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Tiny and active sunbird of forest edges, parks, and gardens; ranges from Sulawesi east to the northern Moluccas, New Guinea, and northeastern Australia. Both sexes have a plain olive back, a yellow belly, and white tail edges that are flared out in flight. The male flashes an iridescent blue throat while the female has a yellow throat and eyebrow. In parts of range, female Sahul may be confused with female Black Sunbird; note that species’ unmarked gray head and shorter, less curved bill. Gives a buzzy, twittering song, as well as a rising “dwee”, a familiar sound even in cities. Formerly grouped with other, closely related species under “Olive-backed Sunbird.” (eBird)
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The only Sunbird in Australia, and only in NE Queensland, this tiny beauty is common throughout its SE Asia range.
This female was busy trying to kill this enormous bug by bashing it against the branch and waving it around vigorously. She was ultimately successful.
Daintree River, Queensland, Australia. October 2022.
Eagle-Eye Tours - Eastern Australia.
Daintree River Cruises.
Voici une des dernières photographies - à ce jour – que j'ai réalisé dans ce paysage. J'aime particulièrement cet endroit et si je reviens volontiers en ces lieux, ne pensez pas que c'est par une quelconque nostalgie, pas du tout. Je me suis posé cette question quand j'ai recherché dans mes archives les images de cette série, la photographie c'est aussi au-delà des apparences, une forme de questionnement. Je me suis interrogé en regardant ces images très proches les unes des autres, un peu comme si à chaque visite mon regard suivait toujours le même chemin. Vilém Flusser dans une conférence (La production photographique) a déclaré: “L'image photographique n'est plus l'image d'un objet mais celle du travail de production de celle-ci”. En fait, j'aime tout bonnement ce petit coin de paysage comme on aime un livre que l'on relit, un film que l'on revoit, une musique qu'on se reprend à écouter encore une fois. Tout ceci n'est finalement qu'une simple histoire de plaisir.
Here is one of the last photographs - to date - that I have taken in this landscape. I particularly like this place and if I gladly come back to these places, don't think it's out of any nostalgia, not at all. I asked myself this question when I searched my archives for images from this series, photography is also beyond appearances, a form of questioning. I wondered while looking at these images very close to each other, a little as if at each visit my gaze always followed the same path. Vilém Flusser in a lecture (Photographic production) said: “The photographic image is no longer the image of an object but that of the work of producing it”. In fact, I quite simply love this little corner of the landscape as one loves a book that one rereads, a film that one sees again, a music that one resumes listening to once again. All this is ultimately just a simple story of pleasure.
This ultimately leads to the wetlands here on the farm but it's a long walk and not one you'd want to make after dark. Thanks for the look and have a great week.
Those who have chosen the path of least resistance in life, who cannot bear to bring themselves to make a stern value-judgment in criticism of their own most intimate feelings, achieve what they deserve: not self-understanding but radical self-superficialization, not a discovered but a self-ascribed identity that explains nothing, reveals nothing, means nothing, and ultimately accomplishes nothing culturally or intellectually.
-- Kenny Smith
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A very impressive stone sarcophagus - named after its find-spot, and dating to the last decade of the 2nd century A.D. It depicts the fight between Roman forces and barbarians, where the Romans are ultimately victorious.
Now on display at Museo Nazionale, Rome.
Wikipedia: Ophelia is a character in William Shakespeare's drama Hamlet (1599–1601). She is a young noblewoman of Denmark, the daughter of Polonius, sister of Laertes and potential wife of Prince Hamlet, who, due to Hamlet's actions, ends up in a state of madness that ultimately leads to her drowning.
The following were used: Craiyon/Wombo/DDG/paint/Paint Shop Pro
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about a month ago I noticed a doe and her newly born fawn at the edge of the farmer's hay field. Since then, I had been looking out to see them as the fawn grew hoping to get a shot of this young spotted treasure without any danger of scaring and separating them.
This was that day. I saw them from not far off as they made their way from the haying field back to the wood's edge. I was mid hill but far enough away to not be seen, yet in position for them to pass by at some point. I wondered how long it would be until they noticed me because I knew that the mom ultimately would if they continued on this course. Not too far down the path, I watched her nuzzled the young one to turn towards the shadows of the woods and in seconds they were out of sight.
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Midday view of Svalbard's Ekmanfjord and surrounding mountains. There is still a bit of sea ice in the fjord, which will ultimately disappear later in the summer.
Camera: Canon PowerShot G12.
Edited with GIMP.
Classic Jaguar XK120 seen and photographed at the 2021 Greenwich Concours Show
The XK120 was launched in open two-seater or (US) roadster form at the 1948 London Motor Show as a testbed and show car for the new Jaguar XK engine designed by Jaguar Chief Engineer William Heynes. The display car was the first prototype, chassis number 660001. It looked almost identical to the production cars except that the straight outer pillars of its windscreen were curved on the production version. The sports car caused a sensation, which persuaded Jaguar founder and Chairman William Lyons to put it into production.
Beginning in 1948, the first 242 cars wore wood-framed open 2-seater bodies with aluminium panels. Production switched to all-steel in early 1950. The "120" in the name referred to the aluminum car's 120 mph (193 km/h) top speed (faster with the windscreen removed), which made it the world's fastest production car at the time of its launch. In 1949 the first production car, chassis number 670003, was delivered to Clark Gable.
1951 XK120 Fixed Head Coupe
The XK120 was ultimately available in three versions or body styles, first as an open 2-seater described in the US market as a roadster (OTS) then as a fixed head coupé (FHC) from 1951 and finally as a drophead coupé (DHC) from 1953, all two-seaters and available with Left (LHD) or Right Hand Drive (RHD). However, certain Special Equipment roadster and fixed head coupe cars were produced between 1948 and 1949 denoted by an 'S' preceding the chassis number. These Special Equipment cars were sold as an early production build for enthusiasts.
A version with a smaller engine (2-litre 4-cylinder) designated the XK100 and intended for the UK market was cancelled prior to production.
On 30 May 1949, on the empty Ostend-Jabbeke motorway in Belgium, a prototype XK120 timed by the officials of the Royal Automobile Club of Belgium achieved an average of runs in opposing directions of 132.6 mph with the windscreen replaced by just one small aero screen and a catalogued alternative top gear ratio, and 135 mph with a passenger-side tonneau cover in place. In 1950 and 1951, at Autodrome de Linas-Montlhéry, a banked oval track in France, open XK120s averaged over 100 mph for 24 hours and over 130 mph for an hour. In 1952 a fixed-head coupé took numerous world records for speed and distance when it averaged 100 mph for a week.
XK120s were also highly successful in racing and rallying.
The Rivers Severn, Avon and Swilgate have all burst their banks today and conspired to surround Tewkesbury Abbey with floodwater. This dramatic scene is a familiar one in the medieval market town.
But on 20th July 2007, two months' worth of rain fell in 14 hours. This ultimately resulted in two emergencies; widespread flooding and water shortages. With flood water reaching over two metres in some places, more than 1,800 homes were flooded.
The Swilgate is the smaller of the three rivers and, without the floodwater, would be visible in the foreground. It flows north to Tewkesbury where it joins the River Avon close to its confluence with the Severn. Swilgate also gives its name to the local cricket ground where the first recorded match was in 1893, when Tewkesbury played Handsworth Wood.
Der Basstölpel (Morus bassanus) ist ein gänsegroßer Meeresvogel aus der Familie der Tölpel. Innerhalb dieser Familie ist er die am weitesten im Norden brütende Art und die einzige, die auch in Europa brütet. Seit 1991 ist der Basstölpel auch Brutvogel auf Helgoland. Typisch für den Basstölpel sind große Kolonien, in der mehrere tausend Brutpaare ihr jeweiliges Junges heranziehen. Basstölpel präferieren für die Anlage ihrer Nester steile Felsinseln, die vor der Küste liegen.
The northern gannet (Morus bassanus) is a seabird and the largest member of the gannet family, Sulidae. "Gannet" is derived from Old English ganot "strong or masculine", ultimately from the same Old Germanic root as "gander" Morus is derived from Ancient Greek moros, "foolish" due to the lack of fear shown by breeding gannets and boobies allowing them to be easily killed. The specific bassanus is from the Bass Rock in the Firth of Forth, which holds the world's largest colony of northern gannets.
Ultimately I was able to work around to where I had a clear shot of this guy, with a nice view of those cool wing feathers. Forest Park in St Louis, Missouri
One of the projects I am working on these days is renovating our bedroom. We are painting it a new color but we also spent the day looking for new bedroom furniture. In our many store visits, I watched for trends in colors and designs. Most of the stores sold wall art as well. I noticed that most of the art leaned toward monochromatic images, subtle color tones or abstract art. So for Sliders Sunday I tried one of these trends with an image of tulips I took. Although I prefer the gorgeous colors that the real tulips have in our living room, I may consider a more monochromatic look for a wall hanging on our bedroom wall. When we have so many images of our own to choose from, it will be interesting to see what we ultimately decide to print and hang in our room. Happy Sliders Sunday!
My "Gold Medal" hybrid tea rose is always the first to bloom in my rose garden every year. This year, in spite of bad weather, an excessive amount of rain and more grey and overcast spring days rather than fine, my "Gold Medal" has had the finest showing of blooms looking at all the buds about to burst out in the first flush of blooms.
The "Gold Medal" hybrid tea rose was first bred in 1982 in the United States by Jack Christensen, and later introduced to market by Armstrong Nursery. Jack is the youngest rose breeder to develop an All-American rose and he is credited with hybridising over eighty different types of roses. This rose was created by crossing elements from the roses Granada, Garden Party, and Yellow Pages. The result is a gorgeous yellowish rose that has rich copper accents, that ultimately fades to a soft cream color.
Spring has finally come to Melbourne after a long and grey winter, and everywhere, gardens are bursting forth with beautiful coloured blooms in a profusion of colours after a wetter than usual winter.
Pt Sierra Nevada in far background. Lovely cloudy-bright day, perfect for flower photography. Almost no wind! The rectangular sea-cave (left center) is new this year.
This cliff-face represents a perfect geological history of this part of the coast. The youngest gravels (on top) are from the recent Ice Ages. The older, layered gravels rest on the dark bedrock of the Franciscan Complex, all ultimately altered basalt. A quick refresher: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franciscan_Complex
The geomorphology of this retreating bluff-face is pretty cool too. Life is persistent, even when those poor plants are headed for a salt-water death in the next wet winter!
There are many mystical places. Even those that have been created by people. But ultimately created the mystical and over again in our minds. And we do not always see it. This is a pedestrian bridge over the Rhine-Herne Canal at Oberhausen. Architectural interest, tens of thousands of times photographed. Even me. The mystique of the place I have not seen. Until one early morning, just after sunrise, again stood on the bridge and the magic realized. The bridge is real, the picture my imagination. There are two versions of this subject. Today I set the first variant, tomorrow comes the second.
No, it's not Lindsey Buckingham or Stevie Nicks (remember the lyric in "The Chain"...) but a red fox who I happened to see out a window at dusk, ultimately heading through the woods and crossing the lake, this shot taken the next day. However, I probably wouldn't have minded if it had been Stevie Nicks...
Looking across this lovely lake at the geologic wonder that is Beartooth Butte.
"Beartooth Butte is a formation that has a completely different geologic origin than the surrounding area. During the Devonian period (420 - 360 million years ago) this entire region was covered by a vast sea. For several million years sediments deposited on that sea bottom compacted tighter and tighter to ultimately become sedimentary rocks. The resulting layer of rock, named the Beartooth Butte Formation, was at least 150 ft thick. Here on the Beartooth Plateau, the layer has been eroded away everywhere except here at Beartooth Butte.
The sedimentary rocks that make up Beartooth Butte are loaded with fossils from the various organisms that died and were buried in the ancient ocean."
re: montanahikes.com
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Taken at Lana (Now Closed)
The sound of screaming followed by laughter could be heard through the amusement park. Some riding the roller coaster were screaming, some riding the merry-go-round were laughing-screaming (You know when you are screaming but it is more like a happy scream? I know you get it!)
Then, there is another type of screaming; The silent type. The one that is hidden deep within the dusted corners of your heart, numbed up by the mind that refuses to acknowledge it. Anger that turns into rage which ultimately explodes. Most do not understand how long it was bottled up that when it was time to address it, there was no chance to minimize the debris.
Being misunderstood is the saddest silent scream ever. When perceptions are made final with no room to understand that perhaps it is not just because she didn't like something, what if it was something she was constantly being given that she reached a boiling point and was fed up of accepting it, finally?!
Yet, they will say the same thing over and over again, "You hurt, you rage." Never looking deeper into the reason of "Why?"
An oldie but goldie, I took this image back in February of this year in Alexandria, VA along the banks of the Potomac. The morning was bitterly cold and the overhead clouds provided spurts of periodic snow while completely ruining the sunrise. Now, the DC metro area isn’t quite known of it’s stunning landscape or nature (monuments and architecture is where it’s at) so it’s always a bit of challenge to find some natural beauty.
I paced the shoreline for about 30 minutes trying to capture any glimpse of morning light hitting the Woodrow Wilson Bridge but ultimately didn’t get the shot I was looking for. While packing up and feeling frustrated about my lack of luck, I look up and see this. A large root snaking it’s way through the water and fast moving storm clouds over head. The horizon starts to clear, letting in some diffused light from the sunrise. I framed up, got my shot, and this image was the result! A perfect example to ALWAYS look for beauty and the unexpected and never give up until you find something. Sometimes all you need is a little patience, an open mind, and a keen eye!
For me, this picture illustrates the American Dream in action. Following one's passion, working hard, sticking to it during the tough times, and ultimately coming out on top. That's the America I grew up in.
Hudson, OH USA
80 loads of coal from the Beech Mountain Railroad interchange at Alexander, WV are roaring eastbound up and over the .4% grade that is Smith Summit Hill outside of Buckhannon, WV. 4 GP38-2's, amounting to a total of 8000 horsepower exhume a tall exhaust plume of blue smoke working to overcome the forces of gravity working against the 10,000 ton train.
Another formidable challenge in Berryburg Hill still lies ahead, where the train will endure another steep climb up to the east end of Berryburg Junction from Philippi. As the train reaches the summit, gravity will have slowed the train's progression from its 25mph track speed down to a 10mph crawl, before ultimately cresting up and over the .9% ruling grade. From there, it's all down hill for the remaining 10 miles to Berkeley Run Junction and joining onto CSX trackage to nearby Grafton Yard.
The UK’s smallest thrush, the redwing, is around 21cm in length with a wingspan of up to 35cm. It has a creamy-white chest covered in dark brown streaks, a distinctive red-orange underwing and a creamy-white stripe above its eye.
Redwings were the first bird species which were proved to detect fruit using ultraviolet vision. This is because the waxy coatings of berries reflect UV light, making them more appealing to birds.
The Redwing is a small winter visiting thrush from Scandinavia and Iceland, usually arriving in late September and staying until March-April. The Scandinavian birds usually winter in southern Britain and the Icelandic birds in Scotland and Ireland - the Icelandic birds are slightly larger and darker than the Scandinavian birds.
Due to the tiny numbers that breed in the UK (usually less than 20) the redwing is classed as a Red List species of conservation concern. It is believed that climate change could ultimately cause the loss of this already small breeding population.
(Woodland trust)
Taken @ Kidwelly
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Europe, The Netherlands, Zuid Holland, Rotterdam, Cool, Coolhaven, Little C
Much has already been said and written about Little C. See the previous post for a little sample.
The style of the building complex can partly be traced back to the inherent cynicism of the project developers that created a project that uses the morphology of ultimately very problematic urban districts/housing complexes like The Projects (New York) and the long ago demolished Kowloon (Hong Kong) quarter.
This is number 298 of Zwart/Wit.
My "Gold Medal" hybrid tea rose is always the first to bloom in my rose garden every year. This year, in spite of bad weather, an excessive amount of rain and more grey and overcast spring days rather than fine, my "Gold Medal" has had the finest showing of blooms looking at all the buds about to burst out in the first flush of blooms. This is one of its glorious buds. The colour is most intense when the flowers are still buds, and as the bloom grows older, the colour fades away until it is almost white.
The "Gold Medal" hybrid tea rose was first bred in 1982 in the United States by Jack Christensen, and later introduced to market by Armstrong Nursery. Jack is the youngest rose breeder to develop an All-American rose and he is credited with hybridising over eighty different types of roses. This rose was created by crossing elements from the roses Granada, Garden Party, and Yellow Pages. The result is a gorgeous yellowish rose that has rich copper accents, that ultimately fades to a soft cream color.
Summer has finally come to Melbourne after a long and grey winter, and one of the wettest springs on record, and everywhere, gardens are bursting forth with beautiful coloured blooms in a profusion of colours.
Christopher Columbus, Pioneer Park
(1957-2020, below Coit Tower, Telegraph Hill, SF)
The statue made by Vittorio di Colbertaldo (1902-1979) was placed in the park in 1957, donated by the city's Italian-American community.
In October 2019, the statue was doused in red paint, symbolizing spilt blood, as an act of protest. The restoration cost about $70,000.
On June 18, 2020, the San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) removed the statue following the removal of other controversial statues.
In light of threats on social media to throw the statue off Pier 31 and into the San Francisco Bay, the SFAC has said that the statue was removed as it "doesn’t align with San Francisco’s values or our commitment to racial justice”.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Christopher_Columbus_(San_Francisco)
“Where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people also” (Heinrich Heine, 1821)
medium.com/la-mia-biblioteca/where-they-burn-books-they-w...
In the distance, Alcatraz island
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcatraz_Island
July 2019 - Edited and Uploaded 2021/06/14
No matter how educated, talented, rich or cool you believe you are, how you treat people ultimately tells all. Integrity is everything.
— Unknown Author
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On a recent trip to Door County Wisconsin, I stopped by the legendary Anderson Dock.
When I first got there to scope it out, it was raining with a sustained wind of at least 20-30 MPH. Not real good odds of getting a picture. As I waited around for sunset, the rain finally stopped and the sun poked out for just a few minutes to get this shot. I felt fortunate to get something for my trouble.
Per the Door County Pulse website... After Norwegian brothers Aslag and Halvor Anderson recognized the need for a deepwater dock in Ephraim, they constructed one in 1858. Throughout the 1880s, steamers arriving at the dock — most notably from the Goodrich Transportation Company — brought much-needed goods and much-appreciated tourists, and this activity ultimately vitalized Ephraim. Although the dock’s warehouse — the present-day Hardy Gallery — was built to store merchandise, it became a visible reminder of the sailors and ships that had stopped there.
Emily Irwin, outreach director and curator for the Ephraim Historical Foundation, explained that sailors arriving in Ephraim painted the name of their ship and the date on the side of the building as a way to mark their visit.
It’s a bit of a mystery exactly when the graffiti tradition began, but sailors were known to write on the warehouse from around 1910 into the 1950s, perhaps to express their relief and gratitude for a safe passage through the notorious Death’s Door waters, or simply to commemorate their arrival in Ephraim.
In 1949, the Ephraim Historical Foundation purchased the dock and warehouse from the Anderson family, and in 1961, the foundation leased the building to the Hardy Gallery. Through these shifts, however, the graffiti tradition has remained intact, with the public picking up where the sailors left off.
"Fame is a four-letter word; and like tape or zoom or face or pain or life or love, what ultimately matters is what we do with it."
Fred Rogers
Some flowers are so glorious, they deserve their own moment on stage. Here's to encouraging one of my favorite flowers to have its own five minutes of fame.
The Robert E. Lee Monument was a large monument in Richmond, Virginia, the former capital of the Confederate States of America during the US Civil War. It was installed in 1890 and was ultimately removed on September 8, 2021. The statue, which stood over 60 feet (18.29 meters) tall including its base, honored Confederate US Civil War General Robert E. Lee. The monument was constructed in France and shipped to Virginia and was the largest installation on Monument Avenue in Richmond for more than a century.
After the murder of African American George Floyd by Minnesota Policeman Derek Chauvin, the controversial monument became a local hub of nationwide protests against racism. It was covered in graffiti and many activists called for its removal. Ralph Northam, the Governor of Virginia, ordered the removal of the statue on June 4, 2020, but was blocked by a state court pending the outcome of a lawsuit. The Supreme Court of Virginia ultimately ruled on September 2, 2021, that the monument could be removed. It was removed six days later.
This photo was taken in May 2021, just a few months before its historic removal. I am glad I got the photo, but I celebrate that its subject is no longer there.
With a famine of trips recently due to family commitments it's back to the archives and here, on a bitterly cold late afternoon at Great Rocks Junction, a pair of Sheds, led by 66238, approach from the Tunstead quarry complex, while unit 66015 disappears towards Buxton and ultimately Dowlow.
Thankfully the snow provided a bit more brightness than is normally found at this time of day, but also ensured most sensible folk were hunkered up inside trying to stay warm. Despite the cold happy to report no problem with the reflexes - a couple of seconds on 'burst mode' and managed to bag a nigh perfect alignment of the two locos! A shot that enlarges quite well.
22nd January 2015
Packard Series II
The Packard Motor Car Company was an American luxury automobile company. It was founded in Warren Ohio as the Ohio Automobile Company by James Ward Packard, his brother William, and their partner, George Lewis Weiss. The first car rolled out of the factory on November 6, 1899.
Packard’s cars were considered the preeminent luxury car before World War II, and owning a Packard was prestigious. Henry Bourne Joy, a member of one of Detroit's oldest and wealthiest families, bought a Packard. Impressed by its reliability, he brought together a group of investors to refinance the company, soon after which Packard moved its operations to Detroit.
In 1953 (or 1954, depending on your source), Packard bought rival Studebaker and formed the Studebaker-Packard Corporation of South Bend, Indiana. Some historians believe that this was the beginning of the end of the company. It was certainly followed by a series of circumstances and events that ultimately led to the end of the company in 1962.
This series of photographs was taken at America’s Packard Museum in Dayton, Ohio. The Museum is a restored Packard dealership transformed into a museum that displays twentieth-century classic Packards and historic Packard artifacts and memorabilia.
The dealership originally sold Packards in Dayton, Ohio beginning in 1908. It moved into the building that is now home to the museum in 1917. Robert Signom II, the museum's Founder and Curator for 27 years, acquired the building in 1991 and painstakingly rehabilitated it to its original Art Deco grandeur, opening the museum in 1992.
Car Collector magazine named the museum one of the top ten automotive museums in the United States. The cars on display range from 1900s Brass Era cars, the streamlined Classic cars of the 1930s and 1940s, to the modern Packards of the 1950s. The museum also has a collection of war machines, parts, accessories, and original sales and service literature.
Isn't the word, "Power!" so ultimately subjective?! This shot is from literally one of dozens of photos I took of the main Vattenfall Power Station in Berlin, which was an almost two hour walk from my cave, so please show this some love as today, I ache everywhere, I even popped the map down under. I walked around this place for hours on both sides of the river, and I cannot begin to tell you how massive this place is, photos just don't do it justice.
It really was quite something, when I luckily found a park bench right opposite one of the bigger buildings, I sat and marvelled at the example of human industrial engineering and science that this place beholds; l could only surmise as to the technology that buzzes and hums away in these buildings; my partner has commented to me in the past as to how stupid human beings can be and yet look what we are capable of when we put our minds to it.
I will posting a good few more of this power castle over time.
I hope everyone is well and so as always, thank you! :)
Captured in: North Topsail Beach, NC.
Pictured here is a view of a large (and rather threatening) cumulonimbus cloud as it loomed over North Topsail Beach, NC.
It ultimately became part of a severe thunderstorm cell, complete with heavy wind & rain, and a fair amount of cloud to ground lightning.
I managed to capture this shot before the weather turned too nasty. My intent was to snap a few shots prior to the storm, as I had no interest in being struck by lightning on the beach! :{
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"There's a Storm a Brewin'" is an HDR image constructed from 3 bracketed shots - 2 stop differential between each image.
The image was processed w/ ACR, Photomatix, and finished in Photoshop (includes the use of Topaz Labs plugins -- Denoise, Clean, Adjust, Clarity, and Detail).
This Barn Owl has been delighting birders and photographers in the Atlanta area as it forages over grassy fields around sunrise and sunset. I hope all the attention doesn't ultimately drive it away from its current feeding grounds.
Many viewers may know that Benjamin Franklin, a statesman, scientist and one of the signers of the United States Declaration of Independence, is pictured on the U.S. $100 bill, shown above. But a little known fact is that his younger brother, Kenny, was considered for the $1,000 bill.
The decision was ultimately made to instead feature Grover Cleveland, the 22nd and 24th U.S. president, on the $1,000 bill. But I have managed to lay hands on one of the Kenny Franklin prototype bills, which is pictured here. He actually looked a lot like his brother, doncha think?
...just kidding. I've been fooling around with Photoshop again...with apologies to Ben. 😋
Crazy Tuesday: "Currency and/or Banknotes" theme
HCT
THE STORY OF MATTHEW
Hurricane Matthew 2016 was a very powerful, long-lived and deadly tropical cyclone which became the first Category 5 Atlantic hurricane, since Hurricane Felix in 2007.
Originating from a tropical wave that emerged off Africa on September 22, Matthew developed into a tropical storm 35 miles (56 km) southeast of St. Lucia on September 28, after which it experienced explosive intensification as it tracked across the Caribbean Sea.
Matthew became a hurricane 190 miles (310 km) northeast of Curaçao on September 29, ultimately achieving Category 5 intensity the following day
Haiti was the worst affect area being responsible for up to 1600 deaths & causing US$1.89 billion in damage In Cuba one million people where evacuated into shelters The storm then tracked up along the East coast of Florida & the Carolina,s
Preparations began in earnest across the southeastern United States as Matthew approached, with several states declaring a state of emergency for either entire states or coastal counties; widespread evacuations were ordered for extensive areas of the coast because of predicted high wind speeds and flooding, especially in the Jacksonville Metropolitan Area. The eye of the storm when passing bye Jacksonville was only fifty miles off shore
We ourselves evacuated from Atlantic Beach (Jacksonville) in land some fifty miles because of possible flooding & damage The hotel we relocated to had it own generator only to find that when the storm passed over head the power went out When taking this up at reception we found out that they meant to state that the reception had a generator not the guests
In Florida, in total over 1 million lost power as the storm passed to the east, with 478,000 losing power in Georgia and South Carolina.
-Macklemore
I can't even tell you how many pictures I took for this theme. I could not think of anything that seemed abstract enough. I finally narrowed it down to this image and another and ultimately, this one won.
I don't know if it is just me or not but is anyone else having a very difficult time thinking of images to do for the themes lately??
You can almost warm your hands on them! Taken in our garden last spring...
The tulip is a perennial, bulbous plant with showy flowers in the genus Tulipa, of which around 75 wild species are currently accepted and which belongs to the family Liliaceae.
The genus's native range extends west to the Iberian Peninsula, through North Africa to Greece, the Balkans, Turkey, throughout the Levant (Syria, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan) and Iran, North to Ukraine, southern Siberia and Mongolia, and east to the Northwest of China. The tulip's centre of diversity is in the Pamir, Hindu Kush, and Tien Shan mountains. It is a typical element of steppe and winter-rain Mediterranean vegetation. A number of species and many hybrid cultivars are grown in gardens, as potted plants, or as cut flowers.
Tulips are spring-blooming perennials that grow from bulbs. Depending on the species, tulip plants can be between 4 inches (10 cm) and 28 inches (71 cm) high. The tulip's large flowers usually bloom on scapes with leaves in a rosette at ground level and a single flowering stalk arising from amongst the leaves.Tulip stems have few leaves. Larger species tend to have multiple leaves. Plants typically have two to six leaves, some species up to 12. The tulip's leaf is strap-shaped, with a waxy coating, and the leaves are alternately arranged on the stem; these fleshy blades are often bluish green in color. Most tulips produce only one flower per stem, but a few species bear multiple flowers on their scapes (e.g. Tulipa turkestanica). The generally cup or star-shaped tulip flower has three petals and three sepals, which are often termed tepals because they are nearly identical. These six tepals are often marked on the interior surface near the bases with darker colorings. Tulip flowers come in a wide variety of colors, except pure blue (several tulips with "blue" in the name have a faint violet hue).
The flowers have six distinct, basifixed stamens with filaments shorter than the tepals. Each stigma has three distinct lobes, and the ovaries are superior, with three chambers. The tulip's seed is a capsule with a leathery covering and an ellipsoid to globe shape. Each capsule contains numerous flat, disc-shaped seeds in two rows per chamber. These light to dark brown seeds have very thin seed coats and endosperm that does not normally fill the entire seed.
Etymology
The word tulip, first mentioned in western Europe in or around 1554 and seemingly derived from the "Turkish Letters" of diplomat Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, first appeared in English as tulipa or tulipant, entering the language by way of French: tulipe and its obsolete form tulipan or by way of Modern Latin tulīpa, from Ottoman Turkish tülbend ("muslin" or "gauze"), and may be ultimately derived from the Persian: دلبند delband ("Turban"), this name being applied because of a perceived resemblance of the shape of a tulip flower to that of a turban. This may have been due to a translation error in early times, when it was fashionable in the Ottoman Empire to wear tulips on turbans. The translator possibly confused the flower for the turban.
Tulips are called laleh (from Persian لاله, lâleh) in Persian, Turkish, Arabic, and Bulgarian. In Arabic letters, "laleh" is written with the same letters as Allah, which is why the flower became a holy symbol. It was also associated with the House of Osman, resulting in tulips being widely used in decorative motifs on tiles, mosques, fabrics, crockery, etc. in the Ottoman Empire
Cultivation
Tulip cultivars have usually several species in their direct background, but most have been derived from Tulipa suaveolens, often erroneously listed as Tulipa schrenkii. Tulipa gesneriana is in itself an early hybrid of complex origin and is probably not the same taxon as was described by Conrad Gesner in the 16th century.
Tulips are indigenous to mountainous areas with temperate climates and need a period of cool dormancy, known as vernalization. They thrive in climates with long, cool springs and dry summers. Tulip bulbs imported to warm-winter areas of are often planted in autumn to be treated as annuals.
Tulip bulbs are typically planted around late summer and fall, in well-drained soils, normally from 4 to 8 inches (10 to 20 cm) deep, depending on the type. Species tulips are normally planted deeper.
Propagation
Tulips can be propagated through bulb offsets, seeds or micropropagation. Offsets and tissue culture methods are means of asexual propagation for producing genetic clones of the parent plant, which maintains cultivar genetic integrity. Seeds are most often used to propagate species and subspecies or to create new hybrids. Many tulip species can cross-pollinate with each other, and when wild tulip populations overlap geographically with other tulip species or subspecies, they often hybridize and create mixed populations. Most commercial tulip cultivars are complex hybrids, and often sterile.
Offsets require a year or more of growth before plants are large enough to flower. Tulips grown from seeds often need five to eight years before plants are of flowering size. Commercial growers usually harvest the tulip bulbs in late summer and grade them into sizes; bulbs large enough to flower are sorted and sold, while smaller bulbs are sorted into sizes and replanted for sale in the future. The Netherlands are the world's main producer of commercial tulip plants, producing as many as 3 billion bulbs annually, the majority for export.
For further information please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip
Prince of Wales Hotel on Waterton Lake, Waterton Lakes National Park, in Alberta, Canada. Photo taken two years after the lightening-sparked Kenow Wildfire (2017) burned 30% of the park. Many burned trees can still be seen in the area. At one point, the fire was 50 yards away from the hotel. Embers the size of baseballs were reportedly landing on the hotel roof. Ultimately, however, the firefighters saved the hotel with surprisingly little damage to the hotel's main structure.
Saratoga National Historic Park, in upstate New York, preserves the site of a pivotal battle of the American Revolutionary War. Here, American forces met, defeated and forced the surrender of a major British Army in October, 1777, which ultimately led France to enter the war as a decisive military ally of the struggling Americans.
The building you see here is a restoration of the home of John Neilson, a local farmer who cast his lot with the Patriot cause, and whose farm was enclosed within the defenses of the Americans at the time of the battle. The home is one of the stops on a 9.5-mile driving tour that takes visitors past the Park’s historical sites.
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A drowning bridge lays off in the distance. Silhouetted against a quivering, shimmering body of water. Stumps and stones along a cold and narrow path lead me towards the past. The day still early, changing, contorting, trying to figure out what its temperament will be.
What is the fate of this relic from the past? Will it be revealed once more in all its decrepit glory or will it be consigned to the depths once more waiting to be revealed at some future date?
Walking along a precarious path that we must carefully traverse. We will be the ones to ultimately determine the fate of the old ghost bridge.
Limonium is a genus of 120 flowering plant species. Members are also known as sea-lavender, statice, caspia or marsh-rosemary. Despite their common names, species are not related to the lavenders or to rosemary. They are instead in Plumbaginaceae, the plumbago or leadwort family. The generic name is from the Latin līmōnion, used by Pliny for a wild plant and is ultimately derived from the Ancient Greek leimon (λειμών, ‘meadow’). The genus has a subcosmopolitan distribution in Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and North America. By far the greatest diversity (over 100 species) is in the area stretching from the Canary Islands east through the Mediterranean region to central Asia; for comparison, North America only has three native Limonium species. 30578
As ice formed around the edges of the Lake, this lingering migrant saw its access to vegetation shrinking and its options for remaining in Ottawa narrowing.
This was an early morning image. The last of the fall colours, a yellowy-orange, reflected off the surface of the water just as the sun started to rise. It was cold. And the bird needed to get out of town and head south. I photographed this bird a few days later walking in the reeds on the ice. It ultimately left the area.
Late birds are a fact of life in the messy migration business, as are dangerously early birds. They fall behind (or get ahead) of the sudden changes in weather and then food becomes inaccessible; from there, energy to migrate is compromised, and a downward spiral begins. It is one of the difficult parts of being engaged in the patterns of wildlife.
In Celtic times the island was called Eria's Island. Eria was a woman's name and this became confused with Erin, derived from Éireann, the Irish name for Ireland. The Vikings substituted the word Island with ey, their Norse equivalent, and so it became known as Erin's Ey and ultimately Ireland's Eye.