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Locks on the Locke Street bridge, that apparently signify unbreakable love. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_lock
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"There's something subversive
About you and me
'Cause there's a market value on love
And we're getting something for free"
- Subversives, Lowest of the Low (another obscure Canadian band from my youth)
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252/365 For the love of Lody (Ice Cream)
Lodziarnia Kolorowa
And yes...I do. One of my all time favorite things about life here in Poland is the appreciation for ice cream. And it is deep. Everyone loves LODY! Because it signifies the celebration of the spring and summer months, longer, warmer days, long walks at a slower pace and the sense of being outdoors and together with friends, family and loved ones. We all have our favorite places and mine has been this little place since day one. Today I walked away with a lovely bouquet of Jagoda (Blueberry), Oreo and Marscarpone with Czarna Porzka. :D Lately, there is always a line....which makes me so happy to see because it only verifies what I already know. Stand in the line and be rewarded with deliciousness....you will probably see me there.
A special thank you to the staff for all of the wonderful smiles that you freely give.
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Ever since the drone uprising, when we overthrew the filthy humans, we have performed human sacrifice at the end of every Droneuary. This ritual signifies where we ascended from, and also reminds humans of our continued dominance, keeping them in their place.
Death to all meatbags!
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Definitely my darkest build ever thematically, but I've had this idea for a year and thought it would make for a really cool looking build despite how dark it is. After not building anything for Droneuary the past two years I really needed to make something this year, and since I'd already had this idea for awhile I figured it was time to actually do it (Plus I couldn't pass up the opportunity to make mohawked priest drones!). Hope you all like it, I'm very happy with how it turned out, apparently I'm addicted to doing scenes with complex lighting after this one and my recent cyberpunk scene.
See a close-up of the interior of the temple here.
(Just so you know: I have an abiding - and of course irrational - affection for this tree. Not just because to me she signifies an Indigenous maiden ceremoniously welcoming home the first salmon, but because she once welcomed me in the most sweetly ingenuous way possible.)
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Seventeenth in the series ‘Wild Bonsai’, this tree is sixty inches (1.5m) in height and perhaps 2000 years old.
'Wild Bonsai' is a numbered collection of photos of naturally occurring bristlecones (p. longaeva) generally less than five feet in height (158cm) and - as nearly as I can estimate - between fifty and five-hundred years old - some much older. Most will have sprouted and survived in tiny cracks and crevases or miniature basins of sand and gravel. Shaped by the elements, flourishing tenaciously in the most minimalist of conditions, their lives are measured not in the millennia of more robust bristlecones, but in centuries...often mere decades.
'Duality', the cover photo for this album, is to me a matriarch of sorts and will remain unnumbered as a small token of a deeply intuitive and unapologetic respect that remains as transcendent and mysterious to me as it may seem odd to others. The essay that accompanies 'Duality' could, in many ways, apply as well to any other tree I may post in this series.
A perspective: Housed in the Tokyo Imperial Palace, the fifth oldest living cultivated bonsai in the world is something over 500 years old and is a designated National Treasure of Japan.
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”Thus the ”meaning” of my expressions always escapes me. I never know exactly if I signify what I wish to signify nor even if I am signifying anything.” J.-P. Sartre
Walking the streets of Pembroke. Cars driving by. Light trails. Castles. This shot has a lot! The name signifies the old and new in frame. Old castle, modern cars.
*My first explore!*
Playing with my first big manipulation. I'm fairly pleased with how it turned out!
For "All Around Me" weekly challenge "Colors of the wind" and
"Theme of the Week" challenge "Mythology"...creature: Dryad.
"Dryads (Δρυάδες, sing.: Δρυάς) are tree nymphs in Greek mythology. In Greek drys signifies 'oak,' from an Indo-European root *derew(o)- 'tree' or 'wood'. Thus dryads are specifically the nymphs of oak trees,[1] " (Wikipedia)
This has been a landmark kind of week. I did a presentation (which I've never done before) on the prior year of my photography during which I got a new camera/lens system that opened up new possibilities for me. I also passed the 400,000 views mark this week, which I know is 'small potatoes' on Flickr, but it signifies a journey and outreach I would not have even thought possible. A year ago I started participating in groups on Flickr and that has been sooooo much fun, rewarding and enlightening. I have enjoyed connecting with photographers from around the world and seeing their beautiful creative souls joyously displayed. You have touched and inspired me. Every. Day.
So this photo is intended to be a warm, virtual hug to you all. Thanks for your warm welcome, encouragement and kind comments.
And of course... HSS!
A close-up - A closed hand or fist can be used to illustrate/signify struggle, unity, hard work, toughness, anger, power, hate and fight amongst other things.
Another day with a typical street scene showing the colourful deity covered towers Gopura signifying the formal entrances into the temple compound . What you cant see are the signage that states No Photo .
Hindu Sri Mariamman Temple
Silom Rd .
Bang Rak
Bangkok .
Thraupis
Gr. thraupis unidentified small bird, perhaps some kind of finch, mentioned by Aristotle. In ornithology thraupis signifies tanager.
episcopus
Late L. episcopus bishop; refers to the black cap, or purple or blue plumage.
The zip represents our shared DNA and the red signifies our blood.
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How's this for a new photography acronym - ATMS? It signifies that a particular image of yours is the "most stolen" from your portfolio on the web.
This shot of mine taken on the Icefields Parkway in Alberta, Canada has been shared (without my copyright or any attribution) on Facebook, Pinterest, etc. at least 20,000 times that I'm aware of....and I've seen it claimed by several dozen photographers worldwide as their own. There are two posters - yes, posters - that I've seen crafted from this photo of mine....and it seems to have taken on a life of its own.
Since people steal it so often, I guess I can say that it is well liked!
I've reworked it a bit and we'll see how long it takes for this version to be purloined....
Took this dramatic image of this centre cloud rapidly changing shape and gaining height at 15.30pm yesterday afternoon with a Tamron 28-300MM lens.
Currently we are in a cold Northerly Airstream and as well as much colder temperatures, we are experiencing sudden and heavy rain showers. These clouds are about 9 miles away probably having just come ashore from the Irish Sea near Rhyl on the North Wales Coast - gaining further moisture en route.
Cumulonimbus Clouds are a type of Cumulus Cloud associated with storms and heavy precipitation - producing rain, hail, thunder and lightning. They are formed beneath 20,000 ft - are relatively close to the ground and the reason they have so much moisture.
According to Gormley, the significance of the angel was three-fold: first, to signify that beneath the site of its construction, coal miners worked for two centuries; second, to grasp the transition from an industrial to an information age, and third, to serve as a focus for our evolving hopes and fears.......
The work is made of Corten steel, weighs 200 tonnes and has 500 tonnes of concrete foundations. The mound near the A1 motorway which was the designated site of the sculpture was made after the closure of the Lower Tyne Colliery, out of the destroyed remains of the pithead baths. It is a tumulus marking the end of the era of coal mining in Britain
Adelomyia
Gr. adelos obscure; muia fly. In ornithology myia and myias signify flycatcher.
melanogenia / melanogenis / melanogenys
Gr. melas black; genus cheek.
Dublin, August 1987. The "TJ" tail-code signifies the 401st TFW at Torrejon, near Madrid. In 2000 this aircraft was transferred to the Portuguese AF as 15122.
This colourful globe signifies the world re - imagined it works to transform how we understand transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans and its impact on all of us. The Spirit of Dispora by Pauline Bailey celebrates the spirit and culture of Africans dispora.
The letters are called the “Royal Cypher” and they signify the King or Queen that was the monarch at the time when the postbox was erected.
A GR post box was put up during the era of King George, G stands for George, R stands for Rex, which is King in Latin. If there are no more letters around the GR, then it’s likely from the period of King George V, and if it’s from the era of King George VI you may notice a little “VI” next to the GR.
GR post box – George V put up between 1910-1936.
A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere. - Groucho Marx
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This particular night in Anza-Borrego/Borrego Springs didn't turn out much like I expected. My friend and I searched out foregrounds in the daylight for our night sky work and settled on this field of ocotillo. We knew the accompanying cactus signified "caution", but in the dark they turned out to be a menacing threat. We tried to use my normal 2 LED panels on stands, but dancing around the cactus in the dark to place them turned out to be pretty much impossible. So, for this image, we used just one light off to the left. Also, I had decided to try using my newer Sony A9 rather than the Canon 5DIV I'm used to. Major learning curve. The final kicker was the distant light dome from far-away towns, likely Brawley and/or El Centro and the border towns of Calexico and Mexicali; also from the several nearby homes at the edge of town. That brought up another difficulty - we decided to try shooting vertical to narrow the field of view and clip off some of the light pollution. No L-bracket - just a regular quick release on that camera. Had to turn it vertical on the ball head tripod which is SO much harder than when using an L-bracket. So … distraction, learning curve, forgot to look at basics.
The big basic I missed here is the shutter speed. There's a 500 rule in night sky photography that says don't use a slower shutter speed than 500/lens focal length, thus, 500/35mm = 14 sec or your stars will streak. (Uh, the earth is turning noticeably even in a few seconds.) I used 20 seconds here because I forgot what I was doing when I switched lenses. I didn't catch either that my aperture wasn't down to say 1.4 or 1.6 but rather still on f/2.8 (from the previous lens).
All that being said, there's one really cool thing about this image: Jupiter (nestled in the right of the Milky Way fingers) got a starburst effect from I guess the stopped-down lens blades. Check it **large** to see it better (and you'll be able to see how the stars are just starting to "pancake" or streak as well). Very cool.
The old buildings and the new grain storage tanks signify generations on the land. Australia's first and only Nobel Prize winner for Literature, Patrick White (1912-1990), wrote of these experiences in what some consider his greatest novel: The Tree of Man (1955).
patrickwhitecatalogue.com/novels/tree/
I remember studying Patrick White in high school literature classes in the 1970s, just after he'd been awarded the Nobel Prize in 1973. It was often jokingly said (but with a grain of truth) that he was Australia's greatest unread novelist. Sadly, that statement is even more true today. lithub.com/on-patrick-white-australias-great-unread-novel...
But then that is true of most quality literature in this almost post-literary age. The book and literature remains the essential lifeblood of culture however, as it was long ago for the Greeks with Homer. Americans spent much of the 20th century looking for the "great American novel". And perhaps Patrick White's The Tree of Man comes close to that in Australian terms. The only writer I consider in his category of literary importance in the past 70 years of Australian writing is David Malouf, to whom White was a great mentor and friend. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Malouf
In the case of White and Malouf, the key elements are a deep understanding of the historical currents that shape a culture, and an intuitive sense of the poetic.
But let me conclude with a memory of Patrick White - the man. I once heard him speak in 1983 at LaTrobe University in Melbourne. He packed out the largest lecture theatre and addressed what he considered the most critical issue of the day: Nuclear Disarmament. Patrick White inspired us that day, not because he was obsessively political. But as a man of passion who spoke of a deep sadness at how the world that once imagined greatness like Homer, could be reduced to shrilled rats in a cage fearful that one of the superpowers would drop the bomb.
I will never forget that speech as long as I live. Here was a man proving why literature is still important and that we dismiss it at our eternal peril. We are now entrusted to care for the very land our ancestors passed down to us. Let us not fail in that duty.
One of a number of easel and stool installations erected to signify locations where artists from the 'Group of Seven' were know to paint from. Scattered along the north shore of Lake Superior, we encountered several of them. For those unfamiliar with these artists or wish to learn more, follow the link..... thegroupofseven.ca/
Along with the Snowdrops, the appearance of the first Hellebore flowers signify that we are rounding the corner between winter and spring. This variety is rather shy and keeps its head bowed so you have to get down and gently lift it’s chin to see the beautifully delicate speckled pattern. Hence this photo is taken with my best make-up mirror on the ground and explains why you see ghosting on the margins as it’s not a front surface mirror.
I’m sure you’re aware but just in case you’re not familiar with front surface mirrors then here’s the nerdy bit......
Feel free to leave here and watch some paint dry or clean the budgie cage or some other more interesting pastime.
Most mirrors for everyday use have the silvering reflective surface covered with a protective layer of glass so the light must pass through this to reach the reflective surface. This causes distortion by refraction and loss of energy and generates a fainter ‘ghost’ image in addition to the true reflected image.
Mirrors for high precision uses such as astronomy, telescopes or 3D printing have the reflective surface on the front of the glass to provide a clear reflection without ghosting. I use these type of mirrors every working day for intricate procedures that you’d probably prefer not to read about.
Has everyone left yet? It’s gone rather quiet.
Oh well.
The front surface coating is generally aluminium, but other metals such as titanium, molybdenum, gold or silver may be used depending on the use. The James Webb Space Telescope is the most powerful space telescope ever made and has a golden mirror made up from 18 smaller hexagonal units and is 6.5m in diameter. Each segment is constructed from beryllium and coated in gold and has 6 motors which allow precise focusing of the telescope. In order to capture the infrared light, the mirror must be maintained at minus 220 degrees Celsius, that's pretty cold!
The telescope is so powerful that it would be able to detect even the slight heat of a bumblebee at the distance of the moon.
So, we’ve gone from a what is basically a buttercup to a Big Time telescope in just a small leap. Who would have thought.
Wearing a suit signifies that you are taking the other person more seriously and are striving to stand up to their expectations. A suit portrays power, respect, discipline and sophistication.
The white flash on the wing signifies that this is an adult bird.
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Happy Bench Monday!
For years every time I went into Mount Rainier's Paradise Entrance I'd pass the sign signifying Sunshine Point Campground and kept telling myself that I'd check it out when I leave and never did. On November 6-7 2006 18 inches of rain fell in 36 hours and everyone was evacuated from the park. The road to Ipsut campground and the Westside Road were wiped out and never replaced and 5 1/2 acres of Sunshine Point disappeared along with the road to it as it was washed away by the raging Tahoma Creek and Nisqually River. There were 18 sites, I saw maybe ten, the toilets are gone, but the garbage and recycling bins remain as do the remains of the hefty benches and fire pits like this one in site 8. The Loop is still on the Flickr Map! Doesn't look like that any more.....
One incredibly spectacular amaryllis in bloom.
The anticipation of watching those impressive stalks shooting upward, and then such fabulous flowers appearing is quite an experience.
Amaryllis are named after a Greek mythological shepherdess and, in Victorian times, signified beauty, pride or innocence.
Highest Explore position: 218 on 2015-12-05
The colour red is signifying nobility most of the time in Chinese architecture. I am guessing they use red colour in the Buddhist Temple to show the respect with the Buddha.
However I would like the original wooden colour and texture more than the vibrant red in the temple. It shows more empathy with the nature and universe and I believe this goes more in line with the Buddhist teachings.
What do you think?
This is the architecture details in Richmond Buddhist Temple.
Wish everyone a great Friday and great weekend!
Adelomyia
Gr. adelos obscure; muia fly. In ornithology myia and myias signify flycatcher.
melanogenia / melanogenis / melanogenys
Gr. melas black; genus cheek.
A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.
(proverb)
PSP**** Prise SurPrise!! - Mist
7 Days with Flickr - Saturday: landscapes
(photo by Freya)
A jetty is a structure that projects from the land out into water. The term is derived from the French word jetée, "thrown", and signifies something thrown out.
One for the portfolio that I thought would be worth posting. Quite liked the tone, so decided to stick with it for now. Might change my mind though. :-)
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