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From the poetic cycle "The 13 Months" by German Author Erich Kästner.

Please excuse,dear friends, no translation.

Wishing you a peaceful and happy Sunday of 2nd Advent.

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Nachdenkliches aus dem Gedichtzyklus "Die 13 Monate"

von Erich Kästner.

Ich liebe diesen kleinen Gedichteband,in dem Kästner die Schönheit, aber auch die melancholischen Seiten der jeweiligen Jahreszeit beschreibt.

Eines seiner romantischsten und idyllischsten Werke.

Ich wünsche Euch einen friedvollen 2. Advent.

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Der Dezember

Das Jahr ward alt. Hat dünnes Haar.

Ist gar nicht sehr gesund.

Kennt seinen letzten Tag, das Jahr.

Kennt gar die letzte Stund.

Ist viel geschehn. Ward viel versäumt.

Ruht beides unterm Schnee.

Weiß liegt die Welt, wie hingeträumt.

Und Wehmut tut halt weh.

Noch wächst der Mond. Noch schmilzt er hin.

Nichts bleibt. Und nichts vergeht.

Ist alles Wahn. Hat alles Sinn.

Nützt nichts, dass man's versteht.

Und wieder stapft der Nikolaus

durch jeden Kindertraum.

Und wieder blüht in jedem Haus

der goldengrüne Baum.

Warst auch ein Kind. Hast selbst gefühlt,

wie hold Christbäume blühn.

Hast nun den Weihnachtsmann gespielt

und glaubst nicht mehr an ihn.

Bald trifft das Jahr der zwölfte Schlag.

Dann dröhnt das Erz und spricht:

"Das Jahr kennt seinen letzten Tag,

und du kennst deinen nicht."

(Erich Kästner)

Hi guys and gals!

I'm super excited to let you all know that today, after 2 months of tweaking and testing, I've finally released my Presets package for Lightroom!

I invite you all to download and try it out, and I hope that it'll save you plenty of time during your post processing journey.

In this image I used the Shadow Dancer Lightroom Preset to create the colours that you see there. I couldn't think of a more suitable image to formally release with this one other than a nifty hot air balloon floating into the sky.

Anyway let us know how you go with the use of those presets and as always your valuable feedback is important to me.

Peace to you all, stay hip and stay awesome!

Stocks used

Work made with stock images and images of mine.

Stocks used:

15 different photos

Using my new gray filter

Aluminium foil ball - Macro Mondays Single Use

I used to work with painting on glass, china, paper... I meant a creative job was always important to me.

In this new phase I feel the necessity of find some details to add to my photos. I'm discovering how amused is work with Photoshop, despite of doing only some things with it until now. So, sorry for the montages with questionable taste.

Using the freshest seafood from the loch of the same name (the longest sea loch in Scotland), Loch Fyne restaurants serve a variety of shellfish and smoked fish - all of which are complimented by an extensive wine list. Non-seafood dishes are also available

I can recommend Loch Fyne Kipper's for me they are the best you will have.

Information from Wikipedia & Me!!

Texture Effect by William Walton & Topaz.

Not belonging is a terrible feeling. It feels awkward and it hurts, as if you were wearing someone else's shoe

We used my car as a blind that morning and found some nice even shade light and waited for this fella to calm down. Although this was a distant shot, I really like the swag he showed in this unique pose.

I used my own # 10 Sunny Evening Watercolour Texture here.

You can find it here: www.deviantart.com/creationsbyirene

The Monarch butterflies have returned to my garden, collecting nectar from the Asclepias and Milkweed, soon I hope to see tiny eggs laid on the underside of the Milkweed leaves :)

Thank you for your visits, favs and comments !

If you decide to travel along this highway into the bowels of the Universe, carry enough fuel to cover the billions of light years ahead of you. You won't find a place to refuel. When you have travelled this distance without finding anything, not even a little bit of intelligent life and you reach the far reaches of the Universe... don't be scared... there's nothing there, either. Only the "nothing". Or since everything is cyclical, perhaps you have returned to the place where you started, full of wisdom from your long trip. It's probably better to look for intelligent life on Earth, but it's also very likely that you'll have a hard time finding it. Don't worry about not understanding the Universe or the reason for its existence... you're not Einstein, but one day you'll understand that... The Universe is wounded, but it still has infinity ahead of it. It still has you and me. Merry Christmas to all and to the infinite Universe that is within you.

Gregory Alan Isakov - The Universe

Y el Universo está susurrando tan suavemente que puedo oírlo todo... el zumbido de los insectos, todos los taxis, todo el cambio gastado de los vagabundos, todos los chicos jugando a la pelota en los callejones. Son sólo pliegues en su vestido. El Universo, está herido, pero aún tiene el infinito por delante. Todavía nos tiene a ti y a mí. Y todos dicen que es hermoso. Y todos dicen...

Image dédiée à Pat. Joyeux Noël. Bisou, jolie.

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Music for your trip to the Universe:

David Bowie - Space Oddity

Ground Control to Major Tom. Ground Control to Major Tom. Take your protein pills and put your helmet on. Ground Control to Major Tom (ten, nine, eight, seven, six)... Commencing countdown, engines on (five, four, three)... Check ignition and may God's love be with you (two, one, liftoff...)

Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Parts VI–IX

"Shine On You Crazy Diamond", was written as a tribute to Syd Barrett, one of the founders of Pink Floyd. He was also known as "The Crazy Diamond Syd". Barrett was a very creative musician and is considered one of the rock icons, with a strong influence on many artists, very especially to David Bowie. Syd Barrett is a key piece to understand the evolution of rock in the 70s.. Excessive drug use, especially LSD, caused him serious mental health problems. Syd Barrett died in 2006 at the age of 60. Always shine diamond.

Blur - The Universal

The Universal is a science fiction song written as a tribute to two films by film director Stanley Kubrick. In the video, the Blur members wear outfits similar to Alex and his gang of thugs, the protagonists of the movie "A Clockwork Orange." The image used for the cover of the single alluded to what is possibly Kubrick's best film: "2001: To Space Odyssey."

Also Sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss (Op. 30) / The Dawn of Man scene, 2001: A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick, 1969

We haven't changed that much in 300,000 years of evolution.

Jamiroquai - Space Cowboy

Jamiroquai - Cosmic Girl

Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun

Incubus - Stellar

Stevie Wonder - Rocket Love

Moby - We Are All Made of Stars

Oasis - Champagne Supernova

Radiohead - Subterranean Homesick Alien

Smash Mouth - Walkin' On The Sun

Paul Weller - Kosmos

PS: Electronic - Can't Find My Way Home Just a recommendation. It is important to learn the road signs of the Universe... happy return.

PS: Ground Control to Major Tom. Your circuit's dead, there's something wrong. Can you hear me, Major Tom? Can you hear me, Major Tom? Can you hear me, Major Tom? Can you...

"Here am I floating 'round my tin can, far above the moon. Planet Earth is blue. And there's nothing I can do" (Major Tom)

PS: Merry Christmas to all Flick(e)r users... and to the Universe full of crazy diamonds that shine... And Major Tom

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NOMA Sculpture Garden, City Park, New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Pose: The pose I used in this shot is my free interpretation of Valhalla Sweet Surrender - Bento Couple Pose (I deleted the female pose and used only the male one). The original pose out now for 66L for G.O.A.T. 66 can be found in their store @ Valhalla Store. You can see the original pose here ---> Naiike Pani

Hair: No Match - NO LOUDER @ UBER

Outfit: Galvanized - Saint jersey @ ManCave

FashionNatic - Sebastian pants

Tattoo: Vegas Tattoo - Sind 342 Tattoo @ UBER

♫♥♫Billy Raffoul - I'm Not A Saint♥♫

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EFECTOS ESPECIALES +HDR

EXIF CANON REBEL XTI 1/320 f:8 50 mm

ALTAMENTE RECOMENDADO VERLA EN GRANDE - RECOMMENDED VIEW LARGE

Golden Bridge - Puente Dorado

Los puentes tienen su origen en la misma prehistoria. Posiblemente el primer puente de la historia fue un árbol que usó un hombre prehistórico para conectar las dos orillas de un río. También utilizaron losas de piedra para arroyos pequeños cuando no había árboles cerca. Los siguientes puentes fueron arcos hechos con troncos o tablones y eventualmente con piedras, usando un soporte simple y colocando vigas transversales. La mayoría de estos primeros puentes eran muy pobremente construidos y raramente soportaban cargas pesadas.

The bridges have their origins in the prehistory. Possibly the first bridge of the story was a tree a prehistoric man who used to connect the two banks of a river. They also used stone slabs to small streams where there were no trees nearby. The following bridges bows were made of logs or planks and eventually stones, using a simple bracket and placing cross beams. Most of these early bridges were very poorly constructed and seldom bear heavy loads.

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The Renaissance castle of Fontaine-Henry was built by the family d'Harcourt and it took nearly a hundred years to finish it (hence it's mainly a Renaissance building, finished in 1560, but it has some details that are in the Gothic style known as Flamboyant). There was actually a fortress built here already in the 11th century and in the beginning of the 13th century this was replaced by a castle (which might explain why it next to the current castle stands a very medieval chapel).

And yes, that is a very steep roof. Steep and high. When it was built it aimed to be the highest roof in France (not the highest building, mind you, the highest roof). It's a beautiful castle, but that is a little bit weird!

The castle is still owned by people who are direct descendants of the family who first started building this castle - though the surname has sometimes changed and the current owners carry the name d’Oilliamson - since it a few times was inherited by women. The house is still privately owned, but the interior can be visited on guided tours (no photography allowed, though).

Using texture and painting on a photo of dusk from last evenings sunset. This was shot just after a storm came through leaving a layer of fog in the meadow.

Thanks to Ellen for use of her texture: www.flickr.com/photos/41904174@N06/29185443352/in/datepos...

pose used: Black Cats Poses - Zero Gravity FATPACK

exclusive for Mainframe Event, starts 20th of January and goes to 13th of February. Here you have the LM: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Mainframe/146/66/25

I used the white bow of the mighty ship as a large reflection screen to illuminate the shadows of the buidlings in the front.

used a 3 stops NiSi soft GND filter and stopped down a lot for the sunburst effect.

Thanks everyone for visiting my stream :-)

Lincoln County-Washington State

I always feel compelled to rescue on or two of these when the opportunity arises….Bettie than plastic perhaps, but still mad!

Pose used: [VSM] Seelie / Unseelie Set 02

available at *** CHRONICLES & LEGENDS *** event

TAXI

Mainstore: TAXI

Single Use

For today's Macro Mondays theme of 'Single Use' HMM!!

I use it almost every day. Adhesive tape to fix things that have come loose or should be held together. Very often I have already injured myself on this sharp edge. Luckily for this shot, I did not need to tear down anything, just provide the right light.

Fast jeden Tag benutze ich es. Klebeband, um Dinge zu befestigen, die sich gelöst haben oder zusammen gehalten werden sollen. Sehr oft habe ich mich an dieser scharfen Kante schon verletzt. Für diese Aufnahme brauchte ich zum Glück nichts abzureißen, sondern nur für das richtige Licht sorgen.

using a standard 35mm lens with a couple of macro rings, depth of field became razor thin as I had to get up close and personal

Hijkerveld Drenthe

Thanks for your visit and comments I appreciate that very much.

Please do not use my images on websites blogs or other media without my oermission.

Pose used is - Ana poses- Berlin 5

Sim Location: Yasminia

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Using the grape arbor this morning as a bird blind I was drawn to the early morning light and shadows on the promising grapes. Wishing you all a great June my friends! ~Sam

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK5JEkGixS4 Sung by Muhammad Ali RIP Champ!

Seagull with his/her landing gear down, approaching crisscrossed wire used as a detterent to keep birds away.

Gulls, or colloquially seagulls, are seabirds of the family Laridae in the suborder Lari. They are most closely related to the terns (family Sternidae) and only distantly related to auks, skimmers and even more distantly to waders. Until the 21st century, most gulls were placed in the genus Larus, but that arrangement is now considered polyphyletic, leading to the resurrection of several general.

An older name for gulls is mews, which is cognate with German Möwe, Danish måge, Swedish mås, Dutch meeuw, Norwegian måke/måse and French mouette, and can still be found in certain regional dialects.

Gulls are typically medium to large birds, usually grey or white, often with black markings on the head or wings. They typically have harsh wailing or squawking calls; stout, longish bills; and webbed feet. Most gulls are ground-nesting carnivores which take live food or scavenge opportunistically, particularly the Larus species. Live food often includes crustaceans, molluscs, fish and small birds. Gulls have unhinging jaws which allow them to consume large prey. Gulls are typically coastal or inland species, rarely venturing far out to sea, except for the kittiwakes. The large species take up to four years to attain full adult plumage, but two years is typical for small gulls. Large white-headed gulls are typically long-lived birds, with a maximum age of 49 years recorded for the herring gull.

Gulls nest in large, densely packed, noisy colonies. They lay two or three speckled eggs in nests composed of vegetation. The young are precocial, born with dark mottled down and mobile upon hatching. Gulls are resourceful, inquisitive, and intelligent, the larger species in particular demonstrating complex methods of communication and a highly developed social structure. For example, many gull colonies display mobbing behavior, attacking and harassing predators and other intruders.Certain species have exhibited tool-use behavior, such as the herring gull, using pieces of bread as bait with which to catch goldfish, for example.[ Many species of gulls have learned to coexist successfully with humans and have thrived in human habitats. Others rely on kleptoparasitism to get their food. Gulls have been observed preying on live whales, landing on the whale as it surfaces to peck out pieces of flesh.

Wikipedia

I appreciate your kind words of support and would like to thank-you all, for taking the time to view and acknowledge my photography.

~Christie (happiest) by the River

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using the triangle prism for this effect on my Bob...

Used my Lensbaby56 for this one.

Eight rotary saw blades with sharp, well-used teeth. Inspired by Smile on Saturday --Things with Teeth.

We used today to dive into the history of the Danish West Coast visiting the Tirpitz Museum in Blavand as well as the open air museum of Nymindegab. I can highly recommend both locations for people who love to learn more about the life of our ancestors in previous centuries. Nymindegab, Jylland, Denmark

Number Please this old telephone is in a Railroad and Telegraph Museum in North Carolina the local train station is not in use so it became a small museum, interesting place ran by a bunch of fellows who don't dust!

Tour um den Erlichsee / 25.12.2015 / Baden-Württemberg

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Trigger plants (Stylidium sp) use insects to help with pollination. As the insect settles in on the flower it triggers off a reproductive arm as such with pollen on the end quickly snapping on the unsuspecting insect. This does no harm to the visitor but has left pollen on it's body for when it flies off to the next flower. The trigger winds back ready for the next visitor.

Featuring |

OMY : Archer (2) @ TMD

Garden of Ku Tattoo Parlor : Sacrilege @ TMD

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Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission. ©2009 **Elle** - All rights reserved

Una foto che per me ha un valore speciale se non fosse altro per quei piedini che raccontano giá molto da soli :)

Immaginatevi una sala abbastanza grande illuminata da alcune finestre, ma la maggior parte dei monaci si trovano in una condizione di luce difficile. Sono seduti su piccole panche messe a ferro di cavallo.

Siamo nel tardo pomeriggio e i bambini si trovano tutti insieme, dopo le lezioni, per cantare le preghiere ad ALTA voce. Sono circa una trentina in un'etá compresa fra i 4 (!!!) e i 10-12 anni.

Ci sediamo in mezzo a loro per quasi un'ora e gli insegnanti ci offrono anche del thé e dei dolci tibetani.

Veniamo avvolti da una cantilena potente e in qualche maniera ipnotizzante creata dalle loro voci cariche di un'energia incredibile con la quale continuano imperterriti a recitare le preghiere per tutto il tempo della nostra permanenza.

Ho fatto molti scatti in questa occasione e col tempo ve li mosteró :)

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With dark gray upper-parts and a neat white tip to the tail, the Eastern Kingbird looks like it’s wearing a business suit. And this big-headed, broad-shouldered bird does mean business—just watch one harassing crows, Red-tailed Hawks, Great Blue Herons, and other birds that pass over its territory. Eastern Kingbirds often perch on wires in open areas and either sally out for flying insects or flutter slowly over the tops of grasses. They spend winters in South American forests, where they eat mainly fruit.

Nikon D7200 with Nikon 500mm f4 G VR lens and 1.4 converter. 1/1600 F7.1 ISO 640

Thanks to all who take the time to view, comment on and favor my images. It is very much appreciated.

(photo prise avec appareil photo et objectif provisoirement rafistolés... merci de votre indulgence)

(Explore: Jul 31, 2008). A driveby shot enroute to Spokane from the Canadian border

Single Use~Macro Mondays. Cellophane, behind also a single use item. PCP test for home or office. HMM, hope not too much reality for a Monday! Indoor lighting, multiple sources. Not my test!

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Camera used: Pinhole homemade camera 6X6

Estenopeica, hecha en casa.

San Juan, Puerto Rico

Mi galeria en Color www.flickr.com/photos/samycolor

Mi Galeria en B&N www.flickr.com/photos/samycollazo

Kodak Max 400

Kodak D-76

Exposure: 5 seg.

Pinhole-10 (6X6)

Pinhole .3mm

F.L. 51mm

F:170

Nik Silver Efex Pro 2

Kurzeme Fortress Museum is a large private collection dedicated to the events of World War II in Kurzeme. The museum is located in the village of Zante, Kandava municipality, which is part of the military history of the Kurzeme Fortress. Exhibit includes items of military history, military machines, restored trenches and bunkers.

The Kurzeme Fortress and Courland Pocket – these are the terms that are most commonly used to describe battles between the German and Red Army in Kurzeme from 1944 to 1945. These engagements or “Grand Battles of Kurzeme” were notable, because the German Army, which was located in a partially isolated territory, managed to withstand multiple large-scale attacks by the Red Army at a time when Berlin had fallen to the Allied Army and Germany had already surrendered. Units of the Latvian Legion were one of the best combat units in Kurzeme. Latvian Legionnaires believed that their fight would help thousands of Latvians to escape the Red Army's crimes against civilians. Even long after the war had ended the land of Kurzeme was riddled with reminders of the battles fought – military cemeteries, destroyed equipment, armaments and trenches.

militaryheritagetourism.info/en/military/sites/view/150?0

Interesting photos here:

visitkandava.lv/en/active_recreation/kurzemes_cietoksna_m...

Happy Truck Thursday!

Using external light meter, so no batteries required. Kodak Porta 800.