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I can't quite make out what it is this crow was working on, but there was obviously some skill and patience involved. I was just able to grab a quick shot while holding Blanca with my left hand. She wanted to chase the crow, and the crow knew it but was reluctant to abandon the prize and waited till the last moment before flying off with it.
A good day was had with my favorite guide, Ron Bielefeld at Blue Cypress Lake. The chicks are teenagers for the most part, practicing their aerial skills and maneuvers. The Lake is still good, but the season is near the end for Osprey. Here's an adult coming in to land with a whole fish for a change. He'll probably eat the head before providing for the family.
Female figure consulting her smartphone as she goes up Abd el-Kader Street, in Baix Guinardó neighborhood of Barcelona.
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Cliffs and Tasman Sea,
North Avoca, New South Wales, Australia
3rd Place , Beautiful Capture Group themed contest , ' Movement ' , June 2011 .
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Birthplace of Dr. John Rae, Arctic explorer.
With some difficulty I found the crumbling remains of the Hall of Clestrain, the birthplace of Dr. John Rae, one of the Canadian Arctic's most famous explorers. The Hudson Bay Company (est. 1670) employed Orkney men starting in the 1700s and at their peak in 1800, 80% of the HBC labour force were Orkney men, valued for their sea going skills and hard working nature. It's a shame that it hasn't be better preserved. Orkney, Scotland.
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The sun still rises in the east and golden morning glow illuminates the sky above the Kenai Peninsula, silhouetting a mother bear and her three spring cubs as they stroll along the beach at low tide. They will spend the next few hours combing the mudflats in search of clams. Mom is an expert at the process while her three 7month old cubs have only the most rudimentary skills. One cub prefers to scavenge the spoils of mom’s catch while another feverishly does her best to dig her own shellfish. On occasion she is even successful. The third does a little of both while intermittently stopping to nap. #BrownBears
Motor-deputy from the Passaic County Sheriffs Department smiling as he competed in the last cone run challenge of the competition.
Lyndhurst, NJ / June 27, 2010
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/191843720@N04] and myself decided to take an early look at the Skills-operated Medilink, which proved to be fortuitous as some of the vehicles used on it were later changed from how they originally entered service. In addition to the 25 plates which had spent the summer in regular Skills branding, a clutch of brand new 75 plates also appeared wearing Medilink livery from the outset.
YX75 KVR here, at QMC Island, demonstrates how the 75 plates were at the point of entering service. They differed from the 25 plates in having conventional mirrors instead of camera ones, and lacking wheel trims. However they were later modified to match the 25s with digital mirrors, wheel trims, and smaller additions like extra CCTV cameras.
As for the livery, it’s not too dissimilar to one I did a very quick mock up of (although didn’t upload) of the regular Skills colours with the addition of the Medilink’s ‘pulse’ graphics. I really like how they’ve blended the two with the pulse line occupying the space where Skills usually put a dotted line, and even in 2025 the Medilink name remains the same style with the Big Wheel logo on top of the “i”.
All in all, I quite like these.
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Thanks to Kieran Campbell my post processing skills are getting better.
Just got to practice. And get everything in the frame.
I'll be back up that hill...
The real skill of an artisan can be gauged by how he can produce the best with the available tools.
Seen here is a Gold smith working on a gold chain with the minimum tools.
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A hole in the wall reveals the skill of 14th Century stone-masons' closely-jointed stonework and a spiral staircase constructed from triangular flags threaded onto a central pillar.
Castle Bolton, N. Yorkshire
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The Skills depot on the wonderfully named Little Tennis Street is just around the corner from where I was standing, although considering that I saw surprisingly few of their vehicles. One which did make an appearance was President SIL 7025, which proves that even with all their new MMCs and stuff the old Lothian Tridents are still being depended on.
Lothian have always like to specify extra long double deckers, and these were no different with five full sized window bays down each side as opposed to the regular 4-and-a-half, or short 4. Going back to ex-NCT 667 that I’d seen just half an hour before, I wonder if it was that NCT batch or this Lothian one which were the longest ever Tridents built on two axles?
Obviously the tri-axles went up to 12m, but the vast majority of the two-axle variant were either 9.9 or 10.5 metres. Other than Lothian and Nottingham I can’t think of who else in Britain might have ordered Tridents of 11+ metres... did Brighton have any? Although these are from Lothian they don’t piss me off like the Geminis because Skills is the only place you ever see them, instead of being absolutely everywhere.
SIL 7025 was formerly SN04 ABV, numbered 674 and new in the fabulous Harlequin livery. Here on 20.3.26 it sets off along Daleside Road in Nottingham to take up a 280 school service.
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Autumn is very much on the horizon now, and with it many changes occur - a new season, falling leaves and in this case, a new operator for the Medilink!
Skills have always had a strong presence in the Nottingham area's private hire and contract work so operating an "open doors" service, so to speak, is a new venture for this operator.
Taking over from previous operator CT4N, Skills have invested in a new fleet of diesel Enviro 400 MMC double deckers for the route. There are 6 of these machines, kitted out to a high specification, branded for the route in the rather attractive Skills emerald livery.
Two of these vehicles were delivered just in time for the start of the new contract on the 1st of September and as such, are registered on 75 plates - brand new, as seen here!
The other 4 have been in the fleet a little longer, being delivered in May 2025 as part of a batch of six 25 plates. The other pair in this batch are to be used on Skills other contracts, such as the extensive Bilborough College "R" series bus network and the usual private hires.
While a slight reduction in frequency from 5 to 4 buses an hour has taken place, the arrival of these new double deckers will mean an overall increase in capacity from the tired K9URs allocated under CT4N. I'm sure the new timing and fleet will help improve the reliability of this route, which passengers and drivers alike are bound to appreciate!
This Medilink isn’t even an actual Medilink. At least two of the YX25s remain in standard Skills livery and can be differentiated by their higher spec with tinted windows and additional tree deflector on the offside... although OGN has already managed to lose its nearside one. I imagine these are the Medilink ‘spares’, that when not required can be used alongside the 17 plate MMC as regular double deck coaches.
OGO is the other high-spec YX25, although it isn’t on the ticket machine list on Bustimes, so does it actually get used on the Medilink? Also I haven’t seen the 17 plate on Bustimes either but surely it’s cleared to be used on the route? Well with all these MMCs at their disposal now, that’s pretty much dashed my hopes of Skills putting one of their ex-Lothian Presidents on it as a spare.
Being the “fancy” Medilink with tinted windows, YX25 OGN passes QMC Island with a Queens Drive-bound journey, about to call into QMC and perform a lap of the grounds, on 28.11.25
The era of the Skills coach firm being involved in bus service provision is one which completely by-passed me . . . if indeed they did. However Clem captured their ex Maidstone & District Alexander bodied Volvo Ailsa LKP 832P inside Nottigham's cavernous Victoria bus station in the early '80s.
In a manner similar to the disappearence of the city's late lamemnted railway station of the same name, this bus station is no more, having been replaced by an apologetic and hidden away back street facility a fraction the size.
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Another President, and this time it’s a new one for me. SIL 7025 ferries University of Nottingham students off for a day at the races (although I can’t remember exactly where they were going). I’m sure that after this day I must’ve by now photographed most of the ex-Lothian Plaxton President Dennis Tridents that Skills own, and a good number of their Geminis too.
Usually I regard myself lucky if I see one Trident randomly out and about (Volvo B7/B9s and Scania N94s seem more common around Nottingham) but here I saw a whole clutch of them!
Derby Road, Nottingham
8.2.25
In addition to the batches of 25 and 75 plate Enviro 400 MMCs Skills bought last year for the Medilink and their private hire fleet, this year has seen them introduce at least two further examples on 26 plates.
In this instance YX26 JZE is spotted in the centre of Bulwell on 20.5.26
Skills BX16CHH Volvo B11RT Salvador Caetano Levante C56FLt coach at Derby Bus Station on National Express 440 to London on 3 December 2016.
We had a new fence put up around our back garden this week. It is going to really help me control soap bubbles as it helps to keep the wind from blowing bubbles around. It also makes for some cool reflections.
I spent around an hour trying to photograph the sunrise coming through soap bubbles this morning. It was fun and helped me relearn some of my bubble wrangling skills. The main thing is to make use of the light and shade areas available. Here, the fence was very bright with the low sun on it, and the dark shade is just from the shade from the fence behind.
To be continued, as the weather looks good for bubbling this week....
If you look carefully you can see the bubble's shadow on the fence. You can also see an insect hotel fixed to the fence.
No editing at all here. Only a small crop! Really satisfying for me to see good image quality from this camera and lens combination! It lets me know that exiting things are possible.
I have been playing with my non existing creative skills on this old flower photo from 2014.
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by Remigius Hogenbergh,print,published 1572
Matthew Parker (6 August 1504 – 17 May 1575) was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1559 until his death in 1575. He was also an influential theologian and arguably the co-founder (with Thomas Cranmer and Richard Hooker) of Anglican theological thought.
Parker was one of the primary architects of the Thirty-Nine Articles, the defining statements of Anglican doctrine. The Parker collection of early English manuscripts, including the book of St. Augustine Gospels and Version A of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, was created as part of his efforts to demonstrate that the English Church was historically independent from Rome, creating one of the world's most important collections of ancient manuscripts.
The eldest son of William Parker, he was born in Norwich, in St. Saviour's parish. His mother's maiden name was Alice Monins, and she may have been related by marriage to Thomas Cranmer. When William Parker died, in about 1516, his widow married John Baker. Matthew was sent in 1522 to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge,[1] where he is said to have been contemporary with William Cecil, but Cecil was only two years old at the time. Parker graduated BA in 1525, was ordained deacon in April and priest in June 1527, and was elected fellow of Corpus in the following September. He commenced MA in 1528, and was one of the Cambridge scholars whom Thomas Wolsey wished to transplant to his newly founded "Cardinal College" at Oxford.
Parker, like Cranmer, declined the invitation. He had come under the influence of the Cambridge reformers, and after Anne Boleyn's recognition as queen he was made her chaplain. Through her, he was appointed dean of the college of secular canons at Stoke-by-Clare in 1535. Hugh Latimer wrote to him in that year urging him not to fall short of the expectations which had been formed of his ability. In 1537 he was appointed chaplain to King Henry VIII. In 1538 he was threatened with prosecution, but the Bishop of Dover, however, reported to Thomas Cromwell that Parker "hath ever been of a good judgment and set forth the Word of God after a good manner. For this he suffers some grudge." He graduated DD in that year, and in 1541 was appointed to the second prebend in the reconstituted cathedral church of Ely. In 1544, on Henry VIII's recommendation, he was elected master of Corpus Christi College, and in 1545 vice-chancellor of the university. He got into some trouble with the chancellor, Stephen Gardiner, over a ribald play, Pammachius, performed by the students, which derided the old ecclesiastical system.
On the passing of the act of parliament in 1545 enabling the king to dissolve chantries and colleges, Parker was appointed one of the commissioners for Cambridge, and their report may have saved its colleges from destruction. Stoke, however, was dissolved in the following reign, and Parker received a generous pension. He took advantage of the new reign to marry in June, 1547, before clerical marriages had been legalized by parliament and convocation, Margaret, daughter of Robert Harlestone, a Norfolk squire. During Kett's Rebellion, he preached in the rebels' camp on Mousehold Hill, without much effect, and later encouraged his secretary, Alexander Neville, to write his history of the rising.
Parker's association with Protestantism advanced with the times, and he received higher promotion under John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland than under the moderate Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset. At Cambridge, he was a friend of Martin Bucer and preached Bucer's funeral sermon in 1551. In 1552 he was promoted to the rich deanery of Lincoln, and in July 1553 he supped with Northumberland at Cambridge, when the duke marched north on his hopeless campaign against the accession of Mary Tudor. As a supporter of Northumberland and a married man, under the new regime Parker was deprived of his deanery, his mastership of Corpus Christi, and his other preferments. However, he survived Mary's reign without leaving the country – a fact that probably aggravated more ardent Protestants who went into exile and idealized their fellows who were martyred by Queen Mary. Parker respected authority, and when his time came he could consistently impose authority on others. He was not eager to assume this task, and made great efforts to avoid promotion to the archbishopric of Canterbury, which Elizabeth designed for him as soon as she had succeeded to the throne.
He was elected on 1 August 1559 but, given the turbulence and executions that had preceded Elizabeth's accession, it was difficult to find the requisite four bishops willing and qualified to consecrate Parker, and not until December 19 was that ceremony performed at Lambeth by William Barlow, formerly Bishop of Bath and Wells, John Scory, formerly Bishop of Chichester, Miles Coverdale, formerly Bishop of Exeter, and John Hodgkins, Bishop of Bedford. The allegation of an indecent consecration in the Nag's Head Fable seems first to have been made by the Jesuit, Christopher Holywood, in 1604, and has since been discredited. Parker's consecration was, however, legally valid only by the plentitude of the royal supremacy; the Edwardine Ordinal, which was used, had been repealed by Mary Tudor and not re-enacted by the parliament of 1559. The Roman Catholic Church asserted that the form of consecration used was insufficient to make a bishop, and therefore represented a break in the Apostolic Succession, but the Church of England has rejected this, arguing that the form of words used made no difference to the substance or validity of the act.
Elizabeth wanted a moderate man, so she chose Parker. There was also an emotional attachment. Parker had been the favourite chaplain of Elizabeth's mother, Anne Boleyn. Before Anne was arrested in 1536, she had entrusted Elizabeth's spiritual well-being to Parker. A few days after this, Anne had been executed following charges of adultery, incest and treason. Parker also possessed all the qualifications Elizabeth expected from an archbishop except celibacy. He mistrusted popular enthusiasm, and he wrote in horror of the idea that "the people" should be the reformers of the Church. He was not an inspiring leader, and no dogma, no prayer-book, not even a tract or a hymn is associated with his name. The 56 volumes published by the Parker Society include only one by its eponymous hero, and that is a volume of correspondence. He was a disciplinarian, a scholar, a modest and moderate man of genuine piety and irreproachable morals. His historical research was exemplified in his De antiquitate ecclesiae, and his editions of Asser, Matthew Paris, Thomas Walsingham, and the compiler known as Matthew of Westminster; his liturgical skill was shown in his version of the psalter and in the occasional prayers and thanksgivings which he was called upon to compose. He left a priceless collection of manuscripts, largely collected from former monastic libraries, to his college at Cambridge. The Parker Library at Corpus Christi bears his name and houses his collection.
Parker avoided involvement in secular politics and was never admitted to Elizabeth's privy council. Ecclesiastical politics gave him considerable trouble. Some of the evangelical reformers wanted liturgical changes and at least the option not to wear certain clerical vestments, if not their complete prohibition. Early presbyterians wanted no bishops, and the conservatives opposed all these changes, often preferring to move in the opposite direction toward the practices of the Henrician church. The queen herself begrudged episcopal privilege until she eventually recognised it as one of the chief bulwarks of the royal supremacy. To Parker's consternation, the queen refused to add her imprimatur to his attempts to secure conformity, though she insisted that he achieve this goal. Thus Parker was left to stem the rising tide of Puritan feeling with little support from parliament, convocation or the Crown. The bishops' Interpretations and Further Considerations, issued in 1560, tolerated a lower vestiarian standard than was prescribed by the rubric of 1559, but it fell short of the desires of the anti-vestiarian clergy like Coverdale (one of the bishops who had consecrated Parker) who made a public display of their nonconformity in London.
The Book of Advertisements, which Parker published in 1566, to check the anti-vestiarian faction, had to appear without specific royal sanction; and the Reformatio legum ecclesiasticarum, which John Foxe published with Parker's approval, received neither royal, parliamentary nor synodical authorization. Parliament even contested the claim of the bishops to determine matters of faith. "Surely," said Parker to Peter Wentworth, "you will refer yourselves wholly to us therein." "No, by the faith I bear to God," retorted Wentworth, "we will pass nothing before we understand what it is; for that were but to make you popes. Make you popes who list, for we will make you none." Disputes about vestments had expanded into a controversy over the whole field of Church government and authority, and Parker died on May 17, 1575, lamenting that Puritan ideas of "governance" would "in conclusion undo the queen and all others that depended upon her." By his personal conduct he had set an ideal example for Anglican priests, and it was not his fault that national authority failed to crush the individualistic tendencies of the Protestant Reformation.
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The savusauna (smoke sauna) is a special type of sauna without a chimney. Wood is burned in a particularly large stove and the smoke fills the room.
When the sauna is hot enough, the fire is allowed to die and the smoke is ventilated out. The residual heat of the stove is enough for the duration of the sauna. This represents the ancestral type of sauna, since chimneys are a later addition. Smoke saunas have experienced great revival in recent years since they are considered superior by the connoisseurs.
They are not, however, likely to replace all or even most of the regular saunas because more skill, effort and time (usually most of the day) are needed for the heating process.
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