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EN:: Best photographed at night when there are no background distractions, this art installation in a pond in the Tiergarten, Berlin. spoke to me of the adjustments societies had to make to the advent of shopping trolleys in supermarkets.
The very functional trolley that came after the advent of self service shopping coupled with carparks, meant that shoppers able to walk the trolley out of hte shopping centres and leave them strewn around the environs. Then came the temptation for anti-social individuals to take the trolleys further, dumping them in ornamental ponds, lakes even rivers.
Artistically this appealed because of the duplication by reflection, the waterline not immediately apparent.
The visible memory has remained, but the artist, the gallery and the specific location have all faded from memory. However, we would be most pleased to have any of that information, if there is any viewer who recognizes or recalls this installation.
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D:: Diese Kunstinstallation lässt sich am besten nachts fotografieren, wenn es keine Ablenkungen im Hintergrund gibt. Sie befindet sich in einem Teich im Tiergarten in Berlin. Es sprach mir von den Anpassungen, die Gesellschaften an die Einführung von Einkaufswagen in Supermärkten vornehmen mussten.
Der sehr funktionelle Einkaufswagen, der nach dem Aufkommen des Selbstbedienungseinkaufs in Verbindung mit Parkplätzen auf den Markt kam, ermöglichte es den Käufern, den Einkaufswagen mit dem Wagen aus den Einkaufszentren herauszunehmen und ihn in der Umgebung verstreut zurückzulassen. Dann kam die Versuchung für unsoziale Menschen, die Karren weiter zu transportieren und sie in Zierteichen, Seen und sogar Flüssen abzuladen.
(Explore: 4 June 23)
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Our back story::
On our very first day in Berlin, we had so enjoyed many significant landmarks and encounters with people, that we just had to do some more exploring that night. As the night settled and the traffic quietened we were prepared to take our car into this unfamiliar city (driving on the other side of the road from what we are familiar with!) so quieter places like the Tiergarten seemed wise. We found it full of surprises - this art installation being one of them.
for another rainy day :((
I dont know the english names for the figures...is it king, farmer, horse..?
for this years solo-exhibition.
can't wait to see you soon!
(wish me luck please :-) )
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... for a long Whitsun weekend ... TGIF :-))
Opening Peony / Pfingstrose (Paeonia officinalis)
a month ago in our garden - Frankfurt-Nordend
The tours are well organized and prepared for emergencies. They have procedures to evacuate tourists for emergencies or klaustrophobic anxieties. They DO NOT ALLOW tripods, monopods, or selfie sticks. They have apparently had problems with tourists.
This is an amazing place. Very tight canyon. Every turn shows a new amazing, colorful, glowing, canvas. It was easy to take lots of photos. The tough part was culling the photos when I got home.
There were 9 people (representing 4 families) and a guide in our group. The tours are a little under an hour from start to finish. We were the first of 4 or 5 groups in our time slot. The sent us in about 10 minutes apart. The guide is very informative and educational. There was some pressure to keep the group moving. The guide was helpful and took pictures of the families several times during the tour.
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The Navajo name for Lower Antelope Canyon is Hasdez twazi’, which means “the spiral role arches.” Lower Antelope Canyon is about 3,704 feet in elevation and the canyon walls are about 120' above the streambed. This canyon is more narrow to walk through, as it’s shaped like a “V”, so if you are claustrophobic this area is not for you. It goes into the slot canyon and have to maneuver thru closely on stairs, which is harder to walk through. This area is also located within the Le Chee Chapter of the Navajo Nation, near Page, Arizona.
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St. Wolfgang is a small town in Austria that became popular in the 1930's in a musical named after a hotel at the lake. They have a Christmas market in the roads of the old town. This photo was taken one day before it opened so the roads are still empty.
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Grey Swamp, Lower Skawa River Valley, Lesser Poland, Poland
I've spotted this tree hole last summer and this year I was hoping for Eurasian Wryneck but starlings decided to build their nest in it. Fortunately, this old dead birch stays near levee so it was possible to photograph starlings from decent perspective.
I invite you to check my album page where I prepared sections with photos from specific locations.
The interior of TD 6. The driver was prepared. Coffee cans and wine bottles with a well padded adjustable seat! What more does one need for a long trip?
Just back from our annual fix of visiting West Cornwall and as usual, it didn't disappoint.
I'll be adding some of the photographs I took over the coming days and starting with this one of St Ives.
It was noticeable this year that there were many more people on holiday in Cornwall than would normally be the case and I'm assuming that the reason is that holidaying abroad has been problematic due to the continuing Covid pandemic restrictions.
St Ives in particular was busier than I can ever remember it and that's saying something!
On the day we arrived, all the main car parks were full and we only managed to find a space by being prepared to park some distance from the town centre and taking a long walk down the steep hill that leads down to the waterfront.
The snow didn't seem to bother these bison who are so well equipped to handle the harsh winter conditions of Yellowstone National Park.
Congress finally appropriated $20,000 for a lighthouse at Port Sanilac in 1885, and a site was selected and purchased. After specifications for the necessary metalwork were prepared, a contract was entered into, and the lantern room and spiral staircase were delivered to the Detroit lighthouse depot on October 1, 1885. Charles Diem, the contractor charged with erecting the brick tower and keeper’s dwelling, commenced work on June 7, 1886, and by the end of that month had made excavations for the structures, had put in place the concrete foundation for the dwelling and a portion of the four-feet-thick concrete foundation for the tower, and had laid about one-half of the stone foundation walls for the dwelling. The tower, dwelling, privy, and oil house were completed on October 13, 1886, and the station’s fixed white light, produced by a fourth-order, Barbier & Fenestre Fresnel lens, was placed in operation a week later on October 20, 1886. The work of grading, filling, and sodding the grounds, along with building a perimeter fence, laying sidewalks, and digging and lining a well was finished on October 23.
Situated 130 feet from the lakeshore, octagonal Port Sanilac Lighthouse stands fifty-nine feet tall and is connected to the nearby two-story keeper’s by a covered passageway. The eight-room dwelling had two, 2,200-gallon brick cisterns built beneath its kitchen that were used to collect rainwater for domestic use. Ile aux Galets Lighthouse is the only tower that resembles the one at Port Sanilac.
Alright, so my first visit to Brandywine Falls… I liked it there a lot! Now that I have been there I have learned that I need to be more prepared to keep my lens dry. The filter cloth got so wet so fast that it wouldn’t remove water anymore and I had to move back and use a different lens. The compositions I had with my 11-24 were really interesting, but there was just too much water on the front of the polarizer to do anything with the images. Next time I will be more prepared :-).
This was taken with my 16-35 and a polarizer. Still pretty pleased, but I look forward to getting closer with the 11-24. This was a blend of 4 exposures. 2 of the exposures made up most of the image, but the other 2 had bits that were used as well.
One darker exposure for the sky.
One for the rock face.
One for a bit of the water movement in the foreground and one exposure for the mist at the bottom of the falls.
Photoshop on text from Crabbe's English Synonyms. See more Oddments & Curiosities: oddments.blogspot.com
Single in October 2014 - 12
Living in a riverine area with heavy clays, the farmers have to plough their land before winter, in the hope frost will prepare the seedbed for the new season. In the background two pollarded willow trees, which are found everywhere in this landscape. Pollarding serves no longer any goal than landscape dressing, but once these trees provided rather good wood for the sticks of spades etc....
Skawa River, Lower Skawa River Valley, Lesser Poland, Poland
CAUTION! SIGNIFICANTLY THREATENED BY HABITAT LOSS!
Common Sandpipers can be found near steep river banks, sandy or rocky islands, near creeks and sometimes lakes or ponds. These waders are shy and hard to approach. They fly low, near surface of the water from one bank to another with characteristic shimmering wing beat.
I invite you to check my album page where I prepared sections with photos from specific locations.
One shot only challenge. Sounded good to me. Take only one shot and only one. No matter how it turns out, post it!
Tina, one of my contacts, was challenged by her son to take only one shot and post it. It was beautiful. A pop bottle in the sun and shadows. The next day (on her birthday) it made Explore!!!
Only one chance to show off my talents in front of all my peers. I can do that! And I will too.
Well, things didn't go that well for me. All enthused I got ready for my ONE SHOT and post. Got to be ready. Battery good, card empty, good lens, I'm all set, whats that? A speck of dust on the lens? I'll get it...
Well you know the rest....
I love to go to movies. In a theatre with a crowd. The crowd is optional, but prefered...
I probably average one a week during the course of a year.
A FEW RANDOM THOUGHTS AND WORTHLESS OPINIONS...
I hate arriving late for a movie. If the show is about to start... be prepared to see something else or buy tickets for the next showing. "I'm very anal about this". The last time I walked into a darkened theatre was the final installment of "Star Wars". This was only because I had already seen it... I like to have my popcorn and be seated before the coming attractions... "coming attractions" ARE a part of the movie experience. Commercials, on the other hand, suck.
Jodie Foster is the only movie star who's films I go to just because she's in them.
Russell Crow is my favorite actor. I am still miffed that he did not win the Oscar for "A Beautiful Mind". A film which won "Best Picture", "Best Director", "Best S. Actress", and "Best Writing". All for a movie in which every scene surrounds his character. losing to Denzel Washington(a very good performance) in "Training Day"(an ok film)... so wrong.
... that said. I do think Halle Berry was brilliant in "Monster's Ball". The last ten minutes alone were worthy of an Oscar nomination. She had very little dialogue during this part of the film. The emotions were conveyed in her facial expressions and body language. "Simply amazing"
"As Good As It Gets" is that rare movie where I leave the theatre wishing the characters would just keep going... the only film since then to bring out this response in me was "Friends With Money". A movie for which I have yet to lend to anyone who liked it.