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One pair is watching the lake. The other pair is swimming.
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Oakland Pond had been closed to the public for a year while the New York City Parks Department re-landscaped the surrounding path.
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The park-going public likes swans. New York State environmental officials claim they crowd out native bird species.
"Currently, there are more than 2,200 mute swans in the Hudson Valley and Long Island regions. The New York State's Department of Environmental Conservation's wants to reduce the population to about 800 ...
"The mute swans were introduced in the U.S. as captive birds to beautify private estates in the 1800s from Europe."
-- Tech Times | March 10, 2015
Two species of fireflies in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The yellowish lights are synchronous fireflies (Photinus carolinus). The long, meandering green streaks are blue ghost fireflies (Phausis reticulata). These don't blink, but instead leave their lights on for up to a minute as they fly above the forest floor. Now, I know what you're thinking: Why are they called blue ghosts if they're green? I can say that they did look bluish-white to my eyes as they flew around; the camera, however, sees them as, well... lime lights. I assumed at first that it was like photographing auroras - perhaps the camera sensor can pick up color wavelengths to which our eyes are less sensitive. But after doing some reading, it's a bit more nuanced than that. It's due to the "Purkinje effect." As part of our eyes' adaptation to seeing in dim light, they shift their luminance sensitivity toward the blue end of the spectrum. Anything around those wavelengths is more visible, whereas colors toward the red end become dim or black. The camera doesn't have this night vision color shift, so it records all the wavelengths with the same sensitivity. Apparently if I had caught a blue ghost in my hand, and held it close to my eyes, the brightness would have overwhelmed my night vision and I, too, would have seen the light as yellow-green.
15-02-1994
Taurito, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain
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These children had fun playing with their toy canoe.
Taken just off Kitava Island, where crystal blue waters wash the white sandy beaches.
May the image of these children remind us all that the world we are creating is also for the younger generation.
May they continue to enjoy each day.
Taken during rehearsals of the Bradenburg Sinfonia at St Martin-in-the-Fields.
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Camera: Hasselblad 500C/M
Lens: Zeiss Distagon CF 60mm f/3.5
Film: Ilford HP5+ @ 800
Developer: Kodak HC-110 (1+49, 11 mins) Development details on FilmDev
Scanner: Epson 4180
Cropping, levels and dust removal done in Darktable.
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A song for your enjoyment...It Takes Two
I hope you like this photo and I hope you all have a super day!
Hugs,
Kim
We were waiting two hours till late afternoon the moment happen right in front of us, total 7 seconds 88 frames. This was the first frame.
Flinders Street Station built in 1856
St Pauls Cathedral built on 1888.
Standing proudly in Melbourne, Victoria.
At the risk of overdoing it, I'm posting a second image of this lovely storm - this one without the dramatic lightning, but with some great structure lit from lightning within it.
In May/June 2024 I went storm chasing for the third time. If you'd like, you can read about my trip in the blog post on my website.
You can see all my storm chasing images from my 2017, 2018 and 2024 chases in this album.
in the Indiana Statehouse
This is a copy of an original bust by French sculptor Jean Antoine Houdon in 1785. The original was created in George Washington’s home.
The colored rectangles on our national hero, our Republic's Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus, our number one founding father, are my two cents of comment.
This has been sitting in my files for a couple of months (along with some other stuff). I got distracted and forgot about it. This is why I'm a writer and not a photographer.
Many hilltops in Portugal and other parts of Europe have been sites of religious devotion since antiquity, and it is possible that the Bom Jesus hill was one of these. However, the first indication of a chapel over the hill dates from 1373. This chapel - dedicated to the Holy Cross - was rebuilt in the 15th and 16th centuries. In 1629 a pilgrimage church was built dedicated to the Bom Jesus (Good Jesus), with six chapels dedicated to the Passion of Christ. The present Sanctuary started being built in 1722, under the patronage of the Archbishop of Braga, Rodrigo de Moura Telles. His coat of arms is seen over the gateway, in the beginning of the stairway. Under his direction the first stairway row, with chapels dedicated to the Via Crucis, were completed. Each chapel is decorated with terra cotta sculptures depicting the Passion of Christ. He also sponsored the next segment of stairways, which has a zigzag shape and is dedicated to the Five Senses. Each sense (Sight, Smell, Hearing, Touch, Taste) is represented by a different fountain. At the end of this stairway, a Baroque church was built around 1725 by architect Manuel Pinto Vilalobos. The works on the first chapels, stairways and church proceeded through the 18th century. In an area behind the church (the Terreiro dos Evangelistas), three octagonal chapels were built in the 1760s with statues depicting episodes that occur after the Crucifixion, like the meeting of Jesus with Mary Magdalene. The exterior design of the beautiful chapels is attributed to renowned Braga architect André Soares. Around these chapels there are four Baroque fountains with statues of the Evangelists, also dating from the 1760s.
Façade of the church of Bom Jesus. Around 1781, archbishop Gaspar de Bragança decided to complete the ensemble by adding a third segment of stairways and a new church. The third stairway also follows a zigzag pattern and is dedicated to the Three Theological Virtues: Faith, Hope and Charity, each with its fountain. The old church was demolished and a new one was built following a Neoclassic design by architect Carlos Amarante. This new church, began in 1784, had its interior decorated in the beginning of the 19th century and was consecrated in 1834. The main altarpiece is dedicated to the Crucifixion.
In the 19th century, the area around the church and stairway was expropriated and turned into a park. In 1882, to facilitate the access to the Sanctuary, the water balance Bom Jesus funicular was built linking the city of Braga to the hill. This was the first funicular to be built in the Iberian Peninsula and is still in use.
Which one should I choose?
Each path may effect a whole life, praise to thee, the path I shall go to will bring me true bliss. Amen 🙏
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