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A POV shot from the long climb to the top of Glastonbury Tor.
Aperture ƒ/8.0
Focal length 18.0 mm
Shutter 1/500
ISO 200
To find something which fascinates you, something which has the ability of capturing your mind is such an extraordinary thing. We go through life with the most amazing chance of exploring numerous avenues in which we can decide to focus further on, or merely look in to and then walk away from. We have been given the possibility, the gift of having many different chances in which we can take, and yet it is more than likely, and absolutely probable, that out of all the differing elements available to us we are to find maybe one or two things which mean more to us than anything else. Why? Why is it that of all the things available in the world, all the things which are merely an arm's length away and which are ripe for the picking, we choose but one? Why do we hold on to it, nurture it, and grow alongside it?
For me, that one thing is creativity. I could not imagine living my life without some sort of creativity within it. It was not a conscious decision, it just happened. I have always had a draw to the creative arts for as long as I can remember. What is your one thing? Why did you pick it out of all the other things? Why did it glow brighter than all the others for you?
"Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found." - James Russell Lowell
Copyright © 2013 Amy Morris. All Rights Reserved.
Iowa Northern Railway train BUWA has IANR 4100, 3809, 3802, and 3803 for power on this December Sunday to make the run from Butler Yard near Shell Rock, Iowa to Bryant Yard in Waterloo. The train had 75 cars out of Butler, but have brought the head 15 into the CN Waterloo Yard for interchange. In the background EJE 667, still in orange, is paused in between it's duties as the yard switch engine, and a few other motors are laying around at the engine facility including EJE 658 in CN paint.
The CN is in the process of purchasing the IANR but is still awaiting STB approval, and so this is perhaps a bit of a look into the future. Meanwhile the past is well represented in this view too, as the Illinois Central Roundhouse here in the background has been present in at least in some form, (it's had stalls added and removed over the years) back to as far as 1901 (and possibly longer, it was hard to pin down a good date for the roundhouse construction from just some quick online research).
The Iowa Northern Railway uses the CN Mainline in Waterloo and Cedar Falls for a few miles from Waterloo West to Cedar Falls Junction as part of an arrangement going back to the 1980s and a highway project that saw the consolidation of some lines in Waterloo to make room for US 218. Normally from what I've seen the interchange work is typically done by the IANR in either direction at some siding tracks just west of Waterloo West and so they don't come into the yard like this. But occasionally when traffic warrants the CN will have the IANR come directly into the "A Yard" here at the Waterloo Terminal to make their setout and pickup as seen here. They would tie onto a cut of cars and shove back out of the yard to the rest of their train waiting on the mainline.
I had gone out after this BUWA even though it was likely to be a cloudy day because IANR 4100 on the point is one of the road's newest units (arrived to the IANR in August 2023 per some online notes, though it's originally a C&O unit) and still looks pretty sharp. But it was a nice bonus to get them making this less-common move, and this angle normally would be a heavily backlit-view if the sun were present.
Hello everybody :)
Yesterday I finally finished building my latest MOC so far, Ahch To. Due to fact that loved all the scenes in SW Episode 7-8 from that planet, I really wanted to make a MOC starring that location :)
I tried to include many scenes from the movie like the huts, Luke with the drinking bottle, Luke trying to catch a fish with a spear or a lot of Porgs (due to the fact that I´m not 100% happy with the offical Porgs from the Ahch To Training set, I modified them a bit).
The water is inspired by John Snyder ( www.flickr.com/photos/130093880@N02/35928956126/in/datepo... ) and the technique for the huts is inspired by technique Markus Rollbühler used for the roof of Rol´s Windmill ( www.flickr.com/photos/moriartus/36025371241/in/dateposted/ )
Furthermore a big thanks to Dr. Zarkow ( www.flickr.com/photos/dr-zarkow ) for giving me a Porg as a gift :)
I hope you like it :)
trying to sit in a ladylike manner wearing a wrap around skirt is not an easy thing to do.
This skirt is great to walk around in and standing about posing but the second you want to sit down it becomes a total nightmare as it tends to fall open at the front. I was forever having sit with my knees together and at an angle so as to keep to under control.
Oh well it was fun to wear.
I went to see the cherry blossom at Hakone Gardens, a Japanese garden in Saratoga, California. The garden was open at night for a short period of time, a rare opportunity. This is the stone garden at the lower house.
I processed a paintery, a balanced, and a photographic HDR photo from three RAW exposures, merged them selectively, and carefully adjusted the color balance and curves. I welcome and appreciate constructive feedback.
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-- ƒ/8.0, 12 mm, 10 sec, ISO 200, Sony A7 II, Rokinon 12mm F2.8, HDR, 3 RAW exposures, _DSC9372_3_4_hdr3pai5bal1pho1e.jpg
-- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, © Peter Thoeny, Quality HDR Photography
Dedicated to all out there that feel flooded like this, with all COVID; or due to whatever reason. Wishing you all the best for 2021 and beyond
Sad to report that TinkerBell, my once feral cat, has been missing for a month. She escaped when I was taking TiaMaria out of the front door. Tia is my elderly black lab who has been battling both cancer and diabetes for several months and is now blind, so, she takes a long time to enter and exit the house. Tinker and Tia were absolutely bonded and poor Tia has had a very hard time adjusting to Tinker’s disappearance. Now that a month has passed, and knowing that TinkerBell has never disappeared for more than 24 hours on the odd occasions when she has escaped previously, I fear the worst has happened.
Welcome to The Silver State, AMTK 300! Amtrak's brand new ALC-42 locomotive makes it's maiden journey across Nevada on the California Zephyr. On the point is AMTK 7, one of 200 plus P42DC locomotives, the workhorse of Amtrak intercity and cross country trains. Eventually, the ALC-42 will take control of trains like the California Zephyr. For now, the P42 is in charge of Train 6 as it rolls through Verdi, CA.
Road To Somewhere
Well the A708, a nicely twisty road that runs through the Moffat hills towards Selkirk.
Camera - A7r
Lens - Sony FE16-35 mm f4
Focal Length 28mm
Fstop - f7.1
Exposure Time - 1/125 Second
ISOspeed - ISO200
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© Brian Kerr Photography 2015
© Leanne Boulton, All Rights Reserved
Close-up candid street photography from Glasgow, Scotland. A cheeky title taking from his view to the horizon behind me and the 'Forza Horizon' advertisement on the bus stand. Enjoy full screen detail by pressing 'L' or clicking on the image.
Girl running, Culatra Island, South Portugal.
Peke_cheeks the subjectl, done on C-AF with the 40-50, and if you have ever tried to get flying sand in focus and everything else soft you'll know how hard it is :-)
a prologue to "5008", a new Art Project by Willem Van Den Hoed.
This is a Teaser trailer from my collaboration with this incredible creator.
Tribute To Jeanne Moreau (1928-2017) by Daniel Arrhakis (2017)
With the music : Miles Davis - Ascenseur pour l'échafaud - Lift to the Gallows (Full Album)
Jeanne Moreau (1928-2017) was a French actress, singer, screenwriter and director and win several film festival awards.
One of the last films that appeared was "Gebo and the Shadow" a Portuguese-French drama film of 2012 directed by Manoel de Oliveira with the role of Candidinha.
Work based in two images Modified for this work, of the ASCENSEUR POUR L'ECHAFAUD de Louis Malle 1958.
Cretits : Prod DB © Nouvelles Editions de Films / DRASCENSEUR POUR L'ECHAFAUD (ASCENSEUR POUR L'ECHAFAUD) de Louis Malle 1958 FRANCE avec Jeanne Moreau portrait, neons.
I feel like I took a nice break from posting pictures of this beauty! So I dug back into my catalog and went to a day in May that I knew I had some pictures worth looking over again. This was from an incredible day of fog, timelapsing with my buddy Jameson Savage. I think I filled over 160GB of data on this day. So many shots to still find and process. But here is one to get you started.
Canon 7D
Canon 17-40mm f/4 L
f/14
ISO 100
10 Seconds
LEE Filters Big Stopper (10stop)
Induro Tripods CT214
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Since we were already on our way back to Saksun with that last image I posted, I figured I'd share another view of the village and the landscape it inhabited. There is a fair bit to see in this isolated village. The church in Saksun is probably what attracts the most visitors, but there is also a pretty grand waterfall, a black sand beach and an ankle-twisting, slippery hike over the mountains that eventually leads to the village of Tjørnuvík. I hiked up almost to the halfway point of that hike and it was along that route that I enjoyed this view looking back. I really could just stand there and drink in the sights like this. Again, this was my first day on the islands, so I was still very much in the newly amazed frame of mind. But while the newness of it eventually wore off, the amazed part of it didn't at all. I really did love the land here. On a related note, most of the photos I had seen of the Faroes prior to this visit were taken in the late spring and summer months. During that time the Faroes Islands are greener than you could imagine. I knew they would not be as green during my visit and was prepared for the lack of greenery. What I was not prepared for was how beautiful the many shades of yellow and brown would be. I live in the Pacific Northwest, so green is something I am used to enjoying. I don't often get to see ochre landscapes like this and therefor it caught me off-guard just a little as to how much I would enjoy them. I do hope to visit the Faroe Islands in the summer sometime and see them covered in green, but I am really glad I got to see them in the spring now with this alternate color palette.
Pentax 67
Kodak Gold 200
Please press on the photo to view on black.
Post-processing by ARMIN DOERR PHOTOGRAPHY, I recommend you to look closer at his work
here and to "like" him.
I also wanted to link to THIS SONG , just because I like and because I think it’s a good song for a Friday evening. ;-)
Click on photo for better view, or even better: Press the slideshow button above the sets. Then press the full screen button at the lower right corner. Then press the pause button at the lower left corner. Leave the mouse. Enjoy :-)
The Swanage Railway is the picture postcard branch line to the seaside. Steam trains run for six miles from Norden through the beautiful Purbeck countryside, past the magnificent ruins of Corfe Castle to the Victorian seaside town of Swanage.
We only said goodbye with words
I died a hundred times
You go back to her
And I go back to
I go back to us.
Amy Winehouse
The hydro wires seemed to be leading heavenward in this sunset shot. With all the haze from the many BC fires, everything takes on more colour and one can get some great sunset shots.
This fluffy seed looks like a tiny spaceship what is travelling in the endless flower space, near a flower sun :)
My friends! I didn't put this photo into any group, because I want to tell you something. I will be too busy at work for some months. I will have just little spare time. It means I will spend just much less time on Flickr.
Of course I won't delete my account, and I will share new photos when I can, but I can't write (too much) comments. So sorry, I hope, you can understand me.
To me commenting and chating is something special and exciting kind of fun, a window for the world, where I can develop my poor English :) But it also needs too much time... Of course I will watch all of your great photos in your beautiful photostreams, I will give favorites for the beautiful photos, but I won't write (too much) comments (because I can't). Please, do not feel obligated to comment my photos, probably I can't answer and I don't want to be discourteous. Just favoriting my good photos will be perfect! :))
Thank you so much for your understanding to all of you!
Have a lot of fun with your cameras, I can't wait to see your beautiful photos!! :)))
Bahia Honda Bridge ~ The Florida Keys U.S.A.
(three more 'bridge photos' in the comments)
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The Bahia Honda Rail Bridge is a disused bridge in the lower Florida Keys connecting Bahia Honda Key with Spanish Harbor Key. Originally part of the Overseas Railway, the State of Florida purchased it after the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane and converted it to provide automobile use as part of the Overseas Highway in 1938. After a replacement Bahia Honda Bridge was opened in 1972, two spans of the bridge were removed to accommodate boat traffic and make the majority of the bridge inaccessible to pedestrian traffic, but the rest remain standing.
www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahia_H...
American flag and the bugle call I remember from my Navy days at 0800, when the flag was raised. The YouTube edition below was shot at Antietam National Battlefield, which Margan and I visited often when we lived in Maryland. The photo here was taken at Badlands National Park in South Dakota.
Flickr compression is playing havoc with my skys atm, not sure what's changed, my processing hasn't, my saving size hasn't ??
Producing banding and artifacts that are just not there in the image prior to upload..😔
Great Blue Heron - Florida Everglades
In The Wild - Palm Beach County, FL USA
*[The great-blue heron stands in shallow water a few feet from the shoreline, completely 'motionless'. The fish does not see its long legs and swims near. With a 'lightning-strike' of a 'spearing bill-thrust' it jabs and rarely-misses! Quite a shock for the un-assuming fish! Then, for what-ever reason (and I have seen this many times), it walks around 'with it' for 20-30 minutes, perhaps waiting for the fish to succumb to being out of the water (and calming down). Then, it flips-it up in the air and swallows it whole (fish-head down - GBH's have no teeth). A lump appears in its neck until it is fully swallowed, and then the heron sometimes takes a sip of water to wash it down. Other times it 'just flies off', very, very satisfied!! Thanks for looking.]
*[Above it had 'just-caught' this large fish, so as he walked off with it (after spotting me) the big-guy just decided that I might be a threat (to take his meal) so he quickly flew-off (with the fish) deep into the forest to enjoy his 'sushi-dinner' in private!! LOL Was fun to observe.]
*[I actually 'waited' for the wing 'down-stroke' so that the big-wing wouldn't block the GBH's head and the fish (and on the previous stroke, too). Worked pretty well...then he was gone! Into the woods.]
*[note: to feed its young it regurgitates]
*[left-click for a closer-look - HUGE Wings]
*[Above a little over-exposed...but I still like it - End of Series]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Blue_Heron
On the outskirts of Illaryian, for countless thousands of centuries, there has stood a towering statue of a giant stone tiger. Perched atop the tall and elegant Royal Arabesque Mansion, this tiger’s claws scratch the very sky. More than one traveler has come to cringe beneath the looming giant in the dark and gloomy night, at least half convinced that it was some gigantic immortal tiger hound, coming to steal their souls. But not the pair of travelers that stood upon the Tiger of Illaryian this night...
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Read more on Eurobricks, where there are also more pictures!
This is my second entry to the Wonders of Historica challenge over on Eurobricks, and it is a part of a Collaboration between a lot of us GoH builders! Check out their sections too.
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About the build, it was so tricky to poise the tiger like this (there are no props apart from the photo to hold it up), and the fine details of the building were super tough to do without gaps. Hope you like it!
Bonus points to anyone who can guess which real city inspired the architecture of the building...
The glass wall is a reproduction (about 15 metres high) of exerpts from Friedrich Schiller's original manuscript of Ode to Joy. Outside the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra School of Music.
Pic By Pammy
Model-Essca
To say that you are cute
Would be like saying that a strawberry is sweet
Because a strawberry has secret flavors
That are sharp, and tart, and red, and deep
And I would love to find you
Growing wild out by the woods
I would make a basket with the front of my t-shirt
And take home as many of you as I could
And to say that you are pretty
Would be like saying that the ocean is blue
Because the ocean is filled with all kinds of colors
And I see all kinds of things when I look at you
And I want to explore you
With my tennis shoes off
Standing ankle deep in a tide pool with my khaki pants rolled up
And to say that you are funny
Would be like saying that the night sky is black
Because the night sky is filled with stars and comets
And planets that no one has seen yet
And I want to look at you
Lying down on my front lawn
I'll try to take you all in at once
But you just go on and on and on
Per mio padre,una delle persone che ho amato tanto nella vita...la canzone era una delle sue preferite e mi è ritornata ieri in mente insieme ad un ondata di ricordi perchè mentre facevo la spesa al supermercato era nell'aria cantata da Claudio Baglioni...spesso lo penso,ma ogni tanto la mostalgia di tempi passati e la sua assenza si fanno + vive...mi manca anche se gli ultimi anni combatteva con una malattia degenerativa...mi manca...E' un omaggio un pò in ritardo al suo trascorso onomastico
Explore #10 FP
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Style Card:
Head: Lelutka Kaya
Body: Legacy Perky
Hair: Doux Octavia in Medium Size.
Eyes: Avi-Glam Idol Eyes.
Lipstick: Top1Salon HD Penny in Pale Tones.
Clothing: CandyDoll Emery Blouse & Skirt, Colors: Love, Banana.
Background: Ariskea Sunflowers, Foxcity Bebe Bento Pose Set and props.
Im learning to fly but I aint got wings
Comin down is the hardest thing
Im learning to fly around the clouds
But what goes up must come down ...
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Excerpt from the plaque:
Picture 1
Ship building and rope making. Commonly known as the Rope Walk-Ropes were stretched from the Navy Yard all the way down Rankin Avenue.
Picture 2
The Water Works Dock stood on the spot where you are standing. If you look toward the street you will see that the yellow house to the left is still standing.
Picture 3
What was locally known as the Coal Dock stood at the foot of Richmond Street. The red building is the rear of the original Post Office. The other building is the original Salmoni building.
Picture 4
The Canada Customs Dock stood at the foot of Murray Street (right side when facing the river).
Picture 5
The Boblo Dock stood at the foot of Murray Street (left side when facing the river).
SIM : Grauland
When the Alphabet Group built its new headquarters, its leaders decided to call it Babel. As a name, it was both obvious and frightening, but since the Bible and all the founding myths of civilizations had fallen into oblivion, no one was upset about it. The name vaguely reminded me of something, and I had to dig through the old trunk full of books stored in the cellar, the only legacy of my grandfather, who had died nine years ago. I found his Protestant Bible and the Chapter of Genesis, and I read the story of Babel. On reflection, I'm not sure that Alphabet had had a good idea.
The Alphabet Group had a thirty-year-plan. They had planned the creation of 26 subsidiaries and a head office. Each establishment would start with a letter of the alphabet. Babel was the penultimate establishment: the tallest tower in the world, including the largest computer cluster ever installed, and hundreds of office floors. At the foot of the tower, just in front of the main entrance, the leaders had accepted the offer of a project from a retired man : a garden with an orchard, flowers, kitchen garden, and squares of aromatic and medicinal plants. He had decided to devote the rest of his life to his garden; in return, one of the group’s subsidiaries was experimenting with anti-aging treatment on him.
The final subsidiary of Alphabet was to be called ".". It was the 27th character, the one that could not be named, the silence. Its activity remained uncertain, but during shareholder meetings, the Group’s leaders suggested spiritual benefits online which would constitute a new area of growth, in synergy with the Health & Life Extension branch of the group.
A year after the inauguration of the monumental building, the Alphabet Group was quietly continuing its activities that touched every aspect of the lives of most humans on earth, including, most recently, their spiritual lives. The gardener enjoyed a happy retirement, preaching asceticism, respect for the land and permaculture, with the blessing of his former employer. His garden was so fertile and rich that it attracted birds and all kinds of small animals that liked to breed there. To distinguish between good and bad, he decided to build a wall around his garden, with a large wrought iron gate to enter.
One evening in April, after closing the gate, he saw that the sunset would be very beautiful; the sky was clearing after a rainy day. He took the fire escape that ran up the huge building and began to climb as high as possible to admire the show. But the higher he climbed, the more he wanted to have a higher point of view. Higher up, he said to himself each time, with amazing energy for his age. Up! Up! Always up! He moved up several floors before stopping to admire the view again. Then he did not stop his dash, throwing a stealthy glance at the horizon. He was indefatigable, and climbed hours without stopping for a minute, until in the middle of the night he saw only the stars. He paused for a moment to look up: the staircase continued to rise. He looked over the guard rail: he did not see the ground and realized that he was above the clouds. He started to become cold. He went on, but he had forgotten the reason. Why keep going, he thought? Why have I moved away from my closed garden, my land, the animals and the plants? What did I do? What is the shortest way to find my happiness? Continue to climb higher and faster, or slow down and go back? He realised that during his climb he had not met anyone coming down. So he kept going.
The next morning, the maintenance department of the tower discovered the swollen, fractured and bloody body of the dead gardener. He had apparently stumbled, and his body had rolled several floors down the fire escape. The autopsy concluded that it had been an accident, but the violence of his injuries left the forensic doctors perplexed. Everyone was sad and the leaders declared a day of global mourning for the little gardener. They also decided to keep his garden, but there was now no one to maintain it. The gate remained closed and its lock rusted over in time so that no one could enter it. It is said to be a wonderful garden and sometimes, at night, there is light in the orchard where angels are celebrating.
Yesterday afternoon I decided to step out of my comfort zone and try some different processing techniques… in the hope of finding something that might improve this otherwise crappy image that I’d captured in Mouille Point a couple of weeks ago.
The processed B&W image didn’t look too bad on my large LCD screen at home… but now that I’m viewing it on my LCD here at work… it looks even crappier than the original colour version!! Oh well… I’m chalking it up as a learning experience! :)
Here is a link to the Photoshop tutorial that I used to create the "rain" effect.
Nikon D300, Sigma 10-20mm at 10mm, aperture of f7.1, with a 1/30th second exposure.
Click here to check out my Vertorama tutorial.
When you enlarge this scene and read the sign you'll find the delightful name for this little place is Ballroom. On one side of this farm house is the main road, and on the other there is a creek. The sheep we saw in the previous photo can cross the creek into the main paddock by following the route taken in the previous photo I posted today.
In the current world situation, I don't think it is just nostalgia that makes you think this might be one of the most idyllic places to live on earth.
The Zeeland Bridge is the longest bridge in the Netherlands, it is 5022 metres long...
Best on black :)
I think I'm gonna be sad, I think it's today, yeah.
The girl that's driving me mad is going away.
She's got a chicken to ride, She's got a chicken to ri-hi-hide,
She's got a chicken to ride, But she don't care.
Apologies to Lennon & McCartney www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMxyK9azXR4
For ODC, Misheard Lyrics