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'Hey Syl, where did we put that experimental hyper drive? I can't find it in storage and its not on the list here either?'
'We put in in that external rocked drive for the space station, remember? To see if it would fit?'
'We did take it out again, right?
'Oh, uh, oops...'
....The little Veronicas made me a dress with their petals to meet the Moon....
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Veronicas series continues.... this time macro.... always the best to see closer beauty :)
I still have some ideas!! :)
Answer to the friends’ questions about how I made the previous photo...... Mirror Mirror Mirror :))
Have a wonderful week ahead!! ♥
Elle rassemble les corps de 2208 soldats, dont 577 inconnus. La bataille de Morhange dont il est question s'est déroulée du 19 au 20 août 1914 et fit plus de 8000 morts.
This morning we decided to through out the sofa, and burn it. We have been sleeping there since we moved in, but we are sure that something else also live in it. We hear how it prazzles, and something runs around in it..... not to mention all the residents we can´t see.......
We also cleaned up the mess, and the house feels a lot nicer to spend time in. We scrubbed the floors and walls, and cleaned all the windows. It was a hard job (it was really dirty), and we sat on the porch quite a while afterwards....... exhausted but happy. Stella started to talk about a bathroom....... well, I wish we had one. Probably that has to be priority one from now, but I need to find that leak first.
Another thing we discussed, was the hidden key we found hanging in the fireplace. Why was it hidden...... and why in the fireplace ? What was it for a key...... and where is the right lock for it ? Lots of questions, but no answers.
Tomorrow my brother come for a quick visit. Wonder what he thinks of this place......... this place which are going to be the crown of Stella´s and mine love story.
As we said : - " Don´t give it up. Let´s fight for hope and glory ! "
Good night...... sleep tight !
Recommended song: Måns Zelmerlöw - Hope&Glory
her last resort
(THE last resort)
always the place of platitudes (or misconception)
dripping down the side of her peeling memory, as the last words are shoved into the dirt, ready for planting
in another season.
(she won't make it)
and now
it is all just discarded letters and numbers
and drying (and dying) leaves
with new hives on her arms
from cleaning up the (end of the year) flowers (words)
crushed inside a garbage bin
the aroma fading into the plastic that has years of
debris laced into its skin
waiting for Wednesday
to be carried away
(and tossed out)
with the rest of her words
because there will never be enough therapy
to fix
this
A colour edited Another Place sculptures by Antony Gormley on Crosby Beach, north of Liverpool in Merseyside.
Another Place consists of 100 cast-iron, life-size figures spread out along three kilometres of the foreshore, stretching almost one kilometre out to sea. The figures, each one weighing 650 kilos, are made from casts of the artist's own body standing on the beach, all of them looking out to sea, staring at the horizon in silent expectation.
Having previously been seen in Cuxhaven in Germany, Stavanger in Norway and De Panne in Belgium, 'Another Place' is now a permanent feature in the UK, at Crosby Beach.
According to Antony Gormley, Another Place harnesses the ebb and flow of the tide to explore man's relationship with nature. He explains: The seaside is a good place to do this. Here time is tested by tide, architecture by the elements and the prevalence of sky seems to question the earth's substance. In this work human life is tested against planetary time.
This sculpture exposes to light and time the nakedness of a particular and peculiar body. It is no hero, no ideal, just the industrially reproduced body of a middle-aged man trying to remain standing and trying to breathe, facing a horizon busy with ships moving materials and manufactured things around the planet.
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Happy Waterfall Wednesday!
It sure felt good to get out and about in the rain on Saturday morning with some friends from Conn. who made a quick trip out to the Pacific Northwest.
Elowah Falls, Columbia River Gorge, Oregon.
Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Exposure 0.3
Aperture f/8.0
Focal Length 17 mm
ISO Speed 160
Exposure Bias 0 EV
On peut reconnaître le perron liégeois et les personnages du dessinateur de bandes dessinées François Walthéry, Natacha, l'hôtesse de l'air et le colombophile "Li Vî bleu".
Il s’agit d’un convoi dans l’esprit des antiques caravanes de la soie. L’oeuvre amplifiera le projet initié par Dominique Matagne, artiste, professeur d’arts plastiques et gérante du Comptoir de la céramique. Elle le complétera « à cent doigts », doigts de ses amis, artistes passionnés, tous porteurs du projet.
A l’heure où les questions du climat et de la mobilité sont au cœur de tous les débats, la « Caravane des Possibles » illustrera une autre façon de se déplacer en dehors des schémas actuels qui sont profondément remis en cause. Elle permettra de mener à bien une réflexion autour d’une mobilité rêvée, voire poétique ou utopique, à laquelle seul l’art peut donner accès.
La caravane questionne sur la problématique des migrants, celle des départs, des fuites de tous ordres. Quelles directions prendra cette caravane ? Pourquoi ? Comment ?
Ce sont peut-être les questions que l’oeuvre éveillera chez le spectateur…
You can recognize the steps from Liège and the characters of the cartoonist François Walthéry, Natacha, the air hostess and the pigeon fancier "Li Vî bleu".
It is a convoy in the spirit of the ancient silk caravans. The work will amplify the project initiated by Dominique Matagne, artist, plastic arts teacher and manager of the Comptoir de la Céramique. She will complete it "with a hundred fingers", fingers of her friends, passionate artists, all carriers of the project.
At a time when climate and mobility issues are at the heart of all debates, the “Caravane des Possibles” will illustrate another way of getting around outside of current patterns that are deeply questioned. It will make it possible to carry out a reflection around a dream mobility, even poetic or utopian, to which only art can give access.
The caravan questions the issue of migrants, that of departures, escapes of all kinds. What directions will this caravan take? For what ? How ?
These are perhaps the questions that the work will awaken in the viewer...
The journey from Winchester to the Dorset coast took us through the New Forest in Hampshire yet another part of England I have never visited before . Though I vividly remember reading the novel by Frederick Marryat. “The Children of the New Forest” when I was very young .
We had time to stop for a couple of hours and have a short walk round a small part of the forest . Came across this charming pub in a village called Fritham . This may be one of the nicest pubs I have not actually had a drink in. We had a fair bit of driving to do so a pint was out of the question…..Very sad indeed
THANKS FOR YOUR VISITING BUT CAN I ASK YOU NOT TO FAVE AN IMAGE WITHOUT ALSO MAKING A COMMENT. MANY THANKS KEITH.
ANYONE MAKING MULTIPLE FAVES WITHOUT COMMENTS WILL SIMPLY BE BLOCKED
This QM was the size of a Comma - but had the diagnostic question mark on its wings below. Black is their summer form - and they have that beautiful lavender trim.
at the wetlands, North Georgia
This was taken at the famous feeder at the Virginia Lakes Resort, so high in the Sierras that Gray-Crowned Rosy Finches are frequent visitors. Cassin's finches are also known in the area, I've seen them at that very feeders, and purple finches also come to that altitude although I haven't seen them in that spot. So... I'm asking the experts - purple finch or Cassin's finch? The experts at inaturalist say "Pale male Cassin's", even the bird is lacking the usual bright red Cassin's "cap", but I'm still not sure.
Pine siskin on the right for scale.
Virginia Lakes Resort, Mono County, Ca. August, 2020.
Одно из самых популярных мест Санкт-Петербурга это музей квартира Достоевского. Этот район города до сих пор обладает магией экзистенциальности автора . И всегда найдётся тот вопрос ,который может поставить в тупик даже профессионального экскурсовода! В этот раз дух Федора Михайловича коснулся и фотографа…
"Хорошая фотография это знать где стоять» Ансель Адамс
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One of the most popular places in St. Petersburg is the museum-apartment of Dostoevsky. In this area of the city, the magic of the author's existentialism has been preserved. And there is always a question that can baffle even a professional guide! This time the spirit of Fyodor Mikhailovich touched the photographer too...
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Ansel Adams was quoted as saying, “A good photograph is knowing where to stand.”
As I drove up here today I realised I was completely alone; the outside temperature was -1 degree C; there was thick fog and I was driving a rear-wheel drive automatic whose traction control light kept flashing, and I began to question my sanity. This is something I've often pondered. Sane or not? I think at the moment the ayes have it.
My car is just visible in the gloom.
Bluebells in the woods.
At Scammonden water
Something there is that doesn’t love bluebells in a wood!
Huddersfield
West Yorkshire
FLOWER - GATHERING
Robert Frost
I left you in the morning,
And in the morning glow,
You walked a way beside me
To make me sad to go.
Do you know me in the gloaming,
Gaunt and dusty grey with roaming?
Are you dumb because you know me not,
Or dumb because you know?
All for me? And not a question
For the faded flowers gay
That could take me from beside you
For the ages of a day?
They are yours, and be the measure
Of their worth for you to treasure,
The measure of the little while
That I’ve been long away.
Well, strictly speaking this scene is a sunset, so one could question the title and the attached meaning... But it was a radiant Umbrian sunset just after a long, powerful thunderstorm, so I will stick to my idea.
As the WHO has declared the state of pandemic Covid-19 is spreading everywhere and is reaping its dreadful harvest, bringing whole nations and economies to their knees. Believe me, it is even possible that the darkest hour is still to come. But I think that this incredible planetary experience has the potential to change our way to live. We have taken for granted too many beautiful, precious things (and beware, when you take something for granted you are lessening it). This humble, unaware virus is teaching us values we had drowned in our running digital hedonism - solidarity, self-sacrifice, collaboration. It is teaching us the fundamental value of truth and of scientific research. It is reminding us that we are just a small part of a wonderfully complex world - and that we are not nearly as powerful as we like to think to be. After all, the immediate means to limit infection are exactly the same as they were for the epidemics of the past - quarantine, avoiding close contact with one another, clean your hands frequently, limitations to gatherings, public events, and so on (and everything is worsened and sped up by our global network of transportation). On the other hand science, unavoidably, needs time to find real solutions. So we are experiencing a new sense of being frail - something we used to think of as a relic of the past.
I believe that this pandemic will change everything, more than a war: this is not an enemy endowed with evil projects for mankind but, rather, a natural phenomenon which is putting us in the right perspective in the world. So I believe that this pandemic will change everything. But, in the meantime, we have to manage to get out of these dark times. I would like to dedicate this photo to the people who are suffering because of this ordeal, and to the heroic people who is wrestling with the effects of the infection*: my humble contribute to remember that the darkest hour - whenever it will come - is just before the dawn.
* Sadly in Italy we have seen a growing trend of threats and assaults to physicians during the last years. Many people doubted the good faith of physicians, scientists and medicine in general. I'd guess that this tide is quickly changing.
This photo is closely related to my A neverending story. To be precise, it has been captured some 5 minutes earlier. This view, however, is somewhat narrower and, after a bit of cropping in the foreground, lays a greater emphasis on the glorious cloudscape.
I have obtained this picture by blending an exposure bracketing [-1.7/0/+1.7 EV] by luminosity masks in the Gimp (EXIF data, as usual, refer to the "normal exposure" shot), then I added some final touches with Nik Color Efex Pro 4. RAW files has been processed with Darktable.
A good contribution to the post-processing of part of the foreground came from a cool trick by Boris Hajdukovic I have found rather serendipitously on the web. I have cloned out an obnoxious young olive tree at the center of the foreground dancing a bit too freely in the residual wind.
I am afraid that colours and tones of this picture might be pretty close to the edge of looking overdone (this seems to be an inherent feature of the bracketings I captured of this sunset, since I always post-process from scratch). It all depends on your screen, of course: the picture looks safely good my HP screen, but I am afraid that it can easily look a bit over-the-top on other screens.
Now we know that a picture cannot possibly look right on every screen - the factors affecting the results are simply too many, including largely unpredictable ones, such as personal display settings. Admittedly one should not think too much about this, but when a photo is close to the critical boundary one should struggle to find the better balance between what she would like the photo to be and the risk of looking overdone. Since this photo is important to me, I would be grateful for comments about this matter, to help me realise if I have to downtone it :-)
Thank you very much in advance!
EXPLORE: Sept 8, 2010 #162
flamingos offer lessons in makeup and in impersonating a question mark...
A very weird unmarked sculpture in the Columbia Slough Wildlife Refuge, in Portland OR, shot with my holga and filtered through photoshop.
I have a question for any experts out there. Anyone with knowledge of lightning and atmospherics, and also anyone with working knowledge of camera sensors.
I took these two shots yesterday, more in hope than anything, Being lucky enough to have the Sony RX10 that shoots at 24 frames per second, I pointed at the sky across the street and held the shutter for a second. I got lucky and managed these two shots. Not very exciting looking, being daylight lightning shots, but I am intrigued by the difference in the two shots. They are consecutive frames 1/24th of a second apart. Bolt 1 shows up the brightest, and actually shows the lightning in its ground to air phase and the bolt is only half completed. Lightning bolt 2 shows the completed bolt all the way to the cloud, but is fading in brightness. The bolt itself was very close with barely a second elapsing between flash and the window rattling thunderclap!
My puzzle is the first shot that shows a purple halo around the upward end of the lightning, and a corresponding colour shift across the image in the sky below the top of the lightning.
I'd love to know is this just an issue with the sensor and its response to a sudden intense flash, or is it atmospheric?
My guess is the sensor, but I'd love to hear other opinions or experiences.
These two shots are both cropped heavily from the left half of the wide angle image, hence the slight distortion in the vertical lines of the house.
Chipmunk Contemplation…
Seeds or no seeds…
That is the question… 😉
The chipmunks must be hungry after the long winter season. This one seemed a little shy and would not come very close to me. By summer, in this public park, it will likely boldly approach human folk in the search of food.
www.hww.ca/en/wildlife/mammals/chipmunk.html
Chipmunks are known to be hibernators, even in the southern parts of their range. Near the end of July, they begin to collect and store large quantities of seeds. By October, each chipmunk has accumulated enough seeds to enable it to survive the winter.
With the onset of winter in November, chipmunks disappear below ground. At present, it is not known exactly what happens when chipmunks retire to their burrows for the winter. One view is that they immediately go into a torpid state. (In this state, the body temperature, rate of breathing, and rate of heartbeat drop to very low levels, reducing the amount of energy required to maintain the chipmunk.) Periods of torpor last from one to eight days, and perhaps longer. Between periods of torpor, chipmunks wake up and consume part of their food supply. They have occasionally been seen above ground on warm winter days. A second view is that chipmunks do not actually hibernate until their food supply has been exhausted.
With the first warm days of March, chipmunks begin to emerge, sometimes burrowing up through a metre of snow.
In spring, chipmunks diligently search the ground for any seeds that remain from the previous summer. As these are usually scarce, the small rodents eat young leaves and shoots until new fruit and seeds become available.
Question:
Is model release needed from the person captured in street shots which are not used commercially?
There was a street shot posted by my nephew: HERE. The person captured in the photo was pretty furious with that post and requested to have it removed from his Flickr site.
My nephew has removed it from his photostream out of respect for her.
I hope to take this opportunity to seek your opinion about our right in terms of photographing human subject on the street.
The questions continue...
You might remember this little hole in a fence post at St Cyrus. A few weeks ago, I'd noticed a couple of male leafcutter bees on these posts, so on another visit I looked for nest holes in the posts, and was thrilled to find one occupied hole, but was then surprised to see that it was occupied not by a bee, but by a digger wasp (`Flick' back about 10 images in my stream). Since then, when I've been at St Cyrus, I've keenly looked in on the digger wasp as I passed; it was there every day I checked. Yesterday, after a break of about 6 days, I think, I was back and checked the post to find not the digger wasp but a cute bee in the same hole! Unfortunately I didn't have my camera, so this is a quick snap on my phone.
I'm curious about what's gone on here; could they both be using the same hole?; did the wasp move out naturally, and then the bee moved in?; did the bee evict the wasp?; is one a parasite?; are they both nesting?; was one or both using it as shelter?
I'm also not sure what type of bee this is. The leafcutters I saw (a few photos in my recent uploads) have now been kindly IDd by the expert Steven Falk, as one of the rarer leafcutters, the black-headed leafcutter bee (Megachile circumcincta). This could be a female (according to his book, they usually nest in sandy ground, but have also been reported to nest in wood), but that's a wild guess.
So much to learn :D
How Did The Monster From 'Jeepers Creepers' Not Only Register His Truck But Also Get A Personalized License Plate?
There is place for soft colour. There is place for strong and vibrant colours. And autumn is always the season you can find them.
This is just a repost for autumn colour in my neighbourhood.
Happy Monday and a great week!
I ask the experienced landscape photographer about tips in shooing fall colour.
He said the answer is in your question itself. Shooting fall colours means really shooting the colours.
I had a walk in my neighborhood and I took his suggestion shooting the colours. I am not sure if I did follow his advice.
This was seen on the sidewalk of a small street in my neighborhood.
Happy Wednesday!
Question: The Lord has created all this, has He not? What
was created first? It is said light or sound was created first.
Answer: All these things, which you say have been created
have to be seen by you before you say they exist. There must
be a seer. If you find out who that seer is, then you will know
about creation and which was created first. Of course various
theories as to what came into existence first from God are given
out. Most, including scientists, agree that all has come from
light and sound.
Question: Can we call anything created, like this piece of
wood, for example, God? It is said it is very wrong to do so.
Answer: Even this piece of wood, does it exist apart from
God? Can we confine God to any time or place, since He is
everywhere and in everything? We should not see anything as
apart from God. That is all.
from
DAY BY DAY WITH BHAGAVAN
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!
To Bee, or not to Bee, that is the question.
So the real question on this monkey post is why?
I was going to use it for the Macro Monday Ceramic theme from a couple of weeks ago but it exceeded the size specification of 3 inches ( it measured out at 4.75 in. tall by 2 in. deep) and I didn't like it cropped. The monkey was pretty excited about being featured on flickr and you can only imagine his disappointment when he got wind that I used the Hummel instead. I didn't want to [...bear a monkey...] as the expression goes even if it was my fault the next morning after a good bit of drinking so I felt it best to show him off here.
Ceramic lid from a German 2l stein that I received from an uncle who brought it from Germany around 1900. It's manufactured by Matthias Grimscheid, Mold #1199. It's a big stein so the wording is most appropriate: “Trag deinen Affen mit Geduld, an dem bist du nur selber Schuld.” (Bear your monkey with patience, it is your own fault.)
55mm f/2.8 NIKKOR Micro, 6 image photo stack.
Textures by: Skeltalmess and Lenabem-Anna.
(DSCN7765McDoArtSoFar)
I will probably enhance this later, but for right now it is RAW or SOOC from a bit less than 2 years ago.
I just sort of threw this pic on as first one I've uploaded since March 23rd, 2023, or so. I've been trying to learn a new computer and having a very hard time. More to tell later, but for now I want to try to find a color RED picture for two Monday groups that I normally would have posted to last Monday.
I am chock full of questions about new computer, Flickr, passwords, SD card in my camera, etc. etc. It has been overwhelming and frustrating, but I'm trying to be patient, not my strong suit.
My son gifted me with this new computer, and it is a fantastic gift, but I am overwhelmed with all the new workings of it. I'll have questions for sure as I navigate it. I'm hoping my Flickr friends can help me with some of my questions. I'll try to post them one at a time with various pictures, so as not to overwhelm any of my viewers with all of them in one humongous post.
~ Delina (pronounced with a long *i* sound)
For "The If These Walls Could Talk (group)", some of the employees would say, this is a McDonald's Restaurant, west wall. What the heck is that lady doing taking so many pictures in the rain and way out there in the parking lot? ?? My Raintings are not about the food, the employees, the customers nor anything even close to that. But they don't know.
I did show a few of my pictures to one of the managers, several months ago; but I have no idea if he conveyed my information to any other employees.
I explained to him that I am not out there in the rain (and dark too, as it makes the best Raintings) invading anyone's privacy.
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Medical Ad for Commercial class.
To answer your questions ahead of time, yes she is holding an actual breast implant.
Image is everything in today's society, imagine what it will be like for our children, it seems this epidemic only gets worse with time. Our women are made of plastic and our men of greed.
Exposure:
ISO 100
1/125 sec.
f/16.0
17mm
Gear:
Canon EOS 1Ds Mark III
Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM Lens
Pocket Wizard Multi-max
Profoto strobes and modifiers
Strobist:
6 Light setup:
Front: Beauty dish w/ grid @ 1/4 power
Below & right: Fill card
Side & behind: Soft box strips with grids @ full power
Behind & above: 2 Background umbrellas and hair light strip box @ full power
Processing:
Photoshop CS3:
-Dress replaced from another image
-Quick selection tool to silo
-Skin and dress spot cleanup
-Light surface blur on skin and shadow
-Dodging on dress
-Curves adjustment
-Converted to LAB color
-Shadow/Highlight adjustment
-2 Unsharp masks, one for contrast & one for sharpening, both luminosity blend mode
Lightroom 2:
Global and local color and clarity adjustments
"any questions?" Defender of the Realm. if you've ever met a mockingbird, you know what this is about. he's "da man"... ;)
lots of folks don't appreciate this fine feathered fellow, even folks that call themselves birders and claim to luv the members of Class Aves. these guys are birds that everyone needs to cultivate an appreciation for, 'cuz they're among a small handful of bird species that can adapt and survive in stupid human landscapes. their tenacious defense of their hime turf is admirable at the very least. they're just being mockingbirds, and they're pretty damn good at it. ;)
ANNOUNCEMENT - HOLIDAY PRINT EXCHANGE 2010 DETAILS
December 11, 2010 1pm
Kells Irish Pub
112 SW 2nd Ave
Portland, Oregon
Remember this is open to anyone who wishes to attend, just make sure you RSVP
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Taken this morning while scouting out waterfalls with my daughter. We came upon this ridge and this was the scene across the way. I liked how you could see the river on each side of the scene....The sun was doing its best to break through the clouds but I was able to get a few shots off before the harsh light took effect
Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Exposure 0.017 sec (1/60)
Aperture f/6.3
Focal Length 40 mm
ISO Speed 200
Exposure Bias 0 EV