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La Isla de los Cisnes (en francés: Île aux Cygnes ), es una pequeña isla localizada en el río Sena en París, Francia, ubicado entre el distrito 15 y 16. Es una isla artificial creada en 1827 para proteger el puerto de Grenelle. Deriva su nombre de un anterior Île des Cygnes que se adjuntó al Campo de Marte en el siglo XVIII.
La estrecha isla es de 850 metros de largo y 11 metros en su punto más ancho. Un paseo arbolado, llamado L'Allée des Cygnes, corre a lo largo de la isla.
Es servida por la estación de metro de Bir-Hakeim. Está atravesado por tres puentes: el puente de Grenelle, el puente Rouelle y el puente de Bir-Hakeim.
La réplica de la Estatua de la Libertad fue inaugurada por el presidente francés Carnot, el 4 de julio de 1889 (casi tres años después de su contraparte en Estados Unidos) y fue donada por la comunidad parisina que reside en Estados Unidos al municipio de París, conmemorando el centenario de la Revolución Francesa. La estatua inicialmente daba hacia el este, hacia la Torre Eiffel, pero fue orientada hacia el oeste en 1937, para la Exposición Universal de París organizado en ese año. Su base lleva una placa conmemorativa, y la tabla en su mano izquierda lleva la inscripción: IV Juillet 1776 y XIV Juillet 1789, reconociendo la independencia americana y el Día de la Toma de la Bastilla, respectivamente. Una estatua aún más pequeña se encuentra en el Jardín de Luxemburgo, y un tercer ejemplar puede verse en el Musée des Arts et Métiers.
“Per tutte le violenze consumate su di lei,
per tutte le umiliazioni che ha subito,
per il suo corpo che avete sfruttato,
per la sua intelligenza che avete calpestato,
per l’ignoranza in cui l’avete lasciata,
per la libertà che le avete negato,
per la bocca che le avete tappato,
per le sue ali che avete tarpato,
per tutto questo:
in piedi, signori, davanti ad una Donna!”
(William Shakespeare)
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Photograph taken at an altitude of Fifty seven metres at 11:23am on an overcast morning on Friday 3rd March 2023, off Chessington Avenue in Bexleyheath, Kent.
Here we see an adult Female Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus), a bird of prey belonging to the kestrel group of the falcon family Falconidae. It is also known as the European kestrel, Eurasian kestrel, Common Kestrel or Old World kestrel. In the United Kingdom, where no other kestrel species commonly occurs, it is generally just called "kestrel".
Female kestrels are an unremarkable shade of mid-brown, with their upper parts a richer shade than their breast and underparts. Their wingtips are darker brown than the rest of their bodies, and their tails are light brown, barred with darker, almost black banding. Female kestrels’ bodies are speckled all over with mottled darker markings.
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Nikon D850 Focal length 600mm Shutter speed: 1/125s Aperture f/7.1 ISO Sensitivity: Auto ISO iso90 Hand held with Tamron Vibration Control set to position 1 Image area FX (36 x 24) NEF RAW L (8256 x 5504) (14 bit uncompressed) Focus Mode: AF-C Nikon Back button focusing enabled AF-S Priority selection: Focus AF-Area Mode: 3D Tracking watch area: Normal 55 Tracking points Exposure mode: Manual exposure Metering mode: Matrix metering White balance on: Natural Light Auto, 0, 0 (4570k) Colour space: RGB Active D-Lighting: Normal Picture control: (SD) Standard (Sharpening +3 Clarity +1.00)
Tamron SP 150-600mm F/5-6.3 Di VC USD G2. Nikon GP-1 GPS module. Hoodman HEYENRG round eyepiece oversized eyecup. Mcoplus professional MB-D850 multi function battery grip 6960.Two Nikon EN-EL15a batteries (Priority to battery in Battery grip). Black Rapid Curve Breathe strap. My Memory 128GB Class 10 SDXC 80MB/s card. Lowepro Flipside 400 AW camera bag.
LATITUDE: N 51d 28m 28.21s
LONGITUDE: E 0d 8m 10.54s
ALTITUDE: 57.0m
RAW (TIFF) FILE: 130.00MB NEF: 89.4MB
PROCESSED (JPeg) FILE: 22.50MB
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Photograph taken at an altitude of Forty nine metres at 09:36am on Saturday 20th February 2021 off Blackheath Avenue and Charlton Way in the grounds of Greenwich Park, one of the Royal Parks of London situated in Greenwich, South East London.
Here we see, Sciurus Carolinensis (Eastern Gray Squirrel or Grey Squirrel), a tree squirrel native to North America and first introduced to the UK in the 1870's. Though it was largely responsible for the decimation of our own native red squirrel population, those are now on the increase and found in certain parts of the UK including Scotland. The Greys are still an ecologically essential natural forester regenerator.
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Nikon D850 Hand held with Sigma OS Optical Stabilization enabled on normal setting. Focal length 380mm Shutter speed: 1/500s Aperture f/6.0 ISO800 Image area FX (36 x 24) NEF RAW L (8256 x 5504). NEF RAW L (14 bit uncompressed) Focus mode AF-C focus. AF-C Priority Selection: Release. Nikon Back button focusing enabled. Auto ISO 3D Tracking watch area: Normal 55 Tracking points.AF-Area mode single point & 73 point switchable. Exposure mode: Shutter priority mode. Matrix metering. White balance on: Auto1 (4370K). Colour space: RGB. Vignette control: Normal. Picture control: Auto (Sharpening A +1/Clarity A+1)
Sigma 60-600mm f/4.5-6.3DG OS HSM SPORTS. Lee SW150 MKI filter holder with MK2 light shield and custom made velcro fitting for the Sigma lens. Lee SW150 circular polariser glass filter.Lee SW150 Filters field pouch.Nikon GP-1 GPS module. Hoodman HEYENRG round eyepiece oversized eyecup.Mcoplus professional MB-D850 multi function battery grip 6960.Two Nikon EN-EL15a batteries (Priority to battery in Battery grip). Black Rapid Curve Breathe strap. My Memory 128GB Class 10 SDXC 80MB/s card. Lowepro Flipside 400 AW camera bag.
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LATITUDE: N 51d 28m 29.35s
LONGITUDE: E 0d 0m 17.88s
ALTITUDE: 45.0m
RAW (TIFF) FILE: 130.00MB NEF: 94.7MB
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May an old log beaten by wind and rain,
Grey from the long winter,
burnt at the base in late summer.
May an old log, washed ashore by tumbling waves.
Refuged by the ants and moths, Oh… so surrendered...
May an old log so forgotten today…
command respect for what it once was?!!!
Tunabreen is a glacier at Svalbard. It is about 23 kilometers long merges with Von Postbreen, and the combined glacier flows into Tempelfjorden. The area is part of the Sassen–Bünsow Land National Park
The foreground ice boulder was one of many on top of the fjord ice. The locals bring back ice for the cocktails here :-) The ice wall of the glacier is almost 30 meters / 100 feet tall.
Around 5000 years ago the average temperature in Svalbard was around 4 degrees warmer than today. Since then the landscape has cooled down creating better conditions for the growth of glaciers and permafrost. Therefore, many of Svalbard’s glaciers are around 3000-4000 years old.
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Respecting one another takes us in the right direction. We all have our traditions and ways of life, which, if we choose to we can use to our benefit by learning from one another and appreciating and embracing our differences.
Le strict respect des préconisations sanitaires et notamment de la distanciation physique, condition indispensable pour continuer à contenir la propagation du virus du Covid-19, conduit la Ville de Rennes à annuler les manifestations générant des flux trop importants de population. Sont annulés : les marchés de Noël, le marché des créateurs, la fête foraine, le spectacle de projections sur la façade de l'Hôtel de Ville, le spectacle pyrotechnique ainsi que soirée la dansante de la Saint-Sylvestre.
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WAVE PLAY in FLAMBOROUGH…
Taken at Flamborough, this is up North, Yorkshire, the North-Sea, but no matter, a wave is a wave is a wave, where ever...
Always different and never-ending, they keep on rolling in.
I love them and can sit staring at them for hours.
Love the smell, the sound, the spectacle.
The wind was playing with the water, the sun was playing with the colours, the gulls were playing with wind and water in the sunlight.
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Many people that have mentioned that they’ve never heard of World Photography Day. Why is that? World Photography Day wasn’t ‘created’ by a big brand as a marketing tool. Rather, it’s a day where photographers had started to come together to celebrate photography, just because they could. Any excuse to throw a party right? Slowly, groups around the world have started to get on board with the idea of World Photography Day and you will find traces of World Photography Day being celebrated over the last 20 years or so. Each year, World Photography Day has gained momentum and this year, we’re hoping to bring photographers together once again with an even larger audience.
Why August 19th?
World Photography Day originates from the invention of the Daguerreotype, a photographic processes developed by Louis Daguerre. On January 9, 1839, The French Academy of Sciences announced the daguerreotype process. A few months later, on August 19, 1839, the French government announced the invention as a gift “Free to the World.”
Another photographic processes, the Calotype, was also invented in 1839 by William Fox Talbot (it was announced in 1841). Together, the invention of both the Daguerreotype and Calotype mark 1839 as the year that photography was invented.
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The shape of a giant head is highlighted dramatically on the top of these rocks at Porthmeor Beach. The two people silhouetted seem to be standing in awe , almost as if they were in worship.
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Curiosidades : Respecto a cuánto viven las cigüeñas negras, decir que su esperanza de vida media ronda los 20 años. No obstante, se han detectado casos en que pueden alcanzar una edad más elevada, de hasta 27 años.
Lamentablemente, la mortalidad en los primeros meses de vida es bastante alta, cercana al 60% en el primer año. Esto es debido a la las circunstancias que viven en las zonas de invernada. Mientras más edad van alcanzando, se reduce su mortandad, comenzando a incrementar notoriamente a partir de los 10 años aproximadamente.
With deep respect for the Veterans who have stood between us and a deep abyss.
Currently 100% of our forces are volunteers. They are paid peanuts and their families struggle to make ends meet.
I was surprised to hear on the History Channel this morning that only 20% of the Viet Nam Vets were draftees. I would have thought the inverse from popular lore.
Above are photos of my dad, my two brothers and me. I am the cute baby on the bottom left. My dad with the Lyndon Johnson big ear is on the top left. My older brother is on the top right and I'm pretty sure he is gay - if he is not gay he is missing a good chance. (Just look at the necklace he is wearing.) My younger brother is giving the finger to the world on the bottom right - a trait that he continues to this day.
I thought about the significance of this day when I saw a goofy wall hanging my mom put together many years ago and gave me showing these 4 photos. My Mom and Dad are long gone, but I thought of my Mom carefully cutting photos into circles to place in the frame as a special gift for me. – I removed them to scan for this.
So, my thought is that all of the Vets were once babes in their mom’s arms. They are not statistics to be used by politicians of any stripe. Both sides suck in my opinion.
My dad and both of his brothers served in the Navy during WWII in the Pacific. One of his brothers died in service. My mother’s only brother served in the Navy in WWII in the Atlantic. My brothers and I also served in the Navy.
My Father-in-Law served in North Africa and Italy.
Two of my wife’s 3 brothers served in the Air Force.
My older brother’s son served in the Army in Iraq during the first (1991?) conflict in a WMD unit.
My younger brother’s son is currently serving in Iraq in the Army as an interpreter. (Prayers for his safety are welcome and requested).
All of us volunteered.
I did diddlysquat in terms of personal sacrifice during my time in service.
Today thousands serve in harms way and deserve our prayers or good wishes.
I salute the brave men and women who serve and have served to keep us free.
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No, it's not gratuitous use of the Flood filter, there was plenty of lake in front of this temple; I simply rotated the scene 180 in Photoshop (plus a few other tweaks, of course).
Taken today: Wat Chalerm Prakiat. Nonthaburi.
Apologies, my ISP problems have resurfaced, hence no post and no visits to your images yesterday / today (I'm briefly in the office to post this).
Reino:Animalia
Filo:Chordata
Clase:Aves
Orden:Charadriiformes
Familia:Laridae
Género:Lares
Especie:L. argentatus
Lugar Captura:Vaticano Roma.Italia.
Nombre Comun:Gaviota Argéntea.
RESPECTO A LAS GAVIOTAS DEL VATICANO Y A PROPOSITO DEL HECHO DE LAS FOTOS DONDE UNA PALOMA DE LA PAZ FUE ATACADA POR UNA GAVIOTA Y UN CUERVO DEL VATICANO ,TRAIGO UN RELATO DE LA GAVIOTA DEL VATICANOS Y SU RELACION CON EL PAPA FRANCISCO.
Cuando la elección en el segundo día del cónclave de cardenales que elegiría a Jorge Bergoglio(Papa Francisco) un episodio inesperado captó la atención de millones de personas que esperaban el humo blanco.
En la previa de la segunda fumata, una gaviota se posó sobre la chimenea de la Capilla Sixtina;
La primera teoría de los fieles apuntó a que se trataba de una paloma que indicaba la supuesta presencia del Espíritu Santo (el catolicismo suele representarlo con esa ave), inspirando la elección papal; de ahí en más se sumó otra decena de especulaciones que llegó al extremo con la hipótesis de que el pájaro escondía un mensaje apocalíptico.
Sin embargo, la Agencia Informativa Catolica Argentina (AICA), órgano de difusión del arzobispado local, sumó un dato que alimentó el misticismo del mensaje porque, casualidad o no, podría haber indicado la inminente elección de un Papa argentino.
"Quienes no saben distinguir las distintas especies de aves, suponían que era una paloma (...). En realidad, la aposentada en la chimenea de la fumata era una gaviota de la especie Larus argentatus", aseguró AICA.
"Larus es el nombre genérico de las gaviotas, y argentatus hace referencia a su color blanco, color que en heráldica se llama plata (argentum), lo mismo que el nombre del país de donde proviene el nuevo papa: Argentina, cuyo nombre se deriva del Río de la Plata, el río más ancho del mundo, sobre el que se recuesta la ciudad de Buenos Aires, llamada por ello “La Reina del Plata”, que hasta este momento era gobernada eclesiásticamente por el nuevo pontífice", concluyó.
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Pierce County Sheriff's Department, Tacoma, Washington photos. This unit was surrounded by Pierce County Sheriff vehicles. I am not 100% sure this is a PCSO unit. Check out the new homepage for the AJM STUDIOS Northwest Police Department! The old homepage is here. It does not get updated as often as the first link. 2010.
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This was one of those scenes that jarred me back to reality as I wandered about in a local cemetery. It's often the simplest of things that have effect me this way. Here it was solemn figure of a soldier standing vigil over the grave of a fallen Marine. Arm frozen in eternal salute. The dress uniform splattered with the ubiquitous spray of grass and weeds kicked up by an errant weed whip. I felt a presence here. Not in terms of a ghost or spirit. But a weird sort of heaviness, contemplating a life cut short by someone devoted to service. Someone probably much younger than me. Tight knit bunch these Marines. Attended a Marine wedding a few years back, my cousin married a young Marine corporal. At the reception I noticed a small table near the entrance, set up for just one person. I was told this was the 'missing man' table. It was a tribute to fallen comrades and a custom at receptions and official events. The night was filled with joy and laughter but I found myself pre-occupied with the empty little table and what it signified. And how the young Marines in this room had ensured that the table be present. Lots of respect there. It's one of those moments that has never left me. I thought back on the little table as I contemplated this little statue. And now the two images are forever intertwined.
Give me the freedom
of my own mind
and the respect
the dignity
of my own emotions
my own heart
and experience
with the absence
of an inequality
not placing your importance
above mine.
Kumari
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July 29, 2012 - Kearney Nebraska US
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2012 was a dry summer and the storm season was few & far between. Last recorded rainfall for us was back in early June. Working constantly I had that Sunday evening off and was able to get out to get a few snaps of this oncoming storm.
Finally received some much needed moisture. Strong thunderstorms had formed out in western Nebraska & were dying as they were entering southwest Buffalo county here in South Central Nebraska.
No warnings on this storm but she was producing some exceptional views of the core. Incredible cloud to cloud and cloud to ground lightning strikes pummeled the earth . This storm cell was proceeding to the northeast from the southwest. It crested right on the northern outskirts of the city. Couldn't have asked for better light & storm. Many photographic gems in this set!
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June 22, 2010 - Kearney Nebraska, US
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Mid June.... conditions this time of year are prime for night storms. Just some phenomenal lighting display that evening.
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I've been wanting to pay respect to the horrible tradgedy in Haiti, but I just couldn't find an idea that was simple yet had the image that I wanted. When I remembered that I had these prayer flags tucked away, I knew what image I wanted.
This morning when I woke up I started thinking about how lucky I was to have a warm bed with food waiting for me in my kitchen, and even a coffee maker that turned itself on so that I could enjoy it right away. I am blessed to live in the country I live in, have the things that I have, but much like those in Haiti, it could be taken from me in the blink of an eye.
All I can do is pray for those in Haiti and their loved ones around the world, that they will have the strength to rebuild their nation.