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“There needs to be a reason to go, so you go deeper into whatever place you’re visiting to find those unforgettable experiences.” Laird Hamilton.
How not to miss a place of such beauty? How to forget the unparalleled charm of Santorini? How to get rid of its unique architecture fused with its dreamlike Mediterranean landscape? Those who visit this Aegean island have the risk of falling in love with it, especially if they take enough time to stand there for several days and walk at dawn or dusk the streets of towns like Oia, when the hordes of tourists coming down from cruise ships do not invade its streets. Traveling to Santorini in late October or early November, when the low season has just begun, makes the visit much more intimate without losing that Mediterranean climate that many come looking for.
Once there, it surprises the large number of places where you can get a great photograph. In the small town of Oia, for example, many of the most famous views of the island and of all Greece are located a few meters away. Although in my trips I usually opt for a single location for each sunrise or sunset, at my last dawn in Oia I could not resist the temptation to run from one place to another to get several images. Having walking around the town for two days had allowed me to know the exact location of each photograph, so I was able to move fast enough to take advantage of the wonderful light and the spectacular sky that the island gave us that last morning. This image was the first one I took that morning, before running away with my wife to capture “Smooth Glamour”, and quickly sprinting to arrive in time to get “Perfect Sunrise” (my favorite photograph of Santorini). Without having eaten anything yet since we woke up, we still had some time to take more pictures and videos in Oia, before we had to leave this unforgettable place to which we will surely return.
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"Debe haber una razón para ir, de esta forma profundizas más en cualquier lugar que visitas para encontrar esas experiencias inolvidables.” Laird Hamilton.
¿Cómo no echar de menos un lugar de tanta belleza?, ¿cómo olvidar el inigualable encanto de Santorini?, ¿cómo quitarse de la cabeza su arquitectura única fundida con su paisaje mediterráneo de ensueño?. Quien visita esta isla del Egeo corre el riesgo de enamorarse de ella, sobre todo, si se toma el tiempo suficiente para pararse allí varios días y se recorren las calles de pueblos como Oia a primera hora del día y al caer la tarde, cuando las hordas de turistas que bajan de los cruceros no invaden sus calles. Viajar a Santorini a finales de octubre o principios de noviembre, cuando la temporada baja acaba de comenzar, hace la visita mucho más íntima sin perder ese clima mediterráneo que muchos vienen buscando.
Una vez allí, sorprende la gran cantidad de lugares en los que se puede conseguir una gran fotografía. En la pequeña localidad de Oia, por ejemplo, se encuentran a pocos metros muchas de las vistas más famosas de la isla y de toda Grecia. Aunque en mis viajes suelo optar por una única localización para cada amanecer o atardecer, en mi último alba en Oia no pude resistir la tentación de correr de un lado a otro para conseguir varias imágenes. Haber recorrido el pueblo durante dos días me había permitido conocer la exacta localización de cada fotografía, por lo que fui capaz de moverme lo suficientemente rápido como para aprovechar la maravillosa luz y el espectacular cielo que nos brindó esa última mañana la isla. Esta imagen fue la primera que realicé aquella mañana, antes de salir corriendo con mi mujer para capturar “Suave Glamour”, y rápidamente esprintar para llegar a tiempo de conseguir “Amanecer Perfecto” (mi fotografía favorita de Santorini). Sin haber comido nada aún desde que nos despertamos, todavía nos quedó algo de tiempo para tomar más fotografías y vídeos en Oia, antes de tener que marcharnos de este lugar inolvidable al que seguro volveremos.
Musings from my diary.
For some reason, I watched the Polish singers Tulia sing Metallica’s nothing else matters on YouTube. It just popped up on my YouTube feed one day. www.youtube.com/watch?v=09NqLjHJtGQ
It didn’t turn out to be folk music, like l thought, but it was very good. But be warned that my YouTube music feed changed, and so did my You Tube news feed after watching it. I am still doing statistical analysis on the You Tube algorithm or feed l now get. And my assessment of You Tube is not that flattering.
I am debating with myself if it is a political song, as they sung it. It didn’t seem to be a political song at first, and the possibility that it is political isn’t why l liked it. It just seemed to be a unique cover, of a song l like. But on reflection it could have been sung for political reasons.
I considered that the four young ladies were doing a stone wall. A very polite, f@$k you, to everyone who had criticised Poland, recently.
Days later l am still considering what l saw, and l do it with ignorance from half a world away.
Today it seemed significant that the young polish ladies wore traditional head scarfs with flowers when they were dressed to impress their native Poles. Was it ironic that Poles were being criticised for it and yet other nations are lorded for their tribal displays? So, l wrote, and thus, I considered what l had been seeing.
It appeared to me that the way they had sung it, that it was possibly a song of rebellion, with the connotation of the flowers being vivid Polish sociological mathematics…
It looked to be in contrasted with the west. In the west they had sent their men to war in Afghanistan, for a war on terror that morphed into a war for woman’s and homosexual rights. No one had been sent to war by Poland recently, yet they were the ones being accused of idealistic nationalism.
Unlike the Polish ladies, westerner’s male and female didn’t offer a flower in the hair, but they expected religious like unquestioning self-sacrifice. They didn’t offer a Polish Catholic young lady’s flower. One that involved marriage and children, they didn’t even offer the childless sixties western variant, they offered nothing. Some expected their men to die, if need be, for a cause that they had not initially been sent to war for.
The song raised a lot of considerations for me, especially with the current populist narrative being propagated in the media about Poland. One reporter even going as far as to extrapolate that Poland was on a new religious crusade… Ironically it seemed to me that the atheist left was expecting Christians to follow the example of Christ and martyr themselves for their causes, but the Christians could not defend their own. It appeared to me, that some young Polish ladies might know how to tribally motivate their men and woman better than some of their western counterparts, who were offering nothing for some who would give the ultimate sacrifice for their efforts. Some in the west seemed to be treating their citizens of democratic nations like expendable mercenaries, slaves, or as those that should suffer intellectual sub servitude. Was it like ancient Rome? Were the polyamorists and atheists watching the metaphoric lions eat defenceless Christians, who were being deprived of any defence? Were those calling for an end to Polish democracy sitting outside the arena with no skin in the game? l considered that they were purveying an event, as if it was being called like a sporting match fit for a Roman arena, with thumbs up and thumbs down, and it seemed inhumane.
Four young Polish ladies had produced a lot of thought for a cover of a western Heavy Metal tune. The only conclusion l could come to, was it was a good cover, and unlike Metallica, Tulia couldn’t be accused of selling out.
The main reason of existence for the yard of Clabecq is steel. NLMK is still active on site and Lineas brings in steel from Gent and La Louvière. Cow and calf Cockerill shunters take the heavy loads into the factory on 26/04/2021.
Only you can change yourself and transform in this way your life and events that happen to you!
Look for more perfect reasons for your actions — and then the Divine Sun will rise in you and illuminate all around you!
Purple and white poppies grown for pharmaceutical reasons in an Oxfordshire field. Shot late on an overcast evening.
Holga 135bc
Lomo Redscale XR 50-200
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I made my first prints today! I just found out HKU has a darkroom and spent quite a bit of time in it. Nobody knew how to make color prints, so I just made b/w. It's really a magical thing watching that image appear from nothing, something everyone has to try. I also just recently passed 1000 followers, exciting stuff! Thanks for liking my photos!
For some reason, this is one of my favorite fall photos I have taken. It was taken somewhere out in the country as I was driving through Northwest Michigan admiring the fall foliage. I saw this swing and pulled off the road to get a few photos. The lighting at the time seemed spectacular as did the way the color popped. The swing always looks inviting to me as a place to sit down, relax and enjoy the beautiful fall surroundings.
This was the highlight and reason for my Kartchner Caverns adventure 2025. Kubla Khan at 58 feet tall in the Throne Room is the tallest and most massive column in Arizona.
www.visitarizona.com/places/parks-monuments/kartchner-cav...
This massive limestone cavern was discovered in 1974 but kept a secret until all protections were in place for Arizona State Parks to open the living cave to the public in 1999. The ADA-accessible park and trail system inside the caverns ensure all who want to see this spectacular place can. Start at the Discovery Center, where a video presentation chronicles the discovery of the cave and the passion project that took 25 years to complete.
Guided tours of Kartchner Caverns reveal an incredible underground world. Visitors pass through airlocks and misting systems to protect the delicate ecosystem from the arid environment up top. The Rotunda/Throne Tour follows the original trail a half mile through the caverns and features Kubla Khan, the tallest column formation known in Arizona at 58 feet. The tour also passes the miraculous “soda straw” stalactite, which is more than 21 feet long and growing. Other ways to experience the caverns include The Big Room Tour, Helmet & Headlamp Tour and Photo Tour — the only time visitors are allowed to bring anything other than themselves into the caverns.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kartchner_Caverns_State_Park
Kartchner Caverns State Park is a state park of Arizona, United States, featuring a show cave with 2.4 miles (3.9 km) of passages.[1] The park is located 9 miles (14 km) south of the town of Benson and west of the north-flowing San Pedro River. Long hidden from view, the caverns were discovered in 1974 by local cavers, assisted by state biologist Erick Campbell who helped in its preservation.
The park encompasses most of a down-dropped block of Palaeozoic rocks on the east flank of the Whetstone Mountains.
The caverns are carved out of limestone and filled with spectacular speleothems which have been growing for 50,000 years or longer, and are still growing. Careful and technical cave state park development and maintenance, initially established by founder Dr. Bruce Randall "Randy" Tufts, geologist, were designed to protect and preserve the cave system throughout the park's development, and for perpetuity.[3]
The two major features of the caverns accessible to the public are the Throne Room and the Big Room. The Throne Room contains one of the world's longest (21 ft 2 in (6.45 m))[5] soda straw stalactites and a 58-foot (18 m) high column called Kubla Khan, after the poem. The Big Room contains the world's most extensive formation of brushite moonmilk. Big Room cave tours are closed during the summer for several months (April 15 to October 15) each year because it is a nursery roost for cave bats, however the Throne Room tours remain open year-round.[8]
Other features publicly accessible within the caverns include Mud Flats, Rotunda Room, Strawberry Room, and Cul-de-sac Passage. Approximately 60% of the cave system is not open to the public.[9]
Many different cave formations can be found within the caves and the surrounding park. These include cave bacon, helictites, soda straws, stalactites, stalagmites and others.[12] Cave formations like the stalactites and stalagmites grow approximately a 16th of an inch every 100 years.[13]
Haiku thoughts:
Beneath earth's cool veil,
Stalactites in silence grow,
Whispers of stone deep.
Southern Arizona Adventure 2025
Kartchner 2025
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The reason for my thoroughly rewarding visit to Halifax in Yorkshire was to see its architectural masterpiece – the renowned Piece Hall. I’d heard about it over the years, but never seen it. And even on a chilly, dull, flat, rainy day, I wasn’t disappointed.
The Piece Hall is unique. It isn’t a hall at all, but a huge open square surrounded by 315 trading rooms over three storeys that are still in use today as cafés, boutiques, wine bars and souvenir shops.
It dates from 1779, when it was built for trading ‘pieces’ of cloth (a ‘piece’ being a 30-yard length of woven woollen fabric produced on a handloom). It’s the only building of its kind still standing anywhere in the world, and is one of the United Kingdom’s most outstanding Georgian buildings.
BUSCANDO UNA SENSACIÓN QUE ROMPA LAS LINEAS DE LA RAZON.
LOOKING FOR A FEELING THAT BREAK THE LINES OF REASON
Subconscious exploration is a project that explores the multifaceted nature of reality and the fine border between reason and phantasm.
Sliding into Sunday morning from the Montmartre carousel and looking up at Sacré Coeur. HSS!
I haven't been around much and for some reason, I haven't picked up my camera either, but I'm revisiting places we have been... : )
Wishing you a great start to the week !
I recently took a trip to land between the lakes national recreation area in Kentucky. A nature station there houses animals that for various reasons cannot be released to the wild. Two beautiful coyotes occupied one enclosure. One seemed very tame and came close to the fence. This one was very shy and reticent, although he looks a little more stern in this shot. It's so wonderful to see wildlife this close, but I was glad there was a fence between us.
90-pound jointed rail, 10 mph maximum train speed, minimal ballast, a simple cross buck, and a wood culvert mark Union Pacific's Cache Valley Subdivision in Smithfield, Utah • June 21, 2023
All images are copyright Gert van Duinen / Cresk Design 2008
Bigger on #141414 - View this stream fast through Darckr
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Exposure settings: f/32, 0.4 sec (2/5), ISO 100, 165 mm
Description: I don't carry my 200mm around very often. In fact I almost forgot about the dusty thing. Fortunately it was in my new bag this evening when I saw this pretty unusual sky with this little church - which I shot from up close a couple of minutes before - making the scene complete. It was a pretty unusual evening as well, with the moon almost as bright as the sun at given moments revealing extraordinary light all over the place. Or would this this be the infamous Dutch Light phenomena where people - mostly Dutch - talk about, huhuh :-?
Anyway, it was a nice exercise for me again and I must admit it was fun too! For some reason my 200mm has always scared the kicks out of me, because I never really had any success using it in the past. Obviously, the only optics I've ever used were in the range from 12mm to 55mm for my landscape scenes. No doubt I'll now carry around the 200mm permantly as well!
Location: Onstwedde, Groningen, the Netherlands.
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Nog even dit.. Jullie zien dat ik best veel foto's maak van bomen. Dit heeft een reden.
Wij als bewoners van deze aarde zullen echt wat zuiniger moeten worden op deze zuurstof wezens.
Hak deze niet om maar geniet ook van hun uitstraling.
Groeten van Rob.
Dit moest even kwijt.
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Just one more thing... You can see that I take quite a lot of pictures of trees. There is a reason for this.
We as inhabitants of this earth will really have to be more careful with these oxygen beings.
Don't cut them down, but enjoy their appearance as well.
Greetings from Rob.
This had to be lost.
If there was ever a reason to visit the annual Severn Valley Autumn Diesel Festival this year, it was to see 58023's return to traffic after several false starts. As most of the class had been withdrawn by the close of 2002, when I was still a nipper, this was to be my first time seeing a 'bone' in action.
Looking immaculate in freshly-painted Mainline Blue livery, 58023 "Leicester Depot" finds a lucky break in the building cloud, with 20142 "Sir John Betjeman" tucked inside on the 12.00 Kidderminster-Bridgnorth service, seen emerging from Bewdley Tunnel at Foley Park.
Taken with the assistance of a pole.
This was the reason I visited the Olympic Peninsula because I wanted to see these endemic Olympic Marmots. I had never seen them before and they did not disappoint. It was fun watching them and listening to them whistle. The hike up to see them was beautiful at 5.2Km long an elevation gain of 650Ft to the top of Hurricane Hill via Hurricane Ridge which sits at 5700Ft. At the top we had views of the Olympic Peninsula, The Strait of Juan de Fuca, Olympic Mountains and Victoria and Canada. The views of the Olympic Marmots and other wildlife and scenery was something special to see. I saw 6 Marmots on the hike and all of them were above 4000Ft. I saw adults and young and the young looked very different from the older ones as they had white faces and bellies. The one photographed here is an adult. I like their unique coat colour which has a lot of copper in it. It was fun to watch them sunning themselves on the rocks. I love his expression especially in this shot.
Olympic Marmots are endemic to the Olympic Peninsula and are not found anywhere else in the world. They are declining due to climate change and predation and have been intensely monitored since 2010. Olympic Marmots are the largest of all Marmots and show the greatest sexual dimorphism with the males being much larger than the females.
The Olympic marmot is the second-rarest North American marmot, behind the critically endangered Vancouver Island Marmot which I recently photographed.
This is the official endemic mammal of Washington State.
The reason Hilll 60 is concave rather than the more usual convex shape is because it was blown to smithereens by 53,500 lbs of amatol at 3.10 A.M. on 17th June 1917.
Hill 60 wasn't much of a hill to start with. It was named after its height above sea level and much of that was spoil from the adjacent railway cutting, but sixty feet on the plains of West Flanders made it strategically important.
Another 18 deep landmines were detonated that morning by the British under German positions along the Western Front south of Ypres within 20 seconds.
From Wikipedia - "The combined explosion is considered to have killed more people than any other non-nuclear man-made explosion in history; it killed approximately 10,000 German soldiers between Ypres and Ploegsteert."
However bad you think World War One was, it was actually a lot worse.
The mine at Hill 60 was detonated by the 1st Australian Tunnelling Company. Their story is told in Beneath Hill 60
Found across much of North America, the Painted Turtle (Chrysemys picta) is a common sight in many a pond and river, often sunning itself cheerily atop outcrops and shores. And they have every reason to be cheery; they're handsome, abundant, and liked the country over. They're so abundant that separate subspecies have developed with clear morphological differences. Today, we recognize the Midland Painted Turtle (photographed here) and the Eastern, Southern, and Western Painted Turtles.
Want to know how to tell apart gentlemen and lady painted turtles? Look for the ones that have claws like Freddy Krueger--they're the men. They use their long claws during courtship displays, waving them at their potential mates underwater to show their masculinity and virility!
An EV or Plugin Hybrid would have been better but they are all sold out or Ordered! Electronic Chips Shortages and/or Supply Chain problems are the reasons for limiting productions!
Excerpt from www.flamboroughtoday.com/spotlight/waterdown-village-welc...:
A highlight of fall in Waterdown Village is the annual Scarecrow Walk, starting in this eighth year on October 11 and running right until Hallowe’en.
“Once again, our local businesses and community partners will display uniquely decorated scarecrows, animating our streetscape and giving people of all ages more than 130 reasons to Walk Waterdown,” exclaimed Waterdown Village BIA Board of Management Chair, Amanda Groves.
She added, “The Scarecrow Walk has fast become a signature event for the community. Clues featuring mugshots of favourite monsters will be placed on 20 randomly selected scarecrows for scavengers to find for a chance to win shopping spree prizes. You can discover new businesses, take selfies with your favourite scarecrow entries, and test your detective skills to find all 130+ scarecrows and all 20 clues, for a wonderful day out for the whole family.”
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Union 76 Gas Station located at 4700 First St. in Livermore,CA. The 76 ball is located at the edge of a 76 gas station hidden from the view of the highway and general public passing by due to the overgrown brush in the area. I believe that the low visibility is the reason the ball has not been removed. Back in 1998 there was a major storm in the area and this 76 ball was blown to the ground and cracked open. Somehow the owner was able to acquire a new one weeks after the storm and its the one still in place today.
Reasons Why Your Pumpkin Isn’t Producing Fruit
There’s nothing more frustrating than watching your beautiful pumpkin plant produce gorgeous flowers but no plump orange gourds. Over and over, they flower with nothing to show for their work.
You want them to be ready in time for Halloween, or maybe for a fun dinner party where all your guests pick their own homegrown pumpkins to take home with them.
So what’s going on? How can you encourage your plants to produce fruit?
(Source - July 6, 2020 by Laura Ojeda Melchor )
gardenerspath.com/plants/vegetables/pumpkin-no-fruit/
Nikon D5200
Nikon 70.0-300.0 mm f/4.5-5.6
ƒ/5.6
300.0 mm
1/1000
200
Taken on December 13, 2014
We often (but not always) have a theme to our hikes and scrambles, the real reason we set out on a particular adventure, e.g. amazing wildflower meadows in the spring, alpine larches turning colour in the fall, etc. For us, Waterton has many things that no other hiking place in Alberta has: Bear Grass, which is at the northern-most part of its range here. It's quite abundant, and sometimes, all the plants bloom at once, called a super-bloom. We didn't experience the super-bloom this time, but saw many individual blossoms like this.
The 5Q79 09.49 Barton Under Needwood to Landore ECS service, with the 4S57 10.58 Hams Hall to Mossend liner also heading west.
37800 was on the front with unit 175109 the reason for the working.
Another one from a while back...
My archive seems to have saved me through the cold and rainy season although the arrival of our Spring seems more like Winter now with cold fronts around us and more cold fronts approaching through the rest of the week and the weekend.
I'm still quite hectic but I've started to catch up (very, very slowly) with all my contacts' uploads.
I hope you're all having a great week. It's almost weekend!
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