A fantastic day spent today with these amazing little characters on Skomer Island off the Pembrokeshire coast. Skomer is such a special place and quite rightly so a protected nature reserve.

A fantastic day spent today with these amazing little characters on Skomer Island off the Pembrokeshire coast. Skomer is such a special place and quite rightly so a protected nature reserve.

@Shibuya Crossing

People are rightly fascinated with the mass of pedestrians that cross here every few minutes, but vehicles have to travel through as well.

One of the wildest units to hit the rails of Montana Rail Link. It was rightly dubbed the "Franken Geep" as it wandered the system.

Unit came from a large purchase of used locomotives by Livingston Rebuild Center who lowered it's nose and rebuilt it. Formerly CNW 4355 and QNSL 108, the end result was MRL GP9 131.

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Corno del Renon prides itself with the prettiest 360° view in South Tyrol - and rightly so! “For who wishes to see all of Tyrol at one sight shall climb these heights”, thus wrote Ludwig Purtscheller, mountaineer of the later 19th century, about Rittner Horn/Corno del Renon. And, if you’ve ever experienced the vastness that opens in front of you up there, if you’ve ever felt that rush of goosebumps at the sight of so much unfiltered beauty, you will surely agree with Purtscheller: The view at the top here reaches 360° to the horizon and back - absolutely open, clear and unobstructed. The onlooker’s eyes roam from the Dolomites - UNESCO World Heritage Site – spreading in one arch from southeast to south, over the summits of Peitlerkofel/Sass de Putia to the Geißlerspitzen/Gruppo delle Odle peaks, to Schlern/Sciliar and further on over Rosengarten/Catinaccio to Latemar all the way to Schwarzhorn/Corno Nero and Weißhorn/Corno Bianco.

Corno del Renon гордится самым красивым видом на 360 ° в Южном Тироле - и это правильно! «Ибо тот, кто хочет увидеть весь Тироль с одного взгляда, поднимется на эти высоты», - так писал Людвиг Пурчеллер, альпинист конца 19-го века, о Риттнер-Хорн / Корно-дель-Ренон. И, если вы когда-либо испытывали необъятность, которая открывается перед вами там, если вы когда-либо чувствовали прилив гусиной кожи при виде такой нефильтрованной красоты, вы наверняка согласитесь с Пурччеллером: вид сверху здесь достигает 360 ° к горизонту и обратно - абсолютно открытый, чистый и беспрепятственный. Глаза наблюдателя бродят от Доломитовых Альп - объекта всемирного наследия ЮНЕСКО - простираются в одной арке с юго-востока на юг, над вершинами Пейтлеркофель / Сасс-де-Путия до вершин Гейслерспитцен / Группо делле Одле, до Шлерна / Шилиар и далее по Розенгартену / Катиначчо до Латемара вплоть до Шварцхорна / Корно Неро и Вайсхорна / Корно Бьянко.

Well I was going through the pics of my trip to Montana way back in Spring 2009. I happened to spend a few days in Yellowstone National Park..but apart from Old Faithful, I really did not post anything from there..Yellowstone to me was out of this world completely..there are very few places on earth which can compete with Yellowstone when it comes to the diverse landscapes it boasts of..quite rightly, this place is heavily visited all throughout..always more than Grand Tetons National Park..which is a gorgeous place in itself..but at a distinct disadvantage because it is so close to Yellowstone..

Yellowstone was the first national park in the world, and is known for its wildlife and its many geothermal features, especially Old Faithful Geyser. This was shot in the Upper Geyser Basin which has numerous geothermal pools and geysers..There are distinct walkways which provides safe and good access to all of these beautiful geothermal pools...Summer is always busy in Yellowstone..but the park can be visited all throughout the year to soak in the beauty of this place in various weather conditions...

Thanks for viewing and have a nice day!

Have you ever tasted a Whitstable oyster? If you have, you will remember it. Some quirk of the Kentish coastline makes Whitstable natives – as they are properly called – the largest and the juiciest, the savouriest yet the subtlest, oysters in the whole of England. Whitstable oysters are, quite rightly, famous. The French, who are known for their sensitive palates, regularly cross the Channel for them; they are shipped, in barrels of ice, to the dining-tables of Hamburg and Berlin. Why, the King himself, I heard, makes special trips to Whitstable with Mrs Keppel, to eat oyster suppers in a private hotel; and as for the old Queen – she dined on a native a day (or so they say) till the day she died.

Sarah Waters.

An Extract from Tipping the Velvet

This time, I experimented a lot with photoshop and my vision. This series reflects the states of dreams and the subconsciousness. Yes, i still want to explore more with the subconsciousness and dreams of human mind. I want to make them look like paintings, half real and half unreal--"it feels right, it looks right but it does not comply with reasons, i.e. the perspective does not mathematically rightly measured". I took pictures of different things at different angles at different places at different time and put them altogether in photoshop and create this series. I want to reflect the state of dream of how in dream, sometimes, we see different things at different locations all come together in that specific setting that we are in. Those are the premises. I don't want to explain too much so i think i should stop now. It is all up to your interpretation. hehe. Oh, and I purposefully did not give this series or individual picture any name. We usually have to describe our dream, we don't give it a name.

One more thing, I, by no mean, want to offend anyone with my photographs. If you somehow feel offended by my art work, I am sorry for that! ^_^

(I know that this series' audience will not be as large as my fashion photography's.)

I hope you will enjoy them

The town of Frohnleiten is rightly known as the "Pearl on the Mur".

A view of the British Telecom tower.

Formerly the Post Office tower.

This is viewed from lift 109, at Battersea Power Station.

The odd shaped red building is the 'Nova Building' in Buckingham Palace Road.

This was voted the ugliest building in Britain, if I remember rightly?

Pentax K-3 mk lll

SMC Pentax-DA* 50-135mm f2.8 ED [IF] SDM

Wakering Photography Group Vintage Printed Challenge.

These are two original postcards our parents had in their photo collection box showing the arctic conditions on the 16th January 1905.

Clearly the sea is frozen and the ships are stuck in the ice moored alongside our famous longest pier in the world, which still stands today.

Unfortunately we are not allowed to use other photographers photographs in our challenge, and rightly so, but I thought the images were worth sharing.

Operating across the old Rock Island mainline from Blue Island, IL to Council Bluffs, IA the Iowa Interstate can rightly claim the mantle of successor on the heart of that once 'Mighty Fine Line.' I truly did not expect to be so lucky as to see one of their trains in the short time I allotted for my first visit to this famous location. So this was second only to the UP heritage unit in terms of my excitement here.

Anyway, I figured another frame was worth adding to my archives so here it is.

In this post I told the story of my first visit to Blue Island and the crazy variety show of trains.

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Here is the sixth one I listed, as a pair of Iowa Interstate GE ES44ACs thump across the CN diamonds after crossing the bridge across the Calumet Sag Channel on Indiana Harbor Belt Main 1 at MP 15.2. I'm not sure where this train was headed or what it's symbol was but it appeared to be almost all empty ethanol tanks presumably headed back to Iowa via the old Rock Island Line.

Blue Island, Illinois

Friday July 2, 2021

The song I came to sing

remains unsung to this day.

I have spent my days in stringing

and in unstringing my instrument.

The time has not come true,

the words have not been rightly set;

only there is the agony

of wishing in my heart…..

I have not seen his face,

nor have I listened to his voice;

only I have heard his gentle footsteps

from the road before my house…..

But the lamp has not been lit

and I cannot ask him into my house;

I live in the hope of meeting with him;

but this meeting is not yet.

(Rabindranath Tagore)

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Pose - Casual Smoking (Bento)

This is the result of our afternoon stroll with my wife through the surrounding meadows and paths. This single flower just grew on the edge of the meadow and waited all summer for its moment, which had just come. Many photographers rightly believe that a photo shoot needs to be planned, I would complement this approach with the ability to search (find) reasons to photograph in all circumstances.

I thought about framing the photo and showing this flower with the stem, but I didn't. More and more I go back to the beginning of my way of shooting without changing framing and looking through the viewfinder in a 16: 9 perspective. I am now deeply convinced that in order to properly convey the mood of the moment (capture the delight - the reason to photograph) it is possible to keep it more often by taking the same shot several times, trying to press the trigger at the moment when I see a certain poetry of the image.

When I look at a few more photos of the same subject (I always take a few), I choose a photo that captured this something, a photo that I do not recycle.

The last one I came across was a lecture by Andrzej Dragan (Physicist at the University of Warsaw, PhD, hab), who is also a photographer. In it he explained what he is guided by in photography - and I share his beliefs. Namely, once Isaac Newton said that people are divided into two types, self-taught and ignorant, so there is no reason to learn from others in photography, you have to think and do your own thing, then everything is ok. We have the joy of creating and a sense of freedom. And the second thing, once a Polish painter Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz ( Witakcy) (he also made portraits on request) when asked by a wealthy man about the possibility of making his portrait - he walked around the man, looked around and said "but I don't see the reason" - I try to remember these two things.

One should also remember that art is artificial and that culture is the opposite of nature - I think that art is to show delight in nature.

Hand held.

And it is in this sense that it has been rightly said that monasticism is a kind of substitute for martyrdom: a less dramatic but no less serious witness to the tension between this age and the age to come, to the absence of the Kingdom of God on earth. Karl Barth, no uncritical devotee of monasticism, allows that ‘the way into the desert’, so far from being an escape, may be seen as ‘a highly responsible and effective protest and opposition to the world, and not least to a worldly Church, a new and specific way of combating it, and therefore a direct address to it’

--The Wound of Knowledge The Wound of Knowledge Christian Spirituality from the New Testament to St John of the Cross, ROWAN WILLIAMS

This group of mute swan cygnets with one parent were captured enjoying the late October sun near the entrance to Chichester Marina in Sussex. Where the other parent was is a mystery but I don’t think that is necessarily sinister. Although swans mate for life, the cygnets were large enough not to require parental protection or succumb to predation. In fact, I would think that within a few weeks of this photograph they would be leaving the parents to strike out in life on their own!

The parents must feel proud of themselves and quite rightly so as they have invested a considerable amount of time and hard work in getting the youngsters to this stage! Good luck to them all!

Iceland is rightly famed for its landscape, its geothermal activity, the Northern Lights, waterfalls, weather, ponies, fairies and colourful jumpers. It also boasts a variety of unusual and distinctive churches. Like this historic Lutheran one at Skalholt in south Iceland

Northcote, Victoria. (ABC1 Weather) This lovely work, not far from my place, was commissioned by the local council to prevent tagging of the wall. I chatted to the young artist a day ago as he was finishing it and he was rightly pleased with his work.

With lovely lush green surroundings, a fine assortment of deciduous trees, sheep in the pastures and the River Wharf flowing in the foreground this old farmhouse certainly makes for an attractive scene.

The Yorkshire Dales is full of delightful dales, hamlets and villages and Wharfedale is rightly one of the jewels of the region.

by John Cordeaux Delpiaz | “And now 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-Exupéry, The Little Prince

Colossal and marvelous, the 'White Lion' Double Daffodil is rightly name! my only problem with them is they are to top heavy to stand up like the other Daffodils.

“Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.”

‭‭2 Timothy‬ ‭2‬:‭15‬‬

Taken from the hill above Kirk Michael, Looking large the church tower and part of the village can be seen,

Rightly or wrongly I get the impression you guys are not really interested in any of my TT photos hence me choosing a sunset today!

In Line at Holker Hall's busy Winter Market 2024, Cumbria. An annual 3-day weekend event, rightly popular, with some winter sunshine.

View On Black

I don't repost often old shots, but tonight this is perfect to mean what I feel - shot and quote and music too ... so, please, don't mind - I feel blue - but a good kind of blue! - and curry, yes, more curry than blue! - and I feel lucky :-)

good night you all!, and thank you very much for your friendship and appreciation ...

"Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux."

(Le Petit Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)

Ana Vidovic - Grande Sonata de Paganini - Allegro Risoluto

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This plant with its admirable shape and form is called Teasel (genus Dipsacus). The most common one is Dipsacus sativus, Czech name: štětka planá nebo soukenická. Rightly used for decorative purposes, it also has medicinal properties.

Back to the beginning of our walk now. The girls were rightly proud of themselves for managing the nine miles along the way.

Thanks everyone for your kind comments and feedback. If you would like to learn more about our walk you can do so at www.worthingwanderer.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/llangollen-ca...

Corno del Renon prides itself with the prettiest 360° view in South Tyrol - and rightly so! “For who wishes to see all of Tyrol at one sight shall climb these heights”, thus wrote Ludwig Purtscheller, mountaineer of the later 19th century, about Rittner Horn/Corno del Renon. And, if you’ve ever experienced the vastness that opens in front of you up there, if you’ve ever felt that rush of goosebumps at the sight of so much unfiltered beauty, you will surely agree with Purtscheller: The view at the top here reaches 360° to the horizon and back - absolutely open, clear and unobstructed. The onlooker’s eyes roam from the Dolomites - UNESCO World Heritage Site – spreading in one arch from southeast to south, over the summits of Peitlerkofel/Sass de Putia to the Geißlerspitzen/Gruppo delle Odle peaks, to Schlern/Sciliar and further on over Rosengarten/Catinaccio to Latemar all the way to Schwarzhorn/Corno Nero and Weißhorn/Corno Bianco.

Corno del Renon гордится самым красивым видом на 360 ° в Южном Тироле - и это правильно! «Ибо тот, кто хочет увидеть весь Тироль с одного взгляда, поднимется на эти высоты», - так писал Людвиг Пурчеллер, альпинист конца 19-го века, о Риттнер-Хорн / Корно-дель-Ренон. И, если вы когда-либо испытывали необъятность, которая открывается перед вами там, если вы когда-либо чувствовали прилив гусиной кожи при виде такой нефильтрованной красоты, вы наверняка согласитесь с Пурччеллером: вид сверху здесь достигает 360 ° к горизонту и обратно - абсолютно открытый, чистый и беспрепятственный. Глаза наблюдателя бродят от Доломитовых Альп - объекта всемирного наследия ЮНЕСКО - простираются в одной арке с юго-востока на юг, над вершинами Пейтлеркофель / Сасс-де-Путия до вершин Гейслерспитцен / Группо делле Одле, до Шлерна / Шилиар и далее по Розенгартену / Катиначчо до Латемара вплоть до Шварцхорна / Корно Неро и Вайсхорна / Корно Бьянко.

Having been totally brassed off by the chainsaw snorer in the bunk below me as soon as a glint of sun appeared I clambered out of my bunk and bleary eyed set off with the DSLR to try and capture the hillside in its full morning glory. This was taken closeby the Refugi de la Comapedrosa and shows the Pyrenees rightly living up to its title as the garden of Europe. The right hand hill in this view is Pic del Port Vell, perhaps one I should return to climb another day.

A five stitch vertical panorama.

This morning, we took the little Montenvers train. It goes up from Chamonix to a belvedere at an altitude of 1913 m (6276 ft). It is a gentle climb of about 1 km, with beautiful views of Chamonix. This belvedere allows you to admire the "Mer de Glace" (Ice Sea).

I should rather say "allowed". Although I expected the worst given the recent photos of the place that I had looked at, I was downright shocked and devastated by the sad spectacle in front of me!

I remembered this magnificent glacier in 1979 (see photo on the left), at the time when we could rightly speak of the Mer de Glace, given its exceptional size and thickness. 45 years later, I saw instead a kind of filthy rock (see photo on the right in 2024, in the same place). There is just a tiny bit of ice left at the bottom which will soon be gone in about fifteen years at the latest.

What a pity!

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Disparue, la Mer de Glace !

Ce matin, nous avons pris le petit train du Montenvers. Il monte de Chamonix jusqu'à un belvédère à 1913 m d’altitude. C’est une montée tranquille d’environ 1 km, avec de belles vues sur Chamonix. Ce belvédère permet d’admirer la "Mer de Glace".

Je devrais plutôt dire « permettait ». J’avais beau m’attendre au pire vu les photos récentes du lieu que j’avais regardées, j’ai été carrément choqué et catastrophé par le triste spectacle en face de moi !

Je me souvenais de ce magnifique glacier en 1979 (CF photo de gauche), du temps où on pouvait parler avec raison de la Mer de Glace, vu sa taille et son épaisseur exceptionnelles. 45 ans plus tard, j’ai vu à la place une espèce de rocaille immonde (CF photo de droite en 2024, au même endroit). Il reste juste encore un tout petit peu de glace au fond qui aura bientôt disparu dans une quinzaine d’années au plus tard.

Quelle pitié !

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Chamonix- Montenvers - Haute-Savoie - France

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While Paris can rightly claim to be one of the great cities of the world, it is really only the brightest jewel in the bling crown of France.

To fully appreciate all that is wonderful about a country that gave the world Monet, champagne and the croissant, time must be spent exploring the rivers and valleys of the countryside where the nation's spirit flows freely.

Explored: Highest Position: 66

We have big storms forecast for tonight and as we are almost certainly going to lose power, I am uploading to the Macro Monday Group a little early! This weeks theme is, quite rightly, Halloween! Wishing everyone a Happy Monday and to those in the UK affected by the storms, stay safe and take care out there tomorrow! HMM!

Corno del Renon prides itself with the prettiest 360° view in South Tyrol - and rightly so! “For who wishes to see all of Tyrol at one sight shall climb these heights”, thus wrote Ludwig Purtscheller, mountaineer of the later 19th century, about Rittner Horn/Corno del Renon. And, if you’ve ever experienced the vastness that opens in front of you up there, if you’ve ever felt that rush of goosebumps at the sight of so much unfiltered beauty, you will surely agree with Purtscheller: The view at the top here reaches 360° to the horizon and back - absolutely open, clear and unobstructed. The onlooker’s eyes roam from the Dolomites - UNESCO World Heritage Site – spreading in one arch from southeast to south, over the summits of Peitlerkofel/Sass de Putia to the Geißlerspitzen/Gruppo delle Odle peaks, to Schlern/Sciliar and further on over Rosengarten/Catinaccio to Latemar all the way to Schwarzhorn/Corno Nero and Weißhorn/Corno Bianco.

Corno del Renon гордится самым красивым видом на 360 ° в Южном Тироле - и это правильно! «Ибо тот, кто хочет увидеть весь Тироль с одного взгляда, поднимется на эти высоты», - так писал Людвиг Пурчеллер, альпинист конца 19-го века, о Риттнер-Хорн / Корно-дель-Ренон. И, если вы когда-либо испытывали необъятность, которая открывается перед вами там, если вы когда-либо чувствовали прилив гусиной кожи при виде такой нефильтрованной красоты, вы наверняка согласитесь с Пурччеллером: вид сверху здесь достигает 360 ° к горизонту и обратно - абсолютно открытый, чистый и беспрепятственный. Глаза наблюдателя бродят от Доломитовых Альп - объекта всемирного наследия ЮНЕСКО - простираются в одной арке с юго-востока на юг, над вершинами Пейтлеркофель / Сасс-де-Путия до вершин Гейслерспитцен / Группо делле Одле, до Шлерна / Шилиар и далее по Розенгартену / Катиначчо до Латемара вплоть до Шварцхорна / Корно Неро и Вайсхорна / Корно Бьянко.

Der Jaufenpass gilt zu Recht als einer der schönsten Alpenpässe. Der Ausblick ist gigantisch ( wenn man nicht wie wir dieses mal im Hochnebel gelandet ist ), er reicht von den imposanten Ötztaler Alpen im Norden über die Sarntaler Alpen und das Passeier Tal bis in den Süden von Südtirol. Ebenso spektakulär wie die Aussicht ist auch die Passstraße. Vor allem bei Motorrad- und Rennradfahrern ist sie mit ihren zahlreichen Kurven heißbegehrt.

Direkt auf dem Jaufenpass liegt auf 2.094 Metern die Edelweißhütte,nicht nur von uns beliebt für die täglich frischen hausgemachten Torten und Strudel.

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The Jaufenpass is rightly considered one of the most beautiful alpine passes. The view is gigantic (if you do not like us this time in the high fog landed), it extends from the imposing Ötztal Alps in the north over the Sarntaler Alps and the Passeier Valley to the south of South Tyrol. Just as spectacular as the view is the pass road. Especially with motorcycle and racing cyclists, she is hotly sought after with her numerous curves.

Directly on the Jaufenpass lies at 2,094 meters the Edelweißhütte, not only popular with us for the daily fresh homemade pies and strudel.

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After leaving the pretty impressive Fosshotel Glacier Lagoon on Day 6 our first stop of the day was Gluggafoss. Easy to get to, easy to park and we had the place to ourselves. Such a fabulous location and a fair bit to shoot at. The conditions were bright sunlight which did hamper things somewhat. However the trade off was two gorgeous rainbows arching over the falls.

As we exited Dusty we were met with solid ice underfoot. This was par for the course as we gingerly edged our way up the river to the lower falls. These were caked in ice and snow and made getting a decent shot of them difficult. I'd probably say this location would suit the summer months. Having said that you wouldn't get the lethal icicles you can see in my image!

As you climb up from the lower section you are greeted by the thunderous roar of the waterfall. Falling some 52m into the River Merkjá. There is a handy little cave section to the left from where you can get your lens splattered by the spray if you fancy!

Videos in the comments below to give you an idea of the area....

As a side note, the Fosshotel is literally in the middle of nowhere! It's a lovely hotel tho with a very striking lighting feature that greets you as you enter. When we arrived we made best use of their happy hour :) A few Icelandic beers were very welcome after the early trip around the East coast of the Island. However their Happy Hour is just a ploy to loosen you up before you hit the restaurant for supper! If I remember rightly it was the most expensive meal of the trip! Costing around £120 each! A very delicious themed 3 course fish dish for me :)

It was our third attempt to finally be allowed to enter this area. May 7th is a public holiday in Kazakhstan, defender of the fatherland day. We were hoping to have found a suitable moment, with less activity and fewer staff. Oleg was on duty again, and we had already met him. This time, he said, we had good cards, with a 95% chance.

Everything dragged on forever. First, Anyar was expected back from lunch. Then Nurshan arrived. We explained our request a thousand times, showed photos, and gave Duncan's postcards to our new friends. A description of our trip was a must. Anyar drove home, got freshly made beshbarmak for us to try, and greetings from his wife. Then, finally, the liberating news: we were allowed in, for about 10 minutes. Nurshan led us, gave us instructions, and Oleg followed behind. Not across the tracks, absolutely not! The regime was very strict, and I think our escorts had great apprehensions. Rightly so, as we already know!

What do you actually need a TEM7 for in Quschoqy?

Казахстан

Карагандинская область

Регион Қушоқы (Quschoqy)

ППЖТ Кушокы (ТОО Транко Нура)

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My fingerprints were rejected by the MacroMonday Police...and rightly so...for not meeting the criteria...so here's a lightbulb moment instead...

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While tourist communities around the Gulf Coast are rightly trying to avoid unwarranted black eyes, many tourist destinations and vacation activities along the Gulf Coast have been affected by BP's oil gusher.

Tar balls washed up on Gulf Islands National Seashore, but spared seven other national parks in the region. More than 2,000 beaches in Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida were closed or otherwise affected in the first 100 days. Fishing remains restricted in a vast stretch of the Gulf of Mexico. And wildlife watching activities from bird-watching to sea turtle spotting are at risk, as the ecological problems associated with the spill may not end with the capping of the runaway well.

The long-term threat from the spill – and continued offshore oil drilling in the Gulf – will only become clear over time. The most likely impacts, if any, will be felt in the region's seafood, according to NRDC policy analyst Ali Chase. Will oysters rebound, for instance, from the double-hit of oily water and increased freshwater flows? Even seafood that remains uncontaminated could suffer population declines, so that once-abundant species could be diminished for years. And it's unclear what impact those deepwater plumes of dispersed oil could have on the Gulf's ecosystem, and ultimately its recreational fishing potential.

"The surface isn't the only place the oil poses a risk. There's still a lot of oil out in the Gulf – as much as 100 million gallons," Chase told The Daily Green. "We don't have a sense right now of what the long-term impacts of the system might be."

Read more: www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/latest/endangere...

Well I finally arrived where I wanted to for so long..The Jurassic Coast!! I had been meaning to get here for as long as I have known of this place..

This was shot near Lulworth Cove. The Jurassic coast is special not just for the fossils, but also for the rugged seascape that it boasts of and rightly so! Ideally you can do the entire stretch for years and I tried my best to get some decent shots from over there..I really troubled a few of my friends in this process as they had to carry my stuff and climb down cliffs too :) Nonetheless it was a great place and a memorable trip...

The clouds seem to move real fast in the UK..sorta seems like the norm to me as I have exposed longer hoping for some clouds motion in vain earlier. All these were manually metered however owing to my Black Glass :) I have never had so much fun shooting seascapes before and this is something I am really bad at...coz the horizon always scares me and there is little good of shooting seascapes without ample foreground and subject of interest(s)..but that is just me anyway...

Well this pic has an ND 10 stop filter and an 8 stop ND Grad filter and ISO400. I have started moving away from creating processed HDRs...I am going to definitely rely heavily on my filters going forward. This really helped me to get the motion blur on the clouds and the stilness of the water...

I will definitely get more regular with my posts hopefully from now on..Thanks for viewing and have a great weekend!

If there was ever a place on earth that I wanted to see for so long, it would be the Delicate Arch in Utah. I visited Utah back in 2008, driving all night from Denver, and hitting the windows arch area for dawn. So by the time we got to dusk and plenty of arches exploration later, we were literally frazzled. Also, the weather suddenly turned, and we ended up ditching the Delicate arch hike for another day. However, that day never dawned as summer monsoon picked up steam, and we were forced to change plans and head east instead of waiting around to see if the weather improved.

We did a lot of driving around Colorado Springs, and caught up with a lot of beautiful places no doubt, but the fact that I could not get to Delicate arch, always stayed behind! We got to reprise this winter, to try and see if the weather will hold long enough for us to squeeze in a few days in Moab. A lot has changed since 2008, lot of restrictions and plenty of visitors (I was told) who drop by to see these beautiful arches, especially in the warmer summer months...

What has not changed though is the majestic outcrop where Delicate arch stands tall overlooking the la-sal mountains in the backdrop. Now, there are plenty of photographs of this arch out there, and rightly so as this is one of the most photographed arches in the national park, what stood out for me was the almost blinding red that lights up the area during dusk which was an exhilarating sight to behold.

Age is beginning to show both in my equipment and myself, as this approximate 4 mile roundtrip hike was not easy. Climbing up with too much equipment weight was not helping, and because it was winter, you also need to layer up plenty to ensure that you do not end up with frost bites. Easily the most difficult hike I had done in a while with the last 0.25 miles around the big boulder completely hidden away from the sun, the ice had hardened into a slippery pathway with steep falls on the left hand side. I did not quite think I would make it, but eventually I did and it was a fantastic evening!

I have now slowly resumed my travels, and hope that everyone here is doing their bit to showcase our beautiful planet in all its glory and I do catch up with your streams as and when time permits :)

Thanks for viewing and have a lovely week ahead!

This is the statue on top of the Court House in Georgetown, Texas. I searched the Internet to find out more about her. Themis is untranslatable. A gift of the gods and a mark of civilized existence, sometimes it means right custom, proper procedure, social order, and sometimes merely the will of the gods. Interestingly, the blind fold and sword weren't added until around the 16th century. I couldn't find out what the blindfold represents. Here's some info from Wikipedia

Mythology[edit]

Greek deities

series

Titans

Olympians

Aquatic deities

Chthonic deities

Mycenaean deities

Personified concepts

Other deities

Titans

The Twelve Titans

Oceanus and Tethys,

Hyperion and Theia,

Coeus and Phoebe,

Cronus and Rhea,

Mnemosyne, Themis,

Crius, Iapetus

Children of Oceanus

Oceanids, Potamoi

Children of Hyperion

Helios, Selene, Eos

Children of Coeus

Lelantos, Leto, Asteria

Sons of Iapetus

Atlas, Prometheus,

Epimetheus, Menoetius

Sons of Crius

Astraeus, Pallas, Perses

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Statue of Themis, Chuo University, Japan.

The personification of abstract concepts is characteristic of the greeks.|date=October 2015}} The ability of the goddess Themis to foresee the future enabled her to become one of the Oracles of Delphi, which in turn led to her establishment as the goddess of divine justice.

Some classical representations of Themis did not show her blindfolded, nor was she holding a sword. The sword is also believed to represent the ability Themis had from cutting fact from fiction; to her there was no middle ground. Themis built the Oracle at Delphi and was herself oracular. According to another legend, Themis received the Oracle at Delphi from Gaia and later gave it to Phoebe.[4]

When Themis is disregarded, Nemesis brings just and wrathful retribution; thus Themis shared the Nemesion temple at Rhamnous. Themis is not wrathful: she, "of the lovely cheeks", was the first to offer Hera a cup when she returned to Olympus distraught over threats from Zeus.[5]

Themis presided over the proper relation between man and woman, the basis of the rightly ordered family (the family was seen as the pillar of the deme), and judges were often referred to as "themistopóloi" (the servants of Themis). Such was also the basis for order upon Olympus. Even Hera addressed her as "Lady Themis." The name of Themis might be substituted for Adrasteia in telling of the birth of Zeus on Crete.

Themis was present at Delos to witness the birth of Apollo. According to Ovid, it was Themis rather than Zeus who told Deucalion to throw the bones of "his Mother" over his shoulder to create a new race of humankind after the deluge.

Hesiod's description and contrast to Dike[edit]

In Greek mythology, Hesiod mentions[6] Themis among the six sons and six daughters of Gaia and Uranus (Earth and Sky). Among these Titans of primordial myth, few were venerated at specific sanctuaries in classical times.

Themis occurred in Hesiod's Theogony as the first recorded appearance of Justice as a divine personage. Drawing not only on the socio-religious consciousness of his time but also on many of the earlier cult-religions, Hesiod described the forces of the universe as cosmic divinities. Hesiod portrayed temporal justice, Dike, as the daughter of Zeus and Themis.

Dike executed the law of judgments and sentencing and, together with her mother Themis, carried out the final decisions of Moirai. For Hesiod, Justice is at the center of religious and moral life, who, independently of Zeus, is the embodiment of divine will. This personification of Dike will stand in contrast to justice viewed as custom or law, and as retribution or sentence.[7]

Azaleas in my sub-tropical garden struggle against leaf insect infestation,* but can produce flowers of wonderful hues. I like the black with red contrast.

* Systemic Confidor prevented it but is now believed to kill bees so quite rightly is now unavailable.

Robinia flowers - best viewed Large

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Been away for awhile (flew back east for Thanksgiving with our kids). It's always kind of hard for me to get back in the swing with Flickr after time away. But here I am with more shots from our fall cross-country trip. We saw so much hay along the way, coming and going - fields and fields and fields... and also several hay trucks. This guy assumed - rightly! - that we would brake when he pulled out into our lane. This was in the Wenatchee Valley on our last day of driving home. Tinting black and white helped hide our dirty windshield. :-)

The lovely 1862 Stockton and Darlington Railway (S&D) station building quite rightly now has Grade 2 listing status. The S&D ownership only lasted a year as the North Eastern Railway (NER) acquired that railway in 1863. The NER effectively became the custodians of the then four platform station until the 'Big Four' grouping in 1923 when the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) took over until nationalisation of the UK's railways occurred on 1948.

Of note in this view is the lovely clock tower. Alas although the hands rotated they weren't in time with my watch or anyone else's. This photo was taken at 08.18.