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It's freezing outside and they forecast more cold to come.
At least I can look at my photos and feel warm with my memories.
By the way.....can you spot the birds in my picture?
Happy New Year, my friends.
For "smile on saturday" and
"reflection on black"!
This is my first attempt to shoot reflection on a black background. I spent a lot of time on this task, but mostly cleaning up black smooth and shiny surfaces and mirrors. Even the dust dropped from the feather, so at the end I had to remove those tiny dust particles in Lightroom.
Have a great day and thank you for visiting,
HSoS!
You see, the world was made of stone. There were stone mountains and stone valleys. At the very top of the stone mountain something came to life, and that life became known as Le-lu, First Woman, who walked down from that stone mountain with two babies clutched to her breast. As she walked, with every step she took the grass began to grow. And as she sat and as she touched the ground, the rivers began to flow. -- Esther Stutzman
These beautiful falls with a mundane name (Middle North Falls) can be found in Silver Falls State Park in Oregon. Silver Falls State Park boasts TEN stunning waterfalls along a very scenic loop hike. Every one of them is worth visiting, if your legs and lungs are up to the task. On this particular trip, my brother-in-law and I just made the short hike via the Winter Falls trailhead. Fall color was banging hard!
The end hope in the top rocky mountain - the day is a adventure trip this a big cave among hard nature and natural view area this photo is a hdr shooting wide view - in south Kurdistan .
All other tasks were done mindlessly, because their focus, their only purpose, was to wait to hear something, anything
Overall it was a really great experience, the wait for the spot to be empty was incredibly worth it!
Let me introduce this little man, the very important Magic-Santa Claus and his first-and-only Assistent. They work in a top secret place and have a very important task to perform.
Do you know how all those big presents fit into the tiny sacks, that all Santa's carry? Well, this little Magic-Santa Claus has great magical powers and transforms everything into very tiny and very light objects, so the Santa's don't have to carry too much weight either.
Once touched by a human the presents immediately change back into their normal proportions. This process is so quickly, not noticeable for the human eye.
I was able to visit them, but I don't remember how ............. Suddenly I was there and then the next moment back in my house again.
All that's left is this one and only photo of them... I think Magic-Santa Claus put a spell on me too ;-)
Design origami "Santa Claus": Jacky Shan
Folded from 2 pieces kami paper
There is a tutorial, if you want to fold it too. Happy folding ;-)
Traditional origami "Kusudama" aka "his first-and-only Assistent"
Kruger National Park
South Africa
Happy Caturday!!!
Two male lions resting after enjoying a lunch of roasted leopard tortoises. You can see the scorched earth on which they are lying after a fire.
Panthera leo melanochaita is a lion subspecies in Southern and East Africa. In this part of Africa, lion populations are regionally extinct in Lesotho, Djibouti and Eritrea, and are threatened by loss of habitat and prey base, killing by local people in retaliation for loss of livestock, and in several countries also by trophy hunting. Since the turn of the 21st century, lion populations in intensively managed protected areas in Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe have increased, but declined in East African range countries. In 2005, a Lion Conservation Strategy was developed for East and Southern Africa.
Results of a phylogeographic study indicate that lion populations in southern and eastern Africa form a major clade distinct from lion populations in West Africa, Central Africa and Asia. In 2017, the Cat Classification Task Force of the IUCN Cat Specialist Group subsumed lion populations according to the major clades into two subspecies, namely P. l. leo and P. l. melanochaita. - Wikipedia
Almost every stretch of the coast path brings up a view like this showing what still needs to be accomplished on the day's walking. It's both inspiring and sobering at the same time!
Course task.
A capture from a walk a take often with the dogs. Experimenting with colour and layers. Not my type of processing (too harsh) but putting it up anyway. Live & learn as they say
Ready for the next cheerleading practice on Tuesday :)
I had to complete the following task: We are supposed to show up at the next cheerleading practice in Halloween costumes.
Personally, I don't like violence, skulls, dead eyes, and blood.
I wanted a “friendly” costume.
I think I succeeded, although... I do look a little dangerous, don't I? haha*
You can find the outfit at Addams.
Here's the LM:
From Wikipedia, "Leake Street (also known as the Banksy Tunnel) is a road tunnel in Lambeth, London where graffiti is tolerated regardless of the fact that it is against the law. The street is about 300 metres long, runs off York Road and under the platforms and tracks of Waterloo station.
The walls are decorated with graffiti, initially created during the Cans Festival organised by Banksy on 3–5 May 2008. The festival ran again on the August Bank Holiday weekend 2008.
While the Eurostar terminal was at Waterloo, the road was open for through vehicular traffic. On 14 November 2008 ownership of the road passed from Eurostar to Network Rail and through traffic was restricted to pedestrians.
Prior to the 1920s the street was known as York Street."
As the low, late afternoon sun illuminated the grasses into neon,
I catch a tiny flash of a different colour.
A new wildflower, I've never seen before?
Could be interesting for a pic. Let's have a look ..
No, it was these guys.
I didn't really think I'd get anything decent as everything was swaying in the the breeze, getting focus through the grass stems, and me shaky with zoom ... I gave it a go just for the practice.
Later at home, I was surprised I got 2 out of the three in focus before they did fly off into the wild green yonder, still stuck together.
More of a surprise to see one of them was holding a 'snack'.
Their version of crackers in bed, perhaps ..?
sooc..
HMM !
Update:
Many Thanks to Anuj, who just gave me the correct ID for the loving couple.
They are Robber Flies.
I haven't heard of this name, but now I look more closely, their wings aren't as long as those on Dragonflies.
Bari, Basilica di San Nicola
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Trying to do my row for the day at the same time as my shot for the day. I've worked four long days in a row so that I could have off tomorrow. I have no special plans for tomorrow and, thus, so special need to have the day off, but having a day off sounded good back when we did our late shift schedule last month. I will sleep in a bit and see where the day takes me. I plan to walk in the Women's March on Saturday so I need to come up with a poster.
19/365
A quartet of C40-8s wearing G&W corporate paint lead Providence & Worcester train CT-1 south at Woodhouse Ave in Wallingford with a big train of stone from the Tilcon Quarry at Reeds Gap. I stumbled upon this crew running around at Reeds Gap taking the back way home around some construction traffic and figured it was worth the effort for a quick grab shot. After all it is New England, getting a train actually moving on a clear sunny day seems to be an impossible task as of late. I can't help but think we are on the wrong timeline here. How do we get on the one where P&W is still independent and these units are wearing the proper orange and brown? Asking for a friend....
If it's not responding, end it.
My entry to the final round of Bio-Cup 2022.
Based on the task manager's "end task" / "close program" function
Huge thanks to everyone who provided me with feedback - not just for this particular build, but throughout the contest in general. It was fun!
“Our task must be to free ourselves...by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.”
Albert Einstein
Along with the sorrow of digging a grave for our dear friend, Buddy the dog; my brother Kirk slammed his hand with his sledge hammer.
The ground in this desert is so hard, you require a hammer and chisel to dig into it.
45 video cameras. 90 interviews. 15 hours to turn it into something watchable.
This is why I'm fat and tired.
The Catherine Palace is a Rococo palace in Tsarskoye Selo (Pushkin), located 30 kilometres (19 mi) south of central St. Petersburg. It was the summer residence of the tsars. The palace is part of the World Heritage Site Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments. The display of the Catherine Palace (known until 1910 as the Great Palace of Tsarskoe Selo) covers the 300-year history of this outstanding edifice and presents the work of architects involved in its construction and decoration in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and also with the achievements of the restorers who returned the palace to life after the Second World War. Of the 58 halls destroyed during the war years, 32 have been recreated.
In 1717, while St Petersburg was being created on the banks of the Neva, the architect Johann Friedrich Braunstein started supervising the construction of the first masonry royal residence at Tsarskoe Selo that has gone down in history as “the stone chambers” of Catherine I. During the reign of Empress Elizabeth (the daughter of Peter the Great and Catherine I) in late 1742 or early 1743 it was decided to enlarge the building. From late 1748 until 1756 the construction of the Tsarskoe Selo residence was directed by Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli (1700–1771), the chief architect of the imperial court. On 10 May 1752 Empress Elizabeth signed a decree on the complete reconstruction of the old building and on 30 July 1756 Rastrelli was already presenting his new creation to his crowned mistress and foreign ambassadors.
The next stage in the decoration of the state rooms and living quarters came in the 1770s. The new mistress of the residence, Empress Catherine II, was fascinated with the art of the Ancient World and wanted to have her apartments finished in keeping with current tastes. She entrusted the task to the Scottish architect Charles Cameron (1743–1812), an expert on ancient architecture. The interiors that he created in the Zubov Wing and the North Part of the Palace are marked by refined beauty, austere decoration and especially exquisite finishing. In 1817, on the orders of Emperor Alexander I, the architect Vasily Stasov (1769–1848) created the State Study and a few adjoining rooms that are finished in a commons style – all these rooms were devoted to extolling the brilliant victories that the Russian army won against Napoleon in 1812 and afterwards. The last note in the symphony of palace state rooms was struck by the new Main Staircase created in 1860–63 by Ippolito Monighetti (1819–1878) in the "Second Rococo" style.
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Mumbai, India
This scene was quite amusing to me. We were driving along one of the major motorways when a motorcycle came flying by with a women sitting casually on the back. She was texting away while the guy was dodging in and out of traffic.
Si ya sabes lo que tienes que hacer y no lo haces entonces estás peor que antes.
- Confucio
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Last look at the old steam plant.
The broken broom is so ironic/cliched/metaphoric that I assume another photographer put it there … perhaps even took the head off first.
(Extra credit would have gone to him or her for writing “Hercules” on the broom handle … the fifth of 12 epic labors of the greatest hero of Greek mythology was cleaning — in one day! — the Augean stables, which housed a thousand cattle and hadn’t been mucked out in, like, 30 years.)