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A mixed bag of EMD rainbow pounds through Rondout with CP 282. They may not look pristine, but they aren't GEVOs.
Two mallard ducks isolated from their group break up the horizontal layers created by the light on the gentle waves - Courtenay Estuary at 3:08. So today mid-afternoon is my favourite time of the day - when I get a chance to walk along the estuary. ODC - my favourite time of day.
A hundred or so yards north of Combe Down Tunnel, now visible from some way along the old trackbed once more.
Tree and vegetation removal in progress ...
Trees are being removed where they obstruct the route or risk damage to structures, the principle being followed is generally to remove the minimum number compatible with clearing the way for the Two Tunnels route, and replace the number lost by replanting with native species.
The opportunity has been taken to clear some of the laurel because where it grows it suppresses everything else ...
Temples of Talakad, Karnataka, India
The Group of temples at Talakad, located about 45 km south-east of the culturally important city of Mysore in the Karnataka state of India are ancient Hindu temples built by multiple South Indian dynasties. Archaeological excavations of the sand dunes at Talakad (or Talakadu) have shown the existence of several ruined temples built during the rule of the Western Ganga dynasty (c.345-999). However, according to historian I. K. Sarma, only two temples, the Pataleshvara (also spelt Patalesvara) and Maraleshvara (also spelt Maralesvara), built during the reign of King Rachamalla Satyavakya IV (r.975-986) are intact. According to the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), the Vaidyeshvara temple (also spelt Vaidyesvara), the largest, the most intact and ornate of the group bears Ganga-Chola-Hoysala architectural features. Its consecration is assignable to the 10th century with improvements made up to the 14th century. According to the art historian Adam Hardy, the Kirtinarayana temple (also spelt Keertinarayana) was built in 1117 A.D. by the famous Hoysala King Vishnuvardhana to celebrate his victory over the Cholas in the battle of Talakad. It has currently been dismantled by the ASI for renovation. Only its mahadwara ("grand entrance") is intact. The Sand dunes of Talakad are protected by the Karnataka state division of the ASI. The Vaidyeshvara and Kirtinarayana temples are protected as monuments of national importance by the central Archaeological Survey of India.
Bud Granley and Ross Granley, a father and son duo, fly their aircraft, a Yakovlev Yak-55 (smaller red aircraft), and a Yakovlev Yak-18T (larger white and red aircraft) respectively, in the Canadian Arctic Aviation Tour over Whitehorse Yukon. These two Russian built planes are very strong and very aerobatic. The Granleys put them through some incredible manoeuvres, flying both in and out of formation.
Two lakes at the sunset in the middle of the area of the Crete Senesi, near Mucigliani, Siena, Tuscany.
Due laghi al tramonto nella zona delle Crete Senesi vicino a Mucigliani, Siena
"we are not rioters"
Close to two million people hit the streets on Sunday (16th June 2019) to call on the Hong Kong government to withdraw a controversial extradition bill, according to organisers.
The Civil Human Rights Front (CHRF) figure represents 28.5 per cent of the city’s population, and would make the demonstration the largest in Hong Kong history.
It is almost double the turnout figure they gave for last Sunday’s anti-extradition law protest.
Police claimed 338,000 joined the designated walking route at the peak of the demonstration.
The CHRF – a coalition of pro-democracy groups – said the turnout was almost two million “plus one,” to represent a man who fell to his death on Saturday while protesting the bill. Protesters on Sunday wore all black and carried white funeral flowers to honour the 35-year-old man surnamed Leung.
Hong Kong proposed legal amendments in February to allow the city to handle case-by-case extradition requests from jurisdictions with no prior agreements, most notably China and Taiwan.
The bill would enable the chief executive and local courts to handle extradition requests without legislative oversight, although lawyers, journalists, foreign politicians and businesses have raised concerns over the risk of residents being extradited to the mainland, which lacks human rights protections.
On Saturday, following months of criticism, the government said it would postpone the bill and explain it further to the public.
www.hongkongfp.com/2019/06/17/almost-2-million-attended-a...
【明報專訊】《逃犯條例》修訂風波不斷升溫，即使行政長官林鄭月娥前日宣布暫緩修例仍未能平息民憤，民陣昨日再度發起遊行，重申要求撤回修例及林太下台，遊行人潮由上周日的白衣換成黑衣，由「痛心疾首」與「撤回惡法」兩幅黑白直幡帶領，再由白晝走到黑夜。警方罕有先後全數開放軒尼詩道、駱克道、莊士敦道、謝斐道和告士打道西行線，予整天不絕的人潮。遊行歷時逾8小時才結束，民陣稱近200萬人參與，屬歷來最高遊行人數，警方則估計經原定遊行路線最高峰人數約33.8萬。
政府昨晚於遊行未結束已發聲明回應，林鄭月娥承認因為政府工作的不足，令社會出現很大矛盾和紛爭，令市民失望和痛心，就事件向市民致歉。政府強調已停止立法會大會對修訂《逃犯條例》的工作，冀社會盡快回復平靜和避免任何人受傷；但至今日凌晨截稿，大批遊行者仍未散去，在夏愨道和特首辦外聚集。
A view through the Cape Coast Castle walls, where untold numbers of West African slaves were auctioned, housed and shipped westward. 3 exposure HDR.
I’m pretty sure that is not something intended by the person who painted those two faces (they’re probably not the same person actually), but I see in it “happy but childish and unrealistic face” and “realistic but depressed face”.
Zuccotti Park, formerly called Liberty Plaza Park, is a 33,000-square-foot (3,100 m2) publicly accessible park in Lower Manhattan, New York City, located in a privately owned public space (POPS) controlled by Brookfield Properties and Goldman Sachs.
Down Town Tour late afternoon. It didn't take long to get really dark. I got of the Bus here to look around the World Trade Centre and 9 11 Tribute Memorial. It was really dark when I got back on the bus again.
Because I only had one full day in New York I took back to back Hop On Hop Off Buses. Some of the images are not very good as the bus would go over bumps etc,. I have kept them in as memorises of the day. I only got off the bus once so most of the photos were taken as we were travelling along. Sadly I just didn't have time to have a good walk around.
I woke to a lovely sunny day and not too cold with around 16c. As the day went on it clouded over a bit and cooled down. November 7, 2018 USA
Two-tailed Pasha (Charaxes jasius), in Greece.
There is 1 place left on the forthcoming tour of Rhodes, Greece. See link for details or contact me...
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The island of Rhodes is blessed with more days of sunshine (300 or more) than almost anywhere else in Europe, so its name ‘The Isle of the sun’ is well justified.
The tour will encompass the diverse flora and fauna, culture, cuisine and history of Rhodes. We will stay right in the heart of the medieval old town (a World Heritage Site), in a charming and traditional Greek family hotel.
From our base we will venture out in a comfortable mini-bus to explore the island. There will be chances to see and photograph lots of flora and fauna, including Lesser Fiery Copper, Bee-eater, Golden Oriole, Scarce and European Swallowtail, Oertzen’s Rock Lizard, Rhode’s Dragon, Aegean Meadow Brown, Long-tailed Blue, Large Wall Brown, Dragon Arum, King Ferdinand’s Orchid, the rare and beautiful endemic Rhodes Peony and Fritillary and much more!
The adventure will start on Thursday 26th April and journey’s end will be reached on Thursday 3rd May.
10% of profits will be donated to Butterfly Conservation.
Two Gallants, Festival: Juicy Beats, Nr. 17, Dortmund, Westfalenpark, Energy Sessions Stage Hosted By FZW
n 1486. 6 October 1980.
One of the few two-door Daimler Fleetlines bought by Carris in the early 1970s at work at C.Sodre, Lisbon.
Captured from two miles away with a 70-300mm zoom set to 300mm. Exposure: 5 seconds; f8; ISO 800. In spite of use of a tripod, the strong wind produced some blurring. What appears to be smoke at the top of the image (visible in larger versions) is actually smudges from my cloning out of numerous lens flares. I also cloned out the worst noise, but a careful inspection will reveal some tiny red dots. On a later trip I shot the plant from a slightly different angle.
This is the Pilot Peak lime plant of Graymont Western. It is in Nevada, about 15 miles (23km) northwest of Wendover. Access is via Interstate 80 Nevada Exit 398. The plant is easily seen from the interstate, especially at night.
Ralph Tripod, who accompanied me and his younger brother Joe Tripod on this trip, sought stillness in the wind, while he supported my camera.
Two Rivers.
The river, personified in stone, adorns the city’s heart,
keeping company with the Rusted Man
and Queen Victoria:
A beautiful carving, but unreal, divorced from nature’s streams:
endlessly recycling the same sterile water.
The true river rises in low hills to the south, in a muddy hollow
seeping from the earth, haunt of dragonfly and frog;
surrounded, in summer by willowherb and meadowsweet.
Downhill it trickles, sluggishly, through ditches and dykes,
becoming a little brook with grassy banks, marsh marigolds,
and over-hanging willows.
All too soon, the city’s edge is reached, and the infant river is throttled,
thwarted, aborted:
submerged in suburbia, constrained by concrete,
until eventually it is hidden altogether,
forced back underground, ignored, built over, forgotten.
In its place, we have invented a river,
gushing from the hands of the statue,
flowing prettily down regular steps,
endlessly recycling the same sterile water.
In times of heavy rain the real river rises rapidly,
rushing furiously, swollen and brown, between the restricting banks.
Suddenly it overflows, flooding roads,
causing traffic chaos and damage to property,
making nonsense of history’s attempts to tame it,
mocking,
taunting, the artificial river in the city square,
endlessly recycling the same sterile water.
Published in Earth Love Feb 2009.