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Lot's Wife
Sunday morning and it was a 4am start to head up to the Galloway coastline near Sandyhills. My target was a well known large stone or stack known as Lot's Wife, it is on on the Mersehead nature reserve not too far from Sandyhills. Although It is a well known rock, its not one that you see photographs of, with the main images available coming from old photographs or postcards. A tricky wee walk along to get to the stone, perhaps not a walk for everyone. I had to wait for about 30 mins while the sun and clouds were positioned correctly to give me the light on both the rock itself but also towards Sandyhills and Port O'Warren behind.
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Mersehead, Sandyhills, Dumfries and Galloway
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Gad, two passes in one day to shoot the very tree with the terrible sense of location, location, location. This is the third of my rock-splitting ponderosa shots. The day is changing complexion and that warrants another shot. The sky is starting to look ominous. I am still avoiding that summons from The Donald, Inc. with this series. But then, The Don, gropester in charge, gives such wonderful gifts that keep on grifting. Ah, there is so little reality left for reality media, it is almost unreal! What a concept, pay only lawyers to bash labor and small contractors; rip suckers for fake university educations; buy pageants for new groping territory! Sounds like the perfect scams especially for the premier narcissist. What? Once groped, permanently quiet, really? Was he a scholar of the Bill Cosby school but uses different drugs? I think it is a bad thought to challenge Hillary with drug tests. We knew that he would never debate Bernie; chickens are always uncomfortable around someone named Sanders. Think it through before opening the pie hole, more bad advice probably. Whoosh, I am starting to feel really sorry for the damage done to his own family. It will be interesting how this will play out as he continually emboldens his gropees who come out of what he thought was permanent obscurity. I'm waiting for the final and ultimate explosion. Should be bonkers!
Rentless onward as stated by the late great Walt Kelly. Everyone wants to be in pictures! Here is another shot that I refuse to pump for effect and probably don't need to anyway. Here we are again on the Peak to Peak Highway bypass above Peaceful Valley and Cave Creek. We usually pause to snap the dwarf, stunted ponderosa pine atop the rock. I've shot it before, myself. The sky cooperated with some outrageous skies to aid in defining the tree that could eventually split the rock, Time and Pressure. Time and pressure! And that, of course, will be it's own destruction if it hasn't sunk roots to actual ground.
eDDie and I headed back north on Peak to Peak Scenic highway. We retraced our path back north and ended up at Estes for a roll down the canyon. We always hope for good skies when foraging but this is a bit much. They say the bear, like clouds, came over the mountain to see what he could see. There are laws against feeding wildlife up here and I sincerely hope the wildlife concurs.
eDDie usually stops at his rock of aegis on our way past and this stop gave us wonderful skies if a complex light range. I shot for the bright sky. We tightened our hiking boots and had already packed mass quantities of captures on our cards. Ahh, why not another foray?
It's one of my first MOC. No photoshop, only bricks, light and my girfriend's talent. She painted background.
One of a few to come from Peggy's Cove...Love this place!!! It's my birthday so I thought I would upload two images today to celebrate :o) On the birthday note, big thank you to Digital Agent for your link and kind wishes and another big thanks goes to Rosy_Outlook for her special tribute to the Sminkster's birthday
Peggy's Cove is 43 kilometres southwest of downtown Halifax and comprises one of the numerous small fishing communities located around the perimeter of the Chebucto Peninsula.
The community is named after the cove of the same name. Peggy is a nickname for Margaret, and the village may have taken its name from St. Margarets Bay upon which it is situated. Local folklore has several alternative origins for the name. Some people claim Peggy was an early settler. Others say she was a young survivor from a shipwreck who remembered nothing of her life before her rescue; not even her name but was given the name Peggy by the family who adopted her.
The village was founded in 1811 when the Province of Nova Scotia issued a land grant of more than 800 acres (3.2 km2) to six families of German descent. The settlers relied on fishing as the mainstay of their economy but also farmed where the soil was fertile. They used surrounding lands to pasture cattle. In the early 1900s the population peaked at about 300. The community supported a schoolhouse, church, general store, lobster cannery and boats of all sizes that were nestled in the Cove.
Many artists and photographers flocked to Peggys Cove. As roads improved, the number of tourists increased. Today the population is smaller but Peggys Cove remains an active fishing village and a favourite tourist destination.
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"Turner's oak"
Quercus
X turneri
'Pseudoturneri'
This fines sturdy specimen of a tree planted in 1798. It is unusual for an oak as it is semi-deciduous, meaning that it keeps its leaves through the winter and replaces them in spring. Raised by the Essex nursery owner Spencer Turner in 1783 this tree is a hybrid of holm oak (Quercus ilex) and English oak (Quercus robur) . It was not given its own botanical name (Quercus x turneri) until 1880.
Little is otherwise known of its history other than this must have been one of the original batch of saplings grown by Turner. Propagation of new trees of this hybrid can only occur by grafting and several have been grown at Kew this way: you can see some young specimens near the lilac collection.
Subject. Light. Background. What else do you need?
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Paris St.Merry Church .
The Church of Saint-Merry (Eglise Saint-Merry) is a small church in Paris, located on the busy street Rue Saint Martin, on the Right Bank.
The church is dedicated to the 8th-century Abbot of Autun Abbey, Medericus, who went to Paris on pilgrimage and later died there. In 884 Medericus, also known as 'Merry' was acclaimed patron saint of the right bank.
The present church was built between 1500 and 1550. The style is 16th-century Gothic, with many features influenced by the English Perpendicular style. The nave windows are work of the early 16th century, and the pulpit is by P. A. Slodtz and was made in 1753.
The organ was reconstructed in 1781 by Cliquot, a famous organ builder. It was played by Camille Saint-Saëns. In 1832, the church was an arena of ardent barricade fighting during a republican uprising against the July Monarchy.
The bell tower contains the oldest bell in Paris, cast in 1331, which survived the French Revolution.
The church continues as a place of worship today, and is home to the Halles-Beaubourg Pastoral Centre.
It is home to the Académie Vocale de Paris, which performs concerts in the church every saturday throughout the year.
Definitely not. :)
Explore #71, 06th February 2012 (since when do these numbers change days later?!)
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It’s the middle of the week already- Happy Umbellifer Wednesday!
Not sure if this image works….I cropped out the only bit that was really in focus which happened to be a dead brown petal on the right hand side which didn’t look great….but I quite liked what I was left with in the end.
I don’t know why I chose Wednesdays for Umbellifer day because it’s my second-busiest day and I don’t always get time for photo-obsession…so with any luck I’ll get fed up with it soon and you can all have an Umbellifer holiday...
Hope everyone’s having a good week…I’ve been busy as usual but on the upside my Fitbit has broken so in some ways it’s been the most relaxing week of my life- no judging for having a sit-down for ten minutes! Unfortunately I think it’s fixable under the warranty :(
Des élections présidentielles vont avoir lieu en France en avril et en mai 2017. La femme sur cette affiche déchirée s'appelle Marine Le Pen. Elle dirige le Front National, parti d'extrême-droite donné en tête des sondages pour le 1er tour. Au-delà de la question de la victoire ou de la défaite, c'est ce qu'elle incarne et ce qu'elle dit de notre époque qui est effrayant. Gardons les yeux grand ouverts.
Presidential elections will take place in France in April and May 2017. The woman on this torn poster is called Marine Le Pen. It heads the National Front, a far right party given top of the polls for the first round. Beyond the question of victory or defeat, it is what it incarnates and what it says of our time is frightening. Keep our eyes wide open.
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Macro Monday's: February 6: Stars
Scavenge Challenge February: 13. Liven up your photostream with something purple!
112 Pictures in 2012: #90 Purple
I recently started a new group: The Flickr Lounge, which can be found here: www.flickr.com/groups/1912892@N23/ . The idea behind the group is to make it a directory of the groups on Flickr. Needless to say this is a job and a half! I also want to make it into a fun hangout for my flickr friends. :) A side benefit of starting this group has been the stumbling across some really cool groups here in flickrland. :) This has made me take a look at some of the groups I am already a member of and brought back to mind some of those I haven't been active in for a long time. This made me decide to go through my group list and either get active in those I haven't been active in or get out of them, and get active in some others.
So, this shot is for two of those groups that I have neglected as of late.
Specifically, Macro Mondays www.flickr.com/groups/macromonday/ and
Scavenge Challenge www.flickr.com/groups/scavengechallenge/ .
I'd like to invite anyone who wishes to come and check out my group to please do so and if you wish to lend a hand, that would be most welcome! Happy Monday and I hope everyone has a great week! :)
Another new client from across the pond visited us recently, we loved creating some memories for her special day ❤️
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Another long exposure attempt of a wateroutlet on the beach just after sundown.. This time I used mirror lock up and hyperfocal but there is still some unsharpness in the rocks. I guess it's because of the water falling over the rocks, it was a rough sea and the tide was coming quickly. I used the Haida 3.0 nd1000 again to have a 3 minutes exposure.
I had another shot with a better composition but that failed. Due the upcoming water the sand washed away so my tripod was moving and I ended up with a weird blurred shot.
Thor's Well located just South of the Cape Perpetua Visitor Center in Cook's Chasm, Oregon. This photo was taken during high tide. I thought I'd be happy with photos taken from the view point with a zoom lens, but as I watched a group of tourists walk out to Thor's Well, I convinced myself that that's where I needed to be. So...off I went to get up close and personal with Thor's Well. DSC_5247A
"Sitting on the edge of the Oregon coast, a gaping, seemingly bottomless sinkhole swallows the unbroken stream of seawater around it. But Thor’s Well, as the natural wonder is known, is not bottomless. It is, however, very dangerous.
The site is most spectacular at high tide, or during storms when water washes violently over the rocks and funnels into the hole. During these sudden torrents, unsuspecting visitors to the site run the risk of being swept right into the maelstrom. Regardless of the risks, photographers and nature lovers continue to flock to the stunning fountain to see the aggressive waters that live up to their godly namesake’s stormy personality." -- www.atlasobscura.com/places/thor-s-well
My Mom's gorgeous, bright red Hibiscus blossoms from her front garden! Each blossom is about the size of a lunch plate, they are simply breathtaking!
A male Barrow's Goldeneye performs a courtship display on a pond in the Thompson Region of British Columbia, Canada.
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A Verreaux's Sifaka clinging to a tree in Ifotaka, Madagascar.
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Here's the large format version of a photograph earlier in my stream. This one's a little tighter crop and I spent a while trying to get the best balance of light in the image.
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"S for Smith"
Just another shot before the sun went down that gave Smith Rock a nice glow, especially around the edges.
This is a much less technical shot than the one I've posted previously, but I still decided to share it as it gives a very different perspective than the one I've posted previously.
I haven't been traveling much for the past month and so I don't have anything new other than the fogged Seattle shot recently, but it finally gives me the opportunity to review some of my shots from the past, and there were definitely quite a few more I'd love to share once I get the post-processing done smile emoticon
Needless to say, I still prefer to spend time shooting and I"ll be spending the weekend at Olympic National Park to, hopefully, get some nice seascapes.
The Loten's Sunbird, also called the Long-billed Sunbird or Maroon-breasted Sunbird, is a sunbird endemic to peninsular India and Sri Lanka. Its long bill distinguishes it from the similar Purple Sunbird that is found in the same areas and it also tends to hover at flowers unlike the other sunbirds. Often seen in the garden, these tiny birds feed on small insects and spiders as can be seen in this photo where this male was after the spider that made the web. Their long down-curved bills and brush-tipped tubular tongues, are adaptations to their nectar feeding. The bill lengths vary across populations with the longest bills are found on the east of Peninsular India and in Sri Lanka.
Yep, another shot from Peggy's Cove! Very similar to a previous upload, but this time without the house behind. Happy Labour Day!
Peggy's Cove is 43 kilometres southwest of downtown Halifax and comprises one of the numerous small fishing communities located around the perimeter of the Chebucto Peninsula.
The community is named after the cove of the same name. Peggy is a nickname for Margaret, and the village may have taken its name from St. Margarets Bay upon which it is situated. Local folklore has several alternative origins for the name. Some people claim Peggy was an early settler. Others say she was a young survivor from a shipwreck who remembered nothing of her life before her rescue; not even her name but was given the name Peggy by the family who adopted her.
The village was founded in 1811 when the Province of Nova Scotia issued a land grant of more than 800 acres (3.2 km2) to six families of German descent. The settlers relied on fishing as the mainstay of their economy but also farmed where the soil was fertile. They used surrounding lands to pasture cattle. In the early 1900s the population peaked at about 300. The community supported a schoolhouse, church, general store, lobster cannery and boats of all sizes that were nestled in the Cove.
Many artists and photographers flocked to Peggys Cove. As roads improved, the number of tourists increased. Today the population is smaller but Peggys Cove remains an active fishing village and a favourite tourist destination.
An old steamship (built in 1934) located in the harbor of Gothenburg, this lady is now an restaurant ship. What an destiny, she was built for the big oceans - not for serving as an restaurant. A shot from yesterday afternoon.
A tiny Nuttal's Cottontail rabbit, taken near Elbow, Saskatchewan, on a recent bird count.
This is our only species of rabbit, that does not turn completely white in winter.
I know this sounds terrible, but since around the time of this trip, Rohingya refugee boats were hugely on everyone's mind while I was living on the Thai-Burma border, I felt like I was getting a tiny taste of what it's like to be overcrowded and exposed to sun.
It's impossible to take this popular rock formation alone during the day time; tourists always line up to take picture with this " lady"......so, I took it in distance. Hope you still enjoy the Queen's Head at the Yehliu Geopark, Taiwan.
This was a rather distant photograph of a pair of Montagu's Harriers photographed last May in East Yorkshire. That's the male on the left and female on the right. I know it isn't a super close frame-filler but I'll probably struggle to repeat this photograph in Britain. This is because it has recently been announced that no Montagu's Harriers have nested in Britain this year (2020). The population has been slowly dwindling in recent years and this year the once reliable sites around the Wash, and on Salisbury Plain have failed to attract any breeding birds, though a single unpaired male was seen around Salisbury Plain. They usually nest in cereal fields but have nested on heather moorland, and in reedbeds, which is the habitat that this Yorkshire pair chose. Unfortunately this decline seems to be affecting the species' strongholds in Spain and France too, with intensification of cereal farming and earlier cutting dates.
George Montagu (1753-1815) was the first person to prove that male and female Hen Harriers were one and the same species. But he was also the first person to realise that the Hen Harriers he saw in winter were different from those he saw in the summer. His summer harriers are what we now know as Montagu's Harrier, but the name wasn't coined until twenty one years after Montagu's death.
Male Montagu's Harriers are distinguished from male Hen Harrier by the more slender build and by those extensive black markings on the inner wings. Female Montagu's Harriers look very similar to female Hen Harriers, but they are also smaller and more lightly built. The scientific name is Circus pygargos and "Circus" was a hawk named by many classical authors and translates literally as circle, from the hawk's circling flight. Pygargos means white rump, and female Montagu's Harriers do indeed have a white rump, though this feature is also shared by female Hen Harriers.
It's you in the morning
It's you in the night
A beautiful angel came down
To light up my life
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JeNZ0lATzE
There's a laugh in my eyes
There's a waltz in my walk
And it's been such a long time
Since there was hope in my talk
If you never knew
What it is that's new.. it's you
'Cause when your hands are in mine
You set a fire that everyone can see
And it's burning away
Every bad memory
To tell you the truth
If it's something new.. it's you
The world's a different place
Where nothing's too hard to say
And nothing's to hard to do
Never too much to go through
To tell you the truth
Everything that's new.. it's you
So if I get to grow old
With many years behind me
There's only one thing I want
One thing I need beside me
For all that you are
For everything you do
For all that you've done
Just for showing me the truth
It's you
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