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Using an ICM zoom movement to capture my Nashi Pear Tree in silhouette as the sun rose this morning.
Right now however, we have gentle rain which is most welcome as it brings some cooler weather and needed water. HSoS
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The site of Side's temples of Apollo and Athena is perhaps the most romantic and moving antique monument of Anatolia. These structures date back from the 2nd century AD and are located at the southwestern tip of Side's harbor. The temple of Apollo has partly been re-erected and has become Side's trademark. Side's marina is a popular anchoring place for yachts. In addition, the fine sandy beaches make it a top beach holiday destination. The colorful inner town with its ancient ruins and tourist shops is effectively pedestrianized and transportation for those opposing a walk is done by a Disney-like little train
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Please, don't fave and run, you will get yourself blocked.
Edited slightly in Topaz Studio
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This photo is using, "Swirl" from Specter Skies, now at the Harajuku Event!
Specter Skies is at the next round of the Harajuku Event with the "⋆｡°•☁️Wavy Clouds Pack" ⋆｡°•☁️for $155L and $145L for Specter Skies' group members!
Where: Harajuku Event Landmark
When: Now through till April 10th
The Wavy Clouds Pack includes both EEPs and PBR versions:
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⛅Swirl
⛅Waves
Also Available is the ✨🌙"Moonlight Pack" ✨🌙for $275L and $256 for Specter Skies' group members!
The Moonlight Pack includes both EEPs and PBR versions:
☾ ⋆ Bluemoon
☾ ⋆Dark Moon
☾ ⋆Dreamer
☾ ⋆Fire Moon
☾ ⋆Misty
☾ ⋆Pinkmoon
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Song: Beauty in the struggle
By: Bryan Martin
📷Photo Taken At:
Landmark to Aeternus Paradisus
Pose: From Sassy Sweet Poses
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Dati di scatto:
fotocamera: Nikon D5000
Obiettivo:Sigma 10-20mm - F4-5,6 EX DC HSM
distanza focale: 10 mm
tempo di esposizione:0,002 sec (1/500)
numero f: f//11
ISO: 500
Bilanciamento del bianco: automatico
modalità misurazione esposimetrica: Peso centrale
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La città di Shanghai, situata sul fiume Huangpu presso il delta del Chang Jiang, è la più popolosa città della Repubblica Popolare Cinese e la città più popolosa del mondo.
Shanghai è vista come capitale economica della Cina.
Grazie allo sviluppo dei passati decenni, Shanghai è un centro economico, finanziario, commerciale e delle comunicazioni di primaria importanza della Repubblica Popolare Cinese. Il suo porto, il primo del Paese, è uno dei più trafficati al mondo con Singapore e Rotterdam. Nel 2010 ha superato Singapore come volume di traffico.
Per quanto concerne l'estensione superficiale, quindi la vera grandezza di una città, è la terza realtà più grande del mondo, inferiore soltanto alla sua connazionale cinese Pechino, che la supera di oltre 2 volte e alla seconda classificata Tsingtao, quasi il suo doppio.
I maestosi edifici lungo il Bund, la magnifica passeggiata di circa 1 Km e mezzo regala una vista mozzafiato sullo skyline di Shanghai: il Pudong (a est del fiume Pu). “L’isola” di Pudong è l’area più moderna della città: è proprio qui che troverete i palazzi più famosi e imponenti, come ad esempio la Jinmao Tower, il World Financial Center e l’Oriental Pearl Tower che sono considerati la massima rappresentazione dell’architettura moderna mondiale, nonché espressione dello sviluppo della città negli ultimi 100 anni.
A weird angle used to capture a weird angle.. the odd angle of the east wall (the far wall in this photo) is apparently because it follows the line of a passageway here prior to 1678. The weird angle chosen by the photographer is because this church is also a very busy cafe and was full of customers. I was lucky to get this shot nearly devoid of them. Taken during a brief stop here during an OpenCity organised walking tour of the churches of Christopher Wren.
"St Mary Aldermary (or St Mary Elder Mary) is an Anglican church located on Bow Lane at the junction with Watling Street, in the City of London within the United Kingdom.[1][2]
Of medieval origin, rebuilding began in 1510 and was not finished until 1632. Severely damaged just 33 years later during the Great Fire of London in 1666, it was rebuilt once more by the office of Sir Christopher Wren. Unlike most of Wren's City churches, St Mary Aldermary was reconstructed in the Gothic Revival style. In 1952 its role was changed from a parish church to that of a guild church, intended to serve commuters and non-resident workers within the City of London. The main church space acts a public cafe during weekday business hours, with religious and meditative sessions held during mornings and evenings."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Mary_Aldermary
See also: livinglondonhistory.com/the-history-of-the-beautiful-st-m...
None of my photos are HDR or blended images, they are taken from just one shot
Sony A900 + Carl Zeiss16-35mm + reverse GND8 filter + ND8 filter
Punta Paloma, Tarifa (Cádiz - Andalucía)
More pictures of Tarifa
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A vintage display in the middle of the country west of Milledgeville,IL. This is on the property of an Illinois centennial farm. Have a great truck Thursday all and pray for rain-no rain in my area for almost 3 weeks! Couldn't get my planting done till early June because it was too wet and it hasn't rained since.I guess you can't mess with Mother Nature! LOL
This farmer ran a local filling station for many years as well,thus the Mobil memorabilia...
I use the old style wooden snowshoes on most of my hikes in new or heavy snow. My "modern" aluminum framed ones usually stay on the rack for groomed trails or spring days when the snow is wet and slushy.
Nothing of all you have longed for or have sought to hold fast can relieve you of your thirst, your loneliness, until you learn to take in your hands and raise to your lips this cup of solitude his chalice of the void and drain it to the dregs.
-Paul Murray, Scars, p. 101.
The sight with which the soul is endowed by nature is Charity. This sight has two eyes: Love and reason. Reason can see God only in what He is not; Love rests not except in what He is. Reason has safe paths along which to proceed; Love feels Her failure, but this failure makes Her advance more than reason does. Reason proceeds towards what God is by what He is not; Love sets aside the things that God is not and rejoices in Her failure, as regards what God is. Reason is more easily satisfied, but Love has more sweetness and bliss. However, these two are of great mutual help to each other, for reason instructs Love and Love enlightens reason. When reason is carried away by Love’s desire, and when Love accepts to be guided by reason, within reason’s limits, together they can accomplish a wonderful work. But you cannot be taught this except by experience.
-WOMEN MYSTICS IN Medieval Europe, Emilie Zum Brunn and Georgette Epiney-Burgard
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The greater flameback (Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) also known as greater goldenback, large golden-backed woodpecker is a common, four-toed, large-billed, golden-backed woodpecker found in wet tropical and subtropical forests across South and Southeast Asia.
This is a large woodpecker, at 33 cm in length. It is of typical woodpecker shape, and has an erect crest and a long neck. it always has unmarked golden-yellow to dark brown back and wings. The rump is red and the tail is black. The underparts are white with dark markings (chevrons, stripes, or bands), or light brown. The head is whitish with a black pattern, or it is yellow, brown, or red. The straight-pointed bill is longer than the head, and the legs have four-toed zygodactyl feet (two toes pointing forward, two backward) and are lead-grey in color. The eyes' irises are whitish to yellow. The adult male greater flameback always has a red crown. Females have a crown color varying between subspecies, such as black spotted with white, yellow, or brown with lighter dots. Young birds are like the females, but duller, with brown irises.
This flameback is a species associated with a diversity of rather open forest habitat, such as found in the foothills of the Himalayas; it also inhabits mangrove forest. Like other woodpeckers, the greater flameback uses its bill to dig out food from trees, and its zygodactyl feet and stiff tail to provide support against tree trunks. The long tongue can be darted forward to extract wood-boring arthropod prey; while mainly feeding on small invertebrates, greater flamebacks also drink nectar. They nest in tree holes, laying three or four white eggs.
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There are certainly countless motifs that can be used to symbolize the new beginning of a year. A sunrise outside in nature (in this case on the Hoher Schneeberg in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains) is my favorite.
In both cases we are on a path that leads us into a new phase of life. A path that is only known to us to a certain extent and where a big surprise (or challenge) can be waiting for us around the next bend.
Now you could object that a day is just a day and in comparison a year must be much more significant. I would like to show you why I don't quite see it that way.
On the one hand, this assessment is based on our standards, which are based on a human life. If we look at it from the perspective of the lifespan of the universe, a year is just as insignificant as a day (basically the effects of neither are noticeable).
On the other hand, a single day, a single decision is enough to fundamentally change our own world in every conceivable direction.
So what if we didn't wait for a specific date every year to realize where we want to go, but could use every single day of the year to do so?
Our creative possibilities would increase many times over and we would have so much more room for directional corrections. We could learn, try things out and gain experience without having to ask the fundamental question every time.
With this in mind, I wish you all a good start and an exciting and fulfilling journey.
Because today is the first day of the rest of all of our lives.
Es gibt ganz sicher unzählige Motive, mit denen man den Neubeginn eines Jahres symbolisieren kann. Ein Sonnenaufgang draußen in der Natur (in diesem Fall auf dem Hohen Schneeberg im Elbsandsteingebirge) ist mein Favorit.
In beiden Fällen befinden wir uns auf einem Weg, der uns in einen neuen Lebensabschnitt führt. Ein Weg, der uns nur bis zu einem gewissen Grad bekannt ist und auf dem hinter der nächste Kurve eine große Überraschung (oder auch Herausforderung) auf uns warten kann.
Jetzt könntet Ihr einwenden, dass ein Tag ja nur ein Tag ist und im Vergleich dazu ein Jahr doch viel bedeutender sein muss. Ich möchte Euch aufzeigen, warum ich das nicht ganz so sehe.
Zum einen fusst diese Einschätzung auf unsere auf ein Menschenleben ausgerichteten Masstäbe. Betrachten wir das ganze aus Sicht der Lebensspanne des Universums ist ein Jahr genau so unbedeutetend wie ein Tag (im Grunde sind die Auswirkungen beider nicht spürbar).
Andererseits genügt ein einziger Tag, eine einzige Entscheidung um unsere eigene Welt grundlegend zu verändern und das in jede nur denkbare Richtung.
Wie wäre es also, wenn wir nicht jedes Jahr auf ein spezielles Datum warten würden um uns bewusst zu machen, wohin wir gehen wollen, sondern dafür jeden einzelnen Tag des Jahres nutzen könnten?
Unsere gestalterischen Möglichkeiten würden um ein vielfaches steigen und wir hätten so viel mehr Raum für Richtungskorrekturen. Wir könnten lernen, probieren und Erfahrungen sammeln ohne jedes Mal die Grundsatzfrage stellen zu müssen.
In diesem Sinne wünsche ich Euch allen einen guten Start und eine spannende sowie erfüllende Reise.
Denn heute ist der erste Tag vom Rest unser aller Leben.
more of this on my website at: www.shoot-to-catch.de
Used to Be collection created by Oh Deer is searching for a loving home❤️
For this Lazy Sunday 14-16 of January, this unique collection is up for sale in special prices.
Each single item in a price range of 59-75L and a fatpack in a special price of 400L.
The sale will take place on the Marketplace as well as in the mainstore.
[Oh Deer] Mainstore: Teleport
Lollipop sticks are usually a single use item that is discarded (Hopefully into a waste bin.) once the lolly has been finished.
These coloured lollipop sticks are primarily used for crafting, however I have used them for photography a few times, even this time I have kept the half sticks for future use.
This 1 inch lensball is showing an inversed image of lollipop sticks stuck to an old CD. The CD is 1.5 inches behind the lensball, the result reminds me of an eyeball.
Macro Monday theme; Single Use
Happy Macro Monday folks !!
I'm evaluating an old Bessa (Skopar f3.5, used wide open) to see how it performs in this context. Also evaluating my current batch of Bergger Pancro 400, which has misbehaved badly any time I have run it through any of the Pyro developers (totally unusable negs). I made up fresh D-76 last night and ran this test roll through it (1:1, 17 min) and its OK. I get the impression that there's something not quite right with the current Pancro 400 (120 roll) so I will likely avoid it for the foreseeable future.
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La Puerta de Alcalá es una de las cinco antiguas puertas reales que daban acceso a la ciudad de Madrid (España).
Se encuentra situada en el centro de la rotonda de la Plaza de la Independencia, diseñada por el urbanista Ángel Fernández de los Ríos en el año 1778. En el cruce de las calles de Alcalá, Alfonso XII, Serrano y Salustiano Olózaga, junto a las puertas del Retiro: Puerta de España, Puerta de la Independencia (entrada principal a los jardines del Retiro) y Puerta de Hernani.
La puerta daba acceso a aquellos viajeros que entraban antiguamente a la población desde Francia, Aragón o Cataluña. En la actualidad es una puerta monumental que se encuentra ubicada junto a la Fuente de Cibeles y el Parque del Retiro. Fue construida por mandato de Carlos III en sustitución de otra puerta anterior que existía ya desde el siglo XVI. El diseño y obra pertenece al arquitecto italiano Francesco Sabatini. Compitieron con Sabatini otros proyectos por parte de arquitectos españoles: Ventura Rodríguez y de José de Hermosilla, siendo finalmente elegido personalmente por el Rey el diseño de Sabatini.
Se trata de una puerta de estilo neoclásico y aspecto monumental similar a los Arcos de Triunfos romanos, se erigió mirando su exterior a oriente en el año 1778. La puerta ha sido posteriormente restaurada en cinco ocasiones en más de dos siglos de existencia, siendo la última a finales del siglo XX. La originalidad de su fábrica consiste en ser el primer arco de triunfo construido en Europa tras la caída del Imperio romano, siendo precursor de otros como el Arco de Triunfo de París y la Puerta de Brandeburgo en Berlín.
Ha sufrido desde sus comienzos diversas transformaciones urbanísticas en su entorno. Pasando de ser la frontera exterior de Madrid, a un centro turístico de obligado paso que aparece insertada casi en el medio de la misma ciudad. Este cambio se ha debido al ensanche del siglo XIX a lo largo del barrio de Serrano y la prolongación de la calle de Alcalá. Finalmente es desde 1976 considerado por el Estado Español como un Monumento Histórico-Artístico, extendiendo su categoría a la misma Plaza de la Independencia.
La puerta ya desde su ubicación final fue adquiriendo desde finales del siglo XVIII relevancia en el pueblo madrileño, y a finales del siglo XIX era ya uno de sus iconos más característicos que aparece en numerosas ilustraciones de la ciudad. Al ser uno de los monumentos más representativos, en su doble condición de mirada hacia el interior de la ciudad y al exterior de la misma. la Puerta de Alcalá ha servido como soporte para todo tipo de manifestaciones políticas y artísticas y en sus inmediaciones se han producido numerosos hechos históricos.
English
The Puerta de Alcalá ("Alcalá Gate") is a Neo-classical monument in the Plaza de la Independencia ("Independence Square") in Madrid, Spain. It stands near the city center and several meters away from the main entrance to the Parque del Buen Retiro. The square is bisected by Alcalá Street, although the street itself doesn't cross through the monument, and it is the origin of the Alfonso XII, Serrano and Olózaga streets. Its name originates from the old path from Madrid to the nearby town of Alcalá de Henares.
Madrid in the late 18th century, still remained a somewhat drab villa in appearance, surrounded by medieval walls. Around the year 1774, king Charles III commissioned Francesco Sabatini to construct a monumental gate in the city wall through which an expanded road to the city of Alcalá was to pass, replacing an older, smaller, gate which stood nearby. It was inaugurated in 1778.
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#2020photomarathoncoronadays
Used for a Facebook challenge with the theme "THE Place".
Seen on an evening walk to and from the area around the Black Bascule Light and the White Lighthouse.
From a week-long family summer vacation in a rented house in Skagen, Denmark - July 04, 2020.
I used to walk by this street very often, but since the new MRT line started last winter, I changed my daily route to another alley: www.flickr.com/photos/shangpc/albums/72157651625181588
That day I was in a hurry to go to a family lunch gathering, saw this scene on the way without my camera in hand. After the lunch, I went straight home, grabbed my camera, and returned to this location. Fortunately, nothing was changed.
The owner of the prosthetic leg was about ten meters away on a wheel chair, selling chewing gums. He asked if I were a reporter. He said he does not need report, nor help from the government or anyone. He just lost his leg a few months ago, things had been tough, but he thought as long as he can sell 40 gums a day, he can support himself no problem.
I thanked him for allow me to take pictures, wished him good luck and left, but didn't ask why he had to put the leg so far away from himself.
A few days later, I bumped into him again, this time I asked him why, and his answer was quite amusing. He said he is sick and tired of looking at the leg, that's why. But once he putted it further away, about triple the distance as it is now, a janitor came by and thought someone dumped it, then tried to carry it away, so he had to chase the janitor (on his wheel chair). Therefore it appears the way it is now: far enough, but not too far.
這張是我入圍2016年邁阿密街頭攝影比賽（MSPF 2016）決選的作品。
那天我正要去參加一個午餐聚會，半路上在我家附近看到這個景象，很想拍下來，但相機不在手上。吃完飯我直接回家，抓了相機再回到這裡，幸好一切都沒變。
義肢的主人，坐在離這裡大約十米的一個輪椅上，正在賣口香糖。他看到我手拿相機，問我是不是記者，他說他不需要報導，也不需要政府補助。幾個月前他才因為工作，失去了左腿，但最困難的時間已經過去。他算過了，只要一天能賣四十條口香糖，就可以自力更生，不需要別人幫助。
我表明自己不是記者，於是他同意讓我拍。拍完之後，我向他道謝，也祝他順利安康，但離開之後才想起，忘了問他為何要把那條義肢放那麼遠？
過兩天再看到他，義肢仍是同樣擺法，我又上前跟他聊了一下，這次沒忘了問他為什麼。他的回答很妙：他說因為剛截肢，不知為何，很討厭看到那條假腿，所以眼不見為淨。一開始他來這裡時，義肢擺得更遠，在這堵圍牆的另一端，離他大約有三十公尺。但有次來了一個清潔隊員，以為是誰不要的，要把它拿去丟，他只好飆著輪椅去追回來，所以現在才擺成眼前這個樣子：有點遠，但又不會太遠。
Used to measure the alcohol content of liquids.The funnel holds about 2ml for scale. Personally, I prefer just to read the label and taste.
About Laguiole knifes - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laguiole_knife
This one here : forge-de-laguiole.com/en/product-category/knives/folding-...
Using a 10-stop ND filter in the middle of the day to create a 15-second-long exposure.
(Spanish: Utilizando un filtro de densidad neutra de 10 pasos para crear una larga exposicion de 15 segundos en pleno dia bajo el sol).
Old Digital Camera: Canon 5D mkII (2008)
Vintage Analog Lens: Canon EF 28-105mm f/3.5-4.5 II USM (2000)
Edit & film simulation with: Google Nik Silver Efex Pro 2.
Location: Lake Monroe, Riverfront Park, Sanford, Florida
(Press "L" or "Z" or Click on the image for a large view).
Image ID: 02__MG_8158
Email: photobysamuel@gmail.com
Thank for your visits and comments
ANSH119 #17 "Every Morning"
122 Pictures in 2022 #95 "Something you use every day"
I use this small whisk every morning to scramble two eggs. Sometimes I just have the scrambled eggs mixed with diced roasted long green chiles, sometimes made into a breakfast burrito with either smoked salmon and dill, chorizo, or chicken cooked with green chiles.
I used to have demons in my room at night
Desire, despair, desire, so many monsters
Oh, but now
(I don't find myself bouncing around)
(Whistling my conscience to make me cry)
Using the new Camden Head from Lelutka. Quite impressed with it. Shape was made by the one and only Pipalotta Varela. Excellent job my lovely! <3
Used by the CDU for anti-ship and mining purposes, the Dahlia has already shown wonderful performance in testing.
It is armed with torpedoes, a deck gun, and chained mines.