Those who know the estate at Studley Royal will be more than used to the presence of Jackdaws down by the lake. It is probably the presence of the cafe and the visitors al fresco dining that acts as the lure. We weren't in the cafe at this time but sure enough there were a good number of these inquisitive crows doing the rounds.

Look closely at the head and there is some fabulous detail.

For those in the past, the present and the future...

Model: Krystal Marston

Please look at my group recommended by Flickr the Little Select Gallery of Eclectic Visual Poetry to see exquisite visual poetry. Thank you.

Those cheeky common goldeneyes!

We're Here - In a Room

The Shropshire Hills are an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

The hills, rolling farmland, woods and river valleys of this varied and special landscape are rich in geology and wildlife and ingrained with heritage. Off the beaten track and tranquil, this is a living, working place, loved by locals and visitors alike for its quality of environment, for walking and activities of all levels, and for relaxation and inspiration.

South Shropshire has amazing views across heavenly English Countryside. These are the real "Blue Remembered Hills" that Housman wrote about.

A landscape of green golden valleys rising to dramatic hills and moorlands. A hidden history of Marcher Lords - long since dead, concealed pagan rites and legends, castles and tiny hamlets all waiting to be found. No wonder this is officially an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

Within South Shropshire are:- Shropshire's gastronomic capital Ludlow, the Alpine like setting of Church Stretton, Bishops Castle famed for it's microbrewery, Cleobury Mortimer, Craven Arms and Clun, immortalised by A.E.Housman. Each couldn't be more different or distinctive.

Real shopping in proper shops, lively street markets, antique markets, specialist food shops, art and craft galleries - all give retail therapy Shropshire style.

Storybook castles at Clun, Ludlow and Stokesay - a 13th Century fortified manor house said to be so beautiful that when attacked no-one could bring themselves to destroy it

Extract from A Shropshire Lad by A.E. Housman

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Into my heart an air that kills

From yon far country blows:

What are those blue remembered hills,

What spires, what farms are those?

That is the land of lost content,

I see it shining plain,

The happy highways where I went

And cannot come again.

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This dock is located just next to the Galveston Causeway and Railroad. The original causeway was built in 1912 and carried both rail and auto traffic. You can see the original bridge on the near side. The auto traffic was transferred to new causeways built to the west in 1939, leaving the original bridge for rail traffic. The original route was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

I would love to seat down at night by those benches located at the end of the dock, or seeing the sunrise drinking coffee. This morning I didn't get lucky it was overcast ;(

Those Mont-de-Marsan pilots sure knew how to make a great impression while arriving in Evreux, in preparation for the annual Bastille Day parade. They arrived for a fast and low break with 7 aircrafts. What a sight!

- R.I.P. -

- revisit -

Indian eagle-owl pair, Kachchh, India

Had a Feeling I was being watched.

Those who do not appreciate the simple things in life may well miss out on the most important ones.

Those who find no joy in the simple things will not find it in the grand things either.

'Sometimes you only realise the value of a moment once it has become a memory.'

Mothering Sunday is always during lent here, on the 4th Sunday, and it has been celebrated since the early church.

Centuries ago it was considered important for people to return to their home or 'mother' church once a year, which inevitably became an occasion for family reunions. It was this that led to the tradition of children, particularly those working as domestic servants or apprentices away from home, being given the day off to visit and take gifts to their mothers. Mothering Sunday was also known as Refreshment Sunday, because the fasting rules for Lent were relaxed on that day.

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Wisconsin Horizons By Phil Koch.

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Conception Bay South, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada

Sometimes it’s all about the tiny details that make an image interesting for me. In this case it’s all about those droplets of mud as this Greater Yellowlegs darts across the shallow water in search of food.

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Those waves rock! / Hullámok Sagres partján.

Well, I'm taking a break from those gloomy Venice shots finally haha. This was down the road from the Hollywood Bowl Overlook the night before I headed to Venice. It's an interesting place--Hollywood Bowl that is--because it offers a really clean view of downtown (when haze doesn't obscure everything), sits right over the nearly always busy 101, and also has a good direct line to the Hollywood sign, surrounding mountains and hills but it does not give me any access to the sunset. On days where I don't expect much from the sunset anyway, it seems like a good choice since it only takes about 10 minutes to drive to though there's always the risk that the small, poorly designed parking will be full. I had gone here the previous evening to try some long exposures and panoramas of the cityline and missed what seemed like a really nice sunset facing the other way. I could only see remnants of it over some of the hills facing west but at least the parking lot was mostly empty.

So on this evening, there was a line of cars and the stupid celebrity tour vans waiting to get in and after 10 minutes of circling around the entrance on Mulholland Drive wasting valuable light, I got fed up and started back down the hill to take the long way home. There's a huge private driveway that I use to turn around in and on one of the circle backs i realized there was a little area I could park just off the side of the road and still see the city but from a much different vantage. Rather than spend the last few minutes waiting to get into a place I've been a dozen times, I stopped here and set up by a curve in the road safely behind a guardrail and a pile of boulders. It was a little distracting there with all the cars driving by but fortunately those rocks blocked most of the oncoming headlights.

There's obviously a few trade offs from this position. The Hollywood sign is about 170 degrees from here (basically behind me to my left) and there wasn't much of interest between it and me. In fact, it's probably the least interesting that sign has ever looked to me and I didn't even notice it until I was packing the gear up in the car at the end of the night. Also, there's no highway between me and this view so no light trails of red and white to include. However, this is a much more interesting angle for the city. I like the green and hills that are in the foreground with the contrast of the very bright city lights and the cross on the left right where the green and city meet is barely able to fit into frame at 18mm from the top of the Hollywood Bowl Overlook. I also found it much easier to shoot panoramas from here than on the other side though this is actually just a single frame.

The biggest challenge I had here--and is generally the case when I try to shoot bright lights at night--is finding the right depth of field and shutter speed. It's just as easy to overexposure as underexpose (at least for me) and there's also the issue of having to decide whether to cut a shutter speed where it seems right but not getting the full trails of light for any planes or helicopters in the sky. Sometimes when I get into the really high shutter lengths, like in the 150-400 second range, I'll realize that I'm getting very close to risking a terribly over exposed image but might still have only part of an interesting light trail in the shot. It's much more predictable when going for the light trails over Venice Pier because I can see the plane slightly out of frame before I start the shot and know exactly where it's going...over the pier and out to sea. Here, it's mostly helicopters which tend to enter the frame, hover and then shoot off in another direction.

The oddest part of the evening was when a motorcycle cop pulled over as I was wrapping up to leave. If you can visualize it, my car was parked almost directly behind me facing away and when I got to the car, I then noticed the Hollywood sign directly above a blind curve in the road below. I set up quickly again to shoot a few images from there and the cop stopped after a few clicks. Clearly I wasn't parked legally though I chose the spot because a) it was very close to the opening for this shot and I could still keep an eye on my car and b) i could park completely off the road and not obstruct any drivers' views. I was super polite and just said "sorry, is it OK for me to be here?" and his reply was "it's fine...just making sure you weren't operating a drone". I said just regular photos and then asked if drones were actually illegal. He didn't answer that question but said "there were reports of drones above the Hollywood Bowl so..." and then he drove off. A few seconds later, I took off as well and headed home, hopeful that some of the images I shot were both in focus in the important areas and exposed well enough. This shot was probably the best light trail I saw on the evening and I may try this location again next time I have the desire to shoot a cityscape rather than the overlook just up the hill.

WHERE & WHEN

Mulholland Drive

Hollywood, California

October 29th, 2016

SETTINGS

Canon T4i

EF-S 18-135mm IS STM

@56mm

ISO 100

f/11

87 seconds

Happy Birthday America!!!

Petworth House kitchen.

Get out of my kitchen and rattle those pots and pans

Get out of my kitchen and rattle those pots and pans

Well roll my breakfast 'cause I'm a hungry man

I said shake rattle and roll…

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Dunwich

Let's leave a beautiful world for our children.

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Those birds are not brushes, they are real :)

I took this with my best friend yesterday and she thought I was obsessed with birds because everytime I saw a bird in the sky, I screamed "bird" and busted out my camera. Hahaha :)

am I the only one who is bothered by the fact that Flickr messes up the dates?! OH WAIT. OH SNAP. I DID TAKE THIS YESTERDAY. HAHAHAHAHA. Nevermind. It usually does though :P

Goodnight everybody :)

Up on the ridge

Those trees are dancing

with the sun.

A small jewel-painting

that smiles with gold

as you walk by!

One of those days where you question the choices in life you made. It is a big day for me as I am finally off orientation. A day where I will no longer have the comfort of knowing that their is someone behind you every step of the way. Like the feeling of taking off those training wheels; using only your knowledge and your courage to ride forward. The fact that today was my last day, I would have wanted it to end with a bang, but that was not the case. I found myself questioning my decisions and all that I have worked so hard for. I felt so incompetent, and so stupid at the same time. These are the days that will challenge my fortitude and my desire to pursue this career. I am so nervous and unsure now, I feel like my confidence has rebounded deep within me, and finding it will take time.

Those are a new version of my older "My leather briefcase". Unlike the original those one arent leather but boho fabric.

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Comes with Hud giving 8 options.

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Just off the phone to LEGO and they still haven't released those parts in blue....... My entry to the scenes for the Corner Garage photo contest on @brickcentral

طيب تعال ومد كفّك وسلّم

أخطيت صح!..أخطيت لكنّي أغليك

اتصدّق إنّي ما عرفت أتكلم

وان الحكي لو أجمعه ما يكفّيك

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This was a happy accident. We had planned to stay well after dark and take photos of Delicate Arch illuminated by the light of the full moon (you can see those further back in my Photostream). What we hadn't planned for was the moon to light up exactly under the arch as we approached it and of the exposure to be workable. We saw the seen and quickly scrambled to get ourselves setup to shoot some images. In my haste to start shooting ended up with several blurry images. I am glad this one came out sharp. I chose to leave the people in the image to give scale to just how big Delicate Arch really is.

Iceland is one of those places, you really just have to go see the place to believe it. The light is unlike anywhere I've been on the planet. I found long drawn out golden hours that seem to persist for many hours, eventually transcending into something more odd. And then when darkness finally comes, the sky lights up like a green flowing river with purple accents, as if the stars weren't amazing enough.

It's a rough life for a photographer; I was constantly awake as the photographing rarely gets bad, and I always felt the compulsive need to point my camera at something, everything, everywhere, and maximize my stay. Eventually I'd have to go home.

The fact is I could spend nearly a lifetime processing a one month trip to this place, but then there's always the fact that I could have gotten better light. But I'm splitting hairs on the difference between epic once in a lifetime shots, and amazing, spectacular shots that most amateurs would happily tout as one of the pinnacles of their photographic achievements.

Let's be real though, this is a picture of a green hill with black lava/sand as the foreground. And somehow it's beautiful, spectacular and majestic all at the same time. Why? Mostly because this place is unique, and it conjures ideas. Thoughts about how the lighting hit this area while being nearly completely overcast, and how the black came to be, and why the mountain is so green... Questions I cannot begin to answer. Science tries to explain such things, but the reality is, no one can explain creation to us as fact. No one knows how these things came to be, they just are. Nature is beautiful, the world is amazing, and it's important to take a moment in the day to appreciate these facts.

I love this place

IT'S COMING THOSE FEW HOURS OF THE YEAR WHEN ALL SOULS BAD, MONSTERS, GOOD, LOVED AND HATED WILL DANCE TOGETHER AWAKEN.

One night every year they do what is given to them to do

and it's not revelation it's not redemption it is short time they come to act as they are alive in the presents of THE DEAD. Then before first sign of rise they again disappear in nowhere.

BEWARE

Have you ever had one of those mornings where everything just seems to fall into to place?--a morning when the coffee seems a bit richer, the spirit feels a bit lighter, and the sun seems to tickle all that it touches with gentle laughter. Well okay,this scene wasn't the best thing I've ever experienced but it was light years ahead of whatever was in second place.

Happy Fence Friday everyone.

Skyline Ridge, CA

The latest addition in my family.

Temps still reaching the hottest, so it's always time for the beach.

Best if viewed large.

I chanced upon this horse sheltering in the woods, it seemed ethereal, our glances for a fleeting moment seemed to open a door into each others lives.

" For our time is the passing of a shadow"

Palacio de la Magdalena. Santander. Cantabria. Spain

...are doomed to repeat them

( George Santayana )

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love those glass spheres with bubbles inside...and many other things from glass, including lenses ;)

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