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More views from walking around Portmeirion.
There was some colour in the gardens and borders. Here we saw a lovely Magnolia tree.
In 1925, Welsh architect Clough Williams-Ellis acquired the site which was to become Portmeirion. He had been searching for a suitable site for his proposed ideal village for several years and when he heard that the Aber Iâ estate near Penrhyndeudraeth was for sale, he did not hesitate to make an offer.
He wanted to show how a naturally beautiful location could be developed without spoiling it, and that one could actually enhance the natural background through sympathetic development. The Aber Iâ estate had everything he had hoped for as a site for his architectural experiment: steep cliffs overlooking a wide sandy estuary, woods, streams and a nucleus of old buildings.
But the history of Portmeirion started long before 1925. The construction of Castell Deudraeth was recorded in 1188 by Gerald of Wales, who wrote: "We crossed the Traeth mawr and the Traeth Bychan. These are two arms of the sea, one large and one small. Two stone castles have been built there recently. The one called Castell Deudraeth belongs to the sons of Cynan and is situated in the Eifionydd area, facing the northern Mountains."
Castell Deudraeth was referenced again by the 17th century philologist, geologist, natural historian and keeper of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, Edward Lhuyd in 1700. Lhuyd recorded the name as Aber Iâ, stating " The Castle of Aber Iâ yet stood in ruined form overlooking the south western extremity of the peninsula".
In 1861, Richard Richards wrote a description: "Neither man nor woman was there, only a number of foreign water-fowl on a tiny pond, and two monkeys, which by their cries evidently regarded me as an unwelcome intruder. The garden itself was a very fine one, the walls of which were netted all over with fruit trees...Aber Iâ, then, gentle reader, is a beautiful mansion on the shore of Traeth Bach, in Merionethshire."
When Williams-Ellis acquired the land in 1925 he wrote, "a neglected wilderness - long abandoned by those romantics who had realised the unique appeal and possibilities of this favoured promontory but who had been carried away by their grandiose landscaping...into sorrowful bankruptcy." Clough immediately changed the name from Aber Iâ (Glacial Estuary) to Portmeirion; Port because of the coastal location and Meirion as this is Welsh for Merioneth, the county in which it lay.
His first job was to extend and convert the old house on the shore into a grand hotel. The concept of a tightly grouped coastal village had already formed in Clough's mind some years before he found the perfect site and he had quite a well-defined vision for the village from the outset.
Portmeirion was built in two stages: from 1925 to 1939 the site was 'pegged-out' and its most distinctive buildings were erected. From 1954-76 he filled in the details. The second period was typically classical or Palladian in style in contrast to the Arts and Crafts style of his earlier work. Several buildings were salvaged from demolition sites, giving rise to Clough's description of the place as "a home for fallen buildings".
"An architect has strange pleasures," Clough wrote in 1924. "He will lie awake listening to the storm in the night and think how the rain is beating on his roofs, he will see the sun return and will think that it was for just such sunshine that his shadow-throwing mouldings were made."
The first article about Portmeirion appeared in The Architects' Journal (January 6 1926) with photographs of scale models and preliminary designs prepared by Clough to impress potential investors. In this article, John Rothenstein writes: "On the sea-coast of North Wales, quite near his own old home, Plas Brondanw, he has acquired what he believes to be an ideal site, and he is engaged upon plans and models for the laying out of an entire small township. The results of his scheme will be significant and should do much to shake the current notion that although houses must be designed with due care, towns may grow up by chance."
The Hotel Portmeirion officially opened for the Easter Weekend, on 2nd April 1926. The last building, the Tollgate, was built in Clough's 93rd year.
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Candid eye contact street photography from Glasgow, Scotland. Captured on a Monday and very suitable for a Monday - enjoy!
Leading the first train of the day's Wensleydale Railway Polar Express operations, 33035 passes Mudfields Farm with the 1235 from Leeming Bar.
Note - Maroon BSO behind the loco has been changed for a more suitable blue and grey TSO.
View from higher up.
In 1925, Welsh architect Clough Williams-Ellis acquired the site which was to become Portmeirion. He had been searching for a suitable site for his proposed ideal village for several years and when he heard that the Aber Iâ estate near Penrhyndeudraeth was for sale, he did not hesitate to make an offer.
He wanted to show how a naturally beautiful location could be developed without spoiling it, and that one could actually enhance the natural background through sympathetic development. The Aber Iâ estate had everything he had hoped for as a site for his architectural experiment: steep cliffs overlooking a wide sandy estuary, woods, streams and a nucleus of old buildings.
But the history of Portmeirion started long before 1925. The construction of Castell Deudraeth was recorded in 1188 by Gerald of Wales, who wrote: "We crossed the Traeth mawr and the Traeth Bychan. These are two arms of the sea, one large and one small. Two stone castles have been built there recently. The one called Castell Deudraeth belongs to the sons of Cynan and is situated in the Eifionydd area, facing the northern Mountains."
Castell Deudraeth was referenced again by the 17th century philologist, geologist, natural historian and keeper of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, Edward Lhuyd in 1700. Lhuyd recorded the name as Aber Iâ, stating " The Castle of Aber Iâ yet stood in ruined form overlooking the south western extremity of the peninsula".
In 1861, Richard Richards wrote a description: "Neither man nor woman was there, only a number of foreign water-fowl on a tiny pond, and two monkeys, which by their cries evidently regarded me as an unwelcome intruder. The garden itself was a very fine one, the walls of which were netted all over with fruit trees...Aber Iâ, then, gentle reader, is a beautiful mansion on the shore of Traeth Bach, in Merionethshire."
When Williams-Ellis acquired the land in 1925 he wrote, "a neglected wilderness - long abandoned by those romantics who had realised the unique appeal and possibilities of this favoured promontory but who had been carried away by their grandiose landscaping...into sorrowful bankruptcy." Clough immediately changed the name from Aber Iâ (Glacial Estuary) to Portmeirion; Port because of the coastal location and Meirion as this is Welsh for Merioneth, the county in which it lay.
His first job was to extend and convert the old house on the shore into a grand hotel. The concept of a tightly grouped coastal village had already formed in Clough's mind some years before he found the perfect site and he had quite a well-defined vision for the village from the outset.
Portmeirion was built in two stages: from 1925 to 1939 the site was 'pegged-out' and its most distinctive buildings were erected. From 1954-76 he filled in the details. The second period was typically classical or Palladian in style in contrast to the Arts and Crafts style of his earlier work. Several buildings were salvaged from demolition sites, giving rise to Clough's description of the place as "a home for fallen buildings".
"An architect has strange pleasures," Clough wrote in 1924. "He will lie awake listening to the storm in the night and think how the rain is beating on his roofs, he will see the sun return and will think that it was for just such sunshine that his shadow-throwing mouldings were made."
The first article about Portmeirion appeared in The Architects' Journal (January 6 1926) with photographs of scale models and preliminary designs prepared by Clough to impress potential investors. In this article, John Rothenstein writes: "On the sea-coast of North Wales, quite near his own old home, Plas Brondanw, he has acquired what he believes to be an ideal site, and he is engaged upon plans and models for the laying out of an entire small township. The results of his scheme will be significant and should do much to shake the current notion that although houses must be designed with due care, towns may grow up by chance."
The Hotel Portmeirion officially opened for the Easter Weekend, on 2nd April 1926. The last building, the Tollgate, was built in Clough's 93rd year.
Suitable for Giants of all ages.
Each time I pass Pen-y-Holt stack I can't help but think Giants have been here before us, playing games of jenga or stack em high with the local slabs of Carboniferous Limestone.
There's no doubt giants visit this area, I've seen them with my own eyes during the winter storms, In the form of giant waves of course, carried across the vast depths of the North Atlantic,
The average depth drops to around 20 to 30 meters behind me in this scene so most of the giant waves break before reaching this point, which is possibly why this stack has lasted the test of time, as giant waves need great depth to sustain their size, that's not saying this stack will last forever though, as a very large storms can defy the laws of gravity.
Bank of England, Manchester Branch (centre image, ground level)
The cotton industry was a major source of business for local banks and merchants around the start of the 19th century. Manchester’s importance as a commercial centre was recognised when the Bank of England established a branch in the town in 1826. Some 20 years later it moved into a suitably imposing new building, designed by one of the country’s leading architects, Charles Cockerell. The location was Upper King Street, almost directly opposite the old town hall. Manchester’s importance as a financial centre was further consolidated in 1836 when the Manchester Stock Exchange was opened in Exchange Street, in part to deal in the shares of the local joint-stock banking companies.
Cockerell’s Bank of England branch building (shown above) survives in King Street but it is no longer home to the bank, the latter having moved into new premises located at the junction of Portland Street and Charlotte Street in 1971.
This information was provided by Terry Wyke.
Throwing the ball in bounds. Shot with the Olympus E-M1, Mark II and the OLYMPUS M.75-300mm F4.8-6.7 II lens.
Note that I shot at 75mm and could have gotten a much better and probably much sharper image with my 75mm f1.8 Oly prime. I had been in the habit of using the prime, however, given the rapid movement on the soccer field, that choice would not have worked well when the action was farther away. I'm still not unhappy with the results with this more compact and affordable zoom lens, although it's not the most suitable lens for sports photography. Live and learn, right?
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A male Common Flameback Woodpecker looking for a suitable nest in Chinese Garden.
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Artists and Volunteers Visit the Recycle Center Near Kohou Township in Search of Items that Would be Suitable for Making Artwork at the 2018 ChengLong Wetlands International Environmental Art Project in Cheng long Village, Kohou Township, Yunlin County, Taiwan. April 13, 2018
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Today, spring, and with it the flowers, shouldn't be neglected.
Fortunately, you no longer have to travel long distances to find suitable subjects.
And so this afternoon (I'm just getting back), I quickly went to the neighboring town of Neustadt Sachsen, to a small park on the Polenz River, which I'd noticed a few times while driving past. It's located right next to the main road.
Here, on both sides of the stream, there are lots of snowdrops and a few snowflakes in bloom.
Enough beautiful subjects to provide you with more in the coming days.
Auch am heutigen Tag soll der Frühling und damit die Blumen natürlich nicht zu kurz kommen.
Zum Glück muss man jetzt keine weiten Strecken mehr fahren, um geeignete Motive zu finden.
Und so war ich heute Nachmittag (ich komme gerade zurück) mal schnell in Nachbarort in Neustadt Sachsen, in einem kleinen Park an der Polenz, den ich im Vorbeifahren schon einige Male ins Auge gefasst hatte. Er befindet sich nämlich direkt neben der Hauptstrasse.
Hier blühen, auf beiden Seiten des Baches, gerade richtig viele Märzenbecher und auch ein paar Schneeflöckchen.
Ausreichend schöne Motive um Euch in den nächsten Tagen mit Nachschub versorgen zu können.
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Straw-necked Ibis
Scientific Name: Threskiornis spinicollis
Description: The Straw-necked Ibis is a large waterbird with a naked black head, long downcurved black bill and yellow throat plumes. It has a glossy blue-black back, with metallic purple, green and bronze sheen, a white nape and sides of neck and white underparts. Its preference for grassland insects such as grasshoppers and locusts have earnt it the name of Farmer's Friend.
Similar species: The strawlike neck feathers distinguish the Straw-necked Ibis from other ibises. When flying, it has a white body and black wings, while the Australian White Ibishas a black head with white body and wings.
Distribution: The Straw-necked Ibis is found across mainland Australia. It is vagrant to Tasmania and is also found in Indonesia, New Guinea, Norfolk Island and Lord Howe Island.
Habitat: The Straw-necked Ibis prefers wet and dry grasslands, pastures, croplands and swamp or lagoon margins. It is rarely found on coastal shores, mudflats or mangroves and is generally less adaptable than the Australian White Ibis.
Seasonal movements: Highly nomadic, moving in search of suitable habitat.
Feeding: The Straw-necked Ibis feeds mainly on terrestrial invertebrates, especially grasshoppers and locusts. It will also take frogs, small reptiles and mammals. It forages by probing or takes prey from the surface of water bodies. It is rarely an opportunistic scavenger, unlike the Australian White Ibis. The Straw-necked Ibis has been called the Farmer's Friend, because it eats crop pests such as grasshoppers and locusts.
Breeding: The Straw-necked Ibis forms large breeding colonies, often with Australian White Ibises. The low nests are large trampled platforms of reeds, rushes and sticks over water, often blending together to form one continuous platform, and are re-used over many years. Both sexes build nests, incubate eggs and feed the young.
Calls: Silent away from nest; grunts or croaks at nest and hoarse rolling calls in flight: 'u-u-uh'.
Minimum Size: 59cm
Maximum Size: 76cm
Average size: 68cm
Breeding season: August to January in south; February to May in north
Clutch Size: Two to five, usually two to three.
Incubation: 25 days
Nestling Period: 35 days
(Source: www.birdsinbackyards.net)
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A suitably snowy Christmassy scene of the Three Ships on Birchen Edge. (Victory, Defiance and Royal Soverin (sic) carved on the rock formations).
Adorned with facemask vinyl, ScotRails's 1H13 1333 Edinburgh to Inverness service (43145/43152) creeps past the crossing gates and into Blair Atholl. Such devices - the face mask, that is - will be be obligatory for a while at the village's store.
The former HR box and up starter BA7 can just be glimpsed.
7th July 2021
A stitched image made of 7 different photos.
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A 6-spot burnet on Filey Brigg. Took about half an hour before it presented a viewpoint suitable fo ID. Patience is a virtue.
This beach with its white, fine sand has a nearly 80 m wide seashore and dunes, the height of which, in some places, may reach up to 9 m. The Blue Flag beach has a total length of 1.2 km. The beach equipment is also suitable for persons with reduced mobility, as they are able to access the beach, using the footbridges and staying on special platforms.
The large dunes surrounding the beach of Ventspils tend to create natural “sun baths”, which provide a shelter from wind and allow to open the sunbathing season earlier than elsewhere.
This is a different variation of the Corridor in Canary Wharf. I think I prefer this version with more of an idea of what it was but still suitably weird. The closed door at the end looks a bit like some sort of creature with eyes. This started off life as a back corridor in the Crossrail Station building at Canary Wharf. It has a futuristic look with grills and lights in the ceiling. Then I did a little editing. First 3 images were combined to HDR with Aurora HDR Pro. Next I used Topaz Lens Effects to create a zoom burst wich creates nore of a rush down the corridor and brings out the lines and perspective. Next the main effect was done in Photoshop using Filter, Distort and Twirl though less intense than in the previous image. Again I went for a counter clockwise effect. Next more detail with Topaz Clarity. Then more punch using Unsharp Mask 90 amount and 90 Radius. Next convert to mono using Nik Silver Efex Pro. Including a vignette.
The picture was taken handheld with a Sony A68 with a Sigma 10-20 wide angle zoom at 10mm.
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Iowa Interstate's CBBI soars over the Cedar River on a beautiful May morning in the tiny town of Moscow, IA. Leading the train is 513, painted in attractive Rock Island RR colors. This was the shot that made the whole trip, in my opinion!
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Macro Monday's and the theme of "Behind Glass".
My idea this week was to find a suitable jar and drop a Mentos into it while it contained a fizzy drink so I could capture the bubbles created by the reaction.
The jar I found was just about in the size requirements but would mean a square crop to be legal as I wanted to show as much of the jar as possible. I had a smaller one but I thought it was too small for the subject.
After setting up a light stand and soft box it was just a case of filling the jar with a suitable drink. Coke or Dr Pepper works best but they are coloured drinks and for the purposes of the photo I required a clear one. The trick works with any fizzy drink though so I filled the jar with 7-Up and duly dropped a Mentos in.
I refilled the jar a couple of times for another go and eventually ended up with a few frames that I liked and one of them you can see here.
Just another shell on my suitably themed kitchen table cloth that has seagulls printed on it :) taking using a vintage macro lens not too long ago. The lens mounts naturally needing no adaptor and is the Nikon Nikkor 55mm 2.8 Micro lens.. This one is taken at f/11 and still threw the background out but of course doesn't have the detail that photo stacking would achieve. We hope to go away just possibly 2 days and visit the beach where I collect my shells from just a short walk from our caravan. Jonathan says I have enough shells now but if i pick one up and marvel at its intricacies I simply can't leave it behind. There are many millions every single time we go and i started an entirely new collection that are of most variety of shell but all different shades of blue...I hope to catch up with some of your inspirational shots hopefully if there is any WIFI and maybe a few once I'm ready before we set off. Jonathan has been alone to his bungalow every day and its too much so I'm dragging him away. Wishing you all a lovely day...Sue :)
Ps the bits on the tablecloth are tiny crumbs of sand despite my best efforts at washing this shell clean.
Peek a boo......
Mallard
Anas platyrhynchos
The Mallard is a large and heavy-looking duck. It has a long body, and a long and broad bill. The male has a dark green head, a yellow bill, is mainly purple-brown on the breast and grey on the body. The female is mainly brown with an orange bill. Mallards breed in all parts of the UK in summer and winter, wherever there are suitable wetland habitats, although it is rarer in upland areas. In the UK, Mallards may be resident breeders or migrants – many of the birds that breed in Iceland and northern Europe spend the winter here.
Sacred Kingfisher
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We had high hopes that the pair of Kingfishers would remain in the area and raise their young.
They stayed for several weeks, but made no real attempt at nesting.
As the area is a dry ephemeral swamp, in the end, suitably refuelled, they moved on.
Seagull and views from Portmeirion looking to Talsarnau and Ynys.
In 1925, Welsh architect Clough Williams-Ellis acquired the site which was to become Portmeirion. He had been searching for a suitable site for his proposed ideal village for several years and when he heard that the Aber Iâ estate near Penrhyndeudraeth was for sale, he did not hesitate to make an offer.
He wanted to show how a naturally beautiful location could be developed without spoiling it, and that one could actually enhance the natural background through sympathetic development. The Aber Iâ estate had everything he had hoped for as a site for his architectural experiment: steep cliffs overlooking a wide sandy estuary, woods, streams and a nucleus of old buildings.
But the history of Portmeirion started long before 1925. The construction of Castell Deudraeth was recorded in 1188 by Gerald of Wales, who wrote: "We crossed the Traeth mawr and the Traeth Bychan. These are two arms of the sea, one large and one small. Two stone castles have been built there recently. The one called Castell Deudraeth belongs to the sons of Cynan and is situated in the Eifionydd area, facing the northern Mountains."
Castell Deudraeth was referenced again by the 17th century philologist, geologist, natural historian and keeper of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, Edward Lhuyd in 1700. Lhuyd recorded the name as Aber Iâ, stating " The Castle of Aber Iâ yet stood in ruined form overlooking the south western extremity of the peninsula".
In 1861, Richard Richards wrote a description: "Neither man nor woman was there, only a number of foreign water-fowl on a tiny pond, and two monkeys, which by their cries evidently regarded me as an unwelcome intruder. The garden itself was a very fine one, the walls of which were netted all over with fruit trees...Aber Iâ, then, gentle reader, is a beautiful mansion on the shore of Traeth Bach, in Merionethshire."
When Williams-Ellis acquired the land in 1925 he wrote, "a neglected wilderness - long abandoned by those romantics who had realised the unique appeal and possibilities of this favoured promontory but who had been carried away by their grandiose landscaping...into sorrowful bankruptcy." Clough immediately changed the name from Aber Iâ (Glacial Estuary) to Portmeirion; Port because of the coastal location and Meirion as this is Welsh for Merioneth, the county in which it lay.
His first job was to extend and convert the old house on the shore into a grand hotel. The concept of a tightly grouped coastal village had already formed in Clough's mind some years before he found the perfect site and he had quite a well-defined vision for the village from the outset.
Portmeirion was built in two stages: from 1925 to 1939 the site was 'pegged-out' and its most distinctive buildings were erected. From 1954-76 he filled in the details. The second period was typically classical or Palladian in style in contrast to the Arts and Crafts style of his earlier work. Several buildings were salvaged from demolition sites, giving rise to Clough's description of the place as "a home for fallen buildings".
"An architect has strange pleasures," Clough wrote in 1924. "He will lie awake listening to the storm in the night and think how the rain is beating on his roofs, he will see the sun return and will think that it was for just such sunshine that his shadow-throwing mouldings were made."
The first article about Portmeirion appeared in The Architects' Journal (January 6 1926) with photographs of scale models and preliminary designs prepared by Clough to impress potential investors. In this article, John Rothenstein writes: "On the sea-coast of North Wales, quite near his own old home, Plas Brondanw, he has acquired what he believes to be an ideal site, and he is engaged upon plans and models for the laying out of an entire small township. The results of his scheme will be significant and should do much to shake the current notion that although houses must be designed with due care, towns may grow up by chance."
The Hotel Portmeirion officially opened for the Easter Weekend, on 2nd April 1926. The last building, the Tollgate, was built in Clough's 93rd year.
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Libellula depressa (Linnaeus 1758)
Teneral hembra (female). Montañas de La Mussara (Tarragona) a 950 mts. de altitud.
Tras el primer vuelo esta hembra fue a posarse en un arbusto de boj alejado de las aguas situándose adecuadamente para redondear el secado alar y garantizar su vida aérea…
After the first flight this female went to perch in a boxwood bush away from the waters, suitably positioned to round off the wing drying and guarantee its aerial life ...
Après le premier vol, cette femelle est allée se percher dans un buis de buis loin des eaux, convenablement positionnée pour achever le séchage des ailes et garantir sa vie aérienne ...
In Dutch we call this an Unster, I could not find a suitable English word (apart from steelyard, but this weighing device works with a spring, not levers).
I don't know how old it is, probably came via my grandfather. So for this Macro Monday occasion I took it out of the garden (where the birdfeeder hangs off it), gave it a Brasso treatment and checked the weight of my Tamron 600mm lens, weighing in at just over 2Kg, which is only about 200 grams too much, so still quite accurate....!
The elegant shape was seemingly not done for aesthetic reasons. Still it made a good framing device and a suitable location for kids to squabble.
Very suitably for the date on 16th July and the 50th Anniversary of the launch of Apollo 11 there was a partial eclipse of the moon. This was visible across most of the world save for North America. Timing was especially good in the UK where the moon rose with the eclipse having started almost exactly when the sun was setting at 21.07. Maximum eclipse at three quarters was at 22.30. The weather was also reasonably good though with high cloud near the horizon. On the south coast the moon rose out to sea in the SSE.. I went for a foreground of Bognor Regis Pier
The picture was taken with a tripod with a Sony A68 with a Minolta 75-300 zoom at 250mm. 3 images were taken for HDR but this was done manually with layers and layer masks with the 0EV image used for the main scene and the minus 2 image used for the moon Then in Photoshop more detail was brought in with Topaz Clarity and noise reduced with Topaz DeNoise.
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It consists of nailed plates, almost all of oak. Its dimensions are 22 meters in length by 5 of sleeve, with a mast of about 9-10 meters. With a sail of approximately 90 m², the ship could reach a speed of 10 knots. It had room for 30 rowers (each side of the ship reveals 15 holes for the oars). In addition there is a large helm and an iron anchor. The bow and stern of the ship are sculpted in an elaborate way, in a style that has been called "de Oseberg". The ship was built in 820 and was used for its main function for several years before serving as a grave. Although suitable for navigation, the ship is quite fragile, which suggests that it should be used only for trips along the coast.
Se compone de planchas clavadas, casi todas de roble. Sus dimensiones son 22 metros de eslora por 5 de manga, con un mástil de unos 9-10 metros. Con una vela de aproximadamente 90 m², el barco podía alcanzar una velocidad de 10 nudos. Tenía cabida para 30 remeros (cada lado del navío revela 15 huecos para los remos). Además se encuentra un amplio timón y un ancla de hierro. La proa y la popa del navío están esculpidas de forma elaborada, en un estilo que se ha dado en llamar "de Oseberg". El barco se construyó en 820 y fue utilizado para su función principal durante varios años antes de servir como sepultura. Aunque apto para la navegación, el barco es bastante frágil, lo que hace pensar que debía utilizarse sólo para trayectos por la costa.
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Devraj
As soon as I saw Devraj , I knew he'd be a great subject. We had a lot of problem finding a suitable location because of the heavy rains in Mumbai, but finally I took his pictures in an old building I had been in before. I must thank Devraj for his infinite patience and I hope the photograph is worth his while.
Devraj is in the media business, he is a line producer. He loves to travel and loves food . He hopes to make a short film soon which he is in the process of scripting. I wish him good luck in his ventures.
This picture is #02 in my 100 strangers project. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page
Interestingness!
Besides being a five syllable word suitable for tongue twisters, it is also an amazing new Flickr Feature.
There are lots of elements that make something 'interesting' (or not) on Flickr. Where the clickthroughs are coming from; who comments on it and when; who marks it as a favorite; its tags and many more things which are constantly changing. Interestingness changes over time, as more and more fantastic content and stories are added to Flickr.
We've added some pages (and changed some existing ones) to help you explore Flickr's most interesting content. Before you start though, you might want to take your phone off the hook, send your boss to an executive training session and block off some time on your schedule, because we don't think you're going to be walking away from your screen any time soon. Beautiful, amazing, moving, striking - explore and discover some of Flickr's Finest.
What is Explore?
Flickr’s Explore page is one of the most beloved features for photographers in the Flickr community. Powered by an algorithm we continue to fine-tune, the page displays a rotating array of about 500 images from Flickr members every day. Explore is a great way to seek inspiration, discover fantastic talent from the community, and connect with photographers who share your interests.
Do I have to be popular to be on Explore?
It depends on your definition of popular, but the short answer is no. The images on Explore are picked by an algorithm based on activity on the photo. What really matters is the amount of authentic, organic interactions in the form of comments, faves, and views your photo gets after being posted, regardless of how many followers you have.
Do I have to be a Pro member to be featured in Explore?
No. We did experiment with giving priority exposure to Pro members in the past, but we found the best Explore experience when giving every member an equal chance to be featured. There is currently no consideration of account or billing status. Nevertheless, we continue to look at new ways to give our Pro members more exposure.
Why do I see photos with fewer faves or comments or views than mine on Explore?
The images featured in Explore aren’t necessarily the ones that gathered the most views, faves, or comments. We try to weigh in the quality of those actions over quantity. The timing of when you posted also plays a role.
Is there a limit on how often a Flickr member can be featured in Explore?
Yes. There are limits to how often a single member can be featured on the Explore page. We try to avoid predictability and give more of our members a fair share of exposure by setting some frequency limitations.
Is there a frequency with which I need to post photos in my account to be considered for Explore? Do people who post daily have a higher chance of being featured?
Regular posting is one of the factors that helps keep your audience engaged, but your focus should be on building an authentic community of people who value and interact with your work in a genuine way.
Does adding tags, titles, and descriptions to my photos impact my chances of being in Explore?
Yes. Providing more metadata and information about the upload influences the scoring of the photo. The more the system can understand the content uploaded, the better the chances of it being Explored.
Does adding my photo to groups help my chances of getting into Explore?
Adding your photos to on-topic groups is a great way to connect with other Flickr members interested in the same kind of photography that you do. It is also a great way to build community and interaction around your work, thus improving your chances of getting featured!
Why are there so many birds on Explore?
If you see that a particular theme is more popular in Explore than another, that’s a sign of a very deep community on Flickr that’s coming together to show their appreciation for those photos. The best you can do to get a more diverse range of topics showcased in Explore is to get your audience to engage with other members interested in the sort of photography you’d like to see featured.
The St Kilda Botanical Gardens are a very beautiful place to visit, not least for all for their wonderful array of roses found in the Alister Clarke Rose Garden.
"Black Magic" is loved worldwide for its fascinating deep, dark red, almost black coffee coloured velvety petals and continuous flowering. The blooms are a classic rose shape with a high pointed centre. "Black Magic" is one of very few red roses to produce excellent blooms during our hot summers. "Black Magic" was bred and introduced by Tantau in 1997. Rosen Tantau, located in Northern Germany, has been breeding roses successfully for more than a century. One of its specialties is the creation of Hybrid Tea Roses suitable for the garden and cut flower industry. "Black Magic" has become very popular around the world as one of the best deep red roses which is relatively disease resistant and produces many quality flowers throughout the entire season.
The site of the St Kilda Botanical Gardens were established in the 1800's. The municipal council petitioned the Department of Lands and Survey to make this segment of land bordered by Dickens Street, Tennyson Street and Blessington Street a Botanic Garden. The gardens were formally established in 1859 when a boundary fence was erected. By 1907 significant donations of money and plant material had led to the establishment of a rosary, extensive flower beds and a nursery. Exotic forest trees were planted during the 1870s and Australian species were included in 1932. In the 1950s the Alister Clarke Rose Garden was established and a Sub-Tropical Rain-forest conservatory added in the early 1990's.
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Street photography from Glasgow, Scotland.
Previously unpublished archive shot from April 2016.
Anthropogenic climate change is driving increasingly chaotic weather and the jet stream being more 'wobbly' is just one small part of that. The UK has been fluctuating between hot African airflow and bitter Arctic blasts as each low pressure system rolls on in from the Atlantic thanks to this 'wobbliness' in the jet stream.
Our flora and fauna must be really confused but at least us humans can wrap up warm when we need to.
We just had the wettest March on record followed by as much rain in the first half of April as you would expect for the whole of April. Still, this is nothing compared to the Middle East yesterday. Dubai and the UAE saw two years worth of rainfall in just one day! This is at just 1.5C above pre-industrial levels. The majority of climate scientists now say that +2C is baked in now due to lack of action on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. I dread to think the chaos yet to come.
Take care everyone.
I used to think that people just went for a walk in the woods. Bill Bryson went for a walk in the woods – he walked large chunks of the Appalachian Trail with his dissolute friend Stephen Katz, in the suitably entitled “A Walk in the Woods.” Bears, hypothermia, shotgun wielding hillbillies, and most frighteningly of all, people who wanted to talk about hiking gear weren’t enough to put him off - although they frightened me a bit. I myself have twice walked pretty much the entire length of the east bank of Loch Lomond, twenty miles or more along a heavily wooded section of the West Highland Way. The most brutal section of the entire long distance trail in my opinion - but also possibly the most rewarding. Despite the occasional break through open ground where the mountains filled the backdrop to the opposite bank, I definitely felt that I was having a walk in the woods. Miles from anyone, with the exception of a few other long distance hikers gradually making their way north.
But it seems that I was wrong. Now I’ve learned that what we’ve all been doing is having a bath of sorts. We’ve been forest bathing in fact. Amble along peaceably, stop and cuddle the odd oak here and there, feel the love and then be interviewed by an outdoorsy type of celebrity for a spot on Countryfile. “Outdoorsy” didn’t cause the spellchecker to go into overdrive by the way. Who knew? I’ve always been suspicious of passing fads – terrified that I might stroll through a forest and bump into Gwyneth Paltrow hugging a Horse Chestnut or Will Young baring his soul to a Beech. But what I do find rather soothing is the sound of endless birdsong and the gentle rustle of life somewhere up in the canopy. There’s nothing quite like it. It seems I’ve been in the bath too – it’s just that I never realised that’s what I was doing. I’d better not accidentally bump into Paltrow as it seems that can turn out to be a rather expensive thing to do based on recent events.
Like many of you, each year I produce a calendar using images from the adventures of the last twelve months, and rather than simply compiling twelve shots from the September adventures in Iceland, I prefer each month to be represented by an image taken at the appropriate time. It’s not something I’ll ever be bothered to try and do commercially though, so sorry I can’t take orders – besides which yours is probably far better anyway. Just a dozen or so for family and a few close friends. A few days ago we turned over from Madeira in March to April’s feature and remembered that it’s almost a year since Ali and I took the van to the New Forest to do some forest bathing of our own. I’d forgotten how much I liked this picture. It was one that I’d intended to share at the time but somehow never did. On a still sunny afternoon, one of those when you knew that spring had truly arrived, we took a long circuit through the Ashurst Forest towards the heath, stopping here to enjoy the silence and snaffle a ration or two. Neither Paltrow nor Young appeared to be present, and nor did anyone else for that matter, famous or otherwise.
Of course I’d taken the camera with me, and the long lens did exactly what I hoped it would, eliminating the sky and blurring the background as I focused on the nearest subject. I tried a few compositions, but having the space filled with brown trunks against the yellow floor and the leading subject somewhere around the left hand third seemed the most pleasing version to me. Woodland photography is so often a struggle, but here it seemed simple enough with the regular forms before me disappearing softly into the distance, and the odd spring of fresh green growth to gatecrash the colour scheme.
And what better place to take a dip than in one of the most famous baths in the nation? Room for plenty of people to find their inner wotsit as they search around in the deep end for the soap and the loofah. A space in which to switch off and drop out for a while. Not that we were exactly over exerting ourselves in the first place of course. We’re retired and enjoying the golden years after all. But then again, there’s always another slow lane in which to ease down a gear, put up our feet and watch the rest of the world race by.
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