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To celebrate the new year, here's an AI animation of one of my photos from early December.
Auteur de l'animation: B.TOUSSAINT (Atelier des Antonins - Lyon)
WhatsApp Video 2026-01-01 at 14.17.25
30 seconds of clouds, just clouds - and the occasional airplane zipping by.
Fuji X30, internal interval timer, 5 seconds interval, 999 frames, rendered at 30 fps in VirtualDub
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Built during the 16th century by the Republic of Venice as an early feat of hydraulic engineering.
The restored building features a working water wheel and houses an atmospheric wine bar and restaurant (Enoteca Molini / I Molini del Dolo) with outdoor seating overlooking the canal.
Thank you for visiting my page! Keep on looking, imagining and creating, my friends. And let’s keep love, friendship and laughter going! Stay safe and be well!
Thank you for visiting my page! Keep on looking, imagining and creating, my friends. And let’s keep love, friendship and laughter going! Stay safe and be well!
My Christmas wish to you my dear friends...I wish you all a very happy Christmas and an even happier New Year! Nothing but love to you and yours for this Christmas and 2009 :)
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This is the third year that I've put together a video to look back over my shots from the entire year. Included in this video are any shots that I posted either here on Flickr or on my blog. Instead of posting them in chronological order I posted them from sunrise to sunset in a "Day in the Life" format. Unfortunately, flickr chops videos off at exactly 3 minutes, so the last few shots are missing. If you'd like to see the entirety of this, feel free to check it out on my blog, which also has the retrospective from last year as well. You may find both videos on their entirety at:
Here's to a brighter 2017!
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Myths, Legends and Rock Formations:
Due to the strange rock formations, and some formations on a wall in the form of writing or signs, Pedra da Gávea carries along with its name many legends and myths. Among the main myths and legends, one of them involves characters engraved in stone and the hypothesis of the Phoenician sphinx. Another theory that some raise about Pedra Gavea is that there is a great portal to Agartha.
By observing the stone well, several associations can be made and below are some of the most common ones.
The Giant's Head or Emperor's Head:
Looking at Pedra da Gávea, seen from Pedra Bonita or from the Canoas road that goes around Pedra Bonita, as well as from the Hang Gliding and Paragliding ramp that is almost at the top of Pedra Bonita, you can see the head of a large sculpted giant in stone. Whether an accidental work of nature or not, the resemblance is very great and it really does look like a sculpture.
As to this resemblance, whatever the cause of such formation, not even the most skeptical of men can deny.
Enigmatic Inscriptions:
At the top of the Rock, next to the Head on the left, beginning of the video, there are some formations and erosions that look like inscriptions or what look like letters carved in the stone. With the naked eye it is not always possible to see, but looking at enlarged photos taken with telephoto lenses that provide better details at long distances, one can see what appear to be inscriptions (words engraved in stone) of some primitive alphabet.
What most intrigues many observers of Pedra da Gávea is not exactly the shape of a "human head" at one end, nor the shapes of "portals" that may be random formations, made over the years, by erosion, a natural phenomenon.
Some observers are not satisfied with admitting that the marks in the form of writing are a mere chance of nature. This fact suggests a curious and creative hypothesis to try to explain the enigma of the writings on the stone.
First Findings About Engraved Characters:
The shapes of the rock, which bear resemblance to a human face, drew attention for a long time, as well as the characters that were also first objects of study since the time of Dom João VI's stay in Brazil.
Friar Custódio, a religious specialist in epigraphy, that is, studies of stone engravings, made a report about the inscriptions on Pedra da Gávea, and concluded that they were made at the time of the discovery of Brazil, and this report was delivered to Dom João VI .
In 1839, the Brazilian Historical and Geographical Institute decided to analyze the subject, and organized an expedition for this purpose. Historians J. Cunha Barbosa, Manoel de Araújo Porto Alegre and imperial chaplain J. Rodrigues Monteiro participated.
The report that followed, after the expedition and subsequent analyses, recognized Phoenician characters in the inscriptions, appearing to have been made in antiquity, and being deteriorated by time. However, the report also saw the inscriptions as a product of erosion, which ultimately led to the hypothesis that the characters were made by nature to prevail.
However, in 1928, a new hypothesis appeared that attributed the engravings of characters in Pedra da Gávea to the Phoenicians.
The last translation made below shows the sequence of these studies.
Jeth-Baal or Yet-Baal, is a name that refers to two twin brothers, older sons of Badezir.
And finally, what does this mean? Looking back at history, there existed in the year 856 BC, a Phoenician King named Badezir, who according to the first translation replaced and succeeded King Jethbaal, his father, on the royal throne of Tyro. But according to the second translation, Badezir was the father of the Jeth-Baal brothers.
If this hypothesis were confirmed with archaeological evidence, it could be believed that the Phoenicians were in Rio about 800 years before Christ, and that Pedra da Gávea would be a tomb where Badezir or Jeth-Baal would be buried, and human features shaped on the stone would be the face of Badezir or Jeth-Baal.
Whose face would the sphinx be, already eroded by erosion, and without the nose? It would be the representation of the face of King Badezir or Jeth-Baal. And was that formation really the representation of an unfinished sphinx? Or eroded by erosion?
There are those who claim from the height of all their wisdom that it is a sphinx. And one of the staunchest defenders of this hypothesis is the president of the Brazilian Association of Speleology and Archaeological Research in Rio, Roldão Pires Brandão, who stated:
"It is a sphinx engraved in granite by the Phoenicians, which has the face of a man and the body of an animal lying down. The tail must have fallen off due to the action of time. The rock, seen from afar, has the grandeur of monuments pharaonic figures and reproduces, on one of its sides, the severe face of a patriarch".
Pedra da Gávea is also related to the Agartha portal, an entrance to a subterranean world inside the Earth, arising from the Hollow Earth theory.
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Credits:
Drone footage taken by my mountaineering guide, Marcelo Kastrup (Adrena Rio);
Song: The Floating World by Simple Minds (Album Cry).
No AI was used on the Clipchamp platform.
On June 27, 2026, we witnessed one of nature’s most powerful spectacles on Hawaiʻi’s Big Island: a live volcanic eruption. The eruption came in waves, constantly shifting in intensity and form, creating a mesmerizing dance of fire, smoke, and light against the night sky. Seeing this extraordinary display in person was both humbling and exhilarating, a powerful reminder of the immense geological forces that continue to shape these islands. This time-lapse captures the movement, energy, and ever-changing beauty of that unforgettable moment when the Earth itself seemed to come alive. The timelapse movie recorded the 800-meter eruption.
200 captured photos taken at a 6-second interval, a total recording time of 19.9 minutes. 24 fps Timelapse: 8.3 seconds.
Event: Episode 50 of sustained lava fountaining at the summit of Kīlauea on the Big Island of Hawaii.
Timeline: Began at approximately 10:10 a.m. HST on June 27, 2026, and lasted for about 7 hours.
Fountain Height: The north vent generated powerful fountains reaching up to 1,000 feet (300 meters)—surpassing initial lower estimates and higher than the 800-meter figure noted in some preliminary reports.
The first shows the core rising into the night sky as viewed from the sea cave at Tresilian Bay, followed by Nash Point lighthouse on the Glamorgan Heritage Coast...
Music by Dexter Britain
Большую часть года водопад Гирвас не действует, так как вода из реки отводится для нужд Пальеозероской ГЭС. Увидеть водопад можно только тогда, когда открыт затвор плотины. Мне повезло. Приехав посмотреть палеовулкан, я застал вместо небольшого ручейка буйство воды. Зрелище завораживающее. По сравнею с Гирвасом, Кивач выглядит как небольшой порог. Здесь перепад высоты - около 30 метров! Высота самой высокой ступени - около 15 метров! При этом, к летящей воде можно подойти практически вплотную.
“Wishing you my dear Flickr friends a peaceful day.
Thanks so much for all the love and kind words you sent for my humble work.
Your support and cheers mean the world to me.
Love
Emma"
Have you ever imagined living the experience of going down the equivalent of a 19-story building?
That's what Gávea Tyrolese has! With the equivalent length of a 19-story building, at an altitude of 844m / 2,769ft and approximately 100m / 328ft deep, the Gávea Zipline makes the Adventurers' hearts feel something indescribable!
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Credits:
Drone footage taken by my mountaineering guide, Marcos Rabello Paz.
Song: Hello (Album Mix) by Above & Beyond, album We Are All We Need;
No AI was used on the Clipchamp platform.
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12 second video with sound.
This image is Generated in Ai, Midjourney v7 then i process in photoshop.
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Drone shots of the beach at sunrise. Not my best flying, getting familiar with a new FPV drone. It's a very beautiful beach and the peacefulness of the morning was great. The low flying plane certainly took me by surprise.
It is a joy to see the eagles here at home, although I have not spent as much time at home recently. Today, as luck would have it, I looked out of my window and saw an eagle in the tree, searching for twigs for its nest. Sadly, my phone was not with me, but luckily, I was able to retrieve it in time to capture this slice of video.
With heartfelt thanks for your kind visit. Have a beautiful day, be well, keep your eyes open, appreciate the beauty around you, enjoy creating, stay safe, and laugh often! ❤️❤️❤️