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Summer, 2018
It's been almost two weeks since I last posted a picture of my favorite tree. I think I can come up with another one now.
For everyone who sees it for the first time (which can't be many) the tree stands on the small mount Winter in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains.
When this photo was made, sunrise was still at least 30-45 minutes away. So I experimented a little to find a slightly different variant of the well-known composition.
The result was a shot from a little further away, so that the structure of the rocky ground and this small heather island also get some attention.
A small positive side effect is that by using a larger focal length (53 instead of the usual 35mm), the mountains in the background are moved a little closer and therefore have more effect.
So I can get used to this variant quite well.
Inzwischen ist es so ziemlich zwei Wochen her, dass ich das letzte Bild von meinem Lieblingsbaum gepostet habe. Ich denke, da kann ich jetzt schon mal wieder eins bringen.
Für alle, die ihn das erste mal sehen (was nicht viele sein können) der Baum steht auf dem kleinen Winterberg im Elbsandsteingebirge.
Als dieses Foto entstand, war der Sonnenaufgang noch mindestens 30-45 Minten entfernt. Also hab ich ein wenig herumexperimentiert um einmal eine etwas andere Variante der allseits bekannten Komposition zu finden.
Das Ergebnis war eine Aufnahme mit etwas weiter Abstand, so dass die Struktur des felsigen Untergrundes und diese kleine Heide-Insel auch etwas Aufmerksamkeit bekommen.
Kleiner positiver Nebeneffekt ist, dass durch die Verwendung einer größeren Brennweite (53 anstatt sonst 35mm) auch die Berge im Hintergrund etwas näher gerückt sind und somit mehr Wirkung zeigen.
Also ich kann mich mit dieser Varianbte ganz gut anfreunden.
more of this on my website at: www.shoot-to-catch.de
Since i may never get to Point Betsie Lighthouse during a solar storm I decided to add one of my shots from the huge October 11th
storm.
222d 10 - 9185088 - jpeg-lr-ps + TCP-3842 Aurora
Since this first trip, where the Dolomites wove their spell, I've been back a few times...mostly skiing....but I look forward to a photographic revisit soon.
IMPORTANT: for non-pro users who read the info on a computer, just enlarge your screen to 120% (or more), then the full text will appear below the photo with a white background - which makes reading so much easier.
The color version of the photo above is here: www.lacerta-bilineata.com/ticino-best-photos-of-southern-...
THE STORY BEHIND THE PHOTO:
So far there's only been one photo in my gallery that hasn't been taken in my garden ('The Flame Rider', captured in the Maggia Valley: www.flickr.com/photos/191055893@N07/53563448847/in/datepo... ) - which makes the image above the second time I've "strayed from the path" (although not very far, since the photo was taken only approximately 500 meters from my house).
Overall, I'll stick to my "only-garden rule", but every once in a while I'll show you a little bit of the landscape around my village, because I think it will give you a better sense of just how fascinating this region is, and also of its history.
The title I chose for the photo may seem cheesy, and it's certainly not very original, but I couldn't think of another one, because it's an honest reflection of what I felt when I took it: a profound sense of peace - although if you make it to the end of this text you'll realize my relationship with that word is a bit more complicated.
I got up early that day; it was a beautiful spring morning, and there was still a bit of mist in the valley below my village which I hoped would make for a few nice mood shots, so I quickly grabbed my camera and went down there before the rising sun could dissolve the magical layer on the scenery.
Most human activity hadn't started yet, and I was engulfed in the sounds of the forest as I was walking the narrow trail along the horse pasture; it seemed every little creature around me wanted to make its presence known to potential mates (or rivals) in a myriad of sounds and voices and noises (in case you're interested, here's a taste of what I usually wake up to in spring, but you best use headphones: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfoCTqdAVCE )
Strolling through such an idyllic landscape next to grazing horses and surrounded by birdsong and beautiful trees, I guess it's kind of obvious one would feel the way I described above and choose the title I did, but as I looked at the old stone buildings - the cattle shelter you can see in the foreground and the stable further up ahead on the right - I also realized how fortunate I was.
It's hard to imagine now, because Switzerland is one of the wealthiest countries in the world today, but the men and women who had carried these stones and constructed the walls of these buildings were among the poorest in Europe. The hardships the people in some of the remote and little developed valleys in Ticino endured only a few generations ago are unimaginable to most folks living in my country today.
It wasn't uncommon that people had to sell their own kids as child slaves - the girls had to work in factories or in rice fields, the boys as "living chimney brushes" in northern Italy - just because there wasn't enough food to support the whole family through the harsh Ticino winters.
If you wonder why contemporary Swiss historians speak of "slaves" as opposed to child laborers, it's because that's what many of them actually were: auctioned off for a negotiable prize at the local market, once sold, these kids were not payed and in many cases not even fed by their masters (they had to beg for food in the streets or steal it).
Translated from German Wikipedia: ...The Piazza grande in Locarno, where the Locarno Film Festival is held today, was one of the places where orphans, foundlings and children from poor families were auctioned off. The boys were sold as chimney sweeps, the girls ended up in the textile industry, in tobacco processing in Brissago or in the rice fields of Novara, which was also extremely hard work: the girls had to stand bent over in the water for twelve to fourteen hours in all weathers. The last verse of the Italian folk song 'Amore mio non piangere' reads: “Mamma, papà, non piangere, se sono consumata, è stata la risaia che mi ha rovinata” (Mom, dad, don't cry when I'm used up, it was the rice field that destroyed me.)... de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaminfegerkinder
The conditions for the chimney sweeps - usually boys between the age of 8 and 12 (or younger, because they had to be small enough to be able to crawl into the chimneys) - were so catastrophic that many of them didn't survive; they died of starvation, cold or soot in their lungs - as well as of work-related accidents like breaking their necks when they fell, or suffocatig if they got stuck in inside a chimney. This practice of "child slavery" went on as late as the 1950s (there's a very short article in English on the topic here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spazzacamini and a more in depth account for German speakers in this brief clip: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gda8vZp_zsc ).
Now I don't know if the people who built the old stone houses along my path had to sell any of their kids, but looking at the remnants of their (not so distant) era I felt an immense sense of gratitude that I was born at a time of prosperity - and peace - in my region, my country and my home. Because none of it was my doing: it was simple luck that decided when and where I came into this world.
It also made me think of my own family. Both of my grandparents on my father's side grew up in Ticino (they were both born in 1900), but while they eventually left Switzerland's poorest region to live in its richest, the Kanton of Zurich, my grandfather's parents relocated to northern Italy in the 1920s and unfortunately were still there when WWII broke out.
They lost everything during the war, and it was their youngest daughter - whom I only knew as "Zia" which means "aunt" in Italian - who earned a little money to support herself and my great-grandparents by giving piano lessons to high-ranking Nazi officers and their kids (this was towards the end of the war when German forces had occupied Italy).
I never knew that about her; Zia only very rarely spoke of the war, but one time when I visited her when she was already over a 100 years old (she died at close to 104), I asked her how they had managed to survive, and she told me that she went to the local prefecture nearly every day to teach piano. "And on the way there would be the dangling ones" she said, with a shudder.
I didn't get what she meant, so she explained. Visiting the city center where the high ranking military resided meant she had to walk underneath the executed men and women who were hanging from the lantern posts along the road (these executions - often of civilians - were the Germans' retaliations for attacks by the Italian partisans).
I never forgot her words - nor could I shake the look on her face as she re-lived this memory. And I still can't grasp it; my house in Ticino is only 60 meters from the Italian border, and the idea that there was a brutal war going on three houses down the road from where I live now in Zia's lifetime strikes me as completely surreal.
So, back to my title for the photo above. "Peace". It's such a simple, short word, isn't it? And we use it - or its cousin "peaceful" - quite often when we mean nice and quiet or stress-free. But if I'm honest I don't think I know what it means. My grandaunt Zia did, but I can't know. And I honestly hope I never will.
I'm sorry I led you down such a dark road; I usually intend to make people smile with the anecdotes that go with my photos, but this one demanded a different approach (I guess with this latest image I've strayed from the path in more than one sense, and I hope you'll forgive me).
Ticino today is the region with the second highest average life expectancy in Europe (85.2 years), and "The Human Development Index" of 0.961 in 2021 was one of the highest found anywhere in the world, and northern Italy isn't far behind. But my neighbors, many of whom are now in their 90s, remember well it wasn't always so.
That a region so poor it must have felt like purgatory to many of its inhabitants could turn into something as close to paradise on Earth as I can imagine in a person's lifetime should make us all very hopeful. But, and this is the sad part, it also works the other way 'round. And I believe we'd do well to remember that, too.
To all of you - with my usual tardiness but from the bottom of my heart - a happy, healthy, hopeful 2025 and beyond.
Ever since I heard the Eagles' Hotel California, I was never able to think of this hotel the same way again. It must be that Spanish mission style. The Eagles' album was released in 1976, the same year I graduated with my HSC from Ferntree Gully High School.
Since deciding that drawing with pencils was something I should do, I have been sharing my work with you' This is the last one for now - I must motivate myself to get away from the camera and computer more often!
Since December 2020, Henri Coandă International Airport, the main airport of the Romanian capital, can be reached by train. Trains from the state railway company Căile Ferate Române and the private carrier Transferoviar Călători, which mainly uses DH2 trainsets from the Netherlands, run 24 hours a day. On February 20, 2022, CFR Desiro 96-2014 will depart at 4.32am as train R-E 7912 to București Gara de Nord.
Since these terns no longer nest near Merritt, BC I have missed them. It was fun being so close to them in Alberta. They are my favorite tern because of their unique color!
Since I still have some photos to upload I'll post two some days
P.S. you can't imagine how difficult it is to focus an image like this with a f/1.8
Tierpark Nordhorn
Since 2004, free-flying, wild storks (Ciconia ciconia) have been breeding successfully at the Vechtehof and on the barn at the African savannah. Storks that are unable to fly live in the meadow in the zoo. These are usually victims of an accident that can only survive thanks to human care.
Recently, more wild storks have been coming to the zoo every year, trying to build their large nests in trees or in aviaries. The Nordhorn zoo, together with the NABU Graafschap Bentheim, is trying to lure the animals from the zoo to nature reserves by placing nests in the side arms of the Vecht outside the zoo.
A banded snail kite hauls off a recently caught crawfish to a nearby tree, Really. Do we need a name change to "mudbug" kite? Just sayin'......................
Taken in Florida.
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Srednjevjekovni grad Ozalj građen je na klisuri iznad Kupe, prvi put se spominje 1244. kao slobodni kraljevski grad. Bio je u posjedu obitelj Frankopan od 1398., zatim je prešao u posjed obitelji Zrinski 1550. i ostao njihov do 1671.
The medieval town Ozalj was built on a cliff over the Kupa river and the first mention of it dates from 1244, as a free royal town. The Frankopan family owned it since 1398, then it passed to the Zrinski family in 1550, and it stayed theirs until 1671.
This is my first decor pic since forever, but I really loved these colors for Christmas and actually felt a bit inspired. So, here's a mix of some of my favorite holiday items, new & old. I hope you all enjoy the holiday season if you celebrate!
【Elm - Available at Santa Inc.】
✦ Elm. Avery Light Tree w/ Light Cluster ~ FATPACK LI:9
✦ Elm. Avery Wreath Decor LI:2 (Event Mystery Gift)
【Elm - Available at Collabor88】
✦ Elm. Clara Decor ~ "Better Not Pout" Decor LI:3
✦ Elm. Clara Decor ~ Lantern #1 LI:4
✦ Elm. Clara Decor ~ Lantern #2 LI:2
✦ Elm. Clara Decor ~ Mini Tree Decor LI:1
✦ Elm. Clara Decor ~ Starlight Decor LI:1
✦ Elm. Clara Fireplace w/ Pompoms [White] LI:5
✦ Elm. Clara Stove Hearth LI:4
【Elm - Available at ACCESS】
✦ Elm. Beth Blanket Ladder ~ FATPACK LI:6
✦ Elm. Beth Decor ~ Rug [White] LI:2
【Elm - Available at EQUAL10】
✦ Elm. Joy Paper Garland ~ Combined #1 [Pack #2] LI:3
✦ Elm. Joy Paper Garland ~ Combined #3 [Pack #2] LI:3
【Elm - Available at the Mainstore】
✦ Elm. Whimsy Fuzzy Tree #1 [White] LI:1
✦ Elm. Whimsy Fuzzy Tree #4 [White] LI:1
✦ Elm. Whimsy Fuzzy Tree #8 [White] LI:1
✦ Elm. Whimsy Letter Board [Jingle] LI:2
【{moss&mink} - Available at Santa Inc.】
✦{moss&mink} Blitzen Board Game - Gold (Adult) LI:6
【{moss&mink} - Available at the Mainstore】
✦ {moss&mink} Golden Winter Felt Tree
【BUENO - Available at Kustom9】
✦ BUENO-Winter Cabin-Montana LI:20
【Zerkalo - Available at ACCESS】
[ zerkalo ] Grassington Armchair w/Cloth - PG LI:9
【Fancy Decor - Available at the Mainstore】
✦ 01 Fancy Decor: Gilt & Pearl Tree Topper RARE LI:3
✦ 03 Fancy Decor: Gold Stripe Bauble LI:1
✦ 06 Fancy Decor: Checker Bauble (gold) LI:1
✦ 09 Fancy Decor: Gilt Studded Ornament LI:1
✦ 10 Fancy Decor: Noir Dot Stripe Ornament LI:1
✦ 15 Fancy Decor: Noir Droplet Ornament LI:1
✦ 15 Fancy Decor: Ridged Bauble (gold) LI:1
✦ 16 Fancy Decor: Noir Ridged Ornament LI:1
✦ 18 Fancy Decor: Noir Plain Ornament B LI:1
✦ 20 Fancy Decor: Noir Tree Ribbon LI:1
【Other Decor Used】
✧ Apple Fall Heritage Christmas Tree - Golden White LI:16
✧ Apple Fall Ornament: Metallic Confetti - Gold LI:1
✧ Apple Fall Ornament: Metallic Pinecone - Copper LI:1
✧ Apple Fall Ornament: Metallic Pinecone - Gold LI:1
✧ Apple Fall Ornament: Metallic Ridged - Copper LI:1
✧ Apple Fall Ornament: Metallic Ridged - Gold LI:1
✧ Apple Fall Ornament: Ribbed Cone - Mercury Glass LI:1
✧ CHEZ MOI Sliding Penguins LI:2
✧ Granola. Noelle Gift Box4. Gold. M/C LI:2
✧ Nutmeg. White Holiday Tree LI:4
✧ PILOT & Can't Even - Christmas Tree Strings [White] LI:2
✧ Soy. Raindrops curtain (Long) LI:2
✧ Trompe Loeil - Yasmine Noel Branch Ornamented Long LI:3
✧ Ten Thousand & Co. - XMAS TREE Billboard Black/White LI:1
✧ [North Oak] Gift Wrapping - Tan &White
Since there's no FL9 for picture 490, we'll return to Conrail and freight action (technically there was an Amtrak FL9 No. 490 but it was one of six junk units sent for scrap). Here at Oakland Road in Weedsport, a gift that keeps on giving as far as locations go, we see westbound double stack train TV-201X with C36-7 No. 6643 leading a B40-8, B36-7, and GP40-2 for power, on the pleasant late summer afternoon of 21 September 1991.
“For although nepenthe has calmed me, I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men. This I have known ever since I stretched out my fingers to the abomination within that great gilded frame; stretched out my fingers and touched a cold and unyielding surface of polished Steel.”
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::GB:: Big hoodie coat / FATPACK @ Mainstore
⛧ Black & White In Fatpack
⛧ For Legacy M , Belleza
::GB::Leather boots in pants / FATPACK @ Mainstore
⛧ 5 Colors & Designs In Fatpack
⛧ Includes Long & Short
⛧ For Legacy M , Belleza
::GB:: Bicolor Double belt boots / Black @ Mainstore
⛧ Multiple Colors
⛧ For Legacy M , Belleza, Geralt
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Since many groups discourage either posting images of nests, or giving their locations, I am not going to bother "sharing" this with a group. However, I did want to share with those who follow me on Flickr the curious nature of the general location of this nest that I learned about on Friday. Specifically, I have never seen, nor did I ever imagine a Bald Eagle nest in such close proximity to human activity. I captured this image in the parking lot of a shopping plaza with a large supermarket. A local told me the eagles have been there for at least two years, and managed to fledge two juveniles last year. This eagle flew in while I was observing. The other eagle that had been on the nest, took off a few minutes later leaving this guy to guard to site.
Since these ladybirds visited my giant Chrysanthemum, all the aphids have disappeared from the leaves and stems. I am grateful to these pretty and industrious insects :)
Since I feed birds in the cold season, I get visits from many species. This one waited for me in the snow when I stepped out of the door today. She deserved a portrait.
If you like my work and wanna show it by inviting me to one of your groups, you are very welcome to do that, but please do not leave any graphic logos! I'll delete them.
Since “The Lonely Tree” (German: Der einsame Baum) a 1822 oil-on-canvas painting by German painter Caspar David Friedrich, solitary trees have been depicted in many ways and are popular objects in photography, so here is mine rendition. The famous painting measures 55 × 71 centimeters (22 × 28 in) and depicts a panoramic view of a romantic landscape of plains with mountains in the background. A solitary oak tree dominates the foreground. For more information and different interpretations follow the link en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lonely_Tree
Since moving to the mountains I have had to get used to looking down on airplanes arriving at the airport. It takes a shift in mental space and is a constant reminder of geographical location.
Since several years acid rain is affecting that in a higher altitudes the forest is getting ill. After this bark beetles are destroying a part of the sick forest.
Had been too long since I just did some building for fun, and I felt like making a spaceship. Didn’t have anything specific in mind, so looked at what interesting elements I had around. Some RB 3x3x5 quarter cylinder with arches normally used for tree trunks and white balloon panels caught my eye. And the rest of the craft grew from there. Has an opening cockpit that reveals the little turtle pilot.
More pictures on Brickbuilt.
Since 1959, this vintage car rally has been held between Barcelona and Sitges. It is a concentration of vehicles, authentic museum pieces manufactured before 1900 to 1924. The winners of this contest are not the fastest to travel the route, but those with the most original cars, and those who wear more in line with the era of the car with which they participate.
Since we have entered into the season of summer - I thought my glass topped coffee table should be "summery". (Not sure "summery" is a word - but I think most people will understand what I mean.)
Wishing all of my Flickr friends a very happy summer.
SINCE THE BEGINNING OF JANUARY THE STRAWBERRIES GROWN SOME 80 KILOMETRES FROM SEVILLA IN MATALAGRANA, NEAR EL ROCIO, HAVE BEEN ON SALE. LIKE EVERY YEAR IN JANUARY. THEY ARE DELICIOUS. I LIKE TO CUT THEM INTO SMALL PARTS TO EAT THEM WITH MY STRAWBERRY YOGURTS.
MATALAGRANA, ALMONTE, HUELVA, SPAIN.
* Since reading Ian McEwan’s 2007 novel “ On Chesil Beach “ I have wanted to see this strange geological structure .
Chesil is not your typical British beach lined with stripy deckchairs and pastel painted beach-huts but wild, rugged and at the mercy of Mother Nature. John Fowles, captures the landscape of Chesil perfectly in his quote: ..... “It is above all an elemental place, made of sea, shingle and sky, its dominant sound always that of waves on moving stone”
The beach runs for a length of 18 miles from West Bay to the Isle of Portland and in places is up to 50 ft high and 660 ft wide. Behind the beach is the Fleet, a shallow tidal lagoon. The lagoon is home to the mute swan colony at Abbotsbury, the only place in the world where you can walk through a nesting colony of mute swans.
The pebbles on Chesil Beach are graded in size from potato-sized near Portland to pea-sized at Bridport and are made up of mainly flint and chert from the Cretaceous and Jurassic rocks, along with Bunter pebbles from Budleigh Salterton. It is believed that smugglers landing on the beach at night could could judge their position along the coast simply by picking up a handful of shingle.
Both the beach and the Swannery are UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
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for dinner~~~ since he was flying into the wind I had the advantage that he would come right over me....the tricky part was keeping that big yellow ball in the sky out of my picture, such a nice and unusual problem to have in our rainy west coast forests....heheh ....hope you all have a great start to 2016....