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This was taken handheld as I did not bring my tripod. Leaning on tree trunk for extra stability, hence the unintended leaves on RHS top corner.
Hops
Hops are the flowers of the hop flowering plant. They are used as stability agent in beer and for flavoring.
In a rare computer simulation it was possible to make visible the dark matter halo (clump) that has been bothering me for years. Lens-wise, I used the 7Artisans manual lens at F5.6; two LED lights. The clump (now made visible) has a lot to answer for when it comes to the stability of my self and the velocity with which it accelerates towards its dissolution.
The Blue Mosque, or Sultan Ahmed Mosque (Sultanahmet Camii), built between 1609-1616, showcases a novel engineering technique of stacking domes to support its vast, spacious interior. Inspired by Byzantine architecture, the large central dome is flanked by smaller semi-domes, distributing the roof’s weight effectively. This creates an open, grand interior while maintaining structural stability, making it an architectural marvel of the Ottoman Empire.
Walking back down the hill from a photo session at the Cherhill monument, I caught this glimpse of lush sunset colours to the south-west, used a fence post for a bit of stability, and snapped.
Thus a bit noisy with the high ISO but I'll live with it.
Finishing stability issues, while adding more details.
It's getting heavier with each added brick. :P
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C&C always welcome.
Magee says, "This work explores the fragility of peace and reminds us that lasting stability should never be taken for granted. Peace always requires hard work."
Bathos! Burnt Fork Creek flows over an infrastructure conduit.
DeKalb County (Clairmont Heights), Georgia, USA.
1 July 2025.
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▶ Geographical note.
Photographed mid-creek, on a trail ford, along the Dog Park Trail :
a ⅕-mile unpaved forest trail that connects, yes, a suburban dog park to the ~3-mile paved South Peachtree Creek Trail.
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📷 Photographer's note.
I captured this image handheld, with a shutter speed of ⅕-second. In comparison, see this photo of the same location, which I shot three years prior, also with a slow shutter speed, but using a tripod for added stability.
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▶ Camera: Olympus OM-D E-M10 II.
— Lens: Olympus M.40-150mm F4.0-5.6 R.
— Focal length: 40 mm
— Aperture: ƒ/4.0
— Shutter speed: 1/5 sec. (handheld)
— ISO: 400
— Edit: Photoshop Elements 15, Nik Collection (2016).
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This was at one point a warehouse for a local furniture company. The facility also housed manufacturing. It’s in the river north historical industrial district in Saint Louis, MO. USA. Thanks for getting a look with me.
Benedictine stability is the context in which we learn to sit still with whatever company arrives, in the confidence that God in Christ sits still with us; and the practice of this sitting still (which may actually be working together or singing together at least as much as praying silently together) slowly permits us to stay in one place long enough for us to open up to God’s gift in whatever is encountered.
-Rowan Williams, The Way of St. Benedict
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Tourist - Someone Else (Official Audio)
This is the largest lake in the world. Walking barefoot on the beach helps to balance emotional stability. Then what are you waiting for? Remove your shoes.
“Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself......” - {Paramahansa Yogananda}
Castel Jezeří near Most
Jezeří (German: Eisenberg) is a castle converted into a chateau, located on the slopes of the Krušné Mountains in the Most district of the Ústí nad Labem region. It is located approximately twelve kilometers southwest of the town of Litvínov in the cadastral territory of the settlement of Jezeří, which is a local part of Horní Jiřetín. The chateau stands directly above the ČSA Quarry, less than 500 meters from its edge.
At the turn of the 1960s and 1970s, the mining front of the ČSA open-pit brown coal quarry began to approach the foot of the tectonically disturbed crystalline structure of the Krušné Mountains and later exposed it directly in many places. The original concept of mining development considered the quarry to advance along the slopes of the Krušné Mountains in an eastern direction to the central part of the coal basin and the complete coalification of the seam in the Vysoká Pec – Albrechtice area. As a result of the expansion of brown coal mining in the ČSA Quarry, the Jezeří arboretum was damaged and a number of villages in the landscape below the castle disappeared (Jezeří, Albrechtice, Dřínov, etc.). In the 1980s, demolition of the castle was planned.
Since the 1970s and 1980s, extensive exploration work has been carried out in connection with coal mining, during which a complicated tectonic faulting of the basin edge and the adjacent slope of the Ore Mountains with the Jezeří castle was discovered. The surveys have shown that the castle rests on a block of intact crystalline rock, which in simplified terms represents a wedge, which is separated from the Ore Mountains massif on both sides by significant fault zones. Since there was a concern that if coal was mined in the area under the castle, the stability of the rock block would be disrupted and the castle would be damaged, the mining plans were revised and in 1991 a protective zone for the set of cultural monuments in Jezeří was established, which defined the extent of the protective pillar of unmined coal at the foot of the slope. The first plans for the restoration of the monument began to emerge in 1986, but only the most necessary repairs were carried out.
The Lobkovic family acquired the castle back in restitution in 1991, but due to the high costs necessary for the reconstruction, they donated it to the state in 1996. The castle is cared for by the National Heritage Institute, a regional expert institution in Ústí nad Labem. Gradual reconstruction of the buildings is underway
Here's Joseph's friend, Jacob. Chilling after he'd finished his beer while Joseph and Megan talked about her Rolleicord.
I just loved this long red bench that they were sitting on at the brewery, and these round tables. To try and get a little more stability I backed up to a ledge so I could rest the camera on it. Plus I like the slightly fuller perspective that this provides.
Thanks Jacob for being apart of my 100 Strangers Project, I so appreciate it!
You can find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page
Despite some stability in the west and north, this species has suffered a long-term decline in both distribution and population. The cessation of coppicing in woodlands, which creates the right habitat for the adult and that encourages vigorous growth of the foodplant, is believed to be a primary cause of the decline. This species is therefore a priority species for conservation efforts. (Butterfly Conservation)
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This collection is an ode to nature’s enduring strength, carefully crafted to bring balance and warmth to your living space.
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Each piece in the Stability Collection is an invitation to slow down, reconnect, and create a sanctuary in your space.
Let us help you create a space that feels as strong and calm as the earth beneath your feet.
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After an evening of heavy showers a brief clearance in crystal-clear light allows the capture of 66589 approaching Banbury with 4m99, the 1704 from Southampton to Trafford Park.
Unlike other cross-country routes, the Didcot to Birmingham route was not resignalled wholesale but was resignalled over a 40 year plus period.
After resignalling of the Thames valley and the Birmingham South areas, Oxford was the first area resignalled in the autumn of 1973, stretching from Kennington Junction in the south to Wolvercot Junction in the north of the city.
Fosse Road signal box, south of Leamington was abolished in 1976.
In 1983 the signal box at Greaves Siding, further south between Leamington and Banbury was reduced to a shunt frame, and in 1985, Leamington Spa was resignalled using the then new solid state interlocking technology.
A period of stability followed, with absolute block signalling from Fenny Compton (north of Banbury) through to Banbury North then Banbury South. In May 2004 Fenny Compton succumbed, leaving Banbury as the last oasis of manual signalling on the route. The remaining survivors at Banbury North (see flic.kr/p/C7zWZF ) and South surviving until the summer of 2016.
"...I used to make phantoms I could later chase
Images of all that could be desired
Then I got tired of counting all of these blessings
And then I just got tired..."
Magazine - A song from under the floorboard
Blue is the color of the sky and sea. It is often associated with depth and stability. It symbolizes trust, loyalty, wisdom, confidence, intelligence, faith, truth, and heaven. Blue is considered beneficial to the mind and body. It slows human metabolism and produces a calming effect. -
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This is not an image constructed in Photoshop. My son-in-law likes building this kind of tricky balanced stone structures, so he built this one on our hike in Algonquin provincial park.
Wishing you to find and keep your balance between staying safe and enjoying your life in these tricky Covid times!
Barli Village, Rajasthan, India. A local young man returns in the early evening heat with sheep fleece, possibly bedding for the family!
Excerpt from cgcc.org.hk:
Founded in 1900, the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce (CGCC) is one of the oldest and largest such chambers in Hong Kong. CGCC aims to serve the community and, advancing with time, to maintain Hong Kong’s prosperity and stability, reaching out to the world with its roots in Hong Kong and backing from the Motherland.
Anchored in Hong Kong, CGCC strives to build a business, economic and trading platform and safeguard business interests. At present, it has a membership of nearly 6,000, comprising association, company, individual and affiliate members. With businesses covering a wide spectrum of industrial and commercial activities, CGCC’s members form a strong and broad business network.
Excerpt from hongkongoffice.com:
The Chinese Bank Building (9 storey) is located at Prime Central district with 2 passenger lifts. Located at Connaught Road Central , 10 minutes walk from exit A of Central MTR Station. Tenant mix of The Chinese Bank Building is mostly professional firms and retail firms.
Long-tailed Tit - Aegithalos Caudatus
The long-tailed tit is globally widespread throughout temperate northern Europe and Asia, into boreal Scandinavia and south into the Mediterranean zone. It inhabits deciduous and mixed woodland with a well-developed shrub layer, favouring edge habitats. It can also be found in scrub, heathland with scattered trees, bushes and hedges, in farmland and riverine woodland, parks and gardens. The bird's year-round diet of insects and social foraging bias habitat choice in winter towards deciduous woodland, typically of oak, ash and locally sycamore species. For nesting, strong preference is shown towards scrub areas. The nest is often built in thorny bushes less than 3 metres above the ground.
The nest of the long-tailed tit is constructed from four materials - lichen, feathers, spider egg cocoons and moss, with over 6,000 pieces used for a typical nest. The nest is a flexible sac with a small, round entrance on top, suspended either low in a gorse or bramble bush or high up in the forks of tree branches. The structural stability of the nest is provided by a mesh of moss and spider silk. The tiny leaves of the moss act as hooks and the spider silk of egg cocoons provides the loops; thus forming a natural form of velcro. The tit lines the outside with hundreds of flakes of pale lichens - this provides camouflage. Inside, it lines the nest with more than 2,000 downy feathers to insulate the nest. Nests suffer a high rate of predation with only 17% success.
Outside the breeding season they form compact flocks of 6 to 17 birds, composed of family parties (parents and offspring) from the previous breeding season, together with any extra adults that helped to raise a brood. These flocks will occupy and defend territories against neighbouring flocks. The driving force behind the flocking behaviour is thought to be that of winter roosting, being susceptible to cold; huddling increases survival through cold nights.
From July to February, the non-breeding season, long-tailed tits form flocks of relatives and non-relatives, roosting communally. When the breeding season begins, the flocks break up, and the birds attempt to breed in monogamous pairs. Males remain within the winter territory, while females have a tendency to wander to neighbouring territories.
Pairs whose nests fail have three choices: try again, abandon nesting for the season or help at a neighbouring nest. It has been shown that failed pairs split and help at the nests of male relatives, recognition being established vocally. The helped nests have greater success due to higher provisioning rates and better nest defence. At the end of the breeding season, in June–July, the birds reform the winter flocks in their winter territory.
Population:
UK breeding:
340,000 territories
Livestock mobility, flexible use of rangelands, and diverse herds were key elements of traditional nomadic pastoral practices throughout the world and contributed to the high ecological stability of pastoral systems.
Nomads are still found today on the Tibetan Plateau and Himalaya. Known in the Tibetan language as drokpa, translating as “high-pasture people,” there are an estimated two million Tibetan-speaking nomads spread over a vast area. Throughout the Tibetan areas of what is now the People’s Republic of China and in the northern parts of Bhutan, India and Nepal, nomads are an important element in the economy and society wherever they are found, but their way of life is disappearing.
Read more: maptia.com/danielmiller/stories/nomads-of-the-tibetan-pla...
Long-tailed Tit - Aegithalos Caudatus
The long-tailed tit is globally widespread throughout temperate northern Europe and Asia, into boreal Scandinavia and south into the Mediterranean zone. It inhabits deciduous and mixed woodland with a well-developed shrub layer, favouring edge habitats. It can also be found in scrub, heathland with scattered trees, bushes and hedges, in farmland and riverine woodland, parks and gardens. The bird's year-round diet of insects and social foraging bias habitat choice in winter towards deciduous woodland, typically of oak, ash and locally sycamore species. For nesting, strong preference is shown towards scrub areas. The nest is often built in thorny bushes less than 3 metres above the ground.
The nest of the long-tailed tit is constructed from four materials - lichen, feathers, spider egg cocoons and moss, with over 6,000 pieces used for a typical nest. The nest is a flexible sac with a small, round entrance on top, suspended either low in a gorse or bramble bush or high up in the forks of tree branches. The structural stability of the nest is provided by a mesh of moss and spider silk. The tiny leaves of the moss act as hooks and the spider silk of egg cocoons provides the loops; thus forming a natural form of velcro. The tit lines the outside with hundreds of flakes of pale lichens - this provides camouflage. Inside, it lines the nest with more than 2,000 downy feathers to insulate the nest. Nests suffer a high rate of predation with only 17% success.
Outside the breeding season they form compact flocks of 6 to 17 birds, composed of family parties (parents and offspring) from the previous breeding season, together with any extra adults that helped to raise a brood. These flocks will occupy and defend territories against neighbouring flocks. The driving force behind the flocking behaviour is thought to be that of winter roosting, being susceptible to cold; huddling increases survival through cold nights.
From July to February, the non-breeding season, long-tailed tits form flocks of relatives and non-relatives, roosting communally. When the breeding season begins, the flocks break up, and the birds attempt to breed in monogamous pairs. Males remain within the winter territory, while females have a tendency to wander to neighbouring territories.
Pairs whose nests fail have three choices: try again, abandon nesting for the season or help at a neighbouring nest. It has been shown that failed pairs split and help at the nests of male relatives, recognition being established vocally. The helped nests have greater success due to higher provisioning rates and better nest defence. At the end of the breeding season, in June–July, the birds reform the winter flocks in their winter territory.
Population:
UK breeding:
340,000 territories
The Longshan Temple in Taipei is very crowded. Two foreigners
are at the temple entrance, They seem to think about whether to go in 😁 Taiwanese pray for the health of the whole family,
Or occupational stability, Academic success, money income…
台灣傳統新年的第一天
台北的龍山寺非常擁擠，兩位外國人在廟口，他們似乎考慮要不要進去 ? 台灣人為全家人的健康祈禱，或工作安定，學業成功，發財…新春愉快 恭喜發財 闔家安康
Not being a sailor, I had neither seen nor heard of a leeboard until I visited the Netherlands and noticed these (to me) mystifying pieces of equipment attached to the sides of sailboats. On asking around I discovered that they serve the same basic purpose as a keel or centreboard but without some of the disadvantages of either. In open water a keel gives a boat stability and is extremely efficient. But it renders the craft incapable of navigating shallow waterways. A retractable centreboard can be used to provide stability and it allows for a shallow draft but, on the downside, it requires a large, watertight storage compartment to hold it in place when retracted—and this intrudes into what would otherwise be valuable cargo or cockpit space. Leeboards, however, provide for a shallow draft without the disadvantages of either a centreboard or keel.
Normally a vessel will have one of these on each side and when sailing across or into the wind the board on the downwind side is lowered to provide stability as the boat heals under the force of the wind. And, while the board presents little resistance to forward motion, its large lateral surface area helps to prevent the boat from slipping sideways.
Originally developed in China, leeboards were introduced into Europe in the 16th century and the Dutch have used them on inshore cargo vessels since around 1570.
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When everything changes and new ‘normals’ become routine. ....And though the seasons change quite dramatically where I live there is definitely comfort and stability in their cyclic repetition.
I uploaded my first photo to flickr just a year ago, so today is my first flickr birthday. A year ago I was losing my mental stability, but now I'm getting to find my own identity again through shooting and creating images. I really appreciate your visiting and kind comments. I'm glad you're my friend... thank you so much and I love you all!
Finally, I'd like to extend my appreciation for my friend Adrian(he is a great photographer with an extraordinary eye. I'm sure he knows more about Tokyo than me). If it wasn't for you, I would not know flickr and learn photograph.
Swahili racing teams come together several times a year to compete in traditional hand-crafted, arabic-styled Mashua dhows in the Lamu Archipelago off Kenya's northern Swahili Coast.
Intense village rivalries build over the years, often reaching pitch fever on race day. The winners will return with team bragging rights and a certain village swagger that may last several months until the next race.
These four magnificent racing dhows are in near-perfect formation, positioned towards the noonday equator sun on the first day of the New Year.
They are in the lead as they prepare to tack around the buoy (top left) and change course, back again to the starting point at Shela, a small Swahili fishing settlement on the island of Lamu. Several dhows capsized at this challenging point in the race.
The finest dhows are selected from each village to compete and race under sail through a complicated series of buoys, combining speed and balance with elaborate tacking and maneuvering competence.
About sixteen young men are crowded together into each of these hand-crafted dhows to give the necessary weight, balance, and stability against a stiff coastal wind.
The art of Swahili dhow racing requires considerable team skill as the dhows manoeuvre back and forth through the Manda channel and ultimately out to the edge of the open sea.
The races are usually organized in conjunction with a cultural festival or an Islamic religious holiday. This particular race and celebration of Swahili dhow culture is held yearly on New Year’s Day and is based in Shela, a small Swahili fishing settlement on the island of Lamu.
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The source was a creation I made in Stability Ai.
Filters: PSE21 and Topaz Studio.
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roots….
home….
stability….
connectedness….
memories...
past....
future....
love….
....as long as our hearts have roots, we can be at home anywhere….
Luxemburgo capital - Río Alzette
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ENGLISH:
Luxembourg City is the capital city of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the country's most populous commune. Standing at the confluence of the Alzette and Pétrusse rivers in southern Luxembourg, the city lies at the heart of Western Europe, situated 213 km (132 mi) by road from Brussels, 372 km (231 mi) from Paris, and 209 km (130 mi) from Cologne. The city contains Luxembourg Castle, established by the Franks in the Early Middle Ages, around which a settlement developed.
The city's population consists of 160 nationalities. Foreigners represent 70% of the city's population, whilst Luxembourgers represent 30% of the population; the number of foreign-born residents in the city rises steadily each year.
Luxembourg is ranked as having the second-highest per capita GDP in the world with the city having developed into a banking and administrative centre. It was placed first for personal safety, while it was ranked 19th for quality of living.
It is one of the de facto capitals of the European Union (alongside Brussels, Frankfurt and Strasbourg), as it is the seat of several institutions, agencies and bodies, including the Court of Justice of the European Union, the European Court of Auditors, the Secretariat of the European Parliament, the European Public Prosecutor's Office, the European Investment Bank, the European Investment Fund, the European Stability Mechanism, as well as amongst other European Commission departments and services, Eurostat. The Council of the European Union meets in the city for three months annually.
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ESPAÑOL:
Luxemburgo es la capital de la pequeña nación europea del mismo nombre. Se construyó entre desfiladeros profundos, cortados por los ríos Alzette y Pétrusse, y es famosa por sus ruinas de fortificaciones medievales. La extensa red de túneles de Bock Casemates abarca un calabozo, una prisión y la Cripta Arqueológica, considerada como la cuna del país. A lo largo de las murallas en lo alto, el paseo Chemin de la Corniche tiene miradores impresionantes.
Although the Isetta was built in good numbers 161,000 most benefitted from a. second rear wheel. Only the very early models had the single wheel as seen here. Apparently in this form stability was an issue. BMW fitted this example with a 300cc engine which was good for a frightening top speed of 53mph.
Photographed approaching the annual classic car rally at Heath, Wakefield in July 2019.