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Claiming a territory.
It is once the time of year when the male Red-winged Blackbirds start their territorial displays. Taken at Bombay Hook NWR in Delaware.
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Darwin, AUSTRÀLIA 2023
The Esplanade overlooking Darwin Harbour in Darwin Northern Territory Australia
The Esplanade overlooking Darwin Harbour with approx. 3klm of paved walk ways surrounded by lush green lawns and palms.
There are many places of interest such as the 200 Territorians On the cliff top running parallel to the Esplanade is a series of commemorative tiles dedicated to 200 typical Territorians.
They are not all famous figures, but they all performed jobs upon which the Territory relied.
There are people such as Ah Toy's, the greengrocers from which vegetables were shipped all over the ‘Top End' by air freight.
There are stockmen and missionaries, politicians and aboriginal leaders.
Then there is Eddie Connellan, who ran the Territory airline Connair (unofficial motto, ‘There's no tellin' with Connellan'), and many other colourful characters.
There is also the World War 11 reminders of what darwin experience many years ago. From the Espanade at the end it adjoins the road past the Administrators House.
As you walk or drive alond the esplanade you look out over to darwin Harbour and often you see large Live Cargo ships, Luxury passenger Ships and even Oil Rig Platforms coming and going thru the habour. 'Only in Darwin'.
As always so hard to get lost as the Esplanade is virtually a striaght strip of land for app. 3klm until it bends around Government House to the back of the bus terminal general area.
The Esplanade as it gently bends around Parliament House.
Then up past the Administrators office and Dameo Ra Pathway steps
The Esplanade then continues on and becomes Harry Chan Avenue where it is known mainly as the offices for Darwin City Council. Just after Smith Street finishes at.
The Esplanade the there is a noticable picturesque shaded road veering off right down the hill.
This is Hughes Road and leads to the Wharf Precinct. At the bottom of this road turn left for Stokes Hill Wharf and the cafes or right for Fort Hill Wharf.
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Stumbled upon a different processing filter for contrast by accident (Pro Contrast in Nik Collection), which did wonders for the underexposed raw file. Think I'll be using this more often in future. Cloned out a few distracting elements in the original image, as well.
Dempster Highway, the Peel River is in the background. This was taken approaching the town of Fort McPherson from the south.
Norfolk Southern's Second District ain't no joke. Here, NBD 276-01 hits the multiple mains near Hustonville, KY for a rollercoaster ride down to Green River South Road. Would any NS/SOU aficionados know why only 1 approach signal to the plant at South Fork? I didn't notice any signals on the adjacent main, usually they'd be right next to one another.
I am taking a few weeks break and I hope to be back posting again towards the end of May.
I leave you with another photo of a Robber Crab from Christmas Island. This one, I found clinging onto a side of a rock and that allowed me to photograph it from an interesting angle.
More about this photo on my Blog and Facebook page.
The other participant in the battle for territory. Love seeing these warblers swing through during migration. Taken at Red River Gorge, KY.
For the last few mornings I have heard a Pileated drumming in my woods. I guess spring is really on the way. He has chosen his territory and he is announcing his presence.
Not based on historical events, just a little something I whipped up. It's supposed to be a scene from a small skirmish or something. Inspired by Age Of Empires III, which I've been playing a bit with David (Thatdaveyboy) lately.
I'll post some more scenes soon!
God bless!
-Lincoln
The Taras Shevchenko Kaniv Museum is a museum on the territory of the Shevchenko National Reserve, built in 1939. The museum collection includes more than 20 thousand unique monuments, the decoration of which are memorial things and etchings of Taras Shevchenko, rare editions of his works, highly artistic works of Ukrainian and foreign artists, masterpieces of folk art, valuable archival documents, photo and audio materials videos of famous bandura players and kobzars.
Nieuwe Vaartkade, Zaandijk, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
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18-March-2025
This is the flat and relatively wide area of the pass, which, under the snow, hides the Pramollo lake/Stausee, which is a shallow artificial basin where the water, coming out of the soaked peat bog that characterizes the surrounding land, converges.
Peat is a deep and water-rich soil, with these characteristics it has helped the Spruce (Picea abies or Picea excelsea) to stay quite healthy despite the many dry and extremely hot summers (even at high altitudes).
Elsewhere this tree, a prevalent component of the Siberian taiga and widespread in the inner Alpine valleys, is suffering from parasites and lichens that attack this tree weakened by a soil that has become progressively poorer and too hot in summer.
A high percentage of this species has already died, especially in the sloping areas where water is scarcer, the land more exposed to the sun and generally to the wind that on October 29, 2018 (Vaia/Scirocco Storm) caused a domino effect of these weakened trees, especially between Carnia, Comelico and Cadore.
The account at the time seen from the sea:
www.flickr.com/photos/22873479@N08/31014649097/in/album-7...
It is precisely on the slopes that the Spruce/red Fir/Norway Spruce would be most useful, as an anti-landslide, thanks to its ability to root widely and deeply, but the moist and fresh soil it needs is now only found in the valleys with marked thermal inversion or in these high mountain areas where the snow is still abundant and resilient, while peat, as mentioned, is very useful in this case.
Spruce/Picea Abies characteristics:
www.flickr.com/photos/22873479@N08/5822107675/in/album-72...
To facilitate the arrival of Italian skiers, the Austrian resort helps clear the snow from the small, winding road, that leads to Nassfeld from Pontebba and with its snowcats spreads fresh snow on a cross-country ski run, which is also a pedestrian path, (despite the disagreements...), which makes an 8 in this area, all in Italian territory, and thanks to them, it must be said, this pass is almost always reachable, even in the middle of winter, effectively cleared after a snowstorm and easily walkable and skiable thanks to the compressed snow.
Blick in das Lauterachtal, Oberpfalz
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Such A Call Is Divine Mystical Call.
by Dr. Antony Theodore ,Sunday, December 3, 2017
Reading the teachings
of the Fathers,
holy scriptures
of the world religions,
the Rheinish mystics,
the English mystics,
the Spanish mystics,
the Hindu mystics,
the Sufi mystics,
and the study of
existential philosophy
and modern psychology
will result in an inner experience
which will affect the whole life
and all those who come into
contact with you.
Such a call is divine mystical call.
The one who listens to it
and works hard will become
a mystic whose works
will be a joy for all
those who seek God.
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Male Anna's Hummingbird in silhouette. Glendale, CA.
This little guy was so busy defending his territory don't know when he had time to eat! :0))
It was past midnight when daylight started to fade and the moon set behind Mount Archibald in the Kluane Ranges. The beauty of the long summer nights kept us up into the early mornings on most nights travelling through the Yukon and Northwest Territories.
Lustenau, Vorarlberg
Dec. 2023
Olympus XA, F-Zuiko 2,8/35 mm, Ilford Pan 100, Kodak D-76 (1+1)
Polychromeprint auf Kodak Bromesko
1) Easylith 1+8, +2,5 f-stops, 4:40 min
2) Siena 25 + NH4Cl 15 + Carbonat 15 + Lith D 6 + H2O 800, 2 min
MT1 Selentonung 1+9, 40 sec
The Schweizer Ried is a part of the Ried that has been in Swiss possession since 1593. The area was given to the Swiss when Widnau-Haslach was separated from Lustenau due to the unequal distribution of land. This unique historical relic from the times of the Reichshof Lustenau is still owned by the Swiss municipalities of Widnau, Schmitter and Au on Austrian territory. (Luschnou - Wiki)
Anaklia (Georgian: ანაკლია) is a town and seaside resort in western Georgia. It is located in the Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti region, at the place where the Enguri River flows into the Black Sea.
The earliest settlement on Anaklia's territory dates back to the mid-Bronze Age and is typical to the Colchian culture. It is the Classical Heraclea of Colchis, Anaclia of later authors, and Anarghia of Archangelo Lamberti and Jean Chardin (both the 17th-century travelers). After the fragmentation of the Kingdom of Georgia in the 15th century, it was an important fortified town, sea port and fishing station within the Principality of Mingrelia. In 1723, the town was captured by the Ottoman Empire and converted into its maritime outpost and slave-trading locale. Western Georgian kingdom of Imereti regained control over Anaklia in 1770, seizing the opportunity of Ottoman Empire being at war with Russia (Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774)). Solomon I, the king of Imereti, was supposed to be supported in this endeavor by a small Russian contingent under General Totleben, but the Russian troops retreated before a clash against the Turks.
In 1802, Kelesh-Bey Sharvashidze, the pro-Turkish ruler of the neighboring Principality of Abkhazia, capitalized on the internecine feuds in Mingrelia, and forced Prince Grigol Dadiani of Mingrelia into surrendering Anaklia, taking Grigol’s son and heir, Levan, as a hostage. When Mingrelia accepted the Russian protectorate in 1803, the Russian commander in Georgia, Prince Tsitsianov, demanded that Kelesh-Bey release Levan. On his refusal, Tsitsianov sent Major General Ion Rykgof into Abkhazia. In March 1805, the Russians took hold of Anaklia and threatened to march against Sukhum-Kaleh, forcing the Abkhazian prince to release Dadiani. The capture of Anaklia drew an Ottoman protest, however, and Tsitsianov hastened to disavow his subordinate and even apologize for his action, removing a Russian garrison from Anaklia. However, the incident added to an increasing tension between the two empires. When the next Russo-Turkish War broke out in 1806, the Russian forces restored Redoubt Kali and Anaklia to the Mingrelian prince Levan who would later relinquish the control of these forts to the Russian administration. (See Russian conquest of the Caucasus#Black Sea Coast.) In the 1850s, Anaklia was a small but strongly fortified seaport, which had a custom-house and carried on a considerable trade with Turkey.
Subsequently, the importance of the Anaklia port significantly reduced, but it remained a minor Black Sea Fleet base in the Soviet times.
After the War in Abkhazia (1992–93), a Russian peacekeeping post was opened at Anaklia in 1994. In 2006, the Ministry of Defense of Georgia reported numerous damages inflicted by the Russian soldiers upon the 17th-century fortress of Anaklia and accused the peacekeepers of installing latrines and baths within the walls of the fort. Following a series of protests by the Georgians, the Russian military post was withdrawn in July 2007.
A monument has been erected in Anaklia on May 21, 2012, commemorating Russia's expulsion of the Circassian people from the region following the conclusion of the Caucasian War in the 1860s. The May 21 date was chosen to coincide with the day on which the Circassian people themselves commemorate the expulsion, which the Georgian government has recognized as an act of genocide. The monument was designed by Khusen Kochesokov, a sculptor from the North Caucasus region of Kabardino-Balkaria.
Le tranquille acque del Lago di Antorno nel territorio di Auronzo di Cadore (BL) contornate da foreste di conifere, godono tutto attorno di gruppi Dolomitici conosciuti in tutto il Mondo. Alle spalle di questo piccolo lago vi sono infatti le Tre Cime di Lavaredo, il simbolo per antonomasia delle Dolomiti Patrimonio Unesco.
The calm waters of Lake Antorno in the territory of Auronzo di Cadore (BL) surrounded by coniferous forests, enjoy all around the Dolomite groups known throughout the world. Behind this small lake there are in fact the Tre Cime of Lavaredo, the symbol par excellence of the Dolomites Unesco World Heritage Site.
Rain showers that developed over the Badlands pushed northeast, reaching the Pierre-Rapid City subdivision by early afternoon. Like many storms that develop in this area most of the rain never reaches the ground. The train from Pierre is breaking free of the cloud over as it plods west between Cottonwood and Quinn.
This male kōlea is about two weeks from his annual migration to the Alaskan tundra. Looking fat and dapper in his breeding plumage, he will somehow sense the time to congregate with other previously solitary kōlea and depart collectively. The trip spans over approximately 3,000 miles of open ocean requiring a rigorous, energy intensive effort of 3 to 4 days and nights of nonstop flight at elevation ranging from 3,000 to 16,000 feet. Superb navigators with territorial fidelity, kōlea use the stars and the earth’s magnetic field to find their way over the featureless ocean to the same small patch of territory every year. They may use the earth’s magnetic field visually with the magnetoreception molecules of cryptochrome in their retina.
A Western Pacific GP35 shunts cars near Denver Union Station. I never made it out to the WP, but the Union Pacific provided a few units for me to see while in Denver.