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Assassin in the blackberries !
Taken back at the beginning of September this year 2017.
I believe this to be a marsh damsel bug rather than a common damsel bug - Nabis rugosa but I'm not 100% sure I have to admit.
A tiny little predator of around 7.5mm - 9mm in length and I only noticed it out of the corner of my eye as it roamed over a blackberry and showed up lighter against the dark of the berry while I was focusing on a hoverfly nearby.
It is apparently non specific in its choice of prey.
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It was quite a difficult place to get in, unless you plan way ahead of coming and obtain the necessary tickets, otherwise, good luck. Even with ticket, with some specific reserved time, it was confusing where to go and what to do since once you get to the ticket office, you'd need to exchange your online tickets with the real tickets and there were lines of people lining up and which lines are which...(a long walk uphill to the ticket office where you'd get in). If you missed you reserved time, then you'd not be able to see some of the main places inside. All in all, quite a hassle, but I think if you go to Granada, then I believe that you'd want to visit this place.
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From Wikipedia:
The Alhambra (/ælˈhæmbrə/; Spanish: [aˈlambɾa]; Arabic: الْحَمْرَاء [ʔælħæmˈɾˠɑːʔ], Al-Ḥamrā, lit. "The Red One"),[Note 1][Note 2] the complete Arabic form of which was Qalat Al-Hamra,[Note 3] is a palace and fortress complex located in Granada, Andalusia, Spain. It was originally constructed as a small fortress in AD 889 on the remains of Roman fortifications, and then largely ignored until its ruins were renovated and rebuilt in the mid-13th century by the Moorish emir Mohammed ben Al-Ahmar of the Emirate of Granada, who built its current palace and walls. It was converted into a royal palace in 1333 by Yusuf I, Sultan of Granada.[1] After the conclusion of the Christian Reconquista in 1492, the site became the Royal Court of Ferdinand and Isabella (where Christopher Columbus received royal endorsement for his expedition), and the palaces were partially altered to Renaissance tastes. In 1526 Charles I & V commissioned a new Renaissance palace better befitting the Holy Roman Emperor in the revolutionary Mannerist style influenced by Humanist philosophy in direct juxtaposition with the Nasrid Andalusian architecture, but which was ultimately never completed due to Morisco rebellions in Granada.
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Taken with my "cheap" Nikon 24-85mm...
Geometry train W001 heads east from Grand Rapids on a sunny October morning.
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The East Window of St Martin in the Fields, Trafalger Square London is a striking, site-specific design that unexpectedly warps a large church window into a visually intriguing abstraction. The installation, created by Iranian artist Shirazeh Houshiary, is located in the east window at Church of St. Martin in the Fields (Trafalgar Square, London). Reminiscent of a cross, the horizontal and vertical lines move towards a central opening that allows light to pass through.
The grid-like concept blends elements of religion with complex architecture, forming a monochromatic piece that produces a unique light experience. The window is held within a stainless steel framework composed of a number of handmade glass panels, each of which is etched with fragments of Houshiary's paintings to create a subtle feathery pattern on both sides of the glass.
In the ten years I lived in Alaska I only tried this specific angle once, and I'm not sure why I didn't try again. I suppose it was because it took a bit of a walk to get to this spot, but I'm glad I have a few to show for it. I did do sort of a reprisal in 2014 but from far higher up the bluff overlooking the river.
Here is the southbound weekly Winter Aurora passenger train back when it was a diminutive consist of just a baggage car, a single coach, and a diner trailing an SD70MAC/GP40-2 combo. They are coming across the 800 foot long Knik River Bridge at MP 146.4. This bridge dates from 1937 and consists of nine orignal 80 ft. pony plate girder thru spans and one 100 ft. span that dates from a 2004 rebuilding. In that year the Alaska Railroad installed new concrete pilings and caps and shifted the old 80 foot spans over and installed a broad new 100 ft span, which is the one closest in this image and featuring a large yellow ARR logo.
The Knik River is 25 miles long flowing down from its start at the foot of Knik Glacier which is one of the largest ice fields in South Central Alaska flowing down off th Chugach Range. The river here forms the boundary between the Matanuska-Susitna Borough af the Municipality of Anchorage which the train is entering, despite being 30 miles away from downtown still!
In the distance 20 miles away almost due north sparkling in the afternoon spring light are the 6000 ft peaks of the Talkeetna Mountains surrounding Hatcher Pass.
Knik River
Municipality of Anchorage
Sunday April 8, 2012
Lichtrouten - Lüdenscheid, Erlöserkirche
THE BODY OF LIGHT
Immersive environment
The multi-part laser installation is a site-specific intervention with line lasers and mirror systems. The architectural cubature of the church interior becomes a coordinate system for a system of red illuminated lines and surfaces, partly static and partly dynamic. The interior of the church becomes a luminous body. . The elementary fields of tension between the visibility and invisibility of light, between color and light, between materiality and immateriality are the working material of Margareta Hesse. With a strictly constructivist approach, she develops a poetic and sensual pictorial space.
MARGARETA HESSE
From diaphanous objects to immersive spaces: since the end of the 1990s, she has been developing diaphanous objects, which she calls “translucides”. The characteristic material are surfaces made of semi-transparent polyester in order to thematize the changeability of color impressions in changing light situations. She has been integrating physical light into her works since 2008. She works exclusively with red laser light in graphic systems, mostly site-specific.
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THE BODY OF LIGHT
Immersive Umgebung
Die mehrteilige Laserinstallation ist eine ortsspezfische Intervention mit Linienlasern und Spiegelsystemen. Die architektonische Kubatur des Kirchenraumes wird zum Koordinatensystem für System aus roten-leuchtenden Linien und Flächen, zum Teil statisch und zum Teil dynamisch angelegt. Der Kircheninnenraum wird zu einem leuchtenden Körper. Die elementaren Spannungsfelder von Sichtbarkeit und Unischtbarkeit des Lichts, von Farbe und Licht, von Materialität und Immmaterialität sind das Arbeitsmaterial von Margareta Hesse. Mit einer streng konstruktivistischen Arbeitsweise entsteht ein poetisch-sinnlicher Bildraum.
MARGARETA HESSE
Von diaphanen Objekten zu immersiven Räumen: Seit Ende der 1990er Jahre entwickelt sie diaphane Objekte, die sie „Transluzide“ nennt. Das kennzeichnende Material sind Flächen aus semi-transparentem Polyester, um die Veränderlichkeit von Farbeindrücken in wechselnden Lichtsituationen zu thematisieren. Seit 2008 integriert sie physikalisches Licht in ihre Arbeiten. Dabei arbeitet sie ausschließlich mit rotem Laserlicht in grafischen Systemen, meist ortspezifisch.
The semipalmated sandpiper (Calidris pusilla) is a very small shorebird. The genus name is from Ancient Greek kalidris or skalidris, a term used by Aristotle for some grey-coloured waterside birds. The specific pusilla is Latin for "very small".[2]
They are long distance migrants and winter in coastal South America, with some going to the southern United States. They migrate in flocks which can number in the hundreds of thousands, particularly in favoured feeding locations such as the Bay of Fundy and Delaware Bay. This species is a rare but regular vagrant to western Europe.
Although very numerous, these birds are highly dependent on a few key stopover habitats during their migration, notably Mary's Point and Johnson's Mills along Shepody Bay, an arm of the Bay of Fundy.[4] During the months of July and August, the Nature Conservancy of Canada runs an information center about these shorebirds in Johnson's Mills, New Brunswick.[5]
Source:en.wikipedia.org
Silk Button Spangled Galls, these were all over the Oak tree on every leaf and hundreds of leaves had fallen, early we thought, we tried to find out if they damaged the tree but couldn't find anything specific. Lovely "Buttons" though.
I found this information: -This wasp will not impact the long term yield of trees, but galls may be unsightly. Damage is only aesthetic. Gall wasps seem to be more frequent in some years than others, allowing trees to recover.
Excerpt from islamicartsmagazine.come:
The Koski Mehmed Pasha Mosque in Mostar represents another extraordinary piece of Ottoman architecture in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Besides the Karadžoz Bey Mosque, this is the most known and most monumental mosque in Mostar.
It was built in the year of 1618/19 and represents the large construction of the classical Ottoman architecture in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Mehmed Koskija, the founder of the mosque, was the chronicler of the great vizier Lala Mehmed Sokolovic. He died in 1611, and the Koski Mehmed Pasha Mosque was finished by his brother Mahmud. Besides the mosque, he built a madrasah too.
The Koski Mehmed Pasha Mosque has a one-space floor plan with a dome. Designed in the main architecture office in Istanbul, it was built from the precisely tanned stone blocks. Its architectural design is very similar to the Karadžoz Beg Mosque, which probably served as a model. Unlike the Karadžoz Beg Mosque, the minaret of the Koski Mehmed Pasha Mosque is slightly lower, without the stalactite decoration in the area of sherefe. It has a porch with three domes, and extraordinary well-crafted mihrab and mimbar. The proportions of the Mosque are especially distinguished. The location of the Koski Mehmed Pasha Mosque is quite specific as it is placed on the cliffs of the Neretva River, in the center of the city.
About 320 million years ago, during the Upper Carboniferous period, the area of the Cliffs of Moher was much warmer and situated at the mouth of a larger river. Heavy rainfall created great floods that washed sand and mud into rivers flowing to the sea. The sand, silt and mud were dumped at the mouth of the great delta and over time, the sediments became compacted into solid rock which we now know as the Cliffs.
Individual rock layers vary from centimetres to metres. Each layer is a representation of a specific event in the life of the ancient delta as it migrated into the sea.
Poznan, Poland
Autumn
Agnieszka
Working with a SIGMA ART Series 85mm 1.4f has been nothing short of sheer pleasure. For years I shied away from this lens because I was a bit afraid of it being too specific....but now, I am going to have a difficult time getting it off the mount and back to the dealer. Damn. Going to have to get one.
Even roaming on the street has proven to give me new inspiration and interesting DOF. Budget blown...
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This specific jawa is an intelligent one. He has stolen the landspeeder from the Mos Eisley, there it was, waiting to be taken. And now it takes him to a places he no see before. Here is a moment, when he is watching the horizon and making the final decision of going any further of the Lars moisture farm, aka Lars homestead.
Did you know The Great Chott salt flat is so close to this place?
One more for "the moisture farm series" I did earlier this year. I was about to bury this under the sand, but then realized that it could be a nice little addition to the series, as I’ve did spent a lot of time on setting-up the scene, photography and cleaning the mess it created during the process. I was about to do a full color version, but this precise monochrome started to impress me a just bit more. Maybe I’ll just do the color version later (or not). Happy holidays!
Angle of Repose. © Copyright 2022 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
Sand dune patterns, Death Valley National Park.
This “intimate landscape” is a sand dune vignette made in a specific place but which could be found almost anywhere. A close look may reveal some details that desert and sand aficionados may find interesting. The large patterns are typically found on one side of dunes where sand blown over the top of the dune collects below. The smaller “ripples” are a common feature of dunes, too, and these are completely undisturbed since the dunes are somewhat remote. Looking even closer may reveal some tinier patterns and tracks across the face of the sand.
The term “angle of repose” refers to the steepest angle at which a material, such as this sand, might collect without falling. It is also the title of a wonderful Wallace Stegner novel, and that is where I first encountered the term. Fans of the history of the American West, especially the part that came after initial explorations, and especially those who have roots in the west may enjoy the novel as much as I did, with its connections to places and types of people that I know from my own experience.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, “California’s Fall Color: A Photographer’s Guide to Autumn in the Sierra” is available from Heyday Books, Amazon, and directly from G Dan Mitchell.
A view, from its east side, of Long Wave, by David Rokeby, "a site specific installation that was commissioned by Luminato, Toronto Festival of Arts + Creativity and was on view at the Allen Lambert Galleria, Brookfield Place, Toronto, June 5 - 20, 2009. It is a 380 foot long, 60 foot high sculpture tracing a helix through the entire length of the galleria. The helix is constructed from 63 large red spheres hanging from the Santiago Calatrava designed arches of the galleria, rising from just above visitors' heads right up to the vaults of the ceiling."
The scope of this sculpture, and the atrium itself, is best realized when viewed large:
Audubon’s Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary
Southwestern Florida
USA
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The raccoon was splashing around under the boardwalk looking for small fish in the water. The animal seemed unafraid and did not leave when I stood over it on the boardwalk. We had a brief encounter where I stared at the raccoon and the raccoon stared back at me. You can see it in this image. Its paws were in the water. Then the raccoon went on its merry way.
The raccoon (Procyon lotor), also known as the common raccoon, North American raccoon, northern raccoon, or coon, is a medium-sized mammal native to North America. The raccoon is the largest of the procyonid family, having a body length of (16 to 28 in) and a body weight of 11 to 57 lb). Raccoons are noted for their intelligence, with studies showing that they are able to remember the solution to tasks for at least three years. They are usually nocturnal and omnivorous, eating about 40% invertebrates, 33% plants, and 27% vertebrates.
The original habitats of the raccoon are deciduous and mixed forests, but due to their adaptability they have extended their range to mountainous areas, coastal marshes, and urban areas, where some homeowners consider them to be pests. As a result of escapes and deliberate introductions in the mid-20th century, raccoons are now also distributed across much of mainland Europe, Caucasus, and Japan.
Though previously thought to be generally solitary, there is now evidence that raccoons engage in gender-specific social behavior. Related females often share a common area, while unrelated males live together in groups of up to four animals to maintain their positions against foreign males during the mating season, and other potential invaders. Home range sizes vary anywhere from 3 hectares (7.4 acres) for females in cities to 5,000 hectares (12,000 acres) for males in prairies. Their life expectancy in the wild is only 1.8 to 3.1 years. - Wikipedia
Every photographer has a bucket list. Or sometimes even two: one with locations, and one with specific subjects. For many years my two bucket lists had something in common - both the #1 location and the #1 subject were in the same country: Yemen.
Some 240 kilometers (150 mi) east of the coast of Somalia and 380 kilometers (240 mi) south of Yemen lies the island of Socotra. The island is very isolated, and home to 700 (!) endemic species; up to a third of its plant life is endemic. It has been described as “the most alien-looking place on Earth” and “the jewel of the Arabian Sea”. In 2008 Socotra was recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
One of the most striking of Socotra’s plants is the dragon blood tree (Dracaena cinnabari), which is a strange-looking, umbrella-shaped tree. Its red sap was thought to be the dragon’s blood of the ancients. It is this tree that was at the top of my bucket list for a very, very long time.
But Yemen has been unstable for decades. Civil wars, a revolution, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, starvation. The current civil war started in 2015 and has cost the lives of over 20,000 civilians. In 2018, the United Nations warned that 13 million Yemeni civilians face starvation in what it says could become “the worst famine in the world in 100 years”.
As a result, it has been impossible to visit the island for many years - no planes or even boats would go there (I tried). Until suddenly there was an opportunity and I took it. It turned out to be one of the most intense projects I have ever done, and over the next few weeks, I will share my experiences here with you.
>>> You can help the people in Yemen by donating here: rescue.org
[Nikon D850, AF-S 14-24/2.8, 0.5 sec @ f/2.8, ISO 3200]
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There was a time when I'd leave the house with a specific goal of finding and photographing Anna's Hummingbirds. Finding is no problem. They're residents. (Even though they visit my backyard feeder every day and have for over 40 years, I have no photos that weren't taken in the wild.) Photographing them is slightly more problematic. First, find a flower that they like. Then, pick out one blossom that they may come to. And then, hope that one hovers for more than a second. It's obvious that they were taught to fly by Honey bees even though hummers have been around for 22 million years and honey bees for only 14 million. Takes a long time to strike up an agreement between species...
The other thing about all Hummingbirds, but the Anna's in particular, is that the sun has to catch the gorget (that patch of reflective prismatic feathers around the throat) just right to "light them up."
After 15 years of having a decent digital camera, i.e., one with sifficient focal length, I have perhaps 100 images of the Anna's hummingbird. This particular shot was part of a 15 minute period when I had the opportunity to get at least 10 similar and more-than-acceptable images of the bird. It was taken in a field just on Mt. Diablo and just behind a friend's back yard abutting that patch. Something tells me that this flower was a remnant from a garden that might have been there since the 1950s.
This is one of my top five favorite biring images. My favorite hummer took something like six weeks to get (flic.kr/p/wLwEQ3), six weeks of sitting every morning neat a Maxican Salvia Bush - their favorite - and waiting for one to fly between two branches. Perhaps I was confusing effort with results, but I got exactly what I came for and, consider that that was not part of a burst mode but, rather, 1/400th of a secind in time.)
The exterior of the Hirshhorn’s iconic cylindrical building will be the site of internationally renowned Swiss artist Nicolas Party’s newest artwork. Draw the Curtain (2021) will wrap 360 degrees around the temporary scaffolding that encases the Museum building and will span a circumference of 829 feet, becoming the artist’s largest work to date. An original pastel painting digitally collaged and printed onto scrim, the site-specific commission will transform the Hirshhorn’s façade into a monumental canvas that stands out against the landscape of predominantly neoclassical buildings on the National Mall. The work will be on view through spring 2022 while the building’s envelope undergoes critical repairs.
Completed my first architecture specific workshop last weekend and it couldn't have went any better or been any more enjoyable.
Day 1 we photographed around Glasgow in the lovely grey weather and then headed east to Edinburgh once the rain started.
Day 2 we learned in-depth post processing techniques in Lr and Ps
Day 3 we put those skills into practice and all worked through our chosen image together followed by an open question/request session.
Was great to meet the guys who were really enthusiastic and produced very impressive images, I can' wait to see more.
This is a recent image from the Riverside Museum, Glasgow.
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Ich wage nicht, mich auf eine bestimmte Art festzulegen, denn es gibt zu viele sehr ähnlich aussehende Libellen.
I don't dare to commit myself to a specific type, because there are too many dragonflies that look very similar.
Passion isn't something that lives way up in the sky, in abstract dreams and hopes. It lives at ground level, in the specific details of what you're actually doing every day.
-Marcus Buckingham
1956 Peugeot Type 203 (1954-1959) Modèle C5 Familiale
Unfortunately, I will have less time to spend on FLICKR in the coming period due to my study 'Drone Pilot Advanced EASA Specific-Category STS-01/PDRA-S01' 🚁
I keep trying to post 2 automotives a day on my stream and not in groups except by request
They specialise in sound tracks to old silent horror movies. It was quite someting to watch and listen to.
From their 'MySpace Webpage':
The first seeds of Cape Town based TERMINATRYX (pronounced "terminaytrix") germinated around 2002 when lead vocalist Sonja Ruppersberg and extreme music veteran Paul Blom (of V.O.D - Voice Of Destruction, F8, and K.O.B.U.S.) took it upon themselves to create a musical project unlike any other in Cape Town and South Africa as a whole.
When it came to choosing a name, instead of a single concept, several layers were combined to include a range of movies, fetishes and mythical locations to encapsulate the specific mood. Movies like Tetsuo The Iron Man, The Terminator, The Matrix, and the Nexus replicants from Bladerunner / a strong female presence of the dominatrix / the river Styx - All of this fused to create the TERMINATRYX phenomenon.
In the early stages, around 2003, first guitarist Tom Somers left for Scotland which led to songwriter Paul taking care of all the instruments (including guitars, bass, drums, programming, keyboards and backing vocals).
The duo of Sonja and Paul is enhanced with additional personnel when it comes to live performances (Ronnie on drums and Patrick on guitar).
The first of these live performances came in 2003 when TERMINATRYX was chosen as support for German Darkwave legends Diary Of Dreams on their South African tour. The 8-song repertoire at that stage was expanded to include over an album's worth, with pre-production samplers making the rounds.
The sound also took shape to create a unique Industrial-Metal blend with female lead-, and male backing vocals, which was quite rare in Southern Africa at that time, but is becoming more commonplace.
2004 they used TERMINATRYX and F8 music in their short film, imPERFECTION.
The debut album release was always on the horizon, but time simply seemed to dissolve with Paul & Sonja's other activities including the creation of film festivals like the annual South African HORRORFEST in 2005 (for which Sonja is also the poster-girl) and the new X FEST.
In between rare live performances which included appearing at the Popkomm festival in Berlin, Germany (2006).
Each year TERMINATRYX also performs original live soundtracks to the screening of classic silent horror films at the annual South African HORRORFEST (incl. NOSFERATU, THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI, HAXAN, and MACISTE IN HELL). This is done in conjunction with musical collaborators Sean and Simon (from LARK - on upright bass, flute, theremin, drums, percussion etc.), as well as Matthijs Van Dijk (on electric violin). Accumulatively this musical project is known as THE MAKABRA ENSEMBLE. Other guests are also incorporated for this unique audio visual experience.
In 2007 Simon showed interest in mixing the anticipated TERMINATRYX album at his Cape Town based Sound & Motion Studios. The proposed timeframe passed and early 2008 they put their collective foot down and booked the studio for March. Paul produced (and executive produced together with Sonja) and recorded all the tracks at Flamedrop Productions. Mixing commenced with Simon at S&M early March with the album released mid-May 2008 thru ENT Entertainment, and followed with launches in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Pretoria.
Live highlights of 2008 included the Cape Town album launch (4th July) where TERMINATRYX performed at the Labia Theatre in the 200-seater cinema with a huge synced-up video projection show accompanying the entire performance. The show was followed by a pre-release screening of werewolf movie Skinwalkers - a new kind of double feature!
Within a single week in August, TERMINATRYX performed as support for two international acts visiting South Africa independently - incl. Sheep On Drugs (16 Aug) and VNV Nation (22 Aug).
Halloween 2008 also saw the release of the TERMINATRYX / NOSFERATU DVD, featuring music videos, live clips, photo galleries, their short film imPERFECTION, and the classic 1922 silent vampire film NOSFERATU with the new TERMINATRYX soundtrack (as performed live to the film's screening at the 2006 South African HORRORFEST Film Festival, together with special guests).
In 2009 Paul & Sonja created and compiled the KOPSKOOT! album (translated: "headshot!") - the first ever collection of strictly heavy Afrikaans music from Metal and Rock to Industrial, Electronic and everythign inbetween.
Mid-2009 TERMINATRYX embarked on the remixing of the debut album, calling in remixers like Industriezone (Austria), Sheep On Drugs (UK) and South Africans like Battery 9, Axxon, NuL, Jekyll & Hyde, iRONic, Francois Blom (V.O.D / K.O.B.U.S.), Theo Crous (Springbok Nude Girls / K.O.B.U.S.), and others. It is aimed for an early-2010 release.
With a natural aversion to cheap commercial sentiments and a blind consumer society, TERMINATRYX is truly a unique South African audio adventure, looking at the world with a satirical eye as they take the listener through a juxtaposed range of sonic intensity and calm, fusing technology with the organic in a David Cronenberg vs. H.R Giger trip.
In a televised talent show, and mock reality drenched commercial media decline, TERMINATRYX is not merely a breath of fresh air, but a long awaited new direction out to rattle the cage just enough to make a saturated public stand still and think, "hey, there's more to it than this..." - even if for only a moment.
But as we know, a moment can be a multitude of infinities - depending on the way you look at it.
Read more: www.myspace.com/terminatryxxx#ixzz0wnJcvpIL
For this weekends GOAT66 sale, we have the Madam Lumiere set.
Sold in Fatpacks for specific bodies for 66L until the weekend is over.
Reborn . Legacy . Maitreya
Bento Posed and non-posed options included.
Modify - Copy
Comes with BOM Waxy hand layers too.
agoreable Mainstore:
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With trunks of memories
Still to come
We found things to do
In stormy weather
Long may you run.
I've done so many shoots with Belle, I am not even sure the exact number. This was from a very short shoot where Belle needed something quite specific for her acting work. Even as short and sweet as the shoot was, it was, like always, great to have Belle in front of my camera.
Lyrics: Long May You Run by the Stills-Nash Band (but really Neil Young).
This specific aircraft, wonderfully restored by the Central Texas Wing of the Commemorative Air Force to original condition, led the Airborne Forces dropping paratroops in the early morning hours of D-Day, the Sixth of June, 1944. She reprised her role in 2019, carrying 18 reenactor paratroops & leading over 30 other C-47/DC-3's over Normandy for the 75th anniversary of D-Day. _DSC4472_HDR
I was away for a conference in Cambodia for the weekend. I wasn't there to take photos but carried my small Ricoh GR in my pocket. I was out for a walk after breakfast and found a food market near the river.
It is easy to smile and say hello in Cambodia. This lady gave me a big smile back so I crouched down and took one photo. She was cutting up fish to sell.
I took very few photos there which I am a little disappointed about. Mainly because I was busy, but also a little because I was worried about walking around with my camera out. Next time I would like to go back for a specific photography trip because the local people are so wonderfully friendly and approachable. I would be a great place to do street portraits.
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„Mit KI erstellte Fotos”
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I saw a cracking sunrise from the Breakwater but when I turned around I saw Brixham bathed in this golden light.
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One of the recurring themes of my daydreams is the flashback to some distant thought or memory. Sometimes a specific event or encounter. Other times a snippet of a past conversation, now torn away from its original context. Was in the midst of one of these flashback the other day, recalling a moment with someone I haven't seen or spoken with in over 30 years. "Why on earth am I thinking about this now?" I wonder to self. I got to thinking about what led me to that recollection. Funny thing is that it's almost never a metaphorical direct flight. More often it's a cascading effect like knocking over a row of dominoes. I hit an initial trip wire of thought, and that leads to a quick succession of other (quite random) thoughts and suddenly there I am, caught in a momentary time warp. There's little rhyme or reason to it. The end product varies. Sometimes I return to the same place in time, sometimes not. That's the nature of a flashback I suppose, bringing back a repressed memory. In my case I'm generally not recalling any sort of emotional trauma. That's the weird part. The returning thoughts are often quite mundane, but for some reason were ingrained deep down. Now as my age advances, they float back to the surface. I've noticed another pattern where specific tasks (usually physical, not involving a great deal of thought in their own right) lead me back down the same memory path. Somehow the modern day task has become interconnected with a past event, and the connection can remain for weeks or even months until it is broken off by a new one. I've even noticed this in my sleeping dreams where I'll either return to the past, or something from the past will return to the present. This will cause me to remember things of which I had no conscious memory. I wonder if time is not as linear as it seems. I also wonder if any of this plays out visually in photography, or at the very least helps shape the way I see things when out shooting.
I associated this story with the little figurine in this photo I suppose on account of the missing head. A metaphor for daydreaming on one level. When I first encountered this tiny statue I was struck by the awful juxtaposition of peace and serenity in the lower half of the body with the ghastly decapitation. But even more startling perhaps is the seeming ease with which the two realms coexist...the past blending with the new reality. The perched bird seemed to tie it all together somehow. Anyway the mere act of photographing this tableau ensures that it will be available for future playback in my mind.
Seen near Liverpool Street on my trip to London with [https://www.flickr.com/photos/sasastro/]. Ginkgo biloba is a large, deciduous tree that matures to 100' tall and is considered to be a living fossil. It is the only surviving member of a group of ancient plants believed to have inhabited the earth up to 150 million years ago. It features distinctive two-lobed, somewhat leathery, fan-shaped, rich green leaves with diverging (almost parallel) veins. Leaves turn bright yellow in fall. Ginkgo trees are commonly called maidenhair trees in reference to the resemblance of their fan-shaped leaves to maidenhair fern leaflets (pinnae). Ginkgos are dioecious (separate male and female trees). Nurseries typically sell only male trees because female trees produce seeds encased in fleshy, fruit-like cone which, at maturity in autumn, are messy and emit a noxious, foul odor upon falling to the ground and splitting open.
Genus name is a misrendering of the Japanese gin meaning silver and kyo meaning apricot used in Japan in the 17th century.
Specific epithet means two-lobed in reference to the leaves.
Swanholme Lakes, Swanholme Nature Reserve, Lincoln, Lincolnshire.
Swanholme Nature Reserve was formed from a series of flooded sand and gravel pits and has a mosaic of habitat types. The species found within them are important features both nationally and locally in terms of biodiversity.
It is an important wildlife site for Lincoln and was designated a Site of Specific Scientific Interest in 1985, and a Local Nature Reserve status was granted in 1991. The site was formally a gravel quarry, and now the 63-hectare site consists of dry heath, wet heath, sphagnum bog and open water habitats.
Information Source:
www.heritageconnectlincoln.com/character-area/swanholme-l...
Most lionesses reproduce by the time they are four years of age. Lions do not mate at a specific time of year and the females are polyestrous. The average gestation period is around 110 days; the female gives birth to a litter of between one and four cubs in a secluded den, which may be a thicket, a reed-bed, a cave, or some other sheltered area, usually away from the pride. She will often hunt alone while the cubs are still helpless, staying relatively close to the den. Lion cubs are born blind - their eyes open around seven days after birth. They weigh 1.2 - 2.1 kg (2.6 - 4.6 lb) at birth and are almost helpless, beginning to crawl a day or two after birth and walking around three weeks of age.
Usually, the mother does not integrate herself and her cubs back into the pride until the cubs are six to eight weeks old. Sometimes this introduction to pride life occurs earlier, particularly if other lionesses have given birth at about the same time. When first introduced to the rest of the pride, lion cubs lack confidence when confronted with adults other than their mother. They soon begin to immerse themselves in the pride life, however, playing among themselves or attempting to initiate play with the adults.
The Queen of the Black Rock Pride was seen walking her cubs away from the commotion of the rest of the pride feeding on the nights successful Buffalo hunt. Captured during a photography safari on an early morning game drive in the Maasai Mara Game Reserve, Kenya.
Trichocentrum longicalcaratum in situ, avec taches dans les pétales et les sépales. L'imagination de la nature n'a pas de limite pour s'adapter á des centaines d'habitats particuliers avec des microclimats spécífiques, créant des especes d'orchidées les plus surprenantes les unes que les autres de par leurs formes, couleurs et parfums. Colombie.
Trichocentrum longicalcaratum in situ, with dots on the petals and sepals. Imagination of nature has no limit to adapt to hundreds of particular habitats with specific microclimate, creating more astounding orchid species one than the other by their shapes, colors and fragrances. Colombia.
Trichocentrum longicalcaratum in situ, con manchas en los pétalos y sépalos. La imaginación de la naturaleza no tiene límite para adaptarse a cientos de hábitats particulares con microclimas específicos, creando especies de orquídeas más asombrosas una que la otra por sus formas, colores y fragancias. Colombia.
The dusky dolphin (Lagenorhynchus obscurus) is a dolphin found in coastal waters in the Southern Hemisphere. Its specific epithet is Latin for "dark" or "dim". It is very closely genetically related to the Pacific white-sided dolphin, but current scientific consensus holds they are distinct species.
The dolphin's range is patchy, with major populations around South America, southwestern Africa, New Zealand, and various oceanic islands, with some sightings around southern Australia and Tasmania. The dusky dolphin prefers cool currents and inshore waters, but can also be found offshore. It feeds on a variety of fish and squid species and has flexible hunting tactics. The dusky dolphin is known for its remarkable acrobatics, having a number of aerial behaviours. The status of the dolphin is unknown, but it has been commonly caught in gill nets.
The dusky dolphin is small to medium in length compared with other species in the family. There is significant variation in size among the different population areas. The largest dusky dolphins have been encountered off the coast of Peru, where they are up to 210 cm (6 feet) in length and 100 kg (210 pounds) in mass. The size for dusky dolphins in New Zealand have been recorded to be a length range of 167–178 cm and a weight range of 69–78 kg for females and a length range of 165–175 cm and a weigh range of 70–85 kg for males.
Almost no sexual dimorphism occurs in this species, although males have more curved dorsal fins with broader bases and greater surface areas. The back of the dolphin is dark grey or black, and the dorsal fin is distinctively two-toned; the leading edge matches the back in colour, but the trailing edge is a much lighter greyish white. The dusky dolphin has a long, light-grey patch on its fore side leading to a short, dark-grey beak. The throat and belly are white, and the beak and lower jaw are dark grey.
Two blazes of white colour run back on the body from the dorsal fin to the tail. Right between the white areas remains a characteristic thorn-shaped patch of dark colour, by which the species can easily be recognised. Aside from that, dusky dolphins may be confused with other members of their genus when observed at sea. It can be distinguished from the common dolphin, which has a more prominent and longer beak and yellow flank markings. The skull of a dusky dolphin has a longer and narrower rostrum than that of an hourglass dolphin or Peale's dolphin of similar age and size.
This image was taken in the Beagle Channel in the Southern Atlantic Ocean
The Zosterops japonicus, is a small passerine bird in the white-eye family. The specific epithet is occasionally written japonica, but this is incorrect due to the gender of the genus. Its native range includes much of east Asia, including Japan, China, Vietnam, Taiwan, and the Philippines. It has been intentionally introduced to other parts of the world as a pet and as pest control, with mixed results.
The Zosterops japonicus is olive green on its back, from anterior to posterior, and is pale green on its underside. Its feet, legs, and bill range from black to brown. It has a green forehead and a yellow throat. The white-eye has rounded wings and a long, slender bill – both of which indicate this bird to be very acrobatic. Its wings are dark brown, but outlined in green. Like other white-eyes, this species exhibits the distinctive white eyering that gives it its name . Adults range from 4 to 4.5 inches in length, and weigh between 9.75 and 12.75 grams.
綠繡眼 是一種小型雀形目綉眼鳥科鳥類，台語稱青笛仔、青啼仔.
體長約11厘米；背部羽毛為黃綠色，胸和腰部為灰色，腹部白色；翅膀和尾部羽毛泛綠光；明顯的特徵就是眼的周圍環繞著白色絨狀短羽，形成鮮明的白眼圈，故名繡眼。
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2018.6.30
It's good to be back in Melbourne if only for a stopover day in order to catch the ferry, the Spirit of Tasmania, to Devonport tonight. It's quite something to be here at the weekend... It almost seems that Australians turn into a different species of Homo sapiens in the revelling fun they have in relaxing. A bit like our Butterfly today perhaps.
It's called Australian Painted Lady, Vanessa kershawi, and it much resembles other Vanessas 'round the globe. Apparently though, the males' genitalia are quite specific to this Australian form and thus was born Vanessa kershawi.
Here it's having a go at pretty Strawflower, Xerochrysum bracteatum (www.flickr.com/photos/87453322@N00/2850784049/in/photolis...) in the fine Royal Botanic Gardens of Melbourne.
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We have ventured out yesterday evening heading to a specific destination, but seeing the sky clouding out more and more we have decided to do a little bit of a reconnaissance in the area we have not yet explored. To my surprise we've discovered that relatively close to Edmonton there are a lot more hills and valleys than I originally thought. One thing for sure, we will be back at some of the places we have seen yesterday when the sky cooperates a bit more ;D
The origin of this lake is glacial, even if it lies almost on the Furlania plane. Now it's a nice, peaceful biotope with specific fauna and flora. Behind is San Daniele, mirroring in the lake.
The theme for week 27 is 'Numbers or one specific number' The number is on the side of a small boat in Peel harbour. I was hoping for a better reflection but there has been just a bit of wind that with the natural movement of the water combined to form ripples. Had a play in Topaz adjust to see if I could get the numbers clearer so posing for Sliders Sunday as well!
Although I go out for photography it is lately without a specific idea or plan and just react on what happens with light, mist or composition that catches my eye. This photo was made when some last light came through and stopped me from reading my book and just look up. Luckily the camera was just inside ready for these moments ☺️
| Nikon Z6 + 70-200 f2.8S | 200 mm | iso 100 | f9 | 1/20s |
Tvisongur is a site-specific sound sculpture by German artist Lukas Kühne and is located on a mountainside above the town of Seydisfjordur.
The work is built of concrete and consists of five interconnected domes of different sizes. The heights of the domes are between 2 and 4 meters and they cover an area of about 30 square meters. Each dome has its own resonance that corresponds to a tone in the Icelandic musical tradition of five-tone harmony, and works as a natural amplifier to that tone.
Tvisongur was opened to the public on September 5th 2012, and everyone can access it. It is embedded in the mountainside above the town, in a quiet area with a breathtaking view of the fjord. It offers an acoustic sensation that can be explored and experimented with by the visitor. The site’s solitude and tranquility offers a perfect setting for singing or music playing, alone, in harmony, for ones own pleasure or for an audience.
Lukas Kühne’s artworks are dedicated to space and frequency. He lives in Berlin and Montevideo, Uruguay, where he heads the workshop “Form and Sound” at the Faculty of Arts of the State University. The sculpture Tvisongur relates to a series of works by the artist dealing with musical forms, one of which is the sculpture “Cromatico” built in Tallinn, Estonia in 2011.
To enjoy and experience Tvisongur guest need to walk a gravel road that starts across from Brimberg Fish Factory, for 15-20 minutes. (visitseydisfjordur.com)
Seydisfjordur is a town and municipality in the Eastern Region of Iceland at the innermost point of the fjord of the same name. A road over Fjarðarheiði mountain pass connects Seyðisfjörður to the rest of Iceland; 27 kilometres to the ring road
The image represents a year's worth of research for my MRes project entitled, ‘A Property Comparison of Cold Formed and Hot Finished Steel Conveyance Tubes’ sponsored by Tata Steel Tubes, which I completed (and passed) last year.
The main image is made up of all the key sections of my MRes thesis, in order of how they appear in the finished document, from the title page to the literature review to the conclusions and further work. The border is made up of painted, galvanised and uncoated tube samples that I have acquired throughout the last year – I omitted the rusty ones from salt spray testing as they would have stained the carpet!
The image reflects how there are many different aspects to a scientific research project and successfully putting all the pieces into place makes for a good picture, a good story and ultimately a good thesis.
Picture credit: Nathan Cooze, SPECIFIC, Swansea University
Catatonia
is a syndrome of psychological and motorological disturbances. In the current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders published by the American Psychiatric Association (DSM-IV) it is not recognized as a separate disorder, but is associated with psychiatric conditions such as schizophrenia (catatonic type), bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and other mental disorders, as well as drug abuse or overdose (or both). It may also be seen in many medical disorders including infections (such as encephalitis), autoimmune disorders, focal neurologic lesions (including strokes), metabolic disturbances and abrupt or overly rapid benzodiazepine withdrawal.
Patients with catatonia may experience an extreme loss of motor skills or even constant hyperactive motor activity. Catatonic patients will sometimes hold rigid poses for hours and will ignore any external stimuli. Patients with catatonic excitement can die of exhaustion if not treated. Patients may also show stereotyped, repetitive movements. They may show specific types of movement such as waxy flexibility, in which they maintain positions after being placed in them by someone else, or gegenhalten (lit. "counterhold"), in which they resist movement in proportion to the force applied by the examiner. They may repeat meaningless phrases or speak only to repeat what the examiner says.
Bad day. Bad bad day.
My friends went to Chicago today to go see the Lion King and eat at the Cheesecake Factory. Where am I at? Sitting on my butt in my room. Why? Because I'm too effing poor to do crap.
Then Garry calls this morning on his way home from work and tells me that he had been asked to go into work tonight. We were supposed to take tonight and tomorrow night and celebrate our anniversary. Is that going to happen now? No. Did he even bother to call me any time in the last seven hours? No.
Haven't eaten anything yet today because the spot doesn't open until 6. Thankfully that's only a half hour away...then I can finally eat something. Will probably be crap because this school could care less about those of us stuck on campus during the weekend...but it's something.
However, I do like this picture. I have high expectations for how it'll do...which sucks cause, with the way my day is going, this thing will be totally ignored by everyone. *sigh* but I still like it...so that's good at least.