilo granadino es la culminación del arte andalusí. Tras tres siglos de actividad, quedan bien diferenciados los tres sectores en la Alhambra: la alcazaba, el entramado urbano y los palacios.​

En 1492, finalizó la conquista de Granada por los Reyes Católicos. Hernando del Pulgar, cronista de la época, cuenta: "El conde de Tendilla y el Comendador Mayor de León, Gutierre de Cárdenas, recibieron de Fernando el Católico las llaves de Granada, entraron en la Alhambra y encima de la Torre de Comares alzaron la cruz y la bandera". La Alhambra pasa así a ser ciudadela y palacio real de los reyes cristianos y el complejo continúa su desarrollo, se añade el convento de San Francisco en 1494, el palacio de Carlos V en 1527 o la iglesia de Santa María de la Encarnación de la Alhambra en 1581.

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"No llores como mujer lo que no supiste defender como hombre."

Dicen de esta frase que fue pronunciada por Aixa, madre de Boabdil cuando éste rindió Granada. Eran las tres de la tarde del 2 de enero de 1492 cuando Abu Abdallah Muhammad b. Ali, Muhammad XII, Boabdil para los cristianos, salió de la Alhambra por la puerta más cercana al Genil. Allí acongojado y roto por el dolor, el emir se bajó de su caballo e inclinándose ante el Rey Fernando de Aragón y todo su séquito de nobles intentó besarle la mano mientras le entregaba las llaves de la ciudad. El Rey, sosteniéndole, lo incorporó para evitarle la deshonra y tomó las llaves de la Alhambra, se las dio a Isabel, la Reina, y ésta a su vez al Príncipe Juan, quien se las pasó al que sería nombrado alcaide la Alhambra, el conde de Tendilla.

Según las crónicas cristianas, o quien sabe, la propia leyenda surgida de momento tan doloroso, Boabdil montó en su caballo para dirigirse a los feudos que los Reyes Católicos le habían cedido para su disfrute en Adra, y desde el cerro más cercano detuvo su montura. Quiso volver su vista atrás para echar una última mirada a su reino perdido, y desolado, lloró como un niño. A sus espaldas, fue la sultana Aixa, su madre, quien pronunció tan lapidaria frase. El cerro se llama Suspiro del moro.

El Albaicín entero lloró la pérdida. Granada gritó y clamó por la capitulación de su ciudad mora. Hubo unas pocas revueltas, desesperados por el fin de todo un reino, pero finalmente, Granada, la nazarí, quedó rendida.

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El Sol de Al-Andalus desaparecido quedó,

que la voluntad de Allah se cumpla,

que cada desdichado se encierre con su tristeza.

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(Al-Maqqarí).

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alhambra

The Alhambra (/ælˈhæmbrə/ (About this soundlisten), Spanish: [aˈlambɾa]; Arabic: الْحَمْرَاء‎, romanized: Al-Ḥamrāʾ, pronounced [alħamˈraːʔ], lit. '"The Red One"') is a palace and fortress complex located in Granada, Andalusia, Spain. It was originally constructed as a small fortress in 889 CE on the remains of Roman fortifications, and then largely ignored until its ruins were renovated and rebuilt in the mid-13th century by the Nasrid emir Mohammed ben Al-Ahmar of the Emirate of Granada, who built its current palace and walls with many beautiful, intricate details. It was converted into a royal palace in 1333 by Yusuf I, Sultan of Granada.[1] After the conclusion of the Christian Reconquista in 1492, the site became the Royal Court of Ferdinand and Isabella (where Christopher Columbus received royal endorsement for his expedition), and the palaces were partially altered in the Renaissance style. In 1526 Charles I & V commissioned a new Renaissance palace better befitting the Holy Roman Emperor in the revolutionary Mannerist style influenced by humanist philosophy in direct juxtaposition with the Nasrid Andalusian architecture, but it was ultimately never completed due to Morisco rebellions in Granada.

Alhambra's last flowering of Islamic palaces was built for the final Muslim emirs in Spain during the decline of the Nasrid dynasty, who were increasingly subject to the Christian Kings of Castile. After being allowed to fall into disrepair for centuries, the buildings occupied by squatters, Alhambra was rediscovered following the defeat of Napoleon, who had conducted retaliatory destruction of the site. The rediscoverers were first British intellectuals and then other north European Romantic travelers. It is now one of Spain's major tourist attractions, exhibiting the country's most significant and well-known Islamic architecture, together with 16th-century and later Christian building and garden interventions. The Alhambra is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Moorish poets described it as "a pearl set in emeralds", an allusion to the colour of its buildings and the woods around them.[The palace complex was designed with the mountainous site in mind and many forms of technology were considered. The park (Alameda de la Alhambra), which is overgrown with wildflowers and grass in the spring, was planted by the Moors with roses, oranges, and myrtles; its most characteristic feature, however, is the dense wood of English elms brought by the Duke of Wellington in 1812.[citation needed] The park has a multitude of nightingales and is usually filled with the sound of running water from several fountains and cascades. These are supplied through a conduit 8 km (5.0 mi) long, which is connected with the Darro at the monastery of Jesus del Valle above Granada.

Despite long neglect, willful vandalism, and some ill-judged restoration, the Alhambra endures as an atypical example of Muslim art in its final European stages, relatively uninfluenced by the direct Byzantine influences found in the Mezquita of Córdoba. Most of the palace buildings are quadrangular in plan, with all the rooms opening on to a central court, and the whole reached its present size simply by the gradual addition of new quadrangles, designed on the same principle, though varying in dimensions, and connected with each other by smaller rooms and passages. Alhambra was extended by the different Muslim rulers who lived in the complex. However, each new section that was added followed the consistent theme of "paradise on earth". Column arcades, fountains with running water, and reflecting pools were used to add to the aesthetic and functional complexity. In every case, the exterior was left plain and austere. Sun and wind were freely admitted. Blue, red, and a golden yellow, all somewhat faded through lapse of time and exposure, are the colors chiefly employed. The name Alhambra means the red one or the red castle, which refers to the sun-dried bricks that the outer wall is made of.

The decoration consists for the upper part of the walls, as a rule, of Arabic inscriptions—mostly poems by Ibn Zamrak and others praising the palace—that are manipulated into geometrical patterns with vegetal background set onto an arabesque setting ("Ataurique"). Much of this ornament is carved stucco (plaster) rather than stone. Tile mosaics ("alicatado"), with complicated mathematical patterns ("tracería", most precisely "lacería"), are largely used as panelling for the lower part. Metal was also not present very mainly.[clarification needed] Similar designs are displayed on wooden ceilings (Alfarje).[4] Muqarnas are the main elements for vaulting with stucco, and some of the most accomplished dome examples of this kind are in the Court of the Lions halls. The palace complex is designed in the Nasrid style, the last blooming of Islamic Art in the Iberian Peninsula, that had a great influence on the Maghreb to the present day, and on contemporary Mudejar Art, which is characteristic of western elements reinterpreted into Islamic forms and widely popular during the Reconquista in Spain.

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