Those Good Old Days
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“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, "Eleonora"
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Thanks to pareeerica for the texture:
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‘'AND THOSE WHO WERE SEEN DANCING WERE THOUGHT TO BE INSANE BY THOSE WHO COULD NOT HEAR THE MUSIC’‘
- FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE -
Bach - Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major
~~~"Really, mama, those chocolate eggs were so big and so colorful……"
Little bunny tells about her dream, she had last night to her brother and mother.~~~
I was just passing by when I overheard their conversation ;-))
It is a great model to fold. For the big one I used a silver foil piece of paper 30x30cm and for the little ones, each one piece 15x15cm.
Final size big one: length 12cm, height9,5cm width 5cm
Final size little one: lenght 6cm, height 5,5cm, width 2cm
Model: origami Rabbit
Design: Gen Hagiwara
Diagrams in Czech Origami Convention Book 2013
Switzerland, May 2021
My best photos are here: www.lacerta-bilineata.com/ticino-best-photos-of-southern-...
My latest ANIMAL VIDEO (warning, it's a bit shocking): www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T2-Xszz7FI
You find a selection of my 80 BEST PHOTOS (mostly not yet on Flickr) here: www.lacerta-bilineata.com/western-green-lizard-lacerta-bi... (the website exists in ESPAÑOL, FRANÇAIS, ITALIANO, ENGLISH, DEUTSCH)
ABOUT THE PHOTO:
So this photo is a bit of a novelty for me - at least here on Flickr, but it's also a journey back in time in a sense. I've always loved b/w and sepia photography; already as a very young teenager I would go out into the woods with an old Pentax Spotmatic (which I had nicked from my father) whenever it was a foggy day to shoot b/w compositions of sunbeams cutting through the ghostlike trees.
I used films with a sensitivity of at least 1600 (for those of you who remember what that means 😉 ), and the resulting photos had an incredibly fine grain which I loved; I blew them up to the size of posters and hung them on the walls of my teenage man-cave next to Hendrix, Jim Morrison and Slash.
But then I abandoned photography altogether for 20 years, and when I finally picked up a camera again, it was one of the digital kind. Now neither film nor grain played any role in my photographic endeavours - let alone b/w compositions: because the reason I fell in love with shooting pictures once more was the rare and incredibly colorful lizard species that had chosen my garden as its habitat.
It's this species - the Lacerta bilineata aka the western green lizard - that my photo website www.lacerta-bilineata.com/ and also my Flickr gallery are dedicated to, but I've since expanded that theme a bit so that it now comprises the whole Lacerta bilineata habitat, which is to say my garden and its immediate surroundings and all the flora and fauna I find in it.
I like that my gallery and the website have this clear theme, because in order to rise to the challenge of portraying all aspects of a very specific little eco system (which also happens to be my home of sorts), it forces me to constantly explore it from fresh angles, and I keep discovering fascinating new motives as my photographic journey continues.
Which brings me to the horse pasture you see in this photo. This playground for happy horsies lies just outside my garden, and it normally only interests me insofar as my green reptile friends claim parts of it as their territory, and I very much prefer it to be horseless (which it thankfully often is).
Not that the horses bother the reptiles - the lizards don't mind them one bit, and I've even seen them jump from the safety of the fly honeysuckle shrub which the pasture borders on right between the deadly looking hooves of the horses to forage for snails, without any sign of fear or even respect.
No, the reason I have a very conflicted relationship with those horses is that they are mighty cute and that there's usually also foals. The sight of those beautiful, happy animals jumping around and frolicking (it's a huge pasture and you can tell the horses really love it) is irresistible: and that inevitably attracts what in the entire universe is known as the most destructive anti-matter and ultimate undoing of any nature photographer: other humans.
Unlike with the horses, the lizards ARE indeed very much bothered by specimens of loud, unpredictable Homo sapiens sapiens - which makes those (and by extension also the horses) the cryptonite of this here reptile photographer. It's not the horses' fault, I know that, but that doesn't change a thing. I'm just telling you how it is (and some of you might have read about the traumatic events I had to endure to get a particular photo - if not, read at your own risk here: www.flickr.com/photos/191055893@N07/51405389883/in/datepo... - which clearly demonstrated that even when it's entirely horseless, that pasture is still a threat for artistic endeavours).
But back to the photo. So one morning during my vacation back in May I got up quite early. It had rained all night, and now the fog was creeping up from the valley below to our village just as the sky cleared up and the morning sun started to shine through the trees.
And just as I did when I was a teenager I grabbed my camera and ran out to photograph this beautiful mood of ghostlike trees and sunbeams cutting through the mist. There had already been such a day a week earlier (which is when I took this photo: www.flickr.com/photos/191055893@N07/51543603732/in/datepo... ), but this time, the horses were also there.
Because of our slightly strained relationship I only took this one photo of them (I now wish I had taken more: talk about missed opportunities), and otherwise concentrated on the landscape. It was only later when I went through all the photos on my computer that I realized that I actually really liked those horses, even despite the whole composition being such a cliché. And I realized another thing: when I drained the photo of all the color, I liked it even better - because there was almost a bit of grain in it, like in the photos from my youth.
Since then I have experimented quite a bit with b/w and sepia compositions (some of which I will upload here eventually I guess), but this photo here is the first one that helped me rediscover my old passion. I hope you like it even though it builds quite a stark contrast with the rest of my tiny - and very colorful - gallery. But in the spirit of showing you the whole Lacerta bilineata habitat (and also in the spirit of expanding my gallery a bit beyond lizards and insects), I think it's not such a bad fit.
As always, many greetings to all of you, have a wonderful day and don't hesitate to let me know what you think 😊
Barred Owl
It took me a bunch of trips to this spot to finally see this beauty. It was well worth it. Got there before sunrise and listen and waited for light.
This is Fjallsjokul glacier lagoon in deep winter! To see those textures of the glacier tongue and the colour of the ice floes is really something incredible.
Amsterdam - Mercatorplein
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The square received its name per council decision 30 January 1924. In the process, the square was named after the cartographer Gerardus Mercator. Streets in the surrounding area were also named after cartographers and explorers. Mercator Street was named a year later.
The square lies at the junction of Hoofdweg and Jan Evertsenstraat. The latter street lies on the north side of the square. Hoofdweg has a kink here; it arrives at the south-east point and leaves again at the north-west point but until the reconstruction in 1995, traffic drove northbound on the east side of the square. Mercatorstraat (from the north) and Van Spilbergenstraat also exit the square, both by means of a gateway.
The square was built on the territory of the municipality of Sloten, annexed in 1921. This municipality had previously drawn up plans for a new housing estate west of Baarsjesweg and Admiraal de Ruijterweg, but the plans were implemented in modified form by the Amsterdam municipality as part of Plan West.
The square was laid down to a design by Hendrik Petrus Berlage in 1925; he also designed all the buildings erected at the square between 1925 and 1927. The Dirk van den Broek supermarket chain had its first branch on Mercatorplein in 1942. The original milk shop opened Amsterdam's first self-service shop here in 1948. From this, over the years, the retail chain evolved. This branch is also the largest shop on the square (data 2019).
The Mercatorbuurt (the area around the square) had not gotten a too good name due to neglect and drug dealing in the 1980s. From 1995, the buildings around the square were renovated and the northern buildings were completely renewed according to the original design. The demolished tower was also rebuilt, restoring much of the square's beauty. A car park was built under the square with an entrance at the corner of Hoofdweg and Cabralstraat (named after Portuguese sailor Pedro Álvares Cabral). In the process, the park-like setting with blossom trees disappeared and paving took its place, with the central part being done in concrete in three brown tones as a map of the world according to the mercator projection, with the equator of this map running parallel to the actual equator.
The square was reopened in June 1998 after a major refurbishment. Berlage's layout was partly lost and was exchanged for a design by Wytze Patijn and Michal Kolmas. The reopening, following the revitalisation of the Amsterdam School-style neighbourhood, was celebrated in the presence of Queen Beatrix. Partly due to the improvements in the Mercator neighbourhood at the time, many people chose relatively cheap housing there and the square became gentrified.
Wait! This isn't how it looked in the brochure..;)
With my extra time off I decided to have a little fun.
I'm I picked up some water when I was at the store. A water line broke and we're on a boil water notice until further notice. Such fun..:)
Bald Eagles have returned to Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge and have made it their home. This one was in a tree, staying ever aware of the goings on below, and ready to take advantage of a wayward duck or rodent. It appears this group of Bald Eagles has decided to stay in this area as we are now seeing them and their offspring every year.
for those who like techno music this is my account mixcloud www.mixcloud.com/harakis/ you can listen to, download, share. Have a good trip !
"When you feel alone, just look at the spaces between your fingers, remember that in those spaces you can see my fingers locked with yours forever."
Eyes Made By my talented dear friend Micah
❤💕❤❤💕❤ My dear Beautiful friends here, in advance I want to thank you all for your always kindness and support, I appreciate you all immensely. Please Know that I am grateful for each one of you for taking the time to look at my pictures and for all of your kind compliments and comments. You all mean a lot to me, and you make Flickr a lovely place to be and to share pictures.
I am not very active here on Flickr these days, and hope you all can forgive me for not being here as much as I used to. I have also closed my groups as for now until I have more time to spend here. I will however post a picture in-between. Huge hugs, much love, light and peace to you all my dear friends here ❤💕❤❤💕❤
"I Won't Let You Go"
When it's black
Take a little time to hold yourself
Take a little time to feel around before it's gone
You won't let go but you still keep on falling down
Remember how you save me now from all of my wrongs
Yeah
If there's love just feel it
And if there's life we'll see it
This is no time to be alone, alone yeah
I won't let you go
Say those words
Say those words like there's nothing else
Close your eyes and you might believe
That there is some way out
Yeah
Open up
Open up your heart to me now
Let it all come pouring out
There's nothing I can't take
And if there's love just feel it
And if there's life we'll see it
This is no time to be alone, alone yeah
I won't let you go
(Won't let you go)
(Won't let you go)
If your sky is falling
Just take my hand and hold it
You don't have to be alone, alone yeah
I won't let you go
(Won't let you go)
(Won't let you go)
And if you feel the fading of the light
And you're too weak to carry on the fight
And all your friends that you count on have disappeared
I'll be here not gone, forever holding on
If there's love just feel it
And if there's life we'll see it
This is no time to be alone, alone yeah
I won't let you go
(Won't let you go)
(Won't let you go)
If your sky is falling
Just take my hand and hold it
You don't have to be alone, alone yeah
I won't let you go
(Won't let you go)
(Won't let you go)
I won't let you go
I won't let
I won't let you go
No, I won't let
I won't let you go
I won't let you go
Those who came before me
Lived through their vocations
From the past until completion
They'll turn away no more
One of those mesmerizing places where you can be one to one with nature, sitting on rocks next to the seaside at early morning or staying up very late in the light Finnish summer night... The amazing silence and peacefulness of the surrounding world where ground, water, air, sea, sky and clouds merge together into an inseparable entity where world has neither beginning nor end. And when you realize that you also are part of this entity, your thoughts become wide as the sky, deep as the sea, and clear as the air. This is the world you love and care for...
There are those grey and misty Days
When You're in Need of a colourful Blaze
Always recall your artistic merits
As they can easily lift up Your Spirits
Your creative Skills
Might give you some colourful Thrills
Which are at the End a perfect Way
To escape those grey and dull, misty Days
(Caren)
[Dedicated to CRA (ILYWAMHASAM)]
😄 HaPpY Sliders Sunday 😄
Tweaked saturation and exposure to the max and combined frames, using the Flickr Photo Editor
Uploaded for the Sliders Sunday Group
ƒ/4.0
4.6 mm
1/1000 Sec
ISO 100
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… Very fast for those who are scared. Very long for those who are lament. Very short for those who celebrate. But for those who love, time is eternal.
– William Shakespeare
Credits at rorasprettythings
A Ruined House
Those Who Lived Here Are Gone
Or Dead Or Desolate With Grief;
Of All Their Life Here
Nothing Remains
Except Their Trampled, Dirtied Clothes
Among The Dusty Bricks,
Their Marriage Bed, Rusty And Bent,
Thrown Down Aside As Useless;
And A Broken Toy Left By Their Child...
I am certainly not a great photographer but you have to admit I bring you variety. :-)
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those idiots are clever - they decided that a sitting human is less dangerous than a standing human and they appeared only when I sat down .-)
this spring we could watch two families bringing up their kids on one on the trees .-)
So peaceful watching the two cubs wrestle, with mum Oudrika aware and chilling. Photographed at Port Lympne, Kent, UK
No idea why I did this, but after applying such strong tonal changes the wood creature appeared from the woods. Ok, too much imagination? Cabin fever setting in probably...and yes, I admit...I know why I was just playing with tonal adjustments on old shots because I cannot get out to take new ones....grrrrrr
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Taken a while back Rushmere Country Park, Bedfordshire
For those who may not know somehow, mansplaining is definitely not a new term but I'd define it as when a man decides that, because he's a man, he has certain knowledge or skills that a woman (because she's a woman) doesn't have and therefore the woman should definitely listen to him and consider that she could be wrong. I was thinking maybe this is something that actually happens sometimes after a bad date too when a man tries to convince a woman her perception of him wasn't correct and to give him another chance.
We should all actually listen to and respect each other and also gender is a construct. Have a nice day!
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