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Bodiam Castle (/ˈboʊdiəm/) is a 14th-century moated castle near Robertsbridge in East Sussex, England. It was built in 1385 by Sir Edward Dalyngrigge, a former knight of Edward III, with the permission of Richard II, ostensibly to defend the area against French invasion during the Hundred Years' War. Of quadrangular plan, Bodiam Castle has no keep, having its various chambers built around the outer defensive walls and inner courts. Its corners and entrance are marked by towers, and topped by crenellations. Its structure, details and situation in an artificial watery landscape indicate that display was an important aspect of the castle's design as well as defence. It was the home of the Dalyngrigge family and the centre of the manor of Bodiam.

The castle is protected as a Grade I listed building and Scheduled Monument. It has been owned by The National Trust since 1925, donated by Lord Curzon on his death, and is open to the public.

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Sometimes I see potential in a photo for these effects. Sometimes I just go willy nilly and see what happens. Sometimes I just put the photo in the trash and start over.

This is done using a layer mask and blur effect in Photoshop Elements.

Happy Slider Sunday

I want to highlight the unfortunate situation of the elephants in Botswana at the moment...hundreds have been dying mysterious deaths and scientists, biologists and conservationists are all looking for the cause, to understand why this is occurring

please take a moment to watch the video I am sharing that was aired on one of our excellent research and investigative TV shows a few weeks ago..however there are scenes in here that may not be suitable for sensitive viewers!

youtu.be/jq8UP19ju1g

Borage buds and flowers in the back ground taken at the Melbourne Botanical Gardens.

Covid situation getting worse..our whole state of Victoria is in lockdown now due to the spread of the delta variant to the regional areas. Too many infectious cases not in isolation in the community and too many mystery cases that cannot be linked to known clusters is making it very hard to control the spread.

Today is day 202 of lockdown for us in Melbourne since the start of the pandemic.

Still we are better off than the poor souls who are trying to flee Afghanistan !

Many thanks for your visit, comments, invites and faves...it is always appreciated.

Happy Saturday

Art made from my spray adhesive for arts+crafts.

For:

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Confined to the household in the current situation another one from last season. Stay safe everyone.

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MISSION ALMOST IMPOSIBBLE, please image this situation, about 300 hundred of these Geese feeding on the wide-open sea shore mud flats, but too far to achieve a decent photograph , as I approach them in the wide-open, they walk away at the same speed, If I move to quick, they will all take flight. Walking along the water edge, I could see one on its own, and it was walking towards me, and was completely fearless, so I filled up a complete camera card, and went away smiling like a Cheshire |Cat., and thanking God I believe this must be a Juvenile,

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Keep a smile on your face and love in your hearts for everyone, keep safe and well, God bless............................Tomx.

"I think I'd better think it out again!" says the Rufous hummingbird

Title from a song in the musical, "Oliver."

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One day, while at the inauguration of a photographic exhibition, I was going out to take the air, a blind person crossed in front of the gallery. At that moment I became aware of something very obvious: blind people cannot see photographs. For several years, I created several collections that were called "Photographs to see and touch." This is one of them. With a cutter, I scratched the emulsion on the outline of the objects that made up the photograph, as if drawing on it, creating small scratched lines that formed a relief. In this way the photograph could be looked at, but it was also possible to touch it with the fingers and feel the reliefs of the drawing. Over time I started to use metallic photographic paper, a high quality paper in the image, but that scratches very easily. I discovered that if the photograph was scratched with the cutter, with a very sharp point and very delicately, you could get stripes of different colors by tearing the three color layers of the emulsion. With Fuji Professional Lux Color Metallic Photo Paper, stripes, oranges, reds, yellows and browns colors were obtained. On the contrary, with Fuji Professional Lux Chrome Metallic Photo Paper, blue, cyan, violet and greenish colors were obtained. To get the white stripes... easy... I scratched harder, piercing the emulsion and showing the base paper of the photo, in this case, metallic paper. Subsequently, I used photographic anilines to color and intensify the colors obtained. For this photo I used Fuji Velvia 50 Professional color reversal film and Fuji Professional Lux Color metallic paper. Scan: Epson Perfection V-700 Photo.

Location: Stairs of the underpass, Sitges-Barcelona railway line. Hort Gran Street, Sitges.

Awards:

VII Photographic Exhibition MAN RAY.

Planeta Award for Photography. Editorial Planeta.

Expo-Arte, Category: Photography.

I Photographic Contest Bahía del Pajar, San Bartolomé de Tirajana

XIV Pere Caner Photography Contests.

5th Narcís Giralt Photography Contest.

XIV Ajuntament de Cullera Photography Contests (Valencia).

III National Contest City of Cieza (Murcia).

XVIIth Photography Contests Escola Belles Arts, Sant Joan Les Fonts.

VI Fernando Villalón Foundation Photography Contest.

XII City of Dénia Photographic Contest (Alacant).

Situations

Jack Johnson - In Between Dreams (2005)

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Situación número uno: es la que acaba de empezar, pero evidentemente es demasiado tarde.

Situación número dos: es la única oportunidad para ti, pero está controlada por los habitantes del odio.

Situación número tres: es la que nadie ve, demasiado a menudo és descartada como destino.

Situación número cuatro: la que te dejó con ganas de más... te tentó con su cebo.

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Leica M-P & Elmarit-M 28mm

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A female grosbeak enjoying some grape jelly.

When coming to think about it, it is much a bitter-sweet situation common to all developing countries... Yes, there may well be exploitation there. Yet most people don't have much choice there, do they? They have their children to feed and parents to support: they are just struggling for survival. Given the modern way of consumption with all the promotions & impetus given to consumption, who is going to make the huge amount of commodities for them which would inevitably bring about pollution ? How many white collars --leave alone the tertiary section of the economy -- elsewhere or anywhere for that matter would prefer to go back to the factories ( or even the farmlands ), even if they are paid more which is obviously not quite the case?

champs elysees and the arc de triomph! i just had to have this shot as difficult the situation was! in the middle of heavy traffic with no tripod! you should have seen me! lol!!!

please view the rest of the set: www.flickr.com/photos/doctony/sets/72157602768996050/detail/

Monarch balances on the spiny cone of a Teasel.

The rain was very close , but so was the sun that was to follow, so just turn your back, and wait for the show to start. What a situation is an old reggae track by Slim Smith, and is fine as i always seem to relish situations like these.

3.8.1978 4, Bewacher, 26x16cm

3.8.1978, Bewacher, Decalcomanie, Fotomontage, 26x16.

3.8.1978, Guards, Decalcomanie, photomontage, 10 x 6 inch

Well, I am sure, some of you know this situation, You came home after a stressfull day, you put on something comfy and then you start to prepare the dinner... and nobody appears... -.-

Last couple of days we had permanent fog and frosty temperatures. A hazardous situation especially if you are on the road. Today the fog disappeared and the sun met the frozen beauty of nature. I used the late afternoon for a quick walk around the house. Obernbeck, Löhne,Ostwestfalen, Germany

..is neither an invention of the current situation nor limited to human beings. When I saw these trees on my hiking trip on Friday along river Else I immediately had the words of Khalil Gibran (The prophet / on marriage) in my mind :

Love one another, but make not a bond

of love:

Let it rather be a moving sea between

the shores of your souls.

Fill each other’s cup but drink not from

one cup.

Give one another of your bread but eat

not from the same loaf.

Sing and dance together and be joyous,

but let each one of you be alone,

Even as the strings of a lute are alone

though they quiver with the same music.

Give your hearts, but not into each

other’s keeping.

For only the hand of Life can contain

your hearts.

And stand together yet not too near

together:

For the pillars of the temple stand apart,

And the oak tree and the cypress grow

not in each other’s shadow.

Kirchlengern, Ostwestfalen, Germany

Hummel gets nectar lavender is sufficiently pollinated....

During the holidays, Peter and Oleg visited some castles in Luxembourg. Peter (Prince Peter) is still looking for a castle for his sweet princess Rosie. www.flickr.com/photos/40262251@N03/ In the castle of Beaufort they also visited the torture chamber.

PETER:

Oleg?? That thing I'm sitting on won't turn around anymore

I can't go up and I can't go down.

What should I do now?

OLEG:

Sit still...give me your left paw and I'll pull you up

And so it happened

Peter and Oleg survived the torture chamber

Hi everyone... I want to give everyone an update... I still struggle with chronic pain on a daily basis. I have been without a source of income for several months so if you are in a position to help, I have setup an account to accept donations, even as little as the price of a coffee. Anything would be greatly appreciated. See my "About" page on Flickr for the link. Thank you. www.flickr.com/people/jax_chile/

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Dove on the Nest - Las Garzas - March 2017-2 LR

Smile on Saturday's theme: Get (to) the point

The Dunnock posed nicely for me here :-)

Als ich diese Situation beobachtete, war mein erster Gedanke:

"Papa Neuntöter stopft doch wohl jetzt nicht die ganze Maus in den Schnabel seines Jungvogels?!"

Tat er natürlich nicht! Er befestigte die Maus an dem Stacheldraht und riss sie in schnabelgerechte Stücke !

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As I watched this situation, my first thought was:

"Papa Neuntöter does not stuff the whole mouse into the beak of his young bird ?!"

Of course he did not! He attached the mouse to the barbed wire and tore it into beak-sized pieces!

A woman walked down to the shore of the green space with her dog, off leash. The dog proceeded to run out after this egret, causing it to relocate. She tried calling it back, but it would have nothing to do with her. She needs to use that leash, as required by law!!! First comment is moments before, as the dog charges...

HFF :)

"We don't need more to be thankful for, we just need to be more thankful."

Carlos Castaneda

I often find myself reframing my thoughts when facing a task, especially one as mundane as housework. Instead of filling the sink with warm sudsy water and thinking "I HAVE to do the dishes"...I change the thought to be "I am thankful I have dishes to wash." It works in all sorts of situations in life. Try it. You might be surprised that you are more thankful for your life than you knew!

My thanks to a former student who shared that thought with me. Teachers learn more from their students than perhaps the students learn from their teachers.

It is what it is.

A lot of wildlife photographers will recognize the situation in which the subject is compelling, but the shooting conditions are crappy.

That's what happened here. The light was harsh and the subjects were down a steep embankment making it impossible to get a good shooting angle. But what we have here is a clash between a Marbled Godwit (right) and a Hudsonian Godwit (left). I couldn't resist posting shot of the rare nature moment. The two species didn't get along very well and entertained us with their squabbling for a few minutes. The outcome of the scuffle was a surprise. The smaller HG made a nifty move and jabbed its bill into the chest of the MG. That must have smarted and the bigger bird immediately left the vicinity.

This twofer is fifth in my shorebird series. One more tomorrow.

Nature Conservancy's Cheyenne Bottoms Preserve, Kansas.

Chickadee

The fish struggled valiantly for a couple of minutes, even getting away briefly, but eventually went the way of all fish in these situations. Head first!