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An image of the magnificent aqua chandelier by Dale Chihuly, seen at the Desert Botanical Garden last December. I am just now getting around to going back into old photos to do some editing. This one caught my eye right away in the hundreds to go through.
I have a feeling my friend Laurie will like this one, and Yolise, too. Best view is large.
A classic-shaped Saguaro in the evening light - Sierra Ancha Foothills, Tonto Basin, Arizona
{ L } Lightbox view is best
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When we're small, we're taught to grow up, sometimes too quickly. When we're older, we're taller, but most of us still reach for higher branches.
There I was, in the library of Burton Agnes Hall (East Riding of Yorkshire) and I spotted this in the window. Mmmm, not quite to my taste I thought. Then I progressed along the Long Gallery and in the next anteroom hanging on the wall was a selection of prints on sale to visitors. And there were the stretching hands exactly as I had just seen and dismissed - priced at £95.00.
That was it, I just had to return and take my own photograph.
So here it is!
A giraffe from Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo extending its neck and tongue straight up to reach something tasty.
Tumbled granite blocks left behind when the quarry was abandoned and allowed to fill with water nearly a century ago, with a dead tree limb extending into the water, creating a creepy, haunted look.
"The purpose of life . . . is to live it; to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience." ~Eleanor Roosevelt
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Photo Info:
Nikon D300s
Nikkor 35mm f/1.8
Nikon sb-600 left angled down 45 degrees
Nikon sb-600 left angled up 45 degrees
Westminster Abbey in Mission . There is something about photographing churches that I really like , I think it's the connection and symbolism … the respect and concentration , the quietness inside of me …
See where this picture was taken, Westminster Abbey , Mission BC [?]
The blue-cheeked bee-eater (Merops persicus) is a near passerine bird in the bee-eater family, Meropidae. It breeds in Northern Africa, and the Middle East from eastern Turkey to Kazakhstan and India. It is generally strongly migratory, wintering in tropical Africa, although some populations breed and live year round in the Sahel. This species occurs as a rare vagrant north of its breeding range, with most vagrants occurring in Italy and Greece.
This species, like other bee-eaters, is a richly-coloured, slender bird. It is predominantly green; its face has blue sides with a black eye stripe, and a yellow and brown throat; the beak is black. It can reach a length of 31 cm (12 in), with the two elongated central tail feathers adding another 7 cm (2.8 in). Sexes are mostly alike but the tail-streamers of the female are shorter.
This is a bird which breeds in sub-tropical semi-desert with a few trees, such as acacia. It winters in open woodland or grassland. As the name suggests, bee-eaters predominantly eat insects, especially bees, wasps and hornets, which are caught in the air by sorties from an open perch. However, this species probably takes more dragonflies than any other food item. Its preferred hunting perch is telephone wires if available.
Blue-cheeked bee-eaters may nest solitarily or in loose colonies of up to ten birds. They may also nest in colonies with European bee-eaters. The nests are located in sandy banks, embankments, low cliffs or on the shore of the Caspian Sea. They make a relatively long tunnel of 1 to 3 m (3.3–9.8 ft) in length in which the four to eight (usually six or seven), spherical white eggs are laid. Both the male and the female take care of the eggs, although the female alone incubates them at night. Incubation takes 23–26 days.
The call sounds 'flatter' and less 'fluty' than the European bee-eater.
[ENG] The Royal Palace of La Granja de San Ildefonso was built by Felipe V, where he retired in 1724. It was used as a summer residence by all his successors until Alfonso XIII. The gardens were made in the eighteenth century by the French architect René Carlier. And they appeared to have more importance that the own palace. In these, stand out the fountain, the sculptural groups and the statues realized by Thierry, Demandré, Pitué, Fermín y Bousseau. The fountains are provided with grand sculptures of painted lead imitating bronze, and between them they emphasize them of Neptune, Apollo and Andromeda in the wide perspective of the Careers of Horses; Anfítride's Waterfall, before the Palace; and those of Eight Streets, the Canastillo (small basket), Diana's Baths and the Reputation. The water comes from a reservoir called "The Sea" and it flows for gravity reaching great height (approximately 40 m. In "The Reputation").
More photographs in the album Fountains of the Gardens of the Farm of San Ildefonso
[ESP] El Palacio Real de la Granja de San Idelfonso fue construido por encargo de Felipe V, donde se retiró en 1724. Se utilizó como residencia de verano por todos sus sucesores hasta Alfonso XIII. Los jardines se realizaron en el siglo XVIII por el arquitecto francés René Carlier y se plantearon para tener más importancia que el propio palacio. En estos, destacan las fuentes, los grupos escultóricos y las estatuas realizadas por Thierry, Demandré, Pitué, Fermín y Bousseau. Las fuentes están dotadas de grandiosas esculturas de plomo pintado imitando bronce, y entre ellas destacan las de Neptuno, Apolo y Andrómeda en la amplia perspectiva de las Carreras de Caballos; la Cascada de Anfítride, ante el Palacio; y las de las Ocho Calles, el Canastillo, los Baños de Diana y la Fama. El agua procede de un embalse denominado “El Mar” y fluye por gravedad alcanzando gran altura (unos 40 m. en “La Fama”).
Más fotografías en el álbum Fuentes de los Jardines de la Granja de San Ildefonso
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