!* Gold Sealings Memories ♠ NO FLOWERS/PORTRAITS! ♠
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Spring's sealing; flowers' blossom.
Trying to avoid a stereotypical flower photo, I came up with this idea...
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7DWF - Flora
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Another version of a series shot a few years ago. The mountain is Mount Edgecombe and has been rumbling in the last year. It popped once. Many boats from the local salmon/halibut fisheries.
Wax seals were used to ensure the security and secrecy of important documents. Throughout the ages, they were used by governments and royalty, and each had their own characteristic designs to confirm the identity of the sender.
HMM!
Macro Mondays: Anachronism
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Contractor Norman Hudson's crew at work resealing the old ArcusStone stucco finish on this Fountaingrove mansion. Norman did the entire wall finish of this mansion twenty years ago, inside and out, and it still looks quite good, but it needed some resealing.
The last rainstorm of the season provided some cloud spectacle.
when you pop the cork, inside each bottle you will find...
a bit of the earth... the soil that helped feed the grapes
the minerals in the dirt; the minerals of France, Oregon, Italy, Portugal, California...
the sunshine
the rain and the wind and the hands...
the hands that cared for the grapes, tended and toiled with them and bottled them for your enjoyment
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I promise this is the last in my mating Avocet series. In this one, they strut off together, still with appearing locked beaks as though he's sweeping her off on their honeymoon. This particular image SO reminded me of a World War II image, the iconic sailor embracing a nurse in Times Square, and a much bigger than lifesize statue named "Unconditional Surrender" sculpted after the photo image. The statue is quite impressive, in a park area near the USS Midway moored in San Diego, CA. There's actually a series of statues there as well of Bob Hope entertaining the troupes.
A pair of Eastern Bluebirds in the yard.
Lowell Township, Michigan
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I accomplished another York Rail shot that I've been wanting for some time on a recent trip to the line. This one, like the last one, came up unexpectedly. With the road job heading into the yard at West York at a much earlier hour than expected, this local/yard job had come out. They met at a small siding near Frito Lay and this "westbound" continued on through the middle of Pennsy Supply Inc. quarry at Thomasville, PA.
There they used the run-around to get to the east end of the train and went east about a mile where they backed into Church & Dwight Co., better known as Arm & Hammer.
There are numerous industrial and scenic shots along G&W's York Rail, one could spend weeks trying to get them all. Chase conditions can be challenging too, especially in thee urban York area where one would be better off chasing with an electric scooter than four wheels, but with several pairs of neat little GP15s doing the work, it's all worthwhile.
Explore December 6 - #236 when I saw it. Thank you :-)
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The nautilus shell is divided internally into chambers, the chambered section being called the phragmocone. The phragmocone is divided into camerae by septa, all of which are pierced in the middle by a duct, the siphuncle. As the nautilus matures its body moves forward, sealing the camerae behind it with a new septum. The last fully open chamber, also the largest one, is used as the living chamber. The number of camerae increases from around four at the moment of hatching to thirty or more in adults.
The nautilus shell presents one of the finest natural examples of a logarithmic spiral, a kind of spiral curve which often appears in nature. The logarithmic spiral was first described by Descartes and later investigated extensively by Jakob Bernoulli, who called it Spira mirabilis, "the marvelous spiral." Bernoulli was fascinated by one of its unique mathematical properties: the size of the spiral increases, but its shape is unaltered with each successive curve.
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In the past, sealing wax was used for closing letters, envelopes and packs, in order to prevent undesired reading or theft of contents.
Nowadays, the use of sealing wax is decorative rather than effective.
For Macro Mondays' theme "Safety" HMM
Comments are always welcome and favs most appreciated.
Comentarios y favs son siempre bienvenidos
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For Macro Mondays 'Back in the Day' theme: a glob of sealing wax impressed with the letter 'R'.
Technical: a 19 image focus stack illuminated by natural window light. Processed in Helicon Focus, cropped in Lightroom to 16:9 format. Dust and fibre removal in Photoshop. Converted to mono in Silver Efex Pro. Split toning and sharpening in Lightroom.
Many thanks for your views, faves and comments. HMM!
The Mount Macedon township is located east of the Mount Macedon summit, which is approximately 60 km north-west of Melbourne.
The name of Mount Macedon is apparently derived from Philip II, who ruled Macedon between 359 and 336BC. The mountain was named by Thomas Mitchell, the New South Wales Surveyor General.
Settled in the 1850s by gold miners and timber cutters, the railway arrived at the Mount Macedon township in 1861, providing a vital connection to Melbourne, and sealing the town's future as a 'hill station' resort for wealthy Melburnians escaping the summer heat in the 1870s. With the land deforested, large blocks were sold and beautiful and extensive gardens were planted around the newly built homes. The rich soil and good rainfall also made the area suitable for large orchards and plant nurseries who could send fruit and flowers back to Melbourne. Newspaper owner, David Syme, built a house, "Rosenheim" in 1869. It was acquired in 1886 for Victorian Governors to use as a country retreat, making Mount Macedon an attractive destination for the well heeled of Melbourne society. A primary school was built in Mount Macedon in 1874, and as the decades progressed, hotels, guest houses, shops, a Presbyterian Church and Church of England were built. In 1983, Mount Macedon was devastated by the Ash Wednesday Bush Fires. A large portion of the town was raised, and a number of lives were lost. However, like a phoenix from the ashes, Mount Macedon has risen and rebuilt. Today it is still a popular holiday destination, particularly during spring time when the well established gardens flourish with flowers and in autumn when the exotic trees explode in a riot of reds and yellows.
Explore Apr 1, 2018 #281
The owl butterflies, the genus Caligo, are known for their huge eyespots, which resemble owls' eyes. They are found in the rainforests and secondary forests of Mexico, Central, and South America.
Owl butterflies are very large, 65–200 mm (2.6–7.9 in), and fly only a few meters at a time, so avian predators have little difficulty in following them to their settling place. However, the butterflies preferentially fly in dusk, when few avian predators are around. The Latin name, Caligo means darkness, may possibly refer to their active periods .
Red Sealing Wax Palm... yes, they really are this color! Stunning against brightly lit greenery.
Red Sealing Wax Palm, Lipstick Palm, Rajah Palm, Cyrtostachys renda
Wings of the Tropics, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Miami FL
The Flickr Lounge-Seasonal
The Town Of Ithaca is fixing our road. They laid a thin layer of tar down first then they laid down the little rock chips.
Camara / Camera: Nikon D750
Objetivo/Lense: Tamron 24-70 f/2.8 VC
Place: Tokyo (Japan)
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