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1st Place , Harmony group , 136th Batch Contest , Aug 2012
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1st Place , Love It Level 3 group , " Action Photography Challenge " , Aug 2012
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2nd Place , Beautiful Capture of " Blowin' in the Wind " . Oct 2012
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Ist Place , Viva La Vida Group contest " Shadow" . Oct 2012
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3rd Place , Nice As It Gets Level 2 , " Photos of Woman " , Aprl 2013
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2nd place , “Street, Culture, and Protest Photojournalism“; Photo Contest #2014-08 (August)
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3rd Place , Global Photojournalism Photo of the Year , Dec 2014
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2nd Place Southeast Asia Group contest "Two" , Oct 2021
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I was asked to do a series of images taking visitors through the journey of my own story told with the theme Wanderlust. This is my interpretation. My journey of mind, self-discovery, the daily fight to overcome the fear of my current state of fragility.
This series has me with a broken bulb as a head and a brain full of moths. Two images have me alone wandering at dusk using the light play with moths casting shadows blocking my faint glow. In the last image, I am fearlessly standing behind my shield (Camera) facing a bear (Covid).
I don't know if any of you can understand that when I hold my camera in RL I am fearless. I am confident, focused, and excited. I feel alive! I would wake excited to relive those moments as I fumbled to retrieve my SD card from my Nikon. Photography was a daily high. I miss it so much. I miss people and gatherings. I miss seeing my friends, my family. I miss seeing smiles. It's a deep ache that won't go away and it scares me.
Seems I was so busy trying not to die from Covid that I stopped doing the things that made me feel alive.
Thanks so much to Ella Pavlona for including me ♥
I am honored to have again been invited to join this project displayed at Mindful Cove.
Art as Mindfulness: Wanderlust
20.02.2022 - 27.03.2022
@ Mindful Cove
Opening Event : 20.02.2022 @ 6 a.m. SLT
Dipper
1300.12.10.21
In this series (except for the first 'slow shutter' image), all the dippers pictured were from my second dipper site which is between Bury and Ramsbottom. This image is from the first dipper site which is not far from Bury town centre. The river near the breeding spot is very wide so the opportunity for getting close shots is reduced. It is also a location that is used by dog walkers who throw sticks in the river for their dogs to retrieve. This behaviour whilst understandable does not encourage the birds to come close. The stretch of river is also used by weed smokers and folk whom I would regard as untrustworthy miscreants. So when photographing I took a little risk and so chose my moments before draping camo about my person and lens.
The birds at this site had four chicks that fledged successfully and none got predated. On my last visit, the river was deserted, it was chucking down rain and one of the chicks flew towards my feet and then the whole family of juvs followed waiting to get fed. Both the male and female came in together to feed the chicks...what a joy to have a family of dippers literally around your feet!
Retrieving photos of our visit to the Juan Carlos I park in Madrid when the Plum trees were in full bloom.
I hope you like this photo I wish you a Happy Holy Thursday!
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Ramillete de flores de Ciruelo en el parque, Madrid, España
Recuperando fotos de nuestra visita al parque Juan Carlos I en Madrid cuando los Ciruelos estaban en plena floración.
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Retrieved from disc and taken with Canon Powershot A630 in the Highlands of Scotland. Did you spot the ravens..?
Be own-self..
You can't have a better future if you are thinking about past all the time
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I've always wanted to use this collector coin for an MM theme, and the "Superstition" theme gave me another opportunity. My dad used to give me special edition coins for collecting, usually 5 or 10 Deutsche Mark (DM) pieces that were (and still are, but now as Euro, of course) issued for special anniversaries or in honour of important personalities. This is one of the coins. I'm keeping it in my wallet as a good luck charm, and whenever I change the wallet, the coin comes along.
There is nothing superstitious about the theme of the coin itself: a 10 DM silver (werewolves, anyone?) coin, issued for the 150th anniversary of the now worldwide operating Kolpingwerk, a Catholic Charity founded by Adolph Kolping (Kolping was a German shoemaker and later a clergyman who had originally initiated it in the mid-1800s as a journeyman union to improve the working conditions of apprentices), but the mere fact that it's a good luck charm makes it an ideal candidate for "Superstition", and there is also a quite funny story connected to it.
Ages ago, when I visited a street party with friends, we went to a shop to buy some water bottles (ever since, I've long come to always bring a home-filled bottle along to spare me the hassle of buying on the go), and I didn't have any coins in my purse other than this 10 DM coin. I hesitated to use it, but then thought, "Come on, don't be superstitious, it's time to let go", so I paid for my bottle of water with it. And instantly regretted it, but again thought, "don't be silly, it's just a coin". Of course, I kept vigorously discussing it in my mind ("No, it's not just a coin, it's extra special"), and after we had been walking for a while, I decided to ask my friends to lend me some money, ran to the shop, felt even sillier than before, but what matters is: I got the coin back ;)
To emphasise the illusion of superstitions, I placed the coin on the "warped" mirror tile (fixated with modelling clay) and focused mainly on the distorted reflection. In the coin's design, there is also a triangle: a symbol that is not only perceived as holy but is also connected to the secret society of the Illuminati, about which myths and conspiracy theories persist to this day; so I tried to highlight it.
Size info: The coin's diameter is 3 cm/1,18 inches.
HMM, Everyone!
Venner timeswitch retrieved from my father-in-law's garage which uses a clockwork mechanism to drop contacts into a bath of toxic mercury (on right). Mercury vapour poisoning (from the arcing contacts) has number of psychotic symptoms including delirium and hallucinations. Wouldn't pass Health & Safety these days!
[Mixed tungsten and daylight using table tripod and timer release; processed in LR (darkened, colour temp adjusted and slight vignette) and then moderately mangled in Topaz Adjust and Clarity, particularly for dirty detail and colours.]
"I'll get it, mom!" Rooster lives for retrieving, anywhere, anytime, he'll go forever, I usually have to call it quits for his own good. When I first got him he wouldn't bring it back to me, now he does every single time.
I was trying out a used lens I bought for the first time. I do like the results.
Another photo retrieved from a damaged memory card and ruined camera. My trip to Hawaii was a few years back but I thought all photo memories were lost. This photo is of Haleakala, a dormant volcano on the island of Maui. This shot is taken on a path down into the depression, which is about 11.25 km (7 mi) across, 3.2 km (2 mi) wide, and nearly 800 m (2,600 ft) deep. I couldn't go further in, too cold, too windy, and too scary a climb down. You can see some of the sand and clay particles flying around the photo. You get to the summit by car traveling the Haleakalā Highway, a road of switchbacks and steep drop-offs. At some point you drive through the clouds and when you reach the top, most of the clouds are below you. It was an awesome experience.
In Explore, June 1,2021. Thank you for your visits and comments.
UP 815 retrieves a single load of cocoa butter from the street level spur to Blommer Chocolate, one of the only factories still active in the downtown Chicago area. Blommer receives shipments of sugar in covered hoppers on the upper level (out of frame to the right) and the street level spur is used to load overflow cocoa butter into tank cars. Union Pacific keeps a set of tank cars in Grand Avenue yard or further up the spur that Blommer essentially uses as storage tanks for whatever cocoa butter they can't fit in the factory. Every once in a while, they will ship out a load by rail as well. In this case, the crew is swapping the load for an empty and simply holding the loaded car in Grand Avenue yard. When the customer has room in their building for the product, UP will spot them the load. Cars are spotted in the street right next to the old building seen behind the Metra overpass, but unfortunately Blommer moves the car out to here themselves as trucks normally occupy the track near the building. That makes it basically impossible to get a shot down by the building which is something I've been wanting to get for a long time. In any case, this operation used to be handled only a handful of times a year or less, but has been more frequent in the last year or so with moves happening probably a handful of times a month.
And yes, I did get an over/under shot here, but I actually prefer it without a train overhead because you can actually see the classic Blommer building, which, in my opinion, makes this a more interesting industrial scene.
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Charleston & Western Carolina F7 No. 901 does some freight duties during car clean up at the end of operations for short line Wisconsin Western in 1985. In late March, the unit retrieved cars off the former Milwaukee Road line from Madison west to Prairie du Chien. On April 6, 1985, the locomotive will make a trip to Mazomanie and a run up the branch to Prairie du Sac-Sauk City, before heading back to Madison. C&WC No. 901 is the former Rio Grande No. 5644 that also served American Crystal Sugar Co. and Chicago, Madison & Northern before adorning purple and silver paint as C&WC No. 901.
Looking unconventional, No. 901 operates backwards while retrieving three cars off the Prairie du Sac/Sauk City branch. In this view, the train is slowly rolling along the Wisconsin River at Prairie du Sac in a scene that is pretty hard to see today, since the line is abandoned and decades of tree growth has mostly hidden the right-of-way.
Retrieved from the archive. One of my favourite spiral staircases - just a very short one, in the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum in Geneva (Switzerland).
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Completed in 1886, the Second Empire-style John Bremond Jr. House is the most outstanding home in the Bremond Block Historic District - a collection of eleven historic homes in downtown Austin, constructed from the 1850s to 1910. The block was added to National Register of Historic Places in 1970, and is considered one of the few remaining upper-class Victorian neighborhoods of the middle to late nineteenth century in Texas. Six of the eleven houses were built or expanded for members of the families of brothers Eugene and John Bremond, who were prominent in late-nineteenth-century Austin social, merchandising, and banking circles.
Located on the corner of Seventh and Guadalupe, the John Bremond, Jr. House is a graceful and exuberant example of Texas Victorian architecture. Its crested mansard roof has elaborate dormers, polychrome slate shingles, and concave bracketed curves on the front gable. The cast-iron work on the wrap-around gallery is outstanding. This house and several of the others were built by George Fiegel. All the buildings within the Bremond Block are beautifully maintained. The John Bremond, Jr. house is currently owned by the Texas Classroom Teachers Association, who have made it the association headquarters.
As of 2021, Austin had an estimated population of 964,177, The city is the cultural and economic center of the Austin-Round Rock metropolitan statistical area, which had an estimated population of 2,421,115 as of July 1, 2022. Austin is home of the University of Texas at Austin, one of the largest universities in the U.S. with over 50,000 students.
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Williamson, Roxanne. "Bremond Block Historic District". Handbook of Texas Online. Retrieved March 26, 2024.
The jig is up, the news is out
They finally found me
The renegade who had it made
Retrieved for a bounty
Nevermore to go astray
This'll be the end today
Of the wanted man
Renegade - Styx
The challenge was so much fun again! Since Milla is a Lab, the shot needed to be a retrieving one. When we adopted Milla at the age of one, she retrieved everything in our apartment: socks, t-shirts and of course shoes :) We decided that this isn't good behavior for a lady and thus it's generally not allowed to retrieve everything. Milla would like to thank the group for the opportunity to take our shoes again :D
Chick retrieving freshly caught pigeon and then the fun begins. The 2 siblings will want some of that yummy pigeon and will chase the victor until someone wins the prize. Would have liked a better angle, but it is what it is.
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Our Golden Retriever, Bailey, picking his own blackberries. Been doing for 8 years. Only picks ripe ones. Never gotten thorn in his mouth. Backyard blackberry bush in Seattle, Washington, USA.
The secondary climb I made in Tenerife was up Montana Mostaza. Rather than climb it from the nearby road I took a very windy and undulating route across the Minas de San Jose. There wasn't a great deal of ascent but again it was the wind that caused the problems. In fact it was on the summit that I had my specks blown off. Being unable to stand I had to crawl to retrieve them. I never expected Tenerife to offer such climatic conditions. That particular day the constant wind was detailed as being 115kph, quite what the gusts were I can't begin to guess.
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The last stick of the night...
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at watching Kia create
her own little waves in this world!
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The Pena Palace is a Romanticist castle in São Pedro de Penaferrim, in the municipality of Sintra, on the Portuguese Riviera. The castle stands on the top of a hill in the Sintra Mountains above the town of Sintra, and on a clear day it can be easily seen from Lisbon and much of its metropolitan area. It is a national monument and constitutes one of the major expressions of 19th-century Romanticism in the world. The palace is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the Seven Wonders of Portugal. It is also used for state occasions by the President of the Portuguese Republic and other government officials.
The castle's history started in the Middle Ages when a chapel dedicated to Our Lady of Pena was built on the top of the hill above Sintra. According to tradition, construction occurred after an apparition of the Virgin Mary.
In 1493, John II, accompanied by his wife Leonor of Viseu, made a pilgrimage to the site to fulfill a vow. His successor, Manuel I, was also very fond of this sanctuary, and ordered the construction of a monastery on this site which was donated to the Order of Saint Jerome. For centuries Pena was a small, quiet place for meditation, housing a maximum of eighteen monks.
In the 18th century the monastery was severely damaged by lightning. However, it was the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, occurring shortly afterwards, that took the heaviest toll on the monastery, reducing it to ruins. Nonetheless, the chapel (and its works of marble and alabaster attributed to Nicolau Chanterene) escaped without significant damage.
For many decades the ruins remained untouched, but they still astonished young Prince Ferdinand. In 1838, as King consort Ferdinand II, he decided to acquire the old monastery, all of the surrounding lands, the nearby Castle of the Moors and a few other estates in the area. King Ferdinand then set out to transform the remains of the monastery into a palace that would serve as a summer residence for the Portuguese royal family. The commission for the Romantic style rebuilding was given to Lieutenant-General and mining engineer Wilhelm Ludwig von Eschwege. Eschwege, a German amateur architect, was much traveled and likely had knowledge of several castles along the Rhine river. The construction took place between 1842 and 1854, although it was almost completed in 1847: King Ferdinand and Queen Maria II intervened decisively on matters of decoration and symbolism. Among others, the King suggested vault arches, Medieval and Islamic elements be included, and he also designed an ornate window for the main façade (inspired by the chapter house window of the Convent of the Order of Christ in Tomar).
After the death of Ferdinand the palace passed into the possession of his second wife Elisa Hensler, Countess of Edla. The latter then sold the palace to King Luís, who wanted to retrieve it for the royal family, and thereafter the palace was frequently used by the family. In 1889 it was purchased by the Portuguese State, and after the Republican Revolution of 1910 it was classified as a national monument and transformed into a museum. The last queen of Portugal, Queen Amélia, spent her last night at the palace before leaving the country in exile.
The palace quickly drew visitors and became one of Portugal's most visited monuments. Over time the colors of the red and yellow façades faded, and for many years the palace was visually identified as being entirely gray. By the end of the 20th century the palace was repainted and the original colors restored.
In 1995, the palace and the rest of the Cultural Landscape of Sintra were classified as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
I came across this black Lab who was retrieving large sticks his owner threw into the lake. The bigger, the better.
Having retrieved the last empty from the closing Rousselot gelatin plant, Pan Am local BO-1 plows through the bushes one last time on the Danvers branch on the way back to Salem and ultimately Boston, thus closing a chapter of over 170 years of railroading. Peabody, MA
With a hot air baloon, you land where you can, often in a field. You have to avoid houses and power lines. You want to avoid some fields and cows (not to frighten them). I took this photo when we flew low to catch some specific winds. I like the framing with the cars in the back, coming to the landed baloons to pack them.
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