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This photo, the fifth in the series, was taken at the end of the trail, when reaching the Fajã da Caldeira do Santo Cristo (São Jorge Island, Azores, Portugal), the most beautiful on the island with its amazing waters and charming lagoon.
This fajá is one of the most secluded places on the island of São Jorge and thanks to the swell that exists here and the extraordinary landscape involvement, it is considered a sanctuary for bodyboarding and surfing, being sought after by the best practitioners from all over the world.
The beautiful Santo Cristo Church (seen distant, in the center of the image) whose patron is Senhor Santo Cristo, was inaugurated in 1835 and is shrouded in a curious legend. It is said that a shepherd, after descending the cliffs to the lagoon with his flock, was so exhausted due to his advanced age that he had to rest by the water, noticing then a beautiful carved wooden image floating. Having collected it, he found it to be a beautiful image of Christ and took it to his home. The next morning, the image had disappeared, to be found again a few days later in exactly the same place, at the lagoon. Having taken it again to his home, it disappeared during the night and reappeared in the same place again. This was repeated several times, so the population decided that it was a message that Christ wanted to stay by the lagoon, which led them later to build a beautiful church there.
The 1980 earthquake caused landslides in both accesses to the fajã, destroyed the telephone network and isolated the Caldeira de Santo Cristo from the rest of the world. The inhabitants had to be removed by helicopter and settled elsewhere on the island. In recent years some of the existing fifty old houses have been restored and little by little the activity resumes in the area.
By now you are certainly asking yourselves: What is a fajã? With the help of Wikipedia I can tell you that fajãs are created from collapsing cliffs and/or lava flows and are identifiable along the coast as thin and flat stretches of land on the toe of steep cliffs. Composed of fertile soils, these microclimates allow the cultivation of a variety of staple and exotic plants.
P.S: If you happen to visit, you’ll have to taste the clams that are collected from the lagoon. They are famous for being different (much better and unique) from any others you may have eaten elsewhere!
Previous photos in the series can be seen here:
I - www.flickr.com/photos/rbaptista/51312830913/in/dateposted/
II - www.flickr.com/photos/rbaptista/51316831228/in/photostream/
III - www.flickr.com/photos/rbaptista/51326443819/in/photostream/
IV - www.flickr.com/photos/rbaptista/51329832193/in/photostream/
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Fajã da Caldeira do Santo Cristo, São Jorge Island, Azores, Portugal
© All rights reserved Rui Baptista. Please do not use this image on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit written permission.
As with everyone, Covid has made people put there lives on hold. This is one of my son’s who has been locked down in London for months. To see him run down the beach and run into the sea was quite emotional. I have the feeling that the new normal has arrived. Childhood can be resumed under a new set of rules.
Take care out there.
All the best......
Even dead you remain the enemy and loser...................
The German militairy cemetry in Vladso (Belgium)
While the cemetries of the Allied troops have stark white colors, those of the German troops are gray- black and look dead and gloomy.
While the militairy cemetries are an example of discipline and structure, the German variants lack alignment and logic.
It was long be argued that this would be regulated in the Articles 225 and 226, from the Treaty of Versailles, but whoever reads these articles will find that this view is incorrect.
The real reason is that the French after the end of the insane war were ordered tot give the German dead their final resting place and collected the bodies in the sector of Ypres and burried them on free pieces of land, altough it was not obvious that they each received an individual tombstone.
So what we see here is in fact a mass grave, covered with granite slabs bearing their names.
Black evokes bad feelings and the Germans were in the eyes of the Allied the agressor, despite the fact that during investigations after the insane war it appeared that all warring parties had engaged in aggression and had committed atrocities. France, England and Italy had already secretly divided the territories of Germany and its colonies, the Habsburg Empire and the Ottoman Empire, in the heat of the battle!
It was of paramount legal importance that, according to the President of the United States Wilson's conviction, Germany should be held responsible but not blamed for the insane war breaking out. However they were incomprehensible responsible for the reparations!
The fact that the Germans and English soldiers at the front still had peaceful feelings towards eachother is evident from the inconceivable Christmas truce in 1914 that took place in the sector of Ypres.
This incomprehensible event of peace and fraternity during the heat of the battle took also place on field sites in many other sections at the front.
The German front soldiers started on Christmas eve 1914 by singing "Silent Night" and shouting "Merry Christmas".
When the British soldiers realized that this was well-meant, they came out of their trenches and even went to exchange their Christmas presents from home.
On Christmas Day, they played football together in the no-man's-land, the piece of land between the trenches of the warring armies; ordinairy soldiers who were tired of the war could momentarily throw of the yoke of the insane war.
When the army commanders, or rather the butchers, got wind of this, these fraternizing actions were officially stricktly forbidden from above and held out very severe punishments if the fightings were not resumed immedialy. The ensuing battles would claim millions of lives on the whole front.
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I spent some time on our beach (at the end of my street) yesterday evening, and decided that I really must do it more often. It's not what you'd call a busy place.... very peaceful, in fact.
Anyway, it seemed to be a good time to give my wonderful contacts a break from all of those macro flower shots I keep uploading (not that I've actually stopped taking them... lol... cos I just can't resist them!!).
Having been given permission back out onto the main, the engineer on the "Rosario Local" throttles up his two SD40s while the brakeman waits to re-line the derail once the short train is clear. They've just finished switching Nustar Asphalt, which can be seen in the far right of this shot. This track is part of the pre-1966 AT&SF alignment, which generally followed the Rio Galisteo from near its confluence with the Rio Grande towards Lamy.
This was the culmination of a one year long desire and about a four hour wait. I had seen this shot in my head ever since beginning my time qualifying out of Albuquerque, but it was either "they don't run up here anymore" or (once regular, predictable service resumed) I was always working when this job was working. Everything fell together today though, and it was worth waiting for!
Every year we have been
witness to it: how the
world descends
into a rich mash, in order that
it may resume....
Of all my wildlife blessings over the years, this encounter has to be in the top three. While walking the beaches of Ft. Pickens Florida back in early April of 2021, I had a pod of 12+ Bottlenose dolphins frolicking some 50 yards off the beach.
Through my travels and my many years in the Navy, I have seen and photographed dolphins too many times to count. This morning, and these two dolphins in particular, were acting very differently than any other I have seen.
They were hovering just below the surface, making wakes that indicated that at least one of them was moving about while submerged. Then they would both rise, take a breath and resume the same action. Being a kid from Indiana, I had no idea what was going on. I thought she might be giving birth, but having only been around dogs, cows, horses, buffalo, alpacas and my bride (twice) while giving birth…I had no idea what dolphin labor, especially with 99% of it taking place under water and out of view, looked like.
This photograph captures the last time they broke the surface together. This is the breath taken to make that last push that grants birth.
The next photograph taken and already shared, was of the baby breaking the surface and taking its first breath.
Looking back now, the odd wake while submerged was her staying somewhat stationary while he swam circles around her…no doubt keeping one eye on his bride, and the other looking out for possible predators while she was at her most vulnerable.
Witnessing special times can be such a gift from God!
Logan Circle, Philadelphia
They started the morning at Logan before resuming nest construction at the Rodin.
The M6 is a short metropolitan route in Cape Town, South Africa. It connects the Cape Town CBD with Glencairn on the False Bay coast via Sea Point, Camps Bay and Hout Bay. It is an alternative route to the M4 for travel between Cape Town CBD and Glencairn, with the M6 passing west of Table Mountain and through Chapman's Peak.
The M6 begins at a junction with the M62 (Buitengracht Street) in the Cape Town CBD, at the location of the Foreshore Freeway Bridge. It begins by heading west-north-west as Helen Suzman Boulevard into Green Point, bypassing the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront and the Cape Town Stadium. Immediately after Green Point, the M6 reaches the West Coast (Atlantic) and turns southwards as Beach Road to follow the coast, passing through Sea Point and bypassing Table Mountain and its National Park to the west.
In the southern part of Sea Point, at a roundabout, the M6 turns east to become Queens Road. It meets the M61 at a roundabout before returning to facing southwards as Victoria Road to resume following the coast. It heads south, through Clifton, to enter Camps Bay, where it meets the M62 again.
From Camps Bay, the M6 heads southwards for 10 kilometres to reach Hout Bay, where it turns east as Victoria Road and then south as Main Road, where it meets the M63. It resumes southwards, becoming Chapmans Peak Drive, to pass through the Chapman's Peak Hiking & Marine Trail, where a tollgate is situated.
From the tollgate, the M6 heads southwards to Noordhoek, where it turns to the south-south-east as Noordhoek Main Road. It reaches Sun Valley, where it meets the south-western terminus of the M64 (Ou Kaapse Weg). It then meets the M65 (Kommetjie Road) and turns to the south-east as Glencairn Expressway. It enters Glencairn, where it ends at a junction with the M4 (Main Road).
CP train C17 has pulled clear into the siding at Barons. The train will wait over an hour for 418 to pass before resuming the last few miles into Kipp Yard.
Stagecoach Oxfordshire / 50443 YX70 LVJ / Oxford Tube Oxford - London Victoria / Hillingdon Western Avenue
Something a bit different today. I’m not normally one for editing too much but the lighting of the original version was awful, however I really liked the wing position and felt it would make a nice vertical crop with a high key style edit. I’m actually pleased with the result. Taken at Abberton Reservoir. Normal service will resume…
"Hello my friends. Today we returned to the Palm Spring loop , one of our favorite desert walks. It was beautiful in the mid 60's and breezy at times. This is me exploring the Palm Spring area. There's critters in these bushes and I'm gonna find em. We had lunch by that stone marker to the back of me, our usual lunch spot, Enjoy our pictures , I must resume hunting."
[Having returned from my two-week photo trip in Saintonge, I resume uploading the rest of my selected photos from 2020 (10 per day, usually in the morning CET), as well as a selection of my current, 2021 photos (usually 3 or 4 per day, in the evening CET).]
The Gers is a small part of the region of Aquitaine, which covers most of southwestren France. On July 2020, we rented a house for three weeks in the Gers area, and commencing today, I will upload a selection of the photographs I took while we were there. I hope you will enjoy them!
As usual, I will caption more specifically in bold type below whenever necessary.
A July landscape in the Gers.
"Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.”
(H.G. Wells)
Many people ask me advice about their portfolio and CV and I always tell them to be creative to stand out of the crowd. This doesn't apply to all kind of jobs, but when you're talking about creative jobs, there are simply no rules on how to present yourself.
Don't mention the name of your kindergarden school, don't mention you've been working at McDonalds during summer break. Believe me, nobody cares. And if your future employer does care, then he'll select you on the wrong criteria. You don't want to work for such a company.
So get creative and make something awesome from your portfolio. Take the above portfolio as an example. Michael doesn't show any of its works and still he succeeds in showing off his talent. Not only he can create great graphics, he also proves to be able to turn 'boring' facts and figures into something exciting. Well done Michael!
Check out Michael's blog:
theportfolio.ofmichaelanderson.com/portfolio/resume-infog...
Oh yeah, and also check out my portfolio:
Half term over and the grandchildren retuned home after a week in my care and it's normal service resumed apart from work commitments that is.
A trip to Cenarth the other week saw a very full River Teifi with levels a good metre above normal. This structure in the foreground is a fishing platform for anglers.
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A happy New Year to alll my friends and visitors, but mind how you go in 2015 ;-} I'll resume posting normal photos next week
It's been awhile since I stopped by the retention pond behind the mall. Four Sandhill Cranes approached me just after I parked, as if they expected food. Hopefully no one is feeding them and they were just being curious. After I backed away they resumed foraging and preening.
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Nikon D7500, 100-400mm Tamron lens
f/4.8, 122.0mm
1/1600, ISO 450
Hand held.