Supported by steel girders and beams and lit in blue and white: the underpass at Essen central station.

Tempera su tela eseguito dalla mia nipotina in omaggio al mio micio.

Tempered Ice

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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune. Francois de La Rochefoucauld.

François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac (15 September 1613 – 17 March 1680) was a noted French author of maxims and memoirs. It is said that his world-view was clear-eyed and urbane, and that he neither condemned human conduct nor sentimentally celebrated it. Born in Paris on the Rue des Petits Champs, at a time when the royal court was vacillating between aiding the nobility and threatening it, he was considered an exemplar of the accomplished 17th-century nobleman. Until 1650, he bore the title of Prince de Marcillac. Source Wkipedia.

When the view of the sea gets tiresome or the sun needs a little tempering the old town of Gallipoli is filled with wonderful little treasure shops to discover along the narrow passage ways and welcoming streets that most would not fit Nonna’s Panda making usually safe to wander in and out of the shade and pretend to be a local.

The limestone island that hosts old Gallipoli is filled with Baroque churches and noble palazzi due to its prominence as a very successful trading port making it a feast for the eyes and a pleasure to lose yourself in though all streets eventually lead to the seafront so it is very hard to be lost for any length of time, the white and tan houses would be at home in any middle eastern city testifying to its origins and trade with the east.

If in your wanders you hear the locals speaking something that seems unfamiliar it is because it will be unless you are a speaker of Sicilian, most speak the local Salentino dialect with friends and family it is a close relative of the Sicilian language, if you would like to hear a lot of it wander down to the fish market under the bridge to the old town any morning to get your linguistic fill.

I took this on Sept 26, 2016 with my D750 and Nikon 24-85 f3.5-4.5 Lens at 72mm 1/200s f/16 ISO 250 processed in LR, PS +Lumenzia, Topaz , and DXO

Disclaimer: My style is a study of romantic realism as well as a work in progress

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huddle bay, lake george

Of three fledged this summer, this is the lone holdout still waiting around for folks to bring food. A dIsinterested adult casually flying by sent her into a squawking frenzy.

Your folks migrated, kid. Deal with it.

Red-tailed Hawk

Cosumnes River Preserve, Galt, California

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Siberian Tiger

We had a withered past. We had some wonderful, joyful times, we've had some dark and bitter times. You loved people very important to me, you've hurt people very important to me. Despite how things were at the end Domino.. you are a part of my life. I truly wish things could of been different but, doesn't change the fact when I was informed of your passing I was hurt. The good inside you, there was so much good underneath your hardheadedness and temper, will live on forever.

Rest in Peace, Brother.

Thank you, for the good 💖

"...Among the most clever of these cactus spine-dodgers is the desert cactus wren, which can perch upon the branches or dive into a tree of the awful Bigelow's cholla with perfect impunity. In fact, the cactus wren finds the company of cactuses so congenial that she not only spends a great deal of her time foraging for insects among their branches, but chooses to rear her family in a nest embraced and fortified by their needles. I doubt if there is a member of the wren family that better provides for the protection of her home.

Those who are used to associating the word "wren" with the tiny, sprightly, and vivacious bird of the Eastern States, with its happy, jocund, and joyous song, will find it hard to see how the cactus wren can be called a wren at all, for he is such a different fellow from the bird of their acquaintance. On the whole he is rather a coarse-looking bird with no prepossessing characters as to either form or color. Comparatively, he is rather a good-sized bird, having a length of eight inches from bill to tail-tip. The general color-tone is brownish gray with whitish under-parts prominently speckled with round and linear black spots, especially on the throat and fore part of the breast. The bill, like that of the rock wrens, is slightly bent. The song is an odd one and hardly musical, consisting generally of only a coarse prolonged clatter or low "chut-chut-chut." It is especially noticeable in the spring during the nesting season. The males are then unusually quarrelsome, hot-tempered, irascible fellows, pursuing one another in flight over long distances, scolding and giving vent to their peppery tempers and jealousies in shrill, angry, jaylike notes of warning."

Denizens Of The Desert

Edmund C Jaeger

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Artist Sung Hwan Kim's installation at the Museum of Modern Art. The installation based on Shakespeare's King Lear combines sound, video, drawing and sculpture.

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I just could not decide which to post so I thought, why not just put both of them together.

Canada Geese are always grouchy and territorial especially at this time of year and perhaps the fact that ponds were still frozen added to their ornery moods, but the one on the left was on top of a lodge with its mate when the one on the right got perhaps a little too close for comfort.

It was actually quite fun to watch. The one on the left had flown from the lodge to confront the other and when landing it was slipping and sliding. These are both pretty heavy crops. The EXIF shows 214mm and these two and about half a dozen other shots were also at that shorter focal length. I must have needed the wider view for a shot where they were farther apart and just kept shooting, as all of my other shots were at 400mm, so that is my mistake.

Taken at Elk Island National Park. Ponds there should start opening quite soon as normal temperatures are expected for some time now and the long term forecast calls for above seasonal average temperatures, although I will believe that when I see it. At this time of year the long term forecasts seem to change daily.

this is a RAW SHOT & part of my living experience, for

3 days & 4 nights in my car waiting for power to come back on.

often just shooting through my car window.

my living room measured in at 42 degrees

In the temperate forests of this part of Asia, it is common to see lobed-leaf trees that sprout in spring with an orange or reddish hue, later turning green as the season progresses. Some specimens have deeply edged leaves with a firm texture, adapted to cold climates, while others have more delicate, palmate shapes. The most common species in these latitudes (Acer pseudosieboldianum), though it is not unusual to also find its better-known relative (Acer palmatum), native to a neighboring region. Both share a similar aesthetic, but with subtle nuances in shape and the timing of their color changes, making each encounter a distinct and valuable observation.

Scientific classification:

Kingdom:Plantae

Clade:Tracheophytes

Clade:Angiosperms

Clade:Eudicots

Clade:Rosids

Order:Sapindales

Family:Sapindaceae

Genus:Acer

Incheon Chinatown, Jung-gu, Incheon, South Korea

This is one of those places that I photograph whenever I'm in the area. That's not often, but I find it difficult to resist (and why bother with that?).

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'Temperment'

Camera: Mamiya RB67

Lens: Mamiya-Sekor 3.8/90mm

Film: Double X

Process: FA-1027; 1+19; 5min

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NYC Skyscraper Reflections.

I watched this guy trying to catch minnows for several minutes. After several failed attempts he threw a fit; stabbing at the water very fast with his beak several times & finally ruffling his feathers in this pose. After taking this shot I had to laugh. He snapped his head around, and glared at me as if to say "SHUT-UP or your next!" I clapped------bravo dude, bravo. I love my job!!

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Melt flowing out of the Alps.

Tempest having a moment for not getting her way!

Le canard de Barbarie désigne la race de canards domestiques issues d'une espèce de canard sauvage américain appelé canard musqué. Bien que ce soit un oiseau originaire des régions intertropicales, il s'acclimate aux environnements tempérés et peut supporter des températures allant jusqu'en dessous de −12 °C. Wikipédia

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[The Harlow] Bias Silk Slip

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A bad-tempered male African elephant (Loxodonta africana) captured just before it charged out of the bush and started an aggressive display, Mabula Private Game Reserve, Limpopo, South Africa.

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inside my car where i lived for several days while the power was turned off in my home.

Temper by Tantrum - Brutus Leather Chest and Belt

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This is a personal adaptation of Homerus Gardens in Almere-Poort. Seeing the triangular balconies sticking out of the blue façade, I got the association of waves in an ocean. The shifted perspective on several levels creates a restless impression, but the storm at the same time is kept under control by organizing it all within a grid. Original design by Olof Architects in Almere.

This work is part of the ongoing exhibition 'Ritme in de Polder' [Rhythm in the Polder]. It is a duo exhibition of Ger Dekkers and me at Kunstlinie and Station Almere Centre.

It will be shown until 9 April 2023.

More info:

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Inaugurato il quadernino dei ritratti nuovi.

Tempera su carta dell'Ikea. Senza matita. Con un solo pennello, piatto.

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Painting by me.

Temperance

another hummingbird had the temerity to try to land near by - the hummer was having none of this.

I arrived near sundown and just following a rain. I was tired and nauseated again and tried to ignore it all with a small walk around the town with the RB67.

It didn't really work, so I took a few photos and stumbled back to my room - no tent this night and still very little sleep.

But at least I found this bread truck.

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'Temperament; later'

Camera: Mamiya RB67

Film: Kentmere 400 at 1600

Process: HC-110B; 12min

Tennessee

July 2024

Mute swan chasing off a rival on Lake Windermere

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