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WOODKID - I Love You (Quintet Version)
GPS podał ze jestem na wysokości 6.4 metra npm. Brak kalibracji czy normalny błąd pomiaru? :)
The supposed landing spot of Sir Francis Drake in 1591, when he came ashore for repairs, food and water. He did write of the cliffs reminding of those of Dover.
This morning a herd of female Thule elk graze above the bay. I wonder did the crew include ancestors of these in their provisions as they set sail again.
Taken from the U.S. Coast Guard HH52-A helicopter I was flying. I think I was at about 1500 feet above the water.
Early-summer view of iconic Mount Dundas near Thule Air Base in northwestern Greenland. The bay is still covered by sea ice, but it already shows signs of melting and will disappear later in the season. Saunders Island can be seen in the background.
Camera: Ricoh KR-10 Super.
Lens: ?
Fujichrome slide film.
Scanner: Nikon LS-5000 (by jetzt-digital).
Edited with GIMP.
I visited with my college choir (men and women) to entertain the troops at Christmas. We sang sacred Christmas classics and carols at the midnight service in the chapel. We stayed 3 days, helping to serve Christmas Dinner to the boys, among other activities. It was pitch black (mid-winter), and everyone was so nice to us! They presented each of us with a souvenir charm (low-grade silver, the size of a half dollar)--seen here. We flew up and back on a C-54 troop transport, making stops and singing at bases in Goose Bay, Gander, and Prince Edward Island. We were each issued a duffel bag of "Arctic gear"--a huge parka, mukluks, etc. Such a FOND MEMORY of a wonderful trip!
I know I had a much more joyful time than did the Vances--and I looked better, too!!
Coast Guard Icebreaker Northwind tied up at Thule Air Force Base Pier North West Greenland 1988. Mount Dundas in the background.
Iceland.
Ultima Thule 2011 exhibition in Rovaniemi, Lapin Maakuntakirjasto, Lapponica-gallery and
The Provincial Museum of Tornio Valley, Finland.
www.flickr.com/photos/ikithule/sets/72157625531382061/wit...
Explore #2 on Monday, December 15, 2008
Canadian Eskimo Dog, Iqaluit, Nunavut -- This Canadian Kennel Club recognized breed has survived as one of Canada's only indigenous dog breeds for over 2000 years. Closely related to the Greenland dog, and deriving from the Thule Inuit Culture of the Canadian North and Greenland--the Canadian Eskimo Dog has been called by many names throughout history--Gronlandshund, Inuit Husky, and by the Inuit--Qimmiq...
Read more here: www.sleddogcentral.com/canadian_eskimo.htm
These pups grew up to go to the north pole several times with:
www.northwinds-arctic.com/fbkiting.html
More about Iqaluit : www.city.iqaluit.nu.ca/apps/fusebox/index.php?fa=c.displa...
Narrowboat 'ULTIMA' leads Butty 'THULE' along the Grand Union Canal towards Braunston, ahead of the weekends Historic Boat Rally.
28th June 2019
It was the wildest, strangest music you ever heard, full of the sound of birds and the cries of animals and the wind and the rain, and the thunder and the lightning, and the dashing of huge waves against the shores of a great cold ocean that was formed from ice that had made its way slowly down from Ultima Thule. (Robertson Davies)
A Thule bull elk grazing on Point Reyes, with the sun setting on the Pacific behind.
It's almost an Irish flag on its side, well a weathered one, maybe.
Beginning over 3,000 years ago several cultures have occupied Mallikjuaq Territorial Park on Mallik Island near Kinngait, Nunavut, Canada. The early Dorset and Tunnet peoples were replaced by the Thule (ancestors of the present Inuit) 1,000 years ago.
Narrowboat ULTIMA with butty THULE in tow, seen on the Grand Union Canal, heading away from Norton Junction.
28th June 2019
Thule village structure made from whale bones. In the arctic there is no wood, so the natives had to adapt!
A herd of Thule Elk grazing along the Pacific on Point Reyes. A very misty morning, so cool to see them take shape out of the mist as I approached.
Weeks after its New Year's Day flyby of the asteroid Ultima Thule, NASA's New Horizons is still providing better and better looks at the most distant object ever visited by a spacecraft.
Image credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
Force 10 gusts whipped up the sea, blew dust off the icebergs and calved the snow cap of Thule Island
The entrance to this Thule house next to a pond in Mallikjuaq Territorial Park on Mallik Island near Kinngait, Nunavut, Canada, was under a low stone lintel. Animal hides would have covered the whale bone rafters of the roof.
some mountains identified with notes on the image
Location on Flickr map is rough guess - direction of photo puts University Pk between Twaharpies and Ultima Thule. Location on map appears to have the distinctive geology of the photo as well, but I can't identify the spot exactly. Could also be about 7 miles slightly south of east from there.
information on geology to follow
again noticed my monitor brightness setting again at 100%, so this and other images look too dark on setting I generally use - will be replacing versions of many images
my lichen photos by genus - www.flickr.com/photos/29750062@N06/collections/7215762439...
my photos arranged by subject, e.g. mountains - www.flickr.com/photos/29750062@N06/collections
E vedo in aria un’insensata danza
di strani uccelli contro il cielo bigio
cantare un canto in questo mondo grigio,
un canto sordo ormai, senza speranza......
Francesco Guccini
Der König in Thule
Es war ein König in Thule,
Gar treu bis an das Grab,
Dem sterbend seine Buhle
Einen goldnen Becher gab.
Es ging ihm nichts darüber,
Er leert’ ihn jeden Schmaus;
Die Augen gingen ihm über,
So oft er trank daraus.
Und als er kam zu sterben,
Zählt’ er seine Städt’ im Reich,
Gönnt’ alles seinen Erben,
Den Becher nicht zugleich.
Er saß bei’m Königsmahle,
Die Ritter um ihn her,
Auf hohem Vätersaale,
Dort auf dem Schloß am Meer.
Dort stand der alte Zecher,
Trank letzte Lebensgluth,
Und warf den heiligen Becher
Hinunter in die Fluth.
Er sah ihn stürzen, trinken
Und sinken tief ins Meer,
Die Augen thäten ihm sinken,
Trank nie einen Tropfen mehr.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in Faust
[ The King in Thule
There was a king in Thule,
faithful till the grave,
To whom his lover, dying,
A golden goblet gave.
Nought was to him more precious;
He drained it at every bout;
His eyes with tears ran over,
Every time he drank from it.
When came his time of dying,
He counted his kingdom's towns,
Granted his heirs everything
Except the golden goblet.
He sat at the royal banquet
His knights around him,
In the lofty hall of his fathers
There in the castle by the sea.
There stood the old carouser,
And drank the last life-glow;
And hurled the hallowed goblet
Into the tide below.
He saw it plunging and filling,
And sinking deep in the sea:
His eyes made him sink,
And never more drank he!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in Faust, in the translation edited by Nathan Haskell Dole - via Wikipedia - with a couple of modifications ("mistress" is definitely not the right word I think...) ]
Someone gave me that goblet when I was very small, and I loved drinking from it, despite the very strong metallic taste it gives to virtually anything.
Kit 40-150mm zoom with extension tubes.
Happy Macro Monday and thank you everyone for your visits, faves and comments, they are always appreciated :)