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This is also a shot from a scene in my new video "Polar Spirits", released april 16th 2013, watch it here:
This was shot at Senja, northern Norway Oct.14th 2012. Senja is the second largest island in Norway, and with its huge mountains and fjords it is a photographers dream. This shot shows the popular "Devil's Jaw", the rugged teeth raising up from the seas
I have so many shots from the last two days, it's hard to choose which one to post, and I can't post all :) But I think this one turned out ok, and I hope you like it. More shots to come soon..
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For all users not able of understanding German I´m sorry that I have just my little poem for you, as I´m not eloquent enough in expressing my thoughts as accurate in English as I can in German, at least concerning this shot.
An dieser Stelle ein kleiner Einschub bzw. Vorgriff mit einem Bild aus dem Elsass, bei welchem ich unmittelbar bei der Aufnahme wusste, dass ich mich auf dessen Bearbeitung freuen würde und das es ein Bild zum Nachdenken ergeben wird. Nachdem ich gestern Abend in der Stimmung war es zu bearbeiten, wollte ich es heute auch gleich einstellen.
Als ich in den frühen Morgenstunden dort im Herzen des Elsass am Wegrand eines kleinen Feldweges im Nebel stand, kam mir gleich die Assoziation das diese Szene doch sehr unserem Lebensweg ähnelt. Ein Weg dessen Verlauf immer weiter nach oben zum Gipfel führt, nicht aber ohne das es dabei viele kleine Anhöhen und auch einige Tiefen und Täler zu durchwandern gilt. Selbst wenn man die nächsten Schritte sehen oder zumindest erahnen kann, so ist es doch schwierig weit genug in die vernebelte Ferne zu blicken um sagen zu können was einen die Zukunft bringen mag. Eine Erhebung die aus der Ferne noch aussah wie ein großer Berg, dessen Erklimmen ein nobles Ziel sei, kann sich beim Erreichen als kleine Anhöhe entpuppen, die einen nur spärlich weiter zum Gipfel führt. Auf der anderen Seite ist auch nicht jedes Tal ein Rückschlag, sondern es kann einem dabei helfen seine Gedanken zu ordnen und mit noch größerem Ehrgeiz den Weitermarsch nach vorne anzutreten.
Kurvig und steinig ist der Weg zweifellos. Was man bereit ist an Anstrengungen zu unternehmen und was man bereit ist am Weg hinter sich zu lassen um den Gipfel zu erreichen, ist eines jeden eigene Entscheidung. Auch was einen auf dem Weg vorantreibt und wie man sich das Ziel letztlich vorstellt kann einem nur das eigene selbst beantworten.
Hier stehe ich noch ganz am Fuß des Berges in einer kleinen Mulde, doch die nächste Anhöhe ist schon im Blick. Danach ist nur Nebel - Nebel der alles verdeckt. Ein Schleier aus weißer Unklarheit, ein Dunst der Zeit der irgendwann verfliegt. Es scheint dort oben heller zu sein als hier unten im dunklen Tal. So will ich mich auf den Weg machen, getrieben das Ziel zu sehen...
Hungarian Wirehaired Vizsla Mother Dog and her Puppy, Portrait
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PP work in Adobe PS Elements 2024 Raw filters.
Prompt: realistic Hungarian Wirehaired Vizsla mother dog and her puppy, portrait, in a studio setting clean grey background --ar 1:1 --s 750 --v 5.2 --style raw
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This is a special image for a special friend of mine: welcome to paradise.
Winter light, winter cold, warm feelings, feelings of love and understanding!!
Hugs and kisses, Addy
Have a wonderful weekend my dear friends!
Friendship must be simple, beauty must be simple, everything else is hard to too!
Since my PC hates me lately and doesn't want to let me make blogg posts I went out and make some real photos! I hope you all enjoy in the view of my city!
I am thankful for the patience and understanding the limits that my PC gives me.
Thank you!
English Cottage Garden V1
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PP work in Adobe PS Elements 2024 Raw filters
a small table set for afternoon tea in a beautiful English cottage garden in Groombridge. There are beautiful flowers growing including a wisteria tree in full bloom. hyper realistic, 4k
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--ar 9:16 --style raw --v 7 --stylize 150
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Update April 02, 2025. Now I only accept group invitation that allows all media types including videos.
Emerald Bay, Pangkor Island, Strait of Malacca (Melaka), where a man stood in the ocean immersed in escaping reality, as he watched an almost surreal, unfolding sunset streaking across the sky.
The man suddenly felt great joy in escaping from his usual reality. Rejuvenating, from being a 'slave of time', while on holidays, he never imagined the sky could look so spacey and other-worldly.
With the seawater lapping his knees, the man's perspective of reality shifted. To what he understood was being like "one-with-nature", when a window of perception suddenly opened.
At this point, the man knew, instinctively, that his life had changed to another, different, and heightened, understanding of 'being', as nature wonder, and inner peace, took hold.
Explored 20 March 2024
Samsung S23 Ultra 5G Camera Lens
comment voulez-vous retourner à chez toi ? heureux ?
how do you return to your home ? happy ?
¿cómo usted vuelva à su casa ? contento ?
como você retorna para a sua casa ? feliz ?
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Oui Samantha, oui : ]
devant ce ciel si bleu, les fleurs,
apprends-nous à admirer sa beauté,
doux comme le sourire de nos mères,
mais le vent froid de l'hiver les souffle
et tout change soudainement,
la douceur de vivre est éphémère,
souviens-toi Samantha,
que faut-il savoir pour bien vivre,
puis-je dire,
malgré toutes les frustrations
ce qui peut vous apparaître
tous les jours,
est éternelle et nécessaire notre compréhension,
notre bienveillance envers nous-mêmes,
notre capacité à aimer,
connaître l'importance de s'aimer,
toujours,
la vie est belle quand on la traite avec sagesse,
crois-moi, mon amie,
oui, de temps en temps elle est belle,
la vie !
ton ami,
Ivan
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Yes Samantha, yes : ]
In front of this sky so blue, the flowers,
teach us to admireher beauty,
sweet as the smile of our mothers,
but the cold winter wind blows them
and everything suddenly changes,
the sweetness of life is fleeting,
remember Samantha,
what to live well you need to know,
may I say,
despite all the frustration
what may appear to you
everyday,
is eternal and necessary our understanding,
our kindness to ourselves,
our capacity to love,
know the importance of loving ourselves,
always,
the life is beautiful when you deal with it wisely,
believe me, my friend,
yes, from time to time she is beautiful,
the life !
your friend,
Ivan
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The Tree is a Tree. I take the one picture and then reflect the picture around the self same picture. The Tree if I wish to see within it a reflection then it can be either a mirror, or a projection screen. The boughs can hold my thoughts, there they can bloom and blossom illuminated and lettered by my Wisdom and Understanding.
These pictures are taken from,
Stop, look, listen and think reflective rumination til inspiration delivers intuition into composition
www.flickr.com/photos/phhsykes/albums/72177720313209556
Everything that you need is in you and everything that you want is waiting for you. You might need many things and I hope that you find what you want and need and that there is a balance between those two drives for you. When I have what I need then I want photographic subjects. Having been lured to Loch Ness I was out of my worlds in joy within the beauty all around me that transformed the struggles within me. Yes we are in a burial ground, but it is full of centuries of history and mystery left evident in the style and content of this wonderful place. A tree at the edge of the burial ground looks fantastic in the beautiful Highland light. I wonder if this Rowan Tree was either left for a Rowan, or for an Ashley with it also being referred to as a Mountain Ash Tree? Maybe someone still knows the how and the why this tree came to be in such a well tended space? The stones lasting over the centuries still record the past and show the tides of fortune rising and falling. Some questions asked and unasked have answers unneeded even if we want to know, sometimes it is best to have what you need in you and to progress where you can fittingly find what you truly want.
© PHH Sykes 2023
phhsykes@gmail.com
Link with more information.
The Boleskine Burial Ground
The Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security -- Regolith Explorer spacecraft (OSIRIS-REx) will travel to a near-Earth asteroid, called Bennu, and bring a sample back to Earth for study. The mission will help scientists investigate how planets formed and how life began, as well as improve our understanding of asteroids that could impact Earth.
OSIRIS-REx is scheduled for launch in late 2016. As planned, the spacecraft will reach its asteroid target in 2018 and return a sample to Earth in 2023.
Watch the full video: youtu.be/gtUgarROs08
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Remember the inner demanding voice of your childhood that urged you to approach the ice cream truck whenever it rolled around? This little boy did not hesitate when he saw it. He parked his bike with determination.
Skillman Park. (That has a real alternate name, I believe.) Sunnyside, New York
"How could rocks and sand and silence make us afraid and yet be so wonderful?”
- Edna Brush Perkins, The White Heart of Mojave, 1922
Finally visited Death Valley over the holidays, and, as always when visiting a new-to-me National Park, I left a little piece of my soul, there. Death Valley is unlike anything I’ve ever seen before. I thought I was prepared. I thought it would be similar to other long awaited first visits to other national parks where the experience feels familiar and welcoming, as if you are stepping into a book that you’ve read for a very long time. Death Valley did not do this to me. No book can prepare you for Death Valley. The only way to become acquainted with the inconceivable vastness of the valley and sand and salt that’s only defined by towering walls of stony mountains is to be immersed in it. Death Valley is a challenge. It is a challenge to understand and experience and exist in. To be here is to be immersed in a forbidding environment and accept that this miraculous landscape is not for the faint of heart. I’ll be back, Death Valley. We have more work to do.
This is nine photos, stitched together, in Lightroom.
Cassini ended its 13-year mission at Saturn on 15 September 2017 when it plunged into the gas giant's atmosphere, but the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is still keeping an eye on the ringed planet.
This is a composite image taken by Hubble on 6 June 2018 showing a fully-illuminated Saturn and its rings, along with six of its 62 known moons. The visible moons are (from left to right) Dione, Enceladus, Tethys, Janus, Epimetheus and Mimas (click here for an annotated version). Dione is the largest moon in the picture, with a diameter of 1123 km, compared to the smallest, oddly-shaped Epimetheus with a diameter around 116 km.
During Cassini’s mission, Enceladus was identified as one of the most intriguing moons, with the discovery of water vapour jets spewing from the surface implying the existence of a subsurface ocean. Icy moons with subsurface oceans could potentially offer the conditions to harbour life, and understanding their origins and properties are essential for furthering our knowledge of the Solar System. ESA's JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (Juice), due to launch in 2022, aims to continue this theme by studying Jupiter's ocean-bearing moons: Ganymede, Europa, and Callisto.
The Hubble image shown here was taken shortly before Saturn's opposition on 27 June, when the Sun, Earth and Saturn were aligned so that the Sun fully illuminated Saturn as seen from Earth. Saturn's closest approach to Earth occurs around the same time as opposition, which makes it appear brighter and larger and allows the planet to be imaged in greater detail.
In this image the planet’s rings are seen near their maximum tilt towards Earth. Towards the end of Cassini’s mission, the spacecraft made multiple dives through the gap between Saturn and its rings, gathering spectacular data in this previously unchartered territory.
The image also shows a hexagonal atmospheric feature around the north pole, with the remnants of a storm, seen as a string of bright clouds. The hexagon-shaped cloud phenomenon is a stable and persistent feature first seen by the Voyager 1 space probe when it flew past Saturn 1981. In a study published just last week, scientists using Cassini data collected between 2013 and 2017, as the planet approached northern summer, identified a hexagonal vortex above the cloud structure, showing there is still much to learn about the dynamics of Saturn’s atmosphere.
The Hubble observations making up this image were performed as part of the Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy (OPAL) project, which uses Hubble to observe the outer planets to understand the dynamics and evolution of their complex atmospheres. This was the first time that Saturn was imaged as part of OPAL. This image was first published on 26 July.
Credits: NASA, ESA, A. Simon (GSFC) and the OPAL Team, and J. DePasquale (STScI); CC BY 4.0
The sun shines through the leaves and branches of a Chinese Banyan tree at the Punch Bowl Cemetery, Honolulu, Hawaii.
The camera saw the branches as black silhouettes and the sky as white. The wide dynamic range of the raw file enabled lightening of the shadows and darkening the highlights in LR to visualize blue in the sky and detail in the bark of the tree.
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“Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding. Find out what you already know and you will see the way to fly.”
― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Paper planes; they are possibly the simplest form of flight with wings. And when I think of flying, I think of Jonathan Livingston Seagull. The courageous gull who taught me to see beyond just what my eyes show me and to aim for the skies.
Some recent developments have made me decide to go semi-private with my stream. I will slowly add people as contacts, so please bear with me.
Thanks for your understanding! :)
EXPLORE # 5 on Saturday, January 5, 2008
The Tree is a Tree. I take the one picture and then reflect the picture around the self same picture. The Tree if I wish to see within it a reflection then it can be either a mirror, or a projection screen. The boughs can hold my thoughts, there they can bloom and blossom illuminated and lettered by my Wisdom and Understanding.
These pictures are taken from,
Stop, look, listen and think reflective rumination til inspiration delivers intuition into composition
www.flickr.com/photos/phhsykes/albums/72177720313209556
Everything that you need is in you and everything that you want is waiting for you. You might need many things and I hope that you find what you want and need and that there is a balance between those two drives for you. When I have what I need then I want photographic subjects. Having been lured to Loch Ness I was out of my worlds in joy within the beauty all around me that transformed the struggles within me. Yes we are in a burial ground, but it is full of centuries of history and mystery left evident in the style and content of this wonderful place. A tree at the edge of the burial ground looks fantastic in the beautiful Highland light. I wonder if this Rowan Tree was either left for a Rowan, or for an Ashley with it also being referred to as a Mountain Ash Tree? Maybe someone still knows the how and the why this tree came to be in such a well tended space? The stones lasting over the centuries still record the past and show the tides of fortune rising and falling. Some questions asked and unasked have answers unneeded even if we want to know, sometimes it is best to have what you need in you and to progress where you can fittingly find what you truly want.
© PHH Sykes 2023
phhsykes@gmail.com
Link with more information.
The Boleskine Burial Ground
My understanding with Buddhist teachings is that all the pleasures, happiness, well-beings, fortune, good health etc are all illusionary and temporal in life. They are just like bokeh and you would not be grabbing it tightly.
So Buddha is teaching us to understand the fact and to get rid of the desire or greed in getting more of those well-beings. The greed is just the source of your pain in life.
However I did see a lot of people saying prayers and burning the incense in Buddhist Temple. They plead for good health, fortune or all kinds of well-beings in the prayers. I over-heard it when I took this shot.
Is this a very strange thing and it contradicts the Buddhist teaching?
Have a great Thursday free of all desires!
Awaodori season has started! Very good to see you guys again. I'm sure to visit Awaodori festivals to take awesome pictures of you. :D
Hi, Flickr friends! Sorry I'm not able to share my pics recently. I'm taking so many pictures but I just don't have a time to visit your places, and this makes me reluctant to share my pics on Flickr. I'll gradually come back to here. Thanks for your understanding!!
*Explored #331 on Jul 3, 2016. Thank you!
lack of understanding breeds hatred of other people... we should try to tune-in... my travel diary, with musical innuendos by Björk and Mily A. Balakirev.
Much like this view, where you see evidence of the green grass, yellow dandelion flowers and the white dandelions gone to seed, maybe it’s ok if you don’t have all the details of your experience. And still, not knowing all the details leads you to question and criticize yourself, which makes sense—your unspeakable experiences taught you not to trust yourself, not to be kind or understanding toward yourself. Perhaps not having all the details is part of how you were thoughtfully created with wisdom, having intuition to know the truth and also the protective parts of your mind and body revealing portions of your overwhelming experiences, piece by piece, for the sake of your own safety and survival. Maybe it's ok to believe the truth of your experiences without knowing all the details, at least for now, and with the understanding you may never have all the details. It is challenging for you to believe, and you are still worthy of trust, care, love, support, connection, healing and growth no matter how many or how few precise details you know about your experiences.
[image created on 5-8-2023]
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A shot close to Muonio, northern Finland
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This is also a shot from a scene in my new video "Polar Spirits", released april 16th 2013, watch it here:
After a long night out, without the biggest outbreak I anticipated, just before I was about to go to bed, I looked up, and WOW what a sight!!! I rigged up 2 cameras and started to shoot! The intense red color in the middle of this dancing spirit was just fascinating!!
Have a wonderful day my friends!
Canon 5D Mark III + Nikon 14-24 2.8
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Best,
Ole
PS! PLEASE PLEASE no flashy big group icons!! They will be deleted!
Real comments are always welcome, positive and negative, but PLEASE don't post any impersonal fancy group logos with the only intention saving you time in writing and/or marketing your group. Such posts will be deleted imediately. Repeting doing this on more of my pictures and I will ban you! !! Comments with huge pictures/logos in it will be removed.
I will not be hurt if you give me critique, please be honest! :)
But please don't invite me to groups with the sole purpose of obligating to comment on 3 pictures etc. All such posts will be removed/deleted. Thank you for your understanding.From a scene in my new video.
Always be ready for an adventure. Typically W9 and I don't share our space with many people. A nice mix of bird watchers and twitchers packed the Marsh yesterday. Scope/camera lady tipped us off to the location of the rare Eurasian Wigeon. Thank you.
It wasn't a very cooperative duck and after 200+ photos we moved along. The newly constructed bridge on the Marsh is finally open to foot traffic. It was a no-brainer to check it out. Suddenly Scope/camera lady charges out from the brush waving her arms overhead and yelling for us to stay away. A moment later she was walking over to us and thanking us for being so understanding. She explained that she was on a deadline to find 250 birds.
W9 and I are watchers. Finding a new bird can be reason to celebrate. But it really is the adventure of the journey ... learning something new and being able to recall and connect the information we've stuffed into our heads. Giving the game our best effort and still getting it wrong sometimes. Humbling. Thrilling.
"If you want to see an endangered species, get up and look in the mirror." -- John Young
I know it may seem obscure to think of humans as endangered because we populate the earth like flies on dung. And yet, even a basic understanding of ecology will illustrate that the rate at which we greedily and unsustainably destroy resources and other species is untenable. We ought to be able to connect the dots. Here is an animal, that often because of our vehicles, dies in great numbers, and there are truly only a handful left. Can we stop building roads in their very minimal territory? We have already taken so much. Can we slow down? Where is it that we think we are going in such a hurry? I assure you, fellow human, with these behaviors, in the end, we are going right to where we are sending our brothers and sisters. Please think about it.
The peculiar galaxy NGC 3256 dominates this image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. This Milky Way-sized galaxy lies about 120 million light-years away in the constellation Vela, and is a denizen of the Hydra-Centaurus Supercluster.
NGC 3256 may seem peaceful, a swirl of tightly entwined spiral arms set in a hazy cloud of light, but this image shows the aftermath of an ancient cosmic clash. This distorted galaxy is the wreckage of a head-on collision between two equally massive spiral galaxies which astronomers estimate to have met around 500 million years ago. The tumultuous past of NGC 3256 is captured in the long tendrils of shining dust and stars which extend outwards from the main body of the galaxy. The striking red and orange regions spread across the galaxy contain young stars created in the merger that are irradiating small dust grains, which then emit infrared light that is captured in astonishing detail by Webb’s instruments. Further out, there are extended tidal features, which are mostly stars pulled out of the galaxies when they collided.
If you were asked to picture a galaxy collision, you might picture stars careening into one another with catastrophically explosive results. In reality, the spaces between the stars in a galaxy are vast; when galaxies collide, their clouds of stars pass through one another and mingle like two clouds of smoke. The gas and dust in colliding galaxies does interact, however, and with spectacular results. The galactic collision that created NGC 3256 triggered a luminous burst of star formation that can be seen in the brightest portions of this image. These infant stars shine most brightly at infrared wavelengths, light which can penetrate through obscuring dust in the galaxy, and which makes the stars perfect subjects for Webb.
This observation is one of several which take a detailed look at the physics of star formation and black hole growth in nearby merging galaxies, hoping to transform astronomers' understanding of galactic evolution. Capturing a selection of luminous infrared galaxies like NGC 3256 will help the astronomical community to understand how Webb can unravel the complex histories of nearby star-forming galaxies.
This image contains data from Webb’s Near-InfraRed Camera and Mid-InfraRed Instrument, which — as the names suggest — capture NGC 3256 in stunning detail at infrared wavelengths. Previous observations of NGC 3256 with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope revealed this cosmic collision at visible wavelengths, and Hubble and Webb observations are shown side-by-side using the slider tool here.
[Image Description: A large, face-on spiral galaxy. The core is radiating very brightly. Streaks of dust glow intensely red, in the centre and across most of the galaxy. This gas is surrounded by a dark grey halo made of the galaxy’s stars. The halo stretches out into a tidal tail at the upper-left, and another at the bottom. Small stars and galaxies surround the spiral galaxy, on a black background.]
Credits: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, L. Armus, A. Evans
At this very moment, a spacecraft is headed toward the brightly burning Sun, photographed here on an Antarctic summer day by ESA sponsored medical doctor Stijn Thoolen at Concordia research station.
Solar Orbiter is ESA’s latest mission to study the Sun up close. Launched in the early hours of 10 February from Cape Canaveral, Florida, the spacecraft is due to arrive at its fiery destination in approximately two years.
Solar Orbiter will face the Sun from within the orbit of Mercury, approximately 42 million kilometres from the solar surface. This is an ideal distance: from here Solar Orbiter can take remote images and measurements that will provide the first views of the Sun’s uncharted polar regions.
At the southern poles on Earth, in Antarctica, the Sun has an exceptional presence on people living at the remote Concordia research station. During the Antarctic summer, the sun shines 24 hours a day. It would be perfect for sunbathing, except for the fact that the average summer temperature is only –30°C.
Consequently, in the winter the Sun does not appear above the horizon for over three months and the crew stationed in Concordia live with outside temperatures of –80°C in complete darkness.
In 2015 ESA-sponsored medical research doctor in Concordia Adrianos Golemis captured the Sun at 16:00 every Monday for a year and explains the technique in this blog entry.
While Solar Orbiter is en route to observing the Sun up close, the crew in Concordia are preparing for life without and enjoying the last rays of sunlight while they can. This picture shows a halo that can occur when sunlight is refracted off ice crystals in the atmosphere.
The mission will investigate how intense radiation and energetic particles being blasted out from the Sun and carried by the solar wind through the Solar System impact our home planet, to better understand and predict periods of stormy ‘space weather’.
While this results in beautiful aurora seen in the Arctic and Antarctic circles, stormy space weather can be disastrous. Solar storms have the potential to knock out power grids, disrupt air traffic and telecommunications, and endanger space-walking astronauts, for example.
A better understanding of how our parent star works is critical to our preparedness for these scenarios on Earth.
Follow more news about life and science at Concordia research station, located at Dome C in the Antarctic Peninsula, on the Chronicles from Concordia blog.
Credits: ESA/IPEV/PNRA–S. Thoolen
Helios 81N 50mm f/2.0
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d33P2XMTbfs
The camera in the photo is a USSR made Lubitel 166 of 6X6 film format which I own more than 25years, since I was a kid. It is still full functional and in perfect condition. It is an object of symbolic meaning for me. It was one of the first cameras I owned and it was bought to me by my father. Although I started photography since the age of 11 with a full automatic snapshot camera that was also a gift by father, when I got more involved with photography my father presented to me full manual film cameras with no automation in order to learn the fundamentals of photography. Exposure with no light meter, By calculating the exposure, adjusting shutter speed and Aperture by calculating the light through experience and study of books, light metering charts etc. This experience led me, in the future, in better handling, understanding and use of cameras in order to achieve the desired result in my photos. All these in an age when I use to photograph with film, having to wait for film process to see the results. Through time this knowledge helped me to focus myself better on studying composition techniques. I still have many things to learn though.
The most important thing that the age of film taught me is the value of each click of the shutter in any given situation of photographing. In any case we all to photograph thousands of photos that are not artistic importance but they all do play an important part of self improvement in out personal photography skills.
So a symbolic camera of my small collection of film cameras. We must always remember and pay tribute once in a while to our past. It is from were we started our personal journey and the birth instant of our foundaments in aspects of our lives.
I have done this photo in three versions. A color version, a monochromatic and a light sepia toned which is the one you see. Monochrome was chosen to enhance the feeling of time passed and the light sepia toning to give a light sentimental nostalgic feeling. The lens used is also a vintage nikon f ais mount, Helios 81N 50mm f/2.0 which I own for more than 22years from the time this words are written. Its excellent creamy bokeh and flare creates an excelent mood.
Thanks for reading!
Health to all!
.......85 TO 90% of this RED-TAILED HAWK's diet composed of small rodents, with rabbits, snakes and lizards included.(Image taken in Cranberry Marsh, Whitby, Ontario,Canada.)
Interesting facts:This bird is also known in the U.S. as a "chicken hawk." They may target chickens as preys. As a consequence, dead hawks hanging from fences and lying under trees and power poles are mute evidence that shooters, not understanding the economic or esthetic importance of raptors, or perhaps unaware of protective laws, still kill them indiscriminately.....(www. desertUSA.com)
This little American Pika can be forgiven for not understanding the coming devastating effects of climate change. It has a brain that is about the size of a lima bean which is engaged primarily in day to day survival. Many pikas never see a human being, so they can be forgiven for not understanding that we are directly responsible for the global warming that may very well cause the demise of some of their populations in parts of North America.
No such forgiveness should be granted to a U.S. President who, in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence, simply chooses to not believe that humans are responsible for climate change.
The National Climate Assessment draws on input from 13 federal agencies, including NASA and the Defense Department, with contributions from 300 scientists. The latest volume spans more than 1,600 pages, and a key recurring theme is that climate change will be devastating...
POTUS, response: "I don't believe it".
Tell it to the pika President T.
The Mythology Behind the White Stag
Despite the broad spectrum of beliefs, the stag is consistently symbolic for a number of themes such as purity - with the unusual white coat symbolising an unwavering innocence. The appearance of the stag is also synonymous with the delivery of a message or great change.
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The White Stag has a message for you.. wishing peace and understanding for new beginings in 2025.
seasonal greetings
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Happy New Year 2026!
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Lacul Morii-Bucharest city-Vivitar 24mm F2,8
*Not the brand or technique is important in photographic art, but the understanding of the things behind the photographed subjects, the emotion, the composition, the joy or the sadness, the life itself that is mysteriously coming unrepeatable as a gift.
(Horia Stanicel)
* I have seen a large part of the most popular or devoted photographers' photographs over time and of course I can say that most of them have speculated on different situations, angles of photography, shadows, different brightness, feelings, human tragedies, all kinds of paradoxical situations that of course make them noticed. I do not want to bring any name into question for the simple reason that each photographic artist has a unique value. However, I regard the photographic art as a simple spectator that is difficult to be convince most of the times. I contemplate the creation of God and every time I photograph I do not forget how grateful we should be for all the beauty that our Creator gave it to us! People who forget this do nothing but hate themselves and the world they live in and photography is nothing but a mirror of this beautiful or crooked world.(Horia Stanicel)
*Nu aparatul foto sau tehnica este importantă în arta fotografică, ci înțelegerea lucrurilor care stau în spatele subiectelor fotografiate,emoția, compoziția, bucuria sau tristețea, viața însăși care vine tainic irepetabil ca un dar.
(Horia Stanicel)
*Am văzut o mare parte a fotografiilor celor mai populari sau consacrați artiști fotografi de-a lungul timpului și desigur pot spune că majoritatea dintre ei au speculat diversele situații,unghiuri de fotografiere, umbre, luminozitati diferite,sentimente,tragedii umane chiar,tot felul de situații paradoxale care desigur să-i facă remarcați.Nu vreau să aduc vreun nume în discuție pentru simplul motiv că fiecare artist fotograf are o valoare unică. Totuși eu privesc arta fotografică ca un simplu spectator greu de convins de cele mai multe ori.Eu contemplu creația lui Dumnezeu și de fiecare dată când fotografiez nu uit cât de recunoscători ar trebui să fim pentru toată frumusețea pe care Creatorul nostru ne-a daruit-o! Oamenii care uită aceasta nu fac decât să se urâțească pe ei înșiși dar și lumea în care trăiesc iar fotografia nu este decât o oglindă a acestei lumi frumoase sau urâțite.
(Horia Stanicel)
God will give you strength for every battle, wisdom for every decision, peace that surpasses understanding.
Listening to the stories of others and putting yourself in their shoes can go such a long way toward greater understanding and being better equipped for whatever lies before you. It is amazing how different a scenario can look when you have a perspective-shift and begin to view the world through the eyes of another.
This photo is from Sylvan Lake at Custer State Park in South Dakota.
Chateau on the Loire Valley, France
Created with DDG Text 2 AI engine. PP work in Adobe PS Elements 2024 RAW and Lumninar Neo filters
Castle on the Loire, lake, reflection, sunrise, Misty morning
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Himalayan Wolf. Darjeeling zoo. Bengal, India
Their bonding was sooo intense....the feelings so warm...n understanding!!! Looked Content fully in love. the vibes ..like an evergreen tree..
A new understanding of Mars is beginning to emerge, thanks to the first year of NASA's InSight lander mission. Findings described in a set of six papers published Feb. 24 reveal a planet alive with quakes, dust devils and strange magnetic pulses.
Brad Zavodsky is the mission manager for InSight as part of NASA Marshall Space Flight Center’s Planetary Missions Program Office. Marshall’s chief scientist, Renee Weber, is a co-investigator on the mission and has been part of InSight since its inception in 2010.
InSight is the first mission dedicated to looking deep beneath the Martian surface. The two largest quakes detected by NASA's InSight appear to have originated in a region of Mars called Cerberus Fossae. Scientists previously spotted signs of tectonic activity here, including landslides. This image was taken by the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaisance Orbiter.
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
For Our Daily Challenge topic 'Prize, Award, Trophy, Medal etc.'
I think Wiki really deserves this for all the extra comfort, companionship & understanding and hours of contact purring she has been sharing with me during these many long, hard months. Never for a moment have I felt alone - because of her communication, love and occasional silliness.
they have done it. Two years in the waiting since recording the data, the first pictures of a black hole have finally came into existence. The world’s first glimpse of a black hole’s silhouette, a picture of light which is about to die. Telescope the size of of Earth was needed, so 8 telescopes where synchronised with atomic clock to bring the light which traveled 50 million light years into the image. Ultimate hunt of astronomy photographers, the look of event horizon, has been brought to our eyes. Will it open the door to theory of everything, will it bring new level of understanding ? Watch the empty space.