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Klimt poster and Chinese plastic girls
I've had some posters for years but they are too big to be put on my overcrowded walls , so I decided to use them as backgrounds !
When my husband suggested a walk, I didn't notice that I had the Laowa-manual-everything lens on the camera. That's a bit as if I took a film camera ;-))
Cloudy and sunny with sprinkles. This year promises to perform much more nicely than last year with its heat, dryness, and forest fires.
Library of Birmingham, Birmingham
Big thanks to everyone that made it to Birmingham yesterday, especially those that couldn't make the full day but came to show their faces briefly for coffee and lunch - really appreciate the effort from everyone all round.
Naturally, I have to lead with this one or else Eddie will kill me for making him hang around for the extra couple of hours and besides, I think he might have eclipsed me with some of his fountain shots.
It's always good meeting up with some familiar faces as well as the new... hope you enjoyed the day out David and Simon and I hope we all meet again. Personally, I enjoy the social meetup more than the photography, but this time the relaxed, non-existent timetable and route march made it all the more enjoyable - it's the future!
Thanks to Mark for suggesting the Digbeth shoot, I enjoyed that more than my planned library night shoot and I'm sure Eddie got a lot out of it as well judging by his shutter clicks.
I love this view, less than ten minutes drive from home, best at this time of year with the early morning mist and sun..
The evening sun was low and gave bright backlighting to this scene of colourful beech leaves and green moss. The National Trust's Ashridge Estate includes part of the Ridgeway National Trail through the Chilterns. As the name doesn't suggest, the oldest parts of the forest are predominantly grand old beech trees. And that was true before the scourge of ash dieback.
I am grateful and very happy to announce that I have been selected to be part of THE DICKENS PROJECT OPEN ART SHOW, amongst many wonderful artists.
The opening will take part on Sunday, Dec. 22, 11am SLT.
Caledonia Skytower will be the DJ for the occasion.
Dress-code: (Victorian Attire Suggested)
Hope to see you there.
The picture was
taken at the Dickens project sim.
I would like to take the opportunity to wish each and every one of you a very Merry Christmas. I am GRATEFUL to all of you for your constant uplifting support and huge encouragement that you have given me. I so much appreciate you all.
As you all probably have noticed, I haven't been very active here on Flickr the past year and even less the past 6 months, and I haven't shared many Pictures in 2024.
My focus has been more or less in my RL. I have take up doing pictures in RL when ever I am out hiking or just walking.
Some of those pictures I have even shared with you here on Flickr, I have wanted to give you all some glimpse of my RL.
It has been a very hard year for me in RL, but also a very exciting and fulfilling year for me personally, in so many ways, but please, no worries, everything is alright with me, and things are looking brighter, and definitely going the way I want it to.
I can't wait to start the new year and I hope that I will find back to the inspiration of doing SL pictures as well as be more active on Flickr and hopefully I will be sharing more SL pictures in the new year.
I will most probably reopen all of my Flickr groups in the beginning of January 2025 as well, I am looking forward to that.
Thank you so much to each and every one of you for all your positive feedback on my work trough out the years and this past year as well. I am grateful.
Merry Christmas, and I wish you all a very happy New Year.
May 2025 be a wonderful year.
💖Especially with everything going on in the world these days, please take good care of your self as well as one another, we know nothing about what others are going trough, so therefor always be kind as well as thoughtful towards others. 💖
💖 Huge, huge hugs, light, peace and love to you all 💖.
Best regards
Lori 💖
Resting on a make-shift chair of a groyne while out fishing at sunset. The seaside can be a quiet place out of season
The natural harbour of Abercastle, Pembrokeshire, UK. What appears to be the end of the promontory is separate from the mainland, and called Ynys Y Castell (Castle Island). As the name suggests, there is evidence of a former fortification on the island. The castle-like ruin on the mainland was actually a grain store.
An intermediate, or yellow-billed, egret (ardea intermedia) taking off from a lily covered pond in Khao Lak, Phang Nga, Thailand. As its name suggests, this egret is somewhere in size between a little egret and a great egret.
As for the interior of the dome, it was first suggested that the 45 m wide dome be covered with mosaic decoration to make the most of the light coming in through the rose windows and through the lantern. Brunelleschi proposed that the vault should shine like glittering gold, but his death in 1446 put an end to this project and the walls of the dome were whitewashed. Cosimo I de Medici decided to have the dome painted with a representation of The Last Judgment. This work, of 3600 m² of painted surface, was begun in 1568 by Giorgio Vasari and Federico Zuccaro and would last until 1579. The upper part, near the lantern, represents the 24 Elders of the Apocalypse. It was finished by Vasari before his death in 1574. Federico Zuccaro and other collaborators, such as Domenico Cresti, finished other sections: (from top to bottom) Choirs of Angels, Christ, Mary and the Saints, Virtues, Gifts of the Holy Spirit, and Beatitudes, and in the lower part of the dome: Mortal Sins and Hell. These frescoes are considered Zuccaro's best works. But the quality of the work is uneven due to the collaborations of various artists who used different techniques. Vasari had used fresco painting while Zuccaro used dry painting.
Yes, this beautiful little male leucistic Anna's Hummingbird is still around. He has some issue with his bill on the left side. It was suggested that it is a fungal infection. Hope it gets better... it hasn't affected him otherwise, he is still very active.
La plage de Nazaré hier en panorama.
Nazareth Beach yesterday in panorama.
La playa de Nazaré ayer en panorama.
A praia da Nazaré ontem em panorama.
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't Is the season of many flowering grasses. Here, if I'm not mistaken - I find naming grasses something of a challenge - is Downy Oat-grass, Helictotrichon pubescens, in full flower. You can see the purple anthers attached to the flower by fine filaments. Then there are the feathery stigmas, and the pollen sticking to a lower glume on the right. Most grasses cross-pollinate usually by the wind, and as Anna Weimarck suggested in 1967, this is also the case for Downy Oat-grass.
FENICOTTERI IN VISTA.
A qualche decina di chilometri da Ferrara si trovano le Valli di Comacchio, 11.000 ht di area salmastra circondata da argini e dossi ricchi di fauna e flora tipica degli ambienti lagunari. Punti particolarmente suggestivi sono la penisola di Boscoforte e le Saline, dove è possibile ammirare una folta colonia di fenicotteri. IL parco Regionale del Delta del Po è il più esteso fra i parchi regionali e occupa un' importantissima porzione di territorio dell'Emilia Romagna.
CANON EOS 600D con ob. TAMRON SP 150-600mm f./5-6,3 DI VC USD
Black tailed Godwit - Limosa Limosa
These large wading birds are a Schedule 1 species. In summer, they have bright orangey-brown chests and bellies, but in winter they're more greyish-brown.
Their most distinctive features are their long beaks and legs, and the black and white stripes on their wings. Female black-tailed godwits are bigger and heavier than the males, with a noticeably longer beak (which helps the sexes to avoid competing for food with each other).
They're very similar to bar-tailed godwits, which breed in the Arctic. Black-tailed godwits have longer legs, and bar-tailed godwits don't have striped wings. As the names suggest, the tail patterns are different, too.
Black-tailed godwits are much more likely to be found on inland wetlands than the more coastal bar-tailed godwit. They migrate in flocks to western Europe, Africa, south Asia and Australia. Although this species occurs in Ireland and Great Britain all year-round, they are not the same birds. The breeding birds depart in autumn, but are replaced in winter by the larger Icelandic race. These birds occasionally appear in the Aleutian Islands and, rarely, on the Atlantic coast of North America.
There is an estimated global population of between 634,000 and 805,000 birds and estimated range of 7,180,000 square kilometres (2,770,000 sq mi). In 2006 BirdLife International classified this species as Near Threatened due to a decline in numbers of around 25% in the previous 15 years. It is also among the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies.
In Europe, black-tailed godwits are only hunted in France, with the annual total killed estimated at 6,000 to 8,000 birds. This puts additional pressure on the western European population, and the European Commission has a management plan in place for the species in its member states.
In England, black-tailed godwits were formerly much prized for the table. Sir Thomas Browne (1605–1682) said: "[Godwits] were accounted the daintiest dish in England and I think, for the bignesse, of the biggest price."
Population:
UK breeding:
54-57 pairs of the limosa 'Eurasian' subspecies, and 7-9 pairs of the islandica subspecies
UK wintering:
44,000 birds from the Icelandic population
UK passage:
12,400 birds
Europe:
99-140,000 pairs
Taking during a workshop given at the Edinburgh Uni Photosoc . Many thanks to Sony UK (especially Paul Genge) and the EPS (especially Adam T Jagger) for counting on me, the warm welcome and the great organisation. And, of course, to all the good people who meet there. A big hug, friends! :)
Tomada en un workshop impartido en la Edinburgh Uni Photosoc . Muchas gracias a Sony UK (en especial a Paul Genge) y a la EPS (en especial a Adam T. Jagger) por contar conmigo, por el cálido recibimiento y por la excelente organización. Y , por supuesto, a todos los que asistieron. Un abrazo a todos!
None of my photos are HDR or blended images, they are taken from just one shot
Forth Road Bridge, Queensferry (Scotland)
Sony A900 + Carl Zeiss16-35mm + Cokin filters : 2 X121S
Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission. © All rights reserved
There's little to suggest the present-day Northwich was once a stronghold of steam traction, nor host to a sizeable locomotive depot serving the significant local industrial interests (limestone, coal, coke, and chemical traffic typically), as well as supporting other through freight traffic from around the North-West.
The depot saw a variety of codes throughout its life but was known as 8E from 1958-1973, and thereafter NW until its closure in 1984. In the early 1960s it wasn't unusual to see up to twenty 8Fs stabled there over a weekend, but with the advent of the diesel era, and then the gradual erosion of wagonload traffic through the 1970s, this transitioned to typically a handful of class 40s, a few class 25s, and a couple of class 08 shunters. Located on the plot of land behind me on my left, the area has now been redeveloped into residential housing - in this instance accessed by Pullman Drive, rather an odd choice of name given, to my knowledge, Northwich never saw anything resembling a Pullman train.
This shot was taken from the Middlewich Road overbridge and features Sandbach Junction. The line to the left is a single track freight-only route through Middlewich which eventually joins the West Coast Main Line at Sandbach. As can be seen from the state of the rails, it still sees several trains per week. It's quite a tight triangle here and the other side of it runs between the hedge and the houses in the left middle distance. The rather duller link just in front of me from the freight loop to the Down line (towards Greenbank and Chester) sees rather less use. In steam days the turnout just here was in fact a single slip, which gave access to the Up line too - a facility locos heading for the depot would no doubt have made use of.
Much of the freight traffic passing through Northwich these days consists of domestic and industrial waste en route for processing, and biomass pellets heading from Liverpool Port to Drax Power Station. There's also some stone traffic movement too from Tunstead heading South. In this shot a clean DB Cargo 'Shed', unit 66019, was snapped approaching the station with the 10.51am Knowsley Freight Terminal - Wilton EFW Terminal (6E26) loaded waste containers.
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12.34pm, 23rd April 2025
It has been a brutal year, with wars, political upheaval, extreme weather, and famine. If only the change of a year could bring relief... but alas, I fear it won't.
Here is a sunset from a few weeks back with scattered lenticular clouds on the east side of the Rockies. The stacked clouds in the center were remarkable in remaining in place for 3 or 4 hours, suggesting the velocity of the high winds responsible for their formation was relatively constant. Alternatively these might be some of the UFOs reported in the skies above New Jersey, parked while their owners shred the ski slopes.
Wishing everyone heath, happiness, and good light in the coming year.
During New Zealand's lockdown (which was today extended to the night of the 27th - a sensible move), a strict interpretation of the rules suggests we are allowed to leave our house for supermarket visits and for local exercise.
Fortunately, I can see trains leaving Pukeuri and shuffle about in the yard from the house and also listen to them on a scanner. So if the sun isn't in quarantine, it's fairly easy to time a 10 minute walk down the hill to see them departing without any obvious loitering.
It also seems foolish during these difficult times not to pass up the opportunity to get a few shots with the flying camera that might be less doable if there were more people around...
20 April 2020, Train 925 crosses the Oamaru Creek.
7241-7104, Oamaru, SIMT-NZ
Il nuraghe (1.600 -1300 a.C.) si trova a meno di un km in linea d’aria a sud-ovest dell’abitato di Padria. Per accedere occorre percorrere una breve ma suggestiva scalinata che si snoda in un bosco fiabesco. Archeologicamente il nuraghe è costituito da due piani collegati da una magnifica scala; solo il piano terreno, tuttavia, conserva integra la tholos.
This picture is the result of a comment in the previously posted picture by Andreas Schulze. He suggested to crop this panorama to the hillside in the background. Thats what I did literaly, What do you think, which one you'd preferr?
Little Petra (Arabic: البتراء الصغيرة, al-batrā aṣ-ṣaġïra), also known as Siq al-Barid (Arabic: سيق البريد, literally "the cold canyon") is an archaeological site located north of Petra and the town of Wadi Musa in the Ma'an Governorate of Jordan. Like Petra, it is a Nabataean site, with buildings carved into the walls of the sandstone canyons. As its name suggests, it is much smaller, consisting of three wider open areas connected by a 450-metre (1,480 ft) canyon. It is part of the Petra Archeological Park, though accessed separately, and included in Petra's inscription as a UNESCO World Heritage Site..
Like Petra, it was probably built during the height of Nabataean influence during the 1st century C.E. While the purpose of some of the buildings is not clear, archaeologists believe that the whole complex was a suburb of Petra, the Nabatean capital, meant to house visiting traders on the Silk Road. After the decline of the Nabataeans, it fell vacant, used only by Bedouin nomads, for centuries. Along with neighboring Beidha, Little Petra was excavated in the later 20th century by Diana Kirkbride and Brian Byrd.
In 2010, a biclinium, or dining room, in one of the caves was discovered to have surviving interior art depicting grapes, vines and putti in great detail with a varied palette, probably in homage to the Greek god Dionysus and the consumption of wine. The 2,000-year-old ceiling frescoes in the Hellenistic style have since been restored. While they are not only the only known example of interior Nabataean figurative painting in situ, they are a very rare large-scale example of Hellenistic painting, considered superior even to similar later Roman paintings at Herculaneum.
Symphyotrichum novae-angliae formerly known as Aster novae-angliae is part of genus of the Americas, this one is native to central and eastern North America, that was classified alongside a known European relative first but recently reclassified. Both Aster and Symphyotrichum are genera in the Asteraceae family, so they are closely related. However, Symphyotrichum species have hairy calyxes, Aster species do not.
Symphyotrichum novae-angliae has or had a number of varying, but mostly medical, uses among different Indigenous peoples of North America. The Cherokee,for example, used a poultice of the roots to treat pain. Both the Meskwaki and the Potawatomi have used the plant to revive patients. While the Iroquois have made a decoction of the roots and leaves of the plant for fevers. However, the perhaps most surprising docutmented use was that the Ojibwe smoked the root in pipes to attract game.
There are roughly 50 Symphyotrichum novae-angliae cultivars. This one is called "Rubinschatz" (German for ruby treasure) despite the range of colours you find in image searches varying from light blue via different shades of purple to deep pink but never the actual deep red the name suggests. "Rubinschatz" is a creation of German gardener, garden writer and philosopher Karl Foerster (1874 – 1970). Foerster helped popularize the use of grasses in garden design and for the cultivation of a number of decorative Delphinium, Aster and Grass varieties.
Foerster was a son of German astronomer Wilhelm Julius Foerster, director of the Royal Berlin Observatory, which today carries his name. His siblings included philosopher, pedagogue and pacifist Friedrich Wilhelm (1869-1966) as well as ship designer Ernst (1876-1955). Foerster himself joined the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in 1940, which must have made for interesting family dinners, one imagines. Despite his party membership, he afterwards managed to keep his nursery in private hands during while living in the German Democratic Republic (socialist East Germany) and even recived East Germany's National Prize (Nationalpreis der DDR) as well as that coutry's Patriotic Order of Merit (Vaterländischer Verdienstorden in Silber). Foerster's former home is now a museum documenting his life and work, while the accompanying nursery and garden are used as experimental, teaching and show gardens.
Pelecanus erythrorhynchos,
Morro Bay, California
Connie, my wife, suggested that these pelicans look like they're writing in the water with their bills. I like that.
Research suggests that the majority of dreams involve at least some colour, even if people don’t always remember it clearly. That said, experiences vary:
Most people: Dream in colour regularly
Some people: Dream partly in colour and partly in black-and-white
A small minority: Report dreaming mostly or entirely in black-and-white
Interestingly, age and media exposure seem to matter. People who grew up watching black-and-white television are more likely to report black-and-white dreams, while younger generations almost always report colour dreams.
Also, dreams can feel less colourful simply because colour is often not the focus—just like in waking life, you don’t always consciously notice colours unless they stand out.
Exeter, Devon, UK.
Now I know doctors and researchers say we all dream - but if I do, I don't remember doing it. The last time I remember dreaming was when i was a teenager (over half a century ago).
This saying seems to suggest how nostalgia may cause us to view the past in an overly-positive light, and how humans tend to remember people and places from our upbringing in static terms.
RHS Hyde Hall, Rettendon, Nr. Chelmsford, Essex
Over the past 4 or 5 years I have posted many images from RHS Hyde Hall and now I’m going to post another series, this time called ‘A day in the Life’. As the title suggests I’m posting what I think are the best of that particular day. These are just some taken on 16/05/2014, I have found a couple of early ‘missing’ folders which I would like to show. This is the third of four postings.
Ankara / Türkiye
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My first outing with my January Sales bargain Z8, which unexpectadly arrived the afternoon before I took this. I hadn't really set all the features up in the camera, but was excited to get out and use it.
I had already planned to go up to the Lakes with John Bleakley anyway, so the new camera was definitely going in the bag.
This was the first shot I took with it, so I had to post it. We had planned to go into the Keswick area and as we drove along the A66 we could see that Blencathra had some cloud around it and everywhere else looked pretty clear as the sky lightened. So I suggested we tried Tewet Tarn for sunrise.
As we arrived the conditions were very cold at -8, so we quickly donned our gear and headed up the fell side. I knew from previous visits where to go so we got to this spot before the sun appeared over the horizon.
So here is the view on this first foray out with the Z8.