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When the people of Bruges revolted against their ruler Maximilian of Austria, he got imprisoned in the city for a few months. When he got out he wanted to take revenge on the inhabitants of Bruges. He wrote a decree saying that “until the end of time, the city should be required at its own expense to keep swans on all its lakes and canals”. The reason for the swans was that his adviser Pieter Lanckhals was imprisoned with him and later executed. Lanckhals is Dutch for the word ‘long neck’, which refers to the swans with their long necks.
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Just off the road 45 minutes out of Taupo, about halfway to Napier. No hiking required for this view.
I can probably count the number of times I've used a 6 stop filter on one hand and that excludes the thumb. This is partly because I'm too lazy to calculate the amount of time required most often resorting to guesswork but also because I never seem to find the right kind of image in the right kind of light. Today was slightly different however, the trees were still, the mist was rising, the water swirling and there was really only one thing preventing me from having a go...I was on a barge! 9 shots straight in the trash but this one crept through.
Thank you for pausing :)
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Union Pacific's star attraction, Engine 4014, also known as "Big Boy" was heading back to his home town, Cheyenne, Wyoming last Sunday morning.
Emmy the Clipper was sitting by the tracks to greet him as he passed through Julesburg, Colorado. Big Boy whistled at her as he went by.
If you look closely, you can see the Engineer and Fireman are leaning out of the cab to get a look.
Careful planning was required to capture this one. Emmy's "mark" was figured out in mid June during a scouting run.
Ken did the math to figure out what our shutter speed was needed to be to stop a 1.2 million pound locomotive. He nailed it!
Emmy the Clipper is 1:1 scale and was built by Packard of Detroit
Big Boy is just 1:1 scale and was built by American Locomotive Company of Schenectady, NY
In 2007 I created a composite image of a lunar eclipse over Mt. Shasta. Despite not having a clue what I was doing (capture or developing) I somehow pulled it all together. The image got some good attention and even ended up in the Smithsonian Museum for a while. Seven years later, the most recent eclipse gave me a rare opportunity to revisit the concept and try again with more advanced equipment and better skills. This is the result (best viewed full screen on black). This image is technically better, cleaner, higher resolution and with much more detail, particularly in the shaded parts of the moon. Many of the eclipse phases required blending of up to six exposures. This final image consists of over 75 layers and took somewhere north of 20 hours of work. However, I think I still like the original more. It had a certain simplicity and realness to it. This one feels a bit busy and over done. Plus, night sky images have become quite common in the last few years, so much of the novelty has worn off. Whether the image stands up or not, I still had a great adventure, challenged my brain and learned a lot.
Sunday morning,
Fishing on the Tennessee,
Slowing time.
As seen from the...
Chattanooga (Fort Wood), Tennessee, USA.
10 October 2021.
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On 13 December 2021, Flickr's editors chose this image for inclusion in Flickr's Explore feature.
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Having been required in the North East the previous day the royal train passes through Primrose Hill as ECS running as 1Z61 back to base .
The feather on the green signal means the consist will be routed via the old road missing out Sheffield and reappearing on the Midland Main Line north of Chesterfield .
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Photography is my hobby like many other people I have good days and bad days and sometimes an amazing day. I try to post various types of subjects and idea's that interest me and I am aware that I
naturally seem to be better at some styles than others. I look around Flickr and see some amazing
photography often wondering how it was done and envious of some of the locations. Any Help! comments/ tips/ tricks, criticism good or bad is much appreciated.
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Someone (not I!) has festively dressed a woodland tree with Christmas ornaments.
DeKalb County (MedlockPark), Georgia, USA.
11 December 2024.
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▶ Seen on the orange-blazed Piedmont Loop trail: one in a "labyrinth of soft-surfaced trails" in and around a 120-acre suburban-Atlanta Piedmont forest.
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Pepsis Wasps (Tarantula Hawks) require a Tarantula as a host or "Meal" for their larvae. The female wasp will search for a Tarantula, then sting it to paralyze it, She then drags it down into a burrow, lays a single egg on the paralyzed spider and seals the opening to the barrow. When the eggs hatches the larvae eats the still alive spider.
Sabino Canyon.
Tucson, AZ.
8-29-18.
Photo by: Ned Harris
I don't recall ever seeing a "Blood Moon" before but did see the one tonight. It was also a reminder that a long lens was required (which I don't have) but at least I have this image to show that I really did see it.
The theme for “Smile on Saturday” for the 4th of June is “tiny-tiny” which requires a small object to be photographed alongside a larger object to help give the item scale. When I read the theme, I thought how perfect it was for me, and a few of my friends who also post to this group. Anyone who follows my photostream knows that I love and collect 1:12 size miniatures which I photograph in realistic scenes. The artifice of recreating in minute detail items in 1:12 scale always amazes me, and it’s amazing how the eye can be fooled. Therefore, when the theme came up, I immediately thought of some of my kitchen accessories. I settled on the idea of baking, as I had only a few days prior to the announcement of the theme received a pastry preparation board and tray of empty tart casings. I originally just had the floured board and the tray of tart casings which I photographed alongside my beloved and well used rolling pin to show the scale. Then I decided to add to it, so I have included a fluted teacup that could be used to cut the ruffled pastry casings, the flour, butter and jug of water needed to make the pastry, and some P. C. Flett & Co. jam and some Macfie’s treacle to fill the tarts with. I even included cutlery and a floral spoon rest in the shape of a teapot. The latter is less than half a centimetre in diameter to give you a clue as to how tiny-tiny these objects are! I hope you like my miniature whimsy for this week, and that it brings a smile to your face.
All these miniatures are 1:12 scale, and some are artisan pieces.
The pastry preparation board, complete with flour, cut and uncut pastry and the rolling pin come from Kathleen Knight’s Dolls’ House Shop in the United Kingdom, as does the accompanying tray of pastry shells. Both are artisan made pieces with amazing attention to detail.
The rather worn and beaten looking enamelled flour cannister in the typical domestic Art Deco design and kitchen colours of the 1920s, cream and green, has been aged on purpose. An artisan piece, it also comes from Kathleen Knight’s Dolls’ House Shop, as do the 1920s enamel handled spoons and knife, the floral spoon rest in the shape of a teapot, and the hand painted tray on which the butter sits.
The jug with its dainty rose pattern and gilt rim is made by M.W. Reutter Porzellanfabrik in Germany, who specialise in making high quality porcelain miniatures. The floral patterned teacup comes from an online miniatures stockist on E-Bay.
The butter is also an artisan piece that has been hand painted and printed. It comes from Mick and Marie’s Miniatures in the United Kingdom.
The tin of Macfie’s Finest Black Treacleand jar of P.C. Flett and Company jam are 1:12 size artisan miniatures made by Little Things Dollhouse Miniatures in Lancashire, with great attention to detail paid to their labels and the shapes of their jars and cans. Robert Andrew Macfie sugar refiner was the first person to use the term Golden Syrup in 1840, a product made by his factory, the Macfie sugar refinery, in Liverpool. He also produced black treacle. P.C. Flett and Company was established in Kirkwall in the Orkney Islands by Peter Copeland Flett. He had inherited a small family owned ironmongers in Albert Street Kirkwall, which he inherited from his maternal family. He had a shed in the back of the shop where he made ginger ale, lemonade, jams and preserves from local produce. By the 1920s they had an office in Liverpool, and travelling representatives selling jams and preserves around Great Britain. I am not sure when the business ceased trading.
CN 5416 gets its required federal inspection. It nice to see the former Missabe Shop in Proctor MN gaining more use by CN other than a gas and go facility earlier regimes wanted it to be.
As seen from Faulhorn (2681m). SOOC. Taken on a two-day hike from Schynige Platte to First - a hike I had wanted for the longest time to do in one day, something that would have required quite some preparation as I don't live around the corner, until some time ago the idea of staying overnight en-route emerged. Second difficulty: getting a place at Berghotel Faulhorn, the world's oldest (since 1832) and highest situated (2681m) alpine hotel. Yes, it's true, it's possible to see this view in the evening and in the morning and to sleep in a bed in between... I almost hate to tell it. Now that I've been here once, after 12 years of longing to get here, I will want to return. The name Faulhorn by the way has nothing to do with laziness (faul = lazy), but the loose layers of clay & slate that the mountain seems to be known for. See my album "Hiking in Bernese Alps Region" for more. More to follow!
Dining on a ship requires some precautions for rough seas:
The table is nailed to the floor.
The tablecloth is nailed to the table.
The placemat is nailed to the tablecloth.
The plate is nailed to the placemat.
The bowl is nailed to the plate.
The soup is nailed to the bowl.
And the noodles are nailed to the soup.
So nothing can go wrong.
Macro photography requires accurate focus. I have read a book by an experienced street photographer. He suggested you should have focus on street photography too.
If you try to do street photography, you would not do flower pictures or at least you should not post your flower pictures on your Flickr.
I am a person with diversified interests and I always deviate from expert advice!
It is raining in the weekend. I had idea to go to tulip fields but the weather is not helping. Instead I did a shot in the rain at my front yard with the buds.
Happy wet weekend!
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Detail from the logo of a well known world wide furniture supplier, where assembly is always required. Explore! Thank you everyone.
Signs, Adelaide, South Australia.
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Adorned with a wild boar's tusk, facial chalk markings, decorated goat-skin clothing and an ornamental clay lip-plate - Mursi semi-nomadic pastoral settlement situated near the banks of the Mago River, a tributary that joins the essential Omo River in a remote corner of southwestern Ethiopia.
On the meaning of lip-plates
The Mursi are one of the last groups in Africa where women still wear large wooden or clay plates in their lower lips. Most Mursi women wear lip-plates as an aesthetic symbol of cultural pride and identity, signifying passage to womanhood/adulthood. The labrets are more frequently worn by unmarried or newly wed women and are generally worn when serving men food or during important ritual events (weddings, men's duelling competitions, communal dances, safari photo-ops).
Debunking popular myths
Contrary to popular opinion among travellers and other passing strangers, ethnographers found little or no connection between the size of a woman’s lip-plate and the size of her bridewealth (cattle, guns).
Anthropologists have debunked another popular myth surrounding the lip-plate in this region. They found no evidence that the labret originated as a deliberate attempt to disfigure and make women less attractive to slave traders, yet this myth seems to surface regularly in accounts by professional and amateur photographers, tourists, and bloggers alike.
The Mursi and Mursiland
The Mursi are semi-nomadic farmers and herders who depend on shifting hoe-cultivation (mostly drought-resistant varieties of sorghum) and cattle herding for their livelihood. They number less than ten thousand today.
Most Mursi live in small settlements dispersed across Mursiland, a remote territory of about thirty by eighty kilometres between the Omo and Mago Rivers in southwestern Ethiopia, near the border with South Sudan and northern Kenya. The terrain varies from a volcanic plain dominated by a range of hills and a major watershed to a riverine forest, wooded grasslands and thorny bushland thickets.
Cogent ethnographic accounts on the meaning of lip-plates in Mursi culture and society include:
• David Turton, "Lip plates and the people who take photographs: uneasy encounters between Mursi and tourists in southern Ethiopia", Anthropology Today, 20:3, 3-8, 2004,.
• Shauna Latosky, "Reflections on the lip-plates of Mursi women as a source of stigma and self-esteem", in Ivo Strecker and Jean Lydall (eds.) The perils of face: Essays on cultural contact, respect and self-esteem in southern Ethiopia, Mainzer Beiträge zur Afrika-Forschung, Lit Verlag, Berlin, 2006, pp. 371-386.
With apologies to you know whom … I simply could not resist showing this little levitation gem enhanced by some cool rim light. Does not look too shabby in large either. What happened is that the resident squirrel received a visit from his south-american cousin, the flying squirrel. Family being what it is, and not to offend the south-american machismo, he pretended to be genuinely impressed by his cousin’s antics. But as soon as his cousin had left, he came over and in a conspiratorial voice whispered to me “Come watch this and bring your camera”. I had nothing better to do at the time, actually, I rarely have anything better to do at any time, and moved the Adirondack chair into position and observed his masterful command of levitation in some pretty cool lighting conditions. Truth be told, we were at this for about an hour and these lighting conditions occurred for only about 5 minutes.
I have a huge problem here. During my research for catchy tunes I came across this Elvis song that has absolutely nothing to do with this image. You may have noticed that does happen from time to time. What to do? I could just ignore this dilemma and post the song but the squirrel sprang to my aid and invoked an old light incantation whose origin is shrouded in mystery to this day. He turned to the sun and whispered "Kiss me Quick" …
The year 2020 is coming to an end, an eventful year. A year of extremes, a year of beautiful moments, a year full of never-before-seen exceptional situations.... For me personally, a continuation of the previous two years, which I, as I'm sure everyone else this year, could hardly have imagined. The year 2021 is just around the corner, accompanied by many wishes and hopes for what lies ahead.... The coming year will also demand a lot from you, require patience. What it may bring, that no one knows yet. What it already requires is confidence.
Have a great new year and the most important thing.... stay healthy.