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“ For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider , every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.” - Martin Luther. This is another perspective on the tree we saw on Vancouver Island. Happy Tree- mendous Tuesday!

So, today I met up with some jolly folk from RoAM doing a field survey with 'Natural England' at a secret location on the Somerset levels (and I do mean secret so don't ask). We were doing a head count of Large marsh grasshoppers, believed to have gone extinct in Somerset some 25 years ago due to habitat loss, but rediscovered last week by Bill and Fred...

As it happens I'd been seeing them at that spot off and on for the last 9 years or so, believing they were just a local cluster of European migratory locusts like Maurice... www.flickr.com/photos/cosperwosper/8894796705 or something similar someone had dumped there, and at the time I never confirm their ID... I never knew the Large marsh grasshopper was even a thing… or in Somerset... So all the glory, and rightly so goes to Bill and Fred.

Anyway, today I bagged 5, got some nice shots, and few seconds of video of one stridulating !! (so here's a couple of pix and a vid for you).

Cette photo, composée à partir de 8 photos individuelles, permet de se rendre compte de la beauté et de l'étendue des jardins d'inspiration renaissance de Villandry.

C'est ce qui fait la célébrité du site, à juste titre, car ce sont certainement parmi les plus beaux jardins de France.

Le château lui-même est de style renaissance , et a été contruit au 16ème siècle sur les fondations d'une vieille forteresse du 12ème siècle dont il ne subsiste que le donjon.

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Outstanding Villandry's gardens

This image, made from 8 individual shots, enables us to realize the beauty and extent of the Renaissance inspiration gardens of Villandry.

This makes rightly the celebrity of the site : the gardens are certainly among the most beautiful in France.

The castle itself is from Renaissance style, and was originally built in the 16th century on the foundations of an old 12th century fortress from which remains only the donjon.

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Villandry - Val de Loire - France

VHS_Lieblingsorte / VHS favorite places in Iserlohn

Die Bank steht im Naturschutzgebiet Sonderhorst in Oestrich. Von hier aus hat man eine wunderbare Fernsicht Richtung Westen die man stundenlang geniessen kann. Völlig zurecht einer meiner Lieblingsplätze in Iserlohn

The bench is located at wildlife sanctuary Sonderhorst in Oestrich, part of Iserlohn. From here you have clear views in a westward direction you can enjoy for hours. Absolutely rightly one of my favorite places in Iserlohn

This late autumn view is from the Pateley Bridge to Wath Road in Nidderdale, North Yorkshire near to Wath village. Gouthwaite Reservoir can be seen in the distance

The dry stone wall in the foreground is characteristic of the dale

Rightly proud of its place within the Dales, Nidderdale is for many the favourite Dale. It truly deserves its status as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, with its stunning moorland scenery and tapestry of lush green meadows

Superb subjects but frustrating day. Arrived on site and at each spot props seemed to have been added to where adders bask. There were also cut sticks which I rightly guessed were being used to manipulate the snakes. I could feel myself getting angry. When I arrives at a particular patch of gorse I found the culprits. There were three togs and a chap with a grabber. They were grabbing the snakes and pinning them down with the stick to whatever prop they had setup. When all togs were ready with their composition the 4th chap would carefully release the snake while said togs snapped until it tried to flee. At that point it would be grabbed again, rinse and repeat. When I politely confronted them I was told to ***k off. After an argument I decided to just follow them around where I kept bashing around wherever they went sending any subjects into hiding. It got nasty but they eventually got the message. Don’t think I made any friends by my actions but what else could I do?

Its architecture makes Symi, unique in the Aegean since i n Syros and Mytilini (the capital of the island of Lesbos) recent constructions have change d the character of these settlements. At the same time, there are visible effects of Aegean architecture with Venetian elements.

The most typical houses from the 19th century have two or three floors with the triangular gable on the facade and tile d roof, small balconies with an iron grill, wooden doors, and symmetrical windows. Sm all or larger courtyards with pebbles are forming plant or geometric patterns. Inside the houses, the Sala is the most important room, a large reception hall, the cei lings are beautifully painted, and there are stylish furniture, mirrors, tables, and console s as well as valuable porcelain.

However, what immediately capture the visitor’s eye a re the colours, rightly called the island one of the most colourful in the world. Ochre yellow, brick red, blue, white and even more daring, salmon pink and indigo blue.

A older shot that's not been posted ran it through PureRAW cropped. S/he is slightly damp from a shower if I remember rightly.

Many thanks for stopping by.

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; What is essential is invisible to the eye." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"On ne voit bien qu`avec le coeur. L`essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"Jól csak a szívével lát az ember. Ami igazán lényeges, az a szemnek láthatatlan." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

A labour of love for me today, something I have wanted to do for a while, my homage to one of the greatest Photographers of all time, Bill Brandt.

The original shot was taken in 1937, part of Bill Brandt's series of images of the Industrial North of England, it has (quite rightly) become something of an iconic work.

In an ever changing world (sometimes not for the better), it's refreshing that nothing much has changed herein 80 years.

The original can be viewed here:

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This is a sky-cropped version of my Path of liquid light. I have been quite uncertain whether to crop the sky in a radical way or not. I was fixed upon the consideration that the upper clouds have a nice perspective, complementary to that of the beach. When my friend Rich suggested a crop to the sky I begin reconsidering that possibility, but I was not able to find the right crop. Or I should rather say that I was still hesitating to sacrifice that clouds with their nice perspective :-)

At last Rich convinced me to try a radical crop, something about 16:9 (a bit more than that, really, since I wanted to avoid having the horizon at 50%). I am satisfied with the result, although one could (rightly) argue that it is almost a different scene - so I have uploaded a second version instead of replacing the old one.

I thank Rich very much for his helpful comments and I hope to have comments about this cropping, to better myself in this step of post-processing, which often asks one to go beyond her preconceptions and can greatly reward the daring :-)

Memphis Belle, B-17F Flying Fortress (1942), National Museum of the United States Air Force, Dayton, Ohio

Survival stories interest me, and one of the most famous in the history of aviation is that of Memphis Belle. And here this survivor stands, restored to perfection and displayed as if in flight. It's treated as a rock star in the National Museum of the USAF, and rightly so.

This aircraft was only the second American heavy to survive a full 25 combat missions over Europe, bringing its crew home safely every time (heavy bomber aircrew had a much higher casualty rate than infantrymen). After completing its combat tour in 1943, the Belle then avoided the scrap yard, mostly due to the fame it received from a widely-seen 1944 documentary of the same name meant to support the war effort. A war bonds tour flying across the USA also helped ensure this B-17 survived the later massive scrapping of equipment after the war.

If you are ever near Dayton Ohio, home of the Wright Brothers, the massive National Museum of the United States Air Force is free and well worth the time to see some rare and historic aircraft.

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It's a while since I was here. If I remember rightly, this is the centre stone encircled by a circular bank with one open entrance.. The bank is about 117 metres in diameter, and thought to be of Neolithic or Bronze Age period :-)

Not long ago, searching for something else, I came upon this old shot made on the outskirts of town, looking southeast. Originally I framed the scene both vertically and horizontally, but neither version really worked for me, and that's why it has been gathering digital dust for the past 13 years.

Finally I realized what was wrong: too much foreground. Cropping the vertical shot from the bottom redistributed the visual elements and rightly placed greater emphasis on the sky. They don't call this the land of living skies for nothin'.

Dramatic grey clouds and a sunlit foreground - always a great combination! And this allows me to segue from the coast back to some prairie images. Starting tomorrow, I will also leap forward to the present, with a new set of offerings from this summer. Don't miss them!

Photographed at Val Marie, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2009 James R. Page - all rights reserved.

...a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;

what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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Please, don't fave and run, you will get yourself blocked.

This image was taken explicitly for the May 2015 TMI Contest : PASTEL PETALS. The effect is SOOC, achieved by waiting for the desired light according to the time of day and the particular qualities of the lens with only minor level balancing.

A closer look at the snowdrops growing in large patches on the cemetery of Crediton church. It looks like they will fade soon, I like how the petals open up and bend upwards. To the odd person passing by it must have looked slightly surreal - me down on my knees and elbows on a graveyard....my wife rightly complained about muddy elbows afterwards...oh the things you do for a photo :-)

Can't believe I got this mesh stool, rightly named, "Crazy Bird" from Space Cadet .... on sale this weekend, for only 75Ls.

Yeah, thats 5 poses for 75'Ls, how crazy is that?! 😛

My inspiration for this picture was basically, I didn't want to spend the day inside doing laundry, when I could be outside gardening in this beautiful weather we're having 🌞🌻 . Just looking out the window was pure torture.

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So that I can end this series as soon as possible, I'm adding a photo of the beautiful Blue Wonder in Dresden. And this time in a slightly more cell phone-friendly version.

This was also taken at the beginning of December last year from the terrace of the "Luisenhof" restaurant. Why the operators rightly call themselves "The Balcony of Dresden" is actually obvious when you look at this fantastic view.

Damit ich auch diese Serie alsbald beenden kann, ergänze ich noch eine Aufnahme vom wunderschönen Blauen Wunder in Dresden. Und zwar dieses Mal in einer etwas Handy-freundlicheren Variante.

Diese wurde Anfang Dezember letzten Jahres, ebenfalls von der Terrasse des Restaurants "Luisenhof" aufgenommen Warum die Betreiber sich selbst zurecht als "Den Balkon von Dresden" bezeichnen ist, beim Anblick dieser fantastischen Aussicht, eigentlich offensichtlich.

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Thanks to my friend [https://www.flickr.com/photos/108755156@N05], I can now correctly identify this bird as a Giant Kingfisher (which he rightly describes as the largest Kingfisher in Africa!), and she or he has clearly had a successful fishing expedition!

The second-to-last photo of a series of photos I selected from the 480 or so shots our youngest daughter and her husband took during their visit to Kruger National Park, South Africa back in March...!

Keep smiling, thanks for visiting my Site, and thanks for taking the time and trouble to leave such kind Comments. It's always nice to hear from you...!

One might rightly say surfriding

is prayer of a higher order,

that the sea is a beautiful church

the wave a silent sermon.

~Tom Blake

On one of my many mountain hikes this summer, I explored this incredibly beautiful area, which is rightly part of UNESCO's World Heritage list. I have rarely seen such a beautiful and untouched natural landscape.

For many weeks it has been recommended we wear masks at the supermarkets, when out exercising and such as well as the 6ft distancing. Not for protecting ourselves but to hopefully help protect others if we are carriers. John and I have been using bandannas as make do masks but I decided to get on and make some with my material remnants.

(Quite rightly the usual masks here are impossible to get as they go to the front line workers)

Maheno Wreck, feature of the eastern beach of Fraser Island since 1935. Forever looks in a state of terminally advanced decay, but was there before I was born and will be much the same long after I’m gone.

Fraser Island is the largest sand island in the world, slightly smaller now because a substantial portion of sand is now in the back of my car. World Heritage site and rightly so.

The North Yorkshire Moors Railway is rightly proud of its set of restored LNER teak carriages. On the occasion of the NYMR Autumn Gala, Class 9F loco 92134 is seen hauling them past Fen Bog in glorious light en route from Pickering to Grosmont. 23rd September 2022.

"Here is my secret,

A very simple secret.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.

What is essential is invisible to the eye." -Antoine De Saint-Exupèry

To all the people who have lost their loved ones

and are hurting deeply during this avoidable and heartbreaking pandemic.

And also for those of us left behind who feel lost and alone, frightened, and uncertain of the future.

We feel helpless and rightly so, angry.

Keep your hope and spirit alive.

And when it's over,

let's ensure no one ever does this to the world again.

Although identifying speakers in these weeping poems is tenuous at best, I am suspicious of commentators who do not want a weeping God, a poetic character with human-like emotions. Perhaps such a God may not appear godly or macho enough. Perhaps a weeping deity is too vulnerable. But a weeping God, like an angry one, arises from human experience to name the One beyond every name. Half a century ago, Rabbi Abraham Heschel rightly insisted that the God of Israel is not a Greek deity of stoic power and unchangeableness but a fluid being filled with pathos and emotionally engaged in the life of the people.I

-Jeremiah PAIN AND PROMISE, Kathleen M. O’Connor

Birmingham is where I was raised. I went to school and university there, and even got married there. I don't visit as often as I would like to, but when I do, I love to explore the canals.

Birmingham is famous as the seat of the The Industrial Revolution. A big part of Birmingham's success was that it sat at the centre of the English canal network, and according to popular legend it has more miles of canal than Venice. Many of the canals fell derelict with the coming of the railways, but in recent years, many miles of canal have been restored/developed and are rightly seen as an essential part of the nations industrial history.

The photograph is taken on the Birmingham and Fazeley canal, and shows the amazing Livery Street Railway Bridge that carries the railway lines into Snow Hill Railway Station just a few hundred meters away.

shot by KHWD

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French Island in Victoria, Australia, is a haven for wildlife, including the fascinating Australian Pelican (Pelecanus conspicillatus). These pelicans are known for their striking black-and-white plumage, enormous pouched bills, and impressive wingspans of up to 2.5 meters. They are opportunistic feeders, primarily eating fish but also consuming crustaceans, squids, and even small birds during periods of starvation.

French Island itself is a unique ecosystem, with over 230 bird species recorded, including pelicans. The island's wetlands and mudflats provide rich feeding grounds for these birds, where they can find shellfish, crabs, and other small animals. The pelicans are part of the island's vibrant birdlife, which also includes rare species like the White-Bellied Sea-Eagle and the Orange-Bellied Parrot.

The island's natural beauty and biodiversity make it a fantastic destination for birdwatching and eco-tourism. Have you ever visited French Island, or are you planning a trip there? It sounds like a photographer's dream! It certainly was, you go across in a small tourist boat but rightly are not allowed to land. But great for close up shots!

see more in my doubles album, the same images in both COLOUR & B&W / Monochrome

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The Cathedral of Saint Lazarus of Autun is rightly renowned for its superb twelfth century stonework created by Gislebertus who had originally worked at Cluny. I will post some images of his work later on.

This staircase was created much more recently in the late fourteenth century . I thought its lines were very pleasing to the eye

I never seem to have enough time when I visit Autun this was my third visit over the past thirty years and I still have not seen the Roman amphitheatre which is supposed to be wonderful

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Drakes, with their fancy outfits and ostentatious ornaments, are generally favoured by bird photographers, and rightly so of course.

But in my humble opinion the ladies, such as this female Northern Pintail, are just as beautiful !

The Northern Pintail is “an abundant winter visitor to Hong Kong (October to March), with highest (daily) count of 8,654.”

(Source: The Birds of Hong Kong and South China, by Viney, Phillipps and Lam, 8th Edition, 2005)

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If he is rightly guided, either through his own intuition or by someone else, he will begin to travel backward within himself to see where the trouble lies (for trouble always lies, it never tells the truth). Ernest Holmes

Exists in the true meaning of life is to cultivate trees, under whose shade you do not expect to pose and provide shades even to him who cuts off its boughs.

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

Therefore Trees are poetry that the earth corresponds under beneath the sky!

I just loved the way of my 8mm fisheye lens produced this fine capture, of this splendour tree branching out over the Edgbaston Reservoir!

Many thanks for your wonderful appreciation of comments and compliments to you here, my dear good friends !!!

I hear the wind among the trees

Playing the celestial symphonies;

I see the branches downward bent,

Like keys of some great instrument. -

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Breeze is the conductor,

trees the musicians,

leaves the instruments. -

Terri Guillemets

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver. -Martin Luther

It sometimes takes a foreigner to come and see a place and paint it. I remember someone saying they had never really noticed the palm trees here until I painted them. - David Hockney

Thank you for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day! xo💜💜

The Fort William to Mallaig railway journey is considered to be one of the most scenic in the world. The classic photograph people go for on this line is of the train crossing the Glenfinnan Viaduct and quite rightly so as the sight of the Jacobite steam locomotive with its carriages crossing the magnificent feat of concrete engineering and especially now with the Harry Potter connection is certainly worth photographing, but as the line is forty two miles long there are other beautiful areas to photograph.

I took this shot on an autumn afternoon, it shows the train on its return journey from Mallaig to Fort William. Also in the picture is the church which was used in the film Local Hero, it has now been de-consecrated and recently refurbished.

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret;

it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,

what in essential is invisible to the eye. "

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery –

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

a fox animal figure

MM: Silhouette

An understanding of the natural world and what’s in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.

David Attenborough

Look after the land and the land will look after you, destroy the land and it will destroy you.

Aboriginal Proverb

Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness.

Eckhart Tolle

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver. Martin Luther King Jr.

The Beauty Of Earth cc

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Even if you never have the chance to see or touch the ocean, the ocean touches you with every breath you take, every drop of water you drink, every bite you consume. Everyone, everywhere is inextricably connected to and utterly dependent upon the existence of the sea.

Dr. Sylvia Earle

Every day is Earth Day, and I vote we start investing in a secure climate future right now. Jackie Speier

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

Michel de Montaigne

With heartfelt and genuine thanks for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day, be well, keep your eyes open, appreciate the beauty surrounding you, enjoy creating, stay safe and laugh often! ❤️❤️❤️

Another shot of Dettifoss, in northern Iceland, from the western side.

Dettifoss is rightly marketed as Europe's most powerful waterfall. It is truly spectacular although from a photographic point of view, I prefer the scenery around Selfoss which is only 1km further upstream. In fact, there are several spectacular waterfalls all within a few kilometres of each other and all situated in a fantastic lunar landscape along the Jökulsá á Fjöllum river.

EXIF: 55mm; f/22; 10 secs; ISO 50.

We saw one of your m8's the other day Neil, if I remember rightly you were photographing him the last time I saw you :-)

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

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Set in a forest at an altitude of 640 m, Prislop monastery is surrounded by hills that descend into gentle slopes close up to the monument.It has been said, rightly, that a road on the “Hateg Country” is “a way” or “a down” in history. Human life has continually pulsed these wonderful places, from the Paleolithic man, whose traces were discovered in caves at Ohaba Ponor and Cioclovina, located in the village Silvaşu de Sus, in Hunedoara County, at the foot of the Parâng Mountains and is at the midst of the most beautiful scenery comprising the forests of Silvaşu.

Homeopaths tell us that water has a memory. If what they say is true, then consider the following:

The sea, by some accounts, is over 4 billion years old. Think about that for a moment; such an immense length of time is at best difficult to comprehend and at worst unimaginable. And did not life itself first emerge in the sea?

So contemplate, if you will, the countless trillions of organisms given forth by the ocean during that incomprehensible time span. Having done so, you may rightly marvel then at the legions of untold stories those very organisms have left lingering in the deep, dark blue; each drop of which a soundless epic written into the ever-evolving chronicles of life on Earth.

Taking that into account, ask yourself what subliminal stories might our intrepid hero encounter as she surges through the freshly carved waves in search of her muse? And from where did her obsession originate? Or more correctly, in whom, or in what did it originate?

She knows only that somewhere, out there on the never-resting sea, is the tale she seeks to tell upon returning to the land. It could be in those waves, there, just beyond these shallow breakers...

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I know, I know. That bit in the middle. Tricky blighters, words.

Respect the comma.

Usual caveats etc.

Oh. Surfer, Summerleaze beach. Bude, Cornwall. January 2020.

May 03, 2020. Liptaň. Czech Republic. The narrow-guage 750 mm diesel locomotive 705.913-2 hauling a passenger train Os 20605 from Třemešná ve Slezsku to Osoblaha. A closed historic church on the hill is a symbol of times that have rightly gone by.

• Vor einem Tag befand ich mich direkt gegenüber in dem Gesteinsfeld (s. unten). Wahrscheinlich mag ich ihn :-)

Der Dettifoss ist ein beeindruckender und ungestümer Wasserfall. Zu Recht wird er als der leistungsstärkste in Europa

bezeichnet.

• A day ago I was directly opposite in the rock field (see below). I probably like him :-)

The Dettifoss is an impressive and boisterous waterfall. It is rightly called the most powerful in Europe.