I am unable to remember what this attractive building of Salamanca is! I am now advised it is REAL COLEGIO DE LOS JESUITAS O LA CLERECIA DE SALAMANCA

Due to long-term poor health I'm unable to take on new contacts but do my best to reply to comments. Thank you so much for your interest, comments and favours on my photostream. Also for your good wishes. I send you joy and peace.

“Unable to perceive the shape of You, I find You all around me.

Your presence fills my eyes with love, It humbles my heart, For You are everywhere.”

"The Shape of Water" (2017)

Credits

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards"

"La vie ne se comprend que par un retour en arrière, mais elle doit être vécue en regardant en avant."

-Soren Kierkegaard

now I will just say goodbye

Passerelle Simone de Beauvoir (SDB). Paris XIII . France

Nikon D300 Nikkor 75-300 VR

ƒ/8.0 185.0 mm 1/500 200

Silver Efex Pro 2

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some of you may know this swan song

"severe & very crippling autoimmune muscle disease,having lost my pictures & backup,harsh times ...

.... and remember "Carpe Diem "

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Thank you for your visit , your fave , your comments

thank you for taking some of your precious time , much appreciated !!

thank you from the bottom of my heart , for your beautiful words , you're my true friends

the Flickr spirit is still alive...

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I am absolutely unable to accept a life of recluse, without any social or cultural life and worse, I feel unable to accept becoming dependent : Loss of autonomy is a humiliating loss of human dignity

When I came back to Flickr , last year , after a long absence, I thought it could be a derivative, a way to keep in touch,and to fight my isolation since I can't have social or cultural life anymore

But it was a mistake because even the use of my PC, and Flickr sessions have become very difficult for me

And , see and admire dozens of photos on Flickr, while I can't walk, so, taking pictures is a real mental torture

.... and I have ideas, many ......: ((((((((

likewise, Summer, sunny days, so many invitations to walk:

no need to travel , I love Paris , late afternoon light is wonderful

I miss Paris .......

I was very active, I loved everything in life,

I'm not old enough

so what ?

the worst is a severe respiratory attack that is increasing more and more......I'll try to keep in touch a little longer , as long as I could . Not for a very long time , I fear ....

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Thank you , my friends for the photos you have dedicated me, for the beautiful galleries, for the tributes I received, especially this one, moving =Feeling Blue for Françoise fifich@t Thank you , dear Robin

this photo is not for groups (no need to gain awards or more favorites) but only for my contacts, friends, and any Flickr member who knows me, and can understand how it feels when no treatment can bring any improvement ,and one becomes dependent , more and more

Thank you

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This very old building in Gressingham, which overlooks the Lune Valley in the north of Lancashire, has a date stone of 1667 over the main door. Sadly, it is now in a poor state of repair. I have been unable to find out anything about it, though it seems to me to be an unusual place for a house, being right next to two streams that come together here and tumble down the hill. Perhaps in past times, it was a watermill.

With the 6073 unable to lead due to PTC issues, the CPKC crew sets the CP 6073 out to the mainline at Michels quarry at Waterloo, then brings the CP 6017 out and ties it onto the point for the trip back to Portage.

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Blue Dunes. © Copyright 2019 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Death Valley sand dunes in evening light.

Among the things I have learned — or perhaps relearned with greater certainty — during this time of semi-isolation when we are unable to travel to the places we long to see and photograph is that I often overlook photographs with potential as I focus on the most obvious things and as I rush to move forward to the next project. During the past six-plus weeks I have been digging into archives of raw files that I left behind last year, and I’ve discovered some overlooked images that I now find interesting.

I made this photograph on a spring evening. I had been photographing sunset light on dunes and mountains, and I kept photographing (of course!) after the sun set and the light diminished and softened. I made only a single exposure of this particular view of this subject, perhaps thinking that the presence of a few sand-filled footprints across the dune might “ruin” the scene.

View, comment, and more at the website: www.gdanmitchell.com/2020/04/27/blue-dunes

G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, “California’s Fall Color: A Photographer’s Guide to Autumn in the Sierra” is available from Heyday Books and Amazon.

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A trip up to Ripon and Harrogate in North Yorkshire was the start of two pleasant days in the Yorkshire Dales. The views from the high roads were very majestic but due to the narrowness of the roads we were unable to park for photographs. It was so peaceful with the only sounds being the lambs and sheep bleating.

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My favorite train in one of my favorite places - but timing and outside factors needed to line up.

The Empire Builder runs along the former CB&Q mainline towards St. Croix where it will divert off the BNSF St. Paul Subdivision and make a run down the Minnesota side of the Mississippi River. The train lost time in northwestern Montana and was unable to recover, so the lateness sunk, floating just under eight hours. However, that lateness was making it possible for an afternoon shot in the Grey Cloud Dunes Scientific & Natural Area, but that was depending on the will of the dispatcher.

I arrived Grey Cloud Dunes well in advance of the Empire Builder arriving St. Paul Union Depot. In the meantime, I was happy to get some eastbound BNSF intermodal traffic while I waited, additionally watching the clouds come and go and hoping dispatching would route the train on the more scenic BNSF St. Paul Subdivision route winding along the Mississippi River in Cottage Grove, Denmark Township, and briefly in Hastings. At 4:16pm, the Builder departed Union Depot and the hope of seeing it at Grey Cloud was strong. To my surprise, the clouds broke off and the sun proudly shined on my scene - I now just needed the train! Nerves built around the prospect of getting 'the shot,' fingers crossed, but there was still a 50 percent chance the dispatcher would send the Empire Builder straight through Cottage Grove along US 10/61 and avoid Grey Cloud Dunes altogether. My nervousness turned to delight when the distant rumble of eastbound traffic became evident. I should note, too, that I had no idea what power combination would lead this particular run of the Empire Builder. I was just hoping to see it in any form. I was surprised to see this unique pairing of 203 and 301 through the lens as it passed into my scene.

Glorious!

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Unable to venture far in the lockdown, I imaged these guys doing a flyby from my front porch. You can hear these Cockatoos coming up the valley which gives very little time to run out the house in the hope of capturing them.

Unable to afford the £300 plus price of a Canon 100mm macro lens I got a £5 set of extension tubes for Christmas and have just started to experiment

On Explore:Highest position: 113 on Thursday, February 12, 2009

Unable to travel due to family obligations, I sometimes satisfy my photo appetite with mundane subjects.

Annoyingly unable to get the Megane numberplate, but the Senator was a welcome obstacle to that. The six cylinder hum was pleasant as well.

The Senator recently changed hands, but is still on the road and has only done 62k.

She awoke before dawn, unable to find sleep again. Sitting by the window, she listened to the rain gently sliding down the glass, each drop carrying away a memory or a forgotten dream. The first light of day began to filter through the curtains, bathing the room in a soft, comforting glow. She closed her eyes for a moment, listening to the morning whispers, as if the wind and the rain were trying to reveal answers to her. Perhaps today is the day she’ll finally find what she's searching for, in the fragile calm of a rainy morning.✨

Elle s'est levée avant l'aube, incapable de retrouver le sommeil. Assise près de la fenêtre, elle entend la pluie glisser doucement sur la vitre, chaque goutte emportant avec elle un souvenir ou un rêve oublié. Les premières lueurs du jour commencent à filtrer à travers les rideaux, baignant la pièce d'une lumière douce et réconfortante. Elle ferme les yeux un instant, écoutant les murmures du matin, comme si le vent et la pluie tentaient de lui souffler des réponses. Peut-être qu'aujourd'hui est le jour où elle trouvera enfin ce qu'elle cherche, dans la tranquillité fragile d'un matin pluvieux.

Flickr kept timing me out last night.. unable to visit or upload so here I'm trying again this morning :) a nature shot for you nature suckers out there as I reckon many of you must have enough of my bridges & architectural shots this week :P It has been raining over here this whole week... guess this is kinda appropiate then ;) Not long to go before weekend everyone.. how exciting! oh well.. only if those days are not going to be pouring ones ... that would sux man! Be back to visit as i'm off to work now. Cheers!! TGIF!

View LARGE On Black to escape the approaching storm!

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The View of the Jetty at Second Valley, South Australia

The Shot

Standard 3 exposure shot (+2..0..-2 EV) taken handheld using Sigma DC HSM 10-20mm lens

Photomatix

- Tonemapped generated HDR using detail enhancer option

Photoshop

- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'curves' to increase the contrast

- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'saturation' (reds) to decrease the tone of the rocks

- Added 1 layer mask effects of 'saturation' (blues) to adjust the tone of the sky

- Added 1 layer mask effects of 'saturation' (cyan) to increase the clarity feel of the water

- Used Brush Heal Tool to clone away some of my shadow on the rocks

- Used 'unsharp mask' (as always) on the background layer

You

All comments, criticism and tips for improvements are (as always) welcome

Music

U2 - Electrical Storm

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unable to distinguish what is worth reading ;-(

G. M. Trevelyan

HPPT! Public Education Matters! Resist!!

echinacea, coneflower, little theater garden, raleigh, north carolina

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Creech Wood

Unable to identify this flower, any help appreciated!

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As we were unable to continue further North on our journey in Svalbard, we changed plans and disembarked on Sarstangen where we came across this large ugly of Male Walrus. The collective term of herd and pod are also used, however I like how fitting the first is.

These were all bachelor Males, mostly just sleeping on what appeared to be a large sandbank at the end of a Fjord.

I was quite fascinated with their feet that they kept stretching out and then curling up again to reveal the webbing in between.

No females have made it down to Svalbard as of yet.

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This photo started out as a mistake, when I was unable to hold my camera perfectly still long enough for what ended up being a long exposure (1.6 seconds.) But I couldn't bring myself to delete it, because I kind of like its ghostly, dreamlike quality, its squiggly snake-like lights. its shadows.

This bridge, the Throgs Neck Bridge, is not exceptional architecturally, but it has been part of my dreams since I was a young child, growing up in Queens, NYC. It is the easternmost East River Crossing, and the first bridge that anyone on Long Island can access to get off the island and onto the mainland U.S. It was the bridge we crossed to go to the Bronx Zoo, or on our annual, week-long, summer vacations upstate to the country. It is the bridge I had nightmares about crossing, too, after I read a Reader's Digest article about bridges collapsing when I was 10. I would close my eyes and pray whenever we did cross in our family's red, 1963 Chevy Impala station wagon. I eventually got over that fear, and have crossed that bridge more often than any other.

I still have frequent, recurring dreams that I have to walk across it to get home, but the bridge is slowly sinking into the water as I hold onto the handrail and just keep walking, because what else can I do?

So this surreal photo works for me on a dream archetype level, and, I thought, suitable for Sliders Sunday.

Happy Sliders Sunday!

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Unable to wait for the beauty salons to reopen, a Snowy Egret does its own grooming on Horsepen Bayou.

Unable to identify please feel free to add identification in comments

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stuck here unable to shoot proper pictures led me back to revisit my archives and found a whole batch of unposted images from last May's trip to Sweden........enjoy !

oh you DID enjoy it-2 Explores in 2 days thank you dear friends xx

#262 Jan 26th 2012

now at 114 thank you x

back in Explore Highest position: 232 on Thursday, June 7, 2012

Did you see the television coverage a few weeks back of a failed rocket engine test (known as ‘Hot Fire’) at Stennis Space Centre, in Mississippi where an eight minute engine test had to be shut down after one minute.🔥🙈

As you know this is described as NASA's new 'Megarocket' which consists of four engines. As always both Hoof and Horace are on 24hr call out as technical engineering advisers and fixers on these space projects.🐎🐷🚀

However due to ongoing travel restrictions H & H have been unable to launch their intergalactic Typhoon space craft which transports them from the village to any of the launch sites on the other side of the world in about 10 minutes.

In view of current travel restrictions Hoof & Horace have mothballed their Typhoon in the shed of our field, yet once a week they go and fire the engines up in order to keep the battery charged, kick the tyres and check the screen washer fluid (hope you all do the same with your vehicles at the moment)😷🚙

Under normal circumstances H & H would be hands on in the field and fix these issues with their socket sets, however like all of us they have had to adapt during these unprecedented times and are fully geared up to give advice or carry out repairs on a remote basis through their on line digital channel, www.bodgeittakethemoneyandrun.com 🔧🔨🔩⚙️

Horace figured out that the NASA engineers got the firing order incorrect, he has told them they must have used the Mk 1 Ford Escort firing order of 1,2,4,3. Instead of the more conventional Morris Marina firing order of 1,3,4,2.

Sure enough, the engineers swapped the plug leads around and 15 hours ago on live TV the four massive engines were fired up and successfully completed the eight minute test without a hitch. 🐷👍

Hoof & Horace have asked that their renumeration be paid direct into their thinking account at Sharp’s Brewery.

Thank you for viewing my photos, the comments and banter you leave are much appreciated.

Have a good weekend🍺🍺🍺🍷🍷🍷💃🐎🐷😎

Unable to find history on this old brick warehouse other than a print ad directing people looking to work at the Victory silos to apply here, at the National Employment office, 1945.

Being unable to hike at the moment has me looking back through my archives. Surely one of the most photogenic days out in recent times was a circuit of the Kentmere Horseshoe just over two years ago. The weather was bitterly cold but certainly memorable. In this view, fellow Flickr pal, John is seen with all three of his three dogs somewhere near the summit of Yoke.

Laying awake for hours before sunrise, unable to sleep.

I decided to get up and walk around to a rocky beach outcrop... and watch the new day dawning.

Unfortunately I hadn't checked the tide charts... so was unable to access some of the shoreline. I had to backtrack in places and make my way through bushland in the dark... hoping my torch battery went the distance!

As I walked through the narrow bush tracks, dry leaves crackled underfoot. Birds awakened, as I went, their calls ringing through the trees. A wonderful experience for me, although they were probably not so happy.

My sense of smell seemed heightened... I soaked up the smell of eucalypt leaves.

Cloud cover to the east (not visible when I left home), made a less impressive sunrise.

My favourite shot of the morning, turned out to be one of the first, a long exposure taken in darkness.

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It can happen to anyone, from any walk of life.

20 years ago I had a career that I was incredibly proud of, saving lives, I had a home, mortgage, car and disposable income. I was confident and, even though I hate to blow my own trumpet, I was incredibly good at the work that I did.

I was, however, bullied, harassed, abused, belittled and ostracised by management and many colleagues in a toxic environment where this behaviour had spread like a cancer. This went on daily for 13 years. I thought that I was 'ignoring' it and just knuckling down in my work. I didn't know, until it was too late, that this was damaging both my physical and mental health.

After some time off due to a stress breakdown I returned and the bullying turned into a witch hunt. They succeeded. My mental and physical health had been destroyed. I was wrongly advised to resign by a union that had representatives embedded in management. I was too unwell to pursue any means of recompense.

Losing my career lead to my first Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy attack. This one was nearly fatal.

I have suffered from Complex Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD) for at least 20 years as a direct result of this. Only finally receiving help for the condition last year after years of medical denial because the establishment at the time did not understand the connection between non-life threatening instances and PTSD despite mounting evidence. Thankfully it is much better understood today.

The bullies took my career, my confidence, my identity, my physical health, my mental health and now they have taken my relationship and my home. My ex being unable to cope with my PTSD and reacting to it in a way that was making it worse in a cycle that just destroyed our relationship.

Now, unable to work and unable to claim benefits for the moment, unwell, terrified and struggling at times to cope with basic life things, I am facing this horrendous situation that is so daunting there are times that my thoughts go to a very dark place.

I never imagined any of this would happen to me. I was on top of the world back in the early 2000s. The best time of my entire life.

Maybe I deserved this. Maybe I did something terrible in a former life. I don't know. I can't make sense of it.

I don't want to give up just yet. I want to fight back. I just have so little actual physical support. PTSD can cause isolation. Distrust. Withdrawal.

I have lost my few best friends since moving to Scotland for numerous reasons outside of my control. My family are 300 miles away and offer just loving thoughts. I am on my own.

On Friday I will be completely on my own for the first time in 20 years. This time without the confidence and abilities I had back then. I have to try and find them but without safety, comfort and familiarity I face an impossible task. It can take monumental effort just to cook a simple meal. PTSD is a terrible thing to have.

I am sharing my story as I don't know when or how I will return to Flickr.

Photography has been my recovery. My saviour from PTSD. An adrenaline kick from street photography, the excitement of the edit when you return home. Sharing my photographs with you and taking time to enjoy your photographs. The Flickr routine has kept my sanity and been an important part of my day for years now. I fully intend to return but the odds are against me at least for the moment.

Some of you wanted to help by donating towards the expensive Internet costs I will face in temporary housing.

I hate asking for help but please know that I am incredibly grateful for the help that I have received, both financially and otherwise. Just knowing that people care is a help in itself.

If you wish to keep in touch with me via WhatsApp while I am unable to get my PC online then please Flickrmail me your contact details. (bearing in mind that over the next few days my time is limited).

My PC will be packed tomorrow so I may make one more post before I go. I'll make sure it is a happier picture.

Thank you for taking the time to read this. I am profoundly thankful for the friendships and acquaintances that I have made here. You are all wonderful, awesome people. Thank you.

Homelessness can happen to anyone.

Frozen Kastoria lake, Greece

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As Im unable really to use my camera until I have eye surgery, all Im able to post are previously posted images but I dare say to a different audience.

A beautiful Harrier sits resting after a meal....

Unable to escape his Skyfighter, the corrupted Ta-Matoran plunged into the noxious energy lake… Vultraz emerged, mangled and enraged.

Built for the Bionicle What If Contest

I recently fell, broke my hip and had a total hip replacement. Since i am unable to take Riley for his walks, my neighbor has been taking him and she takes him for longer walks than I did so he comes home and has to have a nap.

Unable to appreciate the beauty of the Great Salt Lake and the Wasatch Mountains.

I seem to be unable to stay in my usual groove here for MELO... so here's a fun 1:1 sword that's way unlike anything I've ever done before!

I was hoping to finish this in time for Summer Joust, but although I did finish a prelim version of the sword, there was no way I was getting photos edited in time--and if you're not going to do it right, no sense in doing it at all! So, I built myself some spikes and borrowed my brother's epic cape ;)

As for the sword itself, it's not exactly swooshable, but it's sturdy and moves well through the air if you're careful. And it is super fun!

I also got to integrate some brand new constraction pieces I picked up just last Friday, so that was cool!

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Unable to recline his deck chair, a Red-eared Slider sunbathes vertically on Horsepen Bayou.

Unable to see through the fog what's happening in the next year I hope it will be good to all of you...;-)

The historical mill called 'de Helper' during foggy and freezing conditions just before sunset. Fortunately the fog was slowly disappearing which gave the sun some space.

The fishermen and cyclists added great detail to this classic composition.

This evening was the opening party @ Nitroglobus for Wicked Eiren's exhibition 'Body Language/The Invisible Woman' with awesome music by DJ Niels and ditto particles by Kurk Mumfuzz.

Due to long lasting SL errors upon login, which made all visitors orange clouds except for a few who were already present, the party had some hick ups. Luckily Lalitha and Milena Carbone, who performed an awesome contemporary ballet, were visible to all. Thanks again to Haiku who was willing to step in at last moment and take my place in the ballet. Yeah me too I was a cloud.

Sincere thanks to all main players and to all the visitors who stayed till the very end of DJ Niels's set.

To all those who were unable to tp in: Wick's images will be on the walls of Nitroglobus till the end of July.

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NR4 and NR103 approach the summit of the Great Dividing Range at Heathcote Junction, as they head north for Griffith with 5MC2.

Owing to the ports unable to handle the previous length of the MC2/CM3 trains at 1800m, this service has now been restricted to 1200m, making it easier to strip and load the service during its turnaround time. This in short means it no longer needs a 3rd locomotive.

Thursday 10th December 2020